What God Seeks (at The Faith Center) | Part 2

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You pray it and he can answer it.

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it.

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Goes into the hearts of the people,

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doesn't return void, it produces results.

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You worship what you do not know.

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We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews,

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but the hour is coming and now is

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when the true worshipers will worship the Father

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in spirit and in truth.

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I don't know if you've ever seen it like this.

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For the Father is seeking such to worship him.

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God is the Spirit and those that worship him

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must worship him in spirit.

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Listen, and in truth, worship attracts the heart of the Father to us.

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I don't know about you, but I want God to be attracted to me.

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I want to do something that attracts his attention

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because I want God to look at me.

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He said, in my eyes run to and fro the whole earth

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to show myself strong on the behalf of those whose hearts are perfect.

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If you're searching, I want you to find me

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in a posture of worship and adoration.

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I want my heart to be true before you.

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I want you to seek me.

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Why is it I always have to seek you?

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I get annoyed with myself because it really works.

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That's why as a teacher I have to be really careful

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that I don't teach works.

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So we have to seek God.

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Draw nigh to God, he'll draw.

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That's all true, but let's keep it out of works

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and let's keep it in rest.

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So sometimes I'm like, Lord, where are you?

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I mean, I think I was like that the last time I was here, right?

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I was lamenting.

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So God showed me I'm attracted to worship,

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but he said worship in spirit and in truth.

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How do we do it?

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Your words, adorations, and expressions of love to him.

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I love you, Lord.

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Start with a scripture.

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My favorite scripture is Psalm 63,

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my favorite, it's a life verse.

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Oh God, you are my God.

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And when you're using scripture in worship

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and in your prayer worship time,

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you know, shut off your mind.

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Hook yourself up to the inside and really lean into him.

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And if distractions come and you find yourself

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thinking about that text you just got,

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pull yourself back into the spirit.

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Psalm 63, oh God, you are my God,

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or Leo, I will seek you, my soul longs for you,

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my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land.

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What to see your power and your glory.

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I pray that over this whole entire region.

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And it's faith without works is dead.

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Your faith, and when you say that,

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it goes into the realm of the spirit and faith

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is the spiritual force.

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And when you speak that word, it goes in

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and it causes God's heart to respond.

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He said, when the poor in need, they need water.

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I, the Lord, will answer them.

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I will not forsake them.

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But our prayers avail much.

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How else do we do it?

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All right, you ready?

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You guys ready?

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First Corinthians 14, 14 and 15, stay with me.

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For if I pray in a tongue,

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my spirit prays.

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I'm gonna bring correction, you guys all right with that?

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Can I bring a correction?

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Not just to you, to all the churches everywhere.

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We've let some things slip.

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And that's why we're not saying some things.

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But if worship attracts the heart of God,

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and he says I want my people to worship

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in spirit and truth, I wanna know what that means.

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A wise man searches out a matter, right?

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My spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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I could feel the Holy Ghost on this.

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I know it's getting hot in here.

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Stay with me, I got water.

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I'll pour water on all of you and get you to wake up.

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I've been known to do it.

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God bless.

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I will pray with the spirit.

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I will pray with, thank you.

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I will pray with the understanding also.

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That's one another thing about understanding

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the realm of the spirit.

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Sometimes people, you start to lose the anointing

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because it's hot in the room, or people are tired.

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It's not always warfare.

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What is the conclusion then?

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I will pray with the spirit.

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I will pray with the understanding also.

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Here we go.

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I will sing with the spirit.

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I will sing with the understanding also.

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Can I ask you a question?

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So those of you moms and dads in here

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that have been around for a long time in this environment,

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what happened to singing in tongues, Daniel?

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Right?

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What happened to singing in tongues in worship?

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We worship with words we understand.

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That's good.

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We should do that.

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But what happened to singing?

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I will sing with the spirit.

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I will sing with the understanding also.

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What happened to singing in tongues?

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I remember when I was first saved,

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we would go to these meetings,

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and by the way, everybody was excited.

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I was like, I'm gonna sing with the spirit.

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By the way, everybody was excited to go to church.

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Why?

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Because worship attracts the heart of God,

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and it caused an atmosphere to be created

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that caused an atmosphere for God to work,

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and it created an atmosphere for miracles.

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What do you think the secret

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to Catherine Coleman's ministry was?

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She understood the power of worship,

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and the Holy Ghost did not manifest or operate

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until she brought, or the Holy Ghost,

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however you wanna say it, were co-labors,

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brought the people up to a place.

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They tapped into the realm of the spirit through worship,

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and then the working of miracles

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began to manifest in her meetings.

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I know this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

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God, we are on the verge of the manifestation

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of the power gifts coming into the earth,

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and I've been praying about it.

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We've been talking about, you know, Mary Jo,

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we've been praying, and I think this is a key.

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Understand the laws of the spirit

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and what worship will bring,

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and it'll attract my attention.

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I'll open up the windows of heaven,

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and I'll begin to manifest myself

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with the gifts of healings, gift of faith,

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working of miracles, because when you worship God,

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there's no attention on self.

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All attention is on him.

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All eyes are on him, who is the author and the finisher

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and the perfecter of our faith.

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We're leaning into him.

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There's no thought of self.

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We are so in love with him, and so longing for him,

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and so needful of him.

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He responds, and the greatest response, I believe,

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is people that are sick and in need of healing,

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they get healed by the power of God.

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And let me tell you, when you operate

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in this kind of worship, you really die to self,

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because you understand he is high and lifted up.

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His train fills the temple.

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It's him.

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He alone is worthy.

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All of heaven says, holy, holy, holy, Lord, God Almighty.

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Heaven and earth are filled with your glory.

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It just creates an atmosphere for God to work.

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So I wanna encourage you, we're gonna do it at the end,

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I wanna encourage you to stir up the gift of God

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that is in you, individually and collectively as a church.

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I'm telling you, the Holy Ghost, singing in tongues,

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singing in the Spirit.

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When I was in this meeting with all these charismatics,

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we were all singing in tongues.

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Like, not for five minutes or a minute.

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I can only watch a video for a minute, and then I get bored.

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It's a distraction.

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It's all a plan to the enemy.

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Let's get our focus back.

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We would sing in tongues 10 minutes, 12 minutes,

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worshiping God, and we got so caught up,

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because worship, he seeks worshipers, he comes down,

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and the more he comes down, whoa, somebody said it,

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the more we go up.

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It's like an echo.

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And we harmonized, how many remember those days?

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We harmonized, and all went together,

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because we're the house of prayer, right?

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He flows through us, right?

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And we all harmonized.

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You talk about the whole family fitly joined together,

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and every joint combined.

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In worship, we were like that family, all worshiping God.

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Different tones, hymns, spiritual songs, singing,

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making melody in our hearts to the Lord collectively

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and individually.

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And I could remember times when we thought

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we literally heard angels singing with us.

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So my, I gotta hurry up, my Pilates guy

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who does Pilates with me, he's a Christian,

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here in Lakewood Ranch.

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God sent him across my path.

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God will put people together for a reason.

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He was hungry for fellowship, I was hungry for fellowship.

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And when I hurt my ankle, he prayed for me, or my foot.

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Right, and he sent me a video of Jason Upton.

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Remember him?

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I don't know if he's still alive.

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Is he alive?

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And you could, and it says, the video's about,

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he's worshiping.

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O, chasse of my chi, I'm a naive man.

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Let's do it.

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Re, chasse of my, na, na, na, my chandere me say.

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Om nanana, mostly hundred ha ha.

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You monyrma ha ha.

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Lautara dada big santa l'alma ha.

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O, da la bag santa dada big a ha.

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Ya la la la ba santa l'alma ba ba ba ba ba.

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Jason Upton was worshipping and it was only him and his keyboard and you could hear the

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angels on the recording in the background harmonizing with him and you know how we have

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to take a breath because we're human?

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Well the angels weren't taking any breaths because they're divine.

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So worship attracts the heart of God.

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I want to say this really quick.

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Whatever we teach here, take home.

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That's my new goal.

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It's not just teaching people how to pray in a corporate setting.

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Whatever you learn, take it home.

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I'm going to give you a little highlight.

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Ephesians 5, 19 through 21.

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Every single day you can have a heart of worship before the throne of grace.

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Revelation 5, 8 goes up like incense.

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O ha se ke te yabayah, combination of the holy, asiv, reminded.

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Remind them to come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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I want to give them rest.

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But I need them to focus their attention on me and I can move and I can give and I can

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bring them rest.

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But in your everyday walk, when you're in the grocery store, in your car, you can have

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a continual song of worship in your heart before the throne of God.

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But you've got to develop it and practice it.

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It's like Brother Lawrence, he called it practicing the presence of God.

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I have learned, I'm still learning, to develop intimacy with the Father by having a continual

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song singing, making melody in my heart to the Lord day in, day out.

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Wake up with it, go to sleep with it.

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Wake up in the middle of the night, there's a song and a hymn and a spiritual song.

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Sometimes that song you wake up with in the morning is what you need for the day.

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It's your daily bread.

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But I want to encourage you to put scripture in your heart, put Christian songs in your

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heart and when you are walking around, remember you're the house of prayer, you don't have

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to be in church, you can sing those hymns, sing those songs, sing in the spirit, sing,

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sing, sing.

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Where?

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Making melody in your heart to the Lord.

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Just like when I was in Ocala and I was speaking in a prison and it was for the women in that

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regard, I didn't know but they, I don't know if I can say it, it's in the paper, they were

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being sexually assaulted, they were, you could sense it, but there was so much going on and

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I remember telling these women in a prophetic anointing, I said nobody can tell you, you

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can't sing in your heart to the Lord.

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Nobody can stop what's going on in your inward life.

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Nobody can control that.

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But you can.

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I want to be one of these people that Romans 8 talks about.

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All things work together for the good to them that love God.

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Love God.

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What?

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All things work together for the good for everybody.

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Everything happens for, no, that's not what the Bible says.

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All things work together for the good to them that love God.

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You can develop a greater love for God by practicing the presence of God.

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Okay.

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God is seeking intercessors.

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I'm not going to go too deep into this.

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I want to get into the part about the spirit of seeing annoying.

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Ezekiel 22, 30.

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So I sought for a man among them who would make up a wall, stand in the gap before me

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on the behalf of the land I shall not destroy.

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A lot of bad things were happening.

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People were rebellious, so on and so forth.

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God said I am seeking not just worshippers.

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I'm seeking intercessors.

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Now I'm not going to get into the teaching of it.

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That's the teaching in me that I wanted to teach.

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No, we're not going to get into that.

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What is an intercessor?

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God said to me this morning when I was going through my notes, he said an intercessor is

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a prayer warrior.

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Period.

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We know that being an intercessor is not praying for ourselves.

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It's standing in the gap on the makkeishtaya.

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On the behalf of another, the Lord just said to me he's going to begin to pour out amongst

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you and this region the spirit of grace and supplication in a greater measure.

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That's just like singing in tongues and singing in the spirit has dissipated to a degree,

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but he's reviving it.

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There's a spirit of grace and supplication where you are so engaged with the heart of

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God, you begin to see as he sees, love as he loves, desire what he desires.

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It captures your heart to such a degree you cannot contain.

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You can control it.

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Don't get me wrong.

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There's something in you that groans.

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There's something in you that has no words.

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And so you have to yield over to the Holy Spirit and pray that which you have, which

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is a burden on the inside out.

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He's going to revive that kind of praying.

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But that's more private prayer.

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But if you get with a bunch of people who are mature and understand it, you could pray

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with them.

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They'll get it.

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Quickly, the role of a mediator or intercessor in prayer was prevalent in the Old Testament

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in the lives of Abraham, Moses, David, Samuel.

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It's just the women in the church.

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There's no, Moses, David, Samuel, Hezekiah, Elijah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel.

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Under the Old Testament, not everyone had access to God.

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So God called the leaders, the priests, the prophets of Israel to intercede on the behalf

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of the people.

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In the New Covenant, however, we all have access through Jesus Christ.

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So he's calling, an intercessor is a prayer warrior.

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That's all.

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We're going to keep it simple.

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Praying with discernment, and we're going to close.

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Praying with discernment is the spirit of seeing and knowing in the place of prayer.

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Well, how do you do that?

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You got to look on the inside.

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You think about Donald Trump, and you look on the inside.

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Do you have a warning?

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Do you have a red flag?

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Do you have a green light?

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Are you grieved?

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Something's going on.

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We had that with Ronald Reagan.

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And for a year, everywhere I went, I said, we need to pray for the president.

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I don't care if you agree with the president or not agree with the president.

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The Bible says pray for those in our authority.

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Doesn't matter.

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I'm not being political here.

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So on the inside, I just felt like a check, something's not right.

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Every single place we went, we prayed for him.

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And you know what?

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There was an attempted assassination on his life.

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And we aborted it.

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How?

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Through prayer.

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What was that?

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Spiritual discernment, the spirit of seeing and knowing something on the inside.

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You capture it in the unseen realm.

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It's part of our spiritual weapons so that the enemy's plans can be aborted.

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John 10, 10.

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Look inward to see and know.

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It's a whole teaching.

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You guys could teach it in Holy Spirit school.

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Here's a scripture.

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First Peter 5, 8.

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Be sober.

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Be vigilant.

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Even with your kids.

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Well, mommy, everything's fine.

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Mommy, everything's fine.

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And you're like, something's not right.

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What is that?

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You're seeing and knowing.

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You may not be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

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A praying, prophetic parent.

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Because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

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He hates people, hates families, hates leadership, hates godly people.

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That word vigilant means wake, watchful, and watch.

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Never be off your guard.

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First Peter 4, 7.

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But the end of all things is at hand.

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Therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers.

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Ephesians 6, 18.

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Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit being what?

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Watchful to this end with all perseverance.

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That word watchful means, the Greek means to be sleepless.

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Sleepless is not a mere wakefulness, but the watchfulness.

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Spirit of seeing and knowing.

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It's a waking.

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It's a watching.

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You're watching in the spirit.

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And I say, God, you want me to talk about being a watching?

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He said, no, you talk about watching and praying.

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It's looking on the inside, not only on the natural.

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Colossians 4, 2.

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Continue earnestly in prayer.

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Be vigilant in it with thanksgiving.

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That word in the Greek means to watch, of keeping awake, spiritual alertness.

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First Thessalonians 5, 6 through 8.

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Let us therefore not sleep as others do.

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But let us watch.

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And what?

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Be sober.

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For those that sleep, sleep in the night.

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The church is arising.

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She's coming up out of her slumber.

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And those who get drunk are drunk at night.

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That word means to be sleepless, watch, means to be sleepless, keep awake, watchfulness.

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We're going to go back and then we're going to close.

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How do we get results in prayer?

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My guy could put that scripture, 1 Corinthians 14, 14 and 15, back up.

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For if I pray, I don't want any praying in tongues in this church.

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We're seeker friendly and we don't want to offend anybody.

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We don't want any of that kind of praying going on where people cry and weep before

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the throne of God.

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God, on the behalf of the lost that are in our city, we don't want that all that my

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head were like waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I would weep day and night for

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the slain daughter of our people.

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Where's the tears in prayer?

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Where's the heartfelt prayer?

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Where's the vision to see as God sees?

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He said I would that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

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But my church has grown cold.

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He's reviving us.

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That's why God needs us.

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Would you dare sit down?

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It's time to stand.

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Let's stand.

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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays.

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I don't understand what I'm saying.

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It makes no sense to me.

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Grow up.

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You're not going to understand everything about God.

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We're not going to understand everything.

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But if he says when you pray in an unknown tongue, your understanding is unfruitful but

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he understands you, well then I'm going to do the thing that he understands.

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What have we been doing?

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We've been on a surface, I'm not talking about the face center.

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I'm talking about universally.

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We've been on a surface level.

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And the church has been lazy.

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How do we fix it?

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Give us laws.

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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my understanding is unfruitful.

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Well is there a conclusion to this, Margie?

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It's 1210.

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What is the conclusion?

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All right, here's the conclusion.

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Here's our last word.

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I will.

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Notice it's an act of your will.

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Daniel, can you come up please?

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The only thing God can't override is your will.

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When I came here on January 6th, can I be honest?

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Please.

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I pray a lot.

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I walk with God.

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I have songs in my heart all the time.

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I got it going on.

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But there's sometimes a part of me that feels like something's missing.

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Something's empty.

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Something's coming.

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I don't know what it is.

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Something's dry.

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You know, and I came here on the 6th, I'm like, I'm praying in tongues.

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I'm not stopping in my pursuit of God.

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The reason I may feel like this has nothing to do with me.

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It may have to be something that has to do with another level.

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There's something we got to press into.

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Something we've got to move.

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There's some mountains.

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There's some things.

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See, when you pray, you go into the realm of the spirit and you're moving things aside.

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There's that John Ramirez guy, Warlock, he was bad.

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He understood the laws of the spirit from the demonic side.

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Thank God he got born again.

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Listen to his testimony.

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I'm not getting into it.

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I pray.

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Hold on, I'm not going to pray it yet.

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I want to finish my conclusion here.

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What is the conclusion?

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I will pray with the spirit.

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I will pray with the understanding also.

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I will sing with the spirit.

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I will sing with the understanding also.

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So when we don't know how to pray, we pray in tongues.

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I'm going to pray this over you first.

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And it's going to be the prayer of the word of God.

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And then we're going to sing again in tongues.

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And then we're going to pray for the inauguration that's taking place tomorrow.

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You good with that?

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Can I go to about 1220?

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This is the scripture God gave me for you at the Faith Center.

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Love this church.

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See, you guys are the word and the spirit.

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And when I, on the 14th, I saw this pendulum and it was swinging back and forth.

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And for a while it was word of faith.

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And then it swung way over to here, the prophetic movement.

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Okay.

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And I saw the Lord bringing us, oh, right in the center.

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He said, this is a season I've been waiting for.

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I'm going to combine the two streams and I'm going to bring them together.

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I remember when the prophetic people didn't like Kenneth E. Hagen and they were talking

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about him and then they all got poor.

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Sorry.

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I'm not apologizing.

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I'm 67, 68 in April.

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I just don't even care if people like me or if they don't.

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It's true.

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They were getting poor.

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So, oh, we need to hear what Kenneth Hagen has to say about faith.

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We need to know more about faith.

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We need to understand the laws of faith and the principles of faith.

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You better believe you do.

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You got to use faith in everything.

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But then we need the prophetic.

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The spirit of seeing and knowing and understanding and comprehending the laws of the spirit.

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This is my prayer for you.

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And those that are listening online, Emmeline, I love you.

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I'm proud of you.

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I just want to give you a shout out, honey.

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You keep going in God.

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Any young woman who comes to the States from another country and works here in the United

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States believing God, I'm telling you the hand of God is on your life and I'm so proud

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of you as your Godmother.

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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

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