Prayer & Purpose with Margie Fleurant | CTN Episode 33

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pray it and he can answer it the effectual fervent

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prayer of a righteous man avails much god will

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put the prayer in your heart to pray so that

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he can answer it goes into the hearts of the

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people doesn't return void it produces results

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be with god let's welcome margie come on you

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can do better than that come on hello everybody

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wow we have quite the uh assembly here. God is

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good, isn't he? Just give me a second. Thank

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you, Lord. I'm not going to take too long, but

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we did bring books. This is my recent book, Contend,

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Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children

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Through Prayer. We have outlines for Bible studies.

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There's about. 80 -something scriptures in the

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back, all of God's promises, which are yes and

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amen, concerning your children. And this is my

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most recent book. And for me, it's like a legacy

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book. My story is in here. So who would like

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this book? I just want to remind everybody, those

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of you that don't know, that, well, first of

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all, thank you for having me. Janet is amazing.

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I think most of you know that. She did a great

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job hearing from God and just a great job organizing.

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And then, of course, we have the first lady of

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the house, Pastor Pam. I don't know where she

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is at the moment. There she is, my precious friend,

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my gift from God. So anyway, I don't know if

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you know this, but we do have a prayer call that

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we do every Thursday morning at 9 a .m. I am

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not a 6 o 'clock in the morning prayer warrior.

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Am I the only one? So we connect at 9 a .m. It's

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a conference call. It's not a Zoom call. Hair

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and makeup not necessary. When I do my prayer

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calls, it's just like who did it and ran, if

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you saw what I had on, and it's all good. And

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I teach about 20 minutes. I sometimes prophesy.

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It's quite interesting. and then we pray. So

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I mute and I unmute. I lead what I call guided

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prayer, which, you know, we hear a lot about

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prayer, but I think some things need to be taught

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by example. So I just want to encourage you to

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check us out. We can go to our website, margieflaurent

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.org, and we'll just... Love to have you. We

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do have some people from Southwest Florida that

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join us, and it's really amazing. So before we

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get into the message, I just want to say that

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I have a home in Lakewood Ranch, but I also go

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back to New Jersey. I have a home there. So I

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go back and forth. I have relationships with

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a lot of churches, and it's developing more here

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in Southwest Florida. Of course, with the Antonucci's,

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we've known each other, I don't even know how

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long, maybe 30 years. And we grew up together

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in the things of God, so to speak. But, you know,

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when I come to Florida, you know, I got my pink

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and my white and my pastels. But when I was getting

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ready for this conference, I just felt like wearing

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red. Hallelujah. And I think the Holy Ghost is

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just wanting to set the tone that there's fire

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in the house today. I said there's fire in the

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house today. Okay, ladies, this is our time.

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And there's fire in the house today. And so,

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you know, when I finally finished getting ready,

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I really put a lot of time into my preparation.

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And when I was finally finished, I went into

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the pool, and I was praying in the Holy Ghost,

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and I saw Acts 2, 1 through 4. I saw... cloven

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tongues like as of fire, sitting on the tops

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of each and every one of you. No one left out.

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And then I thought of this scripture, Acts 1044.

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While Peter yet spake the word, the Holy Ghost

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fell on all them that heard the word. So it's

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not just what I teach, what I minister, what

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I'm preaching. It's also, what is the Holy Spirit

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saying to you on the inside of your heart? And

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I believe that when we speak like this, I was

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talking to Pastor John about it, we need to open

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ourselves up more to allowing the Holy Spirit

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to do His will, His work, because the Spirit

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and the Word, they agree. And we flow in the

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Holy Ghost. We do our best to yield to him. But

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I believe that the best is yet to come. And that

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God is raising up his princess warriors in this

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day and in this hour. And it's not an accident

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that you're here today. God has chosen you to

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be here. He has ordained you to be here. He has

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ordained this time for you to get refired. for

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you to get your prophetic word, for you to receive

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your healing in your body, for you to enter into

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a new level of prayer and intercession. So God's

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doing a work in us today. So I just want to encourage

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you with these words. The other thing I want

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to say is when I pray and I prepare, like I said,

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I do my best to hear from God. And I hear, I'm

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the kind of person, I hear scriptures. And sometimes

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that's how I minister prophetically. I'll get

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scriptures for people. But I heard a lot of the

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scriptures that I'm going to share with you today.

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And the interesting thing is that we're so one

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in the Spirit, we're all hearing from the same

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Holy Ghost. So if I say some scriptures that's

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already on the list, just know I didn't know

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about the list. I just knew that the Holy Ghost

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had certain things He wanted to say. to you and

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to i i feel as leaders we need to rise up i'm

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telling you this is not a career right this is

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a calling and i think as leaders we need to rise

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up and do our best for god right and so that's

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what we want to be and that's what we want to

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do so the theme of our conference is awaken and

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arise so There are moments in life when we're

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physically awake, but spiritually asleep. We

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go through our routines, we attend church, we

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say prayers, yet sometimes something on the inside

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of us feels disconnected. And so what I feel

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the Spirit of God is going to do for us today,

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He's going to reconnect some things. You know,

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I'm seeing something right now. I see the reconnection

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happening and sparks flying as a result. Amen.

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So God gives a clear call. It is time to wake

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up. Romans 13, 11 says, And do know this, knowing

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the time, that now it is high time, that's how

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this translation reads, to awake. Out of sleep.

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Not a time for us to be quiet. Not a time for

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us to be asleep. It's time for us to arise and

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shine and come out of the depression, come out

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of the oppression, come out of the circumstances

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that have had us bound and arise to a new light.

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Ephesians 5, 14 through 17 says, Awake, you who

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sleep. Arise from the dead, and Christ will give

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you light. Light. I said, Lord, what about the

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light? He said revelation and insight into his

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plan and renewed purposes for your life. See

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that you walk circumspectly, carefully, not as

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fools but as wise, redeeming the time. Because

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the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise,

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but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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And we're going to talk a lot about that. So

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we're going to wake up to a new season. We're

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going to wake up and we're going to enter into

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a fresh anointing. We're going to wake up and

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we're going to... Have vision restored on the

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inside of us. And for some of you, he's going

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to add to the vision that's already on the inside

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of you. So I've said this before. I don't know

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if it's a thing here in Florida, but whenever

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I come here, I always have this. this sentence

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that comes to me, Southwest Florida, it's not

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a time for you to retire. It's a time for you

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to refire. No hanging at the boat, doing nothing

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for God. Not that that's a bad thing, but I think

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we need to lift up our eyes and we need to look

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and see because the days are evil and the time

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is short and Jesus is coming soon. Therefore,

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I hear the Holy Ghost say, I have need of you

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in this hour. Not just a few of you. Each and

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every one of you has a call. Each and every one

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of you has a commission. Each and every one of

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you has something to do that is important in

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building the kingdom. Some of you have let down

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your mantle and you've laid it down. It's time

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to pick up that mantle again, brush it off, put

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it back on, tie it on. And when you do that,

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God said, my strength will be made perfect in

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your weakness. You put that mantle back on in

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areas that you've had weakness. I'm going to

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come alongside and I'm going to help you. And

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my grace is sufficient for you. So it's time

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to arise. Amen. Okay. Isaiah. This is another

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scripture he gave me. Isaiah 43, 18 and 19. Of

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course, they pick up on it and they got to do

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my word and take my scripture. Do not. remember

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the former things, nor consider the things of

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old. Behold, I will do a new thing. I will do

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a new thing. I am in the process of renewing

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your mind. I am in the process of healing your

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body. I am in the process of causing your children

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to come out of the darkness and into the light.

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What took 10 years, God said, I am going to redeem

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the time. My book, Contend, Stewarding the Hearts

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and Destinies of Our Children Through Prayer,

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is one of my most favorite projects thus far.

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In this book, I teach the reader how to pray

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effectively for their children, their grandchildren,

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and the rising generations that are in the earth

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today. Make no mistake about it. There is war

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over the hearts and the destinies of our children.

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And this book will equip you as to how to pray

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effectively to those young people. In this book,

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I teach you about the power and the purpose of

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praying in tongues. I show you what a prayer

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alert looks like. There are sample prayers. Not

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only that. There are outlines at the end of each

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chapter. So if you run a Bible study, you can

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use this book as a springboard to teach others

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how to pray for their children. Go to my website

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at margieflorent .org and pick up your own copy.

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A new thing. Who's doing it? He is. The great

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I am is doing a new thing. But what we need to

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do is we need to trust in the Lord with all of

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our hearts. Sometimes as ladies, we lean to our

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own understanding because we're so used to doing

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it. And God wants us to come out of the mental

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realm and enter into more of the realm of the

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spirit. And he wants us to live more in that

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realm. The Lord said something to me interesting

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in a prayer service that I lead once a month.

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And you know how he corrects the leaders? Because

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he's got to correct us so we can help them. And

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when I was sitting there and I was leading the

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people in prayer, the Holy Ghost said to me,

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Margie? And I'm like, what? He goes, you are

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too much in the mental realm. And you're thinking

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and you're thinking and you're planning and you're

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thinking and you're doing and you're doing and

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you're doing. And I want you to be still in this

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new season. and know that I'm God. I'm calling

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you to stillness. God wants us to be still. He

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wants to do a new thing, but we have to open

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up our hearts, get out of the mental realm, and

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get into a position, listen, in the realm of

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the spirit, listen, where we can hear from God.

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So he said, I'm doing a new thing. You know,

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and you gotta... discipline yourself to train

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your mind. I don't know why I'm getting into

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this. You got to discipline yourself to connect

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to the inside of you and to look on the inside

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of you and to meditate on the scriptures instead

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of meditating on worry and meditating on fear

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and meditating on the circumstances. God said,

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I'm doing a new thing and I want you to meditate

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on me and I want you to pick it up. Where are

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you going to pick it up? Right here on the inside

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of you. But if we're too much in the mental realm,

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listen, we're going to miss God and have missed

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opportunities. He said, I'm doing a new thing.

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Shall you not know it? It's springing forth.

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I will even make a road in the wilderness and

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rivers in the desert. So let's look at what spiritual

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sleep looks like. Number one, being unaware of

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God's presence. Now, you know, I was thinking

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about that. I was like, you know, Lord, I've

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had times and seasons in my life where, you know,

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it was just dry. How many of you ever been going

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through a wilderness season? Okay, well, that's,

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I, the Lord said to me, some of that's part of

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the plan. Because I'm looking at you and I'm

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watching you. Are you going to be still and know

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that I'm God in the dry time? Are you going to

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walk by faith and not by sight in the dry time?

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As a matter of fact, in the dry time, that's

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where we as trees, our roots have to go deep.

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And our roots got to go into the soil and we've

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got to search for water. I will pour water on

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those that are thirsty and floods upon the dry

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ground. But I want you to seek me. And if you

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seek me, you will find me. Because if you're

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thirsty enough, those roots will find where they

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need to go. So sometimes the dry times make us

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stronger, make us better, make us wiser. I don't

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know about you, but I refuse to quit. I refuse

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to let go. I don't care how imperfect I am. I

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have a tendency, and I've had therapy for it,

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to have this problem with perfectionism. Every

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hair in place, a nail, oh, my God, there's a

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spot on my nail. Oh, my God, everything's got

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to match. Everything's got to match. Do I need

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to say anything? Everything's got to match, or

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it bothers me. We're in a woman's conference,

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amen? But, you know, we're not perfect. And that's

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the beauty of God. He takes the foolish things

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of this world to confound the wise. He takes

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the weak things and he uses them for his glory.

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You look at Moses. Moses had a stuttering problem.

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And he was so afraid to speak, he begged God

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to give him some help. Right? So God can take

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our imperfections and turn them around and use

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them for his glory. How do we discern when we're

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dry or we're in a season where we need to awaken?

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Growing comfortable in sin or compromise. Losing

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passion for God's word. Or one is simply bored

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and you've lost your joy. That whole board thing

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is a thing. Unsure of your purpose. And this

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is going to be a focus today. Or you are physically

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tired. You know, what's happening on the inside

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can manifest on the outside. And I'm hearing

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in my spirit, where there is no vision, the people

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perish. But if we can awaken, and we will by

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the Holy Spirit, awaken your purpose, you will

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come to a new light, you will be anointed with

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fresh oil, and your physical tiredness will be

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a thing of the past. Because you will be energized

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by the vision that God is writing on the tablets

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of your heart. And you're going to have the strength

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to run with the vision. I know. I just heard

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the Lord say, I'm doing a new thing. I'm doing

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a new thing. I'm doing a new thing. I'm doing

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a new thing. I'm doing a new thing. So God's

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call to awaken. And I heard this scripture and

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they played it. Joel 2, 1 and 15 says, blow the

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trumpet in Zion. Sound out an alarm on my holy

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hill. Let all the inhabitants right here in southwest

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Florida, right here in Fort Myers, let all the

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inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of

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the Lord is coming. And then the scripture goes

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on to say, a day of darkness and gloominess is

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upon us. So what are we going to do? Stick our

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heads in the sand? Are we going to stay asleep?

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No, we're going to rend our hearts. We're going

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to gather the people. It's time for a fresh commitment.

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He said, blow the trumpet in Zion. I said, Lord,

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what do you mean by that? He said, Margie, sound

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the alarm. We got to sound the alarm. It's time

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to sound the alarm. How many of you set your

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clocks this morning? Right? clock. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. You set the clock and you know

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what time you want to wake up. And so you set

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it accordingly. And then alarm goes off and you

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wake up. You know, the clock is ticking in the

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realm of the spirit. It's time to wake up. God

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had some plans in store for his church, his body,

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but you and I are co -laborers with him and we've

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got to get into position. The purpose of the

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sound is to call us to action as believers. Walk

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closely with God and fulfill our purpose and

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destiny and our service to him. Now, we're not

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talking about works. And that's another thing

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I have to be careful of. Works. You know, you

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don't want to get into works. You want to stay

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in rest and you want to stay in obedience unto

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him. Sometimes we do things to be seen of men.

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Well, how about being seen of God in the secret

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place of our hearts? He knows everything. Amen?

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So we're not talking about works. So it's an

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awakening, not just the opening of our eyes.

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It's stepping into a new purpose. It's a new

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time of surrender and obedience. Psalms 110,

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verse 3 says, My people. We'll be willing in

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the day of my power. It's the day of his power.

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That's what time it is. It's the day of his power.

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So what happens when you awaken spiritually?

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You awaken to your God -ordained purpose. Don't

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tell me you don't have a purpose. Don't look

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at me and tell me you don't have a purpose. You

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have a purpose to fulfill. And the purpose is

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right here in your heart. Destiny is written

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in your heart. Before I ever formed you in your

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mother's womb, I knew you and I implanted gifts.

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I implanted callings. I implanted desires. When

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I was a little girl, I didn't know I was called

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to teach. the world how to pray. I didn't know

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I was called to do that. But as a little girl,

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I was acting out my destiny. As a little girl,

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I was always praying. As a little girl, there's

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a picture of me with my little prayer book. As

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a little girl, I would sit in the back. of my

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yard on a little tree stump, and I, can you believe

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it? I would look up into the sky, and I wanted

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to see God's face. Nobody told me about Exodus

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33. Nobody told me that Moses wanted to see God's

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face. What is that? It's intimacy with God. When

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you look at him face to face so on the inside

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of me He was already working in me both to will

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and to do of his good pleasure before I ever

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formed you in your mother's womb I Knew you and

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I put within you a heart cry for me. I put within

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you a desire for me I put within you a desire

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and a longing for me and a longing for prayer.

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Now, here we are. We're just acting out what

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we saw and we did as children. So the destiny

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is in your heart. You know what, Margie? I collect,

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what's it called? Social security. I do too,

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but I'm not retiring because you know what? The

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Lord says the best years are yet ahead of you.

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It's time to arise. It's time to awaken. Now,

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when it comes to your purpose and your calling

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in life, there's different seasons to do different

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things. Amen? For example, a mother's purpose

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may be to raise and care for her children. But

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when the children grow up and leave home, that

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purpose doesn't end. It just changes form. And

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now we say, okay, or your purpose. Now we say,

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all right, what's the new thing, Lord, that you

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want to do in and through me? We have to make

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way for new assignments. I was in ministry. I

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don't know how many. It's been 46 years because

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I found some cassettes. You know what cassettes

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are? Where's these young people? Where's the

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young ones? Nina knows what cassettes are. Where's

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the young girl that was up here? Where is she?

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Have you ever seen a cassette? Do you know what

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a cassette is? Well, I found these cassettes.

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It was my very first speaking engagement. It

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was 46 years ago. But when I was 28, I got married,

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and then I had three kids when I turned 35. Figure

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that one out. Twins, in vitro. God said, you

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will get pregnant on the first shot. Can you

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imagine? And then he said, now you have a question.

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What did God say to you? God said, you'll get

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pregnant through in vitro fertilization, and

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you'll get pregnant. Well, he said, and you're

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going to have a second baby, but the second baby,

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you're going to get pregnant on your own. You

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know, he didn't tell me. He doesn't always tell

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you everything. That's why we walk by faith and

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not by sight. If he's called you to do it, that

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means you can handle it. So all these kids were

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born, and I had already been in ministry, preaching,

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teaching, traveling. Listen to this. The first

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woman in multiple churches on the East Coast.

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Can you imagine? Nails out to here, stripes,

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big hair. You know, we got shoulder pads. I have

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shoulder pads. The whole thing, I can't even

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believe they invited me in. It's crazy. You look

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back, you go, I had to be God. But when my children

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were born, It was the dawn of a new day. Thank

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

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It has been such a joy sharing this time with

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you. For more inspiration and resources on today's

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