Prayer & Purpose with Margie Fleurant | CTN Episode 34

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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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of a new day a dawn of a new season and i enjoyed

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it children are a gift from god They're arrows

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that he gives us so that they can one day be

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shot out and run the race that's set before them

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and fulfill their God -ordained purposes. And

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so during the time I had the kids, that was my

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season. And I loved every minute of it. But did

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the call go away? No. It had to be refired. It

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had to be rerouted. It had to be redone. God

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said, I'm doing a new thing. Thank you, Jesus.

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Ecclesiastes 3 .1 says, To everything there is

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a season and a time and a purpose under heaven.

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I have a question for you. I want you to think

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about it. Take notes. Listen to your heart. What

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season are you in right now? Some seasons have

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passed. A new season has begun. You don't lose

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your purpose. You just grow into new expressions

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of it. My book, Contend, I didn't know that when

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I had three kids in one year that it was part

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of the call on my life to understand and train

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the next generation. I didn't know that he was

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teaching me how to pray for my children. But

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it was all part of the process. So you can have

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a call, but there's different expressions of

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that call and that season. So what happens when

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you awaken spiritually? You awaken to God's purposes.

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Number two, you ready for this one? I thought

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this was pretty good. I didn't think of it. He

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gave it to me. Seriously. You gain a heart of

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wisdom. Psalms 139 says, teach us to number our

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days. that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Wisdom.

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Are you ready? Are you ready? Wisdom. In this

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season for us, what are you doing with your time?

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Margie, cut it out. How many times are you going

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to line up those shoes? Cut it out. What are

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you doing with your time? Cut it out. What are

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you doing with your time? Some things need to

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be cut off. I'm just seeing it like a piece of

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meat, you know. You got the really good piece

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of meat, but you got to cut off the fat. See,

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he's talking to us today. You hear him? Today,

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when you hear his voice, the Bible says, harden

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not your heart. That's why I'm a prophetic teacher,

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preacher, whatever you want to call it. So when

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I teach and I preach, God's speaking to you.

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Wisdom with who your friends are. When you awaken,

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You begin to see clearly. When you awaken, you

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gain direction and conviction. Something on the

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inside of you shifts. When you awaken, you walk

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in light instead of confusion. I don't know what

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to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know

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what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't

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know what to do. When you're awakened, God can

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speak to you on the inside of you and show you

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the path in which you are to go. Listen, the

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path of the righteous are like the light of dawn.

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It grows brighter and brighter and brighter and

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brighter. You have not lost your purpose. You

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just got to find it. Amen? So how do we shake

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ourselves and awaken spiritually? Number one,

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you ready? I wouldn't be me if I didn't talk

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about this subject. Matthew 6, 6 says when you

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pray. Not if. When you pray. Not if. What are

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we doing with our time? When you pray, go into

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your closet and shut the door. But Margie, prayer

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is boring. Shut. The door drawn near to God.

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He'll draw near to you when you're in his presence.

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There's fullness of joy when you're in his presence.

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You are being transformed from glory to glory

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to glory to glory. When you take that step. into

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your prayer closet. You may not feel like it.

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It may at first be boring, so to speak, but as

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you enter in and as you lean into him, he comes

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and he makes his home with you and he manifests

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his presence and God actually visits you by yourself.

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You don't need to be in a big service to have

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the presence of the Holy Spirit manifest and

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Visit you. You can have what I would call, this

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is brand new, an at -home visitation. And there's

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nothing that creates intimacy more than secret

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closet prayer. But you've got to take the first

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step. So, Margie, how do I do it? I have a whole

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book on it. But I'm going to say this. Begin

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with 15 minutes. Begin by shutting your mind

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off. Begin by hooking yourself up to the inside

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of you. Begin by using your spiritual imagination.

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I see the Lord. He's high and lifted up, and

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his train fills the temple. I draw boldly to

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the throne. The throne, there is a throne. The

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throne room of grace to obtain mercy and help

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in my time of need. Use your spirit. spiritual

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imagination. Stir yourself up, Isaiah 64, 7.

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There is none that calls upon my name that stirs

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himself up to take a hold of me. How do you stir

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yourself up? Through worship. You worship him

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in spirit and in truth. I worship you, Jesus.

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I worship you. I bow down before you. I am not

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distracted by lesser purposes. I bow down before

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you. I have chosen that good part, and I put

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myself at your feet, and I worship you. Praise

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still, avenger. So much warfare, Mark. You're

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just a prevenger. The anxiety is just getting

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out of control. Praise still, avenger. The avenger's

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after your purpose. The avenger's after your

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intimacy with God. The avenger wants you to sleep.

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The avenger doesn't want you to wake up. But

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when you wake up and you spend time in the presence

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of God, you're like an eagle, girl. And don't

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you ever tell me you're not. That's your nature.

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You have the nature of an eagle. You just need

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to stir her up. You mount up with wings like

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an eagle. You shake off the things and the weights

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that's easily beset you. And you mount up. You

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lift up your eyes. And you're able to fly above

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any storm. And you're able to run. and not grow

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weary he's able to strengthen you with might

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by his spirit in the inner man and you'll wake

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up out of that place of prayer strengthened by

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the power and the presence of the holy spirit

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seven days without prayer makes one week seven

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days without prayer makes one week And I speak

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to any leader and any pastor that is a prayerless

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pastor, and I pray that God convicts you by his

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spirit, that you once again go back into the

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presence of God, go back to your first love,

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return to him so that you're no longer a cistern,

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a broken cistern that can hold no water. God

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is calling you to renewed strength. one preacher

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say, I have so much to do for God that I need

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to spend time on my knees at least four to five

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hours a day. Listen to me. To whom much is given,

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much is required. You have been given much. What

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have I been given? To feed the flock of God whereby

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you've been made the oversight thereof. It's

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a great responsibility. They're his sheep. You

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need to avail yourself and return to your first

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love. Your first love is not your ministry. It's

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not your ministry anyway. It's my ministry, says

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the Lord. It's not my ministry. It's his ministry.

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It's Jesus the apostle. It's Jesus the prophet.

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It's Jesus the evangelist. It's Jesus the teacher.

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It's Christ in you, the hope of glory. Sometimes

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we need to pray for our leadership. I'm just

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saying. That Christ would be formed in them.

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And that's not being mean. God is doing a new

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thing. And the leaders have to align. The people

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have to align. The mothers have to align. The

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fathers have to align. Margie, how can this be

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that all this alignment can take place? Not by

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might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the

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Lord. I am working in my people. I am dealing

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with my people. I am working in them both to

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will and to do of my good pleasure. I am doing

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a new thing. Think about it. When the angel came

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to Mary and said, listen, you are going to conceive.

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Hallelujah. How many of you believe we're in

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conception? You are going to conceive and you're

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going to bring forth a son. You're to call his

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name Jesus. And he began to tell Mary about the

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call and the plan and the purpose of that which

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was going to be planted in her womb, even as

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a virgin. So what did Mary say? She said, yes.

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Everyone say yes. Yes. She said, be it unto me

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according to your word. And how's it going to

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happen? The Holy Ghost is going to come upon

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you. The power of the Most High is going to overshadow

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you. I'm going to enable. You to conceive. And

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it's not by might, not by power, by my spirit.

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Can I just be honest with you? We're having fun,

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aren't we? It's good when I deviate and go into

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little... You have to understand, I am the epitome

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of an introvert. Big time. And it's gotten worse.

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But the more I go deep into that place, the more

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prophetic I am. It's quite amazing. Because God

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wants you to go deeper with him. so that he can,

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listen, bring out more of that which is on the

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inside of you. But I could never do any of this.

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You have to understand, if it wasn't for the

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Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit will come upon you,

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the power of the Most High will overshadow you,

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you will be turned into another person. I try

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to tell people this. You have another person

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living on the inside of you, the Holy Ghost.

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So we've got to return to our first love. We've

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got to return to prayer. Amen? Let's go on. Number

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two, my favorite, pray in tongues. We've neglected

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tongues. We've neglected our prayer language.

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When I'm tired, when I'm weary, when I'm bored,

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and it happens to all of us, you know what I

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do? I walk the floors. I'm not going to lay down.

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Because if I lay down, I'm going to sleep. Now,

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there is praying in your bed. I do a whole teaching

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on praying in your bed. It's a teaching. But

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I'm talking about when I'm tired, the last thing

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I need to do, you're laying in your bed. Next

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thing you know, you're sleeping. But when I'm

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tired, I walk the floor. Get up. I awaken, I

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shake myself, and I walk the floors, and I start

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praying in tongues. Let's do it. And every once

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in a while, I'll get words in English. It's the

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time of the ladder. I see a class praying tongues

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Listen, you can pray in tongues driving in your

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car You can pray in tongues at the kitchen sink,

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which we spend a lot of time You can pray in

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tongues when you're vacuuming. You can pray in

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tongues. He that speaks in an unknown tongue

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speaks not unto men but unto God. How be it in

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the spirit he speaks mysteries. I don't know

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what I'm saying. That is the living Bible translation.

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When I speak in an unknown tongue, I don't know

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what I'm saying. But God understands you. You're

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praying out of purpose. You're praying out of

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destiny. You're praying the perfect mind and

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will and purpose of God for the subject of your

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prayer assignment. And then we know that all

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things work together for the good to them that

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love God and are called according to His purpose.

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Because when you pray in tongues, you're praying

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according to the will of God. And this is the

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confidence that we have in Him. That if we ask

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anything according to... His will, He hears us.

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And if we know He hears us, we know that we know

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that we know we have the petitions we desire

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of Him. So why aren't we praying in tongues more?

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Oh, because we don't want any of that kind of

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praying going on in our church. It'll turn people

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away. Really? about what the Bible says? The

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Bible says when an unbeliever hears people speaking

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in tongues, it causes their hearts to be convicted,

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and therefore they know of a truth that God is

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with you. What's happened in the seeker -friendly

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churches is they've left God out. Oh yeah, but

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I just want a big church. I want to obey God

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in a big way. Success is not numbers. Success

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is saying yes to God. Yes to the will of God.

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If your ministry is just one -on -one, do it.

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I have a friend. Who is it? Who said this to

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me? Give me a second. I have a very good memory.

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Who said it to me? Oh, I know. I'm not going

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to say her name out loud because we're recording

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this, and this is going to be on YouTube. I have

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a friend. She said, Margie, you're so funny.

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I remember a long time ago, you said to me that

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maybe my one purpose and one prayer assignment

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is to pray for my husband. So when you speak

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in tongues, isn't this fun? Aren't you glad I

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wore red? This is not a pink service. No pink.

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For me. When you pray in tongues, guess what?

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You edify yourself. Is it in the Bible? 1 Corinthians

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14, 4, I believe. He that speaks in an unknown,

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it's unknown to you. Why do I keep going into

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that? It's unknown to you. It's a heavenly language.

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God. understands you. And you're praying out

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His mind, His will, and His purposes. You're

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praying according to the will of God. But when

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you pray in tongues, you're edifying yourself.

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That word edify means to charge yourself. Charge

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means to edify. Charge like a battery. So for

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me, you know, thank God this phone doesn't do

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it to me because it's more new -ish. How many

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of you don't like getting new phones? Now you've

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got to really dive deep and get all those passwords.

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I have 10 pages of passwords. I literally do.

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You've got to load them up. But this phone is

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newish, and when it starts to get the battery,

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everyone say battery, starts getting low, then

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what happens is I've got to plug my phone. into

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a power source. And when I do, the battery is

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charged up. It goes from one bar to two. Now

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it's percentage. It goes from 20%. to 30%, to

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40%, to 50%, to 60%. And the longer you're plugged

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into that power source, the higher the charge

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will be. I want to encourage you to stir up the

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gift of God that's in you. Very easy. All right,

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let's go on. Is everybody happy? This is simple,

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but it's got to be said. Oh, boy, here we go

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again. I can feel it coming. Read your Bible.

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Can I be honest? I really like, I'm not saying

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it's a sin to read the Bible on your phone, obviously,

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but there's so many distractions. I used to be

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on dating apps. So I quit all that because it

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was just ridiculous. So I'd be like reading my

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Bible on my U version on my phone. Next thing

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you know, David likes you. Johnny boy sent you

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a wink. Now I'm like all distracted. We got to

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get back. I feel. I speak by permission. I love

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having a Bible. You underline it. You read it.

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You put little notes in it. You mark it up. Let's

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get back to that. The Bible says, Psalms 119,

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130. The unfolding of your words give light.

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It gives understanding to the simple. This shows

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how Scripture. Brings light like waking up spiritually

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So I want to speak to the pastors and the leaders

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get back to reading your Bible for devotional

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time and not Just to put messages together God

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said I care more about you than I do the ministry.

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I Want you to come to me. I want you to spend

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time with me I've chosen you and I've ordained

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you, but don't allow the enemy to take that which

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I have put within you because what will happen

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is you'll burn out. Why do we have so much stuff

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going on with leadership? They're burned out.

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Can I just say it? It's performance -based. So

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we've got to get back to reading the Bible. Are

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you happy? Turn away next. Turn away from what

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dulls your spirit. Isaiah 52, 1 and 2 says, Awake,

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shake off the dust, rise up. The Holy Ghost gave

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me this. What's dusting you up? He has a sense

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of humor, doesn't he? What's dusting you up?

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Shake it off. 1 Timothy 4, 2 says, oh, and then

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we're going to close with that. It's important

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to understand that our conscience can become

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seared, like the Bible says, with a hot iron.

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Sometimes when we keep ignoring the Holy Spirit,

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we become numb or insensitive. And then you feel

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dead. You feel dry. Well, what's dusting you

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up? Let's think again. What's dusting you up?

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Yeah, I know. You know what the Lord, he just

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reminded me of something. I don't know why I

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have to tell all my sin. Publicly. Why me? I

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have to be careful. I really do. Because I was

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married 33 years. Raised the kids. Hasta luego,

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baby. Not on my part. And now suddenly, I have

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to manage everything. Does anybody in here know

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what I'm talking about? Manage everything. The

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hot water heater went one day. All hell broke

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loose in my emotions. Oh my God, what do I do?

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I learned you just do the thing with the little

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thing. You put it up, you push it this way, and

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it stops. Manage everything. Manage, everyone

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say this, everything. Some of you are married

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and you're still managing. Everything. And I

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have a tendency since this change to sometimes

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I deal with working on it, anxiety. Don't look

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at me in that tone of voice like you don't know

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what I'm talking about. And then I think, is

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this done? Is that done? Here. There's so many

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thoughts. And then the Lord spoke to me recently

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because I get anxious. If things aren't in order,

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that's a sign of control. Would you like to hire

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me for a therapist? It's a sign of control. These

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are all the things I learned through therapy.

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It's a sign of control. You have to control everything

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because you want to, you feel out of control,

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I guess. You just want to make sure everything's

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together. And one day the Spirit of God, like

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literally like two weeks ago, said to me, it's

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a distraction. Something in my head. I got to

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do this. I got to do that. I got to put that

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blue rubber band in the right -hand drawer and

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push it in the very back so that when I need

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that blue rubber band, I'm going to know exactly.

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I'm not even kidding where it is. Ask me anything,

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where anything is. How many of you know what

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I'm talking about? We're really good at it, aren't

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we? The Lord spoke to me about two weeks ago.

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He's like, cur to you that that might be the

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devil. It's kind of a wake -up call. It's the

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devil. Trying to sift me as wheat. Get me into

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anxiety. Get me into perfectionism. Get me to

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figure out why I wasn't good enough as a wife.

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Get me to try to figure it all out. Do you think

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that maybe not all your thoughts are your thoughts?

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The Bible says we're not to be ignorant of Satan's

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devices. It is a device to snuff you out, to

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get you dusty, to get you tired, to get you to

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grow weary in well -doing. Some things are good,

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but they're not God. You need to figure it out.

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If you're going to awaken to your destiny, figure

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out what's a God idea and what is a you idea.

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Which brings us to our last, and then I'm going

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to turn it over to Janet. How do we awaken? Know

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your enemy. He hates me. I know it. Because I'll

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tell you something about me. I refuse to quit.

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69 in April, I refuse to quit. Thank you so much

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for tuning in to today's podcast. It has been

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