Prayer & Purpose with Margie Fleurant | CTN Episode 37

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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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praise god okay before we get into the word i

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have some i've always come bearing gifts you

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can go to my website to get my books this is

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receive the steps to the prayer of faith. And

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since you and I got it all going with the shoe

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vibe, I thought I'd give you that one. Okay,

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then we have Decision Time, The Place and the

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Prayer of Surrender. I spoke on this on Friday

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night at Joe's Sources. We had an incredible

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move of God. And this is about a book about when

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you're at a crossroad in your life, you don't

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know where you're going, you don't know exactly

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what God is saying. And it's a different kind

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of prayer whereby you pray if it be your will.

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So the gentleman with your hand up, I want to

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give this to you. God bless you. God bless you.

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You're welcome. Then I have Contend, Stirring

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the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children Through

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Prayer. This is my most recent book. Do we have

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any new parents in the house? Yeah, I want to

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give it to Pastor, but where is he? Okay, we'll

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give it to him. And that book is filled with

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scriptures on how to pray for your children,

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lots of testimonies. As a matter of fact, Pastor

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Anthony's testimony is in that book. His mom

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wrote out a testimony for me. And then my friends

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and I, who are leaders in ministry, we put a

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book together called A Call to Prayer, and I

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did one of the chapters. So I'm going to give

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it right here to this young girl. I'll give it

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to you. And then we'll go here on the other side.

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So that's for you. Okay, you ready to get into

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the word? I like it when we meet in the gym.

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I don't know why, I just like it. I think it's

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a nice little vibe in here, don't you? Okay,

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we're going to go ahead and continue on the subject

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of this is that. And I spent the day with God.

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I always really listen first before I put my

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thoughts into notes. But I was listening to God

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for about three days. And then yesterday I spent

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the day with God. And he's given me a word for

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us. Everyone say for us. So we're going to continue

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on the vein of this is that. And with that in

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mind, we don't have an overhead. So you're going

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to have to really pay attention. Everyone say,

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pay attention. And I know people don't like to

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bring Bibles anymore to church, but these are

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the reasons why we need a Bible. Amen? And I

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love my Bible. I love reading it sometimes when

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I'm reading. the scripture on my phone, I get

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a text message, it comes down, and I get distracted.

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So that's a plan and purpose of the enemy is

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to kill, steal, and destroy your relationship

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and your walk with God. So he just brings all

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these distractions. Not that social media is

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bad or our phones are bad. It's just that we

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have to be careful that we guard what goes into

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our eye gates and keep the word of God in our

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hearts and in our lives. That's why I encourage

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people to have a Bible. Amen? So we're going

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to talk about this is that. I'm going to talk

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today about understanding the person of the Holy

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Spirit. Everyone say that with me. Understanding

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the person of the Holy Spirit. It says here in

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Joel chapter 2, verse 28, a prophecy that came

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forth. And Joel prophesied and he said, it shall

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come to pass afterward. that I will pour out

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my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters,

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they'll prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams.

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Your young men will see visions. And also on

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my men's servants, on my maid's servants, I will

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pour out my spirit in those days. So I believe

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it's important for us in the day and in the hour

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that we live in to understand the person and

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the work of the Holy Spirit. So what I'm going

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to do is simply introduce some things to you

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because this would literally take about 25, 30

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hours of teaching, but I wanted to highlight

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some things for you that I felt in my heart that

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God wanted me to give to you to whet your appetite.

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Now, so here we go. We have heard about knowing

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God. Amen? We've heard about knowing Jesus. Didn't

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the Apostle Paul say in Philippians 3 that I

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may know him, that I may understand the wonders

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of his person? So we've heard about messages

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about Jesus and knowing him and understanding

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him and how to become intimate with him in the

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places of prayer. And we've also heard messages

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about knowing the Father. I have a whole CD that

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I produce, just all scriptures on the heart of

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the Father. There's so many scriptures on the

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heart of the Father. Jesus talked often about

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him. And, you know, we have what's called an

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orphan spirit rampant in the church today, whereby

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people, they don't know the heart of the Father,

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they're afraid of the Father, and therefore they

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pull away from Him because they've had bad relationships

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with their earthly Father, and then they think

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God the Father is like their earthly Father,

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and therefore they draw away from Him. So teaching,

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faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word

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of God, so the more messages you hear on the

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heart of the Father, the more... it dispels all

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the unbelief that we have that will keep us from

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being close to Him and trusting Him. So we've

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heard messages in that regard, but we don't really

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hear that many messages on the person of the

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Holy Spirit. So we are living in times when we

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must awaken the ministry and understand the person

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of the Holy Spirit. as we begin to know the person

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of the Holy Spirit, we will have a closer relationship

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with him just as we would with the Father and

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the Son, and we will be able to discern his ministry

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in our own walk and in our own gatherings. Now,

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I'm getting something while I'm preaching right

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now. It's for somebody who's listening online.

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Acts 10 .44 says, while Peter yet spake the word,

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the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the

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word. I believe that as we hear the word of God

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today, we're opening up the door for the Holy

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Spirit to work. And as a result, we need to expect

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him to manifest. Well, what do you mean by that?

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While Peter was preaching, just like I am, The

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scripture says the Holy Spirit fell on all them

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that heard the word. Now this happened in the

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ministry of Catherine Coleman. If you don't know

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who she is, I would highly encourage you to ask

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ChatGBT or go to the internet or get her books

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and read about Catherine Coleman. Because while

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she was preaching one day, minding her own business,

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you know, just doing her thing with her message,

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the history tells us while she was teaching the

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Bible, the Holy Spirit began to manifest in her

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meetings. And here's the beauty of it, and this

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is the part I like the most. In the beginning

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of her ministry, she didn't even know what was

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happening. You see, the Holy Spirit has a mind,

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will, and emotions. And it's his heart and his

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desire to manifest himself. The Apostle Paul

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said, I did not come to you with enticing words

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of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the

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Spirit and the power, so that your faith isn't

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in people, but in the power of God and in the

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presence of the Holy Spirit. We've got to renew

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and revive our understanding of the ministry

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of the Holy Spirit. If we're going to see more

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demonstrations of his heart and the things that

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he really wants to do, we're going to get into

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it, but we have boxed him out, and it's time

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to take the lid off, let the Holy Spirit do what

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he wants to do. We don't need to be afraid. We

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don't need to pull back. We're going to find

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out in my teaching. That the Holy Spirit is a

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person. He is the third person of the Godhead.

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It is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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They are all three, but they are one. And so

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when Catherine Coleman was preaching in the back

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of the church, while she was yet speaking the

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word and teaching, the Holy Ghost fell. in the

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back of the room, and someone who needed healing

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in their bodies were healed by what the Bible

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calls the power gift spoken of in Corinthians.

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The gift of faith, the working of miracles, and

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the gifts of healing manifested while she was

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speaking. And people were healed, started getting

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healed in her meetings. What is that, Margie?

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That is not the work of man. That is the work.

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of the holy spirit nobody touched her nobody

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laid hands on on the person nobody did anything

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it was the power of the lord was present to heal

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and the power of the lord is what is manifested

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when the holy spirit has his way So I'm believing,

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God, that we're going to see more signs and wonders

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and miracles in these days. Because, my friends,

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we are definitely living in the last days. But

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where sin abounds, grace does so much more abound.

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And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is manifested

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when we release and understand and know the Holy

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Spirit, His workings, and His person. I don't

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know about you. But I want the Holy Spirit to

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manifest in my meetings. Let me just say this.

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I am what I am by the grace of God. When I was

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born, I was born into a household of five brothers,

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Italian brothers. And it was a very loud environment.

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And back in the day, I was teased because the

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way that they showed love is that they would

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tease and all that kind of stuff. Okay? I remember

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one time my brother... made my bed and put the

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top sheet, both of them, connected at the top.

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And when I went in to go into my bed, I couldn't

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get my feet past, you know, the tucking in. That's

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just how I was raised. And I was shy. I was introverted.

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I just could not. If you looked at me, I'd shrink

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like a violet. I couldn't have eye contact with

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you. But when the Holy Ghost takes a hold of

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a person, he changes you into another man. He

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said, I'll anoint you with fresh oil. If you

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will just yield to me, I will work in you both

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to will and to do of my good pleasure. And I

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will literally, by my power and by the power

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of the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit enable you to

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be what I have called you to be. So how do we

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do what we do? Not by my, not by power, but by

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my spirit, says the Lord. Is everybody here?

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My book, Contend, stewarding the hearts and destinies

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of our children through prayer, is one of my

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most favorite projects thus far. In this book,

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I teach the reader how to pray effectively. for

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their children, their grandchildren, and the

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rising generations that are in the earth today.

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Make no mistake about it. There is war over the

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hearts and the destinies of our children. And

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this book will equip you as to how to pray effectively

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for those young people. In this book, I teach

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you about the power and the purpose of praying

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in tongues. I show you what a prayer alert looks

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like. There are sample prayers. Not only that,

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There are outlines at the end of each chapter.

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So if you run a Bible study, you can use this

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book as a springboard to teach others how to

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pray for their children. Go to my website at

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margieflorent .org and pick up your own copy.

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4th, 2026. Finally, God spoke to me about something

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I've been praying about for two years. We won't

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get into it. But I had an encounter with him.

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And I dreamed, in a dream, this is how the encounter

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began. We're not going to talk about the whole

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encounter. It would take a long time because

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it was about a 45 -minute encounter. But I dreamed

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I was preaching in a coffeehouse setting. And

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the context in the beginning of the dream was

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the urgency to bring back the body of Christ

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to a vibrant, fresh realization of Acts 1 .8

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and the importance of allowing him to have his

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way in our Christian walk as well as our gatherings.

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So I had this dream and then in the dream and

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all these things are happening, but you know

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how it is with spiritual things, you know, while

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I was having the dream and God was speaking and

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I was preaching, I just kept seeing Acts 1 .8,

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Acts 1 .8. Acts 1 .8, you shall receive power

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when the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you

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shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, Judea,

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Samaria, and all the uttermost parts of the world.

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And Acts 1 .8, and the Spirit of God said to

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me, he said, my people have forsaken my power,

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and they have become cisterns, broken cisterns

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that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2, he said that

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they have neglected the power and the work of

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the Holy Spirit, and that's why they're not seeing

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the results that they want to see. And my friends,

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listen, like Shabu said last week, we've got

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to get back to the power and the presence of

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the Holy Spirit, which includes... And they all

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began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit

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gave them entrance. Because when the Holy Spirit

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was poured out, when the promises was fulfilled

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at the birth of the church age, Acts 2, 1 through

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4, the very first manifestation that took place

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was... They all began to speak with other tongues

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as the Spirit gave them others. So the Lord said

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to me, we've got to get my church. We need to

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revive this work. We need to revive my presence.

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We need to revive and give people an understanding

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of who the Holy Spirit is. Bono once said, how

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many of you know who Bono is? Bono once said,

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religion is what you have left after the Holy

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Spirit has left the building. Let's talk about

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the prominence of the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

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His mention in the Old Testament. In the Old

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Testament, the Holy Spirit is mentioned 88 times.

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23 books in the Old Testament refer to the Holy

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Spirit. Let's talk about his mention in the New

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Testament. The New Testament mentions the Holy

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Spirit 264 times. 60 or more references are in

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the Gospels. Acts, the book of Acts, has 57 references,

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which is why some call the book of Acts the Acts

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of the Holy Spirit. I agree with that. Because

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the apostles had a vibrant, fresh... relationship

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with the holy spirit you could search it out

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yourself it's not our message but they would

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say things like will seem good to us and the

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holy ghost to do such and such they talked to

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the holy spirit he was their friend the holy

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spirit spoke even in times of separation the

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spirit would speak separate unto me barnabas

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and saul for the work where unto i have called

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them so the holy spirit had this vibrant way

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in the early church. My friends, we need to restore

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that back to the church today. Didn't God say

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the glory of the latter house will be greater

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than the former? I believe we're coming into

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a fresh awakening of the power and the presence

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of the Holy Spirit. And I just want to add that

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the book of Acts or the Acts of the Holy Spirit,

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it does not have an amen on it. You pray it and

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he can answer it. The effectual fervent prayer

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of a righteous man avails much. God will put

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the prayer in your heart to pray so that he can

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answer it. It goes into the hearts of the people.

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It doesn't return void. It produces results.

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Have you ever noticed that? Check it out for

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yourself. Why? Because we're still living in

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the church age. And Jesus Christ is the same

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yesterday, today, and forever. Look on us. expecting

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to receive something the crippled man said what

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he says I don't have anything for you except

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the name of Jesus and they took him by the right

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hand lifted him up and they said in the name

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of Jesus rise up and walk how did they perform

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that miracle yes through faith in his name we

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know that but it was through the power and the

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presence of the Holy Spirit Acts 1 .8 says you

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will see power, dunamis, miracle -working power.

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When? After that, the Holy Ghost shall come upon

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you, and you're going to be witnesses for me.

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How are we going to be effective witnesses if

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we've left the Holy Spirit out? The epistles

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refer to the Holy Spirit 132 times. Only three

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epistles make no mention of the Holy Spirit.

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Philemon and 3 John. Francis Chan wrote in his

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book, Forgotten Love, Our Tragic Neglect of the

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Holy Spirit. He said, if I were Satan and my

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ultimate goal was towards God's kingdom and purposes,

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one of my main strategies would be to get church

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goers to ignore the Holy Spirit. Without him,

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people operate in their own strength and accomplish

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human -sized results. So why have we boxed him

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out? Fear, tradition, lack of understanding of

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his person and work have kept him inactive in

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our personal lives because he can be active in

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your personal life. You can have dreams. You

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can have visions. You can hear from the Holy

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Spirit. He can guide you into all truth. He can

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do that. He can teach you when you read your

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Bible. He's there. He's an ever -present help

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in the time of trouble. But we've kept him inactive

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in our personal lives and especially in our corporate

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meetings. Hosea 4 .6 says, My people are destroyed

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for a lack of knowledge. Hence, we must teach

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about him. Thus, faith comes by hearing, and

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it will dispel any fear or lack of understanding

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regarding him. Kenneth E. Hagin once said, It

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is important for us to realize that the Holy

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Spirit has been robbed of much of his distinctive

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glory through Christians failing to perceive

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his varied workings in the life of the believer

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and in our own public gatherings. Let me just

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say this, and I think many of you would agree,

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because that's why you're in a church like this.

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We're a Holy Ghost church. That's why it's different.

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I'd rather have a little wildfire. than no fire

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at all. Are people going to do crazy things?

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Are people going to call it the Holy Spirit and

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they're doing crazy things? Yes. But what about

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the things that are good? What are the things,

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what about the things of the Holy Spirit? He

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desires to demonstrate himself. Yes, you're always

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going to have flesh. Yes, you're always going

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to have I don't mean to be disrespectful. You're

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always going to have granola Christians. You

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know what a granola Christian is? Nutty, fruity,

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and flaky. But just because that's going on doesn't

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mean, and I know Pastor now understands this

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concept, it doesn't mean you throw the whole

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baby out with the bathwater. We've got to stay

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balanced. We've got to understand. We've got

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to know when something wasn't of God and when

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something is truly a manifestation of the Holy

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Spirit. And one thing I learned in my personal

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life and in corporate meetings, even in my personal

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life, the more I make room for him, the more

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I open up my heart to him, the more I listen

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to him. Listen to this. The more I draw inward

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and look on the inside for guidance or for a

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word or for direction, the more I do that, the

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more he will rise up and manifest himself because

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I am honoring him. I'm giving him place in my

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life. And the more I do that, the more he will

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rise up and he will manifest himself. Too much

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word, we dry up. We need teaching, right? Matthew

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7, 24 and 25, we need teaching. Too much word,

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we dry up. Too much spirit, we blow up. Amen?

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I've seen this, because I've been in ministry

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46 years. I've seen it. And again... I'm not

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trying to be disrespectful, but you know how

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hindsight's 20 -20, you look back and you go,

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I was right, but I just never said anything?

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We've had a whole movement of the prophetic and

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soaking in the presence of God, and everybody's

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telling about their experiences and the things

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that they heard and saw, but there's no foundation

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of the Word of God. We're not going to survive

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if we don't have the foundation of the word of

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God. And now we see some things in that movement

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blowing up. We've got people, we're not mentioning

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any names, that they call it mining on Facebook

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and getting words of knowledge about people.

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And they're lying prophets and they're calling

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people out saying it was the Holy Spirit. So

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we've got to teach the word of God. We have to

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have that balance. Amen? But if we have the Holy

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Spirit, the Spirit, and the Word, which agree,

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when we have the Spirit, we have the Word, we

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grow up. Everybody doing good? Good. So am I.

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Nice time frame. We cannot focus too much on

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the Holy Spirit. Why? What was the mission, or

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is the mission, not was, is the mission of the

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Holy Spirit? to reveal Jesus. The Bible says

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in John 16, 14, Jesus said, he will glorify me.

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Jesus also said in John 15, 26, when the Holy

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Spirit comes, he will testify of me. The Holy

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Spirit always points to Jesus. who is the key

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figure in all of God's plan. So it's the work

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of the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus and to bring

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people to Jesus. In Jesus's earthly ministry,

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what was Jesus's ministry? What did he talk about

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a lot? He talked a lot about, yes, the kingdom,

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but he also talked a lot about the father. There

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are several prayers spoken of in the word of

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God. The prayer of intercession is just one of

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those prayers spoken of in Ephesians 6 .18. And

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this particular book, Marked for Intercession,

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teaches the reader how to pray for your family,

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how to pray for your friends, how to stand in

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the gap for a nation, how to pray for leadership,

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and it goes on and on and on. I would encourage

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you to get this book and dive in deep. so that

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you can be that man, you could be that woman

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that would stand in the gap and put up the hedge

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and be the love of God expressed in the earth.

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You can go to my website at margieflorent .org

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and not only will you find my book, but I also

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have a workbook that goes with the subject of

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marked for intercession. Thank you so much for

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

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