Book of Acts Prayer

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I am so excited about this.

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I want to welcome you to the Purpose Project Podcast.

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During our time together, I will teach you how to pray, how to intentionally develop

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intimacy with your Creator, and challenge you to discover and embrace your God-ordained

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purposes.

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I am your host, Margie Flarrant.

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My prayer for you today is that you will be empowered and strengthened in the Word of

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God to move forward into your destiny.

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I am going to share with you on the subject of Book of Acts Prayer.

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So give me a second.

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I'm telling you, the Holy Ghost is really strong here.

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But before we do, I want to go ahead and re-reference the scripture that Apostle spoke of, Don Hughes.

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Jesus, my text is actually Luke 11.1.

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It says here, because we're all in love and unity around here, and I just want you to

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know that my notes were printed out last night before I heard Apostle Eddie speak.

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It says here in Luke 11.1, Lord, teach us to pray.

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The scripture says, now it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place.

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When he sees, that's when the disciples asked him that question.

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Here's the key, the key is this.

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Everywhere Jesus went, he was doing good.

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He was healing all those that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.

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Everywhere he went, power went out of him and into people and healed their bodies.

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Everywhere Jesus went, there were miracles, signs, and wonders.

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He operated in the gifts of the Spirit.

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He was able to call things out.

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He wasn't shaking, quaking.

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It naturally just flowed out of him.

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I think the disciples noticed that Jesus was different, that there was something that

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he carried that was different, but there was also something about his lifestyle that was

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different.

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I don't know about you, but I watch people that are successful in ministry and successful

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in life as Christian people.

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If they're successful, I want to know what makes them tick, what makes them different?

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What is it about them that causes them to flow effortlessly in the things of God?

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I believe the disciples watched Jesus and they watched his lifestyle.

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They noticed that he would disappear all night to pray before he made any decisions.

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They would notice he would disappear and he would go aside after he had healed the multitudes.

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After the death of his best friend, we know he had to be mourning because that was his

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best friend and that was the time in a season where John the Baptist actually understood

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the ministry of Jesus.

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After the death of John the Baptist, what did he do?

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He set himself apart to pray.

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When the disciples asked this question, Lord, teach us to pray, they knew that that was

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the secret of his success as a leader and as a person.

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I just want to tell you today that prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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I want you to know today that prayer changes things.

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Prayer changes you first from the inside out.

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Prayer changes our nation.

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Prayer will change people.

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Prayer will change circumstances.

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We have not because we ask not.

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So many times if we do ask, we nullify our prayers by our negative confessions and therefore

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we don't have what we asked of him because we're double-minded and we're wavering in

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all of our ways.

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But that's not the subject today.

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But prayer does open up the door for God to work.

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What I believe is that God wants to revive the prayer movement.

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I know beyond any shadow of a doubt and I'm going to say it and I never used to say it,

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but I'm going to tell you straight up.

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God sent me to the East Coast in 1981 to pioneer a prayer movement before there were any houses

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of prayer, before there was ever a message at my house, it'll be called the House of

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Prayer.

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I was preaching it, okay?

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And you know, God used that message to help ignite the flames.

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Well, where did you learn how to pray?

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I was 19 years old when I went to Ramah Bible Training Center.

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I was born again as a Catholic girl at the age of 19.

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All my life I hungered and thirsted after God.

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As a little girl, I used to have a heart for God.

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I used to sit on my tree stump in my backyard, look up into the sky and I wanted to see God's

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face.

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Not even knowing that, that was in the Bible because you know, our children already have

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destiny on the inside of them that's already speaking them and leading them and guiding

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them.

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That's why we have to pray and contend for the hearts and destinies of our children because

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Satan's trying to take and sift them as we can get them off their path.

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But as a little girl, I used to hide in the bushes and be like to be covered and I used

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to love to pray in the bushes all covered up in the secret place of that area inside

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the bushes.

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As a little girl in the winter, I used to build, I was a tomboy.

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I used to build snow forts and I'd build it as high as I could and I would hide behind

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the snow, snow fort and I would go behind that wall and I would go into that place and

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I would pray.

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So when I came to Ramah Bible Training Center as a 19 year old girl, born again, freshly

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born again, six months old, I didn't know anything.

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I didn't know anything about the word of God.

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All I knew was the hail Mary full of grace.

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The Lord is with thee and by the way, I used to hide my rosary under my pillow and at night

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I would pray the entire rosary and I am convinced that God was probably saying if I could just

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get a hold of that girl, I could turn her into a house of prayer because she's like,

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she's like David, she has a heart after me, but she just doesn't know how to do it right.

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And I remember when I went to Ramah, I applied, it was 19 years old, went there by faith and

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I was going to, I was just now into the anointing, got the name Ken Stewart told me that I wasn't

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accepted as at first.

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And so a long story short, when I sat and just talked to him, he said, okay, you're accepted.

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And so I got into Ramah not knowing anything about the word of God, not knowing anything

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about prayer, but I had mentors.

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And I think sometimes we need prayer mentors, not just teaching precept, which is the word

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of God, but teaching by example.

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And that's kind of the phase I'm in right now is God is calling me to teach by example.

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And like our brother said, it's not easy because people don't understand that prayer opens

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up the door for God to work and that being on their phone isn't going to open up the door

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for God to work and talking in a corporate prayer meeting isn't going to open up the

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door for God to work.

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They've got to get off their phones, off the distractions, off of all this stuff that's

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got us distracted and get into the rhythm and the flow of prayer and what God desires

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us to do.

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So anyway, so I learned how to pray through Kenneth E. Hagen.

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You want to breathe?

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I'll give you a second to breathe.

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After I was in ministry, all that, I went back to school to sharpen my gift.

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And in the teaching and the school I went to, they said, when you do public speaking, you

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got to give people a chance to breathe.

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So breathe.

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I only have 45 minutes.

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Go like this.

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And so I remember sitting in meetings with Kenneth E. Hagen as a young, newly born again

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and the spirit of prayer, the spirit of grace and supplication would suddenly fall on the

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corporate meetings.

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And Kenneth E. Hagen, who knew the rhythm and the flow of the Holy Ghost, would yield

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over to the spirit of grace and supplication instead of listening to his mind and saying,

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I got to you do my sermon and I got to follow my notes.

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He would yield over to the spirit of grace and supplication because he knew he had to

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pray.

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He had an urgency to pray.

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He knew the prayer opened up the door for God to work.

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And so he got on his knees right in front of all of us, shameless going before the throne

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of grace, shamelessly groaning in the spirit, shamelessly praying in tongues.

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And when he began to do that, that spirit of prayer got on all of us.

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And I'm telling you, it's in a godly way because it's godly fear.

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It scared me.

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And you'd be afraid to talk.

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You'd be afraid to be on your phone.

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You'd be afraid to be fiddling around.

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You'd be afraid to talk to the person next to you because God is a holy God and the holy

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presence of God just filled the room.

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And so I learned that the Holy Spirit could hover and come into a room and manifest himself

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suddenly just like in the book of Acts.

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And then I also had another mentor by the name of Billy Brim.

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We used to go into her house and we used to huddle together in her house.

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And it was a dark, it wasn't totally dark, but the lights were out.

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I think sometimes atmosphere helps people get into the spirit.

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And so I watched and I heard and I listened and the gifts of the spirit would be an operation,

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word of wisdom, word of knowledge.

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Then in prayer, in the place of prayer, in corporate prayer, even in your personal prayer

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time, you know, the gifts of the spirit can be an operation.

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And so therefore I learned that we could pray for nations.

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Though I'm absent in the flesh, I'm present with you in the spirit.

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And then we would pray for Iran and we would pray for these nations and the gifts of the

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spirit.

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So I learned from Billy Brim and then there was Gene Wilkerson.

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And I said to the Lord this morning, and I got it right there when I was sitting there,

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why is she on the list?

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Because she used to prophesy to Kenneth E. Hagan.

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She was one of the only ones he let prophesy to him besides Patsy at the end of the day

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because you trained her and now trusted her because she was his daughter.

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But you know, I said to the Lord, I was thinking, why is Gene Wilkerson on this?

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And when I was sitting over there, the Lord said Matthew 6, 6, he said everything she

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did in secret.

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She went before me in secret.

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I rewarded her openly with my presence.

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So every time she opened up her mouth, you get a chill up and down your arms.

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And so I learned from these people.

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I learned from my roommate, Gail Buse, who I was divinely, it was by divine appointment

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that I met her because when I went to Ramah, I didn't know where I was going, who I was

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going to meet, where I was going to live.

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I was just, that was back in the day when we were innocent.

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Now we have to have it all planned out.

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And I, you know, I went to Ramah.

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We met by divine appointment.

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She became my roommate.

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I didn't know she was raised assembly of God all her life.

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I didn't know that she knew about speaking in tongues, the tongues that cannot be uttered

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in articulate speech, the kind of tongues that is groanings that cannot be uttered.

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And I would be in my room, she'd be in her room and she would be in her closet groaning

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and praying and weeping and praying in tongues and groaning and praying.

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And I didn't think anything of it because in your spirit, you bear witness.

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That's the Holy Ghost or something about that, that that's real and alive and genuine and

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real.

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It's the language of the Holy Spirit.

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It's not a human language.

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It's not human communication.

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It's God communicating and man communicating through the vessel of honor that's made for

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the master's use.

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So therefore I learned through Gail that there is a dimension of prayer that is groanings,

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travail and weeping.

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And I learned from Gail that prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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And not only that, I learned from Gail that prayer prepares the way, that God will put

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a vision in your heart, but you've got to give birth to it.

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God will put a vision in your heart, but you've got to pray it through and pray it in.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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So her prayer was going into the realm of the spirit how many years before she went on

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the mission field?

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Many, many, many, many years.

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And she always had a heart to train the nationals in that particular country.

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Instead of like us going in as missionaries and training them, she said, no, we've got

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now she was an apostle and didn't even know it.

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She never, you know what I mean?

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Her vision, their vision, her vision before she ever met her husband out, the two are

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joined together.

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But the vision was to go in and train the nationals, equip them and leave.

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So you know what she was doing the whole time she was in her prayer closet?

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She was preparing the way.

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So I learned from these great men and women about prayer.

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I was taught by example.

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And like I said, I believe that God wants to revive the prayer movement.

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Prayer shouldn't be boring.

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Prayer shouldn't be lifeless.

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Prayer shouldn't be put on the shelf.

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The intercessors shouldn't be put in a closet somewhere in the back room.

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The thing that God spoke to me about this book of Acts prayer is this.

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Stay with me now.

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He said, Margie, he said this, this spirit of prayer that I desire to bring on the whole

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church, this book of Acts prayer, he said, I don't want it just to be on 10 people out

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of a church of 100 or 150.

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He said, my house will be called a house of prayer.

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We are all members in particular.

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We're all joined.

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We are one spirit with him.

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Every single one of us are called to make a difference.

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And if you don't have a pulpit ministry, you have a secret ministry in the place of prayer.

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It's your choice whether or not you pick up the mantle of the power of prayer and put

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it on and walk in it.

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You may say, well, I don't know how to pray.

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You know, the Lord will teach you how to pray.

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You can learn through teaching like this, or you can learn by example, or you could learn

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by going into your closet and shutting the door.

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Like our brother said, the very first thing I did when I go into the closet, I just do

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the Bible, pray first of all for all those in their authority.

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And the Holy Spirit will teach you the anointing that you have received, goodbyes in you.

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You need not that any man teach you, but the anointing will teach you, but he'll teach

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you and lead you and guide you into all truth.

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What is truth?

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The word of God.

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Now, two quick highlights.

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That was my introduction.

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Two quick highlights.

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Number one, the first highlight is there's all manner of prayer, all manner of postures.

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We're not going to get into it, but I will say this.

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There's a prayer of faith, prayer of worship, prayer of intercession, dedication, consecration,

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tongues for personal edification, soaking prayer is a new one I added to the list.

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I told you that because it is a prayer and Kenneth E. Hagan didn't teach it, but it is

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a prayer, but don't get stuck by soaking in prayer.

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I'm soaking in prayer.

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You're soaking.

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I get it.

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You want to be more prophetic for what?

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Do you let everybody know that you're prophetic?

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No, you soak in prayer to get the presence of God, but then you go out and you do something

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with it.

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There's a prayer commitment.

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There you go to God and I do this a lot because sometimes I just going to say it.

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Sometimes I have a tendency, a bent towards anxiety.

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So I have to cast all of my cares, all of my concerns, all of the trauma I've experienced

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in the past, and I've got to give it to God once and for all because I know he cares for

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me and it's a good thing to do that.

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Every once in a while I just got to go to God and visualize.

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There's visualization in prayer.

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Visualize yourself giving that care to God.

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Visualize, give casting it over on him because you know he cares for you and he'll work

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all things out for your good.

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He'll take care of it.

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He'll say, you take care of God's business.

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He'll take care of your business.

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And there's the prayer of agreement.

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Second highlight, ways to pray.

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I've introduced this, a continual prayer.

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I love that because I love to practice that because my heart burns when I do that because

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when you pray continually, you're close to Jesus and your heart burns and it's not a

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works thing.

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It's right here on the inside where nobody sees it.

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Nobody knows what you're doing.

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And it's like I went into this prison in Ocala, Florida.

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I ministered to 120 women and I didn't know it but there was being sexually abused and

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all this stuff going on.

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And I told them, I said to them, I said, listen, nobody can control your inward life.

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They can control how many steps you take.

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They control when you get up, what you eat, what you do, but nobody can control your inward

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life.

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And I taught them how to pray continually in their beds.

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So we're talking about continual prayer, praying always with all prayer and supplication.

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Continual prayer where the Bible says praying continually where you wake up in the morning

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and you have a song in your heart and it's just a song that you know.

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That's why I don't, personally, I don't like to listen to secular music.

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I'm not, whatever you do, you do.

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I don't want to upset my vibration, my connection because that's too precious to me and I don't

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want anything to upset that because whatever you put in you stays in you and works in you

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both to will and to do of its good pleasure.

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But if you put the word of God in you and the songs of the Lord in you, it'll work in

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you both to will and to do of its good pleasure and that's plans to prosper you, not harm

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you.

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So if you wake up in the morning and you have a song, I mean, I've had a song I woke up.

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That's my daily bread.

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Because you don't even know what you're facing but God knows before you face it.

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It's your daily bread.

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I'll get a song and I'll start singing it and or not even out loud, no mouth movement.

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More of a contemplative.

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And so at song I may have singing on the inside, maybe 50 times, 100 times, maybe one verse

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over and over and over and over.

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How many of you know what I'm talking about?

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Over and over.

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That's continual prayer.

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This Revelation's 5A, you are becoming a sweet savior unto God.

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You carry his fragrance in his presence everywhere you go because of that continual prayer.

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Because Romans Revelation's 5A says that you need to be like incense before the throne

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of God.

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This stuff is real, my friends.

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We are not of this world.

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We're seated with him in heavenly places.

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He's our real Father and heaven is our real home.

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What I want to do is I want to live from the inside out and I think prayer is one of the

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biggest things we could do to live in that realm and stay in that realm.

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Have you ever noticed and I've done it, if you don't stay in that realm right here on

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the inside, you get off, you lose your peace, you're not, the world calls it grounded.

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And that grounded.

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I'm going to go sit in the corner and I'm going to get grounded.

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I'm going to do this with my fingers and I'm going to get grounded.

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Now we're rooted and grounded in love in God and when we disconnect, we lose that sense

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of grounding.

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It's not that we've lost our oneness with him, but those of you that know intimacy

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with Jesus know what I'm talking about.

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You lose that connection, so to speak.

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I don't like it when that happens to me because I lose my peace.

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Second, there's continual prayer, contemplative prayer, you know, where you contemplatively

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just reflect on him, trying to teach that to some of my churches where you don't talk.

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You just, you just, you just reach for him, but in the spirit.

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Then there's closet prayer.

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You know about closet prayer.

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I have a whole book on it.

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Then there's praying under the covers.

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I put the C in there for Michael, but I did, but I did learn that in that public speaking

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class I took.

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So praying under the covers.

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Then this is praying in your bed.

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I teach a whole teaching on that, praying in your bed because once I hit Medicare season,

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you know, where you're over 60, you know, you know, sometimes, you know, I can't get

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on my knees because I got to help me if I can't get up off my knees.

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You know, it's like you sit in the chair, you got to make sure your back is straight

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because you don't want to pull your back out.

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You know, there's just whole thing.

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So there's nothing wrong with praying in your bed.

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I think where that's where Kennedy Hagan developed intimacy with Jesus because he was on bed

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rest for so long that he learned to pray in his bed.

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And I remember him saying one time, Jesus is more real to me than my wife laying next

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to me in the bed.

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And he used to wonder, why did he say that?

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And then I realized he was on bed rest for so long before he got miraculously healed.

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He learned to develop intimacy with Jesus while praying in his bed.

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Oh, you're not on your knees.

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Oh, you're not walking the floors.

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Oh, you're not screaming in prayer.

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Who can scream at this stage of our lives for four hours?

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Am I right?

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Whether you're loud or soft prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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God hears you when you pray.

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He said, my eyes will be open, my ears attentive under the prayers that I made in my house

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of prayer people.

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So I pray under the covers.

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And those are the times that I would pray recently.

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God said to me in the summer, you are in a pruning process.

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You want to go great.

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I want to retire is really what I want to do.

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I'm in a pruning process for what?

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For what's coming up the road ahead?

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I didn't know what that meant, but I, you know, I do my best to yield to the pruning

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process because if you don't listen to God or obey God, you are not going to be having

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your retirement years, your latter years won't be greater than the former.

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You will be unhappy, miserable.

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It's not a time for you to retire.

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It's a time to refire.

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We need the sons, the daughters to be mentored by us parents.

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So anyway, so recently it's so interesting what you said last night.

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Recently I just been in my bed and I just have been like, Lord forgive me for this, forgive

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me for not sin consciousness, but there was a pruning.

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God spoke to me in a dream one time.

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He said, I'm coming.

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I'm coming back for a bribe without spot or blemish or wrinkles.

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I had this whole vision.

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I had to follow her, maybe she'll have a vision about me.

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Most of my encounters are always are corrective, to be honest.

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One time Jesus walked into my bedroom.

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I didn't see him, but he walked in like a person.

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You feel him, you know, he's there, but I didn't see him.

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He spoke to me and he said, what is the most important thing?

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And I was like, he knew what I would say because that's what I teach.

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I go into the scene with you.

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And he said, right here, he said, and how you treat other people.

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Turned around, like turned around, walked out of my room.

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This encounter that I had in the dream, the Lord gave me this whole thing about the bride

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of Christ and preparing the bride.

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And then upon awakening, I heard audibly on the inside, your wrinkles are your attitude.

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Yeah, praying under your covers.

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I've been praying under my covers going through all, all everything, but maintaining my righteousness

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consciousness.

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You understand the difference?

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Lastly, corporate prayer.

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In other words, praying together.

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And I want you to notice how many times as I read the scriptures out of acts, if you

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could please go to the book of acts, because I'm going to read a bunch of them, praying

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together how many times God said the scripture says together.

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So corporate prayer, praying together book of acts prayer.

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Here's the scripture that we're going to jump out with.

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Hebrews 10, 24 and 25.

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I'm the scripture lady.

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You guys good with that?

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My son's like, I like your ministry, mommy, because you give, you give lots of scripture.

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I think that's good, don't you?

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That's what we build our lives on, right?

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Hebrews 10, 24 and 25.

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Let us not consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.

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Then he says, not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the matter is.

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So what I've observed is we have a lot of gatherings where there's teachings.

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So, listen, I'm not saying love and unity, so don't get me wrong.

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Because I just want to twiddle my thumbs.

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Another teaching, and you know there's more.

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We have a lot of meetings where we have a lot of teaching and we need to be equipped.

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We need to be strengthened.

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You know, the word of God is our foundation.

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We need the word of God.

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We need to equip the church for the work of the ministry.

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But my house, Jesus said, will be called a house of prayer.

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Let me ask you a question.

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You see a bird flying in the air because of left wing and a right wing.

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Which wing is more important?

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You need both to fly.

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So it is in the church, yes, we need the teaching.

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Yes, we don't forsake the assembling of ourselves together to hear the word of God.

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But what about the assembling of ourselves together for corporate united prayer?

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My friends, there is something to strength in numbers.

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That's where God can command his blessing as we are going to see here in the book of

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Acts.

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I'm introducing a new thought to many.

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Because many are bored with prayer.

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Many don't know how to pray.

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But follow us as we follow Christ.

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As a matter of fact, first he's going to put a curiosity in the church about prayer.

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Then he's going to put a hunger in the hearts of his people for prayer.

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And I'm believing God for that.

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And then what does the Bible say, as our brother said last night, blessed are those

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that hunger and thirst, they will be filled or satisfied.

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So many people come to church and they're not satisfied because they're not filled.

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I'm not talking, I'm saying there's that thing, that feeling, that being filled.

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And that comes through the presence of God in prayer.

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So corporate prayer was the practice of the early church.

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Acts one, four and five.

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Here we go.

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This is the first corporate united prayer, meaning recorded in the book of Acts.

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And being assembled together, everybody say together.

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With them, he commanded them because Jesus said you're going to receive power.

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You know the whole story, right?

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Don't leave.

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I want you to stay here until you're in dude with power.

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You know, everybody knows the story, right?

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And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem.

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But wait, could you not watch just one hour?

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Do you know the most important time of Jesus' ministry was in the garden of Gassenomy?

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He brought his most important people around him to help him, to stay with him, and they

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fell asleep.

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I speak to the sleeping giant of the body of Christ and I've been doing it.

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And I command you to arise and shine.

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Your light has come, the glory of God filled the body of Christ.

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I command you to come up out of your slumber and out of your sleep and be and do everything

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God has called you to be and do.

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00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,480
They slept, they didn't understand the importance of the hour that Jesus was in.

466
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,600
My friends, we are living in a very important hour in church history.

467
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,680
You got to see the times and the seasons that we live in.

468
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,440
We don't have to be rocket scientists.

469
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,680
That's why the Bible says, especially as you see the day approaching, don't forsake the

470
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:37,280
assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is and people are doing it.

471
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:44,520
I think social media is a huge distraction because we got our eyes on our phone and on

472
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,440
our eyes on the author and the finisher of our faith.

473
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,080
What are you looking at?

474
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,040
My book Focus is a really good book.

475
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,840
What are you looking at?

476
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,160
He wants us to turn away from everything that would distract.

477
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,600
Listen, when you start praying, I know because I've been there and even sometimes in my pruning

478
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,920
process I've been there.

479
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,960
It's very frustrating because I've been feeling stuck.

480
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:14,240
You sit there and you go, I've had the presence of God visit me in my office.

481
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,680
I've had the presence of God visit me in corporate meetings.

482
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,120
I've had the presence, but lately it's just like, where are you God?

483
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,280
I know he's there.

484
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:29,560
Come over to Faith Woman, but I want more.

485
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,640
Sometimes you're going to go into a prayer meeting and you're not going to feel anything,

486
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,120
but stir yourself up.

487
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,120
Take a hold of God.

488
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,120
There's none that called upon my name that stirs himself up.

489
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,120
That takes a hold of me.

490
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,440
You don't want to go to the gym, but you make yourself go to the gym and you warm up by

491
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,080
getting on the treadmill and you shut your mind off.

492
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,560
You say, I'm doing this and it's a discipline.

493
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:54,320
Prayer goes from sacrifice to joy, from a desire to a discipline to a delight.

494
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,560
After a while, I begin to crave the presence of God.

495
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,760
You crave those corporate prayer meetings.

496
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,600
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to

497
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,440
wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you've heard from me.

498
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,440
Then he goes on.

499
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:20,360
They all continued 114 with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women.

500
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,520
And Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

501
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,520
They were waiting.

502
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,520
God said something.

503
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,000
I'm going to wait on God.

504
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000
God, you said something.

505
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,000
I'm going to wait on you.

506
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,000
I'm going to wait on you.

507
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,560
I don't hear anything.

508
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,560
I don't know anything.

509
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,280
I'm going to be still and know that you are God.

510
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,160
If you told me to wait on you, I'm going to obey the Bible.

511
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,160
They were waiting.

512
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,360
Now you know this because your leaders, they started out, there was 500 people present.

513
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:53,520
But at the end of the day, they all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication.

514
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,920
They started out with 500.

515
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,560
At the end of the day, only 120 were left.

516
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,760
I'm not missing the move of God.

517
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:13,320
I'm going to be a pioneer in helping to tell the ground, prepare the hearts of the people,

518
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,880
do the work of an evangelist, do the work in the spirit.

519
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,640
We may not see everything.

520
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,120
We may not understand everything, but we know that prayer opens up the door for God to work

521
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,240
and we're going to go into the realm of the spirit and we're going to change things.

522
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:32,200
And whatever we do in secret, whatever we do in the spirit will eventually, listen to

523
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,200
me, manifest on the outside.

524
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,920
That's what Gail did when she went in her prayer closet.

525
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:43,240
She once they got into the, she met her husband, then they went into ministry and in the field.

526
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,680
They traveled the world today.

527
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,640
They were in where Ukraine recently with all this stuff going on.

528
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:48,640
You talk about brave.

529
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,040
You talk about the grace of God to do something.

530
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,000
I go on the road and I need somebody to travel with me because I got to find my gates.

531
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:02,360
That's so much grace I have for travel and they're going all over the world, but she

532
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:07,240
prepared the way in the spirit and doors began to open.

533
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,200
Opportunities began to open.

534
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,280
Relationships came to where did that all begin in prayer, in the spirit.

535
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,320
But I don't see what I see in the spirit.

536
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,680
You're not supposed to see in the spirit unless God opens up your eyes.

537
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:23,920
That's why faith without work, we got to walk by faith.

538
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,440
Sometimes I get annoyed and you know, listen, please Lord forgive me, but I get it.

539
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:29,800
I know you'll appreciate it.

540
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,800
I get annoyed because everybody's having a vision of an angel.

541
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,120
I get a vision.

542
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,720
Like I said, God corrects me or there you listen, I listen, I cover it.

543
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,720
Listen, whatever.

544
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,680
I would hope that God would do something with me in that regard.

545
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:45,680
It'd be fun.

546
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,520
But you know, I pretty much got to walk by faith.

547
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,520
Sometimes it's annoying.

548
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,800
I'll walk by faith.

549
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,040
You're visiting everybody else.

550
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,120
You're not visiting me.

551
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,120
You make me wait.

552
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,360
You make me, you know, you make me, you know, I just go on and on and on.

553
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,360
It's annoying.

554
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,160
That's why I think brother Kenneth E. Hagan was very wise because if he had told, he said

555
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,440
he couldn't tell us everything.

556
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,520
I think if he had told us everything, discouragement would have descended upon the students and

557
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,920
they would have gotten off.

558
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,360
And they would have lost their vision.

559
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,360
That's good preaching.

560
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,360
Thank you very much.

561
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:23,360
Okay.

562
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,360
Somebody says it.

563
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,360
All right.

564
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,360
You know the story.

565
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:34,720
When the day of Pentecost and fully come, they're all in one accord in one place.

566
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:40,640
They're all with one accord in one place.

567
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,360
I feel I need to say that again.

568
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:50,360
Father, I just ask, Holy Spirit, I know you hear me.

569
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,920
And you hear me always when I pray.

570
00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:02,920
I ask that you had revived corporate prayer in the body of Christ.

571
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:11,000
I ask Holy Spirit, you would teach us to pray that you would do what you did.

572
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,320
Then days gone by that you'd visit us with the spirit of prayer, that the spirit of prayer

573
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:22,400
would get on the whole church, not just the people in the back room.

574
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,000
The whole church, that's what we're doing at Joe's sources.

575
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
That's the vision.

576
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,640
Get the spirit of prayer on the whole church, every single one of us, every single one of

577
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,120
us in that church.

578
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,560
All of us get the spirit of prayer on the whole church.

579
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,960
It's not just, you know, let's go in and teach the intercessors, teach the whole church how

580
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:40,960
to pray.

581
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,920
Get them all involved how to pray.

582
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:43,920
Show them how to pray.

583
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,760
I love what you said.

584
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,160
And by the way, what he said is true.

585
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,480
Do you know that if you come into a meeting and someone's speaking, I'm very sensitive,

586
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,680
you start talking, it hinders the anointing, grieves my spirit, and I got to get back

587
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:56,680
into Margie.

588
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:57,680
I don't want that.

589
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:58,680
You don't want that.

590
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,680
Right?

591
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,920
The same thing when you have corporate prayer meetings.

592
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,760
If you're trying to have an anointing flow in a corporate United Prayer meeting, you

593
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,920
can't have all that static going on.

594
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:15,360
It hinders the spirit of prayer for manifesting.

595
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,760
They're all with one accord in one place.

596
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,520
And finally, you know the story there came a rushing mighty wind, filled all the house

597
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,280
where they were sitting and the 120 ren that were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they

598
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,760
began to speak with tongues as the spirit gave the utterance.

599
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,920
What I love about tongues is, you know, there's I have hours and hours and hours of teaching

600
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:36,920
on tongues.

601
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:42,200
Jesus spoke often about the Holy Spirit, like Apostle said, but the manifestation that came,

602
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:47,960
the very first thing that manifested was tongues.

603
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,800
The secret prayer language.

604
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,600
It's the language of heaven.

605
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,480
He that speaks it in unknown tongues speaks not into people, but unto God, how beaten the

606
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,840
spirit speaks mysteries.

607
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,560
When you don't know how to pray, you pray in the Holy Ghost.

608
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,400
I don't know how to pray about these attitudes I'm seeing in me.

609
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,400
How do I get it out?

610
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:07,760
I have an infirmity.

611
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,600
I have something going on and agree.

612
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,160
I'm grieved with my own self.

613
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,160
You know what I mean?

614
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,160
It's unbelievable.

615
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,560
And you're just like, leave me alone, God.

616
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,240
I just want to be happy.

617
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:25,760
So when I start to have that happen, I don't know how to get rid of it.

618
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,760
Got it?

619
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:32,840
So I grown in the spirit and I pray in the Holy Ghost, Father, this is my infirmity.

620
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,560
I don't know how to get rid of it.

621
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,600
I don't know what to do with this thing.

622
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,680
I don't know what to do with this.

623
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:44,440
Sometimes I get, you know, I just get like, I don't want to say it.

624
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,400
But anyway, my business.

625
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,960
I'm very open, but that one I'm not giving away.

626
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,440
But tongues is the language of heaven.

627
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,120
And I remember when I got filled with the Holy Spirit, the very first thing I wanted

628
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:08,400
to say to God was the biggest word in the English language that I could think of because

629
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:14,120
there was something much deeper, much higher, much longer, much stronger, much wider.

630
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,400
And I didn't want to articulate it because I never spoke with tongues before.

631
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,320
I didn't know that what tongues was.

632
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,720
I didn't know it was from your spirit, Father, the Holy Spirit.

633
00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:22,720
Nobody ever told me.

634
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:23,720
They didn't teach me.

635
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,560
They just laid hands on me to be filled.

636
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:38,880
And the last English word I wanted to say was, oh God, you're so outrageous.

637
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,080
It was the biggest English word, but there was something on the inside of me that was

638
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,600
much bigger.

639
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,600
That's why tongues supersedes any big word, any language on this earth goes into the realm

640
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,080
of heaven, into the realm of the spirit, and you can get a whole lot more accomplished

641
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,520
by just doing it God's way.

642
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:02,960
Because if we keep operating my friends in human ways, we're going to get human-sized

643
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,400
results, but it's not by might.

644
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,400
It's not by power.

645
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,400
It's by the spirit.

646
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,000
Well, I don't understand what I'm saying.

647
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,720
Well, that's the Bible.

648
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:18,720
Sometimes we need to let it go and not lead to our own understanding.

649
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:24,560
And when we're praying in tongues, we're praying the will, the mind, the purpose, and the government

650
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,840
and of Almighty God.

651
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,720
Okay, so we're going to close soon.

652
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:34,200
I have about eight more minutes, which is perfect.

653
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,160
Okay, so here's what happened.

654
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,680
The Holy Ghost is poured out.

655
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,240
How many of you still have a Bible?

656
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,840
I miss my Bible.

657
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,200
I go on my Bible app.

658
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,960
And if we have meetings like this, and all of a sudden, ching-ching, a text comes down.

659
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:50,960
I'm distracted.

660
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,120
Ching-ching, David likes you from match.com.

661
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,120
Distracted.

662
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,120
Ching-ching.

663
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:05,520
I have to tell you, you don't want to date at my age.

664
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:12,960
It is unbelievable.

665
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,560
I don't even want to go there.

666
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:22,720
But I like having a Bible because we're not distracted.

667
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:23,960
So here's what happened.

668
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,480
So the Holy Ghost is poured out.

669
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:26,760
You know the story.

670
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,960
So Peter preaches, he's anointed.

671
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,480
He changes into another man because of the Holy Ghost.

672
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,000
3,000 souls are added, 5,000 souls.

673
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,800
I mean, it was a move of God.

674
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,120
The man that was lame, he was healed.

675
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,480
Look on us, pulled him up.

676
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,240
His ankle bones received strength.

677
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,440
So miracles were taking place.

678
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:45,440
God was moving.

679
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,440
Thousands were being saved.

680
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,440
They had boldness.

681
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,880
Listen to this one, ministry leaders.

682
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,320
And freedom of speech.

683
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,280
That's a key word in praying for the ministry leader.

684
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,440
And don't pray your own will on your leader.

685
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:58,440
That's witchcraft.

686
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,440
Pray the word of God.

687
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:06,800
That's all I'm going to say about that.

688
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:12,000
But they had freedom of speech, but they were threatened by the religion of that day.

689
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,520
Those warfare was coming against the move of God just like it is today.

690
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,640
Listen, I'm telling you, it's just unbelievable.

691
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:24,360
The higher you go in leadership, the more it's just like you have got to be kidding.

692
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:28,640
That's why our strength is kept in prayer leaders.

693
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,360
One week without prayer makes one week.

694
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,680
And listen, I'm around leaders.

695
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,680
They're all my friends.

696
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:38,680
And I'm telling you, Jeremiah too, that some of them have forsaken him, the fountain of

697
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:39,680
living waters.

698
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,520
They've become sisters, broken sisters that can hold no water.

699
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,280
And God's sitting there going, what did I do to you?

700
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,280
I didn't do anything.

701
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,920
I need you to seek me first.

702
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:52,240
And all the plans and all the things I have for you, they'll come to pass my way and not

703
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:56,200
your way because you're a hard headed leader and you got so much pride.

704
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,240
I'm going to resist you.

705
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:04,480
I'd rather be the leader that humbles myself under the mighty hand of God and lay, I can't

706
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480
lay on the floor anymore.

707
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,200
Remember the back?

708
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,440
I can't, you know, whatever, however you got to do it and get a prostrate in the spirit

709
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,440
and say, Lord, I can't.

710
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,440
It can't.

711
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,440
Created me a clean heart.

712
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,040
Renew a right spirit in my, in me.

713
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,720
Lord, not my will.

714
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,240
Your will be done in my life.

715
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:29,120
I'd rather be like that than all that.

716
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,120
I'm all that.

717
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,680
How many people do you have?

718
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:32,680
You're a church.

719
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:33,680
Who gives a...

720
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:39,680
I'll say it nicely.

721
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,280
Who gives a crap?

722
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,200
I like the other word better, but we're in church.

723
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,680
Doesn't matter.

724
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:53,400
You know what, with Joyner said, he said some churches that are the smaller churches have

725
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:59,400
more spiritual authority and do more for God than these major mega churches.

726
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:06,000
See, it's all about the realm of the spirit and how God looks at things.

727
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,000
I got to hurry.

728
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,720
So here's what happened.

729
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:09,720
Move of God.

730
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:10,720
Now what happened?

731
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,200
I'm going to read it from my Bible.

732
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,120
Everybody say, my Bible.

733
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,120
I miss my Bible.

734
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:21,760
Well, if you don't miss it, don't say it because God will deal with us under the sheets.

735
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,760
You said it.

736
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,760
You didn't really believe it.

737
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,640
It's true.

738
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,480
That's how it's been with me lately.

739
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,480
I did that.

740
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:32,480
You're doing that.

741
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,480
You're saying that to me right now.

742
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,200
No, it's the little.

743
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,320
The little foxes.

744
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:48,360
Joyce Meyer says she always puts her cart back in the little thing at the grocery store.

745
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:49,360
Guess what I do?

746
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,280
I do the same thing because Joyce taught me, your faith over little God, I'll make you

747
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,280
rule over month.

748
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,280
You obey.

749
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:02,360
You obey the rules over these little things.

750
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,800
That he that stole steal no more.

751
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,360
That he that sin sin no more.

752
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,160
That was for somebody.

753
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,160
This is what happened.

754
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,160
They came against.

755
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,160
What are we going to do with these men?

756
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,240
For indeed, a notable miracle has been done through them and it's evident.

757
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:25,240
Now here's what they said, but that it spreads no further among the people.

758
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:29,880
Let us severely, not just threaten them, let us severely threaten them that from now on

759
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,000
they speak to no man in this name.

760
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000
So they called them and commanded them not to speak nor teach at all in the name of Jesus.

761
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,000
Can you imagine?

762
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,800
I don't want you talking anymore about the things of God as leaders, as believers.

763
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,720
Have you ever had that warfare in your head?

764
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:47,720
Quit.

765
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:48,720
Quit.

766
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:49,720
Quit.

767
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:50,720
Your labors are in vain.

768
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:51,720
Don't do it.

769
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:52,720
Don't do it.

770
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:53,720
Quit.

771
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:54,720
Quit.

772
00:44:54,720 --> 00:45:05,400
Discouragement is actually the beginning of the loss of vision.

773
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:12,280
Discouragement is actually the beginning of the loss of vision.

774
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,760
If you're in a holding pattern like Apostle was saying last night, you're in a holding

775
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,280
pattern because he wants you to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

776
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:22,560
Get that stuff out.

777
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,080
And there is going to be a fresh vision that's going to be imparted to you.

778
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,800
And you're going to run with it.

779
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,760
You're going to read it on the tablets of your heart and you're going to run with it

780
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,920
and you're going to read it and you're going to have more strength and more perseverance

781
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,400
than you've ever had in your life.

782
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,840
That's why I said in my word, the glory of the latter house will be greater than the

783
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:44,880
former.

784
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,760
Your latter years will truly be greater than the former.

785
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:57,080
And you will accomplish more in the latter years than you did in your former years.

786
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,240
So they said, you know, we don't want you preaching anymore.

787
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,280
And you know what happened.

788
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,720
This is what they did.

789
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:08,680
Being let go, they went to their own companions and they reported everything that they said

790
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,800
and this is how they prayed.

791
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,880
When they heard that, they raised their and then voice.

792
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,400
They raise not their voices.

793
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:25,360
See we're one.

794
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,920
We truly are members, you know, different parts of the body, but we're one.

795
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:36,880
They raised their voice to God with one accord and then they, they acknowledged his greatness.

796
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:37,880
Lord, you are God.

797
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,120
You made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them.

798
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,200
And then they quoted out of Psalm Sue for the sake of time will bypass it.

799
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,200
You know it.

800
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:50,160
And then he said in verse 29, they acknowledge the circumstances once.

801
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,440
If you keep acknowledging the circumstance over and over and over, you'll pray, pray

802
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,440
yourself into a ditch.

803
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:01,320
Oh Lord, you know my situation.

804
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:08,960
Oh Lord, you know, just pray it, the problem over and over and over and over and over and

805
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,040
over and over and over and over.

806
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:18,400
And next thing you know, you get up from prayer and you're depressed.

807
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,440
And to be honest, maybe even mad.

808
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:30,240
Well, oh, I was thinking maybe you haven't you now Lord, behold their threats.

809
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:31,240
That's the circuit.

810
00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:32,240
But this is what they did.

811
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:34,640
They said grant to your service with all boldness.

812
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,240
You're not going to keep us from speaking.

813
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,040
The righteous are as bold as a lion.

814
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,040
Yeah, we get that.

815
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,240
But we need more boldness.

816
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:48,040
And we may speak your word by stretching out your handy heel and that signs.

817
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,760
Can I go for more minutes?

818
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,760
Thank you.

819
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,000
And that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

820
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,640
They didn't back down.

821
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:07,520
The warfare goes back down, back down, retire, back down, stop praying, stop preaching, back

822
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:08,520
down, back down.

823
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,960
See, that's the enemy.

824
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:18,200
We're not drawing back.

825
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,200
Amen.

826
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,560
And then they went on and they prayed and they went now listen to this verse 31 through

827
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:33,680
33 when they prayed the place.

828
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,840
The place where they were assembled together.

829
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,040
And say together there's power and unity.

830
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,440
So God commands his blessing, love and unity.

831
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,560
And they're all filled with the Holy Spirit.

832
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,200
They spoke the word of God with boldness.

833
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:49,400
Now what does the Bible say?

834
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,200
You call upon me, I'll answer you.

835
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:53,880
I'll show you great and mighty things.

836
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,080
So God right away answered their prayer.

837
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,320
The house was shaken.

838
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,200
They spoke the word of God with boldness.

839
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:05,280
Now the multitude of those who believe were of one heart, one soul, neither did any at

840
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,000
once say of the things he possessed was his own.

841
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,880
They all had things in common.

842
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:15,320
Listen, and with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection.

843
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,760
It's all about the resurrection, folks.

844
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,200
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

845
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,440
I am the Lord God.

846
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:23,440
I change not.

847
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,440
He is here.

848
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:25,440
He is alive.

849
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:31,800
We may not see him walking into the room and all that, but he's here.

850
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:36,480
He gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all.

851
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,880
You know, we're sin abounds.

852
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,360
So how did they pray and we'll close?

853
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,400
How did they pray?

854
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:51,720
All at once.

855
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:52,840
You're out of, this is out of order.

856
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:53,840
This is crazy.

857
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:58,960
One time I was leading a corporate prayer meeting in this church and they were in a mall

858
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,480
setting, meaning a strip mall.

859
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,120
I used to wear a lot of makeup in those days.

860
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:05,440
I had nails out the hair.

861
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,600
It was just, you know, whatever, and the hair, big hair.

862
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,440
How many remember the big hair?

863
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:11,960
I just had it all going.

864
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,240
Eyelashes had it all going on.

865
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:16,680
Some lady knocked at the door.

866
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:17,680
Everybody's praying.

867
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,520
They were all praying and tongues, the whole thing.

868
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:23,920
I went to talk to the lady.

869
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:24,920
She was an unbeliever.

870
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:25,920
I opened up the door.

871
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:26,920
She goes, what's going on here?

872
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,480
I go, we're having a prayer meeting.

873
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:42,280
She goes, this is crazy and you look like a clown.

874
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,360
So they prayed all at once.

875
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,120
They prayed out loud.

876
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:53,160
They prayed in a known tongue and we could take the scriptures and we can make them ours.

877
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,480
They pioneered that prayer.

878
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,480
Did they pray in unknown tongues or did they not?

879
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,160
The Bible doesn't tell us.

880
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,080
But if they were filled with the Holy Ghost and they understood the power of praying in

881
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:07,960
tongues and that Holy Ghost fell on them, I can guarantee they knew that when they prayed

882
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,360
in tongues, something on the inside was stirring and it was producing results and that this

883
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:18,600
kind of prayer opened up the door for God to work.

884
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,120
They prayed for boldness.

885
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,400
They prayed for signs and wonders.

886
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,240
Covered the gifts, desire the gifts, Corinthians.

887
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,240
They believed in Jesus because of what?

888
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:29,280
The miracles and they prayed in faith.

889
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,280
Could you pray for me?

890
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:31,280
Could you pray for me?

891
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:32,440
Let's get everybody to pray.

892
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,120
The more people that pray, oh my God, if the more people that pray, then I know we're going

893
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:37,120
to get that.

894
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:42,520
No, you got to pray in faith even if two are gathered together in agreement.

895
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,480
What were the results in conclusion to their corporate prayer?

896
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,760
The house shook.

897
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,560
They're all filled with the Holy Spirit.

898
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:54,440
They had greater boldness, no fear or intimidation.

899
00:51:54,440 --> 00:52:01,440
They had great power and great grace was upon them all.

900
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,440
Amen.

901
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:12,040
Lastly, the principle of unity of vision and unity of speech.

902
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:13,320
Nothing will be impossible to them.

903
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,360
When you said about the principle last night, I just wrote that down.

904
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:23,200
Genesis 11, they were all of one mind, one accord, one vision and they had a universal

905
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:24,200
language.

906
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,080
God had to come down and confound them.

907
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:34,960
Do you know, like we said, that tongues is the universal language?

908
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:41,320
When we all pray together in tongues, the principle is this kind of love and unity and

909
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:47,520
one language, God said nothing will be impossible to them, which they've imagined to do.

910
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:48,520
Thank you.

911
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,560
Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project podcast.

912
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