Foundations of Prayer Part 1

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You pray it and he can answer it.

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it.

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Goes into the hearts of the people,

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doesn't return void, it produces results.

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Hello.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Nice to be here tonight.

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Before we get into the word,

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I just wanna share that I did bring my books with me.

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This is Encountering God Through Prayer.

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This particular book takes the reader

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right from the very start.

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Where do I begin?

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You begin with 15 minutes.

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You find a quiet place in your house

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and you dedicate that place as your prayer spot.

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I teach the reader how to enter into the presence of God.

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Of course, if you're learning how to pray,

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you have to know the heart of the Father.

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Because the Bible says that when you come to God,

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you must believe that he is.

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Well, who is he?

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So we do put that particular information in the book

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and I go into, I take the reader all the way from

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to begin where you are,

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all the way to contemplative and meditative prayer.

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So if you could help me, Pastor David,

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I'd like to give it to this man in the white hat.

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God bless you.

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This particular book is Decision Time.

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Now this is my now daughter-in-law

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and my son took this picture and I wanted to use the picture.

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I thought it was perfect for this book.

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Decision Time, The Place in Prayer of Surrender.

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This book is about one of the prayers

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spoken of in the Word of God,

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the prayer of dedication and consecration.

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Where you pray not my will,

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but your will be done in my life.

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It is the kind of prayer that you can pray repetitively,

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meaning over and over and over again.

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It's the prayer that Jesus prayed

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when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane

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and he was having trouble not with his heart, his spirit.

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He was having trouble in his soul.

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He said, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death.

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His disciples, as you know, didn't stick with him.

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But he prayed himself to a place of surrender

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and a place whereby he set in motion the will of God

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and a place whereby he was strengthened

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to do the will of God.

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Now you know we can't do it son or all

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when it comes from the heart.

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Now I wrote this book because when I turned 50,

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17 years ago, I knew that,

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I know, I don't know, I know, I know, I know.

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I don't mind telling my age.

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But I knew that God had something coming up the road ahead.

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And I'm gonna be honest with you

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and I know Pastor Tricia can testify.

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I didn't know if I wanted to do it.

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I had taken time off of ministry to raise my kids

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and they were coming into driving age and college.

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And I knew instinctively that on the inside of me,

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God was calling me back into the public ministry

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and I didn't know if I wanted to put up with the warfare,

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the rejection, the hell, the opinions of people,

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and so on and so forth.

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So it took me three months to, you know,

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I was ignoring God.

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You know when God speaks to you,

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he's talking and you're supposed to go like this,

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but I was going like this.

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Kind of like what my dog does

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when he doesn't wanna like do what I ask him to do.

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How many of you have a dog?

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I have a little Shih Tzu.

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You know, I just was going like this

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because I didn't wanna look at him.

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I didn't wanna look at him.

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So anyway, three months after my birthday,

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I was in a workout class and I was laying on the mat

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and right during the stretch time at the very end,

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the Holy Ghost just came upon me.

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You know, the Holy Ghost can encounter you anywhere.

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Holy Ghost came upon me and I just surrendered to him.

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I said, now my will, your will be done in my life

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and now we're continuing on.

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You know, it's not a time for us to retire.

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It's a time for us to re-fire.

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So I'd like to give it to this gentleman

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with the blue shirt.

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You guys good?

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Then I have this book,

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Receive the Steps to the Prayer of Faith.

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And I'll tell you this, again, this is my son's picture.

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Why did I write this book?

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I wrote this book because people are confused.

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They mix up the different kinds of prayer

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with different rules and that's why they're not

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getting results in their prayer.

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So I received an inbox from a woman

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who's been in a lot of our Kingdom Intercessors

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United meetings where we bring churches together

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and we all pray corporately.

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And she inboxed me and she's like,

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I have some personal needs and I'm just gonna stay home

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all day and I'm gonna spend time in the presence of God

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and she was gonna pray it through.

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So I said, Lord, she's not praying right.

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She's using the prayer of intercession rules

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for the prayer of faith whereby the prayer of faith

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is the prayer you pray to get your needs met on your own.

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You believe that you receive it and you have it

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and you thank God and you go forth and thank him.

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So that's why I wrote this book.

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I wanna give it to this young lady with the pretty hair.

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Lastly, my recent book is Contends,

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Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children

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Through Prayer.

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I talk about in this book prayer alerts.

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I talk about the three dimensions of prayer.

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Do you know that there are other dimensions of prayer?

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We're speaking the word, there's praying in the Holy Ghost

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but this particular book I get into travail in intercession.

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I call it the inner workings of the Holy Spirit.

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There's about 85 promises at the back of the book.

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I talk about the different generations,

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their strengths, their weaknesses.

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There's a lot of stories in here about people

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who have by the prayer of intercession prayed their kids

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through and out of drug addiction, alcoholism, sickness,

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so on and so forth.

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It is a different kind of praying

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and we're gonna talk about that actually next week.

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Tonight is foundational but weirdly,

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I'm gonna give you this book.

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My little cutie pie with the worship leader

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and married to Sebastian.

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I don't know, maybe there might be a little baby

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in the oven someday.

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You might need that book.

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They're cute, aren't they?

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So tonight I'm gonna talk to you briefly.

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We're gonna go 45 minutes tonight.

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I'm gonna talk to you about foundations of prayer.

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Now Pastor Tricia is exactly where a lot of the other

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leaders are in our region.

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It's time to lay a foundation, foundational truths.

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And when I was sitting there,

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I could just see the Lord just kept showing me,

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I'm laying a foundation.

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It's foundational time.

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Some of you may know some of this

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but I know that the Bible also says

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that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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And tonight we're not only gonna lay foundational truth

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but we're going to starve your doubts and feed your faith.

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Amen.

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Amen?

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Okay, so it is very important that we build our lives

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and churches first of all on the word of God.

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How many of you know that's true?

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Because Jesus said that when the winds come,

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Matthew 7, 24 and 25,

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when the winds come, he said,

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whosoever hears these sayings of mine,

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he said, and does them,

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I will liken him unto a wise man

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who built his house upon a rock.

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And when the winds come and the storms come

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and beat against your house, your house won't fall.

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Why?

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Because you studied to show yourself approved

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unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed,

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rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Your house will not fall

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because you put the word of God in your heart

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and the word has not returned void

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but it has accomplished and produced something

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in your life and in your heart

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and that is faith to move mountains,

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faith to overcome adversity.

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Okay, so we need to make sure that we build our churches,

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build our lives on a beautiful devotional time

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in the word of God, amen.

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So when these things come, we're not shaken.

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We know that the word of God is forever settled

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and that we can stand on the promises of God,

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that all the promises of God are yes and amen.

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Okay, but it's also important

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that we develop a vibrant life of prayer.

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Jesus said, and he didn't say it,

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he quoted from it, the Bible says,

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my house will be called a house of prayer.

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So we build our lives on the word of God.

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We build our churches on the word of God

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but it's also important that we have a vital,

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intimate, personal relationship

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with Jesus Christ through prayer, amen.

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So let me ask you a question.

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What's more important on a bird,

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the left wing or the right wing?

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I love birds.

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I've got two feeders on my windows

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and I specifically attract the red birds.

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Yeah, so I like to watch the birds.

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And it's a horrible thing

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when one of the birds hits the window

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because they break a wing and sure enough,

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that bird is laying there

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and I've been known to pick the bird up

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and pray over it.

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So if one of those wings are broken,

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that bird can't fly.

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That bird needs both wings in a healthy manner to fly.

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Right?

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What's more important for you and I as Christian believers?

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We need a balance.

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Everyone say balance.

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We need a balance of the word of God,

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putting the word of God, teaching the word of God,

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devotional time, but we also need a vibrant prayer life

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with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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So I'm gonna be honest with you.

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For me, it was way easier for me

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to spend a lot of time with God and pray

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because that's my heart.

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Even when I was a little girl,

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I used to sit in the back of my yard

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and pray for the Lord.

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I used to look up at my yard and I used to look up

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and I would sit on a tree stump as a little girl

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and I used to look up into the sky

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and I wanted to see God's face.

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I didn't even know that that was in the Bible.

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Are you listening?

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How many of you wanna see his face?

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And I used to hide in bushes and I just wanted to know him.

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But so it was easy for me to be a person of prayer

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and wanna seek his face and learn of him

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and all of that kind of intimacy with him.

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But God had to deal with me.

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He said, you need to spend more time in my word

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because you, girl, need both to fly.

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And so therefore, I had to bring more of a balance

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into my walk with God.

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So for me, what I did, and maybe this is gonna help you,

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this was not prepared, what I did is I created

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a lot of audio CDs.

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Now, we'd call them podcasts, whatever.

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I can't keep up.

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How many of you can keep up?

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I just can't.

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We created a lot of audio media scripture tapes

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with different subjects.

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And so what I would do, like if I had one on faith,

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I would read my own voice, my media person,

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read all the scriptures on faith, right?

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Or if it was the heart of the father,

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all the scriptures that talk about the heart of the father,

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or love, the love scriptures I've been listening to

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a lot lately, because I need to walk more in love.

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So I would just put the word of God in my heart

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by just listening.

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Again, faith comes by hearing and hearing

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by the word of God.

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I didn't necessarily put those CDs on or those tapes on

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to get a teaching.

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I just wanted the word of God to go into my heart

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because the word of God doesn't reach your void.

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It is an incorruptible seed that goes into your heart.

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It lives and abides forever.

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It divides the son, or soul, and spirit,

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and you're able to discern the thoughts

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and the intents of the heart.

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So I just kept putting the word of God,

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putting in the word of God, putting in the word of God,

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and then, you know, now we have podcasts,

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we have all kinds of things.

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But I just want to encourage every one of us,

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as we go into these two nights, two Wednesdays of teaching

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on prayer, make sure you have a balance

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of the word of God and prayer.

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Don't make the same mistake I did.

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Okay, now what are the rewards and benefits

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of being a person of prayer?

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Psalm 16, 11 says,

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"'In his presence is fullness of joy.'"

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When you're a man and a woman of prayer, you are strong

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because the joy of the Lord is our strength.

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So when you're a man and a woman of prayer

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and you're spending time in the presence of God,

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it strengthens you with might

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by his spirit in your inner man.

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You're in his presence, you are downloaded

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with his presence, which a part of his character is joy,

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and that joy is your strength.

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It strengthens you, okay?

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What else?

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When you are a person of prayer,

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it creates intimacy and friendship with God.

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Prayer produces intimacy.

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I just wanna say hello to everybody online.

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You know, this gospel of the kingdom is gonna be preached

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to all nations and then the end will come.

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The word of God is going forth

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and it doesn't just stop right here with us.

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It's gonna keep going and going and going

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and going and going.

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But prayer produces intimacy.

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Prayer produces intimacy with the one you pray to.

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You are changed into the same image from glory to glory.

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Show me your face, I wanna see your face.

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I wanna know and learn your ways.

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Teach me your ways, oh Lord.

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Even on my bed, I meditate about you day at night, right?

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Prayer produces intimacy with the one you pray to.

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Here's a good one with the one you pray for.

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You don't wanna pray for that person, I don't like them.

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How many have some people you don't like?

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How many have some people that have

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despicably used you and persecuted you and hurt you?

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You know, the Bible says pray for your enemies.

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Bless those that curse you.

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When you pray for your enemies, you know what happens?

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You begin to see them the way God sees them.

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And you know what I learned a long time ago,

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I'm still grasping it, but hurting people hurt people.

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So if somebody's hurt you and been mean to you,

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I would just wanna encourage you to pray for them.

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You don't have to necessarily be reconciled to them.

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Sometimes we need to go no contact to protect ourselves.

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And that's healthy, and that's a healthy boundary.

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But we can pray for them in the secret place.

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You know, the Bible says, though I'm absent in the flesh,

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I'm present with you in the Spirit.

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We can pray for them and not even be in their presence.

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So prayer produces intimacy with the one you pray to,

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the one you pray for, and King of Kings,

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the one you pray with.

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So when you all gather together,

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and you all pray with one another in one accord,

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in one place, there's a meshing,

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and there's an intimacy that's produced in and amongst you.

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And God said, that's when I can command my blessing.

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So prayer produces intimacy with the one you pray to,

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the one you pray for, and the one you pray with.

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What else about the rewards of being a person of prayer?

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Is everybody good?

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Listen, I'm just going really fast here.

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Are you good with that?

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And Ray, I gave him a ton of scriptures.

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So I just believe that the Spirit of God

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just wants this word to go out and go into your hearts

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because he's doing a new thing

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in the prayer ministry here in and amongst us,

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not only collectively, but in and amongst you individually.

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He is doing a new thing.

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He wants to take us to another level,

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but he's got to lay some foundation here.

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So what else is good about being a person of prayer?

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It says here, Hebrews 11, six,

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without faith, it is impossible to please him.

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For he who comes to God must believe that he is,

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and he is what?

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He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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I'm gonna read another scripture,

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and then I wanna comment.

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Matthew 6, six, but when you pray,

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go into your room, that's a secret place,

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secret chamber, an intimate place.

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And when you've shut the door,

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pray to your father who is in the secret place,

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and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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I love that part about the God who sees.

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You think you're in your prayer chamber

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and you're all by yourself.

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He said, my eyes will be upon you,

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my ears will be open and attentive

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unto the prayers that are made in this place.

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He sees you when you pray,

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whether you feel like it or don't feel like it.

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We're not moved by what we feel.

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We're moved, see, by what the word of God says.

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The word of God says he sees you when you pray.

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And he's got his eyes wide open.

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And for some that have father issues,

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he's not looking at you and he doesn't have an angry face.

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He's looking at you and he's smiling.

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Because for many of you, he's saying,

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well done, thou good and faithful servants.

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You've been faithful over little,

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I'm gonna promote you and you'll be ruler over much.

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That's why we can't look at ourselves.

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We look at all of our weaknesses and all of our stuff.

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He said, the more you look at yourself,

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the more you are a crippled person.

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He said, I want you to look unto me,

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the author and the finisher

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and the perfecter of your faith.

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Don't look at yourself, look unto him.

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We are what we are by the grace of God anyway,

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aren't we my friends, right?

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But this part about the reward,

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this is my personal opinion, this is what I would like.

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What is the reward?

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I used to ask my friends,

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what do you think the reward is?

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Nobody has an answer.

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Maybe you guys, everybody has an answer

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over a different opinion.

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Do you know what I would want that reward to be personally?

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I would want it to be,

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when I come out from the presence of God

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after my secret time with him,

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I would love it if the reward is,

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his presence is upon me and I go my way

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and he gives me rest.

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I would love it if I was a fragrance of Jesus

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everywhere I went because I went into the presence of God,

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I communed with him and that presence is on me

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and when I leave, I'm mantled with it.

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That's why sometimes we go places and people react

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and you don't know why.

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Well, because you're a carrier of the presence of God

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and when you seek him, you will find him.

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When you knock, the door will be open.

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When you spend time with him, you become what you behold.

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You become like him and you carry his essence with you.

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Listen, there's something true about that.

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Have you ever hung out with somebody

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and you can still sense their essence?

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Yes, spiritual things are transferable.

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You gotta watch who you hang around with.

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They're transferable through the laying on of hands,

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you better watch who lays hands on you.

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It's transferable through you associate with

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and it's transferable with whom you sit under.

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That's why when I come here,

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I get all revved up in the prophetic.

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Revved up in the prophetic because you pick up

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the spirit of the church wherever you go

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and who you sit under.

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I know that's right.

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So when you pray, the Bible says,

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now you can't see this either, but this is by faith.

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But listen, heaven is for real.

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I'm telling you heaven is for real.

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Heaven is for real.

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We're here on this earth, but this is just our earth suits.

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Do you understand that?

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You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body.

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This is your earth suit and when you leave,

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you're gonna be with Jesus and all your relatives

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and everybody that's up there in heaven.

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So this is really happening.

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When you pray while you're here on this earth,

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your prayers go up before the throne room of grace

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and they are like an incense.

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Well, who said that?

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The word of God.

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So when you pray, know that that's exactly what's happening.

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Okay, Catherine Coleman once said,

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well, we're doing great on time.

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The greatest power given to any individual

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is the power of prayer.

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How many of you know that Catherine Coleman

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operated in signs and wonders and miracles,

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the working of miracles, the gift of faith

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and the gift of healing?

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She operated in the three power gifts

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that I'm believing God for to manifest in this day

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and in this hour that you and I are living in.

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If Catherine Coleman got to see it, I wanna see it.

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We have not seen those three gifts

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manifested in my lifetime,

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but we've seen of the revelation gifts,

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we've seen the utterance gifts,

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but how many of you know there's nine gifts of the Spirit?

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So she said the greatest power given to any individual

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is the power of prayer.

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She had a life of prayer, Easter,

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and she had a life of surrender.

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I think that's a very powerful combination.

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Jesus in his earthly ministry was a man of great prayer.

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Have you ever thought of that?

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Have you ever thought about that online?

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Jesus was a man of great prayer.

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That's why when the disciples came to him,

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they said, Lord, you know, we've been watching you.

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And sometimes you disappear.

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And sometimes you disappear all night.

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And sometimes you go up into a mountain by yourself.

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There's a lot of things that you're doing

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and we're kinda getting a drift

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that you're praying to your Father in secret.

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And they watched him.

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Don't you watch people that are successful?

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And they watched the power went out of him

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and into people's bodies and people were healed.

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He always ministered out of his overflow.

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He never ministered leaders out of his reserved.

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Why?

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Because he was a man of prayer.

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So they watched Jesus.

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And one day they came to him and they said,

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Lord, teach us to pray.

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Yeah, we could go to Bible school.

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We could learn how to preach, homiletics.

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We could learn how to move in the gifts of the Spirit.

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We could learn all these things.

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But I think the greatest lessons we can learn

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is lessons on prayer.

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Everything flows from our intimacy with God.

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Amen?

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Okay, Leroy Brownlow once said,

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let us not neglect prayer just because

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we do not fully comprehend the infinite power

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of the God who's thrown we kneel.

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I do not know everything about gravity,

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but I know it works.

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We're gonna talk before closing

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and demonstrating prayer.

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The four foundations of prayer.

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Let's talk about what we do know.

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How do we get knowledge of what we do know

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because we go to the scriptures?

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What did God say about prayer?

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Number one, you have to ask.

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Ask, seek, request, and inquire is mentioned

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100 times in the Bible.

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Ask is mentioned 33 times.

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When God says something one time, he means it.

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When God says something 33 times,

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you better believe he's trying to get your attention.

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John Wesley once said,

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it seems like God is limited by our prayer life

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that he cannot do nothing for humanity

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unless someone asks him, why?

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I'm gonna say something and I've had multiple times

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where I could feel people putting on the brakes,

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but I'm gonna prove it to you in the scripture.

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God is not running everything in this world.

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He does not have anything under control,

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everything under control.

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Can I re-say it?

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God is not running everything in this world.

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He does not have everything under control.

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Prayer is necessary because

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man is God's avenue into the world.

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Therefore, it is necessary that you ask.

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

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

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For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,

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please visit our website at margiefleuron.org.