Praying in the Spirit

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I am so excited about this. I want to welcome you to the Purpose Project podcast. During our time

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together, I will teach you how to pray, how to intentionally develop intimacy with your creator,

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and challenge you to discover and embrace your God-ordained purposes. I am your host,

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Margie Flarrant. My prayer for you today is that you will be empowered and strengthened in the Word

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of God to move forward into your destiny. I'm going to ask you open your Bibles today. I sense

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more of a teaching anointing, but we're going to see how we go. I kept hearing in my spirit you

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equipping the saints for the work of the ministry, and I just kept hearing it over and over and over

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and over. And like I said, there's different ways that we can come to you, but if we don't come with

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the right sound, we're not going to equip you for the battle. And if I teach more, then I'm just going

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to teach more. We're just going to see what the Holy Ghost has to say and desires to do. Amen.

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Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18, well, the Scriptures preceding it talks about putting on the full

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armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for we wrestle not against

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flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of this world.

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So the apostle Paul is exhorting the Ephesian church and he's exhorting us today to put on that full

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armor of God because we are in a war. But thank God it's a war that we win because Jesus spoiled

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principalities and powers. He made a show of the devil openly. He triumphed over the devil,

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and it's the name of Jesus when it's exercised that has power in all three worlds. So we have

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everything that we need to be overcomers. So the apostle Paul was telling them to put on the armor

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of God, you are in a war. And then he says over here in verse 18, he says, after taking up the

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helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, he says, and praying

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always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this and with all

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perseverance and supplications for all saints. Now, if those of you that know your Bible,

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you know what the amplified version says. It says in the amplified, praying always with all different

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kinds of prayer. And there are all different kinds of prayer spoken of in the word of God.

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And the prayer that the Holy Spirit wants me to emphasize to you today is the prayer that I call

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the language of heaven. The language of heaven. You see, God wants to do a new thing. And God

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wants to bring the church into a new place and this ministry into a new phase. 25 years isn't

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enough. You got another 25, 30 years to go and only God knows what's going to happen after that,

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because we believe there will someday be a successor. Would pastor, apostle, Jim and Jonah go home to be

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with the Lord, there will be a successor. Don't you agree? I know from my ministry, I've already

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got it set up. Who's going to be my successor? Now I'm 61 years old and I know I'm going to live

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to at least 95, but I still want to have a plan. But we are living in a day and we're living in an

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hour where God is designed to do a new thing and take his church into a new phase and a new place.

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And it's going to take the kind of praying that we call praying in the spirit to get us through.

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There has to be more of an emphasis, the Holy Ghost said, on praying in the spirit. And he said to me

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recently, he said, Margie, my people don't understand the power of praying in tongues. And I was in a

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church in South Jersey recently and the Spirit of God said there is going to come because of the

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time and the season that the church is in right now. He says there is coming and we're on the,

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we're entering into it. He says that there's going to be a surge of praying in tongues or praying

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the language of heaven because it's going to be this kind of praying that's going to be like the

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pow that gets us through to the other side and to this next level. Now I'm going to be honest with

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you when I responded to pastor's texts about coming here and so on and so forth as I was responding

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to the text, I had an inward mini revelation. And this is specifically for you. And I saw you as a

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church as a body and I've never seen it like this before, but I saw you standing before an open door.

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Specifically pastor and Joni because you know where the leaders go, the people will follow.

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The apostle Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ. And I saw your leaders and the church behind,

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I saw you right next to you right in front of a door. It wasn't open. I saw you before a door.

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It wasn't open. And on either side, and I don't know what this means because I'm not a dreamer,

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a vision interpreter. There's people that can do that. I don't know what this means. But on either

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side, there were two humongous picture windows. And I think from what my prophetic dreamer,

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interpreter person has told me that that's symbolic of the prophetic, those windows.

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But there's something about a door that God has set before this church and this ministry.

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And what he's saying is the thing that's going to get you, give you entrance into that door is

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allowing that there is the people stirring up the gift of God that is in them and beginning to pray

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in the spirit. Because when we know not what to pray for as we are, the spirit himself makes

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intercession for the saints, not according to our own plans, not according to our own will,

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but according to the will of God. I don't know about you, but when I don't know what to pray for,

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I pray in the Holy Ghost. I don't know about you, but I'm when I'm weary and I'm tired and I don't

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know which way to turn, I pray in the Holy Ghost. I don't know about you, but when I see my kids

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starting to make some decisions that don't really bear witness with my spirit, sometimes instead

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of lecturing them, I pray in the Holy Ghost. So just know that there's all different kinds of prayer,

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but you're going to see more of an emphasis and more of a surge of the kind of praying called

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praying in the Holy Ghost in the day and in the hour that we live in. Because let's face it,

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we live in a day and we live in an hour where people are secret friendly and let's do nice,

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nice. And we don't want the Holy Ghost in our meetings and you better not speak in tongues

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in our meetings. You know, that's the tactic of the enemy. Are you listening? So we're talking about

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praying in the spirit. When I was thinking about this hurricane that struck North or South Carol,

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was it North or South Carolina, the Carolinas? Do you understand that it wasn't the hurricane

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itself, it was the surge that they were all worried about. What are the surge that they were

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worried about? Well, God said there's going to be a surge of tongues in the church. There's going

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to be a surge of tongues in the church and the enemy is worried about it. He's worried about you

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and I picking up the mantle of the power of praying in tongues, the heavenly language,

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and he's worried that we're really going to begin to do it. And you know, this is the thing.

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The Bible says, I will pray with the spirit. I will pray with the understanding also. It's just

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simple. The simplicity of it is when we don't know how to pray, by an act of our will, we could

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just begin to pray in tongues. We don't have to think, we don't have to process, we don't have to

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figure it out. We just pray in the spirit. So there's going to be a surge of this kind of

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praying. I'm just going to quickly give you the definition of surge. The noun definition is a sudden,

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powerful forward or upper movement, upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force

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such as the waves or tide flooding caused by tidal searches. Can you imagine being in worship

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and all of a sudden sensing the Holy Ghost rising up within you, John 7 38, out of your

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innermost being flowing rivers and gushers and surges of living water and you have an

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unction to pray in the Holy Ghost? That's what God is talking about. There's going to be a surge

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of this kind of praying. Now we said this, there's different ways to pray. We know that the Bible says

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for if I, you know, well, I will pray with the spirit, I will pray with the understanding. There's

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different ways to pray. We could pray with our understanding. We could pray in our language.

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We can speak the Word. The Word of God doesn't return void. He'll hasten his word to perform.

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We need to pray the scriptures. We need to stand on the Word of God, Matthew 7 24 and 25.

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Pray the Word, pray the Word, pray the Word, speak the Word, speak the Word, speak the Word.

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But again, when we've run out of everything we know to pray, the Apostle Paul said, I will pray with

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the spirit. For he that speaks in an unknown tongue, unknown to us, unknown to our thinking,

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unknown to our natural understanding, speaks not unto men, but unto God. How be it in the spirit?

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You speak mysteries. You speak plans. You speak purposes. You speak the will of God. And you are

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releasing the will of God in the earth and the enemy is afraid of this kind of praying. That's

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why he's tried to put a cap on people, holy ghost churches such as you. He doesn't want you to rise

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up. He doesn't want you to speak in tongues. Are you listening? Now think about it like this.

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The Holy Spirit is mentioned 264 times in the New Testament, 264. And 60 of the mentions of the Holy

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Spirit are in the gospels. And Jesus talked a lot about the Holy Spirit. He mentioned the Holy Spirit

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a lot. He talked about his ministry. He talked about his coming. He told the disciples, I'm not

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leaving you as orphans. I'm not leaving you comfortless. He's going to replace me. He's going to

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lead you. He's going to guide you. He's going to comfort you. He's going to help you. He's going

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to teach you. He's going to show you things to come. You have another comforter that is coming.

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And then some of the very last words that Jesus spoke in the book of Acts, how many of you remember

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what they were? He said, listen, apostles, don't do anything, not anything. Don't go anywhere. Don't

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do anything until you receive the promise of my Father, which you have heard me talk about over

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and over and over and over. And the disciples didn't get it, of course. And then they changed the

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subject. Jesus brought them right back to the subject. He said, listen, you are going to receive

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power when the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And you are going to be witnesses to me. He said,

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in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world, don't go anywhere to you

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receive this power. And you know the story. How many of you know the story? What happens next?

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It's the birth of the church age. It is the dawn of a new day. It is the beginning of some new things.

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And if the enemy had known, he would have never crucified the Lord of glory. He thought he had

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everything under control. He thought he had people pushed down. He thought he had people defeated.

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But my God shall supply all of our needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.

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God had a plan. God had a purpose. God had a destiny. And it was the plan of redemption.

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And the day of Pentecost, it was that time, that season, that moment in history, just like I believe

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you as an individual church and we as the universal, we are right at that cross road.

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It was the time and it was the season and it was the time for the birth of a new era, the church age.

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And the Bible says, I think 500 started out with them in the upper room. And then did you know only

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120 were left in that upper room? Can you imagine? I mean, they must have grown weary and well-doing.

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They must have gotten discouraged. They must have thought, you know, God's promises are not

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yes and amen. Oh, he did. He's not going to show up. Well, I got news for you. God is going to show up.

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He is going to show up. If God spoke it, he is going to make it good. He is going to show up.

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You know, the Bible says in Luke 18, one, men ought to always pray and not faint. Don't give up.

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Don't faint if you don't see visible results. They're up there in the upper room and they're sitting

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and they're waiting and they're praying. I don't know how they prayed. I don't know how to pray.

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If I didn't have tongs, I don't know how I pray. I mean, I pray, you know, I know the word, but

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you know, they must have just been rocking and praying and praying and waiting on God. Maybe

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they were praying out of the book of Psalms. Oh God, you are my God. Early, I will seek you.

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My soul longs for you. My flesh desires you in a dry and thirsty land to see your power and your

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glory. Lord, we want to see your glory and they're all waiting on God and they're all praying. By

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then there's only 120. The rest of them miss their appointment with God, miss their encounter with

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God. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be one of them that misses my appointment with God.

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I want to be right there, right in the middle of all the action.

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And just when you think, just when you get the most depressed, the most discouraged,

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it's just proof. Listen to me, please, listen, please. You are right on the verge of your divine

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appointment, right on the verge of that great group, right on the verge of the birth of that thing.

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So there they are in the upper room, Elvis teaching on the Holy Spirit, all this teaching

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on his ministry, all this teaching on his personality that he's a person with a personality.

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And we thank God for the Holy Ghost. But the Bible says they're all in the upper room and suddenly

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there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind. Karabosaha, a surge. And it filled

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all the house where they were sitting. And the Bible says that there appeared onto them

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cloven tongues like as of fire. I was raised as a good Catholic girl and I liked being Catholic.

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And then I got born again at 19. But how many of you remember when you, the pictures on the wall

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up by the cross where there was these tongues of fire on the top of the disciples heads?

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Right. And the Bible says they appeared onto them cloven tongues like as of fire. And what happened

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next? I want you to understand the emphasis. What happened next? The Holy Spirit is poured out.

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He comes in like a rushing, mighty wind. And the Bible says, and they were all filled with the Holy

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Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Oh my goodness.

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You feel that? I could feel the Holy Ghost on me right now in a major tangible way.

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So all this emphasis on the Holy Ghost and the very first thing that happened was they were all

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filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues. There is a purpose for your

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prayer language. I am here today to encourage you to stir up the gift of God that is within you.

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Stir up your prayer language. We need you to pray in the spirit, in this season, and in this

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hour. There are times where I believe that we as a people, as a universal church, we've gotten behind

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in our praying in tongues. And we need to catch up. Okay, let's go on. You know that the baptism,

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the Holy Spirit, is separate from the new birth. How many of you know that? The apostles came to a

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group of people just in case there's somebody here and he said, have you received the Holy Ghost

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since you believed? I think it's Acts 19. And they said, we've not so much as heard whether there be

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any Holy Ghost. And the Bible says they were a group of believers and the Scripture says they

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laid hands on them and they began to speak with tongues. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is separate

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from the new birth. When you get born again, the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside. The Bible

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says that you are the temple, the very sanctuary of the Holy Spirit as God has said, I'll walk in

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them, I'll live in them, and I'll be their God, they'll be my people. But the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit is an experience whereby John 7 38, you ask him for this infilling, this overflow, and out of

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your innermost being flows a bubbling up or an expression of what we call praying in other tongues.

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How many of you remember when you got saved? How many of you were saved first and then got filled

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with the Holy Spirit after? Right? This is how it was with me. And I don't have a clock, so maybe

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you should hand me my phone. This is how it was with me. Oh, thank you. I'm good, I found it.

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This is how it was with me. I got radically saved, radically, in my bedroom at 829. Can I come down

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here, Pastor? 829, North President, Wheaton, Illinois, 60187. The last time I was here, I drove by my

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hometown house. So cool. And I remember getting born again in my bedroom. I was literally delivered

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from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of life. It was the first time I heard

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the audible voice of God. And I had wanted to be saved, I didn't know how to be saved, I kept

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asking to be saved, kept praying to be saved. And that night, I don't remember the night, I should

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have wrote it down. But that night, I heard the audible voice of God, I said, what must I do to

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be saved? And I audibly heard him right here. It was like a man speaks to his friend. I heard, only

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believe. How simple is it? And I had something in me broke, and I said, I believe, I felt the

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presence of love. Come on me, felt the love of God. I felt his love, I felt the Father, I felt

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darkness being lifted off of me. I was a complete new creation in Christ. Literally, all things passed

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away. Literally, all things became new. And my best friend at the time, she said, you were one person

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one day, and another person another day. How many of you know what I'm talking about? Love that. Love

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that. I understand we have to renew our mind. And you know, we had to renew our mind. You know,

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I came from the hippie generation. So there were certain ways we dressed. And it took me a couple

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weeks to modify, modesty my dressing. Anybody know what I'm talking about? You'll know them by their

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fruit. So I remember being so happy, so blessed. It was so wonderful to be born again. Remember your

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first love? Remember how wonderful? And I remember I was joined to the Lord and one spirit with him.

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It was such an amazing thing. And I loved him so much. But something on the inside of me said,

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something still missing. Now, when you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior, what could possibly be

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missing? Something on the inside. But you know, I love about the Holy Spirit. He will lead you and

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guide you into all truth. He will show you things to come. He will lead you to Jesus. He will testify

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of Jesus. He will take the things of mine and show it under you. And the Holy Spirit was leading me

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and guiding me. Even though some of the people I was connected with at that moment, they had a little

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bit of a shepherding kind of influence in their quote, church, it didn't matter because the Holy

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Ghost was leading me and guiding me because he knew that they were baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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And what they had, I needed and I wanted in order to be everything God had called me and created

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me to be. It was the power that I needed to go to the next level in God. It was the power that I

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needed to be an anointed minister of God. It was the power that I needed to stand against the wiles

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of the devil. And so I connected with this group of people who were more into the shepherding

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movement. And my girlfriend and I, she got born again too. We went to this church and they were

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all worshiping and singing. And then all of a sudden they did, I will sing with the spirit. Let's do it together.

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They were all singing in the spirit and I never heard anything like it. And it sound like the

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tongues of men and angels just like acts. I heard them speaking the wonderful works of God. It was

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so beautiful. And something on the inside of me, that's what you need. Said that's what you need.

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That's what you want. That's what you desire. It's like pastor said, you're hungry for God.

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You want God. You desire God. That expectation and that hope is going to bring the desires of your

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heart, which is the miraculous to this ministry. I believe that this church is marked for miracles.

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I believe that there is a container of something that's on the inside of your leadership and

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use of people that needs to be broken through and come forth and come out and unwrapped.

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It's that hunger. It's that thirst. And so I went to the leadership after the service. I didn't know

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there was no protocol back then, especially since I had my short shorts on, did no better.

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And you know, I went up to the leadership, my girlfriend and I, and we said, we want that.

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And they went, we thought you would. And they prayed for me and her to be filled with the Holy

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Ghost. And this is what I don't like. And I know you will appreciate it because you traveled to

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other countries. They didn't give me any instruction. See, I'm not into that. You want people to get

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filled with the Holy Ghost, you give them tons of scripture, you show them it's in the Bible.

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And I believe you need to make sure Jesus Christ is Lord of their lives and they have confessed

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to him as Lord and Savior. And then they can get filled with the Holy Ghost because any of us that

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have ever been to other countries, we know what we're talking about. So they didn't give us any

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instruction, which is fine. And they laid hands on us. And I felt the power of God. The president

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saw the Holy Spirit didn't know then what it is, but know now. The Holy Spirit came upon me.

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And I something on something on the inside started to get really big and expand. And I could feel

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something in me, in me. Some people feel something and some people don't. I had something in me,

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I could feel it getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I sat there with my head down. I

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didn't know what to do with it. Nobody told me you do the speaking. I will pray with the Spirit.

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I will pray with the understanding also. I thought the Holy Spirit would do the speaking.

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Nobody told me that I, it's an act of my will, that the Holy Spirit will not come on you and make

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you say or do something you don't want to say or do. He's a perfect gentleman. So he rises up within

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you and you have to yield to him. How do you yield to him? He uses your voice, your vocal chords.

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You in a sense make up the language, but it's not just you. It's by the Spirit. My Spirit,

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by the Holy Spirit within me, praise. So you yield and you begin to break. You release that language.

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It's the language of heaven. Tongues, tongs. How fun is it? And so they laid hands on us and I'm

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like this, believe it or not, and I've told you this, I'm a very quiet, introverted person.

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I'm like this. Isn't it fun when the Holy Ghost takes a hold of you? He could turn you into another

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man. How many of you know what I'm talking about? So don't ever say you can't do something. You

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can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. There's more in you than you think you have.

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You just got to take that step of faith. You know the Bible, I like what I heard Joyce Meyer say,

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do it afraid. Don't go to this girl right here. Do it afraid. And you step out and you'll do it

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afraid. You'll be like, wow, now I can go to the next level. Now I can take that next mouth.

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All right. So I'm like this. I'm like this, but I felt this bigness. And my girlfriend,

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she's like, she's praying in tongues, really quiet. So I decided I had to say something. It had to

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be something big because what I had on me, I want you to listen to how I'm teaching this. This is

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not on my notes, how it's flowing, but it's good because there's a reason. There was something

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about the bigness of what I had to say that English could not suffice because there was a

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bigness. There was a level. There was a need. There was an expression of something on the inside

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of me that had to come forth up out of my mouth. And I knew I had it, but I didn't know how to say

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it. So the biggest word I could think of when in that moment, the biggest word was, oh, God,

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you are so outrageous. But see, that didn't satisfy my heart. And think about that word

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is big. God, you're outrageous. You're magnificent. But outrageous is a pretty big word.

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But there was something more. There was a greater expression. Something else had to be released.

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That's what I feel where the church is right now. There's something more, something bigger.

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Something else has got to be released. We don't understand. I could teach you for 10 hours on

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the Holy Spirit and so on and so forth in tongues. But there's something on the in, when you release

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that language of heaven, your words go way beyond anything you have to say in your nong tongue.

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It is the language of heaven and things are speeded up. God wants to speed things up.

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We're a crossroad. He wants to speed it up. He wants us to get through that door.

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So I got in my car and I said, I have something. So what I did was when I was by myself,

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this is where the introvert part comes in. By myself, I just started speaking in tongues.

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Let's do it together. I began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave me entrance.

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My spirit by the Holy Spirit. Did you understand what you were saying? The Bible says when a person

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speaks in an unknown tongue, amplified says, I don't even know what I don't understand what I'm

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saying. So this is what we do as intellectual people and as really smart people. We don't know

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what we're saying so we don't exercise it. But we need to stir up the gift of God that

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is in us. Let's go on. When you pray in tongues, let's go to Romans 8. We could actually quote it,

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but let's look at it. Romans 8, when you're praying in tongues, you're praying in line with God's

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perfect will. Are you listening? Romans 8. Teaching anointing on us today, right? Equip the saints.

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Equip the saints. This says here in verse 26, likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

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For we do not know what to pray as we ought. How are we going to get through that open door? What is

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the key? Holy Ghost knows what the key is. Even this, what is that open door? Holy Ghost knows

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what it is. This is the beauty of praying in tongues. You could pray in tongues about something

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15 years ago for a season. And then now in this season, you're walking in it.

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Yeah. Remember, my friends, there's no time and no distance in the Spirit. There are things that I

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am walking in now that I prayed out when I graduated in 1979 from Ramah Bible Training Center.

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You see what I'm saying? There's no time or no distance in the Spirit. That's why we walk by

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faith and not by sight. When I graduated from Ramah Bible Training Center, I was not the kind of girl

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that went on a lot of dates. I don't know why. I just wasn't. You know, because God will preserve you

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and protect you from hurt and pain and sorrow. So if you don't have a guy in your life right now,

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trust in the Lord with all of your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways,

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acknowledge Him. He'll bring you to the right person at the right time at the right place.

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He that finds a wife finds good.

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And so what I did on my weekends is I prayed in tongues. Now I said this to somebody in there

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blown away. And I'm going to say it to you, not because I don't even care. Not on bragging or

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anything. You guys know my heart. But I prayed in tongues. I walked the floors. I prayed in tongues

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for two hours. I said, Lord, go before me and prepare the way. Make the crooked ways straight.

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The rough places plain. I pray that you'd go before me. I didn't know what else to pray.

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I never dreamed I'd be preaching or teaching or the first woman in multiple pulpits on the east

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coast. Who would have ever thought this girl with hair out to here and nails out to there

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that God would annoy and give favor to. It's almost crazy. It's the foolish things of this

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world that God takes to confound the wise. And so I would just pray, Father, go before me, prepare

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hours, days and weeks over and over and over, months, a couple of years, worked in a church,

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did what I had to do, but still always, Father, go before me. Prepare the way. And you know what?

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By the time I got to the east coast, do you know, you talk about the mountains in the hills,

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breaking forth into singing in the trees of the field, clapping their hands and doors of

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utterance just opening. These doors just started opening. They didn't even know me. I'm not even

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from the east coast, but you know, God knows what he's doing. And he said, I'm going to plant this

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one over here. I'm going to plant that one over there. And it's for his purposes. Because God has

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set in the church. And so doors just began to open and one after another and after another,

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had all this favor and big hair, long nails, the whole thing going on. And I'm calm now,

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but I used to scream a lot back then. Why? You live and learn. And the Holy Spirit will take

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your gift and he will polish you. And he will make your tongue like the pen of a ready rider.

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He will mold you and shape you. Just take that step of faith. So one day somebody said to me,

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why, how are you getting all these doors? Because, you know, people are passing out cards.

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See, I'm not into that. I'm the person that I am the kind of person in the natural,

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that I can full force go straight ahead when I've heard from God. But I'm also the kind of person

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that if I'm not careful, I can fly the other way. Because I get scared.

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I get like, you can't do it. I don't want to do it. I don't want to leave my love.

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I don't want to leave my mind alone. Do you see what I'm saying? So you just,

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so I'm like the kind of person that promotes myself. I just like to sit back and go let the

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Lord build a house. If God's not in it, I don't want it. Because I'm not going to be anointed.

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It's going to be hell. I don't want it. You said, Lord, I will go wherever you send me. I will go.

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I will follow you, Lord, wherever you tell me to go. Days are approaching now. When you'll tap

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into a greater source of power, and you will go and flow. Don't be afraid of their faces,

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but step into all that I have for you. Because it's not by mind. It's not by power. It's by my

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spirit. For the harvest is plenious, and the labors are few. And this is the time, and this is

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the season for you to step into all that I would have you to do. So don't pull back, but step into

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all, and you will see there will be a great harvest. Yeah, even this fall, it is the dawn of a new day

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for my people. So step in, step in, and walk in the fullness of what I've called you to do.

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Someone said to me, how did you get all those speaking engagements? And one day the Lord spoke

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to me, and he said, you know how that happened? And I said, how? He said, you did all that praying,

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and all that preparation, all that praying in tongues. It made the crooked way straight,

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the highway was built for our God. It was easy for you to step into it because you did the work

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and the labor in the spirit by praying in tongues. Oh, but I don't understand what I'm saying.

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Doesn't matter. Destiny and eternity, Ecclesiastes 3, is in your heart. When you're praying in tongues,

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you are praying out of destiny. You are praying out of what God has called you to be. You are

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praying about what God has called you to do. Destiny is in your heart. What does that mean?

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No time, like we said, no distance. You're praying the purpose. We speak the wisdom of God

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in a mystery. That's good teaching. Thank you, Jesus.

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Okay, Romans 8 says, we don't know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself,

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who's a very intelligent being, who before you were ever formed in your mother's womb,

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he knew you and knows what's inside of you, and knows what's inside your children, and knows what

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he wants to do in Bartlett, Illinois, and knows what he wants to do through these various ministries,

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the Spirit Himself, the really smart one, the one who helped organize and caused the plan of

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redemption to come to pass. With all those imperfect people, still came to pass. The Spirit Himself,

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Himself, Himself, the Spirit Himself, Him. Remember, it's Him, not of us. It's Him. Our part is to

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yield. That's why praying in tongues is so easy. All I have to do is open my mouth,

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and pray in the Holy Ghost. The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with

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groanings which cannot be uttered. Now look here. Now, He who searches the hearts knows what is the

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mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to, and Pastor knows this,

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if it's in italics, it was put in there by the translators, according to God. Or you can say

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according to the will of God. And then what happens when we pray in the Spirit, that all things begin

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to work together for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.

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Now, listen to this. If praying in tongues is praying according to the will of God,

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what does 1 John 5, 14, and 15 say?

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And this is what the confidence that we have in Him, in who? In Him. That if we ask anything

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according to His will, we know that He hears us. And we speak not unto men, but unto God. And if we

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know that He hears us, we know that we know that we know that we know that we know that we know.

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We have the petitions we desire of Him. I said it before, I'll say it again. When you pray in

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tongues, you're praying His plan, His purposes, His will, His purpose for your family, for your

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children, for your church. I'm going to take five more minutes. Anytime God wants to initiate His

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plan, He will inspire His people, especially His leaders, to spend more quality time in prayer,

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in general, and especially this kind of praying. Whenever I find myself in an indecisive place,

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like we did with KIU, I shut everything down so I'm not doing anything, because something's not

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right. And I just spent a long time praying in tongues. And it took about six months of waiting

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and praying in tongues, because I didn't know how to deal with it. I know that the vision was there.

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I know it's for an appointed time, but something's like something. I don't know how to put my finger

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on it. February of 2018, after six months of 2017, of waiting on God, especially with our KIU, which

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is corporate prayer, so on and so forth. Suddenly, God just began to give me ideas, plans, purposes.

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I had a fresh anointing. Everything changed. It seemed like overnight. But it came from all those

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months of praying, because this is the thing. When you pray in tongues, you pray in the Spirit

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about a decision, or whatever. Eventually, when you get to that place, a breakthrough, and so on,

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I don't know how the whole thing works, but he will cause your thoughts to become agreeable

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with his thoughts, and then your plans will succeed. When you pray in tongues, there's no

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pride involved, no reason, no selfish ambition. It is a pure language that originates from the

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heart of God back to the heart of God, and he accomplishes his will in the earth, or on the

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behalf of another in your life when you release it. Then Bill Hammond said, and I'm going to read

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you something, and we're going to close. Bill Hammond said, those who have been born of the

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Spirit and baptized with the Spirit receive a prayer language. This gives the believer a

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private communication line direct to God's throne. It's like having one's only personal,

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private cell phone to heaven. When you pray in tongues, you are praying God's solutions to

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problems. You are praying God's answers to questions. I have a question about this,

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praying the Holy Ghost. Please don't get mad at me for saying this, but praying the Holy Ghost,

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a lot. The Apostle Paul said, I think my God, I speak in tongues more than you all. Listen,

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he wrote two thirds of the New Testament. He was such a powerful man of God that he had so much

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revelation. Brother Hagin said, he's found that in his life and ministry, the more he prays in

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tongues, the more he saw manifestations of the Holy Ghost. I don't understand all the secrets and

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the mysteries of the things of the kingdom, but I do know this. If the Holy Spirit, when he was

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poured out, the first thing that manifested was tongues, I think we need, isn't there such a

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thing as the law of first mention? We need to take heed. I'm going to close with this. A friend of

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mine wrote this book, Don Allen, and he got Angelique saved. Angelique was like John Ramirez.

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Remember we talked about John Ramirez last time I was here? She was like John Ramirez. She was

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pretty high level in the dark side. Can I just tell you, it's out there. I've encountered it in my

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own meetings. I've encountered it in my city. They're out there. They're out there. Let's not put

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our head in the sand. See, this is the thing. We have everything that we need. The Bible says we

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have divine equipment given to us by God to overcome and pull down stronghold.

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Oh, let's just go to church and let's just find out how we can be successful. Really?

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How about success in the mind of God? In the mind of God, true success is not measured in earthly

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realms. It's measured in heavenly realms. My daughter who's in Bible school and just graduated,

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she was like, I just feel like I'm not doing anything. She set up this whole thing for her

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church and province. I go, Dendinia, you can't measure yourself against the natural. How many

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people got saved and I love my city? That's what God looks at. So Angelique got saved under Don

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Allen's ministry and they were with her. And this is what Angelique said. And she, you know,

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like Ramirez, she's exposing the dark side. Rather, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of

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darkness. What does the scripture say? Rather, expose them. So here she's exposing some things

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that they know about us. She said, Angelique later explained to us that they, witches know all too

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well the power of the Holy Spirit and tongues. She explained that when Christians speak in tongues,

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there are always supernatural results. The enemy fears you. He fears the church praying in the Holy

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Ghost because it demolishes his strategies. It aborts his plans. You're speaking for God,

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my spirit by the Holy Spirit. It's a prayer according to Revelation 5.8 that goes up before the throne

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room and it produces results. There are always supernatural results cause and effect. Just as

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their spells produce results, she said that when Christians speak in tongues, they, that they, witches,

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do not know what to do with that. They don't understand how to combat that. She said, we know

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all the languages of the world, but we just can't figure that one out. And so we don't know how to

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come against someone who is baptized in the Holy Spirit, who speaks in tongues. And then she said,

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that's why I have to have it. It's the only way to combat evil forces. I'm not going to stop.

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I'm not quitting. I'm going to keep moving. We're going to keep preaching. We're going to keep

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plowing. We're going to keep going through every door that God has for us. Come hell, high water,

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sink, swim. We have each other. We have one another. We prefer one another. Your pastor even sometimes

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corrects me. I'm good with that. We got to keep moving. There is ground to be gained. There are

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things to accomplish. God has a plan for your life. He has a plan for this church. He has a plan for

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the universal church. Let's stand. Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project podcast.

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