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Sept. 17, 2024
Reviving the Call to United Prayer: A Vision for the Body of Christ Part 2
In this powerful message, we dive deep into Zechariah 8:20-22, where God reveals a profound call for corporate, united prayer. After teaching on the importance of prayer, God gave me a vision rooted in this scripture, reminding us that there is power when believers come together to seek the Lord. Just as the people in Zechariah’s time were stirred to pray and seek God, I believe the same call is being revived today. Join us as we explore how God is reigniting this fire for prayer across the body of Christ, and learn why now, more than ever, we must come together in prayer. Don’t miss this timely word that can transform your prayer life and spark a movement of united faith!
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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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They prayed out loud.
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They prayed for boldness.
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They prayed in a known tongue
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because we know the Bible says
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they prayed for signs and wonders and boldness.
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Now, did they pray in an unknown tongue or tongues?
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We don't know because the Bible doesn't tell us,
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but what we do know is that they were filled
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with the Holy Ghost, Acts 2, 1-3-4,
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and they were speaking in tongues.
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Doesn't say it, but I love getting a whole group of people
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in a room and having everyone pray in tongues.
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How did they pray?
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They prayed for signs and wonders
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and they prayed for miracles.
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So we are contending for a revival
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and a spiritual awakening.
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And I'm gonna briefly get into this.
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Revival and awakening, they're often used interchangeably,
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but an awakening takes place
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when God sovereignly pours out his spirit
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and impacts a culture.
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A revival is, on the other hand,
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what a church must experience.
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And I believe we need both.
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Interesting, we are the West Coast Zoom, correct?
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One spiritual awakening,
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this is the one that the Lord had me highlight,
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and I forgot we were the West Coast Zoom, Love and Unity.
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One spiritual awakening in America was the Jesus Movement.
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This movement began on the West Coast of the United States
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in the late 1960s and in the early 70s.
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It spread, and I like that word spread.
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It spread primarily throughout North America,
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Europe and Central America
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before subsiding by the late 1980s.
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This is what I love about this.
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And this is what I believe God is going to,
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is in the process of birthing right now.
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There was no singular person who stands out
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as the face of this movement.
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There are only person who stood out
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was the person of Jesus Christ.
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It was a faceless revival, restoration, movement.
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It was one face, and it was the face of Jesus Christ.
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And I believe that that's,
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I believe that that's what God is desiring to do
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in our latter days,
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the glory of the latter house
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being greater than the former.
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And I hope that this last move of God
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will be the move of God that will usher in
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the second coming of Jesus.
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Kenneth E. Hagen once, he said it many times,
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actually I heard him say it, he said it in his book.
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The Spirit, Jesus told him that before he comes,
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that there's going to be one more major move of God,
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and then Jesus is gonna come.
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I know no one knows the day or the hour,
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but he said there's going to be one major move of God
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that is going to usher in one of the greatest revivals
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the earth has ever seen.
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I believe that that's when Jesus is gonna come.
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Because Jesus did tell Brother Hagen
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that he was called from the heart of the Father
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to prepare the way for the second coming
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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So we don't know, all we know is we're contending
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for this move of God.
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But someone or some people had to be praying.
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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.
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We are co-labors together with God.
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Now lastly, I woke up with this this morning,
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and then God just wouldn't let me get away from it.
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I'm gonna read out of Genesis 11, one through eight.
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And it just, over and over, I just kept hearing
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this scripture, and this is where we're gonna close.
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Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
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And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east,
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they found a plain in the land of Shinar,
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and they dwelt there.
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And they said to one another,
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come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.
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They had brick for stone and they had asphalt for mortar.
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And they said, they were speaking their vision.
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Let us come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower
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whose top is in the heavens,
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and let us make a name for ourselves.
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Lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
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which the sons of men had built.
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And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one.
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And they all have one language.
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And this they begin to do.
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Now nothing they have proposed to do
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will be withheld from them.
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And then God came down and you know the story,
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he confused their language and they did not understand
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one another's speech and then the Lord scattered them.
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This is a negative scenario, right?
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They were building a tower.
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They were building the tower
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and they were building it for themselves, negative situation.
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But let's look at this in the light of
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the corporate united prayer, corporate prayer,
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unity of vision, unity of speech.
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First of all, God said because of their unity of vision
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and their unity of speech,
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he said nothing will be impossible to them.
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Now our desire is not to build anything for ourselves, right?
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We wanna build, we're building, we wanna build,
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we wanna work with God in establishing his kingdom, okay?
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What would happen if we all gathered together?
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We were all speaking the same thing.
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We are of one mind, one accord.
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We had one vision and we wanted to see God's will
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established on the earth.
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What if we all came together and we all prayed together,
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specifically even prayed together in tongues?
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I believe tongues is the universal language.
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It is the language of heaven.
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And when we all come together,
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we all have different personalities,
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we all have different dialects, so to speak of tongues,
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but that language of the spirit is a universal language.
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And I believe as we begin to gather together
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in corporate prayer, I believe nothing will be impossible
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to us, which we have imagined to do,
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especially when we pray from our seated place.
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Because when we pray in tongues,
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we're praying from a place of being blessed,
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we're praying from a place of being redeemed,
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we're praying from a place of love and unity,
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we're praying from a place of being an ambassador
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in Christ.
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So I just wanna propose that I believe
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that God is bringing a restoration and a renewal
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to corporate United Prayer because he wants us together
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to call upon him.
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And he said, I'm gonna answer you
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and I'm gonna show you great and mighty things.
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God bless you.
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Amen.
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If you ain't gonna answer,
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I mean, if you ain't got wind in your sail right now,
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you don't have a sail.
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This ought to put something to you with prayer right now.
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I'm serious.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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There's a lot that you said here
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that should stir up everybody here in LNU
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and it should bring a holy conviction,
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a holy conviction that they do join in prayer.
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And I know our leaders are on here
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and they all join in prayer.
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And that's such a blessing, but we want more.
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We want all to join and be encouraged and inspired
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and add their tongue, absolutely.
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That's powerful, amen.
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So we're gonna go ahead and open this up for comments,
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questions, anything that people have,
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people want to say here.
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Awesome, Apostle Eddie.
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Thank you, thank you, Margie, hallelujah.
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There's so much that you said there,
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I think that we could tear apart and eat and eat and eat,
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especially when it comes to building us up to pray.
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But you asked a question at the very beginning
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I think is very important is why,
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why people are not coming to prayer?
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Why does the body not want to properly come together?
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And not too long ago, I did a little study on it
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and I found that every time people stop praying
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is because things got out of order, things got out of order.
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Every time the church gets out of order
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and out of alignment to what God is doing,
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the people lose heart to pray.
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They don't wanna pray.
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But when things get back into alignment
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and come back into order,
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then there becomes an excitement to pray again.
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There becomes a desire to seek the face of God.
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There becomes a desire to unify behind prayer.
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And I think we're in a place where the church is shifting
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out of a place that it's been
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into a place that God's taken it to.
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So he's adjusting leadership,
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he's adjusting systems and strategies,
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he's adjusting us coming back to the pattern
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that Christ attended.
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So there's a reformation going on in the church
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and is reforming us back to the original position
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because you can't have powerful prayer
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and then direct that power
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to everything that's out of order.
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So you gotta direct power to things that are in order
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or like instance electricity.
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I can't have power turned on from Edison,
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that's what I have here.
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If all my wiring is not in order
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because I'll have an explosion,
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I'll have a fire that will burn the building up.
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And I think an order for power, which comes from prayer
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to really move upon the church,
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the church needs to get in order.
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The church needs to get into alignment.
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The church needs to come back to kingdom order.
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And I believe when we do that, you're right.
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We are gonna see a latter day move of God in the earth,
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greater than the former.
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And it's gonna be powerful, so powerful
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that we are gonna see building shake.
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We are gonna see things tremble.
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We're gonna see hearts run to the altar
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because their heart,
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hardness of heart is just gonna melt before them
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and they're gonna repent
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and they're gonna begin to hunger and thirst for God.
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But things have to come back to order.
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And I believe that's the season we're in right now,
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alignment, order, God bringing us back
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to true New Testament pattern,
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bringing us back to true five-fold ministry functioning.
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Cause you remember in Acts 2.42, he talks about this.
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He says that they continue steadfastly
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in apostles doctrine and fellowship,
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breaking bread and in prayers.
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If there's no breaking bread,
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which means that we come to a place
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to come into oneness with each other.
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If there's not a steadfast desire
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to come into apostolic doctrine, which sets the order,
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then we don't desire prayer.
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Prayer comes when hearts are in order with God,
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when people are in alignment with God,
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a hunger to seek the face of God begins to be established.
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And I'll close with this.
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I know in my personal life,
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when things were out of order,
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I didn't wanna be in prayer.
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I didn't wanna go and pray and seek the Lord.
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But the moment I got things in order
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and my heart got right and my attitude got right
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and my love for God got right,
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then I desired to pray.
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I wanted to be in the presence of God.
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I wanted to seek his face.
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So I think part of the answer
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is God is bringing his church back to order.
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And I'm seeing it in our own church.
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More and more people are coming to prayer
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because there's order coming to the house.
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There's alignment coming to the house.
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Alignment and order always brings unity
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and unity begins to create a thirst and a hunger
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for the things of God, hallelujah.
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So thank you, Margie,
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for encouraging us to pray just to let everybody know.
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We're gonna be starting a monthly prayer
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for Love and Unity where Margie will lead us
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in a Love and Unity corporate prayer once a month.
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And we'll be talking about that soon
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so we could get this prayer that she's talking about today,
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moving and rolling, hallelujah.
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Because it is so, so important,
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especially where we're at today in the body of Christ.
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So thank you, Margie, so much for encouraging us today
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and bringing such good word to us today.
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Blessings.
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Thank you, Apostle Eddie.
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Excellent, excellent.
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Well, there's so much in that.
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We could be unwrapping some good things here.
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Apostle Cal.
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Well, first of all, I would not expect anything less
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from Margie than what she's done today.
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She's hungry for this thing.
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She's gone after it and this has been her passion.
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I think one of the most difficult things
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that we must face, the truth about,
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is our leaders don't pray.
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Most of our leaders don't have a prayer life.
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Right.
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So when you say, let's get the church together in prayer,
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you may have to stop and say,
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let's get the leaders to pray.
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And because the leaders don't pray,
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because they're too busy doing church anity,
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that the saints of God don't see it as a priority.
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However, if there's a revival or awakening
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among our leaders, something significant
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is going to happen, Apostle Eddie.
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I am not sure that there's a revival
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I asked, we were on prayer mountain this weekend.
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And one of the things I asked the group to do,
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and we were packed, it was packed out, Apostle Eddie.
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And even Josh came from Texas.
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People came from Las Vegas.
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It was powerful.
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And I asked them to do me a favor.
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I said, before I pass on to this other side of this,
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could I be in a meeting of one accord?
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Just one time where everybody pays attention
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to the instructions and participate.
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And participate, and I mean, we broke a cord,
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ladies and gentlemen, we had a breakthrough.
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We had a gully washer breakthrough.
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Somehow or another, we were able to put away
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all of our agendas and come together and one accord.
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It was amazing to me.
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I'm still vibrating from it.
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And I think that that was just guys showing us
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that to pray for those who don't have a prayer life,
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to pray for our leadership, you know what we've done?
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We really don't pray for leaders.
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We criticize them.
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We tear them down.
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We find fault in them.
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But I asked somebody on Sunday, who has wept for me?
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Who has seen my back instead of stabbing me,
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prayed for the back they saw?
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Prayed for me, laid down their life for their brother.
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Because if you do that,
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I will be the greatest leader you've ever seen.
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I will manifest leadership on a level
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that no person has ever seen yet.
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If the saints will pray for the leadership.
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And the leadership stops being so busy
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that our prayer life is 10 minutes.
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And when we do pray, we got 50 other thoughts on our mind
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that we need to take care of that day.
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Oh, did I take the milk out the refrigerator?
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Oh my God, I got, oops, my God.
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I got all these things to do.
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And God says, I give you my undivided attention.
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When will you give me yours?
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And I'll leave it at that right there.
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I think we need to really ask God
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to give us the capacity and the grace.
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That when we come to Him, He's the only thing on our mind.
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Nothing, no one, but Him.
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And I think we're gonna see
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some tremendous breakthroughs of Apostle Eddie
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and Prophet Marky, I really believe that.
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I'm so proud of you for spearheading this thing.
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Love you.
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Thank you.
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It's interesting, isn't it?
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When you step into prayer,
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suddenly you can remember everything.
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Your mind gets your sharp.
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Your memories just sharp.
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It's like, oh my gosh.
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You talk about milk in the refrigerator?
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No, I mean everything.
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Next thing you know, you got a notepad out,
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take and stick them and put them on
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so you'll remember them later.
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Well, what's your mind on it now?
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You gotta have a prayer that is totally,
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and you're right, centrally focused.
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And it takes discipline.
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You gotta bring your mind back to it periodically.
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You gotta say, listen, there it goes again.
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It's wandering.
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Get it back.
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And I'll tell you, in doing so,
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you'll begin to come into a new prayer chamber.
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You'll come into a new place.
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You'll begin to see results in a different way.
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And the only distraction you have
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is not your earthly, your temporal life,
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but the beauties and the things that are going on
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in the spirit that's actually bringing changes
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to your situations.
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But that's absolutely right.
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And like I said, it's weird how your brain suddenly,
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you can't remember diddly.
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And then you get in prayer and suddenly,
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I mean everything from noises and different distractions.
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You just gotta shut it all out and get to it.
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Pastor Sharp.
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I certainly enjoyed the message today and the challenge.
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And what struck me was the emphasis that you had
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on praying in tongues, praying in the spirit,
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because I've been just that emphasis,
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I've just been sensing that more and more.
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And a thought that really struck me was is that
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we're praying in a language that the Father gave us.
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He gave us that language to pray to Him when we need to.
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We don't need our mind.
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We just need to pray in the spirit.
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And I so agree with you.
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And it's one of the things that I'm doing now,
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even in our prayer meetings,
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is trying to get us not to come with an agenda,
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but begin to pray in the spirit for a time
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before we even start,
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we start the meeting with praying in the spirit.
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And then that sets the agenda for what we want.
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And so I appreciated that emphasis,
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because that's what the church needs.
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And people have not wanted to do that for a long time.
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We have to speak in English so we understand.
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No, we need to pray so that the Father knows our heart.
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So thank you.
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God bless you.
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Prophet would love to have your comment there.
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I just wanna say like one thing, many things,
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but one of the major things that I learned
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when I was doing the KIU events,
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when we were gathering the churches
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and people were coming and I would have a teaching
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and there was such an anointing on the teaching
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and then people wouldn't pray.
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They'd fizzle out after 15 minutes and I just expected them.
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Can I just say it?
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Just to do what I said.
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Just do it the way I taught you to do it.
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Right?
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And I just realized, I spoke to a friend of mine,
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Mary Alice Islow, and I said,
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I've been asked to lead corporate prayer again.
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This was like three years ago.
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And I just said to her,
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I'm not sure I really wanna do it again
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because it's not easy.
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And she said, Margie, you gotta tell them.
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Like somebody said,
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you have distractions coming at your mind.
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Okay, shut your mind off, hook yourself up to the inside.
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Oh, do you sense that?
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There's that heaviness is coming in the room.
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That's not you, that's resistance.
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She taught me that you have to teach people
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what they're feeling, how they're feeling, what it is.
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And if you get distractions,
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if you sense people are going off and they're not engaged,
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bring them back.
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So I learned that.
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I learned by my mistake
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that people are not just gonna automatically enter in,
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you have to lead them in.
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So that was something I learned.
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I wanted to share that with you.
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Could I ask Margie a question?
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Margie, as you travel and you're teaching on prayer,
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what is your thoughts?
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Are we moving and transitioning into something
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that's gonna look a little different
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than what we've experienced in the past
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when it comes to prayer?
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Or is it gonna be the same old type of prayers
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that we've been praying for years?
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Do you see anything new that God is talking to you about
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that we must transition into when it comes to prayer
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as something maybe we have not done in the past?
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What I was raised where you pray in tongues a lot.
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I saw Kennedy Hagan pray in tongues for 40 minutes
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and that's how I learned how to pray.
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And what I saw after I had my three kids in one year,
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took some time off, came back into prayer meetings
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was that people weren't praying in tongues anymore.
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I'm just gonna be honest.
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They were decreeing, declaring, and yes, speak the word.
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Say what the Bible says, decree, declare,
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opening up their Bibles.
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They weren't getting lost in the spirit anymore.
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They weren't entering in
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and flowing from the inside out.
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They were just in their Bibles.
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One person was doing something over here,
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that one's doing something over there.
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They were decreeing, declaring.
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What I personally would like to see come back to the church
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is us being unified, where we're praying in tongues together,
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where there's more tongues, more praying in the Holy Ghost.
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Because if you think about it,
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Jesus spoke often about the Holy Spirit, right?
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200 something times.
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And then when the Holy Spirit was finally poured out,
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what was the first thing that manifested?
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They all began to speak with other tongues
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as the spirit gave their mantras.
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So this praying in tongues goes beyond,
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not beyond the word of God,
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but it goes beyond anything we can think of in our heads,
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in our minds, and it's spirit to spirit.
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It's the language of heaven.
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And I really believe that God wants to restore tongues
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back to our prayer meetings.
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So we get out of our heads.
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And then what I've seen in our meetings too,
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in the corporate prayer meetings is,
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tongues and interpretation of tongues.
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You can get so lost in the spirit
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that you find yourself saying a word in English.
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You find yourself praying out of scripture.
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And I would really like to see the church get back
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to the anointing in prayer, where there's an anointing,
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but we're just not, you know, we're not there yet.
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You have to train them.
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That's what I've learned.
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You have to train people literally by demonstrating it.
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Again, Lodin, we tell people,
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have an expectancy when you go into prayer.
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If you're just gonna go in and pray in the spirit
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and let your mind and heart get distracted,
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then it will do exactly that.
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We bring in a tablet and set it down
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and because I expect him to communicate to me.
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I expect that.
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And you're so right.
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There's times when, you know, people say,
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well, what was said in prayer?
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And it's like, out of tongues comes English.
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So I will pray with my understanding
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and I will pray with my spirit.
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And I can't even begin to tell unless I write it down.
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And I don't know about everybody else.
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I'm not that gifted.
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I can't write and speak in the spirit at the same time.
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It just doesn't work.
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So I've got to take just a moment and reflect on it
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and it'll come out in English differently.
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It's not pre-planned.
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It's praying out of that spiritual resource.
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And it takes time.
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There's been times where I've had to be speaking
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in the spirit for 30, 45 minutes an hour
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before things start to shift and change.
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Before I finally get my brain to shut up
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and begin to really focus on what Father is speaking,
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either to me or about different situations,
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I had to get myself out of the way.
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And sometimes it just takes that amount of time
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before that'll happen.
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But that's really good.
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Spontaneous English, can we say it that way?
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It just comes out by the spirit.
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It's different.
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It's different.
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Well, it's like the Bible says,
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he that speaks in an unknown tongue
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speaks not unto men, but unto God.
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So when you're speaking in tongues,
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you're speaking unto God,
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your spirit by the Holy Spirit within you.
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Out of your spirit comes that word.
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Like you form the words, right?
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When you pray in tongues,
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you form that English word.
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And it's a clue into the mystery of what you were praying.
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So the other thing I wanted to share is that
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in leading corporate prayer,
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I also learned that if you get a burden inside,
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that burden of intercession
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that you sometimes, sometimes get,
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I've learned you gotta teach people
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to still stop praying.
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And they'll look at me like, what is this?
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And I'll say to them, do you feel that on the inside?
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And they'll be like, yes.
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And I'll say, well, that's a burden from the Holy Spirit.
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It's a prayer burden.
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Let's pray that out.
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Kind of like a mother just leading their children.
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And that's really what people need right now.
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They need to learn, Lord, teach us to pray.
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Precept an example.
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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.
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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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They prayed out loud.
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They prayed for boldness.
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They prayed in a known tongue
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because we know the Bible says
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they prayed for signs and wonders and boldness.
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Now, did they pray in an unknown tongue or tongues?
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We don't know because the Bible doesn't tell us,
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but what we do know is that they were filled
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with the Holy Ghost, Acts 2, 1-3-4,
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and they were speaking in tongues.
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Doesn't say it, but I love getting a whole group of people
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in a room and having everyone pray in tongues.
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How did they pray?
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They prayed for signs and wonders
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and they prayed for miracles.
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So we are contending for a revival
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and a spiritual awakening.
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And I'm gonna briefly get into this.
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Revival and awakening, they're often used interchangeably,
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but an awakening takes place
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when God sovereignly pours out his spirit
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and impacts a culture.
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A revival is, on the other hand,
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what a church must experience.
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And I believe we need both.
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Interesting, we are the West Coast Zoom, correct?
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One spiritual awakening,
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this is the one that the Lord had me highlight,
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and I forgot we were the West Coast Zoom, Love and Unity.
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One spiritual awakening in America was the Jesus Movement.
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This movement began on the West Coast of the United States
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in the late 1960s and in the early 70s.
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It spread, and I like that word spread.
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It spread primarily throughout North America,
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Europe and Central America
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before subsiding by the late 1980s.
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This is what I love about this.
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And this is what I believe God is going to,
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is in the process of birthing right now.
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There was no singular person who stands out
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as the face of this movement.
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There are only person who stood out
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was the person of Jesus Christ.
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It was a faceless revival, restoration, movement.
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It was one face, and it was the face of Jesus Christ.
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And I believe that that's,
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I believe that that's what God is desiring to do
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in our latter days,
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the glory of the latter house
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being greater than the former.
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And I hope that this last move of God
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will be the move of God that will usher in
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the second coming of Jesus.
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Kenneth E. Hagen once, he said it many times,
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actually I heard him say it, he said it in his book.
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The Spirit, Jesus told him that before he comes,
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that there's going to be one more major move of God,
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and then Jesus is gonna come.
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I know no one knows the day or the hour,
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but he said there's going to be one major move of God
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that is going to usher in one of the greatest revivals
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the earth has ever seen.
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I believe that that's when Jesus is gonna come.
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Because Jesus did tell Brother Hagen
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that he was called from the heart of the Father
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to prepare the way for the second coming
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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So we don't know, all we know is we're contending
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for this move of God.
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But someone or some people had to be praying.
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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.
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We are co-labors together with God.
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Now lastly, I woke up with this this morning,
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and then God just wouldn't let me get away from it.
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I'm gonna read out of Genesis 11, one through eight.
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this scripture, and this is where we're gonna close.
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Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
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And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east,
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they found a plain in the land of Shinar,
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and they dwelt there.
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And they said to one another,
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come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.
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They had brick for stone and they had asphalt for mortar.
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And they said, they were speaking their vision.
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Let us come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower
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whose top is in the heavens,
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and let us make a name for ourselves.
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Lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
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which the sons of men had built.
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And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one.
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And they all have one language.
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And this they begin to do.
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Now nothing they have proposed to do
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will be withheld from them.
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And then God came down and you know the story,
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he confused their language and they did not understand
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one another's speech and then the Lord scattered them.
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This is a negative scenario, right?
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They were building a tower.
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They were building the tower
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and they were building it for themselves, negative situation.
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But let's look at this in the light of
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the corporate united prayer, corporate prayer,
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unity of vision, unity of speech.
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First of all, God said because of their unity of vision
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and their unity of speech,
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he said nothing will be impossible to them.
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Now our desire is not to build anything for ourselves, right?
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We wanna build, we're building, we wanna build,
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we wanna work with God in establishing his kingdom, okay?
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What would happen if we all gathered together?
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We were all speaking the same thing.
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We are of one mind, one accord.
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We had one vision and we wanted to see God's will
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established on the earth.
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What if we all came together and we all prayed together,
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specifically even prayed together in tongues?
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I believe tongues is the universal language.
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It is the language of heaven.
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And when we all come together,
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we all have different personalities,
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we all have different dialects, so to speak of tongues,
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but that language of the spirit is a universal language.
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And I believe as we begin to gather together
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in corporate prayer, I believe nothing will be impossible
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to us, which we have imagined to do,
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especially when we pray from our seated place.
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Because when we pray in tongues,
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we're praying from a place of being blessed,
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we're praying from a place of being redeemed,
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we're praying from a place of love and unity,
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we're praying from a place of being an ambassador
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in Christ.
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So I just wanna propose that I believe
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that God is bringing a restoration and a renewal
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to corporate United Prayer because he wants us together
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to call upon him.
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And he said, I'm gonna answer you
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and I'm gonna show you great and mighty things.
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God bless you.
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Amen.
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If you ain't gonna answer,
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I mean, if you ain't got wind in your sail right now,
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you don't have a sail.
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This ought to put something to you with prayer right now.
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I'm serious.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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There's a lot that you said here
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that should stir up everybody here in LNU
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and it should bring a holy conviction,
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a holy conviction that they do join in prayer.
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And I know our leaders are on here
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and they all join in prayer.
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And that's such a blessing, but we want more.
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We want all to join and be encouraged and inspired
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and add their tongue, absolutely.
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That's powerful, amen.
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So we're gonna go ahead and open this up for comments,
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questions, anything that people have,
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people want to say here.
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Awesome, Apostle Eddie.
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Thank you, thank you, Margie, hallelujah.
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There's so much that you said there,
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I think that we could tear apart and eat and eat and eat,
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especially when it comes to building us up to pray.
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But you asked a question at the very beginning
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I think is very important is why,
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why people are not coming to prayer?
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Why does the body not want to properly come together?
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And not too long ago, I did a little study on it
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and I found that every time people stop praying
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is because things got out of order, things got out of order.
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Every time the church gets out of order
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and out of alignment to what God is doing,
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the people lose heart to pray.
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They don't wanna pray.
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But when things get back into alignment
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and come back into order,
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then there becomes an excitement to pray again.
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There becomes a desire to seek the face of God.
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There becomes a desire to unify behind prayer.
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And I think we're in a place where the church is shifting
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out of a place that it's been
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into a place that God's taken it to.
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So he's adjusting leadership,
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he's adjusting systems and strategies,
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he's adjusting us coming back to the pattern
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that Christ attended.
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So there's a reformation going on in the church
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and is reforming us back to the original position
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because you can't have powerful prayer
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and then direct that power
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to everything that's out of order.
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So you gotta direct power to things that are in order
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or like instance electricity.
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I can't have power turned on from Edison,
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that's what I have here.
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If all my wiring is not in order
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because I'll have an explosion,
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I'll have a fire that will burn the building up.
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And I think an order for power, which comes from prayer
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to really move upon the church,
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the church needs to get in order.
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The church needs to get into alignment.
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The church needs to come back to kingdom order.
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And I believe when we do that, you're right.
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We are gonna see a latter day move of God in the earth,
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greater than the former.
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And it's gonna be powerful, so powerful
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that we are gonna see building shake.
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We are gonna see things tremble.
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We're gonna see hearts run to the altar
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because their heart,
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hardness of heart is just gonna melt before them
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and they're gonna repent
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and they're gonna begin to hunger and thirst for God.
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But things have to come back to order.
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alignment, order, God bringing us back
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to true New Testament pattern,
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bringing us back to true five-fold ministry functioning.
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Cause you remember in Acts 2.42, he talks about this.
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He says that they continue steadfastly
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in apostles doctrine and fellowship,
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breaking bread and in prayers.
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If there's no breaking bread,
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which means that we come to a place
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to come into oneness with each other.
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If there's not a steadfast desire
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to come into apostolic doctrine, which sets the order,
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then we don't desire prayer.
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Prayer comes when hearts are in order with God,
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when people are in alignment with God,
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a hunger to seek the face of God begins to be established.
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And I'll close with this.
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I know in my personal life,
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when things were out of order,
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I didn't wanna be in prayer.
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I didn't wanna go and pray and seek the Lord.
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But the moment I got things in order
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and my heart got right and my attitude got right
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and my love for God got right,
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then I desired to pray.
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I wanted to be in the presence of God.
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I wanted to seek his face.
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So I think part of the answer
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is God is bringing his church back to order.
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And I'm seeing it in our own church.
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More and more people are coming to prayer
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because there's order coming to the house.
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There's alignment coming to the house.
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Alignment and order always brings unity
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and unity begins to create a thirst and a hunger
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for the things of God, hallelujah.
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So thank you, Margie,
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for encouraging us to pray just to let everybody know.
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We're gonna be starting a monthly prayer
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for Love and Unity where Margie will lead us
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in a Love and Unity corporate prayer once a month.
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And we'll be talking about that soon
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so we could get this prayer that she's talking about today,
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moving and rolling, hallelujah.
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Because it is so, so important,
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especially where we're at today in the body of Christ.
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So thank you, Margie, so much for encouraging us today
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and bringing such good word to us today.
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Blessings.
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Thank you, Apostle Eddie.
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Excellent, excellent.
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Well, there's so much in that.
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We could be unwrapping some good things here.
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Apostle Cal.
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Well, first of all, I would not expect anything less
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from Margie than what she's done today.
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She's hungry for this thing.
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She's gone after it and this has been her passion.
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I think one of the most difficult things
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that we must face, the truth about,
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is our leaders don't pray.
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Most of our leaders don't have a prayer life.
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So when you say, let's get the church together in prayer,
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you may have to stop and say,
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let's get the leaders to pray.
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And because the leaders don't pray,
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because they're too busy doing church anity,
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that the saints of God don't see it as a priority.
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However, if there's a revival or awakening
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among our leaders, something significant
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is going to happen, Apostle Eddie.
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I am not sure that there's a revival
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I asked, we were on prayer mountain this weekend.
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And one of the things I asked the group to do,
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and we were packed, it was packed out, Apostle Eddie.
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And even Josh came from Texas.
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People came from Las Vegas.
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It was powerful.
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And I asked them to do me a favor.
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I said, before I pass on to this other side of this,
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could I be in a meeting of one accord?
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Just one time where everybody pays attention
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to the instructions and participate.
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And participate, and I mean, we broke a cord,
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ladies and gentlemen, we had a breakthrough.
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We had a gully washer breakthrough.
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Somehow or another, we were able to put away
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all of our agendas and come together and one accord.
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It was amazing to me.
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I'm still vibrating from it.
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And I think that that was just guys showing us
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that to pray for those who don't have a prayer life,
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to pray for our leadership, you know what we've done?
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We really don't pray for leaders.
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We criticize them.
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We tear them down.
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We find fault in them.
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But I asked somebody on Sunday, who has wept for me?
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Who has seen my back instead of stabbing me,
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prayed for the back they saw?
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Prayed for me, laid down their life for their brother.
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Because if you do that,
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I will be the greatest leader you've ever seen.
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I will manifest leadership on a level
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that no person has ever seen yet.
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If the saints will pray for the leadership.
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And the leadership stops being so busy
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that our prayer life is 10 minutes.
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And when we do pray, we got 50 other thoughts on our mind
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that we need to take care of that day.
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Oh, did I take the milk out the refrigerator?
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Oh my God, I got, oops, my God.
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I got all these things to do.
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And God says, I give you my undivided attention.
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When will you give me yours?
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And I'll leave it at that right there.
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I think we need to really ask God
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to give us the capacity and the grace.
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That when we come to Him, He's the only thing on our mind.
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Nothing, no one, but Him.
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And I think we're gonna see
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some tremendous breakthroughs of Apostle Eddie
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and Prophet Marky, I really believe that.
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I'm so proud of you for spearheading this thing.
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Love you.
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Thank you.
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It's interesting, isn't it?
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When you step into prayer,
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suddenly you can remember everything.
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Your mind gets your sharp.
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Your memories just sharp.
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It's like, oh my gosh.
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You talk about milk in the refrigerator?
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No, I mean everything.
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Next thing you know, you got a notepad out,
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take and stick them and put them on
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so you'll remember them later.
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Well, what's your mind on it now?
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You gotta have a prayer that is totally,
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and you're right, centrally focused.
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And it takes discipline.
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You gotta bring your mind back to it periodically.
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You gotta say, listen, there it goes again.
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It's wandering.
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Get it back.
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And I'll tell you, in doing so,
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you'll begin to come into a new prayer chamber.
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You'll come into a new place.
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You'll begin to see results in a different way.
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And the only distraction you have
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is not your earthly, your temporal life,
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but the beauties and the things that are going on
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in the spirit that's actually bringing changes
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to your situations.
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But that's absolutely right.
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And like I said, it's weird how your brain suddenly,
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you can't remember diddly.
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And then you get in prayer and suddenly,
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I mean everything from noises and different distractions.
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You just gotta shut it all out and get to it.
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Pastor Sharp.
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I certainly enjoyed the message today and the challenge.
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And what struck me was the emphasis that you had
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on praying in tongues, praying in the spirit,
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because I've been just that emphasis,
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I've just been sensing that more and more.
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And a thought that really struck me was is that
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we're praying in a language that the Father gave us.
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He gave us that language to pray to Him when we need to.
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We don't need our mind.
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We just need to pray in the spirit.
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And I so agree with you.
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And it's one of the things that I'm doing now,
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even in our prayer meetings,
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is trying to get us not to come with an agenda,
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but begin to pray in the spirit for a time
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before we even start,
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we start the meeting with praying in the spirit.
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And then that sets the agenda for what we want.
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And so I appreciated that emphasis,
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because that's what the church needs.
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And people have not wanted to do that for a long time.
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We have to speak in English so we understand.
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No, we need to pray so that the Father knows our heart.
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So thank you.
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God bless you.
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Prophet would love to have your comment there.
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I just wanna say like one thing, many things,
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but one of the major things that I learned
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when I was doing the KIU events,
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when we were gathering the churches
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and people were coming and I would have a teaching
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and there was such an anointing on the teaching
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and then people wouldn't pray.
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They'd fizzle out after 15 minutes and I just expected them.
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Can I just say it?
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Just to do what I said.
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Just do it the way I taught you to do it.
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Right?
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And I just realized, I spoke to a friend of mine,
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Mary Alice Islow, and I said,
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I've been asked to lead corporate prayer again.
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This was like three years ago.
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And I just said to her,
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I'm not sure I really wanna do it again
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because it's not easy.
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And she said, Margie, you gotta tell them.
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Like somebody said,
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you have distractions coming at your mind.
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Okay, shut your mind off, hook yourself up to the inside.
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Oh, do you sense that?
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There's that heaviness is coming in the room.
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That's not you, that's resistance.
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She taught me that you have to teach people
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what they're feeling, how they're feeling, what it is.
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And if you get distractions,
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if you sense people are going off and they're not engaged,
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bring them back.
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So I learned that.
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I learned by my mistake
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that people are not just gonna automatically enter in,
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you have to lead them in.
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So that was something I learned.
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I wanted to share that with you.
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Could I ask Margie a question?
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Margie, as you travel and you're teaching on prayer,
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what is your thoughts?
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Are we moving and transitioning into something
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that's gonna look a little different
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than what we've experienced in the past
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when it comes to prayer?
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Or is it gonna be the same old type of prayers
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that we've been praying for years?
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Do you see anything new that God is talking to you about
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that we must transition into when it comes to prayer
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as something maybe we have not done in the past?
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What I was raised where you pray in tongues a lot.
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I saw Kennedy Hagan pray in tongues for 40 minutes
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and that's how I learned how to pray.
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And what I saw after I had my three kids in one year,
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took some time off, came back into prayer meetings
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was that people weren't praying in tongues anymore.
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I'm just gonna be honest.
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They were decreeing, declaring, and yes, speak the word.
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Say what the Bible says, decree, declare,
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opening up their Bibles.
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They weren't getting lost in the spirit anymore.
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They weren't entering in
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and flowing from the inside out.
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They were just in their Bibles.
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One person was doing something over here,
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that one's doing something over there.
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They were decreeing, declaring.
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What I personally would like to see come back to the church
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is us being unified, where we're praying in tongues together,
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where there's more tongues, more praying in the Holy Ghost.
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Because if you think about it,
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Jesus spoke often about the Holy Spirit, right?
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200 something times.
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And then when the Holy Spirit was finally poured out,
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what was the first thing that manifested?
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They all began to speak with other tongues
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as the spirit gave their mantras.
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So this praying in tongues goes beyond,
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not beyond the word of God,
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but it goes beyond anything we can think of in our heads,
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in our minds, and it's spirit to spirit.
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It's the language of heaven.
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And I really believe that God wants to restore tongues
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back to our prayer meetings.
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So we get out of our heads.
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And then what I've seen in our meetings too,
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in the corporate prayer meetings is,
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tongues and interpretation of tongues.
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You can get so lost in the spirit
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that you find yourself saying a word in English.
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You find yourself praying out of scripture.
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And I would really like to see the church get back
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to the anointing in prayer, where there's an anointing,
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but we're just not, you know, we're not there yet.
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You have to train them.
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That's what I've learned.
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You have to train people literally by demonstrating it.
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Again, Lodin, we tell people,
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have an expectancy when you go into prayer.
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If you're just gonna go in and pray in the spirit
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and let your mind and heart get distracted,
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then it will do exactly that.
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We bring in a tablet and set it down
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and because I expect him to communicate to me.
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I expect that.
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And you're so right.
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There's times when, you know, people say,
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well, what was said in prayer?
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And it's like, out of tongues comes English.
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So I will pray with my understanding
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and I will pray with my spirit.
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And I can't even begin to tell unless I write it down.
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And I don't know about everybody else.
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I'm not that gifted.
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I can't write and speak in the spirit at the same time.
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It just doesn't work.
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So I've got to take just a moment and reflect on it
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and it'll come out in English differently.
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It's not pre-planned.
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It's praying out of that spiritual resource.
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And it takes time.
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There's been times where I've had to be speaking
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in the spirit for 30, 45 minutes an hour
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before things start to shift and change.
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Before I finally get my brain to shut up
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and begin to really focus on what Father is speaking,
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either to me or about different situations,
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I had to get myself out of the way.
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And sometimes it just takes that amount of time
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before that'll happen.
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But that's really good.
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Spontaneous English, can we say it that way?
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It just comes out by the spirit.
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It's different.
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It's different.
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Well, it's like the Bible says,
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he that speaks in an unknown tongue
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speaks not unto men, but unto God.
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So when you're speaking in tongues,
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you're speaking unto God,
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your spirit by the Holy Spirit within you.
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Out of your spirit comes that word.
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Like you form the words, right?
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When you pray in tongues,
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you form that English word.
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And it's a clue into the mystery of what you were praying.
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So the other thing I wanted to share is that
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in leading corporate prayer,
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I also learned that if you get a burden inside,
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that burden of intercession
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that you sometimes, sometimes get,
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I've learned you gotta teach people
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to still stop praying.
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And they'll look at me like, what is this?
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And I'll say to them, do you feel that on the inside?
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And they'll be like, yes.
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And I'll say, well, that's a burden from the Holy Spirit.
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It's a prayer burden.
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Let's pray that out.
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Kind of like a mother just leading their children.
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And that's really what people need right now.
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They need to learn, Lord, teach us to pray.
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Precept an example.
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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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