The 4 C's of Prayer Pt. 2

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

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

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

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

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of God to move forward into your destiny. Doesn't the Bible say in Ephesians 6, 18,

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praying always? So how do you, Margie, how do you pray continually? This is something that God has

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been teaching me for several years. As a matter of fact, my daughter's been home from college and

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we've been hanging out a lot. And I tell her, I'm like, Jack, you know, even though we're hanging out

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and we're doing what we're doing and we're eating out and, you know, we're getting your hair done

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for the fourth time in three months, or, you know, we're doing all this. I said, you know, sometimes,

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you know, I say, if I get quiet, it's generally because I'm praying on the inside of me. I say,

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as a matter of fact, it's an art and something I'm, it's something that I just do. I just

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pray continually. I don't know how to describe it. It's not, I'm not bragging. I'm just,

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God told me I want you to teach the world how to pray. I want you to teach the world how to pray.

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Prayer doesn't always have to be in a closet, which I've been really big on. Closet praying,

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closet praying, wrote a book on it, talked about it, put it in Mark for intercession,

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closet praying, closet, couldn't you not watch one hour? Then you gotta pray one hour. So my

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type A really kicks in. One hour, not, you know, 59 minutes. One hour. Where do you pray? I got it

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all lined up and it's a good book. We're rewriting it and it's a good book where we wrote it and made

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it a little less legalistic. You enter into rest and pray. But point being, God's been teaching me,

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you can pray continually. And I'm gonna just talk to you about it for you to understand. You can do

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this. How do you pray continually? You just, you just, here's an example. How many of you have ever

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woken up in the morning and you had a song in your heart? What is that? You know what that is?

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And I learned this recently, recently meaning the last four years. I learned, you know, you think to

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yourself, well, that's just because, you know, I heard that song and it's in my head and therefore

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it just came to me when I woke up. And one day the Lord said to me, because I was, I teach

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Bible class on the Holy Spirit and his gifts. Duh. So it was like one of those Duh for 15 years.

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You know how when you, you know something in the Bible, you think you know it. And then God shows

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you something else, then you go, shoot, I guess I did not win all. But one day the Holy, Jesus of

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the Father, one of them said to me, that song that you get when you wake up in the morning, he said

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to me, you know who that is giving that to you? I said, who? He said the Holy Spirit. He's your

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helper in prayer. He's your strengthener in prayer. He, his ministry, John 15, John 16, he testifies

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of me. The Bible says he will take the things of mine, the Father said, and show it unto you.

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So when you wake up in the morning with a song, that's the Holy Ghost, that, that person of the

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Holy Spirit who's been sent to the church to help us with everything. He's been sent to the church

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to keep your relationship with Jesus Christ fresh. Oh my God. You talk about a revelation.

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That's the Holy Ghost the whole time. You know, he's that silent person, isn't he? But he's there

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leading us. He's guiding us. He's directing us. He's helping us. And it's God showed me. He said,

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it's his ministry to help to keep your relationship with Jesus fresh. So he'll give you that song.

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What does it say in Luke? Give us this day our daily bread, right? That's the bread you need for

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that day. I've had countless times where I had to go and find the song in the event that I was going

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into closet praying. You know what closet praying is, right? And you turn that song on and your

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morning just fills the room instantly. You know, sometimes in prayer, you have to work it up.

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It, yeah, you got to work it up. It works. It's effective. It works. It has nothing to do with

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feelings. But you know, when you go into prayer, your mind is going like this and your mind is all

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over, you know, how it is. You got to work up. You got to pray in the spirit, pray with the

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understanding also. And you stir yourself up Isaiah 64-7, correct? But you know, when you get a song

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from the Holy Spirit, you put that click, that thing in your car or in your iPad or whatever

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you guys use, whatever you guys use, everything's so different. The anointing of God will immediately

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come in the room and you already be in the presence of God. And he won't even have had to like try to

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even get the word or the song or whatever, you know, because some songs are more anointed and

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less anointed, dependent on the day or depending on your need. The Holy Spirit knows your needs

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and he knows how to help you. So continual prayer. I love continual prayer. And the more you practice it,

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the more you'll notice that when you walk around in your everyday life and you're doing your thing,

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you'll notice that after a while, your heart will start to burn. You know how the disciples said,

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didn't our hearts burn when he talked with us, but they didn't recognize it was him, Jesus?

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After a while, your heart will burn and you'll walk around, I'm telling you, with a burning heart.

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You're walking around with a burning heart. Your heart's burning. Not your heart, not heart burn.

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I'm talking about a burning heart and your heart's burning towards him and you just worship him

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and you can take that one song that you woke up with and continually sing it over and over

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and over and over again, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord all day long.

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I don't know about you, but this is exciting to me. Continual prayer. I didn't even know it was a

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prayer. God just gave this to me. He actually gave me this message for you today. Continual prayer.

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I love that. Isaiah 56.7 says, you are the house of prayer. The Bible says in Corinthians,

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you are the temple of the Holy Ghost. So the Holy Spirit is in you. You're the house of prayer.

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My friends, you have it better than Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve used to have to wait for God to come

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down in the coal of the day and talk to them, but you and I can go anywhere, any place, no matter

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where, and we can pray to our Father and our Father who sees in secret, who hears in secret,

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will reward us. We talk about having all kinds of favor and I'm for favor. I'm for grace and for

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mercy, but there's no greater favor, no greater mercy than when you walk with God and you're a

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continual fragrance before the throne of God. You will have so much favor, you won't even know

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what hit you because you become a fragrance of God everywhere you go. Revelation somewhere says

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that when we pray, our prayers ascend as incense. So when you walk continually before the Lord and

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you pray continually, you have that burning heart, you are a fragrance and God will automatically

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anoint you with fresh oil, automatically give you favor, automatically go after your enemies

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because you're as anointed. You're like David. You have a heart after God, praying always with

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all prayer and supplication. Pray without ceasing, but nobody sees it but you and God. Joyce Meyer said,

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I like what she says, a lot of stuff that she says. She says you have an inward life and you have an

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outward life. People don't know what's going on inside of you. Now a sin consciousness person

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would say, yeah, that's right, they don't know all the bad that I have in me. No, I'm not talking

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about that. I'm talking about what's the good that you are, the good that goes on inside of you.

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Nobody knows the prayer that's being offered before the throne of God but you and God. That's why for

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me to teach our, and I'm sort of like letting out a little secret because I have to teach it,

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but it is just, it's an amazing way to walk with God. I think that's what Brother Lawrence had.

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You know, people, they wrote a book about him, didn't they follow him around? I mean, I haven't read

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the book but I heard this guy practicing the presence of God. I think that's what he did. He was

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just like, he was a man after God's own heart. Listen, can I just be straight up with you?

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Moses was a mighty prophet of God but that wasn't his legacy only. The Bible says there wasn't a man

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like Moses who knew God face to face. That was the legacy he left behind and then it goes on to say

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that all the signs and the wonders and the miracles. That was seconds. Our number one priority should

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be Jesus to know him personally, intimately, face to face connection. I don't want anything else.

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Everything else the apostle Paul says, I count but don't that I may win Christ and be found in him.

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Continual prayer. Practice it. And you know what? And I find like if I am, if I'm not hooked up to the

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inside of me and doing that kind of inward praying, then I just start it up again. That's why you got

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to watch what you put inside of you because if you put the wrong music, the wrong stuff, the wrong

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whatever, your eye gate, your ear gate goes into you, what's in you comes out. So what I do is I

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put a lot of worship songs on, a lot of God things on. And if I was, have you ever been like in a

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grocery store or in a pharmacy or wherever out in the world and you walk on it and you got some,

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I don't know, like some song, you know, I don't know about Mary and this and that and you know,

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some love song or then some rap song. God only knows these rap songs. I work out in this gym and

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some of the songs, I'm like, you got to be kidding me. I tell them, could you please, and they all

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know that I'm, you know, I don't know that I'm a minister, but they love me for me. They don't

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really expect me to be all that and all perfect and all that because I'm just me. People like you

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if you're just you. God told me one time when you minister and you speak, the more you're you,

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the more anointed you will be because I've called you to be you. I've not called you to be anybody

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else but you. Don't try to be anybody else, you be you. But you know that gym, you know, they got

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all this music and this and that and then I leave there and I'm like, where did I get that song?

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Well, it's because it went into my ear gate and got into my heart. So instead of saying, I will pursue

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you or there's this one song I've been meditating on a lot. It's from You Make Me Brave, you know,

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where she goes into this love song. I'm so in love, I'm so in love, I'm so in love with you.

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There's one of the songs. I'll sing that continually for hours because the Holy Ghost just,

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yeah, see the Holy Ghost, he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit

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because he makes intercession for them according to the will of God. My spirit by the Holy Spirit

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within me prays. So that Holy Spirit takes a hold of your spirit, takes that song and it's a

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continual repeat over and over and over and over in your heart, singing Ephesians 5 and making melody

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in your heart to the Lord, being not drunk with wine whereas in excess but being filled with the

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spirit. You're getting filled with the spirit. You're not a broken sister and that can hold no

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water. You're not forsaking him the fountain of living waters but you continually pray and you're

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continually that house of prayer be before his throne room and what happens when a person's

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filled with God. They're bold, they're strong, they're courageous, they don't care what people

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think, they're going to do whatever God tells them to do, they're not afraid of their faces,

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it's just all over from there. This is amazing. You have to understand, you have to understand

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this is the anointing of God in here today. I can get up and have an outline and it not be anointed

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and it will fall, I can't even tell you what it feels like and only somebody who speaks and ministers

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knows the difference. This is the Holy Spirit teaching us how to pray. So continual prayer,

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I just want to read a scripture and then we'll move on. Psalms 119 verse 97 says,

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oh how I love your law, it is my meditation all night long. The third C is clause of prayer,

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you knew I'd get to that. Mark 4, 2032 through 33, with many such parables he spoke the word to them

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as they were able to hear it. He was talking about the multitudes, speaking to the multitudes,

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we can modernize it. Let's talk about those that come to church on Sunday or Wednesday,

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mostly the Sunday church goers. As a pastor and a minister will know this, as a leader,

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you can only say and impart so much to the people because they need milk, they can't handle strong

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meat. So you milk them and you give them whatever they can handle and so as a leader you have to

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kind of judge or not judge but spiritually discern where your people are and therefore you know

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you can minister to them and you generally the Holy Ghost will teach us and show us what people

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can handle. So that's how it was with Jesus, he could minister to the multitudes as much as they

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were able to handle. They were the general population. Listen, but with his remnant,

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which you are, with his remnant, this is what the Bible says, say I'm the remnant,

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but without a parable he did not speak to them and when they were alone he explained or expounded

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all things to his disciples. Matthew 6,6, but when you pray, go into your room and when you have

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shut the door, pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees the secret

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will reward you openly. You got to, you have to, you know what, I would strongly encourage you to

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practice secret prayer. Go to Acts chapter one. I would strongly encourage you to practice secret

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prayer. Why? Because prayer produces intimacy. It produces intimacy. It's just like in a relationship

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with a husband or a wife or a friend, you know, you know, you could hang out with the group,

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right? But you got that one girl, that one guy that you really liked and you kind of like getting

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a liking for that person. So you want to spend a little alone time with that person. So why? So

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you can get to know them. Not with the group. You hear what I'm saying? But you want to get to know

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them a little deeper. That's what closet praying is for. But that's not our subject today. I would

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strongly encourage you to practice secret prayer. That place of prayer is one of the most beautiful

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places of prayer. When you have a visitation from God, it's just you and him. And you never forget it.

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Lastly, corporate prayer. Actually, let me backtrack. I want to read another scripture. Psalm 63.6.

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Contemplative prayer. When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches.

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Contemplative prayer. This is another, I strongly encourage. I strongly encourage you, if you wake

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up in the middle of the night or you wake up in the morning, just lay in bed and pray. This is a

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new revelation, Angel. I have a new revelation. You can pray in bed. You can lay there and you

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can have all the covers on you, you know, your big white socks on and your flannels in the whole

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nine yards. We are newlywed. I don't know, you got the silk ones going. And it's still effective.

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I wake up in the morning and instead of reaching for the cell phone to check my Facebook,

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who contacted me today? Who liked my photo? Who inboxed me? I resist the temptation.

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And as I wake up, I meditate on him in my bed. Don't have to get up. Don't have to wash my face.

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Don't need to do anything. You can lay in bed. David had a man after God's own heart. He said he

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wakes up in the middle of the night and he meditates on Jesus in the night, on his bed.

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Freedom! Freedom!

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Lastly, corporate prayer. Our corporate prayer today is going to be for our nation.

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I just really want to show you how they prayed. Look here at Acts 1. We're going to do this in the

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next two minutes. Acts 1 verse 4. And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to

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depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you have heard from

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me. So we told everybody to wait. And the disciples asked him a lot of questions. And then they

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answered the question and he said, you're going to receive power, etc. You're going to be baptized

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with the Holy Ghost. And this is what happened. You had a bunch of people hanging out in this upper

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room and the Bible says, I don't have the exact scripture, but I could find it for you if you

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need it. The Bible says that there were 500 people present in that upper room.

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What did Jesus say? What was the commandment? Don't go anywhere. Don't do anything. Wait. I'm

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sending the promise to my Father. The Holy Spirit is coming. This is going to be an amazing time in

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history. I want you to be there. My friends, this is an amazing time in church history right now.

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God wants us to be there, but there's only a remnant that's showing up. So look here at Acts

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2 verse 1. We find in verse 1 that when the day of Pentecost had fully come, we find out that there

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was only 120 left. Everybody else had given up. Everybody else thought that the promise of the

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Father wasn't coming to pass. Everybody else didn't get the whole situation. Everybody else didn't see

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with the eyes of their spirit what was coming. I hear the sound of the abundance of rain coming

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to the East Coast in the United States of America. I see a revival rising in this land. I don't

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see America going under. I see America like a sleeping giant arising to her feet. I see America.

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I see the birth of America. A second birth of America. God said, shall I bring you to the

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birth and shut up the womb? America is going to be born again. But it's not going to come in the

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way we think, but it's going to come. The Bible says the more they were persecuted, the more they

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grew and multiplied. We're sin abounds. Grace will so much more abound. America is going to rise.

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America is going to shine. America is going to come up on her feet. Can these bones lift?

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Jeremiah, what do you see? I see America rising. And the day of Pentecost had fully come. They were

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on one accord in one place. Singleness of mind, singleness of purpose, one voice, one focus.

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And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. And it filled the whole

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house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire. And you

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know what happened? They all began to speak in tongues as the spirit gave them utterance.

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Let's look at Acts chapter 4. We're almost done. Are you guys all right? My goodness.

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Acts chapter 4.

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I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that the revival

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is going to begin in the hearts of the remnant. Those that have laid down their lives and those

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that have said yes to Jesus, those that know him deeply and intimately are going to be put into

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positions of authority. And it's not going to be because any political manipulation. It's not by

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might. It's not by power, but it's by my spirit. I'm going to place those who know me intimately

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into places of authority. And they're going to speak for me. They're going to lay hands for me.

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They're going to move in power and in demonstration and signs and wonders and miracles. And because

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their hearts are right and they know me and they've laid aside those things, I will be able to trust

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them with the kind of power that I desire to bring on this land. So no sayeth the Lord that those of

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you that will say yes, I will take a hold of you, I will take your hand and I will bring you into

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places in me, in my heart. You will be rooted and grounded in me. And then out of that place of

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intimacy, I will cause you to flow and know and move in power and in demonstration of my spirit.

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Many have moved in power and in demonstration and they've got into self and they've gotten into

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pride and it's because they didn't know me or they knew me, but they forsook me the fountain of living

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waters. I raised them up to a position of authority and they forsook me and they followed after other

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gods. But I am calling you this day to intimacy with me so that I can trust you with the things

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that I desire in and amongst you. So no says the Lord. This is not by accident that you're here today.

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No says the Lord. There are many in this room that I am calling and I am putting my stamp of

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approval on. I am in the point and in the church history where I am separating the limbs from the

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goats and I am choosing those who have forsaken all and have decided to follow me fully.

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I refuse to quit. I refuse to get up. If God tells me to go five hours down the road and speak to

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one person, I'm doing it. If you be willing and obedient, can I have a thing? You will eat the

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good of the land. I'm going to be the remnant. How about you? Do you want to be the remnant?

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Many are called. Few are chosen. I want him to choose me.

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Well, you know, you just preach that prayer stuff and we don't want you teaching anymore about that

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in our Bible school because we don't want you teaching outside of grace. Well, what about

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faith and grace and works? If you want to be close to somebody, you got to work it. If you want to

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be disciplined in something, you've got to set goals.

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Yes.

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You haven't seen anything yet. There's an outward change with God's been changing you internally,

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stirring in you, working in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. And you're going to

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see an explosion of some great and mighty things in and through your ministry and through your mouth.

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Just yield. Just do it. Just go for it. Just flow in it because out of your innermost being is

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going to flow. It's already started rivers of living water and out of those rivers is going

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to be signs and wonders and miracles. Sing in the spirit. Sing with the understanding also.

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Sing the word of knowledge. Sing with the understanding. Oh, sing. And when you sing acts 1044

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while you yet sing, the power of God will come upon those I desire to heal by my grace. But I

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need you to seek my face and I need you to be sensitive to me and I need you to yield to me

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when I say to sing publicly. Receiving. We receive it. How do they pray? X for I refuse to give up

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423. What are you doing for dinner tonight? I wish I could pray tonight. I wish I didn't have to do

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that. Deep calls on to deep. There's something in me that loves God craves God wants God needs God

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more than my very necessary food or drink. Blessed are the hungry and thirsty. They shall see God.

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They shall be satisfied. I'm not satisfied. Are you not satisfied?

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Glad the doubters didn't come today. You're affecting your learning. Acts chapter 4 verse 23.

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This is how they prayed. All kinds of persecution. Another story. Write this down if you can.

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Listen to a YouTube video called Heavenly Warnings. Margie Florent. We're not even going to get into

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it. That was prophesied before ISIS. Long story short, they were being persecuted. They didn't

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want them to move in power. Demonstration didn't want them to speak. Didn't want them to teach.

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They're trying to shut the mouths of the church. Does that sound familiar to you? Right? So what did

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they do? God help me. They went to the church of favor. I really have to watch because God corrected

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me a couple of weeks ago. He said everybody you have to honor all the different movements. Every

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movement has its own thing. You honor them Margie. You don't honor them. You're going to be in trouble

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with me. But this is what they did. Then being let go, they went to their own company. They went to

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their own remnant people. And they reported everything that was going on. And then instead of

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staying there in defeat, when they heard that, they what? Raised their voice to God with one accord

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and said, Lord, you are God. Jesus is Lord of the United States of America. In God we trust. You have

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made heaven and earth and the sea and everything that's in him. Is anything too hard for me?

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Now Lord, and he talks about what David said. This was all prophesied. Now Lord verse 29,

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look on their threats. But grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word.

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So first of all, they were all gathered together in corporate united prayer. They went to their own

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company. They prayed with people who knew how to pray. Then they first prayed for boldness.

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Then they said by now not only that, yo, you know, minds give us boldness. But how about

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some Mark 16 signs and wonders and miracles? Grant to your servants that signs and wonders may be

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done through the name of your holy child or holy servant Jesus. So they prayed that the power

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gifts would be a manifestation. Long story short, another 10 hours of teaching. What are the gifts

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of the spirit? They coveted that the power gifts would be in manifestation. And Nick, you were at

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Ramah. What did Timothy Hagan say? He said if we don't crave them, want them, pray for them, we're not going to have them.

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These gifts are not just for the Catherine Coleman's of that day. These gifts are going to be in

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manifestation in this end time revival. My friends, all the signs of the times point that we are in the last days.

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Verse 31, and when they prayed, when they what? When they prayed, when they did what? When they prayed.

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When they what? Can I do the Italian mama? When they prayed, right? When they prayed. This is the

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Italian when they prayed. What happened? The place where they were assembled together shook.

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Okay, it's one thing for you to shake. It's another thing for the house to shake.

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All scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable. This is in the Bible. This really happened.

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The house shook where they were praying. Straight up. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they got results.

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They spoke with all and then great power. God gave them great power. Great power.

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Great power. Corporate United Prayer is the kind of prayer that number one, we all pray at once.

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We can all pray loud or soft, however you want to pray.

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Most importantly, we pray the word. We're going to pray the word.

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Specifically, we're going to pray for the United States of America and then we're going to see how it goes.

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And then we're going to pray in tongues. My message isn't on tongues, but what a message the body of Christ needs.

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We've neglected the very gift of God, pastor, that God gave us right at the birth of the church age.

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The very first thing that happened was they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Power came into the place and they all spoke with tongues.

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And now we've neglected that part of prayer. Praying in the Holy Ghost.

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Really? Yeah. Why? Because it's the devil. You don't understand what you're saying. Let's stand.

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You don't understand what you're saying. You don't understand what you're saying.

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No, you don't understand what you're saying. Sometimes I think we need to just go to the devil and just say out loud.

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Because I'm telling you, the devil, this stuff is real. I think we ought to just say, you're right.

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I don't understand what I'm saying. The Bible says that and quote scripture.

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He that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God.

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How be it in the spirit, he speaks mysteries.

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When I speak in an unknown tongue, I don't speak to men, but I speak to God.

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The devil hates tongues because he doesn't understand it. And this is what's happening in the spirit.

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Prayer changes things. So in the realm of the spirit, things are being altered.

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Things are changing. Things are shifting. That which was dead is coming to life.

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Angelic activity is being released. Things are going on.

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And movement is taking place for the kingdom of God in the realm of the spirit.

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So of course the enemy is going to tell the church to stop praying in tongues.

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Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project podcast.

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