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Feb. 28, 2024
The Art of Intercession Pt. 1
In this episode, Margie delves into the significance of prayer and intercession. Join her as she explores the power and impact of these practices, offering wisdom and guidance for a deeper connection with God. Tune in as Margie shares practical insights and heartfelt reflections to inspire your own prayer life and intercessory efforts.
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I am so excited about this. I want to welcome you to the Purpose Project podcast.
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During our time together, I will teach you how to pray, how to intentionally develop intimacy with your Creator,
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and challenge you to discover and embrace your God-ordained purposes.
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I am your host, Margie Flarrant.
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My prayer for you today is that you will be empowered and strengthened in the Word of God to move forward into your destiny.
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Matthew chapter 7 verse 24. We're going to speak this morning on the art of intercession.
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Are you there?
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Yes.
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Jesus said in verse 24, therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them,
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I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock, and the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house,
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but it did not fall. Why? Because it was founded on a rock.
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My friends, it's very important that you and I, especially in the days we live in,
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it's very important that we build our lives, build our marriages, build our families, build our churches on the Word of God.
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Why? Because when the winds come and we know that they're going to be coming,
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when the storms come and beat against our house, our house will not fall.
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Why? Because we have a strong, firm foundation, and that foundation is the Word of God.
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Now, individually, you know that we are the house of God, amen?
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Amen.
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We are the temple of the living God, and collectively as well, we are the house of God and members in particular,
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and we all need one another, we all need to work together with one another,
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and I believe that unity continues to be formed and dwells in and amongst us,
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God can do some great and mighty things.
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So individually and collectively, we are the house of God,
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but we don't want to just be a house of the Word, so to speak, or even a teaching center, Pastor.
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We want to be a house of prayer.
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We want to be men and women of prayer.
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We need both the Word and we need the Spirit in order to grow up.
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Are you listening?
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When I was in Bible school at Ramah, I sat under some of the greatest Bible teachers up till that time,
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and all that teaching, all that teaching, all that teaching, and I would come home and something on the inside of me was dissatisfied and discontent,
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and I used to say, what is that? What is that?
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And God began to speak to me about being a house of prayer.
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He began to speak to me how we have it better than Adam and Eve,
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how God would come down in the cool of the day and He would fellowship with them.
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But because we have Jesus in our hearts, because we're the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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we can go to God any time, any place.
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And God began to speak to me about prayer, and he began to show me, Margie,
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the dissatisfaction you have in your heart is because I am calling you to seek my face.
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I am calling you to prayer.
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Yes, you can have all that teaching, and all that teaching is good.
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But what about being alone with Jesus in the place of prayer and being that house of prayer?
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Amen.
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I heard when that Hayden said one time, she said, what's more important on a bird?
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The left wing or the right wing?
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You need both to fly, amen?
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What's more important in your life, your devotional time in studying the Word or your prayer life?
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You need both to fly.
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We need a balance of the Word of God and a balance of prayer time with Him,
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and therefore it will cause us to be strong in Him, amen?
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Catherine Coleman once said, the greatest power given to any individual is the power of prayer.
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And you think about her ministry.
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You think about the things that was accomplished through her ministry.
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Lee Roy Brownlow said, let us not neglect prayer just because we do not fully comprehend
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the infinite power of the God at whose throne we kneel.
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I do not know everything about gravity, but I know it works.
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Amen.
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Now, in speaking on prayer, the Bible says in Ephesians 6, 18 that we are to pray always
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with all kinds of prayer.
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How many of you know that scripture?
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So we're going to be speaking on the prayer of intercession,
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but you know that there are different kinds of prayer.
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And the different prayers have different rules that govern the answer to those prayers.
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For example, let's look at a sport.
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You can't play baseball with football rules.
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Amen?
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That would be a disaster.
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You have to play the right rules with the right sport.
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It's the same way when it comes to our prayer lives.
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There are different rules that govern the different kinds of prayer without complicating things.
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Let's just briefly talk about the different kinds of prayer.
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What are the different kinds of prayer?
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I think there's about eight or nine of them.
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Number one, there's the prayer of faith.
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What is the prayer of faith?
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It's the one that Kenneth E. Hagan spoke a lot about.
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The prayer of faith.
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What things, so ever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them and you will have them.
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You have to believe that you receive it by faith and you will have it.
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Faith is a substance of things you hope for, the evidence of what you don't see.
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So the first time you pray, that prayer of faith, or that need that you have,
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believe that you receive it and you will have it.
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I could give you lots of examples.
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But one example that stands out the most is my very first answer to prayer that I had was when I was in Bible schools.
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About 19 years old I didn't have a car.
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And I needed a car.
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Everyone said I needed a car.
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You've got to have a car.
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And I prayed, I said, Lord, I come to you and I am asking you to provide for me a car.
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You said in your word that you would provide all of my needs according to your riches and glory.
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And you said in your word that I have not because I have not.
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And I am asking you for a car.
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I'm asking for this car to be little.
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And I'm asking even that it be blue.
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I was a little specific.
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And I believe that I receive it and I thank you for it.
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And I left it at the feet of God's throne and I walked away.
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And I didn't pray it again because you pray that prayer.
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You believe you receive it, you'll have it and you go your way.
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Thanking Him for the answer.
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About a week later I was in a little church over there in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
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And the pastor's wife came up to me and said, do you need a car?
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I said, well, yeah.
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She says, well, we have somebody that wants to give a car away.
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And I was wondering if you would like it.
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I said, absolutely.
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And guess what?
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The car was little.
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It was blue.
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The only problem was it was a stick ship.
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So I had to learn how to drive that car.
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But I thank God for that car.
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I thank God for the prayer of faith.
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Are you listening?
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You know, the prayer of faith will even save the sick and the Lord will raise them up.
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God didn't say pray over and over and over and over for the sick.
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He said, lay hands on the sick, anoint them with oil and they will recover.
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So that's the prayer of faith.
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Then we have the prayer of dedication and consecration.
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Luke 22, 42.
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I love this prayer.
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I actually have a book in manuscript.
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Someday I'm going to finish.
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What is the prayer of dedication and consecration?
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This is the prayer where you go to God and you're in a time of decision time.
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You're in your place of disentery.
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You're in a place where you're trying to decide what to do.
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Or maybe you're in a place where you're deciding whether or not you're called or not.
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Or deciding whether or not you want to go somewhere or not.
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And that's the place of prayer where you go to God and you say, Lord, not my will.
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But your will be done in my life.
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It's the prayer Jesus prayed in the garden.
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He said, and even Jesus even said, let this cup pass for me.
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But Lord, nevertheless, it's not what I want.
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It's what you want.
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And you know the Bible talks about revival and that my people will be willing in the day of my power.
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I think many of us at times need to pray this prayer of dedication and consecration.
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Where we go to God and we say, Lord, not my will.
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Your will be done in my life.
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I give you my all.
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I give you my everything.
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I give you my fears.
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I give you my insecurities.
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I give you my pride.
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I give you my I can do it attitude.
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And I give it all to you.
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And when you pray the prayer of dedication and consecration, what happens is this.
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God hears you, number one, because you're not praying to somebody who's not hearing you.
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Are you listening?
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Your prayers do not fall on deaf ears.
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As a matter of fact, every time you pray, your prayers are going up into the throne of God,
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and they are like a sweet incense to him.
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You can't see it.
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Are you listening?
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But when you pray, it is a sweet incense, revelation-spirited.
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Check it out.
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But this is the kind of prayer where you go to God and you give him your all.
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I can tell you for myself personally, I pray this prayer every once in a while,
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when I just feel like it used to be because I was getting a little, I don't know,
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I'm the kind of person, I'm pretty much over at this stage.
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I just, you know, just couldn't believe it, God had called me in the ministry, couldn't believe it.
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Couldn't believe it.
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In that world, is that all about?
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Couldn't believe it.
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I'm a woman.
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You know, in those days I was young, I was raised with five brothers.
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They used to tell me to shut up all the time.
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I was very shy, I was very quiet, and you want me to do what?
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I was like Moses, you know, I can't speak.
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You know, and then I'm not perfect.
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None of us are perfect.
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You know, which is the beauty of God is he looks on the heart.
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And before he ever formed you and your mother's womb, he knew you,
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and he ordained a plan and a purpose for your life.
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And what we need to do is we need to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God,
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and we need to come to him and say, Lord, it's not my will, but your will be done in my life.
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And you know, when you do that, he works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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You come out of that place of prayer, strengthened to do what he's asked you to do.
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Isn't that what happened to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?
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You know, the Bible says his soul was exceedingly sorrowful unto death,
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and I mean, he was struggling. How many have ever struggled?
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And what did he do?
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Instead of holding on to his struggles, he went to God in prayer.
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The Bible says he fell down on the ground, he surrendered his all to him,
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and he said, Lord, not my will, your will be done in my life.
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And when he came up on that place of prayer, and it took about three times of him praying like that,
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the Bible says he was ready. He was ready to do the will of the Father.
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And I think that we need to pray that prayer maybe even today.
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Lord, not my will, but your will be done in my life.
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Especially those of us on the East Coast. I'm not being hard, but I'm going to tell you something.
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One of us, we got some major Italian, like, stubbornness going on.
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Yeah. I knew there was a name for it. I knew somebody could figure it out.
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You know, and there's just something about living on the East Coast that makes us a little hard.
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But I believe that God can take that stubbornness and that hardness,
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and he can turn it around and make us ministers that are flames of fire,
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that are meat and willing for the Master's use, who will say,
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we have decided we are going to go all the way with God and there is no turning back.
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That's why I believe that the East Coast is destined for a great move of God.
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Because God knows the kind of people you are. He understands your frame.
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He puts you here, and you are on divine assignment from him.
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So there's the prayer of dedication and consecration.
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Number three, there's the prayer of worship, John 4, 21.
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That's the prayer that we prayed today. Lord, we come to you.
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We're not thinking about ourselves. We're thinking on you.
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We're setting our affections on things above, not on things of this earth.
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And we are just worshiping you. We worship you in spirit and in truth.
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We love you. We long for you. We desire you. You're our Father.
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We adore you. You are everything. You told me you love me with an everlasting love.
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I'm going to give it back to you. Lord, I love you with an everlasting love.
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I worship you. Holy, holy, holy. Lord, God Almighty, Heaven and Earth is filled with your glory.
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I worship you. I honor you. I magnify your holy name.
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And you know the Bible says Psalm 1611, in his presence, is fullness of joy.
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And you come into his presence with worship and thanksgiving and praise,
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and the joy of the Lord becomes your strength.
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And when you come out of that place of worship, you're strengthened with might
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by his spirit in the inner man and you're stronger than you were before you ever worshiped him.
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Have you not read the Scripture that God never grows weary?
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That he never faints? And when we wait upon him, he renews our strength
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and we mount up with wings like an eagle and we're able to run and not grow weary, walk and not faint.
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God is seeking for true worshipers, those that would just worship him in spirit and in truth.
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It's the prayer of worship. You're not thinking about yourself.
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You're not thinking about your own needs. Your focus and your attention is on him.
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Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.
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Holy, holy is He.
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Sing a new song to Him who sits on.
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Heaven's mercy sings.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty
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Who was and is and is to come.
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You know what I knew? I practiced this. I practiced the presence of God. How about you?
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I practiced the presence of God. How about you?
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If I'm the house of prayer, I don't have to go to church to pray.
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So when I'm at the grocery store, taking care of my family, I mean I must be at that grocery store five days a week.
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You know, you know, your prayer times and your devotional times changes according to the season that you're in.
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You want to come to God with a cheerful heart and not even with a religious heart.
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You want to come to Him because you like to be with Him and you love His presence.
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So when the kids are home from college, something happens to my prayer time.
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I have a certain place that I like to stay in when it comes to my private devotional time.
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I'm not going to tell you what that is because it's between me and God.
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I'm thinking about Him. I'm talking to Him.
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He hears you when you pray.
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Whether you're on your knees, whether you're walking, whether you're standing, whether you're driving,
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no matter where you are, you're the house of God.
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You're the temple of the Holy Ghost. He hears you.
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And I think when we practice that kind of praying, that everyday praying, that 18-hour-to-day praying,
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you know, every waking moment, thinking about Him, I think it develops friendship with God.
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Intimacy with God.
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Friendship. Everybody say friendship.
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I know that He's in me.
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I am always with you wherever you go.
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Well, if that's true, I want to practice His presence.
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I just love that. You don't mind if I just stay here for a minute, do you?
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I would encourage you to practice the presence of God.
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You come out of this place of prayer, this house of prayer,
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you go off as an individual house of prayer,
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and the songs that you heard in church, you take with you.
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And you've heard that song, that song is in you,
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and the beauty of the Holy Spirit is,
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He will bring all things back to your remembrance.
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And so for the next few days, you're probably going to be singing,
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Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Heaven and Earth,
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because that was the song that had a greater anointing out of all the songs
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that we're saying today. Notice that?
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Are you listening?
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Or you can put a CD on, my favorite is Jesus' Culture.
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I want to see your glory like Moses did,
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flashes of light, you know, that whole song by Jesus' Culture.
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You could hear that song out of that whole CD,
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and that's the song that you need for that day.
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If you look on the inside of you, everyone say, look on the inside.
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Look on the inside.
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That's the song that your Spirit is singing to the Father.
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And so you can continually praise and worship and glorify Him
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and practice His presence no matter where you are.
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I love that.
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I mean, I wrote this book in counter-gout to the habit of prayer.
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and then progressing into an hour, we're to get the hour.
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Jesus said, just decide, couldn't you watch just one hour?
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Just one hour? Just give me an hour.
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He enough walked with God.
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Walking with Him, really? I just love that.
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Walking with Him.
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That's why I can't be distracted by all the secular music.
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I can't be distracted by watching things on TV,
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basically, these days. I can hardly watch TV.
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I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying I can't.
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I just can't.
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I went to a movie recently with my girl, my daughter, and one of her friends.
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Just go to movies.
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What was it rated? I don't go to R rated movies.
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It must have been PG-13.
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And that movie bothered me for days.
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Bothered me. Well, what was in it?
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It wasn't blatant sex acts. I could say that from the pulpit, can I?
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You say it on the internet, on TV. Why can't we say it on the pulpit?
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It wasn't all that. It was more the content of, like, the days of Noah.
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Yes, very nice.
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Very nice.
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Right from the beginning.
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Partying, drinking, fooling around, adultery, crazy stuff.
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I don't want to watch that.
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Do you know what goes through your eye, gets into your spirit?
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God said, I want a separate people.
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He said, we will be a separate people.
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Did everybody always follow that? Obviously not.
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It took them 40 years of wandering.
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Moses was so close to God that his legacy was not the miracles.
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Read Deuteronomy 34.
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His legacy was that he was a man who knew God face to face,
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as a man would speak to his friend.
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That's what I want.
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Do you mind if I just stand here for just a minute and think about it?
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Say, Lord, that's the name of this church, isn't it?
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Say, Lord.
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I want to know God intimately, so connected with Him,
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that nothing can separate me.
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I know the Bible says nothing can separate you from the love of God
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that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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He didn't list all the things.
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But you know, we separate ourselves from Him.
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See? And what does that mean?
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It just means you just got to get back.
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or something you watch or something that happens, or just the cares,
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you just hook back yourself back up and get right back into that focus,
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like that zone said about focus.
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Get reached focus and focus your attention on Him.
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Hook yourself up to the inside and just start doing that,
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your thing again with God.
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That's why nobody can take your intimacy with God from you.
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You can go to some nation that forbids the Bible and forbids prayer,
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but you can pray anytime, any place,
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praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
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Continue in prayer and watch.
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I just want to encourage you today to develop friendship with God.
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Think about that.
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When you get in your car, talk to God.
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Lord, where's my keys?
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That's a good one.
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No, here's a good one.
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Where's my phone?
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Lord, tell me where my phone is.
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Well, how's He going to speak to you?
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You hook yourself up to the inside and you listen.
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Amen?
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Lord, do you think this outfit is okay for the service today?
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What do you think about this collar on me?
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Lord, what should I eat for dinner?
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I'm Margie, you're really getting crazy now.
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No, I'm really not.
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I would talk to Him like I would talk to a friend who sticks closer than a brother,
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who's sitting right next to me, but He's not even next to me.
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He's in me.
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I love that.
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I love that kind of praying.
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It's called practicing the presence of God.
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And then you know what happens to you when you develop that?
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Because you have to develop it.
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You have to train yourself.
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We're in the world, but we're not of the world.
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It's a process.
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And what happens is, if you notice, when you practice the presence of God,
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when you walk through the door and you look like hell,
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when everybody turns and looks at you, they're not looking at you.
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God said, my presence will go with you.
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There's something about you that people see.
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There's something about you that people perceive.
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Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project podcast.
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I am so excited about this. I want to welcome you to the Purpose Project podcast.
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During our time together, I will teach you how to pray, how to intentionally develop intimacy with your Creator,
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and challenge you to discover and embrace your God-ordained purposes.
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I am your host, Margie Flarrant.
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My prayer for you today is that you will be empowered and strengthened in the Word of God to move forward into your destiny.
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Matthew chapter 7 verse 24. We're going to speak this morning on the art of intercession.
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Are you there?
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Yes.
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Jesus said in verse 24, therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them,
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I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock, and the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house,
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but it did not fall. Why? Because it was founded on a rock.
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My friends, it's very important that you and I, especially in the days we live in,
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it's very important that we build our lives, build our marriages, build our families, build our churches on the Word of God.
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Why? Because when the winds come and we know that they're going to be coming,
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when the storms come and beat against our house, our house will not fall.
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Why? Because we have a strong, firm foundation, and that foundation is the Word of God.
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Now, individually, you know that we are the house of God, amen?
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Amen.
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We are the temple of the living God, and collectively as well, we are the house of God and members in particular,
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and we all need one another, we all need to work together with one another,
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and I believe that unity continues to be formed and dwells in and amongst us,
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God can do some great and mighty things.
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So individually and collectively, we are the house of God,
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but we don't want to just be a house of the Word, so to speak, or even a teaching center, Pastor.
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We want to be a house of prayer.
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We want to be men and women of prayer.
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We need both the Word and we need the Spirit in order to grow up.
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Are you listening?
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When I was in Bible school at Ramah, I sat under some of the greatest Bible teachers up till that time,
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and all that teaching, all that teaching, all that teaching, and I would come home and something on the inside of me was dissatisfied and discontent,
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and I used to say, what is that? What is that?
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And God began to speak to me about being a house of prayer.
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He began to speak to me how we have it better than Adam and Eve,
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how God would come down in the cool of the day and He would fellowship with them.
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But because we have Jesus in our hearts, because we're the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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we can go to God any time, any place.
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And God began to speak to me about prayer, and he began to show me, Margie,
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the dissatisfaction you have in your heart is because I am calling you to seek my face.
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I am calling you to prayer.
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Yes, you can have all that teaching, and all that teaching is good.
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But what about being alone with Jesus in the place of prayer and being that house of prayer?
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I heard when that Hayden said one time, she said, what's more important on a bird?
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The left wing or the right wing?
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You need both to fly, amen?
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What's more important in your life, your devotional time in studying the Word or your prayer life?
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You need both to fly.
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We need a balance of the Word of God and a balance of prayer time with Him,
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and therefore it will cause us to be strong in Him, amen?
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Catherine Coleman once said, the greatest power given to any individual is the power of prayer.
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And you think about her ministry.
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You think about the things that was accomplished through her ministry.
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Lee Roy Brownlow said, let us not neglect prayer just because we do not fully comprehend
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the infinite power of the God at whose throne we kneel.
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I do not know everything about gravity, but I know it works.
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Now, in speaking on prayer, the Bible says in Ephesians 6, 18 that we are to pray always
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with all kinds of prayer.
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How many of you know that scripture?
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So we're going to be speaking on the prayer of intercession,
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but you know that there are different kinds of prayer.
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And the different prayers have different rules that govern the answer to those prayers.
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For example, let's look at a sport.
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That would be a disaster.
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It's the same way when it comes to our prayer lives.
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There are different rules that govern the different kinds of prayer without complicating things.
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Let's just briefly talk about the different kinds of prayer.
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What are the different kinds of prayer?
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I think there's about eight or nine of them.
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Number one, there's the prayer of faith.
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What is the prayer of faith?
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It's the one that Kenneth E. Hagan spoke a lot about.
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The prayer of faith.
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What things, so ever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them and you will have them.
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You have to believe that you receive it by faith and you will have it.
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Faith is a substance of things you hope for, the evidence of what you don't see.
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So the first time you pray, that prayer of faith, or that need that you have,
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believe that you receive it and you will have it.
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I could give you lots of examples.
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But one example that stands out the most is my very first answer to prayer that I had was when I was in Bible schools.
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About 19 years old I didn't have a car.
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Everyone said I needed a car.
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You've got to have a car.
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You said in your word that you would provide all of my needs according to your riches and glory.
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I'm asking for this car to be little.
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I was a little specific.
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And I left it at the feet of God's throne and I walked away.
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You believe you receive it, you'll have it and you go your way.
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Thanking Him for the answer.
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I said, well, yeah.
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She says, well, we have somebody that wants to give a car away.
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I said, absolutely.
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The car was little.
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It was blue.
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I thank God for the prayer of faith.
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Are you listening?
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You know, the prayer of faith will even save the sick and the Lord will raise them up.
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God didn't say pray over and over and over and over for the sick.
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He said, lay hands on the sick, anoint them with oil and they will recover.
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So that's the prayer of faith.
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Then we have the prayer of dedication and consecration.
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Luke 22, 42.
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I love this prayer.
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I actually have a book in manuscript.
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Someday I'm going to finish.
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What is the prayer of dedication and consecration?
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This is the prayer where you go to God and you're in a time of decision time.
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You're in your place of disentery.
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You're in a place where you're trying to decide what to do.
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Or deciding whether or not you want to go somewhere or not.
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And that's the place of prayer where you go to God and you say, Lord, not my will.
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But your will be done in my life.
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It's the prayer Jesus prayed in the garden.
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He said, and even Jesus even said, let this cup pass for me.
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It's what you want.
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And you know the Bible talks about revival and that my people will be willing in the day of my power.
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I think many of us at times need to pray this prayer of dedication and consecration.
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Where we go to God and we say, Lord, not my will.
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Your will be done in my life.
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I give you my all.
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I give you my everything.
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I give you my fears.
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I give you my insecurities.
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I give you my I can do it attitude.
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God hears you, number one, because you're not praying to somebody who's not hearing you.
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Are you listening?
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Your prayers do not fall on deaf ears.
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As a matter of fact, every time you pray, your prayers are going up into the throne of God,
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and they are like a sweet incense to him.
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You can't see it.
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Are you listening?
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But when you pray, it is a sweet incense, revelation-spirited.
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Check it out.
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But this is the kind of prayer where you go to God and you give him your all.
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I can tell you for myself personally, I pray this prayer every once in a while,
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when I just feel like it used to be because I was getting a little, I don't know,
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I'm the kind of person, I'm pretty much over at this stage.
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I just, you know, just couldn't believe it, God had called me in the ministry, couldn't believe it.
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Couldn't believe it.
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In that world, is that all about?
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Couldn't believe it.
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I'm a woman.
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You know, in those days I was young, I was raised with five brothers.
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They used to tell me to shut up all the time.
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I was very shy, I was very quiet, and you want me to do what?
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I was like Moses, you know, I can't speak.
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None of us are perfect.
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You know, which is the beauty of God is he looks on the heart.
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And before he ever formed you and your mother's womb, he knew you,
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and he ordained a plan and a purpose for your life.
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and we need to come to him and say, Lord, it's not my will, but your will be done in my life.
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And you know, when you do that, he works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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You come out of that place of prayer, strengthened to do what he's asked you to do.
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Isn't that what happened to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?
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and I mean, he was struggling. How many have ever struggled?
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Instead of holding on to his struggles, he went to God in prayer.
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The Bible says he fell down on the ground, he surrendered his all to him,
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and he said, Lord, not my will, your will be done in my life.
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the Bible says he was ready. He was ready to do the will of the Father.
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Lord, not my will, but your will be done in my life.
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Especially those of us on the East Coast. I'm not being hard, but I'm going to tell you something.
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One of us, we got some major Italian, like, stubbornness going on.
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Yeah. I knew there was a name for it. I knew somebody could figure it out.
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You know, and there's just something about living on the East Coast that makes us a little hard.
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and he can turn it around and make us ministers that are flames of fire,
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that are meat and willing for the Master's use, who will say,
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we have decided we are going to go all the way with God and there is no turning back.
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That's why I believe that the East Coast is destined for a great move of God.
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He puts you here, and you are on divine assignment from him.
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Number three, there's the prayer of worship, John 4, 21.
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That's the prayer that we prayed today. Lord, we come to you.
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We're not thinking about ourselves. We're thinking on you.
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We're setting our affections on things above, not on things of this earth.
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And we are just worshiping you. We worship you in spirit and in truth.
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We love you. We long for you. We desire you. You're our Father.
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We adore you. You are everything. You told me you love me with an everlasting love.
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I'm going to give it back to you. Lord, I love you with an everlasting love.
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I worship you. Holy, holy, holy. Lord, God Almighty, Heaven and Earth is filled with your glory.
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I worship you. I honor you. I magnify your holy name.
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And you come into his presence with worship and thanksgiving and praise,
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and the joy of the Lord becomes your strength.
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And when you come out of that place of worship, you're strengthened with might
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by his spirit in the inner man and you're stronger than you were before you ever worshiped him.
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Have you not read the Scripture that God never grows weary?
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That he never faints? And when we wait upon him, he renews our strength
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and we mount up with wings like an eagle and we're able to run and not grow weary, walk and not faint.
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God is seeking for true worshipers, those that would just worship him in spirit and in truth.
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It's the prayer of worship. You're not thinking about yourself.
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You're not thinking about your own needs. Your focus and your attention is on him.
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Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.
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Holy, holy is He.
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Sing a new song to Him who sits on.
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Heaven's mercy sings.
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Who was and is and is to come.
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You know what I knew? I practiced this. I practiced the presence of God. How about you?
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I practiced the presence of God. How about you?
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If I'm the house of prayer, I don't have to go to church to pray.
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So when I'm at the grocery store, taking care of my family, I mean I must be at that grocery store five days a week.
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You know, you know, your prayer times and your devotional times changes according to the season that you're in.
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You want to come to Him because you like to be with Him and you love His presence.
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So when the kids are home from college, something happens to my prayer time.
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I have a certain place that I like to stay in when it comes to my private devotional time.
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I'm not going to tell you what that is because it's between me and God.
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I'm thinking about Him. I'm talking to Him.
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He hears you when you pray.
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no matter where you are, you're the house of God.
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You're the temple of the Holy Ghost. He hears you.
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you know, every waking moment, thinking about Him, I think it develops friendship with God.
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Intimacy with God.
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Friendship. Everybody say friendship.
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I am always with you wherever you go.
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I just love that. You don't mind if I just stay here for a minute, do you?
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you go off as an individual house of prayer,
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and the songs that you heard in church, you take with you.
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and the beauty of the Holy Spirit is,
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Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Heaven and Earth,
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because that was the song that had a greater anointing out of all the songs
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that we're saying today. Notice that?
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I want to see your glory like Moses did,
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flashes of light, you know, that whole song by Jesus' Culture.
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Jesus said, just decide, couldn't you watch just one hour?
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Just one hour? Just give me an hour.
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But then God began to speak to me just about walking with Him.
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He enough walked with God.
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Walking with Him, really? I just love that.
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Walking with Him.
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That's why I can't be distracted by all the secular music.
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I can't be distracted by watching things on TV,
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basically, these days. I can hardly watch TV.
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I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying I can't.
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I just can't.
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I went to a movie recently with my girl, my daughter, and one of her friends.
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And I gotta tell you, you talk about taking you right out of the presence of God.
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Just go to movies.
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What was it rated? I don't go to R rated movies.
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It must have been PG-13.
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And I gotta tell you, if my kids weren't there, I'd have gotten up and left.
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And that movie bothered me for days.
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Bothered me. Well, what was in it?
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It wasn't blatant sex acts. I could say that from the pulpit, can I?
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You say it on the internet, on TV. Why can't we say it on the pulpit?
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It wasn't all that. It was more the content of, like, the days of Noah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yes, very nice.
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Very nice.
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Right from the beginning.
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Partying, drinking, fooling around, adultery, crazy stuff.
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I don't want to watch that.
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Do you know what goes through your eye, gets into your spirit?
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And you become what you behold?
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God said, I want a separate people.
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When God stood in the gap and interceded for the children of Israel,
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He said, we will be a separate people.
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Did everybody always follow that? Obviously not.
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It took them 40 years of wandering.
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But I will say this.
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Moses was so close to God that his legacy was not the miracles.
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Read Deuteronomy 34.
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His legacy was that he was a man who knew God face to face,
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as a man would speak to his friend.
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And then it went on to talk about the miracles.
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That's what I want.
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Do you mind if I just stand here for just a minute and think about it?
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Say, Lord, that's the name of this church, isn't it?
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Say, Lord.
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I want to know God intimately, so connected with Him,
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that nothing can separate me.
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I know the Bible says nothing can separate you from the love of God
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that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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He didn't list all the things.
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But you know, we separate ourselves from Him.
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See? And what does that mean?
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It just means you just got to get back.
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So when you find yourself separated from Him because of a distraction
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or something you watch or something that happens, or just the cares,
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you just hook back yourself back up and get right back into that focus,
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like that zone said about focus.
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Get reached focus and focus your attention on Him.
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Hook yourself up to the inside and just start doing that,
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your thing again with God.
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That's why nobody can take your intimacy with God from you.
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You can go to some nation that forbids the Bible and forbids prayer,
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but you can pray anytime, any place,
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praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
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Continue in prayer and watch.
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I just want to encourage you today to develop friendship with God.
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Think about that.
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When you get in your car, talk to God.
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Lord, where's my keys?
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That's a good one.
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No, here's a good one.
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Where's my phone?
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Lord, tell me where my phone is.
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Well, how's He going to speak to you?
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You hook yourself up to the inside and you listen.
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Amen?
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Lord, do you think this outfit is okay for the service today?
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What do you think about this collar on me?
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Lord, what should I eat for dinner?
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I'm Margie, you're really getting crazy now.
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No, I'm really not.
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I would talk to Him like I would talk to a friend who sticks closer than a brother,
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who's sitting right next to me, but He's not even next to me.
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He's in me.
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Amen?
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I love that.
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I love that kind of praying.
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It's called practicing the presence of God.
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And then you know what happens to you when you develop that?
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Because you have to develop it.
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You have to train yourself.
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Because we're trained in this world.
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We're in the world, but we're not of the world.
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And we're trained to be in the mental realm.
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So it's a spiritual training.
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It's a process.
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And what happens is, if you notice, when you practice the presence of God,
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when you walk through the door and you look like hell,
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when everybody turns and looks at you, they're not looking at you.
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God said, my presence will go with you.
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And I will give you rest.
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There's something about you that people see.
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There's something about you that people perceive.
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And it's His presence.
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Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project podcast.
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