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March 6, 2024
The Art of Intercession Pt. 2
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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Why do you think men are coming to the brightness of your rising?
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Why do you think people come to you and ask you for prayer?
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Why do you think people come to you and ask you for counsel and advice?
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Because they are attracted to the presence of God that you have on your life.
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To me, prayer is everything. Everyone say prayer is everything.
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I am a house of prayer.
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I am just going to sit here for just a minute.
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Let's just close your eyes and look at Him.
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Father, we look at you and we love you.
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We are seeing you more than we have ever seen you before.
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We are falling in love with you more than we have ever loved before.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Amen.
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You sense His presence?
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See? Can you feel Him?
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He said, I am going to make my glory pass by you.
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I am going to reveal my goodness to you.
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You know, His glory is here this morning.
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I don't mind stopping.
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Here you go. Here is another wave.
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Thank you, Father.
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Come unto me, O ye that laborer, heavy laden.
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I am giving you rest.
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All I want you to do is learn of me. Seek me.
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The church should be a place of refuge and rest.
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Here is another wave.
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Father, we really appreciate your presence.
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I am going to say something to you.
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I know you hear me when I pray.
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I am asking you that as your presence falls,
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I am asking you for miracles.
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Signs and wonders, healings and miracles
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in the midst of your presence.
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You said, ask of me.
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I will do great and mighty things.
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We love you. We appreciate your presence.
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Where is the Lord God of the Laija?
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Where is the Lord God of Catherine Pullman?
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Where is the Lord God of Jesus Christ,
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the same yesterday, today and forever?
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We went about doing good and healing all the world
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rest of the devil through your link.
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You said to covet earnestly the gifts of the Spirit.
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Father, we covet earnestly in these days, this generation,
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the power gifts to the in man of the station.
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Why?
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Because many would believe on you because of the miracles.
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For your glory.
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That's all you want.
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We want you.
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We want to reach the people you want to see saved
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and come to the knowledge of truth.
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You know what's going to happen?
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People have been very bored in church lately.
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Oh, I just said what you were thinking.
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I don't mean just here.
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It's been happening all around,
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especially in the United States.
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People are bored for church.
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You know why they're bored?
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Because the presence of God has left the church.
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God is restoring the Tabernacle of David.
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God is restoring his glory in the church.
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He's getting his people ready.
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And we're going to see some great in life.
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Amen.
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I think sometimes we just need to be still.
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And no.
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There's another way that he is God.
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Amen.
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It's just getting us ready, Paula.
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People are just crying in here today.
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I'm just going to let you cry.
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You needed to cry.
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People just need to cry.
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When was the last time you cried in the presence of God?
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Jeremiah settled in my head room like waters.
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My eyes are filled with tears.
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And Jeremiah was asking to wait for the slain daughter of his people.
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He was asking for tears he had lost.
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When you're in his presence, you sense his heart.
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Your heart becomes his heart.
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And then you begin to see others the way he sees them.
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And it may cause you to weep.
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I just see the body of Christ as a great ship.
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And I see the ship turning.
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You're turning away from the traditions and the distractions.
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And I see the ship turning and facing its nose to Jesus Christ.
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There is the author and the finisher of what he desires to do in these last days.
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The boredom is not necessarily a bad thing.
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The boredom is driving people to their knees.
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I was in a meeting in Guatemala.
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We did a pastors and leaders conference.
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It was really cool.
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I didn't want to go and say, not my will, you're a movie doc because I was scared.
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Have you ever been scared?
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But I went.
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And I'm glad I did.
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Because when God tells you to do something and you do it,
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you realize that you're in a crossroad.
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And then if you didn't do that thing,
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that you wouldn't be at that new place and then you'd be stuck.
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And I mean to tell you that we were preaching, grown men were crying.
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Grown men cry in the presence of God.
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Pastors and leaders were crying.
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We touched them.
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Nobody even hands on them.
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Nobody did anything.
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Who did it?
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My ignoring was passing by.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Well, is everybody happy?
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Are you glad that you waited?
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Wait on the Lord.
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Be still.
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I know that he is God.
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He is God.
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See, you can know God through the word.
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How about knowing Him through prayer?
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All you have to do is Google.
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You can have any scripture, any teaching come up.
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It just takes a little effort to be a house of prayer.
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It's not going to be one of the people that sits there and does nothing for God
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or does nothing about getting to know God.
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My final quest is to know Him, to become deeply and intimately acquainted with Him.
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Do you have struggles?
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We are on struggles.
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How many of you have struggles?
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How many of you have distractions that pull against you?
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Well, what happens if I pray really good for like a week
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and then all of a sudden for like a week I had no time to pray?
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Well, you just get back up and you just get back into prayer.
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Amen.
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Amen?
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Well, let's finish this area that we were just in.
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There's the prayer of agreement.
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What's the prayer of agreement?
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That if two of you will agree on earth is touching anything that shall be done.
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We agree.
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There's the prayer of commitment, 1 Peter 5, 7.
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What's the prayer of commitment?
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That's where you cast all of your cares, all of your concerns,
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once and for all, over on Jesus.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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When?
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Once and for all.
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But what if I pick it up five minutes later?
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Then you don't know what? You go back to God and say, I cast all of my cares
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over on you once and for all.
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You use your spiritual imagination, picture yourself holding that thing in your hand
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and giving it to God.
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Do whatever you've got to do because God wants you free from anxiety,
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free from cares.
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You've given it to Him, then just walk on like it's already done,
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and say, what is that thing that you're believing in for?
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See, because in the last days, men's hearts will fail for fear.
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We said it before, we'll say it again, there's a lot of stress and anxiety in the world.
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This is a really good prayer, especially for us ladies.
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You mean God doesn't want me to hold on to it? God does not want you to hold on to it? Why?
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He said anxiety is just basically fear anyway.
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But just give it to God.
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I remember I heard Kenneth E. Hagen say one time, he said,
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they didn't have any money to pay the bills at the Bible school.
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And Kenneth E. Hagen got up, we were all there, all the students and all the guests were in
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for some meeting, there's Kenneth E. Hagen, he gets up, he goes, in front of everybody,
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he goes, I'm just going to tell you something right now.
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He said, I'm not going to lose one bit of sleep over the payment for this school.
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He said, I'm going to tell you right now, he said, if the bills don't get paid,
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I'm going to go all over the United States of the world and tell everybody that God lied.
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You're going to hurt a pin drop.
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We were all really scared, we were like, did he really say that?
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And you know what? Basically what he was doing is, that was his voice of faith.
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I'm casting all my cares, this is not my ministry, I didn't want it in the first place.
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You told me to build the school, now I'm building the school, now you pay for it.
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Then there's United Prayer, Genesis 11, and all throughout the book of Acts.
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What is United Prayer? It's when you gather together corporately and you can pray together.
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You do what we call corporate United Prayer. There's prayer in the spirit for personal edification.
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What is that? That's when you're praying tongues and you're building yourself up on your most holy faith
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and you're praying in the Holy Ghost and it's strictly for personal edification.
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I was praying for personal edification when we were sitting there just before I got up to speak.
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What is prayer for personal edification?
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He that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, how be it in the spirit.
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He speaks mysteries. It's praying in tongues or praying in the spirit.
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Mark 16 says, these signs will follow them that believe they will what? Speak within tongues.
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So it's the kind of praying that you pray when you find yourself getting really tired and weak spiritually.
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It's for personal edification. It's like this. It's like you have a battery in your cell phone
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and the more you use that cell phone, the more the bars go down.
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But when you need to charge it up, you plug it into the wall and you plug that phone into the wall with that cord
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and that battery gets charged up. When you pray in the spirit, you are edifying yourself.
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That word edify means to build up or to charge up like a battery.
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Lastly, there's the prayer of binding and loosening and we didn't get to start the prayer of intercession,
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but we will get into it tonight. I'm going to just introduce it and then we're going to close.
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Is everybody happy? Very quiet.
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What is the prayer of intercession?
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The prayer of intercession is prayer for another.
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The prayer of intercession is one or an intercessor is one who stands in the gap before God.
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Ezekiel 2230 said, I sought who sought. God said, I am seeking.
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I'm the one that's calling you to intercession. I am the one that's calling you to a greater measure of prayer.
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Why? Because I want to do some great and mighty things in your midst.
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And I'm telling you, the more we pray, the more it activates the plans and the purposes of God.
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So he said, I sought for a man among them that would stand in the gap before me for the land.
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The prayer of intercession is not praying for yourself.
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The prayer of intercession is praying on the behalf of a person, a nation, a city, a pastor, a husband, or a wife.
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It's not praying for yourself, it's praying for someone else.
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And the laws that govern the prayer of intercession are not the same laws that govern the prayer of faith.
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We're going to get into that. The prayer of intercession is a mediator.
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The Webster's definition of a mediator is a go-between.
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An intercessor, one who imposes between parties at variance, why? For the purpose of reconciling them.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer who pleads the case on the behalf of another.
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Amen.
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Is everybody still here?
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Amen.
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I feel like I could honestly preach for another hour, but we can't because we have to close.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer. I actually did a four-hour webinar one time,
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and I did literally speak for four straight hours.
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I'm sorry.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer who pleads the case on the behalf of another.
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So we are the intercessor, and we are as a lawyer, and we're going to the throne of God,
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and we are pleading the case on the behalf of someone else before the throne of God,
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and what is the law that we're using?
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We're using the Word of God.
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And how do you know that God said in His Word,
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I will hasten my Word to perform it.
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My Word will not return void.
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The Bible says somewhere in Isaiah, let us plead together.
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So God uses His Word, which is His law,
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and we plead His Word before the throne of God,
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and we see results on the behalf of the people we pray for.
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Isn't that what Moses did when he stood in the gap for the children of Israel?
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He, God wanted to come down and destroy everybody.
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God said, that's not like you, that's not your nature,
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and basically everybody's going to talk about you,
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that you let everybody out of the bondage,
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only to bring them in to kill them all.
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And Moses said, God said, yeah, you're right.
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The Webster's definition of intercession is to plead or make a request on the behalf of another.
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To intervene with the purpose of producing agreement.
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The Greek word for intercessor is to get the ear of a king on the behalf of another person.
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Listen to that.
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To get the ear of a king on the behalf of another person.
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And how many of you know who our king is?
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We say, worship to our king.
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He is our king of kings.
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And we have authority on this earth to bind and to lose.
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We have authority on this earth.
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Man is God's avenue into the earth.
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We have not because we ask not.
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All power and authority has been given back to the church,
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and Jesus said, now go ye therefore and represent me,
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not just on the streets, but go into that place of prayer
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and begin to exercise your dominion and your authority in prayer
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for yourself, no, on the behalf of another person,
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on the behalf of your city, on the behalf of the East Coast,
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and you watch and see that I won't do some great and mighty things.
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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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Why do you think men are coming to the brightness of your rising?
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Why do you think people come to you and ask you for prayer?
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Why do you think people come to you and ask you for counsel and advice?
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Because they are attracted to the presence of God that you have on your life.
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To me, prayer is everything. Everyone say prayer is everything.
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I am a house of prayer.
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I am just going to sit here for just a minute.
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Let's just close your eyes and look at Him.
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Father, we look at you and we love you.
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We are seeing you more than we have ever seen you before.
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We are falling in love with you more than we have ever loved before.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Amen.
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You sense His presence?
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See? Can you feel Him?
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He said, I am going to make my glory pass by you.
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I am going to reveal my goodness to you.
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You know, His glory is here this morning.
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I don't mind stopping.
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Here you go. Here is another wave.
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Thank you, Father.
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Come unto me, O ye that laborer, heavy laden.
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I am giving you rest.
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All I want you to do is learn of me. Seek me.
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The church should be a place of refuge and rest.
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Here is another wave.
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Father, we really appreciate your presence.
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I am going to say something to you.
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I know you hear me when I pray.
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I am asking you that as your presence falls,
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I am asking you for miracles.
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Signs and wonders, healings and miracles
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in the midst of your presence.
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You said, ask of me.
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I will do great and mighty things.
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We love you. We appreciate your presence.
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Where is the Lord God of the Laija?
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Where is the Lord God of Catherine Pullman?
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Where is the Lord God of Jesus Christ,
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the same yesterday, today and forever?
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We went about doing good and healing all the world
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rest of the devil through your link.
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You said to covet earnestly the gifts of the Spirit.
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Father, we covet earnestly in these days, this generation,
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the power gifts to the in man of the station.
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Because many would believe on you because of the miracles.
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For your glory.
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That's all you want.
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We want you.
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We want to reach the people you want to see saved
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and come to the knowledge of truth.
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You know what's going to happen?
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People have been very bored in church lately.
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Oh, I just said what you were thinking.
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I don't mean just here.
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It's been happening all around,
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especially in the United States.
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People are bored for church.
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You know why they're bored?
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Because the presence of God has left the church.
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God is restoring the Tabernacle of David.
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God is restoring his glory in the church.
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He's getting his people ready.
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And we're going to see some great in life.
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Amen.
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I think sometimes we just need to be still.
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There's another way that he is God.
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It's just getting us ready, Paula.
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People are just crying in here today.
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I'm just going to let you cry.
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You needed to cry.
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People just need to cry.
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When was the last time you cried in the presence of God?
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Jeremiah settled in my head room like waters.
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My eyes are filled with tears.
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And Jeremiah was asking to wait for the slain daughter of his people.
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He was asking for tears he had lost.
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When you're in his presence, you sense his heart.
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Your heart becomes his heart.
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And it may cause you to weep.
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I just see the body of Christ as a great ship.
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And I see the ship turning.
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You're turning away from the traditions and the distractions.
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There is the author and the finisher of what he desires to do in these last days.
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The boredom is not necessarily a bad thing.
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The boredom is driving people to their knees.
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I was in a meeting in Guatemala.
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We did a pastors and leaders conference.
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I didn't want to go and say, not my will, you're a movie doc because I was scared.
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Have you ever been scared?
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But I went.
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Because when God tells you to do something and you do it,
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you realize that you're in a crossroad.
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that you wouldn't be at that new place and then you'd be stuck.
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And I mean to tell you that we were preaching, grown men were crying.
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Grown men cry in the presence of God.
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Pastors and leaders were crying.
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We touched them.
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Nobody even hands on them.
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Nobody did anything.
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Who did it?
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My ignoring was passing by.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Well, is everybody happy?
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Are you glad that you waited?
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Wait on the Lord.
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Be still.
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I know that he is God.
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He is God.
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See, you can know God through the word.
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How about knowing Him through prayer?
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All you have to do is Google.
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You can have any scripture, any teaching come up.
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It just takes a little effort to be a house of prayer.
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It's not going to be one of the people that sits there and does nothing for God
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or does nothing about getting to know God.
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My final quest is to know Him, to become deeply and intimately acquainted with Him.
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Do you have struggles?
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We are on struggles.
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How many of you have struggles?
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How many of you have distractions that pull against you?
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Well, what happens if I pray really good for like a week
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and then all of a sudden for like a week I had no time to pray?
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Well, you just get back up and you just get back into prayer.
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Amen.
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Amen?
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Well, let's finish this area that we were just in.
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There's the prayer of agreement.
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What's the prayer of agreement?
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That if two of you will agree on earth is touching anything that shall be done.
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We agree.
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There's the prayer of commitment, 1 Peter 5, 7.
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What's the prayer of commitment?
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That's where you cast all of your cares, all of your concerns,
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once and for all, over on Jesus.
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When?
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Once and for all.
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But what if I pick it up five minutes later?
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Then you don't know what? You go back to God and say, I cast all of my cares
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over on you once and for all.
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You use your spiritual imagination, picture yourself holding that thing in your hand
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and giving it to God.
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Do whatever you've got to do because God wants you free from anxiety,
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free from cares.
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You've given it to Him, then just walk on like it's already done,
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and say, what is that thing that you're believing in for?
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See, because in the last days, men's hearts will fail for fear.
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We said it before, we'll say it again, there's a lot of stress and anxiety in the world.
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This is a really good prayer, especially for us ladies.
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You mean God doesn't want me to hold on to it? God does not want you to hold on to it? Why?
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He said anxiety is just basically fear anyway.
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I remember I heard Kenneth E. Hagen say one time, he said,
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they didn't have any money to pay the bills at the Bible school.
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And Kenneth E. Hagen got up, we were all there, all the students and all the guests were in
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for some meeting, there's Kenneth E. Hagen, he gets up, he goes, in front of everybody,
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he goes, I'm just going to tell you something right now.
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He said, I'm not going to lose one bit of sleep over the payment for this school.
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He said, I'm going to tell you right now, he said, if the bills don't get paid,
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I'm going to go all over the United States of the world and tell everybody that God lied.
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You're going to hurt a pin drop.
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We were all really scared, we were like, did he really say that?
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I'm casting all my cares, this is not my ministry, I didn't want it in the first place.
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You told me to build the school, now I'm building the school, now you pay for it.
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Then there's United Prayer, Genesis 11, and all throughout the book of Acts.
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What is United Prayer? It's when you gather together corporately and you can pray together.
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You do what we call corporate United Prayer. There's prayer in the spirit for personal edification.
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What is that? That's when you're praying tongues and you're building yourself up on your most holy faith
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and you're praying in the Holy Ghost and it's strictly for personal edification.
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I was praying for personal edification when we were sitting there just before I got up to speak.
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What is prayer for personal edification?
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He that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, how be it in the spirit.
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He speaks mysteries. It's praying in tongues or praying in the spirit.
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Mark 16 says, these signs will follow them that believe they will what? Speak within tongues.
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So it's the kind of praying that you pray when you find yourself getting really tired and weak spiritually.
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It's for personal edification. It's like this. It's like you have a battery in your cell phone
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and the more you use that cell phone, the more the bars go down.
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But when you need to charge it up, you plug it into the wall and you plug that phone into the wall with that cord
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and that battery gets charged up. When you pray in the spirit, you are edifying yourself.
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That word edify means to build up or to charge up like a battery.
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Lastly, there's the prayer of binding and loosening and we didn't get to start the prayer of intercession,
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but we will get into it tonight. I'm going to just introduce it and then we're going to close.
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Is everybody happy? Very quiet.
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What is the prayer of intercession?
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The prayer of intercession is prayer for another.
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The prayer of intercession is one or an intercessor is one who stands in the gap before God.
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Ezekiel 2230 said, I sought who sought. God said, I am seeking.
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I'm the one that's calling you to intercession. I am the one that's calling you to a greater measure of prayer.
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Why? Because I want to do some great and mighty things in your midst.
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And I'm telling you, the more we pray, the more it activates the plans and the purposes of God.
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So he said, I sought for a man among them that would stand in the gap before me for the land.
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The prayer of intercession is not praying for yourself.
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The prayer of intercession is praying on the behalf of a person, a nation, a city, a pastor, a husband, or a wife.
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It's not praying for yourself, it's praying for someone else.
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And the laws that govern the prayer of intercession are not the same laws that govern the prayer of faith.
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We're going to get into that. The prayer of intercession is a mediator.
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The Webster's definition of a mediator is a go-between.
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An intercessor, one who imposes between parties at variance, why? For the purpose of reconciling them.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer who pleads the case on the behalf of another.
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Is everybody still here?
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Amen.
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I feel like I could honestly preach for another hour, but we can't because we have to close.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer. I actually did a four-hour webinar one time,
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and I did literally speak for four straight hours.
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I'm sorry.
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An intercessor is as a lawyer who pleads the case on the behalf of another.
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So we are the intercessor, and we are as a lawyer, and we're going to the throne of God,
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and we are pleading the case on the behalf of someone else before the throne of God,
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and what is the law that we're using?
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We're using the Word of God.
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And how do you know that God said in His Word,
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I will hasten my Word to perform it.
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My Word will not return void.
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The Bible says somewhere in Isaiah, let us plead together.
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So God uses His Word, which is His law,
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and we plead His Word before the throne of God,
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and we see results on the behalf of the people we pray for.
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Isn't that what Moses did when he stood in the gap for the children of Israel?
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He, God wanted to come down and destroy everybody.
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God said, that's not like you, that's not your nature,
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and basically everybody's going to talk about you,
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that you let everybody out of the bondage,
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only to bring them in to kill them all.
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And Moses said, God said, yeah, you're right.
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The Webster's definition of intercession is to plead or make a request on the behalf of another.
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To intervene with the purpose of producing agreement.
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The Greek word for intercessor is to get the ear of a king on the behalf of another person.
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Listen to that.
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To get the ear of a king on the behalf of another person.
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And how many of you know who our king is?
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We say, worship to our king.
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He is our king of kings.
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And we have authority on this earth to bind and to lose.
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We have authority on this earth.
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Man is God's avenue into the earth.
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We have not because we ask not.
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All power and authority has been given back to the church,
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and Jesus said, now go ye therefore and represent me,
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not just on the streets, but go into that place of prayer
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and begin to exercise your dominion and your authority in prayer
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for yourself, no, on the behalf of another person,
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on the behalf of your city, on the behalf of the East Coast,
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and you watch and see that I won't do some great and mighty things.
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Thank you for listening to the Purpose Project Podcast.
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