The Foundations of Prayer - Part 2

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You pray it and he can answer it.

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it.

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Goes into the hearts of the people,

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doesn't return void, it produces results.

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Let's go to Genesis 1.

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I didn't feel like doing the copy and paste,

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so I brought my Bible and I'm gonna read it from my Bible.

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How many of you have Bibles?

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Let's start reading here at verse 26, Genesis chapter one.

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Genesis 1, 26.

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Then God said, everyone say God said.

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God said.

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Let us, the Trinity, make man in our image

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according to our likeness.

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Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

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the birds of the air, and over the cattle,

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and all the earth, and over every creeping thing

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that creeps on the earth.

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So God created man in his own image.

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In the image of God he created him, male and female,

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he created them.

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Then God blessed them and said to them,

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be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

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Have dominion over the fish of the sea,

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over the birds of the air, and over every living thing

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that moves upon the earth.

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That word dominion is rada.

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Have dominion, that word means to tread, to rule,

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to have dominion, to dominate.

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The English definition is to rule or to have authority.

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He didn't say, God didn't say, I'm gonna dominate you.

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Adam originally, this is a very important foundation.

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Adam originally had dominion upon this earth.

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Upon this earth and in the world.

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In a sense, Adam was the God of this world.

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But Satan came and lied to Adam,

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and Adam committed high treason and sold out to Satan.

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He gave the dominion and the authority to Satan.

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Here's scripture to prove it.

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Everybody say the foundation.

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The word of God.

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Luke 4, six, and the devil said to Jesus,

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this was the temptation, all this authority,

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I will give you.

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And that was, do you know, that was the easy road.

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You know, there is an easy road, and then there's the hard,

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then there's the road that God's called us to really walk on.

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Be careful you don't take the easy road.

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Masha ke teya manaya.

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Sometimes the harder road's a harder road

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because it is the harder road.

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And the easy road doesn't lead you on your path

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and into your destiny.

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The easy road takes you off your path.

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And you will, you don't want that.

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I will give you and their glory for,

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what did he say here in Luke 4, six,

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for this has been delivered to me.

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And I give it to whoever I wish.

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Now you know this, this was a real temptation.

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So it was a definite, real thing, it was a fact.

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Second Corinthians four, three, and four,

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if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled

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to those who are perishing.

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Who, the mind, the who.

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The God of this age has blinded who does not believe.

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He's the God of this age.

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Are you afraid of him?

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The Bible says greater is he that is in you and I

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than he that is in the world.

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We are in the world, we are not of the world.

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In the world we will have tribulation,

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but be of good cheer.

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Jesus said I have overcome the world

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and I am on the inside of you.

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Are you gonna get warfare?

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Are you gonna get tested and treated?

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Are you gonna get tested and tried and all kinds of stuff?

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Absolutely, 100%.

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But you've gotta plow through the warfare

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and just know that the greater one is in you.

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Do you know that when you go to a new level

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there's a new devil?

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First John 5, 19, here's another one.

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In the mouth of two or three, right?

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We know that we are of God and the whole world lies

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under the sway of the wicked one.

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Now, we have been given the authority by Jesus.

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What was lost, listen, in Adam was restored

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in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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That's why Jesus said to you and I,

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Matthew 28, 18 and 20,

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Jesus came and he spoke saying,

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all authority has been given to me

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in heaven and in earth.

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And then he said to his disciples,

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now you go therefore and in my name.

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And he said cast out devils,

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heal the sick, so on and so forth.

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So you and I are as Christ in the earth.

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When we use his name, the Bible says,

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whatever you ask or demand in my name,

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that word demand is not ask, it's demand in my name.

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The Amplify said, I will be there to back it up.

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First Corinthians, I had this,

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I added this to my notes

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because it came to me in my spirit this morning.

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First Corinthians two, verse eight.

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Listen, if they had known,

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what was gonna happen when Jesus,

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if they had known the mystery,

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if they had understood the plan of redemption,

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if they had understood that Jesus was the second Adam

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and he was gonna come to give us authority

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and dominion over this earth.

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And that whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven.

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That we would have the authority to use his name,

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to speak the word, to declare the word of God.

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And the enemy must flee.

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If he had known that,

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he would have never crucified the Lord of glory.

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Would have never done it.

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But the devil played right into the hand

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and the plan of redemption.

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And you know what I love about the plan of redemption?

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He used a bunch of people who are just like you and I.

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Regular people with issues,

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personality stuff, all kinds of stuff.

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He got his whole plan fulfilled

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by using all the people through all that time.

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And here we are today.

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And I believe that the glory of this latter house

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is gonna be greater than the former.

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I believe that we're coming into another major move of God,

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that we are coming in.

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We thought we were there 30 years ago

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and we pioneered it and we prayed and we believed.

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But I believe that God has a secret plan

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that we don't know of.

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That's why he can't tell us everything.

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He's got to leave some secret things a secret.

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Even to the prophets.

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Because if they open their mouth and tell the secrets,

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it's gonna mess things up.

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I live for this.

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I live for seeing another move of God.

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I live to see, I believe we're gonna live to see

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the power gifts in manifestation.

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God's actually been telling us lately.

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The power gifts.

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But you've got to covet them, desire them, long for them.

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Just like you covet to prophesy,

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covet that there's working of miracles,

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gifts of healings and a gift of faith

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would be in manifestation.

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If you ever read Catherine Coleman's books,

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your heart would break.

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And that's what we need.

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We need to have tears like Jeremiah had in Jeremiah 9.1.

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He said, oh, that my head were like waters

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and my eyes a fountain of tears

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that I would weep for the slain daughter of my people.

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We've got to literally begin to see the way God sees.

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Catherine Coleman's books, people were,

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they were terminal and it had cancer

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and were in pain and hurting

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and they'd attend her meetings and guess what?

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Nobody touched him.

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Nobody laid hands on him.

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The power of God, the power of the most high

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would overshadow them.

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He would come upon them

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and he would just begin to heal their bodies.

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Nobody got the glory.

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There was a, the only person that got the glory was Jesus.

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So that's where we're headed.

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If they had known they would have never crucified

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the Lord of glory.

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Amen.

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Ian Bounds said,

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if prayer puts God to work on earth,

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then by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out

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of the world's affairs and prevents him from working.

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So you have to ask.

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I'm gonna quote some scriptures and I'm gonna do it.

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And now you know what's interesting about this?

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God gave me this message

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in the height of the grace movement.

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Is everybody okay with me saying that?

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Does anybody know what the grace movement is?

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K-s-e-r-a, se-r-a,

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whatever will be will be.

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I'm under the law, I'm not under the law but grace.

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So K-s-e-r-a, se-r-a.

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A passive gospel.

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I get it, Jesus did it all.

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He did the work.

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But man is still God's avenue into the earth.

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We have not because we ask not.

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Prayer opens up the door for God to work.

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I've given you authority and power

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and every place the sole of your foot treads upon,

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I've given it to you but the righteous gotta go in

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and take it by force.

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This friend of mine said he was a ministry peer.

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Very annoying.

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Easter, you know who he is.

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I'll whisper it in your ear later.

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This is not gossip, it's error.

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We had been pioneering since 1981

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for a prayer movement in this region.

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He gets up in a, I don't know,

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I guess you would say at the time a mega church

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and he had a platform.

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And he literally said, I don't pray anymore.

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Everything I have is by God's grace.

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I delight myself in the Lord.

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You're so selfish.

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It's all about you, isn't it?

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I delight, I just had to say that.

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I delight myself in the Lord

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and he gives me the desires of my heart.

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Well what about and of some have compassion

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and others save with fear,

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pulling them out of the fire,

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hating even the garments spotted by the flesh.

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What about that?

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Pulling people out of hell,

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using your authority,

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using the prayers of the saints

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which have a right, our righteous prayers of the saints

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which has a powerful effect.

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I got him on the phone.

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It wasn't pretty.

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And I'm very like secure now.

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More than, I mean I'm secure.

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Back then I still had a little bit of,

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I don't know, whatever that is

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that you gotta grow out of.

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If you're gonna grow into your gift

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and be everything God's called you to be.

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And I just said to him, I can't believe

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you just said that.

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You just literally uprooted so much of our work

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that we've been doing in this region by saying that.

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Anyway, that was my rant.

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Oh my goodness.

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Matthew 6, 8, therefore do not be like them

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for your father knows what things you have need of

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before you ask him.

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Matthew 7, 11, if you then being evil,

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that's really natural parents,

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know how to give good gifts to your children.

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How much more will your father who is in heaven

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give good things to those who what?

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Ask him.

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Matthew 18, again I say to you,

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if two of you shall agree on earth

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concerning anything they what?

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They ask, it shall be done by my father

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which is in heaven.

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John 14, 13, and whatever you ask in my name,

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that I will do, as that the father may be glorified

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in the son, that word ask like we said

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is actually demand.

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John 15, 16, you did not choose me,

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but I chose you and appointed you

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that you should go and bear fruit

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and that your fruit should remain

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and that whatever you want.

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Ask the father in my name, he may give it you.

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James 4, 2, you have not because you ask not.

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Psalms 2, 8, ask for the heathen,

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ask for the nations.

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Matthew 7, 7, and 8, ask and it will be given you.

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Ruth Bell Graham once said,

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God has decreed to act in response to prayer.

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Ask, he commands us and Satan trembles for fear that we will.

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Is your faith getting built up?

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I'm gonna read you something from a book called

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Unmasking the Devil,

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Strategies to Defeat Eternity's Greatest Enemy.

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John Ramirez, see I'll tell you how I am.

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I'm a praying person.

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I want to understand the laws of the spirit.

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And when I find out that there's somebody like him

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exposing the laws of the enemy,

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there's a scripture that he uses.

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I don't remember what the exact scripture is.

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I wanna know what he learned so I can learn some things.

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It's just like tongues.

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Do you know when you pray in tongues,

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the devil doesn't understand what you're saying?

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It completely confuses his plans and his purposes.

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That's a whole nother message.

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So he said in his book,

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as a demonic high priest at night,

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I would leave my body and fly over neighborhoods.

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Hurling taunts and curses down on the people

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who lived within their borders.

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Caught in the grip of strange dreams,

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I would feel myself being transported

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into different neighborhoods.

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Within the five boroughs of New York City,

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these out of body experiences called astral projection

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allowed me to have dominion over the communities.

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I felt diabolical, like a vampire,

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and I knew they had nothing on me.

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Sometimes I would even land

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and walk around the neighborhoods bringing curses,

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bad luck and witchcraft aura.

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Let me just say this,

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because I forgot to say it's very important

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that you understand he got born again.

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And then he was discipled under David Wilkerson.

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So he had that level of stability

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and somebody that was training him in the word of God.

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Oddly, however, in some neighborhoods,

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I met with strong resistance.

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And at first, couldn't understand

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where the opposing power came from.

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In these neighborhoods,

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people were waiting for me to land.

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I prepared to curse the neighborhood,

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but when I landed, a mob would chase me for blocks

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and I couldn't curse them.

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Are you listening?

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Frustrated, I would fly off again,

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hovering as high as the street lamps,

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and they would look up at me.

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Can you imagine what God could do with you people

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that are so prophetic around here

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and the things you're seeing and hearing and knowing,

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and you mix that with prayer?

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Finally, I realized these were nasty Christians praying

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for their neighborhoods.

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He said, I hated them the most.

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Wherever these praying Christians lived,

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I couldn't penetrate the neighborhood.

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So I would move on to the next neighborhood.

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Ooh, we're almost done.

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Foundation number two.

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God hears you when you pray.

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He hears you.

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I didn't feel like he heard me.

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Doesn't matter, get over it.

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He hears you.

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He's a faith God, not a feeling God.

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He doesn't operate in the sense realm,

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he operates in the spirit.

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Proverbs 15, 29, the Lord is far from the wicked,

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but he hears the prayers of the righteous.

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First John 5, 14 and 15, now this is the confidence

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we have in him, everyone say confidence.

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That if we ask anything according to his will,

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which is his word, what's the result?

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He hears us.

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And if we know he hears us, whatever we ask,

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then we know we have the petitions we desire of him.

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John 11, 42, I hope to get into this next week.

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When you pray, you pray.

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I hope to get into this next week.

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When Jesus was at the tomb of Lazarus,

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he wept, he groaned in the spirit, and he was troubled.

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That was his prayer.

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And what did he say?

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He said, Father, I thank you that you hear me always

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when I pray.

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When's the only time he won't hear you?

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Do you know the answer to that?

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When's the only time God won't hear you?

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Psalm 66 says, if I regard iniquity in my heart,

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the Lord will not hear me.

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It's a wall.

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So something to be reminded of,

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the devil will always attack you where your gift is.

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So if you're a praying man or a praying woman,

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he'll try to get you offended, he'll try to get you hurt.

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He'll send, I believe the devil even sends people

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to do some of that warfare to get you off your wall.

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You're a watchman on the wall,

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and he's trying to push you off with rejection and hurt

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and all kinds of stuff.

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Just be as wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove,

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and keep your armor on and watch your backside.

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Keep yourself clean and pure in the love of God.

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Number three, we're almost done.

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Third foundation, he answers you.

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Jeremiah 33, three says, call upon me,

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I'm gonna answer you.

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And it may not look the way you think it's supposed to look.

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My thoughts are not your thoughts,

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my ways are not your ways, but you call upon me,

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I'm gonna answer you and show you great and mighty things.

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Lastly, number four, and the Holy Ghost gave me this

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this morning, because I didn't even have it,

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I didn't think of this, the Holy Ghost gave it to me.

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He said, stay in faith.

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See, people think, and I've seen this,

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and I've just thought about it,

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I don't always say everything I think.

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My friends know that.

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I just observe and I wait.

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That's why you gotta wait, and the best way

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to teach people is to teach them, not correct them.

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Give them the word of God.

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Sometimes we think, if I could just get

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a million people to pray, my prayers will be answered.

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Well, God will hear the prayer of the righteous.

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The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man

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avails months.

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You've got to mix your prayers with faith.

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What is faith?

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Faith is a substance, it's a force in the spirit.

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It's a substance of two things.

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It's the substance of things hoped for,

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the evidence of what you don't see.

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So when you pray in the realm of the spirit, it's working.

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He hears you, he's answering you.

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You've just gotta walk by faith and not by sight.

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You've got to hold fast the confession of your faith

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without wavering.

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Keep, like Brother Hagen used to say,

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when you walk into a room and it's a dark room,

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and what do you do to get the light to come on?

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You turn the switch on, right?

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Keep that switch of faith turned on.

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You gotta operate in faith.

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Okay, let's stand.

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We're gonna pray.

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And I'm gonna turn this over to Pastor Tricia,

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or Pastor David, whoever's in charge, at 8.30.

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Because that's what I do, I always obey the rules.

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Always.

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What we're gonna do, can I have my, yeah, oh perfect.

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We're gonna demonstrate, I'm gonna demonstrate prayer.

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We're gonna ask God for a fresh, we're gonna ask

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for a fresh rain of God's presence in our region.

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And then the Holy Ghost corrected me and he said,

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and in your families.

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And then when I looked it up, it said it right here.

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Now, it said it right here.

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Let me just see which one.

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First, let's talk about the promise.

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What's the promise?

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Everyone say the promise.

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Promise.

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Here's the promise.

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Isaiah 44.3.

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Put my post-it right on top of the scripture.

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Ooh, I could feel the Holy Ghost.

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Ooh, Shakaia maniah.

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For I just hear the Lord saying,

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I'm gonna anoint you with fresh oil.

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You're gonna be a people that are called by my name.

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And as you humble yourself and stand before my throne,

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room of grace, I'm gonna hear from heaven,

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and I'm going to pour out upon you the working of miracles,

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the gift of faith and the gifts of healing.

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For what the enemy has desired for the evil,

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I the Lord am going to turn it around.

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And you're gonna see signs and wonders and miracles

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and manifestations of my spirit that you have longed for

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and that you have desired.

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So continue to seek me, continue to long for me,

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continue to inquire of me,

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and I will pour out of my spirit in a fresh new wave

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of signs and wonders and miracles.

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And the Lord said, and it's gonna take you by surprise

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because nobody's gonna know what's happening,

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but I'm gonna descend in the back

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and someone's going to be healed by my power

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and by my spirit.

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And then they're gonna come to you

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and they're gonna say, I had this wrong and that wrong.

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And you're gonna say, whoa, who did that?

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It was not by might, it was not by power,

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but it was by my spirit, says the Lord.

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Isaiah 44, three says, for I will, I love this, I will.

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You know, God has a will.

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You think you have a strong willed child, right?

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They write books about that.

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God's the ultimate strong willed,

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creator of the heavens and the earth, and he has a will.

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Not only does he doesn't want anybody to be,

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no one to be go to hell, he wants them all to be saved.

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I would let all men be saved, all of them,

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every single one of them, you will be saved

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and your households, nothing's too hard for God.

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You know, you're a watchman in your own house.

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He said, I will pour water on him who is thirsty

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and floods on the dry ground.

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I will pour my spirit, here it is, on your descendants.

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These millennials, these Z generations,

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contending for the hearts and destinies of our children,

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he said, I'm gonna pour my spirit out on your offspring.

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Yeah, but they're getting worse.

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A lot of times you start praying for your children

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or for someone, they get worse before they get better.

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Why?

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Because the devil knows he's gotta leave

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and he's putting up a fight.

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Just hold fast to confession of your faith.

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Hold on in faith.

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Don't faint if you don't see visible results.

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Jesus said men ought to always pray and not faint.

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They will spring up among the grass

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like the willows by the watercourses.

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So here's the promise, I'm gonna do this for you,

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but here's what God said,

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this is what we're gonna do tonight.

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Ask the Lord for the rain.

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In the time of the latter rain,

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and the Lord will make flashing clouds,

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he will give them showers of rain

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and grass in the field for everyone.

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So Father, let's just pray.

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So Father, we just come before you.

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We come before the throne room of grace.

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And we stand before your throne

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with clean hands and a pure heart.

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Let's everybody pray in the Holy Ghost.

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We come and we stand before the throne of grace.

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Let's pray in the Holy Ghost.

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We come and we stand with clean hands and a pure heart.

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And we come to you on the behalf of this region

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and on the behalf of the families that are represented

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from those that are here in person

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and those who are listening online.

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And we ask Father God that you would send the rain

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in the time of the latter rain.

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You said if my people which are called by my name

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would humble themselves and pray,

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that if you see that there's a drought,

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that if we would ask you,

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you would not only forgive our sin,

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but you would heal our land and heal our families.

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And Father, we're asking for an outpour of your Spirit

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on this region and on our sons and on our daughters.

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You said in your word that in the last days,

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you would do this for us.

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So we covet earnestly Father,

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that your heart would be opened.

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And then out of the abundance of your heart,

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your mercy would be made known.

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That in wrath, you would remember mercy.

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May the mass shake a tail of my sorrow,

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but so let me case a release.

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Seke state of my high a seke a mania.

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Father, we ask in Jesus name, you said in your word,

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to covet earnestly the gifts of the Spirit

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to be an operation.

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Father, we covet, we crave, we desire

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that we would see the manifestation

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of the working of miracles,

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gifts of healings and the gift of faith.

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Because haven't you said in your word

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that many would believe on Jesus because of the miracles.

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So we say Father, send the rain.

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Open up the treasure chest of your heart.

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In wrath, remember mercy.

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We're asking for mercy in our land,

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mercy and grace to be revealed.

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Now let's sing in the Holy Ghost.

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Mingan bandele me she on a mama mandele me me.

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Raina la la ma sere me and a la baba.

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On a ma ha yon de me se.

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On a la baba son de le me she.

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On a ma ha yon se posheke te de de be.

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On a ma ha yon de me se.

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On a la la me se yon ande.

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Mingan la la ma son de le me and a la baba.

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On a la la me se yon ande.

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In a ma ha yon de le me and a la baba.

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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

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For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,

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please visit our website at margiefleuron.org.