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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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Good morning or afternoon, everybody.
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I'm gonna go ahead and mute all
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for the time of the teaching.
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And then by the hand and grace of God,
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I'm going to unmute you.
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But if that doesn't work, you can unmute yourselves
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just so you know.
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Is everyone muted?
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Okay.
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Well, it's good to be here.
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I'm excited about what God is doing with love and unity
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and how he's ramping up our devotional time with him,
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our corporate prayer time with him,
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the scripture that the Holy Spirit has been giving me
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for us and for all of us who are in ministry
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and have churches is Psalms 92 10.
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He said, I am gonna anoint my church with fresh oil.
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There's a fresh awakening coming in 2025
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as it relates to the spirit of grace and supplication.
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And I think it's important that as leaders
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that we all be open and receptive
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to our corporate meetings,
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whereby there's times where we will all be planning
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to teach and preach and the spirit of God
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may have other plans and other desires.
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And that may be to have the body enter into prayer,
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a time of corporate prayer,
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just like they did in the book of Acts.
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That's why we're calling this book of Acts prayer,
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because they all prayed at once, they all prayed together.
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They were in unity, they were in love,
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they were of one purpose, one accord.
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And it may be confusing for everyone to be praying at once,
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but prayer opens up the door for God to work.
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And when we're all praying at once,
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he hears every single prayer because he's an omnipotent God.
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He's an all-knowing God
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and he hears all of our prayers all at once.
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Before we get into the prayer today,
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I would like to share scripture I kept getting
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in my heart today and it's Hebrews 4.16.
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And it says here, and I know you know it,
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but faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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It says, for we do not have a high priest
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who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
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but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin,
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let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace
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that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
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in the time of need.
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Now, first of all, this tells me
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that there is a throne in heaven.
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And the Bible speaks about the throne room of God
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and what it looks like in the book of Revelations.
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But there is a throne room of grace.
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And we as believers, we can approach the throne room
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of grace with confidence and with boldness
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in our time of need and even concerning our time together
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in the time of need on the behalf of our families,
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on the behalf of the people in our congregations,
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the people in our ministries, the prayer,
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hundreds and hundreds of prayer requests that we may get.
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We can draw boldly to the throne of grace
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on the behalf of ourselves, on the behalf of others.
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And as you know, there's different kinds of prayer,
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but today is gonna be praying on the behalf of others,
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not just for ourselves.
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But it says here that we may obtain mercy
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and find grace to help in the time of need.
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Now, I looked that word up boldly.
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It says here in Webster's that that word boldly is defined
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as fearless.
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So we can go fearlessly before the throne room of grace.
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It also means taking liberties or shameless.
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Now we may say to ourselves, well, you know,
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I don't feel like I am in a place
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that I can draw boldly to the throne of God,
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fearlessly to the throne of God,
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shamelessly before the throne of God,
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because I may have said something or did something
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that didn't please him.
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But you know, the Bible says that we can.
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And the reason we can is because 2 Corinthians 5, 17
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through 21 says that in Christ, we are a new creation.
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All things have passed away, all things have become new.
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And now we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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So when we stand before the throne of grace,
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it is justice if we've never sinned.
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We are clean through the word he's spoken.
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We are clean because of the blood of Jesus.
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We can draw near to God.
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He can draw near to us.
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There's no shame.
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But what would happen if I do say something
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or do something that's not pleasing to the heart
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of the father, right?
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Well, you know the scripture, 1 John 1, 9.
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If we confess our sin, he is faithful and just
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to forgive us of our sin and cleanse us
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from all unrighteousness.
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The Bible also says in Psalms 103,
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that as far as the East is from the West,
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that's how far he takes our sins away from us.
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So no matter what kind of thoughts come
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or condemnation comes or accusations come from the enemy,
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we can just boldly say, no, I'm the righteousness of God
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in Christ, I can go boldly to the throne of grace.
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And there's therefore now, right now, right now today,
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no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus
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and I am in Christ Jesus.
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Therefore, I don't have to fear the presence of God.
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I don't have to be like Adam and Eve, who when they sinned,
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they hid themselves from the presence of God
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because they realized that they were naked
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and they needed to clothe themselves.
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Well, my friends, you and I, we are clothed in righteousness.
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We have Christ in us, the hope of glory,
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and we don't have to hide from God.
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We don't have to draw away from God.
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We can draw boldly to the throne of grace,
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shamelessly, fearlessly, because we're not here today,
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especially for ourselves.
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We're here on the behalf of whatever prayer assignment
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God downloads into our hearts.
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Okay, now the Greek word for boldly is P-A-R-R-H-E-S-I-A.
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And again, that means the absence of fear
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in speaking boldly.
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It means confidence or cheerful courage.
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I like that, cheerful courage.
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I can be happy when I approach the throne room of God.
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I can be happy because I know that prayer opens up the door
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for God to work, that he hears me when I pray,
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that my prayers are not falling on deaf ears,
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but it's falling in the ears of one
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who wants everybody to be saved, everybody to be healed,
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everybody to understand his heart.
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So we can have confidence that when we pray,
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our prayers open up the door for God to work.
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Now, we have not because we ask not.
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So if we don't approach the throne of grace
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and we don't spend time in the presence of God
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and we don't pray, then God can't work.
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Many people will say, well, why is that?
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Well, because man is God's avenue into the earth.
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We have to take our place.
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We've got to pray.
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We've got to stand.
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We've got to do what God has called us to do.
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I'm just gonna not take too much longer,
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but I wanna read you a scripture over here from,
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let's see, Genesis 1.26, Genesis 1.26.
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Prayer is necessary because man is God's avenue
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into the earth.
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I fully believe that if our people,
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the people we minister to, even all of us together,
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if we really understood our authority,
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we really understood the power of prayer,
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more of us would be on this call today.
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More of us would be praying.
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It would be like a universal move whereby,
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wow, prayer really works.
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But I think the reason why people don't pray
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is because they're discouraged.
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That's why Jesus said men ought to always pray
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and not faint.
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And I think people faint and get discouraged
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because they don't always understand
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that there's a process in that when you pray,
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you believe that you receive and you've done the work
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in the realm of the Spirit if it's intercession,
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and it takes time for it to manifest in the natural realm.
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I was teaching prayer precept and example
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in one of my churches here in New Jersey,
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and the subject matter that God gave me
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was preparing the way for our holiday services.
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Right?
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And we literally had a prayer meeting
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to prepare the way for our holiday services.
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And I think that would be a good idea
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on this Zoom call today.
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Well, why did we have that focus?
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Because so many people are gonna be coming
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to our services and our churches
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and even coming into our homes
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who don't walk with God, who are on the fence,
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who are not saved.
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And when we pray, prayer opens up the door for God to work.
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Prayer prepares the way, makes the crooked way straight,
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the rough places plain,
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and it causes things to be moved around in the Spirit.
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Prayer causes the darkness that's on the minds
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of those that don't believe to be removed.
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That's Romans 15, one, Galatians 6, two.
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So when we pray, it's causing whatever's hindering them
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in their minds or their thoughts or whatever,
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through the power of prayer
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and the presence of the Holy Spirit,
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it causes the Holy Spirit to come in,
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lift that thing up off of their minds,
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and convict them and convince them
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of their need for Jesus.
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It also opens up the eyes of their understanding
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so that they can truly see the heart of God.
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So many people are afraid of God.
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They're afraid of God, you know, what he might say.
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They're afraid of what God may ask them to do.
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There are just all kinds of reasons.
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And that's why I love the Holy Spirit,
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because when we don't know what's keeping people bound,
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when we don't understand why
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they don't see the heart of God,
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when we pray in the Holy Ghost,
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we can pray the mind, the will, and the purpose of God,
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and it'll cause things to work together for the good.
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It'll cause the right answer to come at the right time.
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It'll cause the Holy Spirit to be able to move accurately
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on the behalf of the individuals we are praying for.
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So it was really a lot of fun.
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We prayed in preparation for the holiday season.
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And I think in this particular church,
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they have four campuses.
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So they have 27 services coming up.
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And here's the beauty of it.
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You know, when we pray, now faith is.
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So we're praying, but it's being activated now.
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And when we pray, there's no time or distance in the Spirit.
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So it's happening now, right?
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Whether the people are in the services
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or whether they're not.
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So I think that that's why people get discouraged,
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getting back to that,
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because people don't see instant results.
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But in the realm of the Spirit, your prayers are working.
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Catherine Coleman once said,
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the greatest power given to humanity is the power of prayer.
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Ian Bounds once said,
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God shapes the world through prayer.
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The more prayer there is in the world,
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the better the world will be.
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We need to ramp up the prayer movement.
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I need to, I feel like we really need to focus more
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on the power of prayer and build people's faith, okay?
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Anyway, so let's just read this in Genesis 1.26.
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It says here, God said, and then we'll go into prayer.
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God said, let us make man in our image
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according to our likeness,
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and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
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and over the cattle, over all the earth,
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and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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So man created man in his own image,
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in the image of God, he created them, male and female,
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and 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,
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and over every living thing that rules or moves on the earth.
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So that word dominion means rada.
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It's to tread, that Hebrew is rada,
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it means to tread, to rule, to have dominion.
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God gave man dominion.
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And the English definition is to rule or to have authority.
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And you know what happened.
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Adam and Eve, Timothy Hagen said it like this,
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committed high treason, sold out to Satan,
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what was given to Adam, he gave over to Satan,
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who is the God of this world, right?
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Jesus said in the temptation, when the enemy came to him,
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I'll give you all of this,
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because it's been delivered to me.
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And then we know that Jesus quoted the word of God to him.
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So we know that was a real temptation.
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So the truth of the matter is,
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Satan is the God of this world.
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So in Christ Jesus, you and I have got to stop being afraid,
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stop being afraid of God,
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draw near to the throne of grace,
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and begin to take our authority like never before,
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with the full armor of God,
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and begin to move some of these mountains,
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begin to move the enemy off of some of the things
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that are God's dominion anyway, right?
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And we need to begin to really take our authority.
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So, you know, people say,
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and I've had people put the brakes on when I say this,
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people say, well, God has everything under control.
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Well, the truth of the matter is,
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God does not have everything under control.
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The whole earth or the world
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is in the sway of the wicked one.
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It is the body of Christ, members in particular,
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Christ being the head,
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we are the ones through our prayers,
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through using our authority,
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through the name of Jesus,
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through speaking the word of God,
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through decreeing and declaring,
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we are the ones that have dominion and have control,
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because it's been delivered back unto us
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through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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That's why the Bible says,
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all authority, Jesus said,
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has been given unto me in heaven and in earth.
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He says, now you go, and in my name,
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you know, cast out devils, heal the sick,
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but also you go and you pray.
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You begin to pray, use your authority,
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use my name, in my name, cast out devils,
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in my name, take authority over the darkness
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that's on the minds of them that believe not.
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Use my authority, and you will see that prayer,
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in this regard, using the authority in prayer,
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will open up the door for God to work.
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It will prepare the way, it will move mountains,
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it'll make the crooked way straight,
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the rough places plain,
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but we just need to have boldness and confidence
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that our prayers open up the door for God to work.
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So I really, weirdly, didn't have direction
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for our prayer time today, and sometimes that works.
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I mean, that's what happens, and that's how it works,
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because the Holy Spirit will give us
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the prayer focus ahead of time, and sometimes he doesn't.
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But I believe that what we need to pray for today
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is prayer, preparation for our services coming up
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in this holiday season.
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Not just our services, but when we, as families,
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gather together, because some of you
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are not ministry leaders, but you can pray in preparation
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that when your family gathers together,
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you can pray in preparation that you have peace,
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because you know how holidays are,
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and sometimes everything just comes out, you know,
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and it's not always good.
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But we can pray in preparation for peace.
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We can pray in preparation for joy.
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We can pray for preparation for harmony.
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We can pray for preparation that our hearts
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would be knit together in love.
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We can pray in preparation that God will give those
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who we are coming in contact with over the holiday season,
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we can pray that God will give them a heart to know him,
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and that God will open up a door for us
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to speak a word in season, whether it's a salvation message
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or whether it's just a loving, kind word.
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So that's really what I feel the Holy Spirit's given us
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for today, to pray for preparation for our services
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and for our family time together.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and see.
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Margie, would you mind if I just share a few minutes?
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Sure.
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To share the heart of why we're doing this prayer
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and why Margie is doing this.
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I really feel the call of God to prayer for the nation
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and from every state across our nation and the world,
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but it has to start with the leaders.
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If the leaders are not willing to come together and pray,
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how are we ever gonna get the body of Christ
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to come together and pray?
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And if anybody should make the sacrifice
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on a Saturday morning to gather once a month for prayer,
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it should be ministers.
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It should be the ones that know how important it is
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when we gather together.
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We know the birthing of the New Testament church
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came through that prayer room.
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It came through them being in one accord and praying,
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and that's when the baptism of the Holy Spirit came,
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and that's when the New Testament church and its pattern
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begin to be developed in the earth.
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So when prayer of leaders begin to happen,
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we're gonna see a move of God like we never seen before.
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And we may start small right now,
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but I'm believing 100, 200 ministers and more
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will start gathering, starting on Zoom to pray
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and pray and pray, hallelujah.
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And I believe God is getting ready to change things
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in great dimensions if God's leaders
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will come together and pray.
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So this is not just that we're just doing this
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to pass some time away
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because we're gonna be spiritual and religious
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and we're gonna pray.
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That's not why we're doing this.
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We're doing it with purpose.
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We're doing it intentionally.
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We're doing it with a focus of getting leaders
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to pray together and to birth the things that God wants
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to birth in the earth right now,
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to come in unity and one accord as leaders,
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to drive out the strife, the division
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that's in the body of Christ today,
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to lift up the body of Christ that many of them
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are just depressed and oppressed
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and feeling overwhelmed by life itself.
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And it's the leader's responsibility,
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before even we preach, is to pray them through, hallelujah.
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I don't know why minister thinks the most important thing
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it is to preach.
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No, the most important thing is to communicate
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with the heaven, hallelujah.
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Communicate with God the Father
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and see the releasing of God's glory in the earth.
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And I'm glad Margie brought up Genesis chapter one
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on dominion because what dominion is saying is we are
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to bring forth the kingdom rule of God into the earth.
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And that's what dominion stands for is God's rule,
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God's reign of righteousness in the earth.
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So when we pray, we are bringing forth the rule
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and the reign of righteousness in the earth, praise God.
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And it takes all of us.
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Well, Margie could pray all day, all night.
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She will have some blessings that come.
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I could pray all night and God will move and do something.
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But when we come together to pray,
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we're gonna shape the nation.
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We're gonna shift the earth.
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We're gonna shift the church.
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We're gonna begin to move things
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in ways that we couldn't move them before
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because there's something about corporate oneness.
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There's something about corporate unity.
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It's something about corporate prayer that begins
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to change things like never before.
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So I hope those of you that are on here today,
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you will make a commitment to this corporate prayer time
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together for this nation, for the body of Christ,
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to join with Margie and to stand with her
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in this corporate prayer because I believe
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we're birthing it right now on Zoom,
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but I believe it'll start to awaken
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in state after state after state,
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the call of prayer like she said earlier,
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where the body of Christ, not just pray,
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but pray together, pray together
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because we must come together in prayer
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if we're going to see the kingdom,
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rule and reign of God in the earth.
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And I would ask you to invite other ministers
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and other leaders to come and join us.
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We're gonna do it the first Saturday of every month
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and we're gonna keep plowing away.
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We're gonna keep pounding away.
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I believe that one day we'll see hundreds of ministers
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gathered together to pray as representatives
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of God's kingdom in the earth and we'll see a great change.
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So Margie said earlier that she's gonna pray in the spirit
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and we're gonna all pray in the spirit.
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You have to unmute yourself if she can unmute you
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and we'll all pray together and then she may mute you,
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all of us at the same time because now
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as we prayed in the spirit,
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God's giving her something to release in English
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so we could be able to understand what's being said
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in the natural as well as understand
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what's being said by the spirit.
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So she will release that time
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and then she may put us on mute again
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and start or take us off mute again
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and start praying in the spirit again.
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So just kind of we're learning this,
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this is new for all of us, kind of go with the flow,
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just go with the God leading Margie
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when she mutes and un-mutes, hallelujah.
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And then if you have any needs,
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not everyday type of little needs,
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but I'm talking about big things that need to shift
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regarding church, your nation, your city, your state,
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put it in the chat box, especially if it's an emergency
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and then we can look at those
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and if God leads Margie to focus on that,
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we'll go to that and pray for those circumstances
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and situations but make sure you put it in the chat box.
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So this way it doesn't hinder what Margie is doing.
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And then I'm sure many of you come from churches
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that know how to pray together in one accord.
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There always has to be one leading.
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Okay, we can't have all kinds of people
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wanting to take prayer here, take prayer there,
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take prayer there, has to be one.
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And we join in in one mind and one accord
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as God's leading Margie.
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We follow with her as the spirit of God is leading her.
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So there's that agreement,
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there's that one accord, there's that oneness
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as we go with her and follow her
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as the spirit of God is leading us
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in this time of prayer, hallelujah.
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So please be patient with us, work with us,
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be committed, invite other people.
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Let's take back this nation through prayer, hallelujah.
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Let's change the body of Christ in prayer.
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Let's lift up ministers where ministers will get the hunger
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and fire to pray again and to come together
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as the body of Christ.
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We could do that.
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If it starts just with us, we could do it.
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We could see it accomplished, hallelujah,
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but we have to commit to it
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like they did in the New Testament church.
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After Jesus ascended, they gathered in that upper room
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and they stood in prayer until there was a birthing
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of the spirit of birthing of the New Testament church
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and God began to move all over the earth.
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We are still receiving the blessings
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of that upper room prayer today.
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We're still benefiting for what took place at that time.
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So if that happened with them,
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I believe we're the latter day church,
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the latter rain church,
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and I believe that God's getting ready to do the same thing,
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to birth something in the earth like never before,
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but it must start through prayer.
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But thank you for joining us today.
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And now I'll turn it over to Margot.
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Can everyone unmute?
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Are you able to unmute yourself?
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Yes, good.
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Thank you.
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All right, so let's all just begin to pray.
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Alla bop shari so-
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has ye heard
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Father, you put me in the hand of the Lord.
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To find in much the other way you went,
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to also set me in the hand of the Lord,
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and not to disappoint you.
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The name of Jesus is the name of Jesus,
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and now we need to run this kingdom.
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He is greater than anyone, and is not inflated by you.
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Be a Buddhist.
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Be a Buddhist.
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Be a Buddhist.
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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast. It has been such a joy sharing this time with you. For more inspiration and resources on today's topic, please visit our website at margiefleront.org.