Unlocking the Power of the Holy Spirit The Purpose and Power of Praying in Tongues Part 1

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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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Can you give him a hand?

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Can you give him a hand?

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Oh, yeah.

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You have a mic, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hello, everybody.

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Thank you.

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How is everyone?

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You may be seated.

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Just testing the mic to make sure we're on.

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Praise God.

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Well, we had a beautiful service yesterday with the ladies.

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I think this pulp is bigger than me.

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What do you think?

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But we filled up as a church,

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because I feel like I'm family here now,

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we filled up the whole entire right side, my right side,

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of women who are just on fire for God

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and wanted to hear from God.

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And we really, I just was telling Pastor,

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we really had a beautiful service.

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I mean, I was just personally blown away.

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Like you have to understand,

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those of you that may not understand it,

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it's not by might.

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It's not by human gifting.

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It's by the Holy Spirit.

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And I said a lot of things yesterday

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that I personally didn't know.

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And it came up out of my own heart.

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And that's the Holy Spirit,

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giving us wisdom, revelation, unction,

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and insight into the message that we shared yesterday.

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Now we did record it,

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and I'm gonna be putting it up on our YouTube channel,

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eventually, hopefully soon.

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So it was just a beautiful service.

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I'm glad to see that there's young people in here today,

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and I believe that the Spirit of God

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is going to encounter the young people.

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The thing I was thinking about

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is that there's no junior Holy Spirit.

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God said, I'm gonna pour out my Spirit

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on your sons and your daughters.

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So I believe the young people in here

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that are going to have an encounter,

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and those, they may be in children's church

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at the end of the service, if they wanna come up,

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they can come up as well.

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But before we get into the word,

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I'm gonna go ahead and reintroduce this book.

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We sold a lot of them yesterday,

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which was the final subject matter

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of what I shared yesterday.

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And I'm encountering God through prayer.

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I take the reader from,

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how do you develop the habit of prayer?

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How do I develop a devotional life?

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And I take the reader from,

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begin where you are, which is 15 minutes,

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and then God will take you all the way through.

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I talk about contemplative prayer,

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all kinds of prayer.

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I talk about the heart of the Father, who he is,

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because in order for us to really understand

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how we can have a beautiful prayer life,

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we have to understand who our Father is.

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I wanna give this to this young girl right here.

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Little sweetheart.

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And then I have Focus, Eliminating Distractions

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for Enhanced Spiritual Vision.

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This is one of my favorite subjects.

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As a matter of fact, I dedicate all my books

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to the young people, but my kids, that is.

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But this time I said I dedicate this book

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to the apostolic leaders, prophets, and teachers in my life.

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Thank you for pouring into me and my ministry

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through your teaching, training, mentoring,

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and prophetic words.

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You've passed the baton onto me,

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and it is my hope to pass the baton

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onto the next generation of leaders.

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So this is really a book for all of us.

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What is distracting us?

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What is keeping us from running successfully

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the race that is set before us?

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So I just wanna give this book to you.

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This is one of my favorite things that God taught me

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in a matter of two years.

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So we'll go ahead and get into the word.

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I'm going to, yes, the title did come up.

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I'm gonna be talking to you about the power

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and the purpose of praying in tongues.

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Interestingly enough, he gave me an extra scripture

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to share that's not in my notes,

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but it goes along with what pastor said,

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which I love, the Holy Spirit.

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And it also goes along with the message

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that I'm gonna be sharing today.

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But he gave me this scripture from 2 Timothy for you.

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It says here in 2 Timothy 1, 6,

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I remind you to stir up.

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Everyone say remind.

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Remind.

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I remind you to stir up the gift of God

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that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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Now we're gonna be talking about the purpose

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and the power of praying in tongues.

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And if you study the book of Acts,

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we find that at times the Holy Spirit was,

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the baptism of the Holy Spirit was given at times

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through the laying on of hands.

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Are you listening?

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So he said, I want you to stir up the gift of God

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that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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And then the verse seven, I kept hearing this morning,

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for God has not given us a spirit of fear,

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but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

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So you don't have a spirit of fear.

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And it's fear is prevalent in the earth today.

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We're not gonna talk about that today,

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but that's not what God has given you.

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He said, you've also have a spirit of love.

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How many know Romans 5, 5 says the love of God

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has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

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And we can actually have the ability to love the unlovely

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and even our enemies who are torturing us

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and continue to torture us.

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We have the ability to love them.

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How many of you know that's true?

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Because we have a spirit of love.

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We are capable of doing it,

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even though at times we don't feel like it.

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But it's not by feelings,

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it's by being obedient to what's on the inside of us,

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which is Christ in us, the hope of glory.

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But the emphasis here,

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I feel that the spirit of God is saying is,

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you have a spirit of power.

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And when I looked that up in Google or AI,

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whatever, it's basically the same.

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That spirit of power is the same word found in Acts 1-8,

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where God said, you shall receive power,

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dunamis, when the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

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And I looked it up and it says,

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the Greek word for power is also dunamis.

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That verse states that God has not given us

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a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.

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Masha keitei.

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I bind the spirit of fear in the name of Jesus

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off of anyone in here that is battling with that,

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especially in the night seasons.

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I'm not gonna get into it,

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but I guess I am, because it's rising up.

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I don't know why, because I do know this,

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the devil will always attack you

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where your gift is, number one.

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the body of Christ from advancing.

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And I'm a leader, and you know how it is.

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You know, it's like sometimes it's just, you know,

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God says, we'll fight a good warfare.

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Yeah, all right, well, when does it end?

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So that's why you gotta be strong in the Lord

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and in the power of his might,

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and know that God hasn't given you a spirit of fear,

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but of love and a power and a sound mind.

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So there's this release of a lot of fear in the earth today.

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And it goes along with where the scripture says,

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men's hearts will fail for fear.

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So we've got to resist the devil.

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And the Bible says he'll flee from us.

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So I don't really know why,

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but about seven months ago,

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I woke up in the middle of the night,

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and I can't believe I'm telling you this,

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but I am gonna obey God.

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I woke up in the middle of the night,

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and the only way Marsha explained

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what the entity looked like,

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but it looked like a gigantic,

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what did you say that entity was from Star Wars?

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Jabba the Hutt was in my room.

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And that thing filled my whole entire room.

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Now let me tell you, there's no big devils,

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little devils, devil is the devil.

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He just masquerades and he masks himself,

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and he tries to be this fierce entity,

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but at the end of the day,

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greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world,

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and don't you ever forget it.

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So I woke up and I'm like,

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I'm not the kind of person that likes to wake up

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in the middle of the night,

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because I like to sleep.

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And if I wake up in the middle of the night,

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then I got to really focus on getting back to sleep.

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How many of you know what I'm talking about?

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So I'm like, really?

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I just was like annoyed that I was awakened,

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and how did you see it?

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I don't know how to explain how I saw it.

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I don't know if I saw it in here.

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I think I saw it in here.

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This is where the spirit of seeing and knowing is.

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You have eyes, and that's the eyes of your spirit.

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The time Jesus walked into my bedroom,

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I didn't see it with these eyes.

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I heard him walking in,

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and I sensed his aura and his presence,

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and when he spoke to me, he spoke to me in here.

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He never opened his mouth.

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But here we got Jabba the Hutt,

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demon, whatever you want to call it,

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in my bedroom, and he kept breathing out different things,

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different temptations.

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You're afraid of this,

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and you're afraid of that.

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And it would come into my mind,

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and because those thoughts come at your mind,

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and it came to my mind, and I'm like, no, I'm not.

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No, I'm not.

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No, I'm not.

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And I was getting annoyed because it woke me up.

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So then I just said, well, in the name of Jesus,

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I just want to go back to sleep.

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But that thing wouldn't quit.

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See, the enemy's not gonna quit

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unless he knows that you know that you know who you are,

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and you know your authority,

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and it's actually very simple.

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These signs will follow them that believe

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they'll cast out demons, greater is he that's in you.

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So then after a while, all these interesting

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and weird threatenings and thoughts were coming at my mind,

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and then one of the strangest thoughts was

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you are afraid to drive. You kidding me?

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I've actually had somebody tell me one time,

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you drive like a man.

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I'm like, is that good or bad?

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You know, I'm in New Jersey.

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I'm just making it happen.

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I'm driving, and I go everywhere,

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and I have to go everywhere.

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I mean, New York City, I've kind of like laid that one down.

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So if I'm going into the city,

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I'm getting help to get into the city.

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I'm not driving in the city anymore.

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I look back on the young days when we were young,

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and we used to drive into the city and parallel park.

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I'm not doing that anymore.

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But when that came at my mind, it was so real

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and so tempting, and there was a fear that came with it,

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and there was other things that that thing said to me.

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So finally I just sat up, and I said,

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I bind you, Satan, in the name of Jesus,

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and I plead the blood of Jesus over my mind, my body,

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my heart, and I command you to get out of my room,

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get out of my house, and I spoke the word

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that our sister said, and no weapon formed against me

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will prosper, and that thing left my room.

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But it was a temptation.

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But what would have happened

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if I had accepted those thoughts?

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You see what I'm saying?

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You've got to say what God says about you.

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God hasn't given you a spirit of fear,

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but of love, and the spirit just said,

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because that fear is crippling.

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What if we accepted all the fears that came into our minds?

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We'd be crippled, right?

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That's why you've got to stand against it.

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Like Pastor said, shut the door on the devil.

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I think that was a prophetic sign,

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to shut the door on the devil.

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This is not my message, but I think it's for you anyway.

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Here, dunamis signifies the strength and ability

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that comes from God, enabling believers to stand firm,

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like Pastor said, in their faith,

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and fulfill their calling without fear.

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It emphasizes the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit

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that equips Christians to face challenges

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and live boldly for their faith.

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So God hasn't given us a spirit of fear,

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but of power, and that brings us into our message

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about the purpose and power of praying in tongues.

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And I have to be honest with you,

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I travel a lot, I've been to a lot of places,

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I think we've neglected this gift.

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And I think it's because of, my people perish

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because of a lack of knowledge.

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I think because people don't understand the power

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and the purpose of praying in tongues,

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and that's why the Holy Ghost said,

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I wanna remind you to stir it up.

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Well, why should I stir it up?

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What is the reason for me to stir it up?

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We're gonna get into this.

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But before we do, let me just say this,

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you can use praying in tongues,

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praying in the Holy Ghost for the prayer of worship.

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When was the last time we had a whole congregation

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singing in tongues?

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Remember the days when you and I were coming up in the faith

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and you'd have the whole congregation singing

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and making melody, it was like a symphony.

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It was like this glorious orchestration

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of singing in tongues and everybody rhymed

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and it was beautiful and you could feel the presence of God.

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We need to stir that up.

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So you can use praying in, the power and purpose

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of praying in tongues through worship,

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you could use it at intercession.

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Listen, I know that speaking the word of God works,

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the word of God works, praying the word of God works,

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but we're gonna get into it.

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What about tongues in intercession?

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I loved the prayer meetings with Bobby Jean-Marc

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where we would all be praying in tongues for an hour.

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Nobody said anything in English.

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Nowadays, I'm not being negative,

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but we're working on it.

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Nowadays you get people in a prayer meeting

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and they pray in tongues for five minutes,

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then they fizzle out, why?

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They don't understand the purpose and power

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of praying in tongues.

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What about this, what else can we use tongues for?

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We can use tongues when we don't know

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what the heck is going on in our lives,

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in our callings, in our destinies, we're stuck,

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we don't know why we're stuck, something's not right,

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we're bored, we know there's something more,

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but we don't know how to pray.

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I recently went to Florida a couple weeks ago

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to spend three days with God, I'm talking like intense time.

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And I, I'll be honest, I didn't feel a thing

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for two and a half days, but I just walked the floors,

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I said, Lord, not my will, your will be done in my life,

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go before me, prepare the way, make the crooked way straight

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and the rough places plain, and I prayed in tongues.

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How long did you pray in tongues?

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Not telling you this to brag, so just know this,

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I'm just giving you an example.

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I prayed in tongues one hour, two hours,

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I had the time to do it, three hours, four hours,

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five hours, stopped, worshiped for a while,

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put some teaching on, because you need the Holy Ghost

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and the Word, all tongues, right?

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And I just spent time in the presence of God.

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And it's so interesting because I went to Florida

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to seek God for the will of God and what's my purpose.

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Can you believe that?

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I'm asking God for my purpose,

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because something on the inside,

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I don't know how to explain it,

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I'm used to living out of purpose and destiny and fire.

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And I wasn't sensing that fire, I didn't like that,

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because I like that.

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How many of you know what I'm talking about?

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You just got a fire and a vision and you just,

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and the Lord said to me when I was in Florida,

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he says, when you get back to New Jersey,

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he goes, I'm gonna meet you there.

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Well, I don't know why.

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You know, that's why pastors said we have to walk by faith

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and not by fight, not by sex.

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So I got one morning, I put on my devotional time,

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put on this prayer and this scripture reading from Psalm 91,

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put my headphones in, shut everything out,

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and all of a sudden the Holy had an encounter

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with the Holy Ghost.

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How did you know an encounter with the Holy Ghost

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changes everything?

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And I'm under that pavilion,

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I started putting worship songs and here came the tears.

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See, I don't know about you,

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but if I don't cry in the presence of God

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for a long period of time,

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see, I know it's not emotional,

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but there's something about breaking up the foul ground.

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Foul ground is ground that was so moist and so fruitful,

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but it becomes hardened because of elements

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and things that go on in the atmosphere.

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And so I just felt myself having this encounter

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going into the presence of God

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and just spent time with him that morning

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and what rose up in the inside of me,

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the Lord said to me, your purpose hasn't changed.

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You know, we can go just as much as by what he doesn't say,

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as much as by what he does say.

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And he said, your purpose hasn't changed.

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He said, I've called you to teach the world how to pray.

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Well, how did you do that?

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How did you get that unction?

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How did you get that knowledge?

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I just prayed in tongues, prayed in the Holy Ghost,

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but you know, where you get into it,

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when you pray in the Holy Ghost,

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you're praying according to the will of God for your life.

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So we need to stir it up.

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You could pray, use tongues when, like we said,

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praying the prayer of dedication and consecration, right?

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Again, when you don't know what to pray for.

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So let's get into our message-ish notes 101, amen?

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Jesus spoke often about the Holy Spirit and his coming.

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In the New Testament, he was mentioned,

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he, everyone say he.

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He.

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He was mentioned 264 times.

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And six,

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well, is my microphone okay?

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As a matter of fact, Acts 1-8,

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the last words Jesus spoke before he was taken up

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and a cloud received him out of their sight,

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his last words were this,

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don't go anywhere, don't do anything,

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don't do one thing until you be with endued

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with power from on high,

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because you are going to receive power,

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dunamis, the same word in 2 Timothy,

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when the Holy Ghost has come upon you

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and I'm gonna cause you to be witnesses for me.

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Now we know the story, many people were in the upper room.

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How many were in the upper room, pastor?

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What was it, 400?

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400, and how many were left?

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120 out of 400 were in the upper room,

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because the rest of them fizzled out.

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How many of you know that I would be one of them

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that would be in that upper room?

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How many of you would be one of the ones

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that would be in that upper room?

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Because you wouldn't wanna miss that encounter,

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you wouldn't wanna miss that move of God.

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So what happened?

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When the promise is finally fulfilled, right?

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After all the promises made and all the things Jesus said

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about the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Ghost came and fell,

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what was the very first manifestation

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besides the cloven tongues of fire appearing on their heads?

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And the Bible says, and they all were filled

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with the Holy Ghost as the Spirit gave them utterance

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and they all began to what?

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Speak with other tongues.

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So the outward manifestation of this baptism

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of the Holy Spirit and the person of the Holy Spirit

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coming to the earth, listen, was a release

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of a heavenly language called tongues.

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We need to stir it up.

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Amen?

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Well, some people will say, well, it's not my gift.

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Can I just briefly explain that?

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How many of you ever heard it's not my gift?

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I'm not, it's not my gift.

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Well, people mix up the nine gifts of the Spirit,

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which is spoken of in 1 Corinthians,

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with tongues for the believer that is given

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to each and every one of us as believers.

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The nine gifts of the Spirit, you know what they are, right?

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Word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discerning of spirits,

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okay, tongues, interpretation of tongues, gift of faith,

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working in miracles, gifts of healing.

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Those are the nine gifts of the Spirit,

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the manifestations of the Holy Spirit

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that manifest in public assembly

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or they can manifest in your private prayer life

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or they can manifest in the grocery store.

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It's the Holy Spirit empowering you for service.

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So when people say, pastor, it's not my gift

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and I know you've heard it.

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Well, this is talking about tongues

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and interpretation of tongues for public assembly.

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We had it happen yesterday, didn't we?

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Tongues came out and the interpretation of the tongues,

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you know, was a prophecy for us as women, right?

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So when we talk about tongues for every believer,

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we're talking about Mark 16,

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where Jesus said, he said, yes, go ye into all the world,

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preach the gospel, these signs will accompany them

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that believe and you know the signs.

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But one of the other signs he said was not just laying hands

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on the sick and taking up serpents,

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the other sign was and they will speak with new tongues.

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Amen.

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Okay, I love what the apostle Paul said.

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He said, this is how important it is that we stir it up,

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especially in the season that we are in right now.

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How do you pray for our nation?

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How do you pray for the rising generations?

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How are we gonna pray?

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We need to stir up the gift of tongues.

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The apostle Paul said, I thank my God,

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I speak in tongues more than you all.

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He had so much wisdom, he had so much revelation,

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he wrote two thirds of the New Testament.

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There had to be, that had to be the secret to his ministry.

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Even Brother Hagen, you remember when he said,

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I find that after I spent a lot of time speaking

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in other tongues in my personal private prayer time,

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that more and more and more of the manifestation

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of the gifts of the spirit manifest in my meetings

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and in my life.

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So there's power in praying in tongues.

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Okay, so number one, why is it so important?

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Number one, it is a supernatural means of communication.

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Speaking in tongues is speaking, listen,

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the language of heaven,

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but I don't understand what I'm saying.

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That is very biblical.

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Because when you speak in an unknown tongue,

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1 Corinthians says, you do not speak to people,

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but you're speaking directly to God.

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No one understands you, however, in the spirit,

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the scripture says, you're speaking mysteries,

524
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divine secrets.

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The Amplified says, is everybody good?

526
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For one who speaks in an unknown tongue

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speaks not to men, but to God,

528
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for no one understands or catches his meaning.

529
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Because in the Holy Spirit, he utters secret truths

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and hidden things not obvious to his understanding.

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We need to stir up praying in the Holy Ghost.

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Because when we do, we're speaking the mysteries of heaven,

533
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we're praying out God's plans

534
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and God's purposes in the earth.

535
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Again, I keep hearing it in my spirit,

536
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but I don't understand what I'm saying.

537
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It doesn't matter, it's your spirit

538
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by the Holy Spirit within you praying out

539
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what God needs prayed out in the earth.

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I was speaking in a church in South Jersey

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and the Lord gave us a prophecy,

542
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and the Spirit of God said, there's coming to my church

543
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a surge of this kind of praying.

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Now, if we don't teach it, we're not gonna see it.

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If people don't see the benefits of praying

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in the Holy Ghost, we're not gonna see it.

547
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Faith comes by what?

548
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Hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

549
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My kids, I have two 32 year olds and one 31 year old.

550
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I tell them all the time, when you don't know what to do,

551
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pray in tongues, and I'm their mother,

552
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and you think they'd be doing it.

553
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Why can't we get these kids to listen?

554
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But I want a new job.

555
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Well, when you pray in the Holy Ghost,

556
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he goes before you, he prepares the way,

557
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you're praying the mystery regarding that new job

558
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and that open door, and when you're praying

559
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in the Holy Ghost, he's making the crooked way straight,

560
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the rough places plain, this person comes into your life,

561
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that person comes into your life, and all things

562
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just begin to work together for the good.

563
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But I don't understand what I'm saying.

564
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That's Bible.

565
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Because things in your life, and even when you're praying

566
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for other people, some things, like we said,

567
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are just a mystery.

568
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Right?

569
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Well, when you're praying in tongues,

570
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he that speaks in an unknown tongues,

571
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you're speaking mysteries.

572
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You're speaking the wisdom of God in a mystery.

573
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You're praying out that mystery, not by might,

574
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nor by your intellect, nor by what you think,

575
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you're praying it out in the language of heaven

576
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that will bring about results.

577
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This kind of praying produces results.

578
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,160
I should actually write a book on this.

579
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Oh no, not another assignment.

580
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You know what, that's a good idea.

581
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I never thought of that.

582
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Not every other kind of book.

583
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,520
Prayer of Surrender, How to Get the Prayer of Faith,

584
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Prayer of Intercession, why not one on tongues?

585
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Oh, but there's so many books on this.

586
00:29:05,060 --> 00:29:06,360
Well, have you read them?

587
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See what I'm saying?

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The Bible says, be doers of the word and not hearers only

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because otherwise we deceive our own self.

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Do you know that if we would spend more time praying

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in tongues, it would alleviate a lot of work?

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Number two, your spirit is communicating

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or communing with God.

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First, John 4.24 says, God is a spirit.

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God is not a mind.

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God is not human.

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God is a spirit.

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So when you're praying in tongues,

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you're praying in spirit and in truth.

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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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