Unlocking the Power of the Holy Spirit | The Purpose and Power of Praying in Tongues (Part 2)

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You pray it and he can answer it.

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The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it.

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Goes into the hearts of the people,

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doesn't return void, it produces results.

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Why do you say that?

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Because that's the Bible.

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Remember 1 Thessalonians 5.23 says,

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God said you are a spirit.

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You have a soul and you live in a body.

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So when you're praying in tongues,

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it's your spirit by the Holy Spirit speaking to God

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in a language he understands.

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1 Corinthians 14, 14 and 15 says,

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if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, your spirit,

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my spirit prays.

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But the scripture says, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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What I love about the Holy Ghost is when I've spent time

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praying in the Holy Ghost, eventually he causes my thoughts

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to become agreeable with his thoughts

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and then the plans succeed.

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Because when you're praying in the Holy Ghost,

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you're praying out of your spirit, the wisdom of God.

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You're not praying out of your mind and your understanding.

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So sometimes it takes a little time,

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listen, to get what's here over here.

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So when the Lord said to me, your purpose has not changed,

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that was the wisdom of God that he spoke to me

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and it caused me to stabilize and say,

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all right, I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing.

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Leading corporate prayer, teaching about prayer

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and obeying God.

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And you know, I have a much greater sense of fulfillment now.

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I just needed him to say, this is what I want you to do.

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Because I hadn't heard him say that.

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

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So he says, what is the conclusion then?

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I will, notice he said I will.

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If you've never prayed in tongues,

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this is a perfect scripture for you, I will.

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The Holy Ghost isn't gonna come on you

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and make you say or do something

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you don't wanna say or do.

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Because he's a perfect gentleman.

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So under the new birth,

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you have the Holy Spirit on the inside, you're born again.

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Like they said in Acts,

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have you received the Holy Ghost since you believe?

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And the response was, we have not so much as heard

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whether there be any Holy Ghost.

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In other words, they were believers.

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And the Bible says, the apostles laid hands on them

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and they began to speak.

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But one thing, when I minister the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

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people think that the Holy Spirit's gonna come on them

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and make them say or do something

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that they don't wanna say or do.

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But I want you to notice the scripture says,

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I will pray with the Spirit.

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I will.

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So when the Holy Ghost rises up and comes upon you,

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you have to yield to him and by an act of your will,

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you are the one that makes up the language.

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You are the one that forms the words.

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Well, then it's just me.

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No, it's not just you.

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It's you by the Holy Ghost within you rising up,

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John 7.38.

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And he wants to express himself through you,

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the house of prayer,

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and he wants you to yield over unto him.

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The beauty of it is, he is your father.

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And when you're praying in tongues,

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you're crying Abba, father.

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And it's this connection with him that goes deeper

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than what we can have on a surface level.

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Praying in the Holy Ghost brings you in a sense

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to another dimension in your walk with God.

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Yes, I said it.

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Is that okay that I said that?

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I mean, it's true, we're saved.

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But aren't you hungry for more?

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I know for me, like I got born again,

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and I was raised Catholic, loved being a Catholic,

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loved God my whole life, had an altar,

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had it all going on, loved Catholic church,

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and would love going to church every day.

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Every day.

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Then one day somebody told me Jesus isn't on the cross.

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You gotta accept him into your heart.

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One night I got radically born again.

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I heard the audible voice of God,

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because he was probably so fed up with me going,

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what must I do to be saved?

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What must I do?

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Something instinctively told me that you're missing something.

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You have to be saved.

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You must be born again.

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If you're not born again,

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you cannot enter and see the kingdom of heaven.

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Jesus is the bridge that gets you to the father.

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So I had a form of godliness, I had a form of religion,

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but I didn't know that Jesus was the way,

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the truth, and the life,

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and that no man can get to him except through the son.

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I loved him, I mentally ascended to him,

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that he died for me on the cross,

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but nobody ever told me I had to receive him into my heart

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and make him a part of my life and make him Lord.

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So one day I heard the audible voice of God,

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I kept saying, what must I do to be saved?

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And finally one night, and I wasn't expecting this.

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I honestly, I don't get a lot of this stuff

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that happens to me even now.

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We talked about it yesterday, didn't we ladies?

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But I heard on the inside, only believe.

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And it was right here,

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everybody say right here.

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And I went, a light went off.

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Everyone say a light went off.

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That's why the Bible says Satan,

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who is the god of this world,

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he's blinded the minds of those who don't believe.

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And it was like something lifted off my mind,

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a light bulb went off,

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and I realized by revelation

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that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life,

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and I just said, I believe.

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And I literally was taken out of the kingdom of darkness.

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And I telling you, and it was a feeling,

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I went into the kingdom of light,

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and I returned to my father God

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that I knew as a little girl.

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I was born again.

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Nobody told me, nobody led me in a prayer,

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I was born again.

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh,

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that which is born of the spirit is spirit.

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It was my spirit that became alive under God.

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The Bible says if any person is in Christ,

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he is a new creation.

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All things pass away, everything became new.

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I was suddenly a new creature.

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I was still Margie.

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I was still the same person on the outside.

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I didn't know it then, I know now.

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I had to renew my mind.

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You know, you have to wear certain clothes.

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You can't be walking around in certain clothes

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like you were before you were saved.

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Thank God nobody, you know,

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you got the mothers in the church,

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but people kind of left me alone.

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And I realized just through the voice of my conscience,

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you know, you gotta change some habits.

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You gotta change some things.

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And it was Christ in me, the hope of glory

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that was changing me from the inside out.

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So for about two weeks, I just still felt

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like something was missing.

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Something on the inside.

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I was born again, I was a child of God,

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and I was led by the Holy Ghost.

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Everybody say that we can be led by the Holy Ghost?

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Because you know, he said, I'm gonna lead you

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and guide you into all truth.

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If you don't speak in tongues,

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the Holy Spirit is still active in your life.

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And his ministry is still active in your life.

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He led me to this church.

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Now the church wasn't perfect.

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Yeah, back in the day, you remember the shepherding movement?

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The shepherding movement?

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So I didn't know it was a shepherding movement.

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You know, it was this whole thing.

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I don't, we won't get into it.

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I don't think they exist anymore.

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Today it's cultish, actually.

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But they were Christian, but the Holy Ghost,

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you know, sometimes God will use whatever he can

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to get us into the place he wants us to be.

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And so I went to this church with a friend of mine,

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and they were all speaking and singing in tongues.

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["Yambre Shombre"]

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Let's do it.

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["Yambre Shombre"]

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["Yambre Shombre"]

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And they were all singing in tongues like that.

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None sit there, a good Catholic, born again Catholic girl.

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And I'm like, I want that.

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So at the end of the,

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because I sensed and I knew that this was right, right?

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I sensed and I knew this was the Spirit of God.

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Because he said, I'll guide you into all truth.

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And so at the end of the service,

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I went up to the leadership, me and my friend,

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and our short shorts, oh my gosh.

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And, you know what I mean?

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And I said to the leadership,

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I said, we want this.

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And the one person said, we had a feeling you would.

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Now they didn't give me any instruction.

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You know my message isn't going as planned,

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you know that, right?

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They didn't give me any instruction.

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They laid hands on me and my friend,

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and they said, receive the Holy Ghost.

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They didn't say, the Holy Spirit's gonna come upon you,

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he's gonna power the most high, he's gonna overshadow you,

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he's gonna rise up within you according to John 738,

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you're gonna wanna say something you've never said before.

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It's a language from heaven.

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It's a heavenly language.

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You have to form the words, he uses your mouth,

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I will pray, he didn't give me any instruction.

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Actually, didn't even lead me in the prayer of salvation,

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which I'm not into that at all.

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If people come up to be filled with the Holy Ghost,

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I always lead them into the prayer of salvation,

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because there's a scripture in the Bible,

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if you ask for the Holy Ghost,

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I'm gonna give you the Holy Ghost.

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I'm not gonna give you a stone or a serpent.

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But you go to other nations of the world,

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there's all other kinds of things going on

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that you don't see here in this nation.

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But I make sure everybody's born again.

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So we're all on the same page,

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confessing Jesus is Lord, believing in your heart

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that God raised him from the dead and I am saved, yes.

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And then I lead him into the baptism,

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because it's a separate experience from the new birth.

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So they led me in the prayer.

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My girlfriend, she started, she was like,

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I'm seeking to get my mass here.

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She very gently started speaking in tongues.

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And I'm sitting there going, I could feel God.

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And right here, where does God live?

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Right here, right?

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Something big, really big was rising up.

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And it was like a bubble.

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Well, isn't that Bible?

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Out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living,

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water, and Jesus goes on to say and says,

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this spake he of the Holy Spirit who was promised,

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but it was not yet given.

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But we know it was given in Acts 2, 4, 2, 1 through 4,

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correct?

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Rising up within me, rising up.

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And I wanted to say something that was not from this earth,

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not from this world.

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And I was trying to think and formulate in my mind

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what the bigness of what I wanted to say was.

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And so my intellect, Italian girl intellect,

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came up with the most, the biggest word in English

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that could describe what I wanted to say to God

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as a result of what I perceived him to be

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and how big I perceived him to be

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and the love that I felt.

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And finally, I came up with a really big word

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from my intellect, from my mind.

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And I said, oh God, you are so outrageous.

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So I didn't release my language that day.

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My girlfriend, my friend did.

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So I said to myself, I know that if I ask,

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if anyone asks, everyone that asks receives.

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He that seeks finds.

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You knock at the door, it'll be opened.

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Everyone who asks receives.

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My part was I had to release my prayer language

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by understanding I'm not praying out of my head.

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I'm praying out of my heart

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and I'm the temple of the Holy Spirit

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and he uses my mouth, my vocal cords

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and I do the speaking.

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So I got in the car, I got by myself

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and when I was by myself, I just said,

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ma-she-ke-te-a-li-a-va-ze.

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I just released my prayer language.

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It was already given.

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He, I had already asked.

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I needed to release it.

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And that was the beginning

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of an amazing journey of prayer

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because when I don't know how to pray about something,

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I pray in the Holy Ghost.

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When I don't understand everything that's going on,

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I pray in the Holy Ghost.

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Do you know that the Bible says,

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obviously we're not doing the notes,

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the Bible says that the Spirit of God helps us.

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He didn't leave us powerless.

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We're not doing this ministry on our own.

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We're not living life on our own.

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He said likewise, the Spirit helps our infirmities.

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That word infirmity means our inability to produce results.

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When we don't know what to pray as we ought,

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the Spirit himself makes intercession according to,

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it says the will of God,

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but it actually says according to God.

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So when we don't know how to pray about something,

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we're praying according to God.

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He puts the prayer in our heart, we pray it out,

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and things happen as a result.

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And it goes on to say, and then all things work together

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for them that are called of God according to his purpose.

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So if we pray in tongues,

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and it says we're praying according to the will of God,

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what does the Bible say, I don't know the exact reference,

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I think it's 1 John 5, if we ask anything,

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according to God, what does the Bible say?

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If we ask anything, according to what?

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His will, what do we know?

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We know he hears us.

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And if we know he hears us, we know we have the petitions

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that we desire of him.

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Interesting the way this went this morning.

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I just heard in my spirit,

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have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?

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I think there's people in here this morning.

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If you watch the Holy Spirit and you watch the anointing,

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and this is a Holy Ghost church, by far,

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you could see how he weaved in and out certain things,

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and you could see how he's reaching certain people.

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How many of you noticed that?

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My question is, have you received the Holy Ghost

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since you believed?

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Or have you ever received Jesus Christ

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as your personal Lord and Savior?

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I'm hearing in my spirit,

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I have come that, yes, thank you,

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that you may have life and life more abundantly.

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But if I give my life to Jesus, is he gonna make me say,

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is he gonna make me do something I don't wanna do?

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No, he'll make you a better person.

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He'll make you wiser.

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He'll make you stronger.

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He'll help you in your life.

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He said in his word, beloved, above all,

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I wish that you prosper and be in health

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even as your soul prospers.

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He's not gonna take away anything from you.

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He's gonna give to you super abundantly,

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above all you could ask, all dream or desire.

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When you have Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior,

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it is the most incredible journey you could ever be on

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on this earth.

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Because one day we're all gonna stand before God.

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One day, just like Patty, Patty, she's still alive.

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And her works and all the love and all the teaching

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has followed her.

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And she stood before God.

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He said, well done, thou good and faithful servant.

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See what I'm saying?

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So her spirit left, but she left a legacy on this earth,

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but she's still alive.

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When you have Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,

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you're alive unto God.

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And when you leave this earth, your spirit leaves your body

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and you go up into heaven and you stand before him

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with clean hands and a pure heart.

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Have you received Jesus and have you received the Holy Ghost

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since you've believed?

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Why don't we stand?

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You know, now I know Pastor knows this.

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A man plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps.

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Amen.

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I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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The Bible says, stay with me, don't anybody leave please,

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it is the power of God unto salvation.

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Can I have some music please?

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I'm gonna ask that every head bow, every eye would be closed.

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Thank you Lord.

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Thank you Lord.

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Wow Holy Ghost.

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All I have to say is wow, wow, wow.

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You are so personal, so intimate, so intricate,

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so caring, so loving.

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I thank you Holy Ghost for every person under the sound

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of my voice that's here.

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I thank you for the unction of the Holy Ghost.

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I thank you for the Holy Ghost that convicts and convinces

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anyone in here of their need for Jesus.

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And so Father I pray that by the Spirit of the living God

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that they would respond.

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We thank you Lord.

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We thank you Lord.

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We praise you.

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We praise you.

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I'm gonna ask every head bow, every eye closed.

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Thank you Lord.

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Before we, I'm gonna minister the baptism of the Holy Spirit

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to anybody who wants to receive today.

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But before we do that, I just wanna ask if you have never

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been born again and you would like to receive Jesus

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as your personal Lord and Savior, I'm gonna ask

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that you very quickly raise your hand.

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Or if you're uncertain, just very quickly raise your hand.

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Nobody's looking.

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I know there's somebody here.

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Because God interrupted this whole service just for you.

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I don't think I've preached the gospel of salvation

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in years, months, this way.

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I'm gonna wait.

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Yep, yep.

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He said there's definitely someone here

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who's never received him, right?

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What I don't wanna do in front of all these people.

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All I'm asking, listen, Jesus said if you acknowledge me

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before men, you'll be acknowledged before my Father

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which is in heaven.

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You'd like to receive Jesus and you're not quite sure

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you're saved, really quickly, right where you are.

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I'm not gonna ask you to come up, just raise your hand.

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Really quick.

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Wow.

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I remember one time I was speaking at a women's conference.

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You remember Mary Ellen?

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I had a word with her.

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I said, I'm gonna ask you to come up.

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I'm gonna ask you to come up.

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I said, Mary Ellen, remember that?

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I said, there's somebody that you're associated with

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that it was such an urgency for her

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to make sure this person was born again.

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Remember that?

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And we talked later and she said, yeah, it's whoever.

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That was, didn't he die or something?

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I said, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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That was, didn't he die or something?

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He's still living but he's older.

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But see, God said, I stand at the door of your heart

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and I'm knocking.

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I'm pulling.

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Just let me come in and have fellowship with you.

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Today could be the first day of the rest of your life.

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Okay, let's close your eyes.

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Close your eyes once again, I'm asking everyone.

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If you're sitting, standing at your seat

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and you wanna raise your hand, you can raise your hand.

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Okay, this is what we're gonna do.

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We're gonna pray a prayer corporately for salvation

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and then we'll have a altar call

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for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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You have a precious pastor, don't you?

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Let's all say this together.

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This is the prayer for you to accept Jesus

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and to become born again.

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Jesus said, in order to get to heaven,

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you must be born again.

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Very compelling message today for someone.

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Let's all say this together.

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This is the grace of God.

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Let's all say this together.

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Heavenly Father.

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Heavenly Father.

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Hi, thank you.

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Hi, thank you.

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Hi, thank you.

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That you have been speaking to me today.

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I realize that today is the day of salvation for me.

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I don't know if I'm going to heaven or not,

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but I just heard that you, Jesus,

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are the way, the truth, and the life.

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And that nobody, including me,

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gets to heaven except through Jesus.

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So Jesus, I am asking you to come into my heart.

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Come into my heart, Jesus.

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I take you off the cross,

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and I'm asking you to come into my heart.

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And today, I make you the Lord and Savior of my life.

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I believe it in my heart, and I say with my mouth,

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Jesus Christ is my Lord.

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Amen.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Now, if you prayed that prayer like that for the very first time,

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you're a child of God.

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Amen.

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Okay?

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Now, we are going to pray now for anybody

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who would like to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit

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with evidence of speaking in tongues.

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Why don't you just come on up?

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Young people, anybody?

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I used to speak in a church in South Jersey

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called Mainland Assembly of God.

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Yes!

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And I'm telling you, God used to release me.

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The church was probably twice the size.

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God used to release me to go into the congregation.

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I could tell who was filled and who wasn't.

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And I was filled with the truth.

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And I was filled with the truth.

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And I was filled with the truth.

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And I was filled with the truth.

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And I could tell who was filled and who wasn't.

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Oh, my God!

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She better not do that today!

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There's many of you that need to release your prayer letters.

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Just come on up!

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It's so much fun!

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Are you girls all filled, the Holy Ghost?

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Yeah, you all speak with tongues?

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Whoo!

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I can feel, ooh, a wave just came in.

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Ooh.

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I'm telling you, there's like a cloud

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that just came in from behind me.

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See, see what happened now?

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The Holy Ghost did that, now everybody's responding.

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See, the resistance keeps people from receiving.

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Come on, there's more!

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There's gonna be a surge of this kind of praying in the church.

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Then you're not gonna be embarrassed, I promise.

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Come on, there's more.

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You feel this up here?

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When the Lord turned to captivity of Zion,

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we were like them that dreamed.

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Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

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and our tongue was singing.

525
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Then said they among the nations,

526
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He has done great things for us, whereof we are glad.

527
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Come on, come on, come on.

528
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Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?

529
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I've not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

530
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:46,320
Wow.

531
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I just sense in my spirit

532
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that there's some people on this side that need to come up.

533
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,320
Don't make me come out and get you.

534
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,320
Amen.

535
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,320
Just come up a little closer.

536
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Yeah, see?

537
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Come on.

538
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,320
I'm not that scary.

539
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,320
You feel love in here?

540
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,320
There's so much love.

541
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,320
This is love.

542
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,320
The thing that I felt the most

543
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when I was baptizing the Holy Spirit

544
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it was like I was baptized in love.

545
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,320
I still think there's somebody on this side

546
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that needs to respond.

547
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Ashe kateh amaya khanakteh.

548
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I am connected.

549
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,320
It is aveling anastor la vishten amaya kabaseh.

550
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,320
I just hear the Holy Ghost saying

551
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I am gonna restore this gift of tongues to my church

552
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,320
and to my body because that's why men are so important

553
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and to my body because that's why many of my people

554
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,320
are lacking in power

555
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because they've not received that which I said I would give them.

556
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,320
Didn't I say in my word that you would receive power

557
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,320
when the Holy Ghost has come upon you?

558
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Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

559
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It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

560
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561
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visit our website at margiefleuron.org