Jan. 21, 2025

What God Seeks: A Call to Worship, Prayer, and Intimacy with the Holy Spirit

What God Seeks: A Call to Worship, Prayer, and Intimacy with the Holy Spirit
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In this inspiring episode, Margie Fleurant explores what God truly desires from His people: a life of worship, prayer, and intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Dive into the profound beauty of connecting with God on a deeper level and discover how to align your heart with His divine purpose.

Key Takeaways:

✨ Understanding the heart of worship and what it means to God

✨ How prayer strengthens intimacy with the Holy Spirit

✨ Practical ways to invite the Holy Spirit into your daily life

If you’re hungry for a closer relationship with God and ready to experience His presence in a powerful way, this episode is for you. 🙏

🎧 Tune in now and answer the call to deeper worship and intimacy! [Link in Bio]

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Transcript
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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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It's good to be here with everyone today

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and I agree with Apostle Eddie.

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My house will be called a house of prayer.

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I'm gonna go ahead and open in prayer.

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So Father, we just come before you,

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the throne of grace.

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I thank you for the power and the presence

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of the Holy Spirit who will lead us and guide us

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and teach us how to pray.

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So we thank you that universally

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that you are anointing the body of Christ with fresh oil

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in this regard, that you're rising up within us,

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that you are causing a fire to burn on the inside of us

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to hunger and thirst, not just for your word

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which is ultimate and our foundation,

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but to be that house of prayer

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so that we can open up the door for you to do

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what you desire to do in Jesus' name, amen.

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So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna teach

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for about 20 minutes and then we're gonna go ahead

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and enter into prayer.

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My title today, the Holy Spirit gave it to me

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about two weeks ago and I perfected it this morning.

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The title is What God Seeks, What God Seeks.

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But before we get into this,

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I want to say by way of introduction

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that we are going to do two kinds of prayer today.

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We're going to do the prayer of worship first

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and then we're gonna go into the prayer of intercession.

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Ephesians 6, 18 tells us that we are to pray

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with all manner of prayer or all kinds of prayer

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and there's all different kinds of prayer spoken

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of in the word of God.

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Today we're gonna focus on these two specific prayers.

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That we're gonna allow the Holy Spirit to lead us

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and to guide us as we enter into this river of prayer.

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One thing for me personally is when I first began

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to learn how to pray, I went into a closet,

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I took Matthew 6, 6 literal, went into a closet,

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shut the door, I prayed first of all

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according to 1 Timothy, for those that were in authority,

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and then one day the Lord said to me,

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I want to lead you and guide you by my spirit in prayer,

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just like I lead you and guide you as a daughter of mine

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in your everyday life.

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So that's what we are endeavoring to do.

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We're endeavoring to not just have our list

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and our preconceived things in our mind

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that we're gonna pray about,

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but we also want to allow the Holy Spirit

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to lead us and to guide us.

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Now it is our hope here with all of us at Love and Unity

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that these times of teaching and prayer

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will carry over into your personal

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and devotional time with God.

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Our prayer time, and this is what heart, does not end here.

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We want what you learn here to carry over

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into your personal devotional time.

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As Jesus said, as the disciples said,

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Lord teach us to pray, he is teaching us

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on these once a month Saturday Book of Acts prayer.

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On this time, he is using the leaders,

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he's using us to teach you and bring you the word of God,

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but in your own devotional time,

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I want you to remember what 1 John 2.27 says.

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It says, the anointing that you have received

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abides in you, you need not that any man teach you,

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although we're teaching you,

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but the anointing will teach you how to pray.

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So you have to trust the Holy Spirit,

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you have to use the word of God,

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and it'll drive out the frustration and the boredom

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that I hear so many people talk about

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in their time of devotions with him.

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And it takes patience, it takes devotion, and it takes love.

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So why do we pray?

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We pray because number one, we love God.

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Number two, we love people.

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And number three, we have to always remember

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that prayer should always be born out of a heart of love

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and not out of duty or works.

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But I will say this, prayer as we learn

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and develop in prayer does go from,

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it goes from a sacrifice to a joy.

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So in other words, in the beginning,

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when you're learning how to pray,

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it's gonna be like, I don't understand what's going on,

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your mind's distracted, so on and forth, so forth.

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But eventually you'll enter into a rhythm and into a zone

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and it'll become a joy.

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It's just like working out.

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Now, we know it's the first of the year,

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we all know the gyms get really full,

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everyone makes a New Year's resolution

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that they're going to get in the gym and get in shape.

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Well, we don't start with an hour on the treadmill,

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especially if we haven't worked out for a while.

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We start with 15 minutes.

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We begin where we are so that we don't become discouraged.

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So it's just important to remember

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that prayer goes from sacrifice to joy,

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from a desire to a discipline, and then to a delight.

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So I just wanna encourage those of you that are new,

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just to be patient with yourselves,

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that God is developing us, he's showing us,

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he's revealing himself to us.

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So when the disciples said to Jesus,

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Lord teach us to pray, that was a real question.

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And I believe that's what he's doing with us here now.

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So what God seeks, number one,

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I just learned this as by revelation,

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something that God is actually seeking is worshipers.

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God seeks worshipers.

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First John, we'll go ahead and read it,

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John 4, 19 through 24.

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The woman said to him,

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you know the story about the woman at the well,

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and he told her everything about her.

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She said to him, I perceive you are a prophet.

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Our father worshiped in this mountain,

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and you know that the Jews say that in Jerusalem

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is the place where one ought to worship.

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Jesus said to her, woman, believe me,

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the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain

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nor in Jerusalem worship the father,

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you worship what you do not know,

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what we worship, what we worship for salvation

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is of the Jews.

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But the hour is coming and now is

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when the true worshipers will worship the father

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in spirit and in truth, listen to this,

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for the father is seeking such to worship him.

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God is a spirit and those who worship him

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must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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So this really ignited something in me this past month

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that God is actually seeking people,

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those that would worship him.

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And I like that.

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So how do we worship him?

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If he's seeking those that would worship him,

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you see, worship gets God's attention.

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Well, I don't know about you,

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but I want to have God's attention.

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I want him to, I want to be one of those worshipers

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that he's seeking for.

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So how do we worship?

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We worship with words that we know,

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whatever native tongue you may have,

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with words that we know.

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We worship with adoration and expressions of our love to him.

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We can worship with scripture to get us started

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in our time of devotion with him.

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My favorite scripture is actually found in Psalm 63.

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I'm not gonna read the whole thing,

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but I love this Psalm.

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It's one of my favorite Psalms,

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one of my life scriptures.

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It says, oh God, you are my God.

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Early will I seek you, my soul thirsts for you,

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my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land

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where there is no water.

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For I have looked for you in the sanctuary

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to see your power and your glory

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because your loving kindness is better than life.

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My lips will praise you.

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Thus I will bless you while I live.

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So we can go into the presence of God.

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And one way to get focused in on him is through worship,

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by our words, by using a scripture.

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It helps us to shut off our minds.

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I like to put it like this,

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hook yourself up to the inside,

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allow your inner man, the hidden man of the heart,

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to rise up and look out, not just with these eyes,

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but with the eyes of your heart.

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And then you begin to focus in on him.

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It's like Hebrews 12, one and two,

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you look unto him, the author and the finisher of your faith.

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I was looking up last night when Kennedy Hagan

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had many, many visions of Jesus.

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And one of my favorite,

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which I couldn't find to read to you was

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when Jesus came to him,

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he said he looked into his face and he looked into his eyes

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and his eyes were like liquid wells of love.

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So worship can bring us into that place

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where we get our eyes off of the distractions

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and we put our eyes on him, but it is a discipline.

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It is a place in prayer where the Bible says,

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I will keep him in perfect peace.

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Whose mind has stayed on me.

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It's a place in prayer where spirit, soul, and body,

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you're looking at him.

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And when you look at him, he's looking back at you

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like Kennedy Hagan said, with eyes of love

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and eyes of compassion and eyes that say,

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I love you with an everlasting love

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and no good thing will I withhold for you.

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I desire that that which is in you is completed

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and that work I've called you to do is completed.

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So we begin by words, a scripture,

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and then this is what we're gonna do today.

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We can pray and worship in tongues,

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which many of you who've been doing this

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as long as I have about 45 years know that back in the day,

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people used to worship God in spirit and in truth.

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In spirit meaning in tongues, praying in the spirit,

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singing in tongues.

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And we used to be,

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I don't know how many of you remember this,

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but we used to be in meetings

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where everyone was harmoniously singing

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and worshiping God in tongues.

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I believe it was beginning of the charismatic movement

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and it was the Holy Spirit that was orchestrating the sound

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and the hymns and the spiritual songs.

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And that's when the Holy Spirit would manifest.

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And I remember times people would have visions

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and dreams and see angels

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and even actually hear the angels.

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Because the Bible says we speak

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in the tongues of men and of angel.

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So when we worship,

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let's not stay on just this one level, which is fine.

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Worshipping God by using the scripture is good,

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but let's also use our prayer language.

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The apostle Paul said,

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stir up the gift of God that is in you, right?

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We need to stir up the singing of tongues

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more in our prayer times

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because it sets an atmosphere for God to work.

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It sets an atmosphere where God is attracted

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because he's seeking those that would worship him.

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So let's just read it.

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1 Corinthians 14, 14 says, if I pray in a tongue,

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my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfrunkable.

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What is the conclusion then?

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I will, notice it's an act of your will.

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I will pray with the spirit

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and I will pray with the understanding also.

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And then here's what we're gonna do today.

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I will sing with the spirit.

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I will also sing with the understanding also.

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And when you sing in tongues, even in your devotional time,

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you can pray that you can interpret.

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And I think you'll find that easy to do

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because the interpretation will be songs of adoration

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and love to the heart of the father.

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And that would actually be a good place

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for some of you who are new to start.

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So God seeks worshipers.

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And just one little highlight here,

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I'm not gonna get into all of it.

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For those of you that want to continue

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in your intimacy with God

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and develop your intimacy with God,

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I would encourage you to practice continual prayer.

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Continual prayer.

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I'm not gonna get into the whole thing,

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but what is continual prayer?

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How do you practice that?

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You can practice by worship.

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The Bible says in Ephesians six, five,

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therefore do not be unwise,

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but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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Do not be drunk with wine in which is in excess,

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but be filled with the Spirit,

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speaking to one another in songs and hymns

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and spiritual songs, singing and making melody where?

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In your heart to the Lord.

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So when you go about your daily business,

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whether it's cleaning or walking the dog

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or driving in your car,

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it's being God inside-minded.

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That God is in you.

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He is an ever-present help in the time of need.

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And he is your friend that sticks closer than a brother.

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And so our prayer time shouldn't just be

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our closet time of prayer

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or our corporate time of prayer like we're doing now,

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but what about continual prayer?

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Where in your heart, you have a melody

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that goes on and on and on before the throne of God.

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Revelation 5, 8, and you become a sweet-smelling savior

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before the throne of God,

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just while you go about your everyday walk.

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How is that done?

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It's done by singing songs that you know

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by Jesus culture or Hillsong or whoever,

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or by just singing and making melody in your heart,

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singing on the inside in tongues.

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That is worshiping God in spirit and in truth.

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I just wanted to interject that.

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What else does God seek?

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God seeks loyal and surrendered hearts.

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And this is a scripture he gave to me for us for today.

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2 Corinthians says, the eyes of the Lord,

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or Chronicles says, the eyes of the Lord.

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Think about it.

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He's seeking worshipers, right?

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I don't know about you, but I want God's attention, right?

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Not by my works, not by all my good deeds,

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but by what I do within my heart that nobody sees.

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So he says here, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro

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the whole earth.

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I'm feeling this.

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To show himself strong on the behalf of those

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whose hearts are loyal to him.

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So he's seeking hearts that are loyal.

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He's seeking those that would say yes.

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He's seeking those that are surrendered, right?

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So what else is he seeking?

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Number three, this is something I've learned this week

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because I'm on a getaway to get some direction.

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God seeks to reveal himself to those who love him.

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Okay, John 14, 21 in the Amplified says,

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the person who has my commands and keeps them

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is the one who really loves me.

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And whoever really loves me will be loved by my father

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and I too will love him and show, reveal,

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manifest myself to him.

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I will let myself be clearly seen by him.

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And I like this and make myself real to him.

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What about that song?

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Show me your glory, Lord, show me your glory.

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What about that song?

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I wanna see your face, see?

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The more we develop our love and our intimacy to God

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and the more we in our hearts,

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keep him on the throne of our hearts as first,

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the more he's going to reveal and manifest himself to us.

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So God seeks to reveal himself to us,

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but he's gonna reveal himself to us,

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to those who love him.

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So let me ask you a question.

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Has your love grown a bit cold?

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Pray with intention to get to know him in a greater way.

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So, all right, so I've had that happen.

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We've all had it happen.

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We all get busy, the cares of the world,

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the disciples, the riches, lots of other things come in,

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choke the world, but can also choke our prayer line, right?

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We get busy.

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So if our love that we sense on the inside

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that we're not where we used to be or where we want to be,

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what is a way to get us out of that state?

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Pray with intention.

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That's the discipline.

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I'm praying with intention.

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I'm gonna walk the floors, Lord, you sit.

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If I seek you, I will find you.

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I don't feel anything, but I'm like,

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Apostle Calvin taught me, I'm not pressing in.

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I'm leaning into you because I wanna come to know you

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and understand you and perceive the wonders of your person

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because I know that there's heights and depths and breaths

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and lengths of your heart and your love

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that I haven't yet come to know.

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So I wanna know you.

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So it starts off with a discipline.

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And as you practice this kind of prayer

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where you're leaning into God when you don't feel like it,

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your love for him is going to grow.

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So you will need to pray with intention

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to get to know him in a greater way.

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Again, has your love for God or for people grown cold?

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We've all had people that are like sandpaper

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or people that we may not like, right?

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So has that ever happened to any of you?

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I guess not, it has happened to me.

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But love for people grown cold

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and pray for a revelation for the love of God

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is found in Ephesians 3, okay?

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So we can pray, Lord,

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I pray that you'd open up the eyes in my heart.

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I pray that I would have an understanding of your love

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and your revelation of your love.

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Lord, this is a good prayer.

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May I see as you see, love as you love.

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Let the love that is in Christ be manifested through me

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to those who I come in contact.

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Has your vision or your purpose in life grand all?

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Well, pray, stir up the gift of God.

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When you pray in the spirit, here's a little secret.

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You're praying on a purpose and not a destiny.

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According to, I think it's Ecclesiastes 3

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that says eternity is in our hearts.

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So when we pray in the spirit,

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let's say we're praying with intention for ourselves,

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not the prayer of intercession, which is for other people.

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If you're praying for yourself, for direction,

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for purpose, for whatever the case may be,

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pray, praying in tongues, you're praying out of destiny.

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You're praying out of the root

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of who you really are in Christ Jesus.

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Before you were ever formed in your mother's womb,

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he knew you and he ordained that purpose.

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The purpose is on the inside.

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So when you pray in the spirit,

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you're hooking up to the mind and the will

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and the purpose of God.

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You may not get the direction right away,

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but eventually that's where you cannot get discouraged.

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It'll be a temptation to get discouraged.

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And people think, oh, I prayed and God didn't say anything.

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Well, the answer needs to rise up and bubble up and take form

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and come into your mind.

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So when we pray in the spirit,

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he eventually will cause your desires

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to be in line with his desires,

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your thoughts to become agreeable with his thoughts,

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then your plans will succeed.

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Then he's showing you the way in which you are to go.

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Then he gives you a piece,

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then he gives you a check in your spirit

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so you will know what to do.

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That's why the Holy Spirit always knows.

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That's why we pray from a place of knowing

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when we pray in the Holy Ghost.

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Okay, lastly, prayer produces intimacy.

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So if all these things have happened, right?

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Your love for God has grown colder, your love for people.

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Just remember this.

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For me, prayer is everything.

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Prayer produces intimacy.

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It produces intimacy with the one you pray to,

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the one you pray for,

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which is a good thing to do if you have an enemy

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or you have somebody you don't like,

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you will begin to see them the way God sees them.

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And hurting people are people.

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And with the one you pray with.

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So that's the beauty of corporate prayer in the churches

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that when we all pray together,

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it produces intimacy in and amongst us.

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Okay?

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So I'm just gonna ask that we unmute

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and we're ready to pray.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna begin with worship.

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Like we said, we're gonna begin with worship.

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And this is an exercise.

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We begin with worship.

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And when we worship,

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as a discipline,

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cause your focus and your eyes

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to be turned away from distraction.

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And intentional or with intentionality, look unto Jesus.

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What does he look like?

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Well, there's many scriptures in the Bible.

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I just like to, if I could say the word pretend,

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I like to just picture his form, his eyes, his being.

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Sometimes I get a scripture,

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but put your attention on him.

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Focus in on him, spirit, soul, and body.

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Okay?

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And posture your heart.

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Like my intention, our intention today is to worship him.

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And we're gonna begin in tongues.

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And then we're gonna go into the prayer of intercession,

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which is not the prayer of worship.

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The prayer of worship is when you adore him,

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you worship him.

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But the prayer of intercession is when you shift gears

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and now you're loving people.

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You're loving the city.

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You're loving the nation.

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You're praying out the plan and the purpose of God.

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You're the watchman that's on the walls of your family.

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There's a change here in the prayer.

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So that's what we're gonna do.

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So why don't we go ahead and just so you know,

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we're going to pray, our intercession focus

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is going to be on California.

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And if you're not from there, this is what I learned.

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God will give you a heart for that region

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because prayer produces intimacy, right?

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So we're gonna pray for the state of California.

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We're gonna see how the Lord leads us.

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Obviously, we're going to pray specific prayers

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because we know in the natural how to pray,

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protection, and so on and so forth.

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But we'll let the Holy Spirit will allow him to help us,

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help us Holy Ghost.

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So let's begin with worship.

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Let's begin with worshiping him in tongues

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and in words, you understand, however you wanna do it,

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but let's all begin to pray together.

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That's what the book about is,

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It's the name of Jesus Christ.

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Father, mother, father,

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father, mother, mother.

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I The Lord be with thee.

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Son of man,

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take not on that which God hath made you.

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And be of this time.

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The Father God be with you.

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And be of that which God hath made you.

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I'm just a child, so I'm just a poor little black man,

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who took one of my worries.

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Yo, but Rihanna was a part of the whole list.

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So I'll get down to the end of the bus, man.

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But Rihanna, you never find Mr. Godfrey the one you need.

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I'm a pretty much gay.

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You're a pretty good mom.

512
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I'm a pretty good mom.

513
00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:06,180
But Rihanna, I can't get it in.

514
00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:08,180
I'm a pretty good mom.

515
00:26:08,180 --> 00:26:11,180
I think the number he was, that isn't so bad.

516
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:14,180
We're not buying chocolate, but we can use it.

517
00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:16,180
Put on her growth cycle, put on everything.

518
00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:19,180
H superb MIZ

519
00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:21,180
おおー

520
00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:23,180
DRıld regulation

521
00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:24,180
lot of ungoal

522
00:26:24,180 --> 00:26:25,380
but

523
00:26:25,380 --> 00:26:32,180
but I've got problems.

524
00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:33,180
alan

525
00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:35,180
but

526
00:26:35,180 --> 00:26:36,180
but

527
00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:37,180
but

528
00:26:37,180 --> 00:26:38,180
but

529
00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:39,180
but

530
00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:40,180
but

531
00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:41,180
but

532
00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:53,100
Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

533
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:55,300
It has been such a joy sharing this time with you.

534
00:29:55,300 --> 00:30:14,300
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