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In the worship service. It can happen in your

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car. It can happen in your prayer closet. God

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wants to meet with you. And he wants you to ascend

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to where he is at. I believe he wants you to

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have that experience. Even John said in a moment.

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In the spirit. I heard a voice of the Lord calling

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to me. In an open door. And in a moment. In that

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moment. I was in heaven. I was in the presence

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of God. Well through the spirit of God. We do

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have access to the very presence of God. You

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know. I learned this at the age of 17 when I

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was just... Coming into the kingdom. I was saved

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at the age of 17. Filled with the Holy Ghost.

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Right after I was saved. And one of my first

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experiences. Actually the first miracle I ever

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saw. In my ministry. As a young man. And I didn't

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even know what ministry was in those days. But

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it was what. First work that God allowed me to

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do. Was after I had separated myself. To seek

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the Lord. I spent some time fasting and praying.

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And in a worship service at a camp meeting. Because

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I was so exhausted. And having never fasted three

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days for a young man, 17 of age, you try fasting

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for three days and it's like a nightmare. And

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so I was exhausted, depleted. And in the middle

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of the service when the preacher came on, I fell

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asleep. After we were in worship and in prayer,

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I just fell asleep where I was. Thank God nobody

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woke me up. But the Spirit of God began to speak

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to me. Because even when your body is tired,

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your spirit is awake. Amen. Your spirit doesn't

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fall asleep. Your spirit should be awake. Amen.

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And that inner man has awakened you. And I heard

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a voice of the Lord. And I began to see some

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things in my dream. I thought I was dreaming.

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But it was the Lord speaking to me. And I believe

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what pastor said. That we need to be able to

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see and hear. Even the prophet Habakkuk said.

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I will position myself. In Habakkuk chapter 2.

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I will position myself to see what the Lord will

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speak to me. There is that seeing part. Of hearing

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the voice of the Lord. And God wants to use all

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of our senses. So that we can perceive. his word.

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And part of it is our faculties of seeing. Maybe

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not the eyes, the natural eye at times. Maybe

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it's the eyes of your understanding. Maybe it's

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through a dream. But God can jump into any one

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of our dreams whenever he wants and bring us

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a word of direction. Well, I fell asleep and

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I saw myself. Receiving instructions from the

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Lord. And he told me to rise from that place.

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Where I was asleep. And I knew I was asleep.

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In my dream. And he said rise from here. And

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go to a certain area. And he gave me directions

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where to go. And there was. He said I would find

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some people there. That were waiting for me.

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And that he would heal this person. Who needed

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healing. And that God was going to restore. Was

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going to heal this young man. Well I thought

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everybody would. be in the meeting in my own

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nature. I woke up out of my dream with that instruction.

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I looked around, and while the service was going,

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here I have this urgency of the Holy Spirit.

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Get up and do it now. I gave you this word. So

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I get up. I'm 17 years old for the first time.

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Actually hearing, I was praying and fasting for

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one petition. I had been filled with the Holy

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Ghost. Now I was praying and fasting to be able

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to prophesy and to have the gifts of the Spirit.

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I was pursuing earnestly the gifts of the Holy

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Ghost. And this is when my ears, I believe, got

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unplugged. As I heard in this dream, I heard

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the voice of the Lord clearly. I woke up. It

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spoke to me. And now I'm hearing the voice of

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God. While the preacher's preaching, I'm hearing

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God saying, get up from here and go to where

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I told you. So I get up, follow the instructions

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of the Lord, and it takes me out to the outside

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of that same campground. They had a freestanding

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chapel over this cliff. And under the chapel,

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there was a little prayer room that people would

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go to pray. And there were these metal steps

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that would go down to that prayer room. So I

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began to go down these steps. That's what he

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was showing me exactly in my dreams. So I saw

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the steps. I walked down to this place. It's

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my first time in this camp. And as I walk down,

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I hear somebody call my name out. And they said,

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Danny, is that you? And now I know. They couldn't

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see me because they were around the corner. But

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when they heard me, they were expecting me. Just

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like God told me. So I walk down and I find two

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young men. One cannot speak. He's a mute. The

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other one. Is the one talking. And I said how

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do you know my name? And he said last night while

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we were praying. God spoke to us. And spoke to

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this man. To this young man. And he was a mute.

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He couldn't talk. So he wrote my name in his

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Bible. And he was crying because the Lord said

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I'm going to heal you. I'm going to send Danny

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to lay hands on you. And you're going to be healed.

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So. He communicated that through sign language.

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And the young man tells me now, and he shows

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me the Bible with his tears that had blotted

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out where he had marked out my name. And so here

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God is speaking to somebody about me, and he's

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speaking to me about them. Through prayer and

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intercession, I had spent time in the presence

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of God. Now, for the first time, I'm hearing

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the voice of God. And now I'm there. How many

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of you know when you see something like that,

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your faith is going to get built up? I didn't

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need any more faith. I just said, all right,

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this is enough for me to fly with this. We're

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going to believe God for a miracle. God told

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me in my dream that he's going to heal you. I

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spoke the word. And when I laid hands on him,

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he immediately burst out. Sound came out of his

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mouth. And he began to sing. He began to sing

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before the Lord. His voice came back fully. And

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he began to sing. And words began to be articulated.

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Then he began to fill with the Holy Spirit. And

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he began to sing in the Spirit. I was blown away.

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This is my first time I see something like the

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power of God flow by the laying out of hands.

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And as I laid hands and I saw this explosion

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of a miracle in front of my eyes, I just was

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blown away. And that night he sang for the entire

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camp meeting because it was a miracle that was

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made public to everybody and he was healed. I

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thank God for miracles like that. I believe God

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wants to do them with every one of us. It's not

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just for a few. I believe he wants to quicken

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you. I believe that this time that you've separated

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into God is going to count. I believe that through

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intercession, we can actually bring forth miracles

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into the lives of people. And God can speak to

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us, give us directions so we can put ourselves

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in a position where a miracle can happen. Look

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at somebody and say, dare to position yourself.

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For the next miracle. And then. I remember. Being

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in a service. Years later. Pastoring now in New

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York City. In Harlem. Actually it was the very

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foundation of our church. We were in what's called

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Washington Heights. Upper Manhattan. We still

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had not gone right into Harlem. We were in the

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upper part of the east side of Manhattan. That's

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where we planted our church. And we were there,

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and in this old Baptist church that we rented,

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our church began to grow. And we were 30 and

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50, and we were at a service, and I'm preaching

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away, and the Holy Spirit interrupted my message

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and said, I want you to do a prophetic act. and

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I had he told me exactly what to do get me instructions

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so I called one of the crazy young men in my

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church to act out what the Holy Spirit was saying

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I stopped the service I whispered it brought

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him up whispered in his ear he walked away and

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I didn't tell the church what was going on but

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I had told him to act out the part of a man breaking

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through the back to the doors of the sanctuary

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crying out how God spared his life and how God

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saved him from suicide So he cried, he went after,

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I kept preaching and everybody stayed into the

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word. And then a few minutes later, he interrupted

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my preaching, walked in, ran into the sanctuary

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and acted this, I believe it was a prophetic

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intercessory act. And so he acted out this thing.

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He acted it so well, we started crying. People

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started crying. And he fell on his knees. in

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front of me and I prayed for him and I then prophesied

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to the church this is what will begin to happen

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in our ministry I was prophesying about the harvest

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and releasing the harvest well we went on with

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the service people clapped we went on with the

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service that young man sat down and I went on

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ending my message all of a sudden before I could

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end my message the doors in the back Opened up.

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A man runs through. Runs right into the sanctuary

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screaming. I was about to jump off this building

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in front of this church. At a seven story building.

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And the Lord spoke to me. He said I heard God

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say go to that church right now. Don't jump.

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Run into that building. So he ran into the building

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crying out, save me. I was about to commit suicide.

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I need help. And he fell right on his knees in

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front of me just like we had acted out. The church

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just went in awe. One of those awe. This was

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a prophetic intercessory act that actually brought

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and broke the spirit of suicide off a man. Come

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on. Somebody give God a hand. That's the kind

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of prophetic intercession I'm talking about.

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It's when prophecy and intercessory and prayer

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come together. It can happen in worship. It can

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happen. Listen, I just love the atmosphere you

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guys create in the worship team for the presence

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of God. How many can thank God for great worshipers

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in the house of God? Come on. If that's the way

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you rehearse, I want to be at every rehearsal.

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I want to be. I'm an addict for the presence

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of God. So here, you know, we're... Just experiencing

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God. But God wants to use us and speak to us

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in the midst of worship, in the midst of prayer.

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He wants to give us instructions. And I was traveling

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with my wife through New York City. We were on

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the train. And we were heading back to our church's

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offices after, I believe, having a meal downtown

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New York City. And as we were heading back, the

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Lord spoke to me. I had a son of the Lord that

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was backslidden and had committed a tremendous

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sin. He was one of the leaders of our church,

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had fallen away, committed adultery, and he was

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so ashamed that he didn't want anybody to see

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him. And he hid away, ran off from his family,

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and nobody knew where he was. Well, as we were

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going up on this train, and we had been in prayer

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and fasting for him all weekend, that weekend

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as he disappeared, God began to speak to me.

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And I heard the voice of the Lord tell me where

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he was. So I said to my wife, you keep going

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to the office. I'm going to get off this train.

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God just told me where to find him. And I followed

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the directions of the Lord. I got off at the

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right station, walked a few blocks, and to the

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building that the Lord pointed out, gave me the

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number of the building, walked in. The Lord told

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me he was in his basement and that he would have

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a shotgun in his hand ready to commit suicide.

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So I got there. And when I asked for him at the

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front desk, they said, yes, he's downstairs,

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I believe. And I went downstairs and found him

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in this basement sitting with a shotgun in his

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lap, considering blowing his head off, committing

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suicide. But God loves people. Even after they

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sin, he still loves them. God doesn't change

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his love for us. Even when we mess up, he's the

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God who will go after us. He was the God who

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will reach out to us from the uttermost. He can

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save. Can you say amen? How many know he can

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still hear prayer? Amen. He can still save. Well,

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I spoke to him what God spoke to me. He was shocked

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to see me appear because nobody knew where he

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was. He said, how did you find me? Who told you?

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I was here. I said, the Lord just talked to me.

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And I gave him the word of the Lord. And I convinced

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him to hand me the shotgun. Not just for his

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sake, but my sake too. I wanted to live. So I

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didn't want him to get angry and shoot me. But

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I got ahold of his shotgun and I was able to

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turn his life around, bring him to repentance

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and bring him to a decision to come back home

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and make it right with God. It was powerful.

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And while I was there, I heard the steps coming

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down his metal staircase. And the Lord said,

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that's the woman that he committed adultery with.

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And I gave her the word of the Lord and she got

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saved. And never did that relationship ever happen.

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And I removed him from that place where he had

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any kind of connection there. And God saved that.

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He was a leader and became a leader again in

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the house of the Lord. God restored him. Listen,

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God wants to speak to you. Detailed information.

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He wants to speak to you when you're praying.

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Prayer is not a monologue. God wants to speak

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back. God wants to share with you. He wants to

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speak to you in your ear. He wants to open up

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your ear. So that you can see this. At one time

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corporately we're praying in our church in the

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morning. I'll just share this one last story.

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Are you okay? This one last story. We're praying

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and interceding. It's the beginning of our church.

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We're again in that wasward section of New York

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City. The upper east side. And we're surrounded

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by buildings that are inhabited by people. You

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know there are lots of people in every one of

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these buildings. Some of them 12, 15 floors,

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30 floors. New York City is New York City. Like

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no other. the city so here God we're praying

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in the church for our city and all of a sudden

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the Lord shows me a picture of a window that's

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open and the curtains are flying almost in the

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wind but there's a candle that's lit that doesn't

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go out this lid candle and he says to me I want

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you to go and find this house I want to save

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a family today and you'll know it by the candle

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in the window So I tell everybody, my team's

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there. We're all interceding and praying. I said,

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everybody, I need your help. New York City's

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got a lot of windows. So we go outside. I want

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you to describe my vision. I said, let's go out

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there. I want you to find, help me find a window

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with a candle. I want you to look intensely.

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I don't care what floor it is. There's a window

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with a candle lit up. And the curtains, there's

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some white curtains flying in it. And God is

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going to save that family today. So we walked

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out in faith, looked around, praying in the spirit.

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Oh, God, show us where the window is. As we looked

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around, looked at all the buildings, we couldn't

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find them. Then we looked to our left, and there

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it was. On the fourth or third floor, there was

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this window open with a candle lit and the white

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curtains. And the Lord said, go. And we rushed,

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a team of us rushed through the staircase. It's

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like we were going to make an arrest or something.

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We rushed in there, arrived at the door, knocked

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on the door. And when we opened it, there was

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a man in a wheelchair that I had seen in my vision.

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He was sitting there and his family, they were

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weeping at the moment we arrived. We gave them

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the gospel. The Lord moved on that family and

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God restored a family unto himself. Can somebody

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give God a hand? You need to move on what you

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see. You need to move on what you perceive to

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be the word of the Lord. God still speaks with

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visions and dreams. It's the language of the

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Holy Ghost. Amen. So, get ready. Come on. Get

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ready to see some things you haven't seen. Get

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ready to hear some things you've never heard.

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And get ready to act upon some things by faith

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in the name of Jesus. Look at somebody and say,

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get ready. Amen. I believe that... As we stir

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your faith up and faith comes to you by the word

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of the Lord. You and I are going to see a manifestation

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of the presence of God. I want you to go with

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me to Isaiah 59. The prophet Isaiah speaks about

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the condition of his city. When the Lord uses

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him to bring a message about intercessors. Isaiah

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59 verse 12 through 19. It says our wrongdoings

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and I'm taking it way down. You can read a little

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bit more if you read the whole chapter. Our wrongdoings

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pile up. Verse 12. Our wrongdoings pile up. I'm

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reading from the message translation. Our wrongdoings

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pile up before you, God. Our sins stand up and

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accuse us. Our wrongdoings stare us down. We

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know in detail what we have done. Mocking and

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denying God. Not following our God. Spreading

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false rumors. Inciting sedition. Pregnant with

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lies. Murdering, muttering malice. Justice is

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beneath, is beaten back. Justice is beaten back.

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Righteousness is banished to the sidelines. Truth

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staggers down the street. Honesty is nowhere

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to be found. Good is missing in action. Somebody

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say good is missing in action. Sounds like a

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description of our day, doesn't it? Anyone renouncing

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evil is beaten and robbed. Correct this awful

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situation. Correct this awful situation, God.

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Here's a prayer of the prophet. Pray, interceding.

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God looked and saw evil looming on the horizon.

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Listen to this, verse 15. God looked and saw

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evil looming on the horizon. There's more evil

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to come. How many know? That no matter what happens

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as we come to the close of the age. The Bible

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says that men will grow even more wicked. But

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the holy will grow even more holy. There's going

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to be a great separation. And I believe God's

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eyes are on the future. He knows no matter what

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happens the kingdom of God is going to move forward.

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But God looked and saw evil looming on the horizon.

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So much evil and no sign of justice. And he couldn't

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believe what he saw. Not a soul around to correct

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this awful situation. Not a soul around to correct

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this awful situation. Well, the new King James

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says it this way when it comes to verse 16. It

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says, and he wondered that there was no intercessor.

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It's the responsibility of intercessors to correct

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the situation. You and I can change our world

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through prayer. We can change lives through prayer.

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We can interrupt. We can bring divine intervention.

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We can interrupt suicide. We can interrupt calamity.

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We can interrupt the hopelessness in families.

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We can bring change. We can bring justice back.

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We can restore into people's lives. And while

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the world is destined to grow darker and darker.

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I believe the church is going to shine brighter

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and brighter. Amen. Because of people who can

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pray. Because of people who will not just. be

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victims of change, victims of darkness, but will

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interrupt darkness with intercessory prayer.

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I wonder that there was no intercessor, nobody

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available. So he did it himself. He took on the

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work of salvation, fueled by his own righteousness.

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Somebody say fueled by his own righteousness.

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I like this language of the message Bible. He

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dressed in righteousness. Put it on like a suit

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of armor. With salvation on his head like a helmet.

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Put on judgment like an overcoat. And threw a

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cloak of passion across his shoulders. Just threw

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it on his shoulders and said, come on. Nobody's

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going to do it. I'm going to do it. And I believe

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this has a lot to teach us on what our responsibility

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is as an intercessor. Listen to it. Every intercessor

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is responsibly chosen from that particular verse.

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Nobody found no one to do it, so he took on the

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work. I'm going to do it. Number one, take on

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the work. Decide to make a difference. Come on.

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Can you decide to make a difference? Somebody

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say, I'm going to make a difference. It starts

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with a confession of your mouth and a commitment.

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I'm going to make a difference. I'm not just

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going to sit around and let my family be taken.

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I'm not going to sit around and let my city be

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destroyed. Come on. Somebody's going to have

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to do the work. Somebody say it's work. But somebody's

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got to do it. And then number two, arm up. Now

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how do you arm up for intercessory prayer? With

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righteousness. The Bible says that he got dressed,

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cloaked with righteousness. Righteousness as

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an armor. He put on the right motives. The right...

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Purity, righteousness. He got his life right.

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If you're going to bring answers to the world,

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you better have been living that answer. Amen?

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You've got to live. How can we preach a God that

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we have not experienced? How can we preach holiness

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if we have not experienced holiness? How can

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we call people out if we ourselves have not stepped

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out of darkness? Arm up. Look at your neighbor

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and say, arm up. And that speaks of warfare.

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In Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10 says, put on

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the full armor of God so you can stand the wiles

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of the devil. Listen, our job is to stand, but

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you can't stand in the kingdom without the armor.

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So everybody say, arm up. That's what God did

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himself. He armed himself with righteousness.

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And then it says, he put on the helmet of salvation.

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And I believe the helmet of salvation is what

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guards your mind. You're focused so that you

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can stay focused. This is about saving lives.

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This is about salvation. This is not about a

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power play. This is not about me doing a show.

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This is about bringing lives out of darkness.

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This is about breaking the back of the enemy.

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This is about trampling the gates of hell. Can

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you say amen? Where it has to give up the souls

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that he has kept in captivity. The helmet of

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salvation. Guard your mind. I'm saved and God

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has saved me to save others. I'm healed so I

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can heal others. I'm delivered so I can deliver

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others. Keep your focus the right way. If you're

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going to intercede, make sure your focus is right.

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And when it says judgment like an overcoat, he

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put on judgment like an overcoat. That's a discerning

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authority. That's what judgment is. It's the

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ability to discern right from wrong. We've got

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too many people in the church, like the world,

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they don't want to take sides. We want to emulate

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the world. And the world doesn't know the secular

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from the sacred. It's mixing the right with the

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wrong. And many people in the church are doing

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the same thing. We're just kind of become passive.

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And we've actually allowed the world to teach

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us that we are not who to judge. We can't judge.

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That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says

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we have an authority to judge. Amen? Hello? Are

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you with me? There is an authority. You have

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to take a side. Come on. You have to be able

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to discern. A discerning authority has got to

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come on the church and intercessors can't be

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pansy about this. You've got to have an authority

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to judge a situation and attack it because you've

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got the right discernment. You know where the

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wrong is and you're going to pray correctly.

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Can you say amen? A discerning authority. And

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then I like this one. Passion across his shoulder.

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He threw it as a cloak of passion across his

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shoulder. Oh, you could have probably gone and

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done it without it. But he made sure he added

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this. That he put passion across his shoulders.

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Well, shoulders are a place of government. And

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passion needs to be in that place. It's sealed

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under control. You're a zealous, but you're not

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going to become foolish. And there's so many

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people in intercessory prayer that become zealous

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and become foolish in their intercession. Because

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they have no restraint. There's no governing

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of their emotions. They get weird. Bunch of space

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cadets. And that's not what we need. We need

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people grounded in the truth. We need people

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anchored in the word of God. We need people who

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have dominion over their emotions. Amen? God

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has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love,

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power, and of a sound mind. That soundness of

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mind is that dominion, a zeal under control.

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Yes, our emotions are involved in worship. Yes,

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our emotions are involved in bringing the gospel

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to somebody. But they have to be under control,

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zeal under control. Can you say amen? How many

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want to see a well -balanced church full of the

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fire of the Holy Ghost? Maybe you're going to

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call to do some things that are extraordinary.

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And the only thing between ordinary and extraordinary

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is that word extra. Extra, extraordinary, man.

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And you've got to believe God. That's where faith

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comes in. It puts you above what other people

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can do. If you can just do what others can do,

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then you're not extraordinary. But when you can

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do above, when you can move in the extraordinary

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power of the Holy Ghost, I believe that God wants

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to use you if you believe him for that kind of

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miracle in your life. How many would like to

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believe God for some extraordinary things? Come

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on. Extraordinary opportunities, extraordinary

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healings, extraordinary things going on in your

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life. Well, I believe God wants to do it, but

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that doesn't mean you just cut loose your emotions

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and get crazy. That means that you're going to

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bring zeal, passion across his shoulders. There's

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government in it. There's a governing factor

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in this passion. Are you with me? Let's go to

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the next slide. Prophetic intercession is joining

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Jesus in prayer. Because if we're going to pray,

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and we're talking about intercession, we need

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to join Jesus in what he's praying. Prophetic

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intercession is to join Jesus in prayer for another.

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Taking up their burden through intentional and

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directive supplication in the Holy Spirit. For

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someone or something until something happens.

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Remember what I said yesterday? Push. Somebody

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say push. Pray until something happens. And I

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believe that intercessory prayer has got to have

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that push, that insistency, that ringing of the

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bell, that constantly knocking on the door, asking

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God, pleading with the Lord, and pushing it to

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the very max until you see something happen,

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until the miracle is made manifest. Just because

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you don't see it when you first pray doesn't

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mean that God doesn't want to do it. God might

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want... Might want to use. That very manifested.

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Manifested miracle. To train your faith. To go

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for the extraordinary. Are you with me? So. We're

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praying with Jesus. Hebrews chapter 7. The writer

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of Hebrews from verse 24 to 25 says. But he because

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he continues forever. Has an unchangeable priesthood.

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Therefore he also. Is also able to save. To the

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uttermost. Those who come to God through him.

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Since he always lives. Somebody say always. Since

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he always lives to make intercession for them.

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Come on. Can you give the Lord a clap offering

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that he's alive and well? He's sitting at the

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right hand of the Father. He's making intercession.

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He always lives. That's what he lives for. He's

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making intercession. Somebody asks you what is

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Jesus doing in heaven? He's making intercession.

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He is always in prayer. Always praying for the

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saints. I believe that as petitions go up and

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bombard heaven. I believe that God is beginning

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to pray. And he's praying. He's praying. And

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I believe that you and I have got to get a hold

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of what he's praying about. And part of intercessory

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prayer, prophetic intercession, is not just praying.

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It's praying what Jesus is praying. It's what

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is he praying about? What is on the heart of

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Jesus for that family, for that person? And begin

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to get the mind of God for that person. Are you

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with me? Come on. How many of you want to join

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Jesus in prayer? Oh, I thank God that you're

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joining each other in prayer. But I think it's

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going to be powerful when we all join Jesus together.

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And we, as one voice, begin to articulate. The

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will of God is. For the city. For the families.

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For the communities. In Romans chapter 8 verse

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34. Who is he who condemns? Is it Christ? Who

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died and furthermore is also risen. Who is even

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at the right hand of God. Who also makes intercession

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for us. Right now. He's making intercession for

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us. Look at somebody and say he's praying for

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you right now. When you're in trouble, he's praying.

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Before even you ask, he's praying. Because he

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knows what you're going to ask for. He's the

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all -knowing God. He's well ahead of us. Isaiah

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62. Listen to Isaiah 62, verse 6 through 7. I

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have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.

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They will never be silent, day or night. You

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who call on the Lord, give yourself no rest.

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You who call on the Lord, you who intercede,

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give yourself no rest. The watchmen on the wall,

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these are intercessors. Give yourself no rest

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and give him no rest. Hello? Give yourself no

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rest and what? And give him no rest. That means

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you're going to continually ring the bell. You're

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going to continually ask. You're going to continually

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press into God till he establishes Jerusalem

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and makes her the praise of the earth. Until

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he does what he needs to do. Don't give yourself

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any rest and don't give him any rest. Continue

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to press into God. Lord, we need this. Lord,

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what is it that you want to do? Lord, and begin

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to ask God. Begin to connect with the mind of

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the Lord for intercessory prayer. Somebody say,

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it's work. That's right. It's going to take some

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work. It's not just that little moment of prayer

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a day. Oh, I prayed for you. And all they prayed

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was a few minutes. Before you were a few seconds

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in passing. It's that prayer that goes on. It's

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that insisting prayer that prays for you. It's

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my little daughter praying for her grandfather.

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Before my father was saved, he was a man who

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had been backslidden for many, many years. I

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had never even known that he was saved. But my

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little daughter, when she got saved at the age

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of three, the first thing she was concerned about,

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what about grandpa? Is grandpa saved? Is he going

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to heaven? And we said, right now, we need to

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pray. on herself to intercede. In the morning,

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waking morning, at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner,

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at night, she was consistent with her prayer.

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Save Grandpa. Save Papa. Save Papa. Move on Papa.

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Holy Spirit, come. She's three years old, interceding.

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She got filled with the Holy Spirit while doing

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it. Intercession. And she began to pray in the

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Spirit, you know, that it wasn't weeks, maybe

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a month or two before grandpa had a visitation

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from God. My father tells a story that an angel

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showed up. The presence of God came, woke him

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out of his sleep and said, get up, get dressed,

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you're going to church. And he got up with the

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fear of God, got dressed, he waited for him,

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escorted him to the church where he was going

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to get saved, walked with him. All the way to

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a church. The doors were open and people were

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praying. It was about six something in the morning.

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People were praying. Prayer warriors were interceding.

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Probably for people in that community. Probably

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for people like my dad. And that angel said to

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him, go there. Go to that altar and surrender

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your life to Christ. And you'll never leave.

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My father did so. He looked back and it was gone.

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That person who drove him to that place. was

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gone. Well, what an incredible experience when

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a three -year -old can begin to pray. Children

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have a beautiful faith to believe God. I believe

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that God wants to use our children, wants to

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teach our children early on. If you teach your

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children how to touch heaven like that and how

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to ascend to heaven and believe God through prayer

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that they can bring change. Listen, they'll grow

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up to be mighty people who will change their

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world. Nothing will be impossible for them. If

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you believe that, give the Lord a hand because

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I believe he's depositing something. Give yourself

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no rest and give yourself no rest and give him

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no rest till he establishes Jerusalem. Well,

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the message Bible reads, day and night they keep

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it, they keep at it. Day and night they keep

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at it, praying, calling out, reminding God to

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remember. Reminding God to remember. Look at

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your neighbor. Would you use this phrase? Tell

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him, you need to remind God to remember. Well,

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you would think the Almighty, he doesn't need

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anybody to remind him. But it's all through your

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Bible. Moses reminded God. Abraham reminded God.

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Jacob, all of the patriarchs reminded God of

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his goodness. Nehemiah reminded God. Daniel reminded

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God. When the midst of trouble in Israel, they

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rose up to remind God to remember. And I believe,

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God, we've lost that at the church. Somehow,

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it skipped us. But we need to get back to intercessory

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prayer that reminds God, Lord, remember! Remember

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what you said about my family. Remember the prophetic

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word the prophets gave me. Remember when Bob

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Isabel came and gave me that word. Everything

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looks contrary, but I want you to remember the

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prophets and what they spoke over my family.

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Come on, can you say amen? I believe God wants

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us to learn how to remind God to remember. Reminding

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God to remember. Genesis 9 verse 16. Whenever

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the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see

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it and remember. The everlasting covenant between

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God and all living creatures of every kind on

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the earth. God places things that he can remember.

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Have you ever done that in your life? Put a marker

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so you can remember. Put it on the refrigerator.

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You put a note. Put something on your hand like

00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.559
a ring or something. You tie your string. I've

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heard people trying to do things so that they

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don't forget. And the older you get, the better

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practice it is. How many walk into a room and

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you forget why you came into that room? I bend

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down and I make sure I pick up everything that

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I got to pick up in case I forget anything. Because

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I don't want to bend down again. Well, remembering.

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Remembering is important. It's important to God.

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God is not old and he hasn't grown ancient. But

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he is a God who expects people to rise and call

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him on his promises. To hold him at his word.

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I believe that God wants you and I in intercessory

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prayer to remind him to remember. Come on. Deuteronomy

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chapter 9 verse 25 through 26. In the Message

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Bible, Deuteronomy 9, verse 25 through 26. When

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I was on my face, prostrate before God those

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40 days and nights after God said he would destroy

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you. This is Moses. I prayed to God for you.

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My master God, don't destroy your people, your

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inheritance, whom in your immense generosity

00:36:09.329 --> 00:36:13.710
you redeemed, using your enormous strength to

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get them out of Egypt. Moses reminded God of

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all of his works and what God did. And he reminded

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the people, I prayed for you. I made intercession.

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Moses would stand. Every time God wanted to destroy

00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:29.239
Israel, it was Moses and Aaron running in the

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midst of calamity. Running in the midst of judgment

00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:34.960
to stay the judgment of God. Well, somehow God's

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raising a church that will stay the judgment

00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:40.239
of God over a nation. I believe that... Nations

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are being judged by their acts. Because of their

00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.840
acts, the judgment of God will come on the nations.

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But the church can stand to protect the nation.

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I believe, I come from the little island of Puerto

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Rico. It faces every year, almost every year,

00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:56.840
countless storms that make their way through

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.860
the Caribbean. All of you have probably seen

00:36:58.860 --> 00:37:00.920
it in the news. They're making their way right

00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.039
to Puerto Rico. It's been here a few times, but

00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.320
very few times. Because there's a church awake

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.119
that have learned that they can turn a storm.

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around so what's been happening is our city churches

00:37:11.989 --> 00:37:14.309
are getting together in the coliseums to pray

00:37:14.309 --> 00:37:18.610
to avert disasters and every mayor of the city

00:37:18.610 --> 00:37:22.050
over 50 mayors have called for citywide prayer

00:37:22.050 --> 00:37:24.329
meetings where churches are coming together to

00:37:24.329 --> 00:37:26.670
pray something is happening in little island

00:37:26.670 --> 00:37:29.690
it might be collapsing financially but the glory

00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:34.079
of God is ready to move in And storm after storm

00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.539
coming announced it's going to hit the island.

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:38.280
It's going to hit the little island. It would

00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:40.960
have destroyed the island. They averted and it

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.780
turns right in front of the island. It goes around

00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:48.579
it because of a prayer seal that goes up. Somebody

00:37:48.579 --> 00:37:54.389
say intercessory prayer works. Amen. I believe

00:37:54.389 --> 00:37:56.369
you can shield your family. You can shield your

00:37:56.369 --> 00:38:00.809
city. You can shield your finances. You can shield

00:38:00.809 --> 00:38:04.530
your home. You can raise a hedge of protection.

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Oh. All right. This is what Moses did. He stood

00:38:12.710 --> 00:38:16.389
for the people. Verse 27 to 28, he said, Remember

00:38:16.389 --> 00:38:19.929
your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He's

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speaking out to God. Don't make too much of the

00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:26.239
stubbornness of this people. Think about it,

00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:29.519
Moses counseling God. They're evil in their sin.

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Lest the Egyptians from whom you rescued them

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say, God couldn't do it. He got tired and wasn't

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able to take them to the land he promised them.

00:38:45.739 --> 00:38:50.280
He ended up hating them and dumped. Them in the

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wilderness to die. Moses intercessory prayer.

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Was full of wisdom. And he just not. He didn't

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just look at the present. And I'm afraid. Our

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intercession. Sometimes comes to an end. Because

00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:07.719
we look. At sin. And we look at the. Wrong with

00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.760
people. We stop praying. We think oh man. Go

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.380
ahead God. Kill them. Judge them Lord. They deserve

00:39:14.380 --> 00:39:17.449
to be judged. You know. And we stop praying.

00:39:17.630 --> 00:39:20.150
We stop protecting. And we stop believing God

00:39:20.150 --> 00:39:23.090
to do something. And it gets so bad in people's

00:39:23.090 --> 00:39:25.389
lives that somehow we just say, I'm going to

00:39:25.389 --> 00:39:27.489
stop praying. This is a waste of time. No, that's

00:39:27.489 --> 00:39:29.289
when you need to pray on. And you need to pray

00:39:29.289 --> 00:39:31.670
with the kind of wisdom that looks at the future.

00:39:31.869 --> 00:39:33.969
Don't look at the present. Look at the future.

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God, what are people going to say? You've already

00:39:36.789 --> 00:39:38.670
saved that man. I know he's vaccinated. He's

00:39:38.670 --> 00:39:41.570
messing up in his house. But God, he's your servant.

00:39:41.690 --> 00:39:43.889
There were prophecies. Hold up the prophetic

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words. Find God to remember what he said. My

00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:52.570
wife is constantly practicing this. You hear

00:39:52.570 --> 00:39:55.090
praying all throughout the house. Lord, you said.

00:39:55.349 --> 00:39:59.230
Lord, you said. Lord, you said. Whatever God

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says, she brings it up and says, God, this is

00:40:01.829 --> 00:40:05.389
what you said. And we've watched great victories

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come through that kind of intercessory prayer.

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Remember, intercessory prayer is not just praying

00:40:13.190 --> 00:40:16.199
without understanding. praying without wisdom.

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You've got to be able to look at things the way

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God looks at them because that's the only way

00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:26.619
God will understand what you have to say. I believe

00:40:26.619 --> 00:40:30.679
that Moses had the power to step in and talk

00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:33.760
to God in a very meek way, but he was able to

00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:36.920
convince God. What will they say? The Egyptians.

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What will Satan say? What will the people of

00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:50.590
this city say? Deuteronomy 9, 29. There are your

00:40:50.590 --> 00:40:55.050
people still, your inheritance, whom you powerfully

00:40:55.050 --> 00:41:00.030
and sovereignly rescued. Remind God, they're

00:41:00.030 --> 00:41:02.449
still your people. They messed up, but they're

00:41:02.449 --> 00:41:04.929
still your people. You still died for them, Lord.

00:41:05.710 --> 00:41:07.909
You still saved them. They look bad now, and

00:41:07.909 --> 00:41:10.230
I'm very frustrated counseling pastors. Listen

00:41:10.230 --> 00:41:11.849
to me, because you're going to be frustrated.

00:41:11.949 --> 00:41:14.150
I've pastored in some of the wildest communities

00:41:14.150 --> 00:41:18.030
in America, New York City, Harlem. I counseled

00:41:18.030 --> 00:41:20.510
hit men and all kinds of ugly people that were

00:41:20.510 --> 00:41:24.070
saved in my church, murderers that became deacons

00:41:24.070 --> 00:41:28.809
in my church, and people who were way off, and

00:41:28.809 --> 00:41:31.840
people had given up hope for them. But God saved

00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:35.039
them, rescued them. Transvestites of 32 years.

00:41:36.179 --> 00:41:39.320
Saved, rescued by the power of the blood of Jesus.

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:42.239
Who today are some of the most loved elders in

00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:46.460
my church. That I left in New York City. Powerful

00:41:46.460 --> 00:41:48.719
people transform. I've watched it all over my

00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:51.719
life. God can do it. He did it with us. He can

00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.000
do it with anybody. Come on, they're still your

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:55.480
people. Somebody say, they're still your people.

00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:59.320
Remind God, come, I know he knows it, but you

00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:01.280
need to stand in the gap and say, God, they're

00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:03.940
still your people. Oh, God, don't give up on

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them. God, rescue them. Oh, that we would be

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filled with the passion of God. That we would

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be filled that when God even decides that he

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wants to kill them, we would turn his heart around

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and spare them and another opportunity would

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be given to them. Sovereign God. Wow. Well, let's

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go to this next point. Because prophetic intercession

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is pleading for the life of another. How many

00:42:30.869 --> 00:42:34.130
of you know it? It's when you can plead, stand

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in the gap for the life of another. In Genesis

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chapter 18, the great example of Abraham praying.

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Praying for Sodom and Gomorrah, a wicked city.

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Lost in their sins. And the scripture says that

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God showed up to destroy that city with some

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of his angels. Then the men set out for Sodom.

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They were already on assignment. They were sent

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out to Sodom. Verse 22, but Abraham stood in

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God's path. Listen to it. You want to know what

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intercessory prayer is all about? It's when you

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dare to stand in front of God and say, God, hold

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.519
on, hold on. He stood in God's path, blocking

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his way. Who are you? Well, the fear of God is

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the beginning of wisdom, but there's that place

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of intercessory prayer. That we can come before

00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:28.340
God with confidence and with boldness, even before

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the Lord. Why do we need boldness to enter into

00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.400
the presence of God? Have you ever thought about

00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.480
that? Because you're going to have to go before

00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:43.019
God and stand in the gap for people. But Abraham

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stood in God's path, blocking his way. Abraham

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confronted him. Remember when I said intercession

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is all about a confrontation? Our intercessory

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prayer is not just about confronting the powers

00:43:53.369 --> 00:43:55.610
of evil. Sometimes intercessory prayer is about

00:43:55.610 --> 00:43:58.510
confronting God and saying, God, hold on. Let

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me talk to you about this before you smash these

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people, before you destroy our city. Let me talk

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to you about them. And he confronted him. Are

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you serious? I love the Message Bible. Maybe

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it wasn't quite like this, but I love the way

00:44:13.989 --> 00:44:16.170
he puts it. Are you serious? Are you planning

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on getting rid of the good people right along

00:44:19.150 --> 00:44:23.900
with the bad? What if there are 50 decent people

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left in the city? Will you lump the good with

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the bad and get rid of the lot? Wouldn't you

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spare the city for the sake of those 50 innocents?

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I can't believe you'd do that. Kill off the good

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and the bad alike as if there were no difference

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between them. Doesn't the judge of all the earth

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judge with justice? Genesis 18 verse 26 through

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28. God said if I find 50 decent people in the

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city of Sodom, I'll spare the place just for

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them. Now he was ready to destroy it. Now he's

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ready to save 50. But unlike Abraham, he kept

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pressing in. Kept ringing the bell. Abraham came

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back. Do I, a mere mortal made from a handful

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of dirt, dare open my mouth again to my master?

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What if the 50 fall short of five? Would you

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destroy the city because of the missing five?

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And he said, I won't destroy it if there are

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45. Abraham keeps pressing in. Abraham spoke

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up again. What if you only find 40? Neither will

00:45:41.050 --> 00:45:47.789
I destroy the city for 40 of only for 40. Let

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me go on. He said, Master, don't be irritated

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with me. But what if only 30 are found? No, I

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won't do it if I find 30. I won't do it if I

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find 30. Now he's got them down. He's negotiated.

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When's the last time you negotiated with God?

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Verse 31. He pushed on. Somebody say, he pushed

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on. Push. Pray until something happened. He pushed

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on. I know I'm trying your patience, master.

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But what about for 20? For 20, would you do it

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for 20? I won't destroy it for 20. I'll change.

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I won't destroy the whole city. I came to destroy

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it, but for 20 people, if I find 20 righteous

00:46:35.809 --> 00:46:42.429
people, 20 people, I won't destroy it. He wouldn't

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quit. Don't get angry. And I can imagine, I can

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see Abraham, don't get angry, master. This is

00:46:50.699 --> 00:46:54.400
the last time. What if you only come up with

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10? Just 10. I mean, 10. Started counting. I

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think he had lots of family in mind because that

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was the point of his intercession. And he took

00:47:07.900 --> 00:47:12.340
God through and negotiated for one family. What

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about 10? For the sake of 10, I won't destroy

00:47:16.590 --> 00:47:20.929
the city. Well, you know what happened. God destroyed

00:47:20.929 --> 00:47:24.809
the city, but God has a way. In Genesis 19, verse

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29, it says, so when God destroyed the cities

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of the plain, he remembered Abraham and he brought

00:47:30.969 --> 00:47:36.469
Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the

00:47:36.469 --> 00:47:41.510
cities where Lot had lived. Because of the intercession

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of one man. God didn't change his mind. He did

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what he came out to do. But he saved a family

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because of Abraham. He what? He remembered. Somebody

00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:59.239
say he remembered Abraham. And he sent word to

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his angels, escort, make sure they get out. I

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don't care what you do, save that family. Because

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I've got a man who's reminding me of my covenant.

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I've got a man of faith. Believing for that family.

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When's the last time you believed for somebody.

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That you contended with God. And you negotiated.

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For their salvation. You negotiated to set them

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free. From a catastrophe that was impending.

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A judgment that was already declared. Already

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in action. You and I can step in. To the midst

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of disaster. And change it around. We can change

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the course of history. Prophetic intercession.

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Can intervene. It can change the course of history.

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Somebody's got to be in here. Being filled with

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faith through these stories. And rise up and

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say. I'm going to change history. I'm going to

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rewrite the story. I'm going to believe. I'm

00:48:52.340 --> 00:48:54.019
going to pray through until the story of this

00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:56.179
city is rewritten. The story of my church is

00:48:56.179 --> 00:48:57.940
rewritten. The story of my family is rewritten.

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The story of my children is rewritten. I'm not

00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:03.539
going to let the devil have them. I'm going to

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intercede. I'm going to stand in the gap. I'm

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going to press into God. I'm going to push out.

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Romans chapter 5 verse 2. Through whom we have

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gained access by faith into his grace. In which

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we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the

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glory of God. For through him we both have access

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to the Father. Ephesians 2 verse 18. By one spirit.

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Somebody say you have access. Abraham stood before

00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:39.059
God. You and I can stand before God. Ephesians

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3 verse 10 through 12. His intent was that now

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through the church. Somebody say through the

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church. The bountiful wisdom of God should be

00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.099
made known to the rulers and authorities and

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heavenly realms. According to his eternal purpose

00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:55.780
that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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In him and through faith in him we may approach

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God with freedom and confidence. The same confidence

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that Abraham came before God. This is in no way.

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Trying to teach you disrespect towards the Lord.

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Trying to teach you that you have been granted

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access. Maybe others cannot come in before the

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:21.380
presence of God. But the blood of Jesus allows

00:50:21.380 --> 00:50:25.480
you to come in. To the very holy place. Into

00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.340
the very throne room of God. I believe the church.

00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:33.900
Is the one that's going to declare the manifold

00:50:33.900 --> 00:50:36.480
wisdom of God. The multi -sided wisdom of God.

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When people think. There's no answer. The church

00:50:39.820 --> 00:50:41.760
is going to speak an answer because it's been

00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:44.340
in the presence of God. And guess what? When

00:50:44.340 --> 00:50:46.519
it says that, they're going to show that to the

00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:48.639
principalities and powers of the air. Things

00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:51.059
angels long to see, they're longing to hear.

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They're longing to get revelation. I believe

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that the church has access into the very throne

00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:58.800
of God. Get a hold of divine information that

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not even the angels know. Because they're not

00:51:01.429 --> 00:51:03.650
omniscient. Only God is. But when the church

00:51:03.650 --> 00:51:05.849
hears what the omniscient God sees of the future.

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It can come down and begin to prophesy and speak.

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And out of the church come directives. The dispatch

00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:15.650
of angel forces. Angel armies are dispatched

00:51:15.650 --> 00:51:18.769
by the sound of the voice of a church. They're

00:51:18.769 --> 00:51:21.969
waiting. I believe angels are poised for battle.

00:51:22.130 --> 00:51:24.190
Just waiting for a directive from the church.

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A church that has not spoken but is going to

00:51:27.670 --> 00:51:30.300
speak. A church that's going to understand. that

00:51:30.300 --> 00:51:33.519
it has an authority to change history and to

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even command the forces of heaven to line up

00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:41.019
with the heart of God. Are you with me? That's

00:51:41.019 --> 00:51:43.199
the manifold wisdom of God. It's not just for

00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.559
demons to hear it. It's for the authorities and

00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:48.500
principalities of the air. Everybody falls into

00:51:48.500 --> 00:51:53.960
line. Hebrews 4 verse 16. Let us then approach

00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.320
God's throne. Hebrews 4 verse 16. Let us then

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approach God's throne of grace. with confidence

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so that we may receive mercy and find grace to

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help us in a time of need. Grace and help in

00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:16.159
the time of need. But you've got to approach

00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:19.639
with confidence. Well, we need intercessors that

00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:23.820
learn how to be confident in the Holy Ghost and

00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:27.320
understand what your place is. You have the right.

00:52:28.300 --> 00:52:32.639
Do you know the Bible speaks about Lucifer? It

00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:34.539
speaks about Lucifer both in Ezekiel and Isaiah

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14, Ezekiel 28. You can read this. It says that

00:52:37.699 --> 00:52:40.320
he walked among the stones of fire. Speaking

00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.179
of the very throne room of God, he had authority.

00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.920
He could come in and out of the very holy place

00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.940
as Lucifer, the illuminated angel. But he was

00:52:50.940 --> 00:52:54.719
kicked out of heaven and he was replaced. Not

00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:56.659
with another angel, not with another archangel.

00:52:57.099 --> 00:53:01.159
but with the church. You and I can now ascend

00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:04.320
by the Spirit. We have access. We can walk among

00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:06.880
the stones of fire. We can hear the counsel of

00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.360
God. God, what do you think? Lord, what are you

00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:11.340
thinking? What's on your heart for this couple?

00:53:11.420 --> 00:53:13.219
What's on your heart for this person I'm counseling?

00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:16.159
Lord, as I'm praying and you're in prayer, you've

00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:18.440
ascended on high and you've heard from God. Wouldn't

00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:20.539
it be great to enter a counseling meeting with

00:53:20.539 --> 00:53:23.840
a word from God? with a directive from the Holy

00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:25.940
Spirit because you've spent time before they

00:53:25.940 --> 00:53:29.219
came into your office. You've already heard what

00:53:29.219 --> 00:53:31.619
God wants to do in their life and you can speak

00:53:31.619 --> 00:53:33.840
into their lives. Well, I believe it'd make counseling

00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:36.619
a whole lot lighter for us. And we would see

00:53:36.619 --> 00:53:39.559
people transform and change at the announcement

00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:43.079
of the will of God for their lives. Would you

00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.059
stand with me? Let's take a little break and

00:53:45.059 --> 00:53:46.480
we'll come back. How many are enjoying this?

00:53:47.260 --> 00:53:51.400
Are you challenged? Are you ready? To intercede.

00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:53.820
Are you ready to walk into the very throne of

00:53:53.820 --> 00:53:56.420
God with great confidence? Knowing that that's

00:53:56.420 --> 00:53:59.739
your place. You and I now can enter in to the

00:53:59.739 --> 00:54:02.360
very secret place of God. Hear the voice of the

00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:07.619
Lord. Jeremiah speaks of it as standing in the

00:54:07.619 --> 00:54:12.559
secret of God. Being able to stand in the secret

00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:16.559
of God where you hear the secrets of God. Well,

00:54:16.619 --> 00:54:21.280
I pray that God helps us. In and out, as we enter

00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:23.239
in and out, we have access by the Holy Ghost

00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:26.760
in a moment. It doesn't take long. It just takes

00:54:26.760 --> 00:54:30.860
the right attitude of prayer. It takes a faith,

00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:33.320
understanding, and the grace that has been allotted

00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.880
to us. We have a grace that allows us to step

00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:40.719
into the very throne room of God. Help us, Lord,

00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:44.079
during this break time, and help us to adhere

00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:48.789
to your word as we seek to change history. In

00:54:48.789 --> 00:54:52.989
Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Let's take about

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a 10, 15 -minute break at max. There's still

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some food out there, some coffee, bathroom break,

00:54:58.929 --> 00:55:01.210
and then we'll come right back for part two of

00:55:01.210 --> 00:55:03.389
the training session this morning. We'll see

00:55:03.389 --> 00:55:05.010
you out there in just a little bit. 15 minutes

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at max. Thank you. Well, spending time with the

00:55:17.909 --> 00:55:21.349
Lord is key to any kind of ministry, especially

00:55:21.349 --> 00:55:24.309
the ministry of intercessors. If you can't spend

00:55:24.309 --> 00:55:27.070
time with God, if you can't find the discipline

00:55:27.070 --> 00:55:29.489
to allot some time to be with the Lord, you know,

00:55:29.510 --> 00:55:33.849
the psalmist made time. The Bible says that they

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prayed numerous times. Especially the psalmist

00:55:37.969 --> 00:55:40.769
would say in the morning I will seek you. Scripture

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says he who seeks the Lord in the morning shall

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find him. There's something about giving God

00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:47.530
the first fruits of your strength every morning

00:55:47.530 --> 00:55:49.989
when you get up. I encourage you to go before

00:55:49.989 --> 00:55:52.190
the Lord the moment you get up and spend time

00:55:52.190 --> 00:55:55.030
with the Lord. I want to draw your attention

00:55:55.030 --> 00:55:58.630
to Isaiah chapter 15 verse 4 through 5. Isaiah

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chapter 15 verse 4 through 5. So this sovereign

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Lord, this is Isaiah, who's a great prophet and

00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.280
an intercessor. And he spent a lot of time trying

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to get the word of God to encourage the people

00:56:11.619 --> 00:56:14.960
of God. And before he could be that prophetic

00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:18.420
voice, he talks about how his training went.

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Sovereign Lord has given me a well -instructed

00:56:21.579 --> 00:56:25.940
tongue to know the word that sustains the weary.

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He wakens me morning by morning. He awakens my

00:56:30.019 --> 00:56:33.320
ear to listen like one being instructed. The

00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:36.400
sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have

00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:39.519
not been rebellious. I have not turned away.

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Well, here Isaiah is prophesying, and this scripture

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actually is a Messianic scripture. You'll read

00:56:47.659 --> 00:56:50.679
the next verse talks about the pulling of the

00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:54.239
beer and the striking. It's about Jesus. But

00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:57.099
here, there's an instruction on how God raises

00:56:57.099 --> 00:57:00.880
people to be prophetic intercessors, people who

00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:03.980
can hear the voice of God. Well, we all want

00:57:03.980 --> 00:57:06.500
to speak the right words. How many of you want

00:57:06.500 --> 00:57:08.519
to have the right words to speak to somebody?

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How many want to have an instructed tongue like

00:57:10.940 --> 00:57:14.179
this scripture says? Well, he boasts of this.

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He says, the Lord has given me a well -instructed

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tongue or the tongue of a disciple. Another translation

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says, to know the word. To know the word that

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sustains the weary. To have the right word to

00:57:26.380 --> 00:57:29.159
lift people up. That's the whole motivation here.

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To be able to speak into people's lives and encourage

00:57:31.820 --> 00:57:34.860
them. And then he goes about how to gain that

00:57:34.860 --> 00:57:38.380
instructed tongue. He says, he awakens me morning

00:57:38.380 --> 00:57:42.239
by morning. He awakens my ear to listen as one

00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.360
being instructed. The way to an instructed tongue

00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.940
is having an ear that's instructed. It's having

00:57:47.940 --> 00:57:51.880
the ear open, the ear of a disciple. People can

00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.719
be here and not have an open ear. You can spend

00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:56.519
the whole morning here and not have an open ear

00:57:56.519 --> 00:57:59.440
and walk away without receiving what God wants

00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:03.139
to teach you. God wants to awaken all of our

00:58:03.139 --> 00:58:06.599
ears. He wants to cause our ears to be right,

00:58:06.739 --> 00:58:09.659
ready to receive. And he wants to do it in a

00:58:09.659 --> 00:58:11.800
consistent way. I like the way that he shares

00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:14.360
it. He awakens me morning by morning. Somebody

00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:18.199
say morning by morning. Well, it's great to have

00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:21.260
an alarm to wake you up in the morning, but it's

00:58:21.260 --> 00:58:23.699
even more precious when you spend so much time

00:58:23.699 --> 00:58:26.679
with God that you hear his whisper in the middle

00:58:26.679 --> 00:58:29.139
of your sleep. That he can awaken you and say,

00:58:29.179 --> 00:58:31.260
wake up. And sometimes it's not the time you

00:58:31.260 --> 00:58:33.610
want to wake up because God... How many of you

00:58:33.610 --> 00:58:36.650
have been woken up at some ungodly time? Well,

00:58:36.670 --> 00:58:39.610
it's really a godly time. It's God's time because

00:58:39.610 --> 00:58:41.389
he wants you to intercede, wants you to pray.

00:58:41.909 --> 00:58:45.909
I've been awakened by God to avert a disaster

00:58:45.909 --> 00:58:49.050
in my own family, to pray for my grandchildren

00:58:49.050 --> 00:58:52.690
and my children through my 43 years of listening

00:58:52.690 --> 00:58:55.710
to God and having an ear. I've watched God spending

00:58:55.710 --> 00:58:59.409
time with him, how he has awakened me, where

00:58:59.409 --> 00:59:03.989
everybody else is asleep. to awake me. Sometimes

00:59:03.989 --> 00:59:06.210
my wife and I have been awakened at the same

00:59:06.210 --> 00:59:08.969
time with the same burden to pray for people.

00:59:09.030 --> 00:59:12.130
The Holy Spirit speaks to us and we get up and

00:59:12.130 --> 00:59:14.510
we are actually hearing the voice of the Lord

00:59:14.510 --> 00:59:17.590
and we go into prayer and intercede and we know

00:59:17.590 --> 00:59:19.909
that our prayers are effective and that something

00:59:19.909 --> 00:59:24.269
is happening because he woke us up to intercede

00:59:24.269 --> 00:59:27.110
and then to pray for people and then God opens

00:59:27.110 --> 00:59:29.980
the door for us to speak to those people. That

00:59:29.980 --> 00:59:32.320
we have the right words. So before you have the

00:59:32.320 --> 00:59:33.739
right words. You got to have the right ears.

00:59:33.980 --> 00:59:36.300
You got to have open ears. The ears of a disciple.

00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:38.960
So you can have the tongue. An instructed tongue.

00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:42.260
You must have an instructed ear. It says he awakens

00:59:42.260 --> 00:59:45.599
my ear to listen like one being instructed. God

00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:48.539
wants to give you instructions. He wants to speak

00:59:48.539 --> 00:59:50.079
to you. He wants to awaken you in the morning

00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:53.679
hours. And tell you what is going to take place

00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:57.159
in the rest of your day. He might give you some

00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:00.780
details. Might even show you some faces. Might

01:00:00.780 --> 01:00:04.440
even tell you and schedule some divine appointments

01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:07.800
for your life. The sovereign Lord has opened

01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:14.019
my ears. What a powerful thing to know that God

01:00:14.019 --> 01:00:18.079
is at work opening the ears of the church. And

01:00:18.079 --> 01:00:20.119
it was Jesus who said, he who has an ear, let

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him hear what the spirit is saying to the church.

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How many know that it's the spirit of God that

01:00:26.019 --> 01:00:28.340
wants to speak into your ear? It is the Spirit

01:00:28.340 --> 01:00:30.639
of God who right now, even you might be in a

01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:33.719
conference like this on prophetic intercession,

01:00:33.820 --> 01:00:35.920
but the Holy Spirit is speaking to you some very

01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:38.619
direct things that some people have already walked

01:00:38.619 --> 01:00:40.380
up to me and says, while you were speaking, God

01:00:40.380 --> 01:00:42.219
spoke to me about doing this and doing that.

01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:44.460
And there's been a number of instructions that

01:00:44.460 --> 01:00:47.280
have gone on by the Holy Ghost outside of my

01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.519
notes. They're better than my notes. They're

01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:51.059
the instructions of the Holy Spirit for your

01:00:51.059 --> 01:00:54.179
life. And you do well to pay heed to them. Well,

01:00:54.280 --> 01:00:56.500
all of us want to have the right words at the

01:00:56.500 --> 01:00:58.780
right time. time. And prophetic intercession

01:00:58.780 --> 01:01:02.420
is praying in the Spirit. I want to talk to you

01:01:02.420 --> 01:01:04.219
about in this session about praying in the Spirit

01:01:04.219 --> 01:01:08.039
and praying the will of God. Prophetic intercession

01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:12.199
is praying in the Spirit. Praying in the Spirit

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is praying in tongues. Praying in the Spirit

01:01:15.739 --> 01:01:17.980
is praying in tongues. Let me qualify this with

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the word. 1 Corinthians 14 verse 2. For anyone

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who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people

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but to God. Indeed, no one understands them.

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They utter mysteries by the Spirit. They utter

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mysteries by the Spirit. They don't speak to

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men. They speak to God. When you and I pray in

01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:40.329
our prayer language, we pray to God. On 1 Corinthians

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chapter 14, verse 14 through 15. For if I pray

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in a tongue, my spirit prays. If I pray in a

01:01:47.210 --> 01:01:51.809
tongue, what? My spirit prays. But my mind is

01:01:51.809 --> 01:01:55.670
unfruitful. So what shall I do? I will pray with

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my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding.

01:01:58.989 --> 01:02:02.130
I will sing with my spirit. Somebody say, sing

01:02:02.130 --> 01:02:06.059
with my spirit. So how many of you have ever

01:02:06.059 --> 01:02:08.280
sung in tongues? You need to begin to practice

01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:11.420
what the word teaches. Sing in the spirit. Sing,

01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:14.239
speak in tongues and sing in tongues in the presence

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of the Lord. But I will also sing with my understanding.

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Thank God that many of us are singing with our

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understanding and the church is full of singers

01:02:23.420 --> 01:02:25.699
who can sing with their understanding, sing with

01:02:25.699 --> 01:02:27.980
their language they understand. But I believe

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God wants to usher the church into those moments

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of prophetic intercession where we are actually

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praying in the Spirit, singing in the Spirit,

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and we can get lost in God as a congregation

01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:40.420
doing it in the Spirit. Well, there's a lot of

01:02:40.420 --> 01:02:42.500
teaching coming against this, people trying to

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extract speaking in tongues out of the church.

01:02:45.260 --> 01:02:48.699
And no longer do you see the actual speaking

01:02:48.699 --> 01:02:50.980
in tongues to the church. With the interpretation.

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The gift of interpretation is no longer seen.

01:02:54.019 --> 01:02:56.079
Something that needs to be restored back in our

01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:59.440
midst. It's good to prophesy. Because everybody

01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:02.059
gets edified. But if someone does speak in tongues

01:03:02.059 --> 01:03:04.280
to the church. Then there should be an interpretation.

01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:07.239
And remember that when you speak in tongues.

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There are mysteries. There are things hidden

01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:13.179
that God wants to reveal. So I believe that praying

01:03:13.179 --> 01:03:16.380
in the spirit. prophetic intercession. It's praying

01:03:16.380 --> 01:03:19.699
in the Spirit, praying like the Scripture says.

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Listen to another Scripture, Ephesians 6, verse

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17 through 18. Take the helmet of salvation and

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the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of

01:03:27.179 --> 01:03:29.760
God. The sword of the Spirit, which is what?

01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:33.980
The Word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all

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occasions. Not just a little while, but on all

01:03:38.099 --> 01:03:41.179
occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

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This in mind, be alert. Always keep on praying

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for all the Lord's people. So pray in the Spirit

01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:52.960
on all occasions. This is a command of God. This

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is a command from the apostles. You and I are

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to be a praying church. The church is to be a

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church that just only prays with its understanding.

01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:03.519
But that enters in to praying in the Spirit.

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And I so love the atmosphere that is created

01:04:06.420 --> 01:04:09.139
in this church having learned that. I'm speaking

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to a mature church. You walk into this place

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and there's people praying in the Spirit all

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over the place. The pastor, he's lost in the

01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:18.559
presence of God. But the altar is all about.

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The altar is a place where the lost get found

01:04:21.260 --> 01:04:24.599
and the found get lost. Amen? And we need to

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be able to enter into that presence of God and

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just spend time in God. And I love the meekness

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of your pastor. Though there are things that

01:04:32.019 --> 01:04:34.719
need to be done, he will not interrupt that move

01:04:34.719 --> 01:04:37.980
of God. He will allow, he'll be sensitive to

01:04:37.980 --> 01:04:40.699
want to wait on God. Can you give the Lord a

01:04:40.699 --> 01:04:45.559
big hand for a Holy Ghost filled pastor? Hallelujah.

01:04:46.699 --> 01:04:48.960
It's that waiting on the Lord. It's that waiting

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and praying in the Spirit. It's important. Many

01:04:51.940 --> 01:04:53.920
churches have walked away from this. Many churches

01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.239
are leaving that for the prayer room. I think

01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:57.920
it should be an expression in the local church

01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:00.900
and our gatherings. Praying in the spirit. Let

01:05:00.900 --> 01:05:03.039
the people come. Listen, the visitors will think

01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.599
you're strange at first. But then when you begin

01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:07.860
to pray in our understanding, wisdom will come

01:05:07.860 --> 01:05:11.420
to them. And they'll come to par. We think we

01:05:11.420 --> 01:05:13.840
need to change everything to try to make everybody

01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:16.179
comfortable. Some people need to be shocked.

01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:19.820
Some people need to be moved and shaken and understand

01:05:19.820 --> 01:05:24.420
that, hey, we live in a whole other world in

01:05:24.420 --> 01:05:27.119
the kingdom of God. This praying in the spirit

01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:29.619
is the life of the spirit. river in this house

01:05:29.619 --> 01:05:32.880
that flows out of the innermost being of people's

01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:38.079
lives. So it has this place. And Ephesians 6

01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:41.079
tells us, take up the helmet of salvation and

01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:43.159
the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of

01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:45.780
God. How many of you can intercede with the Word

01:05:45.780 --> 01:05:48.940
of God? Pray with the Word of God. Pray with

01:05:48.940 --> 01:05:51.460
the Word of God. Pray the actual literal Word

01:05:51.460 --> 01:05:53.880
of God. Begin to pray and then enter into the

01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:57.099
Spirit and begin to pray in the Spirit. 1 Corinthians

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14, again, verse 39 through 40 says, Therefore

01:06:00.780 --> 01:06:03.500
my brothers and sisters be eager to prophesy

01:06:03.500 --> 01:06:09.320
and do not forbid speaking in tongues. Don't

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prohibit it. Yet we have all kinds of leaders

01:06:12.340 --> 01:06:15.780
trying to take that out of the church because

01:06:15.780 --> 01:06:19.300
we want to be a friendly user church. We want

01:06:19.300 --> 01:06:22.900
to be friendly and kind. And I believe that.

01:06:22.940 --> 01:06:26.260
I believe we all need to be, you know. Everything

01:06:26.260 --> 01:06:28.539
can be done like this scripture says, but everything

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should be done in a fitting and orderly way.

01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:35.239
And somebody could get up and do an explanation.

01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:37.260
This is what we do in our church. We used to

01:06:37.260 --> 01:06:39.980
have brochures in our church years ago just teaching

01:06:39.980 --> 01:06:41.659
people this is what you can expect in our service.

01:06:42.570 --> 01:06:44.550
They'll be shouting. They'll be raising of hands.

01:06:44.769 --> 01:06:48.150
They'll be speaking in other tongues. And we

01:06:48.150 --> 01:06:50.449
explained that with verses. And they would read

01:06:50.449 --> 01:06:53.369
it before the service. They were greeted by ushers

01:06:53.369 --> 01:06:55.889
with those things in hand. And people kind of

01:06:55.889 --> 01:06:59.329
got prepared. Okay, this is it. We never saw

01:06:59.329 --> 01:07:01.969
anybody walk out in the midst of confusion. Actually,

01:07:02.090 --> 01:07:04.289
everybody who visited the church was touched

01:07:04.289 --> 01:07:06.489
by the power of God. And we saw them added to

01:07:06.489 --> 01:07:10.210
the house of God. We saw a tremendous harvest

01:07:10.210 --> 01:07:13.469
in a number of years. just did what the word

01:07:13.469 --> 01:07:17.929
said. Somebody say practice the word. Amen. You

01:07:17.929 --> 01:07:21.409
can never go wrong obeying God. Now God gives

01:07:21.409 --> 01:07:23.789
us wisdom and understanding and your leaders

01:07:23.789 --> 01:07:25.630
set the course in the culture of this church.

01:07:25.750 --> 01:07:28.130
But I'm here to tell you that the culture of

01:07:28.130 --> 01:07:31.250
the church is a spirit filled culture. It's a

01:07:31.250 --> 01:07:33.889
culture of praying people who pray in the spirit,

01:07:33.969 --> 01:07:36.670
intercessors. And not just a few, huh? Listen,

01:07:36.730 --> 01:07:40.269
can I encourage you to get so fanatic about this,

01:07:40.369 --> 01:07:43.909
so on fire for this, become passionate about

01:07:43.909 --> 01:07:46.610
prayer and intercessory prayer to where you become

01:07:46.610 --> 01:07:50.920
contagious? And you begin to infiltrate the church

01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:53.099
and everybody who's around who didn't come to

01:07:53.099 --> 01:07:55.099
the conference will get ignited this Sunday because

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there's a fire that's going to get started here.

01:07:57.340 --> 01:07:59.840
And as you rekindle that fire and you come in

01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.360
Sunday, you come in with a praying voice. Amen.

01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:05.820
Prayer has a voice. Let it be heard. Prayer has

01:08:05.820 --> 01:08:08.900
a voice. Let that intercession rise. I guarantee

01:08:08.900 --> 01:08:11.199
you people will begin to hear praying in this

01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:12.880
house. Pray with your understanding, but also

01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.000
pray in the spirit. When it's time to pray in

01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:18.850
the spirit, let's pray in the spirit. So Romans

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chapter 8 verse 26 through 27. In the same way

01:08:22.270 --> 01:08:26.350
the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. In our

01:08:26.350 --> 01:08:29.770
weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray

01:08:29.770 --> 01:08:33.970
for. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us.

01:08:34.310 --> 01:08:39.649
Through wordless groans. And he who searches

01:08:39.649 --> 01:08:42.890
our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit. Because

01:08:42.890 --> 01:08:46.479
the Spirit intercedes for God's people. In accordance

01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:50.800
with the will of God. We need the Holy Spirit.

01:08:51.659 --> 01:08:54.539
Teaching us how to pray. Because we don't know

01:08:54.539 --> 01:08:59.659
how to pray. We don't know really. How should

01:08:59.659 --> 01:09:02.539
we pray? What should we pray? So the Holy Spirit

01:09:02.539 --> 01:09:05.699
can guide us. Make intercession for us. And even

01:09:05.699 --> 01:09:08.539
in our weakest moments. When it's that time when

01:09:08.539 --> 01:09:13.460
you can't see. You can't see clear. You're in

01:09:13.460 --> 01:09:16.859
that. where you're not feeling so strong, you're

01:09:16.859 --> 01:09:18.779
going through some trouble, well, that's a good

01:09:18.779 --> 01:09:21.109
time to pray in the Spirit. That's a good time

01:09:21.109 --> 01:09:22.710
to get around a few brethren and say, can you

01:09:22.710 --> 01:09:25.350
guys join me? I want to pray in the Spirit. I'm

01:09:25.350 --> 01:09:27.409
a little weak right now. I'm being challenged

01:09:27.409 --> 01:09:29.510
by the enemy. There's some things going on. I'm

01:09:29.510 --> 01:09:32.529
physically challenged or whatever it is that

01:09:32.529 --> 01:09:35.310
is going on. But pray in the Spirit. And as you

01:09:35.310 --> 01:09:37.090
pray in the Spirit, I believe God will bring

01:09:37.090 --> 01:09:39.229
answers to you. And there will be a refreshing

01:09:39.229 --> 01:09:41.010
that comes from the presence of the Lord. Amen?

01:09:41.229 --> 01:09:44.029
As we just allow the Holy Spirit to pour out

01:09:44.029 --> 01:09:47.270
of the church, out of us as we pray in the Spirit.

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I believe that he wants to pray in accordance

01:09:51.420 --> 01:09:56.680
with the will of God. And prophetic intercession

01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.300
is praying the will of God. Prophetic intercession

01:10:00.300 --> 01:10:03.560
is praying the will of God. It's not just prayer.

01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.560
It's praying what God wants you to pray about.

01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:09.659
It's praying with the Spirit, which is praying

01:10:09.659 --> 01:10:14.119
the will of God. When we pray in tongues, we

01:10:14.119 --> 01:10:18.000
pray the will of God by the Holy Spirit. which

01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:21.500
always guarantees God's answers. Prophetic intercession

01:10:21.500 --> 01:10:25.560
turns intercession into a master key. Somebody

01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:29.579
say master key. Opening that which is shut and

01:10:29.579 --> 01:10:32.720
shutting that which is open. When you can discern,

01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:35.539
wait a minute, this is not. God's will. I'm going

01:10:35.539 --> 01:10:37.899
to shut this thing down. I'm going to shut that

01:10:37.899 --> 01:10:41.340
door. But it has the power to know when you know

01:10:41.340 --> 01:10:43.279
it's the will of God, when the Holy Spirit reveals

01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:45.659
it, you can open the door through prayer. You

01:10:45.659 --> 01:10:48.039
can open the door and no man can shut it. There's

01:10:48.039 --> 01:10:51.739
an authority that comes through prophetic intercession

01:10:51.739 --> 01:10:55.500
that puts a master key in your hand. How many

01:10:55.500 --> 01:10:57.819
want to be able to close doors where nobody can

01:10:57.819 --> 01:11:00.079
open them and open doors that nobody can shut?

01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:01.899
You can do it for your family. You can do it

01:11:01.899 --> 01:11:04.229
for the church. You can do it for a city. I believe

01:11:04.229 --> 01:11:07.069
we have the power to shut things down. And we

01:11:07.069 --> 01:11:09.289
have the power to start things up. Can you say

01:11:09.289 --> 01:11:12.670
amen? And all of heaven will work with the church.

01:11:12.949 --> 01:11:17.430
So praying in the spirit. 1 John chapter 5, 14

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through 15 says, This is the confidence that

01:11:19.949 --> 01:11:24.090
we have in approaching God. That if we ask anything

01:11:24.090 --> 01:11:29.310
according to his will, he hears us. And if we

01:11:29.310 --> 01:11:33.239
know that he hears us, whatever we ask. We know

01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:39.060
that we have what we ask of him. What a powerful

01:11:39.060 --> 01:11:42.020
scripture. Well, if we could just pray every

01:11:42.020 --> 01:11:45.760
time this way, according to the will of God.

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Well, most of the time we pray and we have no

01:11:49.300 --> 01:11:52.199
knowledge of what God's will is. We have knowledge

01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:54.880
of what our wants are, but not of the will of

01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:57.779
God. But if we could just align ourselves by

01:11:57.779 --> 01:12:02.340
the spirit in praying, praying the will of God.

01:12:02.750 --> 01:12:05.569
I believe God wants to reveal that. Sometimes

01:12:05.569 --> 01:12:09.369
you'll be praying in the spirit. The more you

01:12:09.369 --> 01:12:11.810
enter into this realm, you'll be praying over

01:12:11.810 --> 01:12:14.770
people and it will almost seem like it's a prophecy

01:12:14.770 --> 01:12:17.409
because you'll be praying their life. You'll

01:12:17.409 --> 01:12:19.829
be praying out their problem. How many of you

01:12:19.829 --> 01:12:21.750
have ever prayed for somebody and they said,

01:12:21.770 --> 01:12:23.670
how did you know I was going through that? And

01:12:23.670 --> 01:12:25.029
they didn't tell you, didn't have a chance to

01:12:25.029 --> 01:12:27.170
ask, what can I pray for? But you started praying

01:12:27.170 --> 01:12:29.449
and it was almost like the Holy Spirit was guiding

01:12:29.449 --> 01:12:32.890
you. Well, that's intercessory, prophetic intercessory

01:12:32.890 --> 01:12:35.789
prayer. It begins to reveal the very heart of

01:12:35.789 --> 01:12:37.869
the people, the problems, and it begins to reveal

01:12:37.869 --> 01:12:40.229
the heart of God. It's mixed in with the gifts.

01:12:40.859 --> 01:12:43.239
Get stirred up as you begin to pray. All of a

01:12:43.239 --> 01:12:45.220
sudden the gift of discerning comes in. And you

01:12:45.220 --> 01:12:47.180
begin to discern in the midst of your prayer.

01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:49.439
You begin to pick something up. And the word

01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:51.779
of knowledge now comes into play. And you begin

01:12:51.779 --> 01:12:54.720
to see something that was secretly hid. The issue

01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:57.140
of the problem. And then the word of wisdom comes.

01:12:57.319 --> 01:12:59.180
And you begin to pray and answer. Right there.

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All. It all happens in the midst of a prayer.

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And it's probably one of the most incredible

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times. That you and I can experience as we pray

01:13:07.420 --> 01:13:09.899
over people. Well the Holy Spirit wants to teach

01:13:09.899 --> 01:13:12.819
all of us. of us how to pray that way. What if

01:13:12.819 --> 01:13:15.020
the whole church got ignited with this? What

01:13:15.020 --> 01:13:18.039
if the church got mobilized into our community

01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:20.359
praying? And every time we saw an opportunity,

01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:23.239
we jumped on it. Don't let an opportunity pass

01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:26.020
you. Pray in the spirit, not just within the

01:13:26.020 --> 01:13:28.260
four walls of the church, but in the marketplace,

01:13:28.420 --> 01:13:31.619
in the school, wherever you are at. I believe

01:13:31.619 --> 01:13:34.640
that you and I can pray people out of darkness

01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:37.279
into the kingdom of light. We can pray them out

01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:39.739
of ignorance into wisdom. We can pray them out

01:13:39.739 --> 01:13:43.500
of distress into peace. We can pray them out

01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:48.319
of conflict into the great grace of God. Can

01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:52.300
you say amen? Well, I believe that God wants

01:13:52.300 --> 01:13:55.140
to do that. As we begin to pray in the Spirit,

01:13:55.300 --> 01:14:00.640
we learn how to pray the will of God. Prophetic

01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.760
intercession is praying the will of God. It's

01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:07.000
praying what He asked of us. It's praying in

01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:10.840
such a way that you are going to reveal the issues

01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:15.560
at hand. And people will say, God is in this

01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:19.220
place. God is speaking to you. God is for me.

01:14:19.279 --> 01:14:21.579
He knows what I'm going through. And it begins

01:14:21.579 --> 01:14:26.359
to reveal that prophetic element of prayer that

01:14:26.359 --> 01:14:31.899
sometimes is lacking. Well, we have shrunk down

01:14:31.899 --> 01:14:35.220
in our churches all over the world where even

01:14:35.220 --> 01:14:38.050
leaders don't pray anymore by the Spirit. They

01:14:38.050 --> 01:14:39.869
have to think everything through, and with their

01:14:39.869 --> 01:14:44.550
intellect, they've replaced the Spirit's wisdom

01:14:44.550 --> 01:14:47.850
for their own wisdom. They write out all their

01:14:47.850 --> 01:14:51.670
prayers. I've been in churches where there's

01:14:51.670 --> 01:14:53.489
been a prayer written for every part of the service.

01:14:54.529 --> 01:14:56.829
And I've walked into pulpits where the pastor

01:14:56.829 --> 01:14:59.689
has prayers written down for the offering, prayer

01:14:59.689 --> 01:15:03.109
written down for everything. Nothing by the Holy

01:15:03.109 --> 01:15:07.479
Ghost. Everything is read. Most of the... places

01:15:07.479 --> 01:15:10.119
where some of the great men of God are asked

01:15:10.119 --> 01:15:13.319
to pray, in some of the high places, like in

01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:15.640
the White House, they write out their prayers.

01:15:15.659 --> 01:15:18.279
And actually, they have to be written out, some

01:15:18.279 --> 01:15:22.180
of them. Some of them are lifeless, while others

01:15:22.180 --> 01:15:25.300
are filled with inspiration of the Holy Ghost.

01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:28.880
And I believe God can use you to write a prayer

01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:31.239
to somebody. but there's something about that

01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:34.680
spontaneous inspiration of a Holy Ghost in the

01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:36.819
midst of a service when you're praying for somebody

01:15:36.819 --> 01:15:39.520
on the streets where you begin to get the mind

01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:42.000
of God. Don't let opportunity pass you. When

01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.359
you see somebody sick, step in and say, can I

01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:47.300
pray for you? Listen, most people will receive

01:15:47.300 --> 01:15:51.229
you. and I've watched this happen Giselle and

01:15:51.229 --> 01:15:53.310
I practice this everywhere we go on airports

01:15:53.310 --> 01:15:56.649
and restaurants everywhere we go we will pray

01:15:56.649 --> 01:15:59.970
for people and we would just say a simple prayer

01:15:59.970 --> 01:16:02.130
but in the prayer the Holy Spirit begins to move

01:16:02.130 --> 01:16:04.869
and all of this word of knowledge begins to flow

01:16:04.869 --> 01:16:07.250
and before you know it we're praying their very

01:16:07.250 --> 01:16:09.890
life and they're beginning to weep and cry and

01:16:09.890 --> 01:16:12.369
brokenness happens you've seen it God wants to

01:16:12.369 --> 01:16:14.430
do more of it come on somebody say there's more

01:16:15.429 --> 01:16:18.350
That's right. And I believe we can turn our world

01:16:18.350 --> 01:16:20.970
around as we reach them by praying according

01:16:20.970 --> 01:16:25.229
to the will of God. He hears us when we pray

01:16:25.229 --> 01:16:27.949
the will of God. Things will begin to set into

01:16:27.949 --> 01:16:31.390
motion. And what we ask, we know that we have

01:16:31.390 --> 01:16:37.109
what we ask for. Bible says that we don't receive

01:16:37.109 --> 01:16:38.850
because we've asked with the wrong motivation.

01:16:39.649 --> 01:16:42.409
But when we ask according to the will of God,

01:16:42.569 --> 01:16:45.729
we will have it. It might delay, but it's on

01:16:45.729 --> 01:16:49.369
its way. Amen? Because you've prayed the will

01:16:49.369 --> 01:16:51.890
of God. And if you can just lock into the will

01:16:51.890 --> 01:16:54.470
of God through the revelation of the Holy Spirit,

01:16:54.609 --> 01:16:56.930
I guarantee you, you're going to see miracles.

01:16:57.069 --> 01:16:58.689
You're going to see answer prayer. You're going

01:16:58.689 --> 01:17:01.010
to see things that you've been waiting for all

01:17:01.010 --> 01:17:03.329
of a sudden break loose as you begin to pray

01:17:03.329 --> 01:17:07.250
by the Spirit of God. As you begin to pray in

01:17:07.250 --> 01:17:10.079
the Spirit. Even as you pray in the Spirit, the

01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:11.819
quickening of the Holy Ghost, you might not even

01:17:11.819 --> 01:17:13.979
understand what you're uttering, but the Holy

01:17:13.979 --> 01:17:17.300
Spirit will begin to flood your mind and your

01:17:17.300 --> 01:17:20.119
soul with thoughts that the Holy Spirit wants

01:17:20.119 --> 01:17:22.500
you to have. And He will give you understanding.

01:17:23.220 --> 01:17:26.899
Somebody say, pray in the Spirit. In all occasions.

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Amen. You and I must be people who learn how

01:17:31.479 --> 01:17:34.720
to pray in the Spirit. Let me give you a little

01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:37.239
bit. It's what we call the seven, I call them

01:17:37.239 --> 01:17:41.180
the seven Ps of prayer. Simple, but I want to

01:17:41.180 --> 01:17:43.520
impart them to you as we come to an end of this

01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:46.560
morning. We'll have more to share about prayer

01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:49.300
tonight, but I know you want to spend your afternoon

01:17:49.300 --> 01:17:52.260
doing it, maybe going out and praying, practicing

01:17:52.260 --> 01:17:55.340
some of this on some people. But seven Ps of

01:17:55.340 --> 01:18:00.439
prayer. Praise, purpose, provision, purity, protection.

01:18:01.939 --> 01:18:06.159
and proclaiming or proclamation. I believe that

01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:09.699
everything should start with praise and intercessory

01:18:09.699 --> 01:18:13.000
prayer should start with praise. And so I love...

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The atmosphere that the musicians set in this

01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.180
place as praise begins to go up before the Lord,

01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:21.539
as we begin to magnify him and thank him out

01:18:21.539 --> 01:18:23.920
of a spirit of thanksgiving. And that purpose,

01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:27.840
now you begin to lock in to purpose. And the

01:18:27.840 --> 01:18:30.180
purpose of the service or the purpose of that

01:18:30.180 --> 01:18:32.319
moment is beginning to be revealed. That provision

01:18:32.319 --> 01:18:35.319
of God begins to come in and God begins to flood

01:18:35.319 --> 01:18:39.199
you with provision, purity, protection, priorities,

01:18:39.600 --> 01:18:43.050
and proclaiming. These are what I call the seven

01:18:43.050 --> 01:18:46.390
Ps. They're found in the Lord's Prayer. Listen

01:18:46.390 --> 01:18:49.989
to it in Matthew chapter 6. Let me have the freedom

01:18:49.989 --> 01:18:53.789
to apply these to Matthew chapter 6. When the

01:18:53.789 --> 01:18:56.149
disciples asked the Lord to teach us how to pray,

01:18:56.289 --> 01:19:00.350
He said, when you pray, pray after this manner.

01:19:00.569 --> 01:19:03.890
Therefore pray, yea. In verse 9 of Matthew 6.

01:19:04.489 --> 01:19:07.409
I put the word praise there. Our Father which

01:19:07.409 --> 01:19:11.500
art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Let it start

01:19:11.500 --> 01:19:14.920
with praise. Let it start with you magnifying

01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:17.779
the Lord. I think as we approach the throne of

01:19:17.779 --> 01:19:19.979
God every time, we need to come with a heart

01:19:19.979 --> 01:19:23.420
of thanksgiving. We live in an ungrateful generation,

01:19:23.800 --> 01:19:26.699
but the church has got to be taught to be grateful.

01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:30.180
Thank God for his mercy. How many can give the

01:19:30.180 --> 01:19:32.939
Lord a big clap offering for his grace, his mercy

01:19:32.939 --> 01:19:38.579
on your life? Our Father which art in heaven,

01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:42.100
hallowed be your name. You're magnifying him.

01:19:42.180 --> 01:19:45.439
You're praising him. And then verse 10 brings

01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:48.859
us into purpose. Thy kingdom come, thy will be

01:19:48.859 --> 01:19:53.199
done in earth as it is in heaven. The Lord taught

01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:56.840
his disciples how to pray purposefully. The purpose

01:19:56.840 --> 01:20:00.720
of God was to bring the kingdom to earth. Whatever

01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:02.539
he's done in heaven, he wants to do it on earth.

01:20:03.220 --> 01:20:06.840
Let thy kingdom come and thy will be done as

01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:09.579
it is in heaven. Let it be done in earth as it

01:20:09.579 --> 01:20:12.380
is in heaven. Well, that's the purpose of God,

01:20:12.699 --> 01:20:16.640
wanting to manifest his kingdom on earth. And

01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:19.020
I believe that's the purpose of God. You and

01:20:19.020 --> 01:20:22.640
I have got to enter in. Once we start with praise,

01:20:22.699 --> 01:20:25.100
enter in. Listen, I don't want to lock you into

01:20:25.100 --> 01:20:27.220
some order. This is not some technique that you

01:20:27.220 --> 01:20:31.899
lock in some kind of... Secret code of prayer.

01:20:32.159 --> 01:20:34.720
No, I'm talking about some things that need to

01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:37.140
be part of your prayer. You've got to lock in

01:20:37.140 --> 01:20:39.760
with purpose. Why am I praying? What's the main

01:20:39.760 --> 01:20:43.760
purpose of my intercessory prayer? Amen. And

01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:46.220
you've got to lock into that. Thy kingdom come,

01:20:46.359 --> 01:20:48.779
thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

01:20:49.420 --> 01:20:52.159
Well, and put that in the right priority because

01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:56.260
the kingdom comes before the will. You can't

01:20:56.260 --> 01:20:58.039
perform the will of God unless you come under

01:20:58.039 --> 01:21:01.939
his rule. But when his kingdom comes, when you

01:21:01.939 --> 01:21:04.039
come under the rule of the Lord, the king of

01:21:04.039 --> 01:21:07.460
a kingdom, then his will begins to be established.

01:21:07.460 --> 01:21:11.420
There's a purposeful prayer. And then 11, provision.

01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:15.840
Somebody say provision. Provision. Give us this

01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:19.520
day our daily bread. It's amazing. Jesus included

01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:23.239
this right in this prayer. Provision. Because

01:21:23.239 --> 01:21:25.319
sometimes we forget to pray for the provision.

01:21:25.659 --> 01:21:29.210
We pray. For some of the things that we feel.

01:21:29.310 --> 01:21:32.029
We got purpose. But there's got to be a provision.

01:21:32.229 --> 01:21:34.210
Because purpose cannot be fulfilled without provision.

01:21:34.630 --> 01:21:38.250
You need provision. Amen. It takes money to fulfill

01:21:38.250 --> 01:21:40.949
the will of God. You need the provision of God.

01:21:41.090 --> 01:21:43.609
God pays for what he orders. But somebody's got

01:21:43.609 --> 01:21:46.649
to dare to cry out. And cry out for provision.

01:21:46.789 --> 01:21:50.409
God, give us provision. Give us this day our

01:21:50.409 --> 01:21:53.609
daily bread. And the simple prayer of Jesus is

01:21:53.609 --> 01:21:57.550
provision. How about verse 12? Purity. and forgive

01:21:57.550 --> 01:22:02.170
us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Now,

01:22:02.250 --> 01:22:05.350
here is forgiveness, purity with God, and purity

01:22:05.350 --> 01:22:09.069
with man. You've got to stand pure with God,

01:22:09.149 --> 01:22:11.170
and when you come to prayer, make sure you're

01:22:11.170 --> 01:22:13.229
cleansed. Who can ascend the hill of the Lord?

01:22:13.250 --> 01:22:15.409
He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Amen?

01:22:16.150 --> 01:22:18.590
So we've got to be able to cleanse ourselves.

01:22:18.750 --> 01:22:21.109
We've got to be able to go before the Lord. There's

01:22:21.109 --> 01:22:23.430
teaching on grace right now that says we don't

01:22:23.430 --> 01:22:25.609
even have to repent. That sinners don't have

01:22:25.609 --> 01:22:27.329
to repent and believers don't have to repent.

01:22:27.430 --> 01:22:29.350
We've already been forgiven. It doesn't matter.

01:22:29.390 --> 01:22:31.529
God's forgiven you for all the sins. Whether

01:22:31.529 --> 01:22:34.689
or not you have already been forgiven, I believe

01:22:34.689 --> 01:22:36.829
our sins have been taken on the cross of Calvary.

01:22:36.909 --> 01:22:39.590
You and I must humble ourselves and continually

01:22:39.590 --> 01:22:42.210
ask God, God, if I've offended you this day,

01:22:42.270 --> 01:22:45.329
if I've messed up, would you forgive me? Forgive

01:22:45.329 --> 01:22:47.729
me. me for trespassing. Forgive me for disobeying.

01:22:47.810 --> 01:22:49.970
Forgive me for not doing what you called me to

01:22:49.970 --> 01:22:52.890
do. How many of you know that we need to keep

01:22:52.890 --> 01:22:56.250
that humility about us? Because of his mercy

01:22:56.250 --> 01:22:59.829
we are not destroyed. Because of his grace. And

01:22:59.829 --> 01:23:02.890
live in that mercy and that grace of God. You

01:23:02.890 --> 01:23:05.869
can't separate mercy from grace. They work together

01:23:05.869 --> 01:23:11.869
in our lives. Mercy keeps us from getting what

01:23:11.869 --> 01:23:16.909
we deserve. And grace Assures. That we get what

01:23:16.909 --> 01:23:21.149
we didn't deserve. Are you with me? Mercy. And

01:23:21.149 --> 01:23:25.470
somebody say mercy and grace. Don't let. The

01:23:25.470 --> 01:23:27.409
preachers. The modern preachers of grace. Take

01:23:27.409 --> 01:23:31.090
you out of mercy and grace. You need both of

01:23:31.090 --> 01:23:35.069
these things. Purity. Somebody say purity. Because

01:23:35.069 --> 01:23:38.069
we need to be. Have pure hearts. Before God.

01:23:38.550 --> 01:23:43.250
But if we. Have not been forgiven. And we can't

01:23:43.250 --> 01:23:46.869
feel. Because. The enemy is quick. And the Bible

01:23:46.869 --> 01:23:48.949
says if your heart condemns you, God is greater

01:23:48.949 --> 01:23:51.689
than your heart. The enemy will work in condemnation

01:23:51.689 --> 01:23:54.890
to keep you from interceding. Who are you to

01:23:54.890 --> 01:23:57.149
come before God? I saw what you did. You messed

01:23:57.149 --> 01:23:59.250
up. And before you know it, he's talked you out

01:23:59.250 --> 01:24:01.869
of your time of prayer. That very thing that

01:24:01.869 --> 01:24:03.829
will strengthen you. Listen, there is a great

01:24:03.829 --> 01:24:07.909
warfare going on. And it's not just against the

01:24:07.909 --> 01:24:10.449
prophetic voice of the Lord in the church. But

01:24:10.449 --> 01:24:13.100
his main battle is against prayer. If he can

01:24:13.100 --> 01:24:15.500
just keep the church without praying. If he can

01:24:15.500 --> 01:24:17.659
just keep the church condemned and feeling that

01:24:17.659 --> 01:24:20.279
you can't approach the throne of God. That you

01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:22.800
don't, no, no, no, don't go before him. It's

01:24:22.800 --> 01:24:26.300
that spirit of Absalom. The king is busy, don't

01:24:26.300 --> 01:24:29.880
bother him. That comes into the church and dupes

01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:31.979
the church to believing that somehow God is not

01:24:31.979 --> 01:24:35.560
hearing your prayer. Listen, God hears your prayer

01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.300
and he's ready to answer. And you've got to come

01:24:38.300 --> 01:24:40.670
with a prayer. pure heart and say, God, enter

01:24:40.670 --> 01:24:42.710
in with that kind of humility, that brokenness,

01:24:42.710 --> 01:24:45.710
a contrite and a broken heart. God will not reject.

01:24:46.229 --> 01:24:49.649
He will receive you. Come always before the Lord

01:24:49.649 --> 01:24:52.550
with that humility that says, God, forgive us.

01:24:52.630 --> 01:24:54.550
Forgive our debts. If we've offended you in any

01:24:54.550 --> 01:24:56.890
way, forgive us. But not only that, take it a

01:24:56.890 --> 01:24:58.489
step further because it's not just purity with

01:24:58.489 --> 01:25:01.329
God. God's looking for purity with people. God

01:25:01.329 --> 01:25:03.170
wants you to have a pure heart towards people

01:25:03.170 --> 01:25:05.729
because I've watched people who hate their neighbor

01:25:05.729 --> 01:25:10.680
and want to still pray. animosity in the church

01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:14.119
they're talking bad and murmuring about people

01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:16.560
but then they want to be the intercessors as

01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:20.000
a matter of fact they use intercession as a tool

01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:23.800
to get their gossip out brethren get together

01:25:23.800 --> 01:25:28.479
let's pray oh sister so and so is pregnant and

01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:32.180
they bring out some secret thing from people's

01:25:32.180 --> 01:25:34.659
lives and they try to make it public but it's

01:25:34.659 --> 01:25:37.760
just to get the word out And God knows the motives

01:25:37.760 --> 01:25:41.060
of the heart. I think we need to be transparent.

01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.220
But I think we need to be careful that we have

01:25:44.220 --> 01:25:47.199
a pure heart towards another. Sometimes there's

01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:50.479
anger and there's offenses that are unresolved.

01:25:50.500 --> 01:25:53.659
And we try to pray. Listen, even for husbands,

01:25:53.979 --> 01:25:56.960
the Bible says that if you're offended at your

01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:59.479
wife, don't even think that God's going to hear

01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:04.760
your prayer. Until you get it right. Hello? Wow.

01:26:05.900 --> 01:26:08.539
I'm not going to ask for forgiveness. I'm always

01:26:08.539 --> 01:26:10.180
the one that has to ask for forgiveness. You

01:26:10.180 --> 01:26:12.239
better. And you better do it quickly if you want

01:26:12.239 --> 01:26:14.100
to be heard from God. And you better be able

01:26:14.100 --> 01:26:16.960
to forgive. If people have offended you, forgive

01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:19.840
them. Because the next scripture right after

01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:23.060
this whole passage, verse 14 is, if you don't

01:26:23.060 --> 01:26:25.279
forgive, next time you go before the Lord, God

01:26:25.279 --> 01:26:30.079
is not going to forgive you. So you have to have

01:26:30.079 --> 01:26:34.000
a pure heart. Somebody say purity. All right,

01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:38.510
let's go over them. Praise. Purpose. Provision.

01:26:39.649 --> 01:26:45.229
Purity. And verse 13 says protection. Come on,

01:26:45.229 --> 01:26:49.090
somebody say protection. And lead us not into

01:26:49.090 --> 01:26:52.649
temptation, but deliver us from evil. Lead us

01:26:52.649 --> 01:26:54.829
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

01:26:54.850 --> 01:26:57.350
How many think that's protection? Jesus was teaching

01:26:57.350 --> 01:27:00.840
you need to pray for protection. The eyes of

01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:03.899
the Lord are running to and fro, and those who

01:27:03.899 --> 01:27:06.260
abide under the shelter of the Most High are

01:27:06.260 --> 01:27:09.239
safe. But there is a prayer of protection that

01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:12.260
we need to continually pray. I believe in that.

01:27:12.399 --> 01:27:15.539
I'm constantly on a plane. I don't miss that

01:27:15.539 --> 01:27:17.500
prayer of protection. Lord, protect me. I'm getting

01:27:17.500 --> 01:27:20.300
on this plane. I know I'm your servant, but I

01:27:20.300 --> 01:27:23.380
don't take that for granted. I bind every force

01:27:23.380 --> 01:27:26.140
of evil. In the midst of this world full of terrorism,

01:27:26.340 --> 01:27:29.180
it will not touch my plane. I'm going to ride.

01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:31.720
With great peace. I'm going to fall asleep. And

01:27:31.720 --> 01:27:35.420
rise up at my destination. Hello. Not in heaven

01:27:35.420 --> 01:27:39.380
somewhere. But at my destination. And I believe.

01:27:39.539 --> 01:27:42.420
If I couldn't believe. For the protection of

01:27:42.420 --> 01:27:45.680
the almighty. I wouldn't do what I'm doing. God's

01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:49.439
taking us to places. I was just talking. I was

01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:54.520
in Peru last week. With David Schreck. Is it?

01:27:55.910 --> 01:27:58.210
I think that's his last name. I might be pronouncing

01:27:58.210 --> 01:28:01.449
it wrong. But David. Freck. Freck. I'm sorry.

01:28:01.529 --> 01:28:05.189
Freck. Freck is the cartoon character. There

01:28:05.189 --> 01:28:11.390
is a difference. Freck. Yes. Out of Kansas. And

01:28:11.390 --> 01:28:13.010
he was telling me that one of his missionary

01:28:13.010 --> 01:28:15.329
trips a number of years ago, he went into India

01:28:15.329 --> 01:28:17.970
and while they were with a group of people and

01:28:17.970 --> 01:28:20.250
they were told not to evangelize out in the streets,

01:28:20.350 --> 01:28:23.149
they were in a compound and doing well, but the

01:28:23.149 --> 01:28:25.369
word got out and people, somebody brought a blind

01:28:25.369 --> 01:28:30.449
child into the meeting. They traveled for long

01:28:30.449 --> 01:28:33.350
hours to get this child there and so they had

01:28:33.350 --> 01:28:35.170
compassion and laid hands on this child just

01:28:35.170 --> 01:28:37.590
to pray. And while David laid hands on him, the

01:28:37.590 --> 01:28:40.029
child's eyes were open and he began, he saw.

01:28:40.510 --> 01:28:43.510
His eyes were healed. And forget it, that was

01:28:43.510 --> 01:28:45.909
a moment of revival. The word got out and people

01:28:45.909 --> 01:28:47.869
started flooding that church. Police had to come.

01:28:48.789 --> 01:28:50.949
Well, to make a long story short, he got arrested

01:28:50.949 --> 01:28:53.750
with the rest of the team. And for six days,

01:28:53.850 --> 01:28:58.670
they kept him. And they prayed and they were...

01:28:58.939 --> 01:29:01.140
not given any food in the quarters in a little

01:29:01.140 --> 01:29:04.399
room after being two days transported in a truck

01:29:04.399 --> 01:29:06.300
where they never even, they just kept them in

01:29:06.300 --> 01:29:07.899
a truck for two days. Then they put them in a

01:29:07.899 --> 01:29:10.720
prison. And then the officials of the city came

01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:12.779
knowing that they were missionaries from America

01:29:12.779 --> 01:29:14.739
and said, you know, we're trying to get you out

01:29:14.739 --> 01:29:17.279
and we're gonna see if we can get you out, but

01:29:17.279 --> 01:29:21.500
this might take six months to 10 years. And you

01:29:21.500 --> 01:29:24.300
gotta be ready, make yourself ready. Well, then

01:29:24.300 --> 01:29:26.020
they heard that news, they went before the Lord.

01:29:26.239 --> 01:29:29.000
And as they began to pray, God showed up in that

01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:33.500
cell. The spirit of the Lord came down and then

01:29:33.500 --> 01:29:36.319
they began to sing. And as they began to sing

01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:39.420
before the Lord, the guards started beating on

01:29:39.420 --> 01:29:41.319
the windows. The guards were guarding that cell

01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:44.720
and came close and said, where are all those

01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:46.720
people? Where did they come from? Because they

01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:49.640
heard all the voices singing. They heard a whole

01:29:49.640 --> 01:29:52.840
crowd of people singing. It was just a few missionaries.

01:29:53.470 --> 01:29:55.510
But they heard a multitude of people singing.

01:29:56.189 --> 01:29:59.430
Everybody heard it. All the guards heard it.

01:29:59.470 --> 01:30:01.550
The prisoners heard it. Everybody was talking

01:30:01.550 --> 01:30:05.750
about that whole voice. Everybody got close.

01:30:05.789 --> 01:30:07.890
The guards were questioning them with force.

01:30:08.050 --> 01:30:11.789
Where are they? Where did they go? It was just

01:30:11.789 --> 01:30:16.170
us. The Spirit of God showed up. Angels showed

01:30:16.170 --> 01:30:21.069
up. Great comfort. Presence of God came down

01:30:21.069 --> 01:30:24.670
in 24 hours. They were released from that place.

01:30:24.850 --> 01:30:27.789
And God spared their lives. Give the Lord a big

01:30:27.789 --> 01:30:31.329
hand. There's something about prophetic intercession.

01:30:34.289 --> 01:30:37.329
David said, I stepped into heaven. We had been

01:30:37.329 --> 01:30:40.069
praying for six days. But that day, it was different.

01:30:40.130 --> 01:30:42.409
That day, I just slipped into heaven. In a moment,

01:30:42.489 --> 01:30:45.310
I found myself in heaven. And the Lord spoke

01:30:45.310 --> 01:30:48.189
to me and said, stop crying. I'm going to deliver

01:30:48.189 --> 01:30:52.699
you. And when I came back to my senses, I told

01:30:52.699 --> 01:30:55.619
that word and all of them had heard the same

01:30:55.619 --> 01:31:00.960
thing from God. And so God is the God who shows

01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:03.539
up in the middle of your darkness. He'll speak

01:31:03.539 --> 01:31:08.359
to you. I believe that you and I need to pray

01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:12.239
protection. And protection will come. He's the

01:31:12.239 --> 01:31:14.659
keeper of his word and the keeper of his church.

01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:19.109
Can you say amen? Somebody say protection. Pray

01:31:19.109 --> 01:31:20.970
protection over your children. Pray protection

01:31:20.970 --> 01:31:23.689
over your church. Pray protection over your city.

01:31:24.140 --> 01:31:27.699
Pray, pray, pray. Pray protection over the families.

01:31:27.739 --> 01:31:31.079
Pray protection over the youth of this city.

01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:33.340
Pray the protection of God. Walk through the

01:31:33.340 --> 01:31:35.920
schools. Not just your school, but other schools.

01:31:36.180 --> 01:31:38.279
Walk through the universities. Walk through.

01:31:38.319 --> 01:31:41.380
You're in a campus city where there's universities

01:31:41.380 --> 01:31:44.399
all around you. Walk through those campuses.

01:31:44.500 --> 01:31:47.119
Begin to pray. Make intercession. And begin to

01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:50.239
call out on God for protection. And watch what

01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:53.199
will happen. Lead us not into temptation, but

01:31:53.199 --> 01:31:55.800
deliver us from evil. Somebody say deliver us.

01:31:55.899 --> 01:32:00.939
Deliver us. From evil. And then priority. Somebody

01:32:00.939 --> 01:32:05.239
say priorities. Priorities. Priorities. A priority

01:32:05.239 --> 01:32:07.479
is here when he says, for thine is the kingdom

01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:12.680
and the power and the glory forever. The priority

01:32:12.680 --> 01:32:15.800
of all of our prayer is to bring a manifestation

01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:18.699
of the kingdom of God and to say to God, yours

01:32:18.699 --> 01:32:23.000
is the kingdom. The power and the glory forever.

01:32:23.739 --> 01:32:26.520
I believe you and I have got to lock in to the

01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:29.659
priority. Amen. It's not the power of the enemy

01:32:29.659 --> 01:32:31.359
that's going to be exalted in these last days.

01:32:31.619 --> 01:32:35.319
He'll show up for sure. I believe we're moving

01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:38.060
into a season of great turmoil on the face of

01:32:38.060 --> 01:32:40.539
the earth. But in the midst of it, the power

01:32:40.539 --> 01:32:44.489
and the glory. Amen? Of the kingdom of God are

01:32:44.489 --> 01:32:46.850
going to be seen. I believe that God's going

01:32:46.850 --> 01:32:50.050
to move in a spectacular way in our cities. People

01:32:50.050 --> 01:32:51.829
are going to get saved. A great harvest is going

01:32:51.829 --> 01:32:54.550
to be collected for the house of God. This church

01:32:54.550 --> 01:32:57.029
is going to be filled over and over again in

01:32:57.029 --> 01:33:00.130
the midst of trouble. God will move upon America.

01:33:00.869 --> 01:33:03.170
God's not through with America. And it's not

01:33:03.170 --> 01:33:06.649
dependent on one man being brought into the office.

01:33:06.689 --> 01:33:08.770
God knows who he's going to bring and he knows

01:33:08.770 --> 01:33:11.489
already it's set. But listen, it's dependent

01:33:11.489 --> 01:33:14.369
on prophetic intercession and people who know

01:33:14.369 --> 01:33:17.930
how to pray the will of God and begin to bring

01:33:17.930 --> 01:33:23.680
priorities into focus. And ultimately... It's

01:33:23.680 --> 01:33:26.560
that last word. It's a small word that ends the

01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:29.060
prayer that he gave. That simple prayer ends

01:33:29.060 --> 01:33:33.840
with an amen. But amen means let it be so. Amen

01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:38.000
is a proclamation. It's that ability to say God's

01:33:38.000 --> 01:33:40.960
going to do what he said. Amen. God is a keeper

01:33:40.960 --> 01:33:45.619
of his promise. Amen. Somebody say amen. Sometimes

01:33:45.619 --> 01:33:47.960
we say amen as a cliche and we don't even know

01:33:47.960 --> 01:33:52.020
that we're proclaiming that God is a keeper of

01:33:52.020 --> 01:33:54.880
his word. He says what he means and he means

01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:57.659
what he says. And we've got to be able to proclaim

01:33:57.659 --> 01:34:00.199
it. We've got to be able to back it up with an

01:34:00.199 --> 01:34:03.140
amen. We've got to be able to be assured. And

01:34:03.140 --> 01:34:09.079
say it again, amen. Somebody say praise. Purpose.

01:34:10.079 --> 01:34:16.960
Provision. Purity. Protection. Priorities. Get

01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:19.960
the priorities right. It's about his kingdom,

01:34:20.100 --> 01:34:23.000
his power, and his glory. It's what's going to

01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:27.779
make a difference. Proclamation. Proclamation.

01:34:28.220 --> 01:34:34.939
Say amen. Well, 2 Corinthians 1 verse 20 says,

01:34:35.180 --> 01:34:39.060
For no matter how many promises God has made,

01:34:39.220 --> 01:34:45.439
they are yes in Christ. Somebody say yes. They

01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:51.319
are yes in Christ. And so through him, the amen

01:34:51.319 --> 01:34:58.159
is spoken by us to the glory of God. So through

01:34:58.159 --> 01:35:03.680
him, the amen is spoken to the glory of God.

01:35:03.720 --> 01:35:11.789
Would you stand? What promises? Have you heard

01:35:11.789 --> 01:35:15.710
from God that you have forgotten to amen? What

01:35:15.710 --> 01:35:18.810
promises do you need to go back to? Bring them

01:35:18.810 --> 01:35:21.289
up. Some of the prophetic words. Bring them to

01:35:21.289 --> 01:35:24.890
remembrance. And in prophetic intercession, what

01:35:24.890 --> 01:35:26.649
promises have you heard over the church that

01:35:26.649 --> 01:35:31.149
you can remind God to remember? And say, Lord,

01:35:31.189 --> 01:35:34.750
you said this. You said this. The prophets spoke

01:35:34.750 --> 01:35:36.789
it. In the mouth of two or three witnesses, every

01:35:36.789 --> 01:35:39.899
word is established. And many prophets have spoken

01:35:39.899 --> 01:35:41.479
the same word. We still haven't seen it come

01:35:41.479 --> 01:35:44.840
to pass. There are promises that are a lot bigger

01:35:44.840 --> 01:35:47.960
than us and they're reserved for a time of fulfillment.

01:35:48.439 --> 01:35:50.800
But you and I need to live our life with a yes.

01:35:52.060 --> 01:35:54.920
We need to live our life with an amen. We need

01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:57.739
to live our lives with a proclamation of truth

01:35:57.739 --> 01:36:00.279
that says God said it, he's going to do it. It's

01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.899
going to happen and dare to prophesy. Amen. Amos

01:36:03.899 --> 01:36:06.619
put it this way. If a lion roars, who will not

01:36:06.619 --> 01:36:11.260
fear? If the Lord speaks, who shall not prophesy?

01:36:12.060 --> 01:36:14.619
If God has spoken a word, you and I have got

01:36:14.619 --> 01:36:16.960
to be able to proclaim it. You and I have got

01:36:16.960 --> 01:36:19.720
to be able to repeat it. What authority. And

01:36:19.720 --> 01:36:22.260
prophetic intercession is about praying the will

01:36:22.260 --> 01:36:24.899
of God. Praying what we know has already been

01:36:24.899 --> 01:36:27.079
spoken, what's already been written, what's already

01:36:27.079 --> 01:36:30.380
been established by the mind of God. The Spirit

01:36:30.380 --> 01:36:32.739
reveals it, He brings it to remembrance, and

01:36:32.739 --> 01:36:35.039
you bring it out and proclaim it. And everyone

01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:40.970
said, Amen. I believe today as we come before

01:36:40.970 --> 01:36:42.710
the Lord, tonight we're going to gather again.

01:36:43.289 --> 01:36:46.729
We're by no means over, but I felt we needed

01:36:46.729 --> 01:36:51.149
to just go before the Lord this afternoon. I

01:36:51.149 --> 01:36:53.630
believe that some of you this afternoon will

01:36:53.630 --> 01:36:56.609
begin to touch people's lives with prayer. God

01:36:56.609 --> 01:36:58.369
will begin to give you instructions on what to

01:36:58.369 --> 01:37:00.609
do. Maybe you had your afternoon planned, but

01:37:00.609 --> 01:37:04.470
God is going to give you his plan. Let him interrupt

01:37:04.470 --> 01:37:09.380
you. It'll work out. Let him interrupt your schedule.

01:37:10.520 --> 01:37:15.800
Let him ask you to step out and be obedient to

01:37:15.800 --> 01:37:18.699
do what he tells you to do. Step out in faith.

01:37:19.039 --> 01:37:22.279
Pray in a way that you've never prayed. Do something

01:37:22.279 --> 01:37:25.340
that you've never done. Expect God to show up

01:37:25.340 --> 01:37:31.399
in a powerful way, in an extraordinary way. He

01:37:31.399 --> 01:37:35.279
will exceed all of your expectations. He will

01:37:35.279 --> 01:37:39.029
do beyond that which you've waited for. Or maybe

01:37:39.029 --> 01:37:41.130
some of the prophets have spoken some things.

01:37:41.489 --> 01:37:44.810
I believe God wants to even do more as you dare

01:37:44.810 --> 01:37:50.250
to believe. Faith in the word of God causes you

01:37:50.250 --> 01:37:54.130
to be the instrument of change in your world.

01:37:54.470 --> 01:37:58.029
And you can't intercede without faith. You can't

01:37:58.029 --> 01:38:01.109
come before the Lord with a broken down faith

01:38:01.109 --> 01:38:04.729
that just won't believe God that things will

01:38:04.729 --> 01:38:07.470
ever change. There are people who want to pray

01:38:07.470 --> 01:38:10.789
and their prayer is pitiful. We're going to die.

01:38:11.569 --> 01:38:14.130
We're all at the end of our rope. Things are

01:38:14.130 --> 01:38:18.270
really bad. Well, listen, CNN will tell you all

01:38:18.270 --> 01:38:22.989
of that. Don't learn your prayer life from the

01:38:22.989 --> 01:38:25.729
newscasters of our day. Learn it from the spirit

01:38:25.729 --> 01:38:28.409
of God. Learn what the will of God is because

01:38:28.409 --> 01:38:31.430
he knows what the right news is. And we're all

01:38:31.430 --> 01:38:35.579
about good news, not bad news. Bad news doesn't

01:38:35.579 --> 01:38:38.600
run the kingdom of God. It's good news. And it

01:38:38.600 --> 01:38:41.659
comes to intercessors who by the spirit of praying,

01:38:41.699 --> 01:38:44.680
entering into that place in heaven and are hearing

01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:47.800
the voice of God to speak contrary to the voice

01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:52.539
of men and establish the will of God. If you

01:38:52.539 --> 01:38:54.359
have been challenged to pray that way, would

01:38:54.359 --> 01:38:56.300
you just step out of your aisle and say, let's

01:38:56.300 --> 01:38:58.420
just take a few moments and spend time in his

01:38:58.420 --> 01:39:02.239
presence. Just maybe a few minutes of... Just

01:39:02.239 --> 01:39:03.939
interceding in the Spirit. Maybe you've never

01:39:03.939 --> 01:39:06.079
prayed in the Spirit. This is a good time to

01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:08.300
believe God for your prayer language and get

01:39:08.300 --> 01:39:10.579
filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to believe

01:39:10.579 --> 01:39:12.560
God for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Maybe

01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:14.539
you have some friends around you that can pray

01:39:14.539 --> 01:39:16.579
for you to get filled with the Holy Spirit. But

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would you come and just approach the altar in

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an attitude of intercession and say, Lord, here

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we are. I want to come. I want to learn from

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you. I want to learn all over again. I want to

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be better at this. I want to pray more than I've

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ever prayed. I want to be able to touch heaven.

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I want to hear clearly. Give me the ear of an

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instructor, of ears that are instructed of a

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disciple. Open my ears that I might hear. Open,

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open my ears. Awaken me. Awaken my ears, Lord,

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that I might hear this one instructed by you.

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Give me instructions. Help me. Help me to discern.

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Help me to be able to stand in the gap with wisdom,

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with understanding, with a prophetic insight.

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Pray with wisdom. Pray to change my city. Pray

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to change the course of history. Pray to change

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the legacy of my family. Pray to bring change.

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Just please, would you forget about your own

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language and begin to pray in the Spirit? Let's

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practice what the Bible says. Pray in the Spirit.

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Pray in the Spirit. Pray loud enough so you can

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hear yourself. Pray in the spirit. Some of you

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need to break out a spirit of timidity. Let passion

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overtake you in prayer. Thank you. All the apostles

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prayed. He said. I pray that men would pray all

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over the world with hands raised up to the Lord.

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Would you raise your hands to God and begin to

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pray now. Begin to ask God to move upon your

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city. Begin to ask God to move upon your church

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and your family. Upon the members of your house.

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Members of the family. God will put on your spirit.

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God will put burdens on you. Begin to pray. Pray,

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pray, pray in the spirit. He'll put stuff in

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your heart. He'll drop a word in your mind. A

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picture. Just begin to pray for that which you

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sense of the Holy Spirit. That which you perceive.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hey, Jen, would you just

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now just do it in a song? Put a melody to that

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and just sing in the spirit. I don't see what

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you understand. Sing in the spirit. And listen,

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follow your pastor. She just creates that melody.

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Just let it come. Let it flow like a river. It's

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got to be going to flow in this place. Come on.

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Praise for Micah. Just listen to it. Listen to

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it. Come on. Go ahead, Jenny. Go ahead. Let's

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join her. Let's join her. Come on for a little

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bit. Heavenly Father we thank you this morning.

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Lord for infusion. Lord, now let grace come.

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The grace of impartation. Lord, I think about

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your words to the Apostle Paul to the church.

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See that you excel in this grace also. The grace

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of interceding. The grace of intercession. The

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grace of petition. The grace of standing in the

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gap. The grace. Lord, of being with you and being

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able to talk with you, share our heart with you

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and use your will with us. Lord, let an elevation

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come to this house, to this people for the priority

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and the beautiful nature of prayer. Remove every

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form of... reproach or somehow diminished importance

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and let a fresh crown of glory be placed on it

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for the saints to wear it with honor with dignity

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to be able to stand and approach the king and

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to have what we pray be answered because we have

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your heart and we've spoken your words we've

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seen the power the proclamation, the praise,

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the purity. Lord, the progress that you will

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do in your name. Now bless these people. Lord,

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as we move into just a break for this afternoon,

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speak to us by the Spirit. Lord, as we come back

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tonight to engage you more in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. We'll be back here at 6 o 'clock tonight.

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So go get a little lunch, maybe get a little

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nap, get a little prayer time in. God bless you.

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We'll see you at 6 o 'clock tonight for a great

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finishing time in the Spirit. Amen. LifeBibleChurch

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