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The Discipline that Makes Prayer Work by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Do not let a day pass without you listening to a quality
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  message that builds your spirit. There should be a book you are
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  reading, scripture you are learning.
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  Are we together? Don't allow a day pass and then
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  you freelance knowledge. Pursue knowledge.
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  Pursue knowledge, Pursue knowledge.
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  The mysteries of the Kingdom. Favor is not working in my life.
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  I have to learn the dynamics. You get the message.
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  Disgrace called favor. Don't say I was there when it
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  was preached. Has it?
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  Has favor worked in your life? If your answer is no, get back
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  and listen again and listen again and listen again.
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  I'm tired of being oppressed by demons.
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  Go and get the message. Complete deliverance part 123.
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  Learn the dynamics for wholesome victory, not temporal victory
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  that you love today and try tomorrow again.
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  Epileptic victory. You can command dominion once
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  and for all. My finances, things are not
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  working well. Get go and get the teaching I
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  shall not want. Stay there.
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  Understand God's principles, understand the economic system
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  of the Kingdom, and know how to engage and rise out of shame and
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  misery. Hallelujah.
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  Yes, you're being troubled on every side, your body one
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  sickness after the other. You are going to be healed, but
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  you want your healing to remain. You have to go and learn
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  scripture. Go and learn scripture.
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  Go and learn scripture. Go and learn scripture.
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  They are life to those who find them and health to their flesh.
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  Your life is not working, everything is confused.
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  Go and get the message, the spirit of wisdom.
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  You need to know how to derive profit from Scripture Does not
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  wisdom cry? Everything is built by wisdom.
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  If your organization is crashing, you need wisdom, not
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  just information. Knowledge alone does not build,
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  it is wisdom that builds. You've lost a lot of things,
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  opportunities and relationships. Go and get the message on
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  restoration. Know how restoration happens.
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  At last Master for it was borrowed and he said where fell
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  it and the acts had floated again.
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  Anything lost can be recovered under a certain condition.
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  Damage ignorance from your life. I'm challenging you, Canada.
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  Damage ignorance from your life. Stop giving flimsy excuses if
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  it's not working. The bridge between you and
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  result is knowledge. Wisdom.
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  Pursue knowledge, pursue knowledge.
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  There's got to be a way out. You can pray yourself to a more
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  superior version. You can pray yourself to a more
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  powerful version. You can pray yourself to a more
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  enlightened version. Jesus prayed.
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  The apostles prayed, the early church prayed, Acts chapter 2
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  and verse 42, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles
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  doctrine and in fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in
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  prayer. Acts chapter 6 and verse 4.
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  But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the
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  ministry of the world. We will give ourselves
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  continually. Canada, hear me You are as
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  powerful as your prayer life. You are as powerful, not
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  pretentious, religious prayer, prayer that produces power in
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  the spirit. You are as powerful as your
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  prayer life. Parents, teach your children to
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  pray, not by compulsion. Teach them by leading the way in
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  prayer. Don't tell people to pray and
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  then step back. You see, there is a grace that
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  follows A prayerful believer. That grace is perceivable even
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  by an unbeliever. You can perceive a healthy
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  prayer life. Hallelujah, you must obtain
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  grace to pray. An attack on your prayer life is
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  an attack on your destiny. An attack on your prayer life is
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  an is an attack on God's purposes as committed to you.
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  Someone shout, I will pray. Let the devil hear you say, I
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  will pray. Jesus mandated that the
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  disciples pray. He prayed himself.
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  Can you imagine as the Son of God, He still prayed.
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  You must obtain grace to pray. We're not doing an elaborate
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  discussion on prayer. I've done several teachings on
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  prayer. Please go to Koinonia Global and
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  get the teachings I've taught on effective prayer dynamics.
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  There's been series and series on prayer.
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  Teach Us to Pray is a series you would want to listen to.
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  The Disciples Came and met Jesus and said teach us to pray.
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  Their issue was not prayerlessness, it was
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  inefficiency in prayer. Teach us to pray as John taught
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  his disciples to pray and Jesus began to teach them to pray.
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  Hallelujah, a man can be taught to pray.
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  You don't just learn how to pray by praying alone.
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  You are taught you can pray amiss by praying, but you pray
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  effectively when you are mentored to pray, you are taught
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  to pray effective prayer. But let me say this about
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  prayer. James was talking about prayer
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  and he said the fervent and effectual prayer of the
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  righteous. Still have that in your Bible,
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  are they let much you know what that meant.
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  He was trying to teach us that prayer has to be fervent and has
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  to be effectual to produce power.
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  Now, fervent meant that your heart would have to be involved.
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  Are we together? Your heart, your emotions must
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  be involved in your prayer. You cannot be praying seriously
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  while making a call, browsing, praying one minute and then
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  checking who is liking my page, who is liking my post.
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  That is careless prayer that does not produce power.
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  If your prayer does not touch you, it will not touch heaven.
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  Are we together? You must set yourself to pray.
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  Set yourself to pray. Give it dedicated attention #2
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  He says prayer must be effectual.
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  What makes prayer effectual is the degree to which the will of
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  God is captured in your prayer. Please listen.
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  What makes prayer effectual is not the quality, the linguistic
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  prowess, how articulate you can speak so well, yet amiss.
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  What makes prayer effectual is the degree to which the will of
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  God is captured in that prayer. The Bible says, and this is the
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  confidence that we have, that when we ask anything according
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  to His will, He here at us and the will of God is captured in
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  his word. Are we together?
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  Ward based? Scripture compliant prayer is
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  effectual prayer. A lot of believers pray
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  emotional prayers full of sentiments and error.
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  And just because you say Amen at the end of the prayer does not
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  mean you prayed. What makes your prayer powerful
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  is that number one, your heart has to be involved and #2 you
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  must pray according to the will of God.
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  The will of God is captured in His Word.
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  But you see, pragmatically speaking, there are times where
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  you may have unique events in your life and you may not
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  directly have a Scripture as at yet, for instance, is not
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  written in the Bible. Whether you should be in Calgary
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  or you should be in Toronto, or you should be in Canada or leave
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  Canada, you may not find that in Scripture.
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  This is where the prayer language of the Spirit comes.
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  When you pray in the Spirit, you don't stop till the will of God
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  becomes clear. Praying in the Spirit is not
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  just for edification, is a system that transports the will
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  of God from the heart of the Father until it gets to your
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  consciousness. Is someone learning now?
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  But when it gets to your consciousness now you begin to
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  engage by the word. Mark 11/23/24 What things so
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  ever ye desire, The Bible says when he pray, believe that thou
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  receivers them, and thou shalt have them, Thou shalt have them.
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  There are many assignments to prayer who tempted to just
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  stretch a bit, but let me pick one.
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  The major assignment of prayer is for your edification.
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  Please listen for most believers, our prayer is just
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  full of prayer requests needs. So we say something like,
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  Father, thank you, I'm here again.
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  And then we read out the lists, my mortgage, my health.
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  And there's nothing wrong with that.
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  But the primary assignment of prayer is as a tool for your
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  growth and transformation. Luke Chapter 9 and verse 29.
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  And as he prayed, the Bible says the fashion of his countenance
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  was altered and his raiment became white and glittering.
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  You pray for growth. You pray for transformation.
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  A matured believer gets to a point where you shelve your
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  prayer requests and get into the place of prayer because like you
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  may have heard me say, many of the things you write as requests
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  are growth dependent. Many of the things you expect
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  God to answer are growth, dependence, and heir for as long
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  as he's a child different, not from his slave.
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  There are things that God by His mercy will never give you as
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  answer to prayer because you do not have the capacity to have
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  it. Did you know that in the place
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  of growth you will find out that many requests naturally
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  gravitate towards you? Most believers are asking for
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  what they do not have capacity to receive.
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  Father, give me 10 million Canadian dollars.
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  Your Word says whatever I ask. You are right, but God knows
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  that He will lose you when that happens, not because you are a
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  bad person. You have not been cultured to
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  even understand the purpose of the blessings.
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  So he would rather you grow. As you grow, you will find the
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  answers following you per growth, per level.
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  Are we together? Yes Lord, I'm trusting you for
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  an anointing. Give me a double portion of
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  Renard Bonkers anointing, then RTL Osborne's and then add
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  everyone so at least you list 5 or 6 generals.
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  And As for double portions of the anointing, can you stand the
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  attack that comes with that anointing?
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  Because if you are Elijah, Jezebel is coming after you.
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  There are attacks that don't follow men, they follow mantels.
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  So whatever mantle you carry, you must be equipped to survive
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  the attack that comes. You don't just blindly pray.
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  And you know, sometimes, quite honestly, sometimes people just
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  kneel down and say, apostle, I know you are still alive, but I
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  want a double portion of your anointing.
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  And I can lay my hands on them. And between me and God, I know
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  nothing really just so that they they can go rejoicing.
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  But it doesn't work like that. My dear people, there are rules
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  of engagement. Are we learning growth?
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  So submit yourself to pray from today.
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  Make it a culture. Let me challenge every family
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  here. Create a prayer system within
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  your house. Let every visitor come to your
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  home finding a prayer system else they will bring their gods
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  to your home. Are we together?
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  If you come to my house, you have to pray like I pray.
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  If you're not interested, stay somewhere.
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  But if you are under my care, even if it's for a day, you have
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  to subscribe to the modus operandi that governs my house.
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  As for me and my house, wake up and pray.
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  Conquer slumber. Wake up and pray.
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  Love your destiny enough to wake up and pray.
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  Shake up sleep and slumber. You wake up in the night.
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  Chapala ko sabran Dakota. Lord, I give you praise.
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  This is the day that the Lord has made Canada.
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  You hear my voice. You see?
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  Let me tell you this. The realm of the Spirit has a
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  record system. And you believe me, I'm not
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  exaggerating. If there is no track record of
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  your burning the incense of prayer, you can't stand before
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  principalities and say give way. It will be an unfamiliar voice.
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  Jesus, I know they will tell you.
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  Paul, I know. But who are you?
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  There is no track record in the Spirit.
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  There is no sowing to the Spirit.
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  Why do you want a harvest? Is fraud to want a harvest when
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  there's no seed sown? Pray?
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  Is speak a parable to the end that men ought always to pray?
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  Men of God pray. Mothers pray.
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  Do you know if we spend half the time we use complaining,
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  gossiping, grumbling and telling people things about our lives,
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  we do not have the power to create any change?
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  You go to God in prayer. Stretch there until a birthing
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  happens. Stretch there until a birthing
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  happens. Father, you have given me this
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  ministry. You have given me this vision in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. I thank you because the wisdom
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  for this vision comes in the name of Jesus.
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  And you pray every day. One day becomes one week becomes
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  one month becomes years. It becomes a habit until you
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  begin to reap the harvest from an effective prayer life.
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  Let me pray for someone, every attack on your prayer life,
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  every attack on your prayer life, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. I decree and declare that spirit
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  that has which haunted your prayer life, that has drained
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  out of your life the desire to pray and to pray consistently
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  here at this conference. I declare A revival.
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  I declare A revival, A reignition to your prayer fire,
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  a reignition to your prayer fire in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Hallelujah. As ministers of the Gospel, we
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  are given the mandate to pray and intercede for those who are
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  under our care. But we must train those under
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  our care to learn to stand strong and pray.
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  The more people learn to pray, the more they will give pastors
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  rest. There are there are many pastors
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  who cannot sleep because members sometimes, with all due respect,
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  get very lazy and they just transfer by way of text a long
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  list of prayer requests while they sleep.
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  Now believers must be taught to be responsible.
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  Are we together? The more we teach believers, we
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  take away the tendencies for for being idolized.
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  Let the people learn how to encounter Jesus.
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  We will be there helping. But they should learn his
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  presence. They should learn to pray.
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  If you see apostle, pray for me. I will pray for you, but you'll
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  be praying while I pray for you. You have nothing to lose praying
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  while I pray for you. Are we together?
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  Teach your children to pray. I'm praying in the name of Jesus
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  that a time will never come in Canada where prayer becomes
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  where laws would be passed that hinder prayer.
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  Shout Emmanuel in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  We love your government and we come in peace, but we also come
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  establishing the purposes of God.
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  There should never be a generation in Canada that fights
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  prayer. When you fight prayer, you have
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  fought the the potential for creating changes in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. So prayer is the first secret
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  that helps men to transition to become people of power.
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  I can tell you sincerely, I do not know anyone who has
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  submitted himself to the prayer ministry.
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  Genuinely, non pretentiously, are we together who has not
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  attained maturity and power in the spirit.
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  Among the many things that prayer does is to sharpen your
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  discernment. Thou shalt hear a voice from
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  behind saying this is the way walking in it, and you find rest
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  for your soul. Apostle, I'm a businessman.
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  Do I need prayer? Surprisingly, even more than a
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  preacher. Do you know why?
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  Because if a preacher preaches a bad sermon, he forgives himself
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  and is ready next week. But when you lose $1,000,000
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  because of carelessness, you will get it back, but it will
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  not be that easy. The preacher has a chance to get
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  back again, revisit his notes. He can even get back to the
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  congregation and say, sorry, I gave you a wrong scripture.
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  You correct it. But that is not easily done.
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  As a businessman, when you lose, you can lose an opportunity that
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  would take five years to return back.
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  You need more discernment. Are we together?
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  Jacob said the Lord was in this place and I knew not the Lord
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  was in this place and I knew not an opportunity was here and I
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  did not discern a great door and an effectual was open, but I was
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  blind did not know that it was a a safe passage into a new
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  season. One more time shout.
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  I will pray. So prayer, effective prayer, is
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  the first strategy ready for number 2.
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  The second strategy that is responsible for maturity and
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  stature in the Spirit is that you must submit to the ministry
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  of the world. As simple as this sounds, just
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  lend me your attention for explanation.
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  The ministry of the world. You must submit to the ministry
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  of the world. Write this down.
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  Spiritual maturity is knowledge dependent.
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  Spiritual maturity, Attaining spiritual maturity at any level
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  is knowledge dependent. I shared a scripture yesterday.
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  Let's go back to that scripture, Acts 20 and verse 32.
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  And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His
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  grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an
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  inheritance. Able to build you up and give
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  you an inheritance. Maturity is knowledge dependent.
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  Dominion in this Kingdom is a product of knowledge.
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  If you lack sufficient knowledge, and when I talk about
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  knowledge, I mean high level spiritual illumination, high
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  level spiritual illumination. First Corinthians chapter 8 and
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  verse 2 is a scripture that has challenged me for years.
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  It still does. Read it with me, please.
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  One to go. Oh come on Canada, let's try
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  again. One to go.
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  As he ought to know, as he ought to know, there is a standard non
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  negotiable spiritual standard. The authority and dominion that
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  you command an exact upon the cosmos, depends on the level of
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  illumination that you have. Please look at me.
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  What do you know about prayer? What do you know or not know
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  about Satan? What do you know about favor?
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  What do you know about growth? What do you know about
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  restoration? What do you know about
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  relationships? What do you know about building
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  things that last? What do you know about spiritual
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  warfare? What do you know about the
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  ministry of angels? What do you know about the Holy
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  Spirit? What do you know about God?
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  What do you know about yourself? These are the bodies of truth
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  that you stand upon to gain command in life and destiny.
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  I submit to you by the authority of Scripture that most believers
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  are in ignorance. They know a little about prayer.
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  They've heard something one or two about angels.
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  They know something about confessing the word.
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  They hope it works. They know something about
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  giving. They are not exactly sure of it.
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  They know something about fasting.
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  They fast, occasionally grudgingly, so they know
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  something about relationships. And so we have, we have very
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  scattered knowledge that is not coordinated to produce victory.
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  Your knowledge must be methodical.
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  Your illumination must be high enough.
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  John 1/5 and the line shine it in the darkness, and the
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  darkness comprehended it not Hallelujah.
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  If I ask an individual now, anybody at all to put on your
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  phone light, do you know that the light that comes from your
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  phone is light, but not light enough to illuminate this
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  beautiful auditorium? So it is light, but it is not
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  light enough. If all of us were to depend on
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  that light alone would be in trouble.
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  This is how many believers run their lives.
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  They have little light, little light, and we think they dare
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  the devil, and they make all kinds of audacious statements
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  and spend the remaining part of their life paying the price.
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  Dominion is knowledge dependent. Victory is knowledge dependent.
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  Authority in the Kingdom, the administration of it is
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  knowledge dependent. I want to show you something now
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  that I pray would bless you. There are 6 fundamental
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  spiritual truths that every believer must know.
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  If you do not know this, you cannot rise to your prophetic
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  destiny and you will not amount to much as far as being a
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  witness is concerned. Six of them.
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  I want to give it to you. Be at liberty to teach your
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  members their pastors. Be at liberty to share this in
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  your prayer groups. 6 fundamental bodies of spiritual
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  truth that any believer who wants to attain unto maturity.
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  Any believer who wants to command power in the Spirit and
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  command power within the cosmos. You cannot be in ignorance of
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  these 6 dimensions of truth and excel.
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  Are you ready to write? Pray in the Spirit for one
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  minute. Thank you Jesus.
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  Sunny Pala show, Brandy kaparasu prayers.