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Intentional Prayer [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning, Family, God, welcome back to the morning Devo. It's
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Speaker 1: good to see you on a new day on earth.
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Speaker 1: We're breathing, we're alive. Amen. Have a purpose and a plan.
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Speaker 1: God has a perfect plan and a perfect, perfect, perfect
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Speaker 1: purpose for us. Amen, as long as we keep our
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Speaker 1: eyes focused on Him. Regardless of what we have done yesterday,
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Speaker 1: what we're what we're destined to do is different from
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Speaker 1: what we've done. I hope you get that. So what
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Speaker 1: we've done and what we're destined to do, there's tension there.
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Speaker 1: I know that because I'm a human, and you know
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Speaker 1: that because you're a human. But how about when you're
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Speaker 1: intentional about your life with Lord? How about if you're
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Speaker 1: intentional with your prayer life? And that's what we're going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about. Intentional prayer today in the morning Devo.
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Speaker 1: Intentional prayer. Listen to this. Praying intentionally as a Christian,
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Speaker 1: as a born again believer, means approaching God with purpose,
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Speaker 1: focus and faith instead of letting me your prayer become
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Speaker 1: routine or rushed like it's a ritual. Intention of prayer
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Speaker 1: involves heartfelt communication with the Lord, with God and man
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Speaker 1: with God himself. Heartfelt communication, listening and aligning. Listen and
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Speaker 1: align with God's word and will. And in fact, God's
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Speaker 1: will is his word, and God's word is his will.
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Speaker 1: So when you're aligning with God's word, you're aligning with
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Speaker 1: God's will. We're gonna be in Psalms chapter one hundred,
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Speaker 1: verse number four, We're going to be mostly in the
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Speaker 1: prayer mode this morning. Amen, as we need to be
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Speaker 1: praying for one another in Christ, needing to pre praying
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Speaker 1: for one another as we navigate life. Man, we need
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Speaker 1: each other. Say that all the time. It sounds cliche.
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Speaker 1: People are like, yeah, I know that. Well, let's go
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Speaker 1: ahead and be about what we know. Let's go ahead
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Speaker 1: and be believers, brothers and sisters and the Lord. Let's
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Speaker 1: go ahead and be Kingdom minded. Let's go ahead and
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Speaker 1: pray intentionally. So intentional prayer today on the morning, Devo,
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Speaker 1: as we rely on the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit of God,
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Speaker 1: to move us in a position of blessing, move us
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Speaker 1: in a position of sharing the Gospel, Move us in
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Speaker 1: a position of receiving a gift from God to give
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Speaker 1: to somebody else. Amen, this is not all about us.
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Speaker 1: This is about what God has done for us, the
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Speaker 1: finished work of Jesus, and we're just out here being
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Speaker 1: fishers of men with farmers, planting seeds of eternal life
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Speaker 1: everywhere we go. Brother Frank, good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Good to see you. Sorry, I couldn't be at the
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Speaker 1: church in the last few days. Had some health issues.
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Speaker 1: But God is with me, Emmanuel, and he took care
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Speaker 1: of it already. Amen, Hallelujah. And as soon as I
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Speaker 1: heard I prayed. Amen, I'm not taking credit for your health.
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Speaker 1: I know that I went to the one who could
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Speaker 1: give you back your health to your body. Amen. And
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Speaker 1: so many others as well started praying immediately for your
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Speaker 1: brother Frank and his family. So now we're praying for
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Speaker 1: brother Mike. Amen. And Brother Mike, a dear friend of
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Speaker 1: ours and a brother in the Lord, needs our prayer today,
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Speaker 1: right now asap a man as we pray for his
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Speaker 1: health to return back to his body. Listen, life is
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Speaker 1: happening right in front of us in real time. That's
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Speaker 1: why we should never stop praying, regardless if we're feel
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy or we feel unhealthy. Pray either way,
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Speaker 1: Pray even with you know want to pray, Pray even
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Speaker 1: if you don't feel like praying. Because I know for
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Speaker 1: sure what we do and how we live is not
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Speaker 1: based on feelings. Because if it was based on feelings, Man,
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Speaker 1: this thing will be jacked, this life will be jacked up.
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Speaker 1: As a believer, but we don't base our move on feelings.
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Speaker 1: We base our moves on faith in Christ, Jesus, in
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Speaker 1: the Father, in holy ghosts. We don't work or move
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Speaker 1: on feelings a man. As a matter of fact, if
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Speaker 1: you ever get too hungry, too angry, too lonely, too tired,
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Speaker 1: never make important decisions when you're in those conditions. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We find a peace of God because we have peace
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Speaker 1: with God. We know we have the peace of God,
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Speaker 1: because we have peace peace of God, because we have
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Speaker 1: peace with God. Amen. If that makes any sense, we
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Speaker 1: could be in Psalms, chapter number one hundred, verse number four.
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Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, pray requests, or
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Speaker 1: anything along the lines. Today's your day. Go ahead, don't hesitate,
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Speaker 1: put it on a live chat. Right. We are here
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Speaker 1: for different reasons. I'm here to inspire you or encourage
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Speaker 1: you to go into the Word of God for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Others are here because of curiosity. Others are here because
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Speaker 1: they need the Word others are here because they're skeptical
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Speaker 1: about the word. Whatever the case it meant. Today, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have intentional prayer, intentional prayer, purposeful prayer, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna ask God to move accordingly because He is the
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Speaker 1: one who is perfect man. Every time he moves, he
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Speaker 1: moves as Messiah, he moves as Savior, he moves as Hero,
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Speaker 1: he moves as the victorious One, he moves as the
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Speaker 1: miracle signs and wonder he moves. And a still small voice.
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Speaker 1: While this world is going bonkers and all the voices
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Speaker 1: are chaotic, God's voice is He's full. Bible says that
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Speaker 1: a stranger's voice. Once we know the voice of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: a stranger's voice, we will no longer follow. So let's
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Speaker 1: get him prayer. After we pray, we shut us out
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Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds. And then on the other side
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Speaker 1: of those sixty seconds, we'll get into today's scripture and
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Speaker 1: we'll do some intentional prayer, and we'll make some points amen,
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Speaker 1: and we'll devote this time to the Lord because he
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Speaker 1: deserves all our time. But we have a life to live,
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Speaker 1: and He knows we have a life to live, So
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Speaker 1: therefore we can't stay fortunately in control environments and our
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Speaker 1: prayer closet all day as we have responsibilities at work,
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Speaker 1: you know, ministry organizations, and we have to support especially
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Speaker 1: the men. We have to step up and be a
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Speaker 1: support system for our family. So, Father God, I thank you.
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Speaker 1: Purpose today is to get in your purpose, in your
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Speaker 1: plan with intentional prayer, our pray Lord got peace, our
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Speaker 1: pray Lord God, health and healing over brother Mike, and
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Speaker 1: over every single person that is struggling in their health.
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Speaker 1: Right now. I pray Lord God that you would guide
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Speaker 1: and guard us and protect us. And that wall of
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Speaker 1: protection that you put up, Lord God is impenetrable. So
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Speaker 1: the enemy knows that when he sees the mark of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, the seal of the Lord on his children,
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Speaker 1: the enemy knows that he has to retreat. As we
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Speaker 1: surrender to God, the enemy has to retreat. I thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that we continue to move forward victoriously because
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Speaker 1: of what you have already done, what you continue to do,
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Speaker 1: and what you continue to speak according to your word,
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Speaker 1: which is your will. So I pray Lord God intentionally
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Speaker 1: on purpose to please you and also to let other
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Speaker 1: people know that you are the way, the truth and
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Speaker 1: the life. I thank you, Lord God, that you are
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Speaker 1: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You are the
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Speaker 1: same God, yesterday, today and forevermore. And you, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: offer forgiveness, Offer eternal life, Offer prosperity, true prosperity, Offer
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Speaker 1: a way of escape when we are attempted. So today
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Speaker 1: we pray intentionally, knowing that You hear our prayers and
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Speaker 1: you answer them according to your will and your purpose
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Speaker 1: for our lives, individually corporately. So I speak life over
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Speaker 1: every single person, including myself, my wife, our children, our grandchildren,
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Speaker 1: our family members, from the very youngest to the very oldest,
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Speaker 1: every single person between. I pray peace, and I pray
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Speaker 1: that purposely and intentionally over every single person on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the screen and on the other side
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Speaker 1: of this mic, and a powerful matchless name above every
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Speaker 1: name Ya Shoe and how much she like Jesus the Lord.
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Speaker 1: I pray it's by faith and in faith, with thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: intentionally in the name of Jesus. And those who agree,
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Speaker 1: we say amen to the Amen. Good morning, Brother, the manual,
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Speaker 1: I see you, God, bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Dvo,
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Speaker 1: my friend and my bro. But let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: Help me shut this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we'll get right into some guidelines, some points of how
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Speaker 1: we could be intentional with prayer. I'll be right back
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Speaker 1: and we're back. Let's go for it, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into intentional prayer. So many
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Speaker 1: things to pray for, so many people to pray for,
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Speaker 1: including ourselves, our own homes, our own families, our own marriages,
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Speaker 1: our own siblings, our own children. Right, even for our enemies.
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Speaker 1: We're instructed bandit to pray for our enemies. Right. Because
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Speaker 1: if someone is against what we believe, that means they're
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Speaker 1: against who we believe. Amen. Because we're not in a
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Speaker 1: religion as born again believers, right, we're in a relationship
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Speaker 1: with a holy love and righteous guy. So therefore someone
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Speaker 1: comes against my belief or your belief, they're coming against
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Speaker 1: who we believe in. It's a package, Amen. It's personal
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Speaker 1: who we believe in, but it's not private. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people like to say, well, I'm a Christian, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell nobody. Nobody needs to know.
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Speaker 1: Some people use this reasoning that they say, well, sometimes
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Speaker 1: everybody doesn't need to get the testimony. Everybody doesn't need
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Speaker 1: to know that I'm a born again believer. I want
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Speaker 1: to check that test that according to the scriptures. Amen,
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Speaker 1: be intentional about your walk. I know we're not going
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Speaker 1: to get everything right all the time. Some people are
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Speaker 1: putting way too much pressure on themselves to try to
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Speaker 1: be perfect every time. Meanwhile, we're imperfect, being perfected by
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Speaker 1: the Holy One inside Holy Spirit, who is perfect. Man
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Speaker 1: well said. God wants us to be specific when we're
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Speaker 1: praying to them. Amen, Amen, be specific your faith. Your
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Speaker 1: faith should be specific. We know who we're praying to,
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Speaker 1: we know who we're trusting in. We know God's word
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Speaker 1: is real, and all his promises are yea and Amen,
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Speaker 1: So go ahead and pray with confidence. Confirmation of the
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Speaker 1: Word should give you more confidence. Control and manipulation shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be the ones those things that have given you confidence.
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Speaker 1: It should be the confirmation of God in your life
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Speaker 1: and His word being revealed and applied in your life
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Speaker 1: that gives you confidence. And who Christ is in you
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Speaker 1: and in me. Amen. Good morning, brother wan, I see
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Speaker 1: you go up. God bless and everyone that's tuned in,
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Speaker 1: but the one sends a blessing to those who are listening.
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Speaker 1: Celebrity on Network. So Win is with a z RG.
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Speaker 1: You hear that, brother Wan is sending blessings. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much, Wan for coming through my bro and my
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Speaker 1: friend sister NEILSA good morning. God, bless you, God, bless
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Speaker 1: you all. Brother Frank, pray your body restores in Jesus name.
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Speaker 1: You see that we know who to go to when
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Speaker 1: we need restoration to the body. We also praying for Mike.
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Speaker 1: See a man he needs restoration to his body asap
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Speaker 1: as well. And God, here's our prayers. He sees our tears.
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Speaker 1: A man, his daughter was in tears. Yes, last night
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Speaker 1: a man. God saw those tears, heard her cries, heard
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Speaker 1: her questions. Women and God were praying and laying hands
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Speaker 1: over her. Amen, because we know who to go to
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Speaker 1: when times are needed to pray. I just feel like that. Amen.
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Speaker 1: There is a desperation. People say you Christians are always desperate. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're desperate for the Lord to move in our hearts
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Speaker 1: and our lives. We know the grace of God is real.
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Speaker 1: We know the grace of God is amazing. A man,
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Speaker 1: his amazing grace. Next level is the next level of
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Speaker 1: grace a man that God has already poured out over
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Speaker 1: us and poured out on people who don't believe. Could
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Speaker 1: you realize, good morning since the joint, I see you,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God, bless you, my sister, my friend. He
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Speaker 1: realized that we're here because of God's grace, not because
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Speaker 1: of anything we've done. Right. I'd always remind myself of
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Speaker 1: what it could have been if I was judged right
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Speaker 1: for my sin that I committed. If I stood sinning
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Speaker 1: and stood in my old way of living, Amen, of
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Speaker 1: the judgment of wrath would have been upon me. Still.
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Speaker 1: But God rescued me, saved me. I'm born again, made new, sanctified, delivered, restored, redeemed,
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Speaker 1: and saw you. If you put your whole faith and
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Speaker 1: trust in the Lord right, be intentional about your life,
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Speaker 1: Be intentional about your prayer. People say, oh, that's arrogant
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Speaker 1: to ask God anything and believe that he really will
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Speaker 1: do it. It's not that he has to do it right,
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Speaker 1: but we know that he can do it. He won't.
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Speaker 1: God do it, whatever that is, whatever you're asking for,
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Speaker 1: God is all powerful, all knowing, almighty, omnipresent. He could
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Speaker 1: do what needs to be done in your life and
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Speaker 1: what needs to be done in my life. Amen. But
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to. There's a difference. I don't believe
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Speaker 1: we could command God to do anything. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we could force God to do that. We can't help
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Speaker 1: God and we can't hurt God. Raise of worship is beautiful,
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Speaker 1: but we're not helping him do anything right. Cursing at
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Speaker 1: God or cursing God, blaspheming God, it's very unwise, but
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Speaker 1: that doesn't hurt God. In other words, he's almighty where
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Speaker 1: it's talking and praying and being intentional in our prayer
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Speaker 1: when we pray to the Almighty Lord, Almighty God. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Hectly he is exactly who he says he is. Amen.
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Speaker 1: He could do exactly what he says he could. And
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Speaker 1: we're just we're just on the surface of what the
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Speaker 1: Lord can do in our hearts and our minds. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna have all eternity to find out the rest.
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Speaker 1: God is an eternal being, not a temporary situation, not
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Speaker 1: a temporary person. He's an eternal being revealed himself in
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Speaker 1: the form of a man named Jesus. And we have
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Speaker 1: evidence and proof all through our lives. Amen. And the
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Speaker 1: Psalms one hundred, verse number four. Sorry didn't put the
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Speaker 1: reference on the screen, but his Psalm one hundred, verse
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Speaker 1: number four says, enter his gates with a song of
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Speaker 1: thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Be thankful to him,
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Speaker 1: bless and praise his name. God has the name. Let's
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Speaker 1: call him by his name. He's elohem yahweh rock yloheen,
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Speaker 1: wonderful counselor prince of peace, Almighty God. Amen. Let's call
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Speaker 1: God by his names. By his name, Jesus is shuahamashiak
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Speaker 1: amen ova rapha God we need for healing. Enter his
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Speaker 1: gaze with the song of thanksgiving, and his courts with praise.
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Speaker 1: Be thankful to him. Amen. When you're when you're walking
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Speaker 1: around thankful, the enemy doesn't know what to do with you.
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Speaker 1: Because we're thankful, and we know who we're why we're thankful,
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Speaker 1: and we know who gets the praise. We know who
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Speaker 1: it's the glory. We know who to bless. We're blessing
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Speaker 1: the holy name of the Lord. Amen. That's why when
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Speaker 1: we come together in unity and agreement, we're dangerous to
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of darkness, because we're the kingdom of light.
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Speaker 1: For Orlando, I see you, good morning, man, Thank you
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Speaker 1: for your Amen. It's good to see my brow and
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Speaker 1: my friend, and well says, that's right. God doesn't owe
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Speaker 1: us anything. That's a sober, sober fact, right there. Man.
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Speaker 1: God doesn't owe us anything. But because he is love,
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Speaker 1: he expresses himself by his character, which is love, grace, mercy.
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Speaker 1: All of it is a gift, a precious gift. All
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Speaker 1: of it is a gift, the precious gift for us
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Speaker 1: to really be grateful for Amen. I know I'm grateful
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Speaker 1: without Jesus and my life, man. And if I was
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Speaker 1: still in mind, stuck in my old ways, this wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be a good time for me. Amen. And we see
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Speaker 1: people all around us struggling in areas of faith, struggling
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Speaker 1: and sin, struggling and their health, struggling in their mental health.
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Speaker 1: And we have hope, we have prayer vacation with the Father, Amen,
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Speaker 1: And we could be that bridge between God and man
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Speaker 1: because of intentional prayer. So start your prayer by focusing
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Speaker 1: on God, on who he is, his greatness, right, his love.
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Speaker 1: He's holy. So we're looking at God as holy as
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Speaker 1: a holy God. And that could set a heart in
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Speaker 1: the right posture. Right when you start that way, remember
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Speaker 1: what Jesus said in the prayer. The disciples said, how
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Speaker 1: should we pray? Jesus said, well, pray like this in
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Speaker 1: Matthew chapter six, verse nine. Our father. Right away we
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Speaker 1: have connection with the Father, our father hollowed. Be your name, Holy,
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Speaker 1: be your name. We are already focusing on who God is.
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Speaker 1: He is holy, he is great, God is love, and
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Speaker 1: his holiness shows up. And because God is holy, we
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Speaker 1: are holy because we have Holy Spirit, God living, resting, breathing,
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Speaker 1: guiding us into all truth. So therefore we're connected. We
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Speaker 1: have perfect union with God by way of Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: So when we go into his gates with thanksgiving, we're
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Speaker 1: in his courts. We're praise. We're giving thanks to the
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Speaker 1: one who deserves all the praise, all the glory, all
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Speaker 1: the worship. Right, So we pray, and you know, people
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Speaker 1: say there's really no method of praying. Talk to God
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Speaker 1: like he's your best friend. Okay, I understand that. Talk
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Speaker 1: to guys like he's your father, because he is. I
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Speaker 1: understand that. But your intention, I believe, is very important
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Speaker 1: in our prayer lives. Hey man, you just want to
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Speaker 1: do a ritual prayer and just pray the rosary or
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Speaker 1: pray methodically, and you think that's the way to go
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Speaker 1: praise God. I believe that we should be intentional keywords
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Speaker 1: God's gifts to us. Amen, Thank you Manuel, Thank you
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Speaker 1: Manuel for that. God doesn't owe us, and his gifts
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Speaker 1: are for us. And he has the perfect gift for
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Speaker 1: you and for me. He's the father of lights. He
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Speaker 1: loves to lavish his children with gifts. Sister Joyce, good morning, God,
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Speaker 1: bless you, welcome back to the morning deve with my
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Speaker 1: sister and my friend. Good morning to you as well,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for the blessings over me and the group.
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Speaker 1: And we all love because you have sent us to
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Speaker 1: your love, and we love one another in Jesus name. Amen,
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Speaker 1: and well says. The deeper our relationship is with God,
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Speaker 1: the more we understand him. Amen. Connection is key, right.
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Speaker 1: If you're not connected to the source of love, you
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Speaker 1: won't know how to love. If you're not connected to
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Speaker 1: the source of healing, and you don't know where the
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Speaker 1: healing is coming from. If you don't have a connection
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Speaker 1: with the source of hope, then you'll be hopeless. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Intentional prayer begins with reverence, respect, worship, acknowledgement. Amen. When
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Speaker 1: I was growing up, when I was a teenager, as
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Speaker 1: to go to a Catholic youth house, Catholic youth organization,
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Speaker 1: a place called Gracehouse and uptown Manhattan, right. And it
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Speaker 1: used to be weekend retreats, and then the weekend retreats
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Speaker 1: along the lines, there would be a moment a time
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Speaker 1: in that retreat that they will put you in the middle. Amen.
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Speaker 1: You will have to volunteer, but they would like to
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Speaker 1: do it for everyone. If the group was small enough,
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Speaker 1: they had time you sit in the middle of all
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Speaker 1: your friends and they would acknowledge you. Right. It would say,
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Speaker 1: for instance, manwell, if you were sitting in the middle,
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Speaker 1: they said, we acknowledge your strength. We acknowledge that God
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Speaker 1: is working on acknowledgment. Amen. And once you hear these
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Speaker 1: voices of acknowledgment all around you, Amen, you just feel different.
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Speaker 1: You feel encouraged, You feel inspired. God is being acknowledged
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Speaker 1: in our lives and our hearts. So we should be
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Speaker 1: encouraged inspired because we're acknowledging who He is in our lives,
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Speaker 1: not who he is for other people. A man is
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Speaker 1: good that you see good examples of what God is
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Speaker 1: doing in others, But what about what God is doing
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Speaker 1: in you and in me? Amen? Right? God gives us freely,
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Speaker 1: Yes he does. So begin with worship and acknowledgment. When
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Speaker 1: you're being intentional about this, pray which structure? Amen, It's okay.
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Speaker 1: So that way that'll keep me on point. And I
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Speaker 1: use the x act s right. A stands for adoration,
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Speaker 1: C confession, C for thanksgiving, and S for supplication. I
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Speaker 1: use this. I've been using this even when I was
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Speaker 1: a Catholic. Amen, that's when I learned his way back.
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Speaker 1: So we pray adoration, we praise God for who he is.
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Speaker 1: Intentionally confession, we admit our sins and ask for forgiveness.
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Speaker 1: Be intentional about that. I know sin has its pleasure moments.
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Speaker 1: Sin the Bible says, it's pleasurable for a season, but
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Speaker 1: when that season is over and the darkness is exposed,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be worth it. God will show
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Speaker 1: you grace and mercy and forgiveness. But when people find
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Speaker 1: out the exposure, people are different than God. Right, So
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Speaker 1: you get to get a different response from people than
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Speaker 1: you will from God. Amen. Sister Joy says, the eyes
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Speaker 1: of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears
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Speaker 1: are open until their christ that Psalm thirty four fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Trust him in Jesus name. Yes, trust him, Jesus name.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your comments to joy and
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Speaker 1: for the scripture our personal relationship with God. Manuel says,
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Speaker 1: so thanksgiving. So we're you want to use a model
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Speaker 1: like as acts thanksgiving thank God for what he's done. Remember,
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Speaker 1: we're not in a religion, we're in a relationship, and
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Speaker 1: we're benefiting from the finished work of the Lord Jesus,
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Speaker 1: not the undone work of the Lord, but the finished
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Speaker 1: work of the religion. You have to always be, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing X y Z to gain access to heaven, to
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Speaker 1: gain favor with God, or some religions think they are
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Speaker 1: their own God right. But when you're in a relationship,
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Speaker 1: you're thankful for that relationship. You're thanking God for what
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Speaker 1: he's already done and what he continues to do in
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Speaker 1: our lives. The supplication is, you know, a word that
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Speaker 1: simply means praying for others, bringing your request before him,
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Speaker 1: praying for others, praying for yourself, but mostly others. Focus right,
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Speaker 1: if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just,
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Speaker 1: and we'll forgive us. First John one to nine. Running
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Speaker 1: out of time here, let me give you one more
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Speaker 1: scripture Philippians for six. Do not be anxious, but in
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Speaker 1: everything by prayer and petition there goes to the supplication
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Speaker 1: part with thanksgiving. Make your request known to God, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Philippians for six. But go back to Psalm one hundred,
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Speaker 1: verse number four. Read that and try to read some
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Speaker 1: one hundred the whole chapter. See how beautiful Guy's word is,
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Speaker 1: and apply what the beauty of his word in your
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Speaker 1: life and see what happens. We're going to continue an
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Speaker 1: intentional prayer. This is going to take a while, Amen,
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Speaker 1: to get through, so we'll try to pick this up
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Speaker 1: next time. Amen. There's so much more here, and I
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Speaker 1: want us to consue or pray for one another. Continue
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Speaker 1: to pray for our friends, our family, even for our enemies.
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Speaker 1: Pray for your health, your strength and protection. And thank
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Speaker 1: God for the finished work that he is doing, that
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Speaker 1: he has done in your heart and in your life,
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Speaker 1: that he's doing in your heart in your life. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Brother Ivan, God blessed you. Good morning, my friend and
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Speaker 1: my bro Amen. Thank you for the blessings. So let's
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Speaker 1: continue to stick to the script the scriptures right and
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Speaker 1: be united in faith, Amen, because we have one faith,
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Speaker 1: one God, one baptism, one Lord, one Savior, Amen, one Kingdom,
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Speaker 1: and we are in this together. That's right. It is finished,
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Speaker 1: so listen amount of time, but let me send you
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Speaker 1: all off with a blessing. Continue to pray for me
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Speaker 1: and my family. I'll continue to pray for you and
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Speaker 1: your family. And let's keep everybody lifted up in prayer.
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Speaker 1: God bless you all. God keep you all, and remember
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Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace