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Prevailing Prayer: How Fervent Intercession Sparks Revival · Godly Hacks

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  For a reason and a way to bless us. Amen?
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  I thought y'all liked that. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much that your word is true.
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  I thank you, God, that as we seek for a way to know you more,
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  seek diligently a way to find you more,
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  that you are building a relationship with us that is much bigger than we have
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  known last week or the week before that, but it's getting even bigger as we go forward with you.
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  So I thank you, Father, that as we sow into your ministry, as we seek after
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  your lost people, as we find new ways to know who you are, that you are rewarding
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  us diligently according to your word.
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  We thank you, God, that it has multiplied back to us.
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  And like we said last week, Father, I thank you, God, that every seed's sown according, well,
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  every seed sown towards this revival coming up and any future revivals or outreaches,
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  God, I thank you, God, that every dollar, there is a,
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  soul tied to every single dollar.
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  So as we sow, it comes back to us, but we can just make sure that that means
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  that we can do it over and over and over again, and we'll never,
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  ever, ever run out in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
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  Before we start, I'm going to give people online a chance to give, but I want Darius,
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  Come up here and share what you shared about. There was someone out on YouTube,
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  right? Come up here and share with you and on the camera.
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  I'm going to lower it a little bit. Come up here, right here,
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  with your big old boots, and look in the camera, and share what you were telling
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  about tithing and what's been happening with the money left over.
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  There you go. All right, everybody. So ever since we've been coming to church,
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  me and my wife, she's tithed religiously 10% every week. And I've seen the good things happen to her.
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  And as long as I can remember I've given like $20 a year or there whatever I
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  can afford and even when I didn't think I had it,
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  sometimes I wouldn't give it and I'd feel really bad about it and I'd see all
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  the good things happen in her life and ever since I've been doing it with her,
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  I can't tell you the amount of good things that have happened to us we've got,
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  free vehicles we've got blessed with things,
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  that we've never seen before and it's all because,
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  it's just a beautiful thing even growing up i lost my father he would he would
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  sometimes here and there and then the times that he did 10 or war or just felt
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  like he needed to give the church a blessing,
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  he received like a multi-thousand dollar job you know something something that
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  will bless us as a family and uh yeah i just encourage you even if you think
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  you don't have it he'll give it back to you tenfold.
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  So thank you I decided to do a fast this week too you're fasting praise God
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  well that's good it's going to go online with the prayer Kenny why don't you
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  come up real quick too the reason why I want to share this before we you know
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  people give is because obviously we're going into Michigan and your
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  your money can be tied to a soul,
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  and so I'll just share a little bit what's on your heart but then I also want
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  you to tell them what happened work with Josiah how you just pray for stuff when stuff happens.
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  So I guess it's been about eight, nine months that I faithfully started tithing.
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  This time last year, my wife was working with her dad. And then since he got
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  sick, she's not working.
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  And money was tight. And then I would tithe every once in a while.
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  But then I finally made the decision that if I truly believe in this thing,
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  then I need to fully commit to it.
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  So I started faithfully sending in my tithe each week. And she's not working.
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  And my bank account has just doubled.
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  Like, all my bills were paid last week and, you know, I still have plenty of money left over.
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  The trip to Michigan, we were believing to rent a vehicle and my mother just
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  gave me a vehicle to take and she paid for the insurance for us to go.
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  So everybody's licensed, insured and everything and just a free ride.
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  And as far as Josiah, it's funny because every once in a while I'll go to work
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  and tell what God's done. And so when my mom gave me the van,
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  I pulled up in this new van, and he's like, bro, how do you keep getting all this stuff?
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  I'm like, man, I tithe, and I'm telling you, I'm the Lord's favorite.
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  I know that's how I can bring it to me, but I feel that way.
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  I really do, because I've never...
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  Since I've been homeless and God gave me my house, I've never had a lake bill.
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  I've never had to worry about where my next meal is coming from.
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  I've never had to worry about gas to get back and forth to work.
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  Like the struggles that I had five years ago, so far away from that.
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  It's just, it's unbelievable how blessed just 10% sent into the church is.
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  Great. So good. Thank you, Kenny. Glory to God.
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  And so, you know, it's important to know that you're not, that the money is not about the money.
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  God said, if I can't trust you with something as small as mammon,
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  he's talking about money, how can I trust you with true riches?
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  Do you all know what true riches are when God talks about a true riches? What is it?
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  It's gifts in the spirit. It's healing and miracles and signs.
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  Those are the true riches because money, you're not going to need that up in
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  heaven. So money here is just temporary.
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  And what God's saying is because he works on a partnership, it.
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  I mean, who better than to go into business with than God? It's God's business. It's soul.
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  And so I know you might be thinking, well, I tithe. I didn't see stuff yet.
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  Well, keep tithing. Keep giving.
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  You know, the Bible talks about when a cloud fills up with rain.
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  Well, when Chad and I, you know, and again, maybe our mouth wasn't always 100%
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  right. But when Chad and I were in Vegas, you know, we faithfully tithed no matter what.
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  And honestly, if I would, let me tell you something And that's a key.
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  Don't just tithe and complain.
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  Complaining just really robs you of all kinds of blood. Well, this didn't happen yet.
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  When you complain, you can't see the blessing of God.
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  So I remember one time I was kind of fussing, which I've been known to do from time to time.
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  I was kind of fussing at God about something. And I'm like, oh,
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  you know, I'm believing for this.
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  And God, I don't see this yet. And I asked you for this. And he said,
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  Lisa, what do you think this big blessing that just poured out on you guys?
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  Where do you think that came from? It was like I didn't see it. You know what I mean?
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  And sometimes God will do something for you and you don't even realize he did
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  it because you're complaining.
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  So just know that.
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  The devil does. And I meant to have Kenny share this with you.
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  He could say it better than me. But the thing that's interesting about Kenny
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  is he's been in this church for quite some time. Now is it four years, right? Or so?
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  December 24th, five years. That's awesome. Five years.
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  And so, obviously, we're not like the Mormon church. We're not going to say,
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  hey, I'm looking at your stuff and you're not tithing. We just let people figure it out.
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  But he was struggling. It was not stupid. We can see.
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  But I never was going to say, hey, what's your problem? How come,
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  you know, God bless you, Jake? You know, figure it out.
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  And so then when he started tithing, that's when I asked, I said,
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  hey, can I ask you why? Because he sits under Chad all the time.
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  And he just said, it was just hard because you felt like you weren't going to
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  have enough, right? And that's what everybody thinks.
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  But how will you ever know if God will provide if we don't do what he says? The very simple thing.
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  And so that's what Chad and I have determined to do. Like even with the Michigan
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  revival, you know, it's paid in full.
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  Thank God. and we've got money for prizes, okay, whatever. And I believe this
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  time I'm gonna find a way that I'll even have money left over.
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  That's what I'm believing for. But in the interim, I took some of our money
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  and I gave it to another ministry.
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  We need it, but I'm like, but I need to sow it. So I have to practice the same
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  thing, both personally, like Chad gives personally, he tithes personally.
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  I tithe off whatever income that comes, I tithe off that.
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  But then from the church, we tithe also.
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  Because I want God's hand in what we're doing. And who knows if after we go
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  up there— See, what we need to understand as Christians is that God's not just
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  only concerned about this town.
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  You know, God's the God of the whole wide world. So we're here.
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  We're helping people here. But while we go there and we help people there, guess what can happen?
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  When we do that, then God can do big things here. Who knows if by going to Michigan,
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  maybe God could give us some big center that kids could come to or something.
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  Who knows? I don't know. but I'm believing for that. Amen.
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  So I just want to encourage you. And if you're watching online and you want
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  to participate in this revival we're doing, you can go to preach at lisa.com and give.
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  I need to do my Zelle too. I didn't post it, but Zelle actually,
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  if you give via Zelle, then there's no fees taken out of that.
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  Mom gives via Zelle, but that's even better. Because if you give even 500,
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  they take like 15. I hate that you take God's money, but they do.
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  All right. I want to share with you briefly, and then I want to go over just
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  some music kind of things at the end.
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  And give some stuff to Kenny. By the way, there's not going to be any service.
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  Today is Sunday, so it'll be Wednesday to Wednesday. So there won't be any service Wednesday.
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  There won't be any service the following Sunday, and there won't be any service
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  that Wednesday, pretty sure.
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  So just so you know, it's about, unfortunately, seven days out,
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  but it's worth it, amen, and plus it's worth it for us.
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  So just so you know, and I'll have a sign on the door. All right.
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  I want to talk to you about something. I was studying this thing called prevailing
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  prayer. There was a guy, his name was Charles Finney. He was in the 1800s.
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  And I've always heard about this guy. Like he would show up and people would just pass out.
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  He'd walk in a room and people would fall on the ground and start repenting.
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  Wouldn't that be weird? You walk in a room, they're like, oh,
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  Tommy, I'm sorry, I'm a sinner. You'd be like, oh my gosh, what's wrong with
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  these people? But that's what they did.
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  And then he had these massive revivals with thousands of people.
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  And I've always heard about the power, the power of Charles Finney.
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  But you know what I never heard of? And maybe you guys know because you've studied.
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  Did you know what was behind the power of Charles Finney?
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  A praying man. Did you know that? I didn't either, all the time,
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  never heard it. There was a man, his name was Nash.
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  The reason I'm telling you this is God put on your heart to fast. I know you were fasting.
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  We've been praying. I'm fasting this week too. Some other people are praying and fasting.
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  So Nash is this gentleman that he would go into the town that Charles Finney
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  was going to go into by himself.
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  And he would find a cellar, a dark place or something. And he'd just throw himself on the floor.
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  And he'd just, what's called intercessory prayer, he'd just cry out,
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  God save souls. God help this town.
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  God, please. And like with the heart, as if it was your own,
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  as if you were looking into the pit and your favorite person in the whole world was falling in it.
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  And with all your strength, you were crying for them to come out.
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  That's what he was praying like, a fervent—the Bible says the effectual fervent prayer.
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  And so he would kind of get the pulse of the city and the people that were lost,
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  and he'd begin to cry out to God on his face.
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  And he would cry out for the city, because remember I told you,
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  each city has its own devils.
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  People got their own devils. That's why some people are into drugs and alcohol,
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  and some people eat until they die.
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  Some people do that. You know, they can't—you've seen the buy 600 pound,
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  whatever. I mean, that's a demon that makes you eat so much you die.
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  So some people have demons like that. Some people have alcohol.
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  Some people can't stop sleeping around and they get a disease.
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  I have family members that that happened to. He was having sex with the wrong persuasion, and.
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  He got AIDS that brought on cancer, and that killed him because he was jumping around with boys.
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  It's very sad. So that's the devil that makes you do stuff like that.
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  So, but, you know, you might think if you're a man, you might think I'd never do that. Okay.
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  But maybe you're tempted with alcohol, you know, so there's different demons.
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  So he would get in prayer and he would begin praying for the place.
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  Hey, y'all, I really need you to not this morning to be doing that.
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  This is really important what I'm teaching. All y'all listen,
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  kids, just color and listen. Thank you.
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  So he would get in this attitude of prayer and he would begin praying really
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  hard and he would pray for the city and what they needed. He would pray for
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  the broken hearts. He would pray for the people.
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  And then he would feel what he called a breaking.
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  You see, I know this, but I don't always know what to do.
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  I know that there's stuff hindering sometimes, but I don't always know what to do.
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  And so here was this man of God that came in and you and me and everyone, oh, Charles Finney.
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  But if it wasn't for Nash, there wouldn't have been any power.
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  So Nash was crying out praying. And supposedly when Nash would get done and
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  it could be days, weeks, who knows? I mean, really just praying.
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  And when he was done, he felt a breaking and he would tell Charles Finney, you can come now.
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  And so then Charles Finney steps up.
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  And people just start, oh my gosh, Charles Finney. But they had no idea. that Nash was praying.
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  So if God's led you to be praying for us going to Michigan or pray at any time
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  for me or this church, that's you're led in the spirit by that. And it's powerful.
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  And so Charles Finney wrote a book called Prevailing in Prayer.
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  And he said, sometimes your prayers just don't get answered.
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  Just lift your hands if you've ever prayed a prayer and it didn't actually get
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  answered. It's okay. I have. Yeah. And he said, there's reasons for that.
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  And we need to figure that out. And so even me, as much as I'm learning,
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  this is why you're never going to get there. You're always learning. You're always growing.
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  And I didn't know this, that Charles Finney had some guy named Nash.
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  And so I'm like, Lord, where's my Nash? My Nash, please.
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  And what he said is that the preacher—now, I pray, don't get me wrong.
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  I'm not asking someone. But the preacher is just a mouthpiece.
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  That Charles Finney was just a mouth. There was an engine behind his power. And I didn't know that.
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  And so it was so much. So there were so many signs, so many miracles and so much power.
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  And one day, Nash, and they said that this man Nash, like when he would pray,
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  they said you would see him and he looked like he aged like 20 years,
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  which I don't know that I agree with all that, but it was rough on him.
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  He looked like he'd been through it because he was fighting the spiritual stuff, you know?
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  And one day they found Nash in one of these cellars, face down in the ground,
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  hands outstretched in the sound of a cross and dead.
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  He was interceding and he died interceding.
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  And they said, this is what's interesting and why I'm prefacing what I'm about
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  to share with you so you can understand the value, because I don't teach on prayer often.
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  But they said that after he died, that Finney continued a little bit,
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  almost like, you know, if you're on a subway, let's say we got a runaway subway train, right?
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  And it's just flying down the track and the engine dies in the subway train.
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  If they don't have brakes, is that train going to stop right away?
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  It's going to keep going, right? Because of the engine. So for a while, he kept going, kind of.
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  But they said it never quite was the same. And then eventually it stopped,
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  which is interesting to me.
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  And so they said that there was some power, but then what happened was people
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  felt like, okay, this is how revival is.
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  We pray, and there's miracles. It was like, in other words, it was more a manufactured
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  revival than actually people just—and we've all been in those,
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  haven't we—than people falling. And let me just tell you something.
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  Muslims are not going to be saved with a manufactured revival.
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  These people coming from Detroit and Inkster.
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  Ladies, you got to be kidding. They're not going to be saved by just me manufacturing
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  some revival. It's going to take something on me that's not me.
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  And that's what we're praying for. But we have to see how to get our prayers answered.
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  And also not just for revival, but in your own life. In your life.
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  And so when it comes to prayer, he had some things. He said,
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  you can pray a lot and still not prevail.
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  You ever been there? You just pray a lot, but you don't get anywhere.
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  It's like someone sitting in a rocking chair and expecting to travel.
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  You're just rocking. That's what we're like. Our prayers are like,
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  we're just rocking, but we're not going anywhere.
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  So Jesus didn't teach us to perform an activity of prayer. He taught us to ask
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  and then receive. In Matthew 7, 7 through 8, Jesus said, Ask,
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  and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find.
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  Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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  For everyone that asks, receives.
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  Now, that's the Bible.
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  But we're all standing here saying we've had prayers that haven't been answered.
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  So why are some prayers answered and others not? Well, he discovered that God has Bible conditions.
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  Now, we don't live in a world that likes this teaching at all.
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  We live in a world that says, it don't matter what you do. You could be drunk,
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  high, sleeping. God loves you.
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  Well, yeah, he always loves you, but you're not going to get the blessing.
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  So we're living in a society that doesn't like this teaching.
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  But I want to ask you, do you want to keep rocking in a rocking chair or do
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  we want to go somewhere? I want to go somewhere. All right.
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  So the first way to get your prayers answered is you must expect God to answer.
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  The first condition that Finney gave is faith in God as the answer of prayer.
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  When we pray, we should expect God to respond.
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  Mark 11, 24, whatever things you
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  desire when you pray, believe you receive them and you shall have them.
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  Hebrews 11, 6, he that comes to God must believe he is and that he is a rewarder
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  of those who diligently seek him.
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  Do you not find it odd that if you talk about being prosperous or blessed,
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  the first thing people say is, Christians don't need that money.
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  You've got a bunch of Christians spend their whole life tearing down other Christians
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  if they've got jets or cars or whatever. And it's like, who cares?
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  Just worry about your own stuff. This is why communism and socialism is thriving in our nation.
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  Because instead of people standing in front of God and saying,
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  look, can I just tell you, we are one body.
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  But if you look around this room, we are all very different.
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  We look different. We talk different. We act different.
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  God is a God of uniqueness.
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  You're made in his image. I'm not made in her image, and she's not made in my
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  image, and you're not made in his image.
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  Everyone just say, oh, thank God. I made in God's image.
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  We're made in God's image after his likeness. We are unique.
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  There is no collectivism. In other words, God—this is why also—and I'm learning
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  about Charles Finney in prayer.
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  But at the same time, God wants to talk to me. Charles Finney is dead. He's in heaven.
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  God needs to talk to you. God likes you. That's why he made you. You're an individual.
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  Kenny's not like anybody else. My mother's not like anybody.
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  We're all different. Gaila is not like anybody else.
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  Neither is Kelsey. We're all different. And so God, you can learn and get principles,
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  but you have to understand there's something just for you that God has.
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  And the more you find that out, the better you're going to be.
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  And for me, I can see God's trying to teach me something. And he's teaching
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  me. I only got a few days before I go to Michigan and he's teaching me some
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  stuff. I need you to talk like this. I need you to, you better get in some prayer.
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  You better figure this prayer thing out.
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  And I'm like, yes, Lord, okay. So I know it sounds goofy to say that you have
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  to believe that God will answer. But honestly, if you're honest,
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  how many times have you prayed thinking, I don't know if he's going to do this?
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  I mean, you know. Well, guess what?
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  I wish I had a bull. I need a bullhorn shed. I wish I had a buzzer.
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  I'm going to get a buzzer for church.
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  So if you start your prayer and you want it, so you pray, okay?
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  And then your next thought is, that probably won't happen. Let me just.
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  Okay, that's it. You're not going to get it.
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  No point in continuing. Well, that's true, Lisa, but that's the Bible.
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  Doesn't it say, he that comes to God must believe that he is, and he is a what?
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  Rewarder. Don't you find it weird that all the churches, not all the churches,
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  but some pastors and preachers are telling you, don't just come to God for what
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  he can do. He's not going to do stuff for you. He just said he's going to do stuff for me.
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  What do you mean he's not going to do? He just said, I got to believe he is,
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  and he's a rewarder, right? But you got a bunch of people trying to talk you out of it.
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  If you're going to pray, pray. If you're going to believe, believe.
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  Believe he's going to do it.
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  Okay, but you can't just believe anything. You can't just come in here and go,
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  Oh, I really like Lisa's car. I'm going to believe that God's going to make her give me her car.
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  Okay, that's not in line with the Word, so we're going to get to that.
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  You have to come to God and believe that he hears you, that he cares about you,
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  that he's able, and that he keeps his word and he answers prayer.
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  So don't pray with more faith in your problem than you have in God.
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  And you've heard that before.
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  Don't talk to God about you. Oh, you don't know, God. Just say how big he is.
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  All right. Two, you got to pray according to God's will.
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  These are conditions for answered prayer. And this will all be on YouTube.
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  You can look at the transcript later and you can get them all down.
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  Two, pray according to his will.
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  Ask according to the revealed will of God. That's a key.
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  Now, there are things you can get for yourself, but that's why you got to look
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  in the Bible. Is this your will, God? So, like, say you're believing for a house. Yes.
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  Let's pretend you want a house. Is that in God's will? If I ask you,
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  is that God's will for you to have a house? Yes or no? Tommy, I'm asking you, is it?
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  Yes, it is. Because the Bible says houses. Actually, I should have questioned you.
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  Let me ask you again. That's what I should have said. Is it God's will to get
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  a house and answer the way you did the first time?
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  Yes. Nope, it's not. It's his will to get what?
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  Ah, there you go. Houses, plural. Well, I can barely have one house.
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  Well, so you're supposed to have houses according to the word, right?
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  But do we really think that? We don't really think that.
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  Do this to your head. Give me your mind, Lord. Give me your mind.
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  Help me to think like you. All right.
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  So 1 John 5, and this is the confidence. Do you have confidence when you pray? You're supposed to.
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  That we have in him that if we ask anything.
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  Come on, say that out loud with me. We're going to school today.
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  Anything. If I ask anything.
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  According to what? What my Nana says, my boo-boo says, my gym teacher says.
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  No, according to his what? Will.
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  We know he hears us. And if we know he hears us, we know we have the petitions we ask for.
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  If the Bible says, Kenny, when you give, you robbed me. Well,
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  how have I robbed you, God, in tithes and offerings? What is a tithe?
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  You can't, like, if you give 20%, I tithe 20%. No, you don't.
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  You give 10% and another 10% as an offering.
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  But if God tells you to give 10% and you do it, then you're within your right
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  to say, hey, God, you said in your word, if I give 10%, you will give back to me.
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  Now, maybe you don't have it this week. Maybe you don't have it next week,
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  but it's totally within your right. Say, oh, hello, Jesus.
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  God, you said you'll bless me. It's right there. You're praying according to
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  his will. Does that make sense? Okay. Same thing with healing or anything.
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  By his stripes, you were healed. So if there's a problem in your body,
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  when you tell that body to line
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  up, it has to, right according to okay so you got to know matthew 6 10,
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  your kingdom come your will be done on earth now i've taught you to pray like
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  that jesus teaches you to pray right your kingdom come your will be done on earth right,
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  okay but what if his will is not being done in your life.
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  That's the reason your prayer might not get answered. Here's the challenge.
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  You cannot sincerely pray your will be done while inwardly saying,
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  as long as your will is like mine.
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  You know, the Bible says that if I contend with my husband, my prayers won't be answered.
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  If I fight with him. So I mess with him sometimes because Matilda seems to like
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  get stuff because she's a kid.
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  And he's like, man, I didn't get that. Man, how come I, you know,
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  he wants, you know, powers, that's what he wants sometimes.
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  So I mess with him. I'm like, well, let's just get an agreement.
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  Let's all get an agreement and see what God can do. But I have to remind myself that.
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  You see, the devil's always trying to stir up strife. So if Chad does something,
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  even if it's small, and I begin to think, oh, he's getting on my nerves.
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  And then God forbid I voice it. You just get on my nerve. Now we're going to be a big disagreement.
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  Now we're going to be fussing or not talking. In his case, we won't be talking
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  for about 10 hours. Now we won't be talking. There's stress in the house.
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  And so I could go out and sing, Mary had a little lamb. Please do it,
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  God, till the cows come home. But I won't be getting it.
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  Because my life is not lined up like his. Now, if you're not with a husband,
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  you don't have a husband or whatever, then ask yourself, is my will lined up with his will?
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  Am I doing the simple things that God asked? Do I come to church? Do I love him?
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  Do I walk in purity? You're supposed to, even though a lot of Christians tell
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  you it doesn't matter. It does matter.
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  So you can't say your will be done as long as it agrees with my will.
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  There are some verses in the Bible that are scary, really scary.
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  You're going to come to me and you're going to say, I cast out devils in your
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  name, but I healed them in your name.
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  And I'm going to look at Jesus said, I'm going to look at you and say,
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  I don't even know who you are. That's scary.
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  That means that there are people doing for God, but he doesn't know them.
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  That means that there's all these preachers and pastors that are falling left,
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  right, and center. Now, nobody can make you fall. They chose.
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  But they're like preachers. They've got power. They've got pride.
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  And some chick's looking at them in the front row, and they're married.
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  Then they end up with this girl, and they've got a megachurch.
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  And then the next thing you know, it's all over the news, and it's destroyed.
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  That's a devil, but they're the ones that chose it, right?
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  So if you do something like that, your life doesn't line up,
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  and you'll be one of those ones that Jesus will say, I don't even know you.
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  Get away from me. It's very scary.
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  So we don't want to be like that. But Christianity today, unfortunately,
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  because of the putrid that comes across the pulpit, it's puke,
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  it's putrid. They just do whatever you want.
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  But I love people enough to say, no, don't do whatever you want,
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  because I love you. And I don't want you to stand in front of God and say, I don't know who you are.
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  Well, Lisa, it's hard. And if we truly say, well, it's hard for me to not do it.
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  You know what that means? That means that if I tell you it's hard for me to
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  not live in sin, And that means that I'm focused more on the sin than I am on God,
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  because it becomes easier—you know, I guess when I talk like this,
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  sometimes y'all think that me and Chad fight 24-7.
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  We don't, but we are very strong personalities. Very strong.
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  Nobody thinks that they think he's just a demure little mouse,
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  but he's a bull ass, my daughter.
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  And so, and I am too, because I grew up, you know, my dad and I fought,
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  you know, I'm a fighter, a really a big fighter.
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  And you are too. A lot of these ladies that you are, you're going to want to
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  have to watch it. And you, you already know what happened with you.
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  That's why I guess, Gayla, she'll cut you, you know. So some of us ladies, we're fighters.
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  She will. Her and Marissa, they'll freak you. They'll just cut you right off.
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  You know, I got ladies that follow me, Melissa. They just cut you. They'll just cut you.
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  Yeah, tough girls watching. Well, a lady gets tough like that because a man
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  didn't act right or the dad didn't act right.
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  So, oh, I got to protect. I got to guard if I don't guard myself,
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  you know, and then, and then you get married and you're like,
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  I'm going to show you. Okay. Well, it's not going to be good.
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  Yeah. You know, she's laughing because she knows. So, so he and I,
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  we have to, if he does anything and I don't like it, I mean,
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  it's not that I can't talk to him, But you understand what I'm saying?
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  I don't have the right to say, like Joyce Myers, I think of her,
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  I'm not making you a sandwich. Make your own self a sandwich.
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  You know, that's what she used to say about her husband. I don't have a right to do that.
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  And there was a time, I forget what he did, but he really made me mad.
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  And all of a sudden in me, I had this weird thing to make him,
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  and I'm like, that's not me. I don't want to do that.
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  And God was showing me, this is what it is to love when they make you mad.
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  Now, again, can I just say this, and I hope my husband doesn't mind,
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  but long before I met Chad, I dated some guys, and they were scumbags.
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  They were drinkers. They were cheaters.
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  You don't need to do nice things for cheaters and drinkers. That's not what
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  I'm talking about. If you've got a husband that's kind and loving and honest about that.
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  Anyway, back to my prayer message. That will be done by saying,
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  as long as your will lines up with me. So prevailing prayer says,
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  God, I trust you enough to want your will.
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  You know, we got all these Christians out here with so-and-so brothers,
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  a good Christian. How do you know they're a good Christian? Are you in their house?
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  You think they're a good Christian? What if they're watching all the horror
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  shows or the sex show? You don't know what someone's doing in their house.
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  That's why when people say, well, they're a good Christian. They didn't get
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  healed. You don't know what they're doing. Maybe they're mean as a snake at home.
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  You ever seen anyone in church sweet as can be and mean as a snake?
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  I have. I've seen lots of people like that.
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  Your life and your prayers must agree. if I pray thy kingdom come,
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  then my life needs to demonstrate that I actually care about his kingdom.
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  In other words, my time, my money, which is what you all did,
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  my priorities, my energy, just coming to church on Sunday is you showing God
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  you're giving him your energy.
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  So congratulations, and you're giving him your time.
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  My decisions, you can't pray passionately for something you refuse to participate in.
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  You know, that's also why God tells you to tithe. It's an interesting scripture.
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  If you were just to think it in your head over and over again,
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  where your treasure, notice he doesn't say where your heart is,
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  your money will be. Although sometimes with dating, you feel like that.
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  But he said, where's your treasure? Where's your money? That's your heart.
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  All us guys that love our cars and our trucks and our boats and our motorcycles,
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  we got friends, They love their horses. I mean, thousands upon thousands of horses.
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  Then your heart's in your horses, not in the church. But if you look at your
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  checkbook and it's like, why gave for souls? I gave for Bibles.
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  I gave for, that's your heart.
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  So what God's saying is where your money is, your heart's going to follow.
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  It's not the other way around.
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  So when you talk about the kingdom, it's an investment.
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  We as a church are invested in Michigan because your blood, sweat,
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  and tears is going up there. And let me tell you something. You know.
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  When you see the line of people that come and when you're watching and you're
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  playing and I'm praying and you're seeing little kids up there crying like we've
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  done in here and you see people that you know are hardcore people.
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  No one's ever told them that God loves them or nothing.
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  And they're crying and they're coming to the altar.
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  You're going to be glad that your heart was invested in that.
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  You're going to be glad. You're going to be glad your money was in that.
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  You're going to be glad you sent your money ahead. You're going to be glad that
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  you're up there doing registration tables. You're going to be glad.
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  Well, Lisa, you know, that's Michigan. That's got nothing to do with me. Yes, it does.
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  The Bible says, seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added.
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  So when you do what is important to God, he blesses stuff you don't even need to pray about.
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  I think the reason why so many Christians are so miserable is they're just always
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  praying about themselves.
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  And, and, you know, you know how like when you got little kids and,
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  and so, I mean, we've all got kids in here of some form or fashion and you've
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  pretended to be mom to some of the kids.
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  If they're really acting wrong, they're acting out.
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  What did you used to say in the old, old days? What did parents used to tell
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  the kids if they were acting out in the house? What did they tell them to do?
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  Go to your room. But in the old days, what they said, go outside and play, right?
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  Why would they do that? Because if you're outside playing, you're exhausted,
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  and you got no energy to be boxing your sister, boxing your brother, right?
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  Well, that's how it is with Christians. If all we do is think about me,
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  me, and I, I got all kinds of energy to be mad.
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  Mad at this person. They didn't do this for me. Mad at that person.
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  But if I'm tired because I'm working for the kingdom, I don't have time to be
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  mad because people aren't nice to me. I'm working for God.
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  Or like that old mean, that Irish guy, that girl who's like,
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  Daddy, I've got a boyfriend. He goes, No, you're not. You're working for Jesus
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  now. You know, he's such a cute meme.
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  So Proverbs 28 says, He that turns away his ear from hearing the law,
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  even his prayer shall be an abomination.
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  There has to be a consecration behind your prayer. That was Proverbs 28.
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  Don't ask God to endorse a lifestyle that refuses to listen to him.
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  You know, I never thought about it that way. But when I was listening to one
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  of these videos, you know what it said? It said, God's not going to bless a rebellion.
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  Now, if I said that to you, you'd say, oh yeah, of course. But yet we live our
• 32:54
  lives in rebellion to him sometimes, or we do things in rebellion,
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  and then we're like, hey, I need you to do this.
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  Why would he do it? You're living in rebellion to him.
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  And I know grace teaches you do whatever you want, and your prayer gets answered.
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  But clearly that's not true. There's all kinds of people, their prayers are not answered.
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  And I want, don't you all want your stuff to be answered? I do.
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  Okay. Check your motives. A third condition is unselfishness. James 4.3.
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  You ask and receive not because you asked that you could consume it all on your lusts.
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  You're asking selfishly. God, I just want, you know, I mean,
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  I ask for a jet sometimes because I just would like to have one.
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  But if I don't use a jet to do anything for Jesus, you know,
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  and it's not that you only have to do stuff for God. God, I want money.
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  He'll bless you. But the point is, you don't ask him to give you stuff just always for you.
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  For example—let me use this as a better example, not the money thing.
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  I've been asking God a lot to help me to walk in great miracles,
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  signs, and wonders when I go to Michigan.
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  Okay. That is not.
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  So after the meeting, people can say, Oh, it's not that evangelist garden.
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  She was like, You know, I'm thinking, Give me miracles so I can look like no crap.
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  You know why I'm praying for miracles? because there's somebody that I know
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  is coming and they're hurting.
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  Maybe their back's broken. Maybe their arm's broken. Maybe their heart is shredded.
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  And I don't know what they need, but God does. So I'm crying out,
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  God, help me so I can help them.
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  That's what it means when it says, don't pray just for your own self. Pray for others, okay?
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  Don't waste it on yourself. You have to say, is this about God's glory?
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  Is it helping people? Will it fulfill my purpose? Will it advance His kingdom?
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  Or is it just ego, pride, competition? A lot of people like to compete with
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  people. selfish gratification. All right.
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  You have to keep a conscience void of offense. This is a condition for prayer.
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  A conscience void of offense towards God and man. Now listen to this. 1 John 3.20.
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  If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
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  If our heart doesn't condemn us, then we have confidence towards God and whatever
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  we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments. Now,
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  the connection is a clear heart produces confidence before God.
• 35:15
  When your conscience keeps telling you, hey, you got a problem and you need
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  to deal with this, don't keep shouting over it in prayer.
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  I'll just use our example again. Hey, Lisa, you're a little too touchy with
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  Chad. Oh, like that day that the Lord told me I was offended.
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  Matilda didn't tell me, but God said, you're offended. And I was so annoyed.
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  I'm like, yeah, because he was rude, You know, but the Lord didn't.
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  I said, oh, you're right. I did get offended.
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  Oh, man. So then I had to repent, right?
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  That's what it means, your conscience. So if God's dealing with something in
• 35:53
  you, if you know when you talk to someone, you're rude as crap, fix it.
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  If you know you blame the whole world for your problems, fix it.
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  It's nobody, anybody in the world can do anything.
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  Yes, some people are abused. Like there is a it's really bad lately.
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  You know, in the world, they're letting mothers murder their children because
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  they say that they're just, you know, overwhelmed.
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  Who cares if you're overwhelmed? You don't get to hurt somebody if you're overwhelmed.
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  Well, I punched them because I didn't like how they talk to me.
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  Who cares how they talk to you? You don't get to punch somebody just because
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  you don't like how people don't talk to me nice all the time.
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  I don't go running and punching them. I'd probably get sued.
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  You don't get to do stuff like that.
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  So ask yourself, is God dealing with something? I need to get that out.
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  Because before you ask God for something new, we need to obey him concerning
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  anything he's already told us. Does that make sense?
• 36:48
  So that's why David said, Lord, seek my heart. Is there anything in you that's unclean?
• 36:53
  And this is just coming closer to God all the time. I know I got stuff in there.
• 36:57
  I just let somebody take me off just the other day again online because they
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  corrected me. I was like, I got all that.
• 37:04
  You know, she didn't have any right to correct me. and I told her all about
• 37:07
  not having a right to correct me. And then I thought, why did I even do that? So I, you know,
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  makes me not useful. Don't hold on to known sin. This is a condition.
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  You have to have a pure heart.
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  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord won't hear me.
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  What's that mean? God knows you might make a mistake. He's not saying if you
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  make a mistake, you can never be used. Nobody would ever be used.
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  But he's saying if you know you did something, fix it.
• 37:31
  I told you all this story when I used to be in church that, you know,
• 37:34
  me, if I sinned and I just sinned, can I just tell you, I messed up.
• 37:37
  I was on the choir and I was dating him and I sinned and I shouldn't have, but I did.
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  But you know what I didn't do? I didn't lie. I lied about it one time and I
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  got caught. That was the last time I ever lied about it.
• 37:48
  Because my pastor was like me. She knew all kinds of stuff. So,
• 37:51
  and this was, you know, don't be looking at me weird. I was 20 years old.
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  So I didn't have everything together at 20 something. But anyway, so I was sinning.
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  And you know what I would do? I'd run to the pastor's office like a, like a, like a Catholic.
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  I'd start crying and say, I did something wrong. And I know,
• 38:06
  you know, I've had people come to me and say, hey, I did this.
• 38:07
  And I'm like, okay, good. Well, ask God for forgiveness. That's all.
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  So I didn't hide it. But there was one chick. She was on the choir and she was pregnant as could be.
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  No husband. And she's like, well, can't I just stay in the choir?
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  He's like, no, baby. You are here with somebody. She just wanted to hide it.
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  You're never going to go free. There's no benefit to hiding your sin.
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  The reason you don't hide sin, and I'm not saying come to me.
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  Please don't tell me all your mess. I don't want to hear it.
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  I'm saying go to God. I don't. Don't tell me.
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  Just go to the Lord. Lord, I shouldn't have done this. You understand?
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  Clean heart. God, give me a clean heart. So you can't get your prayers answered
• 38:41
  if your heart's all jacked up.
• 38:43
  If you're holding your sin, protecting, excusing, or refusing to surrender.
• 38:48
  Life is too short to not get your prayers answered, so you got to go to God
• 38:52
  and make sure that the thing. All right, confess what needs to be confessed.
• 38:56
  Proverbs 28, 13. He that covers his sin will not prosper, but he who confesses
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  them and forsakes them will have mercy.
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  Don't cover, confess, forsake.
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  And where it's appropriate, make it right.
• 39:11
  Luke 19, 8. He didn't simply tell Jesus he was sorry he was willing to repair
• 39:15
  what he did wrong. Do you remember Zacchaeus? He was a tax collector.
• 39:19
  And so when he saw Jesus, there was something in Jesus that made this man who
• 39:23
  was a thief say, Jesus, will you come to my house and oh, I'll repay everything.
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  Remember, he said that voluntarily. Nobody made him do that.
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  Just like that little boy. Remember, you guys, I showed you the video of the
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  little boy that went to heaven and he started crying. He said, I'm a bad son.
• 39:36
  She's like, no, you're not. Yes, I am.
• 39:39
  God should provoke something in you where you want to say, like Matilda said,
• 39:45
  you know it's coming when she's a little girl. Say you're sorry.
• 39:48
  So say you're sorry. Come to God with clean hands.
• 39:51
  Psalm 26.6, I'll wash my hands and as I will compass the altar.
• 39:56
  1 Timothy 2.8, I will therefore pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands.
• 40:01
  You have to have holy hands, not wrathful hands. I'm going to box you up.
• 40:07
  No doubting. Settle broken relationships.
• 40:12
  Again, if you've been wounded by somebody doing a wicked thing,
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  I'm not talking about that.
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  I'm talking about like a mother, a brother, a sister or whatever, Matthew 5.23.
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  If you bring your gift to the altar and you've got a problem with your brother,
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  you've got to go to them, leave the gift, fix the problem with your brother.
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  God says, before you keep talking to me about them, go talk to them.
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  It doesn't mean that every relationship can be restored. Sometimes reconciliation
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  is not possible, but your heart has to be right. For example,
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  Let's just say there's a lady named Joan. There isn't, but let's say there is.
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  And a lady named Joan just talked all kinds of lies about me.
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  And then Joan shows up in church and wants to keep coming to church.
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  Well, it means I got to look at Joan and say, I know you said those lies and
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  that was wrong. And she says, yeah, it probably was. Okay, I forgive you. Come on in.
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  My heart has to be right. I can't hold anything against Joan.
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  Why? The Bible says forgive one another because Jesus forgave us, right? Okay.
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  Remove idols and stumbling blocks. These are conditions for prayers.
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  Ezekiel 14.3 God told Ezekiel, These men have set up idols in their heart.
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  Should I inquire at all of them? In other words, God's saying,
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  You got a bunch of idols. I'm not going to listen to you.
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  Now, when we think idols, what do you guys think of? Like when you think of an idol. Go ahead, baby.
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  K-pop, Ari. K-pop, is it? Yeah. That'd be like, is it that Dolls or something? Yeah. K-pop, yeah.
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  What about you? If you think of an idol, like for us, what's an idol?
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  What would you think? Famous musician or actor? Musician, yes, baby.
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  Right. So I am idol. Oh, very good. You're so smart, Enz. If you idol somebody, that's right.
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  Now, for me, when you think idol in the Bible, you're thinking of like a stone
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  creature or a, you know, a sphinx or whatever those things were.
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  You know, that's their idol. These fake gods, Greek gods and stuff.
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  But you all know in America, many idols, right? Food can be our idol.
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  Facebook can be an idol. TikTok, Snapchat, idol, idol, idol.
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  Guns, trucks, dresses, clothes, nail, just any of it, money.
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  And so check your heart. Is there something in there that means more to me than
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  you, God? I got to get it out.
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  It could be money, success, relationship, approval, your image,
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  possessions. What would it mean like if it's approval?
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  Well, you know, if somebody says, well, you're going to that church and that
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  lady's preaching about the Holy Ghost and you're like, man, I really want this
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  person to like me and And they think I'm weird because this lady talks about the Holy Ghost.
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  You care more about approval than the truth, you're going to have a problem.
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  So you have to say, God, is there anything in here that I want more than you? Forgiveness is a lot.
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  So I'm probably going to go through this a few years. I've never done this before,
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  but I think maybe I'll re-teach it. And when we teach it, because I know we
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  don't get it the first time, because I don't get it the first time.
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  So forgiving is essential. Jesus taught us to pray, forgive us our debts as
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  we forgive those against us.
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  But if you forgive if you don't forgive men their trespasses neither will god
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  forgive you this doesn't mean you have to be with them you know you guys know like um.
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  And i don't know maybe sometimes i didn't fully forgive but i did my best to
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  forgive my dad the last time i saw him,
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  you understand it was hard you know he was laying in my arm the last time i
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  recall seeing my daddy he was laying in my arms having a seizure because he
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  had fallen down the stairs and he had a what he had my aneurysm.
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  He was laying in my arms in his apartment, and I held him while he sees in my arms.
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  And when he came to, he looked at me and he said, go get my sons.
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  I said, okay. And that was the last I ever talked to my father.
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  Because in my heart that day, I decided I'm going to hate you for the rest of
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  my life. That's the last time you're going to break my heart. I hate you.
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  But I had to try to release that bitterness and stuff because it just affects
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  you for the rest of your life.
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  Now, I didn't get to tell him I'm sorry, which is awful.
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  But I remember I was in a hotel room and I was asleep. And in my ear,
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  I'm a thousand percent sure I heard him say, don't you know,
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  I always loved you. It was his voice. I don't know if that meant he made heaven.
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  Maybe it did. I don't know.
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  But I was sobbing so uncontrollably that I woke up out of a sound sleep.
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  I think that was the Lord's way of telling me, it's not what you think.
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  So forgiveness is really important. None of us have a right to hold a grudge
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  against someone else. The problem is when you do that, it's because you just
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  think you're all that and bag of chips. But if God was looking at you and all
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  your flaws, you've got a lot of flaws.
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  That's why I think when we're like, well, you don't know what they did and they
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  really hurt me. So you don't think about being hurt as a form of that's an idol.
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  Maybe that's why I'm bringing it up.
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  Holding on to hurt and pain is an idol. I'm going to worship this hurt.
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  I'm going to worship this pain. I'm not letting it go.
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  Because you're basically saying, I know you told me to forgive them,
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  but I'm not letting it go. I wasn't done right.
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  I don't like it. And it's not good. that's an idol.
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  God said he forgave you, you've got to forgive him. So this is a visual that
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  will help anybody watching and those of you online that I use for myself.
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  You know, because there's going to be times you'll have to forgive the same
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  person 50 times, 100 times, just like Peter. How many times do I got to forgive? 7 times 70. Okay.
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  This is what I do that helps me. I imagine Jesus on the cross,
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  like in all his horrible pain with the blood dripping down and he's on the cross.
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  And I imagine I'm just standing at his feet and I'm looking up at him with everything
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  that, you know, the Bible says we put that on him, not your neighbor.
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  I did that. My sins put him up there. So I imagine me in front of him looking
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  up, and then me griping about who's hurt me.
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  I didn't really like them, and they did this to me. And I just imagine the Lord
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  looking down at me like, are you kidding right now?
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  Look what you did to me. And I forgave. Didn't he say, Father,
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  forgive them? They don't know what they— So that image helps me to forgive,
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  to forgive people that have hurt me and done bad stuff. I just think of Jesus,
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  and I'm like, I don't have a right to hold anything against.
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  And when you do that, your prayers can be answered.
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  See, this is why the enemy works so hard to have people hurt you and have you
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  full of bitterness, because he knows if you ever get this key,
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  if you go free, there's no limit to what you can do.
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  This is why we have entire people in Africa. It was so weird.
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  There's so many people there, but they're so broke because they cannot come
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  together. I didn't quite understand that.
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  It's not just the wicked government. It's that each one of them are so full
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  of pride because it's this tribe. Like, you couldn't even drive a mile.
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  This is this tribe. I'm like, how many tribes do you like? Tribes?
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  I don't know. There's hundreds of tribes.
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  The people can't get together because the people are not in unity,
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  and they're fighting. I hate you, and I hate you.
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  They could overwhelm that government like that. Africa could be the richest
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  country in the world, but instead, people come from outside Africa and take
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  them over because the people won't come together.
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  They fight one another and that's what's happening in our nation i don't like
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  you why because you're rich and i don't have your money you don't have a right
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  to their money you didn't you work,
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  you didn't earn it go make your own money well i don't like you because your
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  hair's curly i don't like you because your hair's straight who cares it's a lot of hatred,
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  i like you because you're republican well i like you because you're democrat who cares Cheers.
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  We don't have a right to not like people. We have to love all people.
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  If we're Christian, if we're Christian, up in heaven, this will all be stripped off.
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  There won't be any of that. So you gotta forgive people. All right,
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  be totally honest with God. Psalm 51, behold, you desire truth in the inward
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  parts. God doesn't need religious language. He wants truth. If you're scared, tell him.
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  If you're hurting, tell him. If you're angry, tell him. If you're confused,
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  if you're struggling, just tell him.
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  When you pray, pray in the name of Jesus. You guys know this part already,
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  but you don't say, Jesus, do this for me.
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  The Bible says, whatever you ask in my name, I will do that the Father is glorified in the Son.
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  So you go to God and you say, Father, please help me with this in the name of
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  Jesus. That's how you properly pray.
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  It's Jesus' righteousness, his authority. Let the Holy Spirit help you pray.
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  You guys know that's why we talk about the Holy Ghost, Romans 8,
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  26. The Spirit helps on firmities, but we don't know what to pray.
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  You don't always know, but the Holy Ghost does. Pray with fervency.
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  James 5 16 the effectual fervent prayer that means not a you know I'm praying
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  for Michigan you are how'd you pray God just help Lisa in Michigan.
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  That's not a fervent prayer I need you to go God help Lisa to not be dumb help
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  her to preach the truth help her to be full of miracles help her to have a magnet
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  that just magnetizes people to her so they can be saved
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  oh God send the lost young ladies send the lost young men send the broken send
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  the addicted send them God Send them to the field.
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  Give them visions, God. That, that's a fervent prayer, right?
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  You don't say, Lord, well, I guess you want it, so it'll happen. You don't say that.
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  The Bible said that Elijah prayed, Hannah prayed, Daniel prayed,
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  Jesus prayed, the church prayed, and the circumstances moved.
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  You don't be too quick either. Perseverance is often necessary.
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  I know other people have talked about it, but we really are like a microwave Christianity.
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  Why tithes? Nothing happened. How long did your tithe? Four months. Okay.
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  Okie dokie. We want it now. I want it now. I want it now. Okay,
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  there's perseverance. Sometimes you got to wait.
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  1 Kings 16, 42, Elijah prayed, and then he sent his servant to go look.
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  When Elijah prayed that it would rain, he said, hey, hey, go look.
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  So like you go look and you come back. You're like, Lisa, there's no nothing
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  there. I'm like, Melissa, go look again.
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  She's like, I just looked. I said, go look again. She looks,
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  comes back. Lisa, there's nothing there. Oh God, it needs to rain. Okay, Go look again.
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  So if it doesn't happen the first time, just pray again and just go look and expect.
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  And then when he did, behold, there was a cloud the size of a man's hand.
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  Well, I'm believing for, you know, a million dollars and I only got 50.
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  Just be thankful for all the money, the millions coming. Glory to God, I got 50.
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  You know, amen.
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  And this isn't easy for anyone to do. It's not easy for me to do.
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  I'm believing for more people and there's two. And you're like,
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  nah, there's two people. I was looking forward to two people.
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  You can't be like, oh, Lord, thank you for two people.
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  You just look and expect. Woo-hoo, it's coming.
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  Fate sees that. Fate sees. It's just a hand, but it's going to rain.
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  You understand? All right.
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  The Pharaoh's Phoenician, the Syrophoenician woman in Matthew 15, she refused to give up.
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  The persistent widow, she refused to give up.
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  The Bible says men ought always to pray and not faith. Don't confuse delay with denial.
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  Don't. Sometimes there's travail in prayer. Isaiah 66, 8, as soon as Zion travailed,
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  she brought forth a child.
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  And this is something I don't think about often.
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  There have been times, I guess, when I've prayed like, well,
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  I remember praying like this for a long time sometimes. But when's the last time?
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  Honestly, ask yourself. When's the last time that your prayer was like this,
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  God, I just thank you. I know you're working it out. Father, thank you for like that.
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  Versus God, I need it. God, I thank you. You're going to do it.
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  God, please send the souls.
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  I don't want a little girl to grow up like me. Send them, God.
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  Help me to help them. You understand the difference?
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  One is like, and one is a fervent prayer.
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  Our life is like this i know we want stuff i want stuff i'd love to i'm so cute
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  i posted an ai picture of me and a rolls royce and my friend in africa goes
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  congratulations but she's like oh she's like mom.
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  Aaron thinks you got a rolls royce i was like oh my god i said aaron it's just
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  a i you know he's so sweet he's so sweet and then i'm like no but you all know
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  you don't realize this but because i went to africa i have africans praying
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  for me all the time they're so sweet. I got a guy, he left me a message.
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  He calls me Mama Lisa. Mama, I'm praying for you, and yes, real sweet. So people are praying.
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  My little children of whom I travail, my little,
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  This is a level of intercession where something grips your heart.
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  You're not just mentioning their name. They become a burden.
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  This is hard for us. I'm just telling you, it's not hard for other countries
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  because they don't have a lot, but it's hard for Americans.
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  I wasn't really joking, but somebody said to me today, well,
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  I'm not the one that did that.
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  I said, who cares if you're the one that did it? Just fix it.
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  It's always got to be about you. Just help me. Just fix it.
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  But we're like that aren't we but but but it's not about me but i didn't get
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  it but i didn't who cares when are we
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  we've got to be like this we and it's human nature so don't feel bad if you're
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  like that it is human nature it's just me me me i
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  i want what i want and and you're not thinking about some other girl that's
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  dying and going to hell look let me tell you something you might not be a multi-millionaire
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  i'm not you might not have riches yet i'm not but nobody and i can say this
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  with a thousand percent confidence.
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  Nobody in this room, if they were for some ungodly reason to die tonight,
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  you're not going to burn in hell forever.
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  But you know something? Your family members are.
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  I've got family members that they died right now. They will no doubt burn in hell.
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  We must pray as if it was us.
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  They're going to hell if we don't cry out to God, help us, Lord,
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  and not just pray, do something, which is what we're doing.
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  How do you know if us going up there is not somebody travailing in prayer.
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  God, my mom won't go to church. Please do something to save her.
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  And God's like, I got somebody for you.
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  How do you know? You don't know. Maybe that's why we're going up there.
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  Maybe somebody is crying out for their sister, their brother, their mother.
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  Maybe some Arab is in some foreign country and he can't get here.
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  And his brother or sister is in Dearborn Heights. We've got like a hundred of them now coming.
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  I can't imagine they're all just Christians. Maybe, but I don't think so.
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  And maybe they're like, God, they're never gonna step foot in church.
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  God, do something, send something. And maybe that's what we're there for. Who knows?
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  Fervent prayer, they have to become your burden and use whatever God's put in your hand.
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  Don't say, God, send revival, and then don't do anything.
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  They would pray in churches, send revival, send revival, but they wouldn't speak to a sinner.
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  They weren't giving. They weren't serving. They didn't invite anybody.
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  And we also, as Christians, we, I'm saying me too, we have a problem with that sometimes.
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  Well, I just wish the church would grow. Have you all firmly gone and drugged
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  people in this church? Well, until you do, this church isn't going to grow.
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  Well, I tried. They said, no, who cares? Try 10 more.
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  Why try with them? They said no too. Who cares? Go find 10 more.
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  There's somebody somewhere.
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  You understand? God doesn't let us have excuses. Well, I tried.
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  They didn't come. When that happened in the Bible, remember the marriage supper?
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  He said, well, I tried. This one said that I'm late. This one said I got a date.
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  This one said I got to procreate. And that's not what it said,
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  but it would be funny if it said that.
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  And Jesus said what? I don't care. Go to the highways, the byways.
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  What did he say? Go get me the cripple. Go get me the lame.
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  I want my place full. Go get him. He doesn't care. Cripple, lame,
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  blind, smelly. He doesn't care. Bring him in.
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  That's what he said. And we've had all that up in here, up in here. That's what he said.
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  Go get him. Preach, witness, give, serve, go. You don't just say,
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  do something. Prayer doesn't replace obedience.
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  Prayer empowers.
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  And this is really important. I'm coming to the last two points.
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  I think it's two. This is very important.
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  Prevailing prayer has a definite objective.
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  What will i that i should do for you that's what jesus asked people what do
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  you want me to do what do you want me to do mark 10 51 lord that i might receive my sight,
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  can i help you ambiguous prayers if you don't know what that word means is lord
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  just bless them what the crap does that mean the crap does that mean someone
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  says oh i bless you in the name of the lord throw their holy oil Oh,
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  halla, that'll bless you. What's that mean?
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  Lord, I want them to have a new car. Even that's not specific.
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  What kind of car do you want? Oh, Lord, give them a blue Toyota that's shiny
• 56:53
  and sparkly with pretty wheels. You know, pray specific prayers over people or over yourself.
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  So one thing that I was going to say, and I know it sounds ridiculous, but who knows?
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  We're up to past 1,500. I forgot to tell y'all that. We were like 1,507 or something,
• 57:09
  whatever. So you know what I started saying?
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  When you pray for me and you pray for us, let's be specific,
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  as that lay in church said. Let's pray that we win 1,000 souls.
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  That's about 325.
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  At the altar every night. That's not impossible with potentially 1,500 people register.
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  Might as well make a dent if we're going to go up there. I'm not going up there
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  for nothing. I don't want to go up there for 20.
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  I mean, I would, but so when you pray, be specific like the ocean.
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  Lord, send a thousand people that need you and let a thousand souls convert,
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  at that altar. Be specific, not just save a thousand people.
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  When's that mean? Next week after we leave two weeks.
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  Lord God, cause 1,000 souls in three days to come to that altar and give their
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  life to you in front of all of us.
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  Lord, I want to see signs and wonders. Okay, that's even ambiguous. What do you want to see?
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  Oh, Lord, I want to see crippled people walk. I want to see blind seats.
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  I want to see people with no ears grow an ear back. Send a man with no ear.
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  I'd like to see an ear grow back.
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  Why don't you just pass out if you saw ear grow back?
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  You know there's people, they've had cuts on their arms because they cut themselves
• 58:19
  and stuff, and in a meeting, the cuts disappear.
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  Hey, Lord, send the girl that's been cutting on herself, and in the audience,
• 58:25
  she screams out loud because the cuts disappeared. That's a specific prayer.
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  What do you think that would do to a crowd if some 14-year-old girl screams
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  out in the crowd, and you're like, God's doing something. Honey,
• 58:37
  what's God doing? Come up here. And she's just weeping and crying.
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  I hate myself, and I've been cutting myself. I cut myself. I cut myself every day.
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  You know, that's happened. And it's happened to people. And there's no cuts
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  anymore. I mean, that crowd will go crazy.
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  There's already plenty of people that argue. I'm not arguing.
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  I'm not smart enough to argue. I'm not smart enough to argue about Muhammad or Muslims or none of it.
• 58:57
  I'm not smart enough to argue, although I did argue with one guy,
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  but I'm not smart enough to argue with the people that my church is this and
• 59:03
  my vineyard. You're just a little church. I've already had that come at me.
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  But I'm not smart enough to argue with them. I got nothing.
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  I'm coming with Christ and him crucified. That's all I got. And signs and wonders.
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  And so be specific when you pray. Because God wants to help everybody,
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  but you have to be specific.
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  Father, give us 1,000 souls. Put a name on it.
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  Prevailing prayer requires childlike sincerity. Do you remember when Jesus said,
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  Suffer the little children to come to me, for such is the kingdom of heaven,
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  unless you be like a child.
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  And I've talked to you about this before. Children just believe you.
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  Hey, we're going to go to Disney. Yay! They don't say, how much does that cost?
• 59:44
  How long is it going to take?
• 59:46
  They could not care less if it cost you a million dollars.
• 59:50
  Have you ever had your grandbabies to say, how much is Disney today?
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  No, it's just like, I want this, I want that, I want, give me the dog whip.
• 59:55
  They don't care. That's what God's saying, be a kid.
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  Matthew 6, 7, but when you pray, don't use vain repetitions.
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  You're talking to your father.
• 1:00:04
  Finney said that we have to approach God believing in good faith,
• 1:00:08
  his promises. Numbers 23, 19, God is not a man that he can lie. He is faithful.
• 1:00:15
  Watch and pray. Watch your heart.
• 1:00:19
  Watch for the answer. So here's the quick list in a roundup.
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  22 conditions in order for your prayers to be met. You must have faith.
• 1:00:26
  Believe God answers prayer.
• 1:00:28
  You must pray according to His will. Don't use selfish motives.
• 1:00:33
  You have to have a conscience void of offense towards God and man.
• 1:00:36
  I'm not going to be mad at them, and I'm not mad at myself. If I messed up something,
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  God will forgive me. Pure heart. Father, fix my heart.
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  Confessions. Clean hands. I'm not doing something nasty with my hands. I'm not sinning.
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  My hands are pure before you. I lift up holy hands.
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  Settle disputes among people. Have humility.
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  Remove any idols from your heart. have a forgiving spirit. Truth and sincerity.
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  Number 13, pray in Jesus' name. 14, pray through the help of the Holy Spirit.
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  15, be on fire when you pray.
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  16, be persistent. Don't give up. 17, prevail.
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  Oh, I've got to have this, God. 18, use appropriate means. 19, pray specifically.
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  20, mean what you say.
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  21, believe God's promises are trustworthy. 22, watch and pray for the answer. Expect it.
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  Is there anything in your heart that needs to change? Ask yourself so that your
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  prayers can be answered.
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  Search your pride. Say, Father, is there unforgiveness, pride,
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  disobedience, anything? Please help me. And then say, God, I thank you.
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  It's covered in the blood. And pray boldly.
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  You have to prevail in prayer. Somebody's life might depend on it.
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  Your life might depend on it.
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  The effectual, fervous prayer of a righteous man. Pray until something happens.
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  Believe God and watch for the answers. Now, I want to close with this one thing
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  that kind of came to my heart this morning.
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  And then we'll just pray briefly. And I won't keep you long because,
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  you know, we got some stuff to do.
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  And I want to just go through these couple songs real quick with them.
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  And I don't want to hold them all day either. But I was thinking about Jesus,
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  the very last thing that he did on earth, the very last thing he did on earth,
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  the last thing before he went to the cross.
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  He could have done anything. He could have asked for anything.
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  He could have said, I'm hungry. Give me some figs.
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  He could have said, I'd like to go for a swim.
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  I need to walk around a little bit more. But what was the one thing that Jesus
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  asked his apostles to do before he went to the cross?
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  It was in the Garden of Gethsemane. Tell them. Praise God. He said,
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  pray with me. Pray with me.
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  That's what I'm asking you from Michigan and you, but also for your own life.
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  Pray with him. He said, pray with me.
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  And they were just like us. They were tired. They fell asleep.
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  They didn't really care. For one thing, they didn't really know what he was going to do.
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  They didn't know. But I don't know. Even if they did know, I don't know if they
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  would have stayed up and prayed.
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  Unfortunately, the human spirit is very selfish.
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  Although I just need what I want. I just want to get it. We just are.
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  You're going to have to fight against that.
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  You're going to have to fight against, I'm tired. I'm hungry.
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  I'll feel like helping. Nobody asks you.
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  You've got one life to live. You've got one. You're really young, but I'm not.
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  They're really young. Some of us aren't. I won't point to you guys.
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  I want you to get mad. I'll point to me. She's like, don't wait for me.
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  But I'm saying half my life is gone. Half of it is gone. If you're 50,
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  half is gone. God said 120, so half's gone. I'm over 50, but half's gone.
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  It's very short so i need it to matter because i'm gonna spend forever with
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  him and i just i just don't want and i've been distracted just like you guys
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  i get distracted people say stuff and i'm bing bing bing like a little ping pong thing in a game and,
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  i can't be i've got to try really hard to focus and press in because and not
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  i don't mean what you just don't enjoy your life he wants you to look at the
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  trees and the moon and the star and go on vacation with your grand babies and
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  have fun and go on cruise.
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  He wants all that, but you got one life. That's it. That's all you got.
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  I got one life. I love Africa. Can't wait to go back. I don't know if I ever
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  get to go back. I hope so, but I'm not going to spend my whole life going to
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  Africa 50 times because there's people that are going to go to hell.
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  Maybe God has an Africa when I get to heaven. I believe he will.
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  And guess what? Those lions won't eat me. I could pet the lions and everything
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  when I get up there. I can go on safari in heaven.
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  I can ride a zebra. I wouldn't want to ride one here because their backs put
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  up in heaven. I won't mess up their bag and do whatever I want up there.
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  So I want my life to matter and I want to work. Remember Jesus said work while
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  the time is now is the time to work, work.
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  Not just do whatever you want for the rest of your life. We got one life to
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  live and I must live it for Christ. And it's the same thing with prayer.
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  I must have a prayer life that does something. And I didn't know this about
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  Charles Finney because just like most of us, you just think people pop out of the box.
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  Now I did think he was a prayer guy. Okay, he prayed, but I had no idea.
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  He didn't even know how to pray like that. It wasn't him at all.
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  It was Nash behind Finney.
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  And then they went, I saw online, they went to Nash's tombstone.
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  They found it. It was hidden. It's not like, you know, people go to lay on graves
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  of other people. They hope to get some weirdo anointing. Yeah, they're weird.
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  But no one even knew where his grave was. His grave was in the middle of nowhere,
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  under some mossy grass with limbs. It's hidden, just like his life was hidden in Christ.
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  But don't tell me when he got up there. Don't tell me that his reward was not
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  off the charts, because he sacrificed his blood, sweat, and tears of prayer,
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  his hours upon hours for strangers.
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  They couldn't do anything for him. They never even saw him, but he cried out, God, help this city.
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  God, send this man, this woman, help them to know you.
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  Oh God, may they repent of their sins. All these prayers, so that when Charles
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  Finney stood up like some abracadabra, had nothing to do with him.
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  He had a machine behind him, literally parting the demonic realm,
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  making room for this preacher.
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  The Bible said he confirms the word. But when there's an opposition to the word,
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  I will tell you as a preacher, maybe you don't know it because you haven't been in this.
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  But I have been under a tent where it just feels like crap.
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  And it is very hard to preach. I've been in here where it feels like that. I'm like, good grief.
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  She knows. She's felt it too. Oh, brother, everybody's just,
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  you know, and you're like.
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  Let me rev up the engine. Y'all just drug me to the ground, drug to the ground.
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  I was feeling good till I came in this church service.
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  So there's something that can happen in the atmosphere. But then I was in other
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  tents and I'm like, oh my gosh, somebody's been, you could feel it.
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  Somebody's been praying in here.
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  Something feels good in here. Why? Because you've cleared the atmosphere.
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  I don't know what's in Michigan. I think there's some political devils in there.
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  There's definitely some divisive devils. There's some false religious devils.
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  There's all kinds of stuff. There's factions. I don't know.
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  But you pray in the Holy Ghost. Maybe God will help us break through.
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  And you could pray for me to break through before I get there.
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  We got those of us driving. You got a 10-hour drive.
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  Right? Hikoroboshida. Fervent souls. Not just for me.
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  Picture somebody when you pray. Picture that little girl coming to the altar.
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  Picture you at 13 on the valley of decision. Somebody's giving them alcohol
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  and they don't know what to do because they feel rejected.
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  Picture that person coming to the altar and not being rejected anymore so that
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  they don't have to be found under a tent almost dead.
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  Picture somebody who you don't want to be abused like you were abused,
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  rejected all the stuff, and pray fervently.
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  And remember what our Savior said, the last thing he asked his apostles to do.
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  Could you just pray with me?
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  And then when they didn't, And he said, You couldn't pray for me just one hour?
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  Human nature doesn't want to pray. You're going to have to discipline yourself
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  to pray. And ask the Lord, Help me. Holy Ghost helped.
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  And so this isn't just for Michigan. This is for everything in your life.
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  Pray with fire. Ask God to help you so that you may have prayers that get answered for grandbabies.
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  For Nico. You want Nico to grow up and marry some raggedy, raggedy Ann that,
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  abuses them and stuff? Of course not. So you start praying.
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  You want your niece and nephew to marry a good person so they can be loved and
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  cherished and stuff? You, same thing. God, help me to pray.
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  Pray for your sister, your family, your mother. I'm praying for my auntie.
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  All of us have people that in their lives are doing all kinds of stuff.
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  I got people that don't serve God, hate God, all kinds of homosexuality in my family.
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  You know, I'm believing God. They just lay that stuff at the altar.
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  Cute. Let's pray. Father, I
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  thank you so much for everybody in here in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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  You're going to teach us to pray.
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  And Lord, I taught this, and I know it's a lot.
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  And so help them to remember what I said, God, and help us who follow you to
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  be full of faith and power to pray effectual fervent prayers lord god that we
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  not have a attitude of pride
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  but that we just say god it's it's you we need help god help us lord,
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  lord let every person in here come up a new level in prayer that they will actually
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  pray not just two minutes not three minutes but a fervent like like it's their
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  life on the line like their family member could be going to hell
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  and help us God there's a lot of people and they need help.
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  Now, briefly, if you're watching me online, the first prayer I'm going to pray
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  is that you would come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ because without him, nothing else matters.
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  Will you say yes to Jesus today? Will you open up your heart?
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  Will you repent? I'm sorry, God, I made a mistake.
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  Maybe you're sleeping with someone you shouldn't be with. Maybe you're doing
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  a bunch of drugs and they're tearing up your body or you're drinking or you
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  feel terrible about yourself.
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  Maybe you hate people and you don't know why. Maybe you're confused.
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  Maybe you're depressed. Maybe somebody hurts you and you're full of bitterness.
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  Maybe you're divorced and you don't know what to do.
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  So you're angry at God and you left God. Well, you can come back today. God loves you.
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  If you're watching me and you don't know Jesus, I'm going to ask you a very
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  simple question, my friend.
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  If tonight or today you were to lose your life on earth,
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  do you know for sure you go to heaven if you say i don't know i couldn't or
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  if you say i'm a good person that's not how you get in if you say i go to church
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  that's not how you get in if you say i really don't know if i get into heaven well you can,
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  all you have to do is understand the bible says believe in your heart that he
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  is who he said he is that he died for you that he was buried and raised again
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  and then ask him in your heart so if i'm talking to you god's knocking on the
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  heart of your door the door of heart.
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  Say this with me. Say, Father, I'm sorry.
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  Say, forgive me.
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  Jesus, I know you died to take away my sins on that cross.
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  I believe you were buried and raised on the third day. Jesus,
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  will you come into my heart?
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  Will you be the Lord of my life? Change me.
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  Thank,
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  you, Father. Let me say a simple prayer for those of you watching.
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  If you don't need to come to Jesus, let your bodies be healed,
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  your minds be whole, your heart be clean, your soul be purified,
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  and strength come to you.
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  May you know that you're not just living for today, and you're not just living for yourself.
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  You serve a big God, and He needs you, and He wants you with your son and going for Him.