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Effective Prayer Dynamics by Apostle Joshua Selman (Koinonia Global) · Selah Media House

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray that our speakings would
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not just be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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I pray that you grant us understanding and cause us to
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pray and prevail. In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen and Amen. I felt stirred in my heart while
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preparing for this session that we'll be doing a lot of praying
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within the time that we have. I just sense in my spirit that
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God truly wants to release something tonight.
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Hallelujah. And I believe that God is
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building momentum through all the teachings in the morning as
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we just prepare for a very serious release tonight.
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Hallelujah. Please be seated.
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We pray once and again within the course of the time that I
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have, and I hope that you do not mind.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, Hallelujah, I want to challenge
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us in the area of prayer this morning.
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Mark chapter 1123 and 24. Jesus was teaching.
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He used the event cursing the fig tree, and then he began to
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establish the matters of faith. 23 Says, Verily I say unto you,
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that whatsoever that whosoever shall say to this mountain, be
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thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not
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doubt in his heart, but believe that those things which he saith
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shall come to pass, The Bible says, He shall have whatsoever
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he saith the next verse. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What
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things so ever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive
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them, and thou shalt have them. So we see a straight line
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connecting desires, prayers, believing, receiving, and
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having. It is the complete faith
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equation that Jesus gives there desires, prayer, believing while
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you pray, receiving while you pray, then having as a
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manifestation. And so you cannot take prayer
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out of the faith equation. It is a vital component in the
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faith equation. Jesus himself is teaching and he
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says that the only way desires can become you're having your
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manifestation is that somewhere in the faith equation, prayer
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has a role to play. Are we together very, very
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powerful? James chapter 5 will read 13,
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then will jump to 16. He says.
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Is any man among you afflicted? The word afflicted there does
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not just mean plagued with infirmity alone, experiencing
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any kind of constraint that impedes you walking in victory.
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He says. Let him such an individual the
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moment you come into an awareness that there is any kind
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of constraint that can spy upon your liberty in Christ.
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The apostle recommends that your first port of call is to pray
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Hallelujah, but not any kind of prayer.
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There is a recommended prayer that deals with this situation.
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Verse 16 He now says the effectual Please give it to us.
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It says, confess your faults one another, and pray for one
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another, that you may be healed. Then he says the effectual
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fervent prayer of a righteous man.
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Are they let much the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous
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man. The Bible says availed much and
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I just want to charge our hearts along this line.
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So prayer is a major component in manifesting Bible faith.
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It is very important that we establish this prayer is a major
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component in manifesting Bible faith that anyone, any believer
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in Christ who will and must manifest Bible faith.
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It is important for you to know that prayer is part of the faith
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equation that brings manifestation to the things that
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we desire. Are we together very quickly
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just for understanding? According to Scripture, prayer
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has four major assignments in the life of a believer.
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And if you allow me just run through them.
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I'm not teaching on them, but just for understanding so that
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we understand the things that I say.
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Afterwards, there are 4 biblical assignments of prayer.
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It's important that you know to what end the believer is
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mandated to pray. Most people pray, but they
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really do not know the assignment of prayer.
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It's an uncomfortable truth, but prayer is not the key to
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everything. But prayer must be involved in
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everything. The assumption that prayer is
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the key to everything simply because of the role it carries
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is not accurate. We are emotionally connected to
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prayer in Africa for a very good reason.
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But it's important to know that as potent as prayer is, it is
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one of the keys of the Kingdom. But the unique nature of the
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prayer ministry is that when it is not the key, it becomes the
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hand that holds the key. So it is involved in every
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aspect of our lives. Are we together?
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The Bible says be anxious for nothing.
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Then it says in everything. So there is no matter in a man's
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life that prayer becomes unnecessary.
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However, there are keys it connects to other components in
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the Kingdom to produce victory. If we're together, say Amen,
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right? So 4 assignments of prayer very
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quickly. Number one, the first assignment
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of prayer, which is a most superior assignment of prayer is
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for your growth and transformation.
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Most believers do not understand this aspect of prayer.
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It is the reason why our prayer lives are stunted in many ways,
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because the most superior assignment of prayer is not just
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for needs and petitions, is a system that was designed for our
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growth and our transformation. Luke 929 The Bible says as he
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prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered and his
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raiment became white and glistering.
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When we pray, we evolve. When we pray, we become.
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When we pray there is a transition that happens to us in
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the spirit that a weak you can become a strong you.
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Are we together a fearful you can become a bold you?
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There is an exchange that happens in the place of prayer,
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and most people have not understood this dimension of
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prayer #2 The second assignment of prayer according to Scripture
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is to make requests and obtain promises.
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We considered a bit of that in passing yesterday.
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Prayer is a platform to make requests and to obtain promises.
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Hallelujah. The Bible says in Philippians
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chapter 4 and verse 6. We read that.
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I just quoted that. Not too long.
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It says be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer,
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that platform of prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving.
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It says let your request be made known.
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Don't assume they are made known, Let your request be made
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known. Hallelujah #3 The third
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assignment of prayer according to Scripture is for decrees and
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establishing spiritual realities.
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We use prayer as the platform to make decrees, to create
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possibilities, to establish spiritual realities.
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Are we still together? Job chapter 22 and verse 28.
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It says, And thou shalt decree, not assume, not wish.
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Thou shalt decree a thing, and the thing that you decree, not
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the thing that you want or wish, shall be established unto.
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Thee. Thou shalt decree a thing, and
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it shall be established unto thee.
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The 4th assignment of prayer according to Scripture is for
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warfare and intercession. This is a dimension of prayer,
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warfare and intercession. This is very important.
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The Bible already told us in John chapter 10 and verse 10
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that Satan is called the thief and that he comes with the
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singular goal of stealing, killing and destruction.
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Apostle Peter charged us in first Peter 508 to be sober and
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to be vigilant. He says for your adversary.
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The devil, like a roaring lion, walked about seeking whom he may
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devour. Hallelujah and then of course,
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Ezekiel chapter 22, I believe verse 30, he says, and I sought
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for a man. I like that Scripture among
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them, that he should make up the hedge and stand in the gap
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before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I
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found none. So prayer becomes a prophetic
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platform for warfare. What is warfare?
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Engaging through the understanding of Scripture and
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establishing the victory that is in Christ, you see that now over
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the situations that attempt to fight and plague your authority
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in Christ. It's important that you
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understand this. But you see, when it has to do
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with prayer, there are various kinds of prayer that the Bible
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identifies. I'm not going into that.
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This is a charge this morning so that we pray.
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The Bible tells us there is something called praying amiss.
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Am I right on that? There are all kinds of prayer
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and the Bible is very clear as to the fact that not every kind
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of prayer produces power. There is a recommended kind of
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prayer and a pattern of prayer that produces power.
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Hallelujah 2 conditions according to James chapter 5 and
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verse 16 that must be captured in the prayer of the righteous
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to produce power. I want you to please listen.
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Now. There are two important
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components as revealed in chapter 16 of James five, that
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if and when they are not captured in your prayer, your
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prayer cannot produce power #1 the Bible says the effectual
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fervent. I like to reverse it for the
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sake of our understanding. So #1 the Bible talks about
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fervency. That the prayer of the believer
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that produces power. Power to influence, Power to
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manipulate, Power to establish. According to divine order, must
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be prayer that is fervent. What does it mean to be fervent?
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It means from the heart. It means with zeal, with passion
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and with truthfulness. Are we together very important?
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Jeremiah 29 and verse 13 in the dealings of God with men.
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We learn from Scripture and even from experience that God seems
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to respond to passion and sincerity and hunger.
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It seems to me like the Spirit of God does not pay so much
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respect to laxity and carelessness.
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God wants to see intention and fire even in.
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Error. He respects the passion and
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corrects you. There is nowhere God sees
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passion that he ignores. Thou son of David, have mercy on
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me. I don't know whether what I'm
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doing is right or wrong, but I'm not going to let you go if I may
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but touch the hem of his garment.
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Every time God sees passion, he interprets this as the person
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being serious, even if in. Ignorance so the Bible says, the
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favent are we together, the favent from the heart.
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Jeremiah 2913 He says, And you shall seek me, and find me, when
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ye shall search for me with all your.
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Heart. There is a level of seriousness
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and intention that must be invested in the prayer of the
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righteous if it is to produce power.
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Second Chronicles chapter 15 we read verse 12 then for time
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would jump to would jump to 15 is God helping us already the
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Bible says and they the nation of Judah.
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They entered into a covenant watch this to seek the Lord God
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of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.
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Notice now all of them was plunged into that covenant.
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Verse 16. The Bible says, and all Judah
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rejoiced at the oath for they. Had OK, thank you.
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Give us verse 15. Just stop at verse 15.
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Did I give you? Yeah, 15 is fine.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with
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all their heart, and the Bible says they sought him with their
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whole desire. What was the result?
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He was found of them and the Lord gave them rest round about.
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The Bible says the fervent. You want the kind of prayer that
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changes things, changes you, and through you influences your
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world. It is prayer that comes with
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fervency, zeal, passion, seriousness.
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There were people in the Bible God did not take serious and the
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Bible was not quiet about it. It was clear that God did not
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have respect for them because there was no fervency and no
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passion invested in their commitment, whether their
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relationship or their activity. The first of such expressions as
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we see, was in the life of Cain and Abel.
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The nature of their investment in their sacrifices and the
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violation of patterns, of the observance of patterns, LED one
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sacrifice to be accepted and the other, God, did not have respect
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for it. Hallelujah, fervency, zeal and
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passion. The Bible said this about Jesus
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himself, that the zeal of the Lord's house had consumed him.
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Is that true? Yeah.
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This is the reason why he frowns at lukewarmness.
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In Revelation chapter. Two, he wrote to one of the
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churches, I think to Ephesus or thereabout of Philadelphia, one
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of them, and he says, I wish that thou art hot, or at least
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cold. If you are hot, I commend you.
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If you are cold, I redeem you. But now you are lukewarm.
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You are. You are in between.
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Every time God saw people who swung to one side of the
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pendulum, if they needed deliverance, they admitted it
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and they were delivered. If they were vibrant and full of
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fire, He would commend them. But he always frowned at people
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who were nonchalant, passive, careless even about spiritual
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things. Someone say fervent.
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One more time, say fervent that when believers pray, it is
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important for them to have this understanding that they are not
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praying to an idol and all of them must be invested in that
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prayer #2. This is the part that I want us
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to look closely to because in in truthful submission, especially
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within the continent of Africa, I think we've done a good job in
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the area of fvency and prayer. The average African praise with
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zeal, with passion, or at least a semblance of it.
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Am I right on that? Now the second word that must be
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captured in our prayer to produce power is called
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effectual. Effectual.
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Lend me your attention. This is my message.
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What does it mean to be factual effectual means to use?
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Or to engage in a way that avoids loss or waste of time and
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energy. Listen carefully.
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Effectual by definition means to use or to engage in a way that
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avoids loss. LO double S or waste of.
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Time and energy. So you are effectual to the
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degree to which you are efficient, and there is minimal
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loss of energy of time and resources.
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Am I right on that? The Bible says the kind of
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prayer that produces power in the Spirit is prayer that is #1
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fervent, your heart condition, your zeal, your passion.
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But #2 it says it must be effective.
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Most believers I observed here, they pray fervent, sincere,
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heartfelt prayers. But very few believers pray
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effectual prayers. Remember, we're going to pray.
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What then makes prayers effectual?
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It's important for us to understand.
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At what point do you know that your prayer is effectual?
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Is it by the sound of your voice?
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Is it by the motions that follow the prayers, well-intentioned as
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they are? Let me show you from Scripture,
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Are you ready? What makes prayers effectual?
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Listen, is the degree to which the will of God is captured in
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that prayer. You have to understand this.
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What makes prayer effectual is not the sincerity of the one
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praying alone. The degree to which the will of
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God is captured in that prayer operation is what makes prayer
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effectual. So the Bible says the effectual,
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fervent prayer of the righteous if it is truly effectual, and if
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it is truly fervent, the Bible says it produces power.
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Are we learning now? So what makes prayer effectual,
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I repeat, is the degree to which the will of God is captured in
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that prayer. The word compliancy of your
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prayer is what makes it powerful, not just the
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spirituality of the activity of prayer.
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The degree to which you are praying the will of God is where
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the guarantee for answer and power lies in.
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If you're understanding me, say Amen.
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Now write this down please. Praying the will of God is
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beyond attaching scriptures to prayer.
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Just listen carefully. You came to church.
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Praying the will of God is beyond attaching scripture
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because you will be learning that the Bible is a prophetic
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book. You can make it speak anything
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you want to hear. So just because a scripture was
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connected to what you are saying does not mean when Satan wanted
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to bring Jesus down he started by just talking casually.
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But when Jesus responded it is written from then on.
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Every other thing he said he connected it to scripture yet it
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was not the will of God. Is that in your Bible?
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So just because you found a scripture for what you want does
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not mean it's the will of God. Say Amen.
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I promise that we're going to be praying.
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So we'll soon pray. Maybe in the next 5 minutes
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we'll pray and then we'll continue.
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Are we learning now? Yes, Sir.
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So when you pray consistent with the will of God, the Bible
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leaves us with an assurance that your prayer becomes effectual.
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Effectual, effectual. This is very powerful.
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I will talk a bit about this, but let's go to 1st John chapter
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5 and verse 14. May I request that we read in
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concert when we have it projected, ready one to read.
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And this is the confidence that we have in Him that if we ask
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anything according to His will He here at US1 more time,
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please. And this is the confidence that
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we have in Him that if we ask anything according to His will,
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He here at us, verse 15 if you do not mind.
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And if we know that He here at us whatsoever we ask, we know
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that we have our petitions that we desired of.
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Him. Hallelujah, Ephesians chapter 5
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When we read 15 to 17, Paul makes a profound statement that
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I did not understand for many years.
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He said, see that he works circumspectly.
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The word circumspect is accurately Are we together
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accurately? Not as fools but as wise.
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Where is the wisdom in that statement?
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He says you are wise when you redeem time because the days are
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evil. Are we together now?
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That means according to Paul's understanding, the most
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expensive commodity on earth is time.
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He says in all your living do not waste time and that you
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must, must start the art of redeeming time and the wisdom to
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redeem time. According to this Scripture in
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verse 17 he says wherefore be not unwise, but understanding
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what the will of God is. That means the moment you know
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the will of God, you redeem time because the time that you move
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in error and confusion and then you return back is minimized.
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Discerning the will of God is one of the ways we gain time
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because you walk accurately knowing that you are at the.
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Hearts the epicenter? Of the will of God, and the
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apostle calls that wisdom. Are we together?
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This is very important. The entire Kingdom system was
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built around the will of God. It is important that we
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understand these believers. The entire system of the Kingdom
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was built around the will of God.
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When Jesus was teaching what we call the Lord's Prayer, he says
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when you pray, you pray that your Kingdom come, and then he
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says thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
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So you would notice that the entire economy of heaven
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revolves around the will of God. In fact, this is the assignment
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of the power of God to maintain the will of God in the life of
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the believer and across the cosmos.
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When the will of God is not in place, the power of God has no
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assignment. The assignment of the power of
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God is to enforce and to maintain the will of God.
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The reason why the sick are healed is not because the power
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of God can heal is because sickness is inconsistent with
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the will of God. So the power of God finds an
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assignment there. What gives the power of God
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assignment? Are We Together now is its
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ability to bring all things to line up with the will of God.
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If you understand the concept of the will of God, then you will
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have power in your prayer. Are we together?
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Because you see, the first assignment of the believer in
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approaching prayer is to understand the will of God
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concerning what you are about to pray for, or to understand how
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to find out the will of God making decreases useless until
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you ascertain you are in the will of God.
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Are we together? Now every time you are in
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ignorance as to the will of God, your first assignment is to get
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to a point of understanding. And I'm going to be showing you.
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So you see that most believers do all kinds of things around
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the place of prayer. And just because sincere energy
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was dissipated, we hope that God will sympathize with our
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passion. And somehow outside, you see,
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God has bound himself to honor His Word.
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The Bible says He exalts His word even above His office.
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If you are learning, say Amen. So the Bible talks about the
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will of God as the secret that makes prayer powerful.
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But in truth and in experience, we learn that there are many
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aspects of the will of God that are clear and known from
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Scripture. But from a pragmatic standpoint,
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there are times where you need to your destiny.
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You will be at a loss as to the unique expression of God's will.
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A provision was made in our dealings with God where men can
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tap into that intelligence. Are we together now that the
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will of God was that was prior to that time not known.
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It can be known. This is where the Holy Spirit
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comes in Hallelujah. So very quickly two ways to pray
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the will of God. Are we learning number one,
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perhaps? Let me back down a bit and just
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establish a few things and then we'll understand.
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There are three layers to Scripture and I want you to
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please listen. This Bible, you see, essentially
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has at least three layers. There could be more, but there
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are three layers to the Bible. Number one, there is a historic
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slash archaeological layer. To scripture, that means this
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book you see. There is also a piece of
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archaeological and historic material.
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Are we right on that? There are people who are not
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Christians, and I've had to make reference to the Bible in
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writing their thesis and in building up their points for
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whatever faith practice. So this is an archaeological
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material. When you read the Bible, you see
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history captured. When you read the Bible, you see
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archaeology captured. That is a layer.
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The second layer to Scripture is called a doctrinal layer.
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Now this one you have to be a believer to have the eyes that
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sees and understand The doctrinal layer to scripture are
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we together. This is where the intelligence
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and the wisdom of God is derived from Scripture.
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When a historian who is not born again reads the Bible, he cannot
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see the doctrinal sense that is connected in it.
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The Bible just looks like a gap of events that were put
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together, canonized together. But there is the doctrinal layer
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of Scripture. This is where the system of
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intelligence of the believer is built around, is built around
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doctrine. Are we together now?
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The third layer is called the prophetic layer of Scripture,
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this one. It is enhanced when you have a
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sound understanding of doctrine, but it is the Holy Spirit that
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opens you up to that layer and you can have revelations that
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are not general to everybody. It is given to you as a unique
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weapon of victory that comes to you as rima, that you will
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engage and produce results and not that person may use it and
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it may not. Work for the person.
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You can be praying in Scripture, for instance, trusting God.
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Where do I establish myself and in scripture will come to you.
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You have compassed this mountain long enough turn not words.
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That's not a word for everybody it to you.
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It has ministered the answer to what you are looking for and you
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will follow with literally I need to open a door for you, but
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another person may apply that scripture and it will not work
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for the person. There is a prophetic layer to
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Scripture. Do you understand this now?
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Yes, this is very powerful. It is the reason why the study
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of scripture outside of the ministry of the Holy Spirit will
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lead to a lot of imbalances, because you will find many, many
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scriptures and not be able to connect them intelligently to
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produce the will of God. He said He's such a scripture,
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for in them you think that you see what Jesus was saying.
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Those guys were studious, but they did not respect the
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ministry of the Holy Spirit. So when Jesus was the Word
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Incarnate, when He came, they could not even connect Him with
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the things they were studying. They had the knowledge of
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Scripture, but the Word incoming, the Logos of God, was
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standing before them. And yet how do you have such a
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rich Bank of Scripture and then the Logos is standing and you
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cannot? Connect two of them.
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Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord
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number one. The two ways that we pray the
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will of God in the place of prayer is #1 by praying
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scripture based prayer. You just write scripture based
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prayer, scripture based prayer. I made a statement earlier on
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and it's time to bring it balance that Just because you
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found a scripture does not mean you are in the will of God.
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That is true, but generally speaking, when your prayer is
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what compliant, you must find a scripture according to the
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written word. Are we together now a scripture
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that supports this is how the technology of heaven works.
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Just saying God do it. You said it.
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Where is that present your 'cause is that bring?
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Forth your strong reasons. Are we together now when Bland
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Battimu, you notice Bland Battimu never said Jesus have
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mercy on me. He said, thou son of David,
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Jesus understood what he was saying.
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You have a covenant with David. There was a covenant that God
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had with David and I'm standing to invoke that covenant.
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The woman in Luke chapter 12 who had suffered the issue of blood,
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he said, is this not not this woman being a daughter of
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Abraham? There is a basis.
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Not just that, she has suffered 18 years.
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She's a daughter of Abraham. And I left Abraham a promise
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that in thee shall all the families of the earth be
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blessed, and part of the component of that.
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Blessing is wholesomeness, wholeness.
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So this woman state is a demonstration that God is not
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faithful and when Jesus saw it being the express image of God.
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He had to change it. Who represents the will of God
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correctly there? That was the basis for her
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healing. Are we together now?
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This is very powerful scripture based prayer.
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It is the reason why believers must be equipped with sufficient
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understanding of Scripture so that in the place of prayer you
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pray with authority, knowing that the written word of God has
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a very rich capture, a rich expression of his will.
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So for instance, you are praying and trusting God for healing.
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Just saying, God, heal me, I know.
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Are you not powerful? Don't be watching me like that.
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That is sympathetic. Prayer.
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But it is not found event. It is not effectual because
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there is no scriptural basis for your demand.
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You see how we pray an average believer prays this way.
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And not to be sarcastic, but just quite honestly, Father,
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thank you. The whole preambles.
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You are the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Rose of Sharon, King
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of Kings, Lord of Lords. And once we pass that, then we
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go straight to the fact that God, I'm here again.
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Is it that you are not you cannot hear me.
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You are hearing this one. You are doing this one in the
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name of Jesus Christ. I'm telling you now, you know,
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I'm so on and so forth. And then just because we say
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Amen at the end of what we're saying, honestly, He may be
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sincere prayer, but as matured believers, we must learn that
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not every kind of prayer. God is almighty, but He has
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bound Himself to the operation of His Word.
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It is the reason why, as powerful as God is, He did not
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cast sin out of man. There was a protocol he had to
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submit to until man was redeemed.
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Because it is written that without the shedding of blood
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there is no remission of sin. And God, who created man and
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created the law, submitted himself, not even him.
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Could castaway sin from man when you understand this about God,
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that God did not spare His own Son.
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He also allowed him to submit what the Word said
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prophetically. That must be the condition for
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redemption if He did not spare Jesus.
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God is touched with the feelings of our infirmity.
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It's called compassion. But He's moved with His word by
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His word. To be touched does not mean He
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would just act. He's touched.
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And when God wants to help you by being touched, He sends you
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His word. Is someone learning now?
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Scripture based Prayer Scripture based Prayer Scripture based
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Prayer scripture based. Prayer that every time you are
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praying. Making your petitions, you take
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the time as a responsible believer to find scriptures that
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supports that which you know God wants to do in your life.
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Blindly assuming that God you said you will prosper me.
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God, I know you, you are too good to allow me this way.
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Those things are very sincere, but you will not get resolved
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that way. Are we together #2 The second
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way we pray the will of God is by praying in the Spirit,
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engaging the wisdom of the Spirit in praying so as to birth
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the will of God. This is very powerful.
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The Bible says in Romans chapter 8 when you read 26 and 27,
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Romans 826 and 27, likewise it says the Spirit helped in our
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infirmity. What is infirmity there?
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Contextually? The word infirmity there does
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not mean sickness. It means limitations by reason
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of wearing a mortal body. We are limited in our
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understanding. We see in part and we prophecy
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in part because of that limitation.
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Now there are three dimensions of God's nature He did not share
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with man. I don't have the time to explain
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this here, but it's important for us to know when the Bible
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says we are partakers of His divine nature, it is not every
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part of His nature He gave man. I hope you know that there are
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certain dimensions of God's nature that are exclusive to
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Him. Three of them.
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Number one, His omnipresence. He did not share that with man
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#2 His omnipotence, the ability to be all powerful, and then #3
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his ability to be omniscient. No, all knowing these 3
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dimensions of God, He did not share with man.
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They brand him in a class all by himself.
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Are we together now? So man is not all powerful.
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Our power is derived. That's why we have authority.
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Authority is the legitimacy to use power.
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God does not have authority because authority demands that
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you must be regulated. Every time you give a man
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authority, there must be a system above that man that
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supervises the management of that power and authority.
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Are we together now? Yes, I know the Bible says all
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authority has been given. Notice Jesus is speaking as a
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man. All authority.
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Authority is given. It is not derived.
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It is given, given by one higher than you.
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God was willing to submit if he found someone greater than him,
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but he did not find any. And so that's what makes him all
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powerful. You get it now.
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Yes, demons have power, but they do not have authority.
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Authority is the legitimacy to use power.
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A non robber has a gun. A military man has a gun.
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They both have power, but one has authority.
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That's why he will not be jailed for shooting.
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The other guy does not have authority.
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Are you getting the point now believers?
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We're not just given power. If the only thing God gave us
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his power, we're in trouble. It means we operate just like
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demon spirits. What gives us an edge is that we
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have authority is the reason why he honors us when we when we we
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make declarations in the Spirit because we have power and
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authority. How did I get here?
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Praise God, are we together now? Yes, this is important praying
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in the Spirit. So the Bible says we're looking
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at Romans chapter 8 from verse 26.
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The spirit helped our limitations.
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What is the limitation? We know not what we should pray
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for as we ought. This is a limitation.
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This is what the Holy Spirit. Helps.
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That there is a deficiency in all men by reason of wearing a
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mortal body, and by reason of the fallen nature that we do not
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have accurate perception of. What the will of God is in all
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matters. This is why God gave us the Holy
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Spirit to become that advantage. To that limitation, then the
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Bible says, whoever is aware of such a limitation will now
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recognize that the Spirit makes intercession for us with
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groanings which cannot be altered.
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The next verse please. 27 The Bible says He he been the
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Spirit, that such at the heart knoweth what is the mind of the
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Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints.
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How according to the will of God.
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So the recommended approach to pray over a matter.
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Where the will of God is not clear is to pray in the Spirit
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and that the Bible says there is a transaction that happens when
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you pray in the Spirit. Eventually the Spirit of God who
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is also the revealer of the heart of God.
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Are we together now? He will meet you at the point of
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your passion where the will of God is revealed.
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Then on the basis of Scripture, we can pray and make petitions
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with authority, knowing that this is the confidence we have,
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that when we ask anything, when I'm praying for the sick, I
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don't verify whether is the will of God.
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It's been established from Scripture by His tribes.
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We are healed. He is called Rafa.
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Are we together now? I am come that He may have life,
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and to have it more abundantly. That is sufficient basis for my
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confidence. So when I minister to the sick,
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I minister with confidence, not in my own sufficiency, but that
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the words of God, His promises are yay and.
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Amen. This is what gives us confidence
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to pray and to minister by the Spirit.
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But then there are matters in life and destiny.
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Where should I be? Where should the church be
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planted? Are we together?
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And all those kinds of things. It is not directly written in
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the Bible for you, even though when the Holy Spirit gives you
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His word, you will find a scripture that relates.
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To it. So what you do is to engage in
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the Spirit. And continually engage in the
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Spirit. You are doing two things in one.
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One is you are already communicate God according to the
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will of God. But #2 because you are the one
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who needs to act out His will, the Holy Spirit will search the
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mind of the Father and transport to you the will of the Father
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for your destiny. You don't stop praying until the
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knowledge of the will arrives. That was the goal of the prayer.
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At what point do you stop praying in the Spirit?
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When the will of God concerning your life is revealed.
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You don't stop praying when you are tired.
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You don't stop praying after one hour or after 5 hour.
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What governs a prayer is not chronological time.
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What governs a time is travelling until the knowledge
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of the wheel arrives. If it takes 21 days, you keep
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going. If it takes 2 hours, you keep
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going. You see that now mechanically
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selecting time for your prayer. It may help help you in terms of
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giving you spiritual discipline. But there are times, for many
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reasons that I may not discuss here, you will need to travel.
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When a woman goes to the hospital to give birth, she
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doesn't give the doctors two hours.
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She goes there knowing that her goal is until the child arrives.
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Sometimes she gets there and in 30 minutes the child is out, but
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there are times she's there. One week she stays patiently
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with the confidence that my goal is to birth this child.
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How about the time she's carrying?
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Twins. How about the time she's
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carrying triplets? Other women may come and go and
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leave her there because of the kind of things she's breathing.
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The fervent and effectual prayer of the righteous availed much.
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Most believers are sincere and passionate, but they do not
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respect the will of God as a vital component in prayer.
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Most people will not understand the advantage God gave us in
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giving us the Holy Spirit and giving us the prayer language.
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It's been an age long argument as to whether praying in the
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Spirit in tongues as we know is necessary for believers.
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It is because we do not understand the way the Kingdom
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walks, that as compassionate as God is, He only acts with
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respect to His will. Are we together?
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So when we pray in the Spirit, it is an edge He has given us.
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An apostle Paul was teaching the church in Ephesus and he says
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you are wise when you pray in the Spirit.
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Because in praying in the Spirit you will eventually gain the
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advantage of knowing the will of the Lord.
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And we think you will execute with precision and you will save
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time not to go around 10 years doing several things you think
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at the will of God only to find out at the 11th year that you
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were not in the will of God and you have to come back.
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You have wasted time. He says you redeem time when you
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know the will of God. Let it not be that I'm roaming
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around Lagos for 15 years. Then finally when I get serious
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with God, I find out that it was designed for me to have been in
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the US and now you have to trust God.
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You see, This is why God created systems of advantage like
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restoration and speed because He knows that most men will not
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believe him. Are we together now?
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If it is God's in God's intent for you to probably have started
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the work of the ministry and you've been arguing with the
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Spirit for the last 15 years, imagine how many souls have been
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tied to you. They have suffered because of
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your carelessness. That is why when God reveals His
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will to you, in addition to which He opens you up to His
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systems of advantage like restoration and speed, these are
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His various ways of bringing you up to speed with life and
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destiny. But my assignment is to charge
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you. We'll use the remaining 10
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minutes to pray. Now you pray with understanding.
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Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus.
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You are making declarations of protection and you are saying,
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well, all I know, God forbid, I know nobody would touch me.
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You are joking. No, no, the Lord is my light and
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my salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid of?
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The Lord is the strength of my life.
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Are we together? That when men say there is a
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casting down for me, I decree and declare that there is a
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lifting of. I like what the Bible calls
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them. He calls them exceeding great
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and precious promises. He says that by them we might be
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the partakers of His divine nature.
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Inexperience having escaped the corruption that is in the world
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Who lost? Show me a believer that is full
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of the Word and knows how to engage it with understanding.
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I show you a man who has mastered the art of effectual
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prayer, prayer that produces power.
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Are we together? So how do you pray over 2024 in
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the name of Jesus? The Bible declares this is the
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day that includes the year. That the Lord has made who made
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it he didn't say the Lord and Satan.
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The Lord has made Satan also waits for the day to be made to
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to be part of it. If God makes the day I go to
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Genesis 1. What happens when God is the one
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who makes he makes all things beautiful and when he makes his
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saw that it was good on the basis of that my day must be
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good on the basis of that my year must be good.
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Everything that is inconsistent with the design of God for my
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life in this season. Now you can take authority over
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it with conflict. Evidence because you are praying
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fervent, you are praying effectual prayer.
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Hallelujah, your children are misbehaving.
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You don't just call them and say God, what I have served you.
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That looks sincere, but it's not a very wise prayer.
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Psalm 112 said blessed is the man that feared.
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The Lord who delighted greatly in his commands, He said his
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seed shall be mighty, the generation of the upright shall
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be blessed. He says wealth and riches shall
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be in his house, and his righteousness and just forever
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that. Comes the basis of your prayer,
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Hallelujah. When the centurion came to
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Jesus, he said you do not need to come to my house, speak the
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word only. He said I am a man under
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authority. I know the power of authority.
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There is a government, the government of Rome, they back.
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Me and by reason of the authority, I said to 1 go not
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because of the sound of my voice, not because of my
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stature. I am under authority.
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As I say, you too, I know you did not come on your own, You
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came representing the government of heaven.
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Speak the word only. And Jesus said, Who taught You
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have not found this faith, not in Israel.
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Who? Mentored this man to have this
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understanding. Is someone listening now?
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The name of Jesus? You rebuke sicknesses and
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diseases. You don't just say sickness.
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Go to where? Why?
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Why does it go? Is it not in your Bible that a
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few people said we are join you by Jesus whom Paul preaches?
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What did the demon say? Jesus, I know, Paul, I know.
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What is the basis of obeying you?
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And that beats the children. This is this is not the Old
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Testament. Produce your strong reason.
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Why should God lift you? Because I know he loves me too
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much. Where did you find that?
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Don't assume even Satan said it is written.
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I hope you know what is written concerning you.
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The Bible says when Jesus came to the temple in Luke chapter 4,
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he. Found.
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He opened the book of Isaias and he found where it was written
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concerning him. Have you found where it was
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written concerning your job? Have you found where it was
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written concerning your children?
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Can I tell you in this Kingdom it is written is greater?
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Than I saw. It is written is greater than I
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heard. You can use.
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It is written to change what you saw.
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You can use It is written to change what you heard.
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I had a dream that you would die.
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I respect your dream, but it is written.
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I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.
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That becomes the basis of my engaging.
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Are we together? I see that this year may not be
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very good for you. Generally, as a prophetic word,
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that is fine, But uniquely I define my realities.
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It is. True.
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It says true fate. We understand.
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Do you believe this? We're about to pray last summer.
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The Bible says the path of the just.
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Not in 2023, not in 2024. The path of the just is as a
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shining light. It shines more and more, more
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and more. Is MyHeritage not, I don't know
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about you, but it is MyHeritage. This is not just blind
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confession, honestly. You ignore this, you will be
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surprised that you will be a victim.
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I hope you know that before Jesus died, he declared that he
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will come back to life. If he kept quiet, the grave will
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not open. Let the redeemed of the Lord not
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think so, not whistle, not assume so.
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If the redeemed of the Lord says so, then the healed of the Lord
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will say so. The blessed of the Lord will say
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so. The lifter of the Lord will say
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so. You have been thinking so
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wonderful, but it's time to say so.
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Say what what God has said. It is the word confession,
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homological, to repeat as you have heard, consistent with what
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He has said. Hallelujah.
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When men say there is a casting down, we decree and declare that
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there is a lifting up. Is that true?
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Gentiles come to my light. They are kings to the brightness
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of my rising. In the name of Jesus, where I
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have been deserted so that no man would pass through me, I
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become an eternal Excellency, a joy of many generations.
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The wisdom of God is at work in my spirit in the name of Jesus
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Christ going from glory to glory.
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This is not Pentecostal gibberish.
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Is how we create realities in the.
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Spirit, you see, let me tell you this, listen before we pray.
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Papa Copeland is in his 80s now, is one of the fathers today that
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represents the pillars of what we know to be the Word of Faith.
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And one time I heard him making a statement when he was younger.
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He believed the word in the simplicity of faith.
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And he would declare over his body and speak and do a lot of
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things. And there were people who
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laughed at him. Most of those people have long
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gone in his 80s. He's still standing today.
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Moving on aided. And there were many arrogant
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people who are. How did the Bible put it?
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I cannot remember the Scripture he says, but I hear Paul was
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speaking. He said less as Satan beguiled
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Eve. I think he was speaking to the
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church in Corinth or so through subtlety, A deception, inventing
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a strategy that deviates you from the simplicity of the
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gospel. It takes childlike approach to
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the things of the Spirit. There are times that they look
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deceitfully childish and yet the power of God is hidden in those
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practices. For instance, there is he that
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scattered and yet increase it. It does not make economic sense,
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yet that is the wisdom of God that is hidden.
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The Bible said it was ordained for our glory.
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I told you yesterday that the end of the believer's journey is
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that your life eventually becomes a manifestation of the
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glory of God. And one of these platforms and
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these weapons that I share with you, in addition to all you have
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heard this morning, is the power of fervent, effectual prayer,
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not just emotional prayer. Are we together now not just try
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to African prayers sincerely saying without any sense of
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mockery and and all of that, Most of us need to redefine our
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understanding about prayer. Probably we have been mentored
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by sincere people, but we view the prayer ministry from the
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lens of a defeated believer. If your prayer is not effectual,
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it cannot produce power. The amount of time and energy
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that is invested in prayer in Africa.
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With all due respect and honor to all of us believers who pray,
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if there was fvency and efficiency in our prayer, we
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would have shifted the climates of the continent by now.
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So in addition to our zeal, one of the things that the Lord is
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reintroducing to the prayer minister of the believer is the
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word compliancy. Respect for the ministry of the
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Holy Spirit as we pray, respect for the supremacy of the Word as
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we pray. That emotional prayer does not
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change climates. It is the degree of the word
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compliancy, honor to the Spirit of God.
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I sense in my heart that there are people in this place and
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together as the body of Christ, we have come into a state of
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maturity by the Spirit thanks to Apostolic conferences like this,
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where God helps us to sharpen one another by the Spirit, to
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gain ascendance and come to a point of maturity and to be
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circumspect in our understanding, where we begin to
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pray from Lagos to Abuja to South Africa to Kenya to Uganda
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to Malawi. Prayer with understanding, and
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you see that fire of revival and fervency rising and spreading.
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Are we together one man? Who knew how to pray, kept the
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will of God to walk in a land, regardless how many prophets of
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bear? Prayer is powerful, but it must
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be fervent, it must be efficient.
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If we take two minutes to pray, would that be fine?
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My apologies for stretching. I thought we'll have some more
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time to pray, but please rise up on your feet.
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Take 30 seconds to pray in the Spirit.
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Now you understand what you are doing.
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You're not just reciting gibberish.
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Mechanical gibberish is a transaction in the Spirit.
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The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much what
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things so ever ye desire. When ye pray, believe that thou
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receiveth them when ye pray, when ye pray fervently, when ye
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pray effectually or effectively. And this is the confidence that
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we have that when we ask anything according to His will,
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we know that He here at us. Someone pray in one minute.
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Sabrakata panda kata Shoprasia rakata Brenda Kato Soto Brenda
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Cabella caparatos sabrandes cabaretta katape karakata bakata
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Bola kata Bola kata Bola kata embrec kata Bola kata in the
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name of Jesus Parekata Prakatas skalika parakatos Kaprekata
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Grace, grace, grace to pray. And this time around, with
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passion, with fervency, and then with word compliancy, respecting
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the supremacy of the world, respecting the supremacy of the
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will of God as revealed in Scripture, respecting the
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supremacy of the will of God as channeled through the wisdom of
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the Spirit. Someone pray, obtain grace,
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obtain grace. Obtain grace.
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Obtain grace. Obtain grace.