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PREVAILING PRAYERS · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: To bless us this first day of the month of March.
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Speaker 2: We have god chosen servants in our midst God that's
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ordaining for a moment like this to bless alive all
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the way from Abuja. Help me welcome God's servant Apostle
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Joshua Selman to.
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Speaker 1: Bless our lives.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead and celebrate the grace of God upon this life.
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Go ahead, Go ahead, celebrate the grace of God upon
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his life.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead. Allelujah, Good evening, everybody.
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Speaker 3: Let me start by communicating my honor and greetings to
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His Excellency the Governor and her excellency. Thank you so much,
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and all protocols duly observed. I bless the Lord for
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this privilege, and I trust that the moments that we
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have to share would be most profitable. In Jesus name,
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shall we pray, Father, thank you, Thank you for your grace.
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The Bible declares that the entrance of your world give
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a light and even understanding to the symbol. We have
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come to learn. We have come to increase in knowledge,
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and I pray that you will grant us access to
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the truths of the Kingdom and let our lives show
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In the name of Jesus, we pray, O God, that
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whilst you do this, you will continually lift this state,
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that a quaibum will become a sign and a wonder
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in this nation and even to the nations of the earth,
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that you are people that have been marvelously.
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Speaker 1: Helped of God. In Jesus' name, I pray.
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Speaker 3: I must take a minute or two to sincerely commend
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this entire prayer project. I was very humbled when I
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got to find out that this is a sacrifice that,
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without fail happens in this state. It is not something
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to just sweep under the carpet. The Bible is very
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intentional about what happens to a people and leaders who
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are very vocal about God. In fact, the Bible says
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this about Whosiah. He said that for as long as
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he sought the Lord, the Lord made him to prosper allelujah.
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And so I truly want to commend his excellency for
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the courage.
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Speaker 1: I believe it takes a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of that to see to it that this project
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continues to happen, and sad the Lord honor you and
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also appreciate all who have stood.
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Speaker 1: By him on this wise. In the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 3: I'm teaching very briefly on the subject of prevailing prayer.
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Speaker 1: I believe that.
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Speaker 3: Prayer has to be taught for believers to effectively pray.
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We are a people of prayer. We are a nation
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of prayer. Africa is a continent of prayer. But I
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submit to you that with reference to the intelligence that
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Scripture provides, most people have not been able to contend
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for the kind of prayer that produces results. We see
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this in the life of the disciples. There were first
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disciples of John before a number of them became the
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disciples of Jesus. And they noticed that there was a
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way and a manner that Jesus prayed that made him
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to have results. And so in their frustration they opened
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up to him and they said, teach us to pray.
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You find that in Luke chapter eleven, from verse one,
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teach us to pray. This was not an issue of prayerlessness.
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This was an issue of unprofitable, resultless prayer.
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Speaker 1: They were not prayer less people.
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Speaker 3: They noticed that there was a way they approached prayer
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that didn't produce results, and so they beckoned on Jesus
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and said, teachers to pray. Like John, also taught his
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disciples Allelujah, so prayer can be taught.
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Speaker 1: The consolation for the believer.
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Speaker 3: In prayer is that you are confident that in prayer
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you will receive and not just that you receive body
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to be made manifest.
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Speaker 1: It is my considered opinion that no.
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Speaker 3: Believer will truly become and remain prayer less if you
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know how to get results in prayer, because nobody leaves
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what works.
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Speaker 1: Is that true?
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Speaker 3: The prayerlessness of many believers is an attestation to the
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frustration that many have received in an attempt to communicate
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with this God who has communicated.
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Speaker 1: His love and his desire to reach down to people.
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Speaker 3: We pray using all kinds of formulas, and sadly, for
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many believers, it's becoming a ritual that does not have
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any potency any results. So my assignment within the moments
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that we have is for us to look deeper from
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God's world to help construct our understanding about the kind
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of prayer that works away Together.
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Speaker 1: For reference, let's look at James chapter five.
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Speaker 3: I'll begin my reading from verse thirteen and then will
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end at eighteen.
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Speaker 1: James chapter five.
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Speaker 3: He said, it's any among you afflicted, let him pray
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so upfront the Bible, the scriptural recommendation for affliction is prayer.
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That every time you find out that things are going
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in your life as it shouldn't be, the biblical recommendation
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to manage that situation is to pray. Is any one
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of you afflicted, the Bible says, let him pray, is
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any Mary? Let him sing Psalms to eighteen. Now he says,
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it's any sick among you. Let him call or the
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elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
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anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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Then he says, the prayer of faith shall save the sick.
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So prayer can save you. See the character of prayer
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demonstrated here. Prayer is not an empty spiritual exercise. It
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sustains the power to save, in this case the sick.
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But it is not only the sick that prayer saves.
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Prayer has the character of salvation. Are we together, it says,
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And if he had committed any sins, they shall be
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forgiven him.
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Speaker 1: I plead that we read verse sixteen together.
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Speaker 3: If you can see ready, it says, confess your faults
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one to another, and pray for one another, that ye.
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Speaker 1: May be healed. Now my point of emphasis one to read.
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Speaker 3: The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man have failed much.
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Speaker 1: Let's just pause here for a moment. He's giving us
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a very interesting information.
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Speaker 3: Number one, that whoever praised this prayer has to be
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a righteous man. And then it says, the effectual and
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fervent prayer of a righteous man have vailed much in
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terms of its delivery, in terms of the result that
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it produces. Now, you see, the character of scripture is
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that every time God presents a thought, he does not
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leave you in confusion as to the dynamics of the
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idea he's presenting. Usually, he will look for an individual
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in scripture who personifies his idea and force you to
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understanding that individual to become.
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Speaker 1: The reference for understanding that thought. Are we together?
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Speaker 3: So if he's teaching you on prayer, just leaving you
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in the dark as to this might not bring thorough understanding.
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The next verse, now is God protracing on the point,
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and he uses is an individual to personify.
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Speaker 1: His idea, in this case Elijah.
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Speaker 3: That means Elijah is the personification of all that has
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been said. Now, if you study Elijah and the character
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of his approach to prayer, you would learn something from
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it that would make your prayer effectual.
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Speaker 1: It's God helping us already, he says.
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Speaker 3: Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are,
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so he already takes away any superstition around Elijah. He's
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telling you that Elijah was framed with the limitation that
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comes with the fallen man. Nothing spectacular to him, he says.
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And then the Bible says, yet he accessed his secret
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and he prayed endlessly that it might not rain, and
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it rained not on the earth by the space of
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three years and six months.
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Speaker 1: What a man.
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Speaker 3: So the power of that result was not not necessarily
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the man, but an understanding he had.
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Speaker 1: He approached prayer in a way that produced a global results.
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Speaker 3: This is what the Bible is saying, not just a
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state result, not just a regional result. That one man,
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from one point accessed the secret in prayer, and he
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engaged that secret, and the whole earth was affected by
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the quality.
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Speaker 1: Of his understanding about prayer.
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Speaker 3: Next verse, the Bible says, he prayed again. Please say
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after me. Again again means mastery. Again means you are
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not trying to lend the principles you have held it
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anything you cannot reproduce again and again you.
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Speaker 1: Have not gained mystery. And you see the idea of God.
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Speaker 3: In building the Saints is to bring us to a
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point where we gain mastery over the things of the kingdom.
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It was Paul who was speaking to his son in
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the Gospel Timothy. He says, he that strives from mastery
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is not crowned. Accept his strifes lawfully. It is not
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God's desire for us to continue to shadow box over
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spiritual principles in hope that one will work. God wants
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us to gain thorough understanding. And by the way, may
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I tell you sincerely from the world of God, that
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you can gain mastery in handling the truths of the Kingdom.
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With the mastery of a chef, with the mastery of
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a consultant, with the mastery of an architect. You can
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hold on to distruths of the Kingdom, and they can
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become predictable in your life. He prayed again, meaning he
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was not in confusion as to what he did the
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first time. He prayed again, and the Bible says, and
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the heaven gave ray, and the earth brought forth her
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fruit back to our context, the phavant and effectual prayer
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of a righteous man. If feel it much seen in
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the life of Elijah, who prayed.
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Speaker 1: And the heavens were shot over a territory, and.
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Speaker 3: He prayed again and the heavens were open praise the
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name of the Lord. In Luke chapter eleven, we looked
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at that a few minutes ago from verse one, and
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it is to verse ten. I may not have the
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time to talk in details, but now verse one this
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is the disciples were asking Jesus to teach them to pray.
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Then he began his discuss on the subject of prayer.
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We may not watch this, but let me just read.
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We're reading verse two. End at ten.
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Speaker 1: Verse two.
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Speaker 3: He said, unto them, when you pray, say now, I
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may just maybe make a comment, or to us we passed,
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but my focus is really Verse nine to ten, he says,
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when you pray, this should be your understanding. It was
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not just about reciting this like a chance.
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Speaker 1: There was an understanding behind it.
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Speaker 3: He says, when you approach God, you must approach him
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as father.
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Speaker 1: The word father is from the word appa.
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Speaker 3: It means your source, your sustainer, your protector, your defender.
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You do not approach God as though they were an alternative.
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He's saying, this must be your construct as you approach.
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Speaker 1: Him in prayer.
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Speaker 3: For as long as you have an alternative, you cannot
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secure God's participation. His jealousy will not allow you to
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put him alongside any other thing our father. Number two,
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he said, which act in heaven? That means it will
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require faith in prayer because he's in a rem that
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is not physical.
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Speaker 1: Are you getting the idea now?
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Speaker 3: He's telling you that this father you are dealing with
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he recites in a rem and a dimension that will
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require an agency to connect with him. This is where
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faith comes in. Number three, he said, hall Lord be
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your name. That means approaching with the spirit of reference.
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Do not allow the confidence you have based on the
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access he's giving Christ to sponsor this honor. He is
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still God even though he's your father. So you are
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approaching with the spirit of reverence. Hallowed be your Name.
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Then next sentences that Kingdom come. It means in order
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of priority, the context of your prayer should be that
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His governing authority be super imposed.
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Speaker 1: In your life and your territory. Do you know why?
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Because most of what you will be.
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Speaker 3: Asking else as symptoms of a principal deficiency. That his
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kingdom has not yet come. That's why you even have
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to pray for daily bread. That in order of priority.
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If his kingdom meaning his culture, his life, his atmosphere,
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the kingdom of God represents and is fair where his
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values are respected. That if his values are respected within,
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that's fair. There are many other prayers you would not
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need to pray again. Many other prayer points are there
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are subsets of a principal deficiency. So in as much
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he is benevolent enough to respond to those smaller requests,
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his ultimate desire is that his kingdom would come. And
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he tells you how his kingdom comes by his will
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being done.
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Speaker 1: That everywhere the will of the Father is allowed to
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find expression, his kingdom comes.
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Speaker 3: So to ask his kingdom to come means to allow
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to permit his will to be done. What is his will?
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His will represents his intent for you. And the Bible
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is already declared that God is a good God. He
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does not think evil of us. I know the thoughts
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that I think towards you Jeremiah twenty nine and verse eleven,
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thoughts of peace and not of evil, to bring you
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a future and unexpected end. By that understanding, it sponsors
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our confidence in asking for his will, because our interest
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is captured.
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Speaker 1: In his will.
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Speaker 3: When we are afraid to ask for the will of
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God is proof we don't trust him a will.
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Speaker 1: Learning that your will be.
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Speaker 3: Done in Earth. Notice he never said let it be
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done on earth. He says in earth, that first Earth,
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being you the earthen vessel. So the will of God
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be done in.
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Speaker 1: This earth, and then my territory, not just earth, like
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the territory you, the earth, the Earth and vessel.
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Speaker 3: Verse three, it says, give us this day our daily bread.
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This is a revelation of the character of God that,
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in his benevolence, he's so meticulous he pays attention to
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you a day.
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Speaker 1: Give us this day.
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Speaker 3: He knows that supplies must be consistent. Give us this
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day our daily bread. Do you know what this means?
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I wish I had the time. Daily bread does not
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just mean food. Bread means every provision that means for
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your survi So daily bread can mean the connections that
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will keep you moving. It does not always mean food.
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Bread has the character of keeping you alive. So in
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this prayer you are saying, Lord, you have given me
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a blank day, and you are the only one who
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knows what it takes for this day to be fruitful.
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So give me my daily bread. Means who ordnate to
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be within my rich all that it will take for
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my efficiency.
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Speaker 1: This is prayer.
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Speaker 3: Now next verse forgive us our sins, and he leaves
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you with an understanding, for we also forgive everyone that
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is indebted to us.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what this means?
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Speaker 3: It means that for as long as you are alive
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on a daily basis, there will always be.
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Speaker 1: Someone hunting you.
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Speaker 3: And it says that while you obtain forgiveness, let the
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forgiveness of Christ towards you.
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Speaker 1: Always be a reminder that, like He has.
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Speaker 3: Done so for you, you must leave a space in your
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heart to reach out to people.
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Speaker 1: Next verse, are we still together? Media? Verse six?
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Speaker 3: Okay, no verse five. Now he said unto them, which
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of you shall have a friend? Now you see the
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character of scripture again. He's taught something on prayer, but
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he now wants to personify that idea in a story.
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The story is my point of emphasis. He said onto them,
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which of you shall have a friend, And shall go
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to him by midnight and say to him friend, lend
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me three loaves verse six. For a friend of mine
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in his journey is come to me, and I have
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nothing to say before him, And he from within shall
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answer and say, trouble me not. The door is now shut,
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and my children are with me in bed. I cannot
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rise and give thee. Understand the context, someone outside is
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about to be embarrassed, shame and reproach seems imminent on
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someone who is.
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Speaker 1: Outside, and he's beckoning on help.
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Speaker 3: You can see that it takes humility to pray, because
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prayer demands that you comeing to a point where you
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know that honor assisted, you cannot help yourself. The highest
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demonstration of humility is prayer. That every time you pray,
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it stems from an understanding that I am unable to
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help myself unassisted. This is the story here. And so
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he said, look, I need supplies, but that supplies is.
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Speaker 1: Not within my reach. It is with you.
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Speaker 3: And the man with them says, do not distop me
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by reason of timing.
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Speaker 1: I am asleep. Wait, and he's showing you what prayer
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can do.
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Speaker 3: He from within shall say, trouble me not, for the
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door is now shot and my children are with me.
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Speaker 1: Men, I cannot rise and give thee.
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Speaker 3: Eight, I say unto you, Jesus is speaking, though he
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will not rise and give him a quieber because of
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his importunity. The word importunity means persistence. He's taking power
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and determination. Yet because of his importunity, he will rise
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and give him how much.
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Speaker 1: As many?
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Speaker 3: The man was only asking for three loaves, but he
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said the energy that comes from.
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Speaker 1: What he's doing can move beyond three loaves to as
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many as he needs. This is prayer.
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Speaker 3: Are we learning? He will give him as many as
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he needed. So prayer is very powerful. It is able
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to produce results.
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Speaker 1: Verst. Nine. Let's read to ten, and I say unto you.
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Speaker 3: Ask and it's shall be given to you amplified, says ask.
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Speaker 1: And keep asking and it shall be given to you.
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Speaker 3: Seek and you shall find it, says knock, and it
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shall be open onto you. Here is the spiritual law
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that governs prayer. First, tend for everyone, Please say everyone.
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The advantage of prayer is not for preachers. The advantage
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of prayer is not for a particular race. There are
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regions that have certain things that may seem to be
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an advantage for them, but that prayer can set everyone
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on common ground to receive it says for every one
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that asked, receive it, and he that secret find it,
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and to him that knocked it shall be open. That
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means if you do not receive it is because you
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didn't ask. You may say, I verbalize my intention. Asking
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is more than verbalizing your intention. Now I want to
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share with you, maybe in the next five or ten minutes,
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the rules of engagement in prayer. You will be seeing
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here the reason why many believers.
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Speaker 1: Do not receive answers in prayer.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the Book of James James, Chapter four Apostle.
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James began to give us an understanding as to the
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dynamics of prayer that as simple as prayer looks as.
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Speaker 1: Keen and receiving.
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Speaker 3: By the way, maybe I should say this prayer is
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very powerful, but we have to understand that prayer has jurisdictions.
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Prayer does not do everything. Prayer must be involved in everything,
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but prayer does not do everything. Prayer, like all the
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other keys in the Kingdom, has defined our locations to
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what they are able to bring to the life of
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the believer. Please understand what I'm saying. Prayer has to
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be involved in everything. Why because the Bible says be
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anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication.
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It says to make your request known onto God. But
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prayer is not the key to everything. Jesus was speaking,
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and he said, I will give you the keys this
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beautiful facility, here, this auditorium. I look around, and I
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see a number of rooms. You can have the key
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to the main door. Main door is not the only door.
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Main door is a major door, but it is not
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the only door. As small as the door to the
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restroom is. If you do not have the key there,
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the key you have to the main door can leave
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you frustrated.
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Speaker 1: When you need to ease yourself. I want you together now.
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Speaker 3: So the understanding that prayer is the only key a
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believer needs, it's not accurate.
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Speaker 1: Prayer must be involved.
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Speaker 3: I would always say, in this way, where prayer is
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not the key, it becomes the and that holds the key.
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Speaker 1: In any case, you will still need prayer.
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Speaker 3: But that in addition to prayer, there are other spiritual dynamics.
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So when we say a believer is a robust are
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matured in the things of God, it means you have
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been able to bring together within your reach the keys
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of the kingdom. These are the keys that grant you
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access to command dominion. In experience, dominion is not an importation,
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is the resultant effect of your comprehending the truths of
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the kingdom having the keys of the kingdom. So, for instance,
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the prayer ministry, according to Scripture, only achieves the platform.
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Prayer is a platform to achieve just four things. You
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would be surprised. I may not have the time, but
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let me mention it since I've spoken about it. According
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to the authority of Scripture, prayer is a platform that
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grants you access to achieve four things.
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Speaker 1: Principally number one.
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Speaker 3: The first assignment of prayer and the assignment of prayer.
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Speaker 1: Is as a tool and a platform for transformation.
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Speaker 3: Look chapter nine and verse twenty nine when you read
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the Bible says, when you read twenty eight and twenty nine,
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he took Peter, James, and John, the Bible says he
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went to pray. And then verse twenty nine, as he prayed,
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the Bible says, the version of his countenance was altered
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and his raiment was white and glistering. So prayer, the
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primary and principal assignment of prayer is to provide the
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platform that makes for transformation, evolving into a superior spiritual
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version of yourself.
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Speaker 1: The assignment of.
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Speaker 3: Prayer more than just petitions. Prayer really affects you, not
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just things. That means you can pray yourself to a higher, stronger,
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more dex terrorist version of yourself. Number two, the second
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assignment of prayer is as a platform to make requests
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and obtain promises. That every time you need to make
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requests and obtain promises, the authorized platform to make that
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happen is prayer. Mark chapter eleven and verse twenty four.
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Jesus was teaching on faith, and he here to help
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them understand the subject of prayer. Is that therefore I
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say unto you what things soever ye desire? When not if?
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When ye pray, it says, believe that thou receivest them.
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Speaker 1: And thou shalt have them. Allelujah.
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Speaker 3: We read Philippians chapter four, from verse six and seven.
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To be anxious for nothing the word careful. There is
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the word anxious. But in everything by prayer and supplication
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garnished with thanksgiving, that you let your requests be made
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known onto God. Don't assume he knows. Let your requests
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be made known onto God. Verse seven says the God
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of Peace, the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
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will garrison your hearts and your mind through Christ Jesus.
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The third assignment of prayer in the life of the believer,
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as revealed to Scripture, is as a tool for spiritual legislation.
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That means we are able to make decrease and create
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possibilities in our lives through the platform of prayer job
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chapter twenty two and verse twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: Here's what the Bible says.
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Speaker 3: It says Job twenty two and verse twenty eight, Thou
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shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established
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onto the who is the deed, the one who made
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the decree. So prayer is not only talking to God.
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Prayer is a tool for creation. You can create possibilities
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in your life. The Bible says, Let the redeemed of
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the Lord say so. Let the blessed of the Lord
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say so. Let the favor of the Lord say so.
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Let the anointed of the Lord say so, not just
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think so, say so. Are we blessed? Very important numbers
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Chapter fourteen and verse twenty eight. Still on the third
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point the assignment of prayer.
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Speaker 1: I thought to quickly chip that in numbers chapter. Oh dear,
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I'm not sure I got that.
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Speaker 3: Please just leave that number four Welfare and intercession. The
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fourth assignment of prayer is as a tool for warfare
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and intercession. Now I can spend the whole night teaching
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on this, believe me, John ten Ten. The thief comment
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not that means you'll never see the thief around anywhere
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except there is something to kill, there is something to steal,
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and there.
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Speaker 1: Is something to destroy. Do you know what this tells you?
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Speaker 3: It means Satan himself is a verification system.
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Speaker 1: That you are valuable.
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Speaker 3: That every time you want to verify whether you are valuable,
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you check and see whether.
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Speaker 1: Satan leaves you untouched.
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Speaker 3: If Satan has a particular interest in you, is a
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confirmation that there is something he has seen in your life,
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even if you.
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Speaker 1: Do not know the thief.
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Speaker 3: Commet not means he is busy, determined, looking for specific
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people and things, And if you happen to be one
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of such people, it's already an information to you. You
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do not see an arm robber struggling to entire heart.
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The labor versus the reward is not commensurate. But when
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an arm robber is struggling to court a security barricade.
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He knows that what he will receive would be a
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worthy reward for that labor. So who did be why
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the devil seems to be determined about you? There is
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something that is so valuable he would rather face you.
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Speaker 1: Than a thousand other people.
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Speaker 3: The thief comment, not but for to steal, to kill,
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and to destroy the trinity of his operations. You can
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verify that set has visited a place by looking for designs.
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Speaker 1: If you do not see killing, stealing, and destruction, it
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was not satan. It is signature.
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Speaker 3: It says, but I am come that you may have
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life and to have it more abundantly, and we'll still together.
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First John, chapter five and verse nineteen. First John, five
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nineteen Apostle John is teaching us something. He's giving us
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an information, and it says, and we know that we
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are of God and the whole world, not.
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Speaker 1: Just a quibumb, not just Nigeria.
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Speaker 3: When it has to do with wickedness, the rich extends
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to the entire globe. That means there is no physical
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space you will go that sustains immunity in itself against wickedness.
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There must be a system of advantage you build to
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superimpose this reality.
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Speaker 1: He says, the whole world lies in wickedness.
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Speaker 3: One last scripture, first pit Touchapter five and verse eight.
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First pit Touchapter five and verse eight, just bothressing on
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the fact that prayer is a platform that allows for
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warfare and intercession. This is a dimension that many believers
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do not understand or understand properly. It says, to be
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so bad, be vigilant. Be vigilant means be discerning. This
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is a security expression. Because your adversary, the devil, as
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a roaring lion, walked about seeking whom he may devour.
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Chances are excellent that he will find you, because the
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Bible says he's.
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Speaker 1: Moving around and seeking whom he may devour.
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Speaker 3: So transformation number one, Number two obtaining requests and promises.
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Number three creating possibilities in your life.
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Speaker 1: Number four warfare and intercession.
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Speaker 3: This is the jurisdiction of the prayer ministry in the
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life of the believer. Now, very quickly, let's go to
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the rules of engagement James Chapter four ID said earlier.
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Speaker 1: Will start from verse one.
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Speaker 3: Apostle James is teaching us how to receive answers to prayer.
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Now James four will start from verse one, verse one, can.
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Speaker 1: You help us media?
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Speaker 3: Verse one James four and one Let me talk to
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it quickly for sake of time. James, Chapter four and
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verse one.
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Speaker 1: Here's what it says.
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Speaker 3: From whence comeent wars and fightings among you come there
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not hence even from your losts that war within your members.
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Next verse year lost and have not ye kill and
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desire to have and cannot obtain Ye fight and war,
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yet ye have not? Because he acts not very interesting rendition,
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Do you know what.
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Speaker 1: James is saying.
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Speaker 3: He's saying many fights are unnecessary if you understand that
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prayer can give.
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Speaker 1: Equal platform for reception.
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Speaker 3: He's saying that most of the jealousy and the envy
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that we experience in a world is a report card
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from the secret frustration of people who have tried to
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receive things and have not found. Are you getting want
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insteaching us here?
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Speaker 1: From whence come this on necessary things?
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Speaker 3: He's saying, the simple reason why you do not have
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is not because your neighbor has. Your neighbors has nothing
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to do with your not having. It is just a
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human thing that if I have and you do not have,
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chances are excellent. You will believe it is my having
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that is stopping you're not having. And James is saying
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that it's unnecessary. You fight and war, yet ye have
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not play because you ask not. Now verse three, he says,
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some of you have gone so that to ask, and
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shockingly you did not receive. He's diagnosing the condition, and
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he's revealing that there is a certain condition where you
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can ask and yet not receive. He says, ye ask
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and receive not Why because ye ask a miss.
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Speaker 1: That ye may consume it upon your lost?
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Speaker 3: So apostle James here is helping and strengthening our prayer
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that just because you are asking does not guarantee that
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you will receive.
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Speaker 1: There are rules of engagement.
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Speaker 3: There are principles that if not kept, you can be
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sure you will not have it. He says, the possibility
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exists that a believer, even though well intentioned, can ask amiss. Now,
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what does it mean to ask a miss? To ask
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a miss has three expressions. One of it is this
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written here that you may consume it upon your lost.
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Speaker 1: That means wrong motive.
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Speaker 3: The first expression of asking amiss is that your desire
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for wanting it is already corrupt when a believer, ask amiss.
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Speaker 1: It means that you desire it for your own loss.
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Speaker 3: But let's go to James very quickly for further explanation
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James chapter one, and will go to verse five asking amiss.
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Speaker 1: This is what we're discussing now.
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Speaker 3: So the Bible identifies asking amiss as the major.
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Speaker 1: Secret for not receiving in prayer.
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Speaker 3: That asking amiss as an expression of number one, asking
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for the wrong motive, the wrong motive number two.
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Speaker 1: If any of you lack, don't worry about what you lack.
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Speaker 3: If any of you lack, it could be wisdom in discontext,
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or any other thing else. That if the moment you
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find out that there is deficiency or insufficiency of any
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provision in your life, it says, let him ask of God,
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and that God is a giver. Are we together now
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that the moment you see that there is lack in
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your life, lack of favor, lack of opportunities, lack of
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open doors, in this case, lack of wisdom, it says
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to ask of God that give it to how many men?
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Speaker 1: And how far does he give liberally? Are we together?
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Speaker 3: And or prayed not? And it shall be given to
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him quickly? He brings a disclaimer. Verse six, it says,
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but let him ask in faith. So here we find
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one of the keys again that expresses praying amiss. That
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when there is no faith to your prayer, it is
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praying amiss. There is no guarantee for an answer. It's
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God helping us this night. So one, praying a miss
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refers to praying for the wrong motif number two, that
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there is no faith in that prayer equation. And then
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the Bible says, let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
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Speaker 1: For he that wavered is like the wave of the sea.
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Speaker 3: Toast with the wind and toast Verse seven.
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Speaker 1: Very tragic statement. For let not that man think.
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Speaker 3: That he shall receive anything of the Lord. Praying a
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miss means number one. Let me structure it for you. Now,
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praying without a scriptural backing. Number two, praying with and
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for the wrong motif number three, praying without faith.
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Speaker 1: This is very powerful praying amiss.
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Speaker 3: Do you know if you do not pray with the
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backing of scripture, the Bible guarantees that you do not
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have an answer.
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 3: Because you see, the Word of God is the basis
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for God's commitment to the believer. As mighty as God
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is he cannot be committed to the believer outside of
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the provision that the Word allows.
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Speaker 1: Are we together now? Yes?
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Speaker 3: This is very powerful. God is almighty. Yet he has
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bound himself with principles as far as his relationship with
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the believer is concern in Isaiah forty one and verse
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twenty one, about to pray now Isaiah forty one and
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verse twenty one. Isaiah forty one. Never forget the scripture
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if you are seeing it for the first time, or
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for some of you. This is a reminder. It says,
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produce your cosse, sayth the Lord. Bring forth your strong reasons.
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Why should I lift you? Why should I give you longevity?
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Why should I honor you like Daniel? Why should I
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live like Joseph? He says, produce your cause. Don't just
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ask me to do it. I am committed. There has
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to be a basis for it.
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Speaker 1: Are we together?
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Speaker 3: The Word of God is the basis of our confidence,
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the basis of our faith. In first first John, chapter five,
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First John five, fourteen and fifteen. Please First John five,
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the Bible says, this is the confidence that we have.
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Speaker 1: Please say, I have this confidence.
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Speaker 3: This is the confidence that we have in Him that
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if we ask anything, and it is in accordance to
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his will.
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Speaker 1: What is his will? His word? You see that now
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his will.
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Speaker 3: If it is in accordance with his word, he gives
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us a guarantee that he heard us verse fifteen. And
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we know if we know that he hears us whatsoever
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we ask, we.
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Speaker 1: Know that we have our petitions.
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Speaker 3: So we can begin to rejoice even before it manifests.
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Why the same way a doctor will give a patient
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injection and not as a patient to stay in the
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hospital there on it till he's fine, you can say go.
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You are fine with that confidence. You know why he
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spent years in college learning the dynamics of what he
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put inside that patient. He is aware of what will
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happen to the patient. So when we pray, we can know.
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When we say God, bless a quible, open doors of favor,
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we can say amen and begin to rejoice with confidence
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because we have found in his world. Can I tell
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you as loving as God is, if there is no
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scriptural basis for your discussion with him, there is no
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guarantee for answer. It's as simple and as honest as
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that blessed Some one thirty eight and verse two. Very
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interesting Scripture, as will prepare to pray Some one thirty
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eight and verse two it says, I will worship towards
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thy holy tempo and praise thy name for thy loving
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kindness and for thy truth.
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Speaker 1: Let's read the remaining sentence.
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Speaker 3: Ready read, for thou hast magnified thy word above your name.
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His name means his office. That he has lifted his word.
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That means if my office compromises the word, do not
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regard my office. That's how far God has gone with
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his word. So when you say, Lord, lift me, he says,
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I desire to.
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Speaker 1: But what is the basis for your lifting?
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Speaker 3: Then you go to scripture and says your word says
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Deuteronomy twenty eight from verse one and two, that it
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shall come to pass if I diligently happen to the
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voice of the Lord, to do and observe all that
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you have commanded me this day, that I shall be
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a insulted above the nations of the earth, and that
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all these blessings shall come upon me and overtake me.
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Now you have brought a scriptural basis that becomes the
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platform for your lifting. For instance, the Bible says the
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path of the jost is as a shining light that
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shines ever brighter onto the perfect day, that can become
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the basis for committing God to your rising.
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Speaker 1: This is where the mistake of prayer.
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Speaker 3: In Africa and even this our dear nation, we pray
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a lot of superstitious, emotionally consoling prayers that do not
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have a scriptural basis for answer. God, will you keep
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watching me like this? Are you not the one exalted?
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That is a very emotionally comforting prayer, but based on
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the rules of engagement, there is a guarantee that the
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best you will only receive from that prayer is an
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emotional consolation that you have expressed yourself to a deity
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that you believe is higher than you. But as first
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ansize concern, the Bible assures you already to not be
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surprised if it does not come, I will learn something tonight.
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Speaker 1: Jesus was don't fasting and praying. Please look up.
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Speaker 3: Jesus was don't fasting and praying for forty days, according
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to Matthew chapter four, and the Bible says Satan came
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to him immediately three temptations.
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Speaker 1: Temptations number one, he says.
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Speaker 3: If you are truly the son of God, turn this
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stone to prayer. You would think Jesus would say, I've
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been praying, leave me. No, Satan seem to not even
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respect his prayer and fasting. What gave credence to his
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prayer was his honor for the world. It is written,
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not I am saying. It is written. The basis for
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the victory is not what I am saying. It is
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that it is written. Man shall not leave by bread alone.
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Jesus the word had to use. It is written as
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his system of defense. Satan took him to a holy mounting,
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a holy temple, and it's a fall down after all,
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the Bible says, he will put his angels chat over you.
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You see how Satan switched to and Jesus said, it
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is written.
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Speaker 1: Finally, he took him into.
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Speaker 3: An exceeding high mountain, the Bible says, showed him the
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glories of the world and said, bow to me, and
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I will give you because all this has.
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Speaker 1: Been given to me. It is written.
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Speaker 3: So your prayer is only powerful to the degree to
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which the content of that prayer is consistent with what
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is written. When what is written becomes what you are speaking,
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then you are praying. Let me say it again, when
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what is written becomes what you are speaking, then you
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are pray. But if you are just speaking, I'm speaking
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my mind. Oh God, of course He's merciful. Many answers
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happen at the platform of messy, because if God is
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to answer is based on what we're saying.
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Speaker 1: The truth is that many people may not receive.
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Speaker 3: They may receive one answer per decade or one answer
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per year. So we're about to pray for his excellency
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and an excellency. We're about to pray for the prophetic
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destiny of acquible. My question is, have you found in
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scripture where God has vowed to defend you? Have you
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found in scripture where God has vowed that this government
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will continue to rise? Have you found in scripture where
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He has pledged his commitment that if people seek him corporately,
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he will defend them.
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Speaker 1: Just knowing it is there does not bring results.
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Speaker 3: You must find it and you must engage Him.
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Speaker 1: When you engage scripture.
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Speaker 3: Now you have come within the jurisdiction the boundary of
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answered prayer.
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Speaker 1: Are we blessed onto the that answers prayer shall all
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flesh come?
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Speaker 3: We have confidence when we pray because we know that
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we're not praying and miss our motive remains to see
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Jesus glorified.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you this.
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Speaker 3: When I stepped in here and I sat down, I
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was just thinking, I said, my God, it takes a
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heart for God to do this. You know, sometimes it's
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easy to see leaders do spectacular things. I think they're
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just doing it. It is very difficult to be vocal
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about certain things in certain positions.
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Speaker 4: And.
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Speaker 3: I really wish other states that were professing states had
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these kinds of thing.
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Speaker 1: It is not vain to seek God.
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Speaker 3: Go and read your Bible and see there are the
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blessed of this that you are doing may not necessarily
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come on many people now in its weightiness. It is
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the third and fourth generation God. Because God, you see,
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is a covenant keeping God. You will find out that
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years after that, when the devil wants will come and
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destroy the state, you will find out that a particular
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government has lifted a prayer.
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Speaker 1: Garrison to cover the destiny of that state.
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Speaker 3: Most times, you see, when you are involved in prophetic intercession,
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you must look beyond your personal comfort.
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Speaker 1: At the moment. It is a sacrifice you are making
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for other people.
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Speaker 3: Allelujah. So we're going to pray. I believe in the
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power of prayer. I have come firstified my life and
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the bit that God has done in and through my
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life on account of prayer. I did not come from
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a background that provides any significant advantage by default.
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Speaker 1: I know what prayer can do. You can evolve.
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Speaker 3: Into superior versions of yourself in and through prayer. So
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I know that we have prayed. The Man of God
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who came so powerfully led us. You see the character
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when he was leading through the prayer, the scriptures that were.
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Speaker 1: As simple as this is.
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Speaker 3: Your first assignment in wanting to pray is to put
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together the scriptural arsenals that become the basis of your
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engaging the Almighty. I'm tired of my child behaving this way.
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I want him to improve. Oh God, do something that's
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not prayer. Your first assignment is to be like a
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spiritual archeologist. Go to scripture and find where has God committed.
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Speaker 1: Himself to lived and to bless you.
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Speaker 3: Then you go to some one twelve blessed is the
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man that heared, the Lord that delighted greatly in his commands.
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He said his seed shall be mighty upon earth. Now
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you go to God in prayer. Lord, I delight myself
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in your world, and I hear you. By the grace
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you have invested in me, my.
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Speaker 1: Seat should not be small. That becomes the basis of
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your defense. Are you saying that? Now? It says the
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generation of the upright shall be blessed.
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Speaker 3: Then it says wealth and riches shall be in his house,
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and yet his righteousness end us forever.
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Speaker 1: That becomes the basis.
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Speaker 3: If you are accessing the world of God, and it
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looks like you are going down, you have a right
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to go to God and petition him in prayer. You
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see that now in Job chapter twenty nine. Remember what
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Job said, all that I was in the days of
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my youth when his.
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Speaker 1: Light was upon me.
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Speaker 3: It is impossible for his light to be upon you,
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and then darkness surrounds you everywhere. There are two kinds
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of light, the one that shines on your head and
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the one that shines on your feet. The one that
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shines on your head gives you illumination and intelligence.
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Speaker 1: The one that shines on your feet gives you direction.
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You need both.
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Speaker 3: It says, on account of that the young men saw
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me and ste the elders, he began to express the
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kind of results that came from that life. Any believer,
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including the dear people, see that he's headed by his excellency,
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can become a uniquely distinguished.
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Speaker 1: People on the strength of the truths that we know.
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Speaker 3: It is my desire to see the glory of the
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Lord rise even within the city and even within the state.
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You have vocally expressed your love for Jesus, and I
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can tell you give him a chance to prove once
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and again what he can do with the people who.
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Speaker 1: Love him and honor him greatly.
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Speaker 5: From the rising of the sun to the setin of
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the same, your name is to be hallo.
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Speaker 1: Ah.
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Speaker 5: From the rising of the sun to the city, say.
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Speaker 1: Your name is to Ah.
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Speaker 3: We can change things in prayer. We can create the
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spiritual climate in prayer. We can fight crime in prayer.
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Thank God for the judiciary, Thank God for the police
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and the military. What my Bible says, accept the Lord,
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duilty house, It says the label in vain that builded
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accept the Lord watches over a city. He said the
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watchman watched, but in vain that it is vain to
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wake up early in the morning and to sleep late
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in the night, only to eat the bread of sorrow.
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But that he can leave his beloved sleep. Sleep means rest.
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You're ready to pray. Thank the Lord for this word.
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That's the first prayer point given this knight, please lift
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your voice unless pray thanking him for the abundance of
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his world. The Bible declares that the entrance of his
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word gives light and even understanding to the simple. Someone
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is saying, thank you to Jesus for opening your eyes
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to see and to understand. Efficiency of the one plus
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eighteen says, having their understanding darkened, it has been alienated
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from the life of God through the ignorance that is
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in them because.
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Speaker 1: Of the blindness of their minds. Thank you, Father for
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your word.
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Speaker 3: You have brought your word to teach me what it
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means to pray. The kind of prayer that prevails the
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pavot effectual prayer of the Aquaibum citizen, the fathet and
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effectual prayer of the Aquiebumb state government can pre fail
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and can produce power dynamic in its working.
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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of
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Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 3: Now I'll just lead us through three prayer points if
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you allow me, and then will be done. The first
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prayer point has to do with our personal lives and.
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Speaker 1: Our personal results.
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Speaker 3: I believe that territorial transformation starts from personal transformation. If
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you do not experience growth and advancement and increase, chances
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are excellent that you will not have the strength to
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sit with that your territory becomes that Heaven is that
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true God desires for us to do well and to prosper.
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It says, I wish above all things that thou may
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as prosper and be in health, even as.
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Speaker 1: That or prosperate.
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Speaker 3: So we're going to pray for ourselves as individuals, and
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to pray as the entire theme of the government, that
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God himself would visit individuals and cause that individuals excel.
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The state can excel corporately, and yet individuals may not
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be doing well.
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Speaker 1: It is God's desire that.
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Speaker 3: We do well distinctly, and then it speels over to
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the state.
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Speaker 1: Is someone ready to pray?
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Speaker 3: I like you to lift your voice and begin to
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ask the Lord to lift you, ask the Lord to
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bless you, asks the Lord to honor you.
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Speaker 1: The Bible says.
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Speaker 3: The path of the trust is as a shining light
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that shines ever bright. And if someone pray. We're praying
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to the God that answers prayers. Lift your voice and
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pray to the God that answers prayers.
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Speaker 1: We're praying to the God that I sirs prayers.
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Speaker 6: Thank you Jesus labor lacked serf pridaas, Thank you Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Alna. First some well, chapter twelfth, place and verse six.
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Speaker 3: First some well, very quickly, you may want to write
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this scripture down very powerful. First some well, chapter twelfth
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and verse six and some well said onto the people
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of a Quaibo, it said, it is the Lord that
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advanced Moses and Eron and brought your fathers out of
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the land of Egypt. Who advances men? That means when
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you see people moving forward and accomplishing strikes, It says,
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there is an invisible hand that can push men. Men
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do not just move forward. It takes more than intention
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and a good hard to advance.
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Speaker 1: It says, it is the Lord that advanced Moses.
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Speaker 3: It is the Lord that advances ex see, it is
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a lord that advances you.
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Speaker 1: You are going to pray and make it declaration.
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Speaker 3: Lord advans me, I release myself and I contend for
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advancement based on the integrity of your world. Are you
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ready to pray, Go ahead and pray advancement territorially, advancement
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in my health, advancement in my finances, advancement in every
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area of my life, advancement even by the spirit.
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Speaker 1: Of the Living God.
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Speaker 3: I decree and declare in the name of Jesus Christ.
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I advance by the mighty hand of God.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah. Still on advancement.
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Speaker 3: Sum eighteen and first eighteen, Please very quickly, you have
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about five or so minutes.
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Speaker 1: Pm. Eighteen and Verse twenty nine.
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Speaker 3: It says, for by thee I have run through the truth,
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and by my God I have lived over a war.
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It is not normal to lip over a word, but
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not when God is holding you.
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Speaker 1: When that invisible hand holds you, you can scale any war.
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Speaker 3: Is someone ready to pray, Lord, I obtain chrace to advance.
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Speaker 1: If it means me leaping over a world, If it means.
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Speaker 3: Me moving over a troop, I you obtain that grace
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in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Someone is praying.
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By day, I have run through a troop. By my God,
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I have lived.
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Speaker 1: Over a wall.
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Speaker 3: No limitations in my advancement in the name of Jesus
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and by the power of the Holy Spirit, hallelujah. Genesis
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twenty four and verse one. Genesis twenty four and verse one,
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the Bible says, and Abraham was old and well stricken
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in age.
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Speaker 1: Help me read the remaining part.
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Speaker 3: And the Lord had blessed him in all things.
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Speaker 1: All things. Now man, the captain of the Syrian.
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Speaker 3: Army had some things, but let prosy still remained. And
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the slave girl. Through the ministry of that slave girl,
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he received perfection.
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Speaker 1: Someone is about to pray.
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Speaker 3: Lord, you have helped me in this area, but this
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other area, by the spirit of prase, grab me all around.
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Speaker 1: Rest.
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Speaker 3: If someone praying all things, he says that God, when
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he blesses men, he blesses them in all things, He
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does not bless your finances and leave your health. He
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does not bless your end of one leaves your finances.
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If it is God he blesses in all things, Please
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leave your voice and pray.
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Speaker 4: Allexuia prays alone.
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Speaker 3: Now let's prey for a quibum second Chronicles fifteen and
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verse three. Second Chronicles, Chapter fifteen and US three. Now
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for a long season, Israel had been without the true God,
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and without a teaching priest, and without law Verse four,
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it says, but when they in their trouble, because trouble
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will be imminent in any.
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Speaker 1: City that does not have these critics.
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Speaker 3: Number one, the recognition of the One True God. Number two,
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teaching priests models that help to shape the spiritual and
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the moral.
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Speaker 1: Convictions of people within a territory.
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Speaker 3: If a territory is bankrupt of such people, there will
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be imminent moral decadems. And then number three laws are
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the three things that keep any society the consciousness of
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the authority that is above them in heaven. Number two
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the presence of teaching priests, men and women who help
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to shape the spiritual and the moral convictions of the people.
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The spiritual health of the average individual within any geographic
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region is a report card as.
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Speaker 1: To the quality of the teaching priests within that territory.
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Speaker 3: And then number three know nor when a people are lawless.
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When a territory is lawless, thecadems is imminent, the Bible says,
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But when they, in their trouble did turn to the
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Lord God of Israel and sought him, the Bible says
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he was found of them.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready to pray?
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Speaker 3: Father that acquire them will continue to acknowledge Jesus as
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the head over the state, that you will continue to
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honor the ministry of teaching priests, men and men of
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God's spiritual leaders, and all of that, and that when
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it has to do with the law and those who
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enforce the law, grant wisdom. And we pray, please lift
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your voice and pray over the State, that continually Jesus
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will be lifted and glorified over the states.
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Speaker 7: Continually, continually, continually lifted and glorified over the States, lifted
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and glorified over the States.
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Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus. Firstimotive, Chapter two, place from
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verse one and two. Wrapping up now, First Demotive, Chapter two.
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I exhorte therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions,
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and giving of things be made for all men, but
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particularly for kings and for all that are in authority,
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Why that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
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in all godliness and honesty. We have a responsibility to
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pray for the leaders led by His Excellency and Her Excellency,
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And I want us to pray. We're going to use
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them as a point of contact and cry that in
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the name of Jesus, that God himself will find the
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excellencies alongside all the members that make the executive cabinets
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and all who are involved in the affairs of the state.
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Speaker 1: Were going to pray that they remain malliable.
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Speaker 3: Versels for the purposes of God to find expression within
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the state. Are you in agreement? Live to avoide in
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one minute, and let's pray. Pray for your governor. Pray
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for her excellency, Pray for the demity Governor, pray for
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all the members of Parliament the State House that you
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di sharing. Let it be from the depth of your heart.
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Were wrapping up your pray.
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Speaker 6: Now that they will continue to prosper.
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Speaker 3: Allelujah. Last scripture, Second Chronicles twenty six. I'll read from
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verse three to five, Second Chronicles twenty six. Sixteen years
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old was Usiah when he began to raid, and he
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reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
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was Jacolia of Jerusalem. The Bible says he did what
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was right in the sight of the Lord, according to
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all that his father Amasiah did verse five, and his
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son God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding
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in the visions of God, and as long as he
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sought the Lord God made him to prosper as long
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as he soorts the Lord. We're going to pray still
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for the governor and the entire cabinet. We're going to pray.
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Speaker 1: Lord. They will seek the Lord.
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Speaker 3: They will seek you and seek your waist, and you
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will prosper this state while they seek you.
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Speaker 1: Are you in agreement, Please left your voice in one
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minute and.
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Speaker 4: Pray Alan Lujah, press the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Amen, Please let me just play for a minute.
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Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit just put a scripture in my heart
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that I want us to look at Proverbs chapter twenty four.
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I believe twenty four from US three and four. The
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Lord said, we have to pray this over. A quibo
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through wisdom is a house builded by understanding.
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Speaker 1: It is established by knowledge. Shall the chambers be.
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Speaker 3: Filled with all pressure states wisdom, knowledge understanding. Inasmuch as
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we are spiritual people when it has to do with
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bringing policies and dealing with the cosmos, we need our
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spirituality to translate into a context of wisdom, a context
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of understanding and knowledge that becomes it becomes evident to
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the state. I am convinced that spirituality must translate into
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a context that produces a level of intelligence.
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Speaker 1: That our territory can relate with are in agreement on that.
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Speaker 3: So final prayer Point Lord, for this state, for the leaders,
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and for everyone who is part of this state, Your wisdom,
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understanding and knowledge upon them.
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Speaker 1: Please lift your voice and pray.
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Speaker 3: Lift your voice and pray wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
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Speaker 1: For those in government, for.
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Speaker 3: As citizens in this state, for men and women of God,
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for politicians, the judiciary, the police, the law enforcement agents.
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We pray for wisdom the ability to translate spiritual truth
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to a context that can improve and better society.
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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 3: By the privilege of priesthood and by the privilege of
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the election of Grace, I led my voice with every
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man of God, every minister of the Gospel here represented
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and in this state.
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Speaker 1: And I joined my faith with you to speak.
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Speaker 3: Over the state that in the name that is above
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all names, let it be a new season for this state.
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In the name of Jesus, I pray for its excellency
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and all the cabinet members. I decree and declared supernatural
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wisdom from the Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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I pray for all who are part of this state.
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It will only be for you from glory to glory.
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By prophecy, we fortify the spiritual borders over a quai bomb.
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Darkness terroorism will never penetrate this system. We command the
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head to judge the evil to us in the name
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of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: Let the decline.
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Speaker 3: Let there be a multiplied decline in moral decadems. In
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the name of Jesus Christ. Let the young men and
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women in this state continue to be responsible people. I
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decree and declare that aquai bomb will only go from
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glory to glory and grace to grace. Let it be
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so in the name of Jesus. Let it be so
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in the name of Jesus, that decades after now a
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quibum will not look like a shadow of itself. It
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will only be an improvement from glory to glory. In
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Jesus' name, I pray thank you once again for the
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honor to bring the ward. The Lord bless you in
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Jesus Nay