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How to Build a Systemic and Consistent Prayer Life by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Is systemic prayer life the first key that builds believers
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  to become people of power and stature in the Spirit is
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  systemic prayer life. Notice the expression systemic.
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  If your prayer life is not systemic, it will be ineffective
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  and it will be void of the ability to build you systemic.
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  In Acts chapter 3 and verse one, the Bible tells us that Peter
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  and John were on their way to the temple to pray at the hour
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  of prayer. Please say that after me the
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  hour of prayer, one more time, the hour of prayer.
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  There was a discipline that was invested to their prayer life.
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  It was called the hour of prayer, dedicated to prayer, the
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  hour of prayer. Most believers pray, but aside
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  from praying a miss, we are not consistent in our prayer.
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  We have an emotional approach to prayer, so when matters get bad
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  and it looks like we're in trouble, we quickly develop some
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  kind of crash system and we shout at the gates of heaven.
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  And once it looks like there's a little solution, then we leave
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  everything your prayer life. The power in prayer is in its
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  consistency, especially when we're talking about prayer as a
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  tool for building you. I'll talk a bit on prayer.
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  It's important we understand this.
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  The key to benefiting from prayer is to create a strategy
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  for consistency. The key to benefiting from
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  prayer is to create a strategy for consistency.
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  Most believers are not consistent in their prayer.
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  Can I give you 4 assignments of prayer?
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  Maybe you want to write that down.
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  According to scripture, there are 4 assignments of prayer.
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  Number one, the first assignment of prayer is for growth and
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  transformation. This is the most important
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  assignment of prayer. Did you know that the average
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  believers understanding of prayer is just as a means for
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  receiving things from God? The major assignment of prayer
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  is as a tool for your personal growth and transformation.
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  Luke Chapter 9 please and verse 29.
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  Are we learning? That means a major part of your
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  prayer should not just be about asking things but engaging for
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  your spiritual development. This is why He gave us the
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  prayer language. As He prayed, we still together,
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  the fashion of His countenance was altered.
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  Talk to me and his raiment became white and glistering.
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  This is what happened to Jesus as He prayed.
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  This is what will happen to any believer as you pray.
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  As he prayed, the fashion of His countenance transformation.
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  A weak you can become a strong you when you pray, a timid you.
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  A carnal you can become a spiritual you.
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  You can pray out witness, pray out limitation.
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  Most believers have not used prayer as a tool for their
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  development. Show me a man who has been
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  methodically mentored to understand the ministry and the
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  role of prayer in his development and has obtained
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  grace to engage. I show you a powerful Christian
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  in the making. Now I hope you know that when
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  the disciples of John became the disciples of Jesus, they noticed
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  that Jesus is prayer produced power and they came to him and
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  said teach us to pray. Their issue was not
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  prayerlessness. Their issue was that there was
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  no power in their prayer. Everything he said came to pass.
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  What was he saying? What was He doing?
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  You must spend a major part of your prayer life praying in the
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  Spirit. When you want to grow, listen
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  carefully. You must spend a major part of
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  your prayer time praying in the Spirit.
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  Most believers do not use prayer as a tool for growth and
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  transformation. It says you shall receive power
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  after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you.
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  But in Acts chapter 2, they receive the prayer language, not
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  power. That means there is a
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  relationship between that prayer language and the promised power.
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  Am I right on that? If I tell you that I'm bringing
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  you a hot meal and I bring you, say, a blue gift, it means you
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  must open to find out. There must be a connection
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  between that gift I gave you and the promise I left you.
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  Probably the meal must be inside.
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  Am I wrapped? Are we together?
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  If I promise you $1000 and then I hand over a bag, it is only
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  wise to open that bag because the $1000 will most likely be in
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  there as cash, as some voucher. I say check.
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  Am I right on that? So if Jesus says you will
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  receive power and what you receive was tongues you, there
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  has to be a relationship between engaging that prayer language
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  and the release of power. Hallelujah.
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  Listen, I'm saying this because I'm going to give you an
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  assignment in righteousness. You are going to work with the
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  Holy Spirit to create a systemic pattern of consistent prayer
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  from tonight. Believe me, you work this for
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  one month, two months, three months, praying consistently
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  every day for the purpose of edification and growth, and
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  watch the wonder you become. Do you believe this?
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  So the first assignment of prayer is as a tool for growth
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  and transformation #2 the second assignment of prayer is as a
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  platform for obtaining requests and making petitions.
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  Obtaining requests and making petitions.
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  Obtaining requests and making petitions.
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  God is Father, God is a giver. We can obtain requests.
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  We can make petitions Mark Chapter 11 please and verse 24.
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  Here's what the Bible says and what things so ever ye desire is
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  that in your Bible it says when ye pray so there is a
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  relationship between desires and prayer.
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  It says believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.
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  Desire prayer, believing, receiving, having desire prayer
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  believing in prayer, receiving in prayer, having in experience.
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  This is a dynamics. So prayer is a tool for making
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  petitions and obtaining requests.
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  The Bible even says ask Matthew 77 and you shall receive.
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  Is that still in your Bible? Seek and you will find.
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  Knock it says, and it shall be opened unto you.
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  I like verse 8 for everyone. Prayer is for everyone, for
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  everyone, not some. Everyone that asketh in prayer
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  receiveth. It says, Ye have not because ye
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  ask not. Are we still together?
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  So assignment number one of the prayer ministry is for your
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  growth, edification and transformation #2 as a tool, a
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  platform to obtain requests and to make petitions ready for #3
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  The third assignment of prayer as revealed from Scripture is as
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  a tool for creating your reality.
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  Prayer when in combination with the spoken word helps the
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  believer create their reality. I like this.
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  The Bible says even God who quickened the dead and collect
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  those things that be not. I hope you know that the
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  believer is a Co creator with God.
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  You are given the responsibility of designing your destiny using
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  the creative power of the spoken word in prayer.
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  This must form a major part of your prayer life, not just to
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  ask. Speak Son of Man, can these
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  bones leave? He says only thou knowest.
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  And then he said prophecy. Speak to someone, say prophecy
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  one more time. They prophecy.
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  Now. Isn't it interesting that the
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  Holy Spirit told Ezekiel what to say?
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  The bones had what the Holy Spirit was saying and they did
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  not move until Ezekiel spoke. I prophesied as I was commanded,
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  he said, and there was a sound. So every time we prophecy in
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  prayer, there is a sound, a sound, a sound, a sound, a sound
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  of healing, a sound of restoration, a sound of revival,
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  a sound of mending bones. Now listen, you would look at a
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  valley, a valley that was full of bones.
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  You would see the one bone here, the other bone there.
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  The possibility for order was still there even in the midst of
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  chaos, but not under every condition.
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  The moment the prophet prophesied, the bone came from
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  everywhere to everywhere. The bone can mean the problem.
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  The bone can mean whatever you desire connecting itself until
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  there arose an exceeding great army.
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  Can I tell you, you do not know the kind of power you have as
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  far as shaping your possibilities and creating your
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  destiny is concerned until you know how to use Scripture with
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  the intelligence of an artist, you begin to draw your
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  possibilities. Have you watched an artist paint
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  from nothing, swiping the brush left to right at various angles,
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  not making sense at the beginning, sometimes inverting
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  the picture, and then when he's done, he turns it back.
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  This is your destiny, so when you begin to make declarations
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  like the Lord is my light and my salvation, of whom shall I be
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  afraid of? Are we together now?
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  Yes, Sir, the psalmist said, I lay me down when I slept, I wait
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  for the Lord sustain me. 1000 shall fall by my side, 10,000 by
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  my right side, but none shall harm me.
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  With my eyes will I see and behold the reward of the wicked.
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  The Bible says they that be planted in the House of the
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  Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God, that in old
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  age they will be fat and flourishing.
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  That is my destiny. That is your assignment in the
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  place of prayer to use the spoken word and push it with
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  faith and begin to redefine your possibilities.
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  When men say there is a casting down for me, my declaration is
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  that there is a lifting up. Yes Sir, believe this.
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  This is how kings reign. He suffered no man to do them
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  wrong. He reproved kings for their
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  sakes. Sagging touch not mine anointed,
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  and do my prophets no harm. I'm planted in the House of God.
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  I flourish in the court of our God.
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  In old age I am fat and flourishing.
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  No devil would take my life before my time.
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  In the name of Jesus, I have a covenant of life.
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  Did the Bible not say they obey and serve him?
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  They will spend their years in prosperity, their days in
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  prosperity, their years in pleasure.
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  I expect to be favored in any nation regardless my background,
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  because the Bible says, watch this.
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  It says let them shout for joy. Let them say continually, let
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  the Lord be magnified which had pleasure in the prosperity of
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  his servants. It is in my Bible that I am
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  blessed in the city, blessed not just in Nigeria, I am blessed in
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  America. I define my possibilities.
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  Listen, I'm teaching you how believers become matured.
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  I cannot be rejected, not by any nation, not by any people group.
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  The hand of God is upon my life. I have the covenant of Abraham
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  working in me. He says in thee shall all the
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  families of the earth be blessed.
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  This is what I believe. This is my reality.
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  Listen, do you believe this now? You see, the requirement for
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  prophecy is a thorough understanding of the promises of
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  God. You cannot speak prophetically
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  in ignorance because God is only committed to what He has said,
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  not what you want. It is only when your desire
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  becomes what God has said that it looks like God is answering
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  you. You see, what God is answering
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  is not really your desire. He's honoring His Word that you
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  have found and connected to your desire, because in this Kingdom,
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  if God has not spoken, His anointing has no ministry.
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  The assignment of the anointing is to insist that the Word does
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  not become a lie in your life. Genesis 21 and verse one.
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  And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto
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  Sarah as He has spoken. God only visits as He has said.
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  He only does as He has spoken. Did you get that?
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  So if he has not said it and if you cannot find where he has
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  said it, there is bit for performance in your life.
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  The third ministry of prayer is someone learning.
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  I refuse to be defeated, not when I have disadvantage in my
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  life. No, no, no.
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  I define my possibilities. I don't wait for life to happen
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  to me. That is a dangerous adventure.
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  I can't risk my life. I have just one lifetime.
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  I'm not going to put one lifetime at the mercy of wicked
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  people, wicked systems. No job already taught us a
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  lesson. By being silent.
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  I would be silent. I have to participate in every
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  outcome that happens in my life. No devil will make any
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  discussions. And then I become a victim of
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  operations of spirits and territorial powers.
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  No, no discussions were concluded about Job.
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  And the Bible says on a certain day, the third assignment of
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  prayer, you see that for many of you your life has gone
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  inconsistent with your desires because you are just allowing
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  life to just happen. Now when you leave a farm
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  without planting, something will grow.
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  What is it called? One more time we define weeds in
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  agriculture as unwanted plants, at least with respect to your
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  farm. Unwanted, unwanted.
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  Every tree that has not been planted by my Father, it is my
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  responsibility to uproot it. Are we together?
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  So you find out that you're roaming over Boston and looks
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  like doors are closed. Everyone hates you.
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  Come on, don't go around attracting sympathy.
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  Lock yourself. You have an advantage.
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  The prayer ministry. You pray in the spirit and you
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  stretch your hands like the priest that you are and begin to
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  make prophetic scripture based declarations.
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  Here's what the Bible says. Is anyone afflicted?
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  James 513, It says let him pray. Now watch this.
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  Then it says, let him call for the elders of the church.
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  My goodness, I like this. Watch this, it says, and let
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  them pray. Help that person under the
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  anointing, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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  Read verse 15 and never forget this scripture for the rest of
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  your life. The prayer of faith shall save
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  the sick. Hold on, and by the power of
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  prayer the Lord shall raise him up.
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  Prayer raises men up. The Lord shall raise him up
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  through the prayer of faith. Raise him up from a nobody and
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  put you in a global scale. Do you believe this?
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  Listen, do not let contemporary society make it look like prayer
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  is just an activity of fanatical Christians.
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  You would be doing your destiny a disservice.
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  Prayer. He speak a parable to the end
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  that men ought always to pray and not to faint.
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  So #1 Praying in the Spirit for your edification, growth and
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  transformation #2 using scripture based prayer as a
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  basis for obtaining requests and making petitions on to thee that
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  answers prayer. The Bible says, Shall all flesh
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  come #3 Creating possibilities in your life is like an act of
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  legislating things. You are enacting laws in the
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  Spirit and establishing them. The Bible says where the word of
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  a king is, there is power. It says, Declare ye that thou
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  mightest be justified. Don't be silent, Give him no
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  rest until he establishes Jerusalem as a praise #4 The
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  4th. And final assignment of prayer
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  is for warfare and prophetic intercession.
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  I hope you believe in warfare. Let me define for you what I
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  call warfare. Warfare is a prophetic system of
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  establishing the Word of God and establishing the will of God
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  over lives, destinies, and territories.
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  Warfare is concerned not just with fighting, but establishing
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  realities that have been finished, making them manifest
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  through the force of intercession.
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  I'm going to be teaching you that because this is how you
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  would take your territory. All the other aspects,
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  excellence, leadership, value, you already have it.
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  That missing ingredient is what I came to show you.
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  We are learning from you the other aspects because we've
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  gotten warfare and intercession. Well then we've left excellence,
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  we've learnt leadership and so we are coming to borrow that.
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  But in exchange, we're important to you.
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  How to exact dominion upon territories using the power of
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  priesthood. Elijah stood in one place, not
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  in a radio station, not in ATV station, and he shot down rain.
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  Listen, if you learn what I'm about to show you tonight, the
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  spiritual forces that trouble the purposes of God over Boston
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  will be in trouble after tonight.
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  You see, Daniel was an intelligent leader and Daniel
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  understood the power of prayer. Now before the king, he was a
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  valuable person, excellent intelligent and administrator.
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  The Bible says he had an excellent spirit, but all that
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  was strengthened because of his prayer.
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  So the spirits of the medicine and the passions, they needed to
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  investigate what was responsible for this man's excellence and
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  dexterity in life. They traced it to his prayer.
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  Can you imagine that these spirits move through man to
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  enact one law against one man for just 30 days?
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  They came through the angle of politics and governance to say
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  for the next 30 days no man would offer prayer to any God,
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  king, scientist, and if anyone were found doing that, you'll be
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  thrown to the lion's den. The Bible says Daniel opened the
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  window. Do you know why he opened the
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  window face in Jerusalem? Because when Solomon was
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  dedicating the temple, he entered a covenant with God that
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  everyone who faced Jerusalem offering prayer that the Lord
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  should hearken to them. And Daniel began to pray, and
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  when they found him, they threw him at the lounge.
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  Then you know the story. And he refused to die.
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  I didn't say he didn't die. He refused to die.
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  If life is a choice, then death. Are we together?
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  You want to become a powerful believer.
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  You must pray. Say In the name of Jesus, I
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  obtain grace to pray one more time.
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  In the name of Jesus I obtain grace to pray.
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  Can you pray in the Spirit in one minute before we continue?
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  In the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to pray.
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  I obtain grace to pray. I obtain grace to pray.
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  Prayerlessness, You let me go in the name of Jesus.
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  Prayerlessness. You let me go in the name of
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  Jesus, obtain grace. Hallelujah.