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85 - Praying in Spirit and Truth · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the word of God with you.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: Now, in today's episode, I'm gonna continue in this series that I started called Heart Matters.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I really want to recommend you to go back to the very first episode because man, I've shared so much, it's too much to recount.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: And so basically, I've been sharing on the heart of the gospel, and I've been sharing on believing, which is a hard matter.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then there is so much hard matters that you can share on.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Bible speaks over 800 times concerning things of the heart, and you know, and so because God sees the heart, and everything we do, you know, uh biblically, you know, as a Christian, a disciple of Jesus, should come from the right heart, and everything we do always should do with the heart and with the right motivation in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God sees that, and so we can't hide, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's best just to do it, you know, and be honest and be true and be raw, because you know, you can't hide from God.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, I've been sharing so much, and then I've tried to uh transfer to you guys, you know, uh concerning prayer after the heart of the Father, you know, praying as praying in a heart that they say heart matter.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: And um let me just take a sip of water here.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: There is so much to share on, you know, um how we can pray to the Father, and you know, and in what manner we should pray and what prayer is, and and so on.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's a lot to cover, and I don't know how far I'm gonna get.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um but basically the point that I'm gonna make is that when we pray, you know, we should always pray with the right heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Always pray with the right heart, otherwise it's just fruitless.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't did it didn't do anything, it didn't even bless the Father, didn't bless you also because you know that you just you know it just was out of obligation or just you know emptying you know your frustrations or whatever, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so anyway, Father God, thank you for your word.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pray it's gonna be a blessing for those who hear in the name of Jesus, amen.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so now um I don't know where I left in the previous episode.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it was something like you know, um, pray without ceasing, and then what that is, but I will just pick it up right there, you know.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: And um what is what is exactly praying after the heart of the father?
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, what is you know praying in his will?
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: How can we do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: How can we trust on it that he hears us and he answers us when we pray?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and um I think it's good to understand that you know prayer is connection and relationship with the father, it's intimacy with the father, you connect with him in spirit, and so you know I believe that if we pray without ceasing, then we have uh relationship with him, intimacy uh with him constantly without ceasing.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I believe.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I come to him in spirit and I come to him in truth, because Jesus says in John 4 24 that though that God is spirit and those who worship him should spirit worship him in spirit and in truth.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: So in worship him in spirit means you know you cannot come to him with your carnal natural man.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because in your carnal natural man, you know, there's nothing, sorry, there is nothing that you know can connect with who you truly are in the spirit, cannot connect with God in the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your natural man cannot connect with God's spirit, because if he could, then Jesus didn't have to come.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus came to restore, so we became spiritual beings.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: I have now the spirit of God within me, I have the nature of Christ.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: John 1 1, John 4 17 says, as he is, so am I in this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am a new creation.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 5.17.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've got the mind of Christ, and so I can come to God now in spirit because I have become a spiritual being.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: I am born again of the spirit.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: And so here in Galatians 5.16 it says then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I mean, if I'm gonna connect with my father, if I'm gonna connect with God in prayer, in relationship, in intimacy, in communion, then I should connect with him from who I am in my spirit.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: If I connect with God from who I am in my natural man, then it's not in truth, it's not in line with who I'm really am.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain that.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's like if I come to God, you know, I'm just look, Lord, did you know about this?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear about that?
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I'm so frustrated because this this guy, this, and this girl that, and blah blah blah, and you know, and the doctor said I'm going through all this, but I'm so afraid, and I know I'm not gonna make it because you know the doctor says this, you know, and my circumstances and blah blah blah blah, and I'm just coming, you know, with this natural circumstances, with this carnal situation, come to God, then it doesn't achieve anything because it's not in truth, it's not in spirit.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's just okay, the Lord hears you, you know, complaining and griping and you know, and just spoil you know everything out in your wish list.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: I wish this and pray that I'll have this and this and that.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and he just you know he's like, Yeah, that's you know, you need to come to me in spirit and in truth because I am a spirit.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to connect with me, you need to connect with me in the spirit.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to connect with me, you need to connect with me in in truth, with with with my word, what I say, what I promise, what I say that you have been blessed with, what I promised you, what I say that you are, and that you can do, and what you can have, and who you are.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have to come to me with that, and not with all your natural stuff, you know, like I don't know what you need.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know what you need, but you first seek the kingdom of God and my righteousness, and all the other things will be added to you.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Do not be anxious for anything, just rejoice and come to me in prayer and you know, come to me in worship and come to me and connect with me in the spirit, man.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Come to me and pray truth, speak truth.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, uh how you say that, agree with me with who I am and who you are and who I say that you are, and we can achieve amazing things through your life, my son.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's what God says.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like, you know, it's just like there's so many people coming to God in unbelief.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: There are so many people coming to God with carnal things, with natural stuff, and they have no faith and they have no belief that God will do anything, can do anything, wants to do anything, hurt them, answered them.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: They just they just wanted to share their fleshy hearts and their frustrations, and then that's it.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: And that makes you feel right for a moment, but then you know it's didn't it didn't achieve anything.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: It just didn't achieve anything.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're not really expecting from God to do anything or hear your prayers, you just you just want to spoil it out.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry if I'm harsh, I have no other way to say it.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it relieves you temporarily from your anxiety, but it didn't resolve anything.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: I if if I go to God, I want to come to him knowing if I'm gonna listen, if I'm gonna come to God and I have requests and I have needs and I have desires, just like any other person, you know, and I come to him, then I expect that when I come to my father and connect and agree with him with what he says in his word, I already have received the things that I have need of.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: I already have received them.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't come to God, you know, hoping that he might hear me or hoping that I might make something happen.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm gonna show him that I believe him and that I trust him and that I stand on his word and that I'm agreeing with what he says in his word.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so if Jesus says that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he shall give it to you, then I have that.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know that when I pray, you know, Mark 11, let me just quickly take it there because I'm just man, I'm getting too excited.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: I need to cool down a little bit here because it frustrates me, because there's so many people, you know, praying, praying, praying, praying, praying, and they come to me and they say, Man, I'm praying, I've been praying, I've been fasting, I've been doing this, and I've been doing that, you know, and nothing happened.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, No, man, because you didn't approach him with the right attitude, you didn't approach him with the right heart.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: You need to come to God for relationship and intimacy, not for your needs, which is okay, but you know, the first reason why I connect with my father is because I want to have intimacy and relationship with him.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And then I know that he will give me everything that I need because he is my father.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: If I'm just seeking the kingdom of God, then all the other things will be added to me.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: All the other things is all the things that I need.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: There is no there is no question there.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: So here it says Mark 11, 24, he says, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: So if I come to God not knowing for sure whether he's gonna hear me or not gonna if he's gonna answer me or not gonna answer me, then that's not a prayer in faith.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: If I come to God and I'm gonna pray things for him which I'm not sure that he's gonna give to me, then I need to look at it and and think, you know, like is this a prayer in spirit and in truth, or is this a spare a prayer in my carnal, fleshy, needy man?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Is this is this in line with what he has established in in grace?
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because, man, there's a lot of people abusing these Bible verses in Mark 11, 22 until the 24.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, have faith in God, for surely I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be removed and cast into the ocean and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: And everybody says, You see, you can have whatever you say, man.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Just believe it in your heart and you can have whatever you say.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I say to you, Jesus says, Whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: You see, God says here that I can have whatever I pray when I believe in my heart and I do not doubt, but I believe that what I say I'm gonna have, then I'm gonna have what I'm saying, because Jesus is saying here, red letter Bible, and God can't lie, you know, and so I come to God and I ask him for 25 women and seven Ferraris, you know, and I came to him, you know, to ask to to make me a multi-billionaire, so I can, you know, immerse myself in my flesh and live all the lust out of my flesh and do whatever I want, and nobody can touch me again, and things like that, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But God didn't do it.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: No, because that's not what he established for you in grace.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: You see, because it's not about you asking whatever you want, it's praying whatever you know the Bible teaches us we can have in Christ Jesus.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: And there's a huge difference between one and the other.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: If I come to God and I'm gonna pray all the things that I want, then you know, a lot of those things that I want, you know, are not in line with what you know he has established for me in grace, what is biblically, what is in his will.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because first of all, I believe that when you truly connect with the Father, if you truly connect with Jesus in spirit and in truth, then whatever you desire are not the things of the world.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: What you desire are the things of above, are the things of the kingdom, are the things that has been established in Christ Jesus, you know, and and are available for us in Christ Jesus.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like he said, that I have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, and that every promise of God, as many as there are, are yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now, those blessings and those promises which he has established for me in Christ Jesus, I want to see manifest in my life.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if I don't see that manifest in my life and I come to God and I worship him and praise him and say, Father God, thank you for who you are, thank you for your goodness, thank you for your kindness, thank you that you know you always hear me and always answer me when I pray, you know, according to your will and agreeing with you with what you say in your word.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: You say in your word, you know, that all your promises are yes and amen for me in Christ Jesus.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: There is a promise, Father, that you will give me what I need so I can build your kingdom.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so, Father, you know my need, you know what I'm facing at this moment, but I believe you that you have already paid the bill.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: You are my source, you are my provider, you are my Lord and my king.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: You built the house, so you will take care of the materials.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: I worship you and I praise you, and I thank you, Father, that you already have given me all that I need to fulfill the work that you called me to do.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: I receive it in the mighty name of Jesus.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I praise your holy name.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's a prayer in spirit and in truth, because you're agreeing with him what he says in his word, and you do not doubt it.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: You just confirm it and you just say thank you.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: You just worship him.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know that he will take care of you, and you know that he hurt you and you answered and he will answer you because that's what he said in his word.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: I won't never go to God asking things you know that are not after his heart.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: I will, you know, my heart needs to be right, but I also need to know that whatever I'm asking God, whatever I come to God for, has to be after his heart as well.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: And he wants us to come to him in spirit and truth.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: Look, in Colossians 3 1 it says that if you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God, and set your mind on the things above and not on things on the earth.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when you're pursuing the things of above, when you're pursuing the things of the kingdom, when you're desiring the things that you know that are in the will of the Father, that are blessing other people or blessing yourself or blessing your family that are good and building up, you know, and there are there are good things, you know, then you are seeking and desiring spiritual things.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what he says.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: He says, you know, set your mind on the things of above.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: And if you set your mind on the things of above, you're gonna desire the things of above.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: When you set your mind on the things of above, you will only come to him for the things of above.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: You don't come for him for the things that are down here on this earth.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, your basic needs like a roof above your head, food, drink, clothes, you know, healthcare, you know, whatever, all that besty, basic stuff.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: God already provided all of that.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about those things, man.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: Look at the lilies in the fell, in the fields, you know.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Look at the birds.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: They don't they do not work, they do not gather, but yet your heavenly father feeds them anyway.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Aren't you way more than a few birds?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, man, we need to start to understand that God is our Father and He loves us and He knows exactly what we need before we ask Him, before He approached Him, before we said anything.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: He already knows what you need.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: He needs you to believe Him, He needs you to trust Him, He needs you to agree with Him.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: You need He needs you to come to Him in spirit and in truth so that He can answer your prayers, so that can become manifest what He already has given you in Christ Jesus.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Man, it's powerful stuff, man.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's powerful stuff.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 4.8, you know, here it says in Philippians 4.8, let's go there quickly.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 4.8.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Here it says, Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there's any virtue, if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things, the things that you which you learned, received, and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so if I come to God and I'm rejoicing in him, you know, and I'm worshiping him and I'm believing him and I'm coming with full expectation, and I approach him in spirit and in truth, because those who worship God should worship him in spirit and in truth.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I come to my father, you know, in that matter, then that's after his heart.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: And if I'm just thinking on the things of above, if I'm just thinking on all those things that are good and lovely and praiseworthy, if I'm just, you know, focusing on the things of the kingdom, you know, and everything that has been established in Christ Jesus, and I come in faith to my Father with all my requests and all my prayers, you know, and that I come to him in thanksgiving, then his peace, you know, which surpasses all understanding, will guard my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus, because the peace of God is with me, and his peace is with me, and let his peace rule in your heart so my heart doesn't condemn me, and I know that whatever I ask from the Father I have received, because that's what he says in his word.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: When you come to him in that matter, everything you desire from God, everything you pray from God will always be in line with his heart.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: It will always be in line with his heart.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Then I'm gonna share a testimony, I'll probably already share that somewhere else, you know.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: But it's always good to hear it again because it's powerful, man.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: It really is life-changing.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was in prison for many years in my life, and the last time I was in prison when I had an encounter with Jesus in my prison cell in 2005, you know, I've spent 10 years in prison on a row, just 10 years.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: First five and a half years in uh Portugal, and then the other four and a half years I've spent in the Netherlands, and so I've spent spent ten years in prison, and it was a long time, I can tell you.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: But in the last seven years of my sentence that I was doing in uh prison time, uh I was born again because after three years being in prison, I had an encounter with Jesus, and my life was changed forever.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so I already was living a life full of expectation and hope that I never had or felt before, and you know, and I was joyful in many ways because I knew that my life would never be the same again, and I would never go back to this place.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, not voluntarily, at least, you know, like you know, for me choosing a life of crime or anything, like by my mistakes, I would go back to that kind of that kind of place.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I knew that is the last time I'm gonna spend in prison.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: If I'm gonna spend time in prison, maybe it's gonna be because of Jesus, but I'm never gonna spend time in prison because you know, doing illegal stuff and that kind of things, you know.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, I had this joy in my life.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: People came to me and they told me, man, how can you be so happy all the time?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: How can you be so joyful all the time?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: You got 15 years, uh, you know, uh sentence, you know, how can you be so happy?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: You got so many years to go.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Man, I've got Jesus.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and because I've got Jesus, you know, nothing can break me anymore, man.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: I am, I'm, I have overcome, you know, I'm I'm I'm good, you know.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this time will pass, and then you know, I will live the life that God intended me to live.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: So praise the Lord, I'm gonna be happy, you know.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so, um, but I was in prison in Portugal, and you know, uh, there is this system within Europe that if you have are, for example, you're arrested in Germany and you are convicted in Germany, but you are from the Netherlands, you're Dutch, then you can finally do your sentence in your own country, and vice versa.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so, in Europe, there are also other countries in the world that they have this agreement, but in Europe, this agreement is uh almost in each and every country.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so, when I was convicted in Portugal, I knew that I could do my sentence in the Netherlands, close to my family and my friends, you know, which I didn't have a lot of, but you know, uh, at least I could be with my family, my wife, and my children, and there's better circumstances in Holland than in Portugal.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: I can tell you that, because in Portugal you can be with 20 people in a cell, and in Holland you're just with max two or three people in a cell, I believe.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so, or all by yourself, which I believe is the best way.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, you know, and the food is better, healthcare is better, you know, and uh less violence and that kind of stuff.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so, anyway, long story short, I was five and a half years in prison already.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: I was no, I was five years in prison already in Portugal, and I was waiting to be transferred, but it just went on and dragged on and on and on and on, and it just didn't happen.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I didn't know when I would get out of prison because I knew my sentence, uh, you know, I had 12 years in Portugal, six years in the Netherlands, together 18.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Finally, they combined it, became 15, and I needed to spend 10, two-thirds of it.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I didn't know that at that point.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: I knew at that point I've got 12 years, six in the Netherlands, so I've got 18 years of imprisonment waiting for me.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted to go back to the Netherlands and I had no clue when my final date would be for me to get out of prison, so there's no end goal.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, you don't know where you're looking at, and so that was really, really hard.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Finally, you know, went through and they said, Oh, you know, everything is done.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're gonna get you on a plane to Lisbon, and there you're gonna wait for you to be transferred to the Netherlands.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: You need to sign with the judge that you go back willingly, and then you know that's all done.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Six weeks, you're back in the Netherlands.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I was rejoicing, I was so unbelievably happy.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I said goodbye to all the guys, you know, gave away all my stuff, you know, because I would go to the Netherlands, nevertheless.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so that was on a Friday, and then they said, Oh man, we don't have a plane for you, so you're gonna go on Monday.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: So that was the first bomber because I need to stay another weekend.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: But then finally on Monday, yeah, everything right, took the plane, went to Lisbon, and something's really gonna happen.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Week later, I signed with the judge, you know, and stayed in this prison in Lisbon, which was a very violent prison.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, a lot of things going on there.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: And so I am there, you know, and there's also a lot of foreigners uh, you know, in that prison.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so you know, I I was waiting, I was talking with people, I was testifying about Jesus, I was leading people to the Lord, you know, the God was really gracious through my life, you know.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: I helped a lot of people, and there really was a blessing to be there for others.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, and that in that way I was kidding my time because I was waiting for the six weeks to pass.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you something that if you know that you're gonna go to have a new episode, you know, you go back to your family or whatever, and you've been in prison for five years already, you know, then those five years are nothing compared to those six weeks that you are waiting.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna take a way longer because time is just dragging on and on and on.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, six weeks passed by, nothing happened.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, two months, two and a half months, three months, nothing happened.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna start worrying.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so we are starting to call, you know, um the Netherlands, Justice Department, and things like that, you know, and then uh finally they told us, you know, we had a problem, we cannot get you back into the Netherlands because you you are convicted of many things in Portugal, but one thing that you are convicted of, it's not a crime in the Netherlands, and so we cannot take that sentence.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: But I said, I already spent five years in prison, that sentence was two months, I already done those two months, so why can't you get me back?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, No, we can't.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: We cannot take that sentence and you know receive you in the Netherlands, which was really, really, you know, I couldn't, it was just a silly reason.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, my world crushed and crumbled.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what to do, I was completely devastated, you know.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, I was, you know, Brenda, my wife was devastated, everybody was devastated because I need to go back to the island and do the rest of my time, 12 years, and then go back to the Netherlands and do the six, right?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was really, really bad for me.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so I went back into my cell when I heard that, and I just took the Bible and had this big Bible, you know, and no verses, just the story, and I just opened it up, you know, and my eye felt in John 15, and it was now I know verse 7, but there was no verse in that Bible, and it just said, you know, that if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you shall ask what you desire and it shall be done for you, it shall be given to you.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just quickly, I know I just have a little bit more time.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just want to share this quickly with you.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: He says, if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this Bible verse is lit up out of the Bible, and I was completely like you know, sucked into it, you know.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me and my words abide in you, we will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Man, what I desired at that moment, I'm telling you, that's not a hamburger from McDonald's that I didn't eat for years already, and I didn't eat afterwards also.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I needed a miracle, man.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to go back to my family, I wanted to go back to the Netherlands, and so I was reading this and reading this, I was like, you are in me and I am in you.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: And what I desire is to go back to my family, go back to the Netherlands, Lord.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: I receive it, you know, and I just I had no clue about identity, authority, the word of God, proclaiming, preaching, God.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have no clue.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: I just believed what it said here that if you abide in me and your words abide in you, my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I desire to go back to the Netherlands to be with my family.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's in the will of the God, uh, of the Father, you know.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so I went to bed.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Next morning, woke up, called Brenda, and when I was calling Brenda, somebody came to me, tapped me on my shoulder, was a guard, and he said, Hey, you are going away on Monday.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm just sharing it a little bit shorter because a few things passed also, but he told me, You are going away on Monday, and I said, Where am I gonna go?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, I'm gonna check for you.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Came back and told me, You are going back to the Netherlands, Hollanda.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I fell on the floor, praised God, you know, couldn't believe it.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then so I would go be transferred.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: This was on a Thursday, I would be transferred on a Monday.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Those four days were like for eternity, took eternity.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: But then on Monday, finally it was so far they stood there with all the ninjas, brought me to the airport, you know, finally got into the plane, took off, went to the Netherlands, and when I arrived, you know, in Holland, you know, the guy, the judge came to me and she said, or the persecutors, she said, Why are you back in the Netherlands?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't suppose to be here.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it was never our intention to be to have you here in Holland.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, it wasn't the will of my father because I'm here and you can't stop it.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he they couldn't bring me back, amen.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so, what I desired was in the will of God to be with my family, to be reunited so I can continue my life, you know.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus had paid for that also for me, to be free indeed, amen.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so I went back to the Netherlands.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: I spent all my time in prison there, you know, paid for every day that I needed to pay, you know.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: But it wasn't the will of the Father because that's what he said.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it shall be done for you.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so it is a prayer in truth, and it's a prayer after his heart, you know, and so God will answer that.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, and then I was back in the Netherlands, amen.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but time is up.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I really need to close this episode down.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: But I hope to see you in the next episode where we'll continue to share on praying after the heart of the Father in this serious heart matters.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
• 27:22
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