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Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, indeed, the war rages, and we thank you, Lord God, that you are in control.
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We thank you, Lord God, that no matter what men do or try to do under the counsel
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of the evil one, you have already defeated the enemy.
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And we thank you. We look forward to the day when you will rule and reign on
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this earth, and we declare that your kingdom come, your will be done on earth,
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in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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It must start in us before it can go out there. So, Lord God,
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open our eyes to understand, open our hearts, remove the hardness of heart,
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the stony hearts, the distraction.
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Father God, thank you, Jesus, that you took us to heart and you died for us.
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You died in our place, even when we were yet sinners and enemies,
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hateful, mockers, disrespecting and despising you.
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Lord, you died for us because you knew that's what you needed to do for us in
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order to be saved, that we'd be saved.
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So, So, Lord, we thank you for looking past our wickedness and dying for us.
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We thank you, Lord, for giving us power, too, and inviting us to be joint heirs,
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to come into your family,
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to be part of your kingdom, to rule and reign with you, to do the military moves
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that you've called us to do in this earth, Lord, through prayer and through
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fasting and through praising.
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Father, God, help your people draw your remnant together.
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Lord, let us not be deceived and confused in these last days.
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Lord God, give us a heart to hear, eyes to see, a heart to understand,
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ears to hear. And I thank you, Lord God, for coming now with that wisdom.
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I bind every spirit that would snatch or hinder or obstruct the revelation of
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your truth to us. I pray that you'd wake people up.
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I thank you, Jesus, that no weapon formed against us will prosper,
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that no word said, deed done, action taken will be able to be used by the enemy
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to stop your word, your kingdom, or our lives.
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Protect us, Father God, as we ask you now in Jesus' name to give us your wisdom and guidance. Amen.
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Amen. Well, last week we were talking about praying prophetically,
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praying prayers that would pray into the future, bringing things to pass by
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declaring them now, by using our authority to bind and loose.
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Binding means forbidding, and loosing means permitting. So when we pray ahead
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of time, like the prophets did, you know, they prayed.
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Well, we can do that, and we've talked about that. That was last week's show.
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But this week, we want to talk about praying from the point of view,
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from panic, panic prayers, and how panic prayers, well, here's what's going to happen.
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The men's hearts are going to be troubled and failing them for fear.
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And these situations and circumstances are only going to get worse.
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And so we really need to recognize the difference between prophetic prayers,
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preventative prayers, and panic prayers.
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Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7, be anxious for nothing,
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but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God,
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which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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So he's telling us right there, he says, don't be fearful, don't be worried.
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There's an old chorus years ago why worry why why
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worry when you can pray and the prayer is
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not worrying out loud so yeah
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you listen to some christians pray and it's like they're worrying they're worrying
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they're worrying out loud to god they're worrying out loud and they're also
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praying the problem and it's interesting before you realize what you've done
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you've already repeated the problem and given permission to the problem because
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you've declared it it's gone it's never you know this is that and and bad, and whatever,
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you're actually giving permission through your words to extend the longevity
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of that problem, instead of knowing that God already knows the problem,
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and he is well aware,
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and he is asking us to come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy to make a difference.
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And I remember, how did Jesus say that? That men, their hearts will be failing them for fear.
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Of the things that are coming upon the earth. Yeah, so there's a lot of panic,
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and there's a lot of fear.
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But Jesus said, you know, bring these things before me.
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The prayer, sometimes...
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We think of prayer as us talking to God, but that's only part of it. Right.
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You know, we're talking to God, and, you know, we've heard people say,
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well, we've done everything we could, now all we can do is pray.
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Prayer is a last resort.
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But prayer needs to be a lifestyle. It needs to be an everyday,
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ongoing, whether you're kneeling and bowing your head and folding your hands
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like some people teach you have to do to pray.
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No, you can pray walking here, going there, washing your dishes.
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You know there's so many ways we can pray and
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you can even pray in the spirit and what what prayer is
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is really by definition it's communication with god and we're not here to do
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all the talking we're here to listen part of prayer is listening and and jesus
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said your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven so and
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and first john talks about we ask according to his His will,
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He hears us, and we know that if He hears us, then we have the things that we've asked for.
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That's a very powerful scripture that I don't think people even know exists in 1 John 5.
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If we pray anything according to His will, we know, not think,
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not hope, but we know that He hears us.
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And if we know that He hears us, which we should know that He hears us on everything,
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then we know that we receive the things that we've asked of Him.
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And so when you're praying according to His will, So you have to listen first
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to understand what is his will. You mean reading the word of God.
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And as the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit, what his will is for
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truth, for justice, for freedom. But let's just look at this for a minute.
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Panicking prayers that are prayed during that time of panic,
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when things are out of control, when there's, you know, there's fear,
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unbelief, overwhelming circumstances in a moment of crisis, when everything
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is just coming upon us, that can mean like, you know, a sudden an event,
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making me an event that's your, you know, where there was a.
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Quick change of events. Someone is struck down and there's fear and panic.
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And we come upon the scene of an urgent situation and we just freak out.
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We go with fear and belief.
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Oh no, what's going to happen? We're looking at the circumstances instead of
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looking at the Lord and listening for what his will is in the circumstance.
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So we can bind and loosen, forbid, like a lot of times people in hospital rooms,
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whatever, they need to be quiet and pray the will of God.
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Pray from a a place of knowing that they're loved and that God works all things
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together for good and that you do have power to not just, I would say, persuade God.
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We do. We're his children. I mean, your children persuade you all the time.
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And we have the power to do that.
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But if we're freaking out and panicking and looking at fear and unbelief,
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or maybe we're feeling too guilty that we have not been perfect.
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And so we think we have to be perfect in order to pray.
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And so we feel undone and that our prayers, God's not going to listen to our prayers.
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Some folks, you know, the only time they pray is when there's a crisis.
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They're desperate. You know, they disregard the Lord nine-tenths of the time or 99% of the time.
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And then when something comes, they pray and cry out to God,
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Oh God, do this, help me, do this and this.
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And then if the answer doesn't come the way they think it should come,
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then they get mad at God. Well, yeah, because our concept of God is wrong again,
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because Satan is trying to make us to believe that every bad thing that happens to us...
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Every crisis, every accident, every tragedy, everything is God trying to teach
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us a lesson or is God mad at us because we've somehow broke his law.
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And so Satan wants to flip all this around to make it look like God is the one who's judging us.
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And it's interesting that we must understand God is really, we think,
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well, God's judging them.
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That was the big thing Jesus talked about in, I think it was Luke where he says,
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do you think these people were worse people because the tower fell on them?
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Do you think Job, do you think he was a bad guy because all this stuff was happening?
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Bad things happen to good people all the time. But somehow Satan wants us to
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believe that God is impartial and that he just throws his weight around.
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He brings bad things upon people, whether they're good people or bad people.
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There's no rhyme or reason to what God is doing. There's no rules.
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And so people just don't know how to approach God safely.
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They think, well, he's mad at them. He's, you know what, if you can't feel safe
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in approaching God with your prayers, then there's something wrong with your
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faith because God is safe.
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And you say, well, I sinned and you don't know how bad. God knows how bad you've been.
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He knows every step you've taken so far in your journey. He knows every time
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you've been tempted, every time you fell down, gave into the temptation, he knows it all.
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And God is there willing to help you and Satan is saying, no, no, no.
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But see, if these crisis moments happen and we don't have a relationship with
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God and we're not abiding in him.
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Jesus said in John chapter 15, 7, if you abide in me and my word abides in you,
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you will ask what you desire and it will be done for you.
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So if you're abiding in Christ Jesus on a regular day by day basis.
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Then you're going to be able to come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy.
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You're going to be confident that you know what God wants. And if you know,
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you can bind spirits of death.
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You can release the presence of God. You can do all kinds of things if you know
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that you're in good standing with God.
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But a lot of people, may I suggest, that when this crisis happens,
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they're thrown into the deep water and they have not learned how to swim in the pool.
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They've never taken swimming lessons to know how to do the little things,
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the various strokes and whatnot.
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So they're thrown into the deep end of the pool and they panic because they don't know how to swim.
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They've never been taught. They've never taken swimming lessons.
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Taking swimming lessons is reading the Word of God, building yourself up in
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the most holy faith, talking to him on a daily basis, then you're ready for
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the panic. Then you're ready for the bad things.
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Yeah, it's like an EMT or a paramedic. They're well-trained in all kinds of crisis situations.
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They're trained, they're prepared, they're ready. They have ongoing training programs,
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Year by year, you know, and so when they go into situations that are desperate, some car crash.
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They're confident, yeah. They're confident.
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In that situation, they might run into some unexpected things,
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but yet they have an expectation and preparation, so they will know what to
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do because they've been prepared.
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Well, and I think prepared, too, means also spiritually knowing what to do because
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you're listening to God.
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So when we get into that place of deep water, which we're going into,
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people, we're going into some really deep water, not to curse it,
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not to call it forth, not to prophetically
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call it forth, but just as a warning. God gave many warnings.
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The whole book of Revelation is a warning. It's a prophetic warning.
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And so we're here to say, no, he doesn't want this to come upon us suddenly and unaware.
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So we fall into this place of fear. We're in the deep water.
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Water and so we panic because we don't know that God is good.
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We don't know God is with us. We don't know God is for us and we've been compromised
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on the opinions of others, their words.
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If you're living a compromised life, half in, half out in the middle of the
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road, you are not going to make it.
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You need to get in or get out and if you get in, then get in and if you get
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out, then go where you're going to go because you know that there's no middle
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ground, you know, there's no safe place in the middle of the road anymore, in or out.
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And for those of us who know God, you know that God is the only way.
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But if you believe that God is somehow still conniving and against you somehow,
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because you believe so much religious indoctrination, that he's not good all
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the time, and he's not got your best interest, he's not got your back,
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he's waiting to trip you up.
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But that's not who God is. That's who the devil is.
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The devil brings these demonic judgments on us and then flips it,
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like I said, to make it look like God is mad at you and punishing you.
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But that doesn't make any sense. Why then, if God is doing that and bad things
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are happening to innocent people, bad things are happening to little children,
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bad things are happening to people who didn't do anything wrong,
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then what kind of God is that?
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That must be an unreasonable God, someone you can't deal with,
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someone you can't expect any good things.
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We have to know, like Jesus, when he said the Our Father, Our Father,
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first thing he did in the Our Father was identify his relationship with his Father.
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He is my Father. He is God, who art in heaven, hallowed, glory, praise to your name.
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Thy kingdom come. We got to declare our loyalties to God's kingdom.
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Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth.
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And we can add in and through us because we are God's vessels on this earth as ministers.
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A lot of people have the the attitude, if there is a God, if there is a God.
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They're not he's probably he's against us well and
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even christians even christians who believe there is a god
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believe he's against us they really believe you
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might even believe that as you're listening you might even have a double thought
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he's out to get us because you've been taught that you need to settle that before
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you do any other kind of praying because otherwise when it does come to crisis
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time you're going to be you're going to be swept away what would you say to
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of folks that they say, well, I prayed.
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I prayed and prayed and prayed about something, and it didn't happen,
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so God didn't hear me, so prayer doesn't do any good. Well, that's a very common problem.
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I prayed, and that's really the biggest obstacle to praying with faith and confidence
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is unanswered prayers, and many prayers do not get answered because the prayer,
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it doesn't just depend on you and God.
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Sometimes it depends on the other person, their willingness to receive the answer.
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Like he said to the guy who was 38 years by the pool, blind or paralyzed,
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we don't even know which one it was.
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He said, do you want to be well? The man had made 38 years of agreements with
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sickness, infirmity, blindness, whatever it was that he couldn't get into the pool.
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38 years. So God had to ask him, Jesus asked you, it's a dumb question.
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Do you want to be well? Of course you want to be well. Do you really want to be well?
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You're used to being not well. You're used to not having your prayers answered.
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So that becomes an object of hindrance in prayer.
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and pull out their hair and shred their garments, and then it doesn't work.
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and then they live within the limits of their own strength.
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Well, I can do this. I can do that. I can call for this.
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I can make a phone call. I can pull in some money. I can take out a loan.
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They live within their own strength because they don't rely on the strength of God. Two words.
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Communication, which is two-way. God speaks to us. We speak to him.
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That's what prayer is. It's interaction. It's relationship.
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It's not going to God to get stuff. You know, it's.
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It is. Communication with them. Ask and you shall receive. Yeah,
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but if that's the only time we come to the Lord,
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and we say, you know, a lot of people have the idea when they're praying,
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Margie, instead of thy will be done, thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
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It's my kingdom come, my will be done. Well, they don't even realize it's my kingdom.
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They're actually living out of a kingdom of fear, and they're trying to gather
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together their assets so they can survive.
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forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
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So there's a debt problem too.
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Trespasses, sins, unforgiveness, bitterness, holding grudges.
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These are obstacles, iniquities that keep us from our prayers from getting through.
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And if we're going to hold on to that bitterness, that offense,
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that even that offense and bitterness against God, it's not even you who's doing
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it, but the enemy makes you think it's your thought that you're mad at God.
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God, if those things are there and we don't get rid of those obstacles or barricades,
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barriers, then we will not get through to God either.
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So you have to know that you know that God is good and he's not mad at you.
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I can't of my own self do nothing.
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And we have to surrender to that place. And I believe it's going to get to that
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place where there's a whole lot of stuff we cannot do anything think about unless God does act.
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If we're listening to God, if we're really hearing God, it's like sometimes
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we just dive into a prayer rather than waiting. Okay, Lord, what do you want us to know here?
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What are you doing here? And what do you want to do? What do you want to do here?
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We have to listen for that rather than just making just foolish declarations.
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But we need to make declarations. Prayer is communication and it's declaration.
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Jesus taught us in that outline for prayer. He says, your kingdom come, your will be done.
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That's what we're to do. And the thing is, it's not just, well,
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whatever your will is, Lord, just do it.
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Be not under wise, scripture says, but understanding what the will of the Lord
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is. What Jesus showed us, the will of God is to forgive one another.
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Oh, no, man, anything, pay up, make sure you're paid up on your debts of loving
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people. people letting go of the bitterness, forgiving them.
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You say, well, I can't forgive them. Well, you can.
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It's an act of your will. It's not a feeling in your heart. It's not something
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you can, God gives us the grace to forgive, which means you're releasing the
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judgment of that crime committed against you or your loved one over to God.
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Let him be the judge of it. That's how, what forgiveness means.
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You're now turning it over to the court of heaven and let them judge it and leave it with him.
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So otherwise, how will we ever be prepared to do the mighty works unless we
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lay down our own thoughts, our feelings, our fears, our bitterness,
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the things that Satan has tried to do.
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The most powerful prayers are the ones who've been the most resisted and obstructed
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by bitterness and unforgiveness, and they feel doubt and unbelief because Satan
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doesn't want them to believe.
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And again, another thing about praying is we pray, we ask for things,
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and sometimes we don't get them right away.
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God has given them right away, but Satan has held up the answer like he did
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with Daniel where he was praying 21 days and fasting, and the answer came,
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but Daniel didn't know the answer came until the angel broke through to bring
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the revelation of the prophetic word.
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So a lot of times that may be the case as well, that there's a spiritual hindrance
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in the heavenlies because Satan wants you to be discouraged.
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He wants you to give in. He wants you to cave. He doesn't want you to stand
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in having done all to stand in believing God for what's going on.
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But we are in this place now, in this place in time, where time is going so fast.
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Even young kids are saying it's going so fast.
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We are in a time of great revelation and great war, great difficulty.
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Difficulty we have to know where we're going and yet we're going to a place
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where we've never been before.
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There's no history that will cover what's coming here as far as the rapture,
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as far as the mark of the beast, as far as people being left behind,
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as far as the ascending of the Antichrist.
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Now we may have a few years of plenty like they did in Egypt to prepare for
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this time of a tragedy that's coming, or demonic overrule taking over.
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But in this meantime, let's pray that God will give us the grace and the anointing
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and the authority that we already have to help us to understand that.
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So we can pray these prayers, even though they're born in the fire of affliction
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or in a crisis moment, we will prevail because we will know that God is bigger than the problem.
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What happens, so with prayer, we think the problem, our problem is bigger than God.
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In other words, you can take a quarter and put it over your eye and block out the sun.
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You know, our problems are so overwhelming.
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with work and stuff like that, we get so overwhelmed.
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Or we focus on the person. Yeah, and it's just like, I think of a friend of
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mine years ago that was a manager of a company, quite a large company.
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He was the manager of the whole company and oversaw the office and everything.
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And he saw some things going on in the office that he didn't like.
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And he was just like, one day the Lord says, hey, you don't have to put up with this.
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So basically he would go in early before work and he would pray.
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He would declare the will of God. He would declare these situations to be settled,
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resolved, that the enemy would not have power. And things changed in that office.
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Sometimes we think, well, it is what it is. No, it is what we let it be.
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It is what we make of it.
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And so let's see it. Let's see these situations from God's perspective.
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And I know we can't, I mean, because we're not God, obviously.
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This is something that we really don't have to put up with.
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And the thing is, another thing, too, with the answers. A lot of times the answers come.
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God answers, I believe, in three different ways. Yes, no, or later.
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In ways that we don't even recognize right they're
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there and we don't even see that they've arrived but so again we're
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going back to for a second to john chapter 15 7
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he says if you abide in me and my words abide in you what does that mean that
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means if you're walking in the truth and you're walking in the revelation the
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relationship with god walking in the place of the covenant knowing that god
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is for you knowing that god is not trying to undermine you secretly because
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if he does that he's devious and if he's devious he's not a good god God,
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that we can ask what we will and it will be done for us.
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But there are some conditions, you know, we must fulfill our part of the covenant,
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which is to walk in obedience to God.
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Because if you don't walk in obedience, there's nothing God can do because you've
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already voted for the devil.
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You've given your disobedience vote over to the devil and he uses that,
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your agreement with him to bring a curse and trouble upon you.
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Now this can be personal or it can be you're working with other people who've
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given their agreements over to the devil, which is harder because you and I
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don't have control over other people's wills.
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You can beg, you can try to reason.
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But the other thing is too, when it comes to our conversations with God and
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asking for prayer, I don't believe he wants us to beg.
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Begging comes from panic. Panic comes from unbelief. Panic comes from not knowing
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who God is and his goodness to us.
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So when we, in times of panic, if we turn to begging, that's not going to work.
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It's not going to bring forth what we really want to see. We got to declare things.
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Panic praying fails to recognize the sure foundations of God's promises,
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his goodness, his mercy, his love, his covenant.
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God said, I will never leave you orphans or forsake you. I'll never forsake you.
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We need to know that God does not lie. And I think one of the things,
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getting to know someone, you have to spend time with them.
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You can't just jump into a relationship and know everything about that person.
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You have to spend some time with them and see how they respond under crises
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and getting a kind of a track record of answers to prayer or times when God
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set you free or healed you or whatever.
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And if we're half in and half out in compromise, we won't even recognize what
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God has done to set us free or heal us or deliver us from death.
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It's an interesting comment that Scripture makes about Moses.
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He revealed his works to Israel, but he revealed his ways to Moses.
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Israel saw his works, or they saw what he was doing or what he was not doing.
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But Moses had some understanding about his ways. Right, and I think that's because
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Moses spent a lot of time with him.
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So that's deeper, because one of the things that Moses had that we don't think
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about is that outside the camp of Israel, back when they were still in the wilderness,
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they had the tabernacle, which is basically their worship center.
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So Moses would go out there. He would go out there just to meet with God, just him.
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And then Joshua, he hung out there a lot too because he was basically Moses' successor.
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But there was that tabernacle. There was that relationship. That tent of meeting,
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there was that relationship.
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And when you have that, out of that relationship, What you shared,
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Margie, again, from John chapter 15, out of the relationship,
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out of the abiding, comes the fruitfulness.
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Right. And we also have to know now that God has also sent the Holy Spirit to
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inside of us, those of us who love the Lord.
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And so he has come as a guide, as a monitor, as a coach to help us.
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You say, well, I'm so busy, I can't take a lot of time to pray.
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Or you just don't understand how bad my life is, or you just don't,
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you know what the Bible says, God has not given us anything harder than he's given us grace to bear.
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And so again, all this is training. We said, well, God didn't come through,
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you know, these, these little things that we, these judgments we make against
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God, we're also making against ourself because if we're abiding in him,
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that means we're abiding in him.
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That means we're hooked in together with him. His life is my life. My life is his life.
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And if we're judging God, you're also judging yourself. self.
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the Holy Spirit, and stop trying to manage God, manage the Holy Spirit.
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Well, he wouldn't do that. Well, that was just me where I don't,
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I don't see how that would ever work.
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You know, the Holy Spirit will take us in odd places. And God does sometimes
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really kind of weird, odd things.
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girl that was dead, and there was the mourners were already there.
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They had already set up the funeral arrangements and brought in the flowers
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and the mourners, the musicians, they did that in those days was kind of the culture.
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and he pushed those things.
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He didn't push, but he closed the door.
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He pushed them out, so to speak, and he went into the room with himself and
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with Peter and James and John and the parents.
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So all the other unbelief was shut out.
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peace and quiet when he was focusing on raising someone from the dead.
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that assurance of the goodness of God, the spirit of God has to be within us.
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You're not going to be able to manage all the circumstances of crisis,
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chaos, lack, people getting shot, people, no food, running here,
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running there, you know, all the panic.
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We're not going to be able to shut all that out unless you
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have the peace of god within you and
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know where you are like daniel in the
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lion's den okay all the lions are surrounding him the peace of god maintained
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peace not only that in him but it it administered to the lions and they didn't
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jump up and kill him so again you're you're you are the carrier of peace by
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the power of the holy Holy Spirit.
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You, the answer to the problem, God is maybe in some situations,
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he's put you in the situation, he's put the answer inside of you.
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And the answer is not you doing something big and great and wonderful.
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It's you calling on, connecting with heaven in that particular situation.
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And when there's things that happen that you don't understand, you trust.
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And we know. That's the thing is when you- What do you trust?
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You trust in the Lord. You trust in his heart.
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You trust that he's good, that he
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knows all things. I don't understand how things happen the way they did.
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I prayed this way, I prayed that way, and here's what happened.
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But I trust that the Lord is good and that he's taking care of this.
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And we also need to know what the word says, that all things work together for
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good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose.
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The other thing we need to know is that both God and Satan are always working
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in the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing.
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And so you know the opponent is there. Unbelief is there. Fear is there. Doubt is there.
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Panic is there. Everything is there that's your enemy. And distraction,
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too. A lot of times people don't realize the power of the distraction.
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You get into a little prayer closet, or you get into a little this and that,
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and all of a sudden you look at what time it is, and you look at your phone, and you're out of there.
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You're done. You didn't spend the time to get any quality time with God because
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you're so busy. You have so many things you've got to do.
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And so there is a rest, an internal rest, to the believer that rejects the spirit
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of fear, fear, anxiety, panic, unbelief, guilt, shame, condemnation.
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You know, we're not perfect. God didn't say, be perfect before you can come
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and pray to me. He says, come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy.
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As we come according to his will, obeying him, choosing his will over the enemy's
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projections and solutions, we are walking in the goodness and the righteousness
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of Jesus Christ, who is our righteousness.
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Your righteousness does not come from you being right. It comes from the righteousness
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that is imparted to us through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And so as we're praying, as we're going forward in these difficult times, it's important.
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Number one, the most important thing to really do is to have the Holy Spirit
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help you understand the Word of God, read the Word of God, have the Holy Spirit
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lead you in the understanding of the goodness of God.
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And then from there, you'll be qualified to go forth and declare things for God.
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There's a foundation here for prayer and for our times in 1 John 5,
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verses 20 and 21. And we know.
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Yeah, we said that already. This is the we know book, 1 John.
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And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that
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we may know him who is true. Mm-hmm.
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And we are in him who is true, in his son, Jesus Christ.
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This is the true God and eternal life.
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So the whole world is under the sway of the wicked one.
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God is sovereign over all. And we know him, Paul's desire, that he cried out
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to the Lord at the end of his life.
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And I believe it was all through his ministry. He said that I may know him and
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the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering,
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being made conformable unto his death.
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His passion was to know him. And if our passion is to know him,
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that he is good, the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting,
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and his truth endures to all generations.
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Psalm 100, maybe go back and read that today.
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Psalm 100, his truth endures to all generations. The Lord is good.
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His mercy is everlasting. in that foundation in our hearts, that's the basis
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of our communion with him.
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That's a basis of powerful prayer because we know God is good and he wants something
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good to happen in the midst of all this evil that's going on. Yes, exactly.
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And just a side note, when Paul was praying that prayer, he was sitting in prison.
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And so he wasn't looking at his circumstances. He was looking at what you're
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talking about, looking at the goodness of God, and that there was wasn't that
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the prison where he was broken out of?
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I'm not sure if him and Paul and Silas were in that one particularly,
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but he was in prison when he was praying this prayer, wanting to know more deeply
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the relationship, the fellowship with the Lord God.
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So again, it comes through spending time with him, spending time in the Word,
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and reading the Word, and knowing that the Word of God is actually the most
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solid foundational rock that you can stand on in your life. It's not about...
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About anything the world can offer, not about money, not about relationships,
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not about connections, not about career, not about education.
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It is about standing on the Word of God, because God does not lie. He cannot lie.
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And that's, bottom line, that's why we pray in faith.
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Yeah, and the private time with the Lord, that's essential, just to hear His
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voice, quietly separate.
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And forgive yourself. Jesus said, go into your closet, go into a private And
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let the Lord speak to you. You speak to him.
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And when you're on the go, when you're driving, when you're working,
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in all your ways, acknowledge him. And he's directing your path.
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So you can live in that constant communion with him.
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And that's a basis of when he speaks to you. Power. That's the basis of power.
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It's a basis of power. He'll show you what to do, what's to be done.
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And he'll answer the prayers. Yeah. Amen.
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Exceedingly. And so, Lord God, we just thank you, Father, for clearing out our
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minds and hearts and concepts of lies that we have believed about you,
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about prayer, about ourselves.
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Lord, let the Holy Spirit refresh us with truth and with peace and with your soon coming, Lord God.
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Let our hearts be sober and our eyes be watchful, looking up for the day of our salvation.
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Redemption draws nigh. And I thank you, Lord God, that each one today,
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you'll touch them afresh, refresh them with a new energy, strength,
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peace to know and to see and to believe that they're good,
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that you're good, that you've got this and we're okay because you are with us. Thank you, Jesus.
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What about that new book that's out? Tell us about that again.
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Oh, again, again. Yes, please.
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If you haven't checked it out at Amazon, we've got a new book called Spiritual
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Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.
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And I believe it's probably one of the most comprehensive,
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easy-to-read books on some of the most difficult theological subjects you can
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ever imagine, talking everything about where did the devil come from or where
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the demons come from to, you know, this war between God and Satan for the souls of men,
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flipping it, you know, to make it our problem, our fault.
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And then also understanding deliverance and how the enemy gets into our lives
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to impersonate us to ourselves and even impersonate us to each other.
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And not only with deliverance, the
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resistance that we run into within us internally is not the Holy Spirit.
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We're built by God to love God and want God's will.
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So the the resistance that we're coming up against, the spirits of lust and
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confusion and perversion and addiction and all those things,
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that's the enemy pushing on you.
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And so again, and we have another whole chapter on inner healing and disassociation
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and going to the court of heaven.
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So again, the book, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life,
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is really very comprehensive. It doesn't just pick one section of deliverance
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or one section of this or that, psychological, whatever.
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It covers the whole thing. Comprehensive. It is very comprehensive.
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So, again, you can get it at Amazon.
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We prefer that. And if you get a book and you read a little bit of it,
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or you read it all, please, read it all, please, send a review. you.
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And that will help us to promote this book because I believe this.
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I truly believe that even reading the book is a means of being delivered because truth sets us free.
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So if you're reading a book full of truth, you're going to be set free.
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So again, spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life.
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God bless you. Talk to you soon.
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