"Why Aren’t My Prayers Being Answered?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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'Cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God. Thank you,

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Jesus, that you have won the war, Lord God.

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And we're standing in that victory. You said, stand in having done all to stand.

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So we declare your kingdom come, your will be done with power,

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with salvation, with your will to accomplish your

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will through us, through our prayers, through our intercession,

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that you will be glorified. I thank you, Jesus, that you completed the will

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of the Father. Obedient to death unto the cross even.

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And you laid down your life sacrifice, gave your blood,

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gave your body, gave it for us that we might be set free from the

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demands of Satan, sin, and death. And I thank you, Lord. You've also given us

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power. You said power to bind and loose, declare,

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forgive. You've given us those assignments, Lord God, to preach the gospel,

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heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.

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Lord God, these are very specific things you've given us to do. And you've

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given us also specific access to your throne of grace and mercy to find help

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in time of trouble. So we pray now that you give us eyes to see,

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ears to hear, and open our ears if they're stuffed

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and dull and our eyes are blind and foggy. Open, quicken,

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receive, remove the sludge and the contamination

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and the unanswered prayers from our receptor sites so that we

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will receive the download of the revelation of your love, your peace, your power,

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and your truth, Father God. And we thank you for that divine protection.

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As we said, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that we are the

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weapons of God. We are the instruments of your righteousness to bring forth righteousness,

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peace, hope, and answers to prayer in this devastated,

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messed up world. So thank you, Father, for this

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wonderful opportunity. Give us now excitement in our spirits and

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joy to do this in your truth. In Jesus' name.

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Amen. Okay. Well, we're going to talk today about a problem

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that we all have. I'm sure you've experienced it. It's called Unanswered

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Prayers or, uh, what, you know, you know, really, Jerry,

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unanswered prayers become the biggest obstacle

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to getting prayers answered because it's, it's an accumulation of

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doubt, unbelief. It didn't work. God wasn't there. Something went

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wrong. I don't, you know, whatever. So all of that becomes

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like a mountain in front of the answers that you're looking for,

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the answers to prayer. So, um, You know, I think a lot of

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our mandate, our authority,

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the specifics of the instruction that we have been given

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in the Word of God is either very, very well hidden within the context

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of many of the things and hard to discern except through the Holy Spirit,

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or maybe some of it has been removed. But nonetheless,

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we have enough in the Word of God to know that our

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prayers are powerful. Our prayers are not to be just

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requests, but with no confirmed results.

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A lot of times we pray like, oh God, please deliver. Oh God,

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please heal. Oh, just heal. Oh, you know, we do these

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kinds of very, I think, weak and wimpy prayers,

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but prayer is meant to be a command,

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a specific, a very specific declaration,

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ask, request. Command, and then there's a very specific

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answer or result. Like, for example, a demon leaves or spirit leaves.

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So, we have specific prayers,

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are not general requests. They're commands.

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They're petitions. They're not vague,

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double-minded appeals. The early church knew how

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to pray. Yeah, they absolutely

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did. And They were— they're praying with authority, with specific— well,

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think of Peter and John specificity. Can I use that word? In the

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temple. Yeah, they were praying. No, the thing is, what happens with a

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lot of us with prayer— prayer is worrying to God out loud. Yeah, that's right.

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And we're very— we're so vague,

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you know, if it— and/or we repeat the problem to God again, which is

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very negative. Does God know the problem? Does God know the situation?

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When we speak it again, we're just confirming the problem's right to be there.

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I mean, not that we can't say what happens, but you're right, we worry

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out loud. And a lot of the times prayers are so

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vague and so general.

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And another thing is that we're

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just guessing, hoping this is the will of God.

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Sometimes we think our prayer is, my will be done, rather than,

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thy will be done. The Our Father,

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thy kingdom come, thy will be done. It's not my kingdom come,

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my will be done. It's his. But so what

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is the will of the kingdom? What is to be done on earth as

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it is in heaven? What is he actually asking us to do? What are we

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praying specifically for? How does this kingdom come in

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and through? How does God bring the kingdom to earth? He brings it to

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earth through us. We are his contact points. We're his remnant.

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We're his people. And he brings it through our words,

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through our requests, through our petitions.

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Well, he gave us— we call it the Lord's Prayer. It's the prayer the Lord

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gave to us. He said,

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like, your kingdom come, your will be done.

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And so we're here to be praying to

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release the will of God on the

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earth. That's exactly right. We're his channels. Right, to bring the will of

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God. What God— will of God is what God wants. What does God

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desire? What does God want? And he wanted to be carried

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out through us and through our words, our prayers.

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God— prayers are words. God needs specific,

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specific words. He needs declarations. He needs faith.

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He needs thy kingdom come, thy will be done now

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on earth in and through, like you said, us. It's not a vague, oh,

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when you, if you want to, God. God's kingdom

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is coming in power, not in vague generalities.

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It is coming in power to relieve, to undo,

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to remove, to cast out, to tear down

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the specific situations that the illegal powers have set

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up. And it's here to wash

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away all tears. It's here to bring revelation, salvation,

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and justice. And these things don't come through, um,

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you know, just casual prayers,

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indifferent prayers. They come through warrior prayers. They come

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through declarations. They come through knowing.

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See, what we're doing is we're allowing God to put his words in my mouth,

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like the prophets, to declare what's going to come. The prophets declare it,

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then God uses those words to make it happen. Does that make sense?

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Yeah, it makes sense. Of course, prayer too is communication

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with God, right? It's listening, listening to what

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the Lord is saying by his Spirit, listening to him.

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And so there's, there's another— the part of prayer is that,

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that sharing with God, hearing his heart, hearing his voice.

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We're just— we're in that intimacy with the Lord that

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we have to have. And then there's the other part of prayer is closely

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connected to it. If you don't have that intimacy with God where you're not— relationship,

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right? If you don't have that relationship you're not going to— you're

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not going to pray powerfully. You're not going to— you're not going

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to pray accurately. But what we're talking about today is that

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specific prayer. Prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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And, and part of it, the prayer is too

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much— like you're saying, it's begging and whining before God.

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Instead of declaring his will. I believe

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that all of our prayer must originate in

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the will of God. Thy will be done through us. And that we become,

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like you said, his vessels. We are his instruments that

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bring the will of God, the kingdom of God from heaven to earth. We are

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God's means and chosen methods to combat the evil standing

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on the earth by standing in the truth. And the evil comes through demonic

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forces, the kingdom of darkness. And so really what a lot of what we're doing

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is declaring God's kingdom come against the

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forces of darkness that are trying to take over and have pretty much— they've

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pretty much claimed every element, every fragment, every section,

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every factor of human life and existence

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on the planet. And so our specific prayers are to reject

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that, to bring God his will, his method

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to earth to combat the evil and the darkness, the lies,

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so that the truth becomes part of the prayer. The truth declaring God's

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goodness, his will, his kingdom to come, and giving him our

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words so he can fulfill them. Ephesians 5:17 says,

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don't be unwise, but understanding what the will of

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the Lord is. And then a parallel passage to that is in

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1 John chapter 5, verses 14 and 15.

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He says, now this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we

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ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know

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that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that

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we have the petitions we have asked of him. So there's Jesus, you know,

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said in Luke chapter— where

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is it? Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find.

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Knock and it shall be opened to you. So he's asking— there's

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a time to ask and receive,

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but then there's a time to declare,

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declare the will of the Lord. Well, and we can ask what

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is the will of the Lord and then declare that too. So, um, you know,

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really, who are we? Hebrews talks about who we are in chapter

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1, verse 14. The angels have been

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sent to protect or as ministers of right to

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the heirs of righteousness. So they've been assigned to each one

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of us as heirs of righteousness. And then in Hebrews 4:16, he says,

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come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy

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and find grace and help in time of trouble or time of need.

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So we're invited to come into the throne room to bring

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these urgent requests to God. Um, and you know, not everything

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has to be an urgent— sometimes we can just praise him and just

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thank him and just everything doesn't have to always be initiated

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with a problem. Sometimes it can be initiated with thanksgiving and praise and revelation

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of how good God is. Those are good prayers to pray too,

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prayers of praise and thanksgiving. But when we come boldly and urgently

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to the throne of grace and mercy to find help in time of trouble,

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there is trouble, there's need. And so, we get into that place of more passionate

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praying. Jesus himself prayed in the same— in Hebrews,

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he says Jesus prayed, who in the days of his flesh,

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when he was— okay, so in the days of his flesh, when he was a

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human being in that capacity on the earth, when he

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had offered up prayers and supplication with vehement cries

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and tears to him who was able to save him from

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death and was heard because of his godly fear, his passion,

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his focused, intentional praying and intercession to his Father.

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So the vehement cries and tears, he was saved.

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He was saved, he says, from death. But was

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he saved from death? Well, he was saved from death because he was delivered from

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the grip of death. And God the Father was

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happy to hear him. But so many times we aren't doing any

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vehement crying or tears or intentional,

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intense and intentional intercession.

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We're praying, we're dazed. We have vague, ambiguous,

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sloppy, without focus, distracted, non-urgent,

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passive, double-minded, open-ended, dead prayers.

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Or we pray ritual prayers, like over and over we repeat, repeat,

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repeat whatever it is. And we think that we will be heard for our much

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speaking. Jesus said, you know,

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that's not— his demonstration is, Be involved, be engaged,

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know who you are. And that's part of it too. We got to know 2

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things. God is good and he wants to hear our prayers and that he will.

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And we're his children. And there is nothing he delights in more than

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answering the prayers of his children. And the other side of that coin

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is to give his children part of the victory by giving

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us the petitions that we ask. And so specifically praying,

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we're afraid to pray specifically because So many times people

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have prayed those things and people didn't get well. They got sick, they died,

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they, they got divorced, they whatever, whatever. And so we just, that becomes

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the devil's, um, you know, I don't know,

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his argument, I guess his, his, he presents this to us.

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What do you think? Who do you think you are that your prayers should be

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answered when all these other people's prayers didn't get answered? And so you have to

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blow that off, deny that, reject that. And no,

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no, no, no. I am the daughter of the Most High God. He likes me.

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He wants me to come into the throne room. He invites me to come.

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He invites me even to ask me of things

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to come concerning my sons and daughters and the works of my hands. So what

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was he saying to the prophets? He was actually saying to the prophets,

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all right, let's— you pray, ask me,

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declare things so that I can bring them to pass. Jesus even

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said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing,

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in Luke chapter 4. So what he was saying is,

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I am fulfilling the prayer of the prophet Isaiah,

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who said, you know, I've come to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,

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heal the brokenhearted. So Jesus in Luke was fulfilling what Isaiah

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said in Isaiah 61. And so, but God prompted Isaiah

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to say it, you know, so that Jesus could fulfill

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it. I believe that's part of the process We declare things

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according to the will of God. Isaiah was in the will of the Spirit of

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God when he spoke those things. And then God brings it to pass later

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through Jesus Christ. Um, and I believe that's what he says when he says,

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um, command me concerning the works of

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my hands, give me, you know, pray to me, petition me

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specifically, give me something that, that God is actually getting

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it, putting it in our hearts. Then he gives us the opportunity to give it

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back to him so he can make it come to pass because God has to

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have us as that inter— link to make things happen and

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make prayers be answered. Isaiah 44:26,

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it says he's the one who confirms the

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word of his servant and performs the counsel of his messenger. So those—

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he confirms the words of those who are truly his prophets, who are truly his

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messengers. Another thing too that, you know, you see

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over and over again in the Old Testament, Ezekiel 34

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and other places, where God

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is going after the prophets because they're speaking words

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out of their own hearts. They, they, they've had their own vision,

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and not a vision from God, but their own personal

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vision, uh, speaking out of their

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own hearts and not from the will of God.

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So, so they're just— God's— they're just basically

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blowing smoke. But, but, but then the true prophets

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of God, they hear the word of God, they declare

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the word of God, yeah, and the word of God is fulfilled.

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You know, eventually it's fulfilled. It might not seem to be fulfilled right

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away, but eventually it's fulfilled. 400 or 500 or 600 years later, it's fulfilled,

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whatever. So he says again, like you said, in Isaiah 44,

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who confirms the word of his servants— you could say the prophets,

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us— and performs the counsel of his messengers who says

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to Jerusalem, you will be inhabited. So he's asking and telling and

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inspiring the prophets to declare these things

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over these various nations. And then God brings them

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to pass. So that's, you're praying. Now, did they live

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to see those answers? Not necessarily. Um,

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you know, Isaiah's prophecy about a virgin

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giving birth, Isaiah never saw that answer. He, that was 400 or

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500 or 600 years before Jesus arrived. But nonetheless,

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those words are powerful. See, there's death and life in the power of the

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tongue, and words are prayers. Prayers are words. When you use your words to pray

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to God, you can use your sloppy agape words, or you can really stand

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up and say, God, this is urgent. This is important. I'm praying

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here. This is an intercession on behalf of my friend,

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my situation, whatever it is, because I'm asking you, God,

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to confirm your word. Because you said ask.

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So here's what Moses did when God got a little— I

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think God was upset with the people for being so ungrateful

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and murmuring and complaining. And Moses, his argument back

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to God was, look, God, everybody's watching you. Everybody's watching

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this nation. You have said these are your people. You have

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just confirmed, you endorsed them completely by

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taking them dry shod through the Red Sea, you know,

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and then kill their enemies behind them. So you are

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on trial here, God. You are on display. And so when

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you— if we are knowing that

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our God, he wants to be and

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needs to be and will be glorified in and through us,

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then he needs something specifically to do so

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that he can be glorified. If you just say, oh God,

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you know, deliver so-and-so, and you don't say, oh God,

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I come against the power of the spirit of death or deaf and dumb,

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or I come against the spirit of cancer. If you don't say that because you're

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afraid, if I say that and it doesn't happen, I'll look bad. If you do

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say that specifically and believe in without doubting in

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your heart, then it's up to God. Then it's on God.

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God is going to have to look good. By, you know, and with Moses,

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that turned God's heart. God's okay, you know,

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I'll give you another, you know, don't— Moses said,

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blot me out. Don't put yourself at risk here, God.

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Don't look bad. And so God isn't that he's all

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insecure about his relationship or his reputation.

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He's not, but he has absolutely incorporated

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us, woven us into the work. Of redemption

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through our specific assignments, through standing and having done all to stand,

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to declare to the works of darkness and to ask God, you know,

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we have angels assigned to us. We don't pray to the angels, but we have

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angels. God has given them to us to do and protect

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and whatever needs to be done to bring us forth and bring

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forth the kingdom of God. That's God's bottom line. Bring the kingdom

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of heaven to earth. That means save people, get people saved.

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That means the kingdom is— and healed. Yeah,

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healed, delivered, set free, all that. The kingdom of God,

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right? The kingdom speaks of a king and a dome,

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king and a dominion. So kingdom of God,

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the rule of God. When, when demons are cast out

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and the Spirit of God comes in, that's the kingdom coming in. When people

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are healed and delivered and diseases are cured

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and gone from people, that's the kingdom of God

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coming. When people repent and believe and receive Jesus

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and become born again, become new creations in him, that's the

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kingdom of God coming. So the more specific that we are— you

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mentioned specificity,

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specific requests, and you know if that's a word.

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Anyway, the more specific the better.

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Right? So it's just like if you, if you have

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a, a hammer and a nail and you're going to pound it into a board,

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you don't just stand there and hold the nail and wave your

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hammer around or close your eyes or close your eyes.

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What you do is you take that nail and put it in a specific

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spot, take your hammer and hit it on a specific

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spot on the head of the nail and drive it in.

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Nothing becomes dynamic until it is specific.

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Nothing works in our world. Things have to be specific

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before they become— in your computer, things have to be specific. Right. Very much so.

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And, and, and just like playing baseball

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or something, you have to hit the ball, hit the ball in the

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right— in the sweet spot on the barrel of the bat and all that stuff.

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So, okay, so this is where we're called. This is where the power of

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God comes. Well, look at Peter and James and John. Oh yeah.

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In the, in the temple gate. Oh, they're coming there and they

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see this lame man that's been there. We find out later on he's been over—

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he's over 40 years old. He was lame from his mother's womb and

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he was there begging alms. And he— they,

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they'd probably walked by him many, many times. Jesus had walked

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by him many, many times. The guy looks— possibly,

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we don't know, very likely, because he was there pretty much

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every day. And I think Jesus saved this saved the

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healing for Peter and John. But anyway, well, so, so Peter comes up,

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he's walking through with John in the temple. The guy looks at him,

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oh, here's a good candidate. So he begins

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to say, um, he, he asking for alms beautifully,

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to ask for alms of those who enter the temples, who seeing Peter and John

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about to go into the temple asked for alms. So this guy's asking specifically,

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do you have any money on you? And fixing his eyes on him with

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John, Peter said, look at us. Look at me.

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Focus on us. So the man did. So he

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gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from

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them, looking probably to their hand to see if they're going to pull something out

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of their pouch or pocket. Then Peter said, silver and gold

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I do not have. Whoa, disappointment. That's what I want.

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I wanted the silver and gold. But what I do have,

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I will give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and

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walk. So I have something better. But Peter was taking a great step

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of, he was taking a risk, you know, 'cause this guy had been

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there a long time and no one had either prayed for him or prayed for

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him and it didn't work. Maybe they had prayed for him and it didn't work

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other times. So he said, look at me,

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focus on me. Peter was looking at him. He took him by the

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right hand and lifted him up. This was an act of faith. Not just words,

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but there was a little action in there. He didn't just say a word.

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He put his hand out, lifted him up, and immediately when

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he touched him, his feet and ankle bones received their strength. Now, did Peter figure

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that was going to happen? Probably not. Peter didn't know what was going to happen.

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Peter just did what God was directing him to do through the Spirit.

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So he, in this shock to his ankles

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and his strength in his bones, caused the man to leap stood

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up, walked. They entered the temple with them walking, leaping, and praising God.

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So this didn't take years. It was probably moments.

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And it was a very specific stand up, you know,

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receive strength.

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He says, rise up and walk in

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the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. So it was a very specific need,

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a very specific command, a very specific prayer made

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to a very specific situation. And there was this very specific

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answer. It was, yeah, this was definitely a God thing. How, you know,

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this is how God gets glory. It's not when you pray, oh God, heal them.

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And you don't say, well God, I come against the powers of darkness that are

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binding their spleen or the polyneuropathy that is messing with

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their, uh, their neurological system. I bind that spirit of polyneuropathy.

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I bind the spirit that's demyelinating their, They're mild and sheath. I bind and forbid

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you in the name of Jesus Christ. I forbid you, spirit of inflammation. I forbid

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you in the name of Jesus Christ for taking out this God, this man of

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God, this woman of God. You, you have power in your words.

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There's death and life in those words. Do you believe that? I think the first

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thing we need to understand is that, that there's death and life in the power

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of our words. And then we can use those words to kill people, destroy people,

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discourage people, or we can build them up and we can, Do the King—

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what does God want to do through your words today? That's a good question.

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What does God want to do? What does he want you to say? What does

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he want you to declare? What does he want to— how

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does he want to bring the kingdom of God today to earth in

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the place where you hang out? What does God want to do in that

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place today with your words, your prayers, your petitions? In Acts

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chapter 9, beginning with verse 32, it says, now it came to pass as Peter

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went through the all parts of the country, that he also came to the saints

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who dwelt in Lydda. There he found a certain

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man named Aeneas who had been bedridden 8 years—

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8 years— and was paralyzed. That's a long time. And Peter said

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to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you.

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Arise and make your bed. And he rose immediately.

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So all who dwelt in Lydda and Sharon saw him and

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turned So Peter is getting it.

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He's excited about this. He likes this new idea of healing

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the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising up those. And you know, if you've been on

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something for 8 years, you've been, you know, under doctors, you know,

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command orders, whatever, for 8, 9 years you're sick.

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You know, the woman with the issue of blood, the woman with the spirit of

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infirmity, 18 years, 12 years. This gets to be in itself the biggest

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obstacle. Well, it's never going to change. Well, I've did all that before. Well,

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it never worked before. Well, people have prayed for me before. And so

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we, we, kind of slump into a place of despair or despond.

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And that's, that's, that's another spiritual demonic attack or tactic to

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get you to not believe or give up. And so,

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um, you and the man with the boy, he said, you know,

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and Jesus, how long has he been like this? And the man says, well,

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since dad says, since a child. And so Jesus,

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you know, this man, he then, he said,

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um, Jesus says, well, if you can believe, all things are possible. And the man

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says, Lord, help my unbelief. So this was a wise and wonderful

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con— the man took the unbelief,

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the years and years of struggle and pain and weeping and crying and unanswered

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prayer. He took all of that and gave that to the Lord and says,

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here, here, you know, deal with my unbelief.

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Here's my unbelief. Take that too. Take the unbelief. I, I can't

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handle that tormenting spirit anymore. How many of us have, you know,

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Lord, help my unbelief. How many of us pray that as part of a preliminary

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to getting the prayer answered? Lord, help my double-mindedness. Lord, remove the demonic

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spirit of double-mindedness, wavering, half-hearted. These have

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to be dealt with probably before you go into the full declaration.

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Lord, help my unbelief. And Jesus healed the boy.

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And obviously the man's unbelief was taken care of at that point.

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So if you're struggling with getting a prayer answered,

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number one, do you know specifically what you want, what needs to

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be prayed? And secondly, do you know, you know, what were the

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lies and the agreements that you gave that allowed that thing, that demonic stronghold

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to be set up? And third, do you, um, have you asked

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the Lord to remove your spirit of double-mindedness? I believe double-mindedness is

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the probably— well, James says that double-minded man is unstable in all

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of his ways. Let not that man think that he will receive anything from the

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Lord. And so that's exactly what does the Bible say? The Bible says what the

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Bible says. And the Bible isn't kidding or

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making a suggestion. It is saying a double-minded man,

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let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord. So if

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you trace back the unbelief or the double-mindedness,

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and then you say, well, it's my— the devil will say, well, or someone will

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say, he'll get someone to say for you, over you, well, it's your unbelief.

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It's your, your, your, you don't have enough faith. Well, you know what?

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That is an accusation that makes it all my fault. That, that makes it,

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nah, this, this answer is not coming because it's my fault. I can't work the

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program. I don't have enough faith, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what really needs

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to happen is to understand that this is a lie.

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This is a trick and an accusation against you that you don't have to use

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your faith anyway. You can use the faith of Jesus Christ to get this,

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this thing done. And it's not your problem.

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It's his willingness, his heart. God's heart is

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to heal. God's heart is to remove pain and tears. God's heart

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is to bring joy and peace in the kingdom of God. You know, that's his

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will. And you know, most of us are so settled in the devil's

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will that we don't even seek God's will, which would be healing and restoration.

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Hebrews 4:16 says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne

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of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace

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to help in time of need. I just said that. A lot of our— that

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time of need is boldness. Boldness. We need boldness and,

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uh, urgency and, and come before the Lord and listen to what

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he says. So sometimes we say, well, you don't know what, what is the will

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of the Lord. Well, find out. Don't be

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unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is in Ephesians. I believe

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we all like success and answers to prayer, specific answers.

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For other people, for yourself, for whoever, those are, those bring

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confidence. They build confidence and faith because you see it's

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working. And so I believe Peter, he got this idea of this works.

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And so, you know, even after a while, people were getting healed

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by the shadow of Peter falling on them as they, as he walked along.

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Jesus, they were diving at the hem of his garment to get

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healed because you know what? That garment was full of the power

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and the anointing and the authority of God. And the, uh, I think the frequencies

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and vibrations were emanating out of there. That's probably why they cast

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lots for his robe. I'm sure that they thought it had some magical powers in

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it. But the thing is, there is, there is truth

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to the fact that it is the words, the frequencies,

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the faith, the love, the relationship you have with God. God have mercy.

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God, this isn't okay. God, You know, it's not, you know, you don't want to

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get— you say, well, I don't want to get disappointed, so I don't want to

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get my hopes up. So I don't want to make my prayer too specific because

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then I'll get disappointed. There's another demon for you. He's trying to make you feel

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afraid to be— you're going to be disappointed. And so therefore don't ask, don't be

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too specific. So if it doesn't happen, you won't get disappointed.

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What is that? That's double-mindedness and disappointment are 2 demons that

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try to shut you, shut your mouth. What harm is there in

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asking when you're asking a righteous, holy God that

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loves you? And if the devil has some claim to your life, ask the Lord

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to show you what is the claim Satan is using to stand in the way.

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There might be an agreement, there might be unforgiveness. That's a big one. So ask

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the Lord, what is blocking the answer to prayer? Because we already assume by

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faith, knowing that God wants to answer that prayer. So if it's not getting

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answered, what, where's the problem? It's not on God's end.

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And it's, it's probably somewhere in between. It's not on my end necessarily,

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but the devil wants to make it. He wants to delay or discourage

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or snatch away that answer to

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prayer to destroy your hope, your faith,

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your courage in God. So Satan does that a lot. He tries to wear us

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out. Uh, you know, do not become weary in well-doing for in due

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season you'll reap if you do not faint. But a lot of people, are in

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that interim where Satan is really pressuring you like he did Job.

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Put a lot of pressure on Job for a long time. And what did Job

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say and do? He did not curse God. He finally got it in the

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end. God showed him, and God showed him that it wasn't him

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that was the problem. It was the, the words of his

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friends over him that didn't speak right concerning the Lord.

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It was their religious interrogations that was causing this

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confusion. And God said, forgive your friends, you know,

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and then, then I can forgive them. So that's where

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we come into the place of forgiving so that Satan cannot judge you for

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holding a judgment against someone else. You forgive that person, loosen from

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your judgment so Satan cannot judge you because that's what he does. He brings that

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demonic judgment upon you, that pain, that, that cancer,

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that whatever. It's a demonic judgment that he's putting on you,

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justifying it because you didn't forgive. Because he uses the

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verse, judge not lest you be judged, for with what judgment you judge, you'll be

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judged. So that's what the devil is doing to play this game

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against us. Here's a good prayer for us to pray. And it says

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in Acts chapter 4, verse 29, now, Lord,

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look at their threats. We're being threatened all the time by every lie

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of the enemy. Fear. And grant to your servants that with

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all boldness they may speak your word by stretching out your

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hand to heal. Yes. And that signs and wonders may

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be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had

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prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken,

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and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word

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of God with boldness. Amen. That is hardcore praying.

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Oh, that's hardcore. I like hardcore. It's hardcore praying,

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um, that we need that these days because we're in hardcore. The place was

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shaken and people were saved, delivered, and anything So get

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out of the timidity, get out of the whining to God. Yeah,

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let's hear what the voice is saying. Get out of the vagueness,

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get into specific. He who has ears to hear,

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let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying. And he has a mouth

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to speak, let him declare the words and the will of the Lord. Amen.

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Amen. So Father, we just thank you, Lord, that you've

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called us to hardcore praying and, uh,

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You've got— we've got stuff to do. Your kingdom of God is to come.

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Your will of God— your will is to be done, Lord. And you said,

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here's the list you gave us specifically: preach the

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gospel, cleanse the lepers, heal the sick, raise the dead,

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cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. That's a very

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specific list. That's what we're to be doing. And Jesus, you said,

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occupy till I come. Amen. That doesn't mean just sit around like you're occupying

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a couch. It means get out and do

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something. Get out, do business. And that's the business

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of the kingdom. Amen. Declaring the power of Jesus.

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May people see and come into your kingdom, Lord, through our

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prayers, through our words. Father, in Jesus' name. And Lord God, we pray that

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we'd run this race to the end. We wouldn't slow down at the last lap

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because You know, it's getting hard and then just give up. We're going

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to, we're going to run this race with confidence and your faithfulness to

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complete this race. So Father, again, hardcore praying,

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inspire, inspire, encourage us, get up off the couch and occupy.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, oh God,

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on earth, in and through us. Amen. Hey, I have

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a CD, an MP3, I guess you call it now, on Unanswered

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Prayers. Did you know that? Oh, really? Did you remember?

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Oh yeah. You should go to, you know what, guys, go to the website.

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There's a lot of stuff in there that's not anywhere else available.

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liferecovery.com, Unanswered Prayers or Why Prayers

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Don't Get Answered. And there's a lot of those MP3s in there that

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have a lot of, um, you can load it into your phone, whatever,

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and you can listen to it on the way to work. It will help you.

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Um, there's some, there's, there's many good ones and, And we need

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some inspiring listening to because of the way we're living in these

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days and age with everything being so horrible. Let your

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words be pleasing to God. Amen. You know,

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let our words, let the thoughts of our heart and the meditation of

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our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord God.

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