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Breaking through the Barrier - Dr. Reginald Klimionok
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Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful
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teaching by Dr. Reginald Klemenov. Dr. Klemenov's preaching has touched the lives of many inspiring
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and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join
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us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom
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that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as
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we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klemenov's preaching.
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We're going tonight on Breaking Through the Barrier. We are human beings of this earth,
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earthly. We live in this terra firma, in this terrestrial realm. We have humus, humus, humans.
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We have a physical body of flesh and bones and literally every part of your body when
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it goes to the ground returns to the dust. It's all particles of that. God is spirit.
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God is celestial. God is eternal. As real as we are. Now how can we break through this
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barrier between ourselves and God? Tonight and those who visit us, we don't have that
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often just like that. Tonight, just God came down, not created by anything we did, but
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he came. There were preparations of heart. I know that. But how can we break through
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this barrier from the natural into the spiritual? How can we break through? One day we will
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when we die. If we know we're Christians, if we love the Lord, we're going to be with
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Christ. Paul said that. That's wonderful. But it's not designed only when we die because
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eternity is as real as now. But God has designed for us that even today we have the privilege
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of breaking through. Can you say amen? He has ways and means whereby we can break through
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into that throne room. The greatest struggle we have is to really enter that presence of
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God and really touch God and really break from the natural. It's like a scientist that
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is working through a formula and suddenly he finds the key that unlocks or inventors
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who've got great inventions that worked at it for years and suddenly it works. And it's
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like this with God. Now may I begin to say that not every prayer is answered. Not all
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prayers reach God. Not all people pray. In India I know they will get into a grotto which
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is less than the size of their body and breathe there three months, three weeks, three years,
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three hours to stay there trying to get God. Or they'll prostrate themselves hour by hour,
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day by day on the floor, every inch of the way, trying to get God. And not everybody,
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not everybody, not every way breaks through with God. Not everything reaches God. The
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Bible is very clear in 1 John 5, 14 and 15. It says if we know that he hears us, we know
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that we have the petition. Once we break through, we have it. Whatever we ask God. And we've
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got to somewhere break through. So as I begin the subject, I may sound a little bit negative
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first, but we've got now Godly times answer instant prayers. I know that.
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Let me say we used to go in Houston. We are free. We're now at about six or seven lanes
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there to the city where we're living in Kingwood where Duncan's living. We lived, it was only
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two lanes. And I was chairing Benny Hinn's meetings those days and I was going into the
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meeting with an icy road. It was literally snowing and suddenly just right in front of
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Elizabeth an accident happened on this June 2 highway. And I've never seen like it. Somehow
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that car went, we had a Lincoln Continental. They used to give me one of those every two
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weeks to church. Every two weeks, every two years the church did. And it's just as if
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something went, we went past and went on. Behind us, clang, bang, chatter, everything
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was crashing. I mean the icy road, and yet as an angel I called it a con. I just couldn't
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believe it. God, you see, but we cried out for a moment and God came. Sometimes God will
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answer instantly. Can you say amen? But there's more to prayer than this. We must somehow
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be able to break through with God. And you know my prayer life was very strong when I
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was young in the ministry. I spent days in prayer. I didn't have those disciplines even
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now than I had those days. Now I believe God built the ministry out of that prayer life.
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I mean literally I'd spend weeks of prayer in the presence of God. And when I started
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the ministry I went to Adelaide to help and God put me across the path in my name of Howard
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Blatchell when one of those brilliant theologians of this country was asked to become the principal
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of the Bible school in Ethiopia, didn't he? But he used to help me for two days a week,
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to disciple me in those days, build up my understanding of the truths of God. It was
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one of the most amazing times I've had in my life. But I think God does that because
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of what's the way you prepare in the presence of God. Can you say amen? A number of principles
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about breaking through with God. Number one prayer starts with hope. You must have hope
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if we're going to pray. Hope is very important in life. We live with hope. Hope for a better
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job. Hope for maybe dreaming about a better car or a boat. Some of us dream, have unusual
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dreams. Some of us have you know you hope for a better wife too late. You've got to
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pray that through and change your life. But you can hope for things. It's one of the great
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emotions of life. We have hope. Come on, you wouldn't have hope. You wouldn't get very
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far. God made us with hope. Can you agree with me? We have this capacity. Now the Bible
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talks about hope. It says in Hebrews 11 verse 1 that faith is the substance of things hoped
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for. In other words, faith is nurtured in hope. Faith begins firstly with hope. When
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talks about Abraham's life, it says who against hope believed in hope. God used that hope
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to break through his life. It's a very powerful and the first Corinthians 13 the last verses
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says now abideth faith, hope and charity or love these three but the greatest of these
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is love. But there are three things. Faith, what? Hope and love. So it's crucial. It's
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a crucial part of our life for us to have. Now the greatest for example, the greatest
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hope is as Titus 1 says in the hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised. We
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have hope that one day we're going to be with Jesus. Can you say amen? And it says God which
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cannot lie. God said it. God spoke it. That settles it. Amen church. Which God that cannot
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lie promised. We have hope in the coming of Christ. We see so many unusual evidences in
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this world today, unusual signs. Things are happening around us that are almost horrendous.
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Wars are no more fought like they used to be fought. We have wars in the backyard anywhere
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in London last few weeks what happened there. And then in Kusadasi just two days ago was
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it yesterday, another bomb exploded and in a tourist area in Turkey, Kusadasi and in
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the Ephesus. And it's just seemingly a world of difference of unbelievable terror could
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happen here, could happen anywhere. And we just have we trust the Lord. But the world
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is coming in a most unusual place these days. Thank God for hope. The Bible talks to Christians
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in 1 John 3, 3, 3, 3 says looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of
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our God and Savior Jesus Christ. So we're looking for him. He had this hope that says
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that purify themselves. So we have hope. Thank God for that. But there's also that hope that
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is nurtured to see the fulfillment of what God has promised us. What God wants us to
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have to experience to know and it starts with hope. For example, the Romans chapter 8, Book
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of Romans chapter 8, it says verse 24, it says, for you are saved by hope, but hope
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that is seen is not hope for the man see it was he had hope. So we can't see this is this
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is the you know, if I could just make a lovely package out of this whole stuff and physically
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could see it and say that this is your salvation, just take it. Wouldn't that be easy? But you
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have to step into a realm called hope. And that hope brings faith and faith brings something
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to you or by you know, for example, how many do not know they're saved here? How many know
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they're saved? Now that's, you know, what happened? Did you somebody bang you on the
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head physically? You know, it's a spiritual experience, but it's real. Come on, church.
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And it becomes somehow to me my salvation is as real as my wife is to me. It's like
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a substance to me, whereby I know that I know I belong to Christ. Can somebody agree with
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me that it starts with hope, you cannot see it, but it's real. Can you say amen? And so
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prayer breaking through starts with hope. Also prayer and not by praying breaking through
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the barrier breaking through so that we know we've reached God. True prayer praying the
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spirit of prayer has in it force, volume, intensity, passion. In James four, the apostle
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Paul says, James four, five, five, five, James five, 15. The prayer note says the effectual
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fervent prayer of a righteous man has tremendous power. When you look at those words there,
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it's not just saying words. It has intensity. It has force. It has passion. It has feeling.
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You see the world of God's Holy Spirit allows intensity. It comes at times with tremendous
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impressions comes with what I call even with velocity. I'll explain force direction endurance.
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There's more to this stuff than we realize. It has a lot of emotions, a lot of factors
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in it that bring about the awesome presence and power of God Almighty. There's something
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about that you enter that reaches God powerfully. Now, I don't know much about guns. Never had
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a gun, never possessed a gun. But when you get into Texas, you've got to learn something
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about guns because everybody has guns. My son's got a brilliant rifle that he got given
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to him worth about a thousand dollars. He's never used it, thank God. Everybody carries
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guns in Texas. Some parts of Texas walk down the street to walk like this in guns. I mean
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that. When I first got this, I went to Texas to the Hill Country. Houston is as far as
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you can see. Houston has the freeways to go up like this and then the hills of Houston.
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That's the Hill Country. I thought that's interesting. I'll see some hills. We went
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to the Hill Country and the little hills like that, that was the Hill Country. We went to
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eat there in one of those real country places. I mean they walked in like this. They even
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wear these massive hats. The moment I came at the airport, they gave me this massive
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Texan hat there. About a hundred people met us at the airport or 200, whatever it was.
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They gave me this hat and these guys wear this Texan hat, wear it sitting in the restaurant,
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you know, don't take it off. It's another world, another world. Guns, guns. I learned
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a little bit about guns. When you talk about this, and I don't know much about this stuff,
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when you talk about the velocity of the speed, it depends upon the diameter of the bullet,
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the power and the casing determines the velocity. How many of you know something about guns
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here? You do. Wow. I've seen you shoot it. I know that. That brings the speed. Now for
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example, if I'm shooting a 264 Winchester Magnum rifle, I'm told, I have learned from
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Houston, you put into it a.264 diameter bullet. It has a casing that holds fast burning powder.
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It has the velocity as speed off as you send it out of 3,800 feet per second. That is fast.
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Tremendous speed. I believe 200 yards away, if you point there, it will only drop about
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3 inches. That 200 feet is a long way. It's a long way. That thing shoots speed, tremendous
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speed, tremendous velocity, tremendous speed before it hits the target. I believe there's
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something in God where you, like tonight, those who know what happened, I just knew
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God had come. Something happened to my body. It's gone. It stayed for a few minutes, it's
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gone. When I was having these meetings, it would come. I haven't had it much and I said,
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Lord, it's enough. Come on. Do the same here that you've done as I move around and tonight,
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it just came. You know what happened. I didn't create that. I had nothing to do with it.
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It's the presence of God Almighty. Are you with me? It's wonderful.
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I want to somehow teach you. Daniel made an interesting statement. I was reading this
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week. It's an interesting thought here. Daniel the great prayer warrior that prayed for Israel
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when they're in bondage under Babylonian captivity. He said in Daniel 9, verse 7, O Lord, righteousness
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belongeth unto thee, but to us confusion of faces as to this day. Again, he repeats verse
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8, O Lord, to us belongeth confusion. Some people, this powerful man of God, they interceded
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for the nation of Israel whose angel came to them. Jesus came to them there. Awesome
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power came. The next chapter, you read it, but he says to us belongs confusion. Some
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people are like that, confused, trying to break through. How can I break through in
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prayer with God? How can I shoot that bullet? How can my prayers push right through and
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have the miracle and have what God? See, God's got to be real to us. Can you say amen? I
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do not want just religion. I'm not interested just to have religion.
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Now, people will tell you I gave to a Spanish sister, where is she tonight? She's somewhere
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here. Gave her four or five videos when I was speaking in Panama, six, seven, eight
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thousand people. When people are ready, you can sense something just breaks through with
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awesome power. I'm asking God to do that here. Can you say amen? I really believe Australia
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has lost it. We have nice meetings. When we have great exciting meetings, it's still not
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breaking through as far as I'm concerned because I'm not just interested in exciting meetings
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and then go away with excitement. That's good, but I want to break through. Can somebody
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say amen? I long to see God. We had a powerful service tonight, this morning, but I long
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to see God break through. Now, how can we break through? This is my question. How can
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we go from the natural into God's realm, from the terrestrial to the celestial? It'd be
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wonderful if we could get up every morning and at the end of our bed, the angels were
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singing and the choir of heaven was open. We just get up and say, good morning, Jesus.
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It'd be marvelous, but it's not like that. We get up and our flesh is full of the flesh
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and we're trying to break through. We're trying to get up to pray, get through to God. A lot
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of people are very wonderful in church service. I'm interested in what you like in the mornings.
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How much of God you have when you get up in the mornings. What you do when nobody else
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sees you. How much of God is there. How strong you are in the Lord, not just in church. What
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your voice is like when you're not here in this service. Hello, church. Now, we need
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help. Can you agree with that? How to break through. We have great help. Go to Romans
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chapter 8, please. The book of Romans chapter 8. The apostle Paul says in verses 25 and
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27. No. Verse 26. Likewise, the spirit also help with our infirmities. We know that what
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we should pray for as we ought. We don't know. Sometimes we don't know how to break through.
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But the Spirit himself making the session for us with groaning itself. That's not a proper
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translation himself. He's not in it. He's a person with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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He that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he make
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in the session for the saints according to the will of God. Now, notice he says he helps
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our infirmities. The word infirmities, the word asthenia are weaknesses. Are confusion.
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Let's be honest. Sometimes we don't know how to break through. The other night I was
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in his presence praying and I said, God. And I opened to Daniel. To us belongs confusion.
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Thank you Lord. You're speaking to me. But to you, there's no problem. That's how I got
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this message. To you there's no problem. You know it all. But at times, let's be honest.
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We struggle with this stuff. But it says the God has sent us what? The Holy Spirit. And
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the Holy Spirit helps our infirmities. Now, we have great models of prayer. I have written
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the Lord's Prayer Book. It's a powerful model. I use that to break through with God
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and it works. I often do this when I walk even at home. I have the Tabernacle Prayer
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which is again a very powerful way to break through with God. And these are all wonderful
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keys that we should use regularly in our lives. I believe that with all my heart. But we need
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more than the house, more than books. We need the Holy Spirit. Because he helps our asthenia,
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our weaknesses when we don't know what to pray for, how to pray. So I have a struggle
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with that. We all have struggles. You know Lord in this. You could stay in faith. It's
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very important what I told you this morning. Your tongue is very crucial what you say.
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But there is this infirmity of the flesh. We don't know at times how to break through.
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But we have a wonderful person. Can you say amen? The Holy Spirit is in the searching
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business. See, we're searching after God. But God is searching our heart. He that searcheth
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the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit. And make it in the session for us,
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through us in this prayer according. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Can somebody agree
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with me? I talked about the Holy Spirit not this last Sunday but the Sunday before. That's
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correct. What a wonderful time. He showed up in wonderful power. Actually we're having
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meetings that I don't know if you realize. Don't lose what God is doing because of size.
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Are you with me? Don't lose it because we're not thousands. But we're seeing things at
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this moment like that meeting on the Holy Spirit. As far as I'm concerned, that was
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awesome. And you can just let it all pass by. God is not concerned about size as much
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as we are. And if I have the wrong motivation for size, it doesn't work. Some of the greatest
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teachings of Jesus was with a handful of people in homes or with amongst his disciples, a
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bunch of twelve. So it's not, God's not the same business that we are because it's a great
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confession, convention in America and tens of thousands of people. Wonderful. But size
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is not the issue with God. He searched at what? He didn't say, I will search the size
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and will bless them. He says, he that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of the
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spirit. He knows what God can do. God's got no problems. Hello church. God's not walking
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up and down in heaven saying, what am I going to do? I don't know any about this guy. He
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knows the very hairs of my head. Hello church. He's not walking up and down saying, what's
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going on in this world? Come on, understand this. He knows exactly what's going on. He
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doesn't even say that. He didn't say, what can I do about it? He knows exactly what he's
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going to do. You've got a big God. Come on church. We have the problem getting to him,
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but he's searching our hearts for us to break through. Doesn't he say that basically? We
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can pray because he knows our weakness, our limitations. What happened to David? He's
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babysitting. Oh that's good. He got touched and now he's babysitting. Good. That's wonderful.
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God bless him so that you can hear the word. That's good. But he can break through. Can
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he say amen? Now remember, prayer is not blasting all the time. Sometimes you can do a bit of
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blasting if you wish, but it also says, be still and know that I am God. It's not just
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wild and understanding, but it's all kinds of things that bring the presence of God.
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Sometimes you sit before the Lord in his presence. In his presence, God is there. There's nothing
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like his presence. There's a great danger for us to think that I know in America, in
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certain parts of America, unless you had a time where everybody dances in the arts and
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it's only then you've had God. I'm not convinced that that's necessarily God. That is a human
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expression of what we are happy about in our life. I'm not against that. I remember once
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Pastor Haddon was a very sophisticated person in church. He wanted to impress that person.
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His dear old saint is to get into the aisle and have a little dance. He preached his best
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message and he did his best he could do. Suddenly this lady took off in the aisle and he says,
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I've lost it. As the man was leaving, he said, well, what do you think of that? He said,
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well, your message wasn't too bad, but if I had what that lady had, I'd be a happy man.
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So not always is it what we think. Agreed? But there's all kinds of responses, all kinds
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of ways that we break through. The key is for us firstly to know and understand. If
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we know what we're doing is right and we can add faith to it, correct? If we know that
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what we are doing will get us through to God, we can add faith to it. Do you agree with
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me? And something will happen at that moment in our life if we know what we're doing and
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we will have enormous results. If you know what you're doing, you can put faith to it.
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You say, I'm doing my best. Doing your best is not enough. They do their best in India.
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The Muslims do their best. Hello? I mean, they don't care what you think. They'll be
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in an airport. I've seen them put the rug out in Europe and just start praying. They
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ain't going to know who you are. They'll find out where Mecca is and off they go. They're
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doing their best. Doing your best is not enough. You can be ignorant and miss out. It's why
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they were ignorant of God's righteousness when they established their own righteousness
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and never got God's righteousness. So that's not enough. Are you with me? That's not sufficient
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for us. Now remember, let's go back to this. The Spirit
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help with our infirmities, our weaknesses. We don't know what we should pray for as we
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ought. So there's this barrier between us and God, this barrier that we've got to break
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through and that's my determination tonight. Now, the reason why we struggle is because
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this what I call the human limitations of the flesh. You know, I'd love to bring you
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on a spiritual high all the time. It would be marvelous. We'll get into a high with God
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and that would be wonderful. But you see, it doesn't work like that all the way. We
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have this stuff called the flesh, where we live in. Unless you deal with this flesh,
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it'll always keep you down and under. Now there's all kinds of flesh. In Philippians
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chapter three, Paul said he had no confidence in the flesh. And he says, he talks about,
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you know, all these things, the 8th day of the stock of Israel, the trial of Benjamin,
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the Hebrews concerning zeal of pursuing the church, touching righteousness. This is what
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he was like. Here the flesh is the religious stuff. You can have a very ordinary life,
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this life that never breaks through with God. You may say, well, you know, I have this history
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of religion, but it can simply be a fleshly thing that has never broken through with God.
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Paul had that and he says, it didn't do me any good. A Hebrew of the Hebrew of the Pharisees,
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of the tribe of Benjamin. Great man had all this stuff. He calls that the flesh. So that's
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that part that hinders us. Then there's also in Galatians chapter six, it says, walk not
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in the flesh, but in the spirit. So there's the flesh there of sinful things. Roman six
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talks about that we crucify the flesh. That flesh can stop us. That flesh can stand in
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the way of the things of God in our life. Remember that scripture in Romans, it says
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the Holy Spirit help us our what? Infermities. And I, in my book on overcoming the giants,
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I've got a chapter in the Holy Spirit in Romans chapter eight, and I deal with some of those
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infirmities, what they are. The infirmities that, I mean, we somehow have to pray in the
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morning. How do you get up and pray? It's called the flesh. Some of us up, down, up,
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down, up, down like yo-yos as Christians. What is that? The flesh. One day, hallelujah.
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And next to it, oh my, oh me. And the flesh is still pervading within us. We haven't crucified
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the flesh. You know, we say, oh, like the guy said, I'm going to serve God from now
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on. He doesn't have to go to church next Sunday. Why didn't he? Well, I slept in. No, it doesn't
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compute with me, except I know it's the flesh. If you really mean you're going to serve God
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with all your might and heart, you get an alarm clock. You get there. I mean, I have
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never, in 45 years of ministry, I've hardly ever missed a Sunday. Never have I missed
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a Sunday. Now you say you're proud. No, I'm not proud. I thank God. Well, I've had to
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because I've been the preacher. But the flesh, the flesh. So often the flesh hinders. Come
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on. Can you understand that? The flesh stands in the way. Now in Romans chapter 8, it also
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talks about the mind of the flesh or the mind of the spirit. So there's another realm of
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the flesh there. Unless we renew our mind daily with God, are you with me? We get fleshly
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in our mind. If you have the mind of the flesh, it says we never grow, we die, we lose what
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God has. There's a flesh part, please listen to me, that we not need to break through this
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barrier, the physical flesh, even maybe sometimes the sinful flesh, the religious flesh. And
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that's why we don't live in commitment. We don't do all that God wants us to do because
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we're still in this business called the flesh. We've got to crucify it. Can somebody say
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amen? See, we don't see the unseen. We don't see the spirit world. We're so temple creatures.
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Temple creatures of time and sense. God is eternal. He's just as real. But Jesus in John
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17 made a very profound statement concerning this as he's praying. He says here, I am not
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of this world. He says, but what's the verse there? I think verse 11. He says, I am no
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more of this world, but these are in the world. I come to thee, Holy Father. He had broken
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through. And he says, I am no more. I'm going back to you, Father. I'm going to be with
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you, but they're still in this world. And you're in this world, like it or not. It's
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these three times that deliver us from this evil world as he prays for them. We still
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live in this world. He broke through, of course. He's our great intercessor. He's the Son of
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God, but we are still breaking through. Can you say amen? And now I want to break through.
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Now, in John Matthew 4, it says, �Man shall live by the blood of man, but by every word
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that proceedeth.� Jesus said that to the devil. And the word means that God is speaking
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all the time there. The mood, the tense, Dr. Terry, he did some work with me on that. It
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means that God is talking all the time. We don't hear him enough. We could just stop
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and listen. God is talking. God has many things to say to you. You can only hear it. Break
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through. Break through. Can you say amen? He's ever searching the heart, trying to raise
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to � You see, you're not getting a hold of God's reluctance. You're not sitting up
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there and saying, �Now, come on. Push through, boy. When you push through enough, then you've
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made it.� No, no. He's eagerly trying to help you break through. Can somebody say amen?
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Eagerly. He invites us to come to the throne. But we've got to break through. We have the
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job as ours. He has given us Jesus Christ who has broken every barrier, the sin barrier,
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even the flesh barrier, to crucify that. He's given us the Holy Spirit, has He, who wants
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to break through, who wants to pray through us? Are you with me? He's done it all, but
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we have got to break through. I don't think we believe fully the power of this breaking
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through prayer life. If we really believed it would be the biggest meeting in the church,
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it would be the prayer meeting. It's like putting teeth in some churches to get people
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out to the prayer meeting, not going to a dentist. You know? Anything about that, Lord?
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Because we don't believe the power of prayer. We don't believe we can break through. Come
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on. Let's be honest. Think of weakness as sending you the flesh. But we can break through.
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Are you with me? That's what I'm trying to get hold of. We've got to get out of the flesh
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and of the spirit. Are you with me? Are you with me? Let's grab hold of this. God is speaking.
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God wants us to know. What was Christ, the key of Christ's ministry? He says in John
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17 and 18, I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received
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them. He heard God's words. He received them. We likewise can receive from God if we spend
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time, if we break through the flesh. Can you say amen? If we can only take hold of it and
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see, when God came to Adam, he hid in the garden. We hide in our houses, in our work,
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in our business, in our emotions. We keep hiding. We keep hiding away from the potential
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of power of life there is in God. And we've got to break through. Can you say amen? That's
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why I'm doing this tonight, to get to the place where you say, I can, I will break through
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with God. Come on, Church. And God will do great things. Can you say amen? He will do
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great things for us. The barriers of God, it's our problem. We're in the flesh, captives,
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hostages to the terra firma. That's why we have to pray. That's why we have to push through.
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I don't know how many of you have the experience, when you start praying, it's like, ugh. But
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if you start off, and once you start praying, you're there. And it's marvelous. You've broken
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through. You've broken through a dimension. When you don't want to read the Word, everything
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will come your way to stop you reading the Word. I mean, you have every thought of what
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you're supposed to do, who you're supposed to see. We'll eat some more food or something.
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I've got to do this, I've got to do this. But once you start and shut the door and get
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alone with God, you break through. Because you've broken through this flesh, through
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this barrier that stands between us and the others, of course, never do because they say,
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I'm too sinful. Jesus bore that sin. Jesus broke that barrier for you. No one can say
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they're not worthy. He is the worthy one. Can you say amen? He is the sufficient one.
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He is the answer to what we need. Can you say amen? He has the solution to our problems.
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And we can break it. Go to Romans 8 for me. Let's read this because there's some very
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powerful thoughts there. Paul knew this. He says then, verse 5, for they that are in the
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flesh, Romans 8, to mind the things of the flesh. This is just natural life. I'm not
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talking about the evil flesh there. It's just ordinary life. They're in the spirit to mind
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the things of the spirit. For to be kind in mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life
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and peace. Because the kind of mind is enmity against God. It's not subject to the laws
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of God, neither can it be. So they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But then he
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says this, but you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If so be that the spirit of
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God will. What do you have? You have the Holy Spirit. Many men have not the spirit of Christ.
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So when you've received Christ, you have the capacity to break through. Can you say amen
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to that? You do. And if Christ has been near, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit
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is alive because of righteousness. And so you have something in you from God that can
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break through to God. Can you say amen? Because you know God, you could something in, if you
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can make room for that and set the flesh aside, you can break through. Can you say amen? You
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can break through because you're not in the flesh, but also these unusual words in the
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spirit. If so be that the spirit of God, when you that's talking about the spirit of Christ,
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when you receive Christ, you have got the spirit of God. Can you say amen? Then you
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have the Holy Spirit who helps us break through, who helps us, but get the flesh aside. Go
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to that door and shut it no matter what and put a door against it that nobody can get
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in. Say I'm here Lord, I've broken through the flesh. Thank you Jesus this morning. I
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give you half an hour. There's coffee time or there's work time. But what I'm saying
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is this stuff we've got to break through. Can you what I'm trying to say is this God
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is spirit, as we do now, as you know, your flesh, terra firma, humans, human, you're
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just this earth. We have something within us whereby we can break through to God. Can
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you say amen? We do have. Like Sister tonight was saying, I mean God touched you. Where
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did the tears come? Did I say something miserable to you? That the tears came? What did this
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presence come? What happens when that heat came? I mean who creates it? There's a little
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bottle underneath you where nobody could see for a minute. I mean one Sister that for days
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that heat on her body. Hello. It's God that comes. It's God that visits us. Are you with
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me? It's real. It's as real as now. But you are not just a flesh being, you are a spiritual
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being. You're being of spirit, soul and body. And this morning I gave you the principles
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of success that keeps you in that realm of spiritual power. What you say, how you speak,
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what you do, how you declare it. Because you are more than just a being of flesh. You let
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the flesh predominate. Not, well I'm not fleshly. You don't commit terrible sins, but you're
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still being the flesh. You'd be very religious and pride yourself like Paul did for years
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until Jesus knocked him on the ground on the road to Damascus. And I've met a lot of people
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very religious. I mean I've got several degrees, several doctors, but if that ever gets in
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the way, God have mercy on me. You see, it's not me, it's old Jesus. I have nothing. These
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things are really useless except they're tools with which to serve God. Are you with me?
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They're not my way of heaven. I think God's going to say, here comes Dr. Klyminok in heaven.
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He won't be impressed at all. Not one iota will he be impressed. He's going to be impressed
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with what I've done for Jesus. Impressed with my heart, with my faith in him, with my love
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for him. And I'm going to be impressed by how much he loves me, despite of all my weaknesses
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and frailties and failures. I'm impressed that he's of his unconditional love, that
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God so loved me. He loves you too. Can you say amen? Marvelous, marvelous. Amen, Church.
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So we're just trying to understand this world because we are earthly, he is eternal. We're
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creatures of clay and dust, but he is eternal. And the most important thing that counts is
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that you is your spirit, your spiritual life with God, your life of relationship, your
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life of faith. You see, not possible. Yes, it is. Jesus came to do it all. He reconciled
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you to God. He put you back to God. The sin barrier has been broken. The flesh barrier
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has been broken. The Holy Spirit can be in you. You can possess the mind of the Spirit.
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You can live in the Spirit. You have it all there. You can walk in the Spirit, as it says,
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to not fulfill the things of this flesh. Right here is the answer. So every morning you wake
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up and get some spiritual food. That's what Israel had to do. The morning the manna came.
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They didn't go. They missed it. They were hungry all day long. Get some manna every
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morning. Get into his presence. You see, when the church grows and things that God is going
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to do, I'm making great confessions. I know that we have great buildings and so on. Finally,
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for God's sake, I'm never going to be impressed with the buildings, by the way. We're going
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to have them for the sake of the world. When we have something, I can invite great singers.
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I'll have a thousand, two thousand people. Youth will come. But what about that's wonderful,
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but until they break through, it's just entertainment. We've brought them there that they may touch
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God and at least respond somewhere. You understand? But finally, they're going to break through.
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They're really going to break through. So that doesn't do it all. God's not impressed
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with that either. Do I sound a bit negative at night? I don't know if you think I do or
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not, but I'm just trying to show you what's important. It'd be marvelous if you rose in
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the morning and said the heavens were opening, you were singing and the choir was at the
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end of your bed, but it doesn't happen like that. It doesn't happen like that. I've walked
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many times and said, where are the choir angels, Lord? No, they're not there. I've got to get
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up, got to find a place, got to give priority to God, don't let the flesh hinder me and
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break through. I still want to hear the choir, but I'll hear enough to know that God's there.
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His presence will be there. If you want a choir, put a nice tape on. There's some great
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choirs around. Amen. So it's crucial. It's crucial, you see, in Hebrews 11.4, he that
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comes to God must believe that he is and that he's white, a reward of them who break through
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the flesh, that diligently seek him. The mystery of prayer is breaking through from the flesh
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into the spirit, from the natural into the throne. Listen to Hebrews chapter four. I'll
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finish quickly. How long have I gone? I don't even know how long I've gone. Hebrews four
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says, I won't be too long. So we said, thank God. It tells us Hebrews four in verse 16,
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let us come therefore boldly unto the throne of grace. Imagine God saying to us, come boldly
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to us. And the Greek that is used here literally means you come into a place or draw near in
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Hebrews 10. It means literally you draw near. We drew near to God and some unusual things
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happened tonight. It was just his manifest presence. We just drew near. There's some
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we didn't get anything simply because of the flesh. We said, could I have touched,
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you could have touched something. Some needed it more than others. And sometimes God in
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his mercy just touches people and does great things. I don't understand at all. I stick
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to this book. Can you say amen? And I want more than just a nice sermon at the Christian
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nets. I want to break through with God. See your side and God's side, your side is from
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fear to faith. And fear is a very dangerous thing. But it's all of us, a man can walk
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in a 40 story building high and go from beam to beam and jump around. But he's got fears
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about his wife leaving him. Different kinds of fears. A man can walk into a cage with
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a lion has no problems, but he can't get near a spider. Different kinds of fears. So we've
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got to come from doubt to understanding from darkness to light. That's the way that's
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the that's that Israel from war to peace. Can you say amen? For insecurities of confidence,
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it can all change in God's presence. Can you say amen? As Isaac once says, he gives us
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beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for morning, the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
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We might be trees of righteousness, the planting of the planting, planting of the Lord. So
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what did the psalmist say in Psalm 16? In thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right
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hand. He knew that round. He touched that round at the right hand that are what pleasures
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forevermore. Oh, get hungry for God's press deal with this flesh. Let that not stop you
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entering the marvelous, amazing, wonderful presence of God. Now, God has provided the
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means and I believe this. There are like doors that opened it up. And when you start with
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God, you may have one kind of prayer that you pray and that's wonderful. And you use
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certain cliches. That's good. But there are many doors. So they put it that way. There's
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a door of worship. Worship tonight brought his presence. There's the door of intercession.
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It says praying Ephesians 6, 18, praying all kinds of prayer. And so we say, I wonder God
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in heaven was like brass. God wasn't there. Yes, he was there, but you're in the wrong
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door. Learn to get to the right door at times. It may be different the next time. Learn God.
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Learn how God works with you. Learn that the Spirit works, the Holy Spirit works through
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you until you break through with God. Can you say amen until God powerfully breaks through?
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There is travail that's in the session. There's Thanksgiving. When I was born in Columbia,
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I learned the power of cleansing before the throne. That's very powerful in my life. They're
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revolutionary. A door that opened. So that's why some people only pray sporadically. They
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say, God is there waiting for you. You're not getting hold of his reluctance. Can you
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say amen? But learn there's a whole key realm there to break through. It's like deep. What
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the poet said was the length, depth and height in Ephesians 3, 18. There are realms that
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are depth. God wants us to enter into his awesome presence. Can you say amen? Remember
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how Jacob and I close with this in Genesis 32, suddenly an angel came to Jacob and started
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wrestling with him. All night long, he wrestled with his angel. As the dawn breaks, the angel
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says, I'm leaving. Now that scene changes. Jacob now is wrestling with the angel. Jacob
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said, I'm not letting you go until you bless me. He starts wrestling with him until his
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very physical being is affected. Later on, it's amazing that God would allow himself
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to be called as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He broke through into realms with
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God. See, as the angels leave in the morning to get their messages from heaven to do the
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works of God upon the earth, you're not going, angel. Maybe the angel Lord, I don't know,
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but it says in Isaiah chapter 12, by a string, he had power over the angel. Imagine that.
Isaiah 12 chapter mention
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Imagine the power that you have to break through with God. Imagine the power you have. If only
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we'd make that room. That's the biggest battle you will have because I know a lot of Christians
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that will serve God even in church, but they don't pray. The biggest battle of the life
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is to break through with God. If you want the best, you're going to get from the natural
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to the spiritual, from the earthly to the heavenly. And it's possible. It says, we don't
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know how, but the Holy Spirit helps us. Correct? It's possible. He says, come to my throne.
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Come to my throne. Come to my presence and I will lead you until you get like these mighty
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men touched Israel. I've heard of great generals that led armies that you spend an hour before
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God and they'd ask their adjutant just to say, don't disturb me for an hour. When the
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adjutant would come back after an hour, they'd say, is it over already? Because they've been
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with God. Oh, the mighty men of the Bible knew how to break through with God. Do you
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want to break through? I want to break through. Can we stand, please? A bit long, I apologize
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for that. I've made up my mind to finish by quarter to eight. Well, we had an unusual
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time tonight, earlier, so it took about half an hour or so. Well, the flesh is around us,
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so I'm trying to be kind. Let's stand in God's presence, shall we?
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Help us to break through, Lord. Just worship Him. Lift your hand and worship if you wish.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. One night I would bring you a tape when I was
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born, there was about 8,000 people there. We're just worshiping like that and suddenly
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we heard the angels sing. No doubt, you listen to it, there's no doubt. We stop looking around
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and there would be one singing anymore and the angels just singing. We just broke through
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something with God, because God is the supernatural God.
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I will praise Him.
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I will praise You.
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I will praise You.
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I will praise You.
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I will praise You.
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Worship in church.
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I will praise You.
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Holy Ghost, I will praise You.
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I will praise You.
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I will praise You.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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You can break through right now.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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I want you just one minute to find somebody to pray with them,
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and encourage each other to learn to pray.
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Take somebody by the hand nearby you, and pray with them,
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as brothers as quality plays.
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Just find someone and pray together.
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Say, God help us to pray.
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Teach us how to pray.
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Teach us to break through.
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I ask God to help you.
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The Holy Spirit will help you.
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Lord help us to pray through, I pray.
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To spend time with the manner of Your Word in the mornings.
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Help us to break through, Lord, every one of us,
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that we would see You work in our lives powerfully.
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Oh God, come on cry out to the Lord.
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Help us, Lord, to break through.
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Help us to break through, Master, we pray.
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In the name of Jesus, from the natural to the spiritual,
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from the terrestrial to the celestial,
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from the terra firma to the presence of Almighty God.
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Oh bless every one of us, Lord.
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Draw near to us.
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Make us people of prayer that break through
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with the velocity, the passion, the spirit,
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as You talk to us in the name of Jesus.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Let Your blessing rest upon every one of us.
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We pray as we go.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Bless this precious man, this father, this family.
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Touch his life, Lord.
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Be with him all his days, give him strength and health.
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Let Your presence come to him, Lord.
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I don't know him very well, but I bless him tonight.
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Would You also bless him?
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Draw near to him, Lord.
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I thank You for his life, what he's brought to this family.
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I bless him, Lord, in this time of his birthday,
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in the mighty name of Jesus.
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In the mighty name of Jesus.
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Hallelujah.
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Now Lord, bless us, we pray as we go.
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Take us with Your presence, with Your joy, with Your peace.
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Amen.
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God bless you in Jesus' name.
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Thank you again for tuning in to today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald Climinop.
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