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LRH: Order in Prayer - 3
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Do you want to build your faith?
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Do you desire to have a true encounter with God
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through his Word? Then listen to Lorgus ramer I with
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Reverend Doctor Joseph Baubin, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.
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God richly loves you.
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Welcome to the logo streamer are with God savant Reverend
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Doctor Joseph Being, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.
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And now to today's message.
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Halt here, Amen, let's take a conversion from Joshua one.
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Let's aid, let's shallow depart out of my mind, and
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I shall meditate in it to day and night, and
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I may observe to do according to all that is
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written in it. But then I will make my way prospers,
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and then I will have good success. Amen, God bless you.
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Why don't you take your seats and pressings. We will
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continue with our discourses on how best we can bring
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order to our prayer life. Charlie Louis, Amen, And we said,
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our uncle scripture is taken from Luke chapter eleven. One
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look eleven. And he said, now it came to pass
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as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased,
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and one of his disciples said to him, Lord teachers
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to pray as John also taught his disciples. Amen. And
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last week say, led by the spirit of the Lord,
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we made certain points, particularly to the fact that once
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again you know you can. It's so palpable, so you
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feel it. You know that a lot of us are not.
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You come across many a belief so dejected without enthusiasm.
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There's no spring in our Christian steps when it comes
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to the discipline has to do with our spiritual life
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that helps from growth and maturity one way or the other.
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The average believer just goes lukewarm, just grows cold, retreats,
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back tracks, and then you can see it and the effects.
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We lack energy. Unfortunately. The thing about prayer, I think
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last week we made that point is that the interesting
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thing is that when you are praying and praying effective
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and you are getting results, instead of your prayer life
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tapering off, it rather energizes you, and you get into
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a cycle and a rhythm of more prayer, enthusiastic prayer,
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and then the answers are coming, and so sooner than
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later you realize that you simply cannot do. And I
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believe that the opposite let's prayer, You're going to enter
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into a visual cycle of being denied prayer resources, prayer
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efforts will come to nothing, Helle Luier. In the Christian life,
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if there are no tangible proofs and results, you retreat.
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You require Helen Luier. So on the scale of the balance,
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which one are we going to do? We just have
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to tip ourselves and do everything that we can so
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we can engage God in prayer. The unfortunate truth is
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that prayer is not a standard alone activity in the
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Kingdom of God. It works best in synergy with the
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other disciplines. So if you are not praying, if you
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are praying of a necessity, you must steady your word
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of a necessity. You must find yourself in church and
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in Christian fellowship, worshiping with other believers of a necessity.
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You must practice love and hospitality. Key pillars that we
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see the Church of God at the inaugration of the Church.
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In the Book of Art, you find out they were
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engaged in these activities, and that's how come the Bible
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says the Church of God grew and signs, proofs, wonders.
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Where we're just you know, happening to the church and
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people just just troop to church. The Lord had the
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daily because of the science and the wonders. The science
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and the wonders, it wasn't happening outside the perimeters of
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the church. It was happening in the congregation among the
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people of God. There were beneficiaries of the proofs and
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the miracles. And when these things are happening, you find
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yourself that you are energizing. You can't shut up, you
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can't bottle it down. You just keep on evangelizing and
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telling people with enthusiasm that come come to the Lord
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if you have a need, and God is going to
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come through for you. Halen Loujah, Amen. So our prayerlessness
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is not helping us individuals. My spray, family is my spray,
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the church my spray. We must erect once again our
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prayer altars so that the fires can come. Without the altars,
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the fires of the Lord cannot come on it. Hallelujah, Amen. Amen.
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At best, we just decide that we will recite our prayers.
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Prayer recitation is no prayer. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. If you
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go through the motions of prayer but lack those key
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and vital ingredients that makes prayer effective, and that is
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ability to connect with God sometimes in maybe just a moment,
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sometimes a few minutes by mind God. When you connect,
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you see the glory of God. Connecting with God brings
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you into the presence of God. Is like the Bible
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says when on the day that Jesus was batted and
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because he was, the Bible saying, Jesus was pray and
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he connected with God, and the Bible says that there
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was an open heavens of there and God just just
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could not do anything but to you know, to to
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bellow and then to shout that this is my beloved
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son in whom I am well pleased. Halle lou jah Amen.
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Just imagine you and I as we are praying. Yeah,
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one day, maybe I P, I P or even any time.
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We just congregate to pray and then we pray. After
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a prayer sssion, every prayer accession, then a voice from nowhere,
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have a chapel have a chapel. You are my beloved
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at church. If my well please hallnlujah, won't it be
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exciting it energize as hallelujah? Amen. But when you are
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praying and no show, you say, God, no show every day, God,
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no show nothing. There's a tendency to you know, just
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stop praying hallelujah and once again anything that is not
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going well in your prayer like God has not. Amen.
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We are always the ones that are at fought, and
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we just need to add hallelujah, repent, go to God
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and consess. My God. I can't pray that I can't
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pray even when I come, I can't connect. You seem
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so far way, you seem soAnd wow, God, WHOA What
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can I do so that my prayers also can be paid?
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So I can stop reciting my prayers and be able
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to connect with you, so that I can see you
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face to face, So that when I come and I
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bow down in worship, I know that I'm bowled before
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the King of Kings and the Lord of laws. I'm
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not just doing it for doing sake, but with a
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real being and a real personality. And when you rise
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up from that prayer to all time, you will know
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that you have been paid. And apostle don't says that
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a prayer head, when God grants you an audience, prayer
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ahead is like prayer answered. Sometimes God says, son, not now,
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Just like Jesus Christ. The Bible says that didn't get seven.
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He prayed and I was just reading he said. He
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prayed with tears, reconizing and the sweat on his face
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that the disciples give us. The account says that it
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was like blood. But yes, so God said no, and
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in the course of the prayer. The amazing thing is
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that the Bible says that angels God rather send angels
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to strengthen him. And when he rolls up, he told
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them that, look, guys, get up. I asked you to
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wait with me, watch and praying, but you've been sleeping.
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Now the betrayer and then the act my captains the
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are in and he had the strength to be able
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to match to the cross and die for us. Prayer Hallelujah,
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Amen Amen. So it's more better than that God. The
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effective prayer does not necessarily mean that God will say yes,
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but the connection the strengthen by angelic or supernatural beings
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that sign you have to go through. This is my
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will for your life. So be I believe, and you
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are going to trying times and difficulties. And your face,
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you have a stoic face. You are determined to go through.
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You are not badging. You are hey. People see you
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and you are strong. But you you know that you
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have wept before the Lord and he has strengthen you
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and you have grace to be able to go through. Halleluiah, Amen.
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And when the heavens gets open, as I said that,
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we thank you my God, sakend day by when you're
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able to connect, that moment when you are able to connect,
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like you are able to pull out your heart before
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the king, halened Luiah in man, because you will be granted.
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You know that you have granted, you've been granted access.
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Don't want to miss them, hallelia. That's why sometimes the
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moments that you are praying, when you get connected, that's
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when you realize that you don't want to leave the
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prayer chamber because hey are granted. Gone is here. You
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know you can't rise, And then that is when it
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tap us off into hours and hours of praying. Why
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do you want to go when there's so much betting?
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On you and tonight or in the morning or whatever
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hour you got him, you don't want to go Helen Loujas.
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So before you realize he sometimes I pip, we are, Yeah,
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we'll be marching up and down yere, all of us.
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And then before we realize, it's six peep just on
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our faith, praying on our knees, some lying down six
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hours continually praying. Where do we get the energy from?
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Because you sense the poperable presence of God and you
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know that maybe like Batty Miles of Oh my race shaken,
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even when the heavens are saying shut up, he said,
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I'm not going to shut up, turn mercy on me.
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You know that there is your chance to catch his attention.
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You decide I'm going to let him go. Amen, halln lujah.
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So to enable this efficiency in the discipline of prayer,
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you must have the connection with God. And I say,
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momentarily what access decades and immediately you enter into His presence,
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you stay there. You don't feel like living, and you
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just be praying and praying halen amen. But then that
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connection with God, as we know, is that there must
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be a current and a father andry hallelu amen. Sometimes
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we get disconnected with we allow all the world is
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the cares, the anxieties, or to check out our devotion.
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Like I was saying, you know, you know, child of God.
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He said, you are busy. That's why you can pray.
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That's why your ol test like dilapidated your prayer all tests.
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You are busy, reenrected your prayer all tests A child
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of God, no Hallnelujah. I was musing over this, and
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then I just said, I was asking myself. Sometimes you're
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asking maybe it's the Lord. They said, who has been
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more busy than Jesus Christ? You and I? You and
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I look at your your busiest share. Do you think
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that you were more busy than Jesus Christ? Hallelujah? Amen.
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He was so busy at three and a half years
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to make impacts. And yes. So the Bible says that Ellie,
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like Mark tells, says about this prayer. He said Mark
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one said, Ellie, long before day he rose up. Sometimes
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all the cru says, and you'll tell the guys that
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you guys, take the leader, I'm coming. And the Bible says,
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you seek a secluded place in the mountain there there
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was a busy man. He will come down, the crowd
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will engage in the Bible says something. Sometimes they put
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him in rest on eat look at his shedu'side canary
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so clocked up, even when he says that can win.
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When he sits in the boat, then they'll also hire
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boats and then they will chase him. And yes, sir,
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he found time to pray. The necessity of prayer. And
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then you say you're a child of God. You say
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you are too busy. You will get busy. You find
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yourself in that sting when you are doing your own show.
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But when you are doing, you are running. You are
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you are, you are in seventh mode. And you know
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that every morning he must take your marching orders from
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your master. You will pray, and you stop giving the excuse.
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My my point is, let's stop giving the excuse. Let
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us admit that there's something deeper than we've been. The
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connection when the disconnection comes, and then this connection is
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most often through saying, oh, what we call disobedience to
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the word of God, either the logo or the riama
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of You want to grow, you want to mature. You
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need to know the voice of the dreamer, or when
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God speaks, you know hallelujah. Sometimes some of the instructing
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that you'll give you it has nothing to do with
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you know. Let you and I use the word playing
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this regard to a certain principle of the Word of
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God that is written. And so that that's why some
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time we have I'm not doing anything. I've not broken
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any law, but the rumor of God sucked the word
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for the moment. Get up and go to check does it?
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Oh God, If I don't go to church today, I
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don't see there are that day. There are many days
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in the week, seven days. So if I don't go
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for me, but you you that God is true as
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the next pastor in charge of the branch that we
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are going to set up. Hallelujah. Amen. That needs to
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know how to engage God in prayer and God, like
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Davy says, he trains my hands for war, and he
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listening to battle and to triumph. More and more, God
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wants you to train you so for you you are
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hearing the whisperings. That's the rumor of God. Right up
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and go to church, Oh God, Sunday. I was there
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Tuesday too. I went to today. You know, you know,
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I've had a very busy telling God that you've been
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a very day. The bob was says he nine that
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sleeps nor slam, that's twenty four hours a day. He
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came to watch over you, and he's not tired, Halene LOUI,
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and you as seven, your master is not tired. You
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are going to sleep and leave your master to stay
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on the watch. Halle louji here amen, he says. So
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when you rationalize some of these things, and in truly
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you get up to obey the express commandment of the energy,
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then the accompaniment, then the grace from them, and then
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the ability helen you and human with power. But if
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you are not doing it, and like we have said before,
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you realize you'll be tapering off. Halene Lou, Amen. There
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are lots of broken down altars. We are praying that
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individual family autists, corporate artists will be erected throughout this
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man as we bring order to our prayer lives. You
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believe it. You want to say a big a man,
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halenlu Yeah. Sometimes. And then the next point is that
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it's very easy to gravitate towards act and then content
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ourselves that we are making ourselves use activities, need empowerment.
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Plas very very very key. Jesus told the disciples that
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helen and they need they need. They had worked with him,
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so when he gave them the instruction, they knew the
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life of Jesus and we have the benefit of their
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share als. So you follow the gospel narrative life of Jesus.
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You have a very very very busy schedule. But yes,
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prayer and fellowship or worship, what's at the top of priority.
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Imagine he's doing it in the morning, and he's doing it,
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and I believe he's doing anything throughout the day. As
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the opportunities came, connect with God. Haled Lou a man,
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and he told them when it's no activity power, what
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that's the secret to effective prayer? Wit And after you've
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been in jep you can now go ahead city, hallelu amen.
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You wait on God in prayer. And as I said,
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the other discipline sometimes some of us would do. You're
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going hiding a settin mountain five three weeks, four weeks something,
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and then you come, hallelujah amen. And then you come
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with some bizarre dreams and bizarress that has nothing to
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do with the wed of God, pure feticism. And then
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he said, I heard from God and then giving people
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wrong directions and that is what is all going on,
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and then say that just slips in. Halleluiah. Amen. No,
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it's not about activity, hallelujah. And that's what I was saying.
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I'm saying it again. You will never be fulfilled or
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happy just doing something. I think this is a very
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important point. You will never be fooled or happy just
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doing something in the house of God. You must be
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doing that particular thing or assignment that God has for you,
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fulfilled at the very end of every particular what does
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God say do? Now, that's why you halle louis Amen,
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very very very important. You will never be fulfilled. That's
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the way you'll be doing something to you. But you
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will never be fulfilled or happy just doing something in
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the House of God. You must be doing that particular
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thing or assignment that God has for you in order
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to be contempt great to being able to do the
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thing that God has called us to do. You find
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your some of you in the house of God. You
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are saving, but you're not happy. Maybe you are doing
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the wrong thing. Hallelujah. Amen. You will never be fulfilled
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because that's not what God wants. Haleelujah. And only once
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a point I wanted to join the Harvest goes the
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way they used to sing. I said, oh you do
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for me, and God said, boy, they're not going anywhere.
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You weren't for the harvest. Go to Sunday School. Hale Louiah,
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Halen Loujah. I'm sure if I've been bound to the
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Harvest Goes, I won't hide behind because they asked me
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to sing Harley Louis Sundays who I'm going to stand
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before people like the teacher say you know, this is
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exactly what And then finally I yield and today, yeah,
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I am. I didn't plan this. It is not my life,
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his life, It's not our lives. His life in us.
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So you do want a master wants you if you're
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going to be happy, nor of God and contented hallelujah.
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So before activity, you need empowerment, turn to someoney and
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say you need empowerment. And empowerment comes when you aligning yourself. Now,
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listen to this with the moment by moment, will of
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the moment, will for your life, and you make sure
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that you take your match in order daily from the
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commander in chief of the armies of the Living God.
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That's when you get truly empowered, Amen. And whenever you
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get truly empowered, you realize that your prayer life and
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your encounters move. Ah my God, it will move away
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from the mundane and routine to certain something satisfying. Sometimes
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the prayer you know when you are praying and it's God,
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you know it. Halenelujah. So that we can move to
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purposeful and satisfying prayers because you get energized. The thing
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is that when you are praying and you are in
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the right place, you immediately you start. I mean, let
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me use the example because I find myself now in
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the right place when I have to come and preach,
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and I decide that I'm going to wait on the
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Lord in prayer. It's one of the ways that I
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know that God wants me to pray. Amen. The energy
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will come to pray. You are engaging God, and the
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day that he knows that he doesn't want you to preach,
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you won't find the energies. Amen, hallelujah. So that that
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engagement alone will tell you that yes, this is the
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this movie or maybe in the you are the one
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that is going to say. All of a sudden, you
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find out that before you come and take your solo.
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You are energized and you find yourself prayer compared to
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the one that will just be back because for the
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needy energies and when you pray, and because God wants
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you to be a blessing and strengthen you. Hallelu Amen, hallelujah.
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So our entire calling to work with God or faith
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life as I'm saying it, hinges and thrives on prayer,
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lots of prayer or conversations is healthy for your soul.
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Turn to someone say a lot of prayer is healthy
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for your soul with designed prayers conversations with God. Halleluis. Yeah. Amen,
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is healthy for your soul. And we need it and
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God will help us to do it. Halleluyer Amen. Amen.
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And what you soon learn is that to pray by
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the spirit, halleluis Amen. And when the Holy Spirit is
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new how to pray. We are going to find out
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just like they a Lord, he says to teach them
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how to pray. It makes it makes for activeness in
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whatever you are called. Amen. And now we can move on.
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This was introduction a summary of the truths that we learn.
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Now let's move on to look at the versus. Let's
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break them down verse by best. Let's some of the
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lessons to back some of the observations that so vers one.
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He says, now it came to pass as he was
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praying in a certain place when he sees that one
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of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to
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pray as John also to make the key points that
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we will invest one key point number one, Jesus made
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time to and you and I we must make time.
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Say a big amen, hallelujah. Point number two. For personal prayer,
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he often as against congregational prayer. When we call for
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the prayer meeting, you have no choice but to be here,
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and we're all going to do it. If we decide
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that we will do it in the gardens, you have
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no choice. You have to do it, and therefore it
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is open Amen. But for personal prayer, Jesus often sought
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and advocated for privacy or solitude so we could be
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alone with God. Can I take that? For personal prayer,
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Jesus often sought and therefore by so doing, he's teaching
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us how to pray, advocated for privacy or solitude so
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we could be alone with and we could He wants
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us to be alone with God so that we can
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do our way with distractions. Amen, discres things abound in
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life and can dumping the focus and effectiveness of our
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prayer enterprise. We are bringing order. And with this point.
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The first point that we are learning from Verse one
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as scene in the life of g is that he
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often sought, advocated for privacy so he could be alone
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with God. Distractions if you ignore it every time you
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want to pray, you don't have any needs except cluing
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or whatever privacy know, find one. The Bible said, Jesus
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went out and he sought. That's what the Bible said.
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That day he was in the day they made this comment,
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he was sleeping, or like he spent the time with
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Peter and his mother in law and his wife. So
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he was in Peter's household with the disciples. Bible commentists
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will tell us that that place and then John and
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his brother James or their pearance used to spend a
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lot with them, hallelujah. But the Bible say, while they
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were sleeping, he left the place and looked for a
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solid so that he can alone with God. And he prayed, Amen,
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bringing all that you must have the place where you
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can be with a loan with God, Halene Lujah, because
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distractions abound in life and they can dump in the
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focus and effectiveness prayer, enterprise. And let's look at Matthew's
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six best vices. He teaches it, he practices it. Remember
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what look told and vulnerable to your fellows, Halene Lujah
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and John. In asks chapter one, he said, well, in
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the former Traitors, I've told you what Jesus was began
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to began to do. So that was his prayer, life
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or enterprise. Listen to him teaching it on the Salmon
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on the Man, he said, And when you pray, you
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shall not be like the hippo. But they love to
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pray standing in the synagox and on the corners of
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the street, that they may be seen by men. Assure redly,
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I say to you, they have their world the instruction
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in verse six. But you, when you pray, go into
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your room, and when you are shut your door, prayer
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to your father who is in the secret place, and
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your father who's reward you. Amen, Halene Loujah. So look
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for for effectiveness in prayer, bringing honor into a prayer,
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congregational prayer. You have nothing to do about it. When
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we come here and we say pray. None say, oh, passage,
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you know something and their da Dady was teaching and
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he says, I need privacy. So and then you live
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as I'm going to look for a place, we come
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looking for you going to one of the past's office.
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You have shut no halen Loujah. You have nothing to
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do but to stay here. But the one that sometimes
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when that's why sometimes when we are praying there in
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the in the gardens and I say come, let's come together,
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and I know some of you you want it. When
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we are praying, you want alone, you know, and then
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you tell us that you are able to pray better.
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Way you go on the grass and you go and
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then meander away. And then know that's congressional prayer. And
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when you alone, you set your time. Now why you
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can't do that. But when there's a congregational meeting and
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we are holding hands and we are in the in
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a circle praying, don't say that me. I don't like
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that the circle. I don't like holding hands with other people.
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So let me go. And then you know there's a
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big place. Let me go behind where the Logosa temple
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is praying. I'm sure that when I go there, I'll
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get alone place. No, let's get these truths very very
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very well. Congregational prayer. That one is different. But you alone.
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If we come here and then maybe we are doing something,
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or you come, you come eli and then the logos
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some of the rooms with your bible. Go and take
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a seat, take a chair, go and then cut off
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the district and pray and engage. You don't have any place.
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Days that we have service, come early Sunday morning, you
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can come early before the prayer time. The days that
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maybe it's a joint said, come early six o'clock. You
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are here, look out there, take a seat with the
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hour and God will always have as present the Holy
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Spirit world soon at that time that you have made
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for it. Don't be an exercise. That is that's how
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it comes. That's how it happens. When you come, God
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will help. Halenelujah amen. So this this is teaching about.
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He advocated for privacy, solitude so that we can cut
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off these tractions and be able to engage God in
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a much more effective way. Hallelujah.
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