Equipped To Stand - Session 10 - Patty Clemons

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Thank you for the opportunity to come in your praise.
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I think you put your words in my mouth that I will not say anything that you wouldn't want me to say, but I would say what you want me to say in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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I was thinking about prayer, and prayer is communion with God.
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It is so intimate with God.
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And I was thinking about this when we read the Lord's Prayer, everything is in the Lord's Prayer that we need.
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Our daily needs, forgiveness.
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But I was thinking about this because I don't know if y'all are like me, I get in my head a lot.
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And the enemy starts lying to me about stuff.
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But I love 1 Thessalonians says, rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances.
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So what I've learned with prayer, if I go and get in prayer, the first few minutes when I wake up, it don't have to be a long time.
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You heard that prayer.
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It was very short.
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I think sometimes we get religious and think we've got to pray for hours.
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I'm not saying there's times that you don't need to pray for hours, but our God is so merciful and so kind.
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Sometimes all you can do is say, Jesus.
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That is prayer.
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And I love that Hebrews 4, 16, so let us draw near with confidence.
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Oh, I love this.
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Draw close to the throne of grace that you may receive mercy.
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That's another prayer that you can pray.
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But I love the Lord's Prayer for this reason.
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It talks about He will give us daily bread.
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Oh my God.
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Daily bread.
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I don't know everybody here likes bread, I guess.
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Okay, that maybe still better.
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Um, I mean everybody, daily bread.
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He gives us daily bread.
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That means whatever we need, he's gonna give it to us for that day.
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It reminds me of the scripture, he gives us brand new mercy and grace every single day.
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So when we pray, it helps us not to lean on our own understanding.
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Man, is that not a big one?
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I mean, man, you lean on your own understanding, you're gonna get in fear.
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Because when we think in our mind, that's where the enemy works.
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I mean, he makes something little look so big.
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So I love that in prayer in Philippians 4, 6 said, this is my favorite scripture.
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Do not be anxious about anything.
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I dealt with panic attacks for years.
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And when I talk, I like to tell stories because I think people love to hear stories, real life stories.
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And um I dealt with panic attacks so bad that one time I was driving and um I had a panic attack at the wheel.
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And it was bad.
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I just blanked out, I was gone.
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And when I did, I hit this big wall because I had been anxious.
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I had been worrying about it.
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Do you know worrying will keep you even from praying?
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Because why?
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Worrying causes fear to come in.
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So that morning I had a lot going on, and when I when I hit the embankment, my car was smashed.
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It was totaled.
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It was totaled.
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And I remember after the accident was over, it broke my arm, it broke my leg.
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It was bad.
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And I remember when I came to and got myself back together.
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This scripture became something so strong with me.
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Do not be angels for anything.
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That's why prayer is so important.
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Because guess what?
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You can talk to God.
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I was watching a movie the other night and I was thinking things.
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It wasn't a bad movie, so don't judge me.
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It wasn't like a bad movie.
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It was a Hallmark movie, everybody, okay?
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So get it out of here.
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And I was thinking something I shouldn't.
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And I was like, oh, I would.
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And I just felt not a voice.
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I felt impressed, the Lord just said, You can tell me about it.
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It's all right.
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I done know.
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So prayer is communicating with God.
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Prayer will pull you through some of the awfulest times of your life.
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I've had many challenges with that.
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One thing I've learned about is this this is a confidence that we have.
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If we ask God anything according to his will, it will be dying.
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What are some of those things?
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Faith, kindness, love, not having fear.
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How about just having peace that passes all understanding?
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I love the story where Jesus tells us in the Lord's Prayer, forgive those.
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Forgive those people that have hurt you.
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How can you do that?
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You do it by praying.
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You know what?
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The more you pray, the more you take on God's character.
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You can't help it, you just take on his character.
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You start thinking, oh my God, that don't bother me like it used to.
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Or maybe somebody that you didn't like, now you love them.
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That's taking on the character of God.
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I love my own story with that.
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I was molested as a little girl for many years.
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We won't go into that whole story.
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It was a horrible time in my life.
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But as I started praying and getting to know the Father and getting intimate with him, because that's what prayer is.
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Intimate in to him is how I like to say it.
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And I remember my stepfather, my molester, was dying.
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And I had went before God and said, God, I don't want this man to go to hell.
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And I had been in prayer.
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When you get in prayer, you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you.
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Because something inside of us, which is the whole precious Holy Spirit, empowers us to do the right thing.
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So my stepfather was dying, and I went to the hospital, and I said, Lord, what do you want me to do here?
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And I remember I had been praying.
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God had done something in my heart.
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That's what prayer does.
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God will take your heart that is so hard and he will soften it.
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That's what prayer does for us.
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So I walked in the room, and there he was.
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He was laying there dying.
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He was my molester, the molester that had molested me.
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And because I had been with Jesus and He had forgiven me for so much.
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Do you all know that He's forgiven you?
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And when you're in prayer, you learn that about God.
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And I remember leaning over his bed and I said to him, You're dying.
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He took my hand.
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He said, Please forgive me for what I've done to you.
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And immediately I led him to Jesus Christ.
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And it was a real sorrow, a real repentance.
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But I could not have done that unless I had learned how to pray.
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It is so important we learn how to pray.
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Prayer is not a religious act, it is an intimacy with God.
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The Holy Spirit lives inside of us.
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The Holy Spirit will teach us how to pray.
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He's our teacher, he's our comforter, he's our helper, and he will help you pray.
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I love this part of the scripture that says, even when we're weak, the Holy Spirit in us can pray through us.
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And we won't get into that.
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That might be for another time.
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The Holy Spirit is in us, and the Holy Spirit will pray through us to the Father.
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So I wanted you to be encouraged tonight.
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If you don't have a prayer life, it's not a religious act.
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I have friends I talk to every single day.
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We can talk for hours.
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And I have friends that, you know, we may say just a few words together, but with the Father, our Heavenly Father, who hurt in heaven, you can talk to him every single day.
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You can talk to him when you're hurting, when you're driving to work, or maybe you just don't feel right.
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You ever woke up one morning go something's off?
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You know, you can talk to him about those things.
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One thing I've learned in my journey with God is I can be honest with God.
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I can be so honest with him.
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He's all right.
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He done knows what you're facing, he done knows what you're going through.
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We're living in a time now where we've never been in this time.
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I've never seen a time like this.
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It's very dark.
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And if you go out into the world and you have not spent time in prayer with the Father, those things are going to affect you.
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But if you have spent, I want y'all to get this.
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If y'all have spent time in prayer, you're going to affect the darkness.
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Come on, you're going to affect it.
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Because guess what?
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The Bible says the light is on the inside of us.
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He is the light in us.
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And you can walk in, the darkness doesn't have to affect you.
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The Bible says, let not your heart be troubled.
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Be of good cheer.
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You've overcome.
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But how do we do that?
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We do that by being intimate with the Father.
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I'm not saying, please don't look at it as a religious act.
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That's not what it is.
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The disciples went to Jesus and said, Teach us how to pray.
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At least think about that.
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The disciples went to Jesus and said, Teach us how to pray.
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Jesus didn't give them 10,000 pages how to pray.
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He gave them a little thing to pray.
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I think the Lord was showing us in that that we can just be ourselves and pray.
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I'm very Southern, if y'all didn't know that by now.
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But um, so I talked to God just just like I do now.
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You know, I'm this is who I am.
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You can be real with Him.
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I love the story of David.
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David was supposed to be in battle.
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He decided to take a break.
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Can I give y'all a little clue?
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There's no breaks.
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Did y'all hear what I said?
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There's no breaks.
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Don't take no break.
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I didn't say you couldn't have fun.
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I love to have fun.
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The people that know me know that.
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I'm not saying that's not what I'm saying.
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There's no break in your prayer life.
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Say something to God every day.
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So David told his men, you go to battle.
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He laid back, he just laid back down.
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I guess he thought, well, I'm good.
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Don't ever think you got it together.
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I think a word was given on Sunday on humility.
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When you have a prayer life, I promise, humility will start coming into your life.
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It's a supernatural work.
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You cannot do it.
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So now David is thinking he's got it all together.
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I've done that before, thinking, I got it together.
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I can handle anything.
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No, you can't.
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You have to be prepared, and you're prepared by being with him.
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So now David is thinking he can handle anything.
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Remember what the word said.
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Deliver us from temptation, not I.
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We are a body.
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We're all facing the same things.
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We all face battles.
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Now David looks out the window and he sees a beautiful woman.
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He still thinks, Oh, I can handle that.
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I've done that before.
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He should have been out with the people on the battlefield.
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He should have been out there because we are in a battle, people, but God has given us a solution in his prayer.
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Now David goes back, and I'm not going to go on the whole story, but I love the story of David.
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Now David has fallen into sins.
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David never once stopped praying.
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If you'll read the Psalms.
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Never once.
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He was still praying through everything he was going through.
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And then all of a sudden, David now realizes he has sinned against God.
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Wow.
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You've ever sinned against God?
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Of course you have.
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Talked about anybody lately?
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I just done that today.
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You judged anybody?
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We've all sinned and come short of God's glory.
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But let me tell you something about prayer.
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When you pray, you release every bit of that.
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I like to call it you get clean.
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I have a saying, get clean before God every day.
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Because why?
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He gives us new mercy and grace for each day.
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So now David is in, he's he's in a mess.
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Well, you know the story.
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I'm about to go through all that.
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But David now is in a mess.
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David now has a son.
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This is the part I love.
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He still knows God and he has made a mistake.
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Let me tell y'all something.
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You're gonna make mistakes until Jesus comes.
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But God is just and he's merciful, he's kind.
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Now the baby, he's praying over his son that his son will live.
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He's praying, he's fasting, he's crying out to God.
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God, please let my son live.
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And now he's weeping, he's crying, and his baby dies.
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I've had a son that died.
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I know how that feels like it's not fun, it hurts.
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And now David gets up.
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He just gets up, he goes there, washes his face, and puts on his clothes, and the men around him thinks he's crazy.
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What is wrong with you, David?
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Your son has died.
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But one thing, David had been in the presence of God.
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Come on, people, he had been in the presence of God, and he suffered a loss, but he'd been in the presence of God and he knew God was in control.
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Did you know when you get in prayer and you face a mountain and you know God's in control, you have a peace that passes all understanding.
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You do not know how it's going to work out, but one thing you do know, you are confident of this one thing.
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You have been in his presence, and he lets you know, let not your heart be troubled.
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And now, this is what the Lord showed me not long ago because I had lost a son.
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And David now is a broken man.
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He is broken.
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Let me tell you what prayer will do.
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Prayer will break you, but it's a good breaking because you come out looking more like Jesus.
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So now David is broken, and he's put God up, he's ready for the day, and now he's gonna get a revelation.
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The greatest revelation you will get is when you spent time with him.
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You spend time with him, he's gonna speak to you.
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He's gonna speak something that will just go, oh my God, that's amazing, God.
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So now David's troubled.
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Now remember, he's broken, he's been in prayer this whole time.
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And here's what the Lord says to him.
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And he spoke to me because I've lost a son.
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He said, My son will not come to me, but I will go to him one day.
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That was a revelation David got in the midst of his brokenness.
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But he had walked with God.
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Come on, people, we are the body of Christ.
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And when you spend time in prayer, you're gonna love your brothers and sisters.
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We're all different.
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I have people tell me I'm crazy all the time.
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I think they mean that's a good crazy.
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I don't know.
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But they'll go, she's crazy.
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But I've got used to it now.
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I'm like, okay, I am crazy, but it's all.
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Anyway, I'm just saying, when you spend time in prayer, you're gonna love each other.
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You're gonna forgive each other, but you've got to get into his presence, and you've got to have a prayer life.
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And remember, I'm not talking about religion.
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Um that's not what I'm talking about.
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I'm talking about being intimate with him.
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I've been through many trials.
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I want to end with this little story.
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I've been through many trials in my life, but we all have.
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We've all been through so much.
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We're all just broken people letting God heal us.
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That's what we are.
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And how does God do that?
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By praying.
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This is a confidence that we have if we ask anything according to his word.
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What's his word?
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Love, joy, kindness, forgiveness, all these things.
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I started praying for my family over 20 something years ago, probably about 25 years ago.
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Dysfunctional family.
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Very dysfunctional.
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I started praying for them.
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The more I prayed, the worse it got.
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Don't quit praying because it looks bad.
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Keep praying.
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That means something's happening.
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That means something's going on.
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I mean, my mom would get more angry, my siblings.
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It looked like all hell was breaking loose.
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Well, literally, all hell was breaking loose.
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Why?
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Because you were praying.
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So don't quit praying.
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So I kept praying, and about five years ago, my mom came to me and she said, you know, I think I'm going to go back to church, but I'm not coming to your church.
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I was okay, that's fine.
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So she decided to go with my brother, which was fine.
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And she's been going and going.
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So I started praying.
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Oh my God, you're doing something.
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You're doing something.
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But because of prayer, I had to release forgiveness toward my mom.
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Are y'all getting that?
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And I released her.
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And when I did, God started dealing with her.
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Release people.
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But you can only do it if you've been in prayer with him.
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So she kept going to church.
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And now I was seeing happening, something happened with all my siblings.
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Something just started sprinkling down.
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And last year, every single family member, we took a picture.
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I have the picture.
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We took a picture, and every one of us was together serving Jesus Christ.
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That's what prayer does, people.
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Let's give the Lord a hand right there, man.
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That's what prayer does.
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Every person has been restored.
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Now they still think I'm a little crazy.
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They still think I'm crazy for going to Africa.
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They're all like saying, Oh, I said, please be quiet.
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I'm going to be fine.
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But I'm saying, this is what prayer does.
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So I want to encourage each one of us tonight with this.
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Ask yourself this question.
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Each morning you get up, you have a choice.
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We all do.
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You have to choose.
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This day, who will I serve?
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Who will I serve?
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Who will I serve?
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And the enemy's gonna come so quick.
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So this is what you have to ask yourself.
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I love what Charles Stanley said.
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He's with the Lord now.
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He said every morning when I get up, the first thing I do is hit the floor.
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Now I'm not telling you.
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Sometimes hit the floor, we wouldn't get back up.
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I'm sorry, I should have said that.
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I was talking about me.
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Sorry.
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He said, the first thing I do is get on my knees.
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And I say, God, I can't do this today.
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But I'll welcome you, Holy Spirit, help me.
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That's beautiful.
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That's the posture we need to take.
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Then at night, he said, This is what he would do.
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Take the same position again, humble himself, and say, God, if I hurt you in any way today, or if I greet your Holy Spirit, would you please forgive me?
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That's how he lived.
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That's a prayer life.
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That's what I feel it is.
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We start out with God, then we end up with God.
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Because we all mess up till today.
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So I want to leave you with this thought.
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You never know what you're gonna say.
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We are in a battle, but God's done won the battle.
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You can't take a break.
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You gotta keep praying.
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But you also can have joy while you're praying.
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The Bible says the joy of the Lord's our strength.
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Did you know Psalms 2, 4 says, God sits in the heavens and he lies?
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We can have joy, people.
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And we get that by praying, being with Him.
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So I want to end by saying this tonight.
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Do what David does.
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Search me, oh God, know me, try me, see if there'd be any wicked way in me, oh God.
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And then ask God.
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If you don't have a prayer life, ask God, God, give me the strength to take away 10 minutes, five minutes, or whatever to spend time.
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With you.
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I promise you it will be worth it.
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People will come up and say to you, What has happened to you?
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I have people now that used to judge me.
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We have a tendency to do that.
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We have a tendency to judge people before we get to know them.
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Once you get to know them, oh my god, I just judge that part.
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You know how you quit doing that?
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In prayer.
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The Lord showed me this yesterday.
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The Holy Spirit knows every intention of your heart.
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And man, he'll go in there and search that out.
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That's why sometimes we don't want to pray.
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You know why?
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We're like, I like that.
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I don't want to pray right now.
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I'll just keep that for a few days.
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It feels good.
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I'm gonna keep that for a few days until you start feeling his conviction.
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And you feel the Holy Spirit convicted to saying, Come away with me.
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Come away with me.
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Because I want to show you something.
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And guess what?
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Prayer does.
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As soon as God shows you that place inside of you, mercy.
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He takes it right.
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You go with him.
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He takes it off of you.
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Who the right man would want to walk around in bondage with chains on you when God has given us a way to walk free.
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It's having one of the greatest relationships you can have in your life.
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It's spending time with your Heavenly Father.
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I would encourage you tonight.
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Bonnie, remember the Lord's prayer.
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They talked about us.
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Not me, not I.
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We have to decrease so that he can increase.
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And we can only do that.
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So don't take this as condemnation.
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It's not, it's an encouragement to know the one that loves you more than anybody.
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Em is beloved.
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It's beautiful.
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Emmy's beloved.
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And we are just broken people allowing God to change us.
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Those who are thirsty, come is it with him.
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Challenge you this.
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If you have a pearl off, that's awesome.
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If you don't, maybe you need to increase it.
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You know why?
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God knows everything you're going to throw.
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Not everything.
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He just wants us to be prepared.
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If we're not prepared, he'll have somebody comes along and walks right beside you to help you.
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So as the body of TCC, I want to challenge us to put the purple.
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Maybe you should do 10 minutes.
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Maybe you do 15 miles.
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Because I believe in the last days was the win, people by the love of God.
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It's the love of God.
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Perfect love cast out fear.
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And I want uh to be a church that prays without a prayer comes worship.
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I mean it's love.
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That's a god, I'm so thankful that God didn't give up on me.
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I'm so blessed that he walked through the fire with me.
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I'm so thankful that he's still working on me.
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But I can look back and see every time I prayed, God didn't answer right away to stop my family.
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It took 27 years.
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Am I really God?
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But God answers.
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Why?
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God is not a man that he can lie to us.
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So we are in the battle.
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End with this story.
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I'm not a storyteller, but I'm not telling stories.
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I think I'm a storyteller.
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How's that?
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I have this picture at my house, and she has this lady on a beautiful wedding garment.
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Another meaning, yes, beautiful.
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Anyway, she has a beautiful wedding garment on.
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But she has her dress pulled up a little bit, and she's got combat notes out.
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The other day I had another meeting to do with some people that had they want me to speak.
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All of a sudden, the Lord is about to make something about that, and this is how I'm gonna end this.
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And I'm gonna shop.
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I don't know if I tell y'all that's gonna be as clear.
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She was just dancing, rejoicing, and she was just praising God, and all of a sudden this battle came toward her, and she just pulled that dress off and put her boots down on the devil's head and said, I have the victory in Jesus Christ.
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We are his bride, but we also know how to do more.
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You're you're fighting me.
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I'm probably not here to stream.
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Um, I've been doing these meetings for like 27 years.
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Um, we made it here at 630.
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We have works.
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And um, I'll speak.
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I just asked somebody else to speak with me.
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Happy miniature helps me.
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Evan will be with us this month.
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And um, I'll never mind her.
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I usually pick somebody out to speak.
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She does everything I need.
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She's gone whatever.
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But anyway, I'm saying uh it's wonderful.
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We let the Holy Spirit move, we have worship, and we have a prayer team that prays for people.
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So I would love for y'all to come.
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We will be going to Africa September the second.
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I will have one in September and October.
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Then we take November and December off.