God is not reluctant to answer your prayer. They key leys in HOW you pray. Today; Leon dispels common myths about prayer.
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Leon Fontaine | Prayer's Real Purpose | January 19, 2022
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- -ANNOUNCER: World-renowned speaker, CEO of Miracle
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- Channel, and Senior Pastor of one of Canada's fastest growing
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- churches, Leon Fontaine is passionate about teaching you
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- how to tap into the incredible power of Holy Spirit.
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- - Now from Winnipeg Canada, here's Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: So many people, don't know how to pray.
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- They just have no idea. Prayer has gone in so many directions.
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- Prayer if it's not done correctly, becomes a work of
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- the flesh. And it feels good perspiring, and screaming, and
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- binding, and loosening, and all that. But it has no effect at
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- all on the planet. Other than to bring doubt and unbelief
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- into your life. Unless, as Jesus taught us, that it's from
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- the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. Then it
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- teaches us that what's in our heart, flows forth. Prayer must
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- come from the heart. So I want to talk to you today about
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- prayer, I want to teach you immediately how to change if
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- you've maybe not been taught this, or you haven't looked at
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- this. You know there's a precious verse in the Old
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- Testament that says, let God arise. His enemies be
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- scattered. That is a beautiful, prophetic look at the New
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- Covenant. See, God is rising through you and I, through our
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- prayers, through our actions. Through finding our place in
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- the body of Christ. Through finding our place in society,
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- the church of Jesus Christ rising and advancing. This is
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- God arising in us. And the enemies, plural, are scattered.
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- Always remember according to Jesus in John 10:10, that
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- whenever anything kills something, steals from you
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- something, destroys something in your life. That there's a
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- spirit force behind it. And that our warfare is not with
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- people. Now there are times where you'll have to stand up
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- to people. There are times you will have to shut people down.
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- But it says that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood,
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- but against principalities, powers. And so behind all of
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- that, there is a force. A dark world. And so we need to
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- recognize how to pray. Now, the greatest battle that any child
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- of God will ever fight. The greatest battle the child of
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- God will ever fight, is the battle of faith. Because prayer
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- done incorrectly has no power. And prayer done incorrectly
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- will literally manifest and deepen your unbelief. People
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- don't pray from the church world today probably because
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- prayer was ineffective and it didn't work for them. And they
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- lost faith in God, they got ticked off at God, and many
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- leave the kingdom of God. By that I mean they just, they
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- walk. Because they prayed, nothing happened, and no one
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- taught them what prayer is. And so, we've got to recognize that
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- in the New Covenant, since the cross, the only fight that we
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- can see is the fight of faith. And so this fight according to
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- 1 Timothy 6:12, it says fight the good fight of faith. Lay
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- hold of eternal life to which you were summoned, and for
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- which you confessed the good confession of faith before many
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- witnesses. Now, to lay hold of eternal life in your physical
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- world, it is to understand these two words. Eternal and
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- life. Eternal means it's never stopping. Doesn't matter, death
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- does not mean the cessation of existing. The word 'death'
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- actually simply means moving into another realm. And there's
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- different meanings, there's about three different meanings
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- for the word 'death'. But eternal life, eternal is the
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- timeframe, life is the kind of life. And everyone keeps
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- thinking eternal life just means being saved. No, no, no.
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- It's way more than that. This life, in the Greek, is 'zoe'
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- life. And it says that you were summoned, and that you must
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- confess a good confession. As we understand this new life, as
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- a born-again believer, we've got to understand that
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- religion, which I hate, says you're forgiven. And now you
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- must work at getting better. Now you must work so you can
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- please God. Now you must work so your prayers are answered.
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- And there is this subtle, horrible disintegration of who
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- you are, and your position as a believer. So whenever you try
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- to pray, He will always have something you haven't done
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- enough of, or you've done bad with, or you haven't done
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- something, and He will cause you to waver. Wavering is
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- always spoken about at the heart level. A good man from
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- the good deposits in his heart brings forth good things. An
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- evil man from evil deposits in his heart, brings forth evil
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- things. A world-changing man or woman, with world-changing
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- deposits in their heart, brings forth world-changing things.
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- This prayer has to come from the heart. Your vain repetition
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- of prayer, your begging, bugging, pleading at God,
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- screaming at demons, binding and loosing. All this stuff,
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- that does not come from and understanding from the heart,
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- is meaningless. And not only is it meaningless, it destroys
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- faith. Faith must come from this new covenant, from the
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- Word of God, and we must understand it. It's not too
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- hard to understand. Holy Spirit is always here, showing you and
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- I how to be who we are. Now, the thing to understand is that
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- Jesus Christ, is the high priest of our confession. It
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- doesn't say He's the high priest of your faith. It
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- doesn't say He's the high priest of your actions. It
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- doesn't say He's the high priest of what you're thinking.
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- It doesn't say that He, it says that He's the high priest of
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- your confession. Now hang in with me and just let go all
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- your preconceived ideas about teaching from one end to the
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- other. Jesus is not the high priest of your confession over
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- me. Your confession has nothing to do with me. Isn't that
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- beautiful? Doesn't matter what they say about you. Doesn't
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- matter what they lie, what they do about you. He's not the high
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- priest of their confession over you, He's the high priest of
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- your confession over you. so get up and speak. Because if
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- you don't, then you're going to discover that there's a earthly
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- impact that takes place. We need to recognize that Jesus is
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- the high priest of our confession. And when you
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- understand this word 'confession' let's look at the
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- high priest. In the Old Testament, they would kill an
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- animal so that when there was sin, the penalty of sin which
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- was death would go on an animal. It would divert from
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- you to an animal. And, the high priest would take the blood
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- that was shed by an animal to keep you alive. And it would be
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- presented to God. Look, a life was taken for this sin. And
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- God's favour and blessing and wealth and healing and
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- prosperity and protection from enemies, and then would all
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- flow in their life because a high priest brought this on
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- behalf of the people to God. But, Jesus is no longer
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- standing before God with some blood of some animal. He has
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- already won and declared who He is, and so He is now the high
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- priest of, our confession.
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- Woah, what you say is powerful. Woah, what comes out of your
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- mouth. The angels, the Bible says, are listening to. Jesus
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- is listening to. The enemy is listening to. People are
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- listening to. Your body is listening to. Your family is
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- listening to. Your kids are listening to. When you
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- understand the power of a spoken word, and that Jesus is
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- the high priest of your speaking, well Leon. Now, now
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- it's also talking about prayer. Because prayer is confessing
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- the finished Word of God. The promises that are ours. Now
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- when you go in the book of Hebrews. For those who love
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- going through the Word and studying it on your own, and
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- you should be. Hebrews 3:1 says that. Hebrews 4:14 says that.
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- Hebrews 10:19-23 says that. He is the high priest of what
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- you're saying. What are you praying? What are you speaking?
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- And it teaches us there to be faithful, keep saying, be
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- persistent, and declaring the promises of God over your
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- personal life, over your marriage, over your kids, over
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- your grandkids. You can even pray for people who don't exist
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- yet. You can pray for your great-grandkids, and declare
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- that generations of your family will serve God, be taught of
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- the Lord, and as you pray, as you speak these words. Jesus is
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- the high priest. Jesus is the intercessor. Jesus is your
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- lawyer, standing at the right hand of God. And every time a
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- born-again believer from the heart declares the Word of God,
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- He is there.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: We'll be right back with more
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- from Leon Fontaine.
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- [Theme Music]
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- Do you ever feel stuck?
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- The truth is, there is no limit to the potential you have in
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- Christ. You've been given all things that pertain to life,
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- and godliness.
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- You are empowered to live an abundant life.
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- In this series by Leon Fontaine, "Live in a New
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- Dimension", you'll uncover powerful truths from God's Word
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- that reveal who you are in Christ.
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- I'd love to send you this "Live in a New Dimension". So many
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- people have said it has helped them to change, live in a whole
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- new season of victory. So get it right away. And just apply
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- it to your life, and you'll be amazed, the powerful truths
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- that are in here, you're going to see amazing changes.
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- No good thing is withheld from you. And no one has the power
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- to keep you down. Get your copy of
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- "Live in a New Dimension" today.
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- [Music]
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- [Theme Music]
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- -LEON: Can I ask you a question? So much about what
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- goes on in our world, the enemy just tries to creep into our
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- lives and discourage. And, just destroy your ability to have
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- faith, to believe in the Word of God. Because your five
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- senses, are continually streaming into your mind. And
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- so your mind, if it is not continually renewed, it's not
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- been, it's not well I've got it renewed, now I'm done, no. It's
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- an ongoing renewing of your mind, because your mind has
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- five senses ongoingly bringing in physical things that aren't
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- going the way you want. So you're not to look at what you
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- see, but at the things that are not seen, because the things
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- that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not
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- seen are eternal. Meaning, if you live your life by your five
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- senses, you'll give up. You'll get discouraged, you'll give
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- in. You'll just say well this is the way things are. This is
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- reality, unaware that a spirit world overrides a physical
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- world. And so we must learn that we are spirit beings in
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- physical bodies, and that as we are here, we have an ability to
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- pray. We have the honour, the opportunity to use the name of
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- Jesus. That power of attorney, that is given to you and I to
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- use His name. And when you have the power of attorney over
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- someone, you have access to all their buildings, all their
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- finances. Everything that their name would sign on any dotted
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- line and give them, you have access to. And so, lawyers who
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- read the Word of God and understand the New Covenant,
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- they see this name Jesus.
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- But, let me ask you a question. Before Jesus came on the scene,
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- what did name did they use to swear with?
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- Because today we hear His name all the time. And it doesn't
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- release any power at all, it just releases a little
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- frustration for most people. Little ticked off feeling and
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- they use the name Jesus. Somehow, the enemy got it into
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- everyday vocabulary, as a meaningless word. But just a
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- word to use to spit dispertuberation over someone.
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- My mom always said, swearing is a small mind trying
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- to express itself forcefully.
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- Why? Why take this name of Jesus, and diminish it? Now,
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- when you read about the wonderful, beautiful name of
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- Jesus in the scripture, when the disciples used it in the
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- first generation church. When they used the name, demon,
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- oppressed people, would be completely set free. When they
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- used the name, a crippled man would walk in front of a crowd.
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- When they used the name, they went in and took out cities.
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- Not by sitting in a room, praying and praying and
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- praying. Oh, they prayed. But by getting up and sharing this
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- name from the streets and the marketplaces, and the,
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- everywhere they went. And it just totally transformed
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- cities. It transformed everything. But today, the name
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- of Jesus is kind of just a swear word. Just, it's kind of
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- the way you end your letter. Sincerely, Leon. In Jesus'
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- name. No. It's not. Like the person swearing, so is a
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- born-again believer using the name of Jesus with no belief or
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- understanding of the scriptures attached to it.
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- And so we've got to understand that Jesus is the high priest
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- over our confession. And when we begin to declare promises
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- from God's Word, and then we say in the name of Jesus. That
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- all of heaven stands behind that name. That all of the
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- power and the force and the authority and, the resources
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- that are in the name of Jesus. You see, this New Covenant is
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- not between you and God. Or we would have destroyed it the
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- first day of being saved. This covenant is between Jesus and
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- God, and I'm in Him. And He's in me. Therefore when I speak
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- in faith, which simply listen, needs to be from the heart.
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- Just learn the Word of God. Get it into your heart, stop bring
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- well do I have enough faith, this much faith, this much
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- faith, enough faith, too low faith, no, no. Just get into
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- the Word, learn the Word, and you'll understand that prayer
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- is a completely legal issue.
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- The greatest miracle that you've ever seen have not been
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- emotions, and I get emotional quick. I find that when I pray
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- for others, often I'll sense this incredible compassion and
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- love, and I'll start to try. But prayer, is a legal thing.
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- And you can cry and sob and get before God, but Leon the Bible
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- says He keeps our tears in a vial. Oh, I agree with that. I
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- totally agree with that. But He's not saying that's how
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- prayer gets answered. In the New Covenant, we must
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- understand the legality of prayer. Which is why Jesus, the
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- Word is at the right hand of the Father. He ever liveth to
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- make intercession. That word 'intercession' is the word used
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- for lawyers in a court of law, upholding your rights.
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- When you pray, Jesus at the right hand of the Father, is
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- standing there. And you say well is He begging or bugging
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- God? No. God can't wait to give you the kingdom. All He's got
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- to do is turn and see the nail holes in His hand. All He's got
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- to do is see the scars all down from the thorns. When He died
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- in our place, that Jesus stands there and establishes this new
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- covenant, and when you get up and pray, you pray with
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- authority. When we pray, effectively, in the name of
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- Jesus. It's not some pathetic, little, you know, just going to
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- keep myself sane while I go through all of this. Are you
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- kidding me? The Bible talks about using the name of Jesus
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- at the very core of the dark world trembles. That the dark
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- side does not even want to hear that name Jesus, spoken from
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- the heart. Leon, what do you mean by heart? Well the Bible
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- teaches, you can speak to mountains but if you doubt in
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- your heart, the mind and the heart are different. The mind
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- is your conscious mind, the heart, and it's not the same as
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- subconscious, but it's very similar. It's below your
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- conscious thinking. It's where who you are, your deepest
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- beliefs, are in the heart level. Let me give you
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- something that just puzzled me about this. I found, that when
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- you pray, a dynamic joy is maintained. And, as you pray,
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- there's a power source that is always there, so that when you
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- do pray, it's like lightning. Just shoo! Bam. Ever been in a
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- lightning storm, and it's, blows your mind. It's just,
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- you're sitting there and then all of a sudden which tree did
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- it hit? You can't make rhyme nor reason out of it. And I
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- want to just challenge you today. Yes, we need earthly
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- strategies. We need to train people. We need to find their
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- right places, their giftedness. We need to put together
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- management and administration and find leaders. And yes, in
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- our churches and our businesses and our governments, we want
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- the gifted people in the right places. That's the earthly
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- realm. But in the spirit realm, we need to pray in the name of
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- Jesus. Because of all the attacks that come, it's always
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- going to have the dark kingdom behind it. So we don't fight
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- against people unless we have to, we pray against the forces
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- that are behind it. And this name of Jesus, is the power of
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- attorney to you and I. The more you learn from the new covenant
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- about what it means to die on the cross, His burial, He went
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- to hell in our place. Hell's not going to be in my future.
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- He went to hell in my place. When He died for my sins, He
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- died for both my past sins, and my future sins.
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- And so I'm in the family. Period. I'm qualified. Period.
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- Should I live right? Absolutely. Because the people
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- around me appreciate that. I'm not mad, angry, killing,
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- stealing, lying, cheating. We all appreciate that in our
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- marriages and business dealings and families, of course we are.
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- But to understand the authority that goes with the born-again
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- believer with the name of Jesus, has been established
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- before you. And it is here, and it is yours. When you begin to
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- understand who you are, and whose you are, and that Jesus
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- is at the right hand of the Father. And that human body,
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- all banged up and bashed up, is the only body in heaven
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- that will have scars.
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- There are people who have died in traffic accidents and fires,
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- there will be no scars in heaven. They will look
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- beautiful and amazing, except for Jesus. He's at the right
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- hand of the Father, scars intact, because they create
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- this eternal picture that you and I are forever given. That
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- you and I have access forever to the name of Jesus. To not
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- get His Word, and deepen it into our heart. Because we
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- renew our minds, I went through a time in my life as a young
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- man, 19 and 20, where I knew so much of the Word, and I'd
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- renewed my mind, that I couldn't see the results in a
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- physical way. And I begin to study the heart. I begin to
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- recognize that my heart needs to experience Jesus. It needs
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- to allow the dreams and the visions of God's Word that Holy
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- Spirit brings, to impact my heart in my meditation time
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- with Him. And as I begin to do that, I begin to lay my hands
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- on the sick. I begin to speak and declare over things. And I
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- begin to see the miraculous take place. And, I've learned,
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- and I've failed, and I've made mistakes, and I've won, and I'm
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- at a place where I begin to recognize why do I only pray
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- when I've got problems? Why don't I just keep praying when
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- things are going good so that they can become great? And why
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- don't I just keep praying so that when they're not just
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- great, they're incredible? And why don't I just keep praying
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- so they move from incredible to supernatural? Because I'm going
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- to keep speaking the Word of God and not just wait until a
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- problem comes. When you speak the Word of God, Jesus is the
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- high priest of your confession. Keep getting up in the morning,
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- and declare His promises. You want to pray over yourself,
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- your family, your nation, leaders, get up and simply
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- declare and it gives God the right. It allows the name of
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- Jesus, man, it accesses all the power of God. In the name of
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- Jesus, I declare and start speaking what your city will
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- look like, what your business will look like. What your
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- leaders will look like, what your nation will look like. And
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- if the church of Jesus Christ would get up, know who they
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- are, and what prayer is, all of a sudden, we're going to find a
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- massive change. Someone said to me well this is the end times
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- we expected this. Really? So He's coming back for a defeated
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- church? No. He's coming back for a glorious church. When the
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- word 'glory' is used, and you see God's glory, you see His
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- power on display. You see lightning on display. You see
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- victories on display. You see families and homes and
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- countries. Just succeed and rise up. It's the glory of God.
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- Man, we're the church. We're the only hope this world has.
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- It's for us to get up and pray, find our place, get out and
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- speak, share the Gospel everywhere we go, so we've got
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- people who will even vote right because they know Christ. And
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- they're not deceived. You can deceive your heart, James says,
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- or you can begin to feed your heart the Word of God. And a
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- good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings
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- forth good things. He doesn't sit around waiting for God to
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- do it. A world-changing man or woman brings forth
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- world-changing things. This Jesus on the inside of you, use
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- the name of Jesus. Learn to know who you are, and keep
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- speaking the Word. Be persistent. You know, Jeremiah
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- was promised as a prophet, God said I'll make your forehead
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- harder than your forehead. I'll make your face harder than your
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- face. Do you know what he's talking about? Persistence.
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- He's talking about a devil like behind Goliath saying I'm going
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- to kill you. I'm going to feed your body to the birds. There
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- will always over, he's an exag-, everything's an
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- exaggerator. He's so far off that, you don't know what to do
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- with them. David just said I'm going to take your head off in
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- just a minute. Grab the stone, took him out. Why did we listen
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- to wrong news, stupid news, arrogant news, demonic news?
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- Get up and declare what God says, against what the news
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- says. Against even what your doctor says. I love my doctor
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- friends and I get checkups all the time. And when they say
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- Leon you've got this. Alright, give me a few weeks here I'm
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- going to begin to speak to it and pray. I like it. But I
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- don't take their word as a final say. I don't take an
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- investor's word as the final say. I get up and declare what
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- God's Word says, and I work with all those expertise
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- people, you bet. I pray that you would make a decision. You
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- want a different country, you want a different town, you want
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- a different family, you want a different you, get up and speak
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- the Word. Pray the Word as done. Because Jesus has already
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- won the victory. He needs you and I to declare that, and out
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- of that the name of Jesus releases all the favour and
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- power and authority of God into the situations around you.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -LEON: well, I pray that God's Word just touched you. If you
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- don't know Jesus as your Saviour, just pray this prayer
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- right now. Just say Jesus, I choose to trust in You. Come
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- into my heart. My life. From today and on, I want to learn
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- Your ways and I want to follow Your voice and Your Word. I
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- declare Jesus as my Lord and Saviour, in Jesus' wonderful
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- name, amen. Let us know you made that decision. Let us know
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- that you're now following Christ so we can help you out
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- and keep following this program. you know, we'll show
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- positive powerful Word of God and get it on the inside of
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- you, and be who you now is. God bless you.
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