"Eyes Wide Open: Ep 1: Awakening Spiritual Sensitivity in Everyday Life"

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of Black Women podcast. I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and we're starting a new episode of Eyes Wide Open,

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Seeing What God Is Saying.

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But before I even go there, I want to give you a word of gratitude.

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I want to thank you for helping us reach over 1,200 downloads around the world.

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Every listener who shared in every prayer has helped us build a sacred space

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for women of faith to heal, grow, and to return to God's original design.

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And I want to just thank you for your support to make this possible.

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I started this journey last July and every episode, every download,

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I was just kind of like, wow, this is this is really going to be an adventure.

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I didn't know where I was going to take it. But now we're at one point two K

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downloads and growing. So I wanted to say it again.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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And so we're launching a new series, like I mentioned earlier,

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it's called Eyes Wide Open, Seeing What God Is Saying.

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And I want to declare something, and this is found in 1 Chronicles 4,

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and it was a prayer of Jabez.

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I know you probably heard of a prayer of Jabez before, and it's probably going

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to be our intro going forth.

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And it says, Jabez, he prayed this prayer.

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He says he prayed that God's hand would be upon us, his hand would be upon him,

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and that he would expand his territory, that he asked God to keep him from harm,

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and that God heard his prayer and he answered him.

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And that's what our prayer is for this podcast series. And my prayer is for

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everyone out there in podcast land that listens to the Diary of Black Women.

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Because you have took time out to listen to my episodes that God has placed

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on my heart to share with women and men are listening around the world.

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That his hand would be upon you.

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That he would expand you. That he would keep you from harm.

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And that you will return to intimacy with God, that you will be healed,

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empowered, and that you will walk in your divine purpose.

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And that is my prayer for you today. And as we keep growing,

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I'm also want to just do a quick announcement that we are coming to Diary of

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a Black Woman TV on Twitch.

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So I'm excited to announce that that will start in July.

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You can join me live on Twitch. It's titled D-O-B-W-T-V.

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And so we're taking the same truth-filled, spirit-led conversations into a live

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space so you can connect, grow, engage with other people like you to see what

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God is doing in real time.

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So stay updated and get reminders by visiting my website at DiaryOfBlackWomenLLC.com.

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So that's enough announcements.

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Let's get started. Like I said, the series is Eyes Wide Open,

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seeing what God is saying.

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How many know that when we pray.

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To the Father in heaven who sees all things, that he will give you his sight,

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his vision, so that you can see what he is doing in your life.

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And if you're a mom in your kid's life, your wife in your husband's life,

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he can also give you forerunning things that you can run in your life.

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And so this series is going to be about.

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So we already spoke about the games we play with God.

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And so there's a time in every believer's walk when the games that we play with

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God must end and clarity must begin.

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You repented from all those games, you released yourself, so now it's time to

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refocus and come into a reality that it's time to get serious with God.

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There's a time that we had the games we played with God. You know, it was rough, right?

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It exposed our excuses, our cycles, our spiritual laziness that had dulled our discernment.

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But now what the Lord is saying that I need your eyes open spiritually.

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Consistently, and sharply.

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As we know, things are happening around the world. And a lot of things that's

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happening, you can't see it in the natural.

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And God doesn't want you to be surprised. He wants you to be alert and active,

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not just in the natural, but also in the spiritual realm.

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So right now we're going to be

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stepping into a season where your spiritual sensitivity is not optional.

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It is very critical.

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The days of being reactive today.

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Are over. God wants us to be proactive.

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Reactive is always catching you by surprise. God doesn't want that anymore for us Christians.

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He wants us to be on guard and ready to be responsive to what he's doing.

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Not two steps behind the enemy, but two steps in front of the enemy.

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God is inviting you, he's inviting me to live from a space of divine awareness

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where you discern before you decide and see before it shows up.

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Can I get an amen on that one? This is not about paranoia.

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This is, and it's not about performance.

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It's about a posture, not just a posture in the natural, but a posture in the supernatural.

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God is not looking for people who will, God is looking for a people who will

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turn their ear to his whisper.

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How many times do we ignore that still small voice when he's telling us to turn

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right, turn left, to shut your mouth?

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Oh yeah, to shut your mouth, to pay attention, pay attention, pay attention.

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But we ignore that until we boom, crash into the car in front of us.

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I'm just saying, right? So, God's looking for a people who will...

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Who will see beyond what their natural eyes can detect?

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Who will walk in the spirit with full confidence, even when nothing makes sense in the natural?

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How many of you guys ready for that? I'm going to say that again.

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God is looking for a people who will tune their ear to his whisper.

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And many times when God speaks to us, it isn't a small whisper.

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And it's something you would not want. You'd be like, ah, is that God? You know it's God.

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It's something you ain't ready to do, right? You ain't ready to do it,

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but he's ready for you to do it. Amen.

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But God's looking for a people, a people.

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Are you that people who will tune their ear to his whisper, who will see beyond

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their natural eyes, what their natural eyes can't detect,

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and will walk in the spirit with full confidence, even when nothing makes sense in the natural.

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This Eyes Wide Open series is not just another devotional series.

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It's an invitation to live like those in the scripture who saw for others' myths.

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Like Elisha, who told his servant, who are with us are more than those who,

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it said, those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

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He said, remember Elisha prayed and said, open his eyes so he can see.

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And then God opened his eyes and he saw the cherries of fire.

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So we got to not be afraid because what we don't see is more powerful than what we can see.

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Like Ezekiel, who sat among the exiles until the land, until the hand of the Lord came upon him.

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And then like John, who was in the spirit on the Lord's day when heaven opened.

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How many raised their hand and say, I want to be like them? That's me.

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I want to be like them, Lord.

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I want to see what others cannot see.

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This is a call to the spiritual maturity. It's not just to wait on God, but to move with Him.

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It's not just listen when it's loud, but to perceive when it's quiet.

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To not just dream, but also discern.

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To open your heart to sharpen your vision.

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The spirit is moving in this and in this time, and you won't miss it.

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Don't miss the spirit moving. So how do we see in the spirit?

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We have to pray in the spirit.

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And as many ask, how do I actually begin to see in the spirit?

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So let's just give an example. You ever begin to pray and then God just kind

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of flash something like before your eyes and you go like, whoa, what was that?

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What was that? You might be praying for something and something comes up,

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maybe like a vision of, I don't know how it happens for you.

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And you go like, okay, I never thought of that.

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And then you start to think about that and ponder that.

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Some people go, oh, that can't be real, and then ignore it. But then some people

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will, like me, will explore it.

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Because the podcast that he mentioned came from just me walking and having a

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conversation with the Lord.

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And he says, Connie, I want you to, he just said one day, he just kind of casually,

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it seemed like a casually, but he casually blurted out Diary of a Black Woman.

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And I'm thinking like, okay, Lord, I just finished writing two other books,

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educational books. So I figured that would be another book.

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And so I kind of like started researching, like, what would that book look like

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if it's going to be a Diary of a Black Woman? What would be the topics?

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And then I'm like, Lord, that's not it. It was kind of, you know,

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how when you do that and things begin to fall flat, I said, that's not it.

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So I got to continue to pray.

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What is it going to be? He said, it's going to be another business. Okay.

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What kind of business? And then you start asking more questions.

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And that's pretty much how it began to flow.

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As we become curious about what God shows us in that flash, in that vision,

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then God began to give us more and more and more information.

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You know, so that's what I want you to do. So how do I actually see in the Spirit?

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The answer, we must pray in the Spirit consistently.

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So set up a time of prayer.

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Now, seeing in the Spirit is not a mystical gift reserved for prophets.

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It is developed sensitivity that comes to a relationship, especially in prayer.

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Jude 1.20 says, But you, dear friends, by building yourself up in your most

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holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit.

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So we hear about praying in the Spirit, praying in our most holy language,

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praying in tongues. We hear about that, but many people brush it off as though

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it's some mystical thing.

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Only the prophets can do it. But God has gifted every Christian that gift to pray in the Spirit.

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It's praying in tongues. It's a secret language that communicates directly with

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the Holy Ghost. We're going to get more into that.

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This is just an introduction and the power of that language.

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So when you pray in the Spirit, you strengthen your inner man.

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You sharpen your discernment. You align your mind with the will of God.

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You open yourself to revelation before manifestation.

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Take a sip of water here because I'm preaching too good here.

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My throat's getting a little dry.

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I want to say that again. When you pray in the Spirit, you strengthen your inner

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man. You sharpen your discernment.

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You align your mind with the will of God.

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You open yourself to revelation before a manifestation.

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And I know this is a little deeper than what you're used to,

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but hey, come on, chew on it.

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Chew on it because we just finished playing games with God and God is taking us to another level.

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He wants us, if you're serious about it, to begin to show you some things that

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you have not seen before, take you to some places you've never been before, right?

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Prepare you for what he's doing in your life.

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Let's go to 1 Corinthians 14, verse 2, scriptures on praying in the spirit and interpretation.

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It says, 1 Corinthians 14, 2 reads, it says, For anyone who speaks in a tongue

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does not speak to people but to God.

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Indeed, no one understands them but utter mysteries by the Spirit.

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When you pray in tongues, you're not praying with your intellect.

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You're praying Spirit to Spirit.

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You're bypassing logic and speaking directly into the unseen realm.

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God is very strategic.

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When he created humans, he needed a way to bypass all that logic and that thinking.

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You know how we overthink things?

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He just bypassed it. And the more you begin to pray in your holy language,

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you begin to outthink yourself. Come on now.

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You begin to say, well, if God said it, guess what? I guess I can do it.

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Isn't that how thinking yourself?

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You begin to understand, like when he shows you a picture, he's not just giving

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you a movie and just doing something.

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He is actually showing you flashes of your future.

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Let's go to verse 13, 1 Corinthians 14, 13.

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It says, therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say.

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So you're not just speaking in your holy language to God. He says you can pray

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and interpret what you are saying.

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Interpretation isn't about guessing.

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It's about receiving the insight God wants to give you as you pray.

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The more you pray in the spirit, the more you hear divine instruction,

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sense spiritual warnings, discern timings, understand what you are birthing.

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I know that sounds so deep. But the more you get, the more you actually,

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this is what I've learned over the many, many years.

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The first time you're just praying in the spirit, you don't think nothing is

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happening. You just don't think nothing is happening.

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And you're praying and you're getting out in the flesh. You're just doing,

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you're doing it because you know it works, but you can't quite figure out how it works.

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Let's say, let's just keep it real. But the more and longer that you pray,

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you're starting to say something is working. I still can't figure it out.

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Then one day you go like, okay, I feel a connection in the spirit realm.

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I still don't know exactly how this works, but yet I'm getting some divine instructions.

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I'm sensing that something's up that I might be in danger. So I'm going to avoid going right today.

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I'm going to go left and I'm protected. You start to sense discerning different timings.

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Maybe it's not the time to do a better way.

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And then you start to understand that I might be pregnant with another plan of God, right?

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And so the more you pray in the Spirit, the more you hear divine instruction,

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send spiritual warnings, discern timing, and understand what you are birthing.

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It's just the more you get closer to God, the more you get deeper into the spiritual

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things, the more spiritual that you become. Why?

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Because you are a spiritual being.

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Many times we walk in this fleshly body, think it's all flesh.

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And you know what? People who walk in the fleshly body, we all been there.

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We're miserable because we know in our flesh, there's got to be more than this

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because we're not satisfied.

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We're just not satisfied. There's only so many delicious meals you can eat.

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There's only so many videos you can watch of people eating delicious meals. Come on now.

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There's only so many places you can go.

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To think this is the most beautiful place I've ever been.

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If you travel a lot and you see this is beautiful, this is beautiful,

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then you go, there's still something missing.

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What is missing? It is God's, I think, like getting God's understanding on the

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purpose of why he created that beautiful space.

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That might make it more interesting, right?

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So the more you pray in the Spirit, the more you hear divine instruction. Even why are you here?

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Why did you create me, Lord?

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Send spiritual warning. Don't you hate when something happened and you could

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have avoided that incident?

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Discern the timing. What is the right time to change jobs? Is this my final job, Lord?

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And understanding what you're birthing. Why do I always feel like I'm pregnant

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with the gift of God, but I don't even know what I'm pregnant with?

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You know a lot of times you know when you used to I don't know if you have had

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you had a baby and you say I'm gonna wait till the baby is born,

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You know, and then you figure out, ah, it's a boy. So it's such a big surprise.

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But how do you respond when you know it's a boy? You start buying boy things,

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right? You start setting up that room for boy stuff.

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Some people like surprises. Some people like to know. What happened if you thought

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it was a boy and turned out to be a girl and you got all these boy things?

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I mean, I'm just making noise right now. But think about it.

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To understand what you are birthing.

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Romans 8.26 says, In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.

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We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes

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for us through wordless groan.

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And so even when we're praying in our most holy language, like Jude says,

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building ourself up on our most holy faith,

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When we don't know what to pray, we have the Holy Spirit interceding through

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us through wordless groans.

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So we got all this going on when we take time out to pray.

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It's not just one thing. God is not one dimensional.

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He's multidimensional, taking care of multiple things at the same time.

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When we just get up in the morning or in the evening when you think it's your

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time to pray and just pray.

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He's taking care of your business.

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And it says, you may not always know what to pray, but when you yield to the

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spirit, he prays through you. What is he praying?

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He is praying God's perfect will through you. And what he releases is never random.

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It's a divine alignment.

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Oh, man, when you're praying through your holy language, like I said,

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when I started out praying in my holy language, didn't know what I was praying.

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Didn't know I was just being obedient. Lord said, show up at church at 6 a.m.

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And I will show up, pray for that hour, and then I'll go to work.

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Didn't know that it was saving my life. Didn't know it was renewing my life.

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Come on now. I'm just being obedient.

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You know, here's a practical example. There was a time I prayed in the Spirit

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for weeks without knowing why I felt so unsettled.

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One night I had a dream that someone I hadn't seen in years.

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I reached out and that very day they had been planning to walk away from everything.

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I saw in the Spirit, not with my eyes, but through my prayers,

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that God used it to intervene.

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A lot of times He uses us to intervene on behalf of others.

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And we don't know. Those divine appointments, those divine assignments,

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you walk into a store and you meet someone and suddenly you feel that urgency to pray for them.

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That was divine assignment. You didn't know you were praying for that particular

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person. You don't even know that, excuse me, that particular person.

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But yet God knew that on that particular day, that particular time,

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you'll be at that particular store to do that particular thing.

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You'll meet that particular person, that that particular person will meet you

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and you will have to pray for them and they will be invited into the heavenly

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realms to meet Jesus. Amen.

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We don't know what we pray. We just need to pray.

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Have you ever, have you been avoiding or underusing your gift of praying in

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the Holy Spirit? I hope you, maybe we all have.

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We just thought, and maybe it sounds like gibberish to you. It's not gibberish to God.

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It is definitely not gibberish to God.

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And when you pray, you just say, Lord, you know, I ask for interpretation of it.

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You know, we see like the prophets who prophesy and they are just doing a wonderful

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job and I want to be like them.

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But sometime our prophecy might come out with a scripture.

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God might have an unction in your heart to say, why don't you read this particular scripture?

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You might have a dream and you wake up and he might, instead of him giving you

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the interpretation, he'll give you the scripture. How about that? So you won't mess it up.

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I love that. When God, he'll start talking to me.

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And as he's speaking through me, he'll just give me the foundation of what he said.

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Isn't that better? So we're not messing it up. This is what I'm saying to you, Connie.

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It's found in Ezekiel. It's found in John.

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If you have any questions, say, Lord, I don't know, where is that found at?

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So you're not picking up strange voices.

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And then what mysteries might God be ready to reveal to you if you just yield?

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What's that question that's on the back of your mind that's troubling you that

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you just wonder like, why, Lord, why?

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I mean, he revealed to me in my early, early life of my Christian walk,

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some questions that was deep in my heart about my family that I didn't ask anyone.

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It was just something that was odd about some things going on in my family.

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But I just kind of, you know, pondered on it, didn't want to start no family drama.

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You know, some of us, we're going to ask those questions about our family because

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something ain't right. And we want to ask that question.

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And we know if we ask the wrong person, it's just going to stir up some drama.

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You know, but I was, I don't know if I was, I had to have been praying about

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it in the spirit. It had to have been something that was on my heart that was

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a question. I didn't know who to ask.

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But one day it came out in prayer for me. It came out in prayer.

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It came out in prayer. And I had to answer.

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And I had to go ask the Lord. And I said, Lord, is this it?

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And it sounded, you know, when it's true, it sits in your heart like truth.

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You know, it's like, oh, that's true.

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And you go like, okay. And you go ask your mom or your dad or dad, is this true?

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And then they look at you like, how did you find that out?

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And I said, the Lord told me.

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And he was like, okay. And then, you know, then the drama begins.

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But, you know, I didn't start any drama, but I was like, okay,

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now I know why I had the answer to the drama that was happening in my family.

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What they did was they gave me now kind of a foundation to pray.

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And so for about another 10 years, I ended up praying away all that drama that

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was causing the conflict in our family.

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It took about 10 years to pray all that conflict away because Satan is a conflict starter, right?

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But God is a conflict resolutioner. Come on now, right?

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And so that's all I have for you today. Hey, I want to just encourage you for,

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even if you, a lot of people say, I can't, the Bible asks, you know,

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remember Jesus in the garden says.

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Can y'all pray for, he asked, it was Peter and I think it was John said,

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can you guys pray for an hour while I go and pray?

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And, you know, they fell asleep on him. And so can you pray for five minutes?

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Can you pray for 10? Can you, can you just set yourself up to just to begin

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to pray in your holy language?

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And then what I recommend is just to sit and pray for five minutes and just

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sit and wait for five. See what God is saying.

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Then pray for 10 and wait for 10 and see what God.

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Just be curious about what you have just prayed.

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Lord, I just want to know what I just prayed in the Spirit.

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And you begin to be curious and then He'll begin to speak to you.

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A lot of times people will pray in the Holy Spirit and they'll pray and then

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they'll leave. and they go, nothing happened.

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Well, something happened. You just

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didn't sit back to see. You didn't pay attention to what happened next.

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You know, we're always so busy. You know, we go through these quick drive-thru

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places to grab a burger or a fry, whatever we get through. That food,

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to me, has lost its quality.

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And I notice in my body when I'm hungry, I'm like, I'd rather go home and make

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a hamburger, take that time to create me a nice meal instead of go through a

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quick food place and upset my stomach. I'm just keeping it real.

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And that's what God wants us to do. Stop being so quick to do that.

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Want a quick answer and just be able to sit in His presence and get His answer. Why?

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Because His answer is going to sustain you for longer than that quick meal, right?

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It's going to sustain you. It's going to satisfy you. I'm just saying it's going

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to give you such that rewarding feeling that you are going to seek him more. That's why.

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That's why I'm encouraging you. So for the exercise for this episode is just

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to seek his face, pray in the spirit. I would say pray five minutes.

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Wait five minutes. Do that until you hear.

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Pray five more minutes and wait five minutes. You only have set a schedule.

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If you only could do it 30 minutes and do that, pray 10, wait 10 minutes.

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Don't set a timer, just wait. And then take down notes, what he says.

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And if he says do it, do it. And just begin to, that's how you learn to hear his voice.

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Begin to hear that small voice and begin to do what he says.

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So I'm gonna activate you right now. And it says, just repeat after me if you

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can. It says, I pray in the spirit.

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I receive what the eyes have not seen and the ears have not heard.

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I am tuned into heaven's frequency.

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I receive interpretation, insight, and direction.

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My spiritual senses are alive. I see clearly, I see quickly, and I obey fully.

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Let's say it again. I pray in the Spirit.

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I receive what eyes have not seen and ears have not heard.

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I am tuned into the heavens frequently.

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Frequency. I receive interpretation, insight, and direction.

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My spiritual senses are alive, and I clearly discern quickly and obey fully. I want to say that again.

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Three times is a charm. It says, I pray in the spirit.

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I receive what eyes have not seen and ears have not heard.

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I am tuned into heaven's frequency.

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I receive interpretation, insight, and direction.

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My spiritual senses are alive. I see clearly. I discern quickly.

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I obey fully. I hope that this was a great episode into seeing what God is saying.

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As we close out this episode, I just want to activate the promises of Jeremiah

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29, 11, 14 into your life to know that God knows the plans he has for you,

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plans to prosper you, not to harm you,

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plans to give you hope and a future.

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And when you seek him with all your heart, you will find him.

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He will bring you back from captivity and restore everything that was lost.

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Hold on, your healing, your clarity, and your breakthrough are closer than you think.

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