Eyes Wide Open: Pt 2: Ep 1: Praying with Purpose: Unlocking Heaven's Language

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast, devotional series.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and hello, welcome back, sisters.

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We made it through Eyes Wide Open Part 1, where we confronted delay,

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dug into discernment, and birthed what God has placed in us.

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We also learned how to take care of what God has birthed in us, that new thing.

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But now we're in part two, where the Lord is sharpening our vision again,

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but this time through prayer.

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But before we begin, I just want to always just open up in prayer.

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Just give us the space that we can make it this holy space. Let's pray.

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Father God, just like Jabez, we come before you. We pray with holy confidence.

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We ask you to bless us indeed, to enlarge our territory.

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We ask you to stretch us out of our comfort zone to expand our faith,

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our purpose, our capacity to influence, lead, and love let your hands be with

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us to guide us to every step we take I ask you to protect every listener tuning

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in today to keep us from evil,

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Lord God so that we may not sin against you let us not cause any pain but instead

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be vessels of healing and wholeness causing us to wherever you send us In Jesus' name, amen.

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So let's get started on part two. I hope you're ready.

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I like to say this, and it says, because when we start sharpening our vision

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through prayer, and this kind of came up when I was praying,

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and it says, if you can't see right, you don't pray right.

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You know, so once you ever begin to pray in your holy language,

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and God began to show you visions or he gives you dreams, you begin to hunger and thirst for more.

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So if you haven't had a dream or vision, then just continue to pray in your holy language.

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And I guarantee you that you're going to see something.

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But a lot of times we don't wait until we see something.

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So many of us are making decisions, building dreams and fighting battles with

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blurry vision, with blurry eyes.

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Not because we lack faith, but because we haven't been praying in the spirit

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or we don't pray long enough to get an answer.

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We need an answer like yesterday, but we pray suddenly.

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I need to know tomorrow, but God knew that was coming up like last before you

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even had that, before that even came up.

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And so that's what happens when we don't pray consistently.

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We kind of pray in a rush. And so we get blurry vision. Amen.

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So what we're going to learn today on this journey, that it's not about eloquence,

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it's not about reputation, it's just about access.

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Accessing the language that confuses the enemy. Accessing alignment that silences fears.

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Accessing a revelation that reshapes how we see everything.

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This isn't a cute prayer. This is cry from the belly, wait till he speaks,

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don't move till he says, go prayer.

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So it's not one of those, like, I love that. It says it's not a prayer.

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You just pop into the prayer room and you pop out. This is one of those prayers

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that you're going to, it's called intercessions.

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So it's a prayer. You're going to cry from the belly prayer,

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wait until he speaks prayer and don't move until he says go prayer.

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This kind that, this kind, that doesn't touch heaven, it opens heaven.

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How many want prayers that opens heaven?

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How many want prayers that open heaven? I see, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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So if you're tired of praying and not seeing, if you're hungry for clarity and

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chaos, if you know you've been called to deeper discernment,

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then welcome to Eyes Wide Open, part two.

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It's time to pray until you see.

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So here we are. Welcome back to the Dyer of Black Women Devotional Series.

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I'm your host Connie Morris and today we're opening part two of our journey

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with episode one, The Power and Purpose of Praying in the Spirit.

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You know, we started this in part one. A lot of times you still have questions.

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You can sense the questions like, why is that so important?

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I can't just pray in the natural and get it done.

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And how come you just can't pray in the spirit and get it done?

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You know, whenever people ask those questions, it's like ask the opposite question.

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Don't be disobedient. Just be obedient. We just already went through the games we play with God.

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And so we already know the game we play with God. How come I can't do it my

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way and it worked? Because God has a better way.

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So listen, listen to this. You will never see clearly if you don't pray correctly.

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So you can pray and God will answer your prayer. Yeah.

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But don't you want to see? Don't you want to be a person with spiritual insight, spiritual vision?

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Some of us has been praying in circles, praying out of emotion,

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out of pain, out of patterns, but not in the spirit.

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And this is what the Lord wants you to know.

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Heaven gave you a language that hell can't interpret and it's time to use it.

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Heaven gave you a language that hell can't interpret, and it's time for you to use it.

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That's why you need to pray in the Spirit, because it's your heavenly language,

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and hell cannot interpret it.

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And once you pray in your holy language and you find out that you have strategically

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avoided interpretation by the enemy,

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it's like taking your finger and you snap and you turn invisible when you pray.

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Isn't that some powerful stuff?

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That now Satan can't sit there and interpret your prayer and then go out there

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and just kind of violate you every kind of way and intercept.

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I'm going to say intercept you any kind of way.

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So let's walk through the scripture and see how you can become invisible.

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Come on now, in your prayer life where hell cannot interpret your language.

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You know, how can you become invisible in the hell realm so that he can't bother you?

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He'd be like, what is he talking about? What, what, what? And see,

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and watching you walk in victory as he put out all these interceptions to try to defeat you.

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So let's walk in the word with our hearts wide open.

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Romans 8, 26 to 27. We cover these scriptures, but why not? Let's do it again.

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know what

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we ought to pray, for the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless

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groans, and he who searches our heart knows the mind of the Spirit.

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God already knows your limitation, but he made provision for them.

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This passage tells us that we don't always know what to pray.

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That's why when you're praying in your own language, your regular language is limiting.

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But when you pray in the Holy Spirit, it's unlimited language.

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But when we yield, the Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf,

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on our behalf, not just with words, but with groans, utterances, and divine language.

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This isn't weakness. This is power. It's God saying, I'll pray through you when

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you can't pray for yourself. Come on now.

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God wants us to be so successful. He says, when you are weak, I am strong.

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Let me pray for you when we pray in our holy language.

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Come on, people. Ephesians 6.18, 6.18 says, and pray in the spirit on all occasions

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with all kinds of prayer and requests.

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With this in mind, be alert.

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Notice that Paul didn't say to pray sometimes in the spirit.

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He says on all occasions pray.

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This means in joy and in sorrow, in public and in private, in warfare and in peace.

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When you pray in the spirit, you pray, you stay spiritually alert.

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The enemy moves in silence, but the spirit prays with strategy. Come on now.

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The enemy moves in silence, but the spirit prays with strategy.

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Natural prayer will keep you hopeful.

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Spiritual prayer will make you dangerous.

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Yes, I'll repeat that. Natural prayer will keep you hopeful.

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Spiritual prayer will make you dangerous.

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Natural prayer will make you hopeful. Spiritual prayer will make you dangerous.

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But you, wow.

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How many want to be dangerous out there?

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Yes, yes I want to be dangerous I don't want to just be hopeful I want to be dangerous.

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Jude 1.20 tells us, 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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Praying in the Spirit isn't just expressive, it's constructive.

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It builds you up from the inside. It fortifies your faith. It strengthens your resolve.

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It resets your atmosphere.

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Sometimes some of us are spiritually exhausted because we're praying from intellect

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when God calls us to pray from intimacy.

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Oh, man, I don't want to drop my mic because it's brand new,

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but mic dropping the spirit.

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Some of us are spiritually exhausted because we pray from intellect when God

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is calling us to pray from intimacy.

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You don't build endurance with emotion.

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You build it by letting the Spirit take over.

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That's why you pray in the Spirit. That's why you pray in the Spirit.

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You don't pray from intellect. You pray from intimacy.

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Because it takes faith to pray from your holy language.

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It takes faith to believe that there's a God that can interpret what you just pray.

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It takes faith to believe there is a heaven.

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It takes faith to believe there's a Holy Spirit that's helping you pray.

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Come on now. So you're praying in your Holy Spirit. You're praying in your holy language.

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And you're praying it all out. You don't know what's going on.

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But God is saying, this girl, I got you. It's not just expressive.

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It's constructive. It's building you up on the inside. It's fortifying your

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faith. It's strengthening your resolve.

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It's resetting the atmosphere.

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And is building intimacy with God.

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Whoa. Powerful. So let's make it plain.

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Emotion is loud, but it often lacks alignment.

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Spirit is precise, even when it's quiet.

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We've shouted, cried, declared, and still felt empty. Why? Because it wasn't Spirit-led.

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The Holy Spirit doesn't just help you pray louder, It helps you pray on target.

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And when your prayer hits heaven's target, breakthrough gets released without delay.

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How many of you guys started being delayed?

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How many got prayers out there waiting in the spirit realm that needs a push

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from you, from the Holy Spirit? Amen. Amen.

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Spirit is precise. I'm going to say that again. We've shouted,

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we've cried, we've declared, and you still felt empty. Why?

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Because it wasn't spirit-led.

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The Holy Spirit doesn't just help you pray louder. It helps you pray on target.

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I mean, you want to hit the target.

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And when your prayer hits the heaven's target, it gets released without delay.

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Oh, my God.

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How many times have you prayed in the Spirit?

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Right? Just pray in the Spirit. There was times I was praying in the Spirit

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for something for weeks, but nothing changed.

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But then one morning, I stopped begging and just said, Holy Spirit,

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take over. And I just begun to pray in the Spirit.

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I didn't know what I was saying, but I knew who was speaking.

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Within hours, clarity came.

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Not just about the situation, but about me.

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Because praying in the Spirit doesn't just change your outcome.

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It changes your alignment.

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Just saying, Spirit, take over. Praying in the Spirit.

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Just praying in the Spirit. It gets your mind out the way.

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It gets your flesh out the way. It gets you out the way. And it lines you up

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with God's perfect will.

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It brings to me joy because you're no longer trying to control your life anymore.

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Yeah, you're involved because you're on this earth, but now you're not directing

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your own life. You're allowing the Spirit of God to direct your life.

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So ask yourself, am I praying from my flesh or by the Spirit?

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Have I allowed doubt or pride to block the flow of tongues or intercession?

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And a lot of times we get the big head, right? We get the big head and I don't

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need to pray in the Spirit.

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I don't believe in all that. Well, then stay stuck. We talk about that already in the early episodes.

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You're going to just be stuck. Look, years go by and you're still the same.

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But then pray in the Holy Spirit and watch. Just as a baby grows differently

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every day, if you had a newborn baby, they look different almost every day.

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So will you begin to look different every day. And within a year,

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you'll be a totally different person. A year.

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You'll probably be different within six months, but a year from the day you

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start praying, you'll notice that you are a different person.

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Write this in your journal. Holy Spirit, I give you my tongue, my mind, and my will.

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Teach me to pray from your heart, not my own.

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You can't get out of the way because he needs your tongue, your vocal cords. He needs you.

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You're the conduit from heaven to earth. So you can't say, Lord, I take over.

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No, no, no. He needs you to participate. It's not like a Holy Spirit takeover.

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It's you. He needs you to participate in this activity.

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So it's not Holy Spirit take over.

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You say you get out the way, flesh, and you allow your mind to get out the way

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and begin to pray in your holy language.

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And then that's when the Spirit takes over. It's your participating in it.

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No one's taking over your mind, your emotion. You are still involved in this activity.

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You know so it's nothing super spiritual or

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super scary because you're still involved you're praying it's your

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vocal cords it's you who's praying so you need to be involved don't say and

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the spirit took over no no no he's not taking over he's a gentleman he needs

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your voice your vocal cords he needs you as a conduit from heaven to earth so

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it's nothing spooky nothing scary.

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Let's decree. The decree for today is, I pray with heaven's voice,

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not just my own. I yield to the spirit.

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I receive divine strength, supernatural strategies, and the holy alignment.

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My prayers are spirit-filled and hell-proof.

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I am built up. I am locked in. I am aligned.

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Amen. Let's pray.

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Father, thank you for the gift of praying in the Spirit.

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I surrender my understanding. I release my need for control.

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I yield to the language of heaven.

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Teach me to press past my intellect into intimacy.

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Let groanings be my breakthrough. That silence becomes strategy.

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That utterance flow without fear.

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I declare I will pray from the Spirit, with the Spirit, and by the Spirit.

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And I will see what I've been missing.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Sisters, sisters, if you feel ready, do you feel, can you feel it already, the shift?

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Because when you pray in the Spirit, you don't just survive, you see.

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Join me in part two, Eyes Wide Open part two, episode two, Spiritual Sight Through Spirit-Led Prayer.

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We're going to talk about how your vision sharpens when your prayer deepens.

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Until then, stay open, stay yielded, and keep your eyes wide open.

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Before we close out, I want to speak a word of promise over you from Jeremiah 29, 11.

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Father God, you declared, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper

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you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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So today we receive that truth.

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You said when we call on you, you will listen. So we pray.

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You say when we seek you with all our hearts, you will be found, so we pursue.

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You say that you will restore us from captivity, so we declare freedom over

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every place where our listeners feel stuck, silenced, or small.

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So thank you for always drawing near when we show up in faith. In Jesus' name, amen.

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And also stay connected, stay covered, and keep healing out loud.

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This is Connie Morris. You've been listening to Diary of Black Women podcast.

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Where healing, truth, and grace live.

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Amen. Bye-bye. Till next time.