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Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Following Your Guide | Joel & Amy Siegel | Paducah, KY | Tuesday AM | Miracle Crusade 2023
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.
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Good morning, everyone. Isn't Jesus wonderful? Hallelujah. It seemed good to us to have me kick it off this morning, so we're going to do that. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. For those of you who don't know, my husband and myself, we maybe minister a little bit differently than some people, or a lot differently, depending on how you look at it. There are times where just he will minister. There's times where just I will minister. There's times where we tag team and go back and forth. So however it works, don't you be nervous. We're not nervous. Okay. If he gets up here and adds to what I'm saying, he's not, he may be trying to correct me, and that's fine. I'm okay with that. All right. But that's just how we flow together. So he's always welcome to come up. And there you are. And I can sit down. And I'm all for that. Praise the Lord. But if you would, let's turn this morning to Luke chapter 18, which is where we started yesterday. And I just want to remind us of this passage that Reverend Joel took us to before we get going here. Hallelujah. Aren't you thankful for the Spirit of God? Aren't you thankful for the ability to. To pray and to fellowship with him and to move with him in his realm? And that's what we began talking about yesterday. The fact that our prayer life allows us to enter in to the realm of the Spirit. That's amazing. That's amazing. That means we can. Not only do we have this wonderful, precious Word as our help and our guide, but we have that precious Holy Spirit on the inside to help us navigate into the spiritual realm. And in doing that, we get to cooperate with God to accomplish things here on this earth. It is an amazing privilege. And we want to be able to do these things with accuracy. And that is, I believe, one of the reasons that the Spirit dealt with Pastor Nancy to have these morning meetings on this subject. We don't just minister from the word on the subject, but we spend time together in prayer on purpose. It's not because we couldn't think of anything else to minister, and so we gotta fill up the next 30 minutes with prayer. No, it's to give us all time to practice flowing together in this realm. For some of us, we've been doing this a long time, meaning we've been a Christian A long time. If you've been a Christian, you should be praying, right? But how many know we can always learn and become more effective in what we do. And in Luke chapter 18, it said, and he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint. Those of you who were here with us yesterday, we spent some time, didn't we, talking about what it looks like when people faint, right? And part of. Part of fainting. Fainting is lacking in strength, right? You lack strength. And we spent a good amount of time talking about how when our flesh is too strong in our body, excuse me, our body is too strong, our flesh pulls us into that natural realm. Well, our spirit will lack strength. If we lack strength, it's going to be difficult to pray correctly. We find our prayers when we lack strength and our body's pulling us in a certain direction, we find our prayers being like, oh, God, help. Right? I don't know if you've been there, I've been there. But we want our prayers to be more effective than just that. Oh, God, help. You know, he is our helper. And my husband brought out something interesting about this passage. And that is verse 8 is actually connected with verse 1. Verse 8 says, I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth. We gotta understand that. And we say this often, that everything we do is by faith. Should be by faith, including our prayer life. Remind me everyone, how does faith come? By hearing. Hearing what? The Word. So we spend time looking at the Word and learning from the Word what our prayer life should look like. Who's to accompany us in our prayer life? Why? So that we can have faith to enter that realm and do what we need to do. Without faith, it's impossible to please him. And without faith in our prayer life, we're not going to be as effective in what we're doing. I don't know as I get older and I'm not old, but as I progress in life, I just don't have time to waste doing things ineffectively. So we want our entering into this spirit realm, this moving with God to be as effective as possible. To do that, we need to have faith in the one who's accompanying us into the spirit realm, that is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. You know, when we live in Colorado now, we've been there 12 years. 11. 11 years. When we first moved there, Dr. Dufresne actually had and Pastor Nancy, they bought some property in Colorado as well, several hours from where we were. But Dr. Dufresne, he had a. He had a family retreat out by his property and invited ministers and families and whoever wanted to come. And we all went to a little hotel in that town. And the idea was, you know, bring your family, you can spend the day. It was a beautiful. It's a beautiful town and there's lots to do there. You can go horseback riding, you can climb in the mountain, you can. There's a big river that flows through the town and you can actually go white water rafting. Thank you. And brother Mitch Morgan, who was Dr. Dufresne's pilot, he was talking with my husband, and my husband said, you know, what's there to do? And Mitch was telling us all these things that we could do. And he said, you know, you can float down the river and go, you know, rafting. And we're like. My husband said, oh, that's cool. You know, in New York, we had a place on a lake and we had this big raft and we brought it with us to Colorado. So Mitch said, bring it. It'll be awesome. It'll be awesome. You'll have so much. So we did. We brought our raft. And I don't even think we had enough life jackets. So we had to go into town and buy life jackets for our kids. That's a good thing to do. And we were asking this gentleman who ran this little rafting store, you know, where do we start, where do we end, what do we do? And he gave us some very helpful tips. He showed us, you know, on the map he's showing us, you know, you're gonna start here, you're gonna end here. Make sure you have a car at the end so that when you get there, you have some way to get home. And so he was telling us, and he was giving us little tips. Now, when you get to this point in the river, make sure you stay to the right, because if you go to the left, it's gonna get real shallow and you're gonna get stuck. Or if you go to the left, it's going to take you a direction you don't want to go. And, you know, it all sounded sensible when he was telling us while we were standing on solid ground in the store. Love you, brother Mitch. Thank you for this great illustration. And so we gathered our family and we got to our starting point. We had our raft ready to go, and we all hopped in and we were all happy. This was gonna be exciting. Super fun, super fun. We got into the Raft. And we started, you know, it started really floating down the river. But, you know, as we're going, you know, things are picking up and things are getting a little bumpy, but it's okay. And I'm watching other people on the river. They're all in a boat, and they've got more gear than we have. Not only do they have life jackets, they have helmets. And I'm starting to think to myself, wait a minute. Is this more dangerous than I think it is? Because Brother Mitch said, oh, just go ahead. You're going to have a great time. And it's not just one or two people in the raft that have a paddle. Everybody has a paddle. But the biggest thing they had in their raft that we didn't have in our raft was a guide. Let's just say that their trip went a little smoother than our trip. Now, we are still married today and happily married. Our children still call us mom and dad, and they love us. But let's just say things got slightly tense a few times on that wonderful, fun trip. When my husband tells this story, he reminds me that we actually at one point wound up in a tree. You know how the trees can sometimes grow over into the water? Yeah. We wound up in one of those. Why? We didn't know what we were doing. We were entering a realm we had. We were totally unfamiliar with. Without a help, You don't ever want to enter into a realm you're unfamiliar with or even slightly familiar with. You understand? Even if we had done that a couple times that week, which we didn't. We only did it once. That was enough. Matter of fact, when I got out of that river, I said, I don't care how much it costs to go to one of those rafting places and hire somebody to guide me, I will always go with a guide. Always. Why? Because that river has a different flow depending on the time of year you're in. And things change. We've gotten a lot of rain in Colorado recently. I can't even imagine what the river's like right now. And there's times where even the guides won't go. They'll tell you, we can't go now because they know the river. Oh, we did get rid of the raft. Bye. We gave that. We sowed that blessing to someone else. Hallelujah. And if you come to Colorado, we'll pay for you to have a guide. We'll buy your ticket. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. So we want to navigate this spiritual realm with faith, and we can have such faith in our guide. So this morning it just seemed good to look at some scriptures about our precious wonderful guide. If you would turn with me to John, chapter 14. Hallelujah. We love brother Mitch. And his enthusiasm. Glory to God. You know, rafting is really fun if you do it the right way. Glory. John, chapter 14, verse 16. This is Jesus. You know, Jesus was preparing his disciples in these chapters for his departure. And he was letting them know, this is going to be a good. It's going to be okay. This is going to be a good thing. And he says in verse 16, and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Praise the Lord. You realize your guide never leaves you. He's with you forever. Glory. That means he's with you here on this earth and he continues to stay with you. Glory to God. Hallelujah. He's with you forever. Who is this comforter? Even the Spirit of truth. He's truth. You can be confident in his guiding, in his leading, in his movement with you. He is to be our guide in the realm of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Even the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive this Spirit of Truth because it sees him not. Neither knows him. But you know him. Oh, can you say that? I know him. I know I know him. How does faith come? By hearing the Word. The Spirit of God is truth. When you hear from him, you can have faith. You're hearing from the truth. Glory to God. Hallelujah. He's the Spirit of Truth. Glory to God. You know him, for he dwells with you and he shall be in you. Now he's saying this to his disciples, who you know, the Spirit was with them, generally speaking, but they were soon to be born again once Jesus purchased our redemption on the cross and resurrection. And then the. The Spirit of God came in and did exactly what Jesus said he would. He began to dwell in the disciples, all those that became Christians and all those that are Christian now. He dwells the Spirit of Truth, the ultimate guide. Glory to God. He's always with you and you know him. Now, can we get to know him better? Of course. Our whole life is a walk and a privilege of learning more about our precious guide, learning how to flow with him and move with him. Why? Because just like that river in Colorado, the realm of the Spirit has flows and ebbs, and the Spirit of Truth knows the flow much more than we do. And so when we enter into that realm of prayer, we don't want to ever assume we know how to do this, we have a limited knowledge of that realm. He has all truth. He knows all. And so we need to be careful and make sure that as we go into prayer, we are looking to our God to assist and help. And, you know, these scriptures ought to be familiar to us. But just because they're familiar doesn't mean they're not significant. Doesn't mean that we don't need to look at these scriptures and meditate on these things from time to time, because that's how faith comes. And when faith comes, glory to God, we can enter into our prayer time knowing, when I follow my guide, we are going somewhere. We are accomplishing some things. We are taking care of what needs to be taken care of in the Spirit. We're to always pray, not faint, not give up, not lack in spiritual strength. How do we have spiritual strength? We have to have faith in the One who's taking us into that realm. He's a spirit of truth. Glory to God. Verse 26 of chapter 14, it says, but the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall what, Teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. So he's our guide, he's our teacher. Hallelujah. I'm going to pull that up in the amplified here. Praise the Lord. He's such a good God and He helps us so much in all that we do in. He's given us everything we need to function in his realm. The amplified of verse 26 says, but the comforter, the counselor, the helper, the intercessor, the advocate, the strengthener, the standby, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name in my place to represent me and act on my behalf. He will teach you all things. He will cause you to recall, will remind you of. Bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you. Wow. That's who you have on the inside of you. Does that mean you don't ever need to hear the word of God from your pastor? Oh, absolutely not. Matter of fact, the Holy Spirit's there to help remind you of what your pastor just said, Right? If you don't have anything in you for him to remind you of, He's going to have trouble reminding you. Well, praise the Lord. So he's all those things. He's our comforter, he's our counselor, he's our advocate, he's our strengthener. How do we always pray and not faint? We better know the strengthener. Right? He's our advocate. He's Our standby glory to God and he can be all those things for us in our navigating of this spiritual realm. We don't ever want to go into this realm of prayer on our own. We must know what the Word says and we must have faith in our guide who's leading us and helping us into this realm. Praise the lord. John, chapter 16, just reminding us this morning of some of these things that Jesus wanted his disciples to know. John, chapter 16, verse Praise the Lord, 13 strong eyes. Verse 13 says, Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak. He will show you things to come. Do you understand that part of our prayer life is to get in this realm of the Spirit where all the answers are. Oh, this is a wonderful place to be. Now, when you're in this realm of answers, the spirit might give you. Like if you were going down river, you're going to get glimpses of things, but sometimes you're going along swiftly and you don't get time to stop and look at everything, right? So when we went with a guide down the river, which we have done, and it's much more effective and much more fun when you go down the river with a guide, he'll point things out to you as you're going to. Do you see the rocks on this side? They were here from da da da. You know, they'll give you the history of what's been going on. He will help explain what you are seeing. When I minister on this subject, oftentimes I use this illustration of an ultrasound. When a woman is pregnant and she goes in. They have such amazing technology. You can go in and they can put something on that, that lady's belly and they can look inside and see that baby. But I'm sure things are better than when I. It was many years ago when I was doing that, and when they put that little whatever it is on my stomach and we started looking at that screen, I could see the general shape of the baby. That's great. But I couldn't tell you if it was a girl or a boy. I didn't exactly know what I was looking at. It's a baby that I got. Okay, that's good. That's good. But I needed the person that was running that machine to interpret and help me determine what exactly I was looking at. And with my first one, she said, it's a boy. And I said, are you sure? And she goes, I'm sure. And she pointed out why she was sure. And I was like, okay, okay, okay, it's a boy. Good, good. But, you know, with that machine, they can see not just the outward form of the baby, but they can dial in whatever they do now, push a couple buttons, and they can get to a different level or realm of that baby. They can start to see the heartbeat. They can dial in. She was measuring the different organs, she was measuring the bones. But every time she did a different turn of the dial to get a different dimension. Of really what was all the same creature, right? And the whole time, I needed her help to explain to me what I was seeing. When you enter the spirit realm, we have to be careful. I have to be careful that I don't see one glimpse of something and say, oh, that's what that is. That's what I'm supposed to do. I might be seeing one slice, one sliver. For example, when we went to Bible school, one of the first months that we were there, I was in a service at our church, and I was by myself. I don't know if my husband was doing music or what he was doing, but I was by myself in the congregation, minding my own business, just worshiping the Lord and participating in praise and worship, which is important to do. It's how it helps us hear from God. And while I was worshiping the Lord with everyone else there in the congregation, I. I saw in the Spirit like a flash of something that was going to happen in my future, and then it went away. That. That I saw has not happened yet. Let's just say it was several decades ago that that happened, right? What some people do when something like that happens, they'll say, oh, that must be what God has for me tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? Or as soon as I graduate from Bible school, this is my life. Glory to God. So we need the guide to interpret for us. What. What am I seeing? Is it the liver? The heart? Is this tomorrow? Is this 20 years from now? Is this something I'm just supposed to hold onto in my spirit? Like Mary just put those things and pondered them in her heart, those things that the Spirit was dealing with her. This is going to happen. Be ready for it. And there are times in the Spirit where the Lord will. The Holy Spirit will reveal to you a glimpse, a slice, a portion of your future, of your church's future. I remember Brother Hagin talking about a time where he had a. There was a group of ladies that were praying, getting together and praying that's not a bad thing, except they were getting glimpses of the future. And in that glimpse, they saw that Brother Hagin wasn't supposed to be the pastor. Be careful what you see and say, right? And Brother Hagin was very, very kind. He said they may have been seeing the time when. Because he didn't stay at those churches for very long. It was, you know, several years. And then he moved on to a different place that was more the norm for back then. And he said they may have been seeing what was going to be happening, but they interpreted it as, he's out. And Mom Hagin went to one of these meetings and came back and told, dad, you better get in there. You better help them out. And so what he did, such wisdom he brought that he didn't just squash it and say, stop praying. Can you imagine? But there are people that have done that with church members that just said, nope, no more. What dad Hagin did was he just brought them into the church. He said, why don't we meet at the church? And. And Mom Hagin and I, we're going to be with you and we'll help lead you what they needed, help interpreting what they were seeing. So not only do we have the Holy Spirit as a guide, but we have our pastor. We have those that are called to help us navigate this spirit realm. So important, so important. And so as pastors, we try to help those that are under us. How? By praying with them, by helping lead them and guide them. And when we spend time collectively like this in prayer, there's going to be times where one of us might say something in English, well, pay attention to that. Oh, oh. That's where we're going. And that helps you learn and navigate that river of the Spirit when you get on your own. Hallelujah. So we need to be careful what we see. And when we see something, don't just assume I'm talking from personal experience, because it's easy to do. It's easy to get just a sliver or a slice and assume this is it, I've got it all. Here we go. And Brother Hagin used to say this. He said, if it's God today, it'll be God tomorrow. Meaning if you've got a prompting or a direction or you sense something in the Spirit while you're in prayer, sit on it, touch it again tomorrow and the next day. And if it's a big decision, check with your pastor, please, not to get. Not because he has to say yes or no, but because he's been equipped to help guide. He's been equipped to check in with the greater one, and it should agree with him if it's what you're supposed to be moving forward with. And you know, we don't tell as ministers, we don't tell people what to do, but we can say things like, I'd keep checking on that before I step into that. So important that we don't move too fast and assume that one thing we saw one day in the spirit realm is the whole slice, right? Praise the Lord. When the Spirit of Truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, and he shall receive of mine and shall show it to you. All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore said I, that He shall take of mine and will show it to you. He'll show it to you. He'll show it. Verse 13 in the message says this. But when the friend comes, praise the Lord, the Spirit of Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but he will make sense out of what is about to happen. And indeed out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me and will take me, take from me and deliver it to you. He's going to take us by the hand, our guide, the Spirit of all truth. And he's going to lead us and guide us and show us meaning when I more and more often now understand. There's many types of prayer, right? There's times where we're feeling the pressure and the concern and care about some things, circumstances that have come up and we're supposed to come and cast those cares, right? There are times where we pray the prayer of faith. We know what the word says. We know it belongs to us. And we come in boldly and say, father, thank you for what you have said is mine. And we just take it and walk out with it, right? But there are other times when we come into this realm of the Spirit. And more often than not now in my life, I find myself in this type of prayer where I come and say, father, I'm here to be an assist to whatever you need prayed out. And I'm asking that you help me follow my guide. And here we go. The spirit is. Well, we could say it like this. My dad was a schoolteacher, and so he had the summers off. We didn't have tons of money. We Weren't poverty stricken or anything like that. But our vacations were camping we'd take. Because he had the summers off. We could take, you know, a couple weeks at a time and go. We'd go to the. We lived in Buffalo, New York, so we'd go up into Canada or we would go to the Adirondack Mountains. And we would always camp near water, right? There was always a lake somewhere and we had a canoe. So we'd bring the canoe with us. And my dad would take us out in that canoe and he'd have myself or my sister up front and he would teach us how to navigate this canoe. You know, the person in the front, they're supposed to be listening to the person in the back. The person in the back steers the boat, right? And they'll call out. He would call out left, and we'd paddle three times on the left. Then he'd call out, right. We'd switch the paddle to the right, right? I had to listen for his call and he would steer us in the direction we needed to go. My dad, when he would put his oar in, let's just say he had more strength than me as an eight year old, right? And it was always fun when I was sitting in the front to feel that, that push, that movement forward. The Holy Spirit should be in the back of your canoe, right? He's prompting, he's gliding, he's helping to propel us in the direction we are to go. Now, as an eight year old, I would sometimes get excited at what I'd see on the lake. You know, maybe there's a beaver over there or something like that. And I'd see something, I'd be like, oh. And I'd forget everything he had told me and I'd try to get myself over there. I'd start paddling right and try to get myself over. And you know what my dad would do? He'd just pull his paddle out. He's a school teacher. He knew how to be patient. He'd just pull his paddle out and he'd say, amy, if you tell me what you see, I can help you get there. And I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry, dad. Okay, can we go over there? And sure enough, when he put his oar in and so steered us in that direction, it was easy. When we come to God in prayer, we are to be cooperating with him, moving with him. And if I come to him with a certain person on my heart, with a certain situation on my heart, and I'll get before him, and I might lift that up to him and say, father, Father, I'm going to yield to your spirit. And I ask you to help me to pray about this situation. There's times when I go to pray in other tongues. It's like somebody's in the back of the canoe, and here we go, we take off and there's unction, there's an assist, there's a help to move forward in that direction. But there are other times when I go to pray in other tongues and it's like I'm paddling the canoe myself. There's no help to get me where I'm trying to go. Does that mean God doesn't care about that situation? Does that mean he doesn't, you know. No, it just means now's not the time to be praying about that. And I'll stop and I'll say, father, I'm sorry. That's not the direction you have me going. What is it you need me to pray for right now? And if I'll back up and learn to look to the guide, he will help assist me in the proper direction. Praise the Lord. I don't know if you're wanting to add things to this. Praise the Lord.
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No, I was just thinking, as you're saying that that most so much of the time when we come to prayer, we have our agenda. Yes, that's exactly like we come with our agenda. But, hey, if he's the guide, let him lead.
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Right, Right.
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Let him lead.
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Right, Right. Amen.
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Praise the Lord. This. Y' all learning anything from this? Because I didn't know what you were ministering on, of course, but I was thinking about when I first started praying in the spirit, or praying in other tongues, as we call it. I learned the mechanics of it and would sometimes do it without my heart being engaged, you know, I'm saying? And so you can do that just like you can get in your car. You know, you can start your car, and while it's in park, how many know, you can step on the gas and you can make some. Some sounds. You know, you can. It sounds just like you're driving, but you're just not getting where you'd be. Where you'd get if you were, what, in gear? In the gear. And so as we go to pray, we want to. We want to engage our heart and pay attention to the guidance of the spirit. Now, if I can just marry this into everything we've heard kind of in these meetings so far. You know, there's been an emphasis here and There on the presence of God.
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Yes.
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Well, that's. That's his leading, is his presence. And so when you become aware and have a recognition of him on the inside of you, that's something you want to carry around with you. This the way you're led in prayer, this is how you're led in life. This is how you decide, do we move here, do we move there? Do we do this, do we do that? This is all how you make these decisions. And I just love what was said because I think the idea is we'll just go and see what the future brings and then deal with it. Where a better mentality is, let's go to the future before we ever get there. Following the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Right. And get some things prayed out. The plan of God and the Christian's life, you know, of course there's the plan of God for the whole body of Christ and there's the plan of God for us individually. We should be interested in all of that. And the plan of God is not something that just automatically comes to pass, you understand? There's opposition, there's all kinds of things. So we want to be engaged and involved in these things. It's possible to be behind your prayer life. And you got stuff showing up in your life that should have been dealt with but hasn't yet. Well, we don't want that. We want to get. In fact, you can get ahead. And when you start praying out stuff ahead, recognize that you may be seeing the glimpse of things in a general sense, so you can start preparation, but that's different than the timing to make a decision on it now. Just letting you know that I listened to everything you said and I can spit some of it back.
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Praise the Lord. We are not. When we come into prayer, like we said yesterday, we're not storming into the presence of God and demanding this, this, this and this. We are coming with, with all humility, realizing we don't know this realm the way he does. And we're not. We're not trying to get God to do anything. He's prepared our future. But if we could say this. And then we'll get to prayer. But the power of God is always available. He always has provision for us. Right? But when we pray, we're creating a place for that power to land properly. How many know you don't want to land a 747? Just anywhere side of the mountain, no ocean, not a good place. City, street. Yeah, no, yeah, that's tough. We want a Very nice. I was Talking to a pastor just the other day who said, you can get to our town via an aircraft. He said, but we have to kind of scooch the cows off the landing strip first. And I said, note to self. Drive to this church. Why? The landing strip was very small. Right. It was. A little plane would get you there if you want a 747 worth of God's power in your situation. Prayer helps make a smooth landing for what's already been made available, but it gives God something to land on.
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Yeah, let's pray. Well, we're gonna. We're gonna do some of this. Yes. And as we pray, if it hasn't been your habit so far, pay some attention and maintain an awareness of God's presence, because that's his leading. And you may experience some twists and turns, some rights and some lefts. You know what I mean? Prayer. In other words, there's ebb and flow. We're going to endeavor to follow that. Y' all look like you're mad at us. We didn't. You okay just to change your position because you've been seated. She's been preaching like two hours now, so.
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Oh, at least.
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Why don't you just stand up to change your position and then you can sit down as you. As you want to praise the Lord. We're going to enter his gates how? With thanksgiving. His courts with praise. So, Father, we give you thanks today. We bless you. Today we come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy, find grace to help in time of need. We're so grateful that we can come. Thank you for the blood of the covenant by which we're sanctified, that we can come boldly before you. And we do. And we thank you, Father, for that which you've ordained for this day. That which you've ordained for our time. Thank you for the plan of God. Thank you for the great move of God that we're in that must increase. Thank you for all that pertains to our era and our day. We say by faith it all comes to pass. We say that as we cooperate with you. You. Thank you, Father, for helping us to take care of this. Take care of that. We trust you now in Jesus name as we yield to the Spirit's utterances. 10 Rakala painter. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Enlargement. The enlargement of the voices. The enlargement of the voices. The enlargement, Yes. Expansion. Expansion. In towns and cities, in villages. Lead.
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It.
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Stewarding the retainer.
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The word spreading rapidly.
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And the fire of God and the Fire of God spreads and the fire of God falls. I see, I see. I see it. I see it. And that's not for later. That's glory.
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Glory, glory, glory.
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Should have been last year. Should have been earlier.
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We have it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Oh, glory. Oh, it's so good, so good, so good, so good, so good to have.
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So good to have it. So good to walk.
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Yeah.
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Yes, King.
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Thank you. Bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless. Bless his name. Oh, my, my, my, my, my. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You. Thank you. Thank you, Father. Thank you, master. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Yeah, My. Ha ha ha. A couple things, if you would. That you can be seated if you like to be seated. I've prompted by the Lord as we're praying here, along a couple lines. One is this. And I want to say this would probably particularly apply to ministers, although it could apply to others. But when you go through different, we call them, phases of ministry, you know, God's a God of progression and in his plan for your life. And if you're a minister, he's got a plan for your ministry that could include different levels of your office. Sometimes it includes another office. Sometimes it's. In my case, at one point, it was a total change where I stepped out of one thing, stepped into another. Different for everybody, you know. But when you come up to a shift or what we would call a new phase, there will often be great opposition. And what I was prompted about in prayer is that there perhaps are some who either watching or present that you just feel like you're on the spin cycle. You know what I'm talking about? The spin cycle on a washing machine, like you're being. You feel like you're going through it. Well, how many know when a spaceship comes back into the atmosphere and shifts, they go through some stuff, you know, and all that. And there's. And the verse that we often use along these lines is over here, and I'll just read it to you in First Corinthians 16, verse 9, where it says, a great door and effectual is opened unto me. And there are many adversaries. Where are the adversaries? Right there at the door. Not holding it open for you, not saying, come on in, but all piled up against the door, right? Now, if God says there's an open door, there's an open door. But that doesn't mean all the other forces in the spirit realm are in agreement with what God says, right? And so I've just found, like, a lot of times God will say, there's a door. Go through it. And you're like, that's locked. You know what I'm saying? So here's what was on my heart to say, if you're in that situation and you feel like, why am I going through such difficulty? I feel like we're in the will of God and you might be thinking, well, maybe we just need to back off. Do not back off. Do not back off. Stand your ground. It's just opposition. Take your authority. Deal with it. But as long as it takes. How long is that? Much longer than your flesh would like. Trust me, Trust me. Trust me. I speak from experience. Others could get up here with more experience than me and say, yeah, we know what you're talking about. Stand your ground, preacher. Preacher, Preacher. Stand your ground. Stand your ground. Just stay. Don't bail, don't adjust to it. Don't cave. Stand your ground. Now, there's others also who you feel like, I'm on the spin cycle, too. And your situation is. Your situation is that you need to learn to take your authority. And it's not that you're entering into a phase of ministry or anything like that where there's just opposition at the door. You're just being beat up on because you don't know who you are and take your authority. And for some of you, I'm able to do this right now, and I'm going to break that thing. But you're going to have to still learn how to take your authority, to stay, to stay in your help. You hear what we're saying? So if this applies to you, just agree with me. I take authority and I break that yoke. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Join to that. Join your faith to that and you and be helped. Amen.
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