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Prayer & Life In The Spirit | Nancy Dufresne | Prayer Conference 2026 | Tuesday PM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. How many of you know that fixed everything? Love fixed everything. Think about it wasn't power, it was love that fixed it. And then power met the love that fixes, right? Love fixed everything. You know, you think about it of all and if you have studied anything about church history, it's written all the disciples were martyred except one. And they tried. They put the apostle John in a boiling oil. Now, that had to frighten them when it didn't hurt him and they pulled him. However they do that. I don't search it out. Not interested to know the methodology of that. I believe it was like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. He came forth, the smell of smoke wasn't even on him. He's not, he's not distorted, disfigured by that. And that had to frighten. So they decided if that didn't frighten the people, they would have tried again some other method. And they didn't. They just sent him to an island. They said, we're afraid to touch him again. So they sent him to an island and put him on a place where he heard God better than he had ever heard him anywhere else. And we had the book of Revelation, because this one man, if you go through, I went through and counted the in him scriptures that we could point back to that depicts something of in him. And I don't have the numbers in front of me. Matthew had about five, Mark had about two. Luke had about three. John had 16. There was something that he grabbed, received that others, although they were with Jesus, there was something further with John. And then John's Gospel starts so different than the others. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Not to diminish how the others are written, but this one showed more. He went back to the beginning. He didn't go. He went back before Genesis, Because in the beginning was the Word. He went back before earth's creation. And yet when you read first John, second John, Third John, you see revelations of love and fellowship like nobody else brought to us. Revelations of a revelation of love puts you in a place where you realize he's already fixed everything. And there was something about John that you can't kill. The one God loves. That's just the way he no doubt approached it. God loves me. And he described himself as the disciple that Jesus loved. Amen. When we get that revelation dawning on Our spirit self image is not an issue because we realize that love put us in him. Amen. So you think about it. Love fixed everything. Love fixed everything. Love fixed. God so loved the world that he fixed it. How did he fix it? He gave. His son fixed it. Amen. You're fixed tonight. What's that mean? Your health is fixed. Your family is fixed. Your finances are fixed. Your mind is fixed. Your future is fixed. Your past is fixed. How? Just nailed it to the cross. Buried it so that you never have to visit it again. Don't update it by talking about it. He fixed your past. Now the way the man wants to fix your past is different than how God fixed it. But God's fix works when man's fix doesn't. Because man gets entrenched in that psychological approach which doesn't fix anything. It only entrenches them. In the arena the devil is dominating in. Amen. But we're fixed. We're fixed. And once we realize everything I need for life, for life and godliness has already been given, it's already been fixed. We spend our prayer time differently because we're not praying, trying to get a fix. Because we realize we're fixed. And now we're going from that fixed place and bringing in to others, bringing others before the throne who don't know they're fixed yet. And that's what Paul prayed. That God would give unto them the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge that they're fixed in him. Amen. He made it so easy. He just made it so. He made it so easy. Why? Because he did the hard part and left us just the easy part of receiving the fix. Amen. Hallelujah. Oh, how he loves you and me. Amen. Settle that then. Everything else is easy to settle because everything is settled upon that. Hallelujah. Father, we glorify you. We magnify you. We thank you tonight. We worship and glorify. Father, we thank you for your purpose for this week. We're hungry for it. We thank you for your plan. In your plan is every answer that every person would ever need. In your plan is every fix for our life. And so we agree with your plan tonight. We agree with your word tonight. And our faith is as easy as our agreements. And we thank you for it. Father, we give you glory and honor and thanks. Hallelujah. And everybody said turn to around about four or five people and give them a great big God bless you tonight. Then you can be seated. Welcome everyone. We are so glad to have you here with us this Week. And can I say this? We're here first and foremost for what God's plan holds for us. But in God's plan holds such rich fellowship with one another, right? So thank you so much for coming. And I say to all who have come and take the opportunity to fellowship this week with one another, Amen. Take the time, because there is something of God's refreshing for our life in proper fellowship and to be in the fellowship of faith and those who are running the same direction. And we're just glad we have with us this week Pastor Noel Ramos. Stand up, if you would. You got figured. Thanks, brother. You smooth. Yeah.
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Mr. Clean. Pastor.
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Mr. Clean. Mr. Clean. And then Ms. Wendy Preston, all the way from the UK. Stand up. We are so glad you're with us this week, and we look forward to what God has. Amen. And praise the Lord. We're glad you're here with us. And we're hungry, aren't we? It matters how we come. It does matter that we come. But that we come is going to be trumped by how we come. And so we've come hungry. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I woke up the other morning and just wrote out what came to me for tonight. So we'll just. Just endeavor to follow all that he has for us. And you use your faith, I'll use my faith, and the Word will work for us. How about that? Amen. How many of you know it's only the part of the Word that we agree with that will work for us. And everything that's not of the Word disagree with it too many times. We kind of try to get God. If I could say this, we wait for God to convince us of something, but we don't wait for him to convince us. We're easy to persuade when we know it's the Word. We are so persuadable of the word, right? Not gullible, but persuadable of the Word. And we agree with the Word. When symptoms come, we say, I don't agree with you. I don't agree with that. When light comes, say, I don't agree with you, because I've already agreed with the Word. And everything thing that the devil is trying to do once you agree, is to sway you out of your agreement. Amen.
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Every circumstance he sends, every opposition is to try to sway you out of your agreement. So if we'll come into agreement and refuse to leave it, no matter what we see, no matter what we hear, no matter what shows up against us, we say, I'm not leaving my agreement. How do we stay in agreement with our mouth and our actions. But we have to. When something comes that is not of him, we need to say, I disagree with that. And because I disagree, it's not coming in. Only that which I agree with is welcome in my life, in my home, in my family, in my business, in my body, in my mind. Amen. So really, it's just so simple. What do you want in your life? Agree with it. Well, do you not want disagree with it? Aren't we glad God made it that simple? Because really, that's the action of faith. That's the action of faith. Your faith is your agreement. Hallelujah. At different times, God will have us. If you pay attention to your own spiritual life, there are things that he will emphasize in a season of your life. Isn't that true? Whether it's a certain truth, whether it's a certain place, with him there will be ebb and flow to different things. Because I tell you, if we follow the Holy Ghost, life cannot be boring. If we ever get bored, it's because we're not moving with him anymore. Because there's one thing the Holy Ghost is not, and that's boring. And if our church services get boring, you need to probably have David Ellis come kick over some mic stands or something, right? Seriously. Because that is his number one thing is I will not have boring church. Praise God. But you gotta teach yourself to kick over any measure of boredom in your life. And can I tell you, ruts throw you into boredom. They throw you into boredom. And we refuse to be rudded because we're in a flow with the Holy Ghost. And there are times the Holy Ghost prepares us for seasons we've not yet stepped into, to places we've not yet stepped into. But he knows what's ahead. So if we will follow him today, we'll always be prepared for tomorrow. And in 2011, when the Holy Ghost said to me, all I want you doing is practicing peace, I just thought, you're just trying to bless my, my, my mental habits, right? And what did that mean? I knew exactly what he meant when he said, all I want you doing is practicing peace. If a thought didn't lead me to peace and joy, I resisted it. I would not turn it over in my thought life. I talked to it. I rejected it. And whether you know it or not, that's your assignment. But it's also your privilege. Because you choose your life. You choose your mind. Your mind is yours. And the devil wants to do your thinking for you, if you let him. But we don't let him. Because it's my mind and God gave it to me and I yield it to the mind of Christ. That's what's going to dominate what I entertain, right? And we make that choice. And so when the Spirit of God said to me, all I want you doing is practicing peace, I knew if the thought did not lead me to peace and joy, it's not mine. And no matter the pressure that comes with a thought to try to get you to accept it, because the devil can't make you take a thought, but he will try to pressure a thought upon you, you'll feel great pressure. That's okay. You push back with great pressure. Paul said, I press toward the mark. Why? Because there's a positive pressure that will keep out a negative pressure. I mean, just think of it in terms like this. You see these big trucks and they're hauling massive pieces of ground moving equipment. It's amazing. Massive, massive things. And they're all housed on rubber that's full of pressure, Just the pressure, positive pressure supporting all of that. That's what fullness of the Word, of the Spirit does. It's a positive pressure that you will not go flat under weight and opposition because you're already pressurized. And now these, the equipment today in our vehicles, they will tell you tire pressure is low. Check tire pressure. Well, you can look at the circumstances of your life and say, I need to check pressure, the inward pressure. Am I as full as I need to be of the Word and the Spirit? Right. Because as we make certain our pressure gauge is being addressed and then we are. No matter what comes, it will not flatten us. Right? And different seasons. So of our life, the Holy Ghost leads us and prepares us. And you can sense many times you should sense something coming, a change coming. Right. I'm talking about when you come to crossroads, some more larger, larger changes in life. You should sense that, but sensing it does not guarantee success in the change. You can sense it, but the reason we sense it is so we can be led by the spirit of how to make that transition and make that change. Okay, so that's. We have to take time to pray in the Spirit, spend time with God, so that what we sense, we navigate correctly. Because at a time of transition is when you are most susceptible to God and to the devil. A time of transition is like a door in a great wall. You can't walk through that wall, but you can walk through the door. But what's at the door? Many adversaries what is that? Transition into a further place, another room. And so the enemy tries to position himself to one of two things. To either block or hinder your entrance or go with you into the door and to trouble you in that room. So anyway, there are seasons. That's what I was. And the Holy Ghost will keep us prepared for what's ahead because he sees it all so clearly. He knows the mind of God for your life he knows the mind of God and he knows what we need to go through that accurately. Amen. And so he will lead us. And if we're sensitive, we'll always be in front of things. We're the head and not the tail. Where the head not look at a dog, the head always goes in the room before the tail. Unless you've got something that man engineered. I've seen a few dogs that man engineered and over engineered and they're missing things. And it's like oh man, messed with you too much. I apologize about that. Well, I love you. So you can get to heaven in Jesus fix you and you get put back. Right? But anyway, just a little observation and praise the Lord because rightly a dog is the head is always supposed to enter first, the tail is last. We are not the tail cleaning up after the devil. We are in front of anything he tries to do. If we're cleaning up and we didn't know something was coming, that's our fault. Because God has obligated himself to keep us in front, in front in front of things. And this is only by the Holy Ghost. Amen. You can't get in front by having a discussion with your staff, letting them have their input. You know that's not what puts you in front. A one year plan, a five year plan, a ten year plan does not put you in front. I'm not against plans, but I'm saying that's no substitute for heaven talking. Heaven giving guidance. Because we can create a plan that's so full of guidance. But that doesn't mean that it's heaven authored guidance. It's just and we anyway praise the Lord. And I love organization, but I want to keep it as loosely organized as possible so that it's free to turn on a dime. Free to turn on a dime anywhere. The Holy Ghost would redirect right order that facilitates the Holy Ghost instead of hinders the Holy Ghost order that caters to the spirit of God. Instead of getting in the way of the spirit of God. You have to do that with a ministry, a church, a life. And so if we follow The Holy Ghost, he'll always keep us in right position for seasons. We'll always transition those seasons efficiently, without stumbling and without turmoil. Now, if we don't navigate those seasons skillfully with the Holy Ghost, then what will happen? Circumstances will arise that will sometimes cause repositioning, and then there's struggle with that one. For example, how when Jesus said, you know, you'll be filled with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost will come up on you. And then what? You'll be empowered. You'll have power to what? To be witnesses? And then he goes and lists all the places. Well, they stopped at Jerusalem. Yeah. And so because they just stopped and stayed gathered in Jerusalem, then persecution arose against the church and scattered them. It wasn't God's plan, but because they didn't stay in the head, head position, God had to allow that persecution to arise and it scattered them. And so then they're going to go and carry this Gospel everywhere, one way or another. But it's always better to go when the Spirit is directing, because there's no struggle in that. Wouldn't it have been better that if there hadn't a rose persecution, if they would have gone, they could have bypassed that persecution. So that's why it's so important for us to learn to follow the Spirit. Ministers. I want to say something to you here. One of the things I so appreciate that dad Hagin was our spiritual father is he helped hardwire us about the importance of the leading of the Spirit by the Holy Ghost. His teaching was used to help hardwire the vitalness of that. And so just because someone knows how to follow the Spirit in their office does not mean they know how to follow him in daily life. And don't confuse the two, because there are many ministers who are very efficient and very accurate in the pulpit, but their lives are going wrong directions. Children are going wrong directions, marrying wrong people. They're having all these crises. What is that? The pulpit skill is not the Christian skill. And you are a Christian first. You're a Christian first, meaning you walk with God in your daily life just like everyone else. And that skill has to be learned. Because what happens when we step into a pulpit skill? That skill is coming with an anointing and a grace that comes upon. And we've had added enhancement. But don't think that enhancement is your skill. Your skill comes from your daily walk with God. I don't know why I said that. That's not my notes. None of that's in my. None of that's in my notes. So Anyway, he's helping us. Yes. Amen. Amen. Because the way to make sure you have an aptitude for the things of the spirit, Number one, be around it. You have to be around it. Number two, you have to spend time in the spirit. Does that make sense? You have to. But all of that comes from a broad foundation of the Word. Amen. A broad foundation. They must move together. You can't value one flow of God more than another because you need it all for balance. What if you say, I love the left front tire of my car, so I'm going to make sure that it's got proper air. I'm going to make sure that the hubcap is really eye catching. No, you better love every wheel. Because you need them all to progress without injury. Right. We need all. All. We need the Word, we need the Spirit. And even though God may use us in a particular way, we can't devalue any of it. Know that God will use you in a particular way for your part, but we never devalue any of it and treat it as unimportant and not needed. Amen. And so in saying the Holy Ghost will keep us in front the way you're going to become sensitive to the Holy Ghost, Number one, feeding on the Word. Because the Holy Ghost is only interested in working with one thing, the Word. He's not interested in working in anything else but the Word. Amen. And there was an angelic being in one age that decided he was going to work apart from the Word. And he was dismissed with pomp and circumstance. And love rose up and said, because angels can only go by what God says. And Lucifer decided he would act apart from something God said. And look what happened one time. And so anyway, the Holy Ghost is not a violator of God. He is only interested in what God says. That's us. We're interested in what God says. And we don't exalt anything above what God says. If we worry, we have to forget God's Word. If we fear, we have to forget. We have to lay aside God's Word to fear. If we're depressed, we had to lay aside the Word to yield to that. Does the pressure for it come? Yes. But we don't agree with it. Remember what I said? We agree with the Word. So you have to spend time in the Word, but then take time to pray in the Holy Spirit. Because praying in other tongues, speaking in other tongues, makes your spirit sensitive to the Holy Spirit. And when your spirit is sensitive to the Holy Spirit, you develop an aptitude to recognize when the spirit of God is saying something to your spirit. And when people are constantly going wrong directions, making wrong decisions, marrying wrong people. Why is that? The Holy Ghost knows the future. He knows that although they say sweet words today, he knows what's in their heart ten years from now. And he will protect you. Now that doesn't mean that everyone who is right will stay right. Adam didn't. He started out right and went wrong by choice. So just because someone gets off doesn't mean we missed it. And just because Adam went off didn't mean God missed it. God's the one that put him there, but God's also the one that removed him. So it's not just enough to be right, we have to stay right. We can be in the right position, be in the right church, be in the right thing that God has for us, and do the wrong thing in the right place and have to leave the right place. But we're not that. That's not us. Because we see these things in the Word so that we know to stay away from that right. But we have to spend time in fellowship with God. And one of the best ways is praying in the Spirit because it makes your spirit sensitive to the one who speaks God's mind to you. Amen. And if people don't recognize it, they don't have, they haven't developed. I call it a spiritual aptitude. You know, you can just be around some people and you can go, I can't even have that conversation with some people. Just like a senior in college cannot go home to his fourth grade brother and talk calculus with him. He just can't. There's not an aptitude to even grab it. Well, we need to not only love the Word, we need to have an aptitude that our Spirit recognizes the Holy Spirit. Because it's critical not just in our own life, our daily life, but it's critical to our part in the body of Christ, but it's also critical to those who need him. Because our prayer life is going to affect those who need him. Amen. So to say this, that that season, seasons of your life, the Holy Ghost will direct you to emphasize certain things. And there will be an emphasis of prayer in certain seasons, even more than a previous season. Not to say there's we ever stop praying, but sometimes there is a real acceleration of that and we see sense that we have to take extra time. Jesus did that at times he went out as he was wont to do. The King James says. The amplified says, as was his habit Every morning. But that was for his walk with God. But then there were other times he would go apart for a season because of what was coming. And when he would. He would see the future, he would know the unveiling of the plan would happen more clearly. And so there are seasons when you'll see ebb and flow in your prayer life. That's what I'm trying to end up getting to. There's ebbs and flows. Don't get rutted in any of it. And make a law in one of a season and say that every season has to look like that every season needs to look like how the Spirit is leading you in that season. That's good. Amen. Does that make sense? That's not saying to diminish anything, but it's saying to make sure you're no. What he's emphasizing. I mean, even revivals are that way. God is emphasizing a particular truth in a revival. Right. And so God moves that way based on what you're going to need of where he's taking you, you see. And so in those times, I remember sensing some things, but I'm. And I'm going to go. I'm going to reach back years ago, I'm going to reach back into my late 20s and I began sensing this something large coming. I didn't know it was pastoring and starting this church, but I spent hours praying. But the thing was that the devil. And I'll just tell you where I was, the devil got in with fear on that. The fear of missing God. He will use that when someone is so genuinely sincere toward the plan of God. The devil will take that sincerity, that hunger, and he will try to trouble you with a fear of doing it wrong. Missing God, going the wrong direction, marrying wrong. All these things of fear of failure at some point. And so I sensed God. Let me back up a little bit. God said something to me just a few years ago. He told me to do something and I obeyed him. You've heard me talk about someone contacted me and asked me to loan them, which I knew it would not be a loan. And I'd rather not think of it as a loan so that I don't have anything tied to it. You know, there's no ill will tied to it. But they. And they intended it to be alone in all sincerity. But I knew they wouldn't be able to. It wouldn't just be able to be alone. I'd helped them once before and they asked me again. And I just had it in mind. Just. I thought I'M not going to do that again. But the spirit of God said, I want you to do it. And I said, okay, if you want me to do it. And he said, they had enough faith to call you and I'll honor that measure of faith. Isn't that interesting? He said, but you have enough faith to depend on me financially. And so I said, I see that. And I was at Southwest Believers several years ago when this happened. They contacted me while I'm sitting in one of those five a day meetings. I have to do something, some business sometime. Because you're there for 26 services in six days. In case you've never been to all of them. I have. And right. We are endurers. We endure to the end. But you know, what makes me endure is dad Hagin said, when you're part of a meeting, be part of it. Yeah, that's right. He said, you hurt the flow of a meeting. When people come and go, come and go, it's very difficult, difficult to build. And he taught us, when you're part, when God deals with you, be part of it. Be there. So I don't know if dad Hagen meant 26 services, but I took him literal. So I'm sitting there, I'm sitting there and aren't we glad for a man who will feed us that way, you know, so I'm sitting there, I've got to conduct a little bit of business in the midst of all this. And I get this contact. And so I contact my Francine, wherever she's at, Financial Gal, and I say, wire a certain, wire this money to these people. And after I did that, the devil said. The devil said, and he was right in one aspect. You have just put yourself in a very bad financial situation position by doing that. Because that put me at the lowest I had been. So he knew that his calculator's not broken. He will calculate on you all day, but you break it. And so he said, you have just put yourself in a very bad financial spot giving that money. And I answered, he devil, I never put myself in a bad financial spot. Obeying God, you answer it, you answer it, you answer it. And he said it again. And I answered again. And he said it again. And I answered again for 30 minutes. This is going back and forth. Know this, that if you give an answer and it doesn't put him on the run, you need further revelation. You need further revelation. Now you say, how do you know that? Because remember when Jesus went to minister with the madman of Gadara and it says that he asked him, he asked, what's your name? My name is Legion, for we are many. Which means anywhere from 2 to 2000. Which gives you an idea. It's closer to 2000 because there were 2000 swine feeding, and they ran off the edge of the cliff and were drowned in the water. But know this, if a man's spirit can hold 2000 demons, how much more of God can he house? Yes. Amen. Right. Think of it. And so. So Jesus said, what is your name? And that demon spoke through that man and said, my name is Legion, for we are many. And it said, for he had said, come out. Notice he said, come out. And he didn't. Jesus needed further revelation to deal with that. So he got further revelation. No doubt the Spirit of God said, you got to know his name and his number. Because Jesus said that to dad Hagin in a vision. He said, sometimes to deal with certain demons, you have to know their name and number. He came up against that and he told it to come out, and it didn't. And then it said, because then he asked his name, it said, because he had said, come out. You understand that? So what did Jesus need? Further revelation. If you're resisting and nothing is changing, you need further revelation. Because God's taking you into more. And depending on what you're dealing with, you can't just get into the pocket of your past and start pulling out a rabbit foot. Well, this worked in the past. No, you better walk in today's revelation. Today's revelation, you understand? So that's why we have to be full of the Holy Ghost, because we're going to need further revelation to deal with things. We're not to be afraid of those. But because I sensed in my spirit something coming. I didn't know what it was, but let me finish this. I've got so many stories going. And so I'm sitting at southwest, and for 30 minutes I'm answering the devil, and I'm answering him based on the Word, but he just keeps coming back, keeps coming back. And so God said to me, he gave me further revelation. He said, if you would live in my presence, you wouldn't even have to listen to that. What was it? I was too accessible. I was hearing too much the enemy. Because I was too low. What? In my attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now if you will go. If you see Psalm chapter 91 in verse 8, the Amplified, it says, somebody pull that up for me real quick. Amplified Psalm 91, verse 8. Give me the exact wording because I want. It says, a thousand shall Fall at thy side and 10,000 at thy right hand. But I want the exact word wording of the amplified. Anybody have that? Anybody got the Amplified? Okay, this is what it says in verse eight, Amplified Classic. Let me go back to verse seven. A thousand may fall at your side, Ten thousand at your right hand. What's that mean? You're in the midst of something opposed. There's great something happening in proximity of you. And then it says, verse 8. Only a spectator shall you be yourself, inaccessible, in the secret place of the Most High. God said that's where you're supposed to be inaccessible. And he said that your problem, you're on a low level, answering and answering and answering and answering and answering because you've not taken your place. And when I sense too much mental opposition, I don't start rebuking the devil, I start repenting for being too low, too accessible. God forgive me, I'm too accessible because this is not to occupy my attention. I'm above it. And my problem is that I was too low in my attention. My attention was so aware of opposition that there is such a place of development that we don't even notice. Does that mean he leaves us alone? No, it means we are inaccessible. I'm inaccessible. And you can't just confess that you take that place. It's a place you live. You can't confess your way into that. It goes back to verse one. Yeah, it's verse one, verse two, that verse eight belongs to. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge, my fortress, my God. In him will I trust. That's how you abide in verse one. You say that, and that holds you to the place of verse one. Amen. I will say of the Lord, you are my refuge, you are my fortress, you are my God, and you will I trust. Well, then, when opposition comes, we say, he is my refuge, he is my fortress. That's how you hold yourself in verse one, by saying verse two. But you can't have verse eight if you're not living in verse one. You're not abiding. Amen. And so, anyway, so what was happening is that. And then God said to me, he said, you, problem is you're too low, you're too accessible. You should not. He said, if you would just live in the place that I provided for you, you would not even have to listen to that. And he said. Then he said this, there are things I'm going To say to you in the future that the devil's going to try to use to trouble you with. Listen to that. There are things I'm going to say to you in the future that the devil's going to try to use to trouble you with. Pastor Debbie, tell me again what God said to you. That there were things he wanted to show you but he couldn't. That I must be enlarged. He said, she must be enlarged. Because if he were to tell me that the future, I would rebuke it as the devil. How many times people have had something sown their heart go, I can't do that. The devil's using that. God showed it and the devil's using it. When you don't agree. Not me. I could never. Devil's using your thinking. Has God ever given you the thought, I can never. I can't do that. No, in Christ I can do all things. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. See, you have to give yourself a phrase agreeing with the Word. And if you don't, the devil will give you disagreement. What you don't agree with, disagreement is all that's left for you. So what I'm saying is, at times of transition, God needs us to come up to some things so that what he said with Pastor Debbie, that we don't let the devil use that to trouble us with it. Now, see, if God says, I want you to do this, and you say, oh, that can't be God. I could never do that. The devil's troubling you. That's exactly right. He took what God said and is troubling you. And if you don't deal with that, it'll become a troubling that you find very difficult to deal with. One time Jesus appeared to dad Hagin and he said this to him. He said, in the first phase of your ministry, you were faithful. He said, in the second phase, you were unfaithful. He said, now you're getting ready to go into the third phase. And then he said, listen to what he called unfaithful. In the second phase of ministry, he said, because I'd speak to you and you doubted it was me. And Jesus called that unfaithful. You doubted it was me. And Jesus said, that was unfaithful. Wow. We think, well, I'm just being humble by saying, oh, he could never use me that way. No, that's being unfaithful because you're disagreeing with what he said. And that's what the devil does. He disagrees with the Word. We are not of that rank. And we're not training ourselves in disagreement with God. Amen. We're training ourselves in total agreement with God. Even agree from your spirit, even if your head can't figure it out. I agree with my spirit. I agree with my spirit. And if you'll agree from your spirit, because there are people who agree with their head and they won't do it. But you agree with your spirit and it'll change your head and you'll step past what your head tells you to agree to follow that agreement of your spirit. You don't have to understand everything to agree with God and move with Him. Amen. Your mind is to be your servant. And if you're not going to obey until you figure it out, you're letting your mind be your master. Keep your spirit as master. So God said to me that day, he said, there are things that I'm going to say to you in the future. And he said, the devil will want to try to trouble you with those things. I tell you. So notice this. The devil will take something good and try to trouble you with it. What about this? You're called to something and people say, I don't want to do that. I want to. I'm afraid of getting up in front of people. I can't preach. I can't do this. Yeah, he's troubling you with what God said. Amen. And it can cost people their lives because if they persist in their disagreement with what God says. Well, I'm saying that to say this, that when your heart is sincere and you want to obey God, the devil will try to trouble you in your sincerity and make you fearful of missing him because you want to obey him so much. Does that make sense? Did I say it the right way? Am I just describing me or anybody else that I've ever dealt with this because we're sincere in our love and honor for God and the devil wants to trouble us in our sincerity. And so I was sensing back in my 20s, my late 20s, something. A change coming. And there was a. There was a knowing, I've got to pray. It's going to take some real season of giving myself to prayer. But then the devil got in on that. You better pray. You better pray. You better pray. See? Fear. Fear of not fulfilling. You better pray. And then it came to the point where I was driven instead of being led. Anybody know what I'm talking about? See, what's he doing? He's using fear to try to energize your obedience. Then it's not obedience because it's not in love. If it's not love, it's not the word, no matter how much it's the same words used. What's Ephesians 4? Around verse 15. Speaking the truth in love may grow up speaking the truth in love. Preachers can speak the truth, but if it's not in love, it's not the truth anymore. I don't care if it's the exact same words. If it's not spoken in love, it's not representing truth. It's not the truth anymore because you put a threat on it, a fear in it, Job offering, sacrifice, speaking truth words from a place of fear. And it wasn't the truth anymore. And the devil used that fear to dismantle his life for a season. What was it? His sincerity and love for God. The devil's distorted that and made him fearful in trying to make the plan of God come to pass in his family. You understand? So we have to. If it's not peaceful, we've left the flow of the spirit. Even though it's something the spirit directed us to do, the devil wants us to obey without it being in the flow of the spirit. Is that the way to say it? The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but it's righteousness. Look at this peace and joy. It's not. Well, you know, I told God I'd give, you know, a certain amount of money to my church and I got to believe God and I told them I had by a certain time. And then they get into, oh, pressure. No, no, the Holy Ghost is not in that drop, that drop that flow and pick up the peace and joy from. Father, it is a joy to believe you. That pledge I made to my church, you led me to do it and you're supplying it. And I'm just going to enjoy that process and not feel like it's a pressure I got to meet and see what I'm saying. How the devil takes and twists our obedience and tries to trouble us in our obedience. How many times I have seen preachers and the spirit of God would put some. They've talked to me about it, they've asked me about this. They have something in their heart and for some reason they didn't act on it in a service or something. And then they left the service and the devil just troubled Trouble. Trouble. I said, stop that. You're not the Savior. There you go. If you miss God, God's got somebody beside you. Your name is not spelled J, E S U S. But See, then they'll be trouble with it. And this is why Smith Wigglesworth said. He said, I leave my sermons in the pulpit. Don't go home and beat yourself up with it because the devil wants to take your obedience and beat you up with it. I'm way off task, I'm way off here. But we trust that things are helping us. Now you say, well, we're trying to get on prayer. Me too, but I'm going back and telling some of the. Some of the spiritual laboratory work I've had to do. You know, you mix this and that didn't work. You mixed that, got an explosion there. Didn't like that, you know, I'm gonna put that down. That thing blew up the beakers, you know. But I fear got in of not obeying God. And so my prayer life became driven instead of led. I have to pray a certain amount of time. And the devil will say, you got to put this, you know, this clock. And God may. God may give you a goal, but it's not a law your own spirit may give you. I'm going to make this. But don't turn into law, because the devil loves law. And so I would pray. And I was spending hours, which was fine. But even though there was a bit of a troubling due to my ignorance, there was still development, there was still enlargement happening, you know. And so one day, after about a year and a half of hours a day, I remember where I was sitting on the house that was on the front of the magazine. We were in that house. I was sitting on the front porch in a chair and I was just studying and praying. And God said, I'm not trying because I was spending hours a day praying in tongues, which is. It's right to pray in tongues. But he says, I'm not trying to lead you into time praying in tongues. I'm trying to lead you. No, let me say this. I'm not trying to lead you in times of praying in the Spirit. I'm trying to lead you into a life in the Spirit. And I relegated it to time I spent praying in tongues. And I was thinking that that's what he was trying to lead me in. He was trying to lead me into a whole flow. That life was in the Spirit, not just prayer in the spirit. Get that? But praying in the spirit will help facilitate a life in the Spirit. It's part of it, but it's not the life in the Spirit. There are people who pray in the Spirit and they don't know anything about Life in the spirit. Because life in the spirit means no more wrong directions. Life in the Spirit means answers. Life in the spirit means clarity. Life in the spirit means peace and joy. Because the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. That is the flow of the Holy Ghost. And if you leave that flow, you have stepped out of the flow of the Holy Ghost. Even though you pray, people can pray in tongues. We've had sometimes in years past, some students that would come and they were troubled by their minds. Were troubled. What was that? The devil's troubling them because he knows that there's a season of preparation and training they're getting ready for and the devil tries to trouble their minds. And we would tell them at that time, you need to not only pray in the spirit. And we would talk, some would spend a long time praying in the spirit. They're trying to get past that you don't deal with devils praying in the spirit. And that we'd say, quit praying in the spirit. You need to spend more time in the word. Not to say, don't pray in the spirit, but you're unbalanced. And because you don't know enough of the word, the devil's in energizing that imbalance. And so anyway, so this is where I never heard these things. Nobody ever taught, you know, you got to, you got to work out your own salvation. You've got to get it in here. Nobody can make these things revelation for you. They can preach their revelation, but that doesn't make it yours just because you heard theirs. So this is what I, I've gotten to. I don't know, I've been up here, what, 45 minutes or an hour? I don't know. And I've gotten to the first thing that God said to me the other day when I woke up. And he said the most effective prayer life flows from someone walking in the spirit. Not just praying in the spirit, walking in the spirit. A spirit led life. An effective prayer comes out of life, life in the spirit. So if we want to develop our prayers, prayer life, we have to develop our life in the spirit. Yeah. If you'll remember dad hagin talking about when Jesus appeared to him and told him about the time he appeared to his mother, Remember she was pregnant with him. She was physically failing. She decided, I'll go to my parents, I'll swallow my pride. I'll go to my parents, ask for their help. She's on the way to their house. And on the way to the house said she hears the wind blow, but there's not a leaf on a tree blowing. She hears it. And she looks up and there's a cloud descending. And Jesus is standing on this cloud descending to her. And he starts speaking to her. And he says, fear not, the child shall be born. And he begins talking about this child she's carrying. And it frightened her so much that he said other things. But he said, you know, he'll be a forerunner to the coming of Jesus. And then he said, call his name, John. Well, she didn't hear that because she took off running. She was so frightened by what she was seeing, so she didn't hear the name. Well, later, dad Hagin had this visitation from Jesus. And Jesus said, just like I said to your mother. Well, see, she never told him. Jesus was the first one to tell Brother Hagin. And he told what had happened that day with his mother. And he said this. He said, and when Brother Hagin asked his mother about it, she said, yes. And she said, tell me, what was the name? I ran off and missed it. I didn't hear the name. It wasn't disobedience. She named him Ken. She didn't hear it. And so anyway, so Brother Hagin, in this visitation with Jesus, Jesus said, just as I spoke to your mother, he was, your name was to be John because you were forerunner. And Phil Halverson would say to dad Hagin, he says, dad, he said, I don't understand something. He says, when I pray in the spirit over some things and English words come out, he said, it sounds to me like I'm describing your ministry, but I keep calling John. Heaven calls him John, evidently. Or that's the way he prayed out. Dad Hagin is John. But anyway, and that's not to be weird, you know, that's just to show the interesting things of the dealings of God. And so anyway, so Jesus said, you, mother did not name you what I told her to. But listen to this. He said, that's not the important thing. The important thing is that you minister in the power of the spirit. Now listen to that. Now I say this. If we're to minister in the power of the spirit, how can you do that unless you live in the power of the Spirit? Because God doesn't want your ministry to be something different than your life. He doesn't want your ministry to have something that your life lacks. So what is this? If we want to effectively minister in the power of the spirit, let's learn to live every day in the power of the spirit. And then that encompasses our Prayer life. It encompasses every single arena of our life. Because this is what God has for all of us, minister and layman. Life in the Spirit. Because life in the Spirit means an accurate life. A life that's not wandering, a life that's not going the wrong direction. It's a life that's staying on course is life in the Spirit. Amen. So let me see, because the time's sake, I'm going to have to probably jump. Go with me to John chapter 14. John chapter 14, verse 10. John 14:10. And I'm going to read out the Amplified Classics. So if you have the capability of bringing that up, you may want to do that. Now. I am so grateful that God has had me ministering on in Christ in our daily broadcast. I am so thankful. It's helped me as much, I hope. More than anything, I hope it's helped others, but I know it's helped me. And in this, in John 14:10, the Amplified classic, Jesus makes this statement. Do you not believe. Why did he say that? Because they didn't. They didn't believe this. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? What I am telling you, I do not say on my own authority and of my own account. But the Father who lives continually in me, in me, does his works, his own miracles, deeds of power. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me. Or else believe me for the very works sake, if you cannot trust me, at least these works that I do in my Father's name convince you. Now know this. He starts talking about the Father. I'm in the Father, the Father's in me. The words that I speak are his words. And then the works that are done, he does the works. So what we see, the divine order, Union number one is union. He's talking about union. Number two, the union finds its way to his mouth. He speaks based on union. And then when he speaks based on union, God gets in his words and performs. And miracles come because he knows his union. It's all back to the union. This is the main statement. I am in the Father and the Father is in me. He's confessing that you need to confess it. When you pray, you pray from a place of understanding. Union. I am one with the Father, the Father's one with me. And it's his idea. It's not me trying to earned something. It was his doing. This is not something we achieve, it's something we receive. He's already done it. I am in the Father. The Father's in me. Jesus confessed that if you will say those words before you pray, you have no problem believing he hears you. That's the truth. Hallelujah. Thank you, Pastor Debbie. Can you hand me my iPad and my glasses out of there, out of my purse, please. I want to read you something. Yes, yes, that's my problem. Thank you, love. So again, Jesus said, do you not believe that I am in the Father? What made those religious leaders so mad that calling God his Father? What's the devil after trying to break down your understanding of union? Because if you ever get the revelation of union, nothing's outside of your words. This is about who I'm one with. This is what all the redemption is about. Yes, we escape hell. Thank God for that. Yes, we're cleansed from sin. Yes. But we had to be cleansed for one reason, so we could be one. That's all this is all this about. So if you are approach your prayer life based on, I am one with the Father, he is one with me, you're going to speak differently when that dawns on your spirit, even in prayer, you're not going to try to earn something, coerce God into something, talk him into something, because he's already put it in you through himself. So Jesus was saying union, then the speaking about that union governs my words. My words are governed by union with him. And then because my words are in union with him, then he performs them. And that's why you got miracles. Amen. People trying to get healing without understanding, they're already one with the healer. They've separated it in their thinking. When it's all one, it's all one. You are one with Him. Amen. Praise. Praise the Lord. And then he goes on and he says this. Verse 12, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in me, he himself will be able to do the things that I do. Ah. And he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. He went to the Father with His blood. Right. And he was the reason we're one. Everything of your life needs to come out of this. I'm one with the Father. The Father is one with me. Amen. I want to read you something here. You'll give me a moment here and let me draw it up. And I should have cleaned my iPad screen, which I never do because it's got lotion all over it. Praise the Lord. Ladies. Kenyon. Ew kenyon new creation realities. When Jesus had finished his work, he sat down at the right hand of majesty on high. He had finished his work. His work was worked for us, not for himself. He entered into his rest. And in Hebrews 4. Three, we who have believed do enter into that rest. And in Hebrews 4:11, let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest. Notice it says labor to enter into rest. It doesn't say labor to enter into faith. Why, it's easy to get faith. How do you get faith? Feed on the Word. Faith comes, but you can have something of the Word in you and not know how to rest. So that is the rest of faith. It is the end of worry and struggle. You no longer seek for faith or power. You have become one with him. You have come to appreciate the work he did for you, the work the Holy Spirit through the Word has done in you. You have come to know that you are what he says you are in Him. You know that you are a new creation. See, you need to say these things. I know I am. I can't figure it out. I don't have figure it out. I just know it. Am I knower. You know you have passed from death unto life. You know that you have the very life and nature of the Father in you. You know that as he is now at the right hand of the Father, you are down here on. You know that you are a part of the body, a member of it. You know that you are raised together with Him. You know that no matter what may come to your life, you are more than a conqueror. These are facts that you know. You now enter into his rest, the rest that he purchased for you the rest of your redemption. You have reached the end of the worry route. You are now so completely identified with him, so utterly one with him, that the Father looks upon you as he looks upon his first begotten. And because of that peace that passes all understanding fills your very being. You remember Philippians 4, 6, 7. We ought to become thorough masters of that Scripture which. What is that? And the Amplified says, don't be anxious for anything. Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything. Why? Because of who you're one with. So he said, Philippians 4, 6, 7. You ought to become thorough masters of that Scripture. And that Scripture should become our master. Notice that it says in nothing, be anxious that. That's the King. James. You see, you are in a place of rest. You are there. You are there. You are there. Now function like you're there. Think like you're there. Speak like you're there. Pray like you're there. Approach obstacles like you're there, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known unto God. That's after you're not anxious. Why I like this? Why are you full of thanksgiving? Why is your heart filled with peace and rest? Why are you so joyful? Because you know that whatsoever you ask the Father, in the name of Jesus, he will give it you. And he says, call unto Me, and I will show you great and mighty things which Thou knowest not. Why are we so untroubled? Because he hears me. I started my book on prayer. I think I changed the wording on the second printing, for I didn't want to be too off putting. But the first edition was, I don't believe in prayer. That was the first sentence of my prayer book. I don't believe in prayer. I believe in the God who hears and answers prayer. It's not the act of praying. It's that if God didn't hear, all your praying would mean nothing. Because false religions pray they will spend their whole lives praying. It's not the act of praying. It's that God hears. You have to know. God hears. Whatsoever we ask, we know we have of him because we know he hears us. Therefore, we know we have. We know he hears us. We know we have. We know he hears us. We know we have. Hallelujah. We know he hears us. We know we have. And the devil is constantly trying to bring you out of that awareness. But Jesus said, believe me, I am in the Father. It's all about not breaking union. In your thought life, don't see yourself as separate. You are one with him, he is one with you. And that was his doing. You didn't have to twist his arm or earn it, but because you are. And if you live that way, it dictates your life. And it changes everything about our life. And if we're void of this understanding, I am one with the Father, he is one with me. You're going to really struggle in your prayer life. I love something when I was reading one of Oral Roberts older books and he said he was up in the prayer tower not long after it was built and they had brought him all the prayer requests of his partners. And he said such heartbreaking things in those letters. All the difficulties, the hardship, the extreme, extreme situations. And he said, I'm just reading them. It's fine to read them as long as you're not coming under them. And he said, so I was praying so hard because the situations are so. Sometimes so tragic. And he said, so I'm praying so hard for my partners. And he said God spoke and said, don't pray hard, pray easy. I'm the one that does the work. Don't believe hard, believe easy. It's easy. When does it turn hard? When we think we're doing this without him. If we're struggling, it's because we've left him out in the way we're processing. This is if I'm going to fulfill this call with him, not apart from him. With him, he is going to do it through me. This business is going to succeed because he's doing the work through me. And I'm just yielding and responding. But if I don't know the life of the spirit, I'm going to flip back to myself and I'm going to try my own effort to make it so. Know this. Life in the spirit turns every arena into a success. Not just your prayer life. Life in the spirit. If you want to have an effective prayer life, focus on life in the spirit. Amen. Now, I'll give you. Then I'll close with this and then we'll spend some time praying. How about that? I don't need that. I want to read to you. You know the steps? Dad Hagin gave them to us. They came from Kenyon. Dad Hagin got these steps from Kenyon. How to develop your spirit. Because you have a lifelong profession in two directions. Number one, develop your spirit. For the rest of your life you'll be doing that. Number two, renewing your mind. You never reach the end of either one of those, not on this earth. That's your constant ongoing life, profession. And what a joy it's a delight to do. It's not a hardship. It is a complete delight. So to develop your spirit, you have to develop your spirit to learn to live in the spirit. And so Kenyon gave these four steps. Dad Hagin picked them up and I don't know if Sister Pat Harrison is watching tonight, but I'm going to quote her on some stuff. And, and so Sister Pat, hope you're watching. If not, watch it later. We know you're two hours later, it's 11 o' clock where you're at. But anyway, I'm going to rob from you, but I am giving you credit. So Kenyon gave these steps. Dad Hagin repeated them, to develop your spirit. Number one, meditate on the word. Number two, practice the word Number three, give the word first place. Number four, instantly obey. What's that mean? Respond to the voice of your spirit. Respond. Notice three of Those four steps were based on the Word. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is only interested in working with the Word if you're void of the Word. Now let me tell you this, what happened with me when I was spending long time prayer, I started going into rooms and places and I started knowing things, recognizing things, but not knowing how to handle it. Once you pray in the spirit, the further you go in the Spirit, you'll be more sensitive to God, you'll become more sensitive to that realm, but you'll also become more sensitive to evil spirits. And if you don't have a good foundation of word, you will call something the Devil, says the Holy Ghost. I know of a well known world known preacher and he had a son in law that went on a long fast. Well, why you need to know why don't just go on one, know what your goal is and while. And it doesn't have to be too terribly long. I mean it only took Jesus three days to redeem mankind. Does it take you longer than three days to hear anyway? Okay, just a nugget. Don't go weird. That's what I'm saying. Don't become unsound. You're not earning something from a place that's already yours. But yes, there is that thing of putting the flesh down so that you're more sensitive to your spirit life. I understand that. But don't get unsound in that. Well, this young man went on some long fasts, but he didn't have the foundation of the Word under him. And while he was in that place of hearing, he heard the devil say, you married the wrong one. And he came out of that fast and divorced the pastor's daughter. Why? Because everything you hear might be spectacular. It might be, it might sound supernatural. But if you don't have the Word, you are in a place you got no business being in. Just because you can go there doesn't mean you should. Just because you can go into your neighbor's house doesn't mean you should. And just because you can go into further places of the spirit doesn't mean you should or you will become unsafe. And then you'll start affecting people. And so God said to me, he said, I started seeing some things and knowing some things if I didn't know how to handle them. And God told me back out of that place, he said, you're troubled in that place because there were evil spirits. You're troubled in that place because you don't have the Word, the skill and the Word to be in that place. So I Backed out. And once it was maybe a year, year and a half before he said, now you can go back in if you want. But once I stepped out, I saw the whole view. When I was in that place, I wasn't seeing accurately. It was. Everything was up close and I couldn't see the broad picture. But when I stepped out, then I go, oh, that's what that was. And that's what that was. And that's what that was. What am I saying? Don't go places of prayer. You haven't gone with skill in the word yet. Skill in the word, not knowing the word, you're skillfully living it. If you're troubled by something in your prayer, when you pray, you're beyond your skill level. And then God said to me, because I don't know if I'll have time to the rest of this week, God said to me, I said, God, when I was in those places, I did not know how to handle what I was seeing. I said, talk to me about that. And he said it. Thankfully. He said it so simply to me. He said those things when you were in the praying long time in the spirit. He said the room showed you things. Not my spirit, the room showed it to you. He said, just like you can walk into someone's house and you can say, oh, I haven't been in this room before. And your spouse say, well, what was in that room? Oh, they had, you know, they had a large screen tv, they had a pool table. And it wasn't that you wandered there. Maybe even the owner of the house didn't even invite you into that room. But you walked in and the owner wasn't telling you what was in the room. The room showed. And you can go in places and the room will show. You'll see things, you'll hear things that belong to the room. But it's not necessarily God showing you. The room showed you. And he said, when the spirit shows you, it's a gift of the spirit, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discerning of spirits. He said, now if the room showed it to you, I'm not telling you to minister it because the room showed it to you, but if it came by word of knowledge, by gift of the spirit, now you're free to minister it because the spirit gave it to you. You understand that? I hope I'm not confusing people, because you can. This is why dad Hagin would say this. He would say 90% of the people that would stand in front of me in healing lines, he said, I could tell you what was the matter with them and how they got that way? Even if the doctors did not know the diagnosis, I knew it. And what was it that wasn't the Holy Ghost showing him? That was the room he was occupying showing him. And he did not minister that to every. He didn't even. He didn't tell the people why. He said, I don't have time. Well, the Holy Ghost wasn't showing him that the room he was in. He saw it in that room he saw. Does that make sense to you? So just because you see something in prayer doesn't mean God's telling to go tell it to the pastor, because God's not leading the church or the pastor through you. And you can get into some prayer. People can get into a room and the room will show them things. And they better clamp their mouth because if the room showed it, they're not authorized to tell it. Because the Holy Ghost has to lead us and not the room leading us. And that's why I said, God, I'm seeing and knowing things, but I don't know how to handle them. He said, then it's the room that showed you. Because when the spirit shows you, you know how to do it. So just because you know it, just because you've seen it, just because you saw it and heard it in prayer does not mean that you are. You are authorized to do anything with it. Yes. Amen. Just because I walk into a room, oh, they got a better TV than mine. I can't haul it off just because I saw it. I can't do anything with it. It's not my room. It's not my room. What makes it my room to function in the Holy Ghost, then he will say things. But just because the room showed you, you understand that. So I wanted to say that before I went on to this. So how you do develop our spirits? Notice the three things were the word first, the word, word, word. Then the fourth thing. Obey the voice of your spirit. Now, somebody asked Smith Wigglesworth, a Bible school student, how did you become so skillful in the things of the spirit? He said, when I sensed the prompting of the spirit, I immediately obeyed him and I became quicker at it. Now, if you're going to immediately go to your mind, then you. You're giving the devil an opportunity to trouble you and misdefine what you're picking up. So I want to just say quickly what Sister Pat said about each of these four things. Can I read it to you? If nothing else, we get. If even if you can't write it all down. We get it recorded. So Sister Pat said this regarding meditating the Word. We cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation of the Word. We can't deal wisely in the affairs of life without meditating on the Word and doing it. When you meditate the Word, you look at every word of God and you talk to him about His Word. Meditation is the Word and prayer working together. Why? Because you're talking to God about His Word. Meditation is you talking to God about His Word. Talk to God about. When you meditate in the Word day and night, you will keep it in your mouth. You look at it, speak it, think it so that you can do it so. And then of course, that would be what, Joshua 1:8, right? Then the next, the next statement. Doers of the Word practice the Word. That's the second step of developing the Spirit. Sister Pat said this. Don't be a hearer only, but a doer. Or you deceive. Deceive yourself. Why do we have so many deceived Christians? Because they aren't doers of the Word. If you're having a struggle with your faith and with fear, check up on your love. Walk for faith works by love. Study the epistles because that helps you to know what to do. Those who are known for their spiritual lives just kept practicing. Number three, Give the Word first place. Sister Patrick, God is to be first in all your life. Always ask him first. Putting God last will lead you down a trail of tears. But to put God first will lead you down the path of life and health. Amen. And then number four. Instantly obey the voice of your human spirit. Your spirit has a voice. Your spirit has no problem believing what God says because you have a brain renewed spirit. It's the unrenewed mind that has a problem with what God says. So know this. If you're struggling mentally about something God says, that's your unrenewed mind getting in the way. In these last days, if you don't learn to follow your spirit, you will be deceived. The Holy Spirit is the voice of God speaking to us. So these last days, every age and every day, it has been critical that we know the leading of God. But especially in last days when there are unleashed, I think demons that have been held in reserve to be unleashed on the church in last days. And anyway, I could say a lot there, but I won't. Maybe some Thursday night. We'll see. Yes, yes, Father. Yeah, yeah, I'll have to keep my real amen ers on the front row. If I go that way because I believe that what's going on today with so much of the church heightened with social and political issues is trying to deceive the church away from the Great Commission. And they're being deceived thinking that they're fulfilling the cause of God and they're being deluded in their commission and they're facing unnecessary hardship because they're touching into arena God didn't tell them to touch into. I said they're facing unnecessary hardship, their churches and their families because they're touching into something God did not empower them to touch into. Because if you will stay in your fivefold office, you will trump. You will trump what the social arena is trying to do. Amen. Know this. A political office is so much lower than a fivefold. So much lower. Because unrenewed and unsaved men can occupy it. Absolutely. But an unsaved and unrenewed man cannot occupy a five fold ministry office. And if they become that, they will be expelled. Don't fall into all the popular talk. We stay. Keep your eye on the prize. Keep your eye on the prize. The Great Commission is our assignment. All the other is nothing but a distraction to the church. Aren't we interested in what's going on in the earth from our position at the right hand of the Father? And know this. Every elected official has temporary authority. Every believer is seated with Christ and our authority is eternal. You have an elected authority. We have an eternal authority. And that's higher than elected authority. Why? Why would we abandon our eternal authority to come occupy an elected authority seat? And don't you dare leave your church if someone doesn't become political in the pulpit because we're not diluting the message. You need a pastor more than you need a more than you need a governor, more than you need a senator more than you need a pastor. Praise the Lord. All that's deception of the last. It's deception. And if you will stay in your place of life in the spirit, that's what turns wars. That's what turns situations. You can't just hold a sign down with the mayor. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Anyway, okay, how about we pray this a prayer conference. I said this a prayer conference. Hallelujah. I'm going to ask Pastor Noel come up. And I'm going to ask Ms. Wendy come up. I'm asking Ms. Leanne come up here, love. And we're just going to spend some time praying. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. How about you can get in a position that's comfortable for you. You can stand, you can sit. But we're all going to. We're all going to be like a choir. We're going to sing the same song. Amen. We're not going to be singing different songs. Y' all come on up here. Come on up here. Come up here. Come up here. Hallelujah. You can, if you want to move around, just if you want to move, stand up to your feet like I said, and move around. You can just. Whatever. Father, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you for your word. We thank you that it's a lamp to our feet, it's a light to our path. The entrance of your word, it gives light. And we thank you that we're walking in the light. And I thank you that the light cannot be comprehended by the darkness. And we thank you, as dad Hagin said, dark is getting darker in the world, but brighter in the church. And so we thank you that we're on the bright side. We stay in the bright flow. Everything is bright for this. For this earth. Because of the Church. Because of the Church. And so we thank you that every. Anyone who desires can come onto the bright side. And so we thank you, Father. We thank you for your plan in this hour. We thank you for your plan in this hour. We thank you for your plan for the church in this hour. And we lift up your executive branch of the church. We lift up the apostles, the prophets, the pastors, the teachers, the evangelists. Evangelist. We pray that you would grant unto your servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word, not distracted by anything else, but speak thy word, stretching forth thine hand to heal that signs and wonders may be done in the name of thy Holy child Jesus. We believe you for it, Father. We pray for the body that they would be given the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of the eyes of their spirits being enlightened, that they may know what is the hope of your calling, what the riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of your power to us who believe which he worked in Christ Jesus when he raised him from the dead. Father, all this belongs to us in Christ. So we take our place. And in that we yield ourselves to your spirit. We yield ourselves to. To the utterances that heaven would give us. And so we thank you, Holy Spirit, that you know the mind of the Father, you know the plan of the Father, and we are here to respond to that plan. And Respond to what you would say of the Father's will. Lift up your voice and let's pray. Manjaria. If y' all get something like you, you're welcome to flow with. Pray that out, pastor noel. Do that. Pray that out.
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The glory of God. Oh, yes, Lord. You said, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Father.
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Hallelujah. The glory, the glory.
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The glory of the latter house shall be greater than of the former. Revelation of Christ. The greater glory for Christ in us. The hope of glory, the hope, the hope of men. The hope of the whole earth. Oh, my grace in us, in us the glory, the glory. Manifest the glory. The greater glory. In the tango, in the glory. Oh, greater, greater, greater manifestation. Greater manifestation of miracles, signs and wonders. From the glory of God from heaven above. You'll see it. You will see it. You will see it. I said you will see it. And the Father will be glorified in the sun. And of course the Father will be glorified. In the name of our Lord Jesus. The glory, the glory, the glory of the Father.
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That term, that term, that turn us. Those steps, those steps high stepping, high stepping, high stepping into further places. Oh, so available. Available. Available to us to occupy further places. Available. Available to occ. Prepared places. Prepared places. Places. Prepared places holding manifestations. Places that house Manifestations, miracles, healings. These places house more. And they're available. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Yes, yes, we'll do that. Yes, we'll do that.
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So it's the greater one that does the work.
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Yes, it is.
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And so your part is the rest, as you've heard tonight. But the greater always absorbs the lesser. I said the greater one, the greater, absorbs the lesser. And so we need to remove ourselves from doing God's job and do our part and let him absorb that which is not useful for our lives. So even as tonight, as you've heard, your position has been reminded to you and it is reserved. So enter in to rest and enter into knowing that he does the showing. So as you rest, even in tonight, even as you rest in the coming days, and even as you forget some things that you've been. You've known and you've been told. And can I say this? Of course I can. Be careful who you listen to.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I'm mixing that with the spirit. But it's Wendy too, because a lot of what people say that can say that it's prophetic is common sense. I mean, we all know it. So be careful what you hear and what you're looking for. Your place and your Assignment is to enter into rest, and you'll see him give you his best. So be sure the greater one is allowed to move, and everything that's bothered you shall be removed. Amen.
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Praise the Lord. And can I tell you, when the Word talks about rest, enter into rest, it doesn't mean inactivity. It means free of struggle. Rest is free of struggle. You are still releasing our faith, but not from a place or flow of struggle. We're not struggling. Rest does not mean inactivity. You sit back and you don't even release your faith. No, you must continue to release your faith, but it's not a place of struggle. And I like something that Leanne says. She said because we're spirit beings, that we. The spirit realm is our realm and the spirit realm is where we belong. Amen. And it's available. You got anything? No. Yes. And so we can step in anytime. You know, whenever I. Before I minister, I just say, father, I step into the flow. I step in. I don't have to. I don't have to try to be in. And can I say this? Don't try to appear to be anointed. Seriously, people mean well, but you don't have. You are, you are, you are. And you don't have to display the proof of it, because in a life of the Spirit, it just flows. Amen. And it removes all the trying. Yeah, it removes all the trying. And so rooms and places are available to us. And so we're learning to take our place, but we're not going to endeavor to go further. This is why dad Hagin would say, don't pray more than you feed on the word. Why? Because everything that the Holy Ghost is going to do in the realm of the Spirit, it's only because of a broad base of the Word under you that you can go effectively with the Holy Ghost. Amen. Don't value one more than the other. They're interdependent upon each other. Yes. Praise the Lord. Anybody got anything else? Anything else? Yeah. Hallelujah. Well, the word is good. And so too, this is why we kind of. I wanted us to turn the one o' clock afternoon sessions, because in these sessions we're getting some teaching, a little bit of praying, but we're going to, in the afternoons be able to do some going places. Amen. And so. But we. We think it's important that some of these other things be said to help us as we go, as we go together. Amen. Hallelujah. You can stand with me, if you would, to your feet. And how many of you know that every prayer is incomplete until it's finished off with the prayer of praise and worship? So Father, we thank you. We thank you for the Word tonight. We thank you for that which you have imparted to us, that you are revealing to us, that you're showing and even that you're just watering in us. We thank you for seed sown. We thank you for watering that's happened. And Father, we thank you that it will produce the harvest. Because we're cultivating our ground. We're being doers of the word. We're living in conduct our lives in line with your word. And Father, we thank you for these precious people who have gathered here in these meetings. And we thank you that while they're here, your power is working back in their home, in their businesses, in their churches, in their situations that they will harvest. They will harvest the fruit of your inner working by just being here today. The Word. We thank you that when they arrive home, things will be resolved, supply comes and all the things that they've needed in their life to come into manifestation. Those manifestations will meet them in their obedience in just being here. And we thank you for it, Father and everybody said we trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.