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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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Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you flowing in among us. The eyes of all understanding are daily flooded with light that we will continue to know what is the hope of your calling, the glory of the riches of your inheritance in us, and what is the excitement, exceeding greatness of your power moving towards them, towards us? Because we believe. And we thank you Father, that daily we're strengthened with might by your spirit in our inner man. That Christ continuously dwell in our hearts by faith, that we are deeply rooted and grounded in the love of God. And that daily we get to experience that love that transcends all understanding. And thank you Father. The fullness of you that filleth us all in all manifest demonstrate even in our daily lives. Father and I thank you. You give us a full knowledge of your will for our lives in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that we may walk worthy of you, Lord, unto all, pleasing unto you that we are fruitful in every good work, all of us, Father. And daily we're increasing in the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus. And Father, we thank youk for this day, this moment, this time. Your will be done in our lives, you will be done for us corporately. Your will be done in the service today and in all the services for this week, Father, all the glory and honor and worship is unto youo now and forever. We thank youk for the utterances that it shall be spoken with boldness as it ought to be spoken in the name of Jesus, that your Word will have a free course. Your words only shall be glorified. Your words only shall be magnified even in the lives of all these people. And we give you praise and honor and worship now and forever in Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. Take this with you just in case. Thank you all. You can all be seated. Thank you. Thank you again Pastor, for having me, you know, minister alongside with you. It's always an honor, so. Well, let's begin our study. Amen. It's honor for me to minister in front of all of you. So I turn your Bible to John, chapter 15 and we'll begin our study. This. This scripture was really dear to me before we got connected with doctor with dad, Dupreen and Pastor Nancy. The Lord put this word in my heart and to pray with this regard. It really helped me. And up to today I still get Revelation in this chapter. And the Lord put in my heart to begin our study on this chapter. And I didn't know as I started, you know, there's two great wonderful teachers of mine in prayer. I didn't know I'm going to teach on prayer until God told me when we were in actually in Iowa, I was in that parking lot of that Marriott hotel. God said to me, son, you're going to teach on prayer. I said. I started talking to him back, lord, you know, how can I be able to teach more what I'm already receiving from my teachers? You know, I made mention dad Hagin. You know, I get used to calling him dad Hagen because everybody's calling him dad Hagin and doctor of course connect, you know, and pastor, that's the spiritual father. So he said, and also my pastor because they are the voice in my spirit. At the time, Brother Joel, Pastor Amy came along, so I started listening to what they're teaching too. So I always interested on the teaching of prayer and healing because I know I'm gonna need it myself. So we all gonna need it. So I'm not teaching on the bedtime prayer, as brother Joel was saying. I was talking to him. And I'm gonna also teach on the end time prayer. Praise the Lord. But anyway, the Lord said, no, you teach it by precept and example. So we'll see about the example later on as we go along. So John, chapter 15. I like this scripture because it's easy for me to understand. So I'm gonna use my amplified version because dad Hagin said I made a mental note of it. Most people don't listen. That's why I always say, let's use, let's amplify it so we can listen better. Is that good? Just checking. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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That's amplified version. You know, if you cannot hear me mas, I'll call my wife. She's my amplified version. Amen. Praise God. Yeah, praise God. My wife was mentioning to me, you have to up your word when you start because you're. Sometimes you're mumbling and we cannot understand. Your bear comes up. Well, I'm soft spoken, you know, praise the Lord. But anyway, well, well, I got my amplified here, so I'm gonna read it. On the amplified version, it said, I am the true vine. This is Jesus talking here. And my father is the vine dresser. In the original it called the husbandman. So I check on that word husbandman. In other words, he's the farmer. Farmer, right, he's the farmer. You know, farmer is the one that dig the soil, plant things on that soil. So praise God. So it says here. I like the scripture, because. Let me. Oh, I pushed the wrong button. Okay, good. He said, any brands, any brands. And me, right? That does not bear fruit, right? So we're going to see here those branch that does not bear fruit that stop bearing. So they're bearing fruit, but they stop bearing, right? He cuts away, trims off, takes away, and he cleanses and repeatedly prunes, right? Prunes this, prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit. So we can see here that our prayer life needs pruning, right? So we can. There are some things that I used to pray. I don't do that anymore because. Amen. It said here, see, the one that prunes the tree is the Father, right? The Father, it says here. And he is talking about the Father. And he cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.
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Hallelujah.
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So fruit. And now it's more excellent fruit. So you are cleansed and pruned already because of the word which I have given you. So you can see that the word has the ability to prune us and to cleanse us, which I have given you. So you're gonna see here, given the teachings I have discussed with you, dwell in me and I will dwell in you, right? Live in me and I will live in you. Just as no branch. No branch. No branch, it said, can bear fruit of itself without abiding in being vitally united to the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me, right? I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him bears much abundant fruit. Wow. More now it's much. However, apart from me, cut off from vital union with me, you can do nothing. Okay, if a person. Now it's getting clear now. If a person does not dwell in me, he is thrown out like a broken off branch and wither such withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned. And if you live in me, abide vitally united to me and my words remain in you.
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Hallelujah.
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And continue to live in your heart. So there's maintenance to this, right? Ask. This is the time we're going to ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. This is for sure that what we're asking will be done. Now, when you bear produce much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified and you show and prove yourself to be true followers of mine. Now what we're going to see here, what I'm going to minister is most prayers are trying to get this what the world. What's going on. The problem now there's some legitimate issue, but we don't gather issue and then pray what the Lord Jesus Christ here. And I'm gonna minister alongside with taken in. In prayer. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said. We take in the word, right? We don't gather our list of problem. It's okay, it's legitimate. But that's not what the Lord Jesus Christ said. Before we ask on those lists, we have to take in first. And I'm gonna. We're going to look at some prayers listed in the epistles and all. Pretty much all prayers that we will pray that many if we're not careful. We neglect to pray. But these prayers are prayers to take in. Amen. We take in, you know, we're going to look at some prayers that you know, in Acts chapter two, it happened about. Because you can see here that our prayer life. The Father is involved. You can see it there, right? The Father is the husbandman, right? Amen. He pruned our prayer life. And then Jesus, right, is connected. And now we know the Holy Ghost, the three God in one is connected. In our prayer life, we sow neglect. We neglect praying. And if we want God to be involved in our lives, prayer is a. Is the best way, one of the best way to do it. Now we know faith doesn't come by prayer, but it seems like prayer is the avenue for us to hear the word of faith, right? Because you cannot take in the word to dwell in you without faith. You have to hear it. And it's a guarantee that if we continue to do this and Paul said, and we're gonna see some prayers and even the Lord Jesus Christ, this is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He prayed this way when he was on the earth. This is the way he prays. This is the way. Amen. And chapter 14, he started to introduce the Holy Ghost, right? If you love me, you obey my commandments and I will send the Holy Ghost the helper. We are not alone obeying his commandments. We cannot do it without the helper. God will give us the word to obey. God will give us the word to do. There's written words in their specific word, but we're not doing it alone. We have the help. Amen. Unless it's given to us, we got nothing. Yeah, praise God, we got nothing.
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We have to take in. We have to take in first. Take in prayer is taken first.
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And before I got. I don't know my list, but the list is in my head. And I was worried before I pray because I got all this worry in me. I got all this need gathered in my head. And then I will pray. Circumstances, financial need, all kinds of need for my children. Every need I gather in my head. So I don't know how to pray. The Lord has to teach me how to prune my prayer life. And I gathered, well, then this, this, this in ministry, gathered all this problem in ministry, gathered all the stuff we need. And then we prayed. And then before we pray, we worry. In the middle of praying, we're worried. And then. And then we're not walking in love.
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And we're upset on somebody.
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And in.
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Our mind, kill them, Lord.
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Kill them. You know.
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Nothing taken in. That's why there's no fruit.
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Praise the Lord. No fruit. I remember the time I was in Cardenas here. You know, Cardenas is Mexican grocery store. Yeah. Although Mexicans. Now I have to, you know, I don't want to expose what I like to eat, but I think I got to do it today, you know, And I was in line to pay whatever stuff this is before COVID time because I remember nobody is wearing masks yet, including me. So the thought came to me about the need because we're believing God in our heart, Me and my wife, we're going to pay off every debt we have. Some of them are not our fault, but yet we took it and we're going to pay for it. Amen. No, I mean, we're not. No, nothing at all. No shortcut. We're going to pay for everything. And we thank God for my daughter Katherine. She's an accountant. So she put it all ordered together so we can see how much we need, you know, so we. Every month, monthly even, Katherine said, I don't know where all this money coming from that. But we're paying it off, you know, little by little. And I don't know where my wife got it. I think from brother Joel, you know, she got. Sometimes she got a lot of good things from him, you know, caught up, paid up, paid off. You said that my wife never forget about that word. So we said that. We confessed that, too, because she's working for him. It will work for us. Like Pastor Nancy said, if they can have it, I can have it, you know. Right.
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Hallelujah.
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So we started doing that monthly. It's not overnight, but I thank God for not an instant thing because it develops your faith. Right. And Then I was reminded, oh, it's almost. It's almost time for paying things off. And the thought comes to me about the need and things like that. And I answer it. I answer it right away. I said, oh, my God, you know, silently. I don't want to disturb people there, you know, My God shall supply under my breath. My God shall supply all our need. I answer it. Answer those thoughts, you know, I believe the Father heard it. And the Father said to me, pruning my prayer, pruning my confession. He said, son, you are not the father of your household. I am. Whoa. That's the first time I heard that. Okay, Lord, I understand what he was saying, because I was thinking, I'm confessing the Word, but in my mind, I'll be the avenue. I was thinking that, you know, my thinking is not really right, but he made it right. Amen. I may be the underfather, you know that.
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Under shepherd, you know, but I'm not the great shepherd, you know.
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So he was telling me that I am. And then he said to me a prayer, which I know of because we know all those. All kinds of prayer listed in the book the Art of Prayer. But, dad, Hagen, thank God for those books. And he said to me, why don't you cast it all to me, son, and I'll take care of it. So he gave me a word.
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Gave me a word.
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I feel all the goosebumps. I heard it in my spirit. So I replied what he said. He said, okay, Father, I cast all the care to you. Right. You know, sometimes we thought, casting all our care, we just sit down and just let God do it. But that word that I said, what he said to me, I took it in first before I said something. I received the Word first before I said the word. Because you cannot do anything without the word. That's what Jesus said. You can't do nothing until you abide in the Word and the vine. You have to draw it from the vine.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. You have to draw it first.
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Hallelujah.
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Yeah. And we're gonna see here some of our prayers sometimes if we're not careful, especially praying in the Holy Ghost. And I came. I used to be. We used to be in the church that teaching us, fighting the devil in tongues. And the devil showed up. Really. But thank God. God delivered us from that church. You know, sometimes God has to deliver you from the church where you at.
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And put you in the right place.
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Wow.
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Hallelujah.
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Praise God. He did.
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Yeah.
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There's no taking in. You're Giving out something you don't have inside of you. Yeah, you're praying in the Holy Ghost because you just know how to do that. But there's no taking in. You're spending something we don't have.
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That's what Jesus was saying here. Wow.
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Hallelujah.
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Praise God.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen. Last night we got some pruning about condemnation and I noticed that. Praise the Lord. And after I said that prayer, okay, I cast all my care to you, father. You're the father of my household can be your avenue and anybody else can be your avenue. Amen. So after I did that, the Lord began to work in me. Amen. Work on her finances. I mean, avenue began to open. He started opening avenues. I never thought that those will be an avenue. He just. Amen. And then he started talking to me, you know, I like that, you know, because I learned from dad. All the time he was saying, care package. So he began to put care package for me. I still have to use my faith. I don't sit down because I cast it all to him. He get me busy in my faith.
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He get me busy in my faith.
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In my wife's faith.
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And he started talking to me about a new home.
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This is before COVID Another home is coming. We're living in it right now. This is all part of what God said. And then now we're starting. My daughter, my son in law is starting a church in Las Vegas connected to what dad started a few years ago. Amen. Because we're divinely connected. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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So what I'm saying is, praise God. When I cast all that care, God began to move. God began to work. God began to unveil his plan.
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I mean, my God. And he never stopped up to right now. He's still bringing in avenues.
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He's still bringing in.
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I mean, we got busy of the care packages. He opens up just one prayer. And all I did is took in what he said and speak it out. We call it faith, you know, but.
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That'S what he's doing all the time. And many of our prayers are not taken in.
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That's what he said.
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Hallelujah.
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So our subject is take in prayer. Take in prayer is taken in.
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Be filled with the spirit. Be filled.
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What is that taking in? Right?
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Hallelujah.
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Be filled with the spirit. Glory be to God.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen. Oh, praise God. And let me see. Amen. Now what I'm saying here, if we are not praying, Jesus was saying here, what will be our life? This is not just A prayer conference every year. And you may ask, why do you pray so much, Pastor?
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It's my life.
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I like what dad Hagin said. Prayer is like breathing. If you don't pray, you stop breathing. But amen. Taking in the word, meditating on the Word, like the word is eating. That's what he said. You can pray and breathe, but if you don't eat, you will stop breathing.
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Well, okay, I will eat the word.
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You keep eating, but if you stop breathing, you'll die.
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Still, I learned it from him. He said, you have to do both.
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You have to breathe and eat. You have to breathe and eat.
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All is taken in.
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Praise God.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, glory be to God. And we're going to do that this morning. We're going to take in Amen and whatever we got in, we bring it out. Praise the Lord. Amen.
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So let's look at some prayers.
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Amen. Some prayers. Turn your Bible to Ephesians 1. This is the prayer that Holy Ghost inspired to Paul. And Paul said everything that he knows about the Word is from Jesus, the book of Galatians, right? There are some scriptures given to me in my heart by God because it has to be maintained, it has to be continued. But in that John, chapter 15, he talks about if you don't, you know, as connected to the branch. Because he's talking about prayer. It's the prayer fruit, right? That we bear much fruit, right? So if we're not praying, guess what? We get withered. And I know how it is. And while question why our life is like this? Before we ask this question, ask yourself first, are you breathing? Because the Father, when we are praying, we might not know everything about prayer, which is a continued fellowship, is a continued taking in. It's a continuous revelation of it, right? Because there's a continued pruning. And the Father will not prune anybody until they pray, until they do the act of praying, right?
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If we're not praying, guess what happened? Things dried up. Our spirit will dry up. Everything dried up.
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Right?
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And we got burnout. Burnout in life, burnout in ministry. A burnout Christian, we go to church without joy, heavy.
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And then if we're not careful, we.
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Backslid.
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You know, like moonwalking back. We have to keep going forward, you know, Right?
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Pretty good, Alfajo.
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My name is not Michael Jackson, but praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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Right? If our life is. There's nothing going on, no boldness to obey God's word. If we're preachers, no boldness to preach the Word, right? Nothing going on in our life and ministry. Check our prayer life. If there's no fruit in our finances, there's no fruit. Check our prayer life.
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Because the Bible said God is the husbandman, the Father. So what does the Father does?
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He works in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure. There is always a working of the Father in us because he's the farmer. I can use Brother Stephen. Sit. Okay, Brother Stephen. I use you a little bit. I see brother Stephen pretty much around. He's always around. I mean, every day.
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He maintain all this. All these green things you see here.
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He works on it every day like a farmer. Every single day. Right. His grandfather, the pastor's dad, he's a farmer. He checked his land. That's it. Pastor said he checked his land every day. And he knows his harvest. He cultivated. Oh, wow.
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Hallelujah.
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You know, every day. So what? I can see the farmer. He's gonna work in you.
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If God is not working in your.
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Spirit, check your prayer life. You get him involved in your life through the avenue of prayer. Amen. So when we leave this place after this meeting, we're not living a dry life. You have to understand, like praying in the spirit. Out of your belly, right? Out of your belly flow rivers. But rivers has to flow first in our. Not belly, natural belly, but our heart. You know, praise God. I got to lose that some of them, but. Right. We are like ocean floor. Our spirit. Or I could say riverbed. You can have a dry riverbed. You can have a dry ocean floor. Right? Amen. But when the water comes, it become an ocean. Right? And the riverbed. Right. And we're gonna see it here as we go later on. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go first to first, Ephesians, chapter one. And you know, I will recommend that Pastor Nancy breaks this prayer down last year for us. I'm still. I'm still listening to it. Amen. Listening to it so I can receive more. Amen. Receive more. But I'm not gonna break it down for you, Pastor. Already did. You just go and listen to it now. Here's one prayer here. You don't have to guess what to say. It's all in here. You don't have to feel the goosebumps. You don't have to struggle to pray. Just start to pray. It's a decision you have to make. Because In John, chapter 15 is about us. In that prayer, it's about us. What we do. Amen is what we do every day. Be being filled. God will not do it for us. We will have to do it. But let me move on here first. It said Verse 16, Paul said, cease not to give thanks for you. You know what Thanksgiving is? That's why, you know, we always give Thanksgiving forever. Thanksgiving, what is Thanksgiving? Think about Thanksgiving. When somebody give you something, you receive it, you take it in. Thanksgiving to God is taking in worship is taken in. And sometimes in our prayer life.
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah. Now, Father, in the name of Jesus, I gather all this problem.
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We haven't spent time taking in yet.
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And many times, most of the time when we are praying, God is giving the answer. We have so much things to pay. At the time he gave me one word, cast it all to me and I'll take care of it. Now we're debt free. I mean, amen. We paid out our debt, and I mean halfway. We did it. God poured finances care package. All I did is took what he said and I speak it out. One word, one word made things possible. Even the things that we lost back in 96. God said, I will restore it from 96 to what, 20, 21. He gave us care package. We didn't know the extent of that care package. We didn't know the extent of what I said. Lord, I cast my care to you. I recognize now that when you cast your care to the Lord, he'll get your faith busy. Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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Take it in and bring it out now. Ephesians, here. Let's go. Cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers. Wow. Cease not. What is that? Cease not. Just continue on and never stop praying. Not that you pray all the time. I learned that from dad Hagin, because you can't. You have to eat sometimes. You got to sleep sometimes. But what he emphasized, making it easy, is not. Do not stop praying. Well, I miss a day.
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No condemnation.
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Start again, just don't.
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Right.
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Praise God in verse 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now look at this. The Father of glory. May give, may give, may give. Taken in. Taken in. This prayer is taken in your spirit, which we seldom pray if we're not careful because we're busy gathering, gathering problems. One time I got corrected, you know, pruning. You know, we're praying for the election, you know, during. Before the result of the election. We're praying for it, you know, in Jesus name, you know. And then God said during the prayer, son, I am not for a certain party. I have my own, okay? Lord, Pruning. From that day on, I learned how to pray. Not taking on any party. Praise the Lord. It's like during the time of Jesus, you know, this Cleopas, you know, they were. They were really back down. And Jesus came alongside with them. They never recognized Jesus, but they were really down. You know, they were lonely because their hope. That's what they're thinking. The hope for Israel, the hope for this nation. They were thinking that Jesus will change the government. You know, think about it, right? Change the situation they're in. The political right, the social, whatever it may be. Now he's in the cross. And they're all lonely because in their mind, he's supposed to be doing this.
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And they were saying to Jesus, did.
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You even know what happened? Did he know that Jesus is fulfilling Isaiah 53?
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They didn't know. They know. It's all bad.
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Hallelujah.
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Nothing is all bad. We're still here. We are the light of the world.
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As long as we're here, hallelujah. As long as somebody is taken in. So you can see here that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the.
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Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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When you're praying this prayer, taking in right in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, that you may know, take it in right. What is the hope of his calling.
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And what is the riches of the.
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Glory of his inheritance in the saints?
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Glory be to God.
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Hallelujah.
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And what. Oh, I get excited.
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Were praying this prayer and I remember Dodd Hagin said that he prayed these Ephesian prayers. And one is the Ephesians, chapter 3.
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In the same way it's bringing in, it's taking in.
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In you.
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Amen. Not even asking for anything. He's just taking in praise God.
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Hallelujah.
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Strengthened with might. Amen. I bow my knees unto the Father.
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Of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom.
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The whole family, for us, we're family in heaven and earth is named. We are named after the Father. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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That's what Paul said.
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Amen.
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Whom the whole family in heaven and.
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Earth is named, that he would what.
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Grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in your inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Whoa. Glory. Meaning to say, you be. When your spirit is strengthened by the Holy Ghost. In that prayer, you began to hear the word of faith. And the word of faith is the word of Christ. And who we are in Christ, in whom, in him you Began to hear it, and you started taking in. My God. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. That prayer is awesome. I can go more and more. Praise God. Right?
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Hallelujah.
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And we don't have to invent anything. We can start our day of prayer through this prayer. You don't have to feel anything. Maybe you don't feel good like Cleopas.
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And those guys, you know. Praise God.
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Hallelujah.
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Yes, definitely. There are some.
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There are some things that we need, right? There are some issues, circumstances sometimes we're facing. But you have to understand every one of our need. We have authority.
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Yeah, the devil, you know, try to.
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Attack and do this.
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Yes.
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But remember, we have authority over them.
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We have authority over our need. And daddy can learn it. He said, you have authority over your finances. Go. You call the money in. I have no money here in heaven. Call it in, Right. That's what Jesus taught him. The money is down here in the earth.
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You call it in.
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Know what you need. Call it in.
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Yeah, you have definitely. I saw that. My God.
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Hallelujah.
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Yeah, there's a need, but I have authority.
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Even though there's a need, even though.
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The symptom in our body sometimes come, they calm.
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You can feel it. But yet always remember, we have authority over those symptoms. My God.
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Hallelujah.
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But if we're not taking in, we're getting everything that is not for us. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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These prayers, Amen. Will bring you to bring, to take in things. And I remember the story of that Hagin, when he got hold. He's been in the ministry. I don't know, you guys correct me, about 16 years or something. And he got hold of this prayer in Ephesians. He started praying it. He said, I prayed this thousands of times, and I think about six months period, he said revelation began to flow.
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And he was telling to himself, because he started to take it. He's bringing out things that he never touched. So these prayers brought things into his spirit.
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And he said revelation began to flow. And you can hear him telling that story, especially in the believer's authority, that preaching. Listen to it. And that's what he was saying. So he said, after praying those prayers thousands of times, right? He said revelation began to flow, right?
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Hallelujah.
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Revelation. And he started preaching that revelation.
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And still, that revelation is still with us today.
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It's written in the book.
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How they. How can they hear without what a Bible, right?
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In those book we don't read, he preached those words. Praise God. I put audio, I put. Because they're Two main teacher of mine in prayer and many other things in faith. Every day, pretty much every day I listen to dad Hagin. And when it comes to the anointing, I listen to Dr. You know, Dr. Has a lot of good preaching too, I'm saying. But I get became sensitive in the anointing, being around dad for many years. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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You know why I stay with him? I'm not. I made so many mistakes, but I always pray. I'm thanking God for the blood. And I will pray until I get so full of the Spirit. Amen. But anyway, some of these prayers we're going to talk about. There's more. Amen. But I'm going to take you. God spoke this to me and he highlighted in my spirit this morning too about Ezekiel. Ezekiel 47, right? Ezekiel 47. Let's go there real quick. Amen. And maybe I use my amplified so we can listen better, right? Amen. Oh my God.
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Hallelujah.
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I get so full of the word joy flows. You know how I learned about joy in time of prayer? He pruned my prayer life and he taught me about joy in prayer. Because I see Paul in the Philippians, he said, you know, when he prays for them, pray for them with joy. I said, I just got interested on it. And the Father, the husbandman put it in my spirit because I got interested how to pray with joy.
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How to pray in peace.
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Hallelujah.
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And now when I pray, get excited.
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With the Word getting in me.
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That's how I know he helps me in my believing when the Word get my spirit.
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Oh, I got so full of joy.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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Your prayer life. Amen. So we're going to Ezekiel, right? 40, 40, 47. Let's go there. Amen. And let's start with verse one. It said here. Then he, my guide, brought me again to the door of the house of the Lord, the temple. Amen. We're at the temple now, right? And behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the temple towards the east. It's going north, south, east. Is there? Well, I'm just saying, I'm not trying to. Amen. And waters issued out from under the threshold of the temple towards the east. For the front of the temple was towards the east. And the waters came down from under, from the right side of the temple on the south side of the altar. Then he brought me out. Now look at this. Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around outside to the outer gate. By the way, that faces east. And behold, waters were running out on the right side. Now he's talking about the church here. The fullness of the Spirit. Right? Now look at this. And when the man went on eastward with the measuring line in his hand. So who measured the fullness? Who measured the fullness? Man. We measured the fullness. Right? And when the man went on eastward with the measuring line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits. And he caused me to pass through the waters. Now notice. Amen. Waters that were uncle deep. Now notice he passed that water because it's only uncle deep. Right? He can walk. He can walk so easy. Right? He can walk so easy. Sometimes our prayer is like that. It's only ankle deep. That's my taken in. It's not full enough. So many things can just pass us by. The devil just passed problem. Just passed. Coming against us. Now let's move on it again. He measured a thousand cubits and caused me to pass through the water. Still pass, Right. Waters that reach to the knees. Right. Again he measured. Right. He can still pass again. He measured a thousand cubits and caused me to pass through the waters. Now look at this.
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Water that reached to the loins.
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Yeah. He can still pass it because the water is through the loins. Afterward, he measured a thousand. And it was a river. So he was showing here. Amen.
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A river that I could not pass through. This is where all the plan of.
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God, so easy for us to follow. It says here. For the waters had risen.
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Waters to swim in a river that.
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Could not be passed over or through.
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Right? You come against that water because it's.
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All that water will take you.
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You get so full of the Holy.
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Ghost.
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You don't care about the problem.
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You follow the leading of the Spirit.
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Follow peace, follow love and joy.
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Oh, my God.
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Hallelujah.
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Because you're so full that you swim.
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Towards the flow of that water.
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Praise God forevermore.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen.
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And he said to me, son of man, have you seen this?
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Then he led me and caused me to return to the bank of the river. Right. Must be in the riverbed or something. Now, when I had returned, behold, on.
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The bank of the river were very.
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Many trees on the one side and on the other, right? Then he said to me, so now he's saying something. He's saying something that he's never seen before, right?
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Then he said to me, these waters.
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Pour out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah, the Jordan Valley, and unto the Dead Sea. And when they shall enter into the Sea. The sea of putrid waters.
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The water shall be healed and made fresh.
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Wow. I'm telling you, there's healing begin to flow.
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I believe we're coming into this what we're believing for about miracles, signs and wonders. It cannot be done without the fullness of God and the fullness of the Spirit. And what was prophesied that there will be a fullness of the fivefold ministry gift.
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Right. And the gifts of the Spirit.
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We cannot do it in ankle deep.
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And what you are.
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Praise God. Let me read through. It's getting better here. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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Made fresh.
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Oh, my God. Hallelujah. I like that word fresh.
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Wow.
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I like that word fresh. Not beat up. Not dried up. Not a dry riverbed. Amen.
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And wherever the double river shall go, every living creature with swarms shall live.
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Wow. And whoa. My God.
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Oh, glory be to God.
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And you have to understand, it's in us.
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And there shall be a very great number of fish. I like fish because these waters go there.
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Right.
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That the waters of the sea may be healed.
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And those, you know, sea and, you know, fish is also the type of people. It's a type of the shadow. Right.
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And made fresh. And everything shall live wherever the river goes. Wow. Once we all got filled. The Bible said, Right? Glory.
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Yeah.
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The fisherman, verse 10. Shall stand on the banks of the Dead Sea.
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From Ein Gedi even to En Egla. I don't know how you say it, but anyway, it looks like England to me. So I just say England be easier, Right? Amen. Praise God.
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Shall be a place to spread nets. Their fish shall be of very many kinds. It's happening in our church right now.
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We have some good Nigerian brothers.
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Attending our church now.
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We have a sister that just came and she's in the military. And his sister found us in the. I don't know, YouTube, maybe. They're from Kenya. Kenya. She started attending church.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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It said here, their fish shall be of very many kinds as the fish of the great or Mediterranean Sea. But its swamps and marshes will not become wholesome for animal life. They shall, as the river subside.
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Now, look at this. Be left encrusted with salt and given over to it. When the river subside. There's no life. When the river. Right. Amen. Overflow that we cannot pass through. Amen. Many of the things we want to. What God wants to do, we just pass it through because we're not full. We do all kinds of things in our church. We do all kinds of worship, you know. Praise God.
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Right.
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We do all kinds of worship.
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You know, he's not even worshiping God in spirit.
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And in truth.
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We try to do.
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Rivers in our churches that we can.
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All just walk through. There's no freshness.
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Trying to pray so the people can be freshened and they live without freshness.
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Right. Hallelujah. Because we cannot give.
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We have nothing until it's given.
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That's what John the Baptist said.
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I cannot do anything until it's given to me. Wow.
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And on the banks of the river on both its sides, there shall grow all kinds of trees for food. Wow. Well, their leaves shall not fade, nor shall their fruit fail to meet the demand. Whoa. Glory be to God.
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Seems to me that my God shall.
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Supply all our needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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Oh, wow.
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Each tree shall bring forth new fruit every month. This supernatural quality is being. Because their waters came from out of the sanctuary. And their fruit shall be for food and their leaves for healing. Wow. It's not gonna happen until we're full.
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Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. The father's talking. Got to obey the fathers. Well, with respect. With respect. I'm gonna ask first all the ministers to stand up with me on the riverbank. We're gonna apply this word right now. Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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Because whatever we can get, we get, the fill in this morning is going to go flow to our congregation. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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You will not leave this conference empty. Some of you that maybe don't worry about the issue that you're facing. It's not your issue. Amen. Issues will keep coming until we get full now notice. Amen. You see those tsunami. Amen. When that river tsunami blow everything on its track. Right. Get passed. It clears out a lot of houses. It clears out. And you see when there's a flow of storm, the river flow on the storm, there are trees and many of them. After the storm, you can see it all scattered, all wiped out on. On the bank. Things get cleaned up when there's a flow of river. Amen. Our life gets cleaned up. Glory be to God. The words started to come into our spirit. We gonna pray, taking in Amen. We're gonna pray until we get so full. And we're gonna continue to do this. Amen. And we're going to see the result of what that word said.
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Hallelujah.
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So we're gonna pray be filled. Amen. And all we do is maintain it every day be being filled. We're not going to see healing. We're not going to see the provision that God wanted us to have. We're not going to see the miracles that God wanted us to have. Amen. Until we'll get full. And if you see in the Book of Acts, Amen. Praise God. You see, every time they pray, there's always a move of God. There's healing flow that Ezekiel, what Ezekiel saw and prayed, prophesied, begin to happen. And you can see it in the Book of Acts. That's just the beginning of it. That's just the former reign. And we're entering into this new reign. There's going to be a greater flow. Even that Hagin made mention of that. Dr. Dufresne, all these prophets that was way, they are not here with us anymore. They were saying that this. This era, that we are in word and spirit, both of which we need to be full. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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So we're gonna pray, we're gonna exercise.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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We're gonna get a down payment right now. Amen. You can't withdraw something we don't have. And I believe today as we do this, and we're believing God, that he's gonna give us everything what we need to receive right now. Amen. We're not gonna live with nothing, because if we pray, he will fill us up.
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He will prune our prayer life. He will begin to work inside of us. There will be revelation that will flowing inside of us. Revelation that hell cannot stop.
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That the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. Oh.
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Ha ha.
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Let's go pray.
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Let's lift our hands to the Lord, Father.
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According to that word in Ezekiel, Father. Yes, lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father.
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There's healing, Father. Healing.
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Provision, Father. For our congregations, Lord. For your church, Lord.
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And the nation.
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And this nation will see the light. Will see the light, will see the glory. Do. The new doors, Lord.
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That you will open.
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The people. The people, Lord, that will be reached by that water that's flowing from within us. Will take it in. Lord, we receive that river. My co ministers go. There will be provisions. There will be healing. There will be haka yeka akashika. Our church will plan it with the precious fruit of the earth. There will be supply, the supply. There will be food. There will be food. There will be food for the heart of your people. There will be revelation to feed the people of God. Those that keep on, those that struggle. No more, no more river. Aha. Oh, that river. In them, no more struggle but freshness, freshness, freshness of that river. I can shadow freshness in that congregation. Freshness in their life. Oh, my, oh, my. You will heal nations, Lord. You will heal. You will heal our nation, Lord. There will be a flow of your joy. There will be a flow of revelation. They came to get filled, Lord. A good day, Lord. How can they see a good day? Aha. Aha. Aha. Oh, my. Oh, my. Yes, Lord, I can see my spirit. My mind is receiving. Say ah. Not the only Lord, that your word, that your word. You will fill the people with your word. Ha ha ha. For the word will be rich in us, Lord. Only they'll be filled with the word. They will be filled with the river of life. Oh, Change in the ministry from that overflow, from that flow into your. From your spirit. It come from the fullness. It comes from the fullness. The finances, everything about the property. Everything from Aha. Aha. The fullness, the fullness. Aha. The fullness, the fullness, Pastor. The fullness. Many places. Many places. Oh, my. Oh, my. Children. Your children. The flow, the river, the flow, the fluff.
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Life.
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The life in you. The life in you will fill their life.
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Oh.
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I have the same way, brother. I have the same way. My children, my children is in the plan. Now I got to stay for them. They get to swim on the river that flows from me and my wife.
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Now.
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They know how to flow. They know how to flow.
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Oh, my.
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Ha ha. Oh, that river is flowing. That river. Life, life is flowing. Life in us flows life the life of God. Oh, my. Ha ha. Oh, my. Flowing providence. For your nation, for nations. The life, the life for the nation. Or the student or the gossip for the glory at the guest seeker at the the fullness of that life. The fullness of that life. How could they see the fullness?
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Sa.
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It'll be easy. It'll be so easy. It'll be so easy as sacred. Like I said, I think the life, the life, the life in you it will change that city. The life, the life in the heart of your people. The life, the life. Aha. Get filled with that life. Aha. And you see the exchange, see darkness disappear. The light, the life boldness.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, my Hallelujah.
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Oh, my.
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Oh, there's more. There's more in that life you have. Oh, my lord. Thank God. Freshness, freshness of that life. Freshness, freshness of that life. Freshness did you fresh in a new way.
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God brought you here to get that.
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Freshness, to get into the flow of that river. A word in the spirit of freshness in your ministry.
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The new life. A new life.
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Cannot be done. Halfway full. Oh, my Lord, It is still here. Are you gonna pray for your pastor? The fullness of God. The glory shall be God. Your glory shall be cut. And bahad is the new. It's a new and living way. Fullness. The fullness of the ministry. The fullness. Faster. The fullness. See the brushness of the ghost.
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Bring it home.
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Bring it home to your congregation. The fullness of God. Fullness. The fullness of God. Master, The whole. Echo to say Echo to say.
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God is not done with you all yet. That's why I heard my spirit. There's still a revival. You need to get into it. Stay. Stay. Conn. Oh. Amen.
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Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Episode: Taking-In In Prayer, Part One | Noel Ramos | Prayer Conference 2022
Date: April 7, 2022
Speaker: Noel Ramos
Location: World Harvest Church, Murrieta, CA
This episode features guest minister Noel Ramos teaching at the 2022 Prayer Conference, focusing on the concept of "Taking-In in Prayer." Ramos explores what it means to receive from God in prayer before presenting requests—a shift from a needs-driven approach to prayer, toward abiding, taking in the Word, and being filled with the Spirit as the true source of effective prayer and spiritual fruitfulness.
"Our prayer life needs pruning. There are some things I used to pray, I don't do that anymore." – Noel Ramos (07:30)
"Most prayers are trying to get what's going on in the world, but Jesus says we take in the word...Before we ask on those lists, we have to take in first." – Noel Ramos (09:39)
"There's no taking in. You're giving out something you don't have inside of you." – (19:51)
"He said to me...why don't you cast it all to me, son, and I'll take care of it?" – Noel Ramos (17:55)
"Prayer is like breathing. If you don't pray, you stop breathing...but if you don't eat, you will stop breathing too. You have to do both." – Quoting Dad Hagin & Noel Ramos (23:36-24:18)
"You don't have to guess what to say. It's all in here...Thanksgiving to God is taking in; worship is taking in." – Noel Ramos (24:49-31:50)
"When the river subside, there’s no life... When the river overflows, many things God wants to do, we just pass it through because we’re not full." – Noel Ramos (52:59-54:09)
"You will not leave this conference empty...You can't withdraw something we don't have...When we pray, he will fill us up." – Noel Ramos (56:01-59:15)
"Freshness, freshness of that river...You will heal nations, Lord...for the word will be rich in us, Lord." – (60:17-73:16)
On Pruning and Taking In
"The one that prunes the tree is the Father...Our prayer life needs pruning...so we can bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.” – Noel Ramos (07:30-08:03)
On Receiving Before Requesting
"Before I pray, I gather all this worry...every need I gather in my head. So I don’t know how to pray. The Lord has to teach me how to prune my prayer life.” – Noel Ramos (13:39)
On Authority and Needs
"Remember, we have authority over our need… Jesus taught [Dad Hagin], the money is down here in the earth. Call it in.” – Noel Ramos (39:41-40:07)
On the Flow of the River (Ezekiel 47)
"You get so full of the Holy Ghost, you don’t care about the problem. You follow the leading of the Spirit, follow peace, love, and joy.” – Noel Ramos (48:28-48:49)
On Bringing It Home
"Bring it home to your congregation. The fullness of God. God is not done with you all yet...There’s still a revival, you need to get into it. Stay.” – Noel Ramos (75:46-76:59)
Tone: The episode is warm, conversational, and instructional, sprinkled with lighthearted moments and personal anecdotes. It emphasizes practical, spirit-led living and leadership.
Central Message: Effective prayer life starts with "taking in"—receiving from God through His Word, the Spirit, and abiding in Christ. Only then are believers and ministers able to bear fruit, move in authority, and minister overflow to others. The fullness we carry transforms not only our own lives, but also our families, ministries, and communities.
For further study: Refer to Ephesians 1 & 3, John 15, and Ezekiel 47 as highlighted in this teaching. Pastor Nancy Dufresne’s breakdown of the Ephesians prayers and Kenneth E. Hagin’s teachings on "The Believer’s Authority" come strongly recommended as companion resources.