Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn.
Let me ask you a question.
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When you are talking with
God, do you do all the talking?
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Please join us today on
"Pressing into His Presence."
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When we will consider
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that prayer should be
a two-way communication.
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Welcome to
"Pressing into His Presence."
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This is a series that
is going to be teaching us
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how to have a more
intimate prayer life
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and therefore a more intimate
relationship with the Lord.
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If you have joined us
for the last two programs
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you know that
we've been considering
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the back story so to speak,
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in other words how the
Lord led me into this teaching.
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Today we will conclude
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the personal testimony
groundwork for this series
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and we are taking this
series from a companion book
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that I was blessed to write,
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it's also titled
Pressing in to His Presence.
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So many of you are
already following along
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and for today we are
going to begin on page 25.
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During our last program, I
was sharing about my response
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to what I believed
was God's call to me
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to pray an hour a day.
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This was to
correct my backsliding
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and turn me around
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but it seemed so terribly long
and next to impossible to me.
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And on that first morning,
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I sat at my
computer at 8 o'clock
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and began, I was gonna
type out my prayer to the Lord.
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And something--
this was something
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that I've never done before
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I was gonna type it
out like a letter to God.
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So what I did was
I covered the clock
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so that I
wouldn't be watching it.
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And at the Lord's
leading the prayer developed
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that morning in
the following order,
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praise was the opening segment
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then it was
followed by repentance,
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intersession and supplication.
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And when I finished
pouring out my heart to God
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and I couldn't think
of another thing to pray
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then I was going to
see what God was doing.
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So I thought how much longer
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that I have to go
before my hour was complete
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what else was there to
talk about at the moment
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and thinking perhaps
that 45 minutes had passed.
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I peeked into the sticky note
on the clock to check the time
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and it was
already a quarter past 10,
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I had spent 2 hours and
15 minutes with the Lord.
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Amazing.
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And as I typed the
words in Jesus' name, amen
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that still small voice
of the Lord interrupted
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catching me totally
off guard saying this,
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"Be still and
know that I am God."
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I know the Holy Spirit
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will never impress
anything upon our mind
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that is not in perfect agreement
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with God's council in the Bible.
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And those words were a
direct quote of Psalm 46:10
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which says, "Be still,
and know that I am God,
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I will be exalted
among the nations,
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I will be exalted in the earth!"
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Well, you can imagine
I froze in my position
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with my fingers
poised on the keyboard
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then I began to
doubt was that really
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God's command to be
still or was it my imagination.
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And another distant thought
came drifting into my mind
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then I frantically asked,
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"Oh, Lord, is this
You or is this me?"
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And then yet another thought
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and then again I
questioned the source
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"Lord, please, is
this You or is this me?"
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And in the past I had
often claimed John 10:27,
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which is-- this
is where Jesus said,
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"My sheep hear My voice,
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and I know them,
and they follow Me."
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And I also claimed
John 10:5, where He said,
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"Yet they will by no
means follow a stranger,
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but will flee from him,
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for they do not know
the voice of strangers."
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I had-- I had
prayed this saying,
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"Oh, Father,
thank You Lord Jesus,
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that I know Your
voice thank You Lord Jesus,
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that I'll never follow
the voice of a stranger.
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And now the idea that the Lord
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wanted to share
a thought with me
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during my prayer
time was unbelievable.
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Suddenly the
thought flashed into my mind
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"I will teach you to
quit interrupting in the
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spiritual realm as well
as in the physical realm."
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Write what I speak to you that
you may take note of it often.
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Well, with trepidation
I typed out the thoughts
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being so strongly
impressed upon my mind
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And they only
amounted to three sentences.
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And I ended with
this command, look it up,
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searching the
Bible I found scriptures
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that supported and explained
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what I now believed
were His divine thoughts.
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And I sat back in satisfaction
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that my loving Father had
given me instruction to heed.
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I didn't really
expect this to happen
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in the same manner on the
following morning, but it did.
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God again impressed
His thoughts upon my mind.
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This time it was
only two sentences
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but they were
powerful reassurance
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that it was His
still small voice
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impressing His
thoughts upon my mind
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as we talk about
from 1 Kings 19:12.
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Now JD was working out of town
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and we regularly called
each other throughout the day.
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And of course I was so excited
about this new prayer privilege
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that I just had to
share my joy with him.
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He didn't say
much about it at first
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but then after several days
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of listening to
my bubbling reports
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he made his feelings understood.
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He tenderly said,
"Honey, please don't tell
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anyone else that
you're hearing from God
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they will think you're crazy.
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Well, within a few
weeks JD was convinced
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that God indeed was
impressing thoughts upon my mind
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during times at prayer.
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Then my sweet
husband questioned me saying,
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"I pray throughout the day,
why haven't I ever heard God?"
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And I simply
answer him by asking
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"Well, have you ever listened?"
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And a few days later, JD called
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and cautiously shared
a new prayer experience.
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Wondering if the thoughts that
came to his mind were from God.
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We're going to examine
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what happened to him
in our later program.
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But I think when we get
there you will agree with me
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God was definitely giving him
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a loving and
unexpected word of correction.
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When 1 Kings 19:12
talks about hearing,
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the still small
voice of the Lord
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think-- I think
of it as describing
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when the Holy Spirit impresses
God's thoughts upon our minds.
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I don't believe this
type of communication
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is an exclusive
privilege offered to just a few.
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JD and I are no more
special than anyone else.
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God is a loving Father and
He wants to teach His children
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if He could just
get their attention
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and their cooperation to listen,
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He wants to teach us
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that prayer is a
two-way communication.
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After all, God's
purpose is to lead us.
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One of my favorite
scriptures is Isaiah 48:17.
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And this is what it says,
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"Thus says the
Lord, your Redeemer,
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the Holy One of Israel,
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'I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
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Who leads you by
the way you should go.'"
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If this idea of hearing God's
voice His still small voice,
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seems a little far fetch to you.
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Please stay tuned
for future programs,
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please give me the opportunity
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to prove this is a
scriptural teaching.
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If you don't, you won't
know what you've missed.
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I've traveled the world
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and I have pulled
congregation around the world
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asking how many in the audience
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were just certain that God had
on occasion by His Holy Spirit
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impressed His thoughts upon
their mind in inaudible words.
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Words that can't be
heard with the physical ear
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but it's being
heard in your mind.
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And almost always,
at least two third's
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of the members in the audience
will raise their hand saying,
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"Yes, I know God has impressed
a thought upon my mind."
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Now some raise
their hands with timidity
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as if they were
embarrassed to admit it.
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But before I learned
to press into His presence
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those precious occasions
happen to me infrequently.
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When I allow this practice
of pressing in type prayer
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to be crowded
out at my schedule,
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in other words, when
I'm shamefully too busy
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to spend substantial
time with the Lord in prayer.
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I don't perceive
His still small voice
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but it became almost a daily
occurrence over the many years
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that I faithfully
practiced this teaching.
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Occasionally, even when I
was being still before the Lord
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He trusted me with His silence.
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To teach me He was still there,
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even though I didn't
sense His still small voice.
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Don't be fearful of
trying this biblical practice
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of listening for
the Lord's voice.
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In today's culture, we
aren't accustomed to thinking
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that God wants to communicate
with us on a personal level.
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Oh, but He does.
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And we need to know how
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so that we don't get caught
up in counterfeit teachings
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or be so fearful that we
avoid the true experience.
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In later programs, we
will examine much scripture
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to verify the way that the
Lord communicates with mankind.
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We will also
look at His promises
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that we reveal
God wants us to learn
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that prayer is a
two-way communication.
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I don't get the impression
of His inaudible voice
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when I rush in before
Him and try to get an answer.
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In fact, it rarely happens
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if I haven't spent at
least an hour in prayer
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pouring out my heart before Him.
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And then sitting
still before Him.
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When His thoughts
come they are almost always
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something of an extremely
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personal nature and application.
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And they always line up in
total agreement with His word.
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The Holy Spirit
will not do otherwise.
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John 14:26 says this,
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and these are
the words of Jesus,
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He says, "But the
Helper, the Holy Spirit,
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whom the Father
will send in My name,
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He will teach you all things,
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and bring to your remembrance
all things that I said to you."
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So the Holy Spirit is our helper
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and He's bringing to
remembrance the words of God.
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He will never ever
contradict God's words.
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So listening to God
during my prayer time
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is how I knew He was calling
me into full time ministry.
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He also
announced 21 months before
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I first appeared on 3ABN
that He will open the doors
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for television,
radio and publishing
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and that I would
speak into all the world.
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A couple of years later,
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He prevented my husband
and I from buying a new home
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in Coleman, Texas
where we were living
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by telling us that we
would move out of town within
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several months but He
didn't even reveal the location.
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And you know what, I didn't ask.
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I had already learned
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that God tells me just
a little bit at a time.
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This was months in advance
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of our surprise invitation
to join the staff at 3ABN.
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There are times when I
had been in prayer with Him
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feeling satisfied about myself
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and the direction
in which I'm heading.
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When God has stunned me
with a word of correction
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and then there also
had been times and days
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when I'm just really crestfallen
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and I feel like I'm a
dismal disappointment to Him.
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And my loving Father
has surprised me with words,
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of encouragement and assurance.
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His response has never
been something I have expected,
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I have come to
trust these thoughts
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being impressed upon my
mind are at divine origin.
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I faithfully kept
my daily commitment
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to the Lord for
the first 9 years.
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Every day I prayed
and in addition to praying
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throughout the
day, my normal prayers,
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I mean, I prayed
an hour each morning.
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And I'm ashamed to
admit it but I must say that
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over the past several years
I've let this practice slip.
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Instead of daily
pressing into His presence,
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it became a weekly effort.
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In some months it
was not even that often.
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You know we work
four, 10 hour days
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each week here at
3ABN Broadcasting Network.
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And we travel
most weekends to speak
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at camp meetings or
church revivals and retreats
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and that has interrupted
the rhythm of this practice
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only because of I've allowed it.
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I'm not proud of this fact.
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And don't
misunderstand what I'm saying,
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I continue to pray
often throughout the day
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but it's different,
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it's not pressing
into His presence.
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A 15 minute prayer is
just not as satisfying.
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And I don't hear from God
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when I rush in
before Him in this fashion.
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And to answer
the obvious question,
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yes, I lose ground when
I'm not practicing this.
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I think that's called
backsliding, isn't it?
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Prior to taping this series,
I felt that it was necessary
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to return to the practice of
praying an hour in the morning.
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And praise God,
He is reawakening
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my passion for His presence.
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Prayer is a vital life source.
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It is the breath of the
soul and how refreshing it is
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to be deep breathing again
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rather than just the
occasional spiritual gasping
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that I had gravitated toward.
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More importantly, I cannot tell
you how joyful it makes me too.
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Once again be hearing the
still small voice of the Lord
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like that beautiful hymn,
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"Come Thou Fount
of Every Blessing."
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Oh, it says
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oh, prone to wander
from the God I love,
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prone to take His
presence for granted.
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To grace, how
great a tatter I am.
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Father, take our
hearts and seal it,
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seal them for Your
courts above as the songs says.
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That's my prayer
for every sincere
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hearted seeker of God's
kingdom and God's righteousness.
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Let's return our focus to
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what happened
that September of 1999
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when the Lord first led
me to pray in this manner.
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If someone spends an
hour with God each morning,
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and learn to sit at
His feet and listen.
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Wouldn't you think
that she could expect
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greater spiritual power
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to overcome the
obstacles of sinful flesh?
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Well, in my case it
just wasn't happening
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at least not for
the first two weeks.
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And on the 15th morning
of my new prayer experience,
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I awoke rather late
and I opened the windows
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to the best weather
of September can muster.
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The air was
crisp and golden leaves
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were on the
ground moist with dew
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and they reflected
the sun's sparkling rays.
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Now normally this scene
would have exhilarated me
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but I was feeling
down in the mouth,
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dissatisfied with
my spiritual progress.
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After opening my
prayer with praise,
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I began my ritual of repentance.
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And as I confess my sins,
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I pleaded with God
for more spiritual power.
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And the still small voice of
the Lord broke through saying,
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"All of My promises
are yours in Christ."
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Isn't that what 2
Corinthians 1:20 says?
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It says, "All of the
promises of God in Him,
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in Christ are
Yes, and in Him Amen,
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to the glory of God through us."
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Hallelujah.
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These words struck
like a thunderbolt.
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Of course, God had proven
to me several years earlier
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how affirming His
word, in other words,
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how claiming and
confessing His promises.
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Praying them back to Him,
speaking them over my life,
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that was the way to
plug into His power source.
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So, that September morning,
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I added a generous
portion of life affirmations
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from scripture
to my daily prayer.
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And immediately
I was transformed,
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endued with power from on high.
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The struggle of my
flesh was banished.
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God thrust out the
enemy from before me,
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just as He promised
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in Deuteronomy
33:27, let's read that.
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It says, "The
eternal God is your refuge,
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and underneath are
the everlasting arms,
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He will thrust out
the enemy from before you,
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and will say, 'Destroy!'"
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Hallelujah. That
prayer prevailed.
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My day was
dramatically different.
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Before I went to bed that
night I reviewed the prayer
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and I decided to
label the various segments
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of the portions
that had been produced
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that or that had produced
such a powerful pattern.
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These are the segment labels.
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First was
praise then repentance,
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affirmation,
intercession, supplication
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and the last one I
titled, enter and be still.
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Please note that if you take
the first letter of each word
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we develop an
acronym praise, P-R-A-I-S-E.
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I alternately
referred to this teaching
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as pressing into His
presence or the praise prayer.
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And I may be
over estimating this
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but I believe
that God had a reason
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for directing the segments
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in the special
order that He did.
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And in upcoming
programs, you will learn
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why I think this is true
you can decide for yourself.
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You know I've never been
a fan of prayer formulas.
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There's always the
possibility of developing
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mechanical and
meaningless practices.
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But I don't think of this
teaching as a prayer formula,
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it's just prayer patterns.
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And over the many years of
practicing this type of prayer
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as I've said before it's
never become mechanical for me.
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I often use this pattern
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in a much
shorter prayer as well.
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Please understand I'm
not trying to advocate
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that this is the only
manner in which to pray.
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Prayer is an
intimate communication
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with an intimate being of love
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and it will naturally take
on various forms of expression.
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I send up many
different types of prayer daily
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before His throne of grace.
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But still the
praise prayer pattern
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has been the most
successful I have used
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for pressing into His presence.
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Please don't become discouraged
and tuned out this teaching
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because the thought of praying
an hour a day seems impossible.
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This is not a commandment,
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yes, it will absolutely correct
backsliding if you do it.
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But God doesn't insist
that we pray an hour a day.
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And I know that
so many of our lives
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are so very over schedule.
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I really do appreciate
the challenges facing you.
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In fact, that's my
problem, I experienced the same.
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Is your to-do
list just to demanding
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to accomplish this daily?
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Well, make some time on
your day's off from your job
00:22:24.94\00:22:29.41
and at least you will be
pressing into His presence
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at least on a weekly basis.
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And I guarantee you
once you have tasted
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the sweetness of
praying this way,
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you very well
might see that it's easy
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to make time for it more often.
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Martin Luther, the
priest who initiated
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the protestant
reformation in 1517 A.D.
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he was known as a
devout man of prayer.
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And he reportedly said
this, "Tomorrow I plan to work,
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work from early until late.
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In fact, I have so much to do
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that I shall spend the
first three hours in prayer."
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This testifies
that Luther recognized
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his absolute
dependence on the Lord.
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And did you know
that is God's plan?
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It is something that--
it took me the longest time
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to learn that
that's what it's all about.
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God wants us to come to Him
00:23:37.88\00:23:40.58
and recognize our absolute
total dependence upon Him.
00:23:40.62\00:23:45.55
It is God who works
in us to will and to do.
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It is the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ
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that is sufficient.
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That He makes His power
perfect in our weakness.
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And if we are relying on self,
if we are being independent,
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we're actually insulting God.
00:24:08.71\00:24:12.08
Luther knew to be
dependant upon God.
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And what Luther did
was he finally recognized
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that by His--
keeping this appointment
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he would leverage
his productive time.
00:24:26.39\00:24:30.73
You know, I guarantee you
00:24:30.77\00:24:33.00
that if you will spend an
hour a day in time with God,
00:24:33.03\00:24:39.14
if you'll make this
your highest priority,
00:24:39.17\00:24:42.48
God will
increase your productivity
00:24:42.51\00:24:45.65
and He will make certain
that you accomplish everything
00:24:45.68\00:24:50.69
that you need to do.
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.69
Speaking from experience
I can say that you will be
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much more productive after
pressing into His presence.
00:24:56.62\00:25:00.50
That's why Luther,
oh, he found this out.
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That's why he said,
"I've got so much to do,
00:25:03.00\00:25:05.37
I'm gonna spend
three hours in prayer."
00:25:05.40\00:25:10.27
Well, what I would
like to do right now
00:25:10.31\00:25:13.84
is to say a prayer for you.
00:25:13.88\00:25:16.28
And what I'm going to do
is show you how you can pray
00:25:16.31\00:25:21.62
the praise pattern
in a very short way.
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So bow your
heads and let's pray.
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Father, we thank You for Your
love and Your grace toward us.
00:25:29.79\00:25:34.56
Thank You for the indescribable
00:25:34.60\00:25:37.03
gift of salvation
through Christ Jesus.
00:25:37.07\00:25:40.50
We praise You for Your goodness,
00:25:40.54\00:25:43.20
Your holiness,
Your mercy in power.
00:25:43.24\00:25:46.44
We ask in the name of Jesus
for you to forgive our sins.
00:25:46.47\00:25:51.31
That we may come before You
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.01
with clean hands
and a pure heart.
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We are Your beloved
sheep, we hear Your voice.
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And we will follow You only
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.26
and will never follow
the voice of a stranger.
00:26:02.29\00:26:05.39
I pray for my brothers and
my sisters right now, Lord,
00:26:05.43\00:26:10.17
that anyone who's listening
or watching this series
00:26:10.20\00:26:13.70
that You will send Your
spirit to be their teacher.
00:26:13.74\00:26:17.24
Lead them in
the way everlasting.
00:26:17.27\00:26:20.01
Teach them, teach me
00:26:20.04\00:26:21.94
how to truly press
into Your presence,
00:26:21.98\00:26:24.68
cause us to seek Your face.
00:26:24.71\00:26:28.72
Give us a passion
for Your presence.
00:26:28.75\00:26:32.49
Help us to be still
and know that You are God.
00:26:32.52\00:26:38.56
Give us ears to hear
Your still small voice
00:26:38.59\00:26:42.16
and obey knowing that we can
be confident it is Your voice.
00:26:42.20\00:26:47.67
If what is
impressed upon our hearts
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.90
is in perfect
agreement with Your word.
00:26:49.94\00:26:52.84
Oh, Father, here
we raise our Ebenezer
00:26:52.87\00:26:57.08
and we come in confidence
of Your empowering help.
00:26:57.11\00:27:01.65
In the name of
Your only begotten son,
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Jesus Christ, amen.
00:27:05.35\00:27:09.06
Well, I hope that
today has challenged you.
00:27:09.09\00:27:15.60
I hope that today has
peeked your curiosity.
00:27:15.63\00:27:19.83
And I hope that you will be
joining us for the next time
00:27:19.87\00:27:24.31
because what we're going
to do on our next program
00:27:24.34\00:27:27.98
is we are going to learn
how to enter into His gates,
00:27:28.01\00:27:33.25
the heavenly gates
above with Thanksgiving
00:27:33.28\00:27:36.75
as we approach His
throne of grace boldly
00:27:36.79\00:27:41.36
just as He asked us.
00:27:41.39\00:27:43.53
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:27:43.56\00:27:46.56
And I pray that next time
00:27:46.59\00:27:49.26
we're really gonna get
started on the teaching.
00:27:49.30\00:27:52.47
So when you tune in next time,
00:27:52.50\00:27:54.70
have a pen and your
paper and your Bible handy.
00:27:54.74\00:27:59.07
Until then, may the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:27:59.11\00:28:03.04
the love of the
Father and the fellowship
00:28:03.08\00:28:05.18
of the Holy Spirit
be with you always.
00:28:05.21\00:28:08.22