I want to share with you
something about praying in tongues today that's going
to help you so much in the
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area of stress, anxieties,
worries, and panic attacks. You can be free from
addictions and you can even
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be free from physical
infirmities! You know, God is offering you R&R— God's
rest and refreshing. In the
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midst of a world full of
stress, worries, anxieties, with bad news almost every
day, we are to be aware but
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make sure there's strength
on the inside so that you don't get depressed from the
outside. When we pray in the Spirit, we are praying
beyond the boundaries and
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limitations of our
knowledge. You have a hotline to God Himself!
Hallelujah!
01 Introducing the wonderful gift of praying in tongues
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Now I want to share with you
something about praying in tongues today that’s going
to help you so much amen, in
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the area of stress,
anxieties, worries, panic
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attacks, as well as physical
troubles, in terms of infirmities, chronic
illness, or even disease. So
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tongues is a gift from God,
and here and there you will hear me say, weapon from
God, or a device, instrument
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from heaven, made in heaven,
amen. When God gives something like oxygen, it’s
amazing. When God gives
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something, you know, it has
so many, so many, it has myriads of uses. Like oxygen
can be used of course to
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live, for you to breathe
into your lungs amen. It can propel machines and
vehicles, pneumatic drills
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for example, pneuma. The
word pneuma is air, wind, and wind can propel ships
and boats, and, it can do a
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lot, myriads of things, just
from one creation of God. Air. Right? When man
creates, man create one
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thing, and then he had to
create a few things to maintain the one thing that
he created. Like your smart
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phone. When you bring your
smart phone you travel wherever you go, you gotta
bring along your charger.
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Right? You bring along your,
man creates computers, they got to bring everything else
that comes with the computer. That’s why my, my
in my travels, my hotel room
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look like a small hospital.
With all kinds of tubes coming out here and there,
plus there’s a special
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light, the lightings in
hotel rooms are terrible. I think they meant for hotel
rooms to be romantic.
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Alright? And me having
Pastor Daniel, Pastor Lawrence, and sometimes,
Pastor Mark down there
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definitely it’s not romantic
ok? But they know that it’s hard for me to prepare my
messages and all that that
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I’m speaking at the
conference, in that kind of lighting. So they always
bring for me a lamp, like a
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lamp stand, or something
like that, that will help brighten up you know, my
reading and all that. Then
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they have like, a lot of
kinda like sockets and all that, all the wires all over
the place and there are so
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many things to maintain.
Amen. That’s man’s creation. Man creates something,
there’s a lot of things to maintain it. God creates one
thing, has many uses. God is
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a giver amen. So God give
you the gift of tongues. Today I’m gonna focus on one
benefit that I think that
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many of us have been robbed
off. You may have that word in you last time but has the
devil robbed you of that
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word? The first thing the
devil comes is to rob you of that word. And that’s the
area of benefit. There are
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many benefits to praying in
tongues. For example, and I may touch on this in the
weeks to come, but let’s say
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you’re praying for your
child. Your child has gone, the school has re-opened
right? This week. Amen. Some
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parents say Hallelujah. So
the thing is that your child is going to school, but
supposing you’re praying and
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all of a sudden your prayer
changes and you’re praying in English alright? You’re
praying in English, you understand what you’re
saying, and then the Holy
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Spirit is inspiring you,
giving you a vision about an impending accident that may
happen to your child. What
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do you do? Straightaway you
start praying for your child’s protection right?
But not only that, knowing the propensity of human
nature, you’ll want not only
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pray for your child, you’ll
say, “This week you’re not going to school.” Amen.
Because why? You are afraid,
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because of what you know
now. Sometimes what you know can cause you to be afraid.
But supposing you have a
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language, that you don’t
even know you’re praying this, that the devil has
planned in such a way
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alright, to harm your child,
and he’s prepared this drunken, drunk driving and
all that, the devil has prepared him on the same
day, at the same time your
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child is coming out, so he’s
prepared the whole thing and all that, and you’re praying
this, and you’re singing (Ps Prince sings in tongues),
I’m praying for my child
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Lord. I pray that the
drunken driver will not be there at the right place at
the right time for my child.
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Father in Jesus’ name, and
you’re singing, you’re happy, you’re cooking amen?
You’re changing diapers, or you’re working and you’re
walking along, and you’re
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carrying your file and
you’re praying for your child who is in danger this
coming week and you don’t even know it. Now which is
more stressful? The first
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prayer in English or the
prayer in the spirit? Of course the one in English
right? Cause you’re praying
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for your future yet do not
know what’s happening amen. I can’t begin to tell you
how God gave birth to this
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message of grace of this
rediscovery of the gospel of grace during a season of me
praying in tongues. Amen. If
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God had told me much earlier
in my secondary school that I’ll be addressing literally
millions of people all over
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the world via television and
through other means and all that, I would definitely
give it up. I would not
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have, want to be, in the
ministry at all ok? Because I’m so afraid of crowds
amen, but I learn to pray in
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tongues amen. And I was
praying for my future. And one day as I stood before
thousands of people, God says, “This is what you
prayed for 10 years ago, 20
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years ago.” Amen. So when we
pray in the spirit, we are praying beyond the
boundaries and the
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limitations of our
knowledge. Amen. You are praying for the future. You
can pray for the future. You can even pray for the past,
when that fear came in and
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all that. You do not know
why you’re experiencing today, you can’t fight, you
can’t ward off, you can’t shake off that fear of
timidity. And God the Holy
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Spirit is helping you reach
out and healing that part of you, and God is able to
reach into the future and
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touch that, because God is
timeless. Or exactly He’s outside time because He
created time. That’s why the
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cross as far as God is
concerned, happened only yesterday. The freshness
must be there when you take the Communion. It’s not like
something 2,000 years ago.
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That’s a language, and a
comprehension of man’s idea
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of time. God lives outside
time. So friends listen. When you pray in tongues,
today I focus on one
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benefit, not about
intercession. The benefit is how it builds up your body.
And keep you alright, in a
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place where you’re built up
so that stress, worry, fear, anxiety, panic attacks will
not have anymore leeway, or
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anymore, victory over your
life. You can be free from addictions, and you can even
be free from physical
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infirmities. Are you ready?
So can we just focus on this one area first amen? And in
the days to come if the
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Spirit of God sees fit to
focus on this, we’ll focus on other benefits. There are
myriads of benefits like I
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said. One gift, amazing
benefits. First, I just want to say real quick, that
there are certain
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denominations that say,
“Well, don’t pray in tongues, it’s of the devil,
and when you pray in tongues, you are praying to
the devil.” All you got to
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do is read 1st Corinthians
14, verse 2 and 3 it says very clearly, “He who prays
in an unknown tongue speaks
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not unto man, but unto God.”
Not unto the devil!. Unto to
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God! And this same people
will say, “We must go by the Word of God. We must go by
the Bible.” The Bible says,
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“He that speaks in an
unknown tongue, speaks not unto man, but unto God.” You
have a hot line to God
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Himself. Hallelujah! So, put
aside man’s opinions, put aside all the denominational
prejudices, and focus on the
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Word of God. Amen. Rest.
Jesus Himself says, “These signs will follow them that
believe. In My name, they
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will speak with new tongues.
They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall
recover.” Those same people
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that don’t believe in
praying in tongues, invariably always it’s
connected. If they don’t believe in praying in
tongues, they don’t see the
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gifts of healing operate.
They don’t see the sick healed under their ministry.
So they must come up with
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excuses for that. Amen? But
it’s always together. Those who believe in praying in
tongues see a lot of
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healings happen in their
ministry. Amen? “Well it doesn’t matter to me Pastor
Prince.” It matters when your child is sick one day
and medical science has no
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cure. You come and tell me
then it doesn’t matter. So put aside all these
denominational prejudices
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and go with the Word of God.
Can I have a good amen people? 1st Corinthians 14
verse 4, “He who speaks in a
02 Repair and strengthen your body with this gift
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tongue edifies himself.”
Say. “Edifies.” The word
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‘edifies’ is made of, the
etymology of this word comes from two Latin words
alright? Aedi fi. Aedes is
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actually a house, or a
building. Like edify can be an edifice, a tall building,
a large building. So the
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word ‘edify’ the etymology
is from the Latin aedes which is house or building.
Ficare, fi, fis, alright for
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the word ‘built, construct.’
Put them together it is the word ‘to construct or to
repair, to build a house.’
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Today we say edify in terms
of, “Well Pastor Prince, your message today was
edifying.” In other words, morally comforting, morally
inspiring or whatever, or we
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think in terms, we don’t
think in terms of physical ok? But the root word
actually is ‘physical.’ It’s referring to a building. In
fact in the Greek, this word
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here, in the Greek ‘edifies’
is the word ‘oikodomeo.’ ‘Oikos’ is a house, a
building. ‘Domeo’ is to
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build the building. Amen?
‘Domeo’. In Italy you see a lot of domeo. Alright?
Building. Dome, domeo.
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Oikosdomeo, to build a
house. Oikos, a house. “Oh well Pastor Prince, we are
not houses.” Heh heh.
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Alright we are. We are
temples. You know which part of you is a temple, oh my
spirit, that’s what we’ve
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been told. Your spirit is
not a temple, your body is a temple. Look at 1st
Corinthians 6, “Or do you not know that your body is
the temple,” your what?
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“Your body. Your body is the
temple. Now I know the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirit
but doesn’t say your spirit
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is the temple. You cannot
find in the Bible it says, your spirit is the temple.
It says your body is the
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temple. Your soma in the
Greek, your body, not your
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psyche, alright, not your
pneuma. Your soma,
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psychosomatic conditions you
know, from your mind. But soma is body for Greek. So
it says, “Do you not know
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that your soma, your body is
the temple. And the word ‘temple’ here is not the
outward precincts of the
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temple. The word ‘temple’
here is the Holy of Holies, and the holy place. This is
literally the sanctuary.
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Your body is the Holy of
Holies. Your body is the holy place of God. Your body
is the temple of God. And
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God wants His temple
beautiful. God wants His temple clean. God wants His
temple holy. God wants, the
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word ‘whole,’ ‘healthy’,
‘healthy’ comes from that old word that says ‘hale’
which is the word ‘whole,
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complete, healthy.’ Amen.
Healed, complete, completeness. God wants your
body complete. Amen. So back
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then God will say, “Your
body is today the temple of the Holy Spirit.” Are you
listening? So go back to 1st
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Corinthians 14 verse 4, “He
who speaks in a tongue oikodomeo’ builds himself.”
Another thing is that the
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mistake we make and I grew
up amongst some great teachers who taught on
praying in tongues, but I
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think where the emphasis was
wrong was this. They say that, “When you pray in
tongues, you charge your spirit.” Now thank God your
spirit is charged. But not
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just your spirit, doesn’t
say he will build, he speaks in a tongue, builds up his
spirit, but himself.
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‘Himself’ means what? All of
you. Now which part of you is the temple? Your body.
Especially your body. Why is
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this teaching important?
Because had we preached like this, people will know every
time they pray in tongues,
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and the devil says, “You are
just making it up. Stop it.” And they get discouraged
they stop it, they don’t realise that they’re
stopping their health.
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They’re stopping their
wholeness. They’re stopping their health from springing
forth speedily. Are you
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listening people? Amen? So
it’s important we hear the Word. Somehow people have
this idea that when you pray
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in tongues only your spirit
is being charged. And I think they got this idea
from 1st, same chapter but
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later on verse 14 says, “If
I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays.” Which part
of you pray? My spirit
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prays—so they—they think
that, "Oh, that is the part that got charged." No, it is
just telling you which part of you is praying when you
pray in tongues. When you
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pray in English, your
mind—you must know the words, right? Your mind is
praying. But when you pray in tongues, which part of
you is praying? Your spirit
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is praying. Are you
listening? Your spirit is praying. Doesn't say your
spirit is the one that gets
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edified, but your spirit is
praying. But which part of you gets edified? Back to
verse 4. "Edifies himself."
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And because the word
"edified", "oikodomeo" means "building, constructing or
repairing a house or
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building" - which part of
your—your person is the temple? Your body. That
means when you pray in tongues, you are preparing
your building. You are
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constructing, you are
repairing your body. Ladies, why do you put on make-up?
Ok, make-up. Why do you put
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on moisturiser and things
like that? Repair man. Repair. It is all about
repair, right? A moisturiser
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is to moisturise, but I
guess when you have something else that can
repair, it is even better, right? Right? Father,
forgive all these liars here
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in this house here today, in
Jesus' name. Alright, one more time. Alright, we apply
stuff to repair, right? Now,
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we believe that if we imbibe
a pill, or a capsule for beauty, it is better that
beauty comes from within,
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right? God has a better way.
What if I tell you, your body, your face is also the
temple of God? Huh? And the
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Bible says you can repair
your body by praying in tongues. Are you listening?
Alright. Let's drop down.
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Same chapter, but let's drop
down to verse 21. Then the apostle Paul quotes from the
Old Testament, from the
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prophet Isaiah specifically,
"In the law it is written, "With men of other tongues
and other lips, I will speak
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to these people," and yet
for all that, they will not hear Me, says the Lord."
Unfortunately, a segment of
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God's people, even, will not
hear Him when it comes to praying in tongues. And the
context here is tongues
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because the next verse says
"..Therefore tongues are for a sign." So it is very clear
it is talking about praying in tongues, ok? He is
quoting the Old Testament.
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Whenever the Holy Spirit
quotes the Old Testament, it will do us—it will pay us
good. It will benefit us for us to look at the quotation.
So let's go to that
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quotation in the Old
Testament. It is from Isaiah 28. "For with stammering
lips and another tongue,
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will I—" will God speak to
these people. Ever felt like your tongue, sometimes, it
is like stammering lips?
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Dededededeshabadededede....
You say, "Pastor, my tongues is not like Pastor
Lawrence's tongues, so smooth, so fluent." Hey,
yours get first priority -
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stammering lips, alright?
Pastor Lawrence and Pastor Mark's one is another
tongue, amen? And is—who is
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speaking? God is speaking.
God will speak to these people. To whom God said,
now watch this. Now, there
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is an additional benefit.
That’s why you—it always pays you well to look up the
reference. And the context
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here says, God is saying,
"This is the rest," definite article - ha menuchah -
definite article. "This is
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the rest which you may cause
the weary to rest. And this
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is the—" margeah, "the
refreshing, yet they would not hear." You know, God is
offering you R&R - rest and
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refreshing. Guys, you all
know right, after your—your—your term and
exercise in the field and
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all that, overseas, you have
an R&R days, right? Rest and refreshing. Literally, rest
and recreation. This is
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God's rest and refreshing.
God is saying, "This is the rest," 'the' is the definite
article. And the word 'rest'
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here is actually the word
menuchah. It helps you to remember the menuchah honey?
Alright, same pronunciation.
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Menuchah, alright, menuchah.
This is the menuchah. In other words, there is a
place of rest. In the midst
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of a world full of stress,
worries, anxieties with bad news almost every day, amen?
Some bad news, some fake
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news and all kinds of news,
you know? Put in a mix and the threat of war, rumours
of wars and all kinds of
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terror, you know, attacks
and things like that. It is very easy for our hearts to
be fearful but God says
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there is a place called
menuchah. This is the rest
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and the whole context there
is referring to stammering lips and another tongue.
When you pray in tongues,
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you literally tranquilise
yourself. You bring yourself to a resting place. And this
word 'resting place', God
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says, this is the place you
may cause the weary to rest. A lot of people are weary.
They are tired. They are
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ti—they are just tired. If
you read Daniel, it says that the spirit of the
anti-Christ, in the last
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days, will weary the saints
of the Most High. Weary the
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saints. They will wear out
the saints of the Most High. The devil, one of the things
the devil does is that he
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just wears you out. He wears
you out. You read things in social media, it wears you
out. You hear bad news, it
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wears you out. Amen? Just
wears you out. When they call evil, good and good,
evil. It wears you out. So the saints of the end times
will be worn out. But the
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Bible says this is the rest
with which you may cause the weary to rest. To rest here
is nuach. Menuchah is a
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noun, nuach is a verb. Nuach
is the name Noah. And when
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grace was first mentioned,
it says "Noah found grace". In other words, rest finds
grace in the eyes of the
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Lord. God loves it when you
rest. When you rest, you are saying, "God, I am trusting
You. God I am not working
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but you are working. Lord, I
am not doing but you are doing." God loves it. That
is why rest finds grace in
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the eyes of the Lord. Rest,
Menuchah is also the place of the Promise Land for the
believer today. The Old
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Testament, the Promise Land
is the land where they will enter the land and drink
from wells they did not dig,
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eat from vineyards they did
not plant. Live in houses they did not build. In other
words, the promise land is a
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literal land of which they
did not do the work. That is
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why
today? Our rest today, in Hebrews, is actually the
rest of God. Watch this.
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This same word, Menuchah, in
Psalms, it says, "God swore in My wrath," about the
children of Israel that
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refused to believe Him,
alright, God says, "Enter the land," what I have just
told you just now, "I have given you a land flowing,"
not just filled, but
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flowing. Idea of
over—superfluence, abundance, superfluous, it
is exceeding and flowing
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with milk and honey. And yet
they say, "No, I—I—you know, God hates us, that is why
God brought us to this land." And it broke God's
heart. And God says, "I
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swore in My wrath, they will
not enter my rest." Hebrew -
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menuchah. And the
interesting thing is that Hebrews 4 talks about this
same passage and says, "Let
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us labour therefore to enter
the rest." I wonder if the labour is praying in tongues
because praying in tongues
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sometimes it is like a
labour. When you pray, pray, pray, pray, after one day
people ask you, "Any change?" "Yes. Dry mouth.
Tired tongue." Then you
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pray, pray, pray, another
two more days. "Is there any change in your body?" Yes.
"What is it?" Blur. Tired.
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Amen? And spiritually,
alright, it seems like nothing is happening and
there is a spiritual attack
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on you. The devil is saying,
"Give up. Give up! You are just making it up. Stop it!
Stop it!" And you are still praying in tongues, and all
of a sudden you realise
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something is happening but
deep down inside first. Because long before God
removes your disease, long
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before God removes your
depression, long before God destroys that addiction in
your life, alright, by you
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praying in tongues—first of
all, the first few days I believe, He is dealing with
your fears, your panic
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attacks, your anxieties,
your depression, your stress. And that is why,
after you pray in tongues
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for the first day, you don't
say, "Well, the pain is still there. The condition
is still there." No, God is dealing from the inside out.
I will show you more of
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this. And I am telling you,
people, listen carefully. Stress is becoming a real
problem especially in these
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last days. Jesus says,
"Men's hearts," and I believe He was referring to
the literal heart. It is
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hard to find whether the
Bible is referring to a literal heart or a spiritual
heart because both use the word 'cardia' in the Greek.
So Jesus says, "Men's cardia
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will fail because of the
fear of looking at what is coming up upon the earth."
So be careful when you look
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at the news and things like
that, alright, we are not saying put our heads in the
sand like a, like an ostrich
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and all that, pretend things
don't exist. No, we are to be aware but make sure that
there is a strength on the inside that you don't get
depressed on the outside.
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Now imma read to you...
I like to read the
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latest. Now, this is the
seventh edition of this periodical that was
released, alright, called Brain Facts. It is released
by the Society for
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Neuroscience, alright? A
study of the brain and the nervous system. So this is
the seventh edition because
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they have new discoveries.
Do you know that scientists are still studying the
brain. You know that? What
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they should do is study
Pastor Mark's brain. That would be really exciting. He
is in China now, preaching.
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Alright, from Brain Facts.
This is what they said: What do standing frustrated in a
supermarket check-out—in a
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supermarket check-out line,
or sitting in a traffic jam have in common with fleeing
predators, as was done in
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the early days of human
beings? So we all understand right? I mean queuing up for
coming to church or queuing
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at the supermarket and all
that? What has this got to do with fight or flight
response, right? Clearly,
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these activities are very
different yet they provoke the same responses in the
body. The release of
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hormones, and these hormones
are glucocorticoids and epinephrine - two chemical
secretions, alright, two
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hormones released by your
adrenal - to improve memory, boost immune function,
enhance muscular activity
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and restore physiological
balance. Now, over long periods of time, for a
while, it’s ok. You know, if
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you see a snake right, and
the snake has reared its ugly head at you. You don't
say, "Hi, how are you? I didn't mean to bump your
way." Alright, you run,
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amen? The adrenal glands
release your—your corticoids and all that, and your
epinephrine, to make you
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run, amen? Amen? So
your—your—your blood pressure rises, your heart
rate increases, and you run.
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It is either fight or
flight. But it is talking about over long periods of
time. If everything in life,
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even driving down the road
here in Singapore. If driving down the road in
Dallas or anywhere you are
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at. If everything frustrates
you, if everything makes you
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anxious—my wife just
reminded me the other day—if everything, especially on
the road, if everything you
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are frustrated by, you are
hostile about, then listen. Over long periods of time,
as these hormones continue
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to be released, the
consequences can be negative. Memory is
impaired. Immune function is
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suppressed and energy is
stored as fat. Overexposure
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to glucocorticoids leads to
weakened muscles. Elevated
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glucocorticoids and
epinephrine contribute to hypertension - high blood
pressure, arteriosclerosis -
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hardening of the arteries.
Doing my best here. And abdominal obesity, don't
look down. Epinephrine also
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increases the release and
activity of body chemicals that cause inflammation,
adding to the body's chronic
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stress burden. This
continual chemical activity can lead to arthritis and
accelerated aging of the
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brain. These findings have
been verified in animal experiments. Aging rats
showed impaired neuron
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function in the hippocampus,
an area of the brain important for learning,
memory and emotion. As a
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result of an increase
glucocorticoids secretion throughout their lives.
Overexposure to
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glucocorticoids also
increases the number of neurons damaged by stroke.
Moreover, prolonged
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glucocorticoids exposure
before or immediately after birth causes a decrease in
the normal number of brain
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neurons and smaller brain
size. If you are pregnant, if you are about to give
birth, don't be stressed.
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What do you do? Ok, what
more, scientists have identified a variety of
stress related disorders
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including high blood
pressure, clogged arteries, impotency and loss of sex
drive in males, irregular
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menstrual cycles in female,
colitis, and adult onset
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diabetes. Familiar, these
few days? Stress also can
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contribute to sleep loss
when people get caught in a vicious cycle, elevated
glucocorticoids, delaying
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the onset of sleep. And
sleep deprivation, raising glucocorticoid levels. So
this is from Brain Facts by
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the Society of Neuroscience.
Now, many of it, of course,
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they will not deal with
supernatural, they cannot. I am telling you, the devil's
means is always to stress
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you out. The devil is trying
to wear you out, it is
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trying—you cannot fight
against supernatural forces
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with natural means. You
can—you can—you can offset
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or put down for a while the
outward symptoms of stress.
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You can take medicine, there
are also anxiety related pills and medicine. There
are sleeping tablets and all
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that, but these—and I thank
God for doctors and all those people who take time
to relieve the sufferings of
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humanity, I thank God for
that. But one thing, if you are dealing with the devil,
and he is supernatural, you have got to have
supernatural means. From
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heaven comes this weapon. Do
you think for one moment, God who designed us, and God
put liver there for a
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reason. God put kidneys
there for a reason. There are people who take away—who
have no problem with their appendix, they take out
their appendix. I think
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there is a reason why God
put appendix there. Try not to take it out. Don't try to
take out too many things.
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Pastor Mark tried a part of
his brain last time, and I told him until now, he said,
"Huh?" Anyway—nah, I am just
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teasing, ok? You know, he
loves it when I tease him. Pastor Mark. He loves it. He
says, "Pastor, you make me
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famous." He said. That is
why, I told you, that is a case in point right now, he
believes he is being famous
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when he is being made fun
of. Ok, anyway, God says
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this is the rest and the
refreshing. When you pray in tongues, there is a rest,
there is a release. There is an untying of the knots on
the inside when you go,
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(Pastor prays in tongues).
You need supernatural means. Now, if the means to combat
stress and panic attacks and depression and anxiety must
depend on you being on one
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location where there—there
is running river, and there is greeneries, and there is
a mountain and all that,
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then you know what? What is
going to happen when you come back
luxury, they have the money
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to be able to spend time, to
take time to go somewhere abroad and—and relax, even
then for a while. Because
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wherever you go, there you
are. You know, you can be in a beautiful setting and yet
you are worried inside. So
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you cannot depend on that.
It must be something more portable, that you can bring
this weapon, you can bring
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this—this gift wherever you
go. And you can operate with loud sounds, blaring horns,
children crying out for your
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attention. In the midst of
all the hustle and bustle, alright, the frantic pace,
you can still pray in
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tongues and experience the
Menuchah. The rest. The word
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"you may cause the weary the
rest", I said just now, "rest", same word as nuach,
Noah—and the first mention
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is nuach, the noun is Noah,
alright, nuach was first mentioned when the ark
rested on Mount Ararat. And
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the date is given. It is
exactly the date Jesus rose from the dead. In other
words, rest is not possible
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until Jesus rose from the
dead. Have you noticed that in the Old Testament, David
never prayed in tongues.
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Elijah never spoke in
tongues. Hezekiah never spoke in tongues. None of
the prophets, not even
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Daniel spoke in tongues.
Only after Jesus rose from the dead, for the first
time, the gift of tongues
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was given. Could it be,
could it be, people, alright, it is something
very unique, because it is
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tied up with grace. It is a
gift of grace. It is a grace gift that will help you in
all your—the affairs of
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life. Can I have a good
amen? Uh, not long ago,
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there was a—in fact quite
long ago because this was 2006. I always think
same study they did. But YouTube will give you the
summarised version. It’s done by ABC. By the way they
did this study of the people
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who are speaking in tongues.
And the university of Pennsylvania, a doctor
there, by all my studies on
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him, he doesn’t seem to be a
Christian. He’s not a Christian. And he is Dr
Andrew Newberg. Alright. Now
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Dr Andrew is also the
adjunct professor there, alright, nuclear, nuclear
medicine. He special- He is
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the professor there in
University of Pennsylvania and he decide to make this
study of people who have
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this activity he called
praying in tongues. So he had five subjects to put all
the electrodes on to study
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the blood flow of the brain.
Ok. I don’t want to tell you the title of the YouTube in
case you want to look at it.
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Because I know you all. You
are looking at it now. You’ll start looking up now.
So maybe later on. So
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anyway, let me tell you what
they discovered. They chose five subjects to pray in
tongues. Ok. One, you can
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say, well, maybe er, you
know, it was a fake thing after all. The guy is just
faking it. But five, not
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knowing each other, they all
prayed in tongues. So he made a study to study the
blood flow. Now Dr Andrew
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Newberg said to the people
of ABC. Actually the study showed this. Now when you
pray, when you speak, your
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speech centre is in the
frontal lobe, the frontal lobe of your head. Ok? So
when you are talking,
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actually, when you are
thinking about words to sing and all that, your frontal
lobe lights or the blood
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flow there. You can see the
blood flow. They can have this imaging on screen. They
can see the blood flow. Ok.
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But they say this. Every
other religious practice, whether its meditation or
singing hymns, you can see
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the blood flow there in the
front. Let me use his own words, ok, I don’t want to
put words in his mouth. So
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I’m going to read his quote.
“Our brain imaging research
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shows us,” these are his own
words. This doctor, who is not a believer. He says,
“Our brain imaging research
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shows us that these subjects
are not in control of the usual language centres
during this activity of
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praying in tongues.” Do you
hear that? The Bible says, “When I pray in an unknown
tongue (who prays?), my
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spirit by the Holy Spirit,
prays.” So he says, “Their frontal lobe is not light
up.” In other words, they
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are not controlling and yet
there is a self-awareness.
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Which means they are not,
they haven’t lost, they didn’t lose control of their
body. Then he says this, these are his words. “These
findings could be
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interpreted as the subject’s
sense of self being taken over by something else.” If
he is a Christian, he will
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say someone else. Can you
see that? “We, scientifically assumed its
being taken over by another
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part of the brain but we
couldn’t see where this took place. The fact that this
occurred in all five
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candidates is very
significant.” So this is very interesting. “We,
scientifically assumed its
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being taken over by another
part of the brain but we couldn’t see where this took
place.” So who do you think
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is the one giving the words?
The Holy Spirit. And they can’t find any part of the
brain that is producing it.
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Isn’t this interesting? “And
all five showed the same result.” Mmm. Isn’t this
great? Isn’t this amazing?
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Many years ago, I was
preaching on praying in tongues in our church. In
fact it was during that
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season that God gave me the
gospel of grace in a powerful way and I did a
first series on wisdom in
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the 90s. And then after
that, in the early 2003, I began to pray in tongues and
teach that to our church. In
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fact we had months of a
series on praying in tongues, or teaching on
praying in tongues.
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Somewhere during that time,
I met this brother, who is
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now a leader in my church, a
leader of good standing. At
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that time, he shared this
testimony. I was well aware of his circumstances and all
that. And he shared about
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how, for a number of years,
he was not able to sleep properly. So much that he
only can sleep only one, or
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at the most, two hours at
night. So the doctors gave him sleeping tablets. It
came to a place where he
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took three sleeping tablets
and still slept one to two hours. Then he increased it
to six sleeping tablets. And
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again only slept at the
most, two hours. Then he
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said after some time, he
developed sinusitis. The right side of his, the, the,
his facial cavity, cheekbone
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cavity had a lot of mucus.
And he had to go… In fact he had two operations over that
condition. And he had to go
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to the hospital to have it
drained. All this while, his job was being affected. His
money was also being
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drained. Amen. And then the
doctors gave him something, some antibiotics, and some
painkillers and all that to
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combat sinusitis. And he
took those stuff. And then those stuff caused him
of a sudden, he felt he was
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besieged by panic attacks.
So much so that he cannot go to work. He cannot even step
out of the house, he told
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me. He cannot even take a
bus. He started worrying and started… er, er, er. The
amazing thing is that his
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appetite fell but he put on
ten kgs. Almost after days, he put on ten kgs. He didn’t
understand. He was not
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eating well, and you know,
it’s like panic attack, gastritis, sinusitis. Can’t
sleep at night. And the
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panic attacks. And it got
worse and worse, the panic attacks. So much so the wife
has to stay home and with
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the kids here and there,
helping him to cope with the problem. And then he came to
a place when he was going to
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the doctor again. And the
doctor gave him some tablets for anti-anxiety. He says
all in all, he took about 30
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medicine in one day. You can
verify with him. I will tell you his name in a while’s
time. And he said that it was terrible. And one day as
he was showering, he told
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me, he heard God speaking to
him. And God said to him, “Son, pray in tongues. Pray
in tongues.” And he said I
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only managed to get a few
syllables out in tongues. And the few syllables
brought rest immediately.
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Just a few syllables.
Shoknfaldafddaml…. It brought rest immediately.
Then I loved it. I began to
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pray more. And as I prayed
more, I found that one by one, all my symptoms start
to dissipate. Not
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immediately but slowly. Then
I found that gastritis was gone. After for a while, the
sinus problem was taken care
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of. And all of a sudden, he
find, he found himself free from depression, anxiety and
from the panic attacks. And
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he told me, “Pastor Prince,
every day I did two things only. Pray in tongues and
listen to your message. Pray
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in tongues. Listen to your
message. Pray in tongues. Listen to your message. And
every one of those problems
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are no more. Today I sleep
peacefully.” He got a good job. In fact the Lord told
him, “What, what do you like
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to do?” “I would like to
repair computers,” he says. Then God says, “Do a job
repairing computers.” And he
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did that. The last I know is
that he is doing well. I do not know if he is in
different sector now. But he is today a brother of good
standing, a leader, a care
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group leader in our church.
And blessing many people and ministering to people with
addictions. Amen. And it all
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started with a little
trickle of water, rivers of living water. A few
syllables. They became a
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rivulet, they became a
river, and a torrential river, waterfall right into
the ocean. Praise God. Start
05 The prayer weapon that heals you from the inside out
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praying in the Spirit. I
believe, I believe, the first few days when you pray
in the Spirit, the Spirit is not battling the problem you
have, not the panic attack,
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not the depression, not the
addiction, not your physical disease. I believe that it’s
battling your fears. It is
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clearing out your stress,
worries, anxieties. I
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believe God wants to do
something inside before He touches your body. Are you
listening? And for that I’m
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going to show you a, a
template and then we are going to close. Are you all
blessed so far? Do you feel
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like going
shfalheohganladka… If you don’t pray in the Spirit,
you don’t pray in tongues,
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don’t worry, at the end to
the service, you will. It’s a gift, it’s a grace gift.
Kanfafjldaheohabfad. Ladies,
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every time you put that
expensive cosmetic, go ahead, put it on, put it on,
you know. Even an old house,
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you put the painting also
looks good. Alright. Put it on. Alright. But how about
God’s way. Praying in the
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Spirit. Repair. Repair your
temple. Your temple. Amen. The temple of God. Glorify
God in your body. Praise
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God. Now why is it that God
filled the Old Testament with so many stories of the
temple? Is it that God wants
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us to build a temple? Is it
a physical building? We know the church is a collection
of God’s people. This is the greatest organisation in the
whole universe. And it’s
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eternal. Will be forever.
Will be forever, I said. XYZ
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company, if there is one, I
just happen to illustrate. So XYZ company will not last
forever. But the church will
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be forever. That’s in the
Bible. Amen. Everything that was prophesied about the
Judah. Born in Bethlehem
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Ephrata. There were two
Bethlehems in Israel. One Bethlehem in Galilee, one
Bethlehem Ephrata. It’s
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definitely mentioned Ephrata
Bethlehem. He will born, alright, from the lineage of
David. Mary came from the
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line of David. Joseph came
from the line of David. So the lineage of David. Very
specifically, it mentions
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that. There will be a star
coming out. Balaam
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prophesied that long before
Jesus came. A star is there. When Jesus was crucified, it
says, “They pierced My hands
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and feet.” When? David said
those words, the Psalmist David said those words “They
pierced My hands and feet”
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in Psalms 22. Crucifixion
was not even an idea. The
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Romans haven’t invented it.
Actually the Romans didn’t invent it. It came from the
Phoenicians, who invented it later. But at the time of
David, 3,000 years ago, it
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wasn’t even a device. “They
pierced My hands and feet.”
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And it opens up with, “My
God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?” The cry of
Jesus at the cross. So every
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prophecy of the first coming
has come to past. Why is it… I’ll close with this. Why is
it that the Bible has so
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many stories about the
temple? Why? Because it’s telling you, not just a
temple, physical. Back then,
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it’s a real temple of
Solomon. But it’s telling you about your body, right?
So can we learn something from here? Yes, there is a
story there in the book of
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Chronicles, second
Chronicles, where it talks about King Ahaz. King Ahaz
was a wicked king of Judah.
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He didn’t walk in the ways
of his father David. What he did was he worshipped idols
and he worshipped all kinds of er, er, er deities,
except for the true God. And God came against this man
and the first thing he did
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against God, the first thing
King Ahaz did, he shut the doors of the temple.
Alright. You will find that
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in second Chronicles 28. Now
we look at second Chronicles 29. As a result, Israel went
into, was plunged into
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darkness. The women and the
children had all kinds of bondage coming on them. Bad
things happen. But Ahaz
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died. Sometimes it’s the
mercy of God when someone just pcheup. Ahaz died. And
he has a son called Hezekiah, which became the,
one of the godliest kings of
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Judah. Amen. He brought
revival to Israel. And when he was, when he ascended the
throne, he was only 25 years
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old. Young people, listen.
Look up here. You can be young and be used of God. He
was only 25 years old. And
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the first year of his reign,
in the very first month of his reign, this is what he
did. “In the first year of
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his reign, in the first
month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and
repaired them.” The very
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first thing he did, he
opened the door that his father shut. You know why
his father shut the doors?
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Because they were doing all
kinds of abominable things in the holy of holies, in
the holy place. They brought
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all kinds of defilements,
all kinds of filth, all kinds of uncleanness into
the temple. Amen. And the
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filth is still there. And he
shut the door with all the filth inside. Here is a
picture of you and I. We got
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so much baggage on the
inside, emotional baggage. Stress, worry, fear,
anxiety. These are all
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uncleanness. As well as
disease, sickness. You know in the Old Testament, they
don’t really say… They do
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here and there, they used
the word disease and sickness. They do. But most
of the time, ceremoniously in the temple and all that
or in the precincts of
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Jerusalem, they use the
word… When somebody has leprosy, they don’t say
‘disease’, they say ‘uncleanness’. And that’s
why Jesus touch the leper,
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He didn’t say, “Be healed.”
Jesus says, “Be clean.” But the man was healed of
leprosy. And the way they
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cleanse was water. Jesus
says when the Holy Spirit comes, He’s like the rivers
of living water. Living
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because wherever He touches,
there will be life. Mmm? And
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that’s what happened on the
Day of Pentecost. Now watch this. The very first thing
evil King Ahaz did was shut
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the doors. The very first
thing his son, Hezekiah did was to open the doors. When
you open the door, then you
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can bring out all the filth.
Right? Question. If the temple back then, a literal
temple, is a picture of… What is a temple today? Our,
our bodies. Our bodies are
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the temple of God, right?
What is the door? What is the open door? What is
shutting the door and what
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is opening the door? Which
part, if our body is the temple, which part is the
door? No, your hair is not
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the door. If your hair is
the door, some of us have got no more doors left. Try
again. Mouth. Mouth. Very
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good. When you are talking
to Pastor Prince, and Pastor Prince always ask for Bible.
Do you have a Bible verse
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for that? That the door is
the mouth, and the mouth is the door? Yes, let me save
you the time. Psalms 141.
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David says that of God. “Oh
Lord, over my mouth, keep watch over the door of my
lips. Keep watch over the
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door of my lips.” When King
Ahaz shut the door, he kept all the disease, all the
uncleanness inside, alright.
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Back then, it was literal
uncleanness. But today, alright, when, when Hezekiah
open the door. So your
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first, first step of your,
your, your, your addictions and out of your panic
attacks, and your depression
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and your anxieties and your
worries and cares, open the door. Hey, I am not
referring some of you, what
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you are doing when I am
preaching, ok. Opening the door. That’s not opening the
door. I know, I know, I see
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your grand canyon. I’m not
referring to that. I am
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referring to speaking. Amen.
First… By the way. The
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following chapter is the
revival after revival after revival. Revivals like not,
since the days of the early
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years, it says, Hezekiah
brought revival. All began with opening the door. Do
you see that? Amen. So the
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door of my lips. Ok. Watch
what he did. Go back to the story again. “He brought in
the priests and the Levites
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and gathered them into the
square on the east.” And this is what he told them.
“Then he said to them, ‘Listen to me, O, Levites.
(25 years old) Consecrate
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yourselves now and
consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your
fathers, and carry the
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uncleanness out from the
holy place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and
have done evil in the sight
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of the Lord, and have
forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the
dwelling place of the Lord and have turned their backs.
They have also shut the
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doors of the porch.’” He
mentioned that specifically. “Shut the doors of the
porch.” Keep the porch in
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mind. I am coming back to
the porch, ok. Just keep them in mind somewhere. Tuck
it somewhere. Ok. “They have
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shut the doors of the porch
and put out the lamps.” The moment you shut the door,
you stop praying in the
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Spirit, amen, your lamp goes
out. There is no more revelation. I don’t know…
You know, when I pray in the
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Spirit a lot during that
time I was telling you in the 90s and all that, it
gave birth to the gospel of grace revelation. It’s not a
new revelation. It is like
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the light shine on an old
gospel that Paul preach.
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Likewise, even for your own
daily needs, you need light, you need wisdom. I am just
saying, focus right now on
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the fact that when the door
is shut, the lamp is put out. And not only that,
there is no more praise and worship. There is no more
worship to God. No burned
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incense or offered burned
offerings. “Therefore the wrath of the Lord was
against Judah; and
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Jerusalem, He made them an
object of terror, or horror and hissing as you see with
your own eyes.” I want to tell you that, that today
God is not angry with His
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people. And He will never be
angry with His people. Look at me. Never. We are not
under law. We are under
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grace. We are not in our
flesh. We are in Christ. For God to be angry with us,
it’s to be angry with
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Christ. The seven years of
tribulation is the days of God’s wrath. We are not
appointed to wrath. We are
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appointed to obtain
salvation through our Lord through Jesus Christ. God
has sworn He will never be wrath with us. Isaiah 54,
that comes after Isaiah 53,
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the work of Jesus. So when
you read all these, keep things in context. I am
talking about the uncleanness of our bodies,
we call that disease,
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sickness and all that, ok
how to remove it? I want you to see the pattern. Ok verse
9, “For behold, our fathers
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have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our daughters and our wives are
in captivity because of this.” So if you find that,
you know, you can be one of
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the wealthiest guys in the
nation and all that, but your son is addicted to
drugs, that is not wealthy,
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that is not really being
rich isn’t it? Your son is in captivity. The son of
your loins, the son of your
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love. I don’t call that
prosperity, but why is it that our, our families
suffer, our loved one
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suffers, not because God is
angry with us today, but because we have shut the
door of our lips, there is
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no intercession for them.
You know you cannot watch over your children 24/7? I
repeat, you cannot watch
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over your children all the
time, but the Lord can. Do you know that you are trying
to get them to do something
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outwardly that they are not
inclined to inwardly, and even when they obey you
outwardly it is not real
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because it is not inwardly,
but when you pray, God can create a revelation on the
inside amen? You can pray
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and light will come on them,
the menorah, the lamp will be turned on and they will
see. Can I have a good amen?
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So let’s follow the story,
we will close with this, coming to this now. Are you
all being helped? That’s why
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in Jude says, “Building up”,
I love the word up. Have you ever notice that when you
pray in tongues you are
06 What if nothing happens when I pray?
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building yourself up, for
“Building yourselves up … praying in the Holy Spirit.”
Building yourself, didn’t
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say build your neuma, your
spirit, but build yourself, your entire self, up,
praying in the Holy Spirit.
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You can build yourself up
above stress, above worry,
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above anxiety, pray in the
Spirit. “But Pastor Prince I tried before leh?” Oh yeah?
“Ya! I tried the whole
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afternoon praying in
tongues” Wah you persevered ah. The door open for a
while, you go inside, look
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here, look here, nothing
happening, you go outside, you close the door again.
Let’s see how many days it
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took for them to clean up
the uncleanness ok? I’m not saying that the exact days,
I’m not saying you must do the exact days, although I
did try it when I first,
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when God first gave me this
revelation, I tried exactly the same days ok, but that’s
me. Ok look at this, so what
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happened is that the priest
went in, based on the instruction of the King,
Hezekiah, “The priests went into the inner part of the
house of the Lord,” the Holy
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of Holies, “To cleanse it,
and every unclean thing which they found in the
temple of the Lord they
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brought out to the courtyard
of the Lord’s house. Then the Levites received it to
take out to the Kidron Valley.” So they took it,
they went in all the Holy of
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Holies, took all the filth
out, amen, for us we have a lot of prejudices,
bitterness, wrong believing,
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and not only that, panic
attacks and fears and
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worries and evil
imaginations. Evil imaginations is so real for
people with depression, all
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they can see in their future
is like you know, a bad prognosis, you won’t live to
see your future, they might
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even see their own funeral,
they might see their husband marrying another woman, they
might see their wife
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marrying another man, they
might see their… You know a lot of… A person who is
depressed see all kinds of
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wrong, you know, wrong
channel. It’s real. Never
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make fun or take light
someone who tells you, take lightly, someone who tells
you they are suffering from
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depression. Point them to
God’s heavenly weapon. Hmmm?
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They brought it out, all the
filth, all the panic attacks, for us is all these
things ok? Plus the cause of
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the disease, all the things
that the brain facts you know, talk about just now,
all those things being brought out, then they reach
the holy place. Took some, a
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few days isn’t it? How many
days it took? Ok verse 17 “Now they began the
consecration on the first
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day of the first month, and
on the”, what day? “Eighth day of the month they came”,
or they entered, “The
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porch”, again the porch, put
that somewhere, “The porch of the Lord. Then they
consecrated the house of the
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Lord in eight days, and
finished on the sixteenth day of the first month.”
After they clean out all the
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debris and the uncleanness,
in eight days they came back to the door, the porch,
right? And then they
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consecrate another eight
days, the entire temple, 16 days altogether. So when God
showed me this, when He
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first showed me this many
years ago in the early 2000, I actually prayed for eight
days, and then on the eight
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day I asked myself, any
changes? Nothing. Dry mouth,
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heavy tongue, but something
happened. That was the year
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that we faced SARS and we
went through it in our
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church by the grace of God,
because one of the things that people don’t want to do
is to congregate where there
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are a lot of people in an
air-con closed environment, remember that? After that,
next thing I know, next few
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years, bang, the ministry
opened, bang, the doors open
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to international ministry,
bang, I was doing books, bang, you know I was on
television. Like I said
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before, you can be on
television doesn’t mean that it will take, only God. But
I was praying for the future
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without even knowing it, and
I was preparing myself; I was being built up from a
person who is nervous about
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standing in front of my
class to someone who could, who could, God could use.
Thank you for that one amen
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ah, I appreciate, it came
somewhere there, ok praise the Lord, Lord bless this
sister Lord, thank You Lord,
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at least somebody loves me,
amen? I was almost tempted to be depressed. Panic
attack was running around
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down there somewhere
already, but because of you sister, thank you, thank you
for opening the door of your
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lips. Have you noticed that
the door of the temple, alright, today have
different colours? Many of
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them are red, some are even
orange, some are purple. “What is he talking about
Pastor Prince?” It’s ok
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Pastor Mark, you will get
it, alright. So in eight
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days something happened. So
it is not the feeling, it’s not the feeling ok people?
But all of a sudden you
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feel, that the first thing
God deals with is your stress, worry, fear and
anxiety, long before he
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deals with your condition.
All I can say is that, when I look back, my goodness, I
couldn’t have gone through
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all that and did all that
without it stressing me out. But today, thank God,
literally I don’t feel the
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weight and the burden and
the responsibility of raising money for this
building and other things because I have learned to
pray in the Spirit and let
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go. Alright, I am not
perfect, you can ask my wife, amen, but I need to be
reminded as much as you that
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this is a weapon from God.
Can I have a good amen? Ok?
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Let me help you again, one
more time, ok, perhaps God is using my words to bless
many, ok, one amen down
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there, somewhere, ok praise
God, I give it a third time, third time, alright, third
time ok? Do you love me
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Peter? Ok never mind,
alright, so 16 days, so
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please don’t get hung up
with eight days ok? Eight is the number of new beginning,
in other words they started
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with the door, they came,
they went in, it takes time to clear out the debris,
first day, second day, third
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day, if they check their
bodies, it is still the same. If they check their
circumstance, it is still the same. Alright, it takes
a few days. Now, we all want
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instant thing, many of us
say speak to the mountain with the God kind of faith
and don’t doubt and it will happen. Yes, but there are
people who find it, it is
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hard for them to speak to
the mountain, God is so loving that God actually
gave us another way to
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attack the mountain. Would
you like to know how? Would you like to know? Cut down
the mountain bit by bit.
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Serious! And it is a new
weapon. What do you think it is? Isaiah 41, “Behold,” God
says, “I will make you into
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a new threshing sledge with
sharp teeth.” Now sledge in
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those days in Israel is like
your snow sledge, literally, it is flat, but underneath
right, they put stones, ok,
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like four planks and
underneath they embed the stones, and what they do is
that, during the harvest time, they will put the
stalks of grain on the
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ground and they will draw,
make the cow draw the sledge over the grains and the
grains will separate; the
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husk, the chaff, and the
kernel, separate the grain, the wheat right, from the
chaff. You understand?
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That’s how they do it. So
God says I’m going to make you a new, say ‘new’, sharp
threshing sledge with sharp
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teeth. Now the word teeth
here is very interesting, it is the word piyphiyah,
piyphiyah, piyphiyah is
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literally in the Hebrew you
can check it out, is literally two edged mouth.
Two mouth literally. It is
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used only one other time in
Psalms where it says, let the high praises of God be
in their mouth and a two
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edged, piyphiyah, two edged
sword in their hand. So when
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you pray in tongues,
alright, it is literally a double edged sword, and God
says it is a new instrument
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that came on the day of
Pentecost right? Right? Watch this, back to Isaiah
41, now, you will thresh the
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mountains, that’s your
disease, your debt; mountain
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of debt, hopefully it is not
your mother-in-law, but you know, challenges in
relationships, whatever, “You shall thresh the
mountains and beat them
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small, and make the hills
like chaff. You shall winnow them,” you know winnow? In
those days they go up to a
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higher elevation or mountain
or whatever, and they have this winnowing fork, what
they do is that they take the stalks of grain and they
throw it in the air, and the
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strong wind will separate
again, the chaff from the wheat because the chaff is
very light, the wheat will
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fall, amen? And it will fall
down and the chaff will be blown away. So God says, at
the end, you are praying in
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tongues, your problem is
still there the first day, second day, few weeks even,
it is still there. But you are cutting it down. Then
one day you look at day and
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you (Pastor coughs to
demonsrate) and it’s gone. One look at it, phoo, it’s
gone. That’s what it says,
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“You shall winnow them, the
wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall
scatter them; you shall rejoice in the Lord, and
glory in the Holy One of
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Israel.” Amazing? I’ve never
heard anyone preach this as
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praying in tongues, this
came to me many years ago, and the Lord says to me it
is praying in tongues. I
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never really pay attention,
but one day when I studied that in the Hebrew, the word
teeth is actually double
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mouth, then I saw it. There
is another way to attack the mountain, pray in the Spirit
every day. Amen? Ok, go back
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to Hezekiah, we are going to
close. Hezekiah’s story, they enter the porch of the
Lord, they finished it on
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the 16th day of first month.
Remember I told you to focus on the porch, now see the
porch. The porch, the
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Solomon’s temple, show them
a picture of Solomon’s temple, ok this is a model
in the Holy Land model, it
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is a small model, you can
still see it in Israel today, at the time of Jesus,
now where is Solomon’s
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Porch? There it is. First of
all Eastern Gate, can you see the Eastern Gate, that
is the Eastern Gate.
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Solomon’s Porch is all
around, ok, Solomon’s Porch all around, can you see
that? It is a colonnade, can
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you see the pillars? That’s
where the Rabbi’s will teach, that is where Jesus
will teach and all that. Ok. So it is all around. But
watch this, listen
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carefully, when the
Babylonians came in later and they destroyed the
temple, they burn down, they
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razed the temple down, ok,
what happened was that the only part of the temple that
was left is the front part,
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Solomon’s Porch. That’s the
only part that is left, Eastern Gate. And during the
time of Jesus, which is
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after the Babylonians, Jesus
came, Jesus walked on this porch, in John 10, “Now it
was the Feast of Hanukah,
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Dedication in Jerusalem, and
it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple” where?
In Solomon’s Porch, the only
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place that is standing. Why
Solomon’s Porch? All miracles happen in Solomon’s
Porch. I wish I can share
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more on this, but because of
time, I want to let you go, I won’t be expounding on
John 10. John 10 is where you will find the thief
comes not, but to steal,
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kill and destroy. By the
way, listen, Jesus cursed the fig tree remember? Then
He taught on the God kind of
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faith, speaking to the
mountain to be removed? Remember that? What did
Jesus do after that? Right after He cursed the fig
tree? He went into
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Jerusalem. What did He do
there? He cleansed the temple. Remember the thieves
and the robbers? He called
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them thieves? He drove them
out of the precinct of the temple and He says that my
house is a house of prayer.
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And then, don’t forget He
cursed the fig tree, after he cleansed the temple He
came out, and guess what
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happened? Peter called Him
to remembrance, “Look at the fig tree, it is dried up!”
then Jesus taught them about
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the God kind of faith. I
submit to you, when you speak to your disease, when
you speak to your condition,
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alright, you might not see
immediate results, keep on praying in the Spirit, amen,
and then you come back to
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this again, you find, we
don’t know how long, it is up to God, but the
manifestation will be there.
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Amen. “You have made My
house a den of thieves, My house is a house of prayer.”
Are you with me so far? Once
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you clean everything and you
pray in the Spirit, and all of a sudden you come and
affect your mental realm,
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your soulish realm, your
emotional realm, your body will be the last part to be
touched right, am I right?
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And yet the body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit right? Are you listening?
You look for your disease,
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your mountain, and all of a
sudden, the symptom might be smaller already, it gets
lesser, then one day you
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look for it, it is gone, you
(Pastor coughs to demonstrate), you didn’t
realise it was so light,
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gone! Last two verses we
will close. Solomon’s Porch. Go to Acts, remember the guy
who was lame at the gate
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Beautiful? There are
scholars who believe that the gate Beautiful is the
Eastern Gate, the one that
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is sealed. Ok look at this,
“Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and
John, all the people ran
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together to them in the
porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.”
So I submit to you, that the
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Eastern Gate, show them the
Eastern Gate again, the it is sealed, can you see
that? Just now? The Eastern Eastern Gate, no show them
the picture just now, today Gate is sealed and that’s
Solomon’s Porch. So I submit
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to you that the gate
Beautiful some scholars believe is the Eastern Gate.
That’s where the lame man
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was, and it stands to reason
that the only part that is standing is this part here.
And last verse, Acts 5, the
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place of miracles. “And
through the hands of the apostles many signs and
wonders were done among the people. And they were all
with one accord” where? “In
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Solomon’s Porch.” It seems
like God is saying right, when you pray in the Spirit
and you come back out, you
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will come to the porch, and
that is where miracles happen. The door is open,
the porch, remember the
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doors of the porch were the
first open? Right? By King Hezekiah, “Yet none of the
rest dared join them, but
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the people esteemed them
highly. And believers were increasingly added to the
Lord, multitudes of both men
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and women, so that they
brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on
beds and couches, that at
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least the shadow of Peter
passing by might fall on some of them. Also a
multitude gathered from the
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surrounding cities to
Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were
tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all…”
Let’s all say together, “And
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they were all healed.” How
many? “And they were all healed.” I believe that as
we pray in the Spirit, we
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will come to the place where
all will be healed, not only that, signs and wonders will
happen at Solomon’s Porch,
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not only that, amen, respect
will come back to the ministry, and multitudes of
souls will be saved. I close
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with this little story, true
story, alright, I mentioned to you just now about the
experiment, I will close
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with this experiment,
another experiment, this was done in ORU, Oral Roberts
University in Tulsa, Oklahoma many years ago,
Doctor Carl Peterson. By the
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way the earlier study if you
are looking it up later on, just put ‘speaking in
tongues medical study’ ok?
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You will see 3.5 million
hits on that story. You see the pictures of the doctor
and all that, and some of
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the experience they use. But
this one is another experiment and I will close
with this. Doctor Carl Peterson of ORU is a brain
specialist in Oral Roberts
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University and he studied
people with a… Who are praying in tongues, but this
time is not the blood flow,
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he studied the effects or
what is released in the brain; in other words the
chemical secretions, like
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epinephrine and all that,
right, but you know what he found? When people are
praying in tongues? Doctor Carl Peterson found that two
chemical secretions were
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released in the brain, and
these two chemical secretions listen, comes
from a part of the brain
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that has no other apparent
use. I told you people are still discovering about the
brain? Right? Guess what,
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these two chemical
secretions give the immune system a boost, and I
memorised this statistic
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because for years I
memorised it, 35 to 40 percent. A boost for your
immune system of 35 to 40
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percent, all your food and
all your vitamins and all that, you know, they are
wonderful, they help whatever to a certain
extent, but who can give you a boost for your immune
system of 35 to 40 percent,
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they say that even if you
have tumour in your body, or cancer or whatever, someone
who have the same disease as you, and they are alive
today after 20 years after
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10 years and all that, why?
Immune system. Stronger, right? Other people had
SARS, they didn’t die,
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immune system, amen. I
believe that God didn’t give you a gift that is useless,
like some of these
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denominational preachers
would say. God didn’t give you a gift; that is that you
can have it, you don’t have to have it. If it came on
the day of Pentecost, and it
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is a gift that proclaims the
wonderful works of God, trust me, you will see the
wonderful works of God. Give
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Him praise, hallelujah,
thank You Jesus. Now stand to your feet. I am about to
dismiss you but before I do
08 Pray this prayer to receive this special gift
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so I want to make sure that
all of you get in the flow of praying in the Spirit,
won’t take long, ok, number
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1, make sure you are saved,
those of you who are here, you have never received
Jesus as your Saviour and Lord, I want to pray for you
right now, and then I am
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going to release you into
this heavenly language ok? So, put your trust in Jesus,
Christ bore our sins and
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believe on Him and you shall
be saved and your house. Say this after me, if that is
you, say, “Heavenly Father,
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I thank You for the gift of
Your Son who was crucified for my sins, who was raised
from the dead for my
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justification. Jesus Christ
is my Lord and Saviour.
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Christ came to save sinners,
I am a sinner, and today I
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am saved. Jesus Christ is my
Lord and Saviour! Thank You
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Father! I am no longer a
sinner, I am a new creation, I am a child of God, greatly
blessed, deeply loved, in
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Jesus name.” Now listen, I
am going to pray for you and Jesus said this, if you ask,
a child ask the father for
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bread will he give him a
stone? He ask for a fish, will the father give him a
snake? How much more your
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Father in heaven will give
the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? Are you ready?
Alright we are all going to ask Him ok? Even those who
prayed before, you are going
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to pray in a fresher and a
more released way than ever before amen? It is about
time to get the debris out,
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amen in Jesus name, time to
open the doors y’all, time to get to Solomon’s Porch,
come on, come on, are you
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ready? Alright lift your
hands all across this place, those of you in the third
service, fourth service,
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everyone that is watching
this, this is timeless ok, like God’s anointing on
everything, it is timeless.
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Wherever you are watching
this right now, do the same in Jesus name, amen. Say,
“Heavenly Father, I am
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confident that you will give
me right now the baptism of
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the Holy Spirit. Inundate
me, fill me, baptise me,
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with the Holy Spirit, Jesus
has been glorified, therefore the Holy Spirit
has been given, and I
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receive right now Your Holy
Spirit to overflowing in
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Jesus name, amen.” I count
to three right now and then release yourself in the
heavenly language, one, two,
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three. Go ahead! (Speaking
in tongues) That’s right, go
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ahead! Now increase your
volume, (speaking in
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tongues) now speak
undertones, (speaking in tongues) you can do this at
work, you can do this at
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home, when people are around
(speaking in tongues). The Bible says speak to himself
and to God (speaking in
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tongues) quietly, amen?
(speaking in tongues) You are in control. Listen, you
are in control. The spirit
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of the prophets are subject
to the prophets, when an evil spirit takes over, you
have no choice, he makes you shout, he makes you scream,
alright, and then the Holy
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Spirit stops when you stop,
amen, in other words, He will not force you, He is a
gentleman. You cannot wait
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for the Holy Spirit to open
your mouth, He will not do that, you must open; you
speak, He gives you the language. That’s how God
works. Evil spirits will
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force you and won’t let you
stop, that’s not God’s way. That’s why this is the gift
of the Holy Spirit. Now we
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are going to sing in
tongues, no music for a while please, we are going
to sing in tongues, now this is wonderful, especially
when you are stress, learn
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to sing in tongues, alright,
maybe you might start singing in the toilet first,
but whatever it is, in the
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bathroom or whatever, start
singing in the Spirit, amen, something like this (singing
in tongues), ok you can
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stop, you see you can stop
right? You can start, you can stop anytime you want
to, it is yours, it is
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yours. It must be a river
that never stops, ok? Doesn’t matter if you are
stammering for a while, keep
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on stammering, as you are
faithful with one, two syllables, God gives you
more, amen? God gives you
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more and more. Amen? You see
you can sing without the music, because when Monday
comes, it won’t be there.
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Ok? It will be you, you can
sing in the Spirit, you can sing (singing in tongues),
amen? Your wife scolds you
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(singing in tongues), your
wife tells you your mother-in-law is coming
(singing in tongues). God bless you, lift your hands
all across this place. The
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Lord bless you and the Lord
keep you this coming week; you and your love ones, the
Lord makes His face shine on you and be gracious to you,
the Lord lifts up His
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countenance on you, and
grant to you and yours His wonderful shalom wholeness
and peace, in Jesus name,
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amen. Don’t ever let it
stop, don’t ever let it stop, amen, God bless you.
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