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The public (you) is welcome in our Captiol Building. When the Senate is not
in session and their meeting room is not being used, we are welcome to enter
the room! And when the Assembly is not in session, we are welcome to walk into
their chambers as well! What perfect opportunity to pray for our city! And they
make it easy to know when they are "in session" too! Try these two
webpages:
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Quote from Intercessory Prayer:
pg 166 - Blinded by Pride --- How does Satan blind the mind of the unbeliever?
... The word "blinded" in 2Cor 4:4 is TUPHLOO ... the root word,
TUPHO ... From this same root comes a word (TUPHOO) that is used for being
high-minded, proud or inflated with self-conceit.
A STORY:
The captain of a ship on a dark night saw faint lights in the distance.
He told his signalman to send the message: "Change your course 10
degrees South"
Immediately he received the response: "Change your direction 10
degrees North"
The proud captain was angry that he was being challenged, so he sent
a further message: "Change your course 10 degrees South. This is
the captain speaking!"
He received the response: "Change your direction 10 degrees North.
I'm Seaman Third Class Jones."
The captain, thinking he would terrify this insubordinate sailor, wired
a third message: "Change your direction 10 degrees South. I am a
battleship."
The final reply came: "Change your course 10 degrees North. I am
a lighthouse."
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Quote from Growing in the Prophetic:
pg 174 - Revelation and Confirmation ... When you receive a prophetic
word from someone, you must hold it at arm's length until God Himself
confirms it itn your heart. ... This prophetic notification is sometimes
God's way of confirming ahead of time what you will hear for yourself
later on. On other occasions prophetic words can confirm something you
have already heard very clearly. But you should not step out and act on
the prophetic word alone if you haven't received the confirmation. ...
You can't interrogate people every time they say something prophetic,
but you'd better question them carefully if the prophetic word
involves a new direction for you. ... If we receive a prophetic revelation
which speaks about our future promotion in natural or spiratual things,
we must guard our hearts. It is easy to make wrong assumptions, then run
with things we have no business running with. ... If a prophetic minister
adds his own commentary and interpretation to the basic revelation hea
has received from God, then someone is eventually going to wind up confused
and disappointed. The same is tru if a person accepts the word of the
hprophet without a confirmation.
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Quote from Bridal Intercession: Quotes
pg 119-"Jesus never rebuked a principality over a city. Rather,
He spoke blessing over the lives of individuals, saw them with heavenly
eyes and called them to live according to their identity in God. I am
convinced that Jesus' ministry was NOT focused on overcoming darkness,
but on bringing light. He called Himself the Light of the world, not the
defeater of darkness. Darkness is a nonentity. It is the absence of something.
It is not something to be overpowered, but rather something that will
be dissipated as the Word of God illuminates the hearts of human beings."
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Quote from Celebration of Discipline: Quotes: Introduction
/ Meditation / Prayer
/ Service
pg38- To understand that the work of prayer involves a learning process
saves us from arrogantly dismissing it as false or unreal. If we turn
on our television set and it does not work, we do not declare that there
are no such things as electronic frequencies in the air or on the cable.
We assume something is wrong, something we can find and correct. We check
the plug, switch, circuitry until we discover what is blocking the flow
of this mysterious energy that transmits pictures. We know the problem
has been found and fixed by seeing whether or not the TV works. It is
the same with prayer. We can determine if we are praying correctly if
the requests come to pass. If not, we look for the "block",
perhaps we are praying wrongly, perhaps something within us needs changing,
perhaps there are new principles of prayer to be learned, perhaps patience
and persistence are needed. We listen, make the necessary adjustments,
and try again. We can know that our prayers are being answered as surely
as we can know that the television set is working.
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Quote from Power Healing:
pg 222 - The work of the Holy Spirit is more internal than external,
more concerned with heart attitudes than outer actions. In many instances
when I pray for someone nothing external appears to happen to them,
and yet the healing power of God is at work in them.
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Quote from With Christ in the School of Prayer - Chapter 6:
Verse for this chapter: Matthew 7:9-11 NASB "Or what man is there
among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? (10)
"Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
(11) "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is
good to those who ask Him!"
pg46-Although this parable is simple and intelligible, it contains a
deep and spiritual teaching. The prayer of a child owes its influence
entirely to the relation in which he stands to the parent. The prayer
can exert that influence only when the child is really living in that
relationship and in the home, in the love, and in the service of the Father.
... And so the lesson we have today in the school of prayer is this: Live
as a child of God and you will be able to pray and most assuredly be heard
as a child.
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Quote from Spiritual Warfare: Quotes
Pg45 - Do NOT be afraid of using power! This familiar statement is a
lie: "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
1) only God has absolute power and it does not corrupt Him. 2) power is
an essential part of life and used properly it does not corrupt 3) any
kind of power can be misused, but it is not the power itself which corrupts
- it is a fascination with, an inordinate desire for, or a misuse of power
which corrupts. ---continued on pg47: Satan will deceive some people into
seeking power from wrong motivations and into using it for wrong purposes.
THIS is what leads to the idea that power corrupts. Then the devil will
get people to overreact to the misuse of power and to accept a relatively
powerless life as normal.
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Prayer Portions
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Quote from Prayer Portions:
pg 113 - You CAN hear from God to soak up His wisdom and His perspective
on what to pray for and how to pray it. Watch with Him (Col 4:2) Listening
is often more important than talking in prayer.
Ask God, "What are the root issues?" Too much praying is about
symptoms. Pray to the root.
Use God's word, the instrument that Jesus used to defeat Satan in the
wilderness. The word of God always accomplishes His purposes for which
He sends it (Isa 55:11). God Himself promises this. Say, "It is written,"
as you use this offensive weapon, your sword of the Spirit.
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Quote from Defeating Dark Angels:
pg 21 - My friend Ken Blue writes, "The fight is real. The victory
of Christ through his cross and resurrection is final, but not yet fully
realized. Evil continues to exercise its bounded, though significant,
power until Christ returns in his glory."
Why we are still at war, I cannot explain. But lags like this between
certain victory and the final mop-up are not unknown in history. For example,
though about four million slaves were legally freed by the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863, two bloody years of fighting followed before they
could claim their freedom in 1865.
A similar kind of delay occurred during World War II. In June of 1944,
Allied troops landed successfully on the European mainland, sealling the
doom of Hitler and his troops. Though D-day assured the defeat of the
Nazis, the war did not end until eleven months later when the Axis signed
the unconditional surrender in May 1956. Though victory was assured, more
Allied soldiers were killed in Europe during those eleven months than
in all the preceding years of World War II.
A third, and in some ways better illustration, comes from the history
of Israel. Even before Israel entered the promised land, God had given
it to them. It was their land. God had given it to Abraham. His
promise had been reconfirmed over and over again, and God seleted Moses
and Joshua to bring the Israelites into the land. But enemies occupied
it --- formidable enemies who had lived there a long time and would not
leave until they were forced out. Thought the land belonged to thoe Israelites,
warfare was ahead for them as they crossed the Jordan to take posscession
of it. They owned the land as soon as God gave it to them but did not
possess what was theirs for sometime and only then after much struggle.
Just as with the Emancipation Proclamation, D-Day and God's giving of
the land, so with the death and resurrection of Jesus --- victory was
assured but the Enemy remains at large.
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