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If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something.

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Welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place training session.

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Those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of

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the Almighty.

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And our prayer and our vision for this time is that you would be further equipped, that

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you would be taken into a deeper experience of the secret place, into a deeper personal

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connection with God, and that you would experience what it's like in a deeper way to come under

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the overshadowing of God.

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Bill Johnson says, whatever overshadows you will come out in your shadow.

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And you know, the book of Daniel, Daniel writes this, he says, those that know their God shall

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do great exploits.

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And so our prayer is that you would grow in your knowledge, not just your knowledge about

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God, but your intimate, personal, experiential knowledge of knowing God.

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And so enjoy this session.

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God bless you.

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Hey guys, welcome to another Secret Place training session.

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I'm really excited to be sharing with you today again about something that has deeply

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blessed my life.

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I want to talk to you about a principle, a practice that I practice in my prayer life.

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I practice in my secret place time and just in life in general that has dramatically blessed

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me.

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It's one of the core practices of my life, something that I, one of my favorite things

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to do, actually.

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I can't overestimate how much this, what I'm talking to you about today has blessed me.

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It's amazing.

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And I know it will bless you too.

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I want to talk to you about the gift of tongues.

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And then I want to talk to you about the interpretation of tongues.

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The gift of tongues is one of the nine gifts of the spirit that comes to you when you are

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baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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If you don't know about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, two things.

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Read Acts chapter one and two and ask God to baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

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When he baptizes you in the Holy Spirit, you receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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And the gifts of the Holy Spirit are gifts that are kind of like a musical instrument.

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You can get given a guitar, but that doesn't mean you know how to play the guitar.

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You practice the guitar, and as you practice the guitar, you get to enjoy the guitar more

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and step into the benefit of the guitar more and more.

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And same with the gifts of the spirit, they actually need to be practiced.

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And you grow in the gifts of the spirit, including the gift of tongues and the interpretation

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of tongues.

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And so I'm not going to talk about the other nine gifts.

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I'm not going to say any more on that.

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I'm just going to go straight into talking about the gift of tongues and the practice

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of the present, the practice of the gift of tongues that comes to us when the Holy Spirit

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comes to us, when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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So what is the gift of tongues?

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The gift of tongues is the language of the spirit within us.

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It's a spiritual language that the Holy Spirit gives us when we are baptized in Him, and

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it's our spiritual language.

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It's a language that doesn't come from our mind.

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It's a language, and it's a language that has, of course, words that come out of our

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spirit through our mouth.

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And it's the gift of a spiritual language, our language before God, our spiritual language.

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In the last session, I talked about the nature of words and the power of words.

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I talked about the fact that your tongue is a sword and your words are a weapon.

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And we talked about the power of our declaration.

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We talked about the fact that the primary function of words is not to communicate, but

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to create.

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And every time we speak a word, the word that is spoken carries within it the substance

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of which it speaks.

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Our tongue has the power of life and death.

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If we speak words of death, there is a substance of death that destroys, and it's actually

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in the words that are spoken.

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But if we speak life, then there is a substance of life, there is a substance of the life

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of which we speak within the words that are spoken.

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Our words are not just information, they are literally substance that create.

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And the same is true of the gift of tongues.

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When we speak forth this language that the Holy Spirit gives us, we're speaking the words

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of the Spirit, and the words of the Spirit, the words of the Holy Spirit are coming through

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our mouth out of our tongue, and the words of the Spirit out of our tongue carry on them

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the substance of the Spirit.

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And so when they are spoken, the substance of the Spirit, the substance of the Holy Spirit,

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the manifestation of the Holy Spirit is released into the atmosphere around us.

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And I want to speak to this for a few moments.

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I want us to just turn to one current thing.

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It's 14, verse 2, and it says this,

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Paul is speaking to the Corinthian church,

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and he says,

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"'For he who speaks in a tongue

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"'does not speak to men, but to God.

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"'For no one understands him.

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"'However, in the Spirit, he speaks mysteries.'"

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And we'll drop down to verse 4,

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"'He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself,

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"'but he who prophesies edifies the church.'"

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So this is powerful to me, two things.

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First thing is this, in chapter 4,

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sorry, not chapter 4, in verse 4,

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"'He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.

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"'The gift of tongues is a gift that God has given you

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"'to build yourself up in the Spirit,

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"'to build yourself up in faith,

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"'to build the fortress of union with God inside of you.'"

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If you're feeling discouraged, if you're feeling deflated,

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if you're feeling down,

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then God has given you a gift to build yourself up again,

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to edify yourself so that you can stand up on the inside

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and be strong.

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The gift of tongues is a gift that strengthens you

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from the inside out when you put it into practice.

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So that's one reason to use the gift of tongues.

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The next thing is that when you speak in the Spirit,

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you speak forth the mysteries of God,

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according to verse 2.

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What that means is,

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and I noticed that what happened in my life

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when I received the gift of tongues,

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and I started to practice the gift of tongues,

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and I would spend hours, and I still do often,

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spend hours speaking in tongues in this prayer session,

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is what I began to notice is I began to notice

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that revelation started coming to me.

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I began to understand things about God

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that I didn't understand before.

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I began to read scriptures.

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God began to speak to me.

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The voice of God became clearer.

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I began to just know things about God and know God

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and experience God in new ways

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that seemed to be closed to me before this time

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that all of a sudden opened to me.

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It's almost like a whole new world opened to me.

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And it's like that world keeps getting bigger and bigger

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every day as I speak in tongues.

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I noticed that there is a substance, there is a life,

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there is a reality that fills the atmosphere around me.

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And I can recognize that this principle is taking place

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of the words that I speak carry within them substance,

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carry within them the life of which is spoken.

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And when I speak the words of the Holy Spirit,

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when I speak the spirit language,

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His words are coming out of my mouth,

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and they are carrying His substance from my mouth.

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And so the substance of the Holy Spirit

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and the mysteries of God,

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the things that He is wanting to reveal to me

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that I have not yet understood

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and they haven't yet been revealed to me,

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revelation, in other words,

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wisdom and revelation from the Holy Spirit

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is being released into the atmosphere around me.

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Now my atmosphere is becoming full of revelation,

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becoming full of the life of the Spirit,

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becoming full of the wisdom from the Spirit,

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becoming full of the substance

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of everything God is wanting to and longing to

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reveal to my understanding so that I can walk in it.

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And so I noticed that as I began to speak in tongues,

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my experience with God,

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my intimacy with the Holy Spirit,

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and my understanding of what He was saying to me

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began to dramatically increase.

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And I noticed that the more I speak in tongues,

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the more that dramatically increases.

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I wanna read to you a quote now by John G. Lake,

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one of my heroes, who, if you don't know John G. Lake,

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just look up John G. Lake

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and read some stories about John G. Lake.

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He is, he changed the world.

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And he said this,

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"'Tongues have been the making,"

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and I can, I just wanna put a note on this.

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I can relate to what John G. Lake is saying here.

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I mean, I would say the same thing about myself.

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"'Tongues have been the making of my ministry.

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It is that peculiar communication with God

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when God reveals to my soul

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the truth I utter to you day by day in my ministry.

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Many times I climb out of bed, take my pencil and pad,

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and jot down the beautiful things of God,

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the wonderful things God,

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sorry, the wonderful things of God

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that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart,

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that He talks out in my spirit and then reveals to my heart.'"

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And I can, like I said, relate to that quote.

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I can relate to those words.

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I could say them about myself too.

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Every, in fact, well, possibly every, if not,

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definitely most of the messages

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that God has given me to share,

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the revelation that I have from God,

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all of those things really have come,

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and I can relate them to the use of the gift of tongues

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and what I've been talking about in this session

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relating to the substance of the Spirit

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being released through the words of the Spirit.

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So hold that there.

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I want to talk about the interpretation of tongues now

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because I love what John G. Lake says in this quote.

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He says,

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"'The things, the wonderful things of God

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God, that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart.

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that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart,

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that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart,

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When we speak in tongues, we talk out the things in the spirit, and the interpretation

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that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart,

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of tongues is, I think, when those things that have been spoken out are then revealed

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to our heart and also, I would say, revealed to our minds.

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So I want to read to you something else that the Apostle Paul says.

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I read this, and when I read it, I caught something that the gift of tongues changed

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my life.

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But then when I caught this next thing, it went to a whole other level, and the transformation

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just got so much more ferocious and dramatic in my life.

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And I practice this, like I said, all the time now.

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I practice the gift of tongues, and what I'm about to talk about is the interpretation

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of tongues, and I put them together.

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So 1 Corinthians 14, verses 13 and 15 says this.

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Now I'm going to pull something out of this in a second, but in verse 13,

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Therefore, let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

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So Selah, if we speak in tongues, let us pray for an interpretation.

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Let it not just stay unrecognized, unexplored substance in the atmosphere around us.

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Let us explore the substance that has been released through the words of the Spirit spoken.

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If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding, or my mind, is unfruitful,

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what is the conclusion?

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I will pray with the Spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding, or with my mind.

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I will sing in the Spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.

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Or when he says understanding, he's meaning his mind.

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And so I realized that what the Apostle Paul was doing, he wasn't just praying in tongues

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and leaving his mind unfruitful.

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He wasn't just praying in tongues, praying in the Spirit, speaking in tongues, using

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the gift of tongues.

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He wasn't just doing that and letting his mind wander all over the place.

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That he had practiced and he had learned, and through reason of use and through practice,

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he had learned to keep his mind fruitful and keep his mind engaged and keep his mind in

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a place of prayer.

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And of course, he talks about song too, in a place of song.

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When he speaks in tongues, he's keeping his mind fruitful.

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And so I read that, and I realized, man, there's something about that that I'm going to explore.

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So I began to explore that principle of keeping my mind engaged as I'm praying in tongues.

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And I began to learn something that I now practice all the time, and that is that when

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I pray in tongues, I will also engage my mind in conscious prayer.

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So it might sound like this out loud.

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If anyone was listening to me pray, it might just sound like,

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shakarabasitili maromosukatelevaranimemetisitibaradebababaka marabatasakataradababaka.

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That's my spiritual language.

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But with my eyes closed, I won't let my mind wander.

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I will start to frame words in my mind.

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I noticed that when I speak in tongues, I'm not framing words in my mind.

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My mind is idle, but I can kick my mind into gear without stopping speaking in tongues.

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So my spirit is speaking in tongues, and then in my mind, not out loud, but in my mind,

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I'll start to pray in my mind.

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So in my mind, like I said, not out loud, but in my mind, I'll start to just—and I

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normally just start with thanking God.

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It's just in my mind, but these are the words that would be forming in my mind.

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God, thank you for this.

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Thank you for being faithful.

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Thank you for being kind.

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Thank you for being awesome, God.

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Thank you for just the way that you've been speaking to me lately.

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Thank you, God.

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And maybe I'll hone in on a promise.

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God, thank you that when I speak in tongues, the substance of the Spirit is being released.

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Thank you, God.

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And I'll start to just thank God.

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I noticed as I began to engage my mind in prayer, as I was speaking in tongues, initially

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it was a little bit of hard work, and I had to use a lot of concentration and focus and

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intentionality to frame prayers in my mind as I was speaking in tongues.

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It did take some—and it didn't feel—I felt a little bit clunky.

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the time of focus, and if I can be faithful in that first few minutes of just keeping

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my mind focused in prayer, what happens is there's a point where my mind clicks into

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gear.

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It clicks into a track.

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It finds the rut in the Spirit that the gift of tongues has already carved out for my mind

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to lock into.

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And I go from trying to formulate prayers in my mind, to all of a sudden, my mind starts

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to get flooded.

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revelation, with thoughts from God, with the voice of God, and with the reality of God.

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And I'm not trying to come up with prayers anymore.

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Now I have been overcome with the thoughts and with the reality and with the revelation

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of God.

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And it is now flooding in, not just subconsciously, but consciously.

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I am awakening to the truth of God that is in the atmosphere around me.

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And it is an amazing experience.

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And I pray that that will be your experience as you engage in this practice and in this

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activation today.

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I like to put it like this, it's like when you speak in tongues, you are releasing an

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ocean of the reality of God, of the mysteries of God, and of the truth of God.

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And I don't know how many of you love diving.

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I love diving.

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I love exploring the ocean.

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I love spearfishing.

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And I love everything that the ocean has to offer.

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There's so much to explore.

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There's so much to enjoy.

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There's so much in the ocean.

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And when you engage your mind in prayer, it's like putting goggles on in that ocean.

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And with the goggles on, you can explore so much more.

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You can engage in so much more of what's in the ocean.

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And you can really see a lot clearer than you can without the goggles on.

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That's what it's like when you engage your mind, you wake up to and you become conscious

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of the reality of God's revelation and of the mysteries that have been released around

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And you have a sharper focus and you begin to engage in those mysteries and in those

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revelations to a degree that you never could unless you had engaged your mind.

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And so what we're going to do now is we're going to go into an activation, and I'm going

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to take you through an activation where we're going to spend some time speaking in tongues.

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And then I'm going to take you through a process of engaging your mind in prayer as you're

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speaking in tongues.

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And this activation is going to be something that we're going to obviously do right now,

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but it's going to be something that as you practice it and as you do it more, you'll

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become more and more fruitful in it.

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And so I hope you enjoy this activation and God bless you.

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Awesome guys.

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Well, welcome to the activation.

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I hope you enjoyed that session.

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We're about to go into this activation now and you're going to, you're actually not really

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going to need a pen and paper in this activation.

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It's going to be a very simple activation.

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The first thing I want to say in the activation is this, if you have not been baptized in

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the Holy Spirit and you don't yet have the gift of tongues, the first thing I'm going

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to ask you to do is to spend some time, put some worship music on, read Acts chapter one

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and two, and ask God to baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

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Ask Him to give you the gift of tongues and stay with them in that place of prayer until

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you know you have received that.

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That's number one.

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Number two is the first, sorry, well, it's number two.

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So the second point of this activation, after you've received the gift of tongues, many

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of you have already received the gift of tongues.

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Some of you have been speaking in tongues longer than I've been alive probably.

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So for you, it might be the first part of the activation.

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For others, it'll be the second.

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I want us to right now find some space, find a place where you can just freely speak in

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tongues for five minutes.

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And we are going to not softly, but we're going to boldly speak in tongues for five

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minutes straight.

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So I want you to set a timer on your phone or on your watch or whatever way you can just

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have a look at the time if you need to, but set a timer for five minutes.

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And the first part of this activation is I want you to boldly and consistently pray out

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loud in tongues, which of course is the only way you can pray in tongues, pray out loud

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in tongues.

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You don't have to worry about engaging your mind yet, but pray in tongues for five minutes

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straight.

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You can put, like I said, put an alarm on your phone and pray in tongues.

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And I want you to do that for five minutes.

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Awesome.

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So you're going to be feeling pretty good now.

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You've been praying in tongues for five minutes straight, which is just, to me, I love this.

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I absolutely love it.

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What I want you to do now is we're going to go into another five minutes of tongues so

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you can get ready to set a timer or just keep an eye on the time for five minutes.

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You could, of course, go longer, but go for at least five minutes.

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And what I want you to do is I want you to do your best to engage your mind.

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Gauge your mind in prayer.

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So to do that, you can go a couple of different routes.

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You could go—a good way to start is just thank you, Jesus, and think of as many things

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to thank Jesus for in your mind.

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So as you're praying in tongues, you're thanking Jesus.

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Maybe there's a scripture that you've been meditating on.

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Pray into that scripture in your mind as you're praying in tongues.

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Don't let it be a need at the moment, but let it be either thankfulness, praise, or

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a meditation on some kind of revelation that you've been looking into.

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What I want you to do is for five minutes now, another five minutes, is pray in tongues

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out loud, but try—and for some of you, it's going to feel like going to the gym, and it

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might feel like this actually might be a little bit of an effort for you, and it might take

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quite a lot of focus and concentration to be able to do this and not be distracted and

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let your mind go idle.

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But I want you to try and keep your mind active in prayer for five minutes, at least five

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Okay, so hopefully that's enough explanation.

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Go for it.

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Well, that's so cool.

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Thanks for doing that, guys.

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Some of you may have experienced, and some of you will have experienced, the experience

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of you were engaging in prayer in your mind, and then you felt the revelation start flooding

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in, and you stopped having to make up prayers in your mind, and prayers and revelations

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started to flood your mind.

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Some of you will have already recognized that shift of gear within that five minutes.

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Some of you may not have, and that's okay.

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Don't worry.

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But what I want you to do is my homework for this activation today is I want to challenge

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you and I want to ask you to spend 10 minutes every day this week speaking in tongues.

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Spend the first five minutes just speaking in tongues, releasing the atmosphere of the

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ocean of the reality of God, the mysteries of God into the atmosphere around you, the

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substance of the Spirit into the atmosphere around you.

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And then for the next five minutes, I want to encourage you to begin the practice of

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learning how to engage your mind—well, you've started today, but continue that practice

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of engaging your mind in prayer as you're praying in tongues.

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And I want you just to take some notes and to recognize when you start to feel that shift

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of gear, when you start to feel the spiritual revelation and the mysteries of God start

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to be unveiled and revealed within you as you're keeping your mind fruitful and praying

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in tongues and see how that begins to change your life.

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So God bless you.

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That's your homework, and I pray you have an amazing week, and we'll see you next week.