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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the everlasting 
mercies which sent you to us, O 

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Christ, the Light of the world 
and the life of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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knowledge. 
Sanctify our souls by your 

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truth, and grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfill your commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
rationale with the knowledge of 

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your greatness, do enlight, O my
Lord, our thoughts that we may 

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meditate upon your holy and 
divine scriptures at all times. 

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O Lord of all, Father and Son 
and Holy Spirit forever. 

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Amen. 
While I was preparing this 

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episode, the question came to 
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Who invented the helmet? 
So I did the usual asked Hal to 

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Halo or to Google, and he or she
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invented around 2500 BC, that is
before Christ, not before Common

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era, 2500 years before Christ. 
And they were invited to protect

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the wearer during battle. 
And these were individual 

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examples but not mass produced, 
so they would be made 

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individually. 
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production or the 1st mass 
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lo and behold, the Assyrians. 
It was the Assyrian soldiers 900

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years before Christ or 900 BC. 
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production of helmets and they 
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protecting the wearer from sword
blows and arrow strikes. 

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A little trivia for you. 
I was really encouraged and 

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proud of my nation, as I always 
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Every time you look into 
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you'll find an Assyrian name. 
Praise and glory be to God. 

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Now let's get back to the armor 
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speaking for the past. 
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and we're discuss discussing the
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avoid giving Satan a foothold. 
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the helmet of God and the sword 
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First part of the 17 Saint Paul 
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take the helmet or the God of 
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And by this Saint Paul is 
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solid hope in God, one of his 
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solid hope in God. 
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head, that is our mind, our 
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white from every raid of evil 
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And also it is Christ himself. 
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salvation. 
Who is the salvation that God 

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sent to mankind? 
He is our head, and it is indeed

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Christ who guards the heads of 
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to him, are faithful, loving him
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Therefore he is the helmet of 
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So when Paul is saying take the 
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alongside with the rock firm 
solid hoping God it's taking on 

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Jesus Christ. 
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What do we how do we take him 
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helmet, as a God? 
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Praise be to his name as a God, 
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our intellects, is to have him 
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minds, our thinking, our 
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In one of the episodes of The 
Simpsons, Yes, it's very big in 

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Australia. 
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in Australia. 
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States. 
I recalled an episode, a scene 

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where Homer receives a new 
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female working partner. 
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some show and it's in the 
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And Homer is the with the female
work partner and he's telling 

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his brains to think of unsexy 
thoughts and he's constantly 

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repeating it to himself. 
What is he doing that is to 

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avoid falling for immoral 
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We do the same, but in a 
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When we take on Christ as the 
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as though we are constantly 
telling ourselves, filling our 

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minds, filling our thoughts and 
telling it to think of Jesus 

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Christ, think of Jesus Christ. 
That's what we need to be 

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telling our minds. 
That's what we need we need to 

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be doing with our minds and 
thoughts to think continuously 

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of Jesus Christ, our salvation. 
Who is the God and how do we do 

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this? 
Saint Paul in the 5th chapter of

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his Letter to the Ephesians 
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But speak to yourselves in 
psalms and hymns and songs of 

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the spirit meaning spiritual 
songs by singing in your hearts,

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which also implies the minds to 
the Lord God constantly sing 

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Padisha. 
Allah or Holy God, Holy mighty, 

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holy, mortal, have mercy on us 
unto you. 

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Lord of all we confess in truth.
O my Lord, we are not worthy. 

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All right, constantly say to 
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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, 
Lord Jesus, Jesus, in the name 

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of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, you know 

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those who'd like. 
And I'm going to commit Stephen 

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and Audrina, the producers, to 
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I have recorded a few church 
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you can find them on somewhere. 
Just message us and Stephen and 

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Audrina will will direct you to 
it so we have where you can 

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continuously be listening to 
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That's what Saint Paul is 
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Beloved, be speaking to 
yourselves in psalms and hymns 

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and songs of the Spirit by 
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mind to the Lord God. 
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Paul also instructs that we take
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which is the word of God. 
Hence, when I invite my beloved 

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brothers and sisters to the 
adults Bible studies gathering 

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on Mondays at 6:30 PM at Larsa 
Hall, I end my message, which 

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with bring your sword and a 
friend implying to the word of 

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God the Holy Scriptures. 
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the past episodes and what we've
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weapons given and recommended by
Saint Paul and spoken of 

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previously are defensive ones. 
Ones where we defend ourselves 

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with now comes our offensive 
weapons or armors to strike and 

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slay the enemy, which is the 
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the word of God. 
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translation of the Holy Spirit 
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Spirit or the spiritual way of 
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By this means we can cut off the
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temptations and the luring and 
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In Isaiah chapter 27, verse one 
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In that day the Lord shall visit
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powerful sword, which is the 
Word, which is also Christ 

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himself, the word of God. 
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He shall visit with a hard and 
great and powerful sword against

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Levithean, which is a servant, a
serpent dragon, and against 

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Levithean, the widening serpent.
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enemy Satan and he shall kill 
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sword which is the word of God, 
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word of God. 
Remember, beloved is not just 

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the scriptures, it's not just 
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accounted word of God. 
The word of God with a uppercase

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W is Jesus Christ. 
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Jesus Christ and by this also 
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By this then the Apostles healed
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Christ of Nazareth rise up and 
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Saint Peter said commanded in 
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So what Saint Paul is also 
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spiritual truth, wisdom, power, 
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encouragement, inspiration, 
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They all reside in the Word of 
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Christ, and the written Word of 
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You know when you hear a sermon,
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the Word of God, it is the power
of that word that fills your 

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mind, guards your mind. 
We pray this guard our minds 

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from the evil one. 
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By contemplating, thinking 
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Jesus Christ himself, and the 
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And by by taking on Christ in 
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guard. 
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This podcast is the double edged
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This is our weapon. 
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Saint Paul writes for the word 
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sharper than any two edged 
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If you have no relationship with
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Christ Himself, praise be to His
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relationship. 
You you have no affiliation with

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the written word of God, which 
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Holy Scriptures, you are in a 
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You are open to the flaming 
arrows of the enemy who will 

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shoot them and will make the 
market the the the target will 

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hit the target and the fall will
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But when we do constantly have 
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with the word of God, Jesus 
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Holy Scriptures, we are guarded.
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that we need to continue to pray
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Let me read to you what 
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writes and comments on this. 
According to Mauritius, Dad, 

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prayer is spoken of in a three 
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There are three ways we pray. 
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utter, just like Hannah prayed 
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heart, meaning she was miming in
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She was just moving her lips and
Eli the priest thought that she 

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is drunk and she was praying for
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which was a prayer of an act of 
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He got up and he prayed and he 
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So there's two ways. 
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heart and the lips and is there 
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confidence and zeal that you 
stand up and you pray and you 

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can perform through your prayer 
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But it's the third one that 
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us to do is the prayer of the 
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we understand what we are 
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When we pray, others must 
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In One Corinthians chapter 14, 
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shall pray with my spirit and I 
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understanding, knowing what it 
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knowing how we communicate with 
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Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy 
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And Paul goes on to say, I shall
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sing also with my understanding.
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that trap. 
Where prayer is, you know, it's 

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a little downplayed. 
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Yes, Amen. 
Prayer is speaking to God. 

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Prayer is communicating with 
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But we must remember that 
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mentioned this, is that we enter
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So you just imagine Jesus Christ
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What happened to Saul on the way
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You just, you just put in your 
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second, that while you're 
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you. 
Are you going to be slumbered 

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over your seat with the, you 
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talking as though you're talking
to your best friend or a 

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neighbor or a family friend? 
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knees, bowing your head, 
striking your head on the ground

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because you are in the presence 
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Jesus Christ? 
So understanding when we pray 

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what we are praying and how we 
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And Mari Shuddat continues to 
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what I just spoke about, the 
three ways of praying is also 

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threefold, is bodily, mentally 
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But as I mentioned, our Lord has
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the understanding to know what 
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And He told us that when we do 
pray that we pray not using vain

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repetitions. 
We don't need to mention Jesus 

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name 35,000 times to cast out 
demons. 

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We don't need to mention God's 
almighty sovereign way or name 

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15,000 times to accomplish what 
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Once when Simon said to the 
beggar silver and gold, I have 

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none. 
But in the name of Jesus Christ,

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this is what I have. 
This is the authority. 

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I have that by the name of Jesus
Christ you may be healed once, 

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because in the name of Jesus 
demons shudder. 

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So there's no need to repeat and
repeat. 

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God's not death. 
Jesus is not death. 

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Satan is not, you know, powerful
to that point where you need to 

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continue to inject and inject 
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Christ. 
No, Satan is a weakling. 

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Satan is basically nothing 
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He has crushed his head and he's
given us that that authority to 

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do so as well. 
So be careful when you pray. 

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Use not vain repetitions as the 
heathens do, for they think that

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they shall be heard for things 
much speaking like through many 

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words. 
Now yes, many people have have 

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confronted me. 
Well why is it that we say the 

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the Trisagi and Khadija Allah 3 
times? 

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Well, we say it once in honor of
the Father and in honor of the 

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Son and in honor of the Holy 
Spirit. 

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Not that we don't have 
confidence that when we say it 

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once we don't receive the 
blessing and the sanctification,

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No, and we're glorifying God. 
But when you repeat in vain 

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words that possibly not even 
understand and know what the 

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power of that word is, well, 
that's what Jesus is talking 

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about. 
We are to pray in the Spirit and

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at all times, beloved, let our 
deep affections enter our 

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prayer. 
You know before praying, and I 

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always say this, when we end up 
a meeting with the youth or and 

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I said, OK, let us close in 
prayer, there are people still 

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continuing with their 
conversations and as soon as 

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they finish a conversation they 
want to enter a prayer. 

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No. 
There's got to be at least at 

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least 5 seconds of preparedness 
to prepare yourself, to put 

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yourself in that spiritually 
realm that we are now going to 

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enter God's presence. 
And when we pray, beloved that 

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way, that is when we do not give
Satan not a foothold, not even a

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toehold. 
There is no place for Satan 

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because it's already been 
preoccupied by the power and the

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majesty and the holiness of 
Jesus Christ. 

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You do not know what to pray or 
how to pray. 

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Some people ask you know what 
you know I have difficulties 

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praying to the Lord. 
Well. 

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Christ has given us a a model of
prayer and you know it's it's 

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it's heartbreaking that this 
prayer is sometimes frowned 

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upon, lack of a better term. 
Like you know you don't know how

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to pray. 
You just pray the Lord's Prayer.

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Of course that's the Lord's 
prayer you just mentioned the 

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Lord. 
You know you don't know what the

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Lord is. 
You don't know who the Lord is. 

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If you're just going to take his
prayer, just something that is 

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so light and so easily taken. 
No. 

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Christ taught us that in this 
manner we shall pray and say our

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Father in heaven, pray with me. 
Our Father in heaven, hallowed 

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be your name, your Kingdom come,
your will be done, as in heaven.

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So on earth. 
Give us the bread of our need 

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this day, and forgive us our 
debts as we forgave our debtors,

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and bring us not into trial, but
deliver us from evil. 

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For yours is the Kingdom and 
power and glory forever and 

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ever. 
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