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ACTS 29 TODAY

coming to the knowledge of the TRUTH

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STEPS TO INTERCESSION

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Intercession is born in us when the needs of others

move our spirit so strongly that we finally give the Holy

Spirit something to add His power to. That is when faith

in its purest form flows from our spirit.

Let me tell you the steps that lead to true intercession

after you begin the edification process by praying in

tongues at your own will.

The Holy Spirit will first build you up to that place of

sensitivity we’ve been talking about.You will start to

look at your husband or wife or lost family member

and say, “Oh, God, above everything else, I would that

he [or she] be saved.” At this point, the desires of your

heart begin to change in the edification process. You

are taking the first steps toward intercession.

Although you may think you are directing the Holy

Spirit’s prayer, you are not. You have your list of prayer

requests: Joe needs a car; Susie needs this; Jan needs

that. All of those things are almost irrelevant to God.

So you sit there with your big list and say, “Okay, I claim

all these things.” When you say,“I claim it,” God hears

it. Then you say, “Now I’m going to pray in the Spirit

about it.” At this point, the desires of your heart begin

to direct your prayers rather than your mentality.

What did God say? He said that He would grant the

desires of your heart if you delighted yourself in Him

(Ps. 37:4). That means that if you delight yourself in the

Lord in prayer, the desires you have will come from

Him, and these are the desires He can fulfill.

As you pray in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit will begin to

plant a little seed. That is the conception of a miracle. It

is the birth plan for your backslidden spouse or your

child on dope or a lost relative. He plants that seed

directed by the desires of your heart. As you pray in

tongues,God will begin to form that little “baby” by the

authority of your spirit.

Several months go by. You keep praying, and that

miracle growing on the inside of you begins to “show”

as you carry it to fruition.

Soon you don’t care if anyone around you is praying or

not. You get up early. You pray at all times of the day

and night. You walk around and crave spiritual things

that you never used to care much about.

The months go by as you continue to pray. Suddenly, by

an act of God’s will and not your own, it is time for

birth, and you begin to groan. The labor pains are

getting closer and closer.It is only a matter of time

before that “baby” is birthed in the spiritual realm.

After long hours of edifying myself through praying in

tongues, God began to slip me over into intercession to

birth things in the Spirit.

For example, I remember a time when the symptom of

partial deafness temporarily manifested in my body

while I was interceding. That night a woman who was

totally deaf came to my service, and God opened her

ears! She could hear music and the voices of her

husband and son for the first time in her life. Why?

Because God was able to bring me to a place in the

Spirit where I stood in the gap for this woman’s healing.

So is it worth the hours and days and months that it

takes to build that superstructure in your spirit by

praying in tongues so that one day the Holy Ghost can

begin to use you in mighty intercession? Oh, yes, my

friend, it’s worth every minute.

It is a high honor to stand between Satan and the

people he is trying to kill, steal from, and destroy. And

nothing can compare to knowing that those you’re

praying for may have known hell as their eternal

destination — except that you paid the price to be

purged so you could stand in the gap and set the

captives free!

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For in these last days, many shall scurry to and fro.

Fear will encompass the earth.Men’s hearts shall fail

for looking upon those things that are coming upon the

world.

But run not here and run not there,for your answer is

within.

Look up, saith the Spirit of Grace, your redemption

draweth nigh.

Establish your feet on the foundational rock of doing

My sayings.

Be ye strengthened with all power and might in the

inner man, for it is the inner strength that will

accomplish My purpose in My people.

Through that inner strength will I empower you in

these last days to stand. (word given thru Dave Roberson)

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UNTIL NEXT TIME

LARRY