Prayer

Have you ever felt like prayer is just another task on your spiritual to-do list? What if prayer could transform from an obligation into the most natural conversation of your day?

In this profound exploration of prayer, Walter and Shanea unpack what it truly means to communicate with God beyond religious formality. They reveal how prayer serves as "the language of the spirit" – not merely words spoken at designated times but an ongoing dialogue that permeates every moment of our lives.

The couple shares a powerful revelation about moving from "expecting" to "knowing" in prayer, illustrated through Walter's relationship with his daughter. When she asks for something and he promises to provide it, she doesn't repeatedly ask because she trusts his word. Similarly, mature faith rests in God's promises rather than continuously petitioning for the same things. This shift fundamentally changes how we approach prayer – from anxious pleading to confident communion.

Through biblical examples like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refusing to bow before the king's idol, Jesus raising Lazarus, and Peter walking on water, Walter and Shania demonstrate what unwavering faith looks like in practice. Each story reinforces that genuine prayer flows from understanding God's authority and keeping our focus on Him rather than surrounding circumstances.

The most practical takeaway? Their challenge to meet with God three times daily for 21 consecutive days. This intentional practice helps transform prayer from an occasional activity into a lifestyle of spiritual connection. Whether through traditional prayer, worship, or simply conversing with God throughout your day, consistent communication builds the relationship necessary to walk confidently in the spirit.

Ready to revolutionize your prayer life? Listen now and discover how to make communion with God as natural as breathing. Your journey toward knowing rather than just expecting begins with this episode.

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Episode Transcript

WALTER (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of Stepping in Faith,
where, together, we explore theimportance of having a
relationship with God and howthat relationship with God can
impact the relationship you havewith others.
I'm your host, walter.
I'm joined here alongside mylovely wife.

SHANEA (00:15):
Shanea.

WALTER (00:16):
This is Season 2, episode two.
Okay, gotta keep that in mind.
Everything is updating here forme, so this is the second

(00:36):
episode of season two.
We are back and grateful to God, keeping us, week by week, to
record and do what he's told usto do.
We like to open these episodesup with prayer, so that's where
we will begin, and you prayedlast week, right, mm-hmm.

(00:59):
Okay, so I will start us off inprayer, and I don't know why it
was taking such a long time formy iPad to update.
Father God, as we come beforeyou this evening, we thank you
for your love, your mercy, yourgrace, your kindness, your joy.
We thank you for your peace andwe pray, father God, that your

(01:25):
perfect will will continue to becarried out in every area and
every part of our lives here onearth, as it is in heaven.
We come up against the plans ofthe enemy and thank you that no
weapons formed against us shallprosper.
We thank you for being with us,even as we do what you've
called us to do by recordingthis podcast.
We thank you that you are infull control, father God, god,
and that there is none that isgreater than you.

(01:46):
We give you the praise, gloryand the honor and count it down
in jesus name.
We pray amen every time werecord amen every time every.
It was no train last night, wasit?
I don't remember there was notrain last night.
Every time we record, whetherit's us recording or my wife

(02:09):
recording for some strangereason the train wants to come
by and interrupt what we'redoing.
But, holy Spirit, we stillsubmit to you and surrender to
you.
So, season two what's thisweek's episode?
Episode name it's called prayerprayer you got that first right

(02:31):
no you did get talking aboutprayer before.
okay, that came to me last weekmultiple times to discuss prayer
.
I heard it the first time and Iwas like, okay, maybe this is
me.
And I heard it again and that'swhat he wanted us to discuss

(02:52):
Because I didn't know where wewas going to take prayer.
Prayer is such a vast subject.
You know, it's not a simplecookie cutter situation.
There's layers to prayer, rightLike there's altars, there's
all of these different thingsthat you can dig into when
discussing prayer.

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But that's what he wanted us todiscuss.
That's what the father stated.
So that's what we're going todiscuss.
I know that I was prayingactually Saturday morning and,
like revelation after revelationjust began to flow as I was
praying actually Saturdaymorning and, like revelation
after revelation just began toflow as I was praying on prayer
and so, and then I think therewas a word I got from God.

(03:34):
Was it Saturday or was itSunday?

SHANEA (03:38):
Maybe Saturday.

WALTER (03:40):
Saturday, so I am going to share this.
This is not something that'sgoing to be done every week.
This is something that's beingdone right now, but I am going
to share this.
So I was in prayer Saturday andwhat I heard is do not bow to

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the king.
We have been in a place wherethe leader of this country is
expecting everyone to bow downbefore him in worship, and many
are and have.
Yet, as believers, we arecalled to be like Shadrach,
meshach and Abednego Daniel 3,7-30, which I will read in a
second.

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Even with threats of beingthrown into the fire, they
stated they believed God wouldsave them.
Yet even if he didn't, theystill would not bow.
So we're seeing so many peoplecave under threats of being
thrown into the fire.
Believers or followers ofChrist do not bow, simple as

(04:47):
that.
And so when I was hearing this,I went in, I read Daniel, and
if you all hear this, we are, weapologize.
Now, that's a plane Every time.
Let's see was daniel, chapterthree, starting at verse seven.

(05:49):
So, um, actually verse eight.
So daniel three, uh, startingat verse eight.
And this is the account ofsharadrach, meshach and Abednego
.
It says they said to KingNebuchadnezzar must be thrown
into a burning furnace.
But there are some Jews,shadrach, meshach and Abednego,
whom you have put in charge ofthe province of Babylon.
They pay no attention to you,your majesty.

(06:13):
They refuse to serve your godsand do not worship the gold
statue you have set up.
Then Nebuchadnezzar flew into arage and ordered that Shadrach,
meshach and Abednego be broughtbefore him.
When they were brought in,nebuchadnezzar said to them Is
it true, shadrach, meshach andAbednego, that you refuse to
serve my gods or to worship thegold statue I have set up?

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I will give you one more chanceto bow down and worship the
statue I have made when you hearthe sound of the musical
instruments.
But if you refuse, you will bethrown immediately into the
blazing furnace.
And then what god will be ableto rescue you from my power?
Shadrach, meshach and Abednegoreplied O Nebuchadnezzar, we do

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not need to defend ourselvesbefore you.
If we are thrown into theblazing furnace, the God whom we
serve is able to save us.
He will rescue us from yourpower, your majesty, but even if
he doesn't, we want to make itclear to you, your majesty, that
we will never serve your godsor worship the gold statue you

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have set up.
Nebuchadnezzar was so furiouswith Shadrach, meshach and
Abednego that his face becamedistorted with rage.
He commanded that the furnacebe heated seven times hotter
than usual.
Then he ordered some of thestrongest men of his army to
bind Shadrach, meshach andAbednego and throw them into the
blazing furnace.
So they tied them up and threwthem into the furnace fully

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dressed in their pants, turbans,robes and other garments.
And because the king and hisanger had demanded such a hot
fire in the furnace, the flameskilled the soldiers as they
threw the three men in.
So Shadrach, meshach andAbednego, securely tied, fell
into the roaring flames.
But suddenly Nebuchadnezzarjumped up in amazement and

(08:04):
exclaimed to his advisors Didn'twe tie up three men and throw
them into the furnace?
Yes, your majesty, we certainlydid.
They replied.
Look.
Nebuchadnezzar shouted I seefour men, unbound, walking
around in the fire unharmed, andthe fourth looks like a god.
Then Nebuchadnezzar came asclose as he could to the door of
the flaming furnace and shoutedShadrach, meshach and Abednego,

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servants of the Most High God,come out, come here.
So Shadrach, meshach andAbednego stepped out of the fire
.
Then the high officers,officials, governors and
advisors crowded around them andsaw that the fire had not
touched them Now.
The hair on their heads wassinged and their clothing was
not scorched.

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They didn't even smell of smoke.
Then Nebuchadnezzar said praiseto the God of Shadrach, meshach
and Abednego.
He sent his angels to rescuehis servants who trusted in him.
They defied the king's commandand were willing to die rather
than serve or worship any Godexcept their own God.
Therefore, I make this decreeIf any people, whatever their

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race or nation or language,speak a word against the god of
Shirek, meshach and Abednego,they will be torn from limb to
limb, or they will be torn limbfrom limb and their houses will
be turned into heaps of rubble.
There is no other god who canrescue like this.
Then the king promotedShirerach, meshach and Abednego

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to even higher positions in theprovince of Babylon.
So I think it's really importantto understand that we have been
called to not bow.
It's as simple as that.
God don't want us bowing toanyone.

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It's as simple as that.
I don't know what else to say.
This word is so, I believe,important because it's so easy
to just kind of stay under theradar, to submit to things that
are clearly not of God, and Idon't know how this will look
for whoever hear this, what thatwould mean for you.

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But we have to be bold enough.
I think what stuck out to mewith Shadrach, meshach and
Abednego is that they statedthat they believed God would
save them, but they stated thateven if God did not save them,
they still would not bow.
And it's challenging, becausehow many people can say that,

(10:31):
whether God saves me or not, Iwill not bow down.
Even if I'm destroyed, I willnot bow down, because by all
accounts, this is the definitionof persecution that no matter
what you will submit to God,that you will not bow your knees
to anybody else.
So do with that as you may.

(10:56):
It was also.
I was reading Psalms 119.
So Psalms 119 is really good.
The whole chapter is justcentered around obedience to
God's laws.
But we know that it's not justabout the laws of God.

(11:18):
It's also things specificallythat God calls us to do, where
he requires that we be obedient.
Yeah.
And what came to me as I wasreading Psalms 119, after I
finished reading, actually,because I was like, okay, god,
what does this mean?
And the first thing thatdropped in mind is obedience is
better than sacrifice, which is1 Samuel, 15, 22 through 23.

(11:41):
And I promise you all, we'regoing to get started.
I just wanted to put this outreal quick, and we know this.
This is when Samuel was dealingwith King Saul.
In verse 22, it says but Samuelreplied what is more pleasing
to the Lord, your burntofferings and sacrifices or your
obedience to his voice?

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Listen, obedience is betterthan sacrifice and submission is
better than offering the fat oframs.
Rebellion is as sinful aswitchcraft and stubbornness as
bad as worshiping idols.
So, because you have rejectedthe command of the Lord, he has
rejected you as king.
We got to be really careful toobey God.

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We got to be really careful toobey god.
We got to be really careful toobey god.
And that's what god gave to me.
So we will get started.
So prayer, babe.

SHANEA (12:38):
Thoughts on prayer, or, if you want to add anything to
what was just stated I thinkthat, um, I don't know if I have
any thoughts on prayer yet,since we haven't started, but on
bowing down, I think that youknow Shadrach, meshach and

(13:04):
Abednego, while they adhered tothe majority of the laws that
Nebuchadnezzar had put in place,they did not adhere to
worshiping him yes, like a God.
So he wanted them to bow beforea statue, and all the other

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Israelites did, all the otherJews did, because they were
afraid of the consequences.
And with the church, they arebowing down to, let's say,

(13:47):
policies or laws that are beingput in place to avoid
consequences, or even businesses.
They are going along with thesepolicies that they really don't
have to, but they choose tobecause they want.

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They don't want theconsequences or possible
consequences, but if, likeShirek, meshach and Abednego,
they stood up for what theybelieved and they believed in
God and they knew that God wouldsave them, but even if God
didn't, if they were unalived,they would be in a better place

(14:29):
anyway.

WALTER (14:31):
Or even if their business is destroyed or
whatever.
Have you, how much are youwilling?
Because if you bow, you willcontinue to bow.

SHANEA (14:42):
Yeah, because it's like you know it's.
You say the next day you don'twake up and then you get judged
and you're like Jesus is likewell, you chose this God over
this one, you chose this over me.
You know, you chose this beforeme and you, I don't give you
the spirit of fear.
So there was nothing for you tobe fearful of.

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There's a better place for youanyway.

WALTER (15:10):
So we once again, please don't bow, Do not bow down to
things that's not of God.
It's as simple as that.

SHANEA (15:21):
Yeah.

WALTER (15:22):
We are.
We said this last week we'reambassadors.
We are kingdom citizens.
We belong to the kingdom of God.
So we are submitted to thekingdom of God first, then to
whatever policies of the land.
In those policies of the land,we have to take them and we have

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to align them and say do theyline up with how God has called
us to live?

SHANEA (15:48):
Yeah.

WALTER (15:49):
Because we I mean the wife was talking about this, I
think yesterday or the daybefore yesterday that the Bible
is about marginalized peopleno-transcript let that sink in.

(16:25):
So getting into prayer.
So I think, the biggest, Ithink where we can start to set
the tone, prayer is the languageof the spirit.
It's our way of communicatingto the father, to our Lord and
savior, and to the Holy spirit.
So you want to add anything tothat?

(16:45):
No Straight.
Savior and to the Holy Spirit.
So you want to add anything tothat?
No Straight to the point.

SHANEA (16:53):
Yeah, prayer is the language of the Spirit.
Prayer is literally just youcommunicating with the Father,
jesus and the Holy Spirit.

WALTER (17:08):
Yes, it's like you speak in English.
It's like you speak in Spanish,Portuguese, whatever Italian,
Chinese.

SHANEA (17:19):
What are you talking about?
Actual language.

WALTER (17:21):
Yes, I'm talking like there's a language that we speak
to communicate with each other,but there's also a language in
the spirit that you speak tocommunicate with God.
Now, I'm not talking about, I'msaying that we also have to
communicate with God.
Now, that could be via tongues,you know, that can be just via

(17:42):
really sitting down and having aconversation with the Father,
but it's just really.
It's how you communicate in theSpirit.
It's through prayer.
But I think sometimes wecomplicate it.
But we'll dig into that more aswe go on.
So let's start here, prayingwithout ceasing.

(18:03):
You want to read 1Thessalonians 5 and verse 17?
Chapter 5, verse 17?
.

SHANEA (18:13):
Sure, and we're reading the NLT version.
Mm-hmm 1 Thessalonians 5, yousaid 15?
.

WALTER (18:23):
Chapter 5, verse 17.

SHANEA (18:25):
Oh, chapter 5, verse 17.
Never stop praying.

WALTER (18:31):
That's all it says.

SHANEA (18:32):
Yes, that's all it says is never stop praying.
But I'll continue to read them.
It says never stop praying.
Be thankful in allcircumstances, for this is God's
will for you who belong toChrist Jesus.

WALTER (18:49):
So prayer without ceasing, right, there should
never be a moment when we're notconnected to the Father in
prayer throughout the day.
Right?
By approaching it from thatperspective, it takes prayer.
It shifts prayer from being achore to becoming something that
we actually depend on.

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Because I think, sometimes whenwe think of prayer, we think of
prayer as being a chore.
I have to get up in the morningand pray, I have to pray this
afternoon, I have to pray atnight.
If you look at it from theperspective of you pray without
ceasing and it's your ability tocommunicate with the father and
you're consistently incommunication with him

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throughout the day, it shiftsyour perspective on prayer Right
, and so our life should bebuilt around communication with
God.
And that's the scripture wealways talk about Galatians five
verse, about Galatians 5, verse25.
And Galatians 5, verse 25, I'mgetting there right now, but

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essentially it states that ineverything that we do, we should
submit it to the Holy Spirit,we should be led by the Spirit
in all we do.
That's essentially, I believe,what Galatians 5, verse 25 says.
Yes, since we are living by theSpirit, let us follow the
spirit's leading in every partof our lives.
So it's impossible for us tofollow the holy spirit if we are

(20:12):
not consistently in prayer incommunication yes, communication
with the holy spirit, yeah, soultimately, we have to remain in
a state of, and we have toremain in a state of mind of
prayer, right?
There's never a moment in a daywhen you're not connected to
the Father.

(20:32):
So that's like to make itpractical.
You're going throughout the day, god.
How should I approach this ifyou're dealing with a problem at
work?
God, how should I approach thisif you're dealing with a
problem at work?
God, how should I do this?
God, I want to submit this toyou, god.
How can I be of service untoyou, god?

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What is it that you want to sayto me today?
Is there anything that you wantto give me, to give to somebody
else?
Is there anything that you wantto say to me?
You know, these are just kindof practical ways that we can
approach it.
Is there anything that youcould add to practical ways of
praying throughout the day andcommunicating with God?

SHANEA (21:14):
Yeah, it's those thoughts where you're talking to
yourself Like I don't know if Icould do this, I don't know why
this person did this and thisand that and that and that, and
turn the eye to God thishappened, why did this happen?
What do you think about this?
This is what I want to do.
I don't know if I should do itor not Instead of just talking

(21:37):
to yourself about it, becauseyou're just going to keep going
on and on and on, and then youcreate these scenarios and those
scenarios turn intoimaginations and we're supposed
to cast down all these thoughts.
So your thoughts, we justsubmit them to God, meaning
submitting like, just say God,this is what I'm thinking
Instead of.

WALTER (21:58):
I think this yeah, and it's about believing that as
you're praying or as you'reseeking the face of God and
you're communicating with him,he will, will answer.
It's building that relationshipto understand his voice,
because many times, even with us, we just, a lot of times I find
things out.
I know I ask God questions andI know it's the same thing with
you and he'll give you theanswer.
He may not give it when youexpect him to give you give the

(22:21):
answer, but eventually he'llgive the answer, whether it be
through a dream, a vision, areign of word or something It'll
bring back to that question youpresented to him and then
sometimes he'll give it to youright away.
Sometimes he'll use a scriptureto give it to you.

SHANEA (22:36):
And sometimes he don't.
Sometimes, he don't.
Sometimes he doesn't.

WALTER (22:42):
I think reflection is it's not just about what you do
but about understanding why youdo it.
And it's not only aboutbelieving but about having a
revelation of what you believe,because that revelation unlocks
the power you've alreadypossessed within.
So, when we approach prayer, wehave to move it away from being

(23:05):
a chore, right, we have toreposition that it's not a chore
, it's communication.
We are communicating with theFather, yeah, and we have to
believe, because sometimes wejust pray to pray, but we don't
believe that, as we are inprayer, that we are
communicating with the Fatherand that he is hearing us, and
so we approach it as if it'sjust something we're supposed to

(23:27):
do.
It's like you're checking itoff a board or a list.

SHANEA (23:32):
Yeah, but that's why it's important to pray without
ceasing meaning talking to Godall throughout the day, so that
it doesn't feel weird.
You know, like when you were akid.
You would just pray at nightfor all the things that you
wanted, but you didn't reallytalk to God throughout the day.
You just knew you were supposedto pray at night or at a
certain time, or wake up in themorning.
I for sure was avid aboutpraying in the morning, praying

(23:55):
at night, and that was prettymuch it.

WALTER (23:57):
Yeah, and so I mean a lot of times.
Even with me, I would say thatthere are times where I'm
dealing with stuff and back inthe day I would call a friend,
but now I'm going to God.
Like God, I don't know how todo this.
Yeah, I don't understand this.
Please help me.

SHANEA (24:16):
I don't get this the Holy Spirit is like your phone a
friend?

WALTER (24:20):
yes, the Holy Spirit should be your phone.
A friend now?
Uh, point three I don rememberthis, but I know I wrote this
before.
I said here, when hearing thisand it's like, I saw an image of
an interview with Danielle.
Who's Danielle, I don't know.

(24:40):
Do you remember the interviewwe saw with Danielle?
I?

SHANEA (24:43):
don't know what you're talking about.
Who's Danielle?
Someone apparently know whatyou're talking about.
Who's Danielle?

WALTER (24:47):
Someone apparently.

SHANEA (24:49):
What interview Some interview but.

WALTER (24:51):
As a girl Danielle is definitely a girl.
No, I mean, I know, danielle isa girl, but I mean like
Danielle is definitely a girlname.
I don't know any men namedDanielle and if there are, I'm
sure there are.
There shouldn't be no offensenamed Danielle.

SHANEA (25:08):
And if there are.

WALTER (25:09):
I'm sure there are.
There shouldn't be no offenseanyway, um, but I think the
thing that stood out is um, itstated that she was referring to
how our mind should beconnected to the mind of Christ.

SHANEA (25:18):
What interview was this with uh Ezekiel?

WALTER (25:19):
Could have been, I don't know.
Probably was with Ezekiel.
Anyhow, it was something thatwas there.
I like that part.

SHANEA (25:28):
I think that's her name, danielle.
I don't know.

WALTER (25:31):
Okay, so first we have to remove all expectations in
prayer.
Right, just be.
And I forgot who was talkingabout it, but they spoke about
this, the couple, and doing thisopens us to truly encountering
the presence of god.
Who, what couple was that?
The uh lady that's a jew andthe husband that travels to

(25:55):
africa?

SHANEA (25:56):
they were on with taylor oh, um, I don't know their name
.
I actually was supposed to lookthem up today because remember
I had to dream about them.

WALTER (26:04):
Okay, her name is not Danielle, right?
Hold on, keep going, I'll findit, and so this is the model of
prayer not striving, notperforming, but abiding.
So, essentially, I think a lotof times and I've I've fell
victim to this I go into prayerwith expectations.

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So I'm like God, I want to seeyou, so I expect to see God, or
I expect to experience somethingin prayer, and when I don't, I
feel like I'm a failure or Ifeel like I did something wrong,
or I feel like God didn't comethrough for me, and so or Jamie
and Donna.
Okay, and so, with that beingthe case, it's important to

(26:45):
understand that we should nothave expectations in prayer.
We should just go in prayer,just being open to whatever may
or may not happen.
It's not about expectations,it's just about spending time
with God and just being in hispresence.
It's as simple as that.
Anything you want to add tothat, babe?

SHANEA (27:08):
no are you talking about .
Is that this the interview thatyou were talking we were
referring to?

WALTER (27:14):
I don't think so okay, but that's what they talked
about.
Um, our expectations and howour expectations get us in
trouble during prayer.
Yeah, so and so and then Ithink this is I would challenge
you, right, but I say this and Iwant to be careful with what I
say right, try to meet with Godthree times a day, but the

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challenge is not making it achore, but just like I'm trying
to have a conversation with himwell, I mean or pray with god
and see your god.
How often should I meet with you?

SHANEA (27:53):
and it should at least be three times a day it should,
but I don't want to I mean dailybread.
Every time you eat food, youneed to be eating in the word
and you need when you feed yourflesh.
When you feed your flesh, youshould also be feeding your
spirit.

WALTER (28:07):
So so here's what we would challenge you with for the
next.
I would say more than a week, Iwould say the next two weeks.
Everyone is hearing this forthe next two weeks or for 21
days, and I'm not talking aboutthe daniel fast, but typically
they state what 21 days after 21days is consistency.
It becomes a habit.
So for the next 21 days, Ichallenge everyone to meet with

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God three times a day.
Pray on what that time shouldbe in the morning, pray on what
that time should be in theafternoon and pray on what that
time should be during theevening time.
Be consistent with it day in,day out, I don't care what's
happening, what's taking place,and build your schedule around
meeting with God three times aday.

SHANEA (28:52):
And if you're eating three times a day, just spend
that time with God.

WALTER (28:56):
Yes, but what I want you to do, I want you to do this
consistently Right.
If you can spend an hour, spendan hour.
If not, I would say, at thevery least, 15 to 20 minutes.

SHANEA (29:09):
Right, like on your lunch break, don't be scrolling
on Instagram.

WALTER (29:12):
Just open up your Bible or talk to him and be
intentional about this.
Do this consistently and seewhat happens.
Do this consistently Wheneveryou hear this podcast.
Start that next day.
I challenge you all to do that.
Okay, so you want to get startus off with from expecting to

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knowing, Cause this wassomething that God was dealing
with me on Saturday.
You want me to start it and youput come in.

SHANEA (29:44):
Oh, are we on five now.
Expecting to knowing?
We have to expect, we have tomove from expecting to knowing
as we pray and seek the Father.
What do you mean by that?

WALTER (30:05):
I had a conversation with baby girl and I always
think about my relationship withher Right and I talked to her
and I'm talking about our 14year old.
I talked to her about how itwent from before.
She would ask me for somethingand she would consistently ask

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me for something, even though Isaid I was going to do it.
Until now she asked me forsomething and when I tell her
I'm going to do it, she don'task me again.
She just knows that I'm goingto do it and so it's that.
And so that's what God wasdealing with me on.
You remember when we talkedabout how we should approach
prayer if there's an issue goingon, should we pray about it

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over and over and, over and overand over again?
And I was having a conversationwith God and I'm like, well, I
owe this.
She don't do that with me.
She asked me for something andshe knows that I'm going to get
it for her because of therelationship we have, she trusts
me, trust me.
So if she needs something andshe comes to dad and say, dad, I

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need this, all right, baby girl, I'm gonna get it for you and I
get it for her.
She don't ask me again about it.
She don't say anything.
Now, if it's getting close,she'd be like dad, you remember
I asked you about that?
Yeah, I got you, you know.
And so that's the way that weshould approach prayer with the
father.
And what God was dealing with meon is that how people approach
prayer showcases the type ofrelationship they have with Him.

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If you're constantly prayingabout the same thing over and
over and, over and over again,it showcases the type of
relationship you have with Godand what it shows is that you
really don't trust God.
And when you pray aboutsomething, now, the key thing
everyone is when you pray aboutsomething, now the key thing
everyone is, when we pray, seekout that answer right, because,

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like with baby girl, I almostsaid her name when she asked me
for something once.
I tell her that I'm going toget it for it.
She's done right.
So the same thing goes for thefather.
When we are seeking the fatherand we are praying about
something, once he gives us hisword on it, we have to stand on
that word and a lot of times andI've even been guilty of this

(32:14):
gotta give me his word onsomething and I'll continue to
pray about it because I haven'tseen the fruit of what he stated
, but the bible lets us knowthat god watches over his word
to make sure his word performsand do what he said his word was
going to do.

SHANEA (32:29):
Yeah, the thing is is just being a place of receiving
what it is that he has for you,so being in a place of
thankfulness when you arepraying.
When you are praying, it's notyou know, god, I need this
anymore.
It's God, thank you, because Iknow you're need this anymore.
It's god, thank you because Iknow you're gonna do it.
Yeah, whenever you do it, yeah,it's gonna happen.

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Yeah, because I'm not god so itliterally is.

WALTER (32:57):
Then when there is a knowing, there is a rest.
So it's resting in that placeand that's our challenge and I
believe that's a scripture thatspeaks on resting in him.
And so when we break it downright, expectations, just
examples, a belief about whatmight happen, future oriented

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uncertain, based on desires,patterns, assumptions or social
norms, emotionally charged, canlead to disappointment or
satisfaction.
And I think a lot of us rightwe approach prayer from an
expecting or expectation likeposture.
We're in an expecting postureor expectation like posture with

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prayer.
So the difference betweenexpectation, as you see, see,
and knowing.
So knowing is a sense ofcertainty, it's grounded in
experience, evidence orintuition carries confidence and
rest, not striving.
It's rooted in the revelation Ialready know the sun will rise

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tomorrow.
So when there's a knowing andthis is how we have to approach
prayer it shifts, how our entireperspective yeah, it's like
knowing when, knowing that jesusdied on the cross, that by his
stripes we are healed.

SHANEA (34:19):
So I shouldn't be sick if I feel a little cold coming
on.
It's no, this is no.
I'm not supposed to.
This is no, I'm not supposed tohave this.

WALTER (34:26):
Yeah.

SHANEA (34:27):
I know I'm not supposed to have this and you're speaking
to that spirit and I speak toit.
You got to go, and then it'sgone.

WALTER (34:32):
But it's the knowing, and knowing only comes by way of
revelation.
So I believe the issue with alot of us and we've been there
and we even still struggle withcertain areas is, when
approaching prayer, you have topray that God will give you a
revelation on that thing andunderstand that as you approach

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prayer.
It's a knowing that if God saidit's so, it is so, it's really.
It's as simple as that.
So we have to move fromexpecting to knowing, and that's
once again it talks about.
That goes to romans 12, verse 1through verse 2, when it talks
about renewing your mind yeah,that's what I was about to say.

SHANEA (35:14):
I was about to say it's.
It's constantly renewing yourmind and so it's whenever you
start to feel anxious andwhenever you start to feel
doubtful, you go back to god'sword, you go back to the
promises or you go back to thepromises.
So if you have to put upscripture around your house or
you got to put it in your phone,if you have to write it down
just so that you can remember,this is what God said, and I

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stand on what God said, andnobody's going to tell me
anything different.

WALTER (35:40):
And you can ask God because I know, with certain
situations that we've dealt with, I'm like God what scripture
can I use for this?
And he'll give us scriptures,for specific scriptures that you
can use for that particularsituation that you're dealing
with.
So that's another thing.
Once again, it goes back tocommunication with the Father.
So let's see, this is goodwalking in the Spirit.

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I was going in about thiswalking in the spirit right
hebrews 11, verse 1 throughverse 3.
You want to read?
That the faith chapter.
The goals of faith.

SHANEA (36:27):
Hebrews 11.
I'm reading NLT 1 through 3.

WALTER (36:32):
Yes.

SHANEA (36:33):
Faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
It is the evidence of things wecannot see.
Through their faith, the peoplein days of old earned a good
reputation by faith.
We understand that the entireuniverse was formed at God's
command Exactly that.
What we now see did not comefrom anything that can be seen.

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Mm-hmm.

WALTER (37:00):
So, and that Galatians 5 and 25 is here as well.
But and we read that before soit's so important that we make
walking in the spirit a habit,and what that literally means is
God gives you a word onsomething and you go based off

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that word that God has given you.
And you go based off that wordthat God has given you, and so
you look at your circumstancesand you say I choose not to
focus on my circumstances, but Ichoose to focus on the word
that God has given me.
And that's essentially whatHebrews 11 and 1 through 2 is
saying.

SHANEA (37:38):
Yeah, or 1 through 3.
It's definitely not easy to do.
No means are we saying thatthis is easy.
It should be easy for us.
But because we're born again,we're used to seeing things with
our natural eyes, and so if wedon't see it, then it's out of
sight, out of mind, or if Idon't see it, it means I can't

(38:00):
have it, or you know, if itlooks like I can't get it, I
know that I can't get it.
Yes, and so it's hard to see inthe spirit when you don't
recognize what god's doingbehind the scenes yes, it can be
challenging, and so you have to.

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But also it is challengingbecause you're a grown adult and
you have to rely on God to doall these things for you, or not
even do all these things.
But you are, your will issubmitted to his will, and so
it's a constant battle.

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Like I could do it because I'mgrown, you know like who's to
tell me that I can't go here ordo this or do that when I know
that I need this.
And now I got to.
I feel like a child and I haveto rely on a being that I can't
see.

WALTER (39:04):
That's the challenge that's associated.
That's why the bible talksabout in Hebrews 11, that they
were accounted righteous becauseof their faith in him.
So when you think of, forexample, abraham and Sarah, god
telling them that they was goingto bear a child in their old
age which was something that wasunheard of, and they had, and
Sarah was bearing, for the mostpart, she could not bear a child

(39:26):
, which is why she had isaac liedown with ish, I mean with
ishmael's mother, um hagar hagarto bear it to um to bring forth
ishmael.
so it is challenging sometimes,because the word that god
presents to you does it looksnothing like.
Many times is when God gives usa word.
We got to be careful becausesometimes we want things.

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Please, ladies and gentlemen,don't use this to justify trying
to stay committed to arelationship that is extremely
toxic.
I'm not saying that, butsometimes, when God gives you a
word many times, most time,majority of the time the word is
always bigger and it'ssomething that's out of reach

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for you.
You can't do it in your ownstrength.

SHANEA (40:16):
Which is why it's harder for you to believe that it
could be possibly.

WALTER (40:19):
Exactly, Nor I am going to flood the entire earth.
I need you to build a boat andget two animals.
Get two of every type of animaland put them in the boat, and
I'm going to flood the entireearth.
Noah began to build a boat andthey looked at him like he was a
fool.
And as he was building thisboat, he told them that the

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earth is going to flood.
They thought he was crazy.
He built the boat trusting Godand the earth flooded, like God
said it would.

SHANEA (40:52):
It's hard.
It's hard to do.

WALTER (40:54):
It's challenging, and I mean, we can go through a
plethora of examples of that,right, there's a plethora of
examples in the Bible.
But the thing is this we have totry to make walking in the
Spirit a habit, right, and it'sliterally just we're not moved

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by what we see, but by the Wordof God, both the Rhema Word of
God and the written Word of God.
So we're moved by the spokenWord of God in the word of God,
actual Bible.
Right, I think it's challengingfor you to do that if you don't
know what the spoken word ofGod is over your life, over a

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particular situation and I thinka lot of times with people,
that's where they challenge, orthat's where there is a
challenge and then knowing thatyou know without a shadow of a
doubt, that God spoke that word,and then knowing that you know
without a shadow of a doubt thatGod spoke that word, because
once you know that God spokethat word, I believe it should
be a little bit easier.
It's still challenging, but itshould be a little bit easier

(41:59):
for you to wait on that word.
No, I think it's challengingwhen people don't hear god's
word um outside of readingwhat's in the bible so at that
point then that goes into someof the previous episodes that

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we've touched on when you haveto build a relationship with god
, because god is because somepeople, a lot of people, say oh
if, if you can't hear God, youjust read the Bible and that's
you know.

SHANEA (42:31):
you can find a scripture to justify you going to be a
teacher or a.

WALTER (42:39):
Please don't listen to those people.
Yes and no God's rhema word.
There's always scripture thathe gives us to back that word up
.

SHANEA (42:50):
Or, like you know, if a man you know doesn't work, he
doesn't eat.
So that gives me justificationto go find a job that's going to
pay my bills.

WALTER (42:59):
Yes, Yet, listen, this channel exists.
We are focused on primarilyrelationships, relationships as
far as marriage, andrelationship with God, and so
it's, I don't know.
You have to have a relationshipwith God and that's what we're
going to push, because you needto hear the voice of God in your

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life, every area, in every partof your life, and you should
not be having to go to a prophetto hear what the prophet has to
say concerning your life.

SHANEA (43:29):
If a prophet comes to you, a prophet should only be
confirming what god has alreadyspoken over your life yeah, or
you could be doing works thatyou think you should be doing
because you see it in the bible,but that's not necessarily what
god wants you to do.
Yes, I mean because, forexample, then you start to
become like your own God, likeyou know it all, in a way.

WALTER (43:53):
Well, some people do believe that, hey, I'm going by
the Bible and God allows me, heleads me, so I can just do
whatever I want to do.
And if I'm doing whatever Iwant to do, as long as my heart
is right, I'm still doing thewill of God.
God will still bless it becausehe's not going to sit there and
tell me everything to do.
That's not the type of God weserve.
He don't sit there and say whatyou should do, where you should

(44:15):
stay, how you should live, whatyou should work, where you
should work at, who you shouldmarry, blah, blah, blah.

SHANEA (44:21):
Yeah, and that mindset is very dangerous.

WALTER (44:24):
Even though Galatians 5 and 25 tells us that we have to
submit every part of our livesto the Holy Spirit.

SHANEA (44:29):
It's very dangerous because you go and purchase a
home that a Satanist had, or yougo and buy a car that somebody
did witchcraft in and now you'redealing with stuff that you
don't got no business dealingwith, or you touch an item or
buy an item, or you just don'tknow.
People out here are crazy.

WALTER (44:49):
So, listen, we live by this.
The first rule of thumb in anysituation, please seek out the
word of God for that situation,the actual word of God, not the
scriptures.
The actual word of God.
Then pray that God will providescripture reference to back up
the word, which typically hedoes.

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If he gives us something,there's a scripture that he
gives us to confirm that word.
I think there's not a word thatGod has given us that there's
no scripture that was tied to it.
I believe.

SHANEA (45:27):
No, there's always a scripture.
It's just sometimes people takescripture on a context.

WALTER (45:31):
Yeah.

SHANEA (45:32):
Even when it comes to relationships.

WALTER (45:34):
So walking in the spirit means letting the word consume
your life.
You become a living example ofwhat God has spoken over you,
living example of what God hasspoken over you, and that should
be our goal to become a living,breathing example of the words
that God has spoken over ourlives.

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That should be it.
So hopefully at some point wecan get to this point right and
dig deeper into what it means tomove in the spirit.
But there's what was coming tome when I was taking notes is
that there's levels of depth,like there's.
There's different levels, right, there's seeing in the spirit,

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there's walking in the spiritand then there's living in the
spirit.
There's walking in the spiritand then there's living in the
spirit, seeing in the spirit.
Not only is that based uponbeing able to really hear the
words of god, right, and receivethe word of god over your life.
Right, because it's weird how,when we try to explain, when you
hear a word of god, it's almostlike you see that word of God

(46:40):
with.
The scripture talks about beingon the watchtower and looking to
see what the Lord has to say.
Right, watching to see what theLord has to say, but it's
interesting because he saidwatching to see what the Lord
has to say.
How would I watch to see whatthe Lord has to say?
You see what I mean, so it'sreally interesting.
So, seeing in the spirit, youalso have where you can actually

(47:03):
be taken in the spirit, whereyou can see angels.
God will take you and allow youto experience different things
like that.
You'll see demons, you'll havevisions, you have all of these
things.
There's levels to seeing in thespirit.
It gets.

SHANEA (47:15):
It's all down to discernment.

WALTER (47:20):
Yeah, it gets crazy.
And so then there's walking inthe spirit, and when thinking of
walking in the spirit, it'sliterally just allowing the
words of God that God spoke overyour life to really blanket
your eyes.
So you're not moved based uponyour circumstances, all you see
is what God said.
And getting to that pointbecause when we think of Jesus,
that's who Jesus was.
He walked in the spirit, jesuswas, he walked in the spirit, he

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was consistently walking in thespirit.
And then there's living in thespirit, and I think jesus did
that too, to the point to where,when he was walking on water,
there was like he seemed to be aghost yeah he literally lived
his life in the spirit.
he had to come out of the spiritfrom time to time to deal with
things in the natural.
That's how much he was consumedby the spirit and that's what

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he's called us to.
So, models of prayer right,real quick, we have Jesus and
Lazarus.
That's John 11, verse 1 through44.
Specifically 41 and 42,.

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Right, so, everyone, I want youto read John 11, verse 1
through 44.
Babe, can you read verse 41through 42?
Babe, can you read verse 41through 42?

SHANEA (48:42):
So they rolled the stone aside.
Then Jesus looked up to theheaven and said Father, thank
you for hearing me.
You always hear me, but I saidit out loud for the sake of all

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these people standing here sothat they will believe you sent
me.
Then Jesus shouted Lazarus,lazarus, lazarus, come out.
And the dead man came out whyare you laughing at me?
His hands and feet bound ingrave clothes, his face wrapped

(49:25):
in a head cloth.
Jesus told them unwrap him andlet him go.

WALTER (49:31):
I was waiting on you to say two Corinthians.
I am a little bit more educatedthan that Anyone that knows the
inside joke will know theinside joke.
A little bit more educated thanthat I was waiting for you to
say two Corinthians, so thisreally stood out to me, right?

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So Jesus already knew theFather's will, right, but he
spoke it out loud as ademonstration, teaching us how
to approach God in prayer.
So I think, the key thing, whenyou read this account of
Lazarus, you will see that Jesusalready knew that he was sick

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and even in the midst of him,knowing he was sick, jesus said
it's not my time yet it's nottime to go, because God wants to
receive a greater glory in this.
Yet he also knew that when hewent, that he knew Lazarus was
going to die and he knew thatGod was going to raise him back
from the dead in order to alloweveryone to experience the glory

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of God.
So, when you are approachingprayer, that is the power of
understanding the word of God,but not only that, it's also
understanding the importance ofgoing in the timing that God has
called you to go.
In that word that God has spokenover your life, it's meant for

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a specific season and a specifictime.
Outside of that season andoutside of that time, that word
is not going to work.
So sometimes and I thinksomeone has touched on this
before, but sometimes we getcaught up because we're looking
for that word to work out ofseason at the wrong time and the

(51:22):
enemy tried to use that to getus down, because we are
expecting the word to come topass that god has spoken over
our life, but we don'tunderstand seasons and times yet
yeah so that digs into likeMatthew eight, five through nine

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, and I'll read that real quick.
And, babe, is there anythingthat you wanted to add, cause I
know I'm saying a lot so good.

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And so let me see.
When Jesus returned toCapernaum, a Roman officer came
and pleaded with him.
Lord, my young servant lies inbed paralyzed and in terrible
pain.
Jesus said I will come and healhim.
But the officer said, lord, Iam not worthy to have you come
into my home.
Just say the word from whereyou are and my servant will be
healed.
I know this because I am underthe authority of my superior
officers and I have authorityover my soldiers.

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I only need to say go, and theygo, or come and they come.
And if I say to my slaves dothis, they do it.
When Jesus heard this, he wasamazed.
Turning to those who werefollowing him, he said I tell
you the truth, I haven't seenfaith like this in all Israel.
And I tell you this that manyGentiles will come from all over

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the world, from east and west,and sit down with Abraham, isaac
and Jacob at the feast in thekingdom of heaven, but many
Israelites, those for whom thekingdom was prepared, will be
thrown into out of darknesswhere there will be weeping,
gnashing of and gnashing ofteeth.
Then jesus said to the romanofficer go back home, because

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you believed it has happened.
And the young servant washealed that same hour, so that I
was eating that up Saturday.
So the Roman soldier, orcaptain, he understood authority
because of his position in thearmy Right and he recognized

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Jesus authority in both theunseen and the seen world.

SHANEA (53:36):
Yeah.

WALTER (53:40):
He knew that Jesus only needed to send the word for
heaven and earth to align right.
And so my question is this howmany of us out here are in a
position when we don'tunderstand the authority that
Jesus carry, where all we needis the word of the Lord and the
weight that that word carries towhere, when that word is spoken

(54:04):
in the right season and in theright time, heaven and earth
will move to make sure that wordperforms the way he stated it
should.

SHANEA (54:13):
It's supposed to perform yeah what you got on that babe
no, I was just reading my notesthat I had when I read this.
This was this was the beginningof last year, I think I may.

(54:39):
I think I had a.
I had a prayer here.
I'll just read what I wrote.
And I said are you a soldier forthe Lord?
Will you go when he says go?
Will you come when he says go?

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Will you come when he says come?
Will you obey his every commandbecause of his rank, because
you are merely a soldier and hehas authority over you?
Many times I have fallen shortof obeying his commands out of
fear or laziness.
I pray that God will continueto train me as a soldier for his

(55:21):
camp.
I pray that my shortcomingsbecome less and less short and I
pray that the Holy Spirit helpsme to become more obedient and
teach me how to reverently servethe Lord, our god.
God commands the legion toleave a man or two and they go.

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They do what he says.
The officer knew the lord'sposition.
He understood ranking.
Where do I fall in thiscategory?
I say I am a soldier.
I am a slave to the holy spirit, a true servant.
How much will I go for him?

WALTER (56:03):
It's understanding Jesus' authority.

SHANEA (56:06):
And understanding your position as a soldier, and the
thing is that as an officer,because you have authority over
all the power of the enemy- byway of Jesus.
Yes.

WALTER (56:17):
And it's like the dream I had on.
I won't go into details, butwhen I used the name of jesus at
first and the girl that wasdemon possessed backed up, but.
I said the name of jesus againand she recognized.
Oh, you said that from a placeof fear and I recognized that I
said it from a place of fear andI switched and I spoke against

(56:40):
the spirit of fear and I beganto say the name of Jesus again
and she began to back up againand again and again, until I was
told to take her throughdeliverance, and I did, and
those demons submitted to theauthority of Jesus Christ.
So it's not even just that,it's also understanding that if
you try to use the name or ifyou try to access it without

(57:02):
knowing who he is, because evenwhen jesus dealt with this roman
soldier, this roman official, aroman officer, he stated to him
what would?
he always stated this isaccording to your faith yeah so
the roman officer understoodauthority and understood the
authority that Jesus carried,which is why, when Jesus spoke
the word, it immediatelyperformed.

SHANEA (57:25):
Right which?
And he?
He believed it.
Yes, because he knew who Jesuswas Exactly.

WALTER (57:31):
So another example of this and I think that we're in
right here Peter walking onwater.
That's Matthew 14, 22 through33.
And, for time's sake, you allcan read that.
And so what was coming to mewhen I was reading that is that
Jesus is the word.
Right, peter could walk in thespirit as long as he kept his

(57:56):
eye on him.
And the reason that was soimportant is because God will
give you a word for your life,right?
And when you're looking at thatword, you're focused on that
word that God has given you foryour life.
You don't realize.
The Bible says what, in thebeginning, was the word?
And the word was with God andthe word was God.
This is John 1, and it'sreferring to Jesus being the
word, and so when that word isspoken, you're keeping your eye

(58:22):
focused on that word, you'rekeeping your eye focused on
Jesus, and as long as you keepyour eye focused on that, as the
storms of life come, you won'tsink.
Because the minute that Petertook his eyes off the word and
began to focus on the storm thatwas surrounding him, and begin
to focus on the storm that wassurrounding him, immediately the

(58:43):
Bible lets us know that hebegan to sink.
So for us, when God speaks aword over our life, in spite of
our circumstances, in spite ofwhat we're dealing with and
going through, we have toconstantly remind ourselves to
keep our eyes focused on Jesus,keep our eyes focused on the
word that God has spoken overour life so we won't sink.
But yet the beauty in that isthat, even in the mist that,

(59:05):
when Peter started focusing onthe storm around him and he
cried out to Jesus, jesus savedme.
Jesus immediately saved him.
Mm-hmm.
So God's grace is stillsufficient either way.

SHANEA (59:17):
Yeah.

WALTER (59:20):
So I have John 4, 43 through 54.
Why did I put that here?
John 4, 43 through 54.
What's John 4, Shanae?
I think I know what it is 43?

(59:44):
.
Yeah, John, 4, 43 through 54.
I have here.
I got it last minute.
It must be.

SHANEA (59:54):
Jesus heals.
Unofficial son.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want me to read it, or didyou have a revelation on that?

WALTER (01:00:06):
It's just another example Of Jesus' word.
It's another example Everyone,you can read it.
It's just another example ofJesus sending his word and his
word did what he said it wasgoing to do.
It's really just pushing thispoint that when Jesus sends his

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word, his word carries power,his word carries life.

SHANEA (01:00:34):
But you have to believe it.

WALTER (01:00:35):
But you have to believe it, and that's the point that
we're trying to push.

SHANEA (01:00:39):
And the man was like okay, bet, I'm going to go back
home.
And before he can even get home, someone came to him and said
hey, your son, he's healed.
Yeah, he's alive, he's well.

WALTER (01:00:51):
And it's just really we can't stress this enough the
importance of understanding thefaith, having faith in the word
of God and developing arelationship with God so you can
submit every part of your lifeto God and have an understanding
of what God is speaking over,every part of your life.

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That's so important.

SHANEA (01:01:16):
And know that it takes time.

WALTER (01:01:17):
Yes, it doesn't happen overnight.
That's so important and knowthat it takes time.
Yes, it doesn't happenovernight.
Even you know, I grew up in achurch and I'm not going to be
long.
I grew up in a church.
I encountered God at a veryyoung age.
I had words spoken over my life.
My mother is very spiritual.

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She's experienced God in uniqueways.
My dad operated in the officeof a prophet, and so I come from
all of that.
I really truly didn't encounterGod until again, because I moved

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away until November 2022, 26.
I had encounters with God priorto that, but even with that and
even with my background in thechurch and even with my
background of being in apostolictype churches and hearing God
and knowing God and seeingseeing God and seeing God do
supernatural things, I still hadto go through a process of

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relearning everything and ittook time to get to that point
and it still sometimes is achallenge to deal with, because
there are things I see God moveon and there are things that
we're still waiting to see Godmove on, and it is a challenge
to submit your life to God basedoff a word that God has spoken.

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When God is trying to teach youto trust in him.
It's like God, it's like.
It's like in the spirit.
You're learning how to walk.
As a baby, you have to learnhow to walk and sometimes, when
kids are learning how to walk,they're going to fall.

SHANEA (01:03:01):
A lot of times and you can't hold their hand.
You just have to prop them upand see if they're going to walk
.

WALTER (01:03:07):
And so God is teaching us how to walk in the spirit.
God is teaching you how to walkin the spirit.

SHANEA (01:03:13):
But we have to have the childlike faith because babies
are like.
I know I can walk Exactly.

WALTER (01:03:24):
And they can't, but they believe that they can.
And you have to stand on thatbecause your whole mind has to
be renewed, because we've takenon this worldview and, like Emma
was saying right, we're in.
Babylon and we've taken uponthe mindset of Babylon.
Yes, and we have to do awaywith that mindset, or trying to
merge Babylon, yes, and we haveto do away with that mindset.

SHANEA (01:03:41):
Or trying to merge, trying to merge the two, trying
to convert Babylon to kingdom,and you can't.
The two can't merge.
The two are not the same.

WALTER (01:03:49):
Exactly so, babe, you want to summarize those points
real quick.

SHANEA (01:03:58):
Okay.
Prayer is the language of thespirit.
We need to remain in constantcommunion with god.
That means talking allthroughout the day,
communicating throughout thenight, communicating with them.
However that looks for, youcould be talking, it could be
writing, it could be speaking intongues, it could be literally

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anything.
It could be singing it could bedancing, it could be drawing, it
could be anything you know.
Removing expectations and stepinto knowing so, removing
expectations on what God shouldand should not do because he's
God, and then walking in thespirit through the word of God.

WALTER (01:04:45):
Both the rhema word and the written word of God.

SHANEA (01:04:49):
So hearing God, whether it's dreams, visions, another
word from a person, the word,and then you want to end us out.

WALTER (01:05:05):
Yeah, I think it's important right to understand
that we already have the powerto command the waves of the sea.
We just have to understand that.
It's revelation that unlocksthat Now it's not because of us,
but it's because of who livesin us, right?

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Yeah.
And then consistency is key.
Try to challenge three times aday praying.
That's going to be reallyimportant and we have to live as
one who is aligned with theword, both written and spoken,
and let prayer be the atmosphereof our lives.
So it's really important thatwe understand the importance of

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walking in the spirit.
It's not easy, it ischallenging at times, because we
have our soul and our soul isbeing regenerated and we have a
worldview and we have all ofthese things that tells us not
to submit to the Spirit of God.

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We live in a culture that isvery selfish and self-driven and
we live in a world whereeverything is trying to steal
your time away from you.
They're literally bidding foryour time on a day-to-day basis,
but we have to get to a pointof being able to silence all of

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that for periods of timethroughout the day, to really
submit it unto God, so we canknow what god is speaking over
our lives.
That's very key.
That's very important that wedo that yeah, I.

SHANEA (01:06:51):
I just thought about what we're talking about um.
Before um, when we were, wewere talking about um and how we
have worship playing allthroughout the day in the house,
to the point where we don'teven recognize that it's still
playing, until we need to knowthat it's playing.

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The music that we listen to isnothing but Christian music.
We listen to Christian hip hop,christian R&B, we listen to CCM
, we listen to gospel.
There's a lot of artists outthere that are Christian and so

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a lot of people they listen tomusic on their way to work, they
listen to it in the shower,they listen to it when they're
cleaning, they're just listeningto it all throughout the day
because they like to listen tomusic.
And it's shifting out thosesecular artists for artists that
are Christian, so that you'reconstantly in a place of praise

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and a place of worship.
You don't feel bad about it,you know.
It doesn't make you get in yourflesh, it doesn't make you feel
angry, it doesn't make you feelsad, it doesn't make you feel
like you want to have sex.
It doesn't make you feel youknow any type of way other than
wanting to talk to God.

WALTER (01:08:22):
Yeah.
And there you have it everyone.

SHANEA (01:08:25):
We still have to work on those playlists At some point.

WALTER (01:08:30):
So, babe, you can go ahead and close us out.
I think we ran over a littlebit, but it's fine.

SHANEA (01:08:36):
We appreciate you guys for tuning in, for watching,
staying here with us in ourliving room yep that we gotta
put all this equipment up at yep, and we will see you guys next
week.
Everyone be blessed yes, welove you all we will be
responding to comments.

WALTER (01:08:56):
We're going to try to do better in responding to
comments it.

SHANEA (01:08:59):
It's been crazy guys.

WALTER (01:09:03):
But just keep us in prayer and until next week we
pray.
This has been a blessing to youand we appreciate you so much.
God bless.

SHANEA (01:09:13):
All right, bye-bye, bye.