September 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Ever wondered what transforms ordinary believers into prayer warriors? This powerful episode takes you behind the scenes of the Rise Up Revival Conference, featuring an intimate prayer panel with Jay St. Clair, Seantel Coffey, Kristi Marion, and Cindy Ritter – seasoned prayer warriors who share their journeys from spiritual uncertainty to divine connection.
The conversation crackles with authenticity as each guest reveals their unique path to deeper prayer. Jay paints a vivid picture using Ezekiel's river imagery, showing how God leads us by the hand into increasingly profound communion. "Everything this water touches," he explains, "it turns to life." His spiral metaphor of spiritual growth resonates with anyone who's felt stuck in their prayer journey.
Seantel's testimony strikes a chord with her revelation that prayer evolved from obligation to breath itself. "God is just my home," she shares, describing how she weaves conversation with God throughout her entire day. For those struggling to establish consistency, her practical rhythm of morning-to-evening prayer provides a roadmap to intimacy with God.
Perhaps most touching is Kristi's story of finding hope through one-sentence prayers during financial devastation. Her vulnerable admission that she knew nothing about prayer yet witnessed God move powerfully through simple words offers tremendous encouragement for beginners. "If you only have the courage for a one-sentence prayer," she assures, "God will answer you."
Cindy, the self-described introvert turned "fiery prayer warrior," dispels the myth that powerful prayer requires extroversion or eloquence. Her journey reveals how obedience to the Holy Spirit trumps personality type every time. "Effective prayer isn't praying our own motives," she explains, "but inclining our ear to His heart."
The episode concludes with host Kim McIntire's touching tribute to the quiet, consistent prayers of her husband – a powerful reminder that transformative prayer happens in everyday moments between loved ones, not just dramatic church services.
Whether you're a seasoned intercessor or someone who feels awkward talking to God, this conversation offers practical wisdom for deepening your spiritual connection. The diverse prayer styles represented – from quiet whispers to bold declarations – affirm there's no single "right way" to communicate with the divi
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey everyone, welcome to the it's Time to Rise Up
podcast.
I'm your host, Kim McIntyre.
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Rise Up movement.
There's more about that on ourwebsite.
Now let's get to today'sepisode.
Our Rise Up revival conferencewas held on August 2nd and 3rd
and we are airing the morningsession prayer panel for our
listeners.
This is a sneak peek into oneof the many great parts of that
weekend.
We hope you're encouraged to godeeper in your prayer life
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after hearing our guests sharesome of their journey of prayer.
This episode features Jay StClair, chantel Coffey, christy
Marion and Cindy Ritter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's the fire of God in the gentle giant, the
soft-spoken giant.
It's the fire of God in thatplace.
Fire, it's one of the gates ofheaven for us, and so I have
invited some friends to join metoday on the platform and if I
want to ask them to come up,then I'll introduce them when
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they get up here.
So, chantel and Christy andCindy, you guys can sit and
watch her working.
One, two, three, four.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I just want to welcome you guys today.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Do we all agree that prayer is the heartbeat of
revival?
Yes, do we all agree that wecould each one of us grow in the
realm of prayer?
I know I could.
20 years ago, my prayer lifeconsisted of just asking God for
the things I needed.
That was pretty much it, andthankfully the Lord got a hold
of my heart and taught methere's so much more to prayer
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than just asking Him to dothings for me.
So Jay is the executivedirector at God's Resort and
also a brother in Christ and adear friend, thank you for being
with Jay.
Sean Chen is the prayer ministerat College Church in Church of
John Also a dear friend, thankyou for being here.
Christy is on the lead team ofRise Up and she's retired from
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school administration Also afriend, thank you for being here
.
And Cindy is a discipleshippastor at her church at Calgary
in Bournemouth, florida,bournemouth.
I always say her out Thank youfor being here.
We're going to talk aboutprayer.
This is just kind of going tobe like a conversation that you
listen in on, but what we'repraying is something that is
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spoken sparks a fire in you togo deeper in prayer than you are
right now.
Okay, so we're in front of youtoday.
You are a person who's taughtme so much about prayer, mostly
from observing, and most peoplewould say prayer is just talking
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to God, which is true, butthere are so many more layers to
prayer and I would just lovefor you to talk about, beyond
talking to God, what is prayerto you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So you know the disciples had prayed their whole
lives.
You know they had prayed theirwhole lives.
They were very Jewish young menand had prayed their whole
lives.
And yet they mean Jesus andthey are not along with it
before they say, lord, teach usto pray.
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So they see in Jesus somethingbeyond the Rome prayers, that
they had learned from theirJewish faith and they're going
to Jesus and saying, lord, wewant that their Jewish faith.
And they're going to Jesus andsay, lord, we want that.
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And so I was thinking about whatmy workers think you so much
for what you shared with us lastnight.
But you know, in that, in thatscripture, in Ezekiel 47, it's
beautiful because it says thatGod took Ezekiel by the hand and
walked him by the river.
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You know, isn't it cool that helets us get to know where we're
going before he takes us intoit, and that's kind of what he's
done for us.
I know that's what he's donefor all of us.
It all works differently but hejust takes us by the hand and
walks us down the river and thenit says he goes into the river
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with him.
So I often think of myself goinginto the river by myself, but
it says he led him across theriver.
Isn't that cool.
So he's doing it.
He's doing it.
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All I got to do is take hishand and then notice he measures
it off.
He knows exactly where we'regoing in this river.
He's measured it all, andthat's beautiful to think that
he's got it all.
I don't have to figure it out,and I like the word in 2
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Corinthians 3, where it sayswhere the spirit of the Lord is,
and that's what this river is,where the Spirit of the Lord is,
and that's what this river is.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is,there's freedom, and with
unveiled faces, we're allreflecting the glory of God and
being transformed into His image, with ever-increasing glory
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which comes from the Lord, whois the Spirit.
We're spiraling up.
That's the word I think I wantto.
That just keeps coming to myheart.
They'll probably put it on mytube song he spiraled up, he
just spiraled up, and so itdoesn't matter where you are.
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Sometimes we think of this thingas more like this, and I think
it's more like this becausewe're encountering him,
encountering him, encounteringhim, encountering him,
encountering him, encounteringhim, encountering him, and he
just takes us by the hand and wego deeper and deeper.
Then notice what happens.
He says Jesus, you, son of man,have you been watching?
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Have you been watching whatI've been doing?
Because, down this river, haveyou noticed what I've been
growing?
These trees that have arebearing fruit, not seasonally,
every month they're bearingfruit, and so the fruit is for
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food.
It's the fruit of the Spirit,it's for food, and then the
leaves are for the healing ofthe nations.
And he says everything thiswater touches that you go into
in prayer, the spirit of God,everything that it touches, it
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turns to life.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And it's heading.
This river is heading for themost dead place.
The most dead place is whereGod is taking us.
It's the Dead Sea where all thedead things and all the dead
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people live.
And that's where he's takinghis praying church in the spirit
and he says notice that thereare fishermen on the banks just
pulling these fish out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Isn't that?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
beautiful, so so.
So he teaches us a lot ofthings.
He teaches us how to bringdeliverance and healing, and
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words and prophecies, and, andhe teaches us how to fight for
others and fight for ourselvesand fight for our families.
He teaches us how to listen,just listen, amen, let it be
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written.
Let it be written.
And so Julie teaches littleones every week and she said,
she says to them don't you loveit when people listen to you?
Think about that.
How old are they, julie?
Two through five.
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Don't you love it when peoplelisten to you and you know what
they say?
So think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
He said, be like a child.
Maybe the heart of the fatheris like a child too, and he
loves it.
When we listen.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He does.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Just loves it when we listen, when we get down yeah,
where he is get down where he isand we listen.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus
.
So, father, just with thatthought, we pray that you would
take us to deeper places oflistening, places of silence,
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places where our ears areinclined to hear the voice of
God.
Oh God, draw us to that place.
We pray.
May that be what is pouring outnow, just a hunger to listen to
your voice.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Let it be so.
Let it be so in Jesus' holyname.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord, amen.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'm going to talk about the rhythm of prayer, and
I'm asking Chantal this questionbecause she's a woman who has a
way to live.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You live your life in that daily rhythm of the secret
place, and the secret place isintentional.
And the truth is, if we'rehonest, most of us struggle to
find a daily rhythm and a secretplace to go, and I would like
for you just to speak into that.
What encouragement, chantal,can you offer to those who may
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be struggling to find a rhythmof prayer or finding a place to
go to be alone with the Lord?
Finding a place to go to bealone with the Lord?
So in my journey with prayer sothis is my 42nd year to walk
with Jesus, praise God, and I'vealways been a praying person
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but the rhythm, the deep rhythm,came out of a desperate place
Of needing a healing and sodiscovering that you know, I
love the scripture in John 15about abiding in the vine,
abiding and if you think aboutthat word, abiding, it's really
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the verb form to abode, and theway to sum up my rhythm is God
is just my home and I start themorning with Him.
The minute I open my eyes, I'mtalking to Him, and as I go
through the day, I talk with Him.
And as I encounter problems, Italk with Him.
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And as I lay down at night, Italk with Him.
I love Daniel, I love the bookof Daniel, and he had a rhythm
and I remember thinking when allof this was first starting,
like he prays, you know,multiple times a day.
He stops his work, he gets withGod, he gets along with god and
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the best way I can describe itis he's just my home, he's home
base, he's where I go to to havethe peace, the quiet, the
direction, the love that I need,the calming, um, all the things
that we need.
And so really it starts with.
You know, as a young believer,I loved the Lord, but it was a
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checklist Like prayer was likethis is what you do in your
quiet time you read your Bible,you pray.
But as I've grown, I've gottenolder and churned and out of
that desperate place it's mybreath.
It's my breath, it's my lifeLike I can't do life without Him
.
I can't do a second without Him.
And the beautiful thing is thatmy husband's come up to me and
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has shown me with me, and sowe've developed rhythms in
prayer of like we pray togetherin the morning, we pray together
at night and we pray.
We have a book, praying foryour Adult Children that we pray
through regularly and we pray.
We have five green children andwe have a day that's a special
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day for them that we really honein on them.
So by the end of Friday, eachgrandchild has their special day
and they know we're praying forthem specifically on that day.
Relationship of just walkingwith Jesus and talking with
Jesus.
And I love what Jay said aboutlistening like developing a
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listening heart.
So I'm not as distracted withmusic, music or you know, I
listen to podcasts and sermonsdays, but I specifically just
turn things off.
I'm like lord, I just listening, I just want to hear what you
have to say to me today and lethim speak to my heart and pour
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in love.
So really, that's the crux ofit, it's relationship, it's just
home.
Yes, Thank you so much Chateau,and she mentioned the word of
God.
If you feel stuck, if you'renot sure how to pray or how to
connect God's Word to prayer,the discipleship piece Rise Up
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is a Bible and there's a studyguide at the home.
If you want to check that out,it may be a tool that could help
someone get unstuck and thatabide is central to a life of
prayer.
Thank you so much, adele.
Christine, we were having ateam meeting one night and you
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are a gentle dragon and you weresharing about a prayer group
that you were participating inand we were just talking about
prayer and how sometimes peoplecomplicate prayer.
But do you guys agree prayercan be complicated if we don't
approach it the right way.
And you said there was thisvery simple tool.
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Would you just be willing toshare this simple tool that you
learned from the prayer group?
I'm trying?
As we were praying this morningat the hallway, the Lord said
you have to sit up and you haveto talk about what was going on
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in your life.
When I got you to where Ineeded you to be and I said oh
no, I can't do that because Iwill be like this.
I will not be able to getthrough it.
But you said Christy, sue, yes,and you said do it.
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Do what I told you to do.
So I've talked to you firstabout the crushing.
We were living in Memphis,tennessee, we had two babies and
my husband worked for my dad.
My dad had a devastating heartattack and the business went
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belly up.
And we were all living inMemphis, tennessee, and none of
us had an ankle to our knee andwe were beside ourselves with
what to do.
We just didn't know what to do.
And we were attending awonderful little Baptist church
and a lady named Kathy said I'mgoing to start a women's prayer
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group.
Do you want to come?
And I said I do, because I wasdesperate, absolutely desperate.
And so we met in a healing roomand I did not know a thing
about prayer.
That made me like you.
You may be in the middle ofcrushing right now and you still
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want to do it, but it's nothard because you don't have to
know anything fancy, you don'thave to have been to Bible
college.
We sat in that room and this wasour tool you get to say one
prayer need in your life and theperson next to you is going to
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pray one sentence of prayer foryou, and then we're going to
work our way around the room andthat's what we did.
There were about 30 of us inthat little bitty living room.
We were in the floor on thesitting on everything you could
sit on, because it was crowded,because there were a whole group
of desperate people, and wewould work our way around the
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room for as much time as we hadand we watched God move with
one-sentence prayers.
Each week when we would comeback, there would be testimony
after testimony of how God moveswith one-sentence prayers.
So I'm here today to encourageyou that if you've never started
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, you could start.
You could start with aone-sentence prayer and God will
answer you.
If you only have the couragefor a one-sentence prayer, he
will answer you, he willencourage you, he will meet you
where you are.
Thank will encourage you.
He will meet you where you are.
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Thank you, christine.
And with that we're going topause.
Think about something you need.
Just ask God why do I need theWord?
He knows better than you.
Take that one sentence and makeit a prayer Right now.
Close your eyes Just a littlemore.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Offer up a one-sentence prayer Amen.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Thank you, lord, I trust you.
Amen, amen.
Cindy, we're going to closewith you.
You are a fireman prayerwarrior if anyone here knows
Cindy, so the first I have totell a personal story.
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The first time I encounteredCindy in a prayer group setting,
she invited me to her housewhere her and Holly this is how
I became part of Rise Up.
Action is well, it's beforeRise Up, but anyway, they were
doing a prayer group, biblestudy, and I go to Cindy's and
all these women are prayingreally loud out loud, all at the
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same time.
And a few years ago that wasnot my normal or a comfortable
place and I literally wanted tocrawl into some space and hide.
I'm not kidding.
Every week my husband couldtestify to this.
I'd be like I really don'tthink I'm going to go back.
I just I really just don'tthink I'm supposed to be there.
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And he would be like I feellike you're supposed to go back.
I'm like I don't want you.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Confession.
I did not want to.
It was overwhelming to me wantto.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It was overwhelming to me.
I mean it just was.
But this woman knows how tostorm the gates of heaven, as do
the other three.
But again, we are madedifferently right.
So some people pray, gentle,soft, even quiet, whispered
prayers or silent prayers.
God honors them all.
But if you've never encountereda person who's really fired up
and praying the house down,storming the gates of heaven,
let me introduce you to mysister, cindy Ritter.
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Cindy, how did that?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
fire go.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And when?
Where?
How did that boldness to prayout loud?
Where did that come from?
I mean God, obviously, but itwas worth suffering.
I'm about to cry.
I was wondering how do youthink this ends?
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What's the point?
Fire's not burst on a platform,amen.
It's burst out of the secretplace.
I grew up in church.
I'm first generation of myimmediate family and when God
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got a hold of me, my entire lifetransformed, before I was even
filled with the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit would come andencounter me.
He sought after me night afternight after night, and he would
talk with me and I would justlay in there and, oh, you need
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to get this out of your life,you need to get this out of your
life.
You need to get this out ofyour life.
And when I totally surrenderedyou know my husband and I
thought it was crazy I ranthrough my house.
I got rid of everything relatedto RP.
I got rid of anything that'sbeen related to magic or
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witchcraft.
I got rid of Halloween books.
I got rid of anything that evenremotely looked like it was not
about the Lord.
And I felt this draw me to getto a place of prayer.
I had to get to a place ofprayer.
I had to get to a place ofprayer and at that time the
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church that I gave my life fully, that surrendered to the Lord,
was a church in Nixa actually,and they had an intercessory
group and I couldn't get awayfrom it.
I really didn't know anythinglike Christi.
I really didn't know anything.
I was 25 years old.
I think I knew John 3, 16.
I really did.
I think that's really aboutwhat I knew.
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But I just felt this draw.
I had to get to that birthingroom.
Really I had to get there andit was so hard for me because I
knew I didn't know anything.
But I got enough courage and Iknow it was only by the power of
the Holy Spirit, because ify'all knew me then I'm
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introverted.
People don't know that I am sointroverted.
I wanted to be a part of thechoir but I didn't want to be in
the first row when I was short.
That didn't work so well for me.
But I get back to this room andlike yeah, here's all these
women and men.
Where are the men?
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Where are the men in oursisters?
And they were praying fieryprayers and they were praying
the word.
And it was this, this encounter, the Holy Spirit.
Every time I went in that I wasintimidated and I thought, god,
I don't know.
And he said he brought thepastor's wife, he took me up
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under her wing and she said,cindy, if you pray two words,
just two words that the HolySpirit has given you to pray,
two words that the Holy Spirithas given you to pray, it is
just as powerful as that womanover there praying an entire
chapter of the Bible.
So what I learned early on, itwas about obedience.
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It was about obedience andlistening to what the Holy
Spirit was saying, and listeningto what the Holy.
Spirit was saying.
The Bible says you have not.
When you pray your own desires,not of your own desires, you
won't receive.
But if you hear the voice ofGod and your mind and your will
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and your emotions are alignedwith what he is saying, then
when you speak it, it cannothelp but to come to fruition,
because you are hearing thevoice of God, aligned with his
word, and the Bible tells methat his word does not return
void.
That will go forth andaccomplish with what it is said.
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So in my mind in that time I hadto really think about my
journey.
It was all about getting timein my secret place listening,
intently listening.
The Bible tells us that mysheep know my voice.
If you are a believer in Christand he is Lord of your life,
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you have the ability to hear hisvoice and he speaks differently
to each and every one of us.
Some of us he will speak invision.
Some of us he will speak indreams.
Some of us you'll be readingyour word and something leaks
off the page.
That's the Lord speaking to you.
Somebody comes and gives you anencouraging word.
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That's the Lord speaking to you.
Somebody comes and gives you anencouraging word.
That is the Lord speaking toyou.
It's about hearing what he says.
Effective prayer isn't prayingour own motives or desires, but
it's effective prayers andinclining our ear to His heart
for people and for what he wantsto do he displayed in the earth
.
So really it just comes down toobedience, stepping out of your
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comfort zone.
I never sought a platform ortitle.
In fact, my prayer has alwaysbeen, it still is.
God never put me in a positionthat I am not ready for, because
I have seen people over andover and over be put in a
position they were not ready for.
Because I have seen people overand over and over be put in a
position they were not ready forand it sets them up for failure
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.
We are called to disciplepeople and raise them up and
position them as leaders overand into a place that they will
excel and succeed and preparethem and equip them for the
church.
And also, I wanted to say thistoo I think it's very important
we really don't teach this awhole lot anymore, but one of
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the things I learned very earlyon is that we have to be under
the authority of our leadershipAnytime.
I was asked to step out and pray, first of all by shaking my
boots.
Y'all this is funny.
I knew I was coming up to talktoday.
I was shaky because that's myintrovert, but I'm not going to
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allow my personality to hold meback, but I'm going to allow the
Holy Spirit to flow through meand let Him move.
But we have to be under theauthority that God has placed us
under.
It's crucial Because if I'm ina place where my authority has
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put me there, it's because God'sput them to oversee me.
And if I step outside of theauthority of those over me, I
step outside of the blessing ofGod.
Let me say that again you stepoutside the authority that God
has placed you under.
You are stepping outside of theblessing of God over your life.
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We have got to be under ourauthority and of who God's
placed over us, and we have gotto be in the Word and know the
Word and listen to what he'ssaying.
They poured it out.
How many think Well, there's aguest that's not on the platform
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and I'm just going to ask forforgiveness instead of
permission.
But there's a prayer warrior inmy life.
That is a gentle giant, not aplatform person at all, and this
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person opens every day andcloses every day praying for me
in the simplest, most powerfuland profound way I can't even
express it.
So in the morning, my husbandlays his hand on me and prays.
It's not a long prayer, but Iguarantee you it is strength to
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my soul.
Every night unless I fallasleep first, which does happen
sometimes he says he still prays, but he puts his hand on me and
he prays me to sleep.
In the morning, I put my handon Everett and if I'm awake
first, I pray silently over him.
It's simple, it's not technical, it's not complicated, but let
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me tell you what it is it'slife-changing.
Do you believe that?
Because if you're married, oreven if you're not, you've got
children, probably a friend, aparent, a roommate there's
someone you need to be prayingfor to start and close your day.
But my husband is a prayerwarrior.
He's a gentle giant, he's not aplatform person.
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He's not going to get behind onmy.
No matter how much I write him,he will not get behind on my
phone.
But I just felt compelled by theHoly Spirit, even as these
friends were speaking, that itwould be a miss for me to not
acknowledge the power of apraying spouse.
Yes, the power of a prayingspouse, because I can tell you,
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oh, and I want to acknowledgewhat Cindy said the platform, as
ordained by God, does begin inthe secret place when no one
seeks the desperation, thecrying out to God, the pleading,
the ugly crying, all the things.
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That's where a prayer warrior'scrying.
And I want to acknowledge theprayers of my husband, because I
could never do what I do if itweren't for his prayers, and I'm
grateful.
So I want to encourage spousestoday.
Prayers when I'm grateful, so Iwant to encourage spouses today
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.
I believe, if you leaveconference and the one thing
that changes if you're notalready doing this is that you
pray over your husband, wivesand husbands.
You pray over your wife in thesimplest of ways, don't?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
complicate it.
A year from now, your life,your marriage, your family will
be different.
Who believes that?
Let's stand up back?
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Podcast.
The purpose of our podcast isto glorify God and encourage
believers in their walk with theLord.
May God's grace and peace bewith you all, in Jesus' name.
Hey everyone, welcome to the it's Time to Rise Up
podcast.
I'm your host, Kim McIntyre.
We know there are many thingsyou can do with your time, so
thank you for choosing to spendyour time listening.
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Rise Up movement.
There's more about that on ourwebsite.
Now let's get to today'sepisode.
Our Rise Up revival conferencewas held on August 2nd and 3rd
and we are airing the morningsession prayer panel for our
listeners.
This is a sneak peek into oneof the many great parts of that
weekend.
We hope you're encouraged to godeeper in your prayer life
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after hearing our guests sharesome of their journey of prayer.
This episode features Jay StClair, chantel Coffey, christy
Marion and Cindy Ritter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's the fire of God in the gentle giant, the
soft-spoken giant.
It's the fire of God in thatplace.
Fire, it's one of the gates ofheaven for us, and so I have
invited some friends to join metoday on the platform and if I
want to ask them to come up,then I'll introduce them when
(01:44):
they get up here.
So, chantel and Christy andCindy, you guys can sit and
watch her working.
One, two, three, four.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I just want to welcome you guys today.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Do we all agree that prayer is the heartbeat of
revival?
Yes, do we all agree that wecould each one of us grow in the
realm of prayer?
I know I could.
20 years ago, my prayer lifeconsisted of just asking God for
the things I needed.
That was pretty much it, andthankfully the Lord got a hold
of my heart and taught methere's so much more to prayer
(02:46):
than just asking Him to dothings for me.
So Jay is the executivedirector at God's Resort and
also a brother in Christ and adear friend, thank you for being
with Jay.
Sean Chen is the prayer ministerat College Church in Church of
John Also a dear friend, thankyou for being here.
Christy is on the lead team ofRise Up and she's retired from
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school administration Also afriend, thank you for being here
.
And Cindy is a discipleshippastor at her church at Calgary
in Bournemouth, florida,bournemouth.
I always say her out Thank youfor being here.
We're going to talk aboutprayer.
This is just kind of going tobe like a conversation that you
listen in on, but what we'repraying is something that is
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spoken sparks a fire in you togo deeper in prayer than you are
right now.
Okay, so we're in front of youtoday.
You are a person who's taughtme so much about prayer, mostly
from observing, and most peoplewould say prayer is just talking
(03:52):
to God, which is true, butthere are so many more layers to
prayer and I would just lovefor you to talk about, beyond
talking to God, what is prayerto you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So you know the disciples had prayed their whole
lives.
You know they had prayed theirwhole lives.
They were very Jewish young menand had prayed their whole
lives.
And yet they mean Jesus andthey are not along with it
before they say, lord, teach usto pray.
(04:29):
So they see in Jesus somethingbeyond the Rome prayers, that
they had learned from theirJewish faith and they're going
to Jesus and saying, lord, wewant that their Jewish faith.
And they're going to Jesus andsay, lord, we want that.
(04:49):
And so I was thinking about whatmy workers think you so much
for what you shared with us lastnight.
But you know, in that, in thatscripture, in Ezekiel 47, it's
beautiful because it says thatGod took Ezekiel by the hand and
walked him by the river.
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You know, isn't it cool that helets us get to know where we're
going before he takes us intoit, and that's kind of what he's
done for us.
I know that's what he's donefor all of us.
It all works differently but hejust takes us by the hand and
walks us down the river and thenit says he goes into the river
(05:35):
with him.
So I often think of myself goinginto the river by myself, but
it says he led him across theriver.
Isn't that cool.
So he's doing it.
He's doing it.
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All I got to do is take hishand and then notice he measures
it off.
He knows exactly where we'regoing in this river.
He's measured it all, andthat's beautiful to think that
he's got it all.
I don't have to figure it out,and I like the word in 2
(06:19):
Corinthians 3, where it sayswhere the spirit of the Lord is,
and that's what this river is,where the Spirit of the Lord is,
and that's what this river is.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is,there's freedom, and with
unveiled faces, we're allreflecting the glory of God and
being transformed into His image, with ever-increasing glory
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which comes from the Lord, whois the Spirit.
We're spiraling up.
That's the word I think I wantto.
That just keeps coming to myheart.
They'll probably put it on mytube song he spiraled up, he
just spiraled up, and so itdoesn't matter where you are.
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Sometimes we think of this thingas more like this, and I think
it's more like this becausewe're encountering him,
encountering him, encounteringhim, encountering him,
encountering him, encounteringhim, encountering him, and he
just takes us by the hand and wego deeper and deeper.
Then notice what happens.
He says Jesus, you, son of man,have you been watching?
(07:30):
Have you been watching whatI've been doing?
Because, down this river, haveyou noticed what I've been
growing?
These trees that have arebearing fruit, not seasonally,
every month they're bearingfruit, and so the fruit is for
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food.
It's the fruit of the Spirit,it's for food, and then the
leaves are for the healing ofthe nations.
And he says everything thiswater touches that you go into
in prayer, the spirit of God,everything that it touches, it
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turns to life.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And it's heading.
This river is heading for themost dead place.
The most dead place is whereGod is taking us.
It's the Dead Sea where all thedead things and all the dead
(08:41):
people live.
And that's where he's takinghis praying church in the spirit
and he says notice that thereare fishermen on the banks just
pulling these fish out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Isn't that?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
beautiful, so so.
So he teaches us a lot ofthings.
He teaches us how to bringdeliverance and healing, and
(09:29):
words and prophecies, and, andhe teaches us how to fight for
others and fight for ourselvesand fight for our families.
He teaches us how to listen,just listen, amen, let it be
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written.
Let it be written.
And so Julie teaches littleones every week and she said,
she says to them don't you loveit when people listen to you?
Think about that.
How old are they, julie?
Two through five.
(10:15):
Don't you love it when peoplelisten to you and you know what
they say?
So think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
He said, be like a child.
Maybe the heart of the fatheris like a child too, and he
loves it.
When we listen.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He does.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Just loves it when we listen, when we get down yeah,
where he is get down where he isand we listen.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus
.
So, father, just with thatthought, we pray that you would
take us to deeper places oflistening, places of silence,
(11:18):
places where our ears areinclined to hear the voice of
God.
Oh God, draw us to that place.
We pray.
May that be what is pouring outnow, just a hunger to listen to
your voice.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Let it be so.
Let it be so in Jesus' holyname.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord, amen.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'm going to talk about the rhythm of prayer, and
I'm asking Chantal this questionbecause she's a woman who has a
way to live.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You live your life in that daily rhythm of the secret
place, and the secret place isintentional.
And the truth is, if we'rehonest, most of us struggle to
find a daily rhythm and a secretplace to go, and I would like
for you just to speak into that.
What encouragement, chantal,can you offer to those who may
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be struggling to find a rhythmof prayer or finding a place to
go to be alone with the Lord?
Finding a place to go to bealone with the Lord?
So in my journey with prayer sothis is my 42nd year to walk
with Jesus, praise God, and I'vealways been a praying person
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but the rhythm, the deep rhythm,came out of a desperate place
Of needing a healing and sodiscovering that you know, I
love the scripture in John 15about abiding in the vine,
abiding and if you think aboutthat word, abiding, it's really
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the verb form to abode, and theway to sum up my rhythm is God
is just my home and I start themorning with Him.
The minute I open my eyes, I'mtalking to Him, and as I go
through the day, I talk with Him.
And as I encounter problems, Italk with Him.
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And as I lay down at night, Italk with Him.
I love Daniel, I love the bookof Daniel, and he had a rhythm
and I remember thinking when allof this was first starting,
like he prays, you know,multiple times a day.
He stops his work, he gets withGod, he gets along with god and
(13:51):
the best way I can describe itis he's just my home, he's home
base, he's where I go to to havethe peace, the quiet, the
direction, the love that I need,the calming, um, all the things
that we need.
And so really it starts with.
You know, as a young believer,I loved the Lord, but it was a
(14:16):
checklist Like prayer was likethis is what you do in your
quiet time you read your Bible,you pray.
But as I've grown, I've gottenolder and churned and out of
that desperate place it's mybreath.
It's my breath, it's my lifeLike I can't do life without Him
.
I can't do a second without Him.
And the beautiful thing is thatmy husband's come up to me and
(14:39):
has shown me with me, and sowe've developed rhythms in
prayer of like we pray togetherin the morning, we pray together
at night and we pray.
We have a book, praying foryour Adult Children that we pray
through regularly and we pray.
We have five green children andwe have a day that's a special
(15:00):
day for them that we really honein on them.
So by the end of Friday, eachgrandchild has their special day
and they know we're praying forthem specifically on that day.
Relationship of just walkingwith Jesus and talking with
Jesus.
And I love what Jay said aboutlistening like developing a
(15:24):
listening heart.
So I'm not as distracted withmusic, music or you know, I
listen to podcasts and sermonsdays, but I specifically just
turn things off.
I'm like lord, I just listening, I just want to hear what you
have to say to me today and lethim speak to my heart and pour
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in love.
So really, that's the crux ofit, it's relationship, it's just
home.
Yes, Thank you so much Chateau,and she mentioned the word of
God.
If you feel stuck, if you'renot sure how to pray or how to
connect God's Word to prayer,the discipleship piece Rise Up
(16:07):
is a Bible and there's a studyguide at the home.
If you want to check that out,it may be a tool that could help
someone get unstuck and thatabide is central to a life of
prayer.
Thank you so much, adele.
Christine, we were having ateam meeting one night and you
(16:28):
are a gentle dragon and you weresharing about a prayer group
that you were participating inand we were just talking about
prayer and how sometimes peoplecomplicate prayer.
But do you guys agree prayercan be complicated if we don't
approach it the right way.
And you said there was thisvery simple tool.
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Would you just be willing toshare this simple tool that you
learned from the prayer group?
I'm trying?
As we were praying this morningat the hallway, the Lord said
you have to sit up and you haveto talk about what was going on
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in your life.
When I got you to where Ineeded you to be and I said oh
no, I can't do that because Iwill be like this.
I will not be able to getthrough it.
But you said Christy, sue, yes,and you said do it.
(17:37):
Do what I told you to do.
So I've talked to you firstabout the crushing.
We were living in Memphis,tennessee, we had two babies and
my husband worked for my dad.
My dad had a devastating heartattack and the business went
(17:58):
belly up.
And we were all living inMemphis, tennessee, and none of
us had an ankle to our knee andwe were beside ourselves with
what to do.
We just didn't know what to do.
And we were attending awonderful little Baptist church
and a lady named Kathy said I'mgoing to start a women's prayer
(18:19):
group.
Do you want to come?
And I said I do, because I wasdesperate, absolutely desperate.
And so we met in a healing roomand I did not know a thing
about prayer.
That made me like you.
You may be in the middle ofcrushing right now and you still
(18:41):
want to do it, but it's nothard because you don't have to
know anything fancy, you don'thave to have been to Bible
college.
We sat in that room and this wasour tool you get to say one
prayer need in your life and theperson next to you is going to
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pray one sentence of prayer foryou, and then we're going to
work our way around the room andthat's what we did.
There were about 30 of us inthat little bitty living room.
We were in the floor on thesitting on everything you could
sit on, because it was crowded,because there were a whole group
of desperate people, and wewould work our way around the
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room for as much time as we hadand we watched God move with
one-sentence prayers.
Each week when we would comeback, there would be testimony
after testimony of how God moveswith one-sentence prayers.
So I'm here today to encourageyou that if you've never started
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, you could start.
You could start with aone-sentence prayer and God will
answer you.
If you only have the couragefor a one-sentence prayer, he
will answer you, he willencourage you, he will meet you
where you are.
Thank will encourage you.
He will meet you where you are.
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Thank you, christine.
And with that we're going topause.
Think about something you need.
Just ask God why do I need theWord?
He knows better than you.
Take that one sentence and makeit a prayer Right now.
Close your eyes Just a littlemore.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Offer up a one-sentence prayer Amen.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Thank you, lord, I trust you.
Amen, amen.
Cindy, we're going to closewith you.
You are a fireman prayerwarrior if anyone here knows
Cindy, so the first I have totell a personal story.
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The first time I encounteredCindy in a prayer group setting,
she invited me to her housewhere her and Holly this is how
I became part of Rise Up.
Action is well, it's beforeRise Up, but anyway, they were
doing a prayer group, biblestudy, and I go to Cindy's and
all these women are prayingreally loud out loud, all at the
(21:55):
same time.
And a few years ago that wasnot my normal or a comfortable
place and I literally wanted tocrawl into some space and hide.
I'm not kidding.
Every week my husband couldtestify to this.
I'd be like I really don'tthink I'm going to go back.
I just I really just don'tthink I'm supposed to be there.
(22:16):
And he would be like I feellike you're supposed to go back.
I'm like I don't want you.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Confession.
I did not want to.
It was overwhelming to me wantto.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It was overwhelming to me.
I mean it just was.
But this woman knows how tostorm the gates of heaven, as do
the other three.
But again, we are madedifferently right.
So some people pray, gentle,soft, even quiet, whispered
prayers or silent prayers.
God honors them all.
But if you've never encountereda person who's really fired up
and praying the house down,storming the gates of heaven,
let me introduce you to mysister, cindy Ritter.
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Cindy, how did that?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
fire go.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And when?
Where?
How did that boldness to prayout loud?
Where did that come from?
I mean God, obviously, but itwas worth suffering.
I'm about to cry.
I was wondering how do youthink this ends?
(23:19):
What's the point?
Fire's not burst on a platform,amen.
It's burst out of the secretplace.
I grew up in church.
I'm first generation of myimmediate family and when God
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got a hold of me, my entire lifetransformed, before I was even
filled with the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit would come andencounter me.
He sought after me night afternight after night, and he would
talk with me and I would justlay in there and, oh, you need
(24:10):
to get this out of your life,you need to get this out of your
life.
You need to get this out ofyour life.
And when I totally surrenderedyou know my husband and I
thought it was crazy I ranthrough my house.
I got rid of everything relatedto RP.
I got rid of anything that'sbeen related to magic or
(24:34):
witchcraft.
I got rid of Halloween books.
I got rid of anything that evenremotely looked like it was not
about the Lord.
And I felt this draw me to getto a place of prayer.
I had to get to a place ofprayer.
I had to get to a place ofprayer and at that time the
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church that I gave my life fully, that surrendered to the Lord,
was a church in Nixa actually,and they had an intercessory
group and I couldn't get awayfrom it.
I really didn't know anythinglike Christi.
I really didn't know anything.
I was 25 years old.
I think I knew John 3, 16.
I really did.
I think that's really aboutwhat I knew.
(25:17):
But I just felt this draw.
I had to get to that birthingroom.
Really I had to get there andit was so hard for me because I
knew I didn't know anything.
But I got enough courage and Iknow it was only by the power of
the Holy Spirit, because ify'all knew me then I'm
(25:39):
introverted.
People don't know that I am sointroverted.
I wanted to be a part of thechoir but I didn't want to be in
the first row when I was short.
That didn't work so well for me.
But I get back to this room andlike yeah, here's all these
women and men.
Where are the men?
(25:59):
Where are the men in oursisters?
And they were praying fieryprayers and they were praying
the word.
And it was this, this encounter, the Holy Spirit.
Every time I went in that I wasintimidated and I thought, god,
I don't know.
And he said he brought thepastor's wife, he took me up
(26:22):
under her wing and she said,cindy, if you pray two words,
just two words that the HolySpirit has given you to pray,
two words that the Holy Spirithas given you to pray, it is
just as powerful as that womanover there praying an entire
chapter of the Bible.
So what I learned early on, itwas about obedience.
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It was about obedience andlistening to what the Holy
Spirit was saying, and listeningto what the Holy.
Spirit was saying.
The Bible says you have not.
When you pray your own desires,not of your own desires, you
won't receive.
But if you hear the voice ofGod and your mind and your will
(27:08):
and your emotions are alignedwith what he is saying, then
when you speak it, it cannothelp but to come to fruition,
because you are hearing thevoice of God, aligned with his
word, and the Bible tells methat his word does not return
void.
That will go forth andaccomplish with what it is said.
(27:30):
So in my mind in that time I hadto really think about my
journey.
It was all about getting timein my secret place listening,
intently listening.
The Bible tells us that mysheep know my voice.
If you are a believer in Christand he is Lord of your life,
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you have the ability to hear hisvoice and he speaks differently
to each and every one of us.
Some of us he will speak invision.
Some of us he will speak indreams.
Some of us you'll be readingyour word and something leaks
off the page.
That's the Lord speaking to you.
Somebody comes and gives you anencouraging word.
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That's the Lord speaking to you.
Somebody comes and gives you anencouraging word.
That is the Lord speaking toyou.
It's about hearing what he says.
Effective prayer isn't prayingour own motives or desires, but
it's effective prayers andinclining our ear to His heart
for people and for what he wantsto do he displayed in the earth
.
So really it just comes down toobedience, stepping out of your
(28:36):
comfort zone.
I never sought a platform ortitle.
In fact, my prayer has alwaysbeen, it still is.
God never put me in a positionthat I am not ready for, because
I have seen people over andover and over be put in a
position they were not ready for.
Because I have seen people overand over and over be put in a
position they were not ready forand it sets them up for failure
(29:00):
.
We are called to disciplepeople and raise them up and
position them as leaders overand into a place that they will
excel and succeed and preparethem and equip them for the
church.
And also, I wanted to say thistoo I think it's very important
we really don't teach this awhole lot anymore, but one of
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the things I learned very earlyon is that we have to be under
the authority of our leadershipAnytime.
I was asked to step out and pray, first of all by shaking my
boots.
Y'all this is funny.
I knew I was coming up to talktoday.
I was shaky because that's myintrovert, but I'm not going to
(29:41):
allow my personality to hold meback, but I'm going to allow the
Holy Spirit to flow through meand let Him move.
But we have to be under theauthority that God has placed us
under.
It's crucial Because if I'm ina place where my authority has
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put me there, it's because God'sput them to oversee me.
And if I step outside of theauthority of those over me, I
step outside of the blessing ofGod.
Let me say that again you stepoutside the authority that God
has placed you under.
You are stepping outside of theblessing of God over your life.
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We have got to be under ourauthority and of who God's
placed over us, and we have gotto be in the Word and know the
Word and listen to what he'ssaying.
They poured it out.
How many think Well, there's aguest that's not on the platform
(30:48):
and I'm just going to ask forforgiveness instead of
permission.
But there's a prayer warrior inmy life.
That is a gentle giant, not aplatform person at all, and this
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person opens every day andcloses every day praying for me
in the simplest, most powerfuland profound way I can't even
express it.
So in the morning, my husbandlays his hand on me and prays.
It's not a long prayer, but Iguarantee you it is strength to
(31:44):
my soul.
Every night unless I fallasleep first, which does happen
sometimes he says he still prays, but he puts his hand on me and
he prays me to sleep.
In the morning, I put my handon Everett and if I'm awake
first, I pray silently over him.
It's simple, it's not technical, it's not complicated, but let
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me tell you what it is it'slife-changing.
Do you believe that?
Because if you're married, oreven if you're not, you've got
children, probably a friend, aparent, a roommate there's
someone you need to be prayingfor to start and close your day.
But my husband is a prayerwarrior.
He's a gentle giant, he's not aplatform person.
(32:31):
He's not going to get behind onmy.
No matter how much I write him,he will not get behind on my
phone.
But I just felt compelled by theHoly Spirit, even as these
friends were speaking, that itwould be a miss for me to not
acknowledge the power of apraying spouse.
Yes, the power of a prayingspouse, because I can tell you,
(32:53):
oh, and I want to acknowledgewhat Cindy said the platform, as
ordained by God, does begin inthe secret place when no one
seeks the desperation, thecrying out to God, the pleading,
the ugly crying, all the things.
(33:15):
That's where a prayer warrior'scrying.
And I want to acknowledge theprayers of my husband, because I
could never do what I do if itweren't for his prayers, and I'm
grateful.
So I want to encourage spousestoday.
Prayers when I'm grateful, so Iwant to encourage spouses today
(33:38):
.
I believe, if you leaveconference and the one thing
that changes if you're notalready doing this is that you
pray over your husband, wivesand husbands.
You pray over your wife in thesimplest of ways, don't?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
complicate it.
A year from now, your life,your marriage, your family will
be different.
Who believes that?
Let's stand up back?
Please rate, review us or leavea five-star review on Apple
(34:13):
Podcast.
The purpose of our podcast isto glorify God and encourage
believers in their walk with theLord.
May God's grace and peace bewith you all, in Jesus' name.
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Charlie is America's hardest working grassroots activist who has your inside scoop on the biggest news of the day and what's really going on behind the headlines. The founder of Turning Point USA and one of social media's most engaged personalities, Charlie is on the front lines of America’s culture war, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of students on over 3,500 college and high school campuses across the country, bringing you your daily dose of clarity in a sea of chaos all from his signature no-holds-barred, unapologetically conservative, freedom-loving point of view. You can also watch Charlie Kirk on Salem News Channel