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GYC Southeast

Experiencing God

Janet Page

Session 1: New Life in Prayer and Praise

Session 2: Forever Ruined For The Ordinary

Session 3: Principles of Intercessory Prayer

Lord, I just thank you for this precious group of people.

And Father, you know what's going on in their lives and what they're searching for.

And I just pray, Father, for your Holy Spirit to speak to them.

Just bless them and I just pray, Father, that you might be able to use me and speak through me right now.

And Lord, you know there's so much to be shared, and help me to just share what you want.

Thank you, Thank you, Father, for being such a God of love that's so personal and intimate in our lives.

You know, I've been talking about impressions, God speaking to you.

1 thing I need to make clear in that, that we do have to be careful with that.

And He's, I'm convinced, people say, oh I don't hear God speaking to me.

I'm convinced that God is, we're not listening.

Because a lot of times God's been speaking to me and I find out later I should have been listening.

Look, I coordinate women's retreats and he was yelling at me at 1 of those, just so loud in my mind and I just was being stubborn and resisting it and I should have done what he was telling me to do because it was a, I had a problem afterwards because I didn't do what he said.

When I do I'm going to put it on that website I mentioned, but in Testimonies, Volume 1, page 413, It says, impressions and feelings are no sure evidence that a person is led by God.

Satan will, if he is unsuspected, give feelings and impressions.

I know another 1, it says that he'll come in and disguise himself as God to us.

If you ever get a thought or impression that you think is from God and it goes against God's word, you know it's not from God, because God will never go against His word.

And there needs to be in all of our lives somebody that's what I'd call a spiritual mentor.

Or maybe you might have more than 1 that you can go to for counsel.

If you feel like God's impressing you to do this or that, You need, in Proverbs it says it's good to have many counselors, but for me, you know, it's my husband.

I go to him and run ideas by him that I feel like God's saying to me to do this or that and then we'll pray together about it.

But be sure you have a spiritual mentor that will pray with you.

If all they do is give you their thoughts, they are not a good counselor for you.

You need 1 that will really pray with you.

God does speak to us, but we have to be careful that Satan isn't.

In this last hour, I'm going to talk about, I don't know, for those of you who weren't here, last time I talked about how God led me to do a women's retreat.

And he led for somebody to, a group of women for us to pray each week ahead of that retreat.

At that retreat, we saw so many miracles happen.

And we knew it was because of all the prayer going up.

And we didn't know all the miracles until weeks or so afterwards.

But 1 of them that happened was a woman was healed there.

And 2 years later, her doctors were saying that she was physically healed at that retreat.

He says, I don't have a clue what went on there, but you were healed.

But the beautiful part was we saw marriages that were healed because of that retreat.

We saw relationship with children, you know, young adults and their parents healed.

I had pastors calling me saying, what went on there?

I had men calling up and saying, will you come and do a women's retreat in our local church?

Literally, the guy said, we will cook the food, we'll do everything, just come and have another 1.

And we knew it was because of the prayer.

And as I shared, Jerry's wanting to know, you know, What did you do there?

Because he's the 1 who wanted this retreat.

And as I'm sharing with him what happened, he starts saying, that's what we got to do.

And I said, what do you mean that's what we got to do?

He says, we've got to start getting together with other families and praying together for God to work in our communities, in our academy.

So I got some families that I knew that would want to do it.

We started getting together to pray together once a week.

And 1 of the things I got them to commit to is that We would all be sure we were having quality time with God every day.

Because you can't come and pray in a prayer group if you're not prayed up.

And so we all committed to that and we started meeting and praying together once a week.

Now I don't know how it is for you, but when I get together with a group of people and she prays a long prayer, and then he turns around and prays a long prayer, and he's prayed a long prayer, they get to me, I'm asleep.

It's hard to stay with those long prayers.

And maybe you already do that, but just pray in a few sentences at a time.

Pray 1 subject at a time and go back and forth.

You don't have to open and close the prayer every time.

You know, it's a continual conversation with God.

And in fact, Jerry, he would try to get me to pray with him, and usually it was at night, we're laying in bed, ready to go to sleep, and he'd pray this long prayer, And then I start praying this long prayer and priests not hear him snoring.

You know, but when we switched it and started doing the conversational prayer, just praying a few, 1 subject at a time, a few sentences, what a difference it made.

And what a difference it'll make with your kids.

I'll never forget how that really blessed and helped our prayer times.

Jerry and I, our form of social life is to go walking.

And we'll pray back and forth conversationally.

Sometimes we'll get away from it for a while because of our busy schedules and then when we start doing it again, it's just like God is trying to show us the difference it makes.

There is a power that's unleashed when you pray together that you will not experience when you pray alone.

And in your handouts, it mentions that in the very back, these aren't numbered, are they?

But the, not this last page, but the next 1, the power of praying together.

You read that first 1, it says, if, it quotes Matthew 18, 19, and 20, if 2 of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

For where 2 or 3 are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst." But on down, Ellen White's comments on it are, The promise is made on condition that the united prayers of the church are offered.

And in answer to these prayers, there may be expected a power greater than that which comes in answer to private prayer.

The prayer given will be proportionate to the unity of the members and their love of God and for 1 another.

I'm convinced, and I've read it in other places, Ellen White's writings, the reason God has limited more power to us praying together is He wants us to bear each other's burdens, like it says in Galatians 6.

He wants us in unity so He can come again.

And down under number 5 it says, There is nothing more needed in the work than the practical results of communion with God.

Series

Experiencing God

Session 3: Principles of Intercessory Prayer

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Parent Series

Parent Conference

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After Hours

Keys to an Abundant Home: Our Journey

1h 2m

Climate Change and Laodicea

42m

Prophecy

Covenantal Revelation: The Six Angels of Ch. 14 and the Davidic Covenant

1h 22m

The Power of Prayer

The Power of Prayer- Part 1

46m

Anticipation

Pt 2-The Holy Spirit and the Cross

1h 13m

Preparing For the End of Time

1. Why Prayer Matters

45m

The Living One

47m

Workshop: Biblical Examples of Conflict Resolution

The Wise

42m

Acts and Early Christian Origins

03 Keeping the two Big Beasts Together

50m

Personal Spiritual Enrichment

Thriving Mentally: Assimilating the Mind of Christ

1h 33m

ASI 2010 Plenary Meetings

First Things First

1h 43m

Revelation of Jesus Christ

1h 17m

Sound Doctrine