Aligning with Spiritual Authority for Effective Prayer

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1. "The key to answer prayer is the understanding of spiritual authority. Amen. It's a principle that I learned some time ago, a man that I try to operate in and I know many of you all do as well but it's not something we hear about enough to understand why our prayers may not be answered. There may be reasons that I believe there are reasons and I believe a biblical reason that we do not have our prayers answered. It's an alignment issue. Amen. It's an alignment issue." [28:07] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "Sadly, many of us are not ruling our world. Instead, our world is ruling us. Amen. We're not seeing the demonstrations of what God has promised and provided for us the way that he has directed us to be able to access those things of the kingdom because we are misusing and abusing what I call kingdom authority. We've been legally set free. The death of Christ, and more importantly, the resurrection of Christ has counseled the right of Satan to rule your world." [33:44] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "It's possible, my brothers and sisters, to be free legally, but not live free. And many of you all are still, amen, not living free. I went on a cruise ship some years ago, and somebody was on the ship, and they brought Beefaroni, Chef Braudy. Come on, amen. They had sandwiches. They had all kind of stuff, amen. They were going through the security. They go through the security piece. It wasn't one of the people. It was just somebody. I didn't know them. They were going through the security piece. And they said, why you got all this food and all this stuff? They had canned this and sandwiches and all this other stuff, you know? And they said, well, I may get hungry on the cruise. They said, don't you know that when you bought the ticket, all the food on board except... Those reservation places, it's all free." [35:09] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "The authority of the kingdom that God wants us to have is not one for bondage, it's one for freedom. Let me illustrate it this way. It allows you to feel the freedom of your potential, to feel the freedom of your power, that when you live under the authority of God, you are now free to be what he has created you to be, to do what he's created you to do. In its fullness, do you hear me? It's like a train that runs on a track. It can go fast. The engine can rev. It can move. Why? Because it's on the track. It's staying within the boundary lines of what it was created to be." [40:58] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "Jesus himself shows us this, even in the prayer that most everybody in here can pray. We first say that prayer when we start doing what we call the Lord's Prayer. Amen. We say what? Our Father, which art in heaven. Jesus, in his prayer, demonstrates that there is one who is greater than him, even though, we're going to talk about this in a moment, even though he is co-equal with God, he is willing, if you would, in the sense of his power to subordinate to the Father. Amen. And even get instruction from the Father to not do anything in his own, if you would, without the Father authorizing it." [42:18] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "Have you ever thought that you may be asking God for what you already have? That you could be asking God, could, did you ever thought that you're asking for things that God has already provide? He's already got it for you. And when you come up under kingdom authority and you trust him, amen, he'll open those things for you. He will, or he'll even change the desire that you, that, that for the thing that you thought you wanted. That what you thought you want, the kingdom of authority, you don't even want it anymore." [47:25] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "Jesus was able to do what he did. He had the power to do it on his own. He had the power. He's equal with God, but he submitted, if you would, to the authority of the father. Even though, amen, one God, three persons, he surrendered and submitted to God. In fact, I'm going to read something to you. I didn't give the notes to y'all on this. It's Colossians chapter one, Colossians chapter one, and I'm going to look at verse 16 through 17. Colossians chapter one, and I'm going to look at verse 16 through 17. I love this." [48:53] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "We will not have legitimate authority over what or who is under our authority until we demonstrate submitted authority towards who is over you or of us. Did you get that? Let me say it again. We will not have legitimate authority over what or who, nobody, your family, your money, your family, your family, your finances, your everything, will not have legitimate authority over what or who is under our authority, right? People and things under you until we demonstrate submitted authority towards who is over us." [54:07] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "The key to answer prayer is by whose authority do you operate your life? This is the key to prayer. It is. By whose authority are you operating? By whose authority? When we pray, we pray in what? In whose name? Jesus. You don't pray in your name. I am Tyrone Barnett, and I need you, Lord. God be like, who? But I pray in the name of Christ, who the Father has submitted all things under his hand. Amen? And if I'm under the authority of Christ, all of a sudden, my prayers take on wings. They have a different, if you would, authority, because it's not just in my name." [52:48] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "You and I will not have legitimate authority over what or who is under our authority until we demonstrate submitted authority over who is, over us. If we're out of alignment with who is legitimately over us, amen, we cannot expect to receive any good thing of the Lord the way he intends for us to receive it. You can't have authority over until you have submitted authority under. Many of our prayers are not being answered because we are out of alignment. We are not properly under, so we cannot have authority over the way God intends for us to be." [01:11:09] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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