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When we come in the name of Jesus, we come in the merits of the blood that He shed on our behalf.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":63,"quote_text":64,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":65,"source":66,"quote_tag":67,"commentary":50},2978484,"A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":69,"quote_text":70,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":71,"source":72,"quote_tag":73,"commentary":50},2978480,"When you have met God’s conditions, He casts your sins behind His back into the ocean of His forgetfulness. It was Corrie ten Boom who added, “And when God casts our sins into the ocean, He puts up a sign: No fishing!” If almighty God has forgotten your sins, why should you try to remember them?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":75,"quote_text":76,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":77,"source":78,"quote_tag":79,"commentary":50},2978475,"The decision that the man was to marry proceeded from God, not from the man.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":81,"quote_text":82,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":83,"source":84,"quote_tag":85,"commentary":50},2978468,"Every word is true. It is filled with God’s own power and authority.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":87,"quote_text":88,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":89,"source":90,"quote_tag":91,"commentary":50},2978462,"The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":93,"quote_text":94,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":95,"source":96,"quote_tag":97,"commentary":98},2978457,"And that is why we sometimes have to push through enemy territory when we pray. It is not that we are praying out of the will of God, or that God is unwilling to hear us, but that we have to penetrate a hostile kingdom in the heavenlies in order to reach Him.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nDerek Prince, a renowned author and Bible teacher, penned this thought-provoking quote. This insight likely emerged during a period of intense spiritual warfare, when Prince was actively engaging with the spiritual realm. In the 1970s, Prince was experiencing a surge in spiritual growth, which often involved confronting and overcoming spiritual opposition.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe quote reveals a counter-intuitive truth about prayer: that resistance or \"enemy territory\" in the spiritual realm is not necessarily a sign of God's disapproval or unwillingness to hear us. Rather, it indicates the presence of a hostile spiritual kingdom that must be penetrated in order to reach God. This tension highlights the dynamic interplay between our spiritual and physical realms, where spiritual battles often precede breakthroughs.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, recognize that spiritual resistance or \"enemy territory\" is not a barrier to prayer, but rather an opportunity to engage in spiritual warfare. By acknowledging and pushing through this resistance, you can more effectively penetrate the spiritual realm and access God's presence and power.",{"id":100,"quote_text":101,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":102,"source":103,"quote_tag":104,"commentary":50},2978452,"We are rebels at war with God. We cannot make peace with Him until we lay down our rebellion –.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":106,"quote_text":107,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":108,"source":109,"quote_tag":110,"commentary":50},2978442,"In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":112,"quote_text":113,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":114,"source":115,"quote_tag":116,"commentary":50},2978438,"For those whose outlook is limited to the material realm, contentment and security must be measured in terms of material abundance. But for those who have learned to look in faith to God, there is another Source, inexhaustible and unfluctuating.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"currentPage":118,"totalPages":119,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":120},1,5,10]