TOS031 Praying through Fasting with Patti Brunner

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TOS031 Prayer through Fasting with Patti Brunner (Part 6) 

for audio: TOS031: Prayer through Fasting – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes

Truth of the Spirit Podcast TOS031 Prayer through Fasting with Patti Brunner of the series Prayer-Reaching Out to God. Have you ever had the doldrums when it came to prayer time and you just found yourself seemingly going through the motions?  Or perhaps you even found it impossible to pray?  When distractions overwhelm you to where your mind just won’t settle down and focus?  Does that happen to you?   I have an answer for you!  Enter into the prayer of fasting!  St. Thomas Aquinas says that “we fast for three purposes:  to restrain the desires of the flesh; to raise the mind to contemplate sublime things; and to make satisfaction for our sins.”  St. John Chrysostom realized that fasting is not only from food. It’s not just food that leads us away from God.  He recommended, “Let the hands fast, by being free of avarice. Let the feet fast, by ceasing to run after sin.”  Join Patti Brunner for this episode as she shows how the Church encourages us to fast and the benefits that can come forth.

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TOS030 Healing Prayer with Lissa Applewhite

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TOS030 Healing Prayer with Lissa Applewhite (Part 5) for audio: TOS030: Healing Prayer – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes

Our God is a God of Healing, He desires us to be whole. God provides healing in his words.  In Proverbs 40:20-23, “Pay attention to what I say, turn your ear to my word, don’t let out of your sight; keep them in your heart, for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.”  Lissa Applewhite suggests that various words of scripture are God’s “medicine” for our healing, our restoration, and our continued health!  Reading and memorizing these scriptures allow these words to sink deep into mind and spirit but if we go a step further by proclaiming these words out loud they become action!  Action speaks louder than words! 

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TOS029 Praying the Scriptures –Ken Hunter Prayer-Reaching Out to God Series

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TOS029 Praying the Scriptures with Ken Hunter  for audio: TOS029: Praying the Scriptures – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes       

Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner welcomes Ken Hunter for this episode of Praying the Scriptures as the series on Prayer-Reaching Out to God continues.   Praying scripture is not new – it dates back to the early Church, and even back to the Jews.  Scripture is sacred, significant.  “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16. 

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TOS027 Supernatural Prayer-Tongues with Rick Brunner

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TOS027 Supernatural Prayer -Tongues with Rick Brunner (Part 2)  for audio: TOS027: Supernatural Prayer – Tongues – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes       

Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner welcomes Rick Brunner for this episode about supernatural prayer of praying in Tongues.  Praying in Tongues is easy and very helpful.  The person does need good teaching and usually someone to help them begin.  It is part of the Church’s Baptismal gifts.  And unlike the other supernatural gifts of the Spirit which are given to different people as the Holy Spirit wills, this gift seems to be for everyone.  Therefore we encourage all to receive it.  St Paul says in 1 Cor. 14:5 that “Now I should like all of you to speak in tongues.” 

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TOS026 Prayer- Protection, Deliverance, and Cleansing with Sheila Canup

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TOS026 Protection, Deliverance, and Cleansing Prayer with Sheila Canup  for audio: TOS026: Protection, Deliverance, and Cleansing Prayer | Listen Notes

Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner welcomes Sheila Canup for the series on Prayer-Reaching Out to God.  As Sheila teaches on Deliverance, Protection and Cleansing Prayer, she shares her “on the job training” deliverance experiences.  Unless you know your authority in Christ and are sure of the Holy Spirit’s power working in you leave it alone!  Because like the woman sweeping her house and had it all cleaned out of spirits, and did not fill it, seven more came back.  But sometimes when we are praying for people deliverance prayer becomes necessary.  When it does, we need to know what and how to minister in the area of healing and releasing.   We have all had something that had to be taken out of us that we didn’t know was there.  We’ve been affected by childhood traumas and just life in general by people we are around, by literally being unaware that spirits can come within us.  Now, we are not talking about possession.     We are talking about oppressed, being attacked by demonic forces as when prayer for inner healing seems to accomplish nothing—the “constant loser” script, falling back into the same thing over and over and over. 

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TOS025 Duties of A Christian

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TOS025 Duties of a Christian , for audio: TOS025: The Duties of a Christian – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes   

The “Duties of a Christian” episode of Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner reminds us that we are not alone in our relationship with God.  We are not alone in the Church.  And so we need to know how to get along with each other in the Church.  That’s why God, through the Fathers of the Church, gave all Christians rules to follow.  These Church rules are called Canon Law.  

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TOS024 Healing and Gifts of the Spirit

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TOS024 Healing and Gifts of the Spirit with Patti Brunner

for Audio:TOS024: Healing and Gifts of the Spirit – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes

This episode of Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner, Healing and Gifts of the Spirit, will explain the application of the gifts as used in healing.  It includes personal testimony to instill the hope that all Christians can be open to spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit and that the purpose of these gifts are to edify the Church to prepare it for the ultimate healing in eternal life.  As we read the scriptures we can see that Jesus taught us how to use these gifts of grace. 

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TOS023 Armor of God Winning the Battle with Ken Hunter (Part 8b) and Lissa Applewhite’s Conclusion

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TOS023 Winning the Battle with Ken Hunter (Part 8b) and Lissa Applewhite’s Conclusion ;

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Truth of the Spirit welcomes Ken Hunter as he completes part 2 of his talk “Winning the Battle” as we wrap up the series on the Armor of God with a closing by Lissa Applewhite. 

Advance your spiritual journey.  That which does not grow, stagnates.   Lots of people complain, say “somebody should do something” – well, be part of it!  Recognize the battles in our lives.  Morals are not defined by us.   They are inherent – but can fool ourselves.  Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me Lord, Lord, but don’t do as I say?”  We say “Lord AND Savior” and just focus on the Savior part.  Is He your Lord or not?   Live as we want the world to be, as we want eternity to be, as Christ instructed us to be.  Trust in the Lord – stand on firm ground.  Don’t believe the lies.  Allow the Lord to fight for us.  Realize our role; we are all in the fight for salvation – everyone, whether they think it or not, want it or not.  Change the world by changing our country; change our country by changing your state.  Change your town by changing your family.  Change your family by allowing the Lord to change you.

[Please see TOS022 #8a for speaker’s notes]

TOS022 Armor of God #8a Winning the Battle with Ken Hunter

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TOS022 Winning the Battle with Ken Hunter (Part 8a); for Audio; 

Truth of the Spirit welcomes Ken Hunter as he discusses Winning the Battle as we wrap up the series on the Armor of God.  This episode is the first part of his talk. We talk about Spiritual Warfare, but what really is the War?  Simply: Good vs Evil, God’s plan vs Satan’s attempting thwarting of that plan.  What’s at stake: Salvation & eternal life, uniting with God in Heaven or being isolated in the despair of Hell – it’s just that straightforward.  Think of this: Jesus mentions hell and Satan more than any other part of Bible.  THE GOOD NEWS is that we’ve won the war – Satan is defeated.  The power is Good is vastly more powerful than that of Evil.  By why then is there still a battle?  Sin keeps us from our salvation – we choose or reject our participation in the victory.  People say sin doesn’t impact the world, that’s just such a blatant lie.  More of the dark victories are in the subtler aspects, hidden in the undercurrents.

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TOS021 Helmet of Salvation with Rick Brunner

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TOS021 Helmet of Salvation with Rick Brunner (Part 7); for Audio

Truth of the Spirit episode TOS021 Helmet of Salvation with Rick Brunner is part 7 of the Armor of God series. The Helmet of Salvation is the final piece of armor presented in the series.  The Helmet of Salvation is a family heirloom passed down through the generations to recall the salvation given by Jesus through the cross, death and resurrection.  It is a gift given at Baptism for us to wear for the rest of our lives.  It helps us to think more clearly and recognize God.  The enemy tries to penetrate the helmet not by hitting us over the head but by getting under it with thoughts and memories of failure and temptations.  But the strength of the Helmet of Salvation is that it has been worn by all those who came before you.  Each saint, each holy man and woman have their memories to share.  The Helmet of Salvation was worn—indeed it was forged—by Christ himself.  He continues to wear it with you and thus your strength comes from this.  “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.”1 John 4:4. 

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