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 And amen. Please take out your copy of God's Word. Turn to the Gospel according to Mark chapter 11.

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 As you're getting there, let me just by way of reminder, as I saw so many new precious little faces down front,

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 we're very happy to have children in the service with us, but it's a work in progress, isn't it?

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 And it's a challenge. It takes some sacrifice on everyone's part.

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 For those of you without children, the great work ahead of us is to learn to be okay with kids

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 because kids are not wired like we are, and they haven't quite yet learned what it looks like to sit perfectly quietly in a setting like this.

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 So embrace kids, love kids, and love them for some of their oddities and their challenges as well.

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 So for parents, it takes some sensitivity to that also.

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 Recognize as parents, we get this really amazing skill as parents to tune out, to totally check out what's happening with our kids.

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 It's pretty amazing how your child can be hitting you on the leg and saying your name over and over again.

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 You just check them out, right, all together.

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 It's harder for single people without children to do that thing.

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 So remember that and be sensitive in that.

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 It's a work in progress to have kids with us in here.

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 Sam and I work really diligently with Cade and Judah.

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 We practice at home.

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 We have book time.

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 We make them sit and be quiet.

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 It takes a lot.

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 And even still, my wife mostly has the burden placed on her.

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 I think she's chuckling because there's some challenges going on even right now.

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 But we do have some space across the hall for that.

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 So if it's time to step out, that's a place that you can bring a little more stern discipline.

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 You can, as I used to do with Cade and Judah, stick your two fingers in their collarbone.

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 Be quiet.

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 You can do that over there a little more easily than over here.

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 I would encourage you to that because it does take work.

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 I wish they would magically sit still and quiet, but it does take a work.

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 It's amazing.

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 I've discovered by the grace of God what I can preach through, but I'm not too sure about people's threshold for listening.

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 So let's be sensitive to that.

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 Mark chapter 11.

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 I'm going to begin reading to you in verse 20, and we'll read through 25.

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 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.

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 And Peter remembered and said to him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree that you cursed has withered.

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 And Jesus answered them, have faith in God.

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 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and thrown into the sea and does not doubt in his heart,

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 but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

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 Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

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 And whenever you stand praying, forgive.

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 If you have anything against anyone so that your father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

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 This is God's word to us written for his glory and our good.

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 We would all do well to listen to it in order to believe its promises and obey its commands.

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 Let's pray together.

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 Father God, we do thank you today for your word to us.

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 And I thank you, Father, for the church, this unique institution in the world that you have called out of darkness,

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 a people who were once not a people and you have made us a people.

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 And you have given us the task of gathering together and opening your word and having it applied to our lives.

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 This application is a supernatural thing.

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 The great miracle in preaching is not that I even managed to get up here and say things for the length of time,

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 although that is a miracle in itself.

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 The real miracle is the way in which you apply your word to our hearts.

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 So I would ask this day, Father, because of your graciousness,

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 because we know that you love your people and we know that you're zealous for your glory,

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 that you will make us more like Christ to that great end.

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 And we pray this in his name.

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 Amen.

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 So we looked last week at a rather remarkable event in the ministry of Jesus when he has gone into Jerusalem

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 and he cleanses the temple.

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 He goes in and he turns over the tables and he runs out the money changers.

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 But prior to that, he cursed a fig tree.

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 We saw on his journey into town, this is by my very best intellect, Tuesday of the Passion Week.

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 He's entered Jerusalem for the first time on Monday.

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 We now see him, verse 11, he's returned to Bethany.

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 Now he's coming back into town on Tuesday and he's hungry and he sees a fig tree from far off and it's in leaf.

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 And so it's probable in the life of the fig tree that it should have had unripened fruit on it.

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 But it doesn't.

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 And he uses this as an opportunity not to exert his power over creation in some kind of spiteful manner against the fig tree.

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 But he uses it as an opportunity to show the disciples the coming judgment for the fruitlessness of Israel.

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 And that's driven home for us as the story of him cleansing the temple is sandwiched in between,

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 is bookended with the resulting words of the disciples concerning that very fig tree,

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 which we see in verse 20 and verse 21.

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 So this is Wednesday of the Passion Week.

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 Jesus will be crucified on Friday.

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 We will spend the next four to five months in this period of time in Jesus' ministry in the Gospel according to Mark.

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 Much will happen.

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 He's packing it in.

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 He's giving the very last teaching.

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 They have yet to realize this is the event that's going to happen at the end of the week,

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 but he's fully aware of it.

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 He knows what's about to come.

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 And he's trying to impart to them all of the final truths they must understand.

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 The lesson before us today is primarily a lesson about prayer.

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 We certainly see his response in verse 22,

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 have faith in God,

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 and we could readily make it primarily about faith,

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 but it is about prayer which is fueled by faith.

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 Now, the disciples, their lives before encountering Jesus,

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 being called by Him and following Him for the three-ish years that they followed Him,

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 would not have been devoid of prayer.

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 This was not a new thing.

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 This wasn't that they were not praying,

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 and now they knew that they were supposed to be praying.

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 The New Testament people of God prayed to God.

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 The Israelites prayed to God.

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 There's an Old Testament record of so many precious and beautiful prayers,

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 which we'll look at some of them today as an example for the way we should pray.

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 But perhaps their prayer lives had faltered as of late.

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 Perhaps they had ceased praying the way they ought to be praying

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 because they were spending all of their time with Jesus.

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 They had all of their needs met by Him.

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 They were close and underneath the leadership of the Christ.

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 They had lived with the provision and the power and the presence of God.

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 But Jesus is going to soon leave them.

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 This is going to change dramatically in their lives,

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 and Jesus wants to say to them here how very, very important prayer is going to be.

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 They seem to get this message because after He does leave them,

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 what do we find the apostles doing with other disciples of Christ?

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 We find them praying.

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 We find them asking for the very thing that Jesus promised He would send,

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 the Helper.

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 And they do receive that.

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 They receive God's presence in the form of the Holy Spirit.

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 Yet, they still need God's continuing power and provision.

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 They have now His presence in the form of the Spirit,

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 but they also need His continuing power and provision.

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 We find ourselves, beloved, in the same place.

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 If you are in Christ, you have the Spirit of Christ.

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 You have His presence.

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 But we need His provision and we need His power

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 if we want to properly honor Him with our lives.

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 And this is going to require prayer.

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 Do you want to see God move and work in your life?

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 Do you want to see Him move and work in the world around you?

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 And if you do, and I hope that you do,

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 then you will want to pray powerful prayers.

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 Now hear me before we get into the particulars

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 of what a powerful prayer life looks like,

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 that God does not need us.

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 He is God, the sovereign, who rules over everything.

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 He is Himself self-existent.

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 He doesn't need us,

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 and nor did He create us in such a way that He needs us.

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 God could accomplish what God wants to accomplish

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 with or without us.

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 But, God loves us.

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 And because He loves us,

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 He wants to, He desires to include us

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 in His purposes and His plans.

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 He invites us along as the means to His great end.

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 And one of the ways that that happens

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 is through prayer.

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 So prayer enacts the power of God.

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 Prayer is used by God to accomplish His will.

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 But He doesn't need us for that.

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 Prayer is primarily for us.

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 That we might experience Him

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 and participate in His goodness to this world.

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 So let me give you the outline for this morning

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 in brief,

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 and then we'll go back and fill in the details.

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 And four points this morning.

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 Prayer is,

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 powerful prayer is,

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 historical.

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 It is theological.

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 It is spiritual.

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 And it is practical.

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 But firstly,

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 powerful prayer is historical.

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 And by that,

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 I don't mean that people have prayed powerful prayers in the past,

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 although they have.

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 Many wonderful examples of prayer in the past,

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 both in our Old and New Testament,

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 as well as beyond,

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 many valuable recorded prayers.

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 This is not what I mean by powerful prayer being historical.

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 We're not taking our lesson here from history.

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 But rather,

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 look at the way that Peter remembers what Jesus had done.

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 Verse 20,

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 and then into 21.

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 He had cursed the fig tree.

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 We find that out in verse 21.

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 21,

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 because Jesus says in verse 14,

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 and he said to it,

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 may no one ever eat fruit from you again.

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 Jesus said,

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 said something.

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 And then the very next day,

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 they observed that it came to pass.

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 Not just that the tree wasn't bearing fruit still,

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 but that the tree was dead.

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 And here saying withered away to its roots means that it was completely dead.

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 There was no life left.

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 The thing that Jesus had said,

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 no fruit will ever come from you again,

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 had certainly come to pass.

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 There's this little word in verse 21,

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 and Peter remembered.

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 He remembered what Jesus had said would be accomplished,

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 and here it was accomplished before him.

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 So this first component of powerful prayer is to recognize

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 that God has put His power on display in the past.

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 God has done great things.

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 God has accomplished so much.

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 And powerful prayer is grounded.

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 It is rooted,

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 no pun intended,

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 in this reality,

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 that God has been good,

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 and we have record of this.

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 Israel is instructed in the Old Testament

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 time and time and time again

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 to remember.

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 In fact,

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 all of their festivals,

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 all the things they celebrated

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 were aimed at them remembering

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 the things that God had done

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 on their behalf.

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 The way that He had preserved them

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 by sending them to Egypt to begin with.

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 That He had saved the nation in that way.

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 That He had delivered them

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 from the oppressive hand of the Egyptians,

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 which happened some years later.

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 That they had passed through the Red Sea

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 on dry land and He had destroyed Pharaoh's army

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 behind Him.

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 That He preserved them in the wilderness

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 by bringing manna from heaven,

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 water from a rock.

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 That He shaded them by day

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 in the form of a cloud,

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 and He warmed them by night

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 in the form of a pillar of fire.

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 That they crossed into the promised land

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 and they became conquerors in that place.

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 That they conquered mighty people

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 again and again and again.

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 It said to them,

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 remember.

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 This last week's community group text

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 was Isaiah 46,

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 verses 8-11,

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 which says,

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 remember this and stand firm.

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 Recall it to mind,

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 you transgressors.

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 Remember the former things of old.

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 For I am God,

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 and there is no other.

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 I am God,

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 and there is none like Me,

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 declaring the end from the beginning

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 and from ancient times

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 things not yet done,

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 saying,

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 My counsel shall stand,

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 and I will accomplish

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 all My purpose.

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 So God has said to them in Isaiah,

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 even as He's about to bring judgment,

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 remember the things that I have done.

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 I am God.

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 Turn with me to Psalm 77.

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 Psalm 77.

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 In a day of trouble for the psalmist,

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 here being Asaph,

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 excuse me,

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 He asked some questions in verse 8.

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 Has steadfast love forever ceased?

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 Are His promises at an end for all time?

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 Has God forgotten to be gracious?

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 Has He in anger shut up His compassion?

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 Then I said,

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 I will appeal to this.

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 So He's not experiencing this present help of the Lord,

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 but He says,

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 I will appeal to this,

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 to the years of the right hand,

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 the mighty right hand of the Most High.

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 I will remember the deeds of the Lord.

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 Yes,

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 I will remember Your wonders of old.

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 I will ponder all Your work

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 and meditate on Your mighty deeds.

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 Your way,

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 O God,

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 is holy.

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 What God is great?

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 Like our God.

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 You are the God who works wonders.

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 You have made known Your might among the peoples.

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 You with Your arm redeemed Your people,

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 the children of Jacob and Joseph.

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 When the waters saw You,

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 O God,

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 when the waters saw You,

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 they were afraid.

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 Indeed,

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 the deep trembled.

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 The clouds poured out water.

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 The skies gave forth thunder.

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 Your arrows flashed on every side.

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 The crash of Your thunder was in the whirlwind.

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 Your lightnings lighted up the world.

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 The earth trembled and shook.

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 Your way was through the sea.

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 Your path to the great waters.

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 Yet Your footprints were unseen.

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 You led Your people like a flock

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 by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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 And so He casts all of His hope

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 back on the sure thing

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 that God had already done.

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 He had already manifested His goodness

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 to the people of Israel

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 in this way.

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 And this is a great encouragement

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 to the heart of Asaph

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 in this time.

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 In so many ways,

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 God has placed Himself on display

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 in the Scriptures.

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 In so many magnificent ways.

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 He's done so in your life as well.

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 Remember.

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 Remember the things that He's done for you.

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 Remember Christ's presence

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 power and provision

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 in your salvation.

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 Remember it in your daily needs

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 having always been met.

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 We sit here together

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 because of God's graciousness to us.

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 We've always had

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 all that we've needed

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 whether you think so or not.

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 you have had your needs met.

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 You have seen, likely,

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 God work in countless particular ways.

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 Little things accomplished

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 on your behalf.

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 Things that you prayed for.

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 Things that troubled you

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 that were little

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 and momentary

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 and light.

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 And God came through

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 on your behalf.

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 This is true for me as well.

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 We so readily forget them though.

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 We encourage you to journal

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 what's happening in your life

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 through prayer

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 that you might remember

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 some of these things.

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 I was able yesterday

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 to participate in a wedding

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 for Daniel Gentry

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 who's a member of our church

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 and he married a young lady

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 by the name of Mackenzie.

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 They'll be here in a couple of weeks

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 and let me just at this time

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 encourage you to

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 wrap your arms around her.

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 She's leaving behind

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 a very precious church family

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 and will need our love and support

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 in this transition.

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 Two springs ago,

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 the spring of 2013,

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 Daniel and I traveled together

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 to Nicaragua

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 to look at some potential future work

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 for us to do there together.

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 And during that time,

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 we became very aware

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 as we were praying through

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 God's future plans for Daniel

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 if it was going to be in this place

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 that he was going to need a wife.

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 It's a very matriarchal society

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 and a wife was going to be

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 a massive, massive help to him

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 down there.

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 And so we prayed together

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 while we were down there

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 that he would provide

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 a wife for Daniel.

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 And I learned yesterday,

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 I didn't know the backstory,

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 but I learned yesterday

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 that Mackenzie and her father

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 kind of had their eyes

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 turned towards Daniel

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 when he came back

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 and got together a bunch of people

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 to share this trip

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 that he had taken to Nicaragua.

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 So when they began to take

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 some note of him

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 and begin to pay attention.

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 So it was a blessing for me

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 to get to be part of this wedding

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 and it'll be a blessing

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 to have Mackenzie here

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 because she'll be a reminder

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 of God's goodness,

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 the way in which he works

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 through the prayers of his people.

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 I prayed for a godly wife.

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 She's here.

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 Sam's a reminder to me

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 of God's goodness to me

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 and the way in which he uses

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 my prayers.

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 We prayed for children

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 and they're here.

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 Also God's goodness to us

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 in our prayers.

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 I shared with you last week

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 at the beginning of the service

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 in case you didn't hear it

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 and maybe just need

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 to be reminded of it

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 that a couple of weeks ago

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 this property,

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 a pullout on the street

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 was struck by lightning

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 and it surged in the building

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 and it knocked out the wireless.

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 The modem got fried.

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 The wireless routers got fried.

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 The copier itself got fried.

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 And there was a real good chance

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 that the copier

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 was going to be exorbitantly

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 expensive to fix.

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 The guy was saying

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 somewhere between

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 like $600 and $5,000

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 to fix it.

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 So we called our insurance company.

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 We have insurance.

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 $1,000 deductible.

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 And I shared with you

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 that I had some real anxiety

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 about that

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 and had to confess

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 last Monday

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 just like,

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 Lord, I haven't trusted you for this.

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 I haven't come to you

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 in prayer for this.

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 I have depended on simple numbers,

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 right,

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 which are fleeting

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 and really not that important

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 in the large scheme of things.

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 And in that process

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 to trust God again

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 that He knows these things,

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 He sent the lightning.

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 He knew it was going to happen.

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 He knew this very thing.

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 And then I share with you

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 about this very bizarre check

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 that came after this.

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 It came on Tuesday.

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 Pray on Monday.

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 Check shows up on Tuesday.

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 From a very obscure source,

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 I have been able to confirm

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 that from an individual

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 that used to attend church here,

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 graduated,

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 he's gone,

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 was kind of involved.

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 And his father

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 sent us a check

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 in the exact amount we needed

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 to pay the deductible

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 to get all of these things

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 all sorted out.

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 And so now,

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 every time I get on

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 the wireless internet

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 here at the building,

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 it's a reminder

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 of God's goodness

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 to us.

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 Our church

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 prayed

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 and we've been praying

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 for families.

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 Families,

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 you're an encouragement to me.

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 Look around and see

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 the way in which

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 God uses prayers

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 to bring about His will.

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 Remember.

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 Remember these things.

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 This becomes a foundation

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 for us

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 to plead with God on.

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 After Israel is delivered

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 from the Philistines,

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 one of the times

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 they're delivered

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 from the Philistines

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 in 1 Samuel 7.12.

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 Samuel takes a stone

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 and he sets it up

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 between Mizpah and Shin

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 and he called its name

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 Ebenezer,

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 which means

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 stone of remembrance.

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 For he said,

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 till now,

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 the Lord

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 has

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 helped us.

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 You guys familiar

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 with that line

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 in the song

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 Come Thou Fount

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 that we sing so often.

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 Here I raise

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 my Ebenezer.

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 Here by thy

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 great help

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 I've come.

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 If you've wondered

00:22:45.859 --> 00:22:47.579
 what that's all about,

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:48.539
 Ebenezer is not

00:22:48.539 --> 00:22:48.939
 an old man

00:22:48.939 --> 00:22:49.759
 who doesn't like Christmas.

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 It's a stone

00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.319
 of remembrance.

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 A thing that we can

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 go back to

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 and recall

00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:57.859
 the goodness of God

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 to us.

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 That He has

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 helped us

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 thus far.

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 And therefore

00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:03.279
 we have confidence

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 that He will continue

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 to do so.

00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:08.799
 So powerful prayer

00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:09.720
 in this way

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 is historical.

00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:14.019
 Powerful prayer

00:23:14.019 --> 00:23:14.579
 secondly

00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:15.379
 is

00:23:15.379 --> 00:23:16.939
 theological.

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 Jesus answered

00:23:19.439 --> 00:23:20.220
 them.

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 It seems like

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 this was often

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 the case that

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 Peter was the

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 spokesman

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 of the apostles.

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 So he says

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 something and

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 Jesus answers

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 them.

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 Have faith

00:23:30.099 --> 00:23:31.460
 in God.

00:23:32.399 --> 00:23:33.200
 So the second

00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.220
 component of prayer

00:23:34.220 --> 00:23:35.279
 being theological

00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:37.399
 is not the issue

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 at hand.

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 Not the primary

00:23:39.420 --> 00:23:40.180
 issue at hand.

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 The very character

00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:43.039
 of God

00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:43.700
 is.

00:23:44.099 --> 00:23:44.539
 Who

00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:45.819
 is

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:46.759
 God?

00:23:47.379 --> 00:23:48.019
 Powerful prayer

00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:48.599
 being historical

00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:49.379
 is about what God

00:23:49.379 --> 00:23:50.279
 has done

00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:50.940
 but who

00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:52.079
 is He?

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 Do you have

00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:55.180
 faith

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 or do you

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 trust

00:23:56.980 --> 00:23:57.759
 God?

00:23:57.879 --> 00:23:58.539
 Do you trust

00:23:58.539 --> 00:23:58.779
 Him?

00:24:00.019 --> 00:24:00.779
 Do you believe

00:24:00.779 --> 00:24:01.299
 that He knows

00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:01.819
 best?

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 Do you trust

00:24:03.180 --> 00:24:04.339
 His plans?

00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:05.480
 His purposes?

00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:07.019
 His ways?

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.399
 And His will?

00:24:08.639 --> 00:24:09.619
 Do you know

00:24:09.619 --> 00:24:11.059
 His plans?

00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:11.740
 His purposes?

00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:12.799
 His ways?

00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:14.299
 His will?

00:24:14.299 --> 00:24:16.940
 If you want to

00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:18.139
 pray powerful

00:24:18.139 --> 00:24:18.559
 prayers

00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:19.019
 you're going

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 to have to.

00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:21.159
 You're going

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 to have to.

00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:23.059
 When the

00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:23.639
 disciples ask

00:24:23.639 --> 00:24:24.480
 Jesus how

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.139
 they should

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 pray

00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:26.980
 what does

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:27.220
 He tell

00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:27.440
 them?

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 Matthew 6

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 9 and 10

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 Pray then

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 like this

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 Our Father

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 in heaven

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 hallowed

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 be your

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 name

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 your

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 kingdom

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 come

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 whose

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 will?

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 Your

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 will be

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 done

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 on earth

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 as it

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 is in

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 heaven.

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 If we want

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 to implore

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 God

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 as Jesus

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 instructions

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 to pray

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 like this

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 He doesn't

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 say pray

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 this

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 recite this

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 and some

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 magic blessing

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 will come

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 to you

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 He says

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 pray like

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 this

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 use this

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 as a

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 pattern

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 pray things

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 in the

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 will

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 of God

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 how are

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 we to

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 know

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 what this

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 is

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 unless

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 we know

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 God

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 we must

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 know about

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 Him

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 we must

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 know about

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 His plans

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 His purposes

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 His ways

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 therefore we

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 can know

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 His will

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 powerful

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 prayer

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 recognizes

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 God's

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 sovereign

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 goodness

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 His very

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 character

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 in fact it

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 relies

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 upon it

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 1 John 5

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 14

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 the apostle

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 John says

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 and this

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 is the

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 confidence

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 that we

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 have

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 toward

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 Him

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 that if

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 we ask

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 for anything

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 according

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 to

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 His

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 will

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 He

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 hears

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 us

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 and if

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 we know

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 that He

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 hears

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 us

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 and whenever

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 we ask

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 we know

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 that we

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 have

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 the

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 request

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 that we

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 have

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 asked

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 of

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 Him

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 powerful

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 prayer

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 banks

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 on God's

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 character

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 makes

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 withdrawals

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 from the

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 very

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 person

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 that He

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 is

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 a little

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 while ago

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 it's already

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 been two

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 summers

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 now

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 we studied

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 the great

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 Old Testament

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 book of

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 Nehemiah

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 and Nehemiah

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 serving as

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 the cupbearer

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 to King

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 Artaxerxes

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 the Persian

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 king

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 Persia

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 came

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 and overthrew

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 Babylon

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 remember

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 Israel

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 was

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 overthrown

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 by

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 and dispersed

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 by

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 Babylonian

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 invasion

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 and now

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 the power

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 has shifted

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 and Nehemiah

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 hears that

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 as the people

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 have been

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 allowed to

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 go back

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 they have

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 yet to

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 rebuild

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 the wall

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 and this

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 greatly

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 troubles

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 him

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 and he

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 prays

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 a prayer

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 because he

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 believes

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 he needs

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 to go be

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 part of

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 the process

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 to bring

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 restoration

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 to Jerusalem

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 but he's

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 serving

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 this king

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 right

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 and this

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 king

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 has said

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 some years

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 previous

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 he's issued

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 an edict

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 to say

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 that the wall

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 will not be

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 rebuilt

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 that he will

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 not allow

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 them to

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 fortify

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 the city

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 so this

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 is what

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 confronts

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 him

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 to go

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 to the

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 king

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 and ask

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:46.740
 for permission

00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:47.500
 to go

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:47.640
 back

00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.000
 we later

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:48.320
 find out

00:26:48.320 --> 00:26:48.700
 he actually

00:26:48.700 --> 00:26:49.220
 asked for

00:26:49.220 --> 00:26:50.060
 a line

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 of credit

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 to actually

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 be able

00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:52.140
 to do

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 this very

00:26:52.520 --> 00:26:52.820
 thing

00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:53.440
 and the

00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:53.900
 way he

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:54.400
 begins

00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:55.020
 his prayer

00:26:55.020 --> 00:26:55.700
 to God

00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:56.680
 makes

00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:57.100
 this very

00:26:57.100 --> 00:26:57.460
 point

00:26:57.460 --> 00:26:57.860
 Nehemiah

00:26:57.860 --> 00:26:58.260
 chapter 1

00:26:58.260 --> 00:26:58.780
 verse 5

00:26:58.780 --> 00:26:59.020
 and I

00:26:59.020 --> 00:26:59.500
 said

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 O Lord

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 God of

00:27:01.760 --> 00:27:02.100
 heaven

00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:03.460
 the great

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 and awesome

00:27:04.020 --> 00:27:04.340
 God

00:27:04.340 --> 00:27:04.820
 who keeps

00:27:04.820 --> 00:27:04.820


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 covenant

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 and steadfast

00:27:06.580 --> 00:27:06.980
 love with

00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:07.320
 those who

00:27:07.320 --> 00:27:07.820
 love him

00:27:07.819 --> 00:27:08.779
 and keep

00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:09.200
 his

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:09.980
 commandments

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:11.339
 he knew

00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:11.759
 who God

00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:12.240
 was

00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:12.519
 the God

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:12.939
 of heaven

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 the great

00:27:13.379 --> 00:27:13.779
 and awesome

00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:14.099
 one

00:27:14.099 --> 00:27:14.819
 and he knew

00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:15.339
 the way

00:27:15.339 --> 00:27:15.740
 in which

00:27:15.740 --> 00:27:16.379
 he dealt

00:27:16.379 --> 00:27:17.220
 with his

00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:17.559
 people

00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:18.519
 that he

00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:18.919
 could not

00:27:18.919 --> 00:27:19.339
 lie

00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:19.599
 that he

00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:19.859
 could not

00:27:19.859 --> 00:27:20.339
 go against

00:27:20.339 --> 00:27:21.059
 his very

00:27:21.059 --> 00:27:21.559
 own

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:22.279
 character

00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.079
 and that he

00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:23.579
 must

00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:24.319
 keep

00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.319
 his steadfast

00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:25.579
 love

00:27:25.579 --> 00:27:25.899
 because

00:27:25.899 --> 00:27:26.379
 it's

00:27:26.379 --> 00:27:26.799
 who

00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:27.700
 he

00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:28.399
 is

00:27:28.399 --> 00:27:30.200
 so we

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:30.519
 know him

00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:30.859
 by his

00:27:30.859 --> 00:27:31.179
 scripture

00:27:31.179 --> 00:27:32.399
 do you

00:27:32.399 --> 00:27:32.839
 know his

00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:33.299
 promises

00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:34.980
 do you

00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:35.399
 know the

00:27:35.399 --> 00:27:35.919
 things he's

00:27:35.919 --> 00:27:36.559
 promised to

00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:36.899
 do

00:27:36.899 --> 00:27:37.960
 for us

00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.200
 I will

00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:39.519
 tell you

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:39.779
 this

00:27:39.779 --> 00:27:40.019
 if you

00:27:40.019 --> 00:27:40.619
 find your

00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:41.440
 prayer life

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.119
 to be

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:42.839
 lacking in

00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.339
 fervor

00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:44.980
 there is a

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:45.659
 direct

00:27:45.659 --> 00:27:46.940
 correlation

00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:47.879
 to your

00:27:47.879 --> 00:27:48.359
 devotion to

00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:48.599
 God's

00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:48.839
 word

00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.220
 this is the

00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:51.700
 way in

00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:52.279
 which God

00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:53.099
 communicates

00:27:53.099 --> 00:27:53.720
 to us

00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:54.359
 beloved

00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:55.799
 so many

00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:56.440
 people want

00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:56.819
 to walk

00:27:56.819 --> 00:27:57.200
 around

00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:57.659
 what is

00:27:57.659 --> 00:27:57.960
 the will

00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.319
 of God

00:27:58.319 --> 00:27:58.659
 for my

00:27:58.659 --> 00:27:59.079
 life

00:27:59.079 --> 00:27:59.859
 what is

00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:00.139
 the will

00:28:00.139 --> 00:28:00.460
 of God

00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:00.779
 for my

00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:01.139
 life

00:28:01.139 --> 00:28:02.019
 stop

00:28:02.019 --> 00:28:02.659
 and open

00:28:02.659 --> 00:28:03.399
 his word

00:28:03.399 --> 00:28:04.460
 he has

00:28:04.460 --> 00:28:04.919
 written a

00:28:04.919 --> 00:28:05.720
 book to

00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:06.039
 you

00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:07.079
 the Lord

00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:07.419
 God

00:28:07.419 --> 00:28:08.099
 almighty

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:08.759
 in heaven

00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:09.779
 came down

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:10.299
 and wrote

00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:10.679
 you a

00:28:10.679 --> 00:28:11.379
 book

00:28:11.379 --> 00:28:13.000
 read this

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:13.779
 this is the

00:28:13.779 --> 00:28:14.259
 way he

00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:15.000
 communicates

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:15.299
 to you

00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:15.539
 it is

00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:16.019
 precious

00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:16.859
 every

00:28:16.859 --> 00:28:17.559
 little

00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:18.339
 dot

00:28:18.339 --> 00:28:19.259
 every

00:28:19.259 --> 00:28:19.859
 iota

00:28:19.859 --> 00:28:20.699
 is precious

00:28:20.699 --> 00:28:21.899
 to us

00:28:21.899 --> 00:28:22.899
 and I will

00:28:22.899 --> 00:28:23.460
 promise you

00:28:23.460 --> 00:28:23.980
 that as he

00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:24.439
 speaks to

00:28:24.439 --> 00:28:24.799
 you through

00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:25.099
 it you

00:28:25.099 --> 00:28:25.279
 will

00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:26.199
 automatically

00:28:26.199 --> 00:28:27.199
 respond

00:28:27.199 --> 00:28:27.639
 to him

00:28:27.639 --> 00:28:28.480
 in prayer

00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:30.039
 the conduit

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.680
 by which

00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:31.680
 we communicate

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.620
 with our

00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:32.839
 Lord

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:33.539
 there's always

00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:34.259
 a correlation

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:35.680
 between the

00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:36.059
 true

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:40.140
 God's

00:28:40.140 --> 00:28:40.660
 love

00:28:40.660 --> 00:28:41.360
 God

00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:41.900
 absolutely

00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:42.360
 loves

00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:42.940
 hear this

00:28:42.940 --> 00:28:43.160
 God

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.700
 loves

00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:44.299
 for us

00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:45.299
 to make

00:28:45.299 --> 00:28:45.940
 our cases

00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:46.500
 to him

00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:48.279
 by his

00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:49.180
 own

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:50.259
 word

00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:52.299
 get this

00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:52.599
 this is

00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:53.140
 fascinating

00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:53.640
 turn back

00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:54.360
 to Mark

00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:55.000
 chapter 7

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:55.380
 I just want

00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:55.860
 you to see

00:28:55.860 --> 00:28:56.519
 the story

00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:57.940
 of the

00:28:57.940 --> 00:28:58.500
 Syrophoenician

00:28:58.500 --> 00:28:58.840
 woman

00:28:58.840 --> 00:29:03.640
 I won't

00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:03.980
 read it to

00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:04.180
 you for

00:29:04.180 --> 00:29:04.480
 the sake

00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:05.019
 of time

00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:05.920
 but she

00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:06.380
 comes to

00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:06.779
 him asking

00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:07.360
 for something

00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:08.180
 she's outside

00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:08.860
 of those

00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:09.259
 who are

00:29:09.259 --> 00:29:10.000
 of Israel

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.000
 and Jesus

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:14.460
 says let

00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:14.880
 the children

00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.299
 be fed

00:29:15.299 --> 00:29:15.860
 first

00:29:15.860 --> 00:29:17.440
 for it is

00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:17.920
 not right

00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:18.240
 to take

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:18.740
 the children's

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:19.320
 bread and

00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:19.779
 throw it

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:20.039
 to the

00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.620
 dogs

00:29:20.620 --> 00:29:22.340
 but she

00:29:22.340 --> 00:29:22.759
 answered

00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:23.140
 him

00:29:23.140 --> 00:29:24.160
 yes

00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:24.539
 Lord

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:25.080
 yet even

00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:25.720
 the dogs

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.279
 under the

00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:26.759
 table

00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:27.759
 eat the

00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:28.299
 children's

00:29:28.299 --> 00:29:28.699
 crumbs

00:29:28.699 --> 00:29:29.019
 she

00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:30.519
 argues

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:31.039
 with

00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:31.539
 Jesus

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:31.919
 by

00:29:31.919 --> 00:29:32.339
 God's

00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:32.980
 very

00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:33.759
 own

00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:34.779
 character

00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:35.980
 and in

00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:36.460
 regard to

00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:36.639
 this

00:29:36.639 --> 00:29:36.839
 let me

00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:37.119
 read you

00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:37.619
 a quote

00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:40.079
 from a

00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:40.279
 wonderful

00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:40.699
 biography

00:29:40.699 --> 00:29:41.099
 written by

00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:41.299
 A.T.

00:29:41.379 --> 00:29:41.619
 Pearson

00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:42.599
 about the

00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:42.980
 life of

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:43.399
 George

00:29:43.399 --> 00:29:43.859
 Mueller

00:29:43.859 --> 00:29:46.480
 he wrote

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.039
 we are

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:47.640
 to argue

00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:48.579
 our case

00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:48.940
 with

00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:49.360
 God

00:29:49.360 --> 00:29:50.599
 not

00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:50.960
 indeed

00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:51.559
 to convince

00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:52.019
 him

00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:53.259
 but to

00:29:53.259 --> 00:29:53.620
 convince

00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:54.620
 ourselves

00:29:54.620 --> 00:29:56.039
 in proving

00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.380
 to him

00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:57.000
 that by

00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:57.620
 his own

00:29:57.620 --> 00:29:58.120
 word

00:29:58.120 --> 00:29:59.319
 and oath

00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:00.500
 and character

00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:01.640
 he has

00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:02.680
 bound himself

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:03.839
 to interpose

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:05.339
 we demonstrate

00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:06.120
 to our own

00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:06.779
 faith that he

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.380
 has given us

00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:08.019
 the right

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:08.920
 to ask

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:09.759
 and claim

00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:10.660
 and that he

00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:11.279
 will answer

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:11.960
 our plea

00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:12.860
 because he

00:30:12.860 --> 00:30:13.480
 cannot

00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:14.900
 deny

00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:16.180
 himself

00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:18.279
 God

00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:19.000
 loves

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.080
 for us

00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:20.640
 to come

00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:20.940
 to him

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:21.360
 in that

00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:21.759
 way

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.600
 to plead

00:30:22.600 --> 00:30:23.060
 with him

00:30:23.060 --> 00:30:23.720
 by his

00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:24.080
 very

00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:24.759
 own

00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.380
 words

00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:25.720
 and God

00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:26.140
 is not a

00:30:26.140 --> 00:30:26.380
 liar

00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:27.019
 he cannot

00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:27.900
 deny

00:30:27.900 --> 00:30:28.720
 himself

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.279
 let's look

00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:29.580
 at another

00:30:29.580 --> 00:30:30.000
 example

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:30.500
 together

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:30.940
 Exodus

00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:31.279
 chapter

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:31.840
 32

00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:50.439
 this is

00:30:50.439 --> 00:30:50.779
 after

00:30:50.779 --> 00:30:51.379
 I hope

00:30:51.379 --> 00:30:51.859
 it's obvious

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:52.459
 to you

00:30:52.459 --> 00:30:53.000
 the

00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:53.480
 Exodus

00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:54.399
 out of

00:30:54.399 --> 00:30:54.659
 Egypt

00:30:54.659 --> 00:30:56.839
 they have

00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:57.179
 come to

00:30:57.179 --> 00:30:57.459
 the foot

00:30:57.459 --> 00:30:57.779
 of Mount

00:30:57.779 --> 00:30:58.220
 Sinai

00:30:58.220 --> 00:30:58.579
 the people

00:30:58.579 --> 00:30:59.019
 of God

00:30:59.019 --> 00:30:59.220
 and

00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:00.240
 Moses

00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:00.620
 has gone

00:31:00.620 --> 00:31:01.079
 up onto

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:01.480
 the mountain

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:01.880
 to meet

00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:02.299
 with God

00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:03.079
 to receive

00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:03.360
 the Ten

00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:03.839
 Commandments

00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:04.680
 and in the

00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:05.220
 meantime

00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:07.019
 under Aaron's

00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:07.400
 leadership

00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:07.819
 the people

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:08.620
 construct a

00:31:08.620 --> 00:31:09.559
 golden calf

00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:10.000
 and begin

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:10.579
 to worship

00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:11.019
 it

00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:12.539
 Moses is unaware

00:31:12.539 --> 00:31:13.039
 of this

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:13.400
 he's meeting

00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:13.779
 with God

00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.140
 he's receiving

00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:14.380
 the Ten

00:31:14.380 --> 00:31:14.740
 Commandments

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:15.039
 but God

00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:15.740
 is fully

00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:16.339
 aware of it

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:16.559
 and he

00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:16.880
 says to

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:17.259
 Moses

00:31:17.259 --> 00:31:18.519
 we've got to

00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:19.039
 take a break

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:19.480
 from this

00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:19.920
 giving of the

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.160
 law

00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:20.600
 because I've

00:31:20.600 --> 00:31:20.880
 got to go

00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.200
 down

00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:21.960
 and destroy

00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:22.579
 the people

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.880
 because they're

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:24.559
 now worshipping

00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:25.120
 a false

00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:25.440
 God

00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:26.019
 a false

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:26.759
 idol

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:27.980
 and look

00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:28.180
 at what

00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:28.440
 Moses

00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:29.379
 says

00:31:29.379 --> 00:31:31.359
 but Moses

00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:31.859
 verse 11

00:31:31.859 --> 00:31:32.140
 I'm sorry

00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.839
 chapter 32

00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:33.299
 verse 11

00:31:33.299 --> 00:31:35.059
 but Moses

00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:35.720
 implored

00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.339
 the Lord

00:31:36.339 --> 00:31:37.000
 his God

00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:37.640
 and said

00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:38.940
 oh Lord

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.640
 why does

00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:40.019
 your wrath

00:31:40.019 --> 00:31:40.579
 burn hot

00:31:40.579 --> 00:31:41.039
 against your

00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.359
 people

00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:41.700
 whom you

00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:42.099
 have brought

00:31:42.099 --> 00:31:42.460
 out of the

00:31:42.460 --> 00:31:42.720
 land of

00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:42.980
 Egypt

00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:43.619
 with great

00:31:43.619 --> 00:31:44.140
 power

00:31:44.140 --> 00:31:44.920
 and with

00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:45.240
 a mighty

00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.700
 hand

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.940
 why should

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:47.379
 the Egyptians

00:31:47.379 --> 00:31:47.960
 say

00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:48.980
 with evil

00:31:48.980 --> 00:31:49.379
 intent

00:31:49.379 --> 00:31:49.640
 did he

00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:50.039
 bring them

00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:50.240
 out

00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:50.660
 to kill

00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:50.839
 them

00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.059
 in the

00:31:51.059 --> 00:31:51.319
 mountains

00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:51.619
 and to

00:31:51.619 --> 00:31:52.019
 consume

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:52.339
 them

00:31:52.339 --> 00:31:53.099
 from the

00:31:53.099 --> 00:31:53.279
 face

00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:53.460
 of the

00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:53.740
 earth

00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:54.539
 turn

00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:55.579
 from your

00:31:55.579 --> 00:31:55.799
 burning

00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:56.119
 anger

00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:56.699
 and relent

00:31:56.699 --> 00:31:57.079
 from this

00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:57.599
 disaster

00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.399
 against

00:31:58.399 --> 00:31:58.639
 your

00:31:58.639 --> 00:31:59.019
 people

00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:00.279
 now here

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:00.639
 we go

00:32:00.639 --> 00:32:02.539
 remember

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:03.439
 Abraham

00:32:03.439 --> 00:32:04.559
 Isaac

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:05.559
 and Israel

00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.439
 your servants

00:32:06.439 --> 00:32:07.699
 to whom

00:32:07.699 --> 00:32:08.659
 you swore

00:32:08.659 --> 00:32:09.439
 by your

00:32:09.439 --> 00:32:10.319
 own self

00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:11.399
 and said

00:32:11.399 --> 00:32:11.839
 to them

00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:12.659
 I will

00:32:12.659 --> 00:32:13.119
 multiply

00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:13.419
 your

00:32:13.419 --> 00:32:13.859
 offspring

00:32:13.859 --> 00:32:14.279
 as the

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:14.559
 stars

00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:15.019
 of heaven

00:32:15.019 --> 00:32:15.979
 and all

00:32:15.979 --> 00:32:16.459
 this land

00:32:16.459 --> 00:32:16.659
 that I

00:32:16.659 --> 00:32:17.000
 promised

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:17.279
 I will

00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:17.559
 give to

00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:17.679
 your

00:32:17.679 --> 00:32:17.979
 offspring

00:32:17.979 --> 00:32:18.459
 and they

00:32:18.459 --> 00:32:18.699
 shall

00:32:18.699 --> 00:32:19.119
 inherit

00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:19.399
 it

00:32:19.399 --> 00:32:19.899
 forever

00:32:19.899 --> 00:32:21.139
 and the

00:32:21.139 --> 00:32:21.259
 Lord

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:21.679
 relented

00:32:21.679 --> 00:32:22.019
 from the

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:22.379
 disaster

00:32:22.379 --> 00:32:22.619
 that he

00:32:22.619 --> 00:32:22.719
 had

00:32:22.719 --> 00:32:23.000
 spoken

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.199
 of

00:32:23.199 --> 00:32:23.500
 bringing

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:25.219
 on his

00:32:25.219 --> 00:32:25.559
 people

00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:26.779
 so he

00:32:26.779 --> 00:32:27.240
 banks

00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:27.559
 on the

00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:27.859
 very

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:28.799
 promises

00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.980
 that God

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:30.779
 had made

00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:31.259
 now hear

00:32:31.259 --> 00:32:31.599
 me

00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:33.019
 God didn't

00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:33.599
 forget

00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:34.079
 about the

00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:34.480
 promises

00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:35.399
 that he

00:32:35.399 --> 00:32:35.940
 had made

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:37.179
 he didn't

00:32:37.179 --> 00:32:37.700
 need to

00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:38.539
 be reminded

00:32:38.539 --> 00:32:39.720
 but what

00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:40.419
 happened

00:32:40.419 --> 00:32:40.839
 here

00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:41.319
 is

00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:42.220
 Moses

00:32:42.220 --> 00:32:44.159
 implores him

00:32:44.159 --> 00:32:44.639
 and says

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:45.240
 you've promised

00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:45.619
 to do a

00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:46.139
 good thing

00:32:46.139 --> 00:32:46.740
 and God

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:47.119
 says to

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:47.299
 him

00:32:47.299 --> 00:32:48.059
 yes

00:32:48.059 --> 00:32:48.559
 did God

00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:49.039
 change his

00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:49.339
 mind

00:32:49.339 --> 00:32:50.039
 absolutely

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:50.379
 not

00:32:50.379 --> 00:32:50.679
 but he

00:32:50.679 --> 00:32:51.179
 used the

00:32:51.179 --> 00:32:51.480
 prayer

00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.039
 of his

00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:52.339
 servant

00:32:52.339 --> 00:32:53.039
 he

00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:53.339
 used

00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:53.459
 the

00:32:53.459 --> 00:32:53.599
 prayer

00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:53.740
 of

00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:53.879
 Moses

00:32:53.879 --> 00:32:53.980
 he

00:32:53.980 --> 00:32:54.179
 got

00:32:54.179 --> 00:32:54.619
 Moses

00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:54.819
 his

00:32:54.819 --> 00:32:55.159
 heart

00:32:55.159 --> 00:32:55.339
 to

00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:55.720
 catch

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:56.059
 up

00:32:56.059 --> 00:32:56.539
 to

00:32:56.539 --> 00:32:56.659
 where

00:32:56.659 --> 00:32:56.819
 he

00:32:56.819 --> 00:32:57.319
 was

00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:58.000
 loving

00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:58.179
 a

00:32:58.179 --> 00:32:58.519
 people

00:32:58.519 --> 00:32:59.659
 loving

00:32:59.659 --> 00:32:59.799
 a

00:32:59.799 --> 00:32:59.939
 people

00:32:59.939 --> 00:33:00.599
 regardless

00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:01.500
 of what

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:01.740
 they

00:33:01.740 --> 00:33:02.139
 did

00:33:02.139 --> 00:33:02.319
 and

00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:02.599
 Moses

00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:02.819
 was

00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:02.959
 going

00:33:02.959 --> 00:33:03.079
 to

00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:03.339
 need

00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:03.559
 this

00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:03.939
 lesson

00:33:03.939 --> 00:33:04.519
 in

00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:04.639
 the

00:33:04.639 --> 00:33:04.859
 coming

00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:05.220
 40

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:05.839
 years

00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:06.639
 in

00:33:06.639 --> 00:33:06.759
 the

00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:07.099
 wilderness

00:33:07.099 --> 00:33:09.000
 so

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.299
 powerful

00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:09.559
 prayer

00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:09.819
 is

00:33:09.819 --> 00:33:10.879
 historical

00:33:10.879 --> 00:33:12.339
 it

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:12.559
 is

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:13.599
 theological

00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:14.519
 draws

00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:14.839
 from

00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:15.379
 banks

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:15.740
 on

00:33:15.740 --> 00:33:16.879
 God's

00:33:16.879 --> 00:33:17.059
 very

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:17.459
 character

00:33:17.459 --> 00:33:18.879
 thirdly

00:33:18.879 --> 00:33:19.959
 powerful

00:33:19.959 --> 00:33:20.319
 prayer

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:20.819
 is

00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:22.439
 spiritual

00:33:22.439 --> 00:33:23.179
 verse

00:33:23.179 --> 00:33:23.679
 23

00:33:23.679 --> 00:33:24.240
 back

00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:24.460
 in

00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:24.939
 Mark

00:33:24.939 --> 00:33:25.339
 11

00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:29.339
 it's

00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:29.539
 truly

00:33:29.539 --> 00:33:29.720
 I

00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:29.819
 say

00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:29.939
 to

00:33:29.939 --> 00:33:30.019
 you

00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:30.200
 whoever

00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:30.559
 says

00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:30.700
 to

00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:30.879
 this

00:33:30.879 --> 00:33:31.179
 mountain

00:33:31.179 --> 00:33:31.359
 be

00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:31.720
 taken

00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:31.980
 up

00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:32.240
 and

00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:32.619
 thrown

00:33:32.619 --> 00:33:32.879
 into

00:33:32.879 --> 00:33:33.079
 the

00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:33.419
 sea

00:33:33.419 --> 00:33:33.919
 and

00:33:33.919 --> 00:33:34.259
 does

00:33:34.259 --> 00:33:34.539
 not

00:33:34.539 --> 00:33:35.039
 doubt

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.319
 in

00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:35.500
 his

00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:35.960
 heart

00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:36.679
 but

00:33:36.679 --> 00:33:37.339
 believes

00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:37.700
 that

00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:37.859
 what

00:33:37.859 --> 00:33:37.980
 he

00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:38.240
 says

00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:38.399
 will

00:33:38.399 --> 00:33:38.599
 come

00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:38.759
 to

00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:39.099
 pass

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:39.259
 it

00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:39.419
 will

00:33:39.419 --> 00:33:39.659
 be

00:33:39.659 --> 00:33:40.240
 done

00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:40.519
 for

00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:40.839
 him

00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:42.740
 this

00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:42.980
 third

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:43.439
 component

00:33:43.439 --> 00:33:43.899
 is

00:33:43.899 --> 00:33:44.480
 spiritual

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:44.700
 that

00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:44.879
 is

00:33:44.879 --> 00:33:45.019
 you

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.659
 can't

00:33:45.659 --> 00:33:46.119
 pray

00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:46.679
 powerful

00:33:46.679 --> 00:33:47.240
 prayers

00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.019
 just

00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:48.299
 knowing

00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:48.460
 in

00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:48.599
 your

00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:49.059
 head

00:33:49.059 --> 00:33:49.859
 the

00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:50.059
 things

00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:50.179
 that

00:33:50.179 --> 00:33:50.319
 God

00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:50.439
 has

00:33:50.439 --> 00:33:50.720
 done

00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:51.460
 or

00:33:51.460 --> 00:33:51.799
 knowing

00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:52.339
 some

00:33:52.339 --> 00:33:52.819
 things

00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:53.240
 about

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.660
 him

00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:54.880
 but

00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:55.019
 you

00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:55.299
 have

00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:55.460
 to

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:55.960
 believe

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:56.420
 in

00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:56.559
 your

00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:57.059
 heart

00:33:57.059 --> 00:33:57.920
 it's

00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:58.220
 taking

00:33:58.220 --> 00:33:58.460
 that

00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:58.960
 knowledge

00:33:58.960 --> 00:33:59.160
 and

00:33:59.160 --> 00:33:59.339
 it's

00:33:59.339 --> 00:33:59.620
 turning

00:33:59.620 --> 00:33:59.799
 it

00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:00.019
 into

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:00.700
 reality

00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:01.299
 in

00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:01.480
 your

00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:01.940
 very

00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:02.839
 being

00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:04.160
 I

00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:04.400
 love

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:04.519
 that

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:04.640
 he

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:05.160
 extends

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:05.480
 this

00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:06.059
 very

00:34:06.059 --> 00:34:07.519
 general

00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.059
 offer

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.579
 for

00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:08.780
 this

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:09.099
 rather

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:09.720
 miraculous

00:34:09.720 --> 00:34:10.340
 thing

00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:10.679
 he

00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:10.920
 says

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:11.500
 whoever

00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:12.940
 whoever

00:34:12.940 --> 00:34:13.740
 says

00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:14.780
 and

00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:15.059
 doesn't

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:15.480
 doubt

00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:16.139
 but

00:34:16.139 --> 00:34:16.820
 believes

00:34:16.820 --> 00:34:17.720
 these

00:34:17.720 --> 00:34:17.800
 are

00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:17.920
 the

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:18.440
 conditions

00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:18.760
 that

00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:18.880
 he

00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:19.220
 places

00:34:19.220 --> 00:34:20.079
!

00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.679
 Now

00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:21.860
 there's

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:22.019
 been

00:34:22.019 --> 00:34:22.579
 a lot

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:22.960
 written

00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.420
 about

00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:23.659
 what

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:24.019
 he

00:34:24.019 --> 00:34:24.500
 is

00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:24.900
 referring

00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:25.139
 to

00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:25.940
 specifically

00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:26.579
 about

00:34:26.579 --> 00:34:27.699
 this

00:34:27.699 --> 00:34:28.179
 mountain

00:34:28.179 --> 00:34:30.659
 massive

00:34:30.659 --> 00:34:31.059
 amount

00:34:31.059 --> 00:34:32.299
 pages

00:34:32.299 --> 00:34:32.719
 wasted

00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:33.039
 in my

00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:33.400
 opinion

00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:34.139
 about

00:34:34.139 --> 00:34:34.420
 what he

00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:34.679
 means

00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.099
 particularly

00:34:35.099 --> 00:34:35.440
 where is

00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:35.840
 he standing

00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.420
 exactly

00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:37.219
 is there

00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:37.639
 a mountain

00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:37.880
 that's

00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:38.059
 going to

00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:38.500
 be moved

00:34:38.500 --> 00:34:38.860
 into the

00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:39.019
 sea

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:39.340
 what's

00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:39.579
 going

00:34:39.579 --> 00:34:39.880
 on

00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:40.159
 here

00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:40.759
 I

00:34:40.759 --> 00:34:40.960
 believe

00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:41.139
 this

00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:41.259
 is

00:34:41.259 --> 00:34:41.860
 hyperbole

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:42.199
 he's

00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:42.420
 just

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:43.019
 simply

00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:43.480
 saying

00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:44.019
 this

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:44.980
 massive

00:34:44.980 --> 00:34:46.279
 amazing

00:34:46.279 --> 00:34:47.039
 thing

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:48.019
 will

00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:48.179
 be

00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:48.860
 accomplished

00:34:48.860 --> 00:34:50.460
 let me

00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:50.840
 strongly

00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:51.340
 encourage

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:52.079
 all of

00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:52.239
 you

00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:52.679
 to not

00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:53.000
 sit

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:53.239
 in front

00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:53.460
 of a

00:34:53.460 --> 00:34:53.779
 mountain

00:34:53.779 --> 00:34:54.840
 and try

00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:55.480
 to find

00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:55.920
 the measure

00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:56.219
 of your

00:34:56.219 --> 00:34:56.519
 faith

00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:57.000
 by seeing

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.239
 if you

00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:57.579
 can get

00:34:57.579 --> 00:34:57.940
 it to

00:34:57.940 --> 00:34:58.779
 up

00:34:58.779 --> 00:34:59.440
 and move

00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:00.820
 I must

00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:01.420
 admit

00:35:01.420 --> 00:35:02.159
 very early

00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:02.500
 in my

00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:02.820
 Christian

00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:03.219
 life

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:03.559
 I'm

00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:04.079
 thinking

00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:04.460
 around

00:35:04.460 --> 00:35:04.800
 seven

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.139
 or eight

00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:05.420
 I used

00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:05.639
 to just

00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:05.900
 see if

00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:06.079
 I could

00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:06.199
 get

00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:06.539
 things

00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:06.779
 in my

00:35:06.779 --> 00:35:07.279
 room

00:35:07.279 --> 00:35:07.739
 to move

00:35:07.739 --> 00:35:08.079
 I think

00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:08.179
 that would

00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:08.239
 be

00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:08.460
 pretty

00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:08.880
 amazing

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.420
 I will

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:09.659
 start

00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:09.820
 with

00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:10.039
 this

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:10.519
 pencil

00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:11.579
 and see

00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.380
 if this

00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:12.599
 is

00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:13.599
 possible

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:14.019
 this is

00:35:14.019 --> 00:35:14.259
 not

00:35:14.259 --> 00:35:15.159
 the point

00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:15.659
 that he's

00:35:15.659 --> 00:35:16.420
 trying to

00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:16.739
 make

00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:17.099
 he's

00:35:17.099 --> 00:35:17.699
 using

00:35:17.699 --> 00:35:18.519
 hyperbole

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:18.920
 we used to

00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:19.179
 use that

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:19.399
 kind of

00:35:19.399 --> 00:35:19.659
 language

00:35:19.659 --> 00:35:20.000
 today

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:20.239
 you talk

00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:20.399
 about

00:35:20.399 --> 00:35:20.739
 somebody

00:35:20.739 --> 00:35:21.420
 who's

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:22.000
 unstoppable

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:22.339
 you have

00:35:22.339 --> 00:35:22.759
 a person

00:35:22.759 --> 00:35:23.099
 you know

00:35:23.099 --> 00:35:23.519
 that really

00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:24.039
 gets things

00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:24.460
 accomplished

00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:24.759
 and they'll

00:35:24.759 --> 00:35:25.139
 say he

00:35:25.139 --> 00:35:25.699
 can move

00:35:25.699 --> 00:35:26.960
 mountains

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:27.639
 right

00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:27.980
 this is

00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:28.279
 the thing

00:35:28.279 --> 00:35:28.559
 that he

00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:28.839
 is

00:35:28.839 --> 00:35:29.859
 communicating

00:35:29.859 --> 00:35:30.539
 to us

00:35:30.539 --> 00:35:31.279
 the point

00:35:31.279 --> 00:35:31.759
 is

00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:32.619
 ultimately

00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:33.539
 about

00:35:33.539 --> 00:35:34.859
 faith

00:35:34.859 --> 00:35:36.019
 he says

00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:36.539
 if you

00:35:36.539 --> 00:35:37.579
 doubt

00:35:37.579 --> 00:35:38.339
 in your

00:35:38.339 --> 00:35:39.199
 heart

00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:41.099
 who is it

00:35:41.099 --> 00:35:41.759
 that you're

00:35:41.759 --> 00:35:42.219
 doubting

00:35:42.219 --> 00:35:43.539
 what are you

00:35:43.539 --> 00:35:43.879
 doubting

00:35:43.879 --> 00:35:44.379
 you're doubting

00:35:44.379 --> 00:35:45.159
 God

00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:46.219
 that God

00:35:46.219 --> 00:35:46.819
 can accomplish

00:35:46.819 --> 00:35:47.339
 what God

00:35:47.339 --> 00:35:48.339
 intends to

00:35:48.339 --> 00:35:48.879
 accomplish

00:35:48.879 --> 00:35:49.819
 by

00:35:49.819 --> 00:35:51.460
 your prayers

00:35:51.460 --> 00:35:53.259
 now

00:35:53.259 --> 00:35:53.440
 beloved

00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:53.819
 we can get

00:35:53.819 --> 00:35:54.339
 this really

00:35:54.339 --> 00:35:54.719
 wrong

00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:55.299
 and many

00:35:55.299 --> 00:35:55.519
 many

00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:56.039
 people

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:57.119
 have

00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:58.480
 our

00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.059
 belief

00:35:59.059 --> 00:35:59.839
 or faith

00:35:59.839 --> 00:36:00.859
 our

00:36:00.859 --> 00:36:01.619
 belief

00:36:01.619 --> 00:36:02.679
 does not

00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:04.039
 have

00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:05.139
 power

00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:05.779
 God

00:36:05.779 --> 00:36:06.819
 has power

00:36:06.819 --> 00:36:07.980
 he chooses

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:08.619
 to use

00:36:08.619 --> 00:36:09.139
 in a very

00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:10.119
 particular

00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:10.819
 way

00:36:10.819 --> 00:36:12.019
 our faith

00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:13.079
 to accomplish

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:13.699
 things

00:36:13.699 --> 00:36:14.480
 by his

00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:15.000
 power

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:16.260
 but it's

00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:16.699
 wrongly

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:17.059
 taught

00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:17.579
 often

00:36:17.579 --> 00:36:17.880
 that

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:18.480
 you

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.000
 have

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.639
 you've

00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:19.780
 been

00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:20.119
 given

00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:20.480
 therefore

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:20.960
 you

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:21.219
 have

00:36:21.219 --> 00:36:21.539
 power

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:21.920
 we do

00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:22.340
 not

00:36:22.340 --> 00:36:23.920
 we

00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.679
 ask

00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:25.079
 for

00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:25.900
 right

00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:26.420
 God

00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:26.840
 to use

00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:27.079
 his

00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:27.539
 power

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:28.219
 through

00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:28.539
 us

00:36:28.539 --> 00:36:28.780
 and this

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:29.000
 is the

00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:29.199
 way

00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:29.579
 in which

00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:29.920
 we

00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:30.239
 have

00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:30.579
 power

00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:30.920
 but it's

00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:31.500
 ultimately

00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:33.099
 his

00:36:33.099 --> 00:36:35.880
 James 1

00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:36.960
 6-8

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:37.780
 says this

00:36:37.780 --> 00:36:38.960
 powerful

00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:39.400
 but let

00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:39.600
 him

00:36:39.600 --> 00:36:40.060
 ask

00:36:40.060 --> 00:36:40.920
 in faith

00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:41.300
 with

00:36:41.300 --> 00:36:41.600
 no

00:36:41.600 --> 00:36:42.100
 doubting

00:36:42.100 --> 00:36:43.060
 for

00:36:43.060 --> 00:36:43.160
 the

00:36:43.160 --> 00:36:43.320
 one

00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:43.440
 who

00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:43.980
 doubts

00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:44.420
 is like

00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:44.940
 a wave

00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:45.220
 of the

00:36:45.220 --> 00:36:45.420
 sea

00:36:45.420 --> 00:36:45.600
 that

00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:45.760
 is

00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:46.180
 driven

00:36:46.180 --> 00:36:46.840
 and

00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:47.240
 tossed

00:36:47.240 --> 00:36:47.600
 by the

00:36:47.600 --> 00:36:47.900
 wind

00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:48.820
 for

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:49.019
 that

00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:49.440
 person

00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:49.700
 must

00:36:49.700 --> 00:36:49.920
 not

00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:50.340
 suppose

00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:50.480
 that

00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:50.560
 he

00:36:50.560 --> 00:36:50.660
 will

00:36:50.660 --> 00:36:50.980
 receive

00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:51.440
 anything

00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:51.700
 from

00:36:51.700 --> 00:36:51.860
 the

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:52.120
 Lord

00:36:52.120 --> 00:36:52.620
 he

00:36:52.620 --> 00:36:52.740
 is

00:36:52.740 --> 00:36:52.880
 a

00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:53.140
 double

00:36:53.140 --> 00:36:53.519
 minded

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:53.980
 man

00:36:53.980 --> 00:36:54.680
 unstable

00:36:54.680 --> 00:36:55.420
 in

00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:55.880
 all

00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:56.140
 his

00:36:56.140 --> 00:36:56.680
 ways

00:36:56.680 --> 00:36:58.019
 doesn't

00:36:58.019 --> 00:36:58.680
 trust

00:36:58.680 --> 00:36:59.200
 in

00:36:59.200 --> 00:36:59.640
 the

00:36:59.640 --> 00:37:00.080
 God

00:37:00.080 --> 00:37:00.260
 who

00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:00.420
 is

00:37:00.420 --> 00:37:00.900
 worth

00:37:00.900 --> 00:37:01.800
 trusting

00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:02.420
!

00:37:02.420 --> 00:37:02.580
 in

00:37:02.580 --> 00:37:03.160
 powerful

00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:03.460
 prayer

00:37:03.460 --> 00:37:03.660
 is

00:37:03.660 --> 00:37:04.620
 theological

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:07.319
 and it is spiritual because we have a God

00:37:07.319 --> 00:37:09.940
 to place our trust and faith in.

00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:12.420
 Now let's remember together

00:37:12.420 --> 00:37:16.019
 an example of faith that enacts the power of God

00:37:16.019 --> 00:37:17.940
 so that we can be encouraged at this point

00:37:17.940 --> 00:37:19.579
 because you want to ask the question,

00:37:19.579 --> 00:37:22.920
 well, how much faith is required?

00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:26.539
 Because if your experience is anything like mine,

00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:28.500
 and I am confident that it is,

00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:32.000
 our faith falters so much

00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:34.099
 in so many ways.

00:37:34.099 --> 00:37:35.819
 We're living between two times.

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:38.539
 We've been given faith in God,

00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:40.559
 but it's not perfected yet.

00:37:40.839 --> 00:37:43.599
 We carry around the baggage of flesh

00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.960
 and we struggle with faith.

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.000
 So turn back just a page or two

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:52.360
 in your Bible to Mark 9.

00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.519
 We observe together the story

00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.900
 of a father with a demon-possessed boy.

00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:08.579
 Jesus has come down off the mountain,

00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:10.179
 Peter, James, and John,

00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:13.699
 and he has left the other apostles alone for some time

00:38:13.699 --> 00:38:16.119
 and they are trying to cast out,

00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:17.119
 they've gotten into this conflict

00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:18.840
 because they've tried to cast out this demon

00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.780
 and they're not able to do so.

00:38:21.019 --> 00:38:24.539
 And the overarching point of this story

00:38:24.539 --> 00:38:27.539
 is that they had no faith at this point.

00:38:27.759 --> 00:38:30.219
 The apostles had zero faith at all.

00:38:30.460 --> 00:38:31.860
 Previously, they have gone out

00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:32.679
 and they've cast out demons.

00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:34.519
 So what's lacking in this case,

00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:38.759
 they're not able to because they don't have faith.

00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:41.340
 And then we see Jesus' interaction

00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:42.599
 with this father,

00:38:42.779 --> 00:38:45.900
 this poor child who's been thrown into fires,

00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:49.059
 is likely having epileptic seizures

00:38:49.059 --> 00:38:51.219
 because he's been battered on the ground

00:38:51.219 --> 00:38:52.139
 by this demon.

00:38:52.439 --> 00:38:54.739
 It's a horrid situation.

00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:57.019
 And beginning in verse 21,

00:38:58.039 --> 00:38:58.879
 Jesus asks him,

00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:01.439
 how long has this been happening to him?

00:39:01.819 --> 00:39:03.219
 And he says, from childhood.

00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:05.299
 And it has often cast him into fire

00:39:05.299 --> 00:39:06.799
 and into water to destroy him.

00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:08.359
 But if you can do anything,

00:39:08.879 --> 00:39:11.579
 have compassion on us and help us.

00:39:12.439 --> 00:39:13.399
 And Jesus said to him,

00:39:14.139 --> 00:39:15.079
 if you can,

00:39:15.739 --> 00:39:17.399
 if you can do anything,

00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:18.879
 he says, if you can,

00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.320
 all things are possible

00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.500
 for one who believes.

00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:25.559
 And look at the father's response.

00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:28.320
 Immediately, the father of the child

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:29.420
 cried out and said,

00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:30.800
 I believe.

00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:31.660
 Help.

00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:34.240
 My unbelief.

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:36.280
 And Jesus casts out the demon.

00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:38.740
 So you see a great expression here

00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:42.079
 of the father's imperfect faith.

00:39:42.420 --> 00:39:44.820
 I believe, but help my unbelief.

00:39:45.200 --> 00:39:46.519
 There's a part of me that thinks

00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:47.900
 and knows that you can do this thing,

00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:49.280
 but I'm just not sure.

00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:50.000
 Help.

00:39:50.260 --> 00:39:51.720
 Increase my faith

00:39:51.720 --> 00:39:53.059
 by casting this demon

00:39:53.059 --> 00:39:54.240
 out of my child.

00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:55.820
 So he didn't have a perfect faith,

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:58.559
 but he had a sufficient faith.

00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:02.519
 Beloved, this is one of the beautiful things

00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:03.960
 about prayers.

00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:06.320
 That we offer up prayers of faith

00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.480
 and we see God respond to those things

00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:11.920
 and it increases our faith.

00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:13.619
 It works in this wonderful,

00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:15.460
 beautiful cycle.

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:18.860
 That we pray things in the will of God.

00:40:19.240 --> 00:40:20.760
 He accomplishes those things.

00:40:21.179 --> 00:40:23.480
 And in that we see the way in which

00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:25.559
 he enacts his power in our life

00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:28.780
 and it moves us to further prayer.

00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:31.780
 I hope this is true in your life.

00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:33.340
 If it's not, you need to begin.

00:40:33.500 --> 00:40:35.559
 You need to start praying

00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.740
 that you might see this be the case for you.

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:41.459
 As powerful prayer is historical and theological,

00:40:41.799 --> 00:40:42.659
 it's spiritual,

00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:46.659
 it also has a practical component.

00:40:47.299 --> 00:40:50.859
 Powerful prayer is practical.

00:40:51.979 --> 00:40:56.479
 This fourth component is one of great practicality.

00:40:56.739 --> 00:40:58.099
 Verse 24, he says,

00:40:58.099 --> 00:41:00.179
 Therefore, I tell you,

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.319
 whatever you ask in prayer,

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.619
 if you want to pray powerful prayers,

00:41:07.819 --> 00:41:10.940
 you must pray.

00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:16.099
 And I know that might seem a little bit obtuse to you,

00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.279
 but we live in a prayerless generation.

00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:24.940
 I will admit, I struggle with prayer.

00:41:24.940 --> 00:41:29.820
 It is a challenge to place my face before the Lord.

00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:33.079
 My knee-jerk reaction is very rarely

00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:34.960
 to go to my knees in prayer.

00:41:35.619 --> 00:41:36.760
 I kind of got a business mind.

00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:38.659
 I tend to run to my own solutions,

00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:40.539
 which never sort anything out.

00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:44.340
 I learn this lesson after time and time again.

00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:46.740
 Prayer is a struggle,

00:41:46.860 --> 00:41:51.240
 but we must pray if we want to pray powerful prayers.

00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:55.879
 Jesus says, James 4, verse 2,

00:41:56.459 --> 00:42:02.159
 you do not have because you do not ask.

00:42:03.819 --> 00:42:07.119
 Jesus says later here in verse 24,

00:42:07.259 --> 00:42:08.899
 believe that you have received it.

00:42:08.939 --> 00:42:09.899
 What is he talking about?

00:42:09.979 --> 00:42:12.799
 The things that you've asked for,

00:42:12.859 --> 00:42:15.979
 that you've actually offered up to him,

00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:19.219
 and it will be yours.

00:42:19.219 --> 00:42:22.659
 I would imagine that the apostles' minds were drawn,

00:42:22.779 --> 00:42:24.099
 I hope yours are,

00:42:24.379 --> 00:42:25.379
 to the Sermon on the Mount,

00:42:25.539 --> 00:42:26.639
 Matthew 7.

00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:28.259
 Jesus said,

00:42:28.699 --> 00:42:30.319
 Ask, and it will be given to you.

00:42:30.980 --> 00:42:33.079
 Seek, and you will find.

00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.559
 Knock, and it will be opened to you.

00:42:36.459 --> 00:42:37.859
 For everyone who asks, receives.

00:42:37.959 --> 00:42:39.159
 And the one who seeks, finds.

00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:41.259
 And the one who knocks, it will be opened.

00:42:41.959 --> 00:42:43.079
 Or which one of you,

00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:44.779
 if his son asks him for bread,

00:42:44.839 --> 00:42:45.739
 will give him a stone?

00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:47.639
 Or if he asks for a fish,

00:42:47.739 --> 00:42:48.699
 will give him a serpent?

00:42:49.899 --> 00:42:51.699
 If you then, who are evil,

00:42:52.299 --> 00:42:54.799
 know how to give good gifts to your children,

00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:57.099
 how much more will your Father who is in heaven

00:42:57.099 --> 00:43:00.879
 give good things to those who ask him?

00:43:02.319 --> 00:43:05.399
 He's a good, loving, kind Father.

00:43:05.939 --> 00:43:10.399
 And he will give to us if we will ask.

00:43:11.259 --> 00:43:13.739
 Now, well, you could run wild with that one,

00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:14.579
 can't you?

00:43:14.579 --> 00:43:17.840
 And many denominations have.

00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:21.420
 This is dream teaching to some people.

00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.299
 But he puts some parameters on this.

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:27.799
 He clearly puts some parameters on this.

00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.360
 In fact, if we continue reading in James 4, verse 3,

00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:32.340
 he says,

00:43:32.340 --> 00:43:47.680
 Jesus gives you a wonderful example in the garden

00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:52.059
 as he's quickly approaching the time of his crucifixion.

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:55.199
 Mark 14, verse 36,

00:43:55.380 --> 00:43:56.420
 one account of this.

00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:57.099
 And he says,

00:43:57.880 --> 00:43:58.579
 Abba, Father,

00:43:59.139 --> 00:44:01.799
 all things are possible for you.

00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:04.279
 Remove this cup from me.

00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:06.340
 It was his desire in that moment

00:44:06.340 --> 00:44:09.139
 that he not have to go and be crucified.

00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:10.460
 If there was another way

00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:12.320
 that God could bring about redemption,

00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:13.619
 that it would happen that way.

00:44:13.799 --> 00:44:15.159
 And then he finishes by saying,

00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.000
 yet not what I will,

00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:19.679
 but what you will.

00:44:20.879 --> 00:44:22.779
 So God will give to us anything

00:44:22.779 --> 00:44:26.679
 that we ask within his will.

00:44:28.139 --> 00:44:30.639
 Psalm 37, verse 4 makes this point well.

00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:32.940
 Delight yourself in the Lord,

00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:37.679
 and he will give you the desires of your heart.

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.179
 This is not a show up to a service

00:44:41.179 --> 00:44:42.419
 and have some fun.

00:44:42.799 --> 00:44:45.299
 Find some joy in singing music.

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:46.039
 Delight.

00:44:46.379 --> 00:44:47.419
 And then God's going to give you

00:44:47.419 --> 00:44:49.559
 whatever you want to gratify you

00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:51.199
 and your flesh throughout the week.

00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.739
 It's find all of your joy.

00:44:54.339 --> 00:44:57.619
 Love God and therefore love the things of God.

00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.599
 And he will give you those things.

00:45:01.099 --> 00:45:03.440
 This is the seeking first his kingdom

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:04.639
 and everything else.

00:45:04.839 --> 00:45:07.339
 All of that stuff that's necessary for our living

00:45:07.339 --> 00:45:10.339
 will be added to us.

00:45:11.619 --> 00:45:12.960
 John chapter 14.

00:45:13.339 --> 00:45:15.219
 Jesus makes the point for us once again.

00:45:16.279 --> 00:45:17.119
 Verse 12, he says,

00:45:17.339 --> 00:45:18.359
 Truly, truly, I say to you,

00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:20.000
 whoever believes in me

00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.539
 will also do the works that I do

00:45:22.539 --> 00:45:25.219
 and greater works than these will he do

00:45:25.219 --> 00:45:27.199
 because I am going to the Father.

00:45:27.799 --> 00:45:30.339
 We are going to do great, mighty things

00:45:30.339 --> 00:45:31.500
 for the kingdom of God

00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:34.279
 because Jesus is now at the right hand of the Father

00:45:34.279 --> 00:45:36.419
 and we have the Spirit of God.

00:45:36.500 --> 00:45:37.379
 That's what he's saying.

00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:38.059
 Verse 13,

00:45:38.059 --> 00:45:41.699
 Whatever you ask in my name,

00:45:42.299 --> 00:45:43.199
 this I will do,

00:45:43.539 --> 00:45:45.779
 that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

00:45:46.340 --> 00:45:48.739
 If you ask me anything in my name,

00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:51.219
 I will do it.

00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:55.539
 Now Jesus' name is consistent

00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:58.440
 with his person and purpose.

00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.880
 His name is who he is.

00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:05.320
 So this is the point that we would pray

00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:08.000
 in the will of God.

00:46:08.180 --> 00:46:09.980
 Again, how do we know that?

00:46:10.700 --> 00:46:12.860
 We know it by the Scriptures.

00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.119
 Now we don't know it in every case,

00:46:16.220 --> 00:46:17.440
 in every little circumstance.

00:46:17.660 --> 00:46:19.300
 It's difficult when we have somebody

00:46:19.300 --> 00:46:21.680
 going through, let's say, a health issue.

00:46:22.200 --> 00:46:23.720
 We have a pretty young congregation,

00:46:23.720 --> 00:46:26.079
 which means I don't do a lot of hospital visits,

00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.139
 but on occasion I have.

00:46:29.139 --> 00:46:30.900
 And our prayer is always a desire.

00:46:31.059 --> 00:46:32.639
 We want to see this person be healthy.

00:46:32.739 --> 00:46:34.219
 We want them to stay with us.

00:46:34.279 --> 00:46:36.179
 We want them to be able to continue

00:46:36.179 --> 00:46:38.119
 to serve alongside us.

00:46:38.299 --> 00:46:39.719
 We'll miss them dearly

00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.279
 if they didn't stay on with us.

00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:44.199
 I don't think it's right and proper

00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:46.219
 to express our desire in that,

00:46:46.319 --> 00:46:49.619
 but it's always, always proper to say,

00:46:50.299 --> 00:46:52.340
 but Lord, we don't know what's best.

00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:53.920
 We're not God.

00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:57.380
 It seems best to us, option A.

00:46:57.740 --> 00:46:59.460
 But if you choose option B,

00:46:59.579 --> 00:47:02.139
 we are going to be happy and content with that.

00:47:02.260 --> 00:47:02.860
 Help us.

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.599
 Help us to be happy and content

00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:08.780
 and to be joyful in your sovereign will,

00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:12.119
 in the gray things of our lives.

00:47:13.659 --> 00:47:16.659
 He puts parameters on what it means

00:47:16.659 --> 00:47:19.240
 to ask and it will be granted to us.

00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:21.920
 And He does that here for us in verse 25.

00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.019
 And whenever you stand praying,

00:47:25.200 --> 00:47:27.599
 standing was a common position

00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:29.220
 for praying in that day

00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:31.360
 as well as kneeling and laying on your face.

00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:33.920
 When you stand praying, forgive.

00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:36.340
 If you have anything against anyone

00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:37.720
 so that your Father also who is in heaven

00:47:37.720 --> 00:47:40.340
 may forgive you your trespasses.

00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:43.300
 Now, some of your translations before you

00:47:43.300 --> 00:47:46.400
 may include verse 26

00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:48.280
 with brackets around it.

00:47:48.820 --> 00:47:49.820
 Some of yours may not.

00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:51.480
 If you're with me on the ESV,

00:47:51.680 --> 00:47:52.700
 they just omit it all together.

00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:53.840
 If you look on,

00:47:54.380 --> 00:47:56.360
 we go from verse 25 to verse 27.

00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:58.920
 What a horrific typo.

00:47:59.000 --> 00:47:59.340
 It's not.

00:48:00.220 --> 00:48:02.600
 They intentionally did this.

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 Verse 25 is a parallel to Matthew 6.14,

00:48:07.900 --> 00:48:08.680
 Sermon on the Mount.

00:48:09.340 --> 00:48:13.360
 Verse 26, a parallel to Matthew 6.15,

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 which would say something to the effect of,

00:48:15.580 --> 00:48:17.539
 again, I don't have it in my text before me,

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:18.820
 but this is Matthew 6.15,

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 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses,

00:48:21.659 --> 00:48:25.219
 neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

00:48:25.940 --> 00:48:29.059
 Now, it's omitted here or placed in brackets

00:48:29.059 --> 00:48:30.440
 in some of your copies

00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:33.719
 because it's not in the early manuscripts.

00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:35.500
 This is one of those little places

00:48:35.500 --> 00:48:37.079
 that later manuscripts have it,

00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:38.800
 earlier manuscripts don't have it,

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 and so our Bible translators are very careful

00:48:40.779 --> 00:48:43.860
 about what they do in these particular circumstances,

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 that I'm thankful for such faithful men

00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:48.380
 who are so careful in this matter.

00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.940
 However, whether it includes it or not

00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:56.760
 doesn't really change the meaning of the text itself.

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 And this is what we need to hear clearly.

00:48:59.260 --> 00:49:02.480
 This is not speaking of salvation.

00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:04.760
 He's not talking about

00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.059
 you have to first go and forgive others

00:49:07.059 --> 00:49:09.280
 so that you will be forgiven.

00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.120
 He's talking about a parameter,

00:49:11.500 --> 00:49:15.000
 a condition of powerful prayers,

00:49:15.080 --> 00:49:17.960
 a very practical one at that.

00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:24.080
 And that is that if we are harboring up sin in our hearts,

00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.220
 we're going to God with unconfessed sin,

00:49:27.660 --> 00:49:28.760
 the Scriptures teach us

00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:32.740
 that God doesn't hear our prayers.

00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:34.380
 Not that He doesn't hear it

00:49:34.380 --> 00:49:36.040
 like He's incapable of hearing it,

00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:40.380
 but they are squelched, so to speak, by this.

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 It's not speaking of salvation.

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 So look with me in John chapter 13

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 just quickly to show you

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 a very brief example of this

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 as we're really getting close to 12 o'clock.

00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:53.019
 Wow.

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 This lesson is going to be driven

00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:05.239
 in the coming days

00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:06.699
 for the disciples.

00:50:07.299 --> 00:50:08.139
 Verse 6 of chapter 13,

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 He came to Simon Peter who said to him,

00:50:10.279 --> 00:50:12.259
 Lord, do you wash my feet?

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 He's taking turns.

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 He's going around

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 showing him this great example of service.

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 And Jesus answered him,

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 What I am doing you do not understand now,

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 but afterward you will understand.

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 Peter said to him,

00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:26.179
 You shall never wash my feet.

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 I'm too lowly.

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 You can't serve me in that way.

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 Jesus answered him,

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 If I do not wash you,

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 you have no share with me.

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 Is Jesus not talking about

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 washing his feet?

00:50:37.839 --> 00:50:38.059
 No.

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 He's not.

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 If I do not wash you,

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 you have no share with me.

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 What he's saying to him is,

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 If I don't come as a servant

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 and die on your behalf,

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 you're not mine.

00:50:50.740 --> 00:50:51.800
 Simon Peter says to him,

00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.720
 Lord, not my feet only,

00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:56.519
 but also my hands and my head.

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 Okay, if this is the condition,

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 then let's get me clean.

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 And Jesus says to him,

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 The one who has bathed

00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:03.579
 does not need to wash

00:51:03.579 --> 00:51:05.160
 except for his feet,

00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:07.519
 but is completely clean.

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 And he says,

00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:09.840
 And you are clean.

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 And then he talks about Judas,

00:51:12.900 --> 00:51:14.120
 but not every one of you.

00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:16.840
 So he's expressing to him,

00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:17.420
 right,

00:51:17.500 --> 00:51:19.019
 in this figurative way

00:51:19.019 --> 00:51:20.300
 as people would get cleaned up

00:51:20.300 --> 00:51:21.280
 to come over for a meal.

00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:22.559
 But when they got there,

00:51:22.620 --> 00:51:24.100
 their feet would get dirty again.

00:51:24.160 --> 00:51:25.320
 We probably understand this

00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:27.320
 in our day more than some

00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.519
 because a lot of you wear sandals

00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:30.539
 everywhere you go.

00:51:31.100 --> 00:51:32.280
 Although we have pavement,

00:51:32.680 --> 00:51:34.840
 which might nullify that.

00:51:35.100 --> 00:51:35.460
 However,

00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:36.980
 your feet get stinky

00:51:36.980 --> 00:51:38.260
 between the shower

00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:39.460
 and getting over

00:51:39.460 --> 00:51:40.180
 to somebody's house.

00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:41.780
 And so the lowliest form of service

00:51:41.780 --> 00:51:43.039
 was to wash their feet.

00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:44.579
 So Jesus used this parallel example

00:51:44.579 --> 00:51:45.920
 to say to Peter,

00:51:46.139 --> 00:51:49.559
 you've already been made clean.

00:51:50.019 --> 00:51:51.960
 But yet there's a continuing process

00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:53.420
 of purification in our life

00:51:53.420 --> 00:51:55.239
 and that is that we still

00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:57.259
 live lives of repentance, right?

00:51:57.279 --> 00:51:59.659
 We have judicially been dismissed,

00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:00.239
 right,

00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:01.380
 because we're found in Christ.

00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:03.759
 The forgiveness of sin

00:52:03.759 --> 00:52:06.440
 has been given to us,

00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:07.639
 has been administered to us,

00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:09.099
 but yet we still need to be

00:52:09.099 --> 00:52:11.840
 in this regular habit of confession.

00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:13.960
 And what they're communicating here,

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:14.720
 what Jesus is saying,

00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:15.599
 because if you don't,

00:52:15.699 --> 00:52:16.960
 you can't play powerful prayers.

00:52:17.179 --> 00:52:17.860
 They're not going to be heard.

00:52:17.980 --> 00:52:19.139
 Psalm 66.18 says,

00:52:19.240 --> 00:52:22.000
 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

00:52:22.139 --> 00:52:23.740
 the Lord would not have listened.

00:52:25.179 --> 00:52:26.220
 1 Peter 3.7,

00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:27.400
 Peter instructs men

00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.440
 to live properly with their wives

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:30.659
 so that their prayers

00:52:30.659 --> 00:52:32.420
 may not be hindered.

00:52:32.740 --> 00:52:36.159
 So we must confess before the Lord

00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:37.820
 if we want to pray powerful prayers.

00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.280
 It's a very practical way.

00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:41.199
 So powerful prayer is historical,

00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:42.019
 it is theological,

00:52:42.379 --> 00:52:43.539
 it is spiritual,

00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:45.439
 it is practical.

00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:46.899
 And beloved,

00:52:46.980 --> 00:52:48.199
 we have Jesus' presence

00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:49.419
 because we have the Spirit of Christ.

00:52:49.579 --> 00:52:52.359
 If you have Him,

00:52:53.219 --> 00:52:54.179
 it's because you're His.

00:52:54.859 --> 00:52:55.039
 Right?

00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:56.079
 If you're found in Christ,

00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:58.179
 you have the Spirit of God.

00:52:58.739 --> 00:53:00.199
 And don't wait for some crazy,

00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:02.599
 unexplainable thing to happen to you.

00:53:02.980 --> 00:53:04.859
 This is a reality for you.

00:53:05.139 --> 00:53:05.339
 Right?

00:53:05.579 --> 00:53:06.839
 You're hating sin,

00:53:06.919 --> 00:53:07.799
 you're loving holiness,

00:53:07.919 --> 00:53:08.819
 you have the Spirit of God.

00:53:08.820 --> 00:53:10.960
 So we have the presence of Christ,

00:53:11.100 --> 00:53:12.760
 but we are still in continual need

00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:14.640
 of the power and provision of Christ.

00:53:14.780 --> 00:53:15.400
 So ask.

00:53:16.600 --> 00:53:17.460
 So ask.

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:20.340
 Ask for the power and provision of Christ

00:53:20.340 --> 00:53:21.300
 in all things,

00:53:21.940 --> 00:53:23.160
 at all times.

00:53:23.340 --> 00:53:24.380
 Paul goes so far

00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:26.539
 as to say in 1 Thessalonians,

00:53:26.700 --> 00:53:29.039
 pray without ceasing.

00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:31.180
 We always need this.

00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:32.019
 And as such,

00:53:32.260 --> 00:53:34.080
 we need to be a people

00:53:34.080 --> 00:53:37.120
 who are always praying.

00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.079
 There are many ways to do this.

00:53:40.940 --> 00:53:42.699
 Closet prayer is important for you.

00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:44.579
 Get alone with the Lord.

00:53:45.019 --> 00:53:47.079
 Make it a daily habit.

00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:49.460
 Disconnect from everything.

00:53:49.799 --> 00:53:51.099
 Your phone doesn't need to go with you

00:53:51.099 --> 00:53:51.920
 into this place.

00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:52.759
 Right?

00:53:53.359 --> 00:53:54.900
 Unplug from life

00:53:54.900 --> 00:53:56.319
 and be with the Lord.

00:53:56.639 --> 00:53:57.339
 Rest in Him.

00:53:57.639 --> 00:53:59.440
 Offer up everything that troubles you

00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:00.159
 to Him.

00:54:01.799 --> 00:54:02.920
 It's going to include you

00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:03.839
 digging into your Scriptures

00:54:03.839 --> 00:54:05.659
 that you might know how to pray.

00:54:05.659 --> 00:54:07.239
 This isn't a complicated thing.

00:54:07.359 --> 00:54:08.779
 Don't arrive at some new plateau

00:54:08.779 --> 00:54:09.779
 of knowledge of the Lord

00:54:09.779 --> 00:54:10.759
 before you start praying.

00:54:10.940 --> 00:54:12.239
 Just open the Word of God

00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:13.179
 and read it

00:54:13.179 --> 00:54:14.799
 and respond in prayer.

00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:17.619
 You should get together

00:54:17.619 --> 00:54:18.819
 with the people of God

00:54:18.819 --> 00:54:21.079
 and pray in a corporate setting.

00:54:21.219 --> 00:54:22.179
 We do a number of things

00:54:22.179 --> 00:54:23.460
 to do that around here.

00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:24.480
 It doesn't have to be some

00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:26.980
 formal Christ Family Church event.

00:54:27.399 --> 00:54:28.460
 Grab a couple of friends.

00:54:28.659 --> 00:54:29.199
 Get together.

00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:31.039
 Pray together.

00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:32.980
 Let's be a people

00:54:32.980 --> 00:54:35.800
 who pray as we should.

00:54:37.019 --> 00:54:38.679
 Let's pray now together.