>> Just 50 days after Jesus
resurrection with his teachings
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in Ascension still echoing
in their hearts. Believers from
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everywhere gathered in Jerusalem
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as the cost on the United
Nations in this pivotal moment,
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define fire was
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through their faith movement.
Wasn't night forever. Changing
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the course of his join us as
we explore the use of you shall
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receive power.
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>> Good morning and
welcome back to 3. A B n's fall.
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Homecoming can't meeting.
We're so glad you're able to
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join us via television or
radio. But we're so glad to
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have an in-person audience.
How was your arrest last night?
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It was good, OK? So we're
talking to your home. How was
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your arrest last night? I don't
know how your breakfast was.
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Hopefully have some breakfast
here at camp meeting, the 3ABN.
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We had a good breakfast anyway
and then so we've been fed
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physically. We're getting ready
to be sped fed spiritually in
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this morning. I have the
privilege of introducing Pastor
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Davidson
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hit. We're laughing backstage.
I almost told them. I said,
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you know, David, I was
introduced to this morning as
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the old friend. Then I said,
you know, I'm not going to do
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that. Let's forget that part
of this, a long time friend.
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We have known Pastor
David Shinn for almost 30 years.
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Joe and I went to school with
him. So he's been a long-time
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friend of ours personally.
But of course, the ministry of
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3 ABN, he and his wife to new.
They have 2 children, ages 3,
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6, So I so David, I said, man,
you guys had a busy household.
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He said, oh, yeah, we do.
Haha, but just great parents.
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He is a course loves being in
the classroom. And his position
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has changed a little bit here
recently. He's now a professor
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of religion at the we our
universities. So they're out in
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California right now. And he
said, man, I just enjoy being
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in the classroom with all the
young people. He's a student of
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the word. He's a humble
man that loves the Lord Jesus
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Christ. But before he brings
the message today in tidal
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power to pray, we're going
to be blessed with some special
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music by TSO esteem Dickens
and the title. The song is on my
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Knees.
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>> To Wilhelm II,
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he's really needs
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>> See. I saw
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when I'm on mom.
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I can too.
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When I see you
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to Tom,
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we see you. Wow, when.
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>> Gray Sky
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payment. Praise God.
Thank you so much for that
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beautiful special music.
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Well, good morning.
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So good to be here at fall camp
being praise the Lord. Let's
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bow our heads as we pray.
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Our father in heaven.
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That is the
prayer of our hearts.
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Lord, we need you.
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And we pray that
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at every moment
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we may not be able to always
be on our knees. Folk. We pray
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that our hearts would be
uplifted to you in prayer.
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We pray that you bless us this
morning as we reflect on your
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word
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as we
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think about prayer lowered,
my feet are paid of clay
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a week vessel
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and I claim the right just this
of Christ today that you would
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use me
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for my glory, but for yours.
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So, yes, he sings in the
precious name of Jesus Christ.
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Well, there was it's
waiting to get into a room,
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but it wasn't any room. It
was the room of John Wesley.
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I was visiting England on
a speaking appointment and my
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friend Adam told me, look,
let's stop by Oxford University
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and see where we feel preached.
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John Wesley preaching, he said,
look, we might be able to get
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into John Wesley's
room. So we stopped by
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the college where John Wesley
was and we got to the front
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receptionist
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and the person said no way
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you can't get in
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and then he stopped and
he said, are you Methodists
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and my friend Adam so quick
on his feet. He said we're the
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sons of Methodism.
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>> And the man took a step
back. He said I've never heard
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of that
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in a tweet go in his eye and
he said, hurry up, come with me.
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Got his keys. I looked at
him. I said, oh, this is really
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happening. So we said, hurry
up. We walked up there. The
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opened it up. It was locked
up like Alcatraz. You know,
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I'm talking about is like all
you got in there, opened it up
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and we went into John
Wesley's room and walked around.
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He said, hurry
up before I get shot
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in his British accent.
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And that was the place
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where John Wesley
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began a small group
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for me
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at Oxford University.
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And the rest is
history. He changed the world.
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Born was Methodism and a
whole movement that changed the
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landscape of
Western civilization.
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One historian said
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Wesley wore plainclothes.
He preached 40,000 sermons
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during his lifetime. That's
a lot of servants traveled
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250,000 miles on
horseback preaching.
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He married at 48.
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You work with 15
different languages.
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At the age of 83. He was angry
because his doctor would not
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let him preach more
than 14 times a week
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at the age of 86
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written in his
journal. Are these words.
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Laziness is slowly creeping in.
There's an increasing tendency
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to stay in bed after
05:30AM, in the morning.
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What a man,
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John Wesley, who love
the Lord was driven for him
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and he had quite a mother.
This is a quote from says,
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Ana Wesley's mother. She says
whatever weakens your reason
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impairs the tenderness of your
conscience, obscures your sense
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of God takes off your relish
for spiritual things, whatever
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increases the authority of the
body over the mind that thing
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is sent to you, however,
innocent. It may seem in itself
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when she raised by the grace
of God to spiritual giants,
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John Wesley, the reformer
and Charles Wesley, the hymn
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writer.
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I look at my
library. It's out of print.
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It's called England
before and after Wesley
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don't ask me how
much I paid for it.
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But in the book,
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it talks about
England before Wesley
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and England had fallen to a
point that had never been known
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before of any Christian country,
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moral depravity.
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Wesley begins a movement by
the grace of God that begins
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in a prayer meeting.
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And this is what happened.
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England was revived. Prisons or
reformed slavery was abolished.
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Christian ethics were
reestablished in the society in
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industrial England was
emancipated. It seems there was
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not a segment of society
that was not touched by the
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influence of John Wesley.
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Great controversy
says this page 5.30,
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to 64
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at the close of
John Wesley's long life
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of more than Fourscore years.
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A century
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spent in itinerant ministry.
His I doubt it here and it's
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number of more than
half a million souls.
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But she says
this. But the multitude
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that through his labors have
been lifted from the ruin of
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degradation of sin to a higher
in pure life. And the number
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who, by his teachings have
obtained to a deeper and richer
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experience will never be known
until the whole family of the
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redeemed Shelby gathered
into the kingdom of God.
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In other words, she says we
won't know until we stand on
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the sea of glass,
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countless individuals that
have been impacted by the life
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of one man,
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the ripple effect
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of his life
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that you want to
make an impact like that
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by the grace of God.
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I don't want just live
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my SUV
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live in the
suburbs. Have 2.5 children
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have a nice. You
know, that's a statistic.
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Have a nice nest egg
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401 k retire
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and die.
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I want to live for more than
just that. A man by the grace
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of God. I want my life to count
for something to make an impact
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like John Wesley,
by the grace of God,
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this story and says
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that John Wesley
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would rise up
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at 04:00AM
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to seek. Got for the
first 4 hours of the day.
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In his latter years, Wesley was
known to spend up to 8 hours a
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day in prayer.
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You can go to John Leslie's
house today and there's a
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prayer room that is dedicated
just for his time on his knees.
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And my thesis
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this morning,
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it's very simple.
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Every revival
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is late. Tweet
radical prayer life.
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Every revival
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is linked
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to a radical prayer life.
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Look at the life of Jesus.
A chapter one verse. 35 now in
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the morning.
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Having risen a long while
before daylight, he went out
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and departed to a solitary
place and there he prayed.
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It says a long
while before daylight.
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And they say that this is
that first watch of the morning
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between 03:00AM to 06:00AM.
So Mark wants to clarify that
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this is not at the latter
part of that watch of 3 to 6,
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0, most likely Jesus is waking
up between 03:00AM to 04:00AM
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to pray.
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Now, the interesting thing
about this verse is the verse
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right before it.
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Jesus is casting out demons,
healing lepers and having up
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powerful public ministry
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right next to that. Hers is
this window into the private
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life of Jesus?
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We live in an age today
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where there is a dichotomy
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between the public and the
private life. You following me.
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In other words, people have
their public life all manicured
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in looks great on social media.
If you haven't noticed that
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stick your rated version,
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they're having this wonderful
life is just all manicured and
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perfect. But in reality,
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the private life
is is falling apart.
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We in the 21st
century have grown comfortable
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with a dissonance between our
public person and our private
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life. And I have the privilege
of teaching university Students
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Gen Z,
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I'm like
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Doctor Me, guys.
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How is it possible
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that you can live with
this types, these types of
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contradictions? You know,
you have this public person and
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then your
private life is totally
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in contradiction
to your profession
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and their students.
That Common Council with me
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and one of them
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not in the school
that I'm at. But previously
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he would sit in
my office and say
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I'm having issues
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with with pornography.
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It is destroying my life.
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Well, just so happens.
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The 74. He gave
a powerful message,
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quote, on quote.
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But the night before that
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he was been DJing on porn.
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And I said, my brother,
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how can you live
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with this type of dissidents?
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One night,
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the sting your eyes
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on something that is deplorable
and the next day going up in
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preaching a sermon. We can't
have this type of descendants,
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praise God that he had the
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42 to come forth and
seek out by the grace of God.
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And if one for the grace of God,
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a situation that would be dire,
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you can see the
public life of Jesus
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and the private life.
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There was a powerful prayer
life that Jesus had in his
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earthly ministry.
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This is from patriarchs
and prophets Page 509.
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The man who commanded son
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stand down. Still upon give Ian
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and now moving in the Valley of
Action Lawn is the man who for
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hours lay prostrate upon the
years in prayer in the camp of
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killed call.
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And she says the men a prayer
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are the men of power.
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Remember that story
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stand still.
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24 hours,
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pictures and profits says
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that public person
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was because that meant
have been prostrate before God,
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the night before
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the man of prayer,
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the men of power.
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Let's go to the reformation,
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Martin, lose it, nails a piece,
a paper. You're talk about the
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reformation
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and and from that,
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95, the says
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on the door of the Wittenberg
Chapel, there's like this
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explosion that takes place
in Western year. The Protestant
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reformation,
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one historian who secular
who doesn't believe in God says,
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look,
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he can't believe he
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how a simple act
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can foster such a revolution
because it just was not a
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religious idea. He says it
was that transfer of power in
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Western Europe, from
Catholicism to Protestantism as
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these powerhouses like Germany
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and these other countries
like England stood with the
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reformation.
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Great controversy says this
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from the secret
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of prayer
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came the power that shook the
world in the great reformation.
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The moves there did not fail
to devote 3 hours each day to
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prayer. And these were
taken from that portion of day,
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most favorable to study.
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Now, if you're like me,
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you listen to this like Wesley
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8 hours,
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Jesus 03:00AM Martin
loses 3 hours. I'm like
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that's kind of demoralizing.
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You know, I'm talking about
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I'll be honest. There been
times that I prayed twice for
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my food at a meal,
you know, talking about
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because I forgot
I'm just being real.
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And so
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we listen to this. And we're
like, oh, this is these are
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spiritual Giants, 8 hours a
day. I mean, what do you even
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say now? Here's the thing.
I don't believe that God is up
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there with a timer saying click
all right. You filled your 3
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era quota, I
guess lack right now.
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This is not meritorious.
You following me. It's not as
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though we get points
with God based on a stopwatch.
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But there's something
that happens in prayer.
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By the way, you don't have
to be on your knees. Prayer is
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conversation with got
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okay. So we should be
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in communion with God
throughout the day. Anytime you
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have a moment you can you can
talk with God and sometimes I
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don't even know what to say.
But I praise God that the Holy
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Spirit is a translator. Imagine
if the Holy Spirit was in the
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translator. Is it? I'm
sorry. I thought you meant this.
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Okay. But praise the Lord
raise. Look, he understands our
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hearts and sometimes I'm
praying to God said, Lord,
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I know how to articulate this,
but you can read my heart and
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you understand. And so
it's not about the time,
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but it's the posture of
the heart and you can be in
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communication with
got throughout the day.
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Now there was a
husband and wife.
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Now we're having
this typical conversation
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and the wife was always want
to talk about the relationship.
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You have been there before
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the wifes like can we talk
about relationships and the man
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being a typical man's like
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what we have to talk about our
relationship? Can't we just be
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in a relationship, please,
right. And so she's like,
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no, we need to talk about this.
And so he's getting frustrated.
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And finally, it clicked with him
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the conversation,
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the relationship,
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no conversation, no
relationship. And we talk about
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a relationship with
God. What is that? It's the
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conversation.
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Yeah. People in your life
that you never talk to again,
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the relationship is over
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our lives change gradually.
Then suddenly one conversation
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at a time. I think back
on my life there are pivotal
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conversations, one conversation
in particular that changes the
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trajectory of my life. And
there's one conversation with
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God that I had a number years
ago and I said, Lord, I'm a
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mess.
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Take my heart
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because I can't give it
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my relationship. And I've been
talking with them ever since
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now. Prayer is the
opening of the heart to God
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as to a friend.
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Now he's not our
boyfriend or a buddy.
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He's our heavenly
father. We should have respect.
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But the reality is
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there should be an off its
authenticity to our prayers.
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You think God doesn't know.
You can go to gun, say Lord,
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I'm a mess. This is
destroying me. Help me.
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I have an addiction that I love
help me to hate it. That's the
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type of authenticity
that you can have with God.
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Now, here's the reality.
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When I was dating my wife,
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she was in Africa
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and back then don't let this
baby face fool you. By the way,
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back then
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we had will be called calling
cards for those of you there in
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that,
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you know, younger generation.
Look it up. It's in the museum.
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You can find it. But
anyways, OK, these things
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called calling cards that
that I had to buy at a special
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place, the punch to your number
and so forth and get paid by,
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you know it to pay like a
dollar, something ridiculous
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for minutes. So I would I these
calling cards like and I would
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run out of them and be like
here. You only have one minute
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left on his calling cards.
So I would spend hundreds of
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dollars.
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But he's calling cards
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to call
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my future wife, praise God
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in Africa.
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It wasn't a drudgery
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and I'm talking about
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it was a joint.
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I treasured every moment of
that community. And here's the
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way it works. Skies.
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This is God talking to me.
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Prayer is me talking to God.
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Look, I don't know where
we're my prayer begins and God's
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conversation with me. You know
it in terms of Bible studies.
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So as I open my Bible in
the morning, I journal and it
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becomes this conversation,
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this conversation has gone
talks to me. I talked back to
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God in my prayer and I write my
journal in my journal. I write
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it down because I find if
you're like me, my mind starts
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to wander
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all right. You start, you start
to go everywhere. You know,
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you're like praying to God and
said, Lord, please be with Mary
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Mary
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O Lord. I need to get married,
you know? And so it just it
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just tends to transition
all over the place. But but when
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you are writing it down,
it keeps your focus. And I
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recommend something
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when you get up in the morning,
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don't check your phone,
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you know, talking about
that thing. It's it's a tool,
00:25:07.64\00:25:11.67
but this could be a lot of
people that are lost because of
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their phones. I'm sorry.
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.28
And that thing is, is those
people spend a lot of money to
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get you addicted.
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And if you're like me, once
I turn on my phone, it's over.
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It's like the black hole.
The vortex that I never get out
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as a coach
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just s**** you in. So what I do,
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I put my phone on airplane mode
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and I put it out
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the living room
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in a location that's kind
of difficult for me to find.
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So when I get up,
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I reach for my
bubble. Crazy guy.
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Your morning
starts the night before
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that night. They recommend
screen time that blue light
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they recommend is the principal
3 to one. It wasn't. It was in
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the Wall Street Journal, OK, 3,
2, 1, 3 hours before you go to
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bed at no food.
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2 hours before you go to bed.
No work. One hour before you go
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to bed. No screen
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that screen messes you up.
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Park your phone out there.
I lay my clothes out for the
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next day because it's my most
important appointment of the
00:26:25.98\00:26:29.08
day. Look, if you're
going to die tomorrow,
00:26:29.08\00:26:32.62
what's your most
important activity today
00:26:32.62\00:26:37.99
and talking with got?
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Well, it's the most important
activities. So you need to
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prepare for it the night
before. And park your phone out
00:26:41.93\00:26:45.63
there. Some of you need to
put it under combination lock.
00:26:45.63\00:26:49.90
So it's like, oh, what was that
thing? Yeah. So so do what you
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need to do because that's the
most important the appointment
00:26:53.34\00:26:55.94
of your day. Time with God and
it's conversation this is got
00:26:55.94\00:27:00.75
talking to me. I talk back to
God in prayer and you can do it
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all throughout the day. So
don't be discouraged by the
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spiritual Giants.
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Start somewhere.
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And I tell people
look starts with 15 minutes
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and let your relationship
with God just grow from there.
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It's the posture of the heart.
It's not right. Just this by
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minutes
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by faith. But your
conversation with God
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go to the book of Acts.
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Mister Michael Green, 30
years that changed the world.
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3 crucial decades in world
history. That's all it took
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in the years between 80. 33
in 80, 60 for a new movement
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was born. In those 30 years.
It got sufficient growth in
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credibility to become the
largest religion in the world
00:27:50.10\00:27:52.40
has ever seen and to change the
lives of hundreds of millions
00:27:52.40\00:27:55.14
of people. And it spread to
every corner of the globe and
00:27:55.14\00:27:58.14
has more than 2 billion
adherence. It is an indelible
00:27:58.14\00:28:02.31
impact on civilization,
on culture and education, on
00:28:02.31\00:28:05.41
medicine, on freedom and the
course and of course, the lives
00:28:05.41\00:28:08.78
of countless people everywhere
and the seabed for all this.
00:28:08.78\00:28:12.72
The time when the took decisive
route, it was in these 3
00:28:12.72\00:28:16.62
decades, it all began with
a dozen men and a handful of
00:28:16.62\00:28:20.83
women. And then the spirit came
00:28:20.83\00:28:24.17
no education,
00:28:24.17\00:28:26.03
no resource,
00:28:26.03\00:28:27.74
no money,
00:28:27.74\00:28:29.27
no plants.
00:28:29.27\00:28:31.37
You realize
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the upper room
was a prayer meeting.
00:28:33.34\00:28:37.58
It was a prayer meeting.
00:28:37.58\00:28:39.81
These
individuals poor as they were
00:28:39.81\00:28:43.05
knew where to go and from
that place sparked the greatest
00:28:43.05\00:28:48.26
revolution in human history.
00:28:48.26\00:28:51.36
W tells are says this.
00:28:51.36\00:28:53.50
If the Holy Spirit was
withdrawn from the church
00:28:53.50\00:28:55.83
today, 95% of what we would
do would go on and no one would
00:28:55.83\00:29:01.10
know the difference
00:29:01.10\00:29:03.10
if the holy Spirit had
been withdrawn from the New
00:29:03.10\00:29:05.24
Testament church. 95 1% of what
they do with stop and everybody
00:29:05.24\00:29:11.11
would know the difference.
We don't need more formulas
00:29:11.11\00:29:14.35
when you need more feeling.
We do not need more plans.
00:29:14.35\00:29:17.69
We need more power. We do not
need more strategies. We need
00:29:17.69\00:29:22.29
more spirit.
00:29:22.29\00:29:25.59
We're told that by your fervent
prayers, you can move the arm
00:29:25.59\00:29:31.20
that moves the world.
00:29:31.20\00:29:34.84
When my son was born.
00:29:34.84\00:29:38.91
Something about naming your
your child, you're stuck with
00:29:38.91\00:29:41.78
it for the rest of their
life. And so my wife and I first
00:29:41.78\00:29:45.71
child,
00:29:45.71\00:29:47.62
we know what the name.
00:29:47.62\00:29:49.45
And so he was
nameless for like 3 days.
00:29:49.45\00:29:54.19
And finally, the people come
by. You have a name for your
00:29:54.19\00:29:56.62
son and we're like
finally, we got it.
00:29:56.62\00:29:59.09
We named in huts
00:29:59.09\00:30:01.16
after the great missionary
to China, Hudson, Taylor,
00:30:01.16\00:30:05.17
his middle name, Michael,
after my father last name. Shin,
00:30:05.17\00:30:09.07
of course, its initials
just happened to be H M S no
00:30:09.07\00:30:13.78
pressure, no pressure.
00:30:13.78\00:30:16.21
Hudson, Taylor,
00:30:19.18\00:30:20.65
great missionary to China
of a book in my library called
00:30:20.65\00:30:23.75
Hudson Taylor's
spiritual secret.
00:30:23.75\00:30:26.79
And there's a 3rd person
account in that book of an
00:30:26.79\00:30:29.52
individual that watched Hudson
prayer, Hudson, Taylor lead out
00:30:29.52\00:30:34.76
in a prayer meeting
00:30:34.76\00:30:36.36
and this is what it said.
00:30:36.36\00:30:37.93
Mister Taylor opened the
meeting by leading out in him.
00:30:37.93\00:30:43.04
His appearance did not impress
me. He was slightly built and
00:30:43.04\00:30:46.88
spoke in a quiet voice. But
when he said let us pray and
00:30:46.88\00:30:52.21
proceeded to lead the meeting,
my ideas underwent a change.
00:30:52.21\00:30:57.32
I never heard
anyone prey like that.
00:30:57.32\00:31:02.42
There was a simplicity, a
tenderness, a bonus, a power
00:31:02.42\00:31:07.13
that hush and subdued me
and made it clear that God had
00:31:07.13\00:31:12.20
admitted to him to the
inner circle of his friendship.
00:31:12.20\00:31:16.47
Such spring was evident in the
outcome of long tearing in the
00:31:16.47\00:31:20.34
secret place and was as the
dew from the Lord to hear Mister
00:31:20.34\00:31:24.31
Taylor plead for China was to
know something of what it meant
00:31:24.31\00:31:28.68
by the effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man.
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.89
The meeting lasted from 4 to
6 o'clock, but it seemed one of
00:31:32.89\00:31:36.26
the shortest per
meetings I ever attended.
00:31:36.26\00:31:40.33
And the eyewitness goes on
to say the only person she heard
00:31:40.33\00:31:44.43
prey like that
was Charles Spurgeon.
00:31:44.43\00:31:49.44
The impact of Hudson Taylor
00:31:49.44\00:31:52.61
in 18 65
00:31:52.61\00:31:54.28
Hudson. Taylor founded
the China Inland Mission.
00:31:54.28\00:31:57.68
The organization would have
no guaranteed salary nor could
00:31:57.68\00:32:01.25
they solicit funds except from
God. People thought that Hudson
00:32:01.25\00:32:05.39
Taylor was crazy in 18.
76. 52 missionaries joined the
00:32:05.39\00:32:10.53
China Inland mission in 18 87.
There were 102 missionaries in
00:32:10.53\00:32:15.03
1900 when Hudson
Taylor retired. There were 750
00:32:15.03\00:32:20.14
missionaries. The mission
continued on and by 1932,
00:32:20.14\00:32:24.11
the number of missionaries
grew to over 1200 from 18. 65 to
00:32:24.11\00:32:29.41
1900 Hudson. Taylor had
asked God alone for funds and
00:32:29.41\00:32:33.45
received a total of 4
million dollars during that time
00:32:33.45\00:32:39.32
with the China Inland mission.
And these are 4 million dollars
00:32:39.32\00:32:43.93
in the 18, 100's,
00:32:43.93\00:32:48.36
a man of prayer
00:32:48.36\00:32:50.13
transform the work
by the grace of God.
00:32:50.13\00:32:54.57
Doctor Wilbur Chapman says this
revivals are born in prayer.
00:32:54.57\00:32:59.44
When Wesley prayed, England
was revived when Knox Parade,
00:32:59.44\00:33:03.51
Scotland was refresh when
the Sunday school teachers of 10
00:33:03.51\00:33:07.52
and Brooke Parade, 11,000 young
people were added to the church
00:33:07.52\00:33:11.65
in a year. Whole nights
of prayer have always been
00:33:11.65\00:33:14.96
succeeded by whole
days of still winning
00:33:14.96\00:33:21.13
the privilege of
being a Bible worker
00:33:21.13\00:33:24.33
in South Central Los Angeles,
00:33:24.33\00:33:27.47
back in the 90's.
00:33:27.47\00:33:30.97
And if you know
about South Central,
00:33:30.97\00:33:34.14
it's the place where the
LA riots took place after the
00:33:34.14\00:33:39.21
Rodney King incident
00:33:39.21\00:33:41.82
and we pitch a tent
00:33:41.82\00:33:44.42
on Florence and figure and
was known as prostitution lane.
00:33:44.42\00:33:50.19
And I remember being on the
pay phone talking to my parents,
00:33:50.19\00:33:53.26
5 feet away from me was was
a prostitute on that corner.
00:33:53.26\00:33:56.87
It was it was it was a setting
that I'd never been in my life.
00:33:56.87\00:34:01.37
It was around July 4th,
like July 2nd. And I'm there.
00:34:01.37\00:34:04.74
And by the way,
the state in Compton,
00:34:04.74\00:34:08.04
South Central and I'm outside
of the facilities where we're
00:34:08.04\00:34:11.55
at. And there's these
like things going off like
00:34:11.55\00:34:14.22
firecrackers on July 2nd.
And I turned to my friend and I
00:34:14.22\00:34:17.42
say why in the world in
Compton, do they celebrate July
00:34:17.42\00:34:20.42
4th on July 3rd. So what
are those firecrackers going off
00:34:20.42\00:34:23.96
for you today? But those
aren't firecrackers or gunshots.
00:34:23.96\00:34:28.30
I said, oh,
00:34:28.30\00:34:30.10
our other territory.
00:34:30.10\00:34:32.03
I was in Watts
00:34:32.03\00:34:34.97
and remember the Watts riots
in the 70's and so territory,
00:34:34.97\00:34:38.04
Watson, South Central
00:34:38.04\00:34:40.08
and we went door to door
in that community and it was a
00:34:40.08\00:34:43.55
beautiful thing.
00:34:43.55\00:34:45.01
It was very simple. Knocked on
the door. I said with such and
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.85
such a ministry, we hear to
minister to the community and
00:34:47.85\00:34:50.89
we believe in the
power power of prayer.
00:34:50.89\00:34:54.09
Do you have a prayer requests
and these people are like,
00:34:54.09\00:34:56.76
yes, pray for my own. Go pray
for my son. Pray for my phone
00:34:56.76\00:35:00.46
and we write down every single
prayer request on the seats.
00:35:00.46\00:35:05.47
By the end, we had liked
200 prayer requests and we were
00:35:05.47\00:35:09.34
like the mailman. We go
back and visit these people and
00:35:09.34\00:35:12.71
every other night
during that summer
00:35:12.71\00:35:16.21
and this is descriptive, not
prescriptive, meaning this is
00:35:16.21\00:35:19.55
just what happened. I'm not
recommending it was part of the
00:35:19.55\00:35:22.05
program, but this particular
program every other night,
00:35:22.05\00:35:26.09
we pray
00:35:26.09\00:35:28.39
night
00:35:28.39\00:35:29.76
Lord have mercy. I
can do that now. But
00:35:29.76\00:35:31.99
Lord knows
00:35:31.99\00:35:33.19
every other night
we prayed all night
00:35:33.19\00:35:37.17
for every single
00:35:37.17\00:35:39.37
contact and
their prayer requests.
00:35:39.37\00:35:42.94
It was something else because
when I walked those streets,
00:35:42.94\00:35:47.68
I was prayed up
00:35:47.68\00:35:49.28
and I knew if a
stray bullet hit me,
00:35:49.28\00:35:52.11
I was ready to go.
00:35:52.11\00:35:54.28
And that summer,
00:35:54.28\00:35:55.85
I some miracles.
00:35:55.85\00:35:58.82
700
00:35:58.82\00:36:00.36
to 1000 people coming to
that tent in the middle of south
00:36:00.36\00:36:03.79
Central.
00:36:03.79\00:36:05.06
No man out just
00:36:05.06\00:36:09.06
knocking on the door, praying
for the individual and then
00:36:09.06\00:36:12.47
eventually be dropped off these
Bible studies and then brought
00:36:12.47\00:36:14.97
him to the series.
00:36:14.97\00:36:17.34
And that summer,
00:36:17.34\00:36:18.94
I saw people
00:36:18.94\00:36:20.51
from the door
00:36:20.51\00:36:24.08
to the meetings
00:36:24.08\00:36:26.05
the Baptist
00:36:26.05\00:36:28.48
Price got. I was
just an instrument.
00:36:28.48\00:36:31.75
And I remember
00:36:31.75\00:36:33.42
standing by the side
of the back to street
00:36:33.42\00:36:37.59
watching
00:36:37.59\00:36:38.73
my contact, the person
I've been the first one
00:36:38.73\00:36:43.26
go down into the watery grave
and be baptized. Remember his
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.03
crime by the side of
that by the side of the pool
00:36:46.03\00:36:50.01
and us a lot. I want to do this
for the rest of my life changed
00:36:50.01\00:36:56.04
as a miraculous experience
00:36:56.04\00:36:59.25
and the thing that
transform the entire thing,
00:36:59.25\00:37:05.42
this power
00:37:05.42\00:37:07.16
in prayer
00:37:07.16\00:37:09.02
in the chapter 11 runs 9 to
13 Jesus as this site to say to
00:37:09.02\00:37:14.36
you ask it, will be given to
you seek and you'll find knock
00:37:14.36\00:37:19.73
and it will be open to you for
everyone who asks receives and
00:37:19.73\00:37:24.21
he who seeks fines and to
him, who knocks will be open
00:37:24.21\00:37:28.61
if the person asked for bread
from any father among you with
00:37:28.61\00:37:31.75
a given the stone he asked
for officially given the serpent
00:37:31.75\00:37:35.02
instead of a fish or if you ask
for an egg will be offering the
00:37:35.02\00:37:37.55
scorpion. If you then being
evil, know how to give good
00:37:37.55\00:37:42.42
gifts to your children. How
much more with your heavenly
00:37:42.42\00:37:45.79
father give the Holy
spirit to those who ask him?
00:37:45.79\00:37:51.00
We use this for us
00:37:51.00\00:37:53.40
for everything else.
But what for its intended
00:37:53.40\00:37:58.67
and I'm not saying it doesn't
apply. I lost my keys. You said
00:37:58.67\00:38:01.84
ask
00:38:01.84\00:38:03.04
okay. And then we go up and for
me is a praise. God, I prayed.
00:38:03.04\00:38:06.25
Lord gave him my keys and I'm
not saying we shouldn't ask for
00:38:06.25\00:38:08.98
those types of physical
blessings but notice the
00:38:08.98\00:38:11.99
intention of this for us.
00:38:11.99\00:38:14.46
What does Jesus
telling us to ask for?
00:38:14.46\00:38:17.73
No, the spirit,
00:38:17.73\00:38:19.86
the Holy Spirit and we're
told and book desire of ages
00:38:19.86\00:38:23.40
that the Holy Spirit received
by face brings all other
00:38:23.40\00:38:28.34
blessings in its train. In
other words, you receive the
00:38:28.34\00:38:33.04
Holy Spirit. You
receive every scene outs.
00:38:33.04\00:38:38.71
And this is what I call.
00:38:38.71\00:38:41.88
Yes, prayer.
00:38:41.88\00:38:45.05
You know, I'm talking about
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.62
you asked for Ferrari.
00:38:46.62\00:38:49.29
It may not be yes.
And most likely it snow
00:38:49.29\00:38:53.26
want to keep you humble
guy. So so here's the answer so
00:38:53.26\00:38:56.60
late. And I'm not saying
we shouldn't ask for physical
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.87
blessing, we should. But but
there are certain prayers that
00:38:58.87\00:39:02.27
are yes, prayers. In other
words you can ask for and you
00:39:02.27\00:39:05.51
know that you will
receive it. And one of them
00:39:05.51\00:39:09.28
is the Holy Spirit
00:39:09.28\00:39:11.11
forgiveness is the other
one. You asked for forgiveness,
00:39:11.11\00:39:13.62
gotten up there and say maybe
not today. It's always yes.
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.55
And it's always immediately.
You asked to be like Jesus.
00:39:17.55\00:39:20.92
It's always yes, for wisdom
and strength to do is work. It's
00:39:20.92\00:39:24.76
always yes, the holy Spirit.
00:39:24.76\00:39:27.50
Yes,
00:39:27.50\00:39:28.90
yes. And you get
up off your knees,
00:39:28.90\00:39:32.43
but as eve it regardless of
the way that you may or may not
00:39:32.43\00:39:36.67
feel.
00:39:36.67\00:39:37.87
Now, here's the
thing about this verse.
00:39:37.87\00:39:40.58
It literally says in
the original language
00:39:40.58\00:39:45.58
asking,
00:39:45.58\00:39:47.98
keep on asking.
00:39:47.98\00:39:49.68
Now before this,
00:39:49.68\00:39:51.05
there's another
00:39:51.05\00:39:52.12
a story that Jesus tells
00:39:52.12\00:39:55.09
he tells the story of the
friend. Remember that he's he's
00:39:55.09\00:39:59.06
has a guest at his home and he
doesn't have any bread. And so
00:39:59.06\00:40:02.23
he goes over to the other
friends house and keeps on
00:40:02.23\00:40:05.83
knocking. Now. I lived in Alaska
00:40:05.83\00:40:09.60
for about 5 years.
00:40:09.60\00:40:11.71
Oh, man. Last goes a
different experience.
00:40:11.71\00:40:17.31
It gets dark hair.
Dark is an understatement
00:40:17.31\00:40:21.22
one and we lived in
Anchorage which they called last
00:40:21.22\00:40:25.09
Anchorage. Little that I
find out that a lot of the games
00:40:25.09\00:40:27.42
from LA came up to to increase
increase is one of the crime,
00:40:27.42\00:40:30.39
highest crime rates in the
nation. Top 10. I didn't know
00:40:30.39\00:40:32.79
that before I moved there.
00:40:32.79\00:40:34.20
They didn't tell me that in
the fine print, but anyways.
00:40:34.20\00:40:36.67
So I'm there
00:40:36.67\00:40:37.87
and and street over
00:40:37.87\00:40:40.47
that they're one of the houses
had been shot up the street
00:40:40.47\00:40:43.24
over. And so we're
kind of on ice. And
00:40:43.24\00:40:46.98
it was like 02:00AM.
And I hear this knocking
00:40:46.98\00:40:50.51
02:00AM in Los Ang Rich.
00:40:54.52\00:40:58.85
I was hoping
00:40:58.85\00:41:00.79
that they got the wrong home.
So we're just in bed and sing
00:41:00.79\00:41:04.03
to hear that. Yeah, Sunny,
let's just let's just pray that
00:41:04.03\00:41:06.63
it goes away. Okay.
00:41:06.63\00:41:08.76
But it just kept going and
going and going just just kept
00:41:08.76\00:41:12.80
on knocking.
00:41:12.80\00:41:15.80
I tiptoed out to the living room
00:41:15.80\00:41:18.81
and there was this large man.
00:41:18.81\00:41:24.18
I like me, big guy
00:41:24.18\00:41:27.62
at the window
00:41:27.62\00:41:29.88
at the window
00:41:29.88\00:41:31.52
of our living room
00:41:31.52\00:41:32.99
tapping on the window on
us that this is crazy. What is
00:41:32.99\00:41:36.36
this man doing? You know,
any just kept going find that
00:41:36.36\00:41:39.76
tiptoe back. I said, is
this large man at our window
00:41:39.76\00:41:43.47
and she said, oh, it is
going on and look in Anchorage,
00:41:43.47\00:41:47.70
they're locked and
loaded. Everyone's caring,
00:41:47.70\00:41:50.31
except me. And so
00:41:50.31\00:41:53.01
I said this place is crazy.
And so this man's knocking on
00:41:53.01\00:41:55.64
the window and the man
would not go away. He persisted.
00:41:55.64\00:42:00.25
Finally, we
discovered his identity.
00:42:00.25\00:42:02.95
He was a friend,
00:42:02.95\00:42:06.96
a former friend. And he would
say he was a friend. And so,
00:42:06.96\00:42:10.29
but but he evidently had, you
know, we we had his car there
00:42:10.29\00:42:14.36
and he came in an hour. We
didn't suspect and we needed to
00:42:14.36\00:42:17.47
skis is very
anticlimactic, praise God.
00:42:17.47\00:42:21.44
But the man kept
00:42:21.44\00:42:23.67
persisting.
00:42:23.67\00:42:25.34
And so the story goes in
relationship to asking for the
00:42:25.34\00:42:29.01
Holy Spirit.
00:42:29.01\00:42:30.58
The man kept knocking.
00:42:30.58\00:42:32.58
And finally, the man inside
says, look, I'm going to give
00:42:32.58\00:42:36.62
it time
00:42:36.62\00:42:37.75
now. The moral of the story
is not that God is reluctant to
00:42:37.75\00:42:42.12
give us the holy spirit.
00:42:42.12\00:42:44.09
The moral of the story is
something called persistence.
00:42:44.09\00:42:49.73
Persistence. You ever want
something so bad. You're like
00:42:49.73\00:42:54.34
I'm not going to let you go
00:42:54.34\00:42:56.47
until you bless me.
00:42:56.47\00:42:58.97
Jesus is saying that
with that same tenacity,
00:42:58.97\00:43:03.28
that same desire
00:43:03.28\00:43:05.01
we are to ask for
the whole the spear.
00:43:05.01\00:43:07.88
The question is
00:43:07.88\00:43:12.29
why does God want us to keep
on asking for one thing we need
00:43:12.29\00:43:15.36
we'd like mates. Not one's
field always filled. We need to
00:43:15.36\00:43:18.79
be daily filled with the Holy
Spirit. But there's something
00:43:18.79\00:43:21.43
else. This is from
Christ Object Lessons. Page one.
00:43:21.43\00:43:23.67
45 God does not say asked once
and you shall receive. He bids
00:43:23.67\00:43:29.70
as ask and we're hearing
Lee persist in prayer. The
00:43:29.70\00:43:34.58
persistent asking brings the
petitioner into a more earnest
00:43:34.58\00:43:39.21
attitude and gives him an
increased desire to receive the
00:43:39.21\00:43:44.32
things for which yes, did
you get that? In other words,
00:43:44.32\00:43:48.59
prayer doesn't change, got
00:43:48.59\00:43:51.59
it, changes it.
00:43:51.59\00:43:53.80
And there's something about the
posture of prayer. The very the
00:43:53.80\00:43:57.17
very nature of
prayer is that we need help.
00:43:57.17\00:44:01.60
Why pray if you
have all the answers?
00:44:01.60\00:44:04.81
But when you pray,
00:44:04.81\00:44:06.61
the very nature of prayer
is indicating I need help. And
00:44:06.61\00:44:11.91
until we come to the place
where we recognize that I'm
00:44:11.91\00:44:15.45
nothing and God is everything.
00:44:15.45\00:44:18.29
Prayer changes us and
that persistent asking
00:44:18.29\00:44:22.22
change is our
attitude and our spirit.
00:44:22.22\00:44:26.49
The other thing about prayer
00:44:26.49\00:44:28.60
you ever wonder?
00:44:28.60\00:44:30.20
Well, I asked God for something,
00:44:30.20\00:44:33.57
particularly the
salvation of your loved one
00:44:33.57\00:44:37.21
because we all have people in
our lives that if they were to
00:44:37.21\00:44:39.74
die today, they would be lost.
00:44:39.74\00:44:43.04
Why pray for them
00:44:43.04\00:44:44.88
if God loves
them more than I do.
00:44:44.88\00:44:47.62
Is it all the sun gods like,
OK, I guess I love them to know
00:44:47.62\00:44:50.55
he loves them more than I
do so. So what is it about
00:44:50.55\00:44:53.09
Intercessor e prayer?
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.26
This is from Roger Moore.
No in his book on Prayer and I
00:44:55.26\00:44:58.53
knew exactly where to find
the power to help such people in
00:44:58.53\00:45:03.16
prayer and supplication to got
who waits for our request for
00:45:03.16\00:45:08.37
help so that he will have
legal right in the sight of the
00:45:08.37\00:45:12.27
universe to move with power
in to Satan's domain and rescue
00:45:12.27\00:45:17.45
his captives.
00:45:17.45\00:45:19.21
In other words, there's
rules in the great controversy.
00:45:19.21\00:45:22.75
There's parameters rules of
engagement and one of the rules
00:45:22.75\00:45:27.29
is that got can go to a certain
9 that he cannot cross without
00:45:27.29\00:45:32.86
our consent.
00:45:32.86\00:45:34.76
You know, when you go to the
doctor, you signed the consent
00:45:34.76\00:45:36.93
form and so God can go
this far. But he cannot go any
00:45:36.93\00:45:41.20
further.
00:45:41.20\00:45:42.27
And if he does, Satan will
challenge him and say, look,
00:45:42.27\00:45:45.34
he didn't ask for this. Why
are you moving above and beyond
00:45:45.34\00:45:49.41
what you are normally able?
But there's something about
00:45:49.41\00:45:52.71
prayer,
00:45:52.71\00:45:53.78
particularly for yourself.
That's primary consent, the
00:45:53.78\00:45:57.02
most powerful consent that you
can give. And I pray that every
00:45:57.02\00:45:59.82
day you get got primary consent
say Lord, I give you permission
00:45:59.82\00:46:04.29
to move in my life.
00:46:04.29\00:46:05.99
Most powerful thing you can do.
00:46:05.99\00:46:08.30
But there's something
called secondary consent.
00:46:08.30\00:46:11.80
In other words, when you pray
for somebody else, your side
00:46:11.80\00:46:15.80
that is lost and you say Lord,
00:46:15.80\00:46:18.94
whatever it takes to save him,
00:46:18.94\00:46:22.61
that's a powerful
prayer that you can pray
00:46:22.61\00:46:24.95
for yourself and for others,
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.18
whatever it takes,
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got his eye.
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We've got the papers.
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You notice in March after 2
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in regards the paralytic,
the 4 friends that brought that
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paralytic to Jesus. Notice what
the Bible says when Jesus saw
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their faith. In other words,
you cannot pay for somebody
00:46:45.27\00:46:47.80
else that's called Intercessor
e prayer. So when you pray for
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your mother, your son or your
daughter, your brother, your
00:46:51.37\00:46:53.84
loved one that is out of
the church. If they were to die
00:46:53.84\00:46:56.54
today, they would be lost
00:46:56.54\00:46:59.18
God's like Gabriel gone
00:46:59.18\00:47:01.35
and the Gabriel's molding
circumstances events in their
00:47:01.35\00:47:03.99
lives so they
feel the need for God.
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The Devils like what are you
doing? He didn't ask for this.
00:47:07.69\00:47:11.89
Gabriel says step aside.
00:47:11.89\00:47:13.80
He didn't ask for
this but his mom just
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intercessor e prayer. So keep
rain. Gay men don't give up.
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Your prayers continue to
exist before God. I believe even
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after you die
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and God will
remember your prayers
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and by the grace of God, he
will save our children because
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I want to be alone at
the resurrection. Amen.
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I want my family
00:47:38.79\00:47:40.22
to be with me.
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The chapter Sixers, $0.13.
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It was at this time the Jesus
went off to the mountain to
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pray
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and he spent the
whole night in prayer.
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I don't believe that Jesus
spent every night in prayer,
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but there were particular times
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that he did
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before he selected the 12
disciples. He spent the entire
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night in prayer
and before the cross
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the entire night in prayer,
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the imbalance is this.
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It was a time
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when we gave whole nights to
chambering in wanting this to
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dancing and the world's
referee. We did not higher than
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we were chiding the sun that
rose so soon and wishing that
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the hours would last a
while that we might delight in
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Wilder, merriment
and perhaps the person.
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Why do we then weary in
heavenly employment? Why do we
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grow weary? When asked
to watch with our Lord.
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I remember when
I was in the world,
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I would spend on night
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for that chance.
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I hope you don't. All right.
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You spent the whole
night in foolishness
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and you get up in morning.
You're like all we had a great
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time and suddenly you become a
Christian. He joined the church
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and someone asks you to spend
an extended time in prayer and
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you're like, oh,
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I can't do it.
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That's legalism.
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Talking to God is legalism.
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Now, look,
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this is a unique aspect.
Is that when you want God to
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move above and beyond what
is normally able sometime it,
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he asks us to spend
sacrificial time in prayer.
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I was passing in East Lansing
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this 2008.
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If you member
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in Michigan, in particular,
00:49:46.05\00:49:48.22
the when the economy
00:49:48.22\00:49:50.49
bottomed out,
00:49:50.49\00:49:52.52
it was bad in Michigan. The
automobile bailout. Remember
00:49:52.52\00:49:56.42
that? And I was in the Lansing,
the Rust Belt and I was passing
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a church there and members
are losing their job. It was
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it was terrifying. I looked
at the church budget and we are
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bleeding money
00:50:08.60\00:50:10.01
because and called an emergency
board meeting. We slash all
00:50:10.01\00:50:13.01
their budgets was a new pastor
in that district. And I thought
00:50:13.01\00:50:16.21
to myself, this church is
about the clothes on my watch.
00:50:16.21\00:50:19.01
And so I was at prayer
meeting on Wednesday night.
00:50:19.01\00:50:22.98
You know, it's like your typical
00:50:22.98\00:50:24.59
prayer meeting
00:50:24.59\00:50:26.15
of the 200 member church.
There are 6 people there,
00:50:26.15\00:50:30.23
including myself.
00:50:30.23\00:50:32.19
So I'm sitting there.
00:50:32.19\00:50:33.40
I have my little humble prayer
meeting which is really a Bible
00:50:33.40\00:50:36.50
study.
00:50:36.50\00:50:37.93
My members told me, pastor,
this is not a prayer meeting.
00:50:37.93\00:50:42.94
This is bible study
00:50:42.94\00:50:44.81
and so will welcome to your
average. Haven't is permitted.
00:50:44.81\00:50:48.41
This is what we do. He said
this is this is fine. We want
00:50:48.41\00:50:51.28
to keep doing this but we
want to pray. Sacrificial.
00:50:51.28\00:50:55.92
I looked at them. I said you
really want to play sacrificial
00:50:55.92\00:50:58.75
Lee said, oh, yes, passed.
We do. So I'll tell you what,
00:50:58.75\00:51:02.56
this Sunday at the church
at 04:00AM. See you there.
00:51:02.56\00:51:07.23
You should see their eyes
00:51:07.23\00:51:09.26
to myself. There's not
going to be anyone there.
00:51:12.33\00:51:15.47
We're going to prayer meeting
by myself and I'll see you at
00:51:15.47\00:51:17.34
the next meeting of the lake.
Where were you? So tonight I
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got up at 3
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to be there at 4, expecting to
be mice by myself, open up the
00:51:22.24\00:51:25.58
doors and settle down, have
miler per meeting by myself at
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04:00AM on Sunday morning.
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.32
A few minutes
before for our doors open
00:51:30.32\00:51:34.36
and in walked
00:51:34.36\00:51:35.86
a line blood shot. I church
members with disheveled hair
00:51:35.86\00:51:40.10
never saw before like
that in my life. They came in.
00:51:40.10\00:51:45.03
They said, pastor, where
here, let's do this. Praise God.
00:51:45.03\00:51:49.44
I said, all right.
Let's do this. And so we pray
00:51:49.44\00:51:53.31
for one thing, the holy spirit.
00:51:53.31\00:51:55.78
And we said, Lord change the
world and let it begin with me.
00:51:55.78\00:52:00.62
But it begin with me. And
it was a beautiful time and we
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prayed like that for 6 months.
We eventually moved to 07:00AM.
00:52:02.95\00:52:06.92
we remember that time and
for the entire duration there,
00:52:06.92\00:52:10.23
we would pray for the
Holy Spirit and revival in that
00:52:10.23\00:52:13.66
community of faith from 79
am every Sunday morning for the
00:52:13.66\00:52:17.33
next 7 years. Now
is there's past year
00:52:17.33\00:52:20.17
and I and I saw the
Lord's work. Their hearts.
00:52:20.17\00:52:26.07
One of them was was this
00:52:26.07\00:52:28.21
Chinese student that came
over as an atheist from China.
00:52:28.21\00:52:31.91
Just a bus stop
00:52:31.91\00:52:33.35
met. One of our students
have gotten fire for the Lord.
00:52:33.35\00:52:35.62
Jesus got a Bible study
card. Long story short. She was
00:52:35.62\00:52:39.69
baptized.
00:52:39.69\00:52:41.69
Baptize came to this came to
00:52:41.69\00:52:44.29
that that church as an atheist
00:52:44.29\00:52:46.39
and went back to China as
a 7 day Adventists Christians
00:52:46.39\00:52:50.37
praise God glory be does name.
I didn't know anything. I know
00:52:50.37\00:52:53.47
what I was doing. I just knew
where to get the bread. That's
00:52:53.47\00:52:56.04
it. That's it.
00:52:56.04\00:52:59.01
Those another student
00:52:59.01\00:53:00.58
that started coming to
church. He was a jazz musician
00:53:00.58\00:53:04.85
and the son of a
Baptist preacher.
00:53:04.85\00:53:07.82
And it's a Bible study.
And Daniel to from one of our
00:53:07.82\00:53:09.92
students, he says, and
your Bible scholar, he says I've
00:53:09.92\00:53:12.75
never heard anything
like this starts coming out
00:53:12.75\00:53:15.56
except the 7th
00:53:15.56\00:53:17.16
because the stat he
scared. He says, Dad,
00:53:17.16\00:53:20.73
I feel impress, joins
07:00PM in the church.
00:53:20.73\00:53:23.60
Is that for his lawyer
says I want you to follow your
00:53:23.60\00:53:26.50
convictions.
00:53:26.50\00:53:28.27
He becomes baptized.
00:53:28.27\00:53:30.01
He says my office
a little while later.
00:53:30.01\00:53:32.64
He says, Pastor, I can't do
this anymore. I can't be a jazz
00:53:32.64\00:53:35.91
musician.
00:53:35.91\00:53:38.71
But he said if I if I
leave this program, I lose
00:53:38.71\00:53:42.82
everything.
00:53:42.82\00:53:45.29
I said, well, just pray
about it. All the convictions.
00:53:45.29\00:53:48.19
He walks over the university
drops out of the program.
00:53:48.19\00:53:51.09
I feel responsible.
00:53:51.09\00:53:52.73
The church
00:53:52.73\00:53:54.73
Ayers him as a Bible worker.
00:53:54.73\00:53:56.67
He's now a pastor in
the Pacific Northwest.
00:53:56.67\00:54:00.84
7 families preacher
praise be to his name
00:54:00.84\00:54:04.97
and I saw something else.
The Lord puts his money where
00:54:04.97\00:54:08.61
his mouth this
00:54:08.61\00:54:12.55
after that
00:54:12.55\00:54:14.28
every year, the church and did
with the surplus in the church
00:54:14.28\00:54:19.35
budget and we were able to hire
locally an associate pastor Web
00:54:19.35\00:54:23.19
pastor, I mean, who has a
Web pastor Web pastor, a Bible
00:54:23.19\00:54:26.70
worker all locally hired and we
were ending the year $30,000 in
00:54:26.70\00:54:32.57
the surplus. After that,
00:54:32.57\00:54:35.17
the Holy Spirit given by fate
brings all other blessings in
00:54:35.17\00:54:40.31
its train
00:54:40.31\00:54:41.84
and all glory
00:54:41.84\00:54:44.85
to God.
00:54:44.85\00:54:46.78
A revival of true godliness
among us is the greatest and
00:54:46.78\00:54:50.19
most urgent of all their needs
to seek. This should be our
00:54:50.19\00:54:56.06
first work.
00:54:56.06\00:54:59.43
Those pastor,
00:54:59.43\00:55:01.83
the sun was out of the church
00:55:01.83\00:55:04.53
and as the sun is going out
to go to the club's one night,
00:55:04.53\00:55:07.47
he heard a voice
in the other room.
00:55:07.47\00:55:09.74
So before going
out, he tiptoed over
00:55:09.74\00:55:12.34
to listen to that voice.
00:55:12.34\00:55:14.64
You know, as the
voice of his father praying,
00:55:14.64\00:55:18.35
his father's voice is saying
00:55:18.35\00:55:21.78
if you my son,
00:55:21.78\00:55:23.89
I want my son back.
00:55:23.89\00:55:25.49
>> Lord Save my son. Please
save my son. Give me my son.
00:55:25.49\00:55:35.16
Touch the side of that. Touched
the heart of that young man
00:55:35.16\00:55:38.83
with tears in his eyes.
He said, look, I can't go out
00:55:38.83\00:55:40.97
there anymore. He went back in
00:55:40.97\00:55:43.30
and then go clubbing that night.
00:55:43.30\00:55:45.61
Later on, he would give
his heart to the Lord. Jesus
00:55:45.61\00:55:50.21
became an
evangelist for the Lord.
00:55:50.21\00:55:53.48
There is power
00:55:53.48\00:55:57.59
and we can see Kim's every
single day. Great controversy
00:55:57.59\00:56:02.09
for 64 says there will be among
the people of the Lord, such a
00:56:02.09\00:56:05.89
revival of primitive godliness
as has not been witness since
00:56:05.89\00:56:11.47
at hostile at
times and that day.
00:56:11.47\00:56:17.04
And we can say Lord
00:56:17.04\00:56:18.84
change the world
00:56:18.84\00:56:21.24
and let it begin with
00:56:21.24\00:56:23.71
let it begin with us.
00:56:23.71\00:56:25.71
And there's a prayer that we
should pray every single day.
00:56:25.71\00:56:29.25
We're told the book steps to
Christ Consecrate yourself to
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God in the morning. Make
this your very first works. Lord
00:56:32.32\00:56:36.36
take me is wholly died. I
lay on my plans at your feet.
00:56:36.36\00:56:40.46
Pray that prayer every single
day and we can pray prayer and
00:56:40.46\00:56:44.07
say Lord, help me willing
00:56:44.07\00:56:46.97
to be made willing.
00:56:46.97\00:56:48.47
We can pray that for too little
give me the desire to desire.
00:56:48.47\00:56:53.21
Repentance is a gift and we can
go before got every single day.
00:56:53.21\00:56:57.11
Pray that prayer of surrender
and say, Lord, take my heart
00:56:57.11\00:57:01.82
because I can't get it.
00:57:01.82\00:57:04.52
You have that desire here
today. How many would say Lord
00:57:04.52\00:57:07.32
help me with my prayer life by
the grace of God. Let us pray.
00:57:07.32\00:57:10.53
Father in heaven.
00:57:10.53\00:57:12.19
Thank you
00:57:12.19\00:57:13.33
that you give us the desire
to desire. May you work in our
00:57:13.33\00:57:17.23
lives, both the will and to do
of your good pleasure, helpless
00:57:17.23\00:57:21.67
father by your grace. The
spirit is willing, but the
00:57:21.67\00:57:24.81
flesh this week, we thank
you that your grace covers us
00:57:24.81\00:57:28.28
help us to have a
deeper desire for you.
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>> We asked the 6
in the precious name
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of Jesus Christ
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