Sometimes I think we
get lazy with our praying.
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Perhaps we assume that
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once we've prayed,
we've done our part
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and the rest is up to God
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and that's partially true,
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but there are a
couple of other things
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that we're instructed to do.
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Watch and pray.
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That phrase occurs
often in the Bible.
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Watching means
keeping on the alert.
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God expects us to
use the senses He gave us
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led by the Holy Spirit,
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so that we can detect
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when our enemy is
beginning to work.
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Watch and pray.
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In Nehemiah 4:9.
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It says,
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"Nevertheless, we
made our prayer unto God
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and set a watch."
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Yes, they
prayed and trusted God.
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Then they positioned
guards to be on the lookout
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for the enemy.
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Watch and pray.
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Another thing we're instructed
to do is to keep on praying,
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persevere, stick
to it, don't quit.
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Perseverance in prayer
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doesn't mean we're
praying to manipulate
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or twist God's arm,
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but that we're so
deeply concerned and burdened
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that we can't rest
until God answer us.
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Have you ever considered that
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you may have stopped praying
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just before God was
about to give the victory?
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Well, in Acts 12, we read that
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the early church
prayed without ceasing
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when Peter was in prison.
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And at the last moment,
God gave them their answer.
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Keep on praying
until the Spirit stops you
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or the Father answers you.
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Savior,
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Savior
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Hear our humble cry
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While on others
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Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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We'll sing that again.
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Savior,
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Savior
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Hear my humble cry
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While on others
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Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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It's my privilege to
welcome a dear friend of mine
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to Pause to Pray, Donald Owen.
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Yes, sir.
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You are in the
pastoral staff here at 3ABN.
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So I'm sure that a lot of people
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that are watching
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if they've called
in to receive prayer,
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you've probably been the
voice that they've heard.
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Yes.
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It's been a
pleasure to be able to,
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you know in prayer,
this is a powerful thing.
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This lady, Ellen
White, she wrote that,
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"Prayer doesn't
bring God down to us,
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but it brings us up to Him."
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Amen. Right. That's powerful.
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Yes, that is powerful.
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We are talking that
the Creator of the universe
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wants to hear from us.
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So yeah, we've
been so privileged
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to be able to pray
with folks around the world
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and hear their cry.
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We talked about
hear my humble cry.
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We hear that on
a day-to-day basis.
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So, yeah. Wow.
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Sure a lot of people
have heard this, my voice,
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but many others
like me, JD and Joe,
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and, of course, Mitch and Claude
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and also Louis so...
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Yeah, we have a
wonderful pastoral staff
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and what a great
ministry that 3ABN provides.
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Oh, people love it.
It's an outlet for them.
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Yeah, it is.
It's a great outlet.
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Be sure and stay tuned
to the end of the program,
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you'll be able to find out
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how you can submit your requests
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to pastoral staff.
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So I just want to start
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with a word of
thanksgiving to God.
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All right. And then
we'll pause to pray.
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Sure.
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Father God, I wanna
thank You for Your Word.
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The Word of God,
which is my delight.
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Right. Amen.
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I thank You for
the gift of life,
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the power of choice.
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I choose to
worship You, oh, Lord.
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I thank You
that You have made me
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like a tree
planted by rivers of water.
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I'm evergreen and
always fruitful, Lord.
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I thank You that You
prosper the works of my hands
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because of the
finished work of Jesus
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at the cross of Calvary.
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And I thank You that
You have made me righteous
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apart from my performance, Lord,
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I thank You that
You are God Almighty,
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and yet You care about me.
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And, Lord, I worship You.
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And I give you
the highest praise.
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Receive my
thanks in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Our Heavenly Father,
we're so thankful, Lord,
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for the opportunity that
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Jesus, You made a
way that we can pray.
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You said for us to come boldly
unto Your throne of grace,
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and we can have these
needs met in time of need.
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And we're here, Lord,
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talking to the
Creator of the universe.
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Who are we, but really dust.
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But You have called us, Lord,
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through the
precious blood of Jesus
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that we can press
into Your presence.
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We just ask that You will guide
and direct this prayer today,
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this prayer time,
where we will pause to pray,
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take time to speak
to the very one, Lord,
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who created us, who redeemed us,
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who owns us by
His precious blood.
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And souls may be
listening right now
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that maybe they don't
think prayer is really
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something important to them.
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But, Lord, it's again,
it's like talking to a friend.
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So we can put
confidence in that,
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we can trust You, Lord.
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We thank You.
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We ask this in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you.
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God, I believe that
You are our deliverer
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and I pray, Lord,
that You will deliver those
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who are bound by various fears.
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Lord, You've not
given us the spirit of fear,
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but of a sound mind.
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So I speak soundness of mind
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to those who are
burdened with fear.
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Grant us the wisdom,
Lord, to walk in Your Holy Word,
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that our minds
would always be on You,
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so that You would grant us
perfect peace in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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There's a wonderful scripture
that goes along with that.
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1 John 4:18 says that
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"Perfect love casts out
fear, the fear of torment."
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And the enemy
wants to torment us.
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It says, Satan's strengthening
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is to attack on us individual
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by using people around them,
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to influence them into anger.
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So praying that
God will intervene
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and send angels to
keep them strengthened.
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There's a wonderful scripture.
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Philippians 4:13 says,
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me."
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He can give us that power.
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Matthew 28:18 says
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"All power is given to
Him in heaven and earth."
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And if we truly trust in Christ,
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He will give us that strength
to overcome our adversary.
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Amen.
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I love the scripture
that says thou will keep me in
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or keep him in perfect
peace as I claim it for myself.
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Isaiah 26:3. Yeah.
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"Whose mind is stayed upon
Him because he trusts in Him."
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Right, amen. There's
a key, trust, important.
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Right. Yes, Lord.
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God, I pray protection to
surround this dear believer
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that you love
and others like them.
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Ooh, I pray the armor
of God over their life
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according to Ephesians 6:10-18.
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God, that we all
would be strong in You.
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And in the power of Your might
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that we would put on
the whole armor of God,
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that we may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
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He goes about
like a roaring lion
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seeking whom he may devour.
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1 Peter 5:10 tells us that
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Christ wants to strengthen
us, settle us and establish us.
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Praise the Lord.
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And we have that stability
only in His precious blood.
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So, Father, calls
us to remember that,
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we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood,
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but against
principalities, against powers,
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against the rulers of
the darkness of this age,
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against spiritual
hosts of wickedness
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in the heavenly places.
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Therefore we must
take up Your whole armor,
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God, that which
You have supplied,
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that we may be able to
withstand in the evil day
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and having done
all to stand firm.
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You've ordered us to
hide Your words of truths
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in our heart and mind.
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Psalm 118 or 119:11 says,
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"Thy word have I hid in my heart
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that I might not
sin against Thee."
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God, fill us with
the power of Your Spirit
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and help us to stand strong.
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Always remembering that
greater is He who is in us
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than he who is in the world.
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Praise the Lord. In Jesus' name.
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Amen. Thank you Lord.
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And, Father, I know that
there are many of our viewers
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who have been
going through surgery
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or they're
recuperating from surgery.
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Oh, healing God,
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I ask that there
will be minimal pain
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and quick healing
and no complications.
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Amen.
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Isaiah 53:5 declares that
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by the stripes of
Christ, we are healed.
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And, Lord, I'll even
lift up the family members
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of those who are
going through the surgeries
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that You will give them
the strength to stand by
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and be patient through
the healing process even.
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They will practice
the fruit of the Spirit
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in those trying
times, in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Lord there may be those
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who are mourning
the loss of loved ones,
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learning to live without them,
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that void in their life.
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Figuring out how to
go about the normal day.
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We just want to lift
them up to you, Lord.
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You know, it's hard
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when something that
You were so drawn to
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and used to is no longer there.
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You've grown to
be attached to that
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and now it's gone,
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but there's a wonderful promise
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I'm thinking in
1 Thessalonians 4
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that we will be reunited again.
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It promises that
we're gonna rise together
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to meet the Lord in the air.
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Praise the Lord.
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What a promise.
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Thank you, God.
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Be near the broken-hearted,
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comfort them with your
incomprehensible peace,
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reminding them
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that You will never
leave nor desert us.
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Thank you, Lord. Amen.
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Thank you, Lord.
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Precious, precious God,
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Lord, You know
that we as mankind,
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we've had a tendency
to do things our own way
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in order to
accommodate our schedules
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and our
preferences, our selfish lives.
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But Holy Spirit, I pray
that you would open our hearts
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to understand
God's plan of salvation,
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to be aware and
receptive to the fact that
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there is no
other way to know God
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than through Your Son,
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our risen Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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Heavenly Father, I just
think of those right now
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are sitting behind bars
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and don't know where to turn to.
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The pain that they've suffered,
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the darkness
that's been cast on them,
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the shadows that have
been swallowing them up.
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That they realize
they can cry out to You
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in the darkest of
night, and You will answer.
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I think of those who are
struggling with addictions
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and all the craziness
of this world and chaos.
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I just ask, Lord, You
give them a special touch
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to let them know how
much You really love them
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as a son or daughter of God
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and that they can be delivered
by the powerful name of Jesus.
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Thank you Lord. Amen. Thank you.
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That's powerful, Donald.
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Thank you for your heart.
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Amen.
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Amen. I love you, brother.
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Amen. Likewise.
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The scripture says
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"If you abide in Me
and My words abide in you,
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you will ask what you desire
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and it shall be done for you."
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That's in John 15:7.
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And Donald has been
such a wonderful inspiration
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as you've prayed.
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You've prayed the scripture.
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Those words are in you.
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His Holy Word is in you.
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Amen. God is good.
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Amen. All the time.
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Savior,
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Savior
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Hear my humble cry
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While on others Thou art calling
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Do not pass me by
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Do not pass me by
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I wanna thank
you for taking time
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to Pause and Pray.
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Amen.
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Remember, we have
no greater privilege
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in this world
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than to spend time
with our Father in prayer.
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Amen.
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