Welcome to day one
of, Ten Days of Prayer;
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a prayer strategy from
the Revival and Reformation
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initiative of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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I invite you to join me for the
next ten days for thirty minutes
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of praise and prayer as we seek
God for a deeper experience.
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As Paul wrote to
the church at Ephesus,
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my prayer for you
during this ten days of prayer
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is that God would grant
you, according to the riches of
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His glory, to be strengthened
with might through His Spirit
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in the inner man, that
Christ may dwell in your hearts
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through faith, that you being
rooted and grounded in love
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may be able to
comprehend with all the saints
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what is the width and
length and depth and height
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to know the love of
Christ, which passes knowledge,
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that you may be filled
with all the fullness of God.
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Do you know that God
loves you unconditionally?
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You have a heavenly Father
that claims you as His child.
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Therefore, you are a son or a
daughter of the Most High God,
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the King of kings.
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At certain times in our
lives we all need assurance
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that we are loved and accepted.
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Thoughts from the Mount
of Blessing, page 119 says,
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"Live in contact
with the living Christ,
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and He will hold you firmly by
a hand that will never let go.
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Know and believe the
love that God has to us,
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and you are secure.
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That love is a fortress
impregnable to all the delusions
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and assaults of Satan."
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Proverbs 18:10 says, "The name
of the Lord is a strong tower:
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the righteous run
to it, and are safe."
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There's the wonder
of sunset at evening,
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the wonder as sunrise I see;
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but the wonder of
wonders that thrills my soul
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is the wonder that God loves me.
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O, the wonder of it all!
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The wonder of it all!
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Just to think that God loves me.
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O, the wonder of it all!
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The wonder of it all!
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Just to think that God loves me.
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There's the wonder of
springtime and harvest,
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the sky, the stars, the sun;
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But the wonder of
wonders that thrills my soul
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is the wonder
that has only begun.
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O, the wonder of it all!
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The wonder of it all!
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Just to think that God loves me.
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O, the wonder of it all!
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The wonder of it all!
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Just to think that God loves me.
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Father, we praise
You for loving us.
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And Lord, You loved us first.
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Before we knew You, before
we knew anything about You,
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You loved us.
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And Lord, I praise
You that You have loved us
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with an everlasting
love that will never end.
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And with a loving
kindness You have drawn us,
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drawn us to Yourself, Lord.
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Lord, we praise You
for Your unfailing care.
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Oh how You love and
care so much for us.
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It's proven in the
way You provide for us,
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and the way You
watch out for us.
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Lord, we thank You and we
praise You for caring for us.
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And Lord, we praise
You for Your healing power.
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Father, such a power
that we can't even imagine.
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Such a power that
can heal our sicknesses,
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a power that can
reach across the world and
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just do amazing things, God.
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Anything that You
have in mind, Lord,
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that's what You can do.
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You have the power.
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And we thank You
that through prayer
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we have the opportunity to come
to You and praise You, Lord.
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So we want to give You praise.
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And can it be that I should gain
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an interest in
the Savior's blood?
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Died He for me
who caused His pain;
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for me who Him to death pursued.
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Amazing love, how can it be
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that Thou, my
God, should die for me?
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Amazing love, how can it be
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that Thou, my
God, should die for me?
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No condemnation now I dread;
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Jesus, and all in Him, is mine.
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Alive in Him, my living Head,
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and clothed in
righteousness divine.
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Bold I approach
the eternal throne,
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and claim the crown,
through Christ my own.
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Amazing love, how can it be
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that Thou, my
God, should die for me?
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Lord, I ask that
You would forgive us
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for our sin that
has kept us from a
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deeper experience with You.
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Lord, I invite
You to search my heart
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and remind me and
convict me of the things
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that aren't pleasing to
You and that just stink to You.
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Lord, I want to be pure.
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I want to be pure in Your eyes.
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And for you at home, I
invite you to take a few moments
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and to ask the Holy
Spirit to search your heart
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and reveal any sin that
you need to confess to God.
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Anything that is separating
you from a fellowship with Him.
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So just take a few
moments to do that.
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Lord, we pray as Paul
did in Ephesians 3:17-19
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that You will find a
permanent home in our hearts
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as we learn to trust You.
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Lord, that our
roots will go down deeply
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into the soul of Your love.
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Lord, that we will understand
the width and the length
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and the depth and the
height of Your love to us.
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And Lord, that we will be
filled with all Your fullness;
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everything that You have for us.
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For that is our prayer.
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And Lord, we pray that You
will fill us with Your love
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and make us
passionate about loving and
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leading others to Jesus.
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God, we pray for
families whose world is
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full of chaos and
sorrow and confusion.
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Lord, we don't always understand
why these things go on,
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but I pray that
You will be the Healer.
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Lord, I pray that You will
bless the hundreds of thousands
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of outreach activities
around the world in 2019.
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God, You've put it
upon our hearts to be active
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and to be busy, to
the ends of the earth.
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We want to be faithful,
to go and spread the Word,
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spread the great gospel message.
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And so, Lord, especially
for the Total Member Involvement
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evangelism efforts
that are going to take place
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this year in India and
next year in Papau New Guinea.
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Lord, I pray for those workers.
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And I pray that You will
call in and place upon hearts
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the urgency to be
spreading the gospel.
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And God, I pray
for Adventist members,
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for Christian missionaries
all around the world,
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who face
persecution or imprisonment
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because of their beliefs.
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God, I think of
missionary pastors who have
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been arrested
because they didn't give up,
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they didn't stop
preaching the gospel message,
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even though they knew it
was maybe against the law
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in their country.
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But God, You've
given them a boldness.
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And now I pray, God, that
You would minister to them
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right where they are.
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And Lord, for their families
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who are waiting for
You to act on their behalf.
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God.
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We know that
there's a price to pay.
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So I pray, oh God, that
You would please touch those
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missionaries that
are facing persecution.
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And Lord, I pray
for a spiritual revival
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among Seventh-day
Adventist young people,
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and for Christian students
who attend public colleges
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and universities worldwide.
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God, recently at GYC
I got to see firsthand
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the heart that You've
given these young people
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to follow hard
after You and to serve You
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with everything that is in them.
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Lord, I pray that You will
give them a special boldness
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to be vibrant
ambassadors for You, Lord.
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God, I pray for the
69% of earth's population
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who have not received an
unclouded presentation of Jesus.
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God, it's so easy to
get consumed and lost in my
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little world here
in the United States
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and to forget that
there are people who haven't
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heard about You.
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Lord, I pray that You
would fill me, oh God,
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with compassion for the lost.
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Oh God, send workers.
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We know that the
fields are white unto harvest.
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But the laborers seem few.
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Lord, I pray for those that
You've placed on our hearts.
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Lord, for those who are watching
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and joining in as I pray,
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no doubt they have people
who they would long to see
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won to Your kingdom.
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So Lord, I lift them up.
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May those people be open
to allowing Your Holy Spirit
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to work in their lives.
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Father, Your Word reminds
me that You have loved Me
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with an everlasting love.
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And with everlasting
love You have drawn me.
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So Father, I pray that
You would draw all men to You
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till the whole world knows.
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So for those of
you who are at home,
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if God has laid
someone on your heart,
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if you have a neighbor,
if you have a family member,
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that you want to see won
to the Savior, led to Him,
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just spend a moment
praying for that dear loved one.
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Father, for those who have
joined me in our time together,
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no doubt there are
many needs represented.
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So Lord, I pray that
You would meet these needs,
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the physical needs,
the spiritual needs,
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Father, for financial
needs, and emotional needs.
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Lord, we know that You own
the cattle on a thousand hills,
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that there is
nothing too great for You,
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no need too great.
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So we lay our
needs at Your feet.
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And we ask that You
would meet them according to
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Your riches and glory.
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And we say, thank You.
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We say, thank You, Lord.
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Thank You for
hearing our prayer, God.
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Thank You for saving us, Lord.
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Thank You for giving us
the promise that You will
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never leave us or forsake us.
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Thank You, God,
for hearing our prayer.
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For loving us,
Lord, we thank You.
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We bless Your name, oh God.
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Thank You for those who loved
us and cared enough about us
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to pray for us that we
would come to know You.
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I remember my
grandma would tell me of
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the many hours she spend
praying for me and my cousins
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and her children.
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So that You, Lord, that we've
been praying all these years.
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Thank You for those
saints who have prayed for us.
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Amen?
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And thank You, God,
that You had Your hand
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over me before I
was ever even born.
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Your Word says when I
was in the womb, You knew me.
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Father, I thank You
for sending Your Son
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to die a
sacrificial death for me.
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It's such love
I can never repay.
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And I thank You,
Lord, for knowing my need,
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for knowing the
needs of our viewers,
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for hearing our prayers,
and for answering our prayers
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according to Your
will for our lives.
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God, I'm grateful.
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So grateful.
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Thank You.
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Just continue to thank Him.
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We have so much
to be thankful for.
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We could never thank Him enough.
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We bless You,
Lord, we thank You, Lord,
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for all that You've
done, for all that You are.
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For all You're going
to do, we thank You, Lord.
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We love You, Lord.
We praise Your name.
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I will sing of Jesus' love,
sing of Him who first loved me;
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for He left bright worlds
above, and died on Calvary.
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I will sing of Jesus' love,
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endless praise
my heart shall give.
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He has died that I might live.
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I will sing His love to me.
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O the depths of love divine!
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Earth or heaven can never know
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how that sins as dark as mine
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can be made as white as snow.
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I will sing of Jesus' love,
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endless praise
my heart shall give.
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He has died that I might live.
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I will sing His love to me.
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Nothing good for Him I've done.
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How could He such love bestow?
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Lord, I own my heart is won;
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help me now my love to show.
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I will sing of Jesus' love,
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endless praise
my heart shall give.
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He has died that I might live.
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I will sing His love to me.
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Bless the Lord.
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So now for the next few
days through the 19th of January
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I invite you to come back where
we will meet just like this.
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Our only purpose when we
get together will be to pray,
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to sing, sing praises, and
then to confess our sin to God.
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Then we'll have a time of
supplication and intercession.
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Then we'll sing some more.
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We'll sing thanksgiving to God
for having heard our prayers.
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So that's our purpose.
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Each night we'll
meet for 30 minutes.
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So bring your needs, create
a prayer list of your own.
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And also I
encourage you to go to...
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...where there are
some great resources
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and an outline
that you can follow
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exactly like what I'm following.
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Some of them
are church specific,
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Adventist specific.
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Some of them just
your neighbor specific.
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Whatever you feel like you need,
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whatever God has laid on
your heart to pray about.
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That's the
beautiful thing about prayer.
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It's a personal relationship,
personal conversation.
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There's no right or wrong way.
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God just wants to hear from you.
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How long has it been
since you maybe took time?
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And now as this
new year has started,
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this is a perfect opportunity
to just surrender your heart
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to Him and to pray.
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The world is full of needs.
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So let's just take these
next couple of minutes and
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continue to pray,
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continue to thank
Him for His goodness.
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Lord, how we love You.
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You've been so good to us.
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Don't forget that God loves you
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with an everlasting love.
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He's never going
to give up on you.
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He is a faithful Father.
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And He just
wants to hear from you.
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I pray that over the next
24 hours until we meet again,
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that you will remember
and walk in that precious love
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Oh, how He loves you!
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He really does.
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God bless you.
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