Hi, and welcome to Day
2 of 10 Days of Prayer.
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My friend Donald
Owen is joining me today.
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He serves in the
pastoral department
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at 3ABN, and it's a
pleasure to have him.
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He and I are here to
remind you to pause to pray.
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In Ephesians 3:18,
the Apostle Paul prayed
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that we might be
able to comprehend
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how wide and long
and high and how deep
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is the love of Christ.
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But how can we experience
the fullness of God's love?
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Well, in Ephesians 3,
the Apostle Paul prays
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that we would be
spiritually energized
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by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Imagine yourself being
plugged in to the Holy Spirit
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as your power source, energized.
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The result is that we experience
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the fullness of God's love.
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He gives us the power to
grasp how wide and long and high
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and how deep is
the love of Christ.
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But is it really
humanly possible to fully grasp
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the love,
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because His love always
stays a step ahead of us.
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Well, in the story of
the prodigal son in Luke 15,
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we hear the full
story of salvation,
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the repentance and
confession of the sinner,
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the father who longingly waits,
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and the joyous
welcome when he returned.
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As the son went
back to his father,
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so we too can return
to the unconditional love
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of our Heavenly Father,
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He will not fail to welcome you.
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Only when the son returned,
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could the father
pour out all his love.
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Only then was the
son open to receiving
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all that his
father wanted to offer.
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At last,
nothing stood in the way
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of their intimate relationship,
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and the son could experience
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the complete
goodness of his father,
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who had never
stopped waiting for him
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all along.
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We experienced the
complete fullness of God's love,
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only by living in full
daily surrender to Christ,
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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And when God's
love fills our lives,
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we become channels
of His love to others.
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The more we give,
the more we receive.
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And today, I encourage
you to plug into Christ,
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and let His love dwell in you.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the Chosen One
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Bring many sons
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To glory
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Donald, when I think
of the love of Christ,
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that He would give
His life, the love of God,
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that He would give His Son.
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And then when Christ left
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the love that He
had to want to continue
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our walk with Him,
and He knew that he,
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you know, to do it individually,
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there would be no way He
could go around the world
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and meet each
person individually.
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So He sent the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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So I love that He
left the Holy Spirit
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to speak to us daily.
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And I love that we
have that privilege,
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that opportunity to invite
the Holy Spirit into our lives.
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So I welcome you, Donald,
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to just jump in
and begin to pray.
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Sure.
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And let's just...
Have a word of prayer.
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Have a word of
prayer. That's good.
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Our Heavenly Father we
are, as Tim says, so thankful.
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What an amazing gift
that You have given us,
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the precious life of
Your Son in our place.
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But more than that,
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You've poured out
even a greater gift.
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That is the gift
of Your love in that,
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I guess I'll say it the Godhead.
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All three of you are working
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for the advancement of humanity.
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The Holy Spirit, Lord,
You send to comfort us,
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to guide us, to
direct us, to lead us
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into those gates one day soon,
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and where we can have that rest
and assurance that blessed hope
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that we will one day,
Lord, see You face to face.
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Thank you for sending the
Holy Spirit for guiding us,
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for directing us
and for helping us,
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Lord, to conquer that
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which we cannot
conquer of ourselves
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that you can conquer through us.
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We ask that
You'll guide each one
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that's viewing this
program, listening to it, Lord,
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that You'll prompt their hearts
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to realize who they are
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and how precious
they are in Your sight
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and how You've
called them and chosen them,
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how You are going to
pour all Your Spirit in them,
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Your Word in Matthew 5:6 says,
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"Blessed are they
that do hunger and thirst
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after righteousness,
for they shall be filled."
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We're hungering and
thirsting after Christ
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and you will fill us
with Your Holy Spirit.
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We thank You, Lord, we
ask this in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Wow.
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Thank you, Lord.
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We have so many people.
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And I know You
know, all too well,
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from working in pastoral,
the calls that you receive,
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the needs, we
are a needy people.
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But we serve a
mighty God who is able,
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and willing and loving
and caring, and He delights
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in giving good
gifts to His children,
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gifts of healing,
gifts of blessings.
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So we are grateful, oh
God, for Your goodness.
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I want to just
read some requests,
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and I'll hand it back to you.
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A viewer writes in and says,
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"Please pray that God will
end a destructive relationship
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in my daughter's life."
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Oh Lord, I pray that
You would give us wisdom
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to see the dangers of
being connected with people
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who are not necessarily
they're not good for us.
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But, Father, even then I pray
that You will give us the heart
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and the
compassion to pray for them.
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But, Lord, I pray that
sometimes we have a mentality
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that we can make it work,
we can be the exception, God.
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Sometimes love is a blind thing.
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And it thinks that it can
do more than it really can.
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But, Lord, above all,
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we ask God that You
would touch this relationship
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in this mother
who sees her daughter
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in a situation
that she's despairing.
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So, God, I pray that
You would truly touch
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all of our relationships.
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Fill us with
love for each other,
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in our
relationships, in our marriages,
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in our work relationships,
God make things right
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that we've allowed
things to get in between us,
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even, again with
our co-workers, Lord.
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There's so many
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when we are
relating to each other,
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that is the, one
of the greatest things
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that we have in life.
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So, Lord, we want
purity and wholeness
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in our relationships.
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How about you?
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I'm just thinking about
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all the stress in
this world right now.
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A lot of people are stressed,
a lot of people are angry.
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And I'm thinking about
this concept of God's love
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and it's the antidote for anger.
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Right.
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And so I guess I'll, I'd like
to lift up the Lord in prayer.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Heavenly Father, you know,
this world can press us down.
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It can shake us.
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It can try to break us.
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But Your love, Lord.
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Your love is strong.
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It says a three-fold
cord is not easily broken.
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Psalm 46:10 says,
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"Be still and
know that I am God."
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How do we know you?
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We're so immersed
in anger and confusion.
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We can cry out
to you and cry help
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just like Peter
did, help save me.
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We can cry out to You, Lord,
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You will be there at a moment's
notice just quickly there.
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So we ask, Lord, for those
who are struggling right now
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with the concept of
love, maybe don't feel love,
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maybe don't know what
love is or see the concept.
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It's a broken, jaded word,
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this word "love"
now in this world,
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but when we read
Your word "love,"
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we see a different picture.
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So, Lord, I ask
that You'll guide
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and direct those that
are in these relationships,
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these hurts, these
pains, these anger,
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that You'll touch
and mend their souls
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with the love of Christ,
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we ask this in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Someone writes in and says,
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"Please pray for my
protection and safety
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as I work in the
Lord's vineyard."
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Lord, we know
that You have chosen
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and called men and
women to be missionaries,
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and pastors and teachers,
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Father, to proclaim Your Word.
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And we thank You for the wisdom
that You give these people
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that have committed their lives
to You to studying Your Word
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and to seeking out
Your heart and the answers.
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God, I pray that
You will protect them,
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that You will grant them favor.
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Grant them favor with the people
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that they are the
missionaries, Lord,
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the people that
they are ministering to.
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Oh God, I just ask
that You will touch hearts
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and use these men and women,
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protect them from persecution.
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Father God, have Your
holy way in Jesus' name.
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This one writes,
"Prayer for my grandchildren
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who grew up in a
church but have departed
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and want
nothing to do with God."
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Yeah, I think about that is sad.
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I know, as a
parent, I'm not a parent.
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But as a parent,
I can only imagine
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that when you see your children
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straying away from
something that can heal you,
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that can touch you,
that can help you have hope.
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It's got to be heart wrenching.
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So, Heavenly Father,
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we just want to lift up
this family before You today.
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You know, the sadness,
what will come that day
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when we look outside
that city, that New Jerusalem,
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when we see our loved ones
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who declined to
take that invitation.
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They declined it, Lord.
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And now they're sitting outside
wishing they could get in,
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wishing that they
had made that choice.
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Lord, it's a season of regret.
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And if we just
make that choice now,
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today is a day of salvation.
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"If you hear my
voice, hard not your hearts,"
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I'm asking, Lord, they
want to harden their hearts.
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But they'll listen
to that invitation.
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And that that those
lost souls, lost sheep,
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Lord, will be
added into Your fold.
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We thank You, Lord, and
ask in Jesus' name, amen.
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There are people
who are in need of work.
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People who are
struggling financially.
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Father, we thank You that
You are the great provider.
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Lord, I know that You are able
to pair up a job with a worker.
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And thank You that
You care that You provide
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all of our needs according
to Your riches and glory,
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we know that You own it all.
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So, God, I pray that
You will open the door,
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that You will make it obvious...
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for that person to walk
through and grant them favor
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with their employer that
would increase their pay.
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And, Lord, above all,
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I ask that You will
grant us good stewardship,
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that we would be
faithful with the money
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and the
blessings that You give us
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that we would be givers.
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Lord, I love the
way Your kingdom works.
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Wow.
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Amen.
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One more prayer?
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Yes.
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Lord, I'm just
asking this person writes,
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pray for those
with severe depression.
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How many right
now, Lord, do we see
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on this
environment we're in today.
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Our lost, Lord, are
struggling to make ends meet.
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Don't know where the
money is coming from,
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don't know how to
put food on the table,
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don't know if
they can even pay rent
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or afford to live in a house
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they've made a nest
or a home and, Lord,
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You've told us
that You will provide.
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I think of this
scripture in Psalm 103:3,
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it says, "You
forgiveth all our iniquities,
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You healeth all our diseases."
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And that, You can
heal our mental anguish.
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You can strengthen our resolve.
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You can help buoy us up
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in this time of
uncertainty and darkness.
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That when we look to Jesus,
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we see the light and
that light is in Your Son
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who can give us that strength
to keep pressing forward,
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and we thank You and
ask this in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Come back for Day 3 tomorrow,
keeping a spirit of prayer.
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