Participants: Richard O'Ffill, Kathy Matthews
Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000157
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00:32 Welcome to Thinking About Home.
00:33 I am Kathy Matthews, and our guest today 00:35 is Richard O'Ffill from the Florida Conference of 00:38 Seventh-day Adventist. He has been with us 00:41 for a little series now, and we are happy to 00:43 have him back again. 00:44 We have a lot of fun together. 00:46 Yes, we sure do and we've been talking about 00:50 our children mostly not our little children. 00:52 We've been talking about mostly our grown 00:54 children maybe our teens and what happens 00:57 when they get married, and what happens 01:00 when they got off the road, yes, 01:02 and maybe they leave the Lord. 01:03 Really want all the pain that's involved 01:04 during that time. And I've been telling about 01:06 my own story that Betty and I've been through 01:10 and having a prodigal who was a drug addict 01:13 and actually an alcoholic, and all the 01:17 feeling that this brings forth. Now and we have 01:21 the pray for ten years for Dan. We had to pray 01:23 for ten years and the grief that we suffered 01:26 raising a little grand daughter, and I'm sure 01:29 that we are not alone that we are not alone 01:31 that there is many who've gone through the 01:34 similar things. You did a lot of praying. 01:37 Do you know when you, when you go through 01:39 an experience I'm sure you found in your life 01:42 that's, that's difficult you can't stay the way 01:47 you were, no, no. I think that the trouble 01:51 and trial in our lives, changes us, 01:53 one way or another, yes, you see if some people, 01:56 but it changes us. Well definitely it can drive us 01:58 away from God. You can become bitter or better, 02:03 that was profound. Someone told me that 02:06 once upon a time. And in this program, 02:08 we want to talk about prayer because I think 02:11 that at one point that prayer is the way 02:17 or is the vehicle through which God gives us 02:20 the strength to be able to go through 02:23 these things. Now, we're gonna talk about 02:25 lots of things about prayer in the program. 02:27 Today the title is Lord Teach us to Pray, 02:29 Lord Teach us to Pray, and it occurred 02:31 to me yesterday, we were talking with some 02:33 of our friends about prayer you know, yes. 02:35 And I thought to myself, there must be a better 02:39 way to say this that prayer is not an end 02:44 in itself but it's a means to an end that 02:47 could we say that prayer is kind of like 02:50 the plumbing, its the pipe through which the 02:54 Holy Spirit flows into our lives, the avenue, 02:58 avenue that's much more you know distinguished, 03:02 but in a way when you think of water 03:07 I mean you know Jesus, He is the living water 03:10 that prayer is the opening of the heart 03:12 to Him, yes, it's the key in the hand of faith. 03:16 But when I think about prayer it seems to me 03:19 Kathy that, that prayer is not so much 03:24 to change God you know it's just if, 03:26 I've got to convinced God to be forgiving, 03:29 yes, or I've got to convince God to be 03:32 compassionate, right, I think is the other 03:35 way around. If we feel like that we've got 03:36 a wrong concept of his character. 03:37 Well because, because really prayer is the way 03:41 in which we get to be like Him, it's not that 03:44 we are the good guys trying to make 03:45 Him like us. He is the long suffering 03:48 in gracious and, we are the one in need, 03:51 we are the one that needs a change. 03:53 A prayer is very much in these days you know 03:55 it's kind of become it's the spiritual discipline 03:58 de jour as we say de jour, so de jour. 04:02 And so any, I remember though back about 14, no 04:07 even 18 years ago, book came out call the 04:10 ABC's of prayer it was about the only one 04:12 you could ever find. That was about 04:13 all that was, but it's not the way anymore 04:16 I wrote a book called transforming prayer, 04:18 yes, and prayer books are really everywhere. 04:21 But I'm gonna in this program I am going 04:24 to sort of tilt to one side, and I would like 04:28 to tell our viewers in advanced that I don't 04:33 mean to take away of from any good thing 04:36 about prayer. Prayer is so wide and so deep 04:40 and so high that nobody can pick up you know 04:45 it's like picking up a grain of sand from the 04:47 beaches, this is the beach. So, so we can't 04:52 get to the place where we say this is real prayer, 04:54 you do it this way, but I do think that we do 04:58 run the, the risk of seeing prayer as a technique, 05:03 have you ever thought about that? 05:04 Yes. I think it's got to the place where you know 05:10 we are so anxious and so desperate to get out 05:13 of our problems that we get to the place 05:17 well just teach me to pray, just teach me 05:18 what to say, if I can just pull all the levers, 05:21 and push all the buttons that God will give 05:23 me answers, then God will answer. 05:24 I had a story that if you probably heard me 05:26 tell before and maybe even some of the viewers 05:29 have heard me tell this story that happened 05:30 to me in Bangladesh, and I was doing some summer 05:34 school over there, and so one afternoon a lady 05:39 came to the compound where I was staying 05:43 and she announced that the devil was about 05:46 to kill her daughter, and she wanted us to come 05:49 and pray you know to kind of exorcism you know, 05:52 yes, you've heard of that. And this was a 05:56 Christian family and they had made some kind 05:59 of in fact a deal with Hindu priest 06:04 or something, and in the deal have promised 06:09 that if their daughter would get well, 06:11 they would pay 1 pound of sugar for each 06:14 pound of her body weight. Well, she got well but 06:18 they didn't pay, there were too poor 06:21 and so I don't know how long the time pass maybe 06:25 a couple of weeks she had gone across the river 06:27 to visit her uncle, and so one morning when the 06:30 little girl's went to the well to get some water 06:33 this apparition, this evil spirit comes out of the 06:37 ground and it says to her you owe me sugar, 06:43 and if you don't pay I'm gonna kill you. 06:46 And of course she you know she became 06:48 hysterical and she goes home as fast as 06:52 she can get there and she says mommy and daddy 06:54 you got to do something the devil is about to kill, 06:57 it's gonna kill me. But there was nothing 07:00 they could do, they were too poor. 07:03 So anyway, that day that she was knocking 07:07 on the door, the little girl had been walking 07:09 around beside the river and out of bushes 07:12 comes this thing and it says you didn't pay now 07:16 you die. She goes down to the ground, 07:19 she is unconscious, she is in coma, 07:21 and now her mother is saying you got to do 07:23 something, the devil is about to kill my daughter. 07:25 And here I am, I've been taking a nap by the way, 07:28 and I am kind of just coming awake and 07:32 these ministers who are my students you know 07:35 I was doing a summer school for pastor teachers. 07:40 I said well come on in, and now I had heard 07:43 stories like this in Sabbath school. 07:45 I've never been a part of them. In Sabbath school, 07:46 right, the mission stories you know you've heard 07:48 these mission stories, yes I did, 07:50 and now it was happening to me you see. And so 07:53 I thought that you know what we're gonna 07:56 have to do is go pray for this girl obviously, 08:00 and when I think of exorcism, I am thinking 08:02 of the words you use the words you know kind 08:04 of mechanical, yes, I am thinking well, 08:06 or I trust what we've heard. Well in exorcistic 08:09 prayer we say in the name of Jesus, 08:11 we command these evil spirits to depart, 08:14 so I knew that's what we gonna to do ultimately, 08:16 but I decided Kathy that I kind of put together 08:20 all the mission stories that I've ever heard, 08:22 kind of do a checklist you know, mentally yeah, 08:24 composite, yes, and that kind of do it by the 08:27 numbers you see, and then I need to do this, 08:29 and I need to do this, and this and this to get 08:31 it right, to come out right you see. 08:33 So, the first thing that occurred to me was well 08:37 if you're gonna go and pray for this girl pray 08:39 that the devil's be cast out, you got to have 08:40 a Bible see, because I'd heard the devil is afraid 08:43 of the Bible you know I scare him away, 08:45 so I got the Bible then I'd also heard that 08:50 if you're gonna be doing an exorcistic prayer 08:53 you would better have your sins forgiven 08:55 because if you get in front of the devil 08:57 and you got unconfessed sins he is liable to say 09:00 them out loud in front of everybody, 09:02 do you heard that, oh yeah I'd heard that 09:04 I even talk with the pastor that did 09:06 happen to, no I don't know that I was unconfessed 09:09 sins but the, but a person possessed of evil 09:11 spirits actually began to tell what he had done 09:13 and he responded by saying it's true that Jesus 09:16 has forgiven me. Well any way I think the 09:19 point is, is that here I knew we're gonna pray 09:22 for this girl and so I kind of did a checklist, 09:25 I was being a little you know technique, 09:27 I was gonna make it a technique see I wanted 09:29 to touch all the bases and don't leave 09:32 anything out. So we went over then to where 09:35 she lived it wasn't far, and when we were 09:39 approaching the house, we can hear the loud 09:41 wailing and carrying on and there she was, 09:43 she was lying on the ground unconscious 09:45 and I dressed in a green sari and her hands 09:48 folded across her chest, and I kind of walk over 09:50 not look at her and somebody says you want 09:52 to her to talk and I say how is that and they say 09:56 we will put leaves under her nose she talks. 09:59 And I thought no I don't want to hear that 10:01 because it could be that evil spirit or something, 10:03 right. Well anyway I can remember I am trying 10:05 to go, I am trying to do the technique, 10:07 I am trying to get the technique right. 10:09 So I called the parents around, 10:11 and I rehearse with them what they shouldn't 10:13 have done and got them to say I am sorry. 10:16 In other words doing it all according, the sins, 10:19 by the numbers I was gonna to do prayer 10:21 by the numbers and I was a sincere as 10:23 I could be. Listen it was a desperate situation, 10:25 right that's all you know. And so then finally 10:28 we made a little half circle around her lying 10:31 on the ground and the person over to the left 10:35 we big prayed and of course I close my eyes 10:37 and he prayed in Bengali and when he got to the 10:40 place where I thought he said in the name of Jesus 10:43 we command the evil spirits to depart, 10:46 I wouldn't do open your eyes like that I'm gonna 10:48 see what's gonna happen, because I was doing 10:50 by the numbers and nothing happened, 10:54 and then it was next person's turned to pray 10:57 and again I have my eyes closed and when he got 10:59 to that part in the name of Jesus I am doing 11:02 it again, and I was as sincere as I could be 11:04 because, because you were anxious 11:06 to see her saved. I wanted to see her 11:08 come out right, yes, see like in the 11:09 mission stories, but it wasn't coming out, 11:11 it wasn't working. And now it's my turn 11:14 to pray and I am thinking to myself 11:17 oh, oh, what have we left out, what in the 11:20 prayer technique here don't we have right. 11:22 Have you not answered me because of the 11:24 technicality? Yeah you are tagging me out 11:26 because of a technicality. So I decided well we are 11:29 not probably, we are not probably praying 11:30 right, so maybe we are not praying 11:33 long enough or we are not using big words, 11:37 I was serious and maybe when it comes to that 11:40 part where it says in the name of Jesus, 11:42 we command the evil spirits to depart maybe 11:44 you've got to say that forcefully and you know. 11:47 Yeah, all these things can run through your 11:48 mind rapidly. Well and you know even some 11:50 of these some the ministers you've heard 11:54 in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, 11:57 you know they kind of put a little in the 11:58 name of Jesus we and so I thought well 12:00 maybe we're gonna through and then 12:01 we gonna say it rightly. And, so I close my eyes 12:05 and I prayed a long prayer as long as I 12:08 and still stay on the subject, and I used 12:11 big words and I just finally I didn't know 12:13 what else to say and I said forcefully in the 12:17 name of Jesus we command these evil 12:19 spirits to depart you know I did everything 12:22 I was suppose to do, and I tries and 12:25 nothing happens. And in that moment 12:30 I'll never forget tears start to, 12:33 I mean you don't like to say squirting out of my 12:35 eyes but it was that way, it's just, 12:37 it's start coming down my cheeks just like, 12:39 just like rivers and I forgot everything, 12:42 I forgot all about the techniques 12:44 and I just said oh God, oh God help us, 12:53 and then in that very instant she opened 12:57 her eyes and I reach down and I took her 13:00 by the hand I lifted her up, amen. 13:03 And, immediately I thought of the text that 13:07 says the effectual fervent prayer 13:11 of a righteous man availeth much. 13:14 But you see, I'm concerned Kathy that, 13:18 that, the fervency wasn't just in the tone. 13:21 Well, it wasn't in the checklist you see, 13:23 or check the words in the checklist, 13:24 you see I was just I was praying by the numbers, 13:27 and I don't want to be misunderstood by anybody 13:30 who is watching this program, 13:32 but I feel we are trending toward this, 13:37 prayers technique, yeah so then what about 13:39 the rest of us you put the technique 13:41 how can I do it? Well, I don't want to be 13:44 disrespectful Kathy, but out there in the churches 13:49 they have what they called prayer warriors 13:52 do we have to be one, do we have to be 13:55 prayer warrior. Can I talk with you heart to heart, 13:58 heart to heart, well you usually do, 14:03 do you have to be a prayer warrior for God 14:05 to hear your prayer I say no, I say no. 14:09 You see I am afraid we are getting to the place 14:11 where we kind of unionizing prayer, 14:14 you know where I am coming from. 14:15 In other words these people have the gift 14:19 of prayer. If you want your prayers answered 14:22 go to these people. I don't think, I don't think 14:26 that's the way it's supposed to be. 14:28 Now, I'm sure that, that some people are 14:30 committed to prayer, and who have spent time 14:33 and fervent in prayer, but the danger in all 14:37 of this is that I begin to think that, 14:39 that God hears them better than he hears me, 14:43 and there in someway he is not hearing me 14:45 and I've got to find kind of a guru or something 14:49 who pray for me. Yeah, all good things seems 14:51 like there is an area to go off on it isn't it like 14:54 a rabbit trail where the Lord, 14:56 where the enemy can take us off 14:58 of a good things. Well see, can I bring up 15:01 something that is really sensitive 15:03 and is if I have already, there is a wonderful 15:07 prayer that's you know in vogue it's called 15:11 the prayer of Jabez, and it's somewhere 15:14 I think in the books of Chronicles, 15:16 and it's little kind of a four sentence prayer 15:19 and it starts out with you know something 15:21 like God increase my territories, 15:24 I don't remember it all, so that will bring pain 15:26 on others, yeah and so forth and bless me 15:29 it says bless me and, because He is not 15:31 in that pain, and what you've heard of it before, 15:34 yes. Well you see, I think it's a beautiful 15:37 prayer if your name happens to be Jabez, 15:41 but the word is out that if you really want God 15:44 to hear your prayer you got to pray Jabez prayer. 15:47 It's kind of almost and don't misunderstand me 15:51 it's like a mantra you know if you pray Jabez 15:54 prayer then he will hear you oh but if 15:56 you don't to see, what if you never heard of it, 15:58 what if you never heard of it, 15:59 does this mean that I've got to be forgive me, 16:03 I've got to be prayer warrior praying Jabez 16:05 prayer or he doesn't hear me you see 16:10 I hope not I hope not. I don't want to make 16:15 it look like that I don't want appreciate 16:18 the prayer warriors because I really do it. 16:20 In fact, I ask people I need the prayers 16:23 of those I love, I ask people to pray and 16:25 I would do that now Betty and I need the prayers 16:28 of those we love people who don't even know 16:30 that's we need their prayer. 16:31 But I think I've got to be I've got to understand 16:36 that God hears my prayers I look it, 16:40 I need that. Don't we need that? Yes. 16:42 I looked in scripture in the gifts of the spirit 16:46 I looked for the gift of prayer and there was 16:49 the gift of healing, and the gift of evangelism, 16:52 and the gift of pastors, and gift of teachers 16:54 and you know the long list, right, right. 16:57 I didn't find in those lists of the gifts of the 17:00 spirit I didn't find prayer, and I think 17:03 I know why? It's not that there are not people 17:07 who are really into prayer it's the God want 17:11 just all to be into prayer. 17:12 Yes, he is calling in other words to pray. 17:15 In other words everybody is not 17:17 suppose to be a teacher, everybody 17:20 is not suppose to be a pastor, everybody 17:22 is not suppose to have one particular, 17:24 but everybody is suppose to pray, yes, 17:27 and when we don't pray, then we don't have 17:31 a lifeline. We will be disobedient for 17:33 one thing, yes right, I've been reading a lot 17:35 about prayer lately and I've heard these 17:37 authors referred to the sin of prayerlessness. 17:42 Now, we are talking about our children, 17:45 and I've heard people say well I've just taken 17:49 my children to God. Does that mean that I don't 17:52 need to pray for them any more or what does 17:54 that mean? Well it sounds like that to me. 17:57 Well I just taken them so I won't worry 17:59 about anymore. Well, I've taken them to God to, 18:05 it's not that I worry about, I am still 18:07 concerned see, see I think the tendency that 18:09 we have is Lord let me get on with my life. 18:13 I am tired of this I am tired of worrying about 18:16 my children; I am tired of crying about my children, 18:19 I am tired of a broken heart. 18:21 Now wait a minute we need to move on 18:23 but we don't want to leave behind something. 18:26 Well, I see at this way, we live in age in which 18:30 you can actually move the lawn, be baking bread, 18:36 doing the washing, wash the dishes, 18:38 wash the dishes, yes, and listening to radio 18:40 all the same time. But I think that in prayer 18:44 and in inner seeding for our children, 18:46 I don't think we can be doing other things 18:49 if you hear what I am coming from. 18:50 In other words to say God I'm gonna leave 18:52 the matter of the children to you, 18:55 and so I'll go on to something else, because 18:58 I think that as God is saving our children 19:01 He needs us in the mix, amen of course. 19:05 I don't see how I can actually separate myself 19:09 in my own life from the prayers that I'm making 19:12 for my own children, because he is saving us 19:14 as well. Well, and I think that we've said that 19:16 in other programs, yes, that it took, 19:18 it took ten years for Him to answer my prayer 19:22 for my boy. Now he wasn't gonna say 19:24 let's make ten years out of this, 19:25 he probably would have done it in the 19:27 very first day, but my son resisted Him for 19:30 ten years, but God never gave up I never 19:34 stopped praying. And, I remember telling 19:39 I am sorry when you say resist in, 19:42 there is a book called Steps To Christ 19:44 and for years I told the girls and 19:46 still occasionally do, but they remember this well, 19:49 if you don't resist, you will be drawn, oh yes. 19:53 If you don't resist, you will be drawn 19:55 and it puts a different light on how I can have 19:58 the assurance of heaven. 20:01 Do you know Kathy I was reading a book on 20:03 prayer and it gave me a thought that I never 20:07 had before and that is prayer is not our idea, 20:10 it's God's idea, and it's Jesus' idea, 20:14 and remember the text where He says, behold 20:16 I stand at the door and knock, and knock 20:19 and then hear my voice. Hear my voice, 20:21 in other words, sometimes we could 20:23 think well you know I've got to Him 20:25 and get his attention, no when the thought 20:30 occurs to me, He is already know, 20:32 that I need to pray He is the one that gave me 20:34 the thought, yes, it's God's idea that we pray, 20:38 He is the one who is calling us to prayer, 20:40 and He is not calling us to prayer, 20:42 I ought to prayer rather so that we can change 20:45 his mind. I think that He is calling us to prayer, 20:49 so that He can make His mind, our mind, 20:52 so that our mind will be, in harmony with Him, 20:54 would be in harmony with Him. 20:56 Now, I've discovered that many times our 21:00 prayers are kind of narrow. 21:04 One day a lady said to me bless your heart, 21:07 she said my son is out of work. 21:10 He is not a, he is not a believer pray that 21:13 he find work, and I thought you know bless 21:17 your heart honey. You know you're concerned 21:19 that your boy pays bills, but the biggest 21:22 concerned should've been that your boy is away 21:25 from the Lord, and that probably she, 21:31 she should have said or she might have said 21:34 pastor O'Ffill my son is not a believer, 21:37 he is out of work. Now you see the crisis 21:40 around which he is out work could have turned 21:42 his attention. Let's this crisis bring him to you, 21:46 don't you think so, and so sometimes 21:48 I think we're short, and so we'll go to God 21:52 and we want the immediate pain soft. 21:56 When God sees the big picture, and you know 21:59 this story of this was the widow in Tyre 22:04 that came to Jesus and said heal my child, 22:07 yes, and Jesus actually, you hate to put up this 22:11 way kind of make some racial slurs, 22:13 well that yeah, who I might have to do 22:15 with you, you know we consider you, 22:17 you know the dogs and all that, and so at this 22:21 point this women, this women stretched because 22:25 it wasn't about the daughter anymore, 22:27 No. Now she is being tested her faith being 22:30 tested, and she holds and her heart breaks 22:35 and when it's all over, she gets a broke heart, 22:39 she gets close to Jesus, she commits to Him 22:43 all the way and He heals, 22:44 He heals the child, amen. And I think that 22:48 this is what's, what's happen to Betty 22:50 and me in the years that we prayed for our son. 22:54 It makes me think of a scripture in the 22:56 Old Testament, he had smitten and he will bind 22:59 us up, yes, after three days he will revive us, 23:03 no after two days he will revive us, 23:05 and the third day he will raise us up, 23:07 and we will live in His side forever. 23:09 So, He has a more, He sees more and I think 23:13 one of the challenges that we have is that 23:17 our prayers need to expand. 23:20 I think of the case of Lazarus, remember 23:22 when Lazarus die that and Jesus finally shows up, 23:26 and the sister says where were you man 23:29 you know Lord you could have prevented all this, 23:32 why did you let that happen, yes. 23:33 And maybe a little bit of bitterness here, 23:34 why did you do this, you are healing 23:36 everybody else. Yes, why not my brother. 23:38 See and why not this person you love, 23:40 now obviously they said it real nice you know 23:42 they were real sweat about it, 23:43 but the feelings were we know, 23:45 still bound up in rebuke, 23:46 this would have never happened if you had come 23:48 when we called, little rebuke there. 23:50 But Jesus had something bigger, 23:53 He was gonna, he was not only gonna make 23:55 Lazarus well, He was gonna to do something 23:58 that would really change the whole course 24:02 of history, so, it will established the plan 24:04 of salvation, it would make Jesus look good, 24:06 if He would to heal Lazarus you know well 24:09 we don't bother with that anymore, 24:11 but in letting it kind of get worse before 24:13 it got better. He get something bigger 24:16 and better, bigger and better and I kind of 24:18 wonder in your life and mine as we pray that 24:23 we know we could wish oh God just make it go away, 24:27 I just, I'm fed up, I'm tired, and this is where 24:31 one of your favorite text what is that one 24:33 about don't get tired, let us not be weary 24:35 in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, 24:38 if we faint not. And I must confess 24:42 that with our children, just a few days ago 24:45 Betty said what good does it to pray because, 24:47 because in the short term nothing is happening. 24:51 In other words here we are praying that our 24:53 home be saved, and we just prayed our eyes 24:56 out and the divorce went through, 24:58 and it can make you to say well what good 25:01 does it do? Now, I believe that in this, 25:04 in this terrible the death of the family of which 25:09 there is no resurrection that there are something 25:13 great can come from that, I don't know what 25:15 it will be because, because in the end, 25:17 in the end we want all the players to be saved, 25:20 all those who played a part, and so, 25:22 and so I said to Betty when she said what 25:25 good does it do to pray, because I think as 25:28 parents feel that way sometime, 25:29 oh God this is going from bad to worse, 25:31 what good is it doing. I said to her after what 25:34 good it does because we're gonna stay 25:35 faithful to Him, we're gonna stay 25:37 faithful to Him, amen, we're not giving up. 25:40 Are you learning to praise Him during it? 25:43 Well you have to, you'll have to give me a 25:45 speech on that. I can say that remember I told 25:49 you earlier that when we get to heaven, 25:51 I'll thank Him forever that in this I got close 25:55 to Him, but I guess I'm, I guess I would say 26:00 it another way in other words when the divorce, 26:02 I know I couldn't say thank you Jesus. 26:04 No not like that's not what I mean. 26:06 But I know that all things work together for good, 26:10 for good, and that doesn't mean everything is good, 26:13 but isn't that praise. Well, I see it I believe, 26:18 I trust in God, I want to get to the place 26:21 where I can see the long term and though 26:24 that the, I don't know how it's gonna turn out 26:27 I know that He is saving me and that 26:31 He is going to do everything thing in 26:33 His power to save my children. 26:36 We need to believe that. And I even said to Him, 26:39 I said God I don't know what is gonna be at 26:41 the other end. You know not all of His children 26:45 will be saved you know do I have a guarantee, 26:48 not all of his children will be saved, 26:50 and I said God on the other end all I wanted 26:52 to know is that you tried it's hard to save 26:56 them as the devil try to cause them to be lost. 27:00 And the judge of all the earth will do right, 27:02 yes, He will do right thing. Yes, you have the 27:04 face in Him don't you, I do. 27:05 Now you've been through it. 27:07 We're thankful that you've been with us 27:10 and I am always touched by all that you bring up 27:15 I pray that everybody else has been do, yeah. 27:17 And, you'll be back again, oh yes absolutely, 27:20 yes we've got one more to do on this 27:22 particular series, that's right, and 27:24 I enjoy it so much, thank you. 27:26 I want to invite our viewers again back 27:30 next time and as we go out please 27:33 pray for us as we pray for you. 27:35 Lord, teach us to pray, teach us to pray 27:40 to the long view. We don't know where this 27:43 all ends, but lord may we be faithful as 27:47 you are faithful to us. May we be faithful 27:50 to you in prayer through Jesus Christ 27:53 our Lord, amen, amen. |
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