I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name is C.A. Murray.
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And allow me once
again to thank you
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for sharing just
a little bit of your
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no doubt busy day
with us, and a thank you
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for your love, your
prayers and support of 3ABN.
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I could not be more excited.
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One because of
the subject matter
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and one because of
we tend to use this term
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a lot special guests.
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But these are
indeed special guests.
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Perhaps guests is the wrong word
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'cause they've
been here so many times
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and so often that none
of them are guests anymore.
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And we're gonna be
talking about prayer
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and the power of prayer
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and how we can
join together in prayer.
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So we got to-- we
have an exciting subject
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and we got some exciting people
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to talk about,
I'll start with well,
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it's just the Ruthie Jacobsen
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who is a very familiar
face to our 3ABN family.
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It was good to have you here.
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Thank you. Great to be here.
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And time has been
kind to you my lady.
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You're just as
attractive as ever
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and I'm throwing
the flowers right now.
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It's going to be a good program.
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Her husband in the
middle here Don Jacobsen,
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we've known for
many, many years.
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I'm trying to think,
Don, because I first me you
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when in 2000, when
you were still with
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Adventist World Radio.
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We're doing some
stories for the church.
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Ruthie, I met I
don't remember where,
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I do remember
where, I don't remember
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when the person
introduced us was Pat Langley.
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Yeah.
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You know Pat of course.
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So we've always
kind of know Ruthie,
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and last but certainly
not least is Pastor Pavel Goia
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who's been here.
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We call him here the glass man
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because of one
of his miracle story
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that God has blessed
him with over the years.
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Pavel, good to have you here.
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My privilege to be here.
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Pastoring now in
Lexington, Kentucky.
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Lexington, yeah.
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And, Ruthie, still working with
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North American
division as prayer.
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Don, whiling the ways--
days away by the pool retired.
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When he's not show for Ruthie.
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Designated driver, right.
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Haven't seen that yet.
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Okay, but it is good
to have you guys here.
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And what we're gonna talk about,
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it's called pray,
pray one thousand.
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Now before we go to
our music I need to get--
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No, you noticed it--
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I said pray one thousand.
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It's a thousand
times a thousand.
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Pray One Million. Yes.
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You're trying to get a discount.
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Excellent Pray One Million
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yet not pray a
thousand, thousand.
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Right. Right.
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Yeah, Ruthie,
where did it come from?
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How did the idea occur?
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And give us kind of an overview
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before we're to
going to the specifics.
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Well, 2014 was
the year of prayer
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all across North
American division.
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Yes.
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And our friend
Elder Ricardo Graham
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chaired the
committee, this joint committee
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during that year.
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But as we were closing the year
we said we need an initiative
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that will carry over
into 2015 and longer.
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Because you can't
just have prayer for a year
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and make that the
emphasis for one year
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because once it starts growing,
it needs to keep growing.
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And so the initiative
was born in that committee
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Pray One Million
and it has caught on.
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Yes.
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It has caught on.
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We're asking every member
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and those who aren't members.
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You know, they can be a
member of another denomination,
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another division and the church
to just pray for one person,
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one specific
person every single day.
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And every two or three months
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if only half of the membership
of this denomination prays,
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it will be an accumulation
of one million hours.
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Wow. Wow. One million hours.
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That is exciting. Praise God.
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Yeah, pray one
thousand, thousand.
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Pray One Million beautiful idea,
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and in fact to
lockdown on one person
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and just
concentrate on that individual
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that is a wonderful thing to do.
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And God we're already
hearing exciting stories.
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This got started
across the division
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toward the end of 2014
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and then of
course now it's growing.
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But we started hearing
stories almost immediately,
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people that were
totally impossible
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from a human standpoint.
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Yes.
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Can I tell you one real quickly?
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Oh, please do.
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Jim Moon in Colorado
was praying for a man
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who is gay and who is
militant, militant about that.
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And an alcoholic
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and the Lord just impressed
him take Bill, take Bill
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because only God can
reach hearts like that.
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Yes.
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Or only God can
reach any of us really.
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But He started
going to the throne
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with Bill's name
day after day after day,
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saying Lord I
know you can do it.
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I know he's valuable to You.
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Do something for real.
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And after a few weeks he
and Bill became better friends.
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And Bill finally said to him,
I don't think I'm ready yet,
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but I'm no longer militant.
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And I am celibate and
I want to be baptized.
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Wow.
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I mean that is
huge. That is a blessing.
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Yeah, and it's very
huge. Very huge. Very huge.
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If you'd look at
something that one may consider
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almost impossible or
certainly a more difficult task
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that would be it.
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And to have that
change, that's a God thing.
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Well, and all through scripture
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God has one impossible situation
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after another that He solves.
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Yeah, that's what He does.
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And He says, I'm the
same today, trust Me.
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Praise God.
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Don, are you part of this?
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Well, of course
anything your wife does,
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you are de facto part of it.
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Right.
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But are you
fulfilling any particular niche
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with Pray One Million?
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Well, I do a lot of the editing
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and so forth but,
C.A., we've been so exciting.
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See, this is not just
about praying with a stopwatch.
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But it's seeking to in test.
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I mean we all pray for people,
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you know, most of
us have a prayer list.
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We go through it pretty quick.
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You know, bless mom,
bless dad, bless the pastor,
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help me find my keys, you
know, those kind of things,
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but what we're suggesting
is that everybody take,
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ask the Lord to lay on
your heart one individual.
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And maybe a
neighbor or friend, relative,
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somebody you don't like.
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I mean, there's no
limit to who that could be.
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And the Bible says that
Jesus intercedes with us.
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So whoever we choose,
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Jesus is already
interceding for that person.
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That means that Jesus
and I are prayer partners.
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Yes.
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Working before the throne.
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With this one
individual and to set aside
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a minimum of one
person, a minimum of one minute
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everyday to pray for this
to intercede to claim promises,
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to ask God how we can be helpful
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in their spiritual journey.
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And then to realize that
if only half of us do this
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in our denomination
across North America
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that would generate,
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that generates a
million hours of prayer
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every three months or
so that we're bringing
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before the throne of grace.
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Yes. Yes.
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That just really thrills me.
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You know, I'd like to think that
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I'm part of the prayer movement.
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Yes, I like that idea.
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This is not just
something being done.
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And that's what it is.
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Yes. Yes. That's right.
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Yes. Yes.
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I'm praying for a young
man who is a Baptist pastor.
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Oh.
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Who thinks he's my son.
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Isn't that great?
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Praise the Lord.
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You know, Don, you
touched on a couple of things,
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Pavel, I'm coming to you
actually do get to speak.
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But you said a couple
of things that touch me.
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One, I don't know if
it's Ruth or Don you said,
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we're not doing
this with a stopwatch.
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So and I say okay,
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you get a
minute and I got to go.
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But it's not, it's
something that's ongoing.
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Yeah.
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And that you're invested in,
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so I think your
first prayer should be
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Lord who do you
want me to focus on?
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Exactly. We did not think.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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then once you do
it lockdown on 'em.
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The second thing you said
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is choose a
neighbor or choose an enemy.
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Yeah.
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Choosing an
enemy ain't a bad idea.
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That's right.
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Because I
suspect if you bring them
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to the Lord for
any length of time,
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that enemy won't
be an enemy for long.
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That's true. It's right.
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And it's hard to hate somebody
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whose name you're
taking to the Lord everyday.
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Amen.
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If you got a neighbor who is,
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you know, throwing
garbage over in your yard
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or whatever, pray
for that guy you know,
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you make a
mistake your garbage out.
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You never can tell.
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God can take him out.
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He surely can.
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So I think it's a great
idea to focus on one person
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or a number of people
for a longer period of time.
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But to pick one person
and just lay on that person,
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I think that's a wonderful idea.
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Really a wonderful idea.
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Before I go to Pavel,
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anything else story wise
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'cause I love-- first
of all stories excite me
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and they let us know
that this stuff really works.
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Well, I just wanted to say,
we just got back from Bermuda.
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And one of the lives
that touched us is a legend.
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This man is a legend.
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He's a member of
our church in Bermuda.
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He's 92 years old.
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He gets up at
2:45 every morning.
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I know who you're
talking about, yes.
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Johnny Barnes. Yes, yes.
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He gets up,
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he drives to this
corner of the intersection
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in traffic circle in Hamilton
and he stands out there.
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Yes.
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From 4 o'clock in
the morning until 10
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and he says God bless you,
thanks for coming to Bermuda.
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We love you, throws kisses.
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Yeah.
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There're cars, there're buses,
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there're trucks
going around the circle.
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People love that man.
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Yes. Yes. They love that man.
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Yeah.
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And he's just full
of the love of Lord.
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Oh, yes.
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And he's standing out
there praying for people
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silently, loving people.
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And I just think he is
being faithful to his calling.
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Yes, he is. Yes, yes.
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And they told us they
said when this man dies,
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it's gonna be a
funeral across this island
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like you've never seen.
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Yes. Yes.
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Because he's so
loved and he is a legend.
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They have a statue there now
and he gave me a picture of him
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standing beside the
statue and we're framing it.
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Yeah. And it's a big one.
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He said, if you
frame this you'll have,
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but if you don't
frame it you'll lose it.
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I said that's right, Johnny.
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I took a picture,
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I took a picture of him
kissing her on the cheek.
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Okay, so we got well acquainted.
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But, C.A., to me that's
a beautiful illustration.
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Yes.
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Of the power of prayer.
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The power of obedience
to God and loving people.
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And God takes that combination.
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Yes.
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And Pray One
Million is the same.
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You're saying God
put somebody on my heart,
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I want to love that
person to the throne.
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I'm gonna take
that name to the throne
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and just love
that person through me.
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And I want to be as
faithful as Johnny Barnes.
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And when Johnny
Barnes is not there,
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he's missed and
they come seeking him
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because they
expect him everyday.
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That's true. That's right.
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And I'd think
once you begin praying,
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the Lord is gonna expect you
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to be there
everyday, do it for--
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Amen.
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I have a message--
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our priest just
this past week at ASI,
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"Deeds of kindness tear
down walls of separation
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and build bridges to salvation.
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It's hard to hate
somebody who is loving on you,
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you know.
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It's gonna tear down that wall
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and if they're praying for you,
then you got some extra help,
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you know, from the Lord
that cannot be defeated.
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I think it's a great idea.
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Pastor Pavel,
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we know you've got
some miracles stories
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because that's your thing.
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I think I'll go to our
music, then we'll come back
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and let you go just a
little bit and come back.
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Yeah, it's gonna
be a good program
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so do stay with us.
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We've got three exciting people
who are full of the love of God
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and full of the miracles of God.
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So you want to stay by.
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Just now Steve Darmody is
here and he's going to sing,
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"I walked today
where Jesus walked."
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I walked today
where Jesus walked
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In days of long ago
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I wandered down
each path He knew
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With reverent step and slow
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Those little lanes,
they have not changed
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A sweet peace fills the air
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I walked today
where Jesus walked
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And felt His presence there
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My pathway led through Bethlehem
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Ah! mem'ries ever sweet
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The little hills of Galilee
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That knew those childish feet
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The Mount of
Olives, hallowed scenes
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That Jesus knew before
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I saw the mighty Jordan roll
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As in the days of yore
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I knelt today where Jesus knelt
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Where all alone he prayed
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The Garden of Gethsemane
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My heart felt unafraid
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I picked my heavy burden up
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And with Him at my side
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I climbed the Hill of Calvary
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I climbed the Hill of Calvary
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I climbed the Hill of Calvary
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Where on the Cross He died
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I walked today
where Jesus walked
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And felt Him close
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He wants with me
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And He talks with me
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And He tells me that
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I am His own
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Oh the joy we share
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as we tarry there
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As I feel Him
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close to me
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Thank you, Steve,
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"I Walked Today Where
Jesus Walked," well done
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and we praise the Lord.
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We are here
with Ruthie Jacobson,
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Don Jacobson and
Pastor Pavel Goia.
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And we're talking about
the Pray One Million project.
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There's something in me
wants to say one thousand,
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so I'll just say
one thousand, thousand
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when I say one
thousand but it is one million
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and it is a wonderful idea.
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The idea of taking a
name and praying each day
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and everyday for at least
one minute for that person.
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Person's projects can we expand
that to persons and projects
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and as Don has said,
your friends, your neighbors
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someone you want
to win to the Lord,
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someone who may never have it.
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Someone who may
consider themselves your enemy.
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These are all likely
candidates for Pray One Million
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and you were saying that
if only half of the membership
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of the division or the church.
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North America.
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Of North America
sort of locks on to this,
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we will have one
million hours of prayer each--
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Every three
months. Every three months.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But we know that we can count
quarters 'cause we, you know--
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That's exciting.
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Yeah, every time
you have a communion,
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you know, you've got your
one man in really good idea.
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And Pastor Pavel like I
said you actually get to speak,
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you've got some
instances where this is,
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you've seen this kind of
work miracles for the Lord.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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You see if something
happens in our family,
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we don't just
mention be with my son,
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he had an
accident and they move on.
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We labor over the name.
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We care for them.
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And when we don't
just mention genetically
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oh, be those who don't know you.
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But we tell name by name
and labor over the names.
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At least I mean
it could be more,
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there is no clock like,
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okay, the minute is gone.
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But when we take each
name and labor over it,
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we give God
opportunities to work
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and you don't do
it one time but daily.
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You see for instance, I
could give many examples
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but I'm gonna focus on
couple of them probably.
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For instance we were young,
I remember being in Romania.
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We had the youth group of 11
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and each one took
one from each family.
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And it happens that
in one of the families
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I'm not gonna
give names or places
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but in one of the families
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the father was in
the communist government
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and he was treating
his family pretty bad.
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In fact in one instance
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he tried to roll
over his wife with a car,
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stop going to
church, forget God.
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You ruined my career.
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I'm in the communist government.
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I don't need somebody
in my family to go church.
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The story is long.
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The others there was
hope, but this guy was hopeless.
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He did not want
to hear about God.
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He tried to poison her.
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He tried to roll
over her with a car.
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It was just hopeless.
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You could not
talk to him about it.
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He was angry.
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We started to pray for him.
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We prayed between I
don't remember three months
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or six months but
after three months
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we started to see results.
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And I can tell you specifically
seven out of eleven people
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that we prayed for God baptized.
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This specific man
that he was and his wife,
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he is tall and she is
short like David and Goliath.
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I mean he is big
and she is small.
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He came home one day and
he dropped had heart attack
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and they lived
at the fourth storey
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and she is heavy as he was.
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And she was small
and sick and weak.
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She took him and dragged
him there was no elevator,
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no-- you know,
dragged him down the stairs
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and prayed for power.
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And in Romania if you'd wait
in that time for the ambulance,
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you'll better call Pizza Hut
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because they would come
faster than the ambulance.
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So she put him in the car,
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she drove him to hospital
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and she prayed over him
three days and three nights.
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And eventually he came back,
they managed to save his life.
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Praise God.
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And when he woke up
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after three days and
three nights of no sleep
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that she was praying over
him and we were praying too
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because we had already
over three months of praying
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for the 11 names
that he was one of the 11.
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When he woke up,
he saw her praying
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and he put his hands
on her head and said,
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you should be happy if I die.
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You should have let me
die in the house there.
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It will be your way out.
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Why do you keep praying for me?
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I said honey, since I
started to pray for you,
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I started to love
you more and more.
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Oh, Praise God.
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And there she
said, I want you saved
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and if you got doubt,
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there is only one away divorce
or love you and pray for you.
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So I chose the second one.
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Good man.
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He got out of hospital.
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That Sabbath he was in
suit and tie in the church.
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Wow.
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Got baptized,
never missed again.
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He's involved in the
church. Prayer is powerful.
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It is. It is.
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Every prayer gets an answer
when we put our heart there.
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Amen.
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One of the things I think
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you're alluding
to all three of you
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in your own way the idea that
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we tend to not press
through in our prayers.
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You know, we stop
short of the goal.
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We pray maybe couple of days
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and then we're on
to something else.
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And we don't stay on this
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and I think one of the focuses
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of this particular initiative
is that once you get there,
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you stay there.
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You know, you
stay with that name
00:23:38.02\00:23:40.29
because God wants to bless.
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He wants to do something
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but He just needs our fervency
and our consistency, Ruthie.
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Well, I would
just like to say that
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there are some
resources and here's one.
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You can go to
PrayOneMillion.org.
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And there are under resources
you will find this handout.
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You can print
it out for yourself
00:23:59.18\00:24:00.76
or you can print it
out for your church.
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But it says Pray One Million
praying for one person at least
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one minute everyday and
it explains the initiative.
00:24:07.63\00:24:12.28
And then on the back this
is an important part of it
00:24:12.31\00:24:16.15
because it says this
is my covenant with God.
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And you write in the name
00:24:19.70\00:24:21.46
of the person
that you're praying for
00:24:21.49\00:24:23.77
and then you
could sign your name
00:24:23.80\00:24:27.95
and you put in your Bible.
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This is a wonderful reminder.
00:24:29.81\00:24:31.81
This person is
very special to God.
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This is not just a name.
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This is a person that
God, that Christ died for.
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Yes. Yes.
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And that God loves.
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So these resources
and then there's one more
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children are
getting into this too, C.A.
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Praise the Lord.
00:24:48.32\00:24:49.39
Children are getting into this.
00:24:49.42\00:24:50.72
And here is the one
that I would show you for,
00:24:50.75\00:24:57.44
Dwight, I'm moving
it around too much.
00:24:57.47\00:24:59.78
But here's a
darling little Asian boy
00:24:59.81\00:25:02.49
with his finger up
00:25:02.52\00:25:03.82
and he's saying Pray One Million
00:25:03.85\00:25:05.74
and children are doing this too.
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.51
And then on the
back of their card
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.83
it just says
because I love Jesus,
00:25:09.86\00:25:12.01
I'm praying for so and so.
00:25:12.04\00:25:14.20
And sometimes they write mommy
00:25:14.23\00:25:15.80
or whoever they
want to pray for.
00:25:15.83\00:25:18.08
But you know God hears
these prayers of these children
00:25:18.11\00:25:21.90
and it's a wonderful
habit for them to get into.
00:25:21.93\00:25:24.64
Yes. Yes.
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So I just encourage you
go to PrayOneMillion.org
00:25:25.86\00:25:30.86
and there are two, three videos.
00:25:30.89\00:25:35.46
One of Ron Halvorsen, one
that has Elder Dan Jackson
00:25:35.49\00:25:40.28
and Dwight Nelson,
00:25:40.31\00:25:41.50
Freddie Russell,
Elder Ricardo Graham
00:25:41.53\00:25:44.76
and then some
students at Southern.
00:25:44.79\00:25:48.24
The other one
has and Peter Kulakov
00:25:48.27\00:25:52.38
talking about how some of
the communist party leaders
00:25:52.41\00:25:56.37
became conference presidents
and leaders in the church,
00:25:56.40\00:26:00.53
so all because of prayer.
00:26:00.56\00:26:02.88
So I just encourage
you go to that website.
00:26:02.91\00:26:06.08
I love this,
Ruthie, Don, Pastor Pavel.
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I want to
intensify my intersession
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.24
for one person for now
00:26:11.27\00:26:13.82
asking God to make
an eternal difference
00:26:13.85\00:26:16.09
in their life.
00:26:16.12\00:26:17.18
And you're not even specifying
00:26:17.21\00:26:18.59
what an eternal difference means
00:26:18.62\00:26:20.78
relationship, means salvation.
00:26:20.81\00:26:23.44
I will pray at least one minute
00:26:23.47\00:26:25.95
everyday for and
you can sign the name.
00:26:25.98\00:26:28.04
I will share the Pray
One Million invitation
00:26:28.07\00:26:30.62
with everyone I can
and then you sign it.
00:26:30.65\00:26:33.31
So you are covenanting with God
00:26:33.34\00:26:35.84
to take that name to
God each and everyday.
00:26:35.87\00:26:39.64
And you've got it
there in your Bible
00:26:39.67\00:26:41.62
and I like this a lot.
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Now this-- this banner,
this vertical banner behind us
00:26:43.95\00:26:48.96
is one that you'll
see these everywhere.
00:26:48.99\00:26:53.42
There's one in every state.
00:26:53.45\00:26:55.62
Many of the churches
have them and it's a reminder,
00:26:55.65\00:26:59.73
they like to put them
on the platform in a church
00:26:59.76\00:27:02.48
because it's a reminder
when people come into church
00:27:02.51\00:27:05.29
oh, yes, I'm part of that.
00:27:05.32\00:27:06.95
I'm part of that initiative.
00:27:06.98\00:27:09.05
So well done,
they were made for us
00:27:09.08\00:27:12.64
by a group in North
Carolina and they're being used.
00:27:12.67\00:27:16.48
I need to emphasize
or have you emphasize
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because we are moving
towards a general conference.
00:27:18.63\00:27:21.77
This is not something
that's quinquennially driven.
00:27:21.80\00:27:25.07
This is something that we want
to go on and on and on and on.
00:27:25.10\00:27:27.45
Correct?
00:27:27.48\00:27:28.51
God know we're
reading the Bible through
00:27:28.54\00:27:30.05
when we finish that GC
00:27:30.08\00:27:31.38
and we're doing other
things but this is not that.
00:27:31.41\00:27:33.43
This is something
that you want to start
00:27:33.46\00:27:34.76
and just keep on
going until the Lord comes.
00:27:34.79\00:27:37.21
And you know when
you develop a habit.
00:27:37.24\00:27:39.58
Yes.
00:27:39.61\00:27:40.65
And the Holy Spirit is in it.
He will take us to new levels.
00:27:40.68\00:27:44.87
Yes.
00:27:44.90\00:27:45.93
And I believe
He'll give us a heart
00:27:45.96\00:27:48.32
for the people
we're praying for.
00:27:48.35\00:27:50.11
And then he'll lay
another one on your heart.
00:27:50.14\00:27:52.74
And show you ways to love them.
00:27:52.77\00:27:54.67
Show you ways to
be a Johnny Barnes
00:27:54.70\00:27:57.29
to really care, to
really care about people.
00:27:57.32\00:28:00.20
Yeah, that is wonderful.
00:28:00.23\00:28:02.00
Now we have, is
it-- is this video
00:28:02.03\00:28:04.25
from our NAD president
00:28:04.28\00:28:05.96
who we're getting ready to see?
00:28:05.99\00:28:07.36
Well, we have one with him, yes.
00:28:09.56\00:28:12.30
All righty.
00:28:12.33\00:28:13.36
Let's roll that just
now 'cause he is weighing in
00:28:13.39\00:28:16.10
and this initiative is coming
not only from the top down
00:28:16.13\00:28:21.15
but from the bottom up
and everybody in between.
00:28:21.18\00:28:24.20
So Dan Jackson has a
little to say on this subject.
00:28:24.23\00:28:27.37
Let's look at
that video just now.
00:28:27.40\00:28:28.87
We have decided in
a very specific way
00:28:30.57\00:28:34.67
to adopt and to embrace
the idea of Pray One Million
00:28:34.70\00:28:38.33
that means, if you and I
select someone we will pray
00:28:38.36\00:28:42.65
for one minute each day.
00:28:42.68\00:28:44.68
That over every
four month period
00:28:44.71\00:28:46.87
between now and
General Conference,
00:28:46.90\00:28:50.19
we would pray one million hours.
00:28:50.22\00:28:54.28
Can you imagine
it every single day
00:28:54.31\00:28:56.39
all of us praying for one person
00:28:56.42\00:28:58.78
that God has
deposited upon our hearts
00:28:58.81\00:29:00.95
for their
salvation, for their kids,
00:29:00.98\00:29:02.87
for their
families whatever he is
00:29:02.90\00:29:04.81
when brought in heaven.
00:29:04.84\00:29:05.97
Obviously is biblical
because as Jesus said to Peter,
00:29:06.00\00:29:09.39
I'm praying for you.
00:29:09.42\00:29:10.97
It's amazing what
happens when we lay people
00:29:11.00\00:29:13.95
before the very
throne room of God.
00:29:13.98\00:29:16.21
It is high time
that we devote time
00:29:16.24\00:29:19.23
concentrated prayer time
00:29:19.26\00:29:21.37
in petitioning God to
help us fulfill the mission
00:29:21.40\00:29:23.74
He's entrusted to us.
00:29:23.77\00:29:25.42
A mission that has
to began with praying.
00:29:25.45\00:29:27.75
Now look, we all know
00:29:27.78\00:29:29.31
prayer is not the
only piece in our strategy,
00:29:29.34\00:29:31.82
but it's the only first piece
that can move the arm of heaven
00:29:31.85\00:29:34.91
to intervene on a
continent and a society so lost
00:29:34.94\00:29:38.25
and so
desperately in need of Christ.
00:29:38.28\00:29:41.26
It's about prayer
and about a big God
00:29:41.29\00:29:44.55
who loves to hear the
prayers of His people.
00:29:44.58\00:29:47.44
He saves our prayers
in golden bowls in heaven.
00:29:47.47\00:29:51.07
They're valuable to Him.
00:29:51.10\00:29:53.30
And He says call
to Me, I will answer.
00:29:53.33\00:29:56.05
And I'll show you
great and mighty things.
00:29:56.08\00:29:58.70
We can join in
Christ who is interceding.
00:29:58.73\00:30:01.83
What an amazing thought.
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.12
And like a single grain of sand
00:30:04.15\00:30:06.29
the Lord has a
man, woman, boy or girl
00:30:06.32\00:30:10.14
that He will
have you to pray for,
00:30:10.17\00:30:12.15
one among the millions.
00:30:12.18\00:30:15.67
And if you will join me
in praying one minute a day
00:30:15.70\00:30:19.25
for the one person God
has laid on your heart.
00:30:19.28\00:30:23.34
Together we can
pray a million hours
00:30:23.37\00:30:26.15
that will stretch into eternity.
00:30:26.18\00:30:29.09
Together with Abraham,
00:30:29.12\00:30:30.62
we can
experience the fulfillment
00:30:30.65\00:30:32.81
of God's stars and sand promise.
00:30:32.84\00:30:37.72
As we worship our
Creator around the see of glass
00:30:37.75\00:30:41.35
with the great multitude
that no man can number.
00:30:41.38\00:30:45.66
But it all starts with one.
00:30:45.69\00:30:48.73
Who's the one
00:30:48.76\00:30:50.28
that God is calling you
to bless through the prayer.
00:30:50.31\00:30:54.06
We're wondering
what would happen
00:30:54.09\00:30:55.85
if we could get
people to pray for a minute
00:30:55.88\00:30:58.80
for one person,
Pray One Million.
00:30:58.83\00:31:01.39
If we could do
that, we believe that
00:31:01.42\00:31:02.95
we would assail
heaven's door house
00:31:02.98\00:31:05.11
in a way that
God could not ignore.
00:31:05.14\00:31:07.64
As Seventh-day
Adventists in North America,
00:31:07.67\00:31:09.53
let's join our
forces and unite our prayers
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.94
over what we can all agree on,
00:31:11.97\00:31:14.01
Calvary's passion to
seek and save the lost
00:31:14.04\00:31:16.82
because surely the
sound of united prayer
00:31:16.85\00:31:20.05
is the clamor
God's been waiting for.
00:31:20.08\00:31:23.64
The time has come
rather that we rise above
00:31:23.67\00:31:29.37
that we reach
out the higher ground
00:31:29.40\00:31:31.07
that while we
have our conversations
00:31:31.10\00:31:32.79
we do not loose sight
00:31:32.82\00:31:35.39
of what God really
wants us to be focusing on.
00:31:35.42\00:31:39.13
I want to urge you
to participate with me
00:31:39.16\00:31:44.03
in the Pray One
Million initiative.
00:31:44.06\00:31:46.58
I know God will bless us
00:31:46.61\00:31:48.09
and I know God
will bless His church
00:31:48.12\00:31:50.87
and may God bless our division
00:31:50.90\00:31:54.57
and our world church.
00:31:54.60\00:31:55.98
Thank you.
00:31:56.01\00:31:57.04
And to that we say amen.
00:31:58.87\00:32:00.92
While we were
listening to that Don remark
00:32:00.95\00:32:05.22
this idea about
praying for someone
00:32:05.25\00:32:06.77
that maybe you've had--
00:32:06.80\00:32:07.87
you've crossed swords
with it sometime in the past.
00:32:07.90\00:32:10.18
Maybe there's some hard feelings
00:32:10.21\00:32:11.55
and I actually believe that
00:32:11.58\00:32:12.67
if you're taking someone's
name to the Lord everyday,
00:32:12.70\00:32:15.64
first of all, your heart
is gonna be made lighter.
00:32:15.67\00:32:18.52
Your spiritual life
is gonna be made better.
00:32:18.55\00:32:20.75
And then God will
work on that other person
00:32:20.78\00:32:23.08
and answer to your prayer.
00:32:23.11\00:32:24.14
Right. Absolutely.
00:32:24.17\00:32:25.20
Yeah.
00:32:25.23\00:32:26.26
We've seen that so
many times, absolutely.
00:32:26.29\00:32:29.11
Yeah, praise God.
00:32:29.14\00:32:30.94
Pastor Pavel, you've
got some more stories man,
00:32:30.97\00:32:32.99
and we love to hear good stories
00:32:33.02\00:32:34.26
because this prayer
thing is no-- it works.
00:32:34.29\00:32:37.51
This is a real
thing that really works.
00:32:37.54\00:32:39.68
And the power of God
has seen when we concentrate
00:32:39.71\00:32:42.01
and focus on prayer.
00:32:42.04\00:32:43.48
So you see it's not just
that we pray for somebody else
00:32:43.51\00:32:47.41
but when you do
that, God can work on us,
00:32:47.44\00:32:50.60
can work on that person,
00:32:50.63\00:32:52.13
can work on our
families in our churches
00:32:52.16\00:32:54.53
and more people do this,
00:32:54.56\00:32:56.32
the more the
revealing of the spirit
00:32:56.35\00:32:58.56
we can see in the churches.
00:32:58.59\00:32:59.86
And He doesn't, he
is not limited to one.
00:32:59.89\00:33:02.06
I mean at least
one but we can pray
00:33:02.09\00:33:03.89
for two or three or five
but at least start with one.
00:33:03.92\00:33:08.37
For instance there was a
lady in one of my districts.
00:33:08.40\00:33:12.38
Again I'm not
gonna give details where.
00:33:12.41\00:33:14.77
And she told me, pastor,
I've been praying for my son
00:33:14.80\00:33:17.10
and God doesn't answer.
00:33:17.13\00:33:18.71
And I told, I said,
God answers every prayer,
00:33:18.74\00:33:22.31
but we need to keep
praying, laboring over it.
00:33:22.34\00:33:25.05
Well, she did.
00:33:25.08\00:33:26.27
Poor lady, she
prayed 40 years for her son
00:33:26.30\00:33:29.47
and to just go to the answer
her prayer she passed away.
00:33:29.50\00:33:34.80
He came to the funeral
00:33:34.83\00:33:36.79
and he said I
want to see my mom,
00:33:36.82\00:33:38.30
give me Bible
studies, he got baptized.
00:33:38.33\00:33:41.06
He's involved in the church.
00:33:41.09\00:33:42.30
He's the head elder
in a new plant church.
00:33:42.33\00:33:45.42
Prayer works. Yes, it does.
00:33:45.45\00:33:46.89
We don't need to see the answer
00:33:46.92\00:33:48.28
to believe that God does answer.
00:33:48.31\00:33:50.81
And I'm gonna give it
a different story that
00:33:50.84\00:33:53.37
it's a little
funny in one district
00:33:53.40\00:33:56.59
over back in Romania,
00:33:56.62\00:33:58.71
another pastor came
to do evangelism there
00:33:58.74\00:34:01.51
and there were two people that--
00:34:01.54\00:34:03.99
my wife and I just
talked about them last night.
00:34:04.02\00:34:07.42
They were I don't know
how to put it in a kind way
00:34:07.45\00:34:13.60
very slow.
00:34:13.63\00:34:14.83
I don't know how to say it but--
00:34:14.86\00:34:16.50
some other
people made fun of them
00:34:19.54\00:34:20.96
because they're not
the brightest possible
00:34:20.99\00:34:24.24
and they came to
participate in evangelism
00:34:24.27\00:34:27.07
and they said what can we do?
00:34:27.10\00:34:28.57
And the evangelist and myself
look to each other and we said
00:34:28.60\00:34:32.32
we don't want
them to get involved,
00:34:32.35\00:34:33.83
they will make a mess.
00:34:33.86\00:34:35.12
And we said you just pray.
00:34:35.15\00:34:38.43
Would you believe
they didn't get it
00:34:38.46\00:34:39.90
what it means to
pray so they thought
00:34:39.93\00:34:41.99
we do evangelism in
the village in the town.
00:34:42.02\00:34:44.29
Seven thousand people
00:34:44.32\00:34:45.35
they want us to
pray for 7,000 people,
00:34:45.38\00:34:47.03
where should we pray for them?
00:34:47.06\00:34:48.09
Nobody is in the
church. Let's go to their homes.
00:34:48.12\00:34:51.10
They went from home to home
00:34:51.13\00:34:53.35
and they prayed
in the three months
00:34:53.38\00:34:54.97
preparation for
evangelism in each family,
00:34:55.00\00:34:58.48
per family what do
you want us to pray for?
00:34:58.51\00:35:00.19
My cow is dying.
They pray for the cow.
00:35:00.22\00:35:02.74
Sicken family,
my wife has cancer,
00:35:02.77\00:35:04.36
they pray for
the wife, her family.
00:35:04.39\00:35:06.35
After about two
months they came back
00:35:06.38\00:35:08.48
we prayed for
everybody what should we do?
00:35:08.51\00:35:10.78
And do to each other pray again.
00:35:10.81\00:35:13.19
They started all over
again, when we had evangelism
00:35:13.22\00:35:16.22
the whole church
brought two people
00:35:16.25\00:35:18.81
and the two men brought 44.
00:35:18.84\00:35:20.85
Wow. Wow.
00:35:20.88\00:35:22.23
Prayer is powerful.
00:35:22.26\00:35:24.08
Didn't you like that story?
00:35:24.11\00:35:25.30
It's not that
they give something.
00:35:25.33\00:35:27.53
They prayed for people.
00:35:27.56\00:35:30.40
Yes.
00:35:30.43\00:35:31.51
Yeah, and answered
and answered big time.
00:35:31.54\00:35:35.03
And God is able to do that.
00:35:35.06\00:35:36.11
I remember baptizing a fellow,
00:35:36.14\00:35:38.07
his wife had prayed
for him for 34 years.
00:35:38.10\00:35:40.63
And she was so
excited true story in New York
00:35:40.66\00:35:43.83
that in her joy
she broke her ankle
00:35:43.86\00:35:47.40
because she was just so happy
00:35:47.43\00:35:48.77
as we brought him
up out of the pool.
00:35:48.80\00:35:50.25
And we're outside the tent,
the ground is uneven, you know,
00:35:50.28\00:35:52.39
and she hit a rock
and just roll that ankle
00:35:52.42\00:35:54.61
and certainly pulled a ligament.
00:35:54.64\00:35:56.67
In her joy she broke an ankle.
There's something about that.
00:35:56.70\00:35:59.88
In her joy she
broke her ankle, yeah.
00:35:59.91\00:36:01.99
About 34 years of prayer
and he finally came through
00:36:02.02\00:36:05.69
and I guess those 34 years
00:36:05.72\00:36:07.71
at that moment
seem like a minute
00:36:07.74\00:36:09.53
because he was in the faith--
00:36:09.56\00:36:11.41
God's timing. Yes.
00:36:11.44\00:36:12.87
Yes. Yes, very much so.
00:36:12.90\00:36:16.05
If there are someone
that you've been praying for,
00:36:16.08\00:36:19.10
Ruthie what would you give
an advice to sticking to it?
00:36:19.13\00:36:24.12
And the power of sticking to it
00:36:24.15\00:36:25.51
and the benefit
of sticking to it?
00:36:25.54\00:36:27.67
Well, you know,
all through scripture
00:36:27.70\00:36:30.22
God talks about to
hold on and never give up.
00:36:30.25\00:36:35.52
In fact Moses
said, hold God fast.
00:36:35.55\00:36:39.95
And so I think sometimes
we have to go to the Lord
00:36:39.98\00:36:42.20
and say Lord
don't let me give up.
00:36:42.23\00:36:45.27
Don't let me give up
because you can do anything.
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.39
Another thing that is
an encouragement to me
00:36:48.42\00:36:51.76
is to go to the
places in scripture
00:36:51.79\00:36:54.30
that were totally impossible.
00:36:54.33\00:36:57.19
Just totally impossible,
00:36:57.22\00:36:58.65
if God doesn't
come through, you splat.
00:36:58.68\00:37:01.55
Yes.
00:37:01.58\00:37:03.52
Very true.
00:37:03.55\00:37:04.76
You see that, do you? Yes, yes.
00:37:04.79\00:37:06.28
And like Joshua,
in fact, he knew that,
00:37:06.31\00:37:08.73
he had these three huge kingdoms
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.10
coming down on his
little dinky kingdom.
00:37:11.13\00:37:13.54
And he said, Lord,
if you don't do this
00:37:13.57\00:37:16.24
it's wipe out for us
00:37:16.27\00:37:18.87
and the Red Sea
00:37:18.90\00:37:21.47
that's the total impossibility.
00:37:21.50\00:37:23.88
And but the more we go to
these stories in scripture
00:37:23.91\00:37:27.89
where God took an
impossible situation
00:37:27.92\00:37:31.03
and came through.
00:37:31.06\00:37:33.12
And we can say
with Charles Spurgeon
00:37:33.15\00:37:36.79
in 2 Samuel 7:25,
00:37:36.82\00:37:39.99
Spurgeon said I would go
to that text and I would say,
00:37:40.02\00:37:43.19
God, do what you
said you would do.
00:37:43.22\00:37:46.00
Do what you said you would do.
00:37:46.03\00:37:47.37
Yes.
00:37:47.40\00:37:48.43
And so I think it really helps
00:37:48.46\00:37:50.71
to say God help
me not to give up
00:37:50.74\00:37:53.81
and do what you
said you would do.
00:37:53.84\00:37:56.48
I'm just and
Martin Luther used to say
00:37:56.51\00:37:59.47
I'm weak, I'm
needy, I'm helpless,
00:37:59.50\00:38:02.67
I'm unworthy,
but I'm your child.
00:38:02.70\00:38:04.86
Praise God.
00:38:04.89\00:38:06.22
So I think that would
keep us from giving up.
00:38:06.25\00:38:08.72
That's right, Ruthie,
00:38:08.75\00:38:09.79
and, Pavel, you've got
the companion piece to that.
00:38:09.82\00:38:12.75
The idea that we need to
stay and pray the promise
00:38:12.78\00:38:16.45
and not for what we see.
00:38:16.48\00:38:18.85
Kind of walk us through that?
00:38:18.88\00:38:20.46
So many times our faith
00:38:20.49\00:38:22.60
and our prayers
depend on answers
00:38:22.63\00:38:24.55
instead of
depending on relationship.
00:38:24.58\00:38:27.75
If we don't see
an instant answer,
00:38:27.78\00:38:29.51
we lose faith and stop praying.
00:38:29.54\00:38:31.52
Instead of
looking for an answer,
00:38:31.55\00:38:33.00
we need to make it
a habit a way of life,
00:38:33.03\00:38:35.24
look for God and
trust not in what you see
00:38:35.27\00:38:38.26
but trust in His promises.
00:38:38.29\00:38:39.77
Go back and
back to His promises,
00:38:39.80\00:38:42.08
repeat them back to
the Lord and stick with it
00:38:42.11\00:38:44.85
because as you stick with it,
00:38:44.88\00:38:46.61
it's gonna work
with those people,
00:38:46.64\00:38:47.92
it's gonna work with you.
00:38:47.95\00:38:49.16
And then eventually
when you see the answer
00:38:49.19\00:38:51.19
because we don't see the
big picture but God does.
00:38:51.22\00:38:53.69
He wants us to continue to pray
when the answer finally comes
00:38:53.72\00:38:58.17
it's gonna do
something to our faith
00:38:58.20\00:39:00.38
and this what I learned.
00:39:00.41\00:39:01.64
If we shared that story
like I get people who did it
00:39:01.67\00:39:05.03
to sharing in
front of the church.
00:39:05.06\00:39:06.77
It is contagious.
The others want to do it.
00:39:06.80\00:39:09.65
It spreads like fire.
00:39:09.68\00:39:11.43
And soon enough you
get everybody praying
00:39:11.46\00:39:13.70
and then there are stories.
00:39:13.73\00:39:16.41
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:16.44\00:39:17.65
That's good.
00:39:17.68\00:39:18.71
That is important because
we tend to focus on result.
00:39:18.74\00:39:23.39
You put fire under
kettle, that water will boil
00:39:23.42\00:39:25.87
and if it doesn't
boil something is wrong.
00:39:25.90\00:39:28.58
So you pray the
promise that God will hear
00:39:28.61\00:39:31.38
and God will answer even
though you may not see it
00:39:31.41\00:39:34.63
and that will keep
your prayers coming
00:39:34.66\00:39:36.27
because you're not
necessarily looking for
00:39:36.30\00:39:38.19
an answer right then
00:39:38.22\00:39:39.25
because you know
God is going to work
00:39:39.28\00:39:40.48
because He said I will work.
00:39:40.51\00:39:42.50
If you do this, I will do this.
00:39:42.53\00:39:43.81
If you do that,
He's gonna do that
00:39:43.84\00:39:45.42
whether you see it now or not.
00:39:45.45\00:39:47.35
And you know, C.A.
00:39:47.38\00:39:48.44
I really liked what Pavel
just said about a relationship.
00:39:48.47\00:39:52.26
Yes, yes.
00:39:52.29\00:39:53.32
I really believe that
God wants us to go to Him
00:39:53.35\00:39:56.27
and say God You
said, You said this.
00:39:56.30\00:40:00.20
You know, Corrie ten Boom,
00:40:00.23\00:40:01.97
I tell people she was my friend.
00:40:02.00\00:40:03.95
I never really met her in person
00:40:03.98\00:40:06.03
but we did have
many phone conversations
00:40:06.06\00:40:08.64
when she was in this country.
00:40:08.67\00:40:10.33
And I had the
privilege of praying with her
00:40:10.36\00:40:11.99
on the phone.
00:40:12.02\00:40:13.30
But she used to hold
her Bible up like this
00:40:13.33\00:40:16.30
to the Lord
when she was praying.
00:40:16.33\00:40:18.01
She said, Lord, here it
is read it for yourself.
00:40:18.04\00:40:20.98
See that's a relationship.
00:40:23.47\00:40:25.07
It is a relationship.
00:40:25.10\00:40:26.79
And Charles Spurgeon
said, we mentioned this earlier
00:40:26.82\00:40:29.53
Samuel is saying to the
Lord, do as you have said.
00:40:32.77\00:40:37.16
So let Your name be magnified.
00:40:37.19\00:40:39.13
Yes.
00:40:39.16\00:40:40.20
And God wants us to
talk to him like that.
00:40:40.23\00:40:42.98
We have to keep holding on
and don't give him a timeline
00:40:43.01\00:40:48.15
because His
timing is always best.
00:40:48.18\00:40:50.21
Yes.
00:40:50.24\00:40:51.28
But to hold on
00:40:51.31\00:40:53.75
and take these promises to Him.
00:40:53.78\00:40:55.32
I don't think the Lord minds
us reminding Him of the promises
00:40:55.35\00:40:58.76
He made to us
00:40:58.79\00:40:59.88
because He is
faithful and truth.
00:40:59.91\00:41:01.68
So what we've done is
add some additional prayers
00:41:01.71\00:41:06.77
to our little basket here.
00:41:06.80\00:41:09.30
First, Lord,
00:41:09.33\00:41:10.74
who should I pray about
or what should I pray about?
00:41:10.77\00:41:13.82
Then once you start
Lord, keep me praying
00:41:13.85\00:41:16.64
even though I
don't see an answer,
00:41:16.67\00:41:18.48
help me to trust that
You're God who answers prayer
00:41:18.51\00:41:20.66
because You said You are.
00:41:20.69\00:41:22.29
And don't let me fatigue,
so there are other prayers
00:41:22.32\00:41:25.43
that go right along
with our focused prayer
00:41:25.46\00:41:28.56
because we are human.
00:41:28.59\00:41:30.00
And sometimes
Lord, I don't see it
00:41:30.03\00:41:31.87
but just don't let me
go with what my eyes see.
00:41:31.90\00:41:34.78
Let me go with this
relationship with you.
00:41:34.81\00:41:37.02
I think that's a integral
part of this whole process.
00:41:37.05\00:41:40.60
Pavel, any other
miracles or answers to prayer?
00:41:40.63\00:41:43.48
Well, there are many
but I'd like to mention one.
00:41:43.51\00:41:46.90
There was a certain lady that
00:41:49.47\00:41:51.42
didn't come much
to church anymore
00:41:51.45\00:41:53.80
and she heard some
things are happening
00:41:53.83\00:41:55.68
in some church in some place.
00:41:55.71\00:41:57.70
And she came but she
came late after church started
00:41:57.73\00:42:02.23
and she left early
before church would end
00:42:02.26\00:42:04.51
probably trying to
avoid too much talk.
00:42:04.54\00:42:07.02
Her hair was funny
colored and rings and so on.
00:42:07.05\00:42:11.68
And I saw her
leaving so I let the saints
00:42:11.71\00:42:15.93
sing the closing hymn alone
00:42:15.96\00:42:17.67
and they ran after her
00:42:17.70\00:42:18.73
and she is at the
car opening the door.
00:42:18.76\00:42:20.83
And I politely
hold the door close
00:42:20.86\00:42:23.12
I said hold on a second,
let me just introduce myself.
00:42:23.15\00:42:26.77
I know you are the
pastor I said yeah, obviously
00:42:26.80\00:42:29.08
but who are you?
00:42:29.11\00:42:30.22
And she told me her name
and I said I'm glad you came.
00:42:30.25\00:42:34.39
Well, I don't
believe in church or in God.
00:42:34.42\00:42:36.46
I said then why are you here?
00:42:36.49\00:42:38.73
And she says uh, she was
trying to freak out answer.
00:42:38.76\00:42:42.14
I did try-- I did try.
00:42:42.17\00:42:44.03
I said why did you try?
00:42:44.06\00:42:45.58
Well, I just wanted to see
00:42:45.61\00:42:47.30
if God would
finally answer my prayers.
00:42:47.33\00:42:49.98
And I said what have
you been praying for?
00:42:50.01\00:42:52.76
Said well, I'm
trying to give up drugs
00:42:52.79\00:42:55.98
and I said have you managed?
00:42:56.01\00:42:58.40
Did you get victory?
00:42:58.43\00:42:59.67
No, God doesn't answer prayers.
00:42:59.70\00:43:01.30
I said oh, God
does answer prayers
00:43:01.33\00:43:03.64
but you not focus on drugs,
you should focus on Christ.
00:43:03.67\00:43:06.72
And she said,
how do you do that?
00:43:06.75\00:43:09.15
I said listen
00:43:09.18\00:43:10.58
God doesn't need you and
me to pray for somebody else.
00:43:10.61\00:43:14.44
Doesn't need
you and me to preach
00:43:14.47\00:43:16.14
but that would do good to you.
00:43:16.17\00:43:17.48
Yes.
00:43:17.51\00:43:18.55
And so this is
the way God ordained
00:43:18.58\00:43:20.79
for you and me to grow.
00:43:20.82\00:43:22.25
Why don't you pray for somebody
who is struggling with drugs?
00:43:22.28\00:43:25.13
And go and give
them a Bible study
00:43:25.16\00:43:27.06
and let God work on
you and you work on others.
00:43:27.09\00:43:29.88
Stop focusing on you.
00:43:29.91\00:43:31.09
That's-- that's powerful.
00:43:31.12\00:43:32.26
And she said, I
cannot give a Bible study.
00:43:32.29\00:43:35.88
I said I'm not
asking you to teach,
00:43:35.91\00:43:37.94
I'm asking you to
pray for somebody.
00:43:37.97\00:43:40.63
And this is the Bible
study you go knocking the door
00:43:40.66\00:43:43.54
you say this is the Bible study,
00:43:43.57\00:43:45.70
I'm unable to teach
but I'll pray for you.
00:43:45.73\00:43:48.15
And you go oh, I can do that.
00:43:48.18\00:43:49.92
Yeah.
00:43:49.95\00:43:50.98
She said, and are you sure
that I'm gonna give up drugs?
00:43:51.01\00:43:53.89
I said well, I'm sure
that when you start doing it
00:43:53.92\00:43:56.77
God is gonna
start working on it.
00:43:56.80\00:43:58.96
So I said why don't you try?
00:43:58.99\00:44:01.16
She did.
00:44:01.19\00:44:02.70
She took the Bible
study the address and she left
00:44:02.73\00:44:06.57
and she called me just
about half an hour later
00:44:06.60\00:44:08.85
angry I will never come again.
00:44:08.88\00:44:11.65
I will never pray again. I
will never talk to you again.
00:44:11.68\00:44:14.14
I will never-- just calm
down tell me what happened?
00:44:14.17\00:44:17.31
Well, God doesn't consider
me worthy to pray for somebody
00:44:17.34\00:44:20.47
or give a Bible study why?
00:44:20.50\00:44:22.36
Because they're not at
home I said okay what happened?
00:44:22.39\00:44:26.42
Well, it's an apartment building
00:44:26.45\00:44:28.49
and there is a
intercom and you need to call
00:44:28.52\00:44:31.78
and somebody has
to buzz the door open
00:44:31.81\00:44:33.81
I did called
and nobody answered.
00:44:33.84\00:44:35.93
I said did you pray for them?
00:44:35.96\00:44:38.81
She said well, when
I left-- I said well,
00:44:38.84\00:44:41.80
how long did it take
you to pray for them?
00:44:41.83\00:44:44.57
I said well, I
don't know 15 seconds.
00:44:44.60\00:44:47.51
I said I want
you to go in the car
00:44:47.54\00:44:49.57
and pray for them
00:44:49.60\00:44:51.55
and ask the Lord to
give you an opportunity
00:44:51.58\00:44:53.77
to teach somebody.
00:44:53.80\00:44:55.61
She said how long should I pray
00:44:55.64\00:44:57.72
and I said to her
until you get an answer.
00:44:57.75\00:44:59.28
All right.
00:44:59.31\00:45:00.34
And she said, how long is that?
00:45:00.37\00:45:02.05
I said, do you want
me to say it in Romanian,
00:45:02.08\00:45:04.19
if you don't understand
English until you get an answer.
00:45:04.22\00:45:08.73
She said, put in time, one hour.
00:45:08.76\00:45:10.90
I said, no, you
seem you don't get me,
00:45:10.93\00:45:13.28
until you get an answer.
00:45:13.31\00:45:16.74
So well, I cannot pray so long.
00:45:16.77\00:45:19.19
I said, do you
want to give up drugs?
00:45:19.22\00:45:21.00
Said well, I do.
00:45:21.03\00:45:22.17
Then you pray
until you get an answer.
00:45:22.20\00:45:23.77
But you don't pray for
you, you pray for those people.
00:45:23.80\00:45:25.86
Yes.
00:45:25.89\00:45:26.92
And she was like
00:45:26.95\00:45:28.87
what if I have
to pray a long time?
00:45:28.90\00:45:31.36
I said this is the covenant.
00:45:31.39\00:45:32.91
You'll get in your car and
pray until you get an answer.
00:45:32.94\00:45:36.10
I'm not gonna go home,
it's Saturday, it's 1:30.
00:45:36.13\00:45:38.85
I'm gonna go in my office,
00:45:38.88\00:45:40.77
and I'm gonna pray
until you get an answer.
00:45:40.80\00:45:44.37
So I will pray with you
until you get an answer.
00:45:44.40\00:45:48.14
And if takes the whole
night I don't go home tonight.
00:45:48.17\00:45:50.36
We pray until you get an answer.
00:45:50.39\00:45:52.69
And I said, if you have
to get retire in that car
00:45:52.72\00:45:54.65
that's where you stay
until you get an answer.
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.68
Wow.
00:45:56.71\00:45:57.74
She called me at 4:30.
00:45:57.77\00:45:59.57
In the morning?
00:45:59.60\00:46:00.63
No, no, same like three later.
00:46:00.66\00:46:02.52
Same afternoon. Okay.
00:46:02.55\00:46:03.75
She was like all
over, I said, calm down,
00:46:03.78\00:46:06.34
pastor, you will not
believe what I just...
00:46:06.37\00:46:08.21
just slow down tell me story.
00:46:08.24\00:46:10.70
I prayed and
God will not answer,
00:46:10.73\00:46:12.98
so I got angry
and I stopped praying
00:46:13.01\00:46:15.81
and I opened my eyes and I said,
00:46:15.84\00:46:17.73
why don't you let
me give a Bible study
00:46:17.76\00:46:20.54
and pray for somebody.
00:46:20.57\00:46:22.00
I said, now you're praying.
00:46:22.03\00:46:23.32
She said, what do you mean?
00:46:23.35\00:46:24.42
I said, well, when you said
the poetry that was no prayer,
00:46:24.45\00:46:27.22
when you open your heart
to God, as to a friend...
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.65
Yes.
00:46:29.68\00:46:30.71
That was prayer
00:46:30.74\00:46:31.81
and God can handle your emotions
00:46:31.84\00:46:33.46
as along as you are honest.
00:46:33.49\00:46:35.91
And I said, as
we handle our kids
00:46:35.94\00:46:37.50
when they are emotional
00:46:37.53\00:46:38.56
and we love them like crazy
when they are honest with us.
00:46:38.59\00:46:41.24
We love them the other
time too but we prefer honesty
00:46:41.27\00:46:44.63
and so I said,
now you're praying
00:46:44.66\00:46:46.30
tell me what is next?
00:46:46.33\00:46:47.55
Well, when I
opened my eyes and I said,
00:46:47.58\00:46:49.50
why don't you let
me give a Bible study
00:46:49.53\00:46:51.38
and pray for somebody else?
00:46:51.41\00:46:53.31
Somebody came to get the
trash to the trash container.
00:46:53.34\00:46:56.54
So I said, sorry,
Lord, I got to go.
00:46:56.57\00:46:59.07
And she runs and she says,
00:46:59.10\00:47:01.38
would you let me go
to apartment number 14
00:47:01.41\00:47:03.92
because I'm supposed
to give them a Bible study
00:47:03.95\00:47:05.74
and say a prayer for them.
00:47:05.77\00:47:07.28
The guy says, no,
if they are not home,
00:47:07.31\00:47:09.27
I cannot let you in,
but I'm angry with you.
00:47:09.30\00:47:12.06
I said, you don't even know me.
00:47:12.09\00:47:13.90
Well, I asked for a
Bible study and nobody came,
00:47:13.93\00:47:17.37
I asked for
prayer and nobody came.
00:47:17.40\00:47:19.75
She said, no problem
00:47:19.78\00:47:21.40
I'm gonna give you
this Bible study and prayer
00:47:21.43\00:47:23.73
and I go and get the
new one for apartment 14.
00:47:23.76\00:47:26.54
So he says, come in,
no, no, no I don't know.
00:47:26.57\00:47:30.10
She told me that they
just have a prayer and go,
00:47:30.13\00:47:32.36
I cannot come in.
00:47:32.39\00:47:33.69
he took her by in, come in.
00:47:33.72\00:47:36.28
she got in, he says, sit down.
00:47:36.31\00:47:38.65
She sat down, and
he left the apartment
00:47:38.68\00:47:42.06
and left her
alone in his apartment.
00:47:42.09\00:47:43.79
He was a big guy, like
you know, Rambo or something
00:47:43.82\00:47:47.53
and she says, pastor,
00:47:47.56\00:47:49.62
I started to pray for my safety.
00:47:49.65\00:47:51.98
Now he comes back with
several other neighbors,
00:47:52.01\00:47:55.41
pony tailed, leather jacket,
skeleton heads on their back,
00:47:55.44\00:47:59.74
motor cycle people
and so on you know,
00:47:59.77\00:48:02.05
and he says, folks
we're praying to give up drugs
00:48:02.08\00:48:05.11
and we're praying
that God will send
00:48:05.14\00:48:06.40
somebody to help us,
00:48:06.43\00:48:07.68
and God answered our
prayers, he sent an angel,
00:48:07.71\00:48:10.02
I want you to sit
down and listen to her.
00:48:10.05\00:48:13.18
And she said,
folks, I'm no angel,
00:48:13.21\00:48:16.19
I'm struggling too,
00:48:16.22\00:48:18.21
but this is the Bible
study, you can watch it,
00:48:18.24\00:48:20.91
I just... I'm supposed
to have a prayer for you.
00:48:20.94\00:48:23.54
I said, pastor,
it touched my life,
00:48:23.57\00:48:26.80
it changed my life
00:48:26.83\00:48:28.66
to give this end of
the story, I make it short
00:48:28.69\00:48:31.44
she never missed church since.
00:48:31.47\00:48:34.02
And God is working through her.
00:48:34.05\00:48:35.56
Not just in her but through her.
00:48:35.59\00:48:37.90
Through her, yes.
Prayer is powerful.
00:48:37.93\00:48:41.16
Amen. Yes.
00:48:41.19\00:48:42.44
Amen. I love that story.
00:48:42.47\00:48:43.75
Yeah, that is a fabulous story,
00:48:43.78\00:48:46.83
the idea that
the default setting
00:48:46.86\00:48:50.36
on praying for others is the--
00:48:50.39\00:48:53.15
and I use a very
common word kickback
00:48:53.18\00:48:55.65
that God gives you when
you focus on someone else.
00:48:55.68\00:48:58.51
First of all
you're strengthening
00:48:58.54\00:48:59.57
your relationship with God
00:48:59.60\00:49:01.20
and since that
pipeline is expanded,
00:49:01.23\00:49:04.45
enlarged and strengthened,
00:49:04.48\00:49:06.16
more is gonna come back to you,
it's not just a one way street.
00:49:06.19\00:49:09.79
You get used and God does things
00:49:09.82\00:49:14.12
through you and to you.
00:49:14.15\00:49:16.53
And you-- it's unavoidable,
00:49:16.56\00:49:18.34
it's a-- there's a reciprocity,
dare I throw that word in,
00:49:18.37\00:49:22.46
when you pray for,
that is a wonderful story.
00:49:22.49\00:49:24.42
God, you know, sorry, go ahead.
00:49:24.45\00:49:26.14
God did not call
us to focus on sin,
00:49:26.17\00:49:28.50
we should hate
him but God called us
00:49:28.53\00:49:30.41
to focus on Him and to
focus on people around.
00:49:30.44\00:49:33.54
And then trust
that He will do the work
00:49:33.57\00:49:35.21
because we cannot do it.
00:49:35.24\00:49:36.42
Yeah. We just need to pray.
00:49:36.45\00:49:38.55
And that's really what
Pray One Million is all about.
00:49:38.58\00:49:40.66
Yes.
00:49:40.69\00:49:41.72
Hold on and
pray for that person.
00:49:41.75\00:49:43.64
Yes, yes. Don?
00:49:43.67\00:49:44.70
So well, it's so
easy to see prayer like
00:49:44.73\00:49:47.25
going through a drive in,
00:49:47.28\00:49:48.63
you just drive up
and leave our order there
00:49:48.66\00:49:51.44
and assume that we're
gonna get what we asked for.
00:49:51.47\00:49:53.60
Right.
00:49:53.63\00:49:54.66
But you know, the secret here
00:49:54.69\00:49:57.01
and Pavel has told a story
so and it's been so power--
00:49:57.04\00:50:01.47
has such powerful impact on me.
00:50:01.50\00:50:04.60
The secret here is for
me to get on God's agenda
00:50:04.63\00:50:09.51
is not-- prayer is not
getting my needs unpacked,
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it's getting God's need unpacked
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and in the
process it changes me too.
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Yes, yes.
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You know, it's
interesting to kneel
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beside your bed
at night and say,
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God what's on
your heart tonight?
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What is the thing that
causes you the most pain?
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How can I be of help to you?
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And in the
process he changes us too.
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Yes, yes.
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I have a saying, it is safer
to let God take our problems
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and we take care of His work,
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than ourselves to
take care of our problems.
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Yeah, true, yeah, very true.
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I love it. Very, very true.
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And you know
when we pray this way,
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the goal of life is not
to revive at the end safely,
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but that God will
make us dangerous.
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Oh, I like that. Indeed.
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And when you are putting,
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you are dangerous
to the enemy's camp.
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Yes, yes, yes you are.
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Yes you are.
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Prayer is a means
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but it is also an end in itself.
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That's true. It's a worthy end.
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Just the fact that
you are talking to God
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means that
there's gonna be growth.
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And then the person
that you are bringing to God
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is gonna be blessed
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and you yourself
will be likewise blessed.
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Wonderful,
wonderful, wonderful stories.
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C.A.,
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there is no greater
blessing than to bless.
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We are always seeking a blessing
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but that's the real blessing
when you become a blessing.
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Well, and God
created us that way.
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We were created to
serve not to be served.
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Yes, yes, yes, very true.
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When we are serving
that's when you find happiness,
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joy, fulfillment
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and it all is comes to
us as an answer to prayer.
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So then the most
blessed blessing is to bless.
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That's right.
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And as such you will be blessed.
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You got nowhere
to get away from--
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It says that I will make
you a blessing for all nations.
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Yes. That's the blessing.
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Yes, let's put that Robert
if you will the-- on the screen
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the contact information
for the-- for the site as well,
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PrayOneMillion.org
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and then all of these
resources that you mentioned,
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Ruthie, before
are available to us.
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That's right. At no cost.
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At no cost. Yeah.
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Amen. I like that.
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That's a blessing.
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It surely is.
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We're gonna go to
our newsbreak just now
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and then we'll be
back with a closing thought
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sort of put a little bow on this
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because this is
the wonderful project
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and you will want to be
involved in Pray One Million.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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