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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We welcome you to 3ABN Today.
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It's always a joy
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when we are able to
come into your homes
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and bring our guest.
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And today we have
got an incredible guest.
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Her ministry has
to do with prayer.
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She has teaching workshops,
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all sorts of tools to help
us increase our prayer life.
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So how many of
you are interested
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in becoming a stronger praying,
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prayer partner for
the Kingdom of God?
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Let me encourage
you, get your Bible,
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get your pencil, get your paper,
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call your friends,
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and lets have a
time with the Lord today
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and learn how to
communicate better with Him.
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Let me
introduce my guest to you,
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her name is Eunice Davis.
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Eunice, it is so good
to have you with us today.
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I'm excited about this program
that we're about to go into.
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Thank you for having me,
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and I'm glad to be here as well.
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Well, tell me
where are you from?
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Well, I live, presently I
live in Fort Worth, Texas,
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but I'm originally
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from the island of
Trinidad and Tobago.
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Well, I want to find out
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how you got from the
island of Trinidad and Tobago
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here to this United States.
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And I've already
heard a little of this.
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That's an
exciting element as well.
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But, Eunice, it's so
good to have you here.
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And I have found
that there are people
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here at 3ABN that you know well.
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And so we're just looking
forward to unfolding your life,
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how God has lead you
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in this wonderful ministry
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that He's brought you into.
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Let me just give you a scripture
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that has to do with prayer,
and it's in Ephesians 6:18.
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The Apostle Paul tells us
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that we are to pray, how often?
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"Praying always with all prayer
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and supplication in the spirit."
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So we have this
commandment to pray always.
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And so we're going to
look deeper into that.
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But before we look
deeper into this prayer ministry
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that God has so graced
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and blessed our
sister Eunice with,
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we have Sam Ocampo here with us.
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He's a pianist,
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and he's going to
minister the most beautiful song
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"He Will Carry You".
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If He carried the
weight of the world
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Upon His shoulders
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I know my brother
that He will carry you
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And if He carried
the weight of the world
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Upon His shoulders
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I know my sister
that He will carry you
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Sam Ocampo,
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what a beautiful rendition
of "He Will Carry You".
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Beautiful song,
thank you so very much.
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My guest today, if
you're just joining us
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is Eunice Davis.
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Eunice is from
Fort Worth, Texas.
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And we are just, she
is teaching on prayer.
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And nothing could
be more near and dear
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to my heart and
to the heart of God
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than communicating with Him.
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So, Eunice, thank you so
much for joining with us today,
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coming all the way
to Southern Illinois
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to share with our
viewers and our listeners
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this ministry God
has placed in your heart.
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Before we go into the ministry,
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I want to know a
little about you.
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Tell me, tell, were you
raised in a Christian home?
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Well, I would say
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we were raised
in a Christian home
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where we had prayer
but we grew up Catholic.
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Okay, and my mom will
take us to early morning mass
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and, of course, Sunday mass.
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And we did Stations of the Cross
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and all of those things.
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But the interesting
thing about my mom is that
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we grew up never knowing
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that she was a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And she enrolled us at
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the Seventh-day
Adventist college
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on the island of
Trinidad and Tobago in CUC.
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And while there,
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Elder Cleveland
came to the island
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to run a series of
messages for three months.
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Those were the
days when they did
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three-month campaigns.
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And it so happened
that my English teacher
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was one of his Bible workers.
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And an old friend of my mom
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invited her to
go to the meetings,
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and he will come
every evening, pick us up,
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and we will attend the meetings.
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When we ended up on his list,
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and my mom had a
dress shop in the city,
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where she made
clothes and did people's hair,
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and he came to visit us.
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And I remember distinctly,
I was there in the work,
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in her dress shop.
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And I guess, just a hurt
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of whatever
happened to her in the church
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caused her to leave.
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When she vented it on him
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and he just
stood there very calm
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and he took it all in,
and I was so embarrassed,
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and that's when I found out
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that my mom was a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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She was a Seventh-day Adventist.
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And she had left the church.
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Okay.
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And who was this person
that she was talking to,
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it wasn't Elder Cleveland.
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It was my English teacher
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who was the
Bible worker and his,
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our names were given to him.
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And how old were
you at this time?
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I was 15.
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Okay, and you, you
were going to an Adventist,
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your mother had put
you in an Adventist school.
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In an Adventist
school, yes. Okay.
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And so we became...
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Well, she got re-baptized,
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we all came in with
her and got baptized
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but not with Elder Cleveland.
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The following year,
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George Rainey
came to the island.
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And for second reaping,
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and we were baptized then
on April 1st, April Fools' Day.
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Okay.
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We joined this
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and I've never left.
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It's been the best
thing God has ever done
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for my mom and for us,
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bringing us
back into the church.
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Praise God for that. Yes, yes.
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So you are in
Trinidad and Tobago,
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but now you're in
Fort Worth, Texas.
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Now, how did you get
from Trinidad and Tobago
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all the way to
the United States?
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Well, that's an
interesting story.
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My mom was a dressmaker,
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in the city she
had a dress shop.
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And our money got devalued,
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and, of course,
her business dried up.
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And she had five children
she needed to take care of.
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And so she came
to the United States
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as a domestic
servant working in Baltimore.
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And after a year,
she went up to New York
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and she just
started bringing us up
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one by one to the United States.
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And so we got
there, we purchased a home,
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and when we purchased that home,
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I picked up my red suitcase,
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and I headed for
Atlantic Union College
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to go to school.
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So you started going to
school here in the United States
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and a Seventh-day
Adventist college.
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Seventh-day
Adventist school, yes,
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and I enjoyed my time there.
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I did a year and
a half there at AUC,
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and then I
transferred to Oakwood College.
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Now, did you meet
anyone in Oakwood College
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that our viewers and listeners
might be familiar with?
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CA Murray.
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CA Murray, you and
he went to college.
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We went to school together,
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and I took Greek
and Homiletics with him.
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And I would tutor
the guys, you know, with,
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in their Greek I would,
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sometimes I will do
their homework for them.
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And whenever Dr. Rodgers
needed to be out of town,
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he would turn his second
year Greek class over to me.
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You know, something that CA
was, was here just a little,
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short while ago, and, you
know, he still chafes a bit
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because he says that in Greek,
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you smoked
everyone of those men.
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Yes, that's what they said.
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And you were the only
female in the Greek class.
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I was the only
girl in the class,
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and sometimes
the guys would say,
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"You just make me sick."
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I said, "Well, I'm sorry."
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Because you, you understood,
you grasp that concept,
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I guess quickly.
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I did, I did, because back home,
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in the islands,
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I took Latin, Spanish,
and French in high school.
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And so when I came
to the United States
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majoring in religion, and Greek,
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I took Greek as a challenge.
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Well, it was just
another foreign language
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and I enjoyed it, and
I did quite well with it.
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Well, I know, CA
was very impressed
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with your ability in
that particular area.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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And so now you've
gone to Atlantic Union,
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now you are in Oakwood,
where do we go from here?
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Well, so I
graduated from Oakwood,
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magna cum laude.
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Congratulations. Thank you.
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And I had, I was
the teacher of the year.
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And my first job
was in Mobile, Alabama,
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where we reopened a school,
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and I made
uniforms for the girls,
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quite an interesting thing.
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But it was a fun, it
was fun, I enjoyed it,
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and then we moved to
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
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where I taught
church school there as well,
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at the Avondale
Seventh-day Adventists School.
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From there, I went
into public school.
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Now my husband is a Texan.
I met him in Houston, Texas.
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I was working with EE Cleveland
as a Bible worker there.
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All right.
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Yes, and he came down,
and he saw me and he said,
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"I'm going to marry
that girl," and he did.
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He told his friend,
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"I want to marry
that girl," and he did.
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So how long have
you been married?
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Forty three years. All right.
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And we have one
son, one grandson,
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and my son brought
home a beautiful wife.
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So we have a daughter-in-law.
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And we go out to
California every year to,
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you know, visit with
them, and spend time with them,
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and it's just so precious.
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But I forgot to
mention while I was at AUC,
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I met Elder CD Brooks
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and he gave me
the awesome invitation
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of working with him in Chicago,
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and he pitched a tent
there on 108 on Halsted.
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And we brought
in many, many souls,
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we established the
church, Straford Memorial there,
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and so it was a
great time just working.
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With that, you
have quite a background,
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a history of working
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on the foundational
level in the church.
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Yes, and I enjoy that.
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You know, just doing
Bible work on every church
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I've been
associated with, evangelism,
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going out and
passing out tracks,
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or handbills,
giving Bible studies,
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I've always been involved
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and I just love being there
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leading people to
Christ and praying for them.
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And it's such a joy to
see people accept Christ.
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You know, and
begin to follow him
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and see their lives change.
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It's just awesome.
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So you take this
message of the kingdom
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to as many
people as will hear it.
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Wherever I go. Wherever you go.
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Well, I know that
when you said that
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you went into
public school as a teacher
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and you had already
taught in various areas,
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how many years were
you as a school teacher?
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Thirty four years. Okay.
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Thirty four years, and
during my time teaching
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in Fort Worth
Independent School District,
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I had a wonderful opportunity
of mentoring teachers,
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having teachers do the
internship in my classroom.
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Some professors
at the university
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there even
profiled me in their book,
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one of their books about
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qualities of
good literacy teachers
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which was quite an honor.
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Yes, it is.
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You know, to be featured
in a book of that caliber.
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And when I finished
my 34 years of teaching,
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I ended it as a literacy coach
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and a third
grade reading teacher,
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which was just wonderful.
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So from being a teacher,
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then the Lord took
you in another direction,
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well, I don't necessarily
think another direction
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but just a, maybe
another facet of teaching.
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True, and he
tapped into the skills
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that he had given
to me as a teacher,
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because during my
term as a teacher,
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I learned applied learning,
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I learned how to use
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Howard Gardner's
Multiple Intelligences,
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and how to work with
children of non-speaking,
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non English
speaking, you know, children.
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And so, I had all of
those skills under my belt.
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And after 34 years of teaching,
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I didn't have to
prepare for workshops,
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I didn't have
to go to workshops,
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I didn't have to plan for my,
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you know, classroom
for the following year
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or anything like that.
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And my brain was then clear.
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Because, you know,
while I was teaching,
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I'd get up early in
the morning to pray,
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but my mind was on the clock.
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What time it is and
what's my first class.
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Yes and just getting to school.
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And after retiring,
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I had all this time in my brain,
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I didn't have to worry
about those things anymore.
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And so, you know, God
tracks us and He knows
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so, He knows us better
than we know ourselves.
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And He knew the energy
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that I have that
He has given to me.
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And so I redid my front
lawn and I planted lantanas,
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and I was just all involved
and I cleaned up the house,
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and then He said,
"Okay, I'm ready for you now."
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And the church where I
attended is a church plant
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in Arlington, Texas...
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Southern Worship Center
of Seventh-day Adventist.
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Okay. The name
almost slipped to me.
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And our pastor,
Pastor Spencer Anderson,
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he led a group of us in
planting a church there.
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He led us
through spiritual gifts,
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training on spiritual gifts,
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and then we were
given the assessment.
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And I came on very
strong in pastoring,
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and evangelism, and prayer.
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So I think, I'm
gonna try prayer.
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And so I became the first,
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the church's first
prayer ministry leader,
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and I organized prayer nights,
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we did prayer walks in
the neighborhood, we did...
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We called moms together
to pray for their children.
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We had praying for each other,
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just a lot of things on prayer
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that I initiated under
the help of the Holy Spirit.
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And it was during that time
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that God started
opening up my eyes
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to the sanctuary, and praying,
and more focused praying.
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So that, that's how He
led you from being a teacher.
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At first I found
this interesting,
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He let you get
your home in order,
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because it's so
important to we, women
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to have a organized sanctuary,
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set up the way we
wanted it to be set,
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even your front yard.
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And from that then
He started calling you
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and drawing you into
another facet of ministry.
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In the ministry that you felt
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He was drawing you
into was that of prayer.
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So how has that
evolved? Good question.
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So I have more time
now to read my Bible.
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I'm getting up at 5
o'clock every morning,
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like I normally did,
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but now I have
more time, more hours,
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not just 20
minutes or 30 minutes,
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and I'm reading God's Word,
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and I'm beginning to realize
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that He is speaking to
me, and He is talking to me,
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and my heart is responding
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to what the Holy
Spirit is saying.
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And I have more time
now to spend in prayer.
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And I started
reading on a sanctuary,
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and as a teacher I'm taught,
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I teach the kids
to make inferences.
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What can I infer from
what I'm reading here,
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and so I transferred
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that mindset to my
reading of the Bible,
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and I came across the sanctuary,
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let them build me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them.
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And I said, "What
is God inferring?"
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I mean, what is He saying?
What is that He really wants?
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And then, it's
just a simple message.
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The sanctuary is there
for us to get to know Him.
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It's a relationship place,
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and it's a place where
we can be equipped to face
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whatever life will bring.
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And so I started
looking at the sanctuary
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from that standpoint,
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and just praying the
sanctuary throughout the day,
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praising Him, confessing,
asking Him to clean me out,
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just making sure that I
had the Holy Spirit with me,
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and just going over scriptures,
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and it was just a revelation
being in the sanctuary all day.
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Once I left my prayer room,
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taking the concept of
being in the sanctuary with God
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and having and growing
that relationship with Him.
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And so, He,
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God wants a sanctuary
here in this earth, why?
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So He can dwell with us.
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And I'm thinking of, Lord,
prepare me to be a sanctuary.
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We're not
talking about a building
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over on the
corner of Maine in 6th,
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we're talking about
us being that sanctuary
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that He can dwell with us.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And just having that
concept of the sanctuary
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as we go through today
helps keep us grounded.
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And the things
that we struggle with,
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it gives us a
stronger foundation
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to deal with
it, and to overcome,
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and to gain that victory.
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You know, that sanctuary
that is in the heavens...
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Just recently in Sabbath School,
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the Sabbath School quarterly,
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I read a quote
from Sister White,
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and she said that
understanding the sanctuary
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is foundational, or fundamental
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for a Christian's growth.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And that is why when I
go out and I do my ministry,
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the very first presentation
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is always based
on the sanctuary.
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And I take the
attendees through it.
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We don't get technical,
it's not anything technical,
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but it's very practical.
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How can I use this?
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And that's where
my teaching comes in.
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Let's make it simple.
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Let's cut through the fluff,
and let's get down to basics.
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And I teach them, let's...
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The first we want to do
is to come into the sanctuary
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with praise in the morning,
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you want to
praise God for who He is
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for His mighty
works, you want to sing.
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Now I am not very good at
remembering songs, I said,
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"God, how can I sing to you?"
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So I would just
open up the Psalm,
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or find some
beautiful scriptures
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that talk about God's power,
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and I would just
start singing it,
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make up my own tune,
and I would just sing it,
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and it opens up my mind then.
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And it changes the
dynamics of the room,
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so I can, I'm in
His presence then.
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Okay, you enter His courts
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with thanksgiving in
your heart, with praise.
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Yes, yes.
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And then when I
get ready to confess,
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and I talk about confession,
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the fear and the
burden is not there,
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because I'm in the presence
of someone who loves me,
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and I just got to
praising Him, and so I confess,
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sometimes I
confess a particular sin,
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because I want to focus in
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on something that
I'm struggling with.
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And, of course,
you know, He washes us,
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purifies us with His sup,
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and He washes us so that
we can be clean and wash...
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You're talking about the vessels
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that are in the sanctuary
now as you walk through it.
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And I'm taking them through it,
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I take my people through,
the attendees through it.
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And so there's
confession, and I tell them,
00:24:03.04\00:24:06.11
the sanctuary is where we have
the weapons for our warfare.
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It's the war
room, it's the war room.
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And so we have
praise, we have confession,
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we ask God to cleanse us,
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and I love going
into the holy place,
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because when I
enter the holy place,
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the angels are there to meet me.
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The angels are
all around, you know,
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the candlestick
lights up the holy place,
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.46
and the reflection
of all of those angels,
00:24:29.50\00:24:31.80
because in heaven
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the angels are there
in the presence of God.
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Yes.
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And Ellen White tells us that...
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The angels are there on
the battlefield with us.
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In human guise with
us on that battlefield.
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Satan has his
angels too in human guise,
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opposing God's kingdom.
00:24:55.99\00:24:57.53
So when I step
into the holy place,
00:24:57.56\00:24:59.56
the angels are there and I feel,
00:24:59.59\00:25:01.66
"Huh, I'm at home."
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I feel protected, I feel safe.
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And, of course, the Holy Spirit
00:25:06.67\00:25:08.00
is there to us, my...
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He's my teacher,
he's going to teach me,
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he welcomes me into his home.
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You know, if I were
to come to your home
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and you open the door
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with a smile on your
face, I feel at home.
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So when I go into the sanctuary
and he is there to welcome me,
00:25:17.98\00:25:21.25
and I know I have my
teacher, my counselor, my guide,
00:25:21.28\00:25:24.92
he is everything that I need.
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And then he walks me over
to the table of showbread,
00:25:27.09\00:25:30.43
the presence.
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.29
And the
interesting thing about it
00:25:32.33\00:25:33.83
is that when we sit
down, we're telling God.
00:25:33.86\00:25:39.57
I am in
agreement with everything
00:25:39.60\00:25:41.27
that I'm going to
read in this book.
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.44
And it's cool
between the two of us,
00:25:45.47\00:25:47.61
because I've confessed my sins
and I'm in fellowship with you.
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You know, and so I can sit there
00:25:51.55\00:25:54.88
and with the Holy Spirit
00:25:54.92\00:25:56.25
I invite Him in
to come as I read
00:25:56.28\00:25:59.49
and I ask Him for more insight,
00:25:59.52\00:26:01.66
and I take my
attendees through this thing
00:26:01.69\00:26:05.09
and I present it to them.
00:26:05.13\00:26:06.46
But I present it to them
in more of a military term
00:26:06.49\00:26:10.13
because in the sanctuary we
have our weapons of warfare.
00:26:10.17\00:26:14.00
Our commander in
chief is Jesus Christ.
00:26:14.04\00:26:16.44
Yes.
00:26:16.47\00:26:17.81
You know, and so we want to be
a part of Jesus' defense force.
00:26:17.84\00:26:21.48
And if we're going to be
in the military with Him,
00:26:21.51\00:26:23.31
we need to be prepared.
00:26:23.35\00:26:24.68
We need to know how He functions
00:26:24.71\00:26:27.58
and He is all in the sanctuary.
00:26:27.62\00:26:29.88
So I'm there with my
Bible, and I'm reading,
00:26:29.92\00:26:31.65
and I always ask for insight,
00:26:31.69\00:26:33.89
'cause, you know,
Isaiah says, in Isaiah 50:4,
00:26:33.92\00:26:39.03
He wakens us up every morning
00:26:39.06\00:26:41.56
to give us a Word
to sustain the weary.
00:26:41.60\00:26:44.70
He opens our ear to teach us,
00:26:44.73\00:26:46.80
like one being taught so
we will not be rebellious.
00:26:46.84\00:26:50.47
And so I'm
praying and asking God
00:26:50.51\00:26:52.27
for that every morning,
00:26:52.31\00:26:53.64
"Teach me not to be
rebellious, Lord, I want to,"
00:26:53.68\00:26:56.08
you know, "I want to submit."
00:26:56.11\00:26:57.95
So that's praying God's
Word, trusting in God's Word.
00:26:57.98\00:27:02.82
You know, the
scripture says, he...
00:27:02.85\00:27:04.89
As we go into the sanctuary,
00:27:04.92\00:27:07.19
we enter his
gates with thanksgiving
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.79
and into His courts with praise.
00:27:09.82\00:27:12.09
And the scripture
declares that God inhabits
00:27:12.13\00:27:15.23
the praises of His people
00:27:15.26\00:27:16.90
and in the presence of the Lord,
00:27:16.93\00:27:19.07
there is fullness of joy,
00:27:19.10\00:27:20.67
and the joy of the
Lord is our strength.
00:27:20.70\00:27:23.81
So as go into His presence,
00:27:23.84\00:27:26.27
you can rest assured
00:27:26.31\00:27:28.21
that He is going to
strengthen you for that day.
00:27:28.24\00:27:31.68
You know, and Ellen
White says about God's Word.
00:27:31.71\00:27:35.22
She says, "Satan trembles
00:27:35.25\00:27:37.62
when God's Word is
thrown at him in fiery darts."
00:27:37.65\00:27:43.43
Jeremiah 1:9 says, God says,
00:27:43.46\00:27:47.00
"I've put, I've put
my words in your mouth."
00:27:47.03\00:27:51.00
And I'm gonna, I'm
sending you out now
00:27:51.03\00:27:52.90
to the nations to
uproot, to turn over,
00:27:52.93\00:27:56.50
to destroy, you
know, and then to plant.
00:27:56.54\00:27:59.94
So when God's Word comes in,
God's Word disrupts everything.
00:27:59.97\00:28:04.01
He disrupts it, because He says,
00:28:04.05\00:28:07.78
"To destroy strongholds
and demolish anything
00:28:07.82\00:28:11.45
that sets itself up against Him
00:28:11.49\00:28:14.32
and to take
captive every thought."
00:28:14.36\00:28:16.32
And so when I read God's Word,
00:28:16.36\00:28:17.89
He's giving me the ammunition
that I need to face the enemy.
00:28:17.93\00:28:22.20
And so when I invite
people into the sanctuary
00:28:22.23\00:28:24.77
and I show them that,
00:28:24.80\00:28:26.60
I'm empowering them
00:28:26.63\00:28:28.87
to read God's Word
and then to pray it.
00:28:28.90\00:28:32.57
Because when we get
to the altar of incense,
00:28:32.61\00:28:35.98
when we begin
to pray God's Word,
00:28:36.01\00:28:39.01
He is going to listen,
00:28:39.05\00:28:40.68
because He has
just given it to us
00:28:40.72\00:28:43.18
to use it in our
conversations with Him.
00:28:43.22\00:28:45.99
Yeah, and His Word
doesn't return void.
00:28:46.02\00:28:49.46
You know, something
that we're always encouraging
00:28:49.49\00:28:52.86
our viewers and listeners,
00:28:52.89\00:28:54.50
and in any time we are teaching,
00:28:54.53\00:28:57.50
before you sit
down with God's Word,
00:28:57.53\00:29:00.04
pray and ask Him
to quicken this Word
00:29:00.07\00:29:03.91
to the areas in your
life that need to be changed.
00:29:03.94\00:29:07.48
The scripture
says in Psalms 139,
00:29:07.51\00:29:10.25
"The entrance of
Thy word gives light."
00:29:10.28\00:29:14.58
119:139, "The entrance
of thy Word gives light,
00:29:14.62\00:29:18.62
it gives
understanding to the simple."
00:29:18.65\00:29:21.59
And so, the entrance of
the Word bringing in light
00:29:21.62\00:29:24.53
if there's areas of darkness
in your work, in your life,
00:29:24.56\00:29:28.66
then that light
is going to dispel
00:29:28.70\00:29:30.77
the darkness we feel it.
00:29:30.80\00:29:32.53
And so, it's so
vitally important
00:29:32.57\00:29:35.00
that we do ask God,
00:29:35.04\00:29:36.37
"Oh, Father, by the
power of Your Spirit
00:29:36.40\00:29:38.64
as I'm studying this
Word today that it changed me.
00:29:38.67\00:29:42.98
I don't pray and say,
00:29:43.01\00:29:44.35
"Oh, God, as I'm
studying Your Word today,
00:29:44.38\00:29:46.48
let this Word
change my husband."
00:29:46.51\00:29:49.05
This is for me,
"Oh, God, change me."
00:29:49.08\00:29:51.72
And I love that aspect.
00:29:51.75\00:29:53.42
Because, you know, what...
00:29:53.46\00:29:54.79
Sometimes when
I'm reading the Word,
00:29:54.82\00:29:56.16
of course, Holy
Spirit is there with me.
00:29:56.19\00:29:58.56
I would stop and I
would literally ask God
00:29:58.59\00:30:00.60
to do this in my life.
00:30:00.63\00:30:01.96
Yes.
00:30:02.00\00:30:03.33
And that's the Holy Spirit,
00:30:03.37\00:30:04.70
because He searches us
and He knows us, you know.
00:30:04.73\00:30:07.04
But the thing about
praying is that God says,
00:30:07.07\00:30:11.41
"I'm watching My Word to
make sure it's fulfilled."
00:30:11.44\00:30:15.14
He told Jeremiah that.
00:30:15.18\00:30:16.51
Watching over my
Word to perform it.
00:30:16.54\00:30:18.58
To perform it. Yes.
00:30:18.61\00:30:20.02
And Joab told the people,
you know, let's fight them,
00:30:20.05\00:30:23.79
let God do what delights Him.
00:30:23.82\00:30:26.22
And so when we pray
at the altar of incense,
00:30:26.25\00:30:28.82
we know that we are
told that the Holy Spirit
00:30:28.86\00:30:31.19
takes our words
and He rewrites it.
00:30:31.23\00:30:34.76
And the blood that's brought
in from the altar of sacrifice
00:30:34.80\00:30:37.80
and placed on the horns
of the altar of incense,
00:30:37.83\00:30:41.60
where Jesus' blood
purifies it and cleanses it,
00:30:41.64\00:30:46.34
and His
righteousness takes care of it,
00:30:46.37\00:30:49.51
and the angels
take it to heaven.
00:30:49.54\00:30:51.75
And so I
encourage people to pray,
00:30:51.78\00:30:53.28
you know, sometimes
people become discouraged
00:30:53.31\00:30:56.12
because they feel as if God
is not hearing their prayer,
00:30:56.15\00:30:58.52
but He is listening.
00:30:58.55\00:31:01.26
And He says,
"Keep praying until,"
00:31:01.29\00:31:04.33
you know, he told the
watchman on the walls.
00:31:04.36\00:31:07.30
I've placed you as
watchmen on the walls.
00:31:07.33\00:31:11.17
But keep sending
up those prayers,
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.30
until I have made
Jerusalem what I want it to be,
00:31:13.34\00:31:17.54
what my vision is for Jerusalem,
00:31:17.57\00:31:20.31
until that's done I want
you to keep sending them up,
00:31:20.34\00:31:23.88
sending up those prayers.
00:31:23.91\00:31:25.61
Don't become discouraged,
it will take a while,
00:31:25.65\00:31:28.62
it will take a while.
00:31:28.65\00:31:29.98
He says, "Pray
until." I like that.
00:31:30.02\00:31:33.05
Yes. Until, a time space word.
00:31:33.09\00:31:35.32
Pray, pray. Until.
00:31:35.36\00:31:37.03
Until, until it's accomplished.
00:31:37.06\00:31:38.79
Right, he told Moses,
00:31:38.83\00:31:41.30
"Keep your hand up
with the javelin until..."
00:31:41.33\00:31:45.90
Even if you had have
someone... Hold it up.
00:31:45.93\00:31:48.07
Hold it up, until.
Until, I like that.
00:31:48.10\00:31:50.71
Esther fasted until
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.57
Jesus stayed in the
Garden of Gethsemane until,
00:31:52.61\00:31:55.58
you know, who is it?
00:31:55.61\00:31:57.11
Joshua?
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.51
He fought until, so he
vanquished his enemies.
00:31:58.55\00:32:03.95
And so in our prayer lives,
00:32:03.99\00:32:05.45
we should never
become discouraged.
00:32:05.49\00:32:07.82
Because God tells us very
plain in Isaiah 62:6 and 7,
00:32:07.86\00:32:11.43
"Keep praying until." Until.
00:32:11.46\00:32:13.56
And let me tell you
something about praying
00:32:13.60\00:32:14.96
and being persistent in prayer.
00:32:15.00\00:32:21.07
I worked with hospice
for a short period of time.
00:32:21.10\00:32:25.77
And I went into
this gentleman's room.
00:32:25.81\00:32:28.88
And I was just shocked.
00:32:28.91\00:32:31.78
In a porcelain
skin, jet-black hair,
00:32:31.81\00:32:34.58
why are you dying?
00:32:34.62\00:32:37.45
And the Holy
Spirit kept telling me,
00:32:37.49\00:32:39.69
"Say to this man
though your sins be a scarlet,
00:32:39.72\00:32:42.76
they shall be white as snow.
00:32:42.79\00:32:44.19
Come now let us
reason together."
00:32:44.23\00:32:46.16
Holy Spirit is
telling me to say this to him,
00:32:46.19\00:32:49.10
but I'm telling
him something else
00:32:49.13\00:32:50.57
and I'm singing to him,
00:32:50.60\00:32:51.97
and all the while Holy
Spirit is saying to me,
00:32:52.00\00:32:54.67
"Tell this gentleman,
though your sins be a scarlet,
00:32:54.70\00:32:57.71
they shall be white as snow."
00:32:57.74\00:32:59.37
And you know what?
00:32:59.41\00:33:01.18
The devil was
battling for this man so,
00:33:01.21\00:33:03.11
and he didn't want me to
say these precious words to him
00:33:03.14\00:33:07.22
until a nurse came
in, and I said, "Really."
00:33:07.25\00:33:11.92
And I went back, I
said, "God please forgive me,
00:33:11.95\00:33:15.29
and I called his
name and I said to him,
00:33:15.32\00:33:18.16
"It doesn't matter
what you have done in life.
00:33:18.19\00:33:21.66
It doesn't matter, God
loves you, Jesus loves you.
00:33:21.70\00:33:24.80
He wants to save you,
just tell Him, confess,
00:33:24.83\00:33:28.67
and He will forgive you."
00:33:28.70\00:33:30.74
And I said to him,
I called and I said,
00:33:30.77\00:33:32.14
"If I never see you on
the face of this earth,
00:33:32.17\00:33:34.48
I'm going to look
for you in heaven."
00:33:34.51\00:33:36.78
And I prayed
with him. Praise God.
00:33:36.81\00:33:39.48
And when I left that room,
00:33:39.51\00:33:41.75
it confirmed to
me that some of us
00:33:41.78\00:33:43.99
may not see the
answers to our prayers,
00:33:44.02\00:33:45.72
but God is going
to do whatever He can
00:33:45.75\00:33:48.89
and use whomever He
can to answer that prayer.
00:33:48.92\00:33:52.83
And I'm quite sure a mother
was praying for this young man.
00:33:52.86\00:33:55.76
Yes. And God used me.
00:33:55.80\00:33:57.87
Even though there was a
battle going on in that room,
00:33:57.90\00:34:03.04
but God sent the
nurse and she said,
00:34:03.07\00:34:04.47
"Would you please
tell us why you did this?"
00:34:04.51\00:34:07.24
And I went back in and
I said those words to him.
00:34:07.28\00:34:09.38
Praise God.
00:34:09.41\00:34:10.75
God hears and
answers prayer until...
00:34:10.78\00:34:12.91
Keep praying until. Amen.
00:34:12.95\00:34:14.78
You know, there
are times when it is...
00:34:14.82\00:34:17.75
We can get discouraged
and we think that something,
00:34:17.79\00:34:21.22
particularly in
praying for loved ones,
00:34:21.26\00:34:25.43
something I
have to remind myself
00:34:25.46\00:34:27.53
is God loves
them more than I do.
00:34:27.56\00:34:30.60
Yes.
00:34:30.63\00:34:31.97
As important as this is to
me, it is more important to God.
00:34:32.00\00:34:35.74
And though it may look
like nothing is happening,
00:34:35.77\00:34:40.98
we can't see what's
happening in the spirit realm...
00:34:41.01\00:34:44.31
That's true.
00:34:44.35\00:34:45.68
And we don't know
what God is doing,
00:34:45.71\00:34:47.05
and we, you know, my
confidence isn't in myself,
00:34:47.08\00:34:49.98
my confidence isn't in
the person I'm praying for,
00:34:50.02\00:34:53.46
my confidence is in a God
00:34:53.49\00:34:55.62
that is all
knowing and all loving.
00:34:55.66\00:34:58.13
True, very true.
00:34:58.16\00:34:59.49
And our confidence also
is in the fact that He said,
00:34:59.53\00:35:02.53
"My Word..."
00:35:02.56\00:35:03.90
"Will not return unto Me
void, but it will accomplish..."
00:35:03.93\00:35:06.23
That's right, whatever.
00:35:06.27\00:35:07.60
"The thing that I
sent it to accomplish."
00:35:07.64\00:35:08.97
Exactly. Exact.
00:35:09.00\00:35:10.34
And, you know, the thing,
00:35:10.37\00:35:11.71
the powerful
thing about God's Word,
00:35:11.74\00:35:13.07
He knows how to take it
00:35:13.11\00:35:14.44
and apply it in
that person's life
00:35:14.48\00:35:15.81
and in that
situation better than we can.
00:35:15.84\00:35:18.15
But I want to talk to you
now about prayer journaling.
00:35:18.18\00:35:21.92
Yes.
00:35:21.95\00:35:23.28
And so what I do, and this
is my teaching coming out again.
00:35:23.32\00:35:27.72
I like to give people a
reason for doing something,
00:35:27.76\00:35:30.46
what's the purpose behind it?
00:35:30.49\00:35:32.39
Why am I keeping my
prayers in a journal?
00:35:32.43\00:35:36.36
You know, why?
00:35:36.40\00:35:37.73
And so I take them through,
00:35:37.77\00:35:39.10
I give them a
biblical perspective
00:35:39.13\00:35:41.47
on prayer journaling.
00:35:41.50\00:35:42.84
And I talk about...
God writes things down.
00:35:42.87\00:35:46.81
The Ten
Commandments, He spoke it,
00:35:46.84\00:35:48.24
then He wrote it down.
00:35:48.28\00:35:49.91
And He called Moses
up into the mountain
00:35:49.94\00:35:52.05
and He gave it to
him, and then He said,
00:35:52.08\00:35:54.18
"I want you to read it to them,
00:35:54.22\00:35:55.55
it's to remind
them of their covenant,
00:35:55.58\00:35:58.45
and it's a witness,
00:35:58.49\00:35:59.82
and it's for their instruction."
00:35:59.85\00:36:01.82
Before Moses died, He told them,
00:36:01.86\00:36:03.36
"I want you to take
00:36:03.39\00:36:04.73
the book of the law
and write everything,
00:36:04.76\00:36:06.09
write it out
and read it to them.
00:36:06.13\00:36:09.06
And there's a
reason for renewing,
00:36:09.10\00:36:12.73
for rereading, and hearing it,
00:36:12.77\00:36:15.87
because what it does, and
the interesting thing too,
00:36:15.90\00:36:18.74
when God have
compiled everything,
00:36:18.77\00:36:21.44
He gave us our own
personal copy of His journal.
00:36:21.48\00:36:24.25
Yes, He did. Yes. The Bible.
00:36:24.28\00:36:25.85
First to read it, and
reread it, and reread it,
00:36:25.88\00:36:29.28
and here is why God
wants us to read it,
00:36:29.32\00:36:31.29
because it renews
our commitment to Him.
00:36:31.32\00:36:36.19
It lets us know
that this is His witness.
00:36:36.22\00:36:41.36
It reminds us of who He is,
00:36:41.40\00:36:45.63
and it increases
our respect for Him.
00:36:45.67\00:36:49.20
And our faith.
00:36:49.24\00:36:50.57
And our faith,
it strengthens it.
00:36:50.61\00:36:52.77
So we need to read it.
00:36:52.81\00:36:54.14
So when we have
our prayer journal,
00:36:54.18\00:36:56.71
and we put our
prayer journal together,
00:36:56.75\00:37:00.18
the reason why we keep one,
00:37:00.22\00:37:02.72
it renews our
commitment to pray for others.
00:37:02.75\00:37:07.46
How many times people have said,
00:37:07.49\00:37:09.02
"Would you pray for me?"
00:37:09.06\00:37:10.53
And then we forget.
00:37:10.56\00:37:11.89
True, so very
true. So very true.
00:37:11.93\00:37:14.13
But if we have
our prayer journal,
00:37:14.16\00:37:15.76
the Holy Spirit's
going to remind you
00:37:15.80\00:37:17.37
when you get home,
enter that prayer in there.
00:37:17.40\00:37:21.44
Remember the story
00:37:21.47\00:37:22.80
when the children of
Israel asked for a king?
00:37:22.84\00:37:25.71
And when they had,
00:37:25.74\00:37:27.08
when they realized they
had made a terrible mistake,
00:37:27.11\00:37:28.44
they told Samuel,
"Would you please pray for us?"
00:37:28.48\00:37:32.25
And he said, "Yes,
I will pray for you,
00:37:32.28\00:37:34.58
because if I don't pray,
00:37:34.62\00:37:35.95
if I fail to pray
for you, it's a sin."
00:37:35.98\00:37:38.59
So we ask people, when
people ask us to pray for them
00:37:38.62\00:37:41.69
and we don't, it's a sin.
00:37:41.72\00:37:44.36
So we need that prayer
journal to put those things in.
00:37:44.39\00:37:47.73
And I know you're going
to go ahead and cover this,
00:37:47.76\00:37:50.37
so I'm probably
jumping ahead of you.
00:37:50.40\00:37:52.47
Yes.
00:37:52.50\00:37:53.84
But, oh, when that
prayer is answered,
00:37:53.87\00:37:55.40
and you can go
put the date by it.
00:37:55.44\00:37:57.84
Oh, just that builds your faith.
00:37:57.87\00:37:59.34
It's in here.
00:37:59.37\00:38:01.08
I have a section
called the prayer section,
00:38:01.11\00:38:03.95
but I'm not done yet.
00:38:03.98\00:38:05.31
So God has His earthly journals,
00:38:05.35\00:38:07.02
and He gave it
to us in the Bible.
00:38:07.05\00:38:08.45
He has heavenly journal,
00:38:08.48\00:38:09.82
and I'm just taking people
through this so they will see,
00:38:09.85\00:38:12.29
God is big on recording things.
00:38:12.32\00:38:14.32
He does not leave
anything to memory,
00:38:14.36\00:38:16.73
He records everything.
00:38:16.76\00:38:18.09
He has his heavenly
journals, the book of life.
00:38:18.13\00:38:20.46
He has a scroll of
remembrance, Malachi 3:16,
00:38:20.50\00:38:23.70
Revelation 20:14
says, "There are books,
00:38:23.73\00:38:26.60
the books were open
and in the book of life."
00:38:26.63\00:38:29.54
And He records things.
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.54
He is big on
writing things down,
00:38:31.57\00:38:33.68
and He wants us to
write things down as well.
00:38:33.71\00:38:37.31
And so when we have
our prayer journal there,
00:38:37.35\00:38:39.45
we're organized.
00:38:39.48\00:38:41.28
We go to God at
the altar of incense,
00:38:41.32\00:38:44.22
and we talk to Him.
00:38:44.25\00:38:45.59
And, you know,
your prayer journal
00:38:45.62\00:38:46.96
becomes your legal brief.
00:38:46.99\00:38:49.56
I think, it's Job
13:3 I think it is,
00:38:49.59\00:38:52.03
He says that he just longs to go
00:38:52.06\00:38:55.66
and present his case to argue
his matter before the Lord.
00:38:55.70\00:39:00.34
And in Isaiah 43:26, God says,
00:39:00.37\00:39:03.30
"Come and argue
your matter to Me,
00:39:03.34\00:39:04.81
and convince Me
of your innocence."
00:39:04.84\00:39:06.81
God is inviting
us to come and talk.
00:39:06.84\00:39:09.31
Come, let us reason.
Reason this thing up.
00:39:09.34\00:39:11.68
So when you ask
me to pray for you,
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.48
and I write it
down in my journal,
00:39:13.52\00:39:15.28
and I go to God, I'm
praying His Word now,
00:39:15.32\00:39:18.99
and I'm trying to convince,
not trying, but in my own,
00:39:19.02\00:39:21.49
I'm talking to
God as a lawyer would,
00:39:21.52\00:39:24.63
why he should
operate and move in your life
00:39:24.66\00:39:26.96
based upon what you
ask me to pray for Him.
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.16
And based upon His Word.
00:39:29.20\00:39:30.73
And based upon His,
'cause that's all I'm praying,
00:39:30.77\00:39:32.83
I'm praying His
Word back to Him,
00:39:32.87\00:39:36.14
and I'm asking Him
like a lawyer would,
00:39:36.17\00:39:39.51
would you
please do this for her?
00:39:39.54\00:39:41.74
Do what delights you.
This is our heart's desire.
00:39:41.78\00:39:45.11
So because my legal
brief, I'm organized,
00:39:45.15\00:39:48.08
God loves organization.
00:39:48.12\00:39:49.48
Yes, He does.
00:39:49.52\00:39:50.85
And I got the
idea for organizing
00:39:50.89\00:39:53.96
the journal from looking at God.
00:39:53.99\00:39:56.73
You know, when applied learning,
00:39:56.76\00:39:58.96
applied learning, we
had to have a product.
00:39:58.99\00:40:03.13
You create a product at the
end of your learning to prove,
00:40:03.16\00:40:07.47
to show what you have learned.
00:40:07.50\00:40:09.10
And in organizing your product,
00:40:09.14\00:40:10.54
we were taught to look
at competent adult models.
00:40:10.57\00:40:14.24
So when my school,
00:40:14.28\00:40:16.21
when my students
had put on the class
00:40:16.24\00:40:17.71
play at the end of the
year, we had to make flyers,
00:40:17.75\00:40:21.65
where we got
competent adult models,
00:40:21.68\00:40:24.15
and we'd look at the flyers,
00:40:24.19\00:40:25.55
we'll examine them to
see what looked good on what,
00:40:25.59\00:40:28.49
you know, what we can use,
00:40:28.52\00:40:29.86
and we'll have
good, good discussion,
00:40:29.89\00:40:31.26
we'll pull out
the good elements,
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.03
and say this is
what we will use.
00:40:33.06\00:40:35.33
If they had to write a book
00:40:35.36\00:40:36.70
and they had to do a title page,
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.07
we did the same thing.
00:40:38.10\00:40:39.67
And so I looked at what God,
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.04
'cause God is the best
designer and organizer there is.
00:40:41.07\00:40:44.17
And so I looked at Him, I
looked at the weekly cycle.
00:40:44.21\00:40:48.24
Every day, something
specific was put in there.
00:40:48.28\00:40:53.95
The sanctuary,
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.98
there was something
specific going on at each stop,
00:40:56.02\00:41:00.66
and I looked at the brain.
00:41:00.69\00:41:02.42
Our brain is so
highly organized.
00:41:02.46\00:41:05.26
We have different
sections in our brain
00:41:05.29\00:41:07.86
and each section is
devoted for something, I said,
00:41:07.90\00:41:10.63
"Hmm, my journal
ought to be like that."
00:41:10.67\00:41:14.10
And so that's what I did.
00:41:14.14\00:41:16.00
I organized it
into different sections.
00:41:16.04\00:41:19.34
So first section,
I'm praying for myself.
00:41:19.37\00:41:21.58
You know, a lot of
us pray for other people
00:41:21.61\00:41:23.28
but we never take
time to search our hearts.
00:41:23.31\00:41:26.31
And if I want God to
give you a cup of tea to drink
00:41:26.35\00:41:30.19
and ask God to change you,
00:41:30.22\00:41:32.05
I should be willing to
ask God to change me as well.
00:41:32.09\00:41:36.62
And so I pray for myself
00:41:36.66\00:41:37.99
and I have a
section all to myself.
00:41:38.03\00:41:40.10
I pray for my husband,
00:41:40.13\00:41:41.83
I pray for my
son, and his family.
00:41:41.86\00:41:45.00
I pray for people,
random people who said,
00:41:45.03\00:41:49.17
"Would you please pray for me?"
00:41:49.20\00:41:50.97
I have a section for that.
00:41:51.01\00:41:52.97
And then I have a
section called stand in the gap,
00:41:53.01\00:41:56.04
where, and it's
usually for single moms,
00:41:56.08\00:41:58.58
because my mom was a single mom,
00:41:58.61\00:42:00.68
and I have a
heart for single moms.
00:42:00.72\00:42:04.22
And I looked at
my church one day
00:42:04.25\00:42:05.59
and there were so many single
moms or children, and I said,
00:42:05.62\00:42:08.56
"I need to pray
for these single moms,
00:42:08.59\00:42:10.33
'cause it's a struggle."
00:42:10.36\00:42:11.79
And so I have a section
devoted for single moms.
00:42:11.83\00:42:15.43
Praise God.
00:42:15.46\00:42:16.80
And I pray for
them every Wednesday.
00:42:16.83\00:42:19.77
And I prayed for them
this morning before I got here,
00:42:19.80\00:42:23.71
and I prayed for
those who would say to me,
00:42:23.74\00:42:26.74
"Would you please pray for me?"
00:42:26.78\00:42:28.71
Separate for them today.
00:42:28.74\00:42:30.48
And then tomorrow, Thursday,
00:42:30.51\00:42:32.15
I'm praying for my church family
00:42:32.18\00:42:33.52
and the
neighborhood around my church.
00:42:33.55\00:42:36.12
And Sundays, I pray
for the world church.
00:42:36.15\00:42:38.65
And so it's
organized and it's intentional.
00:42:38.69\00:42:40.79
And people will say,
00:42:40.82\00:42:42.16
"Well, well you pray
for Mollie on Wednesday,
00:42:42.19\00:42:46.13
what about the
person on Tuesday?"
00:42:46.16\00:42:48.23
I said, "Don't
worry God can multitask."
00:42:48.26\00:42:51.23
My Bible is a scroll
and it's in His presence,
00:42:51.27\00:42:53.80
He doesn't forget
the prayers that I pray.
00:42:53.84\00:42:56.20
And what happens to
the prayers that we pray?
00:42:56.24\00:42:58.61
It's not like they
fall to the ground.
00:42:58.64\00:43:00.28
No, they don't.
They are ever before Him.
00:43:00.31\00:43:02.44
Ever before Him, like
that scroll of remembrance.
00:43:02.48\00:43:04.25
Yes.
00:43:04.28\00:43:05.61
In His presence,
they are always there.
00:43:05.65\00:43:08.42
And so I just encourage
people to get organized,
00:43:08.45\00:43:12.82
get organized so when you
go into the presence of...
00:43:12.85\00:43:15.12
You are going in there
like a lawyer prepared.
00:43:15.16\00:43:18.29
You know, this probably
is not a really good analogy.
00:43:18.33\00:43:22.93
But you're shooting
with a rifle, not a shotgun.
00:43:22.96\00:43:27.80
That rifle is
keyed in and it's on,
00:43:27.84\00:43:30.64
and it's on target,
00:43:30.67\00:43:32.01
where as that
shotgun can just go anywhere.
00:43:32.04\00:43:35.14
So this organization
with your prayer journal.
00:43:35.18\00:43:38.48
And, you know
00:43:38.51\00:43:40.32
I know that you go into churches
00:43:40.35\00:43:43.39
and you teach them how to
pray, how to become organized,
00:43:43.42\00:43:49.16
how to put
together a prayer journal.
00:43:49.19\00:43:52.49
You do prayer seminars. Yes.
00:43:52.53\00:43:56.13
So tell us a little
about what you will accomplish
00:43:56.16\00:43:59.97
when you go into a church,
because in just a few minutes,
00:44:00.00\00:44:02.94
I'm going to give you
Eunice's contact information,
00:44:02.97\00:44:07.68
because I know that you're
going to want to contact her
00:44:07.71\00:44:10.78
and have her come to your church
00:44:10.81\00:44:12.95
and teach your brother
and your sisters in the church
00:44:12.98\00:44:17.32
how to become organized,
productive, effective.
00:44:17.35\00:44:22.12
I'm going to use the
word prayer warriors,
00:44:22.16\00:44:23.79
you haven't used that.
00:44:23.83\00:44:25.43
But you said, "It's like an army
00:44:25.46\00:44:27.86
and we are the
weapons of our warfare."
00:44:27.90\00:44:30.17
Warfare.
00:44:30.20\00:44:31.53
Warfare, warfare aren't carnal
00:44:31.57\00:44:34.04
but they are mighty through God.
00:44:34.07\00:44:36.87
And so it does
take organization.
00:44:36.91\00:44:39.41
It takes us being direct
and know where we're going.
00:44:39.44\00:44:44.65
If you don't know where you are,
00:44:44.68\00:44:47.25
you don't know
where you've been,
00:44:47.28\00:44:48.62
and you sure don't
know where you're going.
00:44:48.65\00:44:50.32
You know, and that's where
we have to share God's vision.
00:44:50.35\00:44:54.29
What is His
vision for Jerusalem?
00:44:54.32\00:44:57.43
Was to restore it.
00:44:57.46\00:44:58.93
And so when I pray,
00:44:58.96\00:45:00.43
I'm praying
God's vision for you,
00:45:00.46\00:45:02.03
I'm praying God's
vision for the church,
00:45:02.06\00:45:04.00
I'm praying God's
vision for my son,
00:45:04.03\00:45:07.00
and whomever I'm praying,
00:45:07.04\00:45:08.90
and if I'm praying
God's vision, guess what?
00:45:08.94\00:45:11.34
He's going to
fulfill that vision.
00:45:11.37\00:45:12.74
Oh, yes, He is.
00:45:12.77\00:45:14.11
He's gonna do what He has
to do to fulfill that vision.
00:45:14.14\00:45:16.21
So there's power in prayer.
00:45:16.24\00:45:18.51
Well, I... This is
so encouraging to me.
00:45:18.55\00:45:22.68
But what I don't want
us to do is run out of time
00:45:22.72\00:45:26.22
before we've
accomplished a few more things.
00:45:26.25\00:45:28.26
Okay. Yes. Workshop.
00:45:28.29\00:45:31.09
I know these
workshops are very effective,
00:45:31.13\00:45:34.56
and you have
them well organized.
00:45:34.60\00:45:36.63
Yes, I do.
00:45:36.67\00:45:38.00
But I want you to
talk about the workshops,
00:45:38.03\00:45:39.37
and again this is what Eunice
00:45:39.40\00:45:41.40
will be bringing
into your church.
00:45:41.44\00:45:42.87
Exactly.
00:45:42.90\00:45:44.24
So tell us about those workshops
00:45:44.27\00:45:46.04
and, you know, something
we haven't even mentioned
00:45:46.07\00:45:48.24
is the name of your ministry.
00:45:48.28\00:45:50.28
1 Timothy 2 Prayer Warriors.
00:45:50.31\00:45:52.71
1 Timothy 2 Prayer Warriors.
00:45:52.75\00:45:55.28
We are
fighters, we are fighters,
00:45:55.32\00:45:57.22
and we are using God's
ammunition to wage warfare.
00:45:57.25\00:46:00.99
Well, I...
00:46:01.02\00:46:03.32
The sanctuary,
00:46:03.36\00:46:05.16
the biblical
perspective of prayer journaling
00:46:05.19\00:46:07.90
and actually putting a
prayer journal together,
00:46:07.93\00:46:09.90
those are the core
sessions that I do,
00:46:09.93\00:46:13.23
because I want
people to understand
00:46:13.27\00:46:14.80
why am I doing what I'm doing.
00:46:14.84\00:46:16.91
Then I have
workshops on fasting,
00:46:16.94\00:46:19.64
the characteristics of a
prayer warrior, united prayer,
00:46:19.67\00:46:23.85
what does it mean to come
together in united prayer.
00:46:23.88\00:46:28.45
You know, and just
workshops, like praise,
00:46:28.48\00:46:30.65
how to pray the scripture.
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.49
Lot of people don't know
00:46:32.52\00:46:33.86
how to praise
God using scripture.
00:46:33.89\00:46:35.92
And how to pray
using God's Word.
00:46:35.96\00:46:41.50
And, of course, we
have a prayer line for moms
00:46:41.53\00:46:43.87
that where moms get on there,
00:46:43.90\00:46:46.13
and the only thing
we pray is God's Word.
00:46:46.17\00:46:49.00
Praise God.
00:46:49.04\00:46:50.37
We don't talk about
00:46:50.41\00:46:51.74
the
shortcomings of the children,
00:46:51.77\00:46:53.11
but we pray, we
mention their names,
00:46:53.14\00:46:55.08
and then we pray God's Word
into that, into their lives,
00:46:55.11\00:46:58.21
and we have seen things happen.
00:46:58.25\00:46:59.65
And so I encourage
and I try to get churches
00:46:59.68\00:47:01.92
to establish a prayer line
where moms can get on there,
00:47:01.95\00:47:05.75
and pray for their children.
00:47:05.79\00:47:08.59
Okay, I believe you
had some pictures...
00:47:08.62\00:47:11.59
Yes, we do have pictures.
00:47:11.63\00:47:12.96
Of your workshops
and we didn't want
00:47:12.99\00:47:14.33
to let those get away from us,
00:47:14.36\00:47:15.70
so let's look at those pictures
that Eunice has brought.
00:47:15.73\00:47:18.50
What is this one?
00:47:18.53\00:47:20.44
All right, that first
one is where I'm doing a...
00:47:20.47\00:47:24.01
Where we are
using the scriptures
00:47:24.04\00:47:26.11
to praise and to
pray, and the participants,
00:47:26.14\00:47:29.34
they had an opportunity
to practice that skill.
00:47:29.38\00:47:35.48
And the other one, this
is when we went to Belize,
00:47:35.52\00:47:38.62
we went to Belize.
00:47:38.65\00:47:40.46
And the participants here
are discussing united prayer,
00:47:40.49\00:47:44.79
because I like to give people
a chance to debrief and share
00:47:44.83\00:47:48.43
what is that they are learning,
00:47:48.46\00:47:49.80
so that's what
they're doing here.
00:47:49.83\00:47:52.17
And conducting
a journal workshop
00:47:52.20\00:47:55.50
here at the Crawley Church,
and this is a Sunday afternoon,
00:47:55.54\00:48:00.28
Sunday morning
00:48:00.31\00:48:01.64
and they're putting
their prayer journals together.
00:48:01.68\00:48:03.51
This is another one
of Pflugerville, Texas.
00:48:03.55\00:48:05.65
So it's very hands
on. It's very hands on.
00:48:05.68\00:48:08.55
You see the thing
that once you're done,
00:48:08.58\00:48:10.15
you leave with a
document that you can go home
00:48:10.19\00:48:13.09
and begin your prayer life.
00:48:13.12\00:48:15.29
And this is in Belize,
where they actually put in
00:48:15.32\00:48:17.39
their prayer journals together,
so once they're gone, I'm gone,
00:48:17.43\00:48:21.63
they have it, the tool
00:48:21.66\00:48:23.10
they can go back
and start praying.
00:48:23.13\00:48:25.67
And this is a group
of the church members,
00:48:25.70\00:48:28.10
practically everyone
in that church attended,
00:48:28.14\00:48:31.27
and what was so impressive?
00:48:31.31\00:48:33.31
Young men. Praise God.
00:48:33.34\00:48:35.18
The young men were there
00:48:35.21\00:48:36.54
and they put
their journals together.
00:48:36.58\00:48:38.18
And this is the
elementary school.
00:48:38.21\00:48:41.55
The superintendent
of education there at,
00:48:41.58\00:48:44.12
in Belize asked me to
go to the church school,
00:48:44.15\00:48:48.72
because the teachers
couldn't come to the meetings.
00:48:48.76\00:48:50.96
So I went there and they
put their journals together.
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.93
Okay.
00:48:53.96\00:48:56.10
And this is where I'm
speaking at the camp meeting
00:48:56.13\00:48:59.03
last year at
South Central camp meet
00:48:59.07\00:49:00.74
talking about the sanctuary
00:49:00.77\00:49:02.34
and its impact
on our prayer life.
00:49:02.37\00:49:04.34
So again, get
your pencil and paper,
00:49:04.37\00:49:05.97
we're going to give you
00:49:06.01\00:49:07.48
the contact
information for Eunice.
00:49:07.51\00:49:09.14
But Eunice, first share a story
or a miracle that you've seen?
00:49:09.18\00:49:14.45
Well, let me see, you
know, because of prayer,
00:49:14.48\00:49:20.79
you know, this mom came to me
00:49:20.82\00:49:22.29
and she was sharing
with me things about her son,
00:49:22.32\00:49:24.96
and I said, you
know, let's start praying,
00:49:24.99\00:49:26.49
and that's how the
prayer line got started.
00:49:26.53\00:49:29.10
And all we would do
is just pray scriptures,
00:49:29.13\00:49:31.10
pray the scriptures over him.
00:49:31.13\00:49:33.13
And in a couple of months,
00:49:33.17\00:49:34.94
you know, she was sharing
with us how he was changing.
00:49:34.97\00:49:37.81
He had a stronger desire
now to spend in God's Word,
00:49:37.84\00:49:40.68
and he was making
decisions for God,
00:49:40.71\00:49:43.24
whereas before he
was drifting away,
00:49:43.28\00:49:45.41
he was now returning.
00:49:45.45\00:49:49.68
Another victory is another mom,
00:49:49.72\00:49:53.59
who is on the
prayer line with us,
00:49:53.62\00:49:55.86
shared with us how her son
00:49:55.89\00:49:57.66
that she had been praying
for is slowly coming around.
00:49:57.69\00:50:00.96
Praise God.
Slowly coming around.
00:50:01.00\00:50:02.90
So, you know, by just praying,
it's just an awesome thing.
00:50:02.93\00:50:07.80
And also with
the prayer journals,
00:50:07.84\00:50:11.14
I've had people come up
to me and say, you know,
00:50:11.17\00:50:12.77
I've gone to many
prayer conferences,
00:50:12.81\00:50:15.14
but this one really sets
me on the road to praying,
00:50:15.18\00:50:18.48
because now I can go home,
00:50:18.51\00:50:20.05
and literally start my journey
00:50:20.08\00:50:23.18
praying for others and
enriching my prayer life.
00:50:23.22\00:50:26.22
Well, I know you're
really speaking to the mothers,
00:50:26.25\00:50:29.62
because, oh, and mothers,
grandmothers, aunts, uncles,
00:50:29.66\00:50:33.70
we, it's so vitally important.
00:50:33.73\00:50:35.90
Yes.
00:50:35.93\00:50:37.27
I know the scripture says
00:50:37.30\00:50:38.70
there's no more tears in heaven.
00:50:38.73\00:50:41.07
But I...
00:50:41.10\00:50:43.20
If my family is
not with me, oh, that,
00:50:43.24\00:50:46.94
it troubles me and
it pains me, Eunice.
00:50:46.98\00:50:48.94
Just to think about that.
00:50:48.98\00:50:50.31
Just to think
about the very idea
00:50:50.35\00:50:52.78
that all of my
children and my grandchildren
00:50:52.81\00:50:55.38
won't be there.
00:50:55.42\00:50:56.75
So you were speaking to
the hearts of we, parents.
00:50:56.79\00:51:00.06
Fathers too,
because, you know, the men
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.79
who come to the
meetings, like my husband said,
00:51:01.82\00:51:04.59
he's a retired administrator,
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.33
you know, so he has
to keep things organized.
00:51:06.36\00:51:08.80
And he said the
prayer journal helps keep him
00:51:08.83\00:51:10.97
organized as well.
00:51:11.00\00:51:12.60
I've had pastors
attend it as well,
00:51:12.63\00:51:14.80
so it's not just the
moms, it's for the young men,
00:51:14.84\00:51:18.27
the young women, the men.
00:51:18.31\00:51:20.61
It's all about
enriching one's prayer life.
00:51:20.64\00:51:23.85
Okay, and when we're speaking
00:51:23.88\00:51:26.11
about the
impact on our children.
00:51:26.15\00:51:28.38
But in every area
or aspect of our lives.
00:51:28.42\00:51:29.75
Every area, yes, yes.
00:51:29.78\00:51:31.55
So I have asked you to
get your pencil and paper,
00:51:31.59\00:51:33.86
we want you to take
this contact information.
00:51:33.89\00:51:36.52
Contact, Eunice, and I'm sure
00:51:36.56\00:51:39.63
she would just
be delighted to come
00:51:39.66\00:51:41.66
and enhance your
prayer life in your church.
00:51:41.70\00:51:44.63
Yes, yes.
00:51:44.67\00:51:47.74
If you've been touched
by Eunice Davis' testimony,
00:51:47.77\00:51:51.01
and would like to begin
a prayer ministry yourself,
00:51:51.04\00:51:53.91
then why not invite
her to speak at your church
00:51:53.94\00:51:56.68
and conduct a prayer workshop.
00:51:56.71\00:51:59.11
To do so, just visit her website
00:51:59.15\00:52:01.68
1Tim2PrayerWarriors.org.
00:52:01.72\00:52:05.25
That's
1-T-I-M-2PrayerWarriors.org.
00:52:05.29\00:52:09.89
You may also wish to
drop her a line by mail.
00:52:09.92\00:52:12.93
Her ministry address
is 1Tim 2 Prayer Warriors,
00:52:12.96\00:52:17.93
P.O. Box 6805,
00:52:17.97\00:52:21.37
in Fort Worth, Texas 76134.
00:52:21.40\00:52:25.91