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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:10 We welcome you to 3ABN Today. 01:12 It's always a joy 01:14 when we are able to come into your homes 01:17 and bring our guest. 01:18 And today we have got an incredible guest. 01:20 Her ministry has to do with prayer. 01:24 She has teaching workshops, 01:27 all sorts of tools to help us increase our prayer life. 01:31 So how many of you are interested 01:34 in becoming a stronger praying, 01:37 prayer partner for the Kingdom of God? 01:39 Let me encourage you, get your Bible, 01:42 get your pencil, get your paper, 01:44 call your friends, 01:46 and lets have a time with the Lord today 01:49 and learn how to communicate better with Him. 01:52 Let me introduce my guest to you, 01:55 her name is Eunice Davis. 01:58 Eunice, it is so good to have you with us today. 02:01 I'm excited about this program that we're about to go into. 02:05 Thank you for having me, 02:07 and I'm glad to be here as well. 02:08 Well, tell me where are you from? 02:11 Well, I live, presently I live in Fort Worth, Texas, 02:14 but I'm originally 02:15 from the island of Trinidad and Tobago. 02:18 Well, I want to find out 02:20 how you got from the island of Trinidad and Tobago 02:25 here to this United States. 02:27 And I've already heard a little of this. 02:29 That's an exciting element as well. 02:32 But, Eunice, it's so good to have you here. 02:35 And I have found that there are people 02:36 here at 3ABN that you know well. 02:39 And so we're just looking forward to unfolding your life, 02:45 how God has lead you 02:46 in this wonderful ministry 02:48 that He's brought you into. 02:50 Let me just give you a scripture 02:53 that has to do with prayer, and it's in Ephesians 6:18. 02:59 The Apostle Paul tells us 03:02 that we are to pray, how often? 03:06 "Praying always with all prayer 03:09 and supplication in the spirit." 03:11 So we have this commandment to pray always. 03:15 And so we're going to look deeper into that. 03:18 But before we look deeper into this prayer ministry 03:22 that God has so graced 03:24 and blessed our sister Eunice with, 03:26 we have Sam Ocampo here with us. 03:29 He's a pianist, 03:31 and he's going to minister the most beautiful song 03:34 "He Will Carry You". 05:42 If He carried the weight of the world 05:46 Upon His shoulders 05:52 I know my brother that He will carry you 05:59 And if He carried the weight of the world 06:03 Upon His shoulders 06:09 I know my sister that He will carry you 07:30 Sam Ocampo, 07:32 what a beautiful rendition of "He Will Carry You". 07:36 Beautiful song, thank you so very much. 07:38 My guest today, if you're just joining us 07:41 is Eunice Davis. 07:43 Eunice is from Fort Worth, Texas. 07:46 And we are just, she is teaching on prayer. 07:50 And nothing could be more near and dear 07:53 to my heart and to the heart of God 07:55 than communicating with Him. 07:57 So, Eunice, thank you so much for joining with us today, 08:01 coming all the way to Southern Illinois 08:04 to share with our viewers and our listeners 08:06 this ministry God has placed in your heart. 08:09 Before we go into the ministry, 08:13 I want to know a little about you. 08:15 Tell me, tell, were you raised in a Christian home? 08:19 Well, I would say 08:20 we were raised in a Christian home 08:23 where we had prayer but we grew up Catholic. 08:25 Okay, and my mom will take us to early morning mass 08:27 and, of course, Sunday mass. 08:29 And we did Stations of the Cross 08:30 and all of those things. 08:32 But the interesting thing about my mom is that 08:34 we grew up never knowing 08:35 that she was a Seventh-day Adventist. 08:38 And she enrolled us at 08:40 the Seventh-day Adventist college 08:43 on the island of Trinidad and Tobago in CUC. 08:47 And while there, 08:48 Elder Cleveland came to the island 08:50 to run a series of messages for three months. 08:54 Those were the days when they did 08:55 three-month campaigns. 08:57 And it so happened that my English teacher 08:59 was one of his Bible workers. 09:02 And an old friend of my mom 09:03 invited her to go to the meetings, 09:06 and he will come every evening, pick us up, 09:08 and we will attend the meetings. 09:11 When we ended up on his list, 09:13 and my mom had a dress shop in the city, 09:15 where she made clothes and did people's hair, 09:17 and he came to visit us. 09:19 And I remember distinctly, I was there in the work, 09:23 in her dress shop. 09:24 And I guess, just a hurt 09:29 of whatever happened to her in the church 09:31 caused her to leave. 09:32 When she vented it on him 09:34 and he just stood there very calm 09:35 and he took it all in, and I was so embarrassed, 09:37 and that's when I found out 09:39 that my mom was a Seventh-day Adventist. 09:41 She was a Seventh-day Adventist. 09:42 And she had left the church. 09:43 Okay. 09:45 And who was this person that she was talking to, 09:47 it wasn't Elder Cleveland. 09:49 It was my English teacher 09:52 who was the Bible worker and his, 09:55 our names were given to him. 09:56 And how old were you at this time? 09:59 I was 15. 10:00 Okay, and you, you were going to an Adventist, 10:03 your mother had put you in an Adventist school. 10:04 In an Adventist school, yes. Okay. 10:06 And so we became... 10:09 Well, she got re-baptized, 10:11 we all came in with her and got baptized 10:14 but not with Elder Cleveland. 10:16 The following year, 10:17 George Rainey came to the island. 10:19 And for second reaping, 10:21 and we were baptized then on April 1st, April Fools' Day. 10:25 Okay. 10:26 We joined this Seventh-day Adventist Church 10:28 and I've never left. 10:29 It's been the best thing God has ever done 10:32 for my mom and for us, 10:33 bringing us back into the church. 10:35 Praise God for that. Yes, yes. 10:36 So you are in Trinidad and Tobago, 10:38 but now you're in Fort Worth, Texas. 10:41 Now, how did you get from Trinidad and Tobago 10:44 all the way to the United States? 10:46 Well, that's an interesting story. 10:48 My mom was a dressmaker, 10:49 in the city she had a dress shop. 10:51 And our money got devalued, 10:53 and, of course, her business dried up. 10:55 And she had five children she needed to take care of. 10:58 And so she came to the United States 10:59 as a domestic servant working in Baltimore. 11:02 And after a year, she went up to New York 11:04 and she just started bringing us up 11:06 one by one to the United States. 11:08 And so we got there, we purchased a home, 11:11 and when we purchased that home, 11:12 I picked up my red suitcase, 11:13 and I headed for Atlantic Union College 11:15 to go to school. 11:16 So you started going to school here in the United States 11:19 and a Seventh-day Adventist college. 11:21 Seventh-day Adventist school, yes, 11:23 and I enjoyed my time there. 11:25 I did a year and a half there at AUC, 11:28 and then I transferred to Oakwood College. 11:31 Now, did you meet anyone in Oakwood College 11:34 that our viewers and listeners might be familiar with? 11:36 CA Murray. 11:38 CA Murray, you and he went to college. 11:40 We went to school together, 11:41 and I took Greek and Homiletics with him. 11:45 And I would tutor the guys, you know, with, 11:49 in their Greek I would, 11:50 sometimes I will do their homework for them. 11:53 And whenever Dr. Rodgers needed to be out of town, 11:56 he would turn his second year Greek class over to me. 11:59 You know, something that CA was, was here just a little, 12:03 short while ago, and, you know, he still chafes a bit 12:07 because he says that in Greek, 12:09 you smoked everyone of those men. 12:11 Yes, that's what they said. 12:12 And you were the only female in the Greek class. 12:13 I was the only girl in the class, 12:15 and sometimes the guys would say, 12:16 "You just make me sick." 12:18 I said, "Well, I'm sorry." 12:19 Because you, you understood, you grasp that concept, 12:22 I guess quickly. 12:24 I did, I did, because back home, 12:25 in the islands, 12:26 I took Latin, Spanish, and French in high school. 12:30 And so when I came to the United States 12:32 majoring in religion, and Greek, 12:34 I took Greek as a challenge. 12:36 Well, it was just another foreign language 12:37 and I enjoyed it, and I did quite well with it. 12:40 Well, I know, CA was very impressed 12:44 with your ability in that particular area. 12:46 Yes, yes, yes. 12:48 And so now you've gone to Atlantic Union, 12:51 now you are in Oakwood, where do we go from here? 12:53 Well, so I graduated from Oakwood, 12:56 magna cum laude. 12:57 Congratulations. Thank you. 12:59 And I had, I was the teacher of the year. 13:02 And my first job was in Mobile, Alabama, 13:05 where we reopened a school, 13:07 and I made uniforms for the girls, 13:09 quite an interesting thing. 13:11 But it was a fun, it was fun, I enjoyed it, 13:13 and then we moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, 13:15 where I taught church school there as well, 13:17 at the Avondale Seventh-day Adventists School. 13:21 From there, I went into public school. 13:24 Now my husband is a Texan. I met him in Houston, Texas. 13:28 I was working with EE Cleveland as a Bible worker there. 13:32 All right. 13:33 Yes, and he came down, and he saw me and he said, 13:35 "I'm going to marry that girl," and he did. 13:38 He told his friend, 13:39 "I want to marry that girl," and he did. 13:41 So how long have you been married? 13:43 Forty three years. All right. 13:44 And we have one son, one grandson, 13:48 and my son brought home a beautiful wife. 13:51 So we have a daughter-in-law. 13:53 And we go out to California every year to, 13:56 you know, visit with them, and spend time with them, 13:58 and it's just so precious. 14:00 But I forgot to mention while I was at AUC, 14:03 I met Elder CD Brooks 14:05 and he gave me the awesome invitation 14:07 of working with him in Chicago, 14:10 and he pitched a tent there on 108 on Halsted. 14:14 And we brought in many, many souls, 14:16 we established the church, Straford Memorial there, 14:20 and so it was a great time just working. 14:22 With that, you have quite a background, 14:24 a history of working 14:27 on the foundational level in the church. 14:29 Yes, and I enjoy that. 14:31 You know, just doing Bible work on every church 14:34 I've been associated with, evangelism, 14:37 going out and passing out tracks, 14:38 or handbills, giving Bible studies, 14:40 I've always been involved 14:41 and I just love being there 14:46 leading people to Christ and praying for them. 14:49 And it's such a joy to see people accept Christ. 14:53 You know, and begin to follow him 14:56 and see their lives change. 14:58 It's just awesome. 14:59 So you take this message of the kingdom 15:01 to as many people as will hear it. 15:04 Wherever I go. Wherever you go. 15:06 Well, I know that when you said that 15:09 you went into public school as a teacher 15:12 and you had already taught in various areas, 15:15 how many years were you as a school teacher? 15:17 Thirty four years. Okay. 15:19 Thirty four years, and during my time teaching 15:22 in Fort Worth Independent School District, 15:25 I had a wonderful opportunity of mentoring teachers, 15:29 having teachers do the internship in my classroom. 15:34 Some professors at the university 15:36 there even profiled me in their book, 15:38 one of their books about 15:40 qualities of good literacy teachers 15:43 which was quite an honor. 15:44 Yes, it is. 15:46 You know, to be featured in a book of that caliber. 15:49 And when I finished my 34 years of teaching, 15:55 I ended it as a literacy coach 15:57 and a third grade reading teacher, 15:59 which was just wonderful. 16:01 So from being a teacher, 16:05 then the Lord took you in another direction, 16:08 well, I don't necessarily think another direction 16:11 but just a, maybe another facet of teaching. 16:14 True, and he tapped into the skills 16:17 that he had given to me as a teacher, 16:21 because during my term as a teacher, 16:23 I learned applied learning, 16:25 I learned how to use 16:26 Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, 16:29 and how to work with children of non-speaking, 16:33 non English speaking, you know, children. 16:35 And so, I had all of those skills under my belt. 16:39 And after 34 years of teaching, 16:41 I didn't have to prepare for workshops, 16:43 I didn't have to go to workshops, 16:46 I didn't have to plan for my, 16:47 you know, classroom for the following year 16:49 or anything like that. 16:52 And my brain was then clear. 16:54 Because, you know, while I was teaching, 16:56 I'd get up early in the morning to pray, 16:57 but my mind was on the clock. 16:59 What time it is and what's my first class. 17:01 Yes and just getting to school. 17:04 And after retiring, 17:05 I had all this time in my brain, 17:07 I didn't have to worry about those things anymore. 17:09 And so, you know, God tracks us and He knows 17:13 so, He knows us better than we know ourselves. 17:15 And He knew the energy 17:17 that I have that He has given to me. 17:19 And so I redid my front lawn and I planted lantanas, 17:22 and I was just all involved and I cleaned up the house, 17:24 and then He said, "Okay, I'm ready for you now." 17:28 And the church where I attended is a church plant 17:31 in Arlington, Texas... 17:37 Southern Worship Center of Seventh-day Adventist. 17:39 Okay. The name almost slipped to me. 17:41 And our pastor, Pastor Spencer Anderson, 17:43 he led a group of us in planting a church there. 17:47 He led us through spiritual gifts, 17:49 training on spiritual gifts, 17:51 and then we were given the assessment. 17:54 And I came on very strong in pastoring, 17:57 and evangelism, and prayer. 17:59 So I think, I'm gonna try prayer. 18:01 And so I became the first, 18:03 the church's first prayer ministry leader, 18:05 and I organized prayer nights, 18:07 we did prayer walks in the neighborhood, we did... 18:11 We called moms together to pray for their children. 18:15 We had praying for each other, 18:16 just a lot of things on prayer 18:20 that I initiated under the help of the Holy Spirit. 18:23 And it was during that time 18:26 that God started opening up my eyes 18:29 to the sanctuary, and praying, and more focused praying. 18:34 So that, that's how He led you from being a teacher. 18:39 At first I found this interesting, 18:41 He let you get your home in order, 18:44 because it's so important to we, women 18:47 to have a organized sanctuary, 18:53 set up the way we wanted it to be set, 18:55 even your front yard. 18:57 And from that then He started calling you 19:00 and drawing you into another facet of ministry. 19:05 In the ministry that you felt 19:07 He was drawing you into was that of prayer. 19:11 So how has that evolved? Good question. 19:15 So I have more time now to read my Bible. 19:17 I'm getting up at 5 o'clock every morning, 19:19 like I normally did, 19:21 but now I have more time, more hours, 19:24 not just 20 minutes or 30 minutes, 19:26 and I'm reading God's Word, 19:29 and I'm beginning to realize 19:32 that He is speaking to me, and He is talking to me, 19:36 and my heart is responding 19:37 to what the Holy Spirit is saying. 19:39 And I have more time now to spend in prayer. 19:43 And I started reading on a sanctuary, 19:47 and as a teacher I'm taught, 19:50 I teach the kids to make inferences. 19:54 What can I infer from what I'm reading here, 19:58 and so I transferred 19:59 that mindset to my reading of the Bible, 20:03 and I came across the sanctuary, 20:05 let them build me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. 20:08 And I said, "What is God inferring?" 20:10 I mean, what is He saying? What is that He really wants? 20:15 And then, it's just a simple message. 20:19 The sanctuary is there for us to get to know Him. 20:23 It's a relationship place, 20:26 and it's a place where we can be equipped to face 20:31 whatever life will bring. 20:34 And so I started looking at the sanctuary 20:36 from that standpoint, 20:38 and just praying the sanctuary throughout the day, 20:43 praising Him, confessing, asking Him to clean me out, 20:48 just making sure that I had the Holy Spirit with me, 20:51 and just going over scriptures, 20:53 and it was just a revelation being in the sanctuary all day. 20:57 Once I left my prayer room, 20:59 taking the concept of being in the sanctuary with God 21:04 and having and growing that relationship with Him. 21:09 And so, He, 21:12 God wants a sanctuary here in this earth, why? 21:17 So He can dwell with us. 21:20 And I'm thinking of, Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary. 21:24 We're not talking about a building 21:27 over on the corner of Maine in 6th, 21:30 we're talking about us being that sanctuary 21:34 that He can dwell with us. 21:35 Exactly, exactly. 21:37 And just having that concept of the sanctuary 21:41 as we go through today helps keep us grounded. 21:45 And the things that we struggle with, 21:48 it gives us a stronger foundation 21:51 to deal with it, and to overcome, 21:53 and to gain that victory. 21:55 You know, that sanctuary that is in the heavens... 22:02 Just recently in Sabbath School, 22:05 the Sabbath School quarterly, 22:07 I read a quote from Sister White, 22:10 and she said that understanding the sanctuary 22:14 is foundational, or fundamental 22:17 for a Christian's growth. 22:18 Exactly, exactly. 22:21 And that is why when I go out and I do my ministry, 22:25 the very first presentation 22:26 is always based on the sanctuary. 22:29 And I take the attendees through it. 22:33 We don't get technical, it's not anything technical, 22:36 but it's very practical. 22:38 How can I use this? 22:40 And that's where my teaching comes in. 22:42 Let's make it simple. 22:43 Let's cut through the fluff, and let's get down to basics. 22:47 And I teach them, let's... 22:50 The first we want to do is to come into the sanctuary 22:53 with praise in the morning, 22:55 you want to praise God for who He is 22:57 for His mighty works, you want to sing. 23:00 Now I am not very good at remembering songs, I said, 23:04 "God, how can I sing to you?" 23:06 So I would just open up the Psalm, 23:07 or find some beautiful scriptures 23:09 that talk about God's power, 23:11 and I would just start singing it, 23:12 make up my own tune, and I would just sing it, 23:15 and it opens up my mind then. 23:18 And it changes the dynamics of the room, 23:21 so I can, I'm in His presence then. 23:23 Okay, you enter His courts 23:25 with thanksgiving in your heart, with praise. 23:27 Yes, yes. 23:29 And then when I get ready to confess, 23:31 and I talk about confession, 23:33 the fear and the burden is not there, 23:35 because I'm in the presence of someone who loves me, 23:38 and I just got to praising Him, and so I confess, 23:41 sometimes I confess a particular sin, 23:43 because I want to focus in 23:45 on something that I'm struggling with. 23:46 And, of course, you know, He washes us, 23:50 purifies us with His sup, 23:52 and He washes us so that we can be clean and wash... 23:53 You're talking about the vessels 23:55 that are in the sanctuary now as you walk through it. 23:57 And I'm taking them through it, 23:59 I take my people through, the attendees through it. 24:03 And so there's confession, and I tell them, 24:06 the sanctuary is where we have the weapons for our warfare. 24:09 It's the war room, it's the war room. 24:13 And so we have praise, we have confession, 24:16 we ask God to cleanse us, 24:17 and I love going into the holy place, 24:20 because when I enter the holy place, 24:22 the angels are there to meet me. 24:24 The angels are all around, you know, 24:26 the candlestick lights up the holy place, 24:29 and the reflection of all of those angels, 24:31 because in heaven 24:34 the angels are there in the presence of God. 24:36 Yes. 24:37 And Ellen White tells us that... 24:42 The angels are there on the battlefield with us. 24:49 In human guise with us on that battlefield. 24:53 Satan has his angels too in human guise, 24:55 opposing God's kingdom. 24:57 So when I step into the holy place, 24:59 the angels are there and I feel, 25:01 "Huh, I'm at home." 25:03 I feel protected, I feel safe. 25:06 And, of course, the Holy Spirit 25:08 is there to us, my... 25:09 He's my teacher, he's going to teach me, 25:11 he welcomes me into his home. 25:12 You know, if I were to come to your home 25:14 and you open the door 25:15 with a smile on your face, I feel at home. 25:17 So when I go into the sanctuary and he is there to welcome me, 25:21 and I know I have my teacher, my counselor, my guide, 25:24 he is everything that I need. 25:27 And then he walks me over to the table of showbread, 25:30 the presence. 25:32 And the interesting thing about it 25:33 is that when we sit down, we're telling God. 25:39 I am in agreement with everything 25:41 that I'm going to read in this book. 25:45 And it's cool between the two of us, 25:47 because I've confessed my sins and I'm in fellowship with you. 25:51 You know, and so I can sit there 25:54 and with the Holy Spirit 25:56 I invite Him in to come as I read 25:59 and I ask Him for more insight, 26:01 and I take my attendees through this thing 26:05 and I present it to them. 26:06 But I present it to them in more of a military term 26:10 because in the sanctuary we have our weapons of warfare. 26:14 Our commander in chief is Jesus Christ. 26:16 Yes. 26:17 You know, and so we want to be a part of Jesus' defense force. 26:21 And if we're going to be in the military with Him, 26:23 we need to be prepared. 26:24 We need to know how He functions 26:27 and He is all in the sanctuary. 26:29 So I'm there with my Bible, and I'm reading, 26:31 and I always ask for insight, 26:33 'cause, you know, Isaiah says, in Isaiah 50:4, 26:39 He wakens us up every morning 26:41 to give us a Word to sustain the weary. 26:44 He opens our ear to teach us, 26:46 like one being taught so we will not be rebellious. 26:50 And so I'm praying and asking God 26:52 for that every morning, 26:53 "Teach me not to be rebellious, Lord, I want to," 26:56 you know, "I want to submit." 26:57 So that's praying God's Word, trusting in God's Word. 27:02 You know, the scripture says, he... 27:04 As we go into the sanctuary, 27:07 we enter his gates with thanksgiving 27:09 and into His courts with praise. 27:12 And the scripture declares that God inhabits 27:15 the praises of His people 27:16 and in the presence of the Lord, 27:19 there is fullness of joy, 27:20 and the joy of the Lord is our strength. 27:23 So as go into His presence, 27:26 you can rest assured 27:28 that He is going to strengthen you for that day. 27:31 You know, and Ellen White says about God's Word. 27:35 She says, "Satan trembles 27:37 when God's Word is thrown at him in fiery darts." 27:43 Jeremiah 1:9 says, God says, 27:47 "I've put, I've put my words in your mouth." 27:51 And I'm gonna, I'm sending you out now 27:52 to the nations to uproot, to turn over, 27:56 to destroy, you know, and then to plant. 27:59 So when God's Word comes in, God's Word disrupts everything. 28:04 He disrupts it, because He says, 28:07 "To destroy strongholds and demolish anything 28:11 that sets itself up against Him 28:14 and to take captive every thought." 28:16 And so when I read God's Word, 28:17 He's giving me the ammunition that I need to face the enemy. 28:22 And so when I invite people into the sanctuary 28:24 and I show them that, 28:26 I'm empowering them 28:28 to read God's Word and then to pray it. 28:32 Because when we get to the altar of incense, 28:36 when we begin to pray God's Word, 28:39 He is going to listen, 28:40 because He has just given it to us 28:43 to use it in our conversations with Him. 28:46 Yeah, and His Word doesn't return void. 28:49 You know, something that we're always encouraging 28:52 our viewers and listeners, 28:54 and in any time we are teaching, 28:57 before you sit down with God's Word, 29:00 pray and ask Him to quicken this Word 29:03 to the areas in your life that need to be changed. 29:07 The scripture says in Psalms 139, 29:10 "The entrance of Thy word gives light." 29:14 119:139, "The entrance of thy Word gives light, 29:18 it gives understanding to the simple." 29:21 And so, the entrance of the Word bringing in light 29:24 if there's areas of darkness in your work, in your life, 29:28 then that light is going to dispel 29:30 the darkness we feel it. 29:32 And so, it's so vitally important 29:35 that we do ask God, 29:36 "Oh, Father, by the power of Your Spirit 29:38 as I'm studying this Word today that it changed me. 29:43 I don't pray and say, 29:44 "Oh, God, as I'm studying Your Word today, 29:46 let this Word change my husband." 29:49 This is for me, "Oh, God, change me." 29:51 And I love that aspect. 29:53 Because, you know, what... 29:54 Sometimes when I'm reading the Word, 29:56 of course, Holy Spirit is there with me. 29:58 I would stop and I would literally ask God 30:00 to do this in my life. 30:02 Yes. 30:03 And that's the Holy Spirit, 30:04 because He searches us and He knows us, you know. 30:07 But the thing about praying is that God says, 30:11 "I'm watching My Word to make sure it's fulfilled." 30:15 He told Jeremiah that. 30:16 Watching over my Word to perform it. 30:18 To perform it. Yes. 30:20 And Joab told the people, you know, let's fight them, 30:23 let God do what delights Him. 30:26 And so when we pray at the altar of incense, 30:28 we know that we are told that the Holy Spirit 30:31 takes our words and He rewrites it. 30:34 And the blood that's brought in from the altar of sacrifice 30:37 and placed on the horns of the altar of incense, 30:41 where Jesus' blood purifies it and cleanses it, 30:46 and His righteousness takes care of it, 30:49 and the angels take it to heaven. 30:51 And so I encourage people to pray, 30:53 you know, sometimes people become discouraged 30:56 because they feel as if God is not hearing their prayer, 30:58 but He is listening. 31:01 And He says, "Keep praying until," 31:04 you know, he told the watchman on the walls. 31:07 I've placed you as watchmen on the walls. 31:11 But keep sending up those prayers, 31:13 until I have made Jerusalem what I want it to be, 31:17 what my vision is for Jerusalem, 31:20 until that's done I want you to keep sending them up, 31:23 sending up those prayers. 31:25 Don't become discouraged, it will take a while, 31:28 it will take a while. 31:30 He says, "Pray until." I like that. 31:33 Yes. Until, a time space word. 31:35 Pray, pray. Until. 31:37 Until, until it's accomplished. 31:38 Right, he told Moses, 31:41 "Keep your hand up with the javelin until..." 31:45 Even if you had have someone... Hold it up. 31:48 Hold it up, until. Until, I like that. 31:50 Esther fasted until 31:52 Jesus stayed in the Garden of Gethsemane until, 31:55 you know, who is it? 31:57 Joshua? 31:58 He fought until, so he vanquished his enemies. 32:03 And so in our prayer lives, 32:05 we should never become discouraged. 32:07 Because God tells us very plain in Isaiah 62:6 and 7, 32:11 "Keep praying until." Until. 32:13 And let me tell you something about praying 32:15 and being persistent in prayer. 32:21 I worked with hospice for a short period of time. 32:25 And I went into this gentleman's room. 32:28 And I was just shocked. 32:31 In a porcelain skin, jet-black hair, 32:34 why are you dying? 32:37 And the Holy Spirit kept telling me, 32:39 "Say to this man though your sins be a scarlet, 32:42 they shall be white as snow. 32:44 Come now let us reason together." 32:46 Holy Spirit is telling me to say this to him, 32:49 but I'm telling him something else 32:50 and I'm singing to him, 32:52 and all the while Holy Spirit is saying to me, 32:54 "Tell this gentleman, though your sins be a scarlet, 32:57 they shall be white as snow." 32:59 And you know what? 33:01 The devil was battling for this man so, 33:03 and he didn't want me to say these precious words to him 33:07 until a nurse came in, and I said, "Really." 33:11 And I went back, I said, "God please forgive me, 33:15 and I called his name and I said to him, 33:18 "It doesn't matter what you have done in life. 33:21 It doesn't matter, God loves you, Jesus loves you. 33:24 He wants to save you, just tell Him, confess, 33:28 and He will forgive you." 33:30 And I said to him, I called and I said, 33:32 "If I never see you on the face of this earth, 33:34 I'm going to look for you in heaven." 33:36 And I prayed with him. Praise God. 33:39 And when I left that room, 33:41 it confirmed to me that some of us 33:44 may not see the answers to our prayers, 33:45 but God is going to do whatever He can 33:48 and use whomever He can to answer that prayer. 33:52 And I'm quite sure a mother was praying for this young man. 33:55 Yes. And God used me. 33:57 Even though there was a battle going on in that room, 34:03 but God sent the nurse and she said, 34:04 "Would you please tell us why you did this?" 34:07 And I went back in and I said those words to him. 34:09 Praise God. 34:10 God hears and answers prayer until... 34:12 Keep praying until. Amen. 34:14 You know, there are times when it is... 34:17 We can get discouraged and we think that something, 34:21 particularly in praying for loved ones, 34:25 something I have to remind myself 34:27 is God loves them more than I do. 34:30 Yes. 34:32 As important as this is to me, it is more important to God. 34:35 And though it may look like nothing is happening, 34:41 we can't see what's happening in the spirit realm... 34:44 That's true. 34:45 And we don't know what God is doing, 34:47 and we, you know, my confidence isn't in myself, 34:50 my confidence isn't in the person I'm praying for, 34:53 my confidence is in a God 34:55 that is all knowing and all loving. 34:58 True, very true. 34:59 And our confidence also is in the fact that He said, 35:02 "My Word..." 35:03 "Will not return unto Me void, but it will accomplish..." 35:06 That's right, whatever. 35:07 "The thing that I sent it to accomplish." 35:09 Exactly. Exact. 35:10 And, you know, the thing, 35:11 the powerful thing about God's Word, 35:13 He knows how to take it 35:14 and apply it in that person's life 35:15 and in that situation better than we can. 35:18 But I want to talk to you now about prayer journaling. 35:21 Yes. 35:23 And so what I do, and this is my teaching coming out again. 35:27 I like to give people a reason for doing something, 35:30 what's the purpose behind it? 35:32 Why am I keeping my prayers in a journal? 35:36 You know, why? 35:37 And so I take them through, 35:39 I give them a biblical perspective 35:41 on prayer journaling. 35:42 And I talk about... God writes things down. 35:46 The Ten Commandments, He spoke it, 35:48 then He wrote it down. 35:49 And He called Moses up into the mountain 35:52 and He gave it to him, and then He said, 35:54 "I want you to read it to them, 35:55 it's to remind them of their covenant, 35:58 and it's a witness, 35:59 and it's for their instruction." 36:01 Before Moses died, He told them, 36:03 "I want you to take 36:04 the book of the law and write everything, 36:06 write it out and read it to them. 36:09 And there's a reason for renewing, 36:12 for rereading, and hearing it, 36:15 because what it does, and the interesting thing too, 36:18 when God have compiled everything, 36:21 He gave us our own personal copy of His journal. 36:24 Yes, He did. Yes. The Bible. 36:25 First to read it, and reread it, and reread it, 36:29 and here is why God wants us to read it, 36:31 because it renews our commitment to Him. 36:36 It lets us know that this is His witness. 36:41 It reminds us of who He is, 36:45 and it increases our respect for Him. 36:49 And our faith. 36:50 And our faith, it strengthens it. 36:52 So we need to read it. 36:54 So when we have our prayer journal, 36:56 and we put our prayer journal together, 37:00 the reason why we keep one, 37:02 it renews our commitment to pray for others. 37:07 How many times people have said, 37:09 "Would you pray for me?" 37:10 And then we forget. 37:11 True, so very true. So very true. 37:14 But if we have our prayer journal, 37:15 the Holy Spirit's going to remind you 37:17 when you get home, enter that prayer in there. 37:21 Remember the story 37:22 when the children of Israel asked for a king? 37:25 And when they had, 37:27 when they realized they had made a terrible mistake, 37:28 they told Samuel, "Would you please pray for us?" 37:32 And he said, "Yes, I will pray for you, 37:34 because if I don't pray, 37:35 if I fail to pray for you, it's a sin." 37:38 So we ask people, when people ask us to pray for them 37:41 and we don't, it's a sin. 37:44 So we need that prayer journal to put those things in. 37:47 And I know you're going to go ahead and cover this, 37:50 so I'm probably jumping ahead of you. 37:52 Yes. 37:53 But, oh, when that prayer is answered, 37:55 and you can go put the date by it. 37:57 Oh, just that builds your faith. 37:59 It's in here. 38:01 I have a section called the prayer section, 38:03 but I'm not done yet. 38:05 So God has His earthly journals, 38:07 and He gave it to us in the Bible. 38:08 He has heavenly journal, 38:09 and I'm just taking people through this so they will see, 38:12 God is big on recording things. 38:14 He does not leave anything to memory, 38:16 He records everything. 38:18 He has his heavenly journals, the book of life. 38:20 He has a scroll of remembrance, Malachi 3:16, 38:23 Revelation 20:14 says, "There are books, 38:26 the books were open and in the book of life." 38:29 And He records things. 38:31 He is big on writing things down, 38:33 and He wants us to write things down as well. 38:37 And so when we have our prayer journal there, 38:39 we're organized. 38:41 We go to God at the altar of incense, 38:44 and we talk to Him. 38:45 And, you know, your prayer journal 38:46 becomes your legal brief. 38:49 I think, it's Job 13:3 I think it is, 38:52 He says that he just longs to go 38:55 and present his case to argue his matter before the Lord. 39:00 And in Isaiah 43:26, God says, 39:03 "Come and argue your matter to Me, 39:04 and convince Me of your innocence." 39:06 God is inviting us to come and talk. 39:09 Come, let us reason. Reason this thing up. 39:11 So when you ask me to pray for you, 39:13 and I write it down in my journal, 39:15 and I go to God, I'm praying His Word now, 39:19 and I'm trying to convince, not trying, but in my own, 39:21 I'm talking to God as a lawyer would, 39:24 why he should operate and move in your life 39:27 based upon what you ask me to pray for Him. 39:29 And based upon His Word. 39:30 And based upon His, 'cause that's all I'm praying, 39:32 I'm praying His Word back to Him, 39:36 and I'm asking Him like a lawyer would, 39:39 would you please do this for her? 39:41 Do what delights you. This is our heart's desire. 39:45 So because my legal brief, I'm organized, 39:48 God loves organization. 39:49 Yes, He does. 39:50 And I got the idea for organizing 39:53 the journal from looking at God. 39:56 You know, when applied learning, 39:58 applied learning, we had to have a product. 40:03 You create a product at the end of your learning to prove, 40:07 to show what you have learned. 40:09 And in organizing your product, 40:10 we were taught to look at competent adult models. 40:14 So when my school, 40:16 when my students had put on the class 40:17 play at the end of the year, we had to make flyers, 40:21 where we got competent adult models, 40:24 and we'd look at the flyers, 40:25 we'll examine them to see what looked good on what, 40:28 you know, what we can use, 40:29 and we'll have good, good discussion, 40:31 we'll pull out the good elements, 40:33 and say this is what we will use. 40:35 If they had to write a book 40:36 and they had to do a title page, 40:38 we did the same thing. 40:39 And so I looked at what God, 40:41 'cause God is the best designer and organizer there is. 40:44 And so I looked at Him, I looked at the weekly cycle. 40:48 Every day, something specific was put in there. 40:53 The sanctuary, 40:56 there was something specific going on at each stop, 41:00 and I looked at the brain. 41:02 Our brain is so highly organized. 41:05 We have different sections in our brain 41:07 and each section is devoted for something, I said, 41:10 "Hmm, my journal ought to be like that." 41:14 And so that's what I did. 41:16 I organized it into different sections. 41:19 So first section, I'm praying for myself. 41:21 You know, a lot of us pray for other people 41:23 but we never take time to search our hearts. 41:26 And if I want God to give you a cup of tea to drink 41:30 and ask God to change you, 41:32 I should be willing to ask God to change me as well. 41:36 And so I pray for myself 41:38 and I have a section all to myself. 41:40 I pray for my husband, 41:41 I pray for my son, and his family. 41:45 I pray for people, random people who said, 41:49 "Would you please pray for me?" 41:51 I have a section for that. 41:53 And then I have a section called stand in the gap, 41:56 where, and it's usually for single moms, 41:58 because my mom was a single mom, 42:00 and I have a heart for single moms. 42:04 And I looked at my church one day 42:05 and there were so many single moms or children, and I said, 42:08 "I need to pray for these single moms, 42:10 'cause it's a struggle." 42:11 And so I have a section devoted for single moms. 42:15 Praise God. 42:16 And I pray for them every Wednesday. 42:19 And I prayed for them this morning before I got here, 42:23 and I prayed for those who would say to me, 42:26 "Would you please pray for me?" 42:28 Separate for them today. 42:30 And then tomorrow, Thursday, 42:32 I'm praying for my church family 42:33 and the neighborhood around my church. 42:36 And Sundays, I pray for the world church. 42:38 And so it's organized and it's intentional. 42:40 And people will say, 42:42 "Well, well you pray for Mollie on Wednesday, 42:46 what about the person on Tuesday?" 42:48 I said, "Don't worry God can multitask." 42:51 My Bible is a scroll and it's in His presence, 42:53 He doesn't forget the prayers that I pray. 42:56 And what happens to the prayers that we pray? 42:58 It's not like they fall to the ground. 43:00 No, they don't. They are ever before Him. 43:02 Ever before Him, like that scroll of remembrance. 43:04 Yes. 43:05 In His presence, they are always there. 43:08 And so I just encourage people to get organized, 43:12 get organized so when you go into the presence of... 43:15 You are going in there like a lawyer prepared. 43:18 You know, this probably is not a really good analogy. 43:22 But you're shooting with a rifle, not a shotgun. 43:27 That rifle is keyed in and it's on, 43:30 and it's on target, 43:32 where as that shotgun can just go anywhere. 43:35 So this organization with your prayer journal. 43:38 And, you know 43:40 I know that you go into churches 43:43 and you teach them how to pray, how to become organized, 43:49 how to put together a prayer journal. 43:52 You do prayer seminars. Yes. 43:56 So tell us a little about what you will accomplish 44:00 when you go into a church, because in just a few minutes, 44:02 I'm going to give you Eunice's contact information, 44:07 because I know that you're going to want to contact her 44:10 and have her come to your church 44:12 and teach your brother and your sisters in the church 44:17 how to become organized, productive, effective. 44:22 I'm going to use the word prayer warriors, 44:23 you haven't used that. 44:25 But you said, "It's like an army 44:27 and we are the weapons of our warfare." 44:30 Warfare. 44:31 Warfare, warfare aren't carnal 44:34 but they are mighty through God. 44:36 And so it does take organization. 44:39 It takes us being direct and know where we're going. 44:44 If you don't know where you are, 44:47 you don't know where you've been, 44:48 and you sure don't know where you're going. 44:50 You know, and that's where we have to share God's vision. 44:54 What is His vision for Jerusalem? 44:57 Was to restore it. 44:58 And so when I pray, 45:00 I'm praying God's vision for you, 45:02 I'm praying God's vision for the church, 45:04 I'm praying God's vision for my son, 45:07 and whomever I'm praying, 45:08 and if I'm praying God's vision, guess what? 45:11 He's going to fulfill that vision. 45:12 Oh, yes, He is. 45:14 He's gonna do what He has to do to fulfill that vision. 45:16 So there's power in prayer. 45:18 Well, I... This is so encouraging to me. 45:22 But what I don't want us to do is run out of time 45:26 before we've accomplished a few more things. 45:28 Okay. Yes. Workshop. 45:31 I know these workshops are very effective, 45:34 and you have them well organized. 45:36 Yes, I do. 45:38 But I want you to talk about the workshops, 45:39 and again this is what Eunice 45:41 will be bringing into your church. 45:42 Exactly. 45:44 So tell us about those workshops 45:46 and, you know, something we haven't even mentioned 45:48 is the name of your ministry. 45:50 1 Timothy 2 Prayer Warriors. 45:52 1 Timothy 2 Prayer Warriors. 45:55 We are fighters, we are fighters, 45:57 and we are using God's ammunition to wage warfare. 46:01 Well, I... 46:03 The sanctuary, 46:05 the biblical perspective of prayer journaling 46:07 and actually putting a prayer journal together, 46:09 those are the core sessions that I do, 46:13 because I want people to understand 46:14 why am I doing what I'm doing. 46:16 Then I have workshops on fasting, 46:19 the characteristics of a prayer warrior, united prayer, 46:23 what does it mean to come together in united prayer. 46:28 You know, and just workshops, like praise, 46:30 how to pray the scripture. 46:32 Lot of people don't know 46:33 how to praise God using scripture. 46:35 And how to pray using God's Word. 46:41 And, of course, we have a prayer line for moms 46:43 that where moms get on there, 46:46 and the only thing we pray is God's Word. 46:49 Praise God. 46:50 We don't talk about 46:51 the shortcomings of the children, 46:53 but we pray, we mention their names, 46:55 and then we pray God's Word into that, into their lives, 46:58 and we have seen things happen. 46:59 And so I encourage and I try to get churches 47:01 to establish a prayer line where moms can get on there, 47:05 and pray for their children. 47:08 Okay, I believe you had some pictures... 47:11 Yes, we do have pictures. 47:12 Of your workshops and we didn't want 47:14 to let those get away from us, 47:15 so let's look at those pictures that Eunice has brought. 47:18 What is this one? 47:20 All right, that first one is where I'm doing a... 47:24 Where we are using the scriptures 47:26 to praise and to pray, and the participants, 47:29 they had an opportunity to practice that skill. 47:35 And the other one, this is when we went to Belize, 47:38 we went to Belize. 47:40 And the participants here are discussing united prayer, 47:44 because I like to give people a chance to debrief and share 47:48 what is that they are learning, 47:49 so that's what they're doing here. 47:52 And conducting a journal workshop 47:55 here at the Crawley Church, and this is a Sunday afternoon, 48:00 Sunday morning 48:01 and they're putting their prayer journals together. 48:03 This is another one of Pflugerville, Texas. 48:05 So it's very hands on. It's very hands on. 48:08 You see the thing that once you're done, 48:10 you leave with a document that you can go home 48:13 and begin your prayer life. 48:15 And this is in Belize, where they actually put in 48:17 their prayer journals together, so once they're gone, I'm gone, 48:21 they have it, the tool 48:23 they can go back and start praying. 48:25 And this is a group of the church members, 48:28 practically everyone in that church attended, 48:31 and what was so impressive? 48:33 Young men. Praise God. 48:35 The young men were there 48:36 and they put their journals together. 48:38 And this is the elementary school. 48:41 The superintendent of education there at, 48:44 in Belize asked me to go to the church school, 48:48 because the teachers couldn't come to the meetings. 48:50 So I went there and they put their journals together. 48:53 Okay. 48:56 And this is where I'm speaking at the camp meeting 48:59 last year at South Central camp meet 49:00 talking about the sanctuary 49:02 and its impact on our prayer life. 49:04 So again, get your pencil and paper, 49:06 we're going to give you 49:07 the contact information for Eunice. 49:09 But Eunice, first share a story or a miracle that you've seen? 49:14 Well, let me see, you know, because of prayer, 49:20 you know, this mom came to me 49:22 and she was sharing with me things about her son, 49:24 and I said, you know, let's start praying, 49:26 and that's how the prayer line got started. 49:29 And all we would do is just pray scriptures, 49:31 pray the scriptures over him. 49:33 And in a couple of months, 49:34 you know, she was sharing with us how he was changing. 49:37 He had a stronger desire now to spend in God's Word, 49:40 and he was making decisions for God, 49:43 whereas before he was drifting away, 49:45 he was now returning. 49:49 Another victory is another mom, 49:53 who is on the prayer line with us, 49:55 shared with us how her son 49:57 that she had been praying for is slowly coming around. 50:01 Praise God. Slowly coming around. 50:02 So, you know, by just praying, it's just an awesome thing. 50:07 And also with the prayer journals, 50:11 I've had people come up to me and say, you know, 50:12 I've gone to many prayer conferences, 50:15 but this one really sets me on the road to praying, 50:18 because now I can go home, 50:20 and literally start my journey 50:23 praying for others and enriching my prayer life. 50:26 Well, I know you're really speaking to the mothers, 50:29 because, oh, and mothers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, 50:33 we, it's so vitally important. 50:35 Yes. 50:37 I know the scripture says 50:38 there's no more tears in heaven. 50:41 But I... 50:43 If my family is not with me, oh, that, 50:46 it troubles me and it pains me, Eunice. 50:48 Just to think about that. 50:50 Just to think about the very idea 50:52 that all of my children and my grandchildren 50:55 won't be there. 50:56 So you were speaking to the hearts of we, parents. 51:00 Fathers too, because, you know, the men 51:01 who come to the meetings, like my husband said, 51:04 he's a retired administrator, 51:06 you know, so he has to keep things organized. 51:08 And he said the prayer journal helps keep him 51:11 organized as well. 51:12 I've had pastors attend it as well, 51:14 so it's not just the moms, it's for the young men, 51:18 the young women, the men. 51:20 It's all about enriching one's prayer life. 51:23 Okay, and when we're speaking 51:26 about the impact on our children. 51:28 But in every area or aspect of our lives. 51:29 Every area, yes, yes. 51:31 So I have asked you to get your pencil and paper, 51:33 we want you to take this contact information. 51:36 Contact, Eunice, and I'm sure 51:39 she would just be delighted to come 51:41 and enhance your prayer life in your church. 51:44 Yes, yes. 51:47 If you've been touched by Eunice Davis' testimony, 51:51 and would like to begin a prayer ministry yourself, 51:53 then why not invite her to speak at your church 51:56 and conduct a prayer workshop. 51:59 To do so, just visit her website 52:01 1Tim2PrayerWarriors.org. 52:05 That's 1-T-I-M-2PrayerWarriors.org. 52:09 You may also wish to drop her a line by mail. 52:12 Her ministry address is 1Tim 2 Prayer Warriors, 52:17 P.O. 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