I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome
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to our special
3ABN Family Worship.
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We're so glad
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that you've
joined us this evening.
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You're part of our family
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and we look forward to this time
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that we can spend
here together with you.
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We're always glad
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to also spend
this family worship
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with our 3ABN family.
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Absolutely.
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I know it's probably
been a really busy week,
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maybe extremely busy
week for you at home.
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3ABN, it always seems like
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many good things
are going on here
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but it's always
time to take a breath
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and enjoy the Sabbath hours.
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That's right.
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Enjoy this time
with God, and with you.
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Thank you for your
prayers and financial support
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for the Ministry of 3ABN
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because of you, we
were able to reach the world
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and come into
your home right now.
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Or maybe you're
listening on 3ABN Radio.
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We're able to
go around the world
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because you're
supporting the Ministry of 3ABN.
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But I'm excited
about this topic.
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We were
discussing what we should do
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for Family Worship.
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And Jill said, "Hey,
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what about the power
of intercessory prayer?"
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I was like, "Oh,
yes, I like that topic
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because prayer
is such a vital..."
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It is.
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Wow, "a vital
part of our lives."
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It is. Should be if it's not.
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It is. Absolutely.
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You know, intercessory
prayer is so important.
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I need intercessory prayer.
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I would imagine if you've lived
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any length of time on the earth,
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you need
intercessory prayer as well.
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I want to start with a quote
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and then we'll
introduce the family.
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Can we start with a quote? Yes.
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This is from E.M. Bounds
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if you're familiar at
all with their writing.
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I love this.
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It says, "What
the church needs today
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is not more machinery or better.
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Not new organizations
or more and novel methods.
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But man," we
could add and woman,
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"whom the Holy Ghost can use,
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men of prayer
men mighty in prayer.
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The Holy Ghost does
not flow through methods,
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but through men.
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He does not come upon machinery,
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but on men.
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He does not anoint
plans, but men, men of prayer."
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That's what we're
talking about tonight,
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the power that there
is in intercessory prayer.
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Let's introduce our
family here we have Donald Owen,
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working in 3ABN
pastoral department
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and you get to see
prayer all the time.
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Yes, this is interesting,
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because I love
the power of prayer
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and just to be
able to pray with folks
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and just to hear
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how God can turn a sad
or broken situation into joy
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I have often called as
people who start laughing
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at the end of the conversation
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and it's just incredible
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how God can turn
that situation around
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just through prayer.
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So I'm thankful to be here.
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This is going to be
an awesome topic so.
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Amen.
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Next to you, we have Tim Parton,
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General Manager of 3ABN
Praise Him Music Network
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and a man of prayer
too, glad to have you here.
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Amen, it's always a
pleasure to be involved,
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especially on this topic.
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I love it.
Looking forward to it.
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Amen.
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So Donald was talking a
little bit about prayer.
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What about you, Tim?
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Why is prayer
maybe important to you?
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Well...
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Why does it mean
something to you?
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Because we know it does. Yes.
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It's kind of obvious.
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I mean without prayer I know
my grandmother prayed for me,
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prayed that I would be
involved in the ministry.
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And so I know
the power that you,
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we talk about
everyone that has breath,
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has a need of prayer.
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Those but we,
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I think it's important
that we pray for the future,
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you know what, but what,
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what's going to happen
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know for those who are yet to be
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I don't know how
you may feel about that.
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But I think it's
important that we be praying
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for things that we can't see,
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things we see, it's
prayers just, it's vital.
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We got to have it. Vital.
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Yes.
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Thank you, Tim,
for sharing that.
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I appreciate.
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You know, a lot of
people know you, Tim,
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as someone that
does a lot of music.
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But also a lot of people I think
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are getting to
know Tim that is also,
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can I say, a theologian
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but he loves to
study the Word of God.
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Let me say that loves
to study the Word of God,
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you know, really digs deep
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and that's a new side of Tim
that we're able to see that too
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because we know
you're talented with music
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but God's given you
another gift as well.
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So thank you for being on. Amen.
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Sitting next to you
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last but not least
is Dee Hilderbrand.
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I want to say
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is your title
production coordinator?
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I'm still
production coordinator, yes.
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It just means...
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That's a title I've
hung on to for years, ages.
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We've gladly
given that to you so.
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You do a good job.
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Dee does an amazing job.
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And we're just so grateful
you have wonderful insight
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into the Word of
God and into people.
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And tell us how you
feel about our topic tonight.
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Well, you know, when
you were talking about
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Tim and music, it's interesting.
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But since Tim has been here,
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I begin to think of him
as a man of prayer also.
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Maybe it's because
time to prayer and pause...
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Pause to pray.
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I realized he is
quite a prayer warrior,
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which changed in my mind.
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I was delighted when
Jill asked me to do this,
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because my first,
she will let you know,
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my first
response was, "That's not,
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intercessory prayer
is not my strength."
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But I started
thinking about that.
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And I came to some
interesting conclusions
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that so I'm very
happy I'm on this program.
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And it made me
think about my prayer life
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and redefine things.
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Well, I would say this,
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people could
relate to that, Dee.
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Someone right at
home tonight, maybe like,
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"Well, I don't consider myself
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into
intercessory prayers but..."
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I didn't think I did.
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But I had to
look at my definition.
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It's interesting.
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You know, we have to
think the people home too,
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you know, our family at home
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because we always say
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your prayers and
financial support.
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We just kind of
spit that out, right.
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And but we're really
grateful for your prayers
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and financial support.
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But many of you have interceded
for 3ABN for many, many years.
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And that's made
a difference too.
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You know, some people
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are not always
able to give financially
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but are able to
just drop on their knees
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and pray for this ministry.
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And wow, what a
powerful blessing.
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Amen. For sure.
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Do we want to open in prayer?
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I have opening
question, but I don't know...
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You know, I have
some questions too.
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And you know, we're
on the topic of prayer,
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I think it would be
very appropriate for us to.
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So, Donald, would you
mind to open in prayer
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as we start our
Family Worship here.
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Thank you.
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Heavenly Father,
we want to thank You
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that Your son, Jesus
gave us this opportunity
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that we can lift up prayers.
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Yes.
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I'm thinking of Hebrews 4:16
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says we can come
boldly into throne of grace
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asking these petitions.
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So we thank You for
what Jesus has done.
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We thank You that
we have an advocate,
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one who does
listen to these prayers
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and takes them
before the Father.
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And You know, this
message is going to resonate
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in hearts tonight and
that many souls, Lord,
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maybe like Dee
said, I didn't think
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I was an
intercessory prayer warrior
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but we're all
intercessory prayer warriors
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when we put our
confidence and trust in You.
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So, Lord,
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we just want to
thank You for that
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and ask that Your Holy
Spirit will abide with us
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as we tackle this topic,
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this wonderful topic
of intercessory prayer.
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We thank You, Lord, we
ask us in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Amen. Thank you.
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So just to kick it off,
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what would you say
is intercessory prayer?
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You know, people
could say, well, I pray,
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does that mean I intercede?
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Does that mean I am
involved in intercessory prayer?
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Is any prayer
intercessory prayer?
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Or is there a
difference in that?
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See, that's where I had to,
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I've always thought
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of when you say
intercessory prayer,
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I immediately my brain goes
intercessory prayer warrior.
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I'm thinking of someone
who intercessory prayer,
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they go and they pray
for an hour or two hours,
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are doing it
several times a week,
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they have this long
list, their fervent prayers.
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And I'm thinking,
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"Well, I'm not really an
intercessor prayer person."
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But as I started
to think about it,
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I've developed a
different picture.
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Intercessory prayer
has different pictures.
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It's different for
each person, I think.
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And so I've kind
of changed my mind
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that I do
intercessory prayer, and I,
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but it looks different
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than maybe it
does for somebody else.
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And that's okay.
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What does it look like for you?
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I realized that I pray
a lot for other people,
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but I'm there, they're short,
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shorter prayers are more often
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or especially if
someone's on my heart,
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I may lift them up
several times a day,
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or they come to
mind several times a day,
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but I'm not on
the floor on my face
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for an hour 15
minutes or 20 minutes
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or whatever it is.
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It's not that that picture.
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Mine are more instant
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and I don't have this long list.
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It's what God
puts on my on my heart.
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And there are certain
people like family members
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that I pray for.
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And it's almost each time I pray
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or when I'm doing prayer,
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I put that
intercessory prayer in there
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so it looks different
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than what I originally
pictured intercessory prayer is,
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and I think that's okay,
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I think
intercessory prayer can look
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how it needs to
look for you personally.
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It can be your definition
of what works for you.
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I looked up that
word speaking intercessory
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means the action of intervening
on behalf of another,
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like the word action.
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You know, it's all it does
is take a little simple action,
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just like you said,
lifting up somebody's name.
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You know, for me,
I had an individual.
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Long time ago, when
I was praying, I said,
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you know, you have
really long prayers.
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I was like, yes,
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just the way that like you said,
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the Lord does different
things for me personally
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and intercessory prayer,
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I got testimonies
that come to my mind,
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I have scriptures
that pop in my head,
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I have stories in the Bible,
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and just how God
just He uses all,
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He takes like
some kind of formula
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and just puts it all together.
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And just, it's amazing.
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And just the power, what
He can do through prayer.
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So again, of
course, for an intercessor,
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it means we are the individuals
doing the action for somebody.
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So that's kind
of the definition.
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Yes, we're the action, I guess,
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taking the action
and doing the action so.
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I like that word too, action.
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Take about you, Tim,
what does that mean to you?
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Intercession is a verb for sure.
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And I think when,
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when the important
things is following through,
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you know, if I,
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if I want someone
to intercede for me,
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I want them to
until it's what is the
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Pray Until
Something Happened, PUSH.
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PUSH, yes.
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So until something
happens... Yes, the acronym.
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Until you see
the, to the result,
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not necessarily the result,
what you thought would happen,
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but, but so I find
that, you know, making it...
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It may be not on a list,
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but it's something
that comes to my mind
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every day that I've,
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until I see a
change or until I know
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that there is
maybe it's resolved some,
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in some way.
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I think that's what
interceding for someone to me,
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it's important
to follow through.
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Because
sometimes I will literally,
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I'll pray something one
day, and never remember it.
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Now not that that
prayer isn't still circulating,
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and God
certainly knows the need.
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But I think it's,
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I think a lot of times
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intercession is
more important for us
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than it is for
God because a sign of,
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you know, how
interested in this are you?
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How invested are
you in this situation
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to really see it to fruition?
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And prayer
changes us. Certainly.
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Ellen White, she had said this,
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and this is really interesting.
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She said, "By
your fervent prayers
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of faith,
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you can move the arm
that moves the world."
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And you just
tackle it in your brain.
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You can't even understand it,
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but it moves the
arm that moves the world
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as you pray for somebody
you're actually moving your arm
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that moves this entire universe.
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Amen.
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Wow, that's a powerful thought.
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What's it mean to you?
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You know, I think yes,
intercessory prayer is,
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to me this is just
Greg Morikone's definition
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is more than like,
what you're saying to me,
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we can just pray
for something once.
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But for me, intercessory
prayer would be like
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lifting that request up,
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or that individual
up over and over again,
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or really just
beseeching the Lord,
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you know, like, God,
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this person manages
really heavy on my heart.
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And just really,
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I think it's that
action of maybe repetition,
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you know, day
after day after day
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until there's a result
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may or may not be
what we're looking for.
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But until we say,
hey, there's the answer.
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This is what God's will.
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I think that's
what it means to me.
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Because many times I've
prayed for someone like,
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oh, they've come and said,
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"Hey, can you
please pray for so and so
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and I'll pray for them."
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But I may not
put them on a list.
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That's my own problem.
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I should have
probably put them on a list.
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But still, I think if
there's a certain situation
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or a certain individual,
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for me, it's just
yes, taking out before God.
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Yes, it doesn't necessarily mean
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there has to be 10 hours.
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It's just like, to me
bringing it up again, again,
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God, please work
in this person's life.
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That's what it means
to me, how about you?
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I should have thought
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that you'd ask me that question.
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Are you prepared?
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I would say that it does mean
interceding for other people
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like you talked about
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and just bringing
them before the Father,
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I think that's really powerful.
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But something to
me, this is this is new.
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So this is
still evolving for me.
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Something that
it's coming to me now
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is actually
intercession can have an impact
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on how God
looks at other people.
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When I read the Word
of God, we know of course,
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that God is love.
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And he's not willing
that any should perish,
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but that all
should come to repentance.
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But when I read the Word of God,
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I see many times
people stood in the gap,
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actually asking forgiveness,
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standing in the gap
between the judgment of God
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that was maybe
coming against a people
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or a group and the mercy of God
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which we know flows
from the heart of our Father,
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so I'm not even sure I
understand it entirely.
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I know I don't
understand it entirely.
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But that concept of Moses
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interceding for
the sins of the people,
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the golden calf experience,
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or Stephen when
he's being stoned,
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interceding, God,
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do not lay this
into their charge.
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Interceding, asking
forgiveness on their behalf.
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To me, this is a new
aspect of intercession
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that I'm just
learning I guess you could say.
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Well, it's like
when you just said that
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it's like, God accept
our, God accepts our prayer,
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our
intercession on their behalf.
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In other words,
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he can't move
unless he's asked to
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because of freewill.
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And by us asking for them,
he accepts that in their place.
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And then he can move in a
way he couldn't have before
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because He wasn't invited to.
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So we can invite the Lord,
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we can invite the Lord to move
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on behalf of someone else
because He needs permission.
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He's not
invasive, he doesn't push.
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I never really
thought of that before.
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You just made me
think of Job 42:10
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talks about
something there, let's see.
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Oh, that's
interesting because Job,
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you know the experience he had.
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Praying for his
friends. Right, yes.
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Which is powerful. Yes.
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Then what happened though,
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after he prayed for his friends.
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That's the...
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God doubled the, yes,
it's powerful actually.
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Here, that's a powerful verse.
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As you're turning there,
I just got to bring this up.
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Why, why would
you pray for people
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who didn't stand with you
when you needed them, right?
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Because he's
going through everything
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and so much
trouble and the people
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who are supposed
to be his friends,
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they just kind of turned on him.
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And so yes, he prayed for that.
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You know, you mention
that makes me think that
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we as people are interceding
on people's behalves.
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We have to have that
compassion in our heart.
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If it's not there,
you're not going to do it,
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you're not going
to pray for somebody.
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So obviously, Job must have
had compassion for his friends
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or you wouldn't have...
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"Forget you guys, you know,
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I'm tired of hearing all
your stuff just go away."
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No, he prayed for them.
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Then as he did, says in here,
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"The Lord turned
the captivity of Job
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when he prayed
for his friends also,
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the Lord gave Job
twice as much as,"
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you mentioned,
greatness he had before."
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So everything was
restored to him to full
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because he had
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so much more compassion for them
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than his own needs at the time.
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I mean, think about
all the needs he had,
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but he saw their needs more.
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But even if we pray for someone,
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if we don't have that compassion
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to start with,
prayer changes us.
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So when you start
praying for someone,
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you look at them differently.
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We've all heard
stories about that
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and how it changes
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how we've used
someone too changes us
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when we're
intercessoring for prayer
00:17:13.19\00:17:15.86
for someone that
didn't stand with us.
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So a person cannot,
based off the definition,
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cannot intercede for themselves.
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Would that be correct?
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So, so if you can't intercede...
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I don't know. I'm
just throwing this out.
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So if you can't
intercede for yourself,
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what if nobody
intercedes for you?
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There may be no one in the world
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that you can even think of
that even intercede for you.
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So then what happens?
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Jesus intercedes, and
the Holy Spirit intercedes.
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Oh, yes.
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That was a cliffhanger.
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Oh, I don't know if that's real.
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That was good. I
was holding my breath.
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Can we read that script?
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Yes, yes, absolutely. Yes.
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You thinking 1 Timothy?
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We can do 1 Timothy absolutely.
Which one were you thinking?
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I was thinking
Hebrews 7:25, I love that.
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Yes, Hebrews 7...
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We were supposed to
start with Philippians 1:19
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but we can get there.
00:18:01.38\00:18:02.71
No, let's do
Hebrews. I love this.
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Hebrews 7:25 is a
really good scripture.
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Wow.
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Any if you have
that want to jump in?
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I'm still finding it.
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"Wherefore He is
able also to save them
00:18:13.19\00:18:15.49
to the uttermost, "
00:18:15.52\00:18:17.26
beautiful word there,
00:18:17.29\00:18:18.63
"that come unto God by Him
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seeing He ever liveth to
make intercession for them."
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Praise the Lord. Wow.
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I got a little
box here, it says,
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"Through the
administration was to be removed
00:18:26.50\00:18:29.14
from the earthly
to the heavenly temple
00:18:29.17\00:18:30.91
though the sanctuary
in our great high priests
00:18:30.94\00:18:32.81
would be
invisible to human sight,
00:18:32.84\00:18:34.18
yet the disciples were
to suffer no loss thereby,
00:18:34.21\00:18:36.71
while Jesus ministers
in the sanctuary above,
00:18:36.75\00:18:39.61
He is still by His Spirit,
00:18:39.65\00:18:40.98
the Minister of
the Church on earth,
00:18:41.02\00:18:42.75
while which He
delegates His power
00:18:42.78\00:18:44.39
to inferior ministers, "
00:18:44.42\00:18:45.75
being us,
00:18:45.79\00:18:47.12
"His energizing presence
is still with His church."
00:18:47.16\00:18:48.66
So you know, he,
00:18:48.69\00:18:50.03
while he poured out
His Spirit on us to be,
00:18:50.06\00:18:51.46
you know, says,
00:18:51.49\00:18:52.83
"His inferior
ministers energize his presence
00:18:52.86\00:18:55.23
in the church,"
that's really powerful.
00:18:55.26\00:18:57.03
So isn't that beautiful,
00:18:57.07\00:18:58.40
who better than to intercede
for us than Jesus Himself?
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And all you have
to do is come to Him,
00:19:01.50\00:19:03.57
and He will intercede for you
00:19:03.61\00:19:05.07
because many people
00:19:05.11\00:19:06.44
when you first come to the Lord,
00:19:06.47\00:19:07.81
you don't know how to pray.
00:19:07.84\00:19:09.18
You don't know what to say.
00:19:09.21\00:19:10.75
But Jesus intercedes for us.
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There's almost a kind
of connecting scripture
00:19:13.01\00:19:14.68
to that Revelation 8:3,
00:19:14.72\00:19:16.22
it's symbolic because obviously,
00:19:16.25\00:19:18.69
Revelation has a lot
of symbolic terminology.
00:19:18.72\00:19:20.49
But it says in verse three.
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You said 8:3, I'm
just getting there.
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Revelation 8:3 says,
00:19:23.73\00:19:25.49
"And another angel
came and stood at the altar,
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having a golden censer,
00:19:27.50\00:19:28.83
and there was given
unto him much incense,
00:19:28.86\00:19:31.00
that he should offer it
with the prayers of all saints
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upon the golden altar
which was before the throne."
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So Jesus is actually mingling
His prayers with our prayer
00:19:35.74\00:19:39.34
before the Father,
isn't that beautiful?
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It is.
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He takes that and He
takes, you know, well,
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we're going to
talk about Romans 2
00:19:44.11\00:19:45.45
about this Holy Spirit,
00:19:45.48\00:19:46.82
but He takes those prayers
and He mingles them like,
00:19:46.85\00:19:49.05
maybe we don't know
how to pray like we should.
00:19:49.08\00:19:50.95
But He knows how to
pray before the Father,
00:19:50.99\00:19:52.32
you can plead His blood.
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We can't plead anything,
He can plead His blood.
00:19:53.72\00:19:55.56
So He takes His blood
00:19:55.59\00:19:56.93
before the
Father and our prayers
00:19:56.96\00:19:58.29
and combines it and
that's when you know,
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like you mentioned earlier about
00:20:00.23\00:20:01.56
maybe a prayer is
not answered right away
00:20:01.60\00:20:02.93
or the way we thought
00:20:02.96\00:20:04.30
but eventually a prayer
does get answered in a way.
00:20:04.33\00:20:05.83
So this is the
question that I know
00:20:05.87\00:20:07.20
I've asked a
number of questions.
00:20:07.24\00:20:08.57
So I'm hopefully, hopefully
we're answering some of these.
00:20:08.60\00:20:10.81
But what comes to mind
is okay, we just said then,
00:20:10.84\00:20:13.11
that Jesus who better
than to intercede is Jesus,
00:20:13.14\00:20:15.51
then why do we
even need to intercede?
00:20:15.54\00:20:16.88
Let's just sit back
00:20:16.91\00:20:18.25
and let Jesus do
it for everybody.
00:20:18.28\00:20:19.75
So what's the use
of us interceding?
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I'm just curious
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on your guys'
thoughts on that then.
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Jesus lives to
make intercession.
00:20:24.69\00:20:27.26
But like we, every
one of us mentioned,
00:20:27.29\00:20:29.46
this prayer
changes us, it changes us,
00:20:29.49\00:20:33.86
it changes our point of view.
00:20:33.90\00:20:35.70
It brings us more in line
00:20:35.73\00:20:37.07
of how Jesus views someone else.
00:20:37.10\00:20:38.67
Okay. Good.
00:20:38.70\00:20:40.50
Any other thoughts on that?
00:20:40.54\00:20:41.90
I was thinking of
something that was written
00:20:41.94\00:20:43.94
as divinity needs
humanity to reach humanity.
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Divinity needs humanity
in order to reach humanity.
00:20:47.74\00:20:50.71
That's good.
00:20:50.75\00:20:52.08
So they, basically
what they're saying is that,
00:20:52.11\00:20:53.62
you know, He, yes, He's,
He's able to intercede for us,
00:20:53.65\00:20:56.99
but He wants us
like you're saying
00:20:57.02\00:20:58.35
to cooperate
with Him to do work.
00:20:58.39\00:21:00.76
And I mean,
people think of work,
00:21:00.79\00:21:02.12
obviously, a
nine-to-five job or something.
00:21:02.16\00:21:03.63
But even prayer
is a form of work
00:21:03.66\00:21:05.83
between you and
the Heavenly Father.
00:21:05.86\00:21:07.76
So I think, you
know, doing that,
00:21:07.80\00:21:09.80
intercede on people's
behalf saying the gap,
00:21:09.83\00:21:11.43
it's like He needs us,
00:21:11.47\00:21:13.13
because we're like
His hands and feet, right.
00:21:13.17\00:21:15.14
I mean, He sees
everything obviously,
00:21:15.17\00:21:16.64
but He wants us to
play an active role.
00:21:16.67\00:21:18.51
We talked about action earlier.
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We can actively play that role.
00:21:20.28\00:21:21.61
And just to give
you a quick story
00:21:21.64\00:21:22.98
of how power prayer works,
00:21:23.01\00:21:24.71
had a situation
with an individual
00:21:24.75\00:21:27.05
a few years ago,
00:21:27.08\00:21:28.42
and this individual and
I got into a pretty scuffle
00:21:28.45\00:21:31.05
wasn't like fist or
anything, but just words.
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.05
And I just a
couple days later said,
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.42
"Lord, I don't want
to hold on this anymore.
00:21:34.46\00:21:35.99
I just want forgive this
person and ask forgiveness."
00:21:36.02\00:21:38.79
I prayed that
and two hours later,
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.16
this individual
came up and just said,
00:21:40.20\00:21:41.53
"Hey, man, can I
talk to you for a minute?"
00:21:41.56\00:21:42.90
I said, "Yes, what's going on?"
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.27
He said, "I'm sorry,
man, for what I did."
00:21:44.30\00:21:45.63
I said, "I'm sorry
for what I did too."
00:21:45.67\00:21:47.00
And now to this
day, we're friends.
00:21:47.04\00:21:48.57
Praise the Lord. Amen.
00:21:48.60\00:21:49.94
So God can just turn it around,
00:21:49.97\00:21:51.31
He needs us to be
able to do that to,
00:21:51.34\00:21:52.97
you know, seek Him
and that we can trust Him.
00:21:53.01\00:21:55.74
He will answer those prayers
00:21:55.78\00:21:57.11
and help build relationships so.
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Any thoughts, Tim, on Jesus
being our intercessor or us...
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Well, I think
just the whole idea
00:22:01.52\00:22:03.92
of you look at
Abraham and how he was,
00:22:03.95\00:22:10.49
it was he, because
he believed in God,
00:22:10.53\00:22:12.89
he was kind of a friend of God.
00:22:12.93\00:22:16.00
What does a friend expect?
00:22:16.03\00:22:18.23
They expect to be
talked to, that's a good way,
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.20
you know, to,
yes, a relationship.
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.67
In fact, when someone tells me,
00:22:23.71\00:22:25.51
"Well, I don't really,
I'm not all about religion."
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.51
I say, "Well, let me
introduce you to Jesus.
00:22:28.54\00:22:31.71
And then you've
got a relationship
00:22:31.75\00:22:34.25
instead of religion."
00:22:34.28\00:22:35.62
Sure.
00:22:35.65\00:22:36.99
And so, I think the whole,
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.82
I think one of the things
that God why prayer works,
00:22:38.85\00:22:43.43
or hopefully would work
00:22:43.46\00:22:44.79
is because it's
just talking to God,
00:22:44.83\00:22:46.90
it's not fancy words.
00:22:46.93\00:22:48.26
It's not a list.
00:22:48.30\00:22:49.63
It's not anything
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.00
that we really
obligate ourselves for,
00:22:51.03\00:22:52.63
you know, make
prayer to, to be out.
00:22:52.67\00:22:55.87
It's just simply talking to God.
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.34
And when you have a
relationship with someone
00:22:58.37\00:23:02.04
that is so focused
on just talking to them
00:23:02.08\00:23:05.71
and pouring out your heart
00:23:05.75\00:23:07.38
and then listening to
him what he has to say,
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.58
what they have to
say, that's to me,
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.59
that's what makes
00:23:12.62\00:23:13.96
the whole intercession
thing powerful for humanity
00:23:13.99\00:23:16.59
for, you know, necessary for us
00:23:16.62\00:23:20.26
because it keeps
us in touch with God.
00:23:20.30\00:23:21.86
And then we can
just be friends of God,
00:23:21.90\00:23:25.37
and have a
relationship with Him.
00:23:25.40\00:23:26.74
You said a really
powerful word there,
00:23:26.77\00:23:28.10
you said "necessary."
00:23:28.14\00:23:29.47
And I would agree
with that 100 percent
00:23:29.50\00:23:30.84
because it's both sides, right?
00:23:30.87\00:23:32.57
Us talking to God
and God talking to us,
00:23:32.61\00:23:34.81
and that's back and forth.
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That's beautiful. That's great.
Isn't prayer our very breath?
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.15
Absolutely. The
breath of the soul.
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It's our, we die without prayer.
00:23:39.58\00:23:42.42
It's the breath of life. It is.
00:23:42.45\00:23:44.75
And if Jesus lives
to make intercessory,
00:23:44.79\00:23:48.52
then if we do that we,
aren't we going to reflect Him?
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Aren't we going to be
like Him when He comes?
00:23:52.43\00:23:54.90
So intercessory prayer
makes us more like Jesus.
00:23:54.93\00:24:00.84
And you mentioned
opening with the verse
00:24:00.87\00:24:02.50
that you were
going to open with...
00:24:02.54\00:24:03.87
I was just going there...
00:24:03.91\00:24:05.24
Philippians 1:19
00:24:05.27\00:24:06.61
and I want to read that
if you don't mind and...
00:24:06.64\00:24:08.38
Is this amplified? It is.
00:24:08.41\00:24:10.05
Oh, good. Yes.
00:24:10.08\00:24:11.75
So Philippians 1:19
says, "For I am well assured, "
00:24:11.78\00:24:16.25
this is Paul speaking,
00:24:16.28\00:24:18.39
"For I am well
assured and indeed know
00:24:18.42\00:24:21.16
that through your prayers
00:24:21.19\00:24:23.46
and a bountiful supply of
the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
00:24:23.49\00:24:26.39
this will turn out
for my preservation
00:24:26.43\00:24:29.00
for the spiritual health
and welfare of my own soul
00:24:29.03\00:24:32.47
and avail toward the saving work
00:24:32.50\00:24:35.30
of the Gospel."
00:24:35.34\00:24:36.97
Spiritual health.
00:24:37.01\00:24:38.34
Three words,
"through your prayers."
00:24:38.37\00:24:40.24
Right.
00:24:40.28\00:24:41.61
Can you imagine something
that you're going through
00:24:41.64\00:24:43.65
that you are counting on someone
00:24:43.68\00:24:48.58
to maybe intercede for you
and they didn't follow through,
00:24:48.62\00:24:55.49
you know, they forgot about you.
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.59
You know, because this is
Paul writing from prison, right?
00:24:58.63\00:25:02.26
And in this first
chapter of Philippians.
00:25:02.30\00:25:04.97
And so he says,
00:25:05.00\00:25:06.74
"I'm well assured and know
that through your prayers,"
00:25:06.77\00:25:11.21
that's weighty, that's heavy
00:25:11.24\00:25:13.07
to know that somebody
is depending on my prayers,
00:25:13.11\00:25:17.08
to meet a need to get,
to break through or to,
00:25:17.11\00:25:23.15
for something to
change in their life.
00:25:23.18\00:25:24.65
Man, that's...
00:25:24.69\00:25:26.02
But he knew those
prayers would make a difference.
00:25:26.05\00:25:27.62
Oh, absolutely.
00:25:27.66\00:25:28.99
He did know, but
if they weren't there,
00:25:29.02\00:25:31.09
then they, would they
make a difference, you know?
00:25:31.13\00:25:34.56
Yes, so I mean, that is...
00:25:34.60\00:25:36.23
That's an
interesting question. Wow.
00:25:36.26\00:25:37.73
That's a heavy
verse to me. It is.
00:25:37.77\00:25:39.97
You know, it really
is. I have New King James.
00:25:40.00\00:25:43.00
It says, "I know
this will turn out
00:25:43.04\00:25:44.37
for my deliverance
through your prayer
00:25:44.41\00:25:45.84
and the supply of the
Spirit of Jesus Christ."
00:25:45.87\00:25:47.34
King James's
salvation but and that one said,
00:25:47.38\00:25:53.18
preservation right?
00:25:53.21\00:25:54.55
For spiritual health and...
00:25:54.58\00:25:55.92
Spiritual and deliverance.
00:25:55.95\00:25:57.29
I like the deliverance.
00:25:57.32\00:25:58.65
It's amazing to
think that our prayers
00:25:58.69\00:26:02.56
make a difference in
someone else's salvation.
00:26:02.59\00:26:04.19
I like that though.
00:26:04.23\00:26:05.56
That's a preservation
for the spiritual health.
00:26:05.59\00:26:08.03
You know, those prayers
help our spiritual health.
00:26:08.06\00:26:10.47
You know, we feel
like we're draining it.
00:26:10.50\00:26:11.83
Think about today,
how many people are alone
00:26:11.87\00:26:13.37
in their own houses?
00:26:13.40\00:26:14.77
Talking on prayer line,
I mean you have so many,
00:26:14.80\00:26:17.04
thank you for your prayers.
00:26:17.07\00:26:18.41
I just need somebody to talk to.
00:26:18.44\00:26:19.77
I just need
somebody to pray for me.
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.24
And it builds
their spiritual health.
00:26:21.28\00:26:23.48
Especially I think
Tim and Greg and Jill,
00:26:23.51\00:26:26.82
you hear from a
lot of people that say,
00:26:26.85\00:26:29.98
"I'm praying for you.
00:26:30.02\00:26:31.35
I'm praying for 3ABN."
00:26:31.39\00:26:32.92
How does that impact?
00:26:32.95\00:26:35.56
I know, I know how it impacts me
00:26:35.59\00:26:37.83
when someone says
I'm praying for you.
00:26:37.86\00:26:40.23
I believe that my
aunt's intercessory prayer
00:26:40.26\00:26:43.77
for me when I was
living in the world,
00:26:43.80\00:26:48.00
changed my life.
00:26:48.04\00:26:49.57
And I think it protect, I
think delivered me from harm.
00:26:49.60\00:26:55.24
So how do you feel when you hear
00:26:55.28\00:26:57.41
that someone else
has been lifting you up
00:26:57.45\00:26:59.31
in prayer interceding for you?
00:26:59.35\00:27:01.32
It's encouraging. Overwhelming.
00:27:01.35\00:27:04.22
Yes, yes.
00:27:04.25\00:27:05.59
So okay, so someone at home,
00:27:05.62\00:27:06.96
you know, we have this
COVID that's going on, right.
00:27:06.99\00:27:08.42
So a lot of people
are isolated in their home
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.66
and feel very alone.
00:27:10.69\00:27:12.19
So what would be some advice
00:27:12.23\00:27:14.30
we could give to
someone right now
00:27:14.33\00:27:15.66
as we're talking
for your family worship,
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.03
then how can they
intercede for someone,
00:27:17.07\00:27:19.13
and they're
isolated in their home?
00:27:19.17\00:27:20.50
Any ideas
00:27:20.54\00:27:21.87
on how someone
could become involved
00:27:21.90\00:27:23.24
in intercessory prayer?
00:27:23.27\00:27:24.61
So Donald
mentioned, and we've mentioned
00:27:24.64\00:27:25.97
that he's part of pastoral,
00:27:26.01\00:27:27.34
I think one of the
greatest hidden ministries
00:27:27.38\00:27:31.71
here at 3ABN is
the prayer warrior,
00:27:31.75\00:27:34.52
the email that you
at home can sign up for,
00:27:34.55\00:27:37.99
you can tell us
maybe a little bit more
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.35
or I don't, I never know exactly
00:27:39.39\00:27:41.76
how to sign up for it.
00:27:41.79\00:27:43.12
I just know I'm signed up.
00:27:43.16\00:27:44.59
You can go on the website,
actually just go on 3ABN.org.tv
00:27:44.63\00:27:49.26
and there's, on some, like,
it's like closer to the bottom.
00:27:49.30\00:27:52.47
Yes, little box on
the left you can click.
00:27:52.50\00:27:54.37
Okay, a box on the
left of the website,
00:27:54.40\00:27:56.84
you can sign up for
the prayer warrior request.
00:27:56.87\00:28:00.04
Yes.
00:28:00.08\00:28:01.41
So we have about I think
00:28:01.44\00:28:02.78
2,290 prayer warriors currently.
00:28:02.81\00:28:06.01
And every week,
or every two weeks,
00:28:06.05\00:28:08.32
you get a list.
00:28:08.35\00:28:10.02
I opened mine this
morning and was reading it.
00:28:10.05\00:28:14.62
The list of requests
from around the world
00:28:14.66\00:28:17.79
and it's amazing.
00:28:17.83\00:28:19.96
Some are for other people,
00:28:20.00\00:28:21.43
some salvation,
some, well, physical...
00:28:21.46\00:28:24.53
Healing. Yes absolutely.
00:28:24.57\00:28:26.27
Every aspect really is there.
00:28:26.30\00:28:28.67
But so that is a good,
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.84
something that you
can sit right at your home
00:28:30.87\00:28:33.34
and go to your email,
00:28:33.38\00:28:34.74
and just begin to read for
people that you don't even,
00:28:34.78\00:28:37.11
or pray for people
that you don't even know.
00:28:37.15\00:28:39.61
But again, that though,
when you're praying for,
00:28:39.65\00:28:43.22
that prayer will, think,
00:28:43.25\00:28:44.62
oh, that's
somebody else in my family
00:28:44.65\00:28:46.29
that has the same issue.
00:28:46.32\00:28:48.12
So yes, you don't
have to leave your house.
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.13
But I think it changes you.
00:28:50.16\00:28:51.49
That's great, Tim.
It gives you a purpose.
00:28:51.53\00:28:53.66
And with COVID, so many people
are struggling of what to do.
00:28:53.70\00:28:58.43
So it gives you a purpose.
00:28:58.47\00:28:59.80
And I think it will change you
00:28:59.83\00:29:01.24
if you start doing
intercessory prayer like them.
00:29:01.27\00:29:04.31
I think most,
everyone has a cell phone too.
00:29:04.34\00:29:07.11
And so you've got
a list of contacts
00:29:07.14\00:29:08.94
would be just
to go through there
00:29:08.98\00:29:10.31
and text them and say,
00:29:10.35\00:29:11.68
"Hey, you know what,
I'm praying for you."
00:29:11.71\00:29:13.05
I actually received
a text just this week
00:29:13.08\00:29:14.82
where someone
actually texted me and said,
00:29:14.85\00:29:16.18
"I'm praying for you, Greg,"
00:29:16.22\00:29:17.55
just someone that
doesn't normally do that.
00:29:17.59\00:29:18.92
I was like, "Oh, wow!"
00:29:18.95\00:29:20.29
You talked about
what does that do for you
00:29:20.32\00:29:21.66
and you talked about
encouraging that was fantastic.
00:29:21.69\00:29:23.86
And so wow, that encouraged me.
00:29:23.89\00:29:25.76
I don't know if
you were to do that.
00:29:25.79\00:29:27.13
Or if you don't
have a cell phone,
00:29:27.16\00:29:28.50
you've got
hopefully a little card
00:29:28.53\00:29:30.67
that you could put
"I'm praying for you"
00:29:30.70\00:29:32.33
and put that in
the mail 55 cents
00:29:32.37\00:29:34.04
here in the
United States for a stamp
00:29:34.07\00:29:35.40
and send that to someone saying,
00:29:35.44\00:29:36.77
"I'm praying for you."
00:29:36.81\00:29:38.14
And I've been doing
that with text saying...
00:29:38.17\00:29:40.28
Have you been doing that? Great.
00:29:40.31\00:29:41.64
Sending a text and saying,
00:29:41.68\00:29:43.01
"I'm thinking of you right now
and lifting you up in prayer."
00:29:43.04\00:29:45.15
There's a few people that
are on my heart right now.
00:29:45.18\00:29:47.65
And that's, they're too
sick to really communicate.
00:29:47.68\00:29:51.29
But the text they
send me back a little emoji
00:29:51.32\00:29:55.29
and I know that and
it helps both of us.
00:29:55.32\00:30:00.76
So there's little
things you can do to...
00:30:00.80\00:30:05.20
Intercede.
Intercede and it all counts.
00:30:05.23\00:30:09.14
And the thing I do believe...
00:30:09.17\00:30:11.14
One of you said something
about that it continues on,
00:30:11.17\00:30:13.88
think of all the mothers
00:30:13.91\00:30:15.24
that have prayed
for their children
00:30:15.28\00:30:16.64
over the years.
00:30:16.68\00:30:18.01
And maybe they pass
00:30:18.05\00:30:19.38
and they haven't
seen the results yet.
00:30:19.41\00:30:21.38
But then years later it happens.
00:30:21.42\00:30:23.89
And those prayers God, Jesus
00:30:23.92\00:30:26.72
keeps those prayers
00:30:26.76\00:30:28.72
in front of the
Father, I believe.
00:30:28.76\00:30:31.03
And they keep on going.
00:30:31.06\00:30:32.99
So no prayer of intercession
is ever lost, I don't think.
00:30:33.03\00:30:37.00
It doesn't
just, God doesn't just
00:30:37.03\00:30:39.13
oh, well, set this one aside,
00:30:39.17\00:30:41.84
because I didn't hear
from them a second time.
00:30:41.87\00:30:44.54
He keeps them working on that.
00:30:44.57\00:30:46.57
Yes, something that the
Lord has been working on me
00:30:46.61\00:30:48.54
and I try to do
this every weekend,
00:30:48.58\00:30:49.98
since we don't work Fridays,
or Saturdays or Sundays.
00:30:50.01\00:30:51.78
But I try to take
about, for me personally,
00:30:51.81\00:30:53.95
a four-mile walk
and talk with the Lord
00:30:53.98\00:30:56.28
and I just start sharing
what's on my heart with Him
00:30:56.32\00:30:58.35
or things that I see are,
00:30:58.39\00:30:59.99
for me,
they're, different things
00:31:00.02\00:31:01.39
that go through my mind,
00:31:01.42\00:31:02.76
different people I think about
00:31:02.79\00:31:04.13
and just one quick example
00:31:04.16\00:31:05.76
that happened to me
00:31:05.79\00:31:07.13
when we had to put our
cat to sleep a while back.
00:31:07.16\00:31:10.00
It was a tough
time at that point.
00:31:10.03\00:31:11.37
But the next morning,
it was a Sabbath morning,
00:31:11.40\00:31:13.60
and I was walking,
I asked the Lord like,
00:31:13.64\00:31:15.27
Ellen G. White, she prays,
00:31:15.30\00:31:16.64
"Take all of me,
O Lord, to be yours.
00:31:16.67\00:31:18.01
I lay all my
plans at your feet."
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.37
And so I actually
prayed it, sometimes I do it.
00:31:19.41\00:31:21.01
And it just happened,
I'm walking my way back
00:31:21.04\00:31:23.04
and a man stopped
and we began talking.
00:31:23.08\00:31:26.05
And while I'm going
through my loss of my cat,
00:31:26.08\00:31:28.25
he told me about his issue
00:31:28.28\00:31:29.62
of going through a
stroke few years ago.
00:31:29.65\00:31:32.89
And I asked him, I
said, "Can I pray with you?"
00:31:32.92\00:31:34.79
God brought me
somebody to pray with.
00:31:34.82\00:31:36.26
So I'm here praying in
the middle of this road.
00:31:36.29\00:31:38.53
And, you know,
after he left, I was like,
00:31:38.56\00:31:40.96
"Man, God, you
know, it's amazing,
00:31:41.00\00:31:42.60
because here I am and
my loss of my cat and said,
00:31:42.63\00:31:45.47
you know, it was really,
00:31:45.50\00:31:46.84
a little struggle for a few days
00:31:46.87\00:31:48.20
and you brought me
this man to pray for him."
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.31
And it just relieved my
soul just like, I was like,
00:31:50.34\00:31:53.21
"Man, I just, wow, God
really cares about you.
00:31:53.24\00:31:55.14
He listens to your prayers."
00:31:55.18\00:31:56.51
Amen. Just incredible.
00:31:56.54\00:31:57.88
Amen.
00:31:57.91\00:31:59.25
Tim, you were going
to say something before.
00:31:59.28\00:32:00.62
Well, I've forgotten by now.
00:32:00.65\00:32:02.02
I'm sorry. But it's not.
00:32:02.05\00:32:03.59
It was...
00:32:03.62\00:32:04.95
Yes, we'll just proceed.
00:32:04.99\00:32:06.49
Okay, sorry.
00:32:06.52\00:32:07.86
You know what,
what's interesting,
00:32:07.89\00:32:09.22
and I'm just going
to be really candid.
00:32:09.26\00:32:11.29
If you're like me,
and I've never had a cat,
00:32:11.33\00:32:18.07
that I was, that
I mourned the loss.
00:32:18.10\00:32:21.84
And I think it's interesting,
00:32:21.87\00:32:26.34
you know, I have family
members that have passed that I,
00:32:26.37\00:32:29.04
I will just again say
that I have not mourned over.
00:32:29.08\00:32:34.45
I think I'm wanting God
00:32:34.48\00:32:36.75
to bring
something so close to me
00:32:36.79\00:32:39.82
that if it's taken away,
00:32:39.85\00:32:42.06
that I will realize
00:32:42.09\00:32:43.43
and this is scary to be praying,
00:32:43.46\00:32:44.79
or just to even be
verbalizing right now.
00:32:44.83\00:32:47.13
And I realized
00:32:47.16\00:32:48.50
this is maybe not
even the time for this.
00:32:48.53\00:32:50.37
But that is powerful.
00:32:50.40\00:32:54.00
Because I think that, again,
00:32:54.04\00:32:55.57
is what intercession
does something again,
00:32:55.60\00:32:59.31
this verse is saying
that through your prayers,
00:32:59.34\00:33:01.84
if there is not
somebody that I'm praying for,
00:33:01.88\00:33:05.48
that is in,
00:33:05.51\00:33:09.82
that if I don't pray for them,
00:33:09.85\00:33:13.32
that, that this, it's,
it's curtains for them.
00:33:13.36\00:33:17.73
It's that it...
00:33:17.76\00:33:19.96
So I'm really convicted by this,
00:33:20.00\00:33:22.56
this whole topic
00:33:22.60\00:33:24.50
because, you
know, I go through life,
00:33:24.53\00:33:27.00
and God is great.
00:33:27.04\00:33:28.37
God is food. Thank you...
00:33:28.40\00:33:29.74
God is good. Thank
you for this food, amen.
00:33:29.77\00:33:32.27
And I know, I
know, there are prayers
00:33:32.31\00:33:34.28
that I pray that are
deeper, but for the most part,
00:33:34.31\00:33:38.05
I think this is
such a serious issue.
00:33:38.08\00:33:42.32
You know, of all the topics
that we have, prayer, I mean,
00:33:42.35\00:33:48.09
this is our connection to God.
00:33:48.12\00:33:50.16
And so I really, I
want God to stir me
00:33:50.19\00:33:56.63
and put some play,
00:33:56.67\00:33:58.80
Lord, lay some
soul upon my heart,
00:33:58.83\00:34:01.27
that I would you
know, and salvation,
00:34:01.30\00:34:03.64
you know, it is one of the,
00:34:03.67\00:34:05.87
is the biggest issue.
00:34:05.91\00:34:07.31
So if you don't have
anything else to pray for,
00:34:07.34\00:34:09.88
I would recommend
that you just, you know,
00:34:09.91\00:34:12.41
begin to pray for
salvation for your family.
00:34:12.45\00:34:15.95
And I know I'm
praying for my sons.
00:34:15.98\00:34:19.09
They are both saved.
00:34:19.12\00:34:20.52
But they, that
God would keep them
00:34:20.56\00:34:23.49
close to Him and make
them great men of God.
00:34:23.53\00:34:27.30
You mentioned, I'm sorry,
that was maybe a little...
00:34:27.33\00:34:30.03
No, that was
good. No actually...
00:34:30.07\00:34:31.73
But I think, I challenge you
as at home if you don't have,
00:34:31.77\00:34:35.84
if you are home
00:34:35.87\00:34:37.47
and don't feel like you
have anyone to pray for,
00:34:37.51\00:34:39.74
if some of you may
still have a phone book.
00:34:39.77\00:34:43.71
I was going to say that.
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.08
Old fashioned concept,
00:34:45.11\00:34:46.45
but what if you called somebody,
00:34:46.48\00:34:49.52
just somebody you
don't even know you
00:34:49.55\00:34:50.89
just start in the As
00:34:50.92\00:34:53.02
and simply ask
them you could tell them
00:34:53.05\00:34:55.26
your first name and say,
00:34:55.29\00:34:57.63
is there anything I
can pray for you about?
00:34:57.66\00:35:00.20
I mean, wouldn't that
kind of blow their mind?
00:35:00.23\00:35:03.97
They may hang up on you.
00:35:04.00\00:35:06.23
Or it may open the great door,
00:35:06.27\00:35:09.44
pray for the Holy
Spirit to even guide you.
00:35:09.47\00:35:11.41
You don't have to be random,
00:35:11.44\00:35:13.21
but pray for the
Spirit to guide you,
00:35:13.24\00:35:15.24
then just reach out.
00:35:15.28\00:35:16.64
Some of us don't want to,
00:35:16.68\00:35:18.01
don't want to intrude
into someone else's life.
00:35:18.05\00:35:20.12
Every once in a while
I'll get a text that will say,
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.68
"Can I pray for
you for something?"
00:35:22.72\00:35:24.05
And then at first, I think,
00:35:24.09\00:35:25.55
well, that's kind
of intrusive of you.
00:35:25.59\00:35:28.76
Are you kidding?
00:35:28.79\00:35:30.33
What a better honor
that someone would say,
00:35:30.36\00:35:33.29
you know, "Can I pray for
you something specifically?"
00:35:33.33\00:35:36.43
Anyway, I'm... That's great.
00:35:36.46\00:35:38.57
That's actually...
00:35:38.60\00:35:39.93
No, I agree.
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.30
I was just going to
say I was thinking, Dee,
00:35:41.34\00:35:42.67
you had referenced before
00:35:42.70\00:35:44.04
as far as what a
difference it makes
00:35:44.07\00:35:45.41
when people pray for
you, people stand in the gap.
00:35:45.44\00:35:49.74
And this is the time
you prayed for me, Dee.
00:35:49.78\00:35:52.08
And it just came to my
mind when you asked that.
00:35:52.11\00:35:54.48
I was just, I've
been thinking about that.
00:35:54.52\00:35:56.18
This was years ago.
00:35:56.22\00:35:58.22
Maybe 10 years, I
don't even remember how long,
00:35:58.25\00:36:00.12
I just remember
00:36:00.16\00:36:01.49
I was going through a hard time.
00:36:01.52\00:36:03.49
And I was discouraged.
00:36:03.53\00:36:05.56
And I remember
waking up at night and God,
00:36:05.59\00:36:09.26
should I even be here,
am I in the right place?
00:36:09.30\00:36:11.63
Should I move?
00:36:11.67\00:36:13.00
Should I...
00:36:13.03\00:36:14.37
Not with Greg and
I but just, you know,
00:36:14.40\00:36:16.17
sometimes you get
discouraged in ministry.
00:36:16.20\00:36:19.14
And you came to me
one day in the office
00:36:19.17\00:36:23.45
and you said,
00:36:23.48\00:36:26.41
"I woke up in the
middle of the night
00:36:26.45\00:36:28.75
and you were so
heavy on my heart."
00:36:28.78\00:36:30.55
I don't know if
you remember that.
00:36:30.59\00:36:31.92
We were in John Dinzey's office,
00:36:31.95\00:36:33.29
I just stepped in there.
00:36:33.32\00:36:34.66
He wasn't there.
00:36:34.69\00:36:36.02
And you stepped in and you said,
00:36:36.06\00:36:37.39
"I woke up in the
middle of the night
00:36:37.43\00:36:39.16
and I couldn't sleep.
00:36:39.19\00:36:41.13
And I knew that
you needed prayer.
00:36:41.16\00:36:43.67
And so I don't know
00:36:43.70\00:36:45.03
what you're going through, Jill,
00:36:45.07\00:36:46.40
but the Lord wants you
to know that He loves you,
00:36:46.43\00:36:49.40
and I'm praying for you."
00:36:49.44\00:36:51.57
And that was a
tipping point in my life,
00:36:51.61\00:36:56.24
and made a difference
for the decisions I made
00:36:56.28\00:36:59.71
in the future.
00:36:59.75\00:37:01.08
So the prayers that we
offer for other people,
00:37:01.12\00:37:04.15
or as you mentioned, Tim,
00:37:04.19\00:37:05.65
when the Holy
Spirit convicts us,
00:37:05.69\00:37:08.82
or puts it on our
heart, pray for someone, do it.
00:37:08.86\00:37:12.99
Don't cast it aside, don't say,
00:37:13.03\00:37:15.50
"Oh, I guess I
don't need to pray
00:37:15.53\00:37:16.87
for this person or
it's not important,"
00:37:16.90\00:37:18.83
but pray for them.
00:37:18.87\00:37:20.94
You know, I think of Psalm 2:8.
00:37:20.97\00:37:23.37
It says, "Ask of me,
00:37:23.41\00:37:25.27
and I will give you the heathen
00:37:25.31\00:37:27.21
for your inheritance,
00:37:27.24\00:37:28.94
and the uttermost
parts of the earth
00:37:28.98\00:37:30.51
for your possession."
00:37:30.55\00:37:31.88
So that to me, in my mind,
00:37:31.91\00:37:33.25
it ties back to
Philippians 1:19.
00:37:33.28\00:37:36.02
By that I mean
00:37:36.05\00:37:37.39
it's that whole
salvation prayer.
00:37:37.42\00:37:39.45
What if we get to the kingdom
and there's someone not there
00:37:39.49\00:37:44.53
because I neglected
to pray for my neighbor,
00:37:44.56\00:37:47.40
or for a co-worker?
00:37:47.43\00:37:49.60
What if I somehow failed
00:37:49.63\00:37:54.14
in praying for someone else?
00:37:54.17\00:37:56.04
To me, that's just,
00:37:56.07\00:37:57.87
what a privilege to
be able to intercede
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.28
for other people
and their salvation!
00:38:01.31\00:38:03.75
So that time I must
not have been ignoring
00:38:03.78\00:38:06.61
the Holy Spirit
00:38:06.65\00:38:07.98
because in Romans
26, or in Romans 8:26.
00:38:08.02\00:38:14.12
It says, "Likewise,
00:38:14.16\00:38:15.56
the spirit also
helps us in our weakness, "
00:38:15.59\00:38:19.19
because I don't wake up
in the middle of night...
00:38:19.23\00:38:21.46
For nobody.
00:38:21.50\00:38:24.30
"For we do not know
00:38:24.33\00:38:25.67
what we should
pray for as we ought
00:38:25.70\00:38:28.34
but the Spirit Himself
makes intercession for us
00:38:28.37\00:38:31.97
with groanings
which cannot be uttered."
00:38:32.01\00:38:34.91
So the Holy Spirit if we want,
00:38:34.94\00:38:37.81
like I say, I'm
not a prayer warrior,
00:38:37.85\00:38:40.55
but the Lord will
still use anyone so...
00:38:40.58\00:38:43.15
By your definition though, Dee.
00:38:43.18\00:38:44.55
By my definition,
but the Holy Spirit laid,
00:38:44.59\00:38:49.02
He says, and I
didn't ignore that.
00:38:49.06\00:38:52.76
See, sometimes we
ignore the Holy Spirit,
00:38:52.79\00:38:55.96
it's, we're
sleepy or we're busy.
00:38:56.00\00:38:59.93
If the Lord wakes me
up in the middle of night,
00:38:59.97\00:39:01.80
I am very cooperative.
00:39:01.84\00:39:04.01
If I am on a
task, I got a mission,
00:39:04.04\00:39:08.28
I've got to get something
done in the middle of the day...
00:39:08.31\00:39:09.71
We know you.
00:39:09.74\00:39:11.28
If the Holy Spirit
tries to interrupt me
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.45
then sometimes even get ignored.
00:39:13.48\00:39:17.62
But I try and
run over in the road.
00:39:17.65\00:39:19.19
We're all like that.
00:39:19.22\00:39:20.56
I've learned to try and I've
00:39:20.59\00:39:25.49
because I've prayed and
asked, Lord, give me awareness.
00:39:25.53\00:39:29.50
Let me, I want to be a person
00:39:29.53\00:39:32.30
that makes a
difference in somebody's life.
00:39:32.33\00:39:34.84
So use me, give me tender words,
00:39:34.87\00:39:37.74
encouragement.
00:39:37.77\00:39:39.31
And that's, I
have several prayers
00:39:39.34\00:39:41.78
marked in my Bible
00:39:41.81\00:39:43.41
that I want to
pray on morning worship
00:39:43.45\00:39:46.72
during the day,
00:39:46.75\00:39:48.08
so that I'm
attuned to the Holy Spirit
00:39:48.12\00:39:50.32
during the day.
00:39:50.35\00:39:51.69
Am I 100 percent successful?
00:39:51.72\00:39:55.46
No one at this
table could say I was...
00:39:55.49\00:39:58.29
Yes.
00:39:58.33\00:40:00.00
None of us are
perfect, Dee, so you're all...
00:40:00.03\00:40:02.10
But also, all of
you would encourage me
00:40:02.13\00:40:04.57
that they've seen changes in me,
00:40:04.60\00:40:06.84
and that comes
from the Holy Spirit,
00:40:06.87\00:40:08.80
that comes from you.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.51
Please, Lord, do
something about Dee.
00:40:10.54\00:40:12.71
I can't imagine
00:40:12.74\00:40:14.08
how many prayers have
gone out from me so...
00:40:14.11\00:40:15.74
For all of us.
00:40:15.78\00:40:18.01
I want to go back
to the story of Job
00:40:18.05\00:40:20.52
because you mentioned Job 42:10
00:40:20.55\00:40:22.82
and I think
that's a powerful story.
00:40:22.85\00:40:24.85
You know, he was going
through a horrendous storm
00:40:24.89\00:40:26.76
in his life when
his children died.
00:40:26.79\00:40:28.49
He lost all of his wealth.
00:40:28.52\00:40:30.73
Pretty much everything was gone.
00:40:30.76\00:40:32.09
Even his wife... His wife, yeah.
00:40:32.13\00:40:34.53
Terrible storms, right?
00:40:34.56\00:40:36.33
So all of us go
through storms in life.
00:40:36.36\00:40:37.70
I mean, all of
us here at the table
00:40:37.73\00:40:39.07
have gone through storms,
00:40:39.10\00:40:40.44
maybe going through a storm now,
00:40:40.47\00:40:41.80
you at home saying same thing.
00:40:41.84\00:40:43.61
And I think
what's powerful about Job
00:40:43.64\00:40:45.01
nowhere that I can see
in the Bible does it say
00:40:45.04\00:40:49.61
and all these people
stood up interceded for Job.
00:40:49.64\00:40:52.18
Nobody.
00:40:52.21\00:40:53.55
So at this point, we don't know
00:40:53.58\00:40:54.92
that anyone is
interceding for Job.
00:40:54.95\00:40:56.99
So here is the
poor man scraping boils
00:40:57.02\00:40:59.02
and there's no one
interceding for him.
00:40:59.05\00:41:00.49
What does he do?
00:41:00.52\00:41:02.49
He intercedes for his friends.
00:41:02.52\00:41:06.33
You talk about hard,
00:41:06.36\00:41:07.70
when I'm going
through the midst of something
00:41:07.73\00:41:09.06
I may not be scraping
boils and lost everything,
00:41:09.10\00:41:11.03
but I'm going
through a storm in life,
00:41:11.07\00:41:13.03
the last thing I'm thinking
of is usually somebody else
00:41:13.07\00:41:14.90
and I need to be
interceding for them.
00:41:14.94\00:41:16.97
And so he
intercedes for his friends.
00:41:17.01\00:41:18.51
That, yes, it's like the story,
the illustration that you gave.
00:41:18.54\00:41:21.51
You were mourning
the loss of your cat,
00:41:21.54\00:41:23.35
God sent you
someone to pray for.
00:41:23.38\00:41:25.08
Well, I think
that's so powerful.
00:41:25.11\00:41:26.45
What a rebuke for me
00:41:26.48\00:41:27.82
because sometimes it's
so easy to think about me,
00:41:27.85\00:41:29.38
myself and I,
00:41:29.42\00:41:30.75
and everything
that I got going on,
00:41:30.79\00:41:32.12
it's like, okay, you
know what, I don't know
00:41:32.15\00:41:33.49
if someone's
interceding for me or not.
00:41:33.52\00:41:34.86
I know that Jesus is.
00:41:34.89\00:41:36.32
But I, you know, sometimes
want that human touch, right?
00:41:36.36\00:41:38.23
You want someone
to come up and say,
00:41:38.26\00:41:39.59
"Tim, Tim, I'm
praying for your, brother."
00:41:39.63\00:41:41.90
Well, Job didn't have
that and yet here he says,
00:41:41.93\00:41:44.60
"You know what,
let me just go ahead
00:41:44.63\00:41:45.97
and pray for my friends."
00:41:46.00\00:41:47.34
And God blessed him for that.
00:41:47.37\00:41:48.70
Tim, you were going to share?
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.07
Well, I was, I was
going to just comment
00:41:50.11\00:41:51.44
the fact that God
really interceded for Job
00:41:51.47\00:41:53.84
back at the
beginning where he was,
00:41:53.88\00:41:55.91
because he was
stepping in, telling Satan.
00:41:55.94\00:41:58.61
You know...
00:41:58.65\00:41:59.98
You can only go so
far. You can go so far.
00:42:00.02\00:42:01.35
And that's it.
I'll take his life.
00:42:01.38\00:42:02.98
So that's an interesting,
a whole other study.
00:42:03.02\00:42:06.25
But yes, you're right.
00:42:06.29\00:42:07.72
He was, he was a spectacle,
00:42:07.76\00:42:10.53
that sounds bad,
but to the universe,
00:42:10.56\00:42:11.89
Job was... Absolutely.
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.26
You know what, you
were just making me
00:42:13.29\00:42:14.63
think that prayer actually
it walls back the darkness,
00:42:14.66\00:42:18.10
it walls back the evil.
00:42:18.13\00:42:20.44
It's like it's lifted.
00:42:20.47\00:42:21.87
You know, for me
going being in pastoral,
00:42:21.90\00:42:25.51
you know, sometimes you feel
like your faith is just waning,
00:42:25.54\00:42:27.31
it goes down, especially
in this COVID environment,
00:42:27.34\00:42:28.91
it's been really kind of like,
00:42:28.94\00:42:30.28
you can't do
what you used to do.
00:42:30.31\00:42:31.65
Like, I used to love
going to prison ministry
00:42:31.68\00:42:33.08
and I can't do it anymore.
00:42:33.11\00:42:34.58
You know, I can't go
out door to doors easy.
00:42:34.62\00:42:36.32
It's just changed and
things shift and it's just,
00:42:36.35\00:42:38.95
you start becoming
00:42:38.99\00:42:40.32
a little depressed
really, it happens.
00:42:40.36\00:42:41.69
So then being able to
intercede for other people,
00:42:41.72\00:42:44.13
it's just really, it's
really boosted my faith.
00:42:44.16\00:42:46.80
It's just changes.
00:42:46.83\00:42:48.16
Like I'm so
encouraged, I get excited
00:42:48.20\00:42:50.13
and hear other people
excited on the phones and like,
00:42:50.17\00:42:51.93
I am going to heaven!
00:42:51.97\00:42:53.30
I had one gentleman,
this amazing, older gentleman.
00:42:53.34\00:42:54.80
He just got so excited.
00:42:54.84\00:42:56.17
He's saying all
this negative stuff
00:42:56.20\00:42:57.61
is keeping battling habits.
00:42:57.64\00:42:59.41
I said, well, I prayed
with him certain prayers.
00:42:59.44\00:43:01.21
I said, "Do you
realize you're a son of God?"
00:43:01.24\00:43:03.35
As soon as I
told him that he said,
00:43:03.38\00:43:04.71
"I am a son of God.
00:43:04.75\00:43:06.08
Hallelujah, hallelujah."
00:43:06.11\00:43:07.95
He got so excited,
00:43:07.98\00:43:09.38
it just turned around
and God just, he breaks down.
00:43:09.42\00:43:12.19
It's just amazing so
I think... It's awesome.
00:43:12.22\00:43:14.19
Greg, something came
to mind when you said
00:43:14.22\00:43:16.16
that no one was praying for Job.
00:43:16.19\00:43:18.16
No one was
interceding that we know of.
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.73
Why was no one praying?
00:43:20.76\00:43:22.96
Why was none of his
friends praying for Job?
00:43:23.00\00:43:26.17
They all thought he had sinned.
00:43:26.20\00:43:29.00
They, in another words...
They were casting judgment.
00:43:29.04\00:43:30.97
They were casting
judgment. That's good, Dee.
00:43:31.01\00:43:33.01
They weren't praying for him
00:43:33.04\00:43:34.48
because they were
not lifting him up
00:43:34.51\00:43:37.28
because they were judging him
00:43:37.31\00:43:38.78
and decided he
didn't deserve prayer.
00:43:38.81\00:43:41.75
Do we do that to other people?
00:43:41.78\00:43:43.49
That's a deep thought.
00:43:43.52\00:43:45.49
Do we judge them
00:43:45.52\00:43:46.86
that they're not
worthy of our prayer?
00:43:46.89\00:43:49.36
Wow, no, that's deep.
00:43:49.39\00:43:51.43
Have we ever
neglected to pray for someone
00:43:51.46\00:43:53.29
because we didn't
think that they were worthy?
00:43:53.33\00:43:55.30
They got what they deserved.
00:43:55.33\00:43:56.67
Exactly. Yes.
00:43:56.70\00:43:58.03
Or because we, well, yes.
00:43:58.07\00:43:59.40
Why would I pray for
something that I don't feel...
00:43:59.43\00:44:02.00
Think about Jonah. Wow.
00:44:02.04\00:44:03.91
Jonah of Nineveh.
00:44:03.94\00:44:05.57
A whole entire...
00:44:05.61\00:44:06.94
And he's judging those
people and God forgave them.
00:44:06.98\00:44:09.51
They were like James and John,
00:44:09.54\00:44:10.88
won't you strike him dead, like,
00:44:10.91\00:44:13.05
what if God did that to you?
00:44:13.08\00:44:14.85
That's a deep thought.
00:44:14.88\00:44:16.22
We could go a
whole hour on that,
00:44:16.25\00:44:17.59
that's a deep thought, you know.
00:44:17.62\00:44:19.69
I mean... Ezekiel...
00:44:19.72\00:44:22.52
Then it must have been a thought
00:44:22.56\00:44:23.89
from the Holy Spirit...
00:44:23.93\00:44:25.26
That's good, Dee.
Let's go to Ezekiel.
00:44:25.29\00:44:26.63
I want to, I don't
know if, how this ties in.
00:44:26.66\00:44:28.00
But it's right now
it's morphing in my brain,
00:44:28.03\00:44:29.96
but Ezekiel 22.
00:44:30.00\00:44:31.63
That's really good, Dee,
00:44:31.67\00:44:33.00
because so often
we either judge people
00:44:33.03\00:44:35.60
or maybe we
don't like the person.
00:44:35.64\00:44:38.87
And we don't want to
pray for them, right?
00:44:38.91\00:44:41.41
Or they have done us
wrong. The Sermon on the Mount.
00:44:41.44\00:44:44.01
What does Jesus say?
00:44:44.05\00:44:45.38
Love your
enemies, pray for them,
00:44:45.41\00:44:47.52
which despitefully
use you and curse you.
00:44:47.55\00:44:51.12
And so, that's the last
thing you want to even do.
00:44:51.15\00:44:53.96
This is Ezekiel 22.
00:44:53.99\00:44:56.16
This goes back to that
whole thing of judgment
00:44:56.19\00:44:58.56
and there was judgment,
of course, on the people.
00:44:58.59\00:45:01.43
The Israelites,
00:45:01.46\00:45:02.80
because they had cast
God out of their mind.
00:45:02.83\00:45:06.40
They had turned
their back on God.
00:45:06.43\00:45:07.90
They had gone to idol worship,
00:45:07.94\00:45:09.27
they had
intermarried with the heathen.
00:45:09.30\00:45:11.21
They had done everything
God had told them not to do.
00:45:11.24\00:45:14.71
And then there's
judgment coming on the land.
00:45:14.74\00:45:18.55
And I don't know.
00:45:18.58\00:45:22.12
This is just Jill speaking here.
00:45:22.15\00:45:23.52
This is not some CA with say,
00:45:23.55\00:45:26.15
ecclesial logical obiter dictum.
00:45:26.19\00:45:30.23
Oh my goodness, say that again.
00:45:30.26\00:45:31.59
That's tongue
twisted. That's a big word.
00:45:31.63\00:45:33.23
So this is just
Jill talking here.
00:45:33.26\00:45:36.80
But we know at the time of Ahab,
00:45:36.83\00:45:41.30
that there were 7,000,
00:45:41.34\00:45:42.67
who had not bowed
the knee to Baal, right?
00:45:42.70\00:45:44.57
This is with
Elijah, Mount Carmel,
00:45:44.61\00:45:46.14
even though Elijah
felt like he was all alone,
00:45:46.17\00:45:47.84
there were still
people in the land
00:45:47.88\00:45:49.74
who had not
bowed the knee to Baal.
00:45:49.78\00:45:52.38
So I don't know at
the time of Ezekiel,
00:45:52.41\00:45:54.38
were there people at that time,
00:45:54.42\00:45:56.65
who could have
stood up and prayed?
00:45:56.69\00:45:58.25
Were there people who have,
could have stood in the gap?
00:45:58.29\00:46:03.19
And yet, God found no one.
00:46:03.22\00:46:06.56
So does that mean, Dee,
what you just mentioned,
00:46:06.59\00:46:08.73
were they judging?
00:46:08.76\00:46:10.10
Were they sitting there saying,
00:46:10.13\00:46:11.47
"Why should I
pray for this people?"
00:46:11.50\00:46:12.83
I sought a man...
00:46:12.87\00:46:14.30
Ezekiel 22:30.
00:46:14.34\00:46:16.47
Go ahead.
00:46:16.50\00:46:17.94
"So I sought
for a man among them
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.11
who would make a wall,
00:46:20.14\00:46:21.48
and stand in the gap
before Me on behalf of the land,
00:46:21.51\00:46:25.71
that I should not
destroy it, but I found no one."
00:46:25.75\00:46:30.92
Wow.
00:46:30.95\00:46:32.45
So if you read before that
you see the priests, verse 26,
00:46:32.49\00:46:35.62
the priests
have violated the law
00:46:35.66\00:46:37.43
on profaned holy things
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.16
and they didn't
keep the Sabbath.
00:46:39.19\00:46:40.86
Verse 28, the
prophets plastered them
00:46:40.90\00:46:43.50
with untempered
mortar, seeing false visions,
00:46:43.53\00:46:45.80
divining lines for them.
00:46:45.83\00:46:47.40
Verse 29,
00:46:47.44\00:46:48.77
the people of the
land used oppression,
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.27
committed robbery,
mistreated, the poor and needy
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.97
and wrongfully
oppressed the stranger.
00:46:53.01\00:46:54.41
So there's all these
sins and oppression going on.
00:46:54.44\00:46:57.05
And God looked for someone
00:46:57.08\00:46:58.41
to stand in the gap and to pray.
00:46:58.45\00:46:59.78
"And because no one prayed,"
00:46:59.81\00:47:01.55
verse 31, He poured
out his indignation on them
00:47:01.58\00:47:05.35
and He consumed them
with a fire of His wrath.
00:47:05.39\00:47:08.12
So there was absolutely no
one left in the land that...
00:47:08.16\00:47:12.13
Who would stand up and pray.
Who would stand up and pray.
00:47:12.16\00:47:14.10
And intercede.
00:47:14.13\00:47:15.46
They had all grieved
the Holy Spirit away.
00:47:15.50\00:47:20.24
Would we want that
to happen to our land?
00:47:20.27\00:47:23.14
And were there people
00:47:23.17\00:47:24.51
who claimed to
be Christians there?
00:47:24.54\00:47:26.04
That was what
I'm thinking, right?
00:47:26.07\00:47:27.51
Did they claim to be Christians?
00:47:27.54\00:47:28.98
And were they
thinking all these people,
00:47:29.01\00:47:31.71
"I don't need to
pray for them," right?
00:47:31.75\00:47:34.38
I don't know. That
just kind of went deep.
00:47:34.42\00:47:35.75
Because now you made me
think about when Jesus says,
00:47:35.78\00:47:37.42
"Depart from me,
I never knew you, "
00:47:37.45\00:47:38.99
that was because you
never prayed for anybody.
00:47:39.02\00:47:40.46
Christian atheists.
00:47:40.49\00:47:41.82
Oh, man.
00:47:41.86\00:47:43.19
Because you
never pray for somebody
00:47:43.22\00:47:44.56
He wanted you to
pray for and He says,
00:47:44.59\00:47:45.93
"I don't know you
00:47:45.96\00:47:47.30
because you
didn't pray for someone."
00:47:47.33\00:47:48.66
That's the relationship
00:47:48.70\00:47:50.03
that Tim was talking
about earlier, right.
00:47:50.07\00:47:51.40
It's got to be back and forth.
00:47:51.43\00:47:52.77
Wow. Wow.
00:47:52.80\00:47:54.14
But I think fast
forward now to Daniel,
00:47:54.17\00:47:55.50
who did stand in the gap.
00:47:55.54\00:47:56.87
You know, Daniel 9, beautiful.
Yes, let's look at that.
00:47:56.91\00:47:59.04
Thank you.
00:47:59.07\00:48:00.41
Something good and positive.
00:48:00.44\00:48:01.94
Daniel 9 and then
also that goes along
00:48:01.98\00:48:03.48
with Nehemiah was very,
00:48:03.51\00:48:04.98
I mean, very similar in prayer.
00:48:05.01\00:48:06.35
Nehemiah 9 and Ezra 9.
00:48:06.38\00:48:07.92
They're all the same. Yes.
00:48:07.95\00:48:09.55
Daniel 9, I just I really
love this prayer, you know.
00:48:09.58\00:48:11.99
I think it was
in verse 5, it says,
00:48:12.02\00:48:13.96
"We have sinned
and committed iniquity,
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.36
and have done wickedly,
00:48:15.39\00:48:16.73
and have
rebelled even by departing
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.49
from Thy precepts
and from Thy judgments.
00:48:18.53\00:48:20.86
Neither have we hearkened
unto Thy servants the prophets,
00:48:20.90\00:48:23.70
which spake in Thy name
to our kings, our princes,
00:48:23.73\00:48:25.57
and our fathers,
00:48:25.60\00:48:26.94
and to all the
people of the land."
00:48:26.97\00:48:28.30
I like this though,
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.67
"O Lord, righteousness
belongeth unto thee,
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.47
but unto us confusion
of faces, as at this day."
00:48:31.51\00:48:35.21
Man, you just, I
mean, just look at this.
00:48:35.24\00:48:36.61
And you see where
our world is today.
00:48:36.64\00:48:39.28
I think about that so
much confusion in the land.
00:48:39.31\00:48:41.32
I mean, all the
stuff that's happening.
00:48:41.35\00:48:43.02
But Daniel was the
man that stood in the gap
00:48:43.05\00:48:45.19
and I love what gave us
a dear man highly favored.
00:48:45.22\00:48:49.02
I mean by the
Lord, beloved, wow.
00:48:49.06\00:48:50.83
And this is a man
whose heart was knit
00:48:50.86\00:48:52.49
but I think when God personally
prayed constantly for people.
00:48:52.53\00:48:56.43
And Daniel's sins did
not cause the captivity.
00:48:56.46\00:48:59.17
That's what's powerful to
me. It's not due to his sins.
00:48:59.20\00:49:03.37
In fact, remember,
00:49:03.41\00:49:04.74
the prince has tried to
find something wrong with him
00:49:04.77\00:49:06.11
and they couldn't.
00:49:06.14\00:49:07.48
So...
00:49:07.51\00:49:08.84
Prayer, they try
to get him on prayer.
00:49:08.88\00:49:10.21
Right.
00:49:10.25\00:49:11.58
So therefore he is identifying
00:49:11.61\00:49:12.98
with the sins of
the people instead of,
00:49:13.01\00:49:14.35
"God be with these people.
00:49:14.38\00:49:15.72
They really need help,"
00:49:15.75\00:49:17.09
he said, "We have
sinned and done wickedly"
00:49:17.12\00:49:19.29
identifying what that...
00:49:19.32\00:49:20.66
Moses did too, didn't he?
00:49:20.69\00:49:22.69
Oh, yeah, humblest,
meekest man on the earth.
00:49:22.72\00:49:25.73
I think that makes us realize
that we got to be humble,
00:49:25.76\00:49:28.93
you know, 1 Peter 5:6
says, "Humble yourselves,
00:49:28.96\00:49:31.80
therefore, under
the mighty hand of God,
00:49:31.83\00:49:33.17
that He may
exalt you in due time."
00:49:33.20\00:49:34.97
So we have to realize that.
00:49:35.00\00:49:36.34
I think being a
prayer warrior makes you,
00:49:36.37\00:49:38.04
humbles you like we
mentioned, you know,
00:49:38.07\00:49:39.41
taking that time
00:49:39.44\00:49:40.78
to really
intercede for somebody,
00:49:40.81\00:49:42.14
even if you don't love
them, that you're showing that,
00:49:42.18\00:49:44.41
that force the Holy
Spirit kind of on you to say,
00:49:44.45\00:49:46.55
"Hey, this person
really needs prayer right now.
00:49:46.58\00:49:48.72
So I think that yes,
00:49:48.75\00:49:50.09
Daniel exhibited
that really well,
00:49:50.12\00:49:52.12
constantly for
praying for people
00:49:52.15\00:49:53.49
and look at how
we got before kings.
00:49:53.52\00:49:54.92
And I mean,
00:49:54.96\00:49:56.52
and what a
powerful prayer warrior.
00:49:56.56\00:49:57.89
And how many times
when we're out in public
00:49:57.93\00:50:00.06
do we get offended
or mistreated at a store
00:50:00.10\00:50:03.53
or a driver or so many,
00:50:03.57\00:50:06.40
and how do we respond to that?
00:50:06.43\00:50:08.80
Do we stop and think that...
00:50:08.84\00:50:10.24
Laying on the horn
shaking my fist and...
00:50:10.27\00:50:12.31
As long as you're
doing just shaking.
00:50:12.34\00:50:13.68
You don't do that.
Or I can't imagine.
00:50:13.71\00:50:17.88
But you see, a
lot of people do that.
00:50:17.91\00:50:19.85
And even in a store,
00:50:19.88\00:50:21.32
when a clerk maybe is
not as patient or whatever,
00:50:21.35\00:50:26.62
what are our thoughts and
how do we respond to that?
00:50:26.65\00:50:29.42
What if we thought,
00:50:29.46\00:50:30.79
well, maybe that
person's mother is dying
00:50:30.83\00:50:33.56
or maybe they
can't feed their children
00:50:33.60\00:50:36.00
or they're worried about
they're going to lose this job.
00:50:36.03\00:50:39.17
Do we stop and think
00:50:39.20\00:50:41.07
what they may be contending with
00:50:41.10\00:50:43.64
and then do we lift
that person up in prayer?
00:50:43.67\00:50:46.37
No?
00:50:49.58\00:50:51.15
Occasionally I have.
00:50:51.18\00:50:53.75
Because this Holy
Spirit got a hold of me
00:50:53.78\00:50:56.02
and I responded properly.
00:50:56.05\00:50:57.85
But a lot of times,
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.75
my lower man rises up
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.66
and I want to get even.
00:51:02.69\00:51:07.06
I want the respect
I should have gotten
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.76
instead of God's Spirit.
00:51:09.80\00:51:13.60
If we, if,
00:51:13.64\00:51:14.97
and this is
something I pray too,
00:51:15.00\00:51:16.34
Lord, let me see
this other person
00:51:16.37\00:51:18.14
as you see them.
00:51:18.17\00:51:19.51
Amen.
00:51:19.54\00:51:20.88
That helps me look at somebody
00:51:20.91\00:51:23.11
the way I want
God to look at me.
00:51:23.14\00:51:25.78
Also, it's like, Lord,
00:51:25.81\00:51:27.85
let me see them as you see them.
00:51:27.88\00:51:29.85
And let me give
them grace and mercy
00:51:29.88\00:51:33.19
that You give to me daily.
00:51:33.22\00:51:35.52
I want to do something
here just a little bit different
00:51:35.56\00:51:36.93
because normally at
the end of our worships
00:51:36.96\00:51:38.29
we like to do a little prayer
and I still want to do that.
00:51:38.33\00:51:40.53
But maybe let's do,
00:51:40.56\00:51:41.90
can we do like
maybe a 20 second,
00:51:41.93\00:51:43.26
like to someone at home,
00:51:43.30\00:51:44.77
to encourage them
in intercessory prayer?
00:51:44.80\00:51:46.30
Just go around the circle here,
00:51:46.33\00:51:47.70
maybe the three of you starting,
00:51:47.74\00:51:49.07
Don, you want to start
first? Let's go down to Dee.
00:51:49.10\00:51:51.14
So what would you
say to someone at home?
00:51:51.17\00:51:53.94
Personally, what I
would say to you is,
00:51:53.98\00:51:57.95
knowing who you
are, and whose you are,
00:51:57.98\00:51:59.35
that's what always
keeps coming to my mind
00:51:59.38\00:52:00.92
when I have a lot of
people on pastoral call,
00:52:00.95\00:52:02.98
a lot of people
don't know who they are.
00:52:03.02\00:52:05.09
And when you realize
that you are a child of God,
00:52:05.12\00:52:08.82
that really changes thing.
00:52:08.86\00:52:10.19
It's a game changer.
00:52:10.23\00:52:11.86
Really big game changer.
00:52:11.89\00:52:13.23
I could go on a
lot big story on that.
00:52:13.26\00:52:14.60
But just the fact of knowing
who you are and whose you are,
00:52:14.63\00:52:16.46
and the only way
you're going to know
00:52:16.50\00:52:17.83
who you are and whose
you are, of course by prayer,
00:52:17.87\00:52:19.37
but also by reading God's Word
00:52:19.40\00:52:21.00
and let the Word
say to you who you are.
00:52:21.04\00:52:22.80
And you're going to start,
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.17
you're going to
start finding people coming
00:52:24.21\00:52:25.54
asking for prayer.
00:52:25.57\00:52:26.91
They're going to
know who you are.
00:52:26.94\00:52:28.28
They're going to see you
so just know who you are,
00:52:28.31\00:52:29.64
whose you are,
00:52:29.68\00:52:31.01
and just take God's promises
00:52:31.05\00:52:32.38
and just put them in your heart.
00:52:32.41\00:52:33.75
Thank you. And pray.
00:52:33.78\00:52:35.12
Excellent. Yes, Tim.
00:52:35.15\00:52:36.48
I would say one of
my favorite songs says,
00:52:36.52\00:52:40.56
"O what peace we often forfeit,
00:52:40.59\00:52:42.62
O what needless pain we bear all
00:52:42.66\00:52:44.36
because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer."
00:52:44.39\00:52:47.36
That's it.
00:52:47.40\00:52:48.73
Don't think that it has to be
00:52:48.76\00:52:50.63
some grand world changing event.
00:52:50.67\00:52:54.34
If it, if it changes your world,
00:52:54.37\00:52:56.60
if it changes
someone's world close by you,
00:52:56.64\00:52:59.21
that's, that can be
00:52:59.24\00:53:01.01
how big your prayer needs to be.
00:53:01.04\00:53:02.94
That you're changing the world,
00:53:02.98\00:53:04.31
the peace that
that you can bring
00:53:04.35\00:53:06.25
into someone else's life
00:53:06.28\00:53:07.62
just by bringing it to the Lord.
00:53:07.65\00:53:09.25
Amen. Tim, thank you.
00:53:09.28\00:53:10.62
Dee.
00:53:10.65\00:53:11.99
Just starting a
conversation with God,
00:53:12.02\00:53:14.12
taking time to speak
to Him in positive things.
00:53:14.16\00:53:18.36
When Satan tries to
take bad thoughts into you
00:53:18.39\00:53:22.60
where you don't
know who you are,
00:53:22.63\00:53:23.97
and you don't accept His love,
00:53:24.00\00:53:25.63
start actually
speaking out loud.
00:53:25.67\00:53:28.74
Thank You, Lord,
that I am Your daughter.
00:53:28.77\00:53:31.51
Thank You, Lord, I am Your son.
00:53:31.54\00:53:33.91
Thank You,
Father, that You love me.
00:53:33.94\00:53:35.94
Speak into your own
life the positive things
00:53:35.98\00:53:38.65
that God gave you
00:53:38.68\00:53:40.02
and then share
them out with others
00:53:40.05\00:53:41.72
you want to lift them up.
00:53:41.75\00:53:43.08
Let's go to Lord in prayer.
00:53:43.12\00:53:44.45
Dee, let's start with you
00:53:44.49\00:53:45.82
and we'll go around in a circle.
00:53:45.85\00:53:47.19
Thank you.
00:53:47.22\00:53:48.56
Our dear Heavenly Father,
00:53:48.59\00:53:49.92
the most thing that
we are so grateful for
00:53:49.96\00:53:51.29
is that You do intercede for
us and that You are our pattern,
00:53:51.33\00:53:54.80
the one we look up to, the
one we look to, to do this.
00:53:54.83\00:53:58.87
And, Father, help us become
00:53:58.90\00:54:01.10
more aware of
interceding for others.
00:54:01.14\00:54:04.61
Father, the best
way to lift ourselves up
00:54:04.64\00:54:07.28
is to lift up others.
00:54:07.31\00:54:08.84
It will change our lives.
00:54:08.88\00:54:10.65
So, Father, help
each of us reach out,
00:54:10.68\00:54:13.65
pray for one another.
00:54:13.68\00:54:15.25
Amen.
00:54:15.28\00:54:16.62
Lord, I pray
that You would move me
00:54:16.65\00:54:19.59
with the things that move You.
00:54:19.62\00:54:22.32
I ask God that You will help me
to put aside my busy schedule,
00:54:22.36\00:54:26.63
Lord, we are all swamped.
00:54:26.66\00:54:28.36
We're all
overwhelmed with duties
00:54:28.40\00:54:31.07
and responsibilities that,
00:54:31.10\00:54:32.80
with our jobs,
our families, God,
00:54:32.83\00:54:35.70
nothing is more
important than what You,
00:54:35.74\00:54:41.08
what You want for us
and what You want us to be,
00:54:41.11\00:54:44.21
how You want us to be
involved in this world changing,
00:54:44.25\00:54:47.12
changing each
other's lives through prayer.
00:54:47.15\00:54:49.98
So I pray that you will
help me to put aside my agenda
00:54:50.02\00:54:52.55
and may Your
agenda rule my life.
00:54:52.59\00:54:55.49
Thank You, Father,
for the answered prayers.
00:54:55.52\00:54:57.46
Amen.
00:54:57.49\00:54:58.83
Heavenly Father, we
just want to thank You
00:54:58.86\00:55:00.26
that You are our Father,
00:55:00.30\00:55:02.33
the Father of
the entire universe.
00:55:02.36\00:55:04.53
Lord, I just think
what Ellen White wrote
00:55:04.57\00:55:05.93
in 'Steps to
Christ' about prayer.
00:55:05.97\00:55:07.64
She said, "Prayer
doesn't bring God down to us
00:55:07.67\00:55:09.74
but brings us up to You."
00:55:09.77\00:55:11.11
That's right. Amen.
00:55:11.14\00:55:12.74
I think again of
Psalm 46:10 it says,
00:55:12.77\00:55:14.48
"To be still and
know that you're God."
00:55:14.51\00:55:16.21
So, Lord, there are
many people out there today,
00:55:16.24\00:55:17.95
I've heard 'em on
prayer lines that are,
00:55:17.98\00:55:19.85
with this whole
COVID environment,
00:55:19.88\00:55:21.22
they're home alone right now.
00:55:21.25\00:55:22.58
They feel so isolated, Lord,
00:55:22.62\00:55:23.95
and the enemy's trying to cast
00:55:23.99\00:55:25.32
that dark cloud above
00:55:25.35\00:55:26.69
and I pray You lift
that dark cloud, Lord.
00:55:26.72\00:55:28.06
May You send somebody
to pray on their behalf.
00:55:28.09\00:55:30.59
Maybe somebody calls
00:55:30.63\00:55:31.96
and maybe somebody
knocks at the door,
00:55:31.99\00:55:33.33
or maybe I don't
know, Lord, how it works
00:55:33.36\00:55:34.70
but just as you
touch those, Lord,
00:55:34.73\00:55:36.40
who feel like they're forsaken,
00:55:36.43\00:55:37.77
because Your Word
says You never leave us
00:55:37.80\00:55:39.13
nor forsake us.
00:55:39.17\00:55:40.50
Lord, I just ask You to
touch those individuals today,
00:55:40.54\00:55:42.37
touch those that are struggling
00:55:42.40\00:55:43.74
to have a
relationship with You, Lord,
00:55:43.77\00:55:45.11
that they realize that
this is a communication
00:55:45.14\00:55:47.44
between us and
the universe even.
00:55:47.48\00:55:49.88
And that, Lord, one day angels
00:55:49.91\00:55:51.45
will be able to
stand before them
00:55:51.48\00:55:52.81
and the entire universe.
00:55:52.85\00:55:54.35
And they're
going to want to know
00:55:54.38\00:55:55.72
what it was like
to be on this earth,
00:55:55.75\00:55:57.09
and that we had an
opportunity to pray.
00:55:57.12\00:55:58.89
And, God, You are
our Father and Jesus,
00:55:58.92\00:56:00.62
You are our advocate.
00:56:00.66\00:56:01.99
And we just thank You
for what you're doing.
00:56:02.02\00:56:03.36
And that You did
pour out Your blood
00:56:03.39\00:56:04.79
on each and every one of
us who call upon Your name,
00:56:04.83\00:56:06.76
and that we can as
You are interceding
00:56:06.80\00:56:08.93
on our behalf before the Father,
00:56:08.96\00:56:10.30
we can lift up prayers.
00:56:10.33\00:56:11.67
And thank You,
Lord, that the Holy Spirit
00:56:11.70\00:56:13.23
as we talk about in Romans 8:26.
00:56:13.27\00:56:15.00
"He intercedes on our behalf,
00:56:15.04\00:56:16.37
we don't even know how to pray."
00:56:16.40\00:56:17.74
So, Lord, You've made
this all available for us.
00:56:17.77\00:56:19.67
We just got to seek
You. We thank You, Lord.
00:56:19.71\00:56:21.81
We ask this in Jesus name, amen.
00:56:21.84\00:56:24.31
God, thank You
for Your presence.
00:56:24.35\00:56:27.02
Thank You for Your spirit.
00:56:27.05\00:56:28.75
Thank You for the blood of Jesus
00:56:28.78\00:56:30.69
that cleanses us from all sin.
00:56:30.72\00:56:33.22
Thank You for
the privilege we have
00:56:33.25\00:56:34.76
of coming into Your presence
00:56:34.79\00:56:36.36
and just presenting
what's on our heart.
00:56:36.39\00:56:38.89
And we do that just now
asking in the name of Jesus,
00:56:38.93\00:56:42.10
that You would be with
our brothers and sisters
00:56:42.13\00:56:44.17
who are watching and listening
00:56:44.20\00:56:45.57
that You would hear and
answer in Jesus name, amen.
00:56:45.60\00:56:49.70
Father in Heaven, Lord,
00:56:49.74\00:56:51.07
as we've talked here in worship
00:56:51.11\00:56:52.44
and studied Your
word and opened Your word,
00:56:52.47\00:56:54.81
Lord, I'm just convicted, again,
00:56:54.84\00:56:56.78
that I need to take
time to communicate with You
00:56:56.81\00:57:01.35
but not only that, to do that,
00:57:01.38\00:57:04.19
for other people to intercede
for them in their behalf.
00:57:04.22\00:57:08.22
So, Father, yes, we have
a lot that we have going on.
00:57:08.26\00:57:10.39
But Lord, I just pray
that I would be reminded
00:57:10.43\00:57:13.33
throughout the day,
00:57:13.36\00:57:14.70
to intercede for my
brothers and sisters.
00:57:14.73\00:57:16.40
Thank You for this time.
00:57:16.43\00:57:17.77
Thank You for Your
Sabbath, in Jesus name we pray.
00:57:17.80\00:57:20.47
Amen. Amen.
00:57:20.50\00:57:22.07
Can't believe
our time is all gone.
00:57:22.10\00:57:23.57
Thank you, Dee. Thank you, Tim.
00:57:23.61\00:57:25.44
Thank you,
Donald. Been a blessing.
00:57:25.47\00:57:27.08
Thank you for joining us.
00:57:27.11\00:57:28.44
Know that we love you
and that we pray for you.
00:57:28.48\00:57:30.95
We intercede for
you. That's right.
00:57:30.98\00:57:32.31
Amen.
00:57:32.35\00:57:33.68
God bless you, keep
you, till we see you again.
00:57:33.72\00:57:35.22