Hello and welcome
to The Missing Peace.
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My name is Jason Bradley
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and our primary
host for this program is
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Dr. Nadine Joseph-Collins.
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Dr. Nadine hails from
the island of Saint Lucia.
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She's passionate about prayer
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and has been
empowering the prayer lives
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of people around the world.
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Dr. Nadine is an
Author, Speaker and an affiliate
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of Sanare Life Ministries
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where she works alongside
her husband, Nyse Collins.
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Dr. Nadine is going to
make our prayer lives go, "Wow!"
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But before she does that,
let's have a word of prayer.
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"Dear Heavenly Father,
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we ask for your presence,
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we ask for the
presence of the Holy Spirit
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to guide our conversation
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so that you may receive
all the honor and the glory.
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We ask that you would please
strengthen our prayer lives
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and the prayer
lives of our Viewers.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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"Amen... amen. "
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So, we've been
covering exciting topics...
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what are we going to
be talking about today?
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Today, we're going
to be talking about
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persistence in praying
or Persistent Praying...
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Okay.
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Because the
Webster's Dictionary...
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I use dictionaries online a lot
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you know, long ago we would have
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all of these dictionaries there,
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now I just use the
ones on Google and stuff
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so the Merriam
Webster's Dictionary online
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defines "persistence" as a
quality that allows someone
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to continue doing something
or trying to do something
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even though it is difficult
or opposed by other people.
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Now, interestingly
there's a definition there
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for students as well...
as it relates to students...
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that definition is that:
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it's the act or fact
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of stubbornly
continuing to do something.
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Wait, say that one again.
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The act or fact of stubbornly
continuing to do something.
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Okay.
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So they refer to
that as "persistence"
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so you do the same thing
over and over and over again.
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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So, that's really
what persistence is about.
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It requires patience though
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because just
imagine doing the same thing
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over and over and over again.
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Long ago, you'd
hear people say, "If... "
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I still hear it sometimes...
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if you do something
the same way all the time
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and you get the same
results, you shouldn't do it,
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however, when we
look at that explanation,
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that's really practice...
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Doing something over
and over and over again.
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I think, the other thing you
were just saying a minute ago
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is like the
definition of insanity
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where you do the same thing
over and over and over again
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and expect different results.
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Yes... and that's
what people actually say
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but when we look
at it on a deep level,
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it's really, really practicing
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because many people who are now
popular for certain inventions
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would have done the same thing
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over and over and
over and over again...
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failing that it...
over and over and over again
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until they got the result
that they were looking for
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experiments... and so
on... scientists and so on
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now, in our prayer life, we're
talking about being persistent,
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being stubborn
about something...
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talking about
praying about something
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that other people
are even opposed to
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because they don't
see it the way you see it.
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Hmmm...
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You see, that's what
the definition is saying,
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it's trying to do something
even though it's difficult
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or opposed by other people
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so, we're looking
at our prayer life
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and that act of stubborn praying
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so it requires
patience and relentless pursuit.
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Yes.
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A lot of times, sometimes,
when a guy is dating a girl
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they'd be like... "Oh,
he's so persistent... "
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because
sometimes he would come...
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and it doesn't matter
how many times you say
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you're not interested,
he still keeps coming...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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You know... and so we
look at it as persistence
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and the
definition is saying that
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and to be persistent, you
have to have a steadfast mind,
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you must be well-grounded
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because for you to be
able to keep getting rejected
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about something
and going back...
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like going after that
girl to date her every time
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and getting rejection and
sometimes you hear the stories
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eventually they got married...
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so we see the
persistence paying off.
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Yes.
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And so we see persistence here
requiring that kind of patience
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and I'm not a
parent and neither are you
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but we've heard stories of
parents talking about their kids
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they come and ask for something
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and probably the
parent is saying, "No"
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and that child
will ask and ask and ask
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until... either they
embarrass their parents
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if they're in public
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or maybe they
throw a temper tantrum
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or something happens
and the parent is like,
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"You know what? I'm
tired... here have it. "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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that also is persistence
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though they're
testing the parents though
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but it's persistence
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because they're going
after that thing stubbornly
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even though the parent is
opposing giving it to them
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at the time... and
so, I remember as a kid
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asking my dad for something
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but every other time we
have a conversation on the phone
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guess what I'd be doing?
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What?
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Reminding him of the
thing that I asked for before
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you know, that kind of a thing
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and to the extent that sometimes
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like, when I would be
in the same place with him,
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if I would have, let's say,
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asked him to go
somewhere with my friends,
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I would not go
back and ask again...
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I used to just walk around him
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so every time I walk
around him a few times...
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he'd be like,
"Okay, go ahead Anna... "
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You know, that kind of a thing,
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I'm sure you have stories
of you asking your parents
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for something.
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Oh yeah... I was
taking piano lessons...
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my mom had me in piano lessons
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and they were
just teaching us like,
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"Row, row, row your boat... "
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I wanted to
learn some real songs
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so I asked her to let me quit,
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she would not let me
quit so I was persistent
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in trying to get
her to let me quit
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and finally,
after I wore her down...
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after so many times of saying,
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"Mom, I hate this, let me quit,
let me quit, let me quit... "
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she finally let me quit
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and she said, "You're going to
regret this when you get older"
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and she was right, because I
regret quitting piano lessons.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Well, it's not too
late... you're here...
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they say, "Where
there's life there's hope. "
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That's true.
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And you still have youth
on your side so that's okay.
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You know, but
persistence in prayer
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can be something
that can draw you out
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or it could even be embarrassing
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because if we look at
the definition of persistence
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where you know you're
doing something relentlessly,
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you're doing
something stubbornly...
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other people are opposed to it
because probably they're saying,
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"You're praying
about that thing so long...
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and nothing is happening... "
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you remember, when
Noah was preparing for
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the flood... when
he was building the ark
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and he looked like
a fool to everybody
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they'd be like,
"What are you doing?"
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And he keeps saying,
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"There's going to be rain,
there's going to be rain... "
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and he was sure about it...
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he was persistent
about that belief that he had
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but he was made a fool
of because people thought,
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"This was a mad man... "
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and so, sometimes
in our prayer lives,
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there are things
that we are praying about
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because God has
placed it in our heart
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but when people look at
us in the waiting process,
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they think that we are fools,
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you see.
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Yeah, that's why we
also don't need to disclose
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our dreams... our visions
or anything like that to people
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because sometimes,
they have their own...
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because they can't
see themselves doing it,
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they don't want
to see you doing it
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or they want to
crush your dream,
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that's why we take it to God...
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God can open a door
that no man can close.
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And the thing is, maybe we
also need to surround ourselves
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with people who believe like us
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because sometimes, when
you have these people around
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who believe with
you and pray with you,
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your dream can be realized
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so we just need to be mindful
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of the people that
we have in our lives...
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the people that we
share our dreams with
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you know, that kind of a thing
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and one stories that
really highlights this
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kind of persistent situation
when it comes our prayer life
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is in Luke 11.
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And so we pull that there
where we see the model of prayer
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or how prayer was modeled
from a parable that Jesus told
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when He was
speaking to His disciples
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so, He really wanted them
to get that mental picture
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and when I read this story
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I begin to visualize
and imagine in my mind...
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I begin to make
scripts and movies in my mind
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just seeing the picture of
what Jesus is describing here.
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He says... in the
middle of the night...
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a friend goes and knocks on
the door of another friend...
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Hmmm... Hmmm...
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He didn't just
knock on the door,
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let's just use
our imaginations now,
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according to the Pastor...
the sanctified imagination...
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so he went banging on the door.
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Jason: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Nadine: You like your sleep.
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Jason: Absolutely.
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Nadine: So you could
imaging somebody coming...
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knocking on
your door at midnight
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or any time after that
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and you didn't expect
them, how would you feel?
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I'd be frustrated...
depending on the situation...
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Depending on the situation...
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so, I remember a time
while canvassing in Canada
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we would go and
knock on people's doors
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and, of course,
sometimes during the summer,
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the sun sets very
late, after 9... almost 10...
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and we would go and
knock on these people's doors
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and sometimes, these
parents would come to the door
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and let us know,
"Hey, my kids are sleeping
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and you just rang the bell... "
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and just bang
that door in your face,
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because we were
knocking on their doors
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at a time that wasn't
convenient for them...
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if we had gone
earlier in the day
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they would have been different,
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now, here is this friend
going to his friend's house
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after midnight... thereabout...
knocking on the door
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not because he was in need
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but because a visitor came to
his house that night unexpected
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and he had no food
to give the visitor
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and the visitor was hungry
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so, this friend
continues to knock
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and I could almost
imagine being at the bottom...
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they may be knocking...
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thinking of the
houses that were built
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long ago, and I remember the
ones in Greece where they have
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they're really on the
top there and you can see...
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and this guy kept
knocking and knocking
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and his friend is looking
down eventually, maybe...
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after the wife maybe says,
"You know, somebody's there
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and it sounds
like our neighbor... "
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we don't know what
the relationship was like
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with the wife and the
neighbor but we know that
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for him to have gone to
knock on that man's door,
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he will... at
that hour of the night
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and to ask for
food for a stranger,
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it means that they may
have been pretty good friends
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or something, you know,
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and he probably knew that
the person's pantry had food
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maybe he would have been blessed
from the food before, who knows,
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but the thing
is, he went knocking
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and knocking and
knocking and the host now...
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which is the friend
who goes to knock...
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he didn't think,
"Hey, you know what?
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I know you're really
hungry, I don't have any food...
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but can we just
wait for the morning,
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I'll try to get you
something in the morning,
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he bypassed all
sorts of rationale
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in his attempt to want
to please his guest so much
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and give them food... that
he went did that to his friend.
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Now the friend may
have been in bed sleeping...
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the wife... you could imagine...
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maybe the wife had a
baby a few months ago,
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"Hey, my wife is sleeping...
the baby is sleeping... "
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and so on... but
he kept on knocking
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until the friend
finally got frustrated enough
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to open that door
and give him some food.
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Now, the thing about it is that
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this guy kept knocking on
somebody's door for food...
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not for himself...
but for somebody else...
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and so, when we're
thinking about our prayer life,
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we are thinking about the
whole issue of intercession
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and so on...
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but one of the things I
could imagine happening there
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is the friend saying to him,
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"Hey, can't you wait
for tomorrow morning?"
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I mean, my door
is already locked...
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I can't open it
now... " and so on
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and he may be
saying, "No, no, no...
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somebody is there...
they need to eat now. "
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But he is doing all of
that on behalf of somebody else,
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you know, the
friend may have explained
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all kinds of things to him
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but the problem highlights
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what Christ was trying
to teach the disciples...
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is that there is
beauty and there is a reward
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when we are
persistent in praying
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because he gave all that story
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and, of course, we can
create the image in our mind
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but the whole point was,
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"Hey, you need to be
persistent in praying... "
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he said... even if that friend
did not want to open that door,
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because
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his friend was so persistent
in knocking on the door,
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he had no choice
but to open that door...
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he felt
compelled to open that door
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so that he could give
the food to his friend
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for the visitor
who had just come
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and so, Luke 11:8 says, "I
tell you this... though... "
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that's what Jesus
said to the disciples,
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"though he won't do it
for the friendship's sake,
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if you keep
knocking long enough,
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he will get up and
give you whatever you need
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because of your
shameless persistence. "
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That's the New
Living Translation...
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you see, and so he probably
didn't do it for the friendship,
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he probably did it for peace
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because you want
to go back to sleep.
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That's like the
child nagging the parent...
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just so you could keep
quiet, they will give it to you
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so you can just
go back to playing,
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you know, that kind
of persistence there
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and it reminds me a
little bit of Hannah
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because Hannah was purposeful
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and also
persistent in her prayer
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when we spoke about
her purposeful praying.
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You know, she was
also persistent...
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she didn't stop when she
asked God for that child,
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she kept on praying
with purpose persistently
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until God answered her
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and so, the
history of intercession
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highlighted in this
parable is also important
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you see, in that
parable of Luke 11:5 to 8
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because interceding
for others is a big part
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of our own prayer experience.
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A lot of times we think it's
just about praying for ourselves
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praying for our families,
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praying for our
loved ones and so on
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but prayer... a big
part of growing in prayer...
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a big part of being able to
develop that spiritual muscle
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the spiritual of
muscles of praying
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is really when you take
time to pray for other people
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and that is what this
parable actually demonstrates...
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praying for somebody
else, pushing for somebody else,
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knocking for somebody else
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as if you're
doing it for yourself
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and that's what this friend did,
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he did it as if
his life depended on it
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or his family's
life depended on it...
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when really... he
was really knocking for
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a stranger who came unannounced
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and so we really need to
look at that story, you see,
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there are many of us who
will not take time to do that,
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like, when was the last time
we actually prayed for somebody
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so much... as if our
own life depended on it?
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We prayed for somebody's healing
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from a sickness or disease
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as if it was our
own body that was sick,
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when was the last time we prayed
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for somebody who had
financial difficulties
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as if our bank
account was in the red?
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When was the last time we prayed
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for the children of our
neighbors or our friends
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anybody's children...
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as if it was our own
children who were wayward?
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And so, that's the
kind of intercessory prayer
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we see happening
here, bold prayers...
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because the actions of that guy
to knock on his neighbor's door
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at that hour of the
night for a stranger
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to that person...
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his unannounced
visitor was bold... you see,
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it would have
even caused problems
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with their
friendship the following day
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because somebody
might get really mad...
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"Hey, you
disturbed my sleep... "
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you know, that kind of a thing
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so, we need to
look at this parable
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that God has really brought to
light there with the disciples
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and see how it can help us in
persisting in our prayer life,
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not just for us, but for others
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because persistent
praying is unselfish praying
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and that's what this
parable highlights there.
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It's like, "I
want God to respond
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even though it's not for me"
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and I remember
one of my friends...
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she got... she
lost eight babies...
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some... she lost
them in stillbirth,
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others of them, they
were born and so on...
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but she eight babies
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and I remember when she
was pregnant the ninth time,
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about nine of us in our
ministry got together...
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we all have different ministries
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but once in a while we
would get together to pray
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but this time, we got
together to pray for her
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because she was still
having some complications
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with that baby,
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and that night, I remember
one of our friends praying
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and he cried when he
prayed and he said to God...
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these are nine of us here with
nine different ministries...
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"If you do not
answer this prayer...
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if this child
does not come to life,
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nine of us would be
discouraged in our ministries...
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and all of these people that we
have to influence and impact...
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because of this baby dying... "
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so we all agreed in prayer that,
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"Hey, Lord, you have to
bring this baby to term...
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we're tired of death...
our friend is not a cemetery,
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we're tired of seeing death... "
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and so, we really petitioned God
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and, you know, tears
flowing and everything...
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and God was so good... that we
were able to see that baby born,
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we were able to dedicate
him and now he is growing strong
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and sometimes I say to
him, "You're too strong... "
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because when he was in the
womb I remember Roger praying
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that God would make him
strong... he's very strong...
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you see, because
the thing about it is
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that we are all
connected to a common mission
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we all had the same
purpose and we are persistent
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that that baby
must be brought to term
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and E.M. Bounds says...
or encourages us to ask...
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he said, "But to 'asking'
we must add 'seeking... '"
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and you know,
when you're seeking...
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that means, you are
trying to find something
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somebody says, "I'm
looking for a job...
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I'm seeking employment"
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it means, you are
relentless about it,
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you are very
deliberate, you are pursuant...
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you're going and you're going
and you're going... looking...
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he said, "So in addition
to asking, we need to seek...
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and in addition to seeking,
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we must pass into the
full-force effort of knocking. "
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So, that's what
happened with this guy,
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he went to his friend, of
course, seeking his friend,
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but in our own experiences...
and then he was knocking...
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so he says, "Don't just
ask, you need to begin to seek
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and then you have to
be full-force knocking...
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you need to knock... "
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and that's what
we did, we knocked...
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so we had spent
scores of prayer sessions...
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lifting them up
and that Friday night
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when we prayed...
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I believe that Friday
night God really heard us
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because tears...
people cried to God as if
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that child depended
on their own marriage...
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that child depended upon...
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their own ability to
continue to trust God...
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that God could
deliver... and stuff like that
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and I remember, on
my Facebook Group...
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I have a Facebook Group
called: The Prayer Chamber 7:14
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like, Chapter 7 verse 14...
but: The Prayer Chamber 7:14
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and one young lady
put a question there to us
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because there we're
only posting about prayer...
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either prayer requests...
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praise reports of
answered prayer...
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names about prayer...
thoughts about prayer...
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and one young lady
put a question there...
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she asked us, "What do you
do when you pray for others
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and God answers them
but He doesn't answer you?"
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So, we said to
her, "You know what?
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You keep on praying...
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as hard as it might be,
you need to keep on praying
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because I think that if
you're praying for others
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and God is
answering their prayers...
00:19:15.68\00:19:17.02
it means your
answers are coming too. "
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It means God is in the
neighborhood answering prayers
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and you need to
be persistent... "
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so she got a lot
of encouragement...
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"Keep praying...
when we pray for others
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God also has
answered our prayers... "
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and I think, part of that
is that God wants to see how...
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first of all...
relentless we are...
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how much we are
willing to, you know,
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persist in praying
for other people...
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and how genuine are we in
continuing to pray for others
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when we ourselves are not
getting answers to our prayers.
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I remember, I
prayed for a friend of mine
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sometime last year,
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we had a
powerful prayer session,
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the day we prayed...
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she texted me the following day
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and said... that same
day about two hours later,
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she got a call for
this big opportunity...
00:20:01.13\00:20:03.57
it was not a day later
another big opportunity came
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and I was there
and I said to Him,
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.20
"I'm so happy you're
answering our prayers,
00:20:08.24\00:20:09.70
I'm waiting for
my answers too... "
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.64
because it gave me encouragement
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.61
"because if we
prayed there together
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and we brought up
these requests to You,
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we ask You for Your guidance
and Your leading and direction
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You are opening
these doors for her,
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that means You have some
doors to open for me too,
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I'm waiting... "
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I was waiting...
expecting something from Him
00:20:25.42\00:20:27.59
because He was
answering my friend's prayers
00:20:27.62\00:20:30.03
so, many times we get
discouraged praying for people,
00:20:30.06\00:20:32.73
because He's answering
their prayers and not ours
00:20:32.76\00:20:35.40
but that should
really keep us encouraged.
00:20:35.46\00:20:37.20
That's true, especially because
He is answering our prayers
00:20:37.23\00:20:40.04
by answering their prayers...
00:20:40.07\00:20:41.70
if we're
praying for other people
00:20:41.74\00:20:43.17
and we're seeing Him
work in their lives...
00:20:43.20\00:20:45.44
He's answering our prayers.
00:20:45.47\00:20:46.88
Yes, and that's why
it's a test of character...
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you see, the blessings
that God has for you...
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they're not contingent upon
the blessing that He has for me
00:20:51.01\00:20:54.68
or anybody else,
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.05
so sometimes we
get a little confused
00:20:56.08\00:20:58.19
because we think...
"Oh, He's blessing them...
00:20:58.22\00:21:00.52
He's answering their prayers...
He's not answering mine
00:21:00.56\00:21:02.16
but what we don't realize
00:21:02.19\00:21:03.53
is that, whatever
God is doing for them
00:21:03.56\00:21:05.59
does not prevent God from
doing what He has to do for you
00:21:05.63\00:21:08.56
because the truth
of the matter is...
00:21:08.60\00:21:10.97
where these blessings come
from, there is so much more.
00:21:11.00\00:21:13.47
We say that, "there's so much
more where that came from... "
00:21:13.54\00:21:16.50
so, that's why we
don't even need to waste time
00:21:16.54\00:21:19.04
being jealous of
people's blessings
00:21:19.07\00:21:20.64
because according to
00:21:20.68\00:21:23.04
how we interpret the Word of God
00:21:23.08\00:21:25.51
and the blessings that He
has in store for all of us,
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is that there are blessings
that just have our names on it,
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nobody can take the
blessing that God has for you
00:21:30.62\00:21:33.66
and the blessings
that God has for you
00:21:33.69\00:21:35.89
will not prevent Him
from blessing His other child
00:21:35.92\00:21:38.56
or prevent Him from
blessing anybody else
00:21:38.59\00:21:40.70
because He has so much more
00:21:40.76\00:21:43.57
where all of these
blessings came from
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.13
that we need to begin
to rejoice with others
00:21:45.17\00:21:47.64
when God actually
answers their prayers
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.24
versus being upset and
so we need to be diligent...
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Absolutely.
00:21:53.04\00:21:54.38
I remember one of
my friends, Gloria,
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she's an older
friend of mine... a mentor
00:21:57.08\00:21:59.65
and for a long time, like...
00:21:59.71\00:22:02.85
in fact, when I was
in that prayer group,
00:22:02.88\00:22:04.52
I was the only unmarried person
and also the youngest person
00:22:04.55\00:22:09.16
and for a long time she
carried that burden to the group
00:22:09.19\00:22:13.76
every time we met
00:22:13.80\00:22:15.13
because we would be
doing our individual ministries
00:22:15.16\00:22:17.43
but then would come together,
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.80
when we come together,
she insisted every time
00:22:18.83\00:22:21.74
that the group prayed for
me about me getting married
00:22:21.77\00:22:24.47
it was like, she
was carrying that burden
00:22:24.51\00:22:26.64
for me, and it was something
that was dear to her heart
00:22:26.68\00:22:30.51
that she had to see
it happen, you know,
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.28
and so, one time
she had heart surgery
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but when she got
back into the country...
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when we met for the
first time after that...
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again she insisted, "Hey,
we need to pray for this child"
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and she would have them
surround me and pray for me
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because it was something
that was on her heart...
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something that was
weighing on her spirit
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on my behalf...
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and so, that's why sometimes
when we are praying for others,
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we need to have that sort
of burden... just like her
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in carrying other
people's burdens with us...
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the Bible says, "Share
ye one another's burdens"
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and that's what we can do,
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we can share in the burden
in praying for these people,
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helping them to carry that load,
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being able to have that strength
to carry on and so on...
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and so, if we can't
do our part physically,
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if we cannot help provide
for their needs and so on,
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we can always go to God
in prayer... seeking Him
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so that He can continue to bless
and take care of them and so on
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and sometimes we are waiting for
God to bless us in certain ways
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or we have been praying
about something for decades
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and people are saying,
"I'm tired for praying...
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I've been praying
about this forever... "
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but what you need to do...
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one of my favorite songs that
I minister is, "Pray On... "
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we need to continue to pray
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because that's
where the battle is won...
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that's where we get the victory
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but we want to give up,
like you said earlier...
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we give up before the
blessing actually comes...
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the thing is...
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"Blessings delayed
are not blessings denied!"
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and so we need to
continue in prayer...
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and another story, I think,
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that really highlights
this idea of persistent praying,
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is the story of the Canaanite
women in Matthew 15:21 to 28
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in that story, this
lady goes to Jesus...
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Jesus had just
gone to a new town
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and according to
the account of Mark,
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He went into a house...
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but He didn't want
people to know that He was there
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but somehow she found
out that he was there...
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she's a mother... so
this mother goes to Jesus
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and asks Jesus to come
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and deliver her daughter
who was demon possessed,
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a Canaanite woman goes to Jesus
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asking Him that,
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the disciples are
like, "What's happening?"
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They send the woman away,
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they're asking Him to
send the woman away actually
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and stuff... because the
Canaanite woman found Him
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and she came crying, "Lord,
Son of David, have mercy on me,
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my daughter is suffering
terribly from demon possession"
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pause...
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the woman
continues to follow Jesus
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and His
disciples down the street
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because in the
eyes of the disciples,
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Jesus shouldn't help
her in the first place
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because she's a
Canaanite... she's unclean...
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she's a Gentile... you
don't attend to this woman,
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many things happened...
that story is really a big story
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but one of the things
that we can take from it
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when it comes to
persistence in prayer
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is that the woman
knelt down before Jesus...
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and she began to
scream out, "LORD! Help me!"
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You could imagine
that scene, "Help me!"
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Yes, yes...
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Then He said...
it's not His place
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and talked about
"tossing the food to the dogs"
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and she said, "You know what?
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it's okay Lord, yes... "
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"Yes Lord... " she said,
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"even the dogs eat crumbs
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that fall from
the Master's table. "
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So, there this woman is
humbling herself before God...
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she's crying out to Him...
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He's giving her the explanation
that the Jews would like to hear
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the explanation that the
disciples would like to hear...
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"She's a Gentile...
don't attend to her... "
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but she said,
"You know the dogs... "
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she said, "That's fine... "
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she said, "Even the
dogs... dear Jesus... "
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so she was so
persistent in her request...
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saying to Him,
"Lord, I don't mind...
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I don't have to sit at
the table with the children...
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I don't have to even...
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I just need the
crumbs that fall... "
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and the Bible says
that, Jesus said to her,
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"You know what? Woman,
you have great faith...
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your request is granted... "
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He granted her request...
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"From this very
hour... " the Bible says,
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"her child was healed. "
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Even though the
woman knew her background
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and she knew that in the eyes
of the Jews she was unclean...
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it also goes to
show... look at this...
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this woman was a
Gentile and she was unclean
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and she went to God in faith
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believing that God could
actually heal her child...
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deliver her child...
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but Jesus came from a place
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where not even the Jews wanted
to have anything to do with Him
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they didn't want to believe
Him but a Gentile is here
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seeking Him to deliver her child
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because she would
have heard about Him
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and believed in
Him and His power.
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So, there are a few
take-away points we can have,
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1. God never sleeps...
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because in Luke
11... the friend was asleep
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when his neighbor came knocking
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but we can call
on Jesus any time.
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God encourages
us to keep asking...
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to keep seeking...
and to keep knocking...
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because He wants to grant
us the desires of our heart
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and intercessory prayers
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also a true test of
character for the Christian...
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it tests our
friendship with people
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and how we are
going out to God for them
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and then it tests
our friendship with God
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because we would have
spent so much time with Him...
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we are so sure He will
hear us and He will answer us.
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So, let's just say a prayer,
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"Father, there are many lessons
for us to learn in this parable
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of Luke 11 and even the
story of the Canaanite woman...
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we pray that you would give us
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the spirit to
continue to persist in prayer
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even when we have the
obstacles in front of us
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that we will continue to believe
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that you can do exceedingly
above all that we can ask
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or think... of you, we pray,
in the name of Jesus, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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Thank you so much
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for that insight that
you've provided us with
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on Persistent Prayer...
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we pray that you were
blessed by today's program...
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we need to be
persistent in our prayers...
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don't give up on
God... hang in there...
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and the Lord will
come through for you...
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be sure to tune in next time
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when Dr. Nadine
shares more information
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to supply the missing peace.
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