"Coming in Hot!: B.H.A.P. Prayers"

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You've joined us today.

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We are living up in a down world,

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at least trying to because the world's pretty heavy,

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isn't it, baby?

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Yes, and the weather doesn't help anyone.

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It's rainy outside.

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Rainy and wet and damp and...

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I guess that's typical of spring.

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It is, but it's very green.

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We're finally, last year it was so dry.

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Our trees are blooming.

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Big time, I mean, like overnight,

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all of a sudden they're just beautiful, actually.

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Yes, it is.

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It does have a little Seattle vibe right now

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because it's that misty.

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It does feel that way.

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Yeah, it's cool, that misty rain.

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I never wanted to live in Seattle.

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Me either, but we need the rain.

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It's all good and you know how it is.

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We hit June and sometimes the water faucet just turns off.

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Most of the time it turns off.

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Over the last few years we've been in drought.

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So hopefully, prayerfully,

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and I've heard that we're supposed to have good more.

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It's supposed to be better this year.

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Yes.

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So, you know, it's always that La Nina, El Nino.

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I can't ever keep it straight.

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So there's always some reason.

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Global warming.

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Global warming.

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There it is.

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Climate change.

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Wrong.

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Buh.

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Don't even go there.

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Yeah, I know.

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Don't get me started.

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All right, so yeah, we're glad that you're with us.

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We're on episode number 58

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and man, just rolling right along.

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We're two days off,

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but we've decided it looks like for us,

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Thursdays are gonna be a better day.

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Do you agree with that?

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I think so.

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Because it all depends on the construction

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that's going on around here.

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We had to, we have air conditioning guys

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putting a new air conditioner in our sanctuary

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in our student room,

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which we're right next to the student room.

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And they've been up on the roof making so much noise.

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We could not do it before.

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We finally had to today say,

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could you just give us 30 minutes?

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Just give us 30 minutes.

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We're gonna try to record Tuesday

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and it sounded like they're playing hopscotch

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on top of our roof.

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My fear is that they're gonna come through our roof.

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I mean, they're not on the roof of the building.

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They're on the roof of our office, like literally.

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Cause we created a storage room over our office,

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like decked it out and everything.

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So we have stairs that go up on top,

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which is great unless they're up there dragging

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duct work around.

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It sounded like a bunch of elephants playing,

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hopscotch up there.

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So it's been hard to work.

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I mean, yeah, I've left every day just with my head pinging

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because of just so much noise.

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It's progress.

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It's gotta be done.

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But it put a big kink in us trying to record.

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There was no way we could record the podcast.

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And next week they're doing all the drywall.

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Now those guys, they come in and they get it done.

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It's not the same team.

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I know, but they're good.

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Oh. Yeah.

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So anyway, we'll see.

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So we can't guarantee when our next podcast

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is gonna come out.

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Cause we're subject to all of this that's going on.

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So it is what it is.

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I would say the end of April will be done

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with all this over here.

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April.

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Well, I mean, I'm just giving it extra weeks

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cause I know how it is with contractors.

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It does take a little time.

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But the big stuff, the banging, all that stuff,

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that's gonna be done like in the next few days.

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So I mean, the big stuff.

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We can work around some drills and sheetrock,

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guys doing drywall and stuff.

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That's not a big deal.

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But anyway, if you do hear a bang or whatever

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somebody walks in, it just is what it is.

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We're in the middle of construction.

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So we've got yellow tape on stuff, everything,

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caution, construction zone.

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It's like, so we're in the middle of that.

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But again, it's progress.

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It's all good.

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It's just, it's kind of like when they do the interstate,

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they do road work.

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Everybody hates it while they're doing it.

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And they're always complaining.

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But when it's done, you got four lanes instead of two.

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I mean, it's smooth, everything's clean and neat.

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I mean, everybody's, I'm so glad they did that.

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They were complaining for three years.

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Or five years, however long it takes.

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So anyways, kind of that for us.

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So glad you joined us today.

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We want you to be encouraged.

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And we are, I mean, we're having a,

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it's just been an amazing few weeks for us

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in the things of the kingdom of God.

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God's just doing amazing things,

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connecting the dots for us,

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connecting us with people that we just never knew,

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never thought we'd be connected with.

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We got invited to go to Mar-a-Lago out in Florida.

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Which is Thursday, which is why we can't record next week.

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On Thursday.

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We'll have to do what we can

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to try to get it done Tuesday or Wednesday.

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So it's gonna be one of those.

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We can.

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I don't think so with the...

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I'm gonna be, I'm the living up...

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You can be positive.

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I just know if there's only one guy doing the drywall,

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there's a lot of drywall.

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We'll see.

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We'll see.

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I'm gonna say we're gonna get it done.

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We will figure it out.

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Well, if not, it's because we're at Mar-a-Lago at an event

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that we did get invited to and we're very excited.

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We're only gonna be gone one night.

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It's a quick trip.

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Who wants to go to Florida for one day?

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Do you want me to turn it down?

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No, no, I'm glad.

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It's just, if it wasn't Easter,

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we would just plan to stay over for several days

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and enjoy the beach and the beautiful weather there.

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This is a quick trip.

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We fly down on Thursday.

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We'll be going with the Currys.

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No.

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No, just Tina.

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Adam is doing his No Agenda show,

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so he can't go with us, but Tina will be with us.

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We'll be going with the Youngs.

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And Dawn and yeah, just several people.

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Lara Logan, her husband Joe.

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So we'll all be kind of traveling sorted together.

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We're all being in the same plane and heading that way.

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And it's kind of, I think we're all sitting together.

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Well.

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Have a table or whatever.

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Yes, yes, we're at the same table.

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It's gonna be a wild ride.

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So we leave Thursday, the event, it's a black tie event.

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So we're like, I'm in a tuxedo.

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We get in at 2.30 and we have to be at the event at six.

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So yeah, so we'll just have a quick turnaround

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and throw on our tuxes and dresses and then get there.

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And it'll be a whirlwind night.

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I mean, Trump's gonna be there.

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I mean, it's gonna be Vivek Ramaswamy.

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If I have to said that anywhere near, right?

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Vivek, right?

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Or Vivek.

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I've heard it umpteen different ways.

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General Flynn will be there.

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Yeah, Michael Flynn will be there.

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It's gonna be interesting.

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And it's a premiere of a couple of shows,

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two shows back to back, two movies

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developed by the same people.

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And it's gonna be interesting, fascinating.

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We'll talk more about it when we get back,

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but I don't wanna drag it out,

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but it's gonna be interesting.

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But those are the kind of opportunities.

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Things are just coming up to us that are,

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we don't generate the waves,

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we just catch them when they come.

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And so as waves are coming by,

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we're just riding them and enjoying revival.

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We're in revival.

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Full blown, God's showing up,

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lives being changed, people being saved,

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people coming alive, they're awakening.

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Always say, we're not awoke, we're awake.

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That's the name of a message.

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I see it, I see it.

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Awoke or awake.

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Actually, the Sunday after Easter,

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I'm gonna do a message called Awoke.

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You're gonna do it?

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Awoke, not awake.

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No.

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No.

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Awoke or awake.

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Yeah, it's a question.

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Awoke or awake.

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Yeah, my bad.

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Which you're not awoke.

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Let's just clear that up right now.

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Not at all.

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Not at all.

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So anyway, so that'll be after Easter,

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then Easter's coming up.

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That's always huge.

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It's a Super Bowl for churches.

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And you're gonna take a little different spin than normal.

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Yeah, I'm doing a message called Hidden in Plain Sight.

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And I'm gonna talk a lot about Jesus,

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how after he was crucified

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and then he was resurrected between that and the ascension,

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he made all these appearances to people

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and they didn't recognize him.

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There were people who walked with him for three years.

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And they didn't recognize him.

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He was hidden in plain sight.

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But I'm also a little more fraught out of that

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into the platform of there's a lot of stuff going on

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in our world that's hidden in plain sight.

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That's nefarious, dark, cultural attacks,

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political warfare, psyops, psychological warfare.

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There's a lot of things happening

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and the enemy is also hidden in plain sight.

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And I'm gonna do my best to expose him on Easter

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in front of a lot of new people who'll be there.

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We're expecting, we're praying for a thousand people

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for Sunday, that Sunday.

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We've been running between six and 650.

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So we believe that's a reasonable BHAG prayer goal.

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And if you're wondering what a BHAG is.

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I think you need to change it to BHAP.

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BHAP, we can do that.

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But I said BHAG, because that's a known thing,

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not by everybody, but some people know.

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I never heard of it until you brought it up.

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And people come up to me and go,

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oh yeah, I remember talking about BHAGs.

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It means big, hairy, audacious goal.

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So a BHAG is a big, hairy.

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But if we're gonna use it in the context of prayer,

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it needs to be BHAP.

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BHAP, big, hairy, audacious prayer.

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Cause that's what we're talking about, not just a goal.

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Now I'm gonna change the cover art for this episode.

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I just did it.

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Well then change it.

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I can change it.

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I think it needs to be changed.

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BHAP.

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BHAP.

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That doesn't.

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BHAG sounds-

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That's like be happy.

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Well, but someone told us HAG had a bad connotation.

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Some school, some cultural, it's a derogatory term or something.

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Okay, BHAP.

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BHAP.

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Big, hairy, audacious prayer.

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Prayer.

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There you go.

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Boy, we're doing that.

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Speaking of BHAPs,

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let's talk a little bit about what our topic is today.

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Cause we feel very strong that we wanna encourage you

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in your prayer life.

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A lot of people struggle with having a prayer life.

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Why do you think that is?

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I mean-

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They, a lot of times we get,

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we have a prayer need.

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We bring it before God.

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He doesn't answer it the way we want it.

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So we give up on prayer.

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I'll never forget.

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And you told this story in church on Sunday,

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but I'm gonna tell my perspective.

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We had a woman in our church,

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very highly intense woman who had so much faith

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to believe for anything.

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I mean, I had never met anybody with more faith

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than this woman named Kathy.

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And she began to have some symptoms,

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health issues in her body.

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And someone, she was a principal of a school

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and someone in the school encouraged her

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to go to the doctor,

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and she just kept praying and praying and praying.

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Cause she's a woman of faith.

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She finally ended up going to the doctor

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and they found out that she was riddled with cancer

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all over her body.

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It had just, I'm not sure where it started,

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but it ended up in her whole body.

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And she, I don't know that she could have taken treatment

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at the time because it was too far gone.

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I think she was-

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I think that was my understanding.

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In the late stages of stage four.

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Yeah.

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And, but she would come into church.

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We watched her just become emaciated.

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I mean, she was not the woman we knew

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who was vibrant, beautiful, just,

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but her faith never waned.

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That was the most beautiful thing I ever seen.

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She, as a woman, we watched her body disintegrate,

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but her faith just rise.

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And which I hear that happens a lot

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with people who are about to pass,

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but her faith was that God was gonna make her well.

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And her faith was strong even before this happened.

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She was always a warrior.

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Always a warrior.

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Strong in God.

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Yes.

335
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And so she would come into church.

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She finally got to the point where she was in a wheelchair

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and she would come in

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and we would immediately want to pray for her

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and we would pray.

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But then the tables turned

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towards the last probably six months of her life

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where every week she would come in

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and she'd say, I don't need prayer.

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I want you to pray.

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I want to pray for you.

346
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And so she would pray for our staff pastors all the time.

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I mean, just consistently

348
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because she said, no, I'm good.

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God's got this.

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God's gonna heal me.

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And that was really remarkable to me

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that she could have so much faith for other people.

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And she believed that God was gonna heal her.

354
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So she didn't want prayer anymore.

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She wanted to pray for us.

356
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Well, I think I know why God wanted her to pray for us.

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If you really think about what happened

358
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because a few months later she passed

359
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and that was one of the hardest funerals

360
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you've ever had to do.

361
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I remember, I don't think I could go.

362
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I think I got sick.

363
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Is that the one that I got sick?

364
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I think you're right.

365
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You weren't there.

366
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I don't recall.

367
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There was a couple of funerals that I could not attend.

368
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But I remember us just talking about it as a couple

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about God not healing her the way we wanted.

370
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And it literally, it caused us to regress in our faith.

371
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Yeah, let's tell it like it is.

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It wrecked us.

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It wrecked us.

374
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It shipwrecked our faith for a season.

375
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You told the church it was a few weeks,

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but it was a lot longer.

377
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I think-

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I wouldn't in the weeds with the details on timing.

379
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I just remember it devastated us.

380
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Because we were so disappointed in God.

381
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We got to the point where we didn't even wanna pray

382
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for healing because-

383
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Or for anything in terms of anything that's bigger

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than what's around us in the natural or that we could do.

385
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Anything beyond what's natural.

386
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We were afraid to pray for anything supernatural,

387
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anything big.

388
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So, BHAP was out of the question.

389
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Big, hairy, audacious prayers weren't even in the equation.

390
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And we didn't have the faith to believe.

391
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And I think looking back now, hindsight is 20-20,

392
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looking back now, that's probably why

393
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God had her pray for us.

394
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Probably right.

395
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Because that was gonna happen to us.

396
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But thank God we came out of that.

397
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And what happened is we realized she did get healed.

398
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She is whole.

399
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She's better than she was.

400
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Because God healed her just not in the way we wanted.

401
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We wanted her to be here for her family.

402
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We actually saw her family spin out.

403
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They literally walked away-

404
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Yeah, it was terrible.

405
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From the Lord.

406
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I'm praying they came back.

407
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I don't, we don't know.

408
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We've left since then.

409
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But I think the thing that I've learned

410
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throughout that experience is that,

411
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and you say this a lot,

412
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we pray like it depends on us,

413
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but we believe like it depends on God.

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Because it does.

415
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Because it does.

416
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And I think that's why we could start praying

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for people again and start believing for people.

418
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Because even though we're praying, we want them alive.

419
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We want them alive on this earth.

420
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We have to leave it in God's hands.

421
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And I do hate it when people say,

422
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well, God just needed them more than we did.

423
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God needed another angel in heaven.

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That's not-

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It's not even-

426
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It's not even scriptural.

427
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That's theologically whacked.

428
00:15:52,060 --> 00:15:53,360
Yes, it's not biblical at all.

429
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It's a sentiment.

430
00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,160
It's a sentiment.

431
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We say things sometimes to try to make us feel better.

432
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But I don't want to feel better.

433
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I want to be accurate with truth.

434
00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,360
So in biblical truth, and it's not that-

435
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His ways, the Bible says his ways-

436
00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:09,560
I was literally thinking that line.

437
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Really are higher than ours.

438
00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:12,440
Yeah.

439
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And so we can't determine everything

440
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,640
about what God thinks or says.

441
00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,680
All we know is what we have in the word,

442
00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,200
but his word says his ways are higher.

443
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,080
Think about it, Annette.

444
00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,520
That's absolutely true.

445
00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,440
I was thinking the exact same line.

446
00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,360
So great minds think alike, all right?

447
00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,960
And you're beautiful today, by the way.

448
00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,040
Oh, thank you.

449
00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,040
So I was actually thinking though,

450
00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,320
in terms of, Ka, I distracted myself

451
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with your beauty right there.

452
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Oh, stop.

453
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:40,820
Just totally threw me off.

454
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Oh, stop.

455
00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,240
Gosh, I can't even remember what I was going to say.

456
00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,600
Literally, I got distracted.

457
00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:46,440
You're gorgeous.

458
00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:47,280
Oh my gosh.

459
00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:48,100
Yeah, I'm sorry.

460
00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:49,920
No, don't do that.

461
00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,400
You're so funny.

462
00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,760
But his ways are-

463
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,080
I'm trying to help you with your thought process.

464
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Yeah, maybe I'll recover it, maybe not.

465
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Oh my gosh, you're so funny.

466
00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,760
But I think I am so glad

467
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that we were able to come to that realization

468
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,840
that we could pray again,

469
00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,560
we could believe, we could believe in faith.

470
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So many people do.

471
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I've heard this before in the past.

472
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You didn't have enough faith.

473
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That's why-

474
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Oh, that's a horrible thing.

475
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You didn't get healed, or the person you prayed for.

476
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That's just dumb.

477
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Again, unbiblical.

478
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Jesus does talk about ye of little faith,

479
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but it's in a whole different context.

480
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That doesn't mean we have to have,

481
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I mean, he says we only need faith of a mustard seed.

482
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The fact that we even pray to God is faith.

483
00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:40,860
Exactly.

484
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Because you're believing that there's a God to pray for.

485
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Somebody's listening, right?

486
00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:44,540
Exactly.

487
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So to me, that's off too.

488
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But one of your points that I love that you made

489
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is God did not design prayer to put a burden on us.

490
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He designed prayer to take the burden off of us.

491
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And a lot of times we pray out of this, oh God.

492
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You know-

493
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Burden, we're laboring.

494
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We're laboring.

495
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,520
Struggling in prayer.

496
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,360
Or-

497
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Wrestling with God.

498
00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,520
I keep having to pray for the same thing.

499
00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,000
Well, if we give it to God, then it's not a burden,

500
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because it's his burden.

501
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So what we do is we remind God.

502
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This is kind of the way I pray.

503
00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:24,320
I remind God of my prayers.

504
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I thank you, Lord, that you know what I've been praying for.

505
00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,480
I'm praying right now for certain family members

506
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,520
and our family that have walked away from God,

507
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,960
that need God.

508
00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,560
And so every day, it's not a burden to pray for them.

509
00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,920
It's a privilege, because he takes the burden from me

510
00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,760
so that I'm not overextending myself

511
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,960
in long bouts of prayer over it, because he's got it.

512
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And I know he does, and I know he's gonna come through.

513
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That's so good.

514
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I was thinking of a scripture I read this morning.

515
00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,440
I was reading in Psalm 139.

516
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That was just really, really washing over.

517
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,600
It says, you search out my path and my lying down

518
00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,880
and are acquainted with all my ways.

519
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,440
And he says, even before a word is on my tongue,

520
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,640
behold, oh Lord, you know it altogether.

521
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:18,480
Wow.

522
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,320
See, he knows our prayer.

523
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,160
Before I even say it.

524
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,040
He knows our needs before we even ask.

525
00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,640
What a powerful statement.

526
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,200
Before it's even on my tongue, before I even say it,

527
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,000
he already knows that.

528
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,560
You know it altogether.

529
00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,400
But it doesn't mean we...

530
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:32,240
That just hit me hard this morning.

531
00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:33,640
It doesn't, and some people take that,

532
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,720
well then I don't need to pray if he already knows.

533
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,080
No, we pray for ourself.

534
00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:37,920
We pray...

535
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:38,760
Of course.

536
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,360
Because it's part of our relationship with God.

537
00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,480
It's a conversation.

538
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,440
Prayer is a conversation, not a monologue.

539
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,480
It would be like me saying, I'm never gonna tell you

540
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,800
I love you because you know it.

541
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,560
So why would I tell you?

542
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,360
And then I would start to not know it.

543
00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,520
Exactly. I would start to wonder,

544
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,440
okay, wow, she's not even said anything.

545
00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,440
Because a relationship is not a monologue.

546
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,360
And so to me, you have to have a dialogue

547
00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,120
between the person that you have the relationship

548
00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:07,960
within yourself.

549
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:08,780
So think of it this way.

550
00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:12,200
Prayer should not be a weight that you're carrying around.

551
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,920
Remember he says, come to me all who are weary

552
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,480
and heavy laden, I'll give you rest for my yoke is easy.

553
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,440
And my burden is light.

554
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,240
But we turn it into this ball and chain.

555
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,600
I'm somehow carrying the weight of the world.

556
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,200
So I'm praying for the nation.

557
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,440
I'm praying that our nation, that God will right the ship.

558
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,120
I'm praying that no longer will wrong be right

559
00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,520
and right be wrong and up be down and down be up.

560
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,200
Because everything's upside down right now.

561
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,360
Absolutely.

562
00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,520
But I don't labor in it as though I'm carrying it

563
00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,480
or that it depends on me.

564
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,600
This is where trust comes in.

565
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,560
I feel like when I'm praying a prayer like that,

566
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,160
instead of carrying a burden,

567
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,040
I'm just simply aligning with the revealed will of God.

568
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,200
Because don't you believe that it's his will for our nation

569
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,320
to walk in accordance with the biblical foundations

570
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,800
with which our founding fathers founded the nation?

571
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,200
Founded it on the word of God,

572
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:11,160
founded on conservative biblical morals, principles, values?

573
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,800
Of course, I mean, God's mentioned four times

574
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,600
just in the declaration of independence

575
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,100
was a very short document, all about his providence,

576
00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:24,100
all about his as our creator and these unalienable rights

577
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,340
that we have, all of that is there,

578
00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:30,780
which means when we pray for our nation to be made right,

579
00:21:30,780 --> 00:21:33,200
or we pray for a person to be made right,

580
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,720
or we pray for the salvation of somebody,

581
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,200
we can trust that that is his will.

582
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,040
We're in alignment with him.

583
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,400
And that brings confidence,

584
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,060
but it also takes the burden off.

585
00:21:45,060 --> 00:21:47,600
So how do you handle people who say,

586
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,480
but I'm an intercessor?

587
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,200
Yay, we love intercessors.

588
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,280
So how can I not have a burden for what I'm praying for?

589
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,200
Well, it depends on what you mean by burden.

590
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,040
There you go, that's what I want you to bring up.

591
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:00,400
If you're looking at the definition of burden,

592
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:01,840
that it is a weight.

593
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,680
It's like a pack mule carrying,

594
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,800
they weigh this animal down or a camel,

595
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,640
they weigh them down and they're bearing the burden.

596
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,000
But I think in biblical intercession,

597
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,280
we're not bearing the burden,

598
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,720
we're simply offloading the burden to God.

599
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:18,560
To God.

600
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,800
We stand in between the issue and God,

601
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,280
that's to intercede means to be in the middle, enter.

602
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,600
Enter in the middle.

603
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,760
And so we're in between, so we take that, but we offload it.

604
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,880
We don't carry it, we don't keep it.

605
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,000
We simply present it to God and then we let it go.

606
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,120
And I think that's one of the things I've seen

607
00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:40,920
where people can't let it go.

608
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,520
That's a more character issue than a personal issue

609
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,720
and a mental issue than it is, that's the mind war,

610
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,320
than it is an actual issue because that's not

611
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,280
what we see in scripture.

612
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,480
He says, bring it to me and then let it go.

613
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,880
And then it even says this,

614
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,720
that the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us

615
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,360
before the throne of God.

616
00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,440
And with groanings too deep for, I mean,

617
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,960
he's saying, he's got this.

618
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,760
He's interceding, he's our intercessor.

619
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,120
And so what happens is, we feel responsible for things.

620
00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,480
We're fix it people, all of us are, we wanna fix stuff.

621
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,520
So we think we need to bring our burden to God,

622
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,280
then tell God how to fix it.

623
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,240
Because not only do we pray, I brought this up on Sunday,

624
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,000
not only we pray to God and say,

625
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,600
Lord, we present this to you, then we say,

626
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,760
and here's how you should fix it.

627
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,920
Here's my criteria for the answering of this prayer.

628
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,160
Because we know best.

629
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,000
And then what happens when it doesn't happen

630
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:40,840
the way I aligned it out to God.

631
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,240
Then we're disappointed in God.

632
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,240
As though he failed us.

633
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,360
Or he didn't answer, or he doesn't hear our prayers,

634
00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,200
which is false.

635
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,440
So we've gotta get to the point as believers

636
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,440
where we can trust him and we can pray to him.

637
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,600
We can pray on behalf of other people,

638
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,720
on behalf of ourself, and then let it go and say,

639
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,440
God, okay, this is yours.

640
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,520
Now it doesn't mean we don't keep praying,

641
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,360
because it says pray and keep praying.

642
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,520
Oh, absolutely.

643
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,120
Yeah, can I read the scripture?

644
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,320
Pray unceasingly, yes.

645
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,600
This is out of Matthew chapter seven, seven and eight,

646
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,200
verse seven and eight, out of the amplified version.

647
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,760
Keep on asking and it will be given you.

648
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,400
Notice, keep on.

649
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,240
Keep on seeking and you will find.

650
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,280
Keep on knocking and the door will be open to you.

651
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,800
For everyone who keeps on asking receives,

652
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,120
and he who keeps on seeking finds.

653
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:40,120
And to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be opened.

654
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,600
But that's also in context to receiving the Holy Spirit,

655
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,440
right?

656
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,280
There, actually, there's different versions

657
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,800
of this in the gospel.

658
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,280
One is that your heavenly father

659
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,440
knows how to give you good things.

660
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,520
The other one is the heavenly father

661
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,680
knows how to give you the Holy Spirit when you ask.

662
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,440
So there's several different implications to that,

663
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,320
but the principle is the same for everything.

664
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,560
We're to ask and keep on asking, not keep on knocking.

665
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,600
Seek, keep on seeking.

666
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:07,920
But it doesn't mean we're seeking

667
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,800
as though we don't believe God's gonna do it.

668
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,880
This is how Jesus taught us to pray.

669
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,400
He says, when you pray, say, and this is what you do.

670
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,120
And so to me, it's like, let's lean into that,

671
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:22,240
but it doesn't mean that I carry the weight

672
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,360
and the gravity of it.

673
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,600
We're not, we're not beasts of burden.

674
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,160
There's nowhere, no one ever said in their life,

675
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,760
hey, grab that sheep over there.

676
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,720
We're about to go up a mountain and I need that sheep

677
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,720
to carry all of our equipment.

678
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,560
You know, sheep are not pack meals.

679
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,720
Sheep are actually quite fragile.

680
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,160
And I know that by experience

681
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,200
and being around sheep personally, not just church people.

682
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,720
I mean, real sheep, literal sheep.

683
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,880
They're fragile animals.

684
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,560
People that aren't in church that are hearing this

685
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,840
don't understand what you just said.

686
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,480
So the Bible refers to believers, followers of God,

687
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,920
followers of Jesus as sheep, a flock of sheep

688
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,920
over and over and over.

689
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,840
And I'm an under shepherd.

690
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,520
Jesus is the great shepherd, but I'm a shepherd

691
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,840
because I'm called a pastor.

692
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,200
That's my role.

693
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,000
And so I shepherd a flock here in Fredericksburg, Texas.

694
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,080
And so, but never once ever will you hear anyone

695
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,400
ever in history say, okay, we're gonna make this trek

696
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,240
up through the mountain.

697
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,040
So get the sheep together

698
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,440
because they're gonna bear the weight of it.

699
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,280
They can't.

700
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,120
They can't, no.

701
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:29,240
And by design, I mean,

702
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,080
the sheep is not a weight-bearing animal.

703
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,240
That's a great illustration.

704
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,000
Think about us.

705
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,800
We're not called to bear the weight.

706
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,720
That's why we're, he says that,

707
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,560
let me put it this way to you.

708
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,160
It says, be anxious for nothing.

709
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,920
This is in Philippians chapter four, verses six and seven.

710
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,960
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything.

711
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,160
Someone say everything.

712
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,800
Now you're being a preacher.

713
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,480
I have to, because I want to reiterate that word,

714
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,280
everything, not some things.

715
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,320
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything,

716
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,480
by prayer and supplication.

717
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,000
Supplication is a fancy word for a petition.

718
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,520
You put it before God.

719
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,040
With gratitude, with thanksgiving,

720
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,640
let your requests be made known to God.

721
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,800
He just says, bring it to me.

722
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,000
And the peace of God, this is verse seven,

723
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,680
which passes all understanding will guard your hearts

724
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,920
and minds through Christ Jesus.

725
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,840
Here's another way to say that.

726
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,560
If you will pray about everything,

727
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,200
you'll be anxious for no thing.

728
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,040
I love that.

729
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,320
And who doesn't want to offload anxiety?

730
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,080
Come on, we live in a world of stress.

731
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:39,080
It's unbelievable how many people are on anxiety,

732
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,000
anti-anxiety medication.

733
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,360
Devastating.

734
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,080
It's really affecting, I mean,

735
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,080
most teens these days are on anti-anxiety medication.

736
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,720
And we just have such a lack for understanding

737
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,720
who God is and what He wants to do in our lives.

738
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:01,440
And how He feels about us.

739
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,600
Listen to this out of Psalm 145.

740
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,480
The Lord is near to all who call on Him,

741
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,760
to all who call on Him in truth.

742
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,040
Verse 19, He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him.

743
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,280
That means reverence, who reverence, who see Him in awe.

744
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,000
He hears their cry and saves them.

745
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,560
That's how God feels about us.

746
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,320
But we're afraid to approach Him

747
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,640
because He's like the great Oz in the Wizard of Oz.

748
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,920
Fearful, flames, fire, booming voice.

749
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:35,760
And at the end of the day,

750
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,440
when Toto pulled the curtain back,

751
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,400
Oz was nothing more than a man opera.

752
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,200
I mean, he was just, he wasn't that.

753
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,080
That's not God.

754
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,440
God loves us and God cares.

755
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,640
And He wants us to bring our prayers to Him,

756
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:49,720
bring our requests.

757
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,560
Not in fear.

758
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,160
It's that peace that surpasses all understanding.

759
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,280
It's a promise.

760
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,280
He wants to, for us to accept His gift,

761
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,680
His gift of salvation, His gift of peace, of hope, of joy.

762
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,280
Yeah, beautiful.

763
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:07,960
So one last point before we go,

764
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,080
because we're only on the plane,

765
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,840
but people don't spend time in prayer.

766
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,160
And here's why.

767
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,440
It's because they don't believe it really works.

768
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,880
Well, and that's the way we had become.

769
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,000
Yeah, we fell into that.

770
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:20,840
We fell into the trap.

771
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:21,880
For a while, first season,

772
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,080
because we were angry.

773
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,040
And that's again, another reason why people

774
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,160
don't spend time in prayer.

775
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,360
They're angry with God.

776
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:30,240
They're disappointed.

777
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,120
Right, disappointed.

778
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,400
That's a great word.

779
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,440
I would even, anger may be true,

780
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,960
but I would think disappointment

781
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,240
and disillusionment are more accurate.

782
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,320
We just disappointed because we prayed

783
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,080
and nothing happened.

784
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,720
Or we thought nothing happened.

785
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,080
I love the story you told about Daniel.

786
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,880
Tell that story because that was powerful.

787
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,720
All right.

788
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,560
Powerful.

789
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,480
That's based on this point.

790
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,760
Your prayers move and shift things

791
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,520
in the heavenly and spiritual realms on earth

792
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,440
as it is in heaven to reflect back

793
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,280
to the Lord's model prayer.

794
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,880
And where Jesus said, your kingdom come,

795
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,120
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

796
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,360
So Daniel was a prophet and his nation at that time,

797
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,440
his people, God's people were in captivity.

798
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,760
They were under oppression.

799
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,120
You think it's bad here?

800
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,600
This is just nothing compared to what they were going through.

801
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,320
Many of them were enslaved.

802
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,240
They were taxed 80 to 90% of their goods.

803
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,080
I mean, it was-

804
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,080
Oh, they were socialist country.

805
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,080
Exactly, worse.

806
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,200
More like Mao, Trans Maoism.

807
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,440
But anyway, it was terrible.

808
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,480
And he's crying out to God for a vision

809
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,960
and God gives him a vision.

810
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,280
And he was praying.

811
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,080
He'd been praying and fasting for 21 days,

812
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,080
three weeks and nothing.

813
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:47,840
So he's crying out on behalf of God's people.

814
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,680
Crickets, he thinks God's not even listening.

815
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,520
Exactly, where is God now?

816
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,600
When we need you the most, you're not there.

817
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,080
And a messenger, the Bible calls it a messenger.

818
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,280
Well, the same word used for angels,

819
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,560
same word used for messenger.

820
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,400
That's what it means.

821
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,920
An angel is a messenger from God.

822
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,520
So an angel of the Lord came.

823
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,880
So this guy shows up and Daniel goes into a wild description

824
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,160
of what he looks like in the verses,

825
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,360
but he shows up and what happens is he says,

826
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,600
Daniel, your prayers were heard the first time you prayed.

827
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:20,520
Wow.

828
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,880
The first time.

829
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:22,720
Three weeks ago.

830
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Not three weeks.

831
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,320
21 days ago, your prayers were heard.

832
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,000
He says this, let me just read it to you

833
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,240
out of the book of Daniel.

834
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,080
Then he continued, the messenger, he said to Daniel,

835
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,920
do not be afraid Daniel, since the first day

836
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,800
that you set your mind to gain understanding

837
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,360
and to humble yourself before your God,

838
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,560
your words were heard.

839
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,200
Man, we need to lock that in.

840
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:51,200
That really just rang like a symbol in my ears.

841
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,920
You mean like a bomb just went off?

842
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,840
Like a bomb went off.

843
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,320
Thunder in your soul.

844
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,480
Because we can read scripture.

845
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,240
We've read through the Bible many times.

846
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,360
But there's sometimes when something just comes up

847
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,240
off the page that you've read it a million times,

848
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,760
but you didn't really let it see.

849
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,800
There's a word for that.

850
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,480
It's called revelation.

851
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,800
And boy, when you said that, it was like, wow.

852
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,400
He says, from the first time you set your mind

853
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,360
to gain understanding, to humble yourself before your God,

854
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,720
your words were heard.

855
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:23,560
I love that.

856
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,200
That just resonates with me.

857
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,360
And I have come in response to them.

858
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,960
So he shows up, this messenger,

859
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,200
but he tells him something interesting, the next verse.

860
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,960
But the prince of the Persian kingdom

861
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,120
resisted me 21 days.

862
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,000
The prince of the Persian kingdom is a demonic force

863
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,680
over a region.

864
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,520
Biblically, it's called a principality.

865
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,400
A principality is over cities.

866
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,680
They're over regions.

867
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,080
Demons, angels, there's hierarchies of authority.

868
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,760
If they believe there's a God, but not there's a devil,

869
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,440
they're totally misled.

870
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,120
They're not just missing 50%.

871
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,480
They've already lost the war.

872
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,400
If you don't believe that's real,

873
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,520
that demons are real, that there's a real Satan,

874
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,160
who I've named, nicknamed Nefarious,

875
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,600
if you don't believe that, you've already lost.

876
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,320
You're already in defensive mode.

877
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,720
You're already being whooped.

878
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,640
So it says the prince of the Persian kingdom,

879
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,840
this is this principality, this massive demon,

880
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,160
resisted me 21 days.

881
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,080
I mean, mind-bending.

882
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,240
Then Michael, uh-oh, you know who Michael is?

883
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,720
Michael is one of the angels

884
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,200
that attends to the presence of God.

885
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,800
He's perpetually within God's presence.

886
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,640
I mean, like close, inner circle.

887
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,920
He says, then Michael, one of the chief princes.

888
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,560
Okay, so we're talking about the highest ranking angel.

889
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,680
I love this.

890
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,880
He's not a king, he's a prince, remember?

891
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:00,840
Jesus is the king of kings.

892
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,160
Right, Jesus is the only king.

893
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,640
Then Michael, one of the chief princes,

894
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,600
came to help me because I was detained there

895
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,680
with the king of Persia.

896
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,680
So this principality was warring to keep the answer

897
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,200
and the solution and the answer to the prayer

898
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,400
to get to Daniel for 21 days.

899
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,760
Now later, the story goes on, it's just crazy cool.

900
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,960
And what happens is, is they defeat him

901
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:28,920
and the answer comes.

902
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,400
I mean, so he gets what he prayed for,

903
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,800
but that's a real clue that when we pray,

904
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,720
we actually start wars.

905
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,800
When you pray, you start a war in the heavenly realms.

906
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,400
Now I don't know if that means if you're praying

907
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,040
for your refrigerator to get fixed,

908
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,880
there's suddenly a war in the heavenly realm.

909
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,400
I have a feeling it's more 30,000 foot prayers

910
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,120
where you're praying for revival for the nation,

911
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,960
where you're praying that justice would be done

912
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,960
in the political realm for election integrity,

913
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,240
that all the darkness in the world would be dispelled

914
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,680
by salt and light, which we're called to be.

915
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,160
I think when we pray those prayers,

916
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,840
we are praying those prayers right now

917
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:14,840
and they are b-happ prayers, big, hairy, audacious prayers.

918
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,520
And we wanna encourage you to not be afraid to pray.

919
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,240
I remember this hit me in the wake of dealing

920
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,920
with Kathy's passing and me doing that funeral

921
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,000
and us feeling so defeated.

922
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,200
I feel like the Lord brought a couple of things to me.

923
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,760
One of them was this.

924
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,840
He said to me, and when I say he said, I'm just saying,

925
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,720
I'm extrapolating my interpretation of an impression.

926
00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:37,320
So I didn't hear a voice.

927
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,160
I didn't hear, he didn't write this out with a pen.

928
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,040
I'm just saying this is my takeaway.

929
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,880
So I want to be clear about that.

930
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,920
When I say God said, this is what I think he said

931
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,240
and how I interpret it to me.

932
00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,720
So I'd wanna be clear about that and honest about it.

933
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:55,120
But I felt like he was saying to me, Jimmy,

934
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,080
what's the worst thing that could happen if you pray?

935
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,920
And I'm just gonna insert this, a behap prayer,

936
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,400
a big, hairy, audacious prayer.

937
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,040
What's the worst thing that can happen?

938
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,680
And I remember thinking, I don't know.

939
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,360
And the word came to me, nothing.

940
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,120
That's the worst thing that can happen.

941
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,240
In other words, if you pray for someone to be healed

942
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,160
and they don't appear to get healed,

943
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:24,000
what's the worst thing?

944
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,840
In the way you want, yes.

945
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,000
You don't lose, you've lost nothing.

946
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,280
But on the flip side of the coin, what if he does?

947
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,960
But if you're so shy to pray because you've been hurt

948
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,480
and disappointed, disillusioned that you never pray,

949
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000
you're not even giving it a chance.

950
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,880
You're not even giving it a chance to not work.

951
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,240
And so I've learned the hard way,

952
00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:50,240
and we've had to navigate this to actually do it.

953
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,040
Step up, pray the behap, big, hairy, audacious prayer.

954
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,880
And we pray like it depends on us,

955
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,040
but we trust like it depends on God.

956
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,000
So yeah, there it is.

957
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:02,840
That's good.

958
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:03,680
There it is.

959
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,520
Anything to wrap up that?

960
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:05,340
No, I think that's good.

961
00:37:05,340 --> 00:37:06,180
Hopefully this will help people.

962
00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:07,020
I do too.

963
00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:11,080
I think this message, it really,

964
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,040
just hearing it over and over,

965
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,160
because I heard it three times on Sunday.

966
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,840
Now we're talking about it.

967
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,520
And I felt like this is what we were supposed

968
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,440
to talk about today.

969
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,960
And you got a revelation today.

970
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,840
Here we are pastors and we've dealt with disappointment,

971
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,280
disillusionment.

972
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:34,280
And I can't even imagine people in this world

973
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,200
that have so many needs and they don't pray to God.

974
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,400
They don't feel heard.

975
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,060
And I think we just hopefully dispelled that

976
00:37:45,060 --> 00:37:49,120
with the scripture to show them that God does hear.

977
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,680
I love that God just, right here on the podcast,

978
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,440
God highlighted that for you.

979
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,960
I'm gonna just say them again out loud.

980
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,800
This is the book of Daniel and it is chapter 10.

981
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,600
And it's in verse 12.

982
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,080
Your words were heard.

983
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,980
And I have come in response to them.

984
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,000
The problem is, is when it doesn't get answered

985
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,080
the way we thought it would,

986
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,400
we think it didn't get answered.

987
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,360
And we blame God.

988
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,760
And we blame God, but God is answering it.

989
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,480
Things are set into motion.

990
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,120
A war is happening.

991
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,080
And sometimes we don't connect the dot

992
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,040
between what we prayed and the way the answer came.

993
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,520
Because we say your will be done

994
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,780
on earth as it is in heaven,

995
00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:34,040
but we really don't want that.

996
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,380
We want our will to be done.

997
00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:37,280
But I digress.

998
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,680
That's another sermon for another day.

999
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,520
That's a whole nother sermon.

1000
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,440
That's a whole nother one.

1001
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,840
Hey, we love you guys.

1002
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,960
Thank you for listening.

1003
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,680
We hope you're encouraged.

1004
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,000
Listen, go bold, go big or go home.

1005
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,280
That was my boss, Dave Ramsey saying.

1006
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,680
Go big or go home and start praying some BHAP prayers.

1007
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,240
Okay, I've changed it.

1008
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:57,400
No longer BHAC.

1009
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,240
No, BHAP.

1010
00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:02,980
It's BHAP, which is Big, Hairy, Audacious Prayers.

1011
00:39:02,980 --> 00:39:06,200
We need to raise our sights, elevate our faith,

1012
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,720
trust God, pray like it depends on us.

1013
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:09,560
Believe God.

1014
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,600
Believe and trust like it depends on Him because it does.

1015
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,160
And offload the weight of it,

1016
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:21,160
but not be afraid to pray big, bold, audacious, hairy prayers.

1017
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:22,280
Amen?

1018
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,880
Hey, a couple people to thank.

1019
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,540
First of all, I always want to thank David Wicker.

1020
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:28,380
I mean, he signed up and he does regular subscriptions.

1021
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:31,120
We have others too that we so appreciate you.

1022
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,720
Value for value, blessing us.

1023
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,500
I want you to, if you get a chance,

1024
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:37,960
go to livingupinadownworld.com.

1025
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,080
That's our website.

1026
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,000
I put our daily devotionals on there every day.

1027
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,520
All of our past episodes and most current episode

1028
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,520
of Living Up in a Down World is right there

1029
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:48,680
on the front page.

1030
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,640
You'll see our Twitter feed, which is now an X feed on there.

1031
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,840
You can sign up, subscribe to the newsletter there,

1032
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,960
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1033
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,260
right before we do a podcast.

1034
00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:02,200
If you're not getting one right now, let us know

1035
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,480
and I'll make sure you're on that list.

1036
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,120
But you can do that right there on the website,

1037
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,200
livingupinadownworld.com.

1038
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,560
One of the things I was reminded of, Annette,

1039
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,880
was this message that we just talked about

1040
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,800
with all the points and in context.

1041
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,360
You can hear me preach that message.

1042
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,960
You can watch me do that by going to bridgefbg.com,

1043
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,400
bridgefbg.com, and go about halfway down that page.

1044
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,760
As you scroll down, you'll see it.

1045
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,240
All the current sermons and messages are there.

1046
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:32,200
And the one from this week is entitled,

1047
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,200
Mind Wars, Demolishing Strongholds Through Behag Prayer.

1048
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,080
It was Behag then, now it's Behap Prayer.

1049
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,200
And we wanna invite you to do that.

1050
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,840
And yeah, follow us.

1051
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,360
Get involved, get connected, reach out to us.

1052
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,200
Let us know what you think about the show.

1053
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,320
We're here for you, we're praying for you.

1054
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,120
Just one other thing.

1055
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,240
I do have another, let me look it up.

1056
00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:54,160
Here it is.

1057
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,960
So My Thrill the Learned boosted us on Fountain.

1058
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,360
He says, this message of, this is from last week,

1059
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,440
this message of saints that sometimes sins,

1060
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,560
not sinner, that is sometimes a saint,

1061
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,480
is what us modern Christians need to hear.

1062
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:08,480
Thank you.

1063
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,840
We must conquer this path to failure

1064
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,880
so we can be functional messengers of the good news.

1065
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,880
I've been living free with,

1066
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,200
Send Me, Thrumming Through My Heart song,

1067
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,200
as I pass out salvation tracks

1068
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,040
and post Bible study videos and podcasts

1069
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,280
on No Authority Social.

1070
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,040
That's part of No Agenda there, the great podcast.

1071
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,800
We all have mission fields around us.

1072
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,280
We are due a revival, as Adam pointed out,

1073
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,920
talking about Adam Curry, our friends, Adam and Tina,

1074
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,600
who have a great, great podcast called Curry and the Keeper.

1075
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,600
They just released a new episode just last night,

1076
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:43,440
late last night.

1077
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,480
I got part of the way through it today.

1078
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,320
Already?

1079
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,080
Yeah, I did, because when I was going over to get our food,

1080
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,080
I was listening to it.

1081
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:53,200
And then Adam Curry, so appreciate my best friend, Adam.

1082
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,120
By the way, we had a bro date last week.

1083
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Yes, you did.

1084
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,800
That was super fun.

1085
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,680
We went to a very cool restaurant here in Fredericksburg,

1086
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:00,840
had a great time together.

1087
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,360
Iron sharpens iron in the biggest way.

1088
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:05,280
So love my bro.

1089
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,880
He has a great podcast called No Agenda.

1090
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,200
He writes this and he boosted us, by the way.

1091
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,800
It was a striper boost, so I got to do a striper boost.

1092
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,520
He said, this is one of my go-to must-listen podcasts,

1093
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,560
no matter what day it comes out,

1094
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,280
because we never know lately.

1095
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,120
So thanks for hanging in there with us.

1096
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,560
We love you guys.

1097
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,560
Thank you for listening today.

1098
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,720
Well, anything you want to say on the way out, baby girl?

1099
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,520
What a blessing it is to be able to do this podcast.

1100
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:35,960
Hopefully help people out there.

1101
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,880
Yeah, that's our heart.

1102
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:37,760
We love you guys.

1103
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,640
Have an amazing week and we are out of here.

1104
00:42:40,640 --> 00:43:05,640
I'll see you next time.