Pray Wild Prayers | Immersive Prayer Weekend

What if the bold prayers you’ve been thinking about are the very ones God is waiting to hear?  This weekend, we’re not just talking about prayer — we’re doing it. You’ll be guided through a real, raw, and powerful prayer experience. One that helps you bring your biggest hopes, fears, and faith straight to God.

Grab a pen. Find a quiet spot. And let’s lean in.

Recorded live at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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    - Well good morning, everybody. My name is Brian Tome.
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    I'm what's called a senior pastor around here,
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    if we haven't met before.
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    Everyone staying warm today? I hope so.
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    Hey, if you're a part of our church
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    and you've ever been on the app and we have your email,
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    you got an email from us this last week
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    on a very, very weighty matter regarding
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    a firing that we undertook.
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    And if you didn't get that email and you're like,
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    "Hey, I thought it was part of a church?"
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    We'd love you to be able to get any sort of email we have.
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    Just register on the app and we'll be able
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    to send you that and other emails that we do.
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    But I just want to say this,
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    we're not talking about that today.
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    We're going to maybe pray about that.
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    But all that needs to be said about that weighty matter
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    I put in that email, and that is the details
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    and the really deal.
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    This week, if you're curious, like,
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    why would a church do that?
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    Why would they call somebody out like that?
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    What does church discipline look like?
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    I'm going to write an article, I'm going to put it
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    in the in the app this week if you want to understand
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    a little bit more about behind
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    our thinking on things like that.
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    So no statement today. Already made it.
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    That's all we're doing. Let's move on.
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    And Joel is -- we can move on.
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    I'm not going to move on. Joel's a friend of mine,
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    by the way, there's a higher standard we hold,
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    even with friends of mine.
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    We have to hold that standard.
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    But this doesn't define us.
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    So let me pray and then we're going to get going
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    on something pretty fun today. Everyone good with that?
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    All right. God, thank You for being a God of truth
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    and a God of grace.
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    And we want to encounter You today and know You today
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    in a powerful and profound way.
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    God, we pray that Your Spirit, Your Spirit
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    will come and inhabit our rooms today
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    and that we would get to a new place
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    in our communication with You. Amen.
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    - Let's stand together.
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    If you're online, join with us.
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    Here's what we're going to do, we're going to focus
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    our full attention on who God is and say this to Him.
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    - It's our hope that today is a special day for you,
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    one where you get to encounter God in a powerful way.
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    Not just go to church,
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    not just watch a church service online,
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    but you experience God specifically through prayer,
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    in a new way, in a fresh way.
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    So to that end, we are actually kind of
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    flipping the script and changing things up
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    a little bit this morning.
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    But I want to give you a sense of some of the things
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    that are going on in our community.
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    Now we're wrapping up our series called Pray Wild Prayers
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    today, which has been so good.
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    But actually next week something really special happens as well.
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    It's called the Super Bowl of Preaching. Come on.
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    And if you are like maybe not around Crossroads
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    and those words Super Bowl of Preaching
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    in that order sound insane. Hey, I get it.
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    The Super Bowl of Preaching is actually something
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    we started, man, over a decade ago to recognize
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    what was the least attended weekend of the entire year
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    and actually kind of change it up.
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    It's become one of our most attended,
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    one of our most attended for specifically people
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    who, you know, maybe don't love the typical church thing
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    or aren't going to easily say yes to an invite to church,
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    this is -- it's fun and it's meaningful.
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    It's like I literally the first time I went,
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    I had a friend invite me, and like,
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    "You want me to come to what now?"
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    I laughed hysterically and I cried in the same service.
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    Like I felt like I saw God, I saw church, I saw faith,
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    and I even saw myself a little bit differently as a result.
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    We'd love for you to come.
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    We'd love for you to come to one of our sites
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    if you're within driving distance.
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    If you're not, we've got an incredible experience.
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    It'll even be live and interactive happening
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    at Crossroads.net/SuperBowl.
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    It's going to be amazing. Don't miss it.
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    And if you live within range of one of our sites,
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    we'd actually love your help making the party happen.
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    If you're one of the people who hears like,
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    "Hey, my church needs help and I'm going to jump in,"
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    we need you, we have hundreds of volunteer spots,
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    particularly with Kids Club,
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    that we'd love your help filling.
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    Help make the party happen.
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    Now, if you're not near one of our physical sites,
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    we'd also love your help making the party happen
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    by hosting a watch party.
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    We're actually going to have a Q&A on how to do that
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    and what that looks like immediately after service
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    with myself and some of my team.
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    You can join us for that.
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    Now, whether it's Super Bowl of Preaching,
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    whether it's the weekend that you're watching right now,
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    all the things that we do are meant to help people
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    grow with God and take their next step with Him.
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    But it all happens because people are generous
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    and faithful and trust God with their finances
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    and with their resources.
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    Now, you might be new around here.
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    We want you to know, like, hey, we're not looking
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    to get anything from you. We want something great for you.
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    We want you to experience more of God,
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    more of His presence, more of His joy, more of His fun,
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    more of His purpose in your life.
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    If you've got questions about what Crossroads
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    believes about money you can do so at crossroads.net/give.
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    Or if you're like, ready to take that step
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    towards trusting God with your finances,
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    you can do that as well, just head to Crossroads.net/give.
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    Now, I'm excited about this weekend,
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    about the prayer experience that's happening.
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    I'm excited about next weekend
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    with the Super Bowl of Preaching,
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    but man, right after that is something
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    incredibly special called the Run Journey.
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    It's where everything we do, our teaching is 11 out of 10.
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    We've got small group component where you get
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    to process what God's showing you alongside other people
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    in a really fun, creative way.
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    And there's actually this individual guide.
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    It's like a custom growth plan that you'll go through.
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    If you live near one of our physical sites,
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    you'll be picking this up there in just a couple of weeks.
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    But if you don't, if you are part of
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    our Anywhere Community across the globe
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    or across the world or across the nation,
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    we need to get these in the mail to you totally free of charge.
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    And we want to do that now.
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    Make sure you have it ready to start on time,
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    so go to crossroads.net/journey.
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    You can scroll all the way to the bottom.
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    There's a little form that you fill out
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    that'll just give us your information
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    so that we can get this in the mail so you're ready to start.
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    And there's also this small group component,
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    this group component where we just know
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    we don't grow best on our own.
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    You know, we grow best in the context of community.
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    We'd love for you to join us for that.
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    And I'll actually be leading a small group on Monday nights.
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    We've got all kinds of groups led by
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    all different kinds of people
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    for all different life stages, demographics.
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    You can get all those at Crossroads.net/journey as well.
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    But let's say who is the Journey for?
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    The Journey is for you.
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    If you want to understand more of the specific race
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    and purpose that God has created you to run,
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    if you've ever felt like just wondering
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    how do you fit in or what is the unique purpose
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    God has for you, I really, really firmly believe
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    this Run Journey will help you towards that end.
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    And I know it's called the Run Journey,
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    but this isn't like a fitness thing.
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    This is a chance for you to experience more
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    of what God has made you to experience
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    and what He wants for you.
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    Now, all the things we do around here are meant
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    to help you grow, meant to help you experience
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    more of God and His love, His purpose,
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    and His plan for your life.
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    So thank you so much for joining us.
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    We're going to continue in our series
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    called Pray Wild Prayers,
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    not just by talking about prayer,
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    not just by learning about what prayer means,
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    but about by experiencing ourselves.
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    Let's jump in right now.
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    - Filmed on location in two new countries,
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    five weeks of live teaching as the Bible
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    is brought to life each week,
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    and one incredible opportunity to level up your life.
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    Join us as we follow the missionary journeys
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    of the Apostle Paul and learn from
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    the radical race he ran to change the world.
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    Wipe the sleep from your soul.
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    You have a race to run and you can win.
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    Get off the sidelines of your life,
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    learn to turn suffering into endurance,
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    endurance into character, and character into hope.
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    It is time. Wake up! Run your race! Win!
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    Real Encounters with God; Run Journey.
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    - Yeah. That's going to be great in a couple weeks.
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    Trust me. And I think today is going to be great too.
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    It's going to be a bit different.
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    We've been in the midst of a series looking on prayer.
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    And some of the teaching has been great, specifically,
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    the teaching that I've done has been great, great.
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    But we thought, you know, we're like three weeks
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    in this prayer series, the last one,
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    here's a wild idea, what if we actually pray.
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    Wow. What if instead of talking about prayer,
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    we actually pray?
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    So that's what we're going to do the rest of our time.
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    We have a bunch of things to do to stimulate us.
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    That's part of the reason why many of our prayer lives
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    is nonexistent or it's its very stale is because
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    we're not sure how to pray and we don't use
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    all the tools at our disposal.
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    So today we're going to use a multisensory approach,
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    which is really good to keep your focus when you pray.
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    So one of the things that we gave you
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    was one of these prayer books.
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    You can all take that out. We're going to use this today.
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    If you're with us online
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    or you're not in any of our rooms right now,
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    then just find any piece of paper around you at all
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    and you can use this.
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    We're going to go through a model for prayer
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    that I've used for a long time.
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    It's not the only model for prayer that I use,
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    but it's one that I use, I've used for a while
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    and it's been around for a while. I didn't invent this.
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    It's a four step process for knowing how to pray.
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    P-R-A-Y. P is for praise, R is for repent,
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    A is for ask, and Y is for yield,
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    hearing from God and doing what He says.
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    Now these four steps are pretty related to
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    one of the most iconic symbols for connecting with God
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    in the Bible, which was the Old Testament temple.
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    The Old Testament temple was a sign of
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    the character of God and a sign of the way
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    things operate in the heavenlies.
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    I'm going to go through the book of Hebrews today.
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    The book of Hebrews, as we pray through
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    these various portions, was created so that
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    the ancient Hebrew people could see how the practices
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    in the Old Testament are fulfilled in modern times.
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    That's the point of Hebrews was.
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    And it says this about the temple.
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    It says in Hebrews 8:5: They serve at a sanctuary
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    (that's the temple, they, the priests)
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    that is a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven.
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    So the temple, this ancient millennium,
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    millennia old structure that was destroyed
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    for the last time in 70 AD,
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    it serves to mirror things that are in heaven.
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    So let me walk you, just give you a basic overview
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    of where we're going to go. This is the temple.
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    What you would do is you would leave behind
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    all of your old world, and you would come up into the temple.
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    This is the outer court. These are the steps coming in.
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    Actually, now let's come back here.
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    Let's do this right.
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    You would leave behind your outer world,
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    and you would walk up the steps
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    and you would come into the outer court.
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    We're going to be at the steps in the outer court.
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    Then you would come in to where there was the sacrifices.
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    In this outer court there was praise.
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    You were saying, "I'm going to leave behind
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    what was behind me."
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    And then you would come up into here
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    where there were sacrifices, we'll talk about,
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    which is the part of repentance.
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    And then you would come into the more inner courts
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    and you would be asking, asking God,
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    asking Him for things.
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    And then you would come up to veil.
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    And this veil was separating where you were here
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    from where the high priest was.
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    And there was a level of mystery in here,
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    as the high priest was interceding for people
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    and trying to hear from God.
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    And this is where we yield, we yield.
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    We praise, we repent, we ask, and we yield.
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    We're going to do these four things today as a church.
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    And if you're not part of our church,
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    we're here today just as a group.
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    And these are things that you can do in the future.
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    Now let's start with our little prayer book here right now.
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    First thing I want to do and I want to pray is
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    I recognize I am, I'm distracted.
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    I'm thinking of things I've got to do.
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    Things pop into my brain.
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    And so what I want to do is I just want to
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    try to get out of my mind.
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    Get out of my mind the things that might distract me.
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    Like, oh, remember, call Jill.
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    Don't forget to pick up bread when I leave church.
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    You know, whatever it is.
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    So let's use your thing just to do a brain dump.
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    Whatever's on there, whatever you're thinking,
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    just put it down. Get it out so you can focus.
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    So, God, as we dump these things right now at Your feet,
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    as we dump them at Your feet, would You take these things
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    and just take care of them?
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    Just help us get this out, God.
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    Go ahead. Write it down. Get it out.
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    1 Peter 5:7 says: Cast all your anxieties on Him.
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    Cast these anxieties on Him because He cares for you.
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    Okay, now we're doing, God, and as I pray right now,
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    you're not going to tell maybe when I'm praying
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    and when I'm talking.
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    When I'm talking to God, when I'm communicating to God,
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    it's not a regimented. I'm conversing with Him.
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    So you might not be able to tell what it is,
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    but God is present and He is here.
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    And so God, right now, as we've written these things down,
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    will we try to do, God, we want to leave these things
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    behind for the rest for the next hour or so,
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    however much time we have left, we want to leave them behind.
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    Those are behind us with our normal life.
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    And so, God, we are now walking.
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    We are ascending the Holy hill.
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    We want to walk up the steps to have prayer with You.
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    God, I pray that You would open that gigantic door
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    to help us enter into Your presence.
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    God, we don't want the normal stuff right now.
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    We want You and we're intentionally turning our back
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    on everything that's on those sheets of paper
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    and everything else in our life
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    that we're not going to pray about right now.
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    We're here today, God, to say we want to be different.
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    And we recognize that You're different.
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    We're here to actually praise You.
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    Hebrews 13:15 says: Through Jesus, therefore,
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    let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,
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    the fruit of lips that openly profess His Name.
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    And God, we start by giving You sacrifice of praise
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    and telling You thank You and that we are grateful,
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    and You're worthy.
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    Let's stand right now. Let's just stand
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    and tell Him that right now in prayer and through a song.
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    - If you could sing those words with a full heart
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    knowing that God's been with you every moment,
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    every step of the way, then put your body where your heart is.
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    Both hands in the air. Sing at the top of your lungs.
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    - God, I think about survival.
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    That song says I've survived.
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    So many of us, God, we could say, "Man,
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    I can't believe I'm here. I survived.
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    Survived spiritually, survived emotionally,
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    or survived physically. I should be dead.
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    I should be dead and I have You to praise that I'm not dead."
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    Those branches should have broken
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    when I was building tree forts 30 feet up in the air
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    as a little kid, on branches as thick as my dad's thumb.
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    Should have collapsed. I should be dead.
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    Should have been dead when I crawled
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    under a school bus that was idling when I got off
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    to get a can to crush, and that tire skimmed my hand
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    just as I left, should have been dead, but I survived.
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    Should have been dead when I went 70 miles an hour
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    on a rented motorcycle with no helmet
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    and flying 60 feet on pavement and air, but I'm here.
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    I should have could have been dead just
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    a couple of years ago in a stupid hunting accident
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    when a bullet hit a tree five feet above my head.
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    I am here, and I am here because of You, God.
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    I'm here because of You.
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    And I may be gone tomorrow. That's fine.
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    I have no sense of entitlement that I should have
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    a long life, I have no sense of entitlement
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    of exactly what should take place in my life.
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    I just know I'm here.
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    And I know I'm echoing prayers in here for others
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    to say I'm here because of You. We praise You, God.
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    You're higher than we are.
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    You're greater than we are.
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    You're of a different category than we are.
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    You are exalted. We are low.
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    You are holy. We are unholy.
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    You are pure. We are impure.
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    You are masterful and long term,
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    and we are stupid and short term relative to You.
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    You are loving and kind and we are mean and gossipers.
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    You think about things that we can't think about.
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    You empower people the way we can't empower them.
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    Because you own the cattle on a thousand hills.
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    You own all resources, all of them, because they are of You.
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    And You have a way of seeing things
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    and empowering people that none of us have.
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    Because You are God, the holy, most upright one.
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    And who are You to think of us?
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    I can't believe, God, You think of us in a way
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    that I wouldn't, I don't think of ants,
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    I don't think of them at all. They're way beneath me.
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    An ant is closer to me than I am You.
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    And yet You think of us.
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    Go ahead and have a seat.
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    Let's have some more prayer right now.
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    Here's how you're going to pray.
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    Open up your phone. Take your phone out.
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    Go to your photos, and your photos are going to serve
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    to remind you of ways that God has been good to you,
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    the things that you are grateful for,
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    things that you're thankful for.
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    Just open up those photos.
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    You know, I see, uh, gosh.
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    I see a 1952 Dodge Power wagon here that I'm restoring.
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    God, thanks for giving me the resources to buy
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    an old truck that I don't even need. Thank You.
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    I see elk. God, thank You.
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    You've enabled me take down two elk this year.
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    And now there's my great, great friends.
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    God, thank you for richly blessing me with *** log 512.
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    Thank You, thank You.
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    Always gets me, my three kids, seven grandkids
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    made me rich. So rich.
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    Go through your pictures.
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    Use them as a source of gratitude to God,
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    how He's blessed you and if you want to write it down,
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    that's great. If not, just just use it.
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    Thank you God, I praise You. Thank You for being good to me.
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    Murmur it to God. Think it to God. Write it down.
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    Just tell Him.
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    He never grows tired of His children complimenting him.
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    We don't do compliments in our culture
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    and therefore many of us don't compliment God.
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    Just give it to Him.
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    You want your kids to compliment you.
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    I'd like it too every once in a while.
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    Give it to your heavenly father.
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    Matthew 6:9, Jesus says: Pray then like this:
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    "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your Name."
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    God, You are hallowed, which means holy.
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    You are distinct. You are different.
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    You're in a class all your own.
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    We would never -- We would never be as kind
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    or as good or as generous to lesser things
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    the way You are to us. Who are we?
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    Who are we that you think of us?
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    We want to be more like You.
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    And we praise You for who You are. It's astounding.
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    Now, as we talk with God and as we praise Him,
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    it's really hard, God, for us to look at You
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    without simultaneously seeing ourselves.
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    And when we're looking at You,
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    I feel that much worse about myself.
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    The less I believe about You,
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    the higher I'm going to think about myself.
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    Maybe the reason, God, were so -- we're so defiant
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    in our culture and we're so unapologetic is because
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    we just don't know You and we're just too high on ourselves.
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    But as I see You and Your standard, I come woefully short.
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    I am sickened, I'm sickened, actually,
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    by the things that I do, the things I am,
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    the thoughts that I have, the way I judge others,
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    hang ups that I have that I just I'm still hung up on.
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    I'm not going to confess all of those
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    in front of thousands of people,
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    but I have and I will privately,
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    and I will to my closest friends.
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    But God, I recognize these things are just heinous
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    and horrible and I want to repent.
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    I want to turn from the ways that I'm not like You,
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    turn the things that disgust You.
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    As they would come into the temple
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    and they would start their praise,
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    and then they would go in and they would have
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    the place where the sacrifice was.
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    The sacrifice was given as they would bring
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    a baby calf, say, or a lamb, or if you were in poverty
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    and you couldn't afford that to sacrifice,
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    you could bring a little a turtle dove
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    or a little dove, pigeon to bring.
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    And the priests who were men would sacrifice these.
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    One of the theories for why these priests were men
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    and why God didn't want women, just a theory,
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    is that this was a very physical job.
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    It's like manual labor back when, yeah,
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    it's manual labor, because all day long
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    these guys would be taking these lambs and these calves
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    and lifting them up and putting them down on an altar
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    all day long and required muscle mass that
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    the average woman didn't have to do that all day long.
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    When we think about sacrificial system,
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    we get kind of grossed out because many of us
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    have never seen blood unless we accidentally cut ourselves.
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    So the thought of bloody sacrifice freaks you and I out
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    because we've never seen an animal die, most of us, before.
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    We've never -- Most of us, even though we eat chicken,
  • 00:33:28
    we've never actually killed a chicken.
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    This is very rare.
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    It's only really within the last 60 years in America
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    that this has been affordable.
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    In the ancient world, the blood wouldn't freak them out
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    because they saw blood all the time.
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    What freaked them out was that they knew
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    the spiritual significance of what was taking place.
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    They would bring their animal to the priest.
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    The priest would put it on top of the altar,
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    and both of them would put their hands
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    on top of the animal, and the priest would take a knife
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    and slit the animal's throat.
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    And blood would go all over the place,
  • 00:34:05
    and there would be a bleeding and a death that was happening.
  • 00:34:09
    And this person who had their hands on the animal
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    wasn't freaked out by the blood.
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    They were freaked out at the spiritual weightiness of this
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    because they knew what was happening was this:
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    "God, who am I? I should be dead.
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    I should be, I should be the one.
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    Because something that's less than me
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    does something that dishonors me, I squash it.
  • 00:34:30
    Whether it's a bug or another person with my gossip
  • 00:34:32
    and God, who am I that You are passing over my stuff
  • 00:34:37
    and reminding me from the death that that should be me?"
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    When you and I come to God, when we come to place
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    of who You are, we come to a place of who we are,
  • 00:34:48
    and it's disgusting.
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    God, we're sorry for lowering Your standards
  • 00:34:55
    so that we can barely meet them.
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    God, we're sorry for being more interested
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    in unholiness than we are in holiness.
  • 00:35:10
    God, we're sorry for just not being willing
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    to have Your fire refine us,
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    to have You do something different in us.
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    Let's take our books out right now
  • 00:35:27
    and let's just write down the things you need to repent of.
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    The things you're going to confess before God,
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    He knows what these things are.
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    But you know when you say that to somebody you care about,
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    you go, "Thank you. That means a lot to me"
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    It would mean a lot to God for you to tell Him
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    what He already knows, and that is whatever. Write it down.
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    We're going to do something with that. Write it down.
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    And now, if you're afraid someone's going to look
  • 00:35:54
    over your shoulder or beside you, I understand
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    you don't want them to see that.
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    Just, you can use a code word if you want.
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    He knows what you're talking about.
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    Let's just list our sin that needs to be burned.
  • 00:36:05
    Let's say our sin that's separating us
  • 00:36:08
    from having a relationship with God we want.
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    Just write it down.
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    - There's an interesting transition
  • 00:38:49
    that takes place in the temple.
  • 00:38:51
    Again, that verse we read earlier says
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    the temple is a mirror of things that are in heaven.
  • 00:38:56
    It's setting the people of God up for understanding the future.
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    And if you've received Christ, you're a person of God.
  • 00:39:03
    You're a part of the people of God.
  • 00:39:04
    Hebrews 10:12 says this:
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    But when Christ had offered for all time
  • 00:39:09
    a single sacrifice for sins,
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    He sat down at the right hand of God.
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    The priests, as they were offering,
  • 00:39:19
    they kept offering and offering.
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    There was no end to offering.
  • 00:39:23
    Just bring more, bring more, bring more, bring more.
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    Jesus is the perfect lamb.
  • 00:39:29
    And when He goes to the cross, it's in essence the altar.
  • 00:39:34
    And it's a public spectacle where He spreads out His arms.
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    Instead of a knife to the throat,
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    nails go through the wrists.
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    And the right wrist, and a single nail through both feet.
  • 00:39:58
    It was a shameful act where He was cursed publicly.
  • 00:40:02
    And this happened because He was our representative,
  • 00:40:06
    as was the ancient offerings
  • 00:40:09
    were the people's representative.
  • 00:40:10
    The difference was it's a one time thing.
  • 00:40:13
    One time only. One time he did it.
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    And then He sat down because as a high priest,
  • 00:40:18
    He didn't have to keep offering sacrifices
  • 00:40:20
    because there's only one, and He gave it for you and for I,
  • 00:40:24
    for anybody who would receive Him.
  • 00:40:25
    Now I'm going to pray some prayers of repentance.
  • 00:40:27
    And I'll just say this, some of you
  • 00:40:29
    aren't going to like these prayers.
  • 00:40:31
    Some of you aren't going to agree with these prayers.
  • 00:40:33
    That's okay. You don't have to agree with them.
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    Say your own, but I'm going to represent us
  • 00:40:37
    and I'm going to say things and pray things
  • 00:40:39
    I want to with repentance, and then you can do the same,
  • 00:40:43
    or you can participate with me.
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    So God I am disgusted at my low standards.
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    I keep trying to dumb down my standards and 'm sorry.
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    I'm so sorry that I'm afraid to be like You.
  • 00:41:01
    And I'm looking for every reason to be
  • 00:41:03
    the person I want to be,
  • 00:41:05
    instead of be the person that You want me to be.
  • 00:41:09
    And God, I'm sorry.
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    We're sorry that our church is not better at this either.
  • 00:41:15
    We're sorry, God, that we in our church, we want to fit in.
  • 00:41:20
    We want to be one of the cool kids.
  • 00:41:22
    And we've got all the isms here in our church,
  • 00:41:24
    all of them, all the isms that some of us have repented of:
  • 00:41:27
    materialism, hedonism, racism, isolationism, judgmentalism.
  • 00:41:35
    God, we should be better. We should be better than we are.
  • 00:41:40
    God, we confess. We confess.
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    Man, those of us on the right are more into being in
  • 00:41:46
    the right than we are being into the Kingdom of God.
  • 00:41:49
    Those on the left are more into our ideology
  • 00:41:52
    than we are being in the Kingdom of God.
  • 00:41:54
    God, those of us on the right, we have our newsfeeds.
  • 00:41:56
    We have our things we believe.
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    And if we don't hear what we want to hear, we get upset.
  • 00:42:00
    Well, what about hearing from God?
  • 00:42:01
    Those on the left, we're on the left,
  • 00:42:03
    we're getting our own news feeds.
  • 00:42:05
    And if we don't hear what we want to hear,
  • 00:42:07
    oh, man, we are not happy about that at all.
  • 00:42:09
    God, we confess we are more into our politics
  • 00:42:12
    than we are the Kingdom of God.
  • 00:42:14
    We're sorry. It's disgusting.
  • 00:42:15
    We confess that we are broken about our brokenness,
  • 00:42:20
    and we're confess God that we're broken
  • 00:42:21
    about the state of our country. Horrible.
  • 00:42:24
    God, it's the basic incident, man, that
  • 00:42:27
    we can't even agree on because we're so divided
  • 00:42:30
    because it doesn't agree with our political view.
  • 00:42:34
    God, we confess our heart that we're not broken,
  • 00:42:37
    that a man could be shot in the back while he lies down
  • 00:42:41
    by somebody whose salary paid through our taxes.
  • 00:42:44
    God, I learned watching Lone Ranger
  • 00:42:46
    when I was a little kid, don't shoot somebody in the back.
  • 00:42:48
    That's if they're standing up.
  • 00:42:50
    Freaking lying down on the ground and getting shot
  • 00:42:53
    in the back with a phone in our hand.
  • 00:42:55
    And God, sorry, we're not disgusted by this.
  • 00:42:57
    We're more interested in defending our worldview
  • 00:43:00
    and political view and our immigration status or beliefs,
  • 00:43:04
    then just noticing it's a horrible betrayal.
  • 00:43:07
    And God, we confess that --
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    We confess that we don't react well
  • 00:43:12
    when something happens that we don't like,
  • 00:43:14
    whether it's a church staff member who gets fired,
  • 00:43:16
    if we like that staff member,
  • 00:43:18
    we're more into maybe that then we're into the truth
  • 00:43:21
    of the unholiness behind it.
  • 00:43:24
    God, we're asking we become a better and different church.
  • 00:43:27
    We're asking that we would all be raving lunatics of love
  • 00:43:33
    while at the same time being broken by our sin.
  • 00:43:38
    We know that we get that from You.
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    You've modeled that, You've loved us,
  • 00:43:43
    and You've been broken by our sin because You've been broken.
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    Mhm. Man, You're good.
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    Jesus sat down because all things we wrote, they're over.
  • 00:43:55
    So whatever your things were,
  • 00:43:57
    here's what we're going to do.
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    Just rip out that piece of paper,
  • 00:43:59
    or if you want to make another one,
  • 00:44:01
    just rip out that piece of paper.
  • 00:44:04
    Like these things, just crumple them up.
  • 00:44:06
    They're over, done. They're done. Means nothing to God.
  • 00:44:10
    You thought the people who were in the service
  • 00:44:12
    before you were really sloppy?
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    No, because what we're doing now is
  • 00:44:16
    we're going to throw them in the aisle,
  • 00:44:18
    and we're going to walk on them because they're nothing.
  • 00:44:21
    They're beneath us. Means nothing.
  • 00:44:23
    So just throw it in the aisle.
  • 00:44:25
    If you're in the middle and you can't reach it
  • 00:44:27
    and someone's sin hits you in the face,
  • 00:44:29
    just put it in the aisle for them, because it's nothing.
  • 00:44:33
    Get it away from you.
  • 00:44:34
    Here's the great news:
  • 00:44:36
    God doesn't identify you with your sin.
  • 00:44:38
    He identifies you with who Jesus is.
  • 00:44:41
    And we're going to walk all over it
  • 00:44:42
    as we walk out of here and around here today.
  • 00:44:46
    That's how good His. [applause]
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    That He has the standards that He has
  • 00:44:57
    and still is loving us and it's still sat down
  • 00:45:00
    and said, "Okay, I'm done with it." Stunning.
  • 00:45:03
    That's our God.
  • 00:45:05
    Why don't we want to talk with Him more often, I don't know.
  • 00:45:09
    Mhm. Now we've gotten our self, God, in a place to ask.
  • 00:45:18
    We've left the things behind us.
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    We've rightly put You in the place in our minds,
  • 00:45:22
    which is where You are hallowed and holy and powerful and pure.
  • 00:45:27
    We've done a little cleanse of our life
  • 00:45:28
    and we've said to you, God, here's the things
  • 00:45:32
    I think are standing away, standing in the way
  • 00:45:34
    of my relationship with You.
  • 00:45:36
    We've done those things, and now we're ready to ask.
  • 00:45:42
    Hebrews 4:16 says this:
  • 00:45:45
    Let us approach God's throne of grace with confidence,
  • 00:45:51
    so that we may receive mercy
  • 00:45:54
    and find grace to help us in our time of need.
  • 00:45:58
    So we go to God with confidence now, like,
  • 00:46:02
    I'm not like this meager little woe is me. I'm not worthy.
  • 00:46:07
    No, like, Jesus has died for me.
  • 00:46:10
    He's good with me and I go before Him in confidence.
  • 00:46:14
    I go deeper in prayer to where I actually ask.
  • 00:46:18
    There's a barrier between many of us and God,
  • 00:46:21
    or we perceive there this barrier. There is no barrier.
  • 00:46:25
    God can hear from you at any time, in any place,
  • 00:46:28
    any type of prayer that you want.
  • 00:46:30
    When Jesus dies on a cross, being the ultimate sacrifice
  • 00:46:35
    that sets us right before God,
  • 00:46:37
    there's a significant thing that happens the moment He dies.
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    It details it in the New Testament.
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    When He dies there is a curtain
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    that's 60 feet high, 30 feet wide,
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    and about the width of a hand thick.
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    A big, thick, massive thing that would separate
  • 00:46:56
    the normal people from the Holy of Holies,
  • 00:47:00
    where there was the Ark of the Covenant
  • 00:47:02
    that contained things like Moses's staff
  • 00:47:05
    and the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
  • 00:47:08
    And this was the place where the high holy priests would go.
  • 00:47:12
    And there was a mystery,
  • 00:47:13
    a mystery of what was going on there,
  • 00:47:14
    because there was this curtain that was separate.
  • 00:47:16
    No one could go in there.
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    And some of us that might have kept our prayer life back
  • 00:47:21
    because we feel like, I don't know what to say.
  • 00:47:25
    I don't know what goes on in there, I don't know.
  • 00:47:28
    Here's the thing, God breaks down that barrier
  • 00:47:32
    that's between us.
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    When Jesus dies, God reaches down
  • 00:47:38
    and He grabs the top of that curtain.
  • 00:48:51
    - He has power to heal, power to save,
  • 00:48:54
    and He has power to say yes to your requests.
  • 00:48:58
    Take out your prayer journal again if you'd like.
  • 00:49:02
    And now we're just going to ask.
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    We're going to ask God what you want Him to do for you.
  • 00:49:12
    Because you're more qualified to ask now than ever before.
  • 00:49:16
    Because you set your heart right before God exalting Him.
  • 00:49:19
    You've cleared out the garbage and junk
  • 00:49:23
    and the things you still want to happen right now,
  • 00:49:25
    you're probably more more likely to be praying
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    in alignment with the will of God,
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    which will cause Him to have more yeses
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    than had you not done what we just did.
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    Bible says you have not because you ask not.
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    It's a good news to know that there are things that
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    you could have and you don't have
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    just because you haven't asked.
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    So write them down right now.
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    What do you want? Write them down.
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    I'll pray and you can write.
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    God, I am praying for those of us
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    the ends never meet at the end of the month.
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    They never do. I don't know.
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    For some of us, there's an income problem?
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    Is it a wisdom problem? But I don't know.
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    But I'm praying that You would make a way,
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    that You would bring resources where there aren't resources,
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    You'd bring wisdom where there isn't wisdom.
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    Some of us, God, are unbelievably lonely.
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    We identify with the isolationism sin.
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    But it's not by our our own choosing.
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    We don't like it. We don't want to be isolated.
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    We're just -- We're not sure how to make a friend
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    or find a friend.
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    God, bring a friend. Bring one.
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    Some of us would like to be married.
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    We're frustrated we can't find the right person.
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    God, would you at least give us a date?
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    Give us a date?
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    Cause the wart to fall off the end of our nose
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    so we're attractive to that person. Yeah.
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    In case you're wondering, God finds me funny.
  • 00:51:06
    In case you wonder why. We're talking to God.
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    I ask that, um, I asked for --
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    I've talked with folks in here, man, they want a child
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    or they want another child, and things just aren't working.
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    I pray that the uterus, the wall lining
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    would hold what it needs to.
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    I pray that the sperm would be strong swimmers.
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    I pray that You would create life for a couple
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    that wants to honor You because You say
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    to be fruitful and multiply.
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    And for those couples that want that,
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    I ask that you would make that come to pass.
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    Just if you're here with someone you're married to
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    and that's you, you both identify with that,
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    put your hand on right now. Put your hand on.
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    Do your thing. Do your thing.
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    God, we pray for our church that in the midst
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    of all of our differences here, that we would be
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    a place where Republicans are happy to worship with Democrats
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    and lefties are happy to worship with righties.
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    That the world would look at us and go,
  • 00:52:04
    "How do those people have some different convictions
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    about immigration?
  • 00:52:08
    How do people have some different convictions
  • 00:52:10
    on the budget or whatever?
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    And yet they still are one,
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    yet they still love one another?"
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    Yeah, God, we want to be a peculiar people.
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    That's what You want. We want to be a different people.
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    We are different than the average person in our culture.
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    We choose to not be how --
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    God, we're asking that we're not defined by our politics,
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    but we're defined by our identity as a child of God,
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    that that will be our strong suit.
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    God, I pray for the medical diagnoses that are --
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    That seem to be that we've reached the end of the road
  • 00:52:40
    and there's no nothing else
  • 00:52:41
    other than You to be the Great Physician.
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    I thank you, God, that you have been doing
  • 00:52:46
    legitimate physical healings in our midst.
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    And we want more. We want more.
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    God, I pray for the --
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    We ask for help with the mental illness
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    that ravages our culture
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    and ravages many of us in our church.
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    If You bring healing to the physical eyes,
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    You can bring healing
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    to the synaptic connections in our brain.
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    We ask for, God.
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    Write down what you want. Write it if you have not,
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    maybe because you haven't asked.
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    - Hmm. Okay, now we're going to yield.
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    God's heard a lot from us, and now we're going to see
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    if we hear something from God.
  • 00:56:39
    When God tore this curtain
  • 00:56:42
    from the top all the way to the bottom,
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    it opened up the Holy of Holies, where there was mystery
  • 00:56:51
    of what the high priest was doing in there.
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    Because there was something, apparently,
  • 00:56:55
    that was special between the high priest and God.
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    And at that time in redemptive history
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    that was sealed and separated.
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    Well, now the curtain is torn.
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    God was saying, "No, it's not.
  • 00:57:06
    Anybody can talk to Me any time.
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    Anybody can hear from Me at any time."
  • 00:57:12
    How do we hear from God?
  • 00:57:13
    Well, we maybe have a thought that crosses our mind,
  • 00:57:15
    "Where did that come from?
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    Because that's not something I would normally think of."
  • 00:57:19
    And Jesus probably likes that thought,
  • 00:57:20
    well, just assume that was God.
  • 00:57:23
    Maybe it is a literal thing that you hear.
  • 00:57:26
    Maybe it's a just a strong urge that's unusual.
  • 00:57:30
    We have to learn and can learn to discern
  • 00:57:33
    what is just our own emotions and our own enzymes
  • 00:57:36
    and what's actually the Spirit of God.
  • 00:57:40
    Hebrews 7:25, talking about how the temple
  • 00:57:43
    can relate today, says: Therefore He is able to save
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    completely those who come to God through Him,
  • 00:57:49
    because He always lives to intercede for them.
  • 00:57:52
    Meaning, as Jesus sat down with God,
  • 00:57:55
    He's talking about you to Him.
  • 00:57:58
    "Hey, you know, John, I gotta tell you,
  • 00:58:00
    God, take care of John. I'm telling You he's with me.
  • 00:58:03
    I know he's got -- Take care of him.
  • 00:58:04
    Hey hey hey hey, Jill. Have Jill do xyz."
  • 00:58:08
    He's -- You're being prayed for by Jesus.
  • 00:58:11
    That's how vast His mind is.
  • 00:58:13
    And so when I yield, when we yield,
  • 00:58:16
    we're just being silent before God.
  • 00:58:18
    It's like we're asking God to let us overhear Him,
  • 00:58:23
    overhear what He's praying for,
  • 00:58:25
    and see if He says anything.
  • 00:58:26
    Jesus says this is an act of the Holy Spirit.
  • 00:58:30
    And He likens the Holy Spirit to wind
  • 00:58:32
    that's very unpredictable.
  • 00:58:35
    So let's spend a moment just being silent
  • 00:58:38
    and see if God actually says something to you,
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    if the Spirit of God moves in your life.
  • 00:58:45
    Spirit, come, speak as we want to yield.
  • 00:59:32
    Now something's coming to you that like you say,
  • 00:59:34
    "Hmm, that's interesting I thought of that."
  • 00:59:37
    I don't think God at least would oppose that.
  • 00:59:40
    Well, then just assume that God spoke to you,
  • 00:59:42
    and now you get to yield to it.
  • 00:59:45
    Actually, make a note of it. Write it down like, Hmm.
  • 00:59:47
    So therefore, as you yield, you're saying,
  • 00:59:50
    "God, I'm not just going to be a person of conversation,
  • 00:59:52
    I'm going to be a person of action.
  • 00:59:54
    I'm going to leave here, and I'm going to do this thing,
  • 00:59:57
    going to forgive that person,
  • 01:00:00
    going to pray for my enemy,
  • 01:00:02
    going to bless that person some way, shape or form.
  • 01:00:06
    Going to start this thing, going to stop that."
  • 01:00:09
    Whatever it is, just go ahead and go ahead
  • 01:00:10
    and write that down.
  • 01:00:19
    We have in front of the stages and all of our sites
  • 01:00:25
    mock wailing walls,
  • 01:00:26
    a cheap representation of the Wailing Wall,
  • 01:00:29
    which if you've ever been to Jerusalem,
  • 01:00:31
    which I've been many times.
  • 01:00:33
    You can go, and the temple was obliterated.
  • 01:00:35
    Temple hasn't been around since 70 AD.
  • 01:00:37
    The temple has been destroyed and rebuilt a number of times.
  • 01:00:40
    The last time it was around and destroyed was about 70 AD.
  • 01:00:43
    Right now the mosque stands there, is there right now.
  • 01:00:47
    The dome of the Rock is there.
  • 01:00:49
    But what you can do is you can see the stones
  • 01:00:53
    that were the former retaining walls
  • 01:00:56
    for the foundation of the temple.
  • 01:00:59
    Those retaining wall stones are still there today.
  • 01:01:03
    Actually, as I speak right now, there are Jews
  • 01:01:07
    who are taking prayers and they are sticking them
  • 01:01:11
    in the corner of the Wailing Wall, in the slices,
  • 01:01:14
    in the rocks, or visitors who are Christians
  • 01:01:18
    who are there right now as well,
  • 01:01:20
    sticking prayers into those rocks.
  • 01:01:23
    Now they do that because it's a good thing for them to do.
  • 01:01:26
    They want to enjoy doing that. It's a meaningful thing.
  • 01:01:30
    But it goes in rocks and it stays there.
  • 01:01:32
    At all of our sites, we have many wailing walls
  • 01:01:36
    where we're going to be able to bring
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    and put our prayers into the retaining walls of the temple.
  • 01:01:42
    And unlike the Wailing Wall, if you want,
  • 01:01:46
    this week we have a growing list of people
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    who are on our prayer team.
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    All of those things are going to be prayed for
  • 01:01:52
    by a person who is a prayer guru and loves to pray.
  • 01:01:56
    All of them at at all of our sites.
  • 01:01:59
    So you could take the page out of here t
  • 01:02:02
    hat was all of your asks.
  • 01:02:03
    You could just write one more thing on here if you want.
  • 01:02:06
    You can do nothing, whatever you want.
  • 01:02:09
    But we're going to connect with God.
  • 01:02:11
    We're going to do a song, and you're going to be able
  • 01:02:13
    to come forward as a as a sacred moment that says,
  • 01:02:16
    "God, I need your power.
  • 01:02:19
    Power beyond what I understand.
  • 01:02:21
    And I need prayer, and I want You to do something."
  • 01:02:25
    So, God, we choose to trust in You right now.
  • 01:02:28
    We're going to write these things down,
  • 01:02:30
    and we want to trust that You're going to do
  • 01:02:33
    something that we can't do, and we're going to ask
  • 01:02:35
    that You say yes as we declare,
  • 01:02:37
    whether you say yes or no, I choose to trust in You.
  • 01:02:45
    - We have a father who loves us.
  • 01:02:50
    He's not bummed out when we say,
  • 01:02:51
    "God, I need You to show up.
  • 01:02:52
    God, I need You to bring healing.
  • 01:02:54
    God, I need You to bring comfort.
  • 01:02:55
    God, I need You to bring whatever."
  • 01:02:57
    God loves it when we approach Him
  • 01:02:59
    with boldness and confidence.
  • 01:03:02
    God loves it, the articulation of trust that it is,
  • 01:03:05
    and love for Him that it is.
  • 01:03:07
    I want you to say, "God, we need you."
  • 01:03:09
    I don't know what your prayer is.
  • 01:03:11
    I don't know what the thing is that you're asking God for,
  • 01:03:14
    but I know that God cares about it.
  • 01:03:17
    And I know that God wants to see you,
  • 01:03:19
    not just think about a thing, or even pray about a thing,
  • 01:03:22
    but take a step in faith towards Him.
  • 01:03:26
    So while people at sites are going to be
  • 01:03:28
    putting their prayers, folding them up
  • 01:03:29
    and setting them in the little cracks of
  • 01:03:31
    our mock wailing walls here, there's nothing magical
  • 01:03:34
    about these fake walls at our site,
  • 01:03:36
    or even about the real Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
  • 01:03:39
    There's nothing magical about it,
  • 01:03:40
    but there's something special about taking
  • 01:03:44
    a step towards God, about doing that tangibly.
  • 01:03:47
    So we're going to do that even online right now.
  • 01:03:49
    This is a chance for you to participate
  • 01:03:50
    wherever you are in the world, whenever you're watching this.
  • 01:03:53
    We have a tool called Tagboard.
  • 01:03:55
    There's a QR code that will be up on the screen.
  • 01:03:57
    You just need to scan that.
  • 01:03:59
    And once you go there, it'll just have you,
  • 01:04:01
    give you an opportunity, totally anonymously
  • 01:04:03
    to submit your prayer request.
  • 01:04:05
    And myself and the prayer teams will be praying for you
  • 01:04:08
    and for your prayer request specifically.
  • 01:04:11
    Again, this is a moment for you online, wherever you are,
  • 01:04:16
    to say, "God, I need You to show up and I yield this.
  • 01:04:19
    I hand it over to You," by texting it in to us right now.
  • 01:04:23
    So make this an expression of your trust in God
  • 01:04:27
    that He wants to answer your prayers.
  • 01:07:18
    - We'll keep receiving your prayers.
  • 01:07:20
    I'll just close with this: Hebrews 13:20-21:
  • 01:07:23
    Now may the God of peace, that's who He is,
  • 01:07:27
    the God of peace, equip you with everything to do His will.
  • 01:07:34
    God, thank You for the pleasure of talking with You.
  • 01:07:37
    We want to do Your will and we're asking You
  • 01:07:40
    to say yes to these prayers, bless these people. Amen.
  • 01:12:10
    - I hope today was a reminder that God loves you,
  • 01:12:12
    that He has great things for you,
  • 01:12:14
    that He wants to connect with you.
  • 01:12:16
    And that this journey, this template that we went through
  • 01:12:18
    of praise, repent, ask, yield,
  • 01:12:20
    this isn't just a one time thing.
  • 01:12:22
    This could be your everyday thing.
  • 01:12:24
    This could be an incredibly helpful way
  • 01:12:26
    for you to connect with God, to hear from Him all the time.
  • 01:12:30
    Now, I love seeing these prayer requests come in,
  • 01:12:33
    again, totally anonymous.
  • 01:12:35
    But all of these requests through tagboard
  • 01:12:37
    of people saying, "God, I need You to show up."
  • 01:12:39
    I need You to show up for my daughter,
  • 01:12:41
    for her to reconnect with her faith,
  • 01:12:42
    for her to find a church,
  • 01:12:43
    for people to experience healing from ALS.
  • 01:12:47
    Lots of prayer requests for people's jobs,
  • 01:12:50
    for people to find meaningful work, God,
  • 01:12:53
    for people to find gainful employment.
  • 01:12:55
    And lots and lots of requests for physical healing.
  • 01:12:58
    Whatever your request is, go ahead and send that in.
  • 01:13:00
    We want to be praying for those things
  • 01:13:02
    all week long and all month long.
  • 01:13:04
    And I'll say this also, you can send us an email
  • 01:13:07
    crossroads.net/Anywhere
  • 01:13:08
    or just email us anywhere@crossroads.net.
  • 01:13:12
    Either way, that'll get to me and my team.
  • 01:13:14
    We'd love to be praying for you, specifically,
  • 01:13:17
    that God would show up, that He would heal,
  • 01:13:18
    that He would restore, that He would redeem.
  • 01:13:21
    Now, thank you so much for joining us again.
  • 01:13:24
    This isn't just a church.
  • 01:13:25
    This is a journey that we get to take with God.
  • 01:13:27
    He's always inviting us into more and more and more.
  • 01:13:31
    Particularly if you've got a friend
  • 01:13:33
    who maybe gave up on church
  • 01:13:34
    or hasn't been to church ever in a long time,
  • 01:13:36
    hey, Super Bowl of Preaching really could change
  • 01:13:40
    things for them in a powerful way.
  • 01:13:41
    That'll be next week. It's going to be a blast.
  • 01:13:43
    And if you're watching online,
  • 01:13:45
    if you're attending a site, hey, if you can get to a site, do it.
  • 01:13:48
    If you're watching online,
  • 01:13:49
    we'll have an incredible experience for you guys as well.
  • 01:13:51
    Just like going to the game is awesome
  • 01:13:53
    and watching the game at home is fantastic.
  • 01:13:55
    But special shout out to those of you
  • 01:13:56
    who are hosting Super Bowl of Preaching watch parties.
  • 01:13:59
    We'd love to have you guys do that.
  • 01:14:01
    Open up your home, invite friends in to experience this.
  • 01:14:03
    And we actually have a training like right now,
  • 01:14:05
    I'm going to get off this call
  • 01:14:06
    and I'm going to go to the QR code, the Zoom link below,
  • 01:14:09
    and I'll be hanging out there with some friends
  • 01:14:11
    to help you get set up to host
  • 01:14:13
    the best Super Bowl of Preaching watch party ever,
  • 01:14:15
    or just answer any questions you might have
  • 01:14:17
    about our church, or about what God's doing here.
  • 01:14:20
    Hey, as always, know that God loves you
  • 01:14:23
    and He wants to see you experience
  • 01:14:25
    the more full and abundant life that He's promised.
  • 01:14:27
    If there anything we can do to encourage you
  • 01:14:29
    in that direction, we'd love to.
  • 01:14:31
    Have a great week and we'll see you next time
  • 01:14:33
    for the Super Bowl of Preaching.

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