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Don't get down when you're seeing the worst,

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What a day I'm telling you,

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All things will be new.

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Living up in a down world.

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Yeah we're living, yeah we're living,

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Living up in a down world.

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Oh!

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This is Jimmy DeNette.

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We want to welcome you to

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Living up in a down world.

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What do you mean the world's down?

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What do you mean by that title anyway?

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Oh my goodness.

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Miss DeNette, Dame DeNette.

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What does it mean that the world's down and we're up?

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Well look at what's going on in the economy,

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in the government,

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in the weather, you name it.

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The weather?

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Well, like hurricanes,

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hurricanes, and tornadoes,

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world events, fires,

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devastation, yes fires.

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Crazy stuff going on around the world.

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But there's some good things going on.

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I need to finish this text to Tina.

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Can I do that real quick?

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Oh of course.

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Forget the show.

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I was texting somebody.

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I was in the middle.

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I didn't know you were going to start.

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Tina Curry.

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Sorry.

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I'm letting her know what happened to me today.

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You carry on over there.

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I'm over here.

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Just give me one second.

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We want to welcome you to,

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wow, we want to welcome you to episode number 36.

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We want to thank you for joining us.

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That's our heart.

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Living up in a down world.

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It's not fancy.

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It just means living above the line,

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getting above the fray of the craziness of the world.

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And you know, we're not downing the world either.

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We're just being observant.

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So it's not even about putting the world down.

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But as Christians, we're not supposed to conform to the world.

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No, but we are to love the world.

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We are.

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For God so loved the world.

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He gave.

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No, no, no, no.

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Not that at all.

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I thought you were texting.

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I just started listening to you for a second.

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No, you're not.

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I would never do that.

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No, we'll not do that.

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and again, thanks for being with us.

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Our heart is to live up in a down world.

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That means living up because of Jesus Christ

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and will continue to do.

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So I start off by making a comment about why is the world down?

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And Ed will join us in a minute.

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We're recording.

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So tell her I said hi.

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But so we were talking about, you know, the world's down.

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And what's going on?

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Auburn University.

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Yes, which I didn't know about.

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Where have I been?

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And so I saw it and caught it.

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Where are you watching the news?

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I don't watch the news.

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No, Sir, by His grace, David Wicker.

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Sent me and Adam Curry a link to the Fox News.

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It's a video showing them baptizing over 200 college students on one night because of this

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worship event that they hosted called, I think it was like, like Auburn United or U.S.

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Auburn United or Unite Worship Auburn.

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But anyway, praise God for that.

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I want to have a prayer night with worship.

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I know that came up.

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Well, Tom Pugh brought it up.

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He should be listening.

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Hopefully he'll be listening because he listens to our podcast.

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Yeah, I love that guy.

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And Tom, here it is.

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I talked to Jimmy about it.

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He's on board.

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And it doesn't have to include baptism, although I think it should.

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Hopefully we'll have people ready for baptism.

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Tom and I already talked about Sunday night would be good.

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Not this Sunday, but a Sunday night.

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Do a prayer night and see.

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I mean, I think that I see it in my mind, too, like a combination prayer worship night.

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But the focus, not just worship.

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So we do worship nights and they're amazing.

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But just a little bit of worship.

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No, this one is more focused on prayer.

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Prayer for revival, prayer for spiritual awakening.

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Our nation and the world, not just our nation, but let's start where we live.

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Our nation right here, we need, now what's happening?

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But what we need and what I'm believing for, praying into, trusting God for, asking God

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for, I'm that persistent widow knocking on the door.

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What I'm asking Him for is that, and what I'm observing, let me say it this way, is

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that there are outcroppings happening right now.

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these fires popping up everywhere.

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I've been through tornadoes and everything.

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This was right up there with them.

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That's to me.

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That's a given to me.

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Profit in you.

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I didn't want to say that.

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Sing, have a moment.

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That's we want to see people truly born again, born of the Spirit, and then discipled.

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I'm like, well, have you accepted Jesus Christ?

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There's there no fires or no excitement.

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called spiritual warfare, the devil.

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He comes to do what?

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Steal, kill and destroy.

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you may have it.

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I think these outcroppings and these things that are going on and to I think time is short.

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I mean, we know we're one week closer than we were last week.

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I know that sounds silly, but we're getting closer.

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Is Mr. Chevy back and forth?

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I don't know what his problem is.

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He's got up, got down, got up, got down, does that inadvertently snap my fingers?

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I may have because that freaks him out.

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Don't do that anymore.

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I'll try not to snap.

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Sorry, Mr. Chevy.

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Got you all stirred up.

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So yeah, so all these outcroppings are happening, all these moves of God, but they're not a

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coalesced move.

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They're here and there.

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It's almost like you're just seeing the rumbling, sort of like a, like a tremors before an earthquake,

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you know, plate tectonics, things are moving.

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I think things are moving in the spiritual realm and the kingdom of God is getting ready

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to invade earth.

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And I love that book by Pastor Bill Johnson many years ago, but fantastic book.

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Have you found that book?

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Do you have it here?

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I have it on my Kindle, but I do have the book.

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I do have it here.

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I want you to find it.

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When Heaven Invades Earth, powerful, powerful book talking about the invasion of the kingdom

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and how we partner and co-labor with God to literally assist in bringing the kingdom here.

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So what's in heaven and what's not in heaven now invades earth.

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Which leads us to your message.

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Lord, have mercy.

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Boy, you were on fire so much so that Adam Curry gave you a courtesy call last night

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that he was pretty blown away by your fire and, and just the content and it was very

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powerful.

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Thank you.

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He always, he always compliments you.

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He's an encourager.

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I don't think he's ever called you and encouraged you.

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It's just, you know, we'll see him the next day or whatever.

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Great man.

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Or he'll text you.

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He had to call and I was pretty honored, especially coming from him who's such an amazing communicator

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and he called to tell you how wonderful that was.

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And he listened to both of them, first and second service.

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What I loved about that phone call was that wasn't producer, you know, it wasn't my father.

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No, it was my friend.

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It was my friend and my brother in Christ.

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Who said, I'm actually going to practice the, the techniques, the, you know, the instructions

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you gave according to what the word really means, bring his kingdom here.

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And I love that brother because I love how he's growing in Christ.

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Usually after your first sermon.

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Okay.

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I'm just going to be honest.

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That doesn't sound good for me.

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No, it's good.

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It's good.

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That was great.

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But you need your, are you okay?

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Cause you're not, you don't have, but you literally, this is what people don't understand.

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Your sermon first service can be quite different from second because you literally, you exegete

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your audience and you ask the Holy spirit, what is this group need versus the other?

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I don't think people understand that.

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That's why I enjoy listening to both.

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But usually your first one is your warmup and your second one, you just go that yesterday

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it was kind of the opposite.

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Well, actually it was both just, yeah, just had so much fire and it, it was so believable

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and so, I mean, it just, it made me, we actually practiced what you preached at the altar.

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All of the altar call was pretty huge yesterday.

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It was a lot of people come forward.

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Never.

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It was like two o'clock praying for people.

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I mean, what?

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I don't think that's ever happened.

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Well as land is on the move, as CS Lewis wrote in Chronicles of Narnia, God's moving.

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And I believe that I've been asking the Lord to allow us to be an epicenter of his move

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and whatever it takes, put ourselves on the altar in a very real sense.

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And you and I have talked about this, but I want to share this with those listening

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because we have people from all different age groups and demographics that listen to

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the program.

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And so there are different places in terms of their age.

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So you and I, we're both 61 years of age.

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I'm coming, I'm saying it out loud.

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Why?

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It's a number.

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Okay.

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I'm 27 and holding.

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So, so we're 61.

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And so in a very real sense, our runway isn't as long as it used to be.

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I mean, you can, I'm not saying we're seeing the end of it, but I'm saying

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it's not infinite now.

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We're not 20 and could have the potential 60, 70 years left.

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I felt infinite when I was 20.

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Yeah, I'll live forever.

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And I acted like I'd live forever.

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Right.

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We don't have 60 years left.

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No.

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So whatever time we have left, my attitude now is this is where we up our game.

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We don't diminish.

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We don't think about retiring.

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We think about refiring.

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We think about my mentality is I'm going to slow down and coast over the finish line,

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whatever that means, retirement at 67 or any of that stuff.

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No, no, no, no, no way.

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I'm going to slow down and coast over the finish line, whatever that means, retirement

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at 67 or any of that stuff.

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No, no, no, no, no way.

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We are running through the tape.

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We're bringing the kingdom.

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I'm the persistent widow beating on the door.

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I'm asking, I'm seeking, and I'm knocking, and I'm going to find.

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So God's going to move.

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This reminds me of Charlene, who's the matriarch of our church who passed away a couple of

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weeks ago.

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Oh, my third grandmother.

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Yes.

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I mean, think about it.

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In her late 80s, she's telling you she's ready to go see Papa.

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87.

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She called God Papa.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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She'll be there.

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I'm telling you, she's ready to go see Papa.

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She called God Papa until the day of her death.

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But she was so ready, and you were like, no, God's got a purpose for you.

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I don't remember if I told that story on here.

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I may have.

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Okay, go ahead and tell the story.

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So the first time I met Miss Charlene was when we first came here to Fredericksburg,

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Texas.

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I was working for Dave Ramsey.

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We lived in Nashville, so we moved to Texas to go to work with Max Okado.

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So Pastor Max, Oak Hills Church.

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So here we are brand new.

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It's a satellite church of a larger mega church, Pastor Max's church.

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So we're a first day there, you know, as, hey, there's the new pastors, you know, Pastor

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Jimmy and here's Annette.

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And I meet the two matriarchs of the church, and that's Barbara Turner and Miss Charlene.

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And Charlene walks up to me.

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She's very thin and frail.

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She's unstable.

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And, you know, I mean, I'm like, wow, how old is she?

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She was 87 years old.

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And she, not in a mean way, but she shook her finger at me, which I found out that's

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just what she does.

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She does.

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She's an old school, precious German lady and fiery.

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And she says, I'm going home soon to see Papa.

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And I had to think for what does she mean?

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Oh, I'm like, are you, do you have a diagnosis?

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Or are you terminal?

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And she says, no, but I know I'm ready to go now.

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I'm ready to go.

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Her husband had passed.

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Two.

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Two husbands had passed.

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She had no children, no parents, no family.

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So she's like, I'm ready to go.

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And she wasn't sad when she told me, she was like, I'm so excited about seeing my Papa,

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seeing God or my father.

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She calls him Papa, that she was ready to go then.

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And about the second or third time I met her, and she would do that every time I met her,

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she's going to go home.

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I said, could I see your arm?

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And I reached down and grabbed her arm.

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This is really pretentious on my part, but I really felt, I mean, I actually did it before

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I thought about it.

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And I checked her pulse and I said, Ms. Charlene, you have a pulse.

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And she looked at me with the funniest look and I said, where there's a pulse, there's

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a purpose.

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And where there's a pulse, there's still a promise.

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I said, God's not through with you.

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He's got more for you to do.

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So let's stop talking about going home and let's ask Papa what he wants us to do now

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until it's time to go home.

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And that changed.

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Yeah.

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It ignited her.

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That one statement changed her life forever because she refired, started a nursing home

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ministry until COVID and then through COVID because you can't visit anyone in the home.

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She would go to their window and knock on it and talk through the window and do her

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little Bible studies.

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That was amazing.

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She could not, she became the energizer bunny.

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I've never seen anything like it.

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She could not be stopped.

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She drug people to that nursing home and it was a poor nursing home, a really bad shape.

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So no one ever went there.

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It was kind of like the one you don't go to.

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And she embraced that.

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And what's interesting to me is that she was older than most of the residents that she

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was visiting.

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Exactly.

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And she was in worse shape than many of them physically because she had a lot of physical

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issues where she was in and out of the hospital all the time and the swollen arms and just

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all the stuff, poor things she went through.

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And yet she had this fire, this passion.

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She reminded me of Caleb in the Bible.

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Right.

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80 years old and saying, I'm as strong as I was when I was 40.

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And what I think about with that is she knows she doesn't have that much longer because

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of her age.

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So instead of sitting back and coasting, she decided I'm going to go full throttle and

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do whatever it takes until I meet my maker.

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And she did up until right before her death.

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She attended every class at the church.

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She attended...

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I had started a Wednesday night study.

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She didn't miss.

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And she never missed.

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If she missed, we checked on her because where's Ms. Charlene?

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She was just late.

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She became truly one of my favorite people.

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Oh, UPS is here.

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Oh, good.

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Christmas time.

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It always feels like Christmas from UPS.

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It's your butcher block.

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Oh, my butcher block.

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Oh, I'm excited about that.

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Okay.

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Anyway, let's go back.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm looking at the little brown truck out the window.

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So if the doorbell rings, it just rings.

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So yeah, it's called real life.

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The dog may bark.

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Oh, he'll lose his mind, but that's okay.

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So Ms. Charlene caught fire and she started ministering.

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That wasn't the only thing.

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She did stuff around the church.

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She helped in every ministry.

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She'd show up.

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She was in both services every Sunday.

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She never missed.

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Oh, that's right.

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She did.

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Never missed.

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That's exactly right.

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And yet we can't get people to come out and get out of bed to come to church.

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What was funny is that she would back talk me during the services.

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Oh, yeah.

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Everybody...

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Not back talk, but she would answer...

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If I asked a rhetorical question, she would answer.

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She would be the one screaming that answer.

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And the whole church would just laugh because it's hilarious.

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I mean, we have a pretty good size church, 450 people this last Sunday.

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So it's not a tiny church.

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And for her to just shout out an answer...

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And we, the whole church adopted her as our mom and she adopted us as her children and

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her family.

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And that was what she said even up to the very end as those final conversations.

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And she would say, this is my family.

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This is Bridge Church is my family.

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And she meant it.

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So we did that, her memorial service on Saturday and it was just beautiful.

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It really was one of the better services I've ever had to do.

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Honor where honor is due.

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We had to laugh because she was such a character.

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Okay.

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So the last song made me laugh.

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That was funny.

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She actually planned her own funeral.

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Oh, yeah.

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And she wrote her own obituary.

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It was quite flattering too.

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94 years old.

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It was very...

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It was interesting.

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It was hilarious and beautiful.

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I learned something about her.

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I didn't know about her own father that her mother died before she was a preteen.

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Her dad raised her.

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No siblings.

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I mean, when she passed, all she had was the church.

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How sad is that for people who don't have the church and they don't have anybody?

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On the other hand, she so adopted the church as her family.

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And there was no question that Miss Charlene was our matriarch and she was a church mama.

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We need church mamas.

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We need church daddies too, but we need church mamas.

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And so she just adopted everybody who walked through the door.

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Loved her.

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And everybody adopted her.

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Loved people.

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It's like everybody knows Miss Charlene.

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But what I love about her, again, I'm going to say this because this is what brought us

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to this conversation with her, was that she knew her time because of her age was limited.

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So she was going to spend it wisely and do whatever she could for the Lord.

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Which is why we're going to do the same thing.

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Not just to honor her, but that's the model is that you run through the tape.

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You finish strong.

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You always kick at the end of a race, whether it's a cross country race, a marathon, an

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Ironman triathlon, or a sprint.

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You always kick at the end.

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And that is going to be our legacy, even to our kids and their family, is that Pastor

518
00:20:34,540 --> 00:20:38,140
Jimmy, Daddy, and Mom ran through the tape.

519
00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:39,140
They finished strong.

520
00:20:39,140 --> 00:20:42,020
They did not give up on their call.

521
00:20:42,020 --> 00:20:45,940
And so I'm into back to now our original story.

522
00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:50,420
I'm anticipating and praying for and believing for spiritual awakening and revival.

523
00:20:50,420 --> 00:20:57,240
So back to your, you and Tom's conversation on doing a prayer night, pray for revival,

524
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,240
pray for God.

525
00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,240
We're going to plan it tomorrow.

526
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:00,240
I think that's fantastic.

527
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,340
So let's bring it up our staff meeting tomorrow.

528
00:21:02,340 --> 00:21:03,340
Yeah.

529
00:21:03,340 --> 00:21:04,340
Definitely.

530
00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:05,340
Add it to the agenda.

531
00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:07,900
Because you just don't know what God wants to do and he's just waiting for a willing

532
00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:08,900
participant.

533
00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:09,900
That's right.

534
00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:10,900
That's it.

535
00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:16,100
We need to pray specifically as a church for that and really begin to embrace why not here,

536
00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:17,100
why not now.

537
00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:18,100
Why not with us?

538
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:19,100
Come Lord Jesus.

539
00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:20,100
Yeah.

540
00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:21,100
For sure.

541
00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:22,100
Super excited.

542
00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:23,100
Let's get back to your message.

543
00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:24,100
Yeah.

544
00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:25,100
Okay.

545
00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:30,580
I think the fact that you're doing, talking about the model prayer, which most of us have

546
00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:38,700
heard this is just something or have maybe learned it as a young person like you.

547
00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:43,420
I learned it in elementary school as well, but it didn't become a prayer to me.

548
00:21:43,420 --> 00:21:45,460
It was just something I memorized.

549
00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:52,300
So I never internalized the words of that prayer until recently.

550
00:21:52,300 --> 00:22:01,460
And it's so good to see these, the people in our church just have these aha moments

551
00:22:01,460 --> 00:22:05,940
because they've never, there's so many of us that have been in the same boat.

552
00:22:05,940 --> 00:22:12,340
We just have our own little prayer time that doesn't include the model prayer.

553
00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:14,220
And so we don't think about it.

554
00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:19,140
The only time we think about it is if we happen to be reading in Matthew or Luke.

555
00:22:19,140 --> 00:22:25,900
But to me, the way you're taking scriptures, a couple of scriptures at a time and breaking

556
00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:30,260
it down as to what it really means, I think it's so powerful.

557
00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:34,620
What a powerful lesson that you're teaching the body of Christ right now.

558
00:22:34,620 --> 00:22:41,540
And we've, many pastors have preached this and we've heard pastors that have preached

559
00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:42,540
segments.

560
00:22:42,540 --> 00:22:44,580
I was going to say, not many.

561
00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:47,140
Well, I know we've heard that they have.

562
00:22:47,140 --> 00:22:51,780
I've had many people in our church say, I've never heard anyone teach on this.

563
00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:54,660
But we have heard people that have taught.

564
00:22:54,660 --> 00:22:55,660
Right, that's true.

565
00:22:55,660 --> 00:23:03,180
But God's given you this new revelation over our sabbatical and it's lighting you up.

566
00:23:03,180 --> 00:23:09,060
And boy, I mean, they're about as well been, what do you call that, a fire?

567
00:23:09,060 --> 00:23:10,060
A pillar of fire.

568
00:23:10,060 --> 00:23:12,300
A pillar of fire like right over your head.

569
00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:13,580
It's like, wow.

570
00:23:13,580 --> 00:23:15,060
I felt the heat.

571
00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:20,020
And immediately, the minute you stepped on the stage, first service, I was like, oh,

572
00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:21,020
this is going to be good.

573
00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:22,020
This is going to, wow.

574
00:23:22,020 --> 00:23:24,020
It's going to blow me away.

575
00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:25,020
And it did.

576
00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:30,180
Well, and to back up just a little bit, it does bring us back to things that the Lord

577
00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:32,580
deposited into us during our sabbatical.

578
00:23:32,580 --> 00:23:37,540
For those of you, maybe your first time listening, we were blessed with the gift of two months

579
00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:38,540
sabbatical.

580
00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:39,940
I've never had one.

581
00:23:39,940 --> 00:23:42,700
I've been in ministry 38 years and I've never had a sabbatical.

582
00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:45,300
So, it's long overdue.

583
00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:50,820
So we received that gift with gratitude and we did two months of a strategic sabbatical.

584
00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:57,500
Now we didn't go, it wasn't a vacation for us, but it was a time of intentional rest,

585
00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,900
resting in the Lord, being in the presence of the Lord.

586
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:01,540
Resting our physical body.

587
00:24:01,540 --> 00:24:02,540
Resting our physical body.

588
00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:03,540
The mind.

589
00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:07,120
But also not squandering this gift.

590
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:12,180
And so I made a commitment at the beginning of it that I wasn't going to do any practices

591
00:24:12,180 --> 00:24:16,780
during the sabbatical that I couldn't continue after it was over.

592
00:24:16,780 --> 00:24:22,140
I didn't want to create a mountaintop experience whereby when we get back into the real world,

593
00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:23,940
we just go back to being who we were before.

594
00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:30,620
It needed to be something that was going to be a huge change in our life, but sustainable.

595
00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:31,620
Bingo.

596
00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:32,620
Good word.

597
00:24:32,620 --> 00:24:33,620
Sustainable.

598
00:24:33,620 --> 00:24:35,180
Sustainable and reproducible.

599
00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:38,620
So I could even help others learn from that.

600
00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:43,300
So that's leaning into that very quickly on.

601
00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:48,340
Like just a couple of days into it, I woke up very early, like 5 a.m. and I'm like, Lord,

602
00:24:48,340 --> 00:24:49,340
what's going on?

603
00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:52,180
I finally don't have to set an alarm.

604
00:24:52,180 --> 00:24:54,020
I'd really like to sleep in.

605
00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:57,860
I thought I was going to go back to junior high and sleep till 11 a.m. or something,

606
00:24:57,860 --> 00:25:00,140
but that can't, that doesn't work for me.

607
00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:07,700
But the Lord began waking me up every day, about 5 or 5.30, sometimes 6, but pretty consistently

608
00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:10,060
around 5, 5.30.

609
00:25:10,060 --> 00:25:15,660
And I would be wide awake, clear.

610
00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:18,740
Sometimes you wake up, you're in a fog, but I would be clear like, okay, I'm supposed

611
00:25:18,740 --> 00:25:19,740
to be awake.

612
00:25:19,740 --> 00:25:21,620
The Holy Spirit's doing something.

613
00:25:21,620 --> 00:25:25,780
The second or third time it happened, I shared this yesterday, second or third time it happened,

614
00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:27,700
I didn't know what to pray.

615
00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:33,700
And for whatever reason, the Holy Spirit dropped it in my mind, pray the Lord's prayer.

616
00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,140
Basically I've given you what to pray.

617
00:25:35,140 --> 00:25:36,820
I already gave you a prayer.

618
00:25:36,820 --> 00:25:42,140
So I just prayed it, and I prayed it old school.

619
00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:44,580
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

620
00:25:44,580 --> 00:25:49,540
You know, I mean, I went right into the King James Version 1611, authorized Elizabethan

621
00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:50,540
English.

622
00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:51,540
Which is what we learned.

623
00:25:51,540 --> 00:25:52,540
That's what we learned in elementary.

624
00:25:52,540 --> 00:25:56,460
The danger sometimes of learning something young and having it as a rote memory type

625
00:25:56,460 --> 00:26:03,460
of thing is we learn it so we think we know it, so we are resistant to teachings about

626
00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:04,460
it.

627
00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:05,460
Does that make sense?

628
00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:06,460
Exactly.

629
00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:11,740
It's not translated like when you get a vaccine or something.

630
00:26:11,740 --> 00:26:15,540
And so I think what happens to a lot of people is they're like, oh, I know this, you know,

631
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:19,220
and then they'll quote it with you or say it with you in a group or a church or whatever,

632
00:26:19,220 --> 00:26:21,080
we've done it before.

633
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,460
But we do it without even thinking about what we were praying.

634
00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:30,300
When was the last time you who are listening, maybe you know the Lord's prayer, maybe you

635
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:35,420
learned it as a kid or whatever or some point in your life, very few of us ever stopped

636
00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:40,180
to think what is this saying and what was Jesus' intent?

637
00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:43,780
And how did Jesus, so in the Luke version, there's two versions, right?

638
00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:47,780
You've got the Luke version, which is very short, concise, and to the point, which is

639
00:26:47,780 --> 00:26:48,780
probably...

640
00:26:48,780 --> 00:26:49,780
He's a doctor.

641
00:26:49,780 --> 00:26:50,780
Right.

642
00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:51,780
That's probably why.

643
00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:54,220
And it lines up a little more with the Aramaic language, which is what Jesus spoke in.

644
00:26:54,220 --> 00:27:00,020
Later it was written down in Greek when Luke recorded it.

645
00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:05,180
Much later, he did it in Greek because that was the language of the whole world at that

646
00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:06,180
time.

647
00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:07,180
But they spoke Aramaic.

648
00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:09,100
He taught in Aramaic.

649
00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:14,400
So Jesus teaches it, and it was probably a short form, more accurate.

650
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,620
And then Matthew's version of it is a little more expanded.

651
00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:19,860
It's a doxology is added at the end.

652
00:27:19,860 --> 00:27:23,820
For Thine is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever.

653
00:27:23,820 --> 00:27:28,380
And then there's even some expansions in the lines a little bit.

654
00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:31,660
It's not different, and the meaning is exactly the same, but it's just a little bit more

655
00:27:31,660 --> 00:27:32,660
formal.

656
00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:34,660
It's a little bit more crafted.

657
00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:38,140
So, anyway, there are various reasons for that.

658
00:27:38,140 --> 00:27:39,140
No time to do that.

659
00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:45,340
But it's important to understand that he gave us this, but he was very intentional in the

660
00:27:45,340 --> 00:27:51,180
style of the language and in the way it was spoken.

661
00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:57,140
In other words, it's broken down into sections and various what we call petitions.

662
00:27:57,140 --> 00:28:01,060
A petition is like something you lay before somebody as, you know, this is what we're

663
00:28:01,060 --> 00:28:02,860
asking for.

664
00:28:02,860 --> 00:28:05,620
And yet they're not all petitions.

665
00:28:05,620 --> 00:28:07,100
It's mistakenly labeled.

666
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,620
They're actually declarations.

667
00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:13,940
So in your own prayer life, in anyone's prayer life, we can come to the Lord in a couple

668
00:28:13,940 --> 00:28:14,940
of ways.

669
00:28:14,940 --> 00:28:15,940
One is we come in the spirit of appeal.

670
00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:16,940
We come, we ask.

671
00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:17,940
We're asking.

672
00:28:17,940 --> 00:28:18,940
We're asking for what our needs are.

673
00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:19,940
Ask and keep on asking.

674
00:28:19,940 --> 00:28:23,460
The Scripture says just a few verses after the Lord's prayer.

675
00:28:23,460 --> 00:28:25,940
The Lord's model prayer is what it really is.

676
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:26,940
It's like a template.

677
00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:31,100
But anyway, and so, you know, we're supposed to come.

678
00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:34,340
So we come in that spirit of appeal, so we say, Father, would you?

679
00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:35,340
Father, would you?

680
00:28:35,340 --> 00:28:36,340
Or we pray it.

681
00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:39,540
Sometimes we say it like I heard people pray like this a lot.

682
00:28:39,540 --> 00:28:41,460
Father, we just ask that you would.

683
00:28:41,460 --> 00:28:43,620
And that's, you know, that's legit too.

684
00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:46,500
And so everybody's got a little different nuance or style.

685
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:47,500
So it's an ask.

686
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:48,820
It's an appeal.

687
00:28:48,820 --> 00:28:55,260
But Jesus, when he released this to them in the Luke version, he says, when you pray,

688
00:28:55,260 --> 00:29:00,740
say, because one of the disciples said, teach us to pray like John taught his disciples.

689
00:29:00,740 --> 00:29:04,820
He said, OK, when you pray, say, not when you pray, ask.

690
00:29:04,820 --> 00:29:07,120
And that's very clear in the language.

691
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,640
So he didn't say when you pray, ask this of the Lord.

692
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,780
When you pray, say, which is an imperative.

693
00:29:13,780 --> 00:29:19,300
It's an imperative and it's a statement, a decree, a declaration.

694
00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:20,780
And that's why it's written the way it is.

695
00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:24,460
And so when you read it, it's not even written in ask form.

696
00:29:24,460 --> 00:29:26,900
Have you ever noticed there's no punctuation, no question mark?

697
00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,500
It's not even a question.

698
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,180
These are statements.

699
00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:33,820
They're declarations and they're based on our identity in Christ and our understanding

700
00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:35,860
of our authority in Christ.

701
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:38,740
So we come in and we come in strong.

702
00:29:38,740 --> 00:29:41,820
He's inviting us in to be bold.

703
00:29:41,820 --> 00:29:46,580
And yet I don't know that I've ever heard anyone ever pray the Lord's prayer boldly.

704
00:29:46,580 --> 00:29:47,580
Right.

705
00:29:47,580 --> 00:29:51,300
Because we just kind of pray it just how we've memorized.

706
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:56,360
And obviously, if we're learning it as a child, we're not even understanding what it is.

707
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,060
So it has a passive tone.

708
00:29:58,060 --> 00:29:59,220
Exactly.

709
00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:01,820
So Jesus, he says, you know, he starts off with praise.

710
00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:04,300
Obviously, our Father in heaven hallowed.

711
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:06,160
That means holy is your name.

712
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,480
It's worship.

713
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,260
We enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise, right?

714
00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:11,380
Psalm 100.

715
00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:16,460
And so it's just the model of how we enter into his presence and we do it with this worship

716
00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:20,140
and with this heart of gratitude.

717
00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:21,500
And so that's how you do it.

718
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:26,300
And you use that section as a launching pad to praise him and to worship him.

719
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,860
So that was week one when we did it last week.

720
00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:31,100
This week, I came in stronger.

721
00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:37,900
And it was the second section of the prayer that says, your kingdom come, your will be

722
00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:41,620
done on earth as it is in heaven.

723
00:30:41,620 --> 00:30:48,180
And I told a story about one of my spiritual fathers and it was a mentor to me, was pastor

724
00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:50,460
and Dr. Jack Taylor.

725
00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:55,620
And Dr. Jack Taylor is responsible for lighting fires all over the world.

726
00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:59,660
Great man, prolific author, revivalist.

727
00:30:59,660 --> 00:31:05,620
He mentored men like Pastor Bill Johnson, Dwayne Sheriff up in Oklahoma.

728
00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:08,740
He mentored a bunch of people.

729
00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:14,180
And he took me under his wing for part of the season of his life as he got older.

730
00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:21,020
And the way he would say it, when he taught this, he taught the fact that it is indeed,

731
00:31:21,020 --> 00:31:22,020
what did you call it?

732
00:31:22,020 --> 00:31:23,020
An imperative.

733
00:31:23,020 --> 00:31:24,020
An imperative.

734
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:25,020
An imperative is a command.

735
00:31:25,020 --> 00:31:26,340
It's not a question.

736
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:27,340
It's not an ask.

737
00:31:27,340 --> 00:31:28,900
It is a command.

738
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:29,900
And it's in the eros tense.

739
00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:34,580
And the eros tense in the Greek language simply means there's no time limit on it.

740
00:31:34,580 --> 00:31:38,060
In other words, if there's no time delineation, then it's now.

741
00:31:38,060 --> 00:31:39,520
It's present.

742
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:44,420
And so he says, this is how it's supposed to be prayed because Jesus said, when you

743
00:31:44,420 --> 00:31:47,340
pray say, and here's how you say it.

744
00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:49,420
So I hope I don't blow a speaker up or anything.

745
00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:51,300
I'll go gentle.

746
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,780
But when you come, you say, our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

747
00:31:54,780 --> 00:31:55,780
Which I love.

748
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:58,780
And then you say, your kingdom come.

749
00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:04,340
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

750
00:32:04,340 --> 00:32:05,340
You got the dog all riled up.

751
00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:06,340
I got Chevy stirred up.

752
00:32:06,340 --> 00:32:07,340
He's like, uh-oh, am I in trouble?

753
00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:08,340
I just hear dad's stern voice.

754
00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:13,340
So basically you're bringing down heaven to earth.

755
00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:14,340
Yes.

756
00:32:14,340 --> 00:32:17,900
And whatever is permissible in heaven is permissible here.

757
00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:22,500
And whatever is illegal should be illegal here.

758
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:23,500
Bingo.

759
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,820
And so the whole idea is that as we pray, as we declare, as we say, as he tells us to

760
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:34,740
say, and he tells us how to say it with his intensity, then what we do is we thin the

761
00:32:34,740 --> 00:32:35,740
veil.

762
00:32:35,740 --> 00:32:37,220
There's a veil between heaven and earth, right?

763
00:32:37,220 --> 00:32:38,720
That's another realm.

764
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,980
And that veil gets thinner and thinner and thinner the more we pound on the door, the

765
00:32:42,980 --> 00:32:45,020
more we speak, the more we declare.

766
00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:49,740
And so I said that the first way to approach God is a spirit of appeal.

767
00:32:49,740 --> 00:32:55,500
The second way we can approach God is really a spirit of decree, a spirit of declaration.

768
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,540
And this is what Jesus intended.

769
00:32:58,540 --> 00:33:00,980
This is what he's inviting us into.

770
00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:02,780
He says, when you pray, say.

771
00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:03,780
Exactly.

772
00:33:03,780 --> 00:33:06,780
Another way you can say it is when you pray, declare.

773
00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:08,820
When you pray, decree.

774
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:10,540
When you pray, state.

775
00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:14,160
I mean, these are strong words and imperative is command.

776
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,380
And there's an expectation of immediate action.

777
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:23,900
Well, and if you think about it, that's any time we pray, we're supposed to have an expectation

778
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:26,300
of action, whether it's immediate or not.

779
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:31,220
Typically, it's not always because God's never on our timing.

780
00:33:31,220 --> 00:33:36,740
And it's never always the way we anticipate it to come out.

781
00:33:36,740 --> 00:33:43,580
And but we do need to teach people how to pray with an expectation.

782
00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:44,580
Faith.

783
00:33:44,580 --> 00:33:45,580
Exactly.

784
00:33:45,580 --> 00:33:46,580
Believe.

785
00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:49,020
And why are we praying if we don't believe?

786
00:33:49,020 --> 00:33:52,060
And why are we shocked when something happens?

787
00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:54,260
God's like, well, didn't you pray?

788
00:33:54,260 --> 00:33:55,540
So think about it this way.

789
00:33:55,540 --> 00:34:00,460
Why would Jesus give us this prayer as a declaration?

790
00:34:00,460 --> 00:34:01,820
I mean, strong.

791
00:34:01,820 --> 00:34:02,820
Strong.

792
00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:06,060
You're commanding, you're speaking into the atmosphere.

793
00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:12,660
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

794
00:34:12,660 --> 00:34:14,700
It doesn't get stronger than that.

795
00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:19,460
It almost sounds audacious, which is exactly the tone Jesus intended.

796
00:34:19,460 --> 00:34:22,180
So he invites us into this place of boldness.

797
00:34:22,180 --> 00:34:26,740
Even in Hebrews chapter four, he says, come boldly before the throne of grace.

798
00:34:26,740 --> 00:34:29,500
And there you'll find mercy and grace to help in your time of need.

799
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:34,740
But he invites us to come with confidence, not self-confidence, but God confidence.

800
00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:41,780
Well, if you think about it, I remember as a child, I would I didn't just walk lightly

801
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,980
to go into the room where my parents were.

802
00:34:44,980 --> 00:34:46,180
I bet you didn't.

803
00:34:46,180 --> 00:34:48,820
No, I would run in there and interrupt them.

804
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:50,020
I was bold.

805
00:34:50,020 --> 00:34:51,020
I was bold.

806
00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:53,380
I was audacious.

807
00:34:53,380 --> 00:34:54,580
I was excited.

808
00:34:54,580 --> 00:34:56,980
It was never the only time I came.

809
00:34:56,980 --> 00:35:01,540
Creeping would be if I had shame or guilt or sin.

810
00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:05,220
But I was thinking about that earlier about children.

811
00:35:05,220 --> 00:35:07,620
He says, we're to come like a child.

812
00:35:07,620 --> 00:35:08,620
Think about children.

813
00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:10,020
That's the way they come in.

814
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:11,020
No boundaries.

815
00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:12,020
Just come and jump in your lap.

816
00:35:12,020 --> 00:35:13,020
Sometimes it drives you crazy.

817
00:35:13,020 --> 00:35:14,020
They'll come tackle you.

818
00:35:14,020 --> 00:35:15,020
Yeah.

819
00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:20,660
But that's the way God wants us to come to Him.

820
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:21,660
Just come on.

821
00:35:21,660 --> 00:35:26,260
I love, I remember Alicia when she was 12, 13, 14.

822
00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:30,100
And we always said that when she walked into the room, all the world's a stage.

823
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:31,100
It was a production.

824
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:32,100
It still is.

825
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:33,100
It still is.

826
00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:34,100
She's an adult.

827
00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:39,140
And she probably won't listen to this anyway because she listens to No Agenda, Not Us.

828
00:35:39,140 --> 00:35:40,140
Thank you for our daughter.

829
00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:41,900
She loves Adam Curry.

830
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,100
She just has a very vivacious personality.

831
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:45,100
She's bold.

832
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:46,100
She's big.

833
00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:47,100
That's the way she comes in.

834
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,100
Over the top.

835
00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:50,660
But that's how Jesus invites us.

836
00:35:50,660 --> 00:35:55,020
That's how God invites us to the throne of grace and Jesus invites us to come in.

837
00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:56,020
When you pray, say.

838
00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:57,020
Say.

839
00:35:57,020 --> 00:35:58,020
Love that.

840
00:35:58,020 --> 00:35:59,700
And so we declare and we speak it.

841
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,060
Your kingdom come.

842
00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:04,140
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

843
00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:07,300
And think about the words of the whole prayer as you're praying.

844
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:14,700
I know you said this in church how it takes 21 seconds pretty much to pray that prayer.

845
00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:23,380
But if you pray it and you're praying it intentionally for particular areas of your life that need

846
00:36:23,380 --> 00:36:27,580
prayer, it could, for you it stretched out about an hour.

847
00:36:27,580 --> 00:36:30,300
It's about an hour before I get out of bed.

848
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:34,980
Because you would intentionally insert yourself or people or family, whatever, in the different

849
00:36:34,980 --> 00:36:35,980
areas.

850
00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:37,260
I think that's so needed.

851
00:36:37,260 --> 00:36:40,340
So for an example, because for those of you listening, you're like, okay, well, how do

852
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:41,340
I do that?

853
00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:42,580
Okay, what does that look like?

854
00:36:42,580 --> 00:36:45,340
So in a practical sense, here's how I do it.

855
00:36:45,340 --> 00:36:48,260
So I'll do the first part, which is the worship, right?

856
00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:50,340
You know, how would be your name?

857
00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:52,140
Your holy, all those things.

858
00:36:52,140 --> 00:36:54,580
And then I go into the next section and I'll state it first.

859
00:36:54,580 --> 00:36:57,540
And I'll state it like he told us to state it.

860
00:36:57,540 --> 00:36:59,860
I'll say your kingdom come.

861
00:36:59,860 --> 00:37:03,720
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

862
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,300
At that point, I turned my attention.

863
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,500
And I start with my family.

864
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,860
Because when I love my family, I'm loving them unto him, right?

865
00:37:10,860 --> 00:37:12,440
I'm loving him unto God.

866
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:17,580
So I start with those closest and then I go out into the outer rings, concentric circles.

867
00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:21,020
And I pray for my family, my immediate, and then I pray for my extended.

868
00:37:21,020 --> 00:37:22,020
And I pray for them.

869
00:37:22,020 --> 00:37:23,020
I call their names.

870
00:37:23,020 --> 00:37:27,220
And sometimes the Lord will make me stop on one and I'll highlight something.

871
00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:31,460
Like with our kids, you're praying through some specific things in our family for them.

872
00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:34,820
Challenges and, you know, opportunities and all those things.

873
00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:35,820
Both.

874
00:37:35,820 --> 00:37:41,620
So the way it looks or sounds, I'll say, Father, Abba, call him Abba.

875
00:37:41,620 --> 00:37:44,060
Abba, Father, that means Papa, Daddy.

876
00:37:44,060 --> 00:37:47,180
Abba, Father, your kingdom come.

877
00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:52,380
Your will be done in Alicia's life just as it is in heaven.

878
00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:54,220
Right here, right now.

879
00:37:54,220 --> 00:37:57,100
And then whatever it is, I'm praying I'll just enter into that.

880
00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:01,780
And then I'll do that and I'll use that as a part of the prayer, like a template, like

881
00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:03,460
a setup.

882
00:38:03,460 --> 00:38:04,460
And I'll do it again.

883
00:38:04,460 --> 00:38:08,980
I'll say, your kingdom come, your will be done in Brandon's life, in Faith's life, in

884
00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:13,780
Chris's life, in Casey's life, in Mark's life, in Alicia's life.

885
00:38:13,780 --> 00:38:18,140
And like where someone may be experiencing anxiety, that's illegal in heaven.

886
00:38:18,140 --> 00:38:19,540
We won't have any of that.

887
00:38:19,540 --> 00:38:20,540
There's no tears.

888
00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:21,540
There's no pain.

889
00:38:21,540 --> 00:38:25,420
There's no anxiety, no depression.

890
00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:28,940
And if it's not there, then we need to command it to go here.

891
00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:29,940
That's right.

892
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:32,380
And the thing is, is, you know, we're warring on their behalf.

893
00:38:32,380 --> 00:38:34,220
We're warring on their behalf.

894
00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:39,900
We're sort of breaking things, like an icebreaker ship going through the Antarctic, you know,

895
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,620
all the ice and the ocean breaking it up.

896
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,020
And we understand that's a process.

897
00:38:44,020 --> 00:38:47,140
And it could take years sometimes to get breakthrough on those things.

898
00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:49,180
But that doesn't mean we don't pray.

899
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:50,180
Exactly.

900
00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:52,100
He invites us in to be bold.

901
00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,960
And so I do that for my family.

902
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,420
And then I do that for friends.

903
00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:58,660
I start with my closest friends and then I do a little concentric circle.

904
00:38:58,660 --> 00:39:04,060
I do it with those, our team that we work with, our shepherding elders and their families.

905
00:39:04,060 --> 00:39:05,060
So that's a lot of name.

906
00:39:05,060 --> 00:39:06,060
It starts to add up.

907
00:39:06,060 --> 00:39:07,060
No wonder it takes you just an hour.

908
00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:08,060
That's my longest section.

909
00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:11,740
Yeah, that's my longest section is this section.

910
00:39:11,740 --> 00:39:14,580
And then you continue through the prayer.

911
00:39:14,580 --> 00:39:16,900
After that, you know, your kingdom come, your will be done.

912
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:22,140
And then you move into the next section, which is a section for provision.

913
00:39:22,140 --> 00:39:24,820
Give us this day our daily bread.

914
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:28,100
Now I'm going to pause on that because I haven't preached that yet.

915
00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:29,580
That's the next Sunday.

916
00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:30,820
So I'll be doing that this Sunday.

917
00:39:30,820 --> 00:39:38,540
And if you're interested in hearing these, you can go to our website at bridgefbg.com.

918
00:39:38,540 --> 00:39:40,780
Again that's bridgefbg.com.

919
00:39:40,780 --> 00:39:42,620
We archive all of our messages there.

920
00:39:42,620 --> 00:39:46,560
The full service is there, worships there, and then the messages are there.

921
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,220
You just scroll down on the landing page there about halfway.

922
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:53,420
You'll see it when you scroll down and then you can go back into archives.

923
00:39:53,420 --> 00:39:57,340
And the title of the series is called Lord Teach Us to Pray.

924
00:39:57,340 --> 00:39:58,820
And so this was week two.

925
00:39:58,820 --> 00:40:00,900
This week was week one, we kicked it off.

926
00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:04,800
And so feel free to join us and ride along with us.

927
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:11,860
And then we're on YouTube, we're on Facebook, and then we're on our website live on Sundays.

928
00:40:11,860 --> 00:40:13,500
Yes, we stream live.

929
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:16,420
We stream live at 9 a.m. and 10.45.

930
00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:18,020
So we stream both services.

931
00:40:18,020 --> 00:40:19,980
So two versions of that message.

932
00:40:19,980 --> 00:40:23,580
And it's always a little bit different because there's different people there and God's

933
00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:24,580
ministering to those people.

934
00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:28,940
You ask the Lord to give what is needed for that group of people.

935
00:40:28,940 --> 00:40:29,940
That's just beautiful.

936
00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:33,820
Well, if you think about it, if it's a different crowd of people, there's going to be different

937
00:40:33,820 --> 00:40:34,820
needs represented.

938
00:40:34,820 --> 00:40:37,940
And I just trust the Holy Spirit that He knows each one of them.

939
00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:40,660
He knows every hair on their head is numbered.

940
00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:45,620
So He may have something specific for that group, for an individual in that group that

941
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:46,620
He did in the first.

942
00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:47,940
So it will come out different.

943
00:40:47,940 --> 00:40:49,100
And I'm good with that.

944
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:52,180
Well, and I love that because you're not memorizing something.

945
00:40:52,180 --> 00:40:55,060
You literally this is off the cuff.

946
00:40:55,060 --> 00:41:00,340
You have your points and your scripture, but everything is off the cuff because you really

947
00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:03,620
trust in the Holy Spirit to speak through you.

948
00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:04,620
Yeah.

949
00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:06,300
The key to that is getting your bucket filled.

950
00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,940
And so I spend the week studying.

951
00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:09,620
I'm already prepping for Sunday.

952
00:41:09,620 --> 00:41:14,620
Now I won't write things down until Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

953
00:41:14,620 --> 00:41:18,380
But I'm throwing them all in the bucket.

954
00:41:18,380 --> 00:41:19,380
It's all there.

955
00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:20,460
It's all mixing up.

956
00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:22,340
It's like simmering a stew for days.

957
00:41:22,340 --> 00:41:25,100
And so anyway, all that's coming and it's working.

958
00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:30,660
So we want to encourage you, maybe you've not stopped to think about what would it be

959
00:41:30,660 --> 00:41:34,220
like if I prayed the Lord's Prayer as Jesus intended?

960
00:41:34,220 --> 00:41:38,880
So I want to encourage you to go to, you can find it in the book of Matthew.

961
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,740
It's in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 6, and it starts in verse 9.

962
00:41:44,740 --> 00:41:45,740
Yep.

963
00:41:45,740 --> 00:41:48,520
In this manner, therefore pray our Father in heaven.

964
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:54,220
So go to verse 9, Matthew chapter 6, and go down there and just highlight it in your Bible

965
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:58,100
or put a mark there and start praying through it.

966
00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:04,500
And then ask the Lord as you pray, as you go through these different lines and sections,

967
00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:07,900
how do I pray for that and how does that apply to my life?

968
00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:10,300
There is a great app I want to recommend.

969
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:11,740
It's called The Inner Room.

970
00:42:11,740 --> 00:42:16,500
It's put out by Pastor Pete Gregg out of the United Kingdom.

971
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:20,900
He's a pastor there, but he's also a prolific author and just a great guy.

972
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:26,980
And he started the 24-7 prayer movement 21 years ago, just a few weeks ago.

973
00:42:26,980 --> 00:42:29,140
They had their anniversary, 21 years.

974
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:31,980
It's been going 24-7 prayer.

975
00:42:31,980 --> 00:42:36,100
And they have a school and they have all the stuff happening, but they have a fantastic

976
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:37,100
app.

977
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:42,360
So you just download it and then it actually walks you through praying the Lord's Prayer.

978
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,900
You do it in the morning and then at noon you pray for those who don't know Christ,

979
00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:47,740
for the loss, for evangelism.

980
00:42:47,740 --> 00:42:49,860
And then at night it has a signal for you.

981
00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:51,940
You can set it up on your phone.

982
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:57,100
It triggers you to pray a prayer of gratitude for what God did throughout the day.

983
00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:59,020
So you've got morning, noon, and night prayers.

984
00:42:59,020 --> 00:43:00,020
It's a beautiful app.

985
00:43:00,020 --> 00:43:01,340
It will help you.

986
00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:04,980
But also, they break down the Lord's Prayer similar to what I'm doing.

987
00:43:04,980 --> 00:43:07,420
Not as detailed, but it's really helpful.

988
00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:12,540
And that's actually what launched me into that second or third day praying the Lord's

989
00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:16,620
Prayer because I had looked at that app and saw the breakdown of the Lord's Prayer and

990
00:43:16,620 --> 00:43:18,980
it triggered me that morning.

991
00:43:18,980 --> 00:43:21,300
So that was what kicked it off for me.

992
00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:27,580
And I will tell you, Annette and Chevy, it has changed my life.

993
00:43:27,580 --> 00:43:29,540
It's changed my prayer life.

994
00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:31,780
I wake up and say, good morning, Holy Spirit.

995
00:43:31,780 --> 00:43:37,660
And then I do the very same thing because when I saw what it was doing to you and how

996
00:43:37,660 --> 00:43:43,620
it was ministering to you, obviously, we're one, I have to do the same thing.

997
00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:44,620
We are one, that's for sure.

998
00:43:44,620 --> 00:43:45,620
I love it.

999
00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:46,620
By the way, you're stunning today.

1000
00:43:46,620 --> 00:43:47,620
Oh, thank you.

1001
00:43:47,620 --> 00:43:48,620
Although I hurt myself really bad today.

1002
00:43:48,620 --> 00:43:52,060
You did hurt your back at the gym today and I had to help you a little bit.

1003
00:43:52,060 --> 00:43:53,060
You're going to be good.

1004
00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:54,060
We prayed for it.

1005
00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:55,060
You know what?

1006
00:43:55,060 --> 00:43:56,060
It was interesting.

1007
00:43:56,060 --> 00:43:57,060
We called in.

1008
00:43:57,060 --> 00:43:58,060
Heaven on earth.

1009
00:43:58,060 --> 00:44:00,380
I was picking up a 32-pound weight to put on.

1010
00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:01,380
I thought it was, no, a 45.

1011
00:44:01,380 --> 00:44:02,380
Oh, yeah, you're right.

1012
00:44:02,380 --> 00:44:03,380
Honey, that's a 45.

1013
00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:04,380
It was.

1014
00:44:04,380 --> 00:44:05,380
It was 45.

1015
00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:06,380
You should not be doing that.

1016
00:44:06,380 --> 00:44:07,380
I know.

1017
00:44:07,380 --> 00:44:11,220
But I picked it up from the... It was almost on the ground.

1018
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:12,220
Right.

1019
00:44:12,220 --> 00:44:13,220
That's why you had to bend over.

1020
00:44:13,220 --> 00:44:14,580
To put it on a leg press.

1021
00:44:14,580 --> 00:44:18,980
I do this at least twice a week.

1022
00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:21,700
You twist it a little bit when you did it.

1023
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:26,100
Somehow when I twist it, I felt that hook and boy, did it hurt.

1024
00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:29,300
I had to summon you over to come help me.

1025
00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:30,300
It takes your breath away, doesn't it?

1026
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:31,300
Nobody else was around to see.

1027
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:32,300
It just takes your breath away when it happens.

1028
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:33,820
I was in so much pain.

1029
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:34,820
I said, I'm done.

1030
00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:36,700
I can't even work out.

1031
00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:41,380
Walked into the back room of Planet Fitness and sat on the couch.

1032
00:44:41,380 --> 00:44:42,700
I sat there and prayed.

1033
00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:44,860
I was the only one back there.

1034
00:44:44,860 --> 00:44:47,740
I started stretching my legs and my back.

1035
00:44:47,740 --> 00:44:49,740
I was like, you know what?

1036
00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:50,740
No.

1037
00:44:50,740 --> 00:44:51,740
Your kingdom come.

1038
00:44:51,740 --> 00:44:52,740
Your will be done.

1039
00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:55,820
I'm going to get up and I'm going to complete my workout.

1040
00:44:55,820 --> 00:44:58,660
That's how you apply the Lord's Prayer in a real life situation.

1041
00:44:58,660 --> 00:44:59,940
That was what I did.

1042
00:44:59,940 --> 00:45:00,940
You know what?

1043
00:45:00,940 --> 00:45:02,900
I was able to go back.

1044
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:03,900
You saw me walk in.

1045
00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:04,900
You're like, what are you doing?

1046
00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:05,900
I'm like, I told you to go rest.

1047
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:06,900
I said, go sit in.

1048
00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:07,900
No matter what.

1049
00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:11,500
I wasn't able to do everything I wanted to do because of my back.

1050
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:12,500
But you pushed through.

1051
00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:13,500
But I pushed through.

1052
00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:14,500
I thought, no.

1053
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,500
No, Satan, you can't do this today.

1054
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:16,500
You gave it to the Lord.

1055
00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:17,500
Yeah, not today, Satan.

1056
00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:21,380
Well, and the thing is, is we haven't been able to work out in the last few days because

1057
00:45:21,380 --> 00:45:22,380
of various...

1058
00:45:22,380 --> 00:45:23,380
The funeral.

1059
00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:24,380
Yes.

1060
00:45:24,380 --> 00:45:25,940
We've been so busy.

1061
00:45:25,940 --> 00:45:28,260
I was so looking forward to today.

1062
00:45:28,260 --> 00:45:32,420
Boy, I knew that was the enemy saying, I'll just take you out.

1063
00:45:32,420 --> 00:45:36,700
And you'll just wallow on the ground like nothing.

1064
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:38,580
I'm like, no, no, no, Satan.

1065
00:45:38,580 --> 00:45:39,580
You were strong.

1066
00:45:39,580 --> 00:45:40,580
I was strong.

1067
00:45:40,580 --> 00:45:41,580
You stood up.

1068
00:45:41,580 --> 00:45:45,380
But you leaned into, and that's an application of the Lord's Prayer right there.

1069
00:45:45,380 --> 00:45:47,980
The beauty of it is, is people go, well, I don't know how to pray.

1070
00:45:47,980 --> 00:45:49,820
Well, Jesus told us how to pray.

1071
00:45:49,820 --> 00:45:52,020
He told us what to say.

1072
00:45:52,020 --> 00:45:56,940
So you don't have to figure out and come up with something and try to wing it.

1073
00:45:56,940 --> 00:45:58,260
And there'll be a time when you can.

1074
00:45:58,260 --> 00:45:59,260
You branch off.

1075
00:45:59,260 --> 00:46:01,060
You learn as you grow in your prayer life.

1076
00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:04,260
But go back and re-dig the well, so to speak.

1077
00:46:04,260 --> 00:46:08,180
Uncover that well that the enemy's covered up so it's no longer producing.

1078
00:46:08,180 --> 00:46:10,780
And let it produce life in you.

1079
00:46:10,780 --> 00:46:14,520
That's our encouragement to you is to lean into.

1080
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,520
You now know what to do.

1081
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:17,180
The first section is praise.

1082
00:46:17,180 --> 00:46:18,260
So praise God.

1083
00:46:18,260 --> 00:46:19,260
Worship Him.

1084
00:46:19,260 --> 00:46:20,260
Put on some music.

1085
00:46:20,260 --> 00:46:21,260
Let it help you worship.

1086
00:46:21,260 --> 00:46:24,380
Or listen to something that turns your eyes to Him.

1087
00:46:24,380 --> 00:46:26,300
Or declare, Lord, you're amazing.

1088
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:27,300
You're awesome.

1089
00:46:27,300 --> 00:46:30,020
Think about how if somebody was praising you, what it would sound like.

1090
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:31,460
And then say it to the Lord.

1091
00:46:31,460 --> 00:46:32,460
You're awesome.

1092
00:46:32,460 --> 00:46:34,020
Man, you're something else.

1093
00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:35,020
I mean, praise Him.

1094
00:46:35,020 --> 00:46:36,020
Lift Him up.

1095
00:46:36,020 --> 00:46:37,700
You don't have to get fancy with it.

1096
00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:40,140
Then the second section, your assignment for the week.

1097
00:46:40,140 --> 00:46:42,420
I'm giving you homework all over the world.

1098
00:46:42,420 --> 00:46:43,420
You get homework.

1099
00:46:43,420 --> 00:46:46,860
Is to declare your kingdom.

1100
00:46:46,860 --> 00:46:47,860
Put a comma there.

1101
00:46:47,860 --> 00:46:49,860
Your kingdom come.

1102
00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:54,260
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

1103
00:46:54,260 --> 00:46:56,340
And I always kind of add right here, right now.

1104
00:46:56,340 --> 00:46:57,340
Right.

1105
00:46:57,340 --> 00:46:58,340
There you go.

1106
00:46:58,340 --> 00:46:59,340
Now.

1107
00:46:59,340 --> 00:47:02,340
You're going to go to the Lord and declare it and understand you're lining up with the

1108
00:47:02,340 --> 00:47:04,100
very will of God.

1109
00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:07,340
When you line up with the will of God, He likes to answer those kind of prayers.

1110
00:47:07,340 --> 00:47:08,340
He does.

1111
00:47:08,340 --> 00:47:09,880
So I want to give you that assignment this week.

1112
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,880
Work on that.

1113
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,220
We'll may unpack some more next week.

1114
00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:13,580
I think that's a good idea.

1115
00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:16,060
Stay with this because we want to encourage you.

1116
00:47:16,060 --> 00:47:17,220
We have some people to thank.

1117
00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:18,220
We sure do.

1118
00:47:18,220 --> 00:47:21,740
We've got some nice notes, letters, different things.

1119
00:47:21,740 --> 00:47:23,220
But I've got some boostograms.

1120
00:47:23,220 --> 00:47:24,820
So how about I share that?

1121
00:47:24,820 --> 00:47:27,860
First of all, just so you know, we work on a system called Value for Value.

1122
00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:32,100
And all that means is that if you like what we're doing, if it's adding value to you,

1123
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:35,820
if it's encouraging you, then you can add value to us.

1124
00:47:35,820 --> 00:47:36,820
Simply add that back.

1125
00:47:36,820 --> 00:47:41,820
It's that give it, you know, pay it forward mentality simply by doing a boostogram.

1126
00:47:41,820 --> 00:47:47,420
And you can do that on podcast 2.0 platforms such as Fountain is our favorite.

1127
00:47:47,420 --> 00:47:49,500
That's my go-to and the one I use.

1128
00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:54,200
So you can go to Fountain and you can actually give satoshis, which are Bitcoin, so easy

1129
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,260
to do.

1130
00:47:55,260 --> 00:47:58,700
It's explainable when you get there, but you can actually become part of that.

1131
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:01,740
You listen to our show on that and do boostograms.

1132
00:48:01,740 --> 00:48:05,240
And it's a way of encouraging us to keep doing what we're doing.

1133
00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:08,440
And we love what we're doing because we care about you.

1134
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:09,440
So here's some boostograms.

1135
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,780
We've got, I'm just going to read them in order from backwards to forward.

1136
00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:15,420
So this is really cool.

1137
00:48:15,420 --> 00:48:18,140
Dave Jackson, his school of podcasting.

1138
00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:21,500
Dave Jackson is a powerhouse in the podcasting world.

1139
00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:27,460
He's probably taught more people how to podcast than anybody else in the podcasting world.

1140
00:48:27,460 --> 00:48:31,060
Even Adam Curry, the pod father himself is like, he's probably taught more people about

1141
00:48:31,060 --> 00:48:32,500
podcasting than I have.

1142
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:34,700
So Dave, I want to say thank you.

1143
00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:37,460
He says, I'm a new listener via Curry and the Keeper.

1144
00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:42,100
That's Adam and Tina Curry's podcast, which we encourage you to check out, Curry and the

1145
00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:43,100
Keeper.

1146
00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:44,100
It's awesome.

1147
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:45,980
He says, new listener via Curry and the Keeper.

1148
00:48:45,980 --> 00:48:48,100
Are your sermons available online?

1149
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:49,880
Dave Jackson, school of podcasting.

1150
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:50,880
They are.

1151
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,580
They are at bridgefbg.com and all of our messages are there.

1152
00:48:54,580 --> 00:48:57,540
He said, I'd love to hear the Teach Me to Pray series.

1153
00:48:57,540 --> 00:49:00,900
See you at Spark, Dave Jackson's school of podcasting.

1154
00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:04,240
So we're going to the Spark Conference, the Spark Ignite Conference.

1155
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,820
What is that Annette?

1156
00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:08,980
It is a conference for Christian podcasters.

1157
00:49:08,980 --> 00:49:09,980
Yeah.

1158
00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:11,980
We're going in two weeks.

1159
00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:12,980
Yeah.

1160
00:49:12,980 --> 00:49:13,980
It's put on by Misty Phillips.

1161
00:49:13,980 --> 00:49:15,540
She's a podcaster as well.

1162
00:49:15,540 --> 00:49:17,660
They do this big gathering in Houston.

1163
00:49:17,660 --> 00:49:19,180
Adam and Tina Curry will be there.

1164
00:49:19,180 --> 00:49:20,180
We're going to be there.

1165
00:49:20,180 --> 00:49:21,180
What are you showing me?

1166
00:49:21,180 --> 00:49:22,180
Just a PayPal.

1167
00:49:22,180 --> 00:49:23,180
Oh, cool.

1168
00:49:23,180 --> 00:49:24,180
Thanks.

1169
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:25,780
Oh, that's sweet.

1170
00:49:25,780 --> 00:49:28,420
And so Dave Jackson, I'm looking forward to meeting you.

1171
00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:30,660
We will see you there in Houston in what, three weeks?

1172
00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:31,660
Two weeks.

1173
00:49:31,660 --> 00:49:32,660
Two weeks.

1174
00:49:32,660 --> 00:49:33,660
Wow.

1175
00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:34,660
It's coming fast.

1176
00:49:34,660 --> 00:49:35,660
Yes.

1177
00:49:35,660 --> 00:49:36,660
We're going to have a great time with that.

1178
00:49:36,660 --> 00:49:37,660
We've been nominated.

1179
00:49:37,660 --> 00:49:38,660
For new Christian podcast of the year.

1180
00:49:38,660 --> 00:49:39,660
Yeah.

1181
00:49:39,660 --> 00:49:40,660
Thank you.

1182
00:49:40,660 --> 00:49:41,660
Thank you, Podfather.

1183
00:49:41,660 --> 00:49:42,660
A hundred other people so.

1184
00:49:42,660 --> 00:49:43,660
But that's okay.

1185
00:49:43,660 --> 00:49:44,660
Hey, just to be nominated is great.

1186
00:49:44,660 --> 00:49:48,300
Thank you, Adam Curry, our executive producer, for nominating us.

1187
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:49,460
It's just a joy to be there.

1188
00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:50,460
I'm super excited.

1189
00:49:50,460 --> 00:49:51,900
He's going to do, he's going to be speaking.

1190
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:52,900
He's a keynote speaker.

1191
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:53,900
He is.

1192
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:54,900
So we get to go with him.

1193
00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:55,900
There's lots of classes that we'll be attending.

1194
00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:56,900
Yeah, I'm excited.

1195
00:49:56,900 --> 00:49:57,900
Just to get some good topics too.

1196
00:49:57,900 --> 00:49:58,900
Good, good information on best practices.

1197
00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:03,300
But also we're going to meet a lot of podcasters that are doing what we're doing.

1198
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:04,300
Right.

1199
00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:05,300
And so it's beautiful.

1200
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:06,300
Sir T.J.

1201
00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:08,900
The Wrathful, he says, thank you for the weekly encouragement.

1202
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:14,820
And he says this, my brother, Ben Dorfill, has some worship songs on Value for Value.

1203
00:50:14,820 --> 00:50:17,500
I think, oh, and this is what Adam was telling me.

1204
00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,020
He's playing those on Boostagram Ball.

1205
00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:21,220
Check out Boostagram Ball.

1206
00:50:21,220 --> 00:50:22,220
You can Google it.

1207
00:50:22,220 --> 00:50:23,220
You can look it up.

1208
00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:30,100
It is a new platform that Adam Curry and some of his friends have developed so that they

1209
00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:33,100
it's a music platform through podcasting.

1210
00:50:33,100 --> 00:50:34,700
And he does a full hour show.

1211
00:50:34,700 --> 00:50:35,700
It's like a DJ.

1212
00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:38,020
I think he's got eight of them done now.

1213
00:50:38,020 --> 00:50:39,780
I mean, it's brand new.

1214
00:50:39,780 --> 00:50:45,580
And you can if it's Value for Value and they're just bringing in all these artists that maybe

1215
00:50:45,580 --> 00:50:47,300
aren't signed on a major label.

1216
00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:51,700
I mean, the few that are dying, it's a hard business.

1217
00:50:51,700 --> 00:50:56,420
But he's actually creating a platform so that people who do their music can be heard.

1218
00:50:56,420 --> 00:50:58,020
It's a great program.

1219
00:50:58,020 --> 00:51:00,460
And he is so in his lane when he's doing that.

1220
00:51:00,460 --> 00:51:02,820
So Sir T.J., thanks for the reminder on that.

1221
00:51:02,820 --> 00:51:07,460
And he says this, his brother, Ben Dorfill, has some worship songs.

1222
00:51:07,460 --> 00:51:14,260
Adam did tell me, I think on our bro date last week, that this is the first that his

1223
00:51:14,260 --> 00:51:21,020
brother Ben is the first Christian artist, worship artist that he's had on Booster Grand

1224
00:51:21,020 --> 00:51:22,020
Ball.

1225
00:51:22,020 --> 00:51:23,020
He's so excited.

1226
00:51:23,020 --> 00:51:28,300
And he wants more Christian artists to hit him up and get their music on the podcast

1227
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:33,500
index so that they can play their songs and encourage them and they get paid for it, which

1228
00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:34,500
is really cool.

1229
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:35,500
I love it.

1230
00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:36,900
Julie Herbert, I think this was last week.

1231
00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:37,980
Yeah, that's going back.

1232
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:40,240
So let me move over to this.

1233
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:43,520
So this is from Fountain.

1234
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,180
We got a oh, we got a Booster Grand from one Adam Curry.

1235
00:51:48,180 --> 00:51:49,180
Of course.

1236
00:51:49,180 --> 00:51:52,300
Adam, bring it in the Straper Boost.

1237
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:56,220
I'm not going to do this special effects today, but Adam, thank you so much.

1238
00:51:56,220 --> 00:51:58,820
You're such a blessing to us.

1239
00:51:58,820 --> 00:51:59,820
She didn't boost us this week.

1240
00:51:59,820 --> 00:52:00,820
Remember, she was out of town.

1241
00:52:00,820 --> 00:52:01,820
Oh, she was out of town.

1242
00:52:01,820 --> 00:52:02,820
She has an excuse.

1243
00:52:02,820 --> 00:52:03,820
That's all right.

1244
00:52:03,820 --> 00:52:07,060
And so she's mad at me because I haven't boosted them.

1245
00:52:07,060 --> 00:52:09,100
But like I said, you're doing it for you.

1246
00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:10,860
I'm making up the difference.

1247
00:52:10,860 --> 00:52:15,500
So he just wrote forever radiant because I was talking about how our faces are radiant

1248
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:16,780
when we look to God.

1249
00:52:16,780 --> 00:52:17,780
Beautiful, beautiful.

1250
00:52:17,780 --> 00:52:19,040
We love you, Adam.

1251
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:22,580
And then Heather Thomas, this was today it came in and she boosted this.

1252
00:52:22,580 --> 00:52:26,260
The pastor Jimmy yesterday's sermon really resonated with me.

1253
00:52:26,260 --> 00:52:27,980
This is what we were talking about today.

1254
00:52:27,980 --> 00:52:30,980
I watched it again this morning, looking forward to tonight's show.

1255
00:52:30,980 --> 00:52:32,440
Bless you both.

1256
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,140
Those we love and especially those who have yet to find salvation.

1257
00:52:36,140 --> 00:52:39,980
Heather, thank you so much for the boost and the encouragement.

1258
00:52:39,980 --> 00:52:44,300
And we are here to encourage you and to along with you, pray the Lord's Prayer over the

1259
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:46,780
lost over those who don't know Christ.

1260
00:52:46,780 --> 00:52:52,940
Let's pray together for revival and spiritual awakening here in our world and in our time.

1261
00:52:52,940 --> 00:52:55,100
And then I've got a PayPal donation.

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By the way, if you don't do Satoshi's or Bitcoin, you can go to our website and here it is livingupinadownworld.com.

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You can listen to all of our podcast archives there.

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I do a daily blog devotional that I post on all kinds of social media platforms, but I

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post it on there every day.

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You can write us an email, you can leave a review or you can give a donation value for

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value.

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And so this is I'm looking to see, oh, David Wicker.

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David, girl, you are a blessing.

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Next time you come through the Hill Country, which he came and saw, Adam and Tina, and

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we did not get to meet him.

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We were out of town.

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We want to meet you.

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I appreciate your almost daily emails.

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By the way, he's the one who sent me the link to the Auburn Revival.

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So I'm just entering in with Dave and others.

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But thanks for the donation, Dave.

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We bless you, man.

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And thank you for blessing us.

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And we're in this thing together.

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But everyone listening, I want to ask a favor.

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These outbreaks of revival that are happening all over, I want to invite you to enter in

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with us to pray for revival and spiritual awakening.

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You may not be someone who prays a lot, but all you have to do is say, God, God, would

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you bring revival to our land?

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Would you wake us up so that we can see you?

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Would you bring spiritual awakening?

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It doesn't have to be fancy.

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Just talk to him.

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He wants to hear from you.

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And so join us.

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We're praying and we're not going to stop praying because we're going to see it in our

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lifetime.

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We've seen outbreaks of it in various points.

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I've shared some of those stories.

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And once you get a taste of what God can do and you see lives change and transformed,

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you'll never be satisfied for less.

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It kind of ruins you in a good way.

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Which is why we want to see it again.

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Do it again, Lord.

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Do it again.

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Amen.

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Anything else?

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No, that's good.

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Annette, you're such a fireball.

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Well, I just, I got it from you.

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You're fire.

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I love it.

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You're fuego.

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I love it.

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Well, listen, we want to say thank you for joining us.

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We love you guys and we want you to be living up in a down world with us.

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Now spend some time praying the Lord's Prayer all this week.

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We love you.

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See you next week.