Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:00:01]: Alright. Alright. So like I said, welcome to 21 days of prayer. This is day 4, and, this cord is nice and wound up, nice and tight. That's, that's, you know, always fun always fun to just, do this thing. Here we go. Alright. How's that? You know, as I was, as we were preparing for this, it just all got dark all of a sudden. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:00:26]: The lights went out. We had a little bit bit of a power outage. Donna and I were here, by ourselves and everything got dark. But we you know, the the scripture came to mind. I mean, the the song, he's the light in the darkness, this, our way maker. So we were like, Lord, help me find batteries. We know you're the way maker, but it'll help if I don't bang into all these chairs. But praise God. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:00:49]: We are we made it here. So good, so excited to be here. Everybody, who's who's coming up to share during the 21 days is from our church and has a has a specific word from the Lord to share in in part to everybody. And tonight, I have one. And I wanted to, just, invite you all to to put a prayer request on the board if you're in the house. And, we'll pray for that. And if you are, joining us online, you can text it in, text in your prayer request or praise report, or just say hi. Just send a fire emoji too, or whatever you want. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:01:23]: 808-793-5655. K? So text in your prayers. Let's hear from you out in the audience. There's a little acronym I like to, share. I'll start off with this. It might be in your notes. I think it is. It's called pray. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:01:39]: If you look at the word pray, it starts with a p. It's praise. Praise to the only god, the the most high god. So give him praise. Let's start with that when we pray. The next one is repent. You know, search your heart, oh lord. You know, because it says, if you have offense against your brother, leave you the offering at the altar. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:01:57]: I mean, leave it and then go go, you know, handle things with your brother or sister. Take care of that. Search your heart. Repent. Whatever it is, your mind, your, situation. You know? That's always good. That's the r in in pray. The a is ask. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:02:13]: Go ahead and ask. You know, some people, oh, I don't wanna ask. I don't know. I don't know. Some people may be shy to ask, but you can ask as long as you don't expect like a vending machine style. Which one do I want? Lord, I need this, this and this. And then, you know, we'll do the, cash, cash me out. You know? That's not how god works. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:02:32]: His ways are higher than our ways. But ask. Bring your request to god, it says. And then the one yield, the the the why. Yield to God. Make sure you let him have his way. He might say, up up, you know, put the brakes. Or pump the brakes a little bit on this one. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:02:48]: I don't know if you should really rush into this. Yeah. But this is good. Just funny story. We we bought a chair the other day, my wife and I. It's a nice comfortable chair, and I was it's good price. But we was reading it. We shoulda yield because it said it's got, what did it have? Formaldehyde in it. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:03:06]: And we looked it up, and then it says, yes. In the state of California, it has caused cancer in some laboratory animals. I don't know what they were doing sitting on a couch. But anyway, you know, they they don't like the formaldehyde neither do humans. And it says it's worse in humid areas. It's like we live in a humid area. And we're reading this after the fact. Did we pray about it? I don't I don't know. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:03:28]: I just really wanted a new chair. But that's what you gotta yield. You gotta ask the Lord first. Lord, is this chair safe? Is this chair have formaldehyde in it or any other cancer causing agents? So that's the word pray. K? Yield. Trust and obey. There's no other way. Okay. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:03:48]: Trust and obey what the Lord tells you. So that's my little acronym for pray. Okay. In prayer, you know, it's interesting as I started to break this down, this topic. It's gonna be, one of those topics where, there might be a little silence after I announce what it is. But, it's really, it's one of those things that's good for you. You know? It's good good to look at this topic. One of the things we can look at when we move, we pray, we can pray for something. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:04:18]: It's almost like when you hear people running away from something or I'm running to something. Right? It's it's on your outlook, how you look at things. We can pray for something. That's when, we're in need of the Lord to to move. And that's what we're gonna do tonight. We're gonna pray for a lot of stuff. You know, and, or you can pray against something. K? Against the devil. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:04:42]: Right? Against his schemes. When he's up to something, you know something. You know, you wanna rebuke that thing. Get that thing out of here in in Jesus' name because you know it's not of God. Like there was this fly bothering this one one speaker the other day when I when I was at a seminar. And she was like, where's this fly? Where did that fly come from? I rebuke you. Get away. And she go, if you guys are not used to that, She had to but she she did it. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:05:04]: She she was praying against that fly. The fly is bothering us. See? So you can pray for something. You can pray against something. And you can pray for guidance on some things. You can pray, you can pray, for your life, for your for someone else's life who needs a touch from God. Okay? You can intercede for someone else. All kinds of different ways when you start to break down. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:05:27]: Here's, what we're gonna look at today. We're gonna look at a scripture in a little bit. Today, I wanna look at praying for your enemies, praying for your enemies. And some people here's where the here's where our mindset comes in. It's like part of the audience went, yeah right. You know, it's we gotta rest on this one a little while because, lord, I I'm trying, but I'm just not ready for do this. I get it. I get it. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:05:52]: Maybe it's because we don't have the right understanding what it means to pray for your enemies. It's not saying go over and be be buddy buddy. Hey, you know, and go. It's just pray for them. K? And, you know, I'll I'll break it down. I'll break it down a little bit. The word says pray for you. Pray not only for your friends, but, pray for those, or it it says not only don't only pray for your friends and hate your enemies. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:06:19]: That's easy. That's how the world does things. Yeah. You my friend, we good. We good. Yeah. You my enemy, you're in this side of the the the the camp. You're on the enemy side. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:06:29]: And it's it's crazy because sometimes we get it wrong, you know, and we got the wrong people. We think they're or we're treating them like enemies, but they're not. And there's a little it goes a little deeper. K? Sometimes it's the devil working through them just like that fly. Right? And sometimes you gotta rebuke the devil and not the person. K. But, we can pray for our enemies. Be careful. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:06:55]: Be careful to define the degrees of enemies. Okay? Because a good question came up when we talked about, how God is loving. And God wants us to pray for for, enemies, forgive. And and this one person said, yeah, but what if you gotta go to war and kill somebody? And we went, oh, okay. Good question. Good question. So, you know, the fact is you can still pray if you're at war for your enemies. And you're not praying that, they have a good life or whatever and that they win the war. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:07:24]: That's crazy. They are your enemies. They're in in wartime. What you'd be praying for more is that their eyes be open to whatever philosophy that's probably wrong. Cause they're probably on the wrong side. That their eyes open, that they can think for themselves, blah, blah, blah. They put down their weapons and that that they, anything that they try will be, you know, will not function right. K? We've seen in in wars, in in wars where God moves in his providential way and and protects armies and stuff. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:07:55]: Right? So we we see that kind of prayer, okay, for you, for military stuff. So that's one of the degrees of praying for your enemies. Right? You can pray that they just go home. Yeah. Whatever. But but you don't necessarily have to pray the kind lovey dovey, kind rainbows and skittles prayers for them. K? Let me see where we at. Okay. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:08:17]: And then, the day to day irritations like the fly. K? You pray against that. Enemies to our peace. That's our enemy. Right? Enemies to our peace and our welfare. Anything that's bugging us, we can pray against that. K? And, sin is one of our enemies. Lord, keep me from sinning. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:08:35]: Right? Pray against sin. Any anything that you know, anything known known kinda sin. And, spiritual on the spiritual side, the devil is the real enemy. So, careful not to call some people enemy. Your wife, your husband, your boss, it's not they're not your enemy. Satan is the real enemy. Okay? We have the first scripture that comes up. What's it gonna say here? I'm gonna just, see if it matches with my notes. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:09:05]: This is from Luke 6. But to you who are listening, I say love your enemies. See? Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. So you can see in here that it's in the context, not of military stuff, but in the day to day things, the the the enemies of, whatever time they were living in when Luke was writing, there was the Roman occupation of the Jews. Right? So he says, pray for them. Pray for your enemies. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:09:37]: K? So that was our first scripture. And as we live our daily lives, we come across things or people that will offend us. Okay? And there's a whole topic, another can of worms we can open with offense. Right? But it's usually, that's what it's an offense that causes us to gain a new enemy. You know, someone offends us and then boom, they go to this side, enemy side, enemy camp. What? Hawaii you talk like that to me? Blah, blah, blah. And then you put up this defensive mechanism comes up. Right? Bible says, it's impossible to live without being offended. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:10:15]: Welcome to the human race. If that has ever happened to you, you're gonna get your feelings hurt. Everybody's gonna get offended. It's true. Let's, you know, just let's just be real. But, the good news is, we don't have to fall for it. You see, when it's, bible talks about offense, the Greek is a skandalon or a trap. The bible the the devil loves to throw out a trap and it's called offense. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:10:40]: Hey. Look at that, look at this guy. He's got such an ugly shirt, man. Where did he find that shirt? Hey. Don't tease my shirt. But, you know, some people and I will take offense if you're making fun of my shirt. I I kinda like it. It's it's kinda, lively. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:10:52]: My wife says, that shirt is so loud and so crazy, but it fits you, she said. And I like it. But so if somebody can't, you know, you know, was ragging on my shirt. Like, look at this stupid shirt. It's so so crazy. And I'm like, excuse me? And then I go default into just taking offense. So the trick here is how we're gonna handle it. K? How, how to deal with it. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:11:17]: Right? How to deal with this. 1st, no grumble. Don't grumble. Oh, this guy make fun of my shirt and put him in the enemy camp now. Right? Don't gossip and stuff. Donna, Donna, check him. You know this guy, I was walking, and he he was making fun of my shirt. Donna says, really? Hey, Christy. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:11:34]: Come. Come. And and Kim and and Mike. I wanna tell you guys about this guy. All of a sudden, all you guys now we're gossiping on, you know, on this one guy. He just happened to not like my shirt. We fell into the trap of offense of the of what the devil wanted. The devil were laughing, laughing because now we we just got caught up in the fray. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:11:56]: And that's something to be, aware of. Okay? Pray for your enemies. Well, forgive them, but don't create more, you know, by taking offense. K? I hope I hope I'm making that clear. I'm gonna be wrapping this up in a second. It says, do good to those who do good to you. What benefit is that to you? Look at that. If you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do that. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:12:22]: See, this is where we gotta look different in the world. Christians, and if you do good only to those who do good to you, what should you get? Why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much. Basically, he goes on to say, we as Christians should live higher, live above that. K. And not not, not just, like only the people who like us. And then the guys who tease our shirt, never mind them. They junk already. No. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:12:46]: We'll pray for them. Pray for they get good taste. Lord, let them let them appreciate a nice Rick's shirt. Okay? And, the colors and and the the design. Open their eyes, lord. Let them see real beauty. I don't know. I'm just making it up. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:13:00]: But, we can pray for them and pray, for my heart to not take offense because he he, didn't like my shirt. I'm just using this as as example, but you get what I mean. And then Matthew 544 says, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. I think Matthew is up there. If If Matthew is not there, then Luke is up there. What what's that last, bible verse we got? We got Jesus said, here. Okay. This is where we we get the good stuff. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:13:33]: See, you know, I can I can talk all I want, but, the one who we want we look at is Jesus Christ? He's the the our example of how to live our life. Okay. And, why do we forgive? Why should I forgive? You know, forgiveness is not for you, for the other person. It's for you. So we we can forgive. We can pray for our enemies. Okay. Ask the Lord to open their eyes. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:13:57]: Give them, you know, a sound mind and judgment and and and cure whatever ills them, whatever, is going on with them to make them, be offensive or whatever it is to be our enemy. And sometimes it make a a day. Sometimes it may take longer. Sometimes every day we have to pray. Because sometimes some things are real deep hurt and wounds. So we have to pray long and hard for that. But our example is Jesus Christ when he had to go to the cross and he got whipped and scourged. And he didn't turn he didn't turn because he could have called legions of angels down. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:14:34]: Right? But he did not choose to do that. He said what did he say? Father Jesus said, father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. They're and then they divided his garments by casting lots. So basically, they just was going through the motions and it was just gonna kill Jesus, but even then, he forgave them. So if that's our example, everybody, come on. That this that's how we, we should hold that up. Right? We should honor what he asked. He asked the father, you know, to forgive them. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:15:05]: We should look at that as a model and honor honor him by doing that. And that's my my, you know, 15 minute version. And it I know it goes much deeper. You can do your own research, but please, you know, consider this and and during our prayer time as we as we break, pray for, for, you know, in the lord's prayer. Forgive us our trespasses. And trespasses not mean just crossing over into somebody's yard or whatever. Trespass is something, you know, we've done to to cause offense maybe for, pray, pray forgiveness for our trespasses or, you know, errors or sin. Let's just call it what it is. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:15:44]: Anything we've done to sin against someone, call call on that and just get it done with and say, you know, lord, this, that, and this, the other. I'm sorry, lord. I confess this is this was wrong. Forgive those who trespass against you. You know, that guy who teased my shirt? I let him off the hook. Pray pray that he have good taste. One day, he'll come around in Jesus' name, whatever it is. And and then the third one is ask god to heal any hurts that you may have. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:16:10]: Just ask him, lord, come into this place. So on the next, 20, 25 minutes, let's ask him to do that. Pray against the devil's schemes. If you know if you know that devil's, kinda doing something wrong, pray against that. Just and how you do that is just use the authority that we have in Christ. Devil, get your hands off my family in Jesus' name, in the authority of Jesus. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. Use scripture also. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:16:39]: Right? And, just pray against the devil and his schemes. The next one, pray for things that concern you today. What's concerning you today? You have something on your mind, something a big meeting tomorrow or a big project coming up. Pray for those things. Your family situation. Some people are walking through some hard family stuff, some health issues. Pray on that as we take our time now. So join together with 2 or 3 people, get off, to the side and lay some stuff down. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:17:09]: And then when it comes to 7:50, about 10 minutes to 8, we're gonna get together in a corporate. And I have some a list of things. And if you wanna be on the prayer list, we have a prayer board here and a text to pray. 808-793-5655. Text it in and we'll check that out, and we'll pray alongside you. Okay? So for the next, about half hour. So at 7:50, we'll get back together. Okay? Thanks. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:17:37]: God bless. Alright. I trust everybody had a good time of prayer and a reflection time. And, we just wanna move into our, corporate prayers now. Thank you for sending in your prayers, by the way, all those who sent it in over, the text. And you can still send them in. It's, the number is 808-793-5655. 808 793-5655. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:39:27]: You can text in your prayers anytime, actually, and we'll see them, and we will stand with you in prayer. So let's, let's just lift our hearts to the Lord and pray. Father God, we're so grateful for this time, and we thank you, Lord, that we get to press into you, Lord God, in in prayer and in, Thanksgiving, Lord God. And so we wanna begin with giving you thanks and praise for, just a place to come, a sanctuary here in in beautiful Waipahu. And we just pray over this place, pray a covering over this place. All of the electrical systems and the lighting systems continue to work, Lord God, in spite of, the rolling blackouts in Jesus' name. Cover us, Lord. Cover this place. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:40:09]: Cover our, Sunday location also, Lord. Sunday location over at School. Allow our weekend gatherings to be, fruitful and, allow us to just, continue to bring the word over there in Kapolei. And thank you for, 25 years, looking at 25 years celebration on 25th. Lord, what a great time. Thank you for sustaining us through 25 years. And, all of the people who came and went, and heard your word and was inspired and and moving on to great things, lord god. We just thank you for 25 great years of, just touching your people and be becoming real to those who may not have had heard of you if it wasn't for, Nohem Kapolei. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:40:52]: So we just praise you for that, Lord. And, you know, I remember, 1 year ago when, things started to happen, you know, in the world that was that was very traumatic. All kinds of stuff happened, you know, not including COVID. COVID, you know, was the the years past. But last year around this time, it was the Lahaina fire that came up. And it's 1 year. And, I'm glad, you know, folks in Lahaina got to celebrate. So, lord god, I just pray praise you god for the lives you spared, Lord God. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:41:25]: We look at it as you sparing lives, Lord, people who was found refuge in the in the ocean. And, Lord God, those who got to higher ground and just escaped the the fire. But we do remember and mourn for those who have passed on, lord god, from that fire, lord god. And, we just pray that you'd be with the families of those lost in the fire, and we we will never forget them, Lord God. The, you know, the families that that they'll live on in the family's lives and memories, But let let it be a good lesson to learn for, the future of how to, you know, watch for these things. I know it's some sometimes things just kinda, happen and it turns into a perfect storm. But, Lord, let it be a learning experience for all of us and let us, thank you for the healing that you've brought so far, a lot of healing to continue for those who are displaced, Lord God. Let them find, their new normal as we say. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:42:20]: And, I just pray that, the future is, continually, bright and allow them to call upon your name. And then, when they call on your name and they walk in your ways, they can have a good future. So be real, Lord, to those, who are, survived, and, survived the line of fires and those who are just looking looking for answers, lord god. Speak to them loud and clear, lord And and just bring, wholeness and healing, to all the devastation, lord. And I know it's a slow process, but work through the midst of that, lord god. God. Be real through the midst of that, lord. Let your voice be loud and clear in Lahaina as they clean up and and get back to regular in Jesus' name. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:43:03]: Rebuild. Amen. Also for Japan who had an earthquake today, Lauren. Lord God, be with, anyone injured. Protect them and heal them, Lord. Bring bring, crews, to to, rescue crews if that's needed. I'm I'm not sure on the total situation, but, can't be good, Lord. But you we know with you, you are good, lord god, and you have, your mighty hand, of healing and protection to cover. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:43:31]: So we just ask for a covering of grace, a covering of mercy, a a covering of, just, rescue for those who need rescue, for, healing for those who mourn, lord god, and protection for those displaced, lord god. Just continue to work in, and throughout the Japan earthquake, lord, to bring this healing in Jesus' name. Also, we pray, lord god, for so many things going on. But, we do, thank you. Our our senior pastor, safe return for pray we pray for a safe return and a good, quality, rest and recovery time. We can get back into the swing of things slowly at his at his pace, lord god. And, I'm gonna look at my notes here. Our, our church, our church body, lord god, we really need you. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:44:34]: We were really calling calling for you, Lord, for our healing of our bodies, Lord God. A sister who's not been feeling well for 2 weeks, Lord, we pray you bring healing upon her, Lord God. And, we just, pray that the doctors can can find out what's going on with her, and bring healing, Lord, in Jesus' name for for her. Also, TJ, Lord, for TJ's back, neck, and shoulders, to bring healing to them, lord god. And, we pray that he can find a new job that's not as taxing on his body, lord god. We lift we stand with them on that, lord, in Jesus' name. Also, for Kim's dad, Lord God, as he's walking through this, this season of bone cancer, allow it to be a road to recovery, lord god, and and make it easier and not harder, lord god, each day, lord god. Allow him to feel, better, allow him to have, a good positive attitude, a good outlook on things, and, just have the have a fighting spirit that he can just push through through whatever steps, need to be taken and just, give him the grace and, just let him know that he's loved, Lord God, and allow Kim and the family to just, gather around him and, just, speak words of life and be be, Jesus to him, lord god, during this hard time. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:45:51]: We ask in Jesus' name. And, baby Celia still got that, stomach issues, lord god. We just pray for resolution to that and her little stomach can bay be back to normal. Remove any of those, any bugs that are still in there. And we thank you for medications or and, various things, but we mostly ask for your hand, your touch, Lord, of healing on little baby Celia's stomach, Lord God. Stomach issues in Jesus' name. Amen. Also, Lord, we in Jesus' name. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:46:19]: Amen. Also, lord, we wanna lift up, our sister who's, adjusting to new ways of new way of life with her son, lord, with the absent, father bringing brings challenges, Lord God. But we just pray a covering, of a fresh grace, Lord, to fall upon, them, our our friend and her son, Lord God. And allow them to know that they have a body, a church body who stands with them, lord god. Prays for them, lord god. Bring them, let them have courage to, to to say and to declare, my god shall supply all my needs. And, god will supply all the needs. And we just pray, lord god, that you move mightily in her in her life, Lord. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:47:11]: We stand on that promise, Lord God, that you can make a way, Father God. So bring the healing, bring the mending to those hearts, Lord God, that need mending. And, we know it's it's not easy, Lord. So your your scripture says, rejoice with those who rejoice, but mourn with those who mourn. So we we, we cry alongside, our sister, Lord God, in this time, in Jesus' name. We also, pray against, Lord God. Sometimes, for whatever when, whatever reason we have a sin that comes into the picture and, makes, you know, influences us to do to make bad choices. So, some who even know you, Lord God. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:47:56]: So those who, who had, who's walking those roads, Lord God, making bad choices, who live in that tension of, you know, good knowing what's good, but choosing the bad. Lord, we pray you break off those chains of addictions, Lord God, which hold people, hostage and hold people captive. We pray you break off addictions, Lord God, that let, keep people in bondage, Lord, in Jesus' name. We we pray you break off oppression, Lord God, that, just keeps people down, Lord. Even depression, lord god. We pray against depression, lord god. We pray for wholeness and healing for for these folks and and then that they can, see that they have no taste for any of the, either drugs or drink or, whatever vices that they're going through, Lord. But they have the taste of the, whole they can taste of the holy holy spirit, Lord God. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:48:49]: Like the woman at the well when they drink and when she drinks the water and she'll never thirst again, Lord God. So allow the people to drink of the living water, Lord God, and not anything else and nothing else can satisfy, Lord. Only you can satisfy. So just be, be their comfort, be their, the next thing that they choose, Lord God. If they wanted to addict, get addicted, let them get addicted to you, Father God. In Jesus' name. And, Lord, as, every, 4 years, we just thank you for the, this country, for the providential, move that you put on our country and letting us have this, a great experiment, Lord, for 200 something years. But, Lord, as we come back to election time, everything involved, Lord God, through candidates, through, campaigning and voting process, Lord, even the voting machines, Lord God make, we pray that you'd be right in the middle of, of it all. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:49:48]: Just, making things flow, well, Lord God, with no fraud. We pray against any fraud or craziness, any kind of schemes of the enemy that that tries to manipulate things. And no violence, no more violence, Lord God. We just pray healing on, on the ear of, former president, Donald Trump. We pray for healing, even for, Joe Biden and his mind, continue to heal his mind and, heal, heal his body and, allow them to, just, live out their years and enjoying the grandkids and all of that whole thing. And, and just, be with the, the new Harris administration, Lord, speak to them, Lord God loudly and loud and clear even in dreams, Lord God. Speak to them about what is the not not who is right, but what is right, Lord God. We know, there is only, one house that counts and that's god's house, lord. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:50:47]: Not even the White House, lord. It's god's house and you're still on the throne, lord god. You're still watching over our country. You're you've, you've made it great. It it and it's still great, lord god. So we just pray you, you just, put your hand over this country, over every everybody who's campaigning. Let it be a fair and balanced election. Speak to the voters, Lord God, every voter that, thinks through what are the issues, what, what is it really at, at heart of the issue, Lord God, let us all think clearly and, deeply about what are the issues. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:51:21]: And we we have the honor of having our vote cast, Lord God, and and to choose our leaders for our country. So allow us to do that, lord god. And, we pray for our brothers and sisters, not not in this country, but in different countries, lord. Those who have very difficult times, way more difficult than ours, but give them strength and fortitude, Lord God, as they persevere. We thank you for their fighting spirits, Lord God, those in our, in our, missions, teams, Lord God, that's around the world, Lord God. Just be with them and allow them to hear your voice and to continue to grow in the knowledge and, and, strengthen Jesus Christ. Lord, we just pray all this in Jesus' name. And, we thank you, Lord, for, just guiding our steps, Lord God. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:52:09]: We can make our our plans, but we ask you to guide our steps, correct us, Lord, if we, if we're off Lord God and, allow us to continue to, build that firm foundation and build upon, a firm foundation, which is Christ. And we just say all this with gratefulness and thanksgiving, Lord, for all you've done and, all you're doing now and all you've, gonna do in the future, Lord. We lift our futures to you, father God. And, we just give you praise, honor, and glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hey. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:52:41]: Thanks everybody for joining us today. And tomorrow's gonna be another great message and another great time of worship and prayer. So please join us again. Let's press into God. And this is just a little taste of how we can pray. And, it's maybe even a example of how we can, you know, just just list down a few bullet points and just pray upon them. And then sometimes it's not even the the the intensity, but the the consistency that we like. They're hitting it 20 21 times. Pastor Jeff Pagay [00:53:11]: Right? If you, weight lift for one day, not much happens. But 21 days of weightlifting, you'll be stronger. So let's do 21 days of spiritual weightlifting. Alright. God bless everybody. See you next time.