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Allen Jackson - Prayer and God's Power (Part 2)

June 30, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Prayer and God's Power (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Prayer and God's Power (Part 2) | June 30, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this. it's a book, it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family,
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • "your identity in christ," it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i wonder if we can have the courage to say to ourselves,
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  • "i'm not as comfortable with prayer as i would like to be.
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  • I wanna learn to pray."
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  • I've been sharing with you in the last few weeks about how
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  • God's been changing the focus of my prayer life in some pretty
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  • Significant ways.
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  • I'm gonna pray for healing before we get done today, just
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  • Out of, you know.
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  • I'm not gonna be discouraged because i don't have all the
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  • Outcomes i'm looking for just yet.
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  • But i believe that if we would acknowledge that we can learn to
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  • Pray, it will change the conversation for us.
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  • Look at matthew chapter 9. "jesus stepped into a boat and
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  • He crossed over, and he came to his own town," capernaum, "and
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  • Some men brought him a paralytic, lying on a mat.
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  • And jesus saw their faith, and he said to the paralytic, 'take
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  • Heart, son; your sins are forgiven.'
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  • Well, at this, some of the teachers of the law said to
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  • Themselves, 'this fellow is blaspheming!'
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  • And jesus knew their hearts and said, 'why do you entertain evil
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  • Thoughts in your hearts?'"
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  • This is fascinating to me.
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  • Did they bring the paralytic man to jesus so that his sins could
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  • Be forgiven?
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  • Probably not.
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  • I think the friends that brought him, that probably wasn't their
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  • Primary objective.
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  • They knew the miracles around jesus's ministry.
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  • They had either heard or seen.
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  • And so they bring a friend with a physical need, and when jesus
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  • Sees the young man, his response is, "your sins are forgiven."
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  • So the friends who brought the friend are not thrilled.
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  • Does that seem right?
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  • And the religious leaders who are listening, they just
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  • Outright say, "you're blasphemous."
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  • So there's nobody happy with jesus.
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  • He didn't pray right.
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  • I haven't made anything up.
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  • We read it together.
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  • Verse 5, "so which is easier, to say, 'your sins are forgiven,'
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  • Or to say, 'get up and walk'?"
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  • Well, clearly jesus's implication is, "i've already
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  • Done the heavy lifting.
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  • I've addressed what could separate him from almighty god.
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  • Anything after that is a much lighter lift."
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  • Jesus puts it in terms of, well, which do you think is easier?
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  • See, when we talk about prayer, the most powerful prayers we
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  • Will pray are not gonna be directed at objects and things
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  • That we want or we want moved.
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  • The most powerful prayers that we will pray will address the
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  • Spiritual forces that shape our lives, our emotions, our
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  • Wellbeing, and our future.
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  • And most of us are so unaware of all of that we're not even sure
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  • It's a legitimate conversation, so we kind of shy away from it
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  • And we just keep bringing the objects to the lord that we want
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  • Him to do something with.
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  • And jesus said, which do you think is harder, to say, 'your
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  • Sins are forgiven,' or just, 'get up'?"
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  • He didn't stop there.
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  • "'but so that you may know that the son of man has authority on
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  • Earth to forgive sins.'
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  • He said to the paralytic, 'get up and take your mat and
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  • Go home.'
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  • And the man got up and went home.
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  • When the crowd saw this," i love the bible.
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  • It has a gift for understatement.
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  • "when the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they
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  • Praised god," and sang a chorus and they went home.
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  • Now, i suspect there was an electricity rippling through
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  • That place.
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  • What do you think?
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  • See, prayer is an expression of authority.
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  • And if you're not praying, you're leaving god's authority
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  • Largely absent from your life and its unfolding.
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  • That would be unfortunate.
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  • A failure to pray is an abandonment of our
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  • Own authority.
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  • Look at mark chapter 1.
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  • Mark chapter 1, this is very near the
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  • Beginning of mark's gospel.
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  • Chapter 1, "just then a man in their synagogue who was
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  • Possessed by an evil spirit cried out, 'what do you want
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  • With us, jesus of nazareth?
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  • Have you come to destroy us?
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  • I know who you are--the holy one of god!'"
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  • And jesus responds rather sternly, "'be quiet and come out
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  • Of him.'
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  • And the evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of
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  • Him with a shriek.
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  • The people were all so amazed that they asked each other,
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  • 'what is this?
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  • A new teaching--and with authority!
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  • He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him.'"
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  • Capernaum is where jesus set up his ministry when he decided to
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  • Go public.
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  • And in the opening chapter of mark's gospel, he's in the
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  • Synagogue in capernaum.
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  • It's been excavated.
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  • You can visit it, if you visit those excavations today.
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  • And the synagogue is interrupted by a demonized man.
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  • The demon is speaking through the man.
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  • That will adjust your theology.
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  • And he has a statement directed at jesus.
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  • He said, "have you come to destroy us, jesus of nazareth?
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  • We know who you are."
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  • Well, at this point in the unfolding gospel narrative,
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  • Nobody else does.
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  • Peter hasn't made his pronouncement that, "you're
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  • The messiah."
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  • Jesus's fame hasn't been established yet.
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  • This is the very opening chapter of mark's gospel.
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  • But the spiritual forces present understand full well who
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  • Jesus is.
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  • It's a demonic provocation, and it draws jesus's attention.
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  • If you'll allow me, i would submit to you that the spirit of
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  • God in you, from time to time, will provoke satan and
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  • His kingdom.
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  • And there'll be responses towards you or about you that
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  • Are illogical or irrational, because they're not grounded in
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  • Something that's rational.
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  • Jesus had done nothing, at that point, to draw that response.
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  • It's a spiritual--remember what i said at the beginning, that
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  • When we pray, we unleash a collision between
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  • Spiritual kingdoms?
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  • So if you don't pray, you abandon the field.
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  • That's why prayer matters so much.
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  • It's why we can't avoid it, because we say, "i'm not
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  • Sophisticated enough," or "i don't know enough," or "i
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  • Haven't learned greek or hebrew or aramaic," or whatever else.
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  • We begin, because we want to give space to the spirit of god
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  • To accomplish his purposes in the earth in any way that you
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  • And i know how to do that.
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  • I've observed something else.
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  • It may never have been true of you, but i've found the
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  • Temptation in myself.
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  • Sometimes when you recognize those conflicts are present,
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  • That not everyone in a given space would embrace your
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  • Biblical worldview or your affirmation of jesus as christ,
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  • Lord, and king, there's a temptation that presents itself
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  • To embrace ungodliness in some small way to try to diminish
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  • The provocation.
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  • Maybe you'll just use a little foul language so you can fit
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  • In better.
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  • Or maybe you'll compromise the story you're telling in a way so
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  • You can appear just to glide right into that place and not
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  • Let that provocation grow.
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  • I understand the pressure, a bit.
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  • But i wanna invite you to be conscious that you're an
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  • Ambassador for the kingdom of god.
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  • And we don't arrive in any circumstance with a
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  • Pronouncement of condemnation, but we do bring light into the
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  • Darkness and that's not always an overly comfortable place.
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  • It's why we have to come with compassion and gentleness.
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  • We've all seen enough examples that are not helpful.
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  • But your sentence prayers become a very, very, very
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  • Valuable tool.
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  • The other thing i've learned about prayer is that i have a
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  • Bad habit of determining how god should move.
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  • Do you do that?
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  • You know, i don't just ask for god's help, i tell god what
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  • To do.
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  • You maybe never have done that.
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  • You should pray for me.
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  • You know, when i was in college, i was finishing up, and i
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  • Changed my whole life plan and degree program to decide i would
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  • Try to serve the lord.
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  • And a few weeks after i made that decision, which was
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  • Significant for me at the time, we had an unusual snowfall and i
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  • Appropriated some trays from the college cafeteria.
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  • They wanted me to have them, i promise.
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  • And we were out sledding down the side of a hill, and i met
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  • The knee of a friend and my face caved in.
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  • Well, i'd just reoriented my whole life, i thought, to serve
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  • The lord, and i was pretty proud of myself, and you know.
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  • And so i go to the emergency room and the doctor said, you
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  • Know, i'd broken my face in multiple places.
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  • Possible nerve damage.
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  • And i needed immediate surgery, all the things.
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  • And i was reasonably kind.
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  • I was somewhat arrogant.
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  • I said, "you know, i appreciate your diagnosis, but i believe
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  • The lord will heal me.
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  • I'm checking out."
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  • [laughs]
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  • Because i was gonna serve the lord, and he's gonna heal my
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  • Face, bless god.
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  • And i checked out of the hospital and i went to a
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  • Hotel room.
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  • I called my parents.
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  • They were in alabama that weekend.
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  • And they ended up flying to--i lived in tulsa at the time, they
  • 00:11:03.845 --> 00:11:06.381
  • Came to tulsa.
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  • They spent the weekend very kindly listening to a college
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  • Student vent.
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  • And i can't tell you exactly where along that way, but by
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  • Monday morning i had regained enough humility to call the
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  • Doctor and say, you know, "if i were to show back up at the
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  • Hospital and admit myself, would you put me back in the queue
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  • For surgery?"
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  • And at that time, it wasn't clear how severe the nerve
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  • Damage was and what would happen to me.
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  • Some of the options were not good at all.
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  • And the doctor was gracious to me, let me come back, and it
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  • Ended up they did the procedure with two very tiny incisions.
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  • And they told me it would be months and months before i had
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  • Any feeling back at all in my face, and it was just a matter
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  • Of days.
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  • And the lord brought healing to my face, but he didn't do it in
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  • The way i told him to.
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  • And some of you still are at odds with god because he didn't
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  • Answer the prayer in the way you wanted to.
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  • You know, one of the things--and the lord reminds me of this over
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  • And over again, because i bring him how i want him to move.
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  • And if he doesn't do it the way i want him to do
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  • It, i get sideways.
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  • And he keeps kind of reminding me, you know, you are one of the
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  • Most generous congregations of people i know anywhere.
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  • I'm amazed.
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  • When you're given an invitation to serve or to participate, your
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  • Responses are overwhelming.
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  • I talked to pastors across the country around the world, and
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  • I'm amazed at your willingness to be a part of what god does,
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  • You know, whether it's help the church in iran and ukraine, or
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  • Tell people in our community that need help.
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  • You give away tons of food.
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  • You will serve and volunteer people so thousands of people
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  • Can come and have experiences on our campus at no charge.
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  • You're so generous to help people who are less fortunate,
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  • To welcome children, to--i mean, it's just an unending stream of
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  • What you do.
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  • But from time to time i'll take an appointment with someone
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  • Because they'll say, you know, "your church doesn't do anything
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  • To help the community."
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  • I'll say, "oh, really?"
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  • And so i'll start to share what you do.
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  • Some of it we celebrate, and some of it we don't celebrate
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  • Because when you help people less fortunate than yourself,
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  • You try not to turn the light on so their dignity remains intact.
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  • And inevitably what they'll say is, "well, that's not the way i
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  • Wanted you to do it."
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  • And i go, "oh, i've been in that place with the lord myself."
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  • And i find me telling god how he should answer my prayers.
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  • And what i really wanna do is invite god into the midst of
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  • The circumstance.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • I see it in my own heart when i have these conversations.
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  • Somebody said to me, i had this conversation recently.
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  • They said, "well, you know, you're not committed to reaching
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  • People with the gospel."
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  • I said, "oh, really?
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  • Well, tell me about that."
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  • And they said, "well, the church where i go, they got 63 sites
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  • And they're doing all of this and--"
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  • Well, yeah, i appreciate that.
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  • I've got a lot of friends that are working in that lane.
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  • I said the lord directed us another way, and i said, "every
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  • Week what we do in our sanctuary is viewed by millions of people.
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  • And we get a steady stream of messages and calls and letters
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  • About life transformation by people who receive ministry from
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  • The people that gather in our church."
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  • And they'll say to me, "well, that's not the pattern i want."
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  • And i go, "i understand completely.
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  • I have that conversation with god frequently."
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  • I wanna be certain today that you're not standing apart from
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  • The blessing of god because you don't like his delivery system.
  • 00:14:49.804 --> 00:14:53.207
  • It's a really dangerous slope, and i've been there with the
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  • Best of intentions, filled with self-righteousness.
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  • God, i didn't know it was gonna be this challenging.
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  • I'm sure abraham didn't know he would wait as long as he waited
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  • For isaac.
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  • I'm sure when samuel anointed david to be king, he wasn't
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  • Quite prepared for the wrath of saul.
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  • When ananias came to visit saul of tarsus and said, "jesus has
  • 00:15:22.704 --> 00:15:26.240
  • Got a job for you," i'm not sure saul of tarsus understood what
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  • Was on the other side of that invitation.
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  • Prayer doesn't mean your life is without challenges.
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  • Prayer is inviting the power of god to bring the purposes of god
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  • To fulfillment in your life.
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  • It will change your attitude towards prayer if you can open
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  • Your heart to that simple idea.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Male, female, southerner, educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Most significant component of your person for both time
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  • And eternity.
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  • In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough.
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Allen: i'll give you one more piece, and then i'll stop for
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  • This session.
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  • In ephesians 6 verse 18 it says, "pray in the spirit on all
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  • Occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.
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  • With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all
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  • The saints."
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  • There's an idea introduced there that i think is largely absent
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  • In our imaginations.
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  • It says that we should pray with all kinds of prayers.
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  • It's plural.
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  • You know, we have some nouns that are plural.
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  • If i say "sport," you don't know whether we're talking about golf
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  • Or football.
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  • But how you're going to participate is
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  • Dramatically different.
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  • If i say "fruit," you don't know what i'm going to serve.
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  • They are plural nouns.
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  • Prayer is like that.
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  • There are different kinds of prayer.
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  • There are different types of prayer.
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  • There are different biblical directions around prayer.
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  • And because we've just lumped it all into this kind of amorphous
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  • Thing that we were only modestly interested in, we have lacked a
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  • Great deal of sophistication.
  • 00:18:17.578 --> 00:18:18.913
  • It's like saying "computer."
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  • There's a great deal of variation in what that means.
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  • And i wanna invite you to begin to say to the lord, "i would
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  • Like to learn to pray, to develop a whole portfolio
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  • Of prayers."
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  • Look at mark 2 verse 11.
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  • Jesus said, "'i tell you,'" he's speaking to that paralytic,
  • 00:18:38.566 --> 00:18:42.737
  • "'pick up your mat and go home.'
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  • And he got up and he took his mat."
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  • But the people said, "we've never seen that before.
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  • We've never seen that expression of authority.
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  • We didn't know you could pray like that."
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  • Clearly, because when jesus addressed another paralytic man,
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  • They said he was blaspheming.
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  • Is it possible that you and i know god in a limited way?
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  • Nod your head yes.
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  • We can learn to know the lord more fully, more completely,
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  • Open the doors to the power of god.
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  • Does it mean all the pain will drain out of our lives, that all
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  • The mountains will all of a sudden become level?
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  • No, i don't think it means that at all.
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  • But it means we can begin to experience god in ways that let
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  • The purposes of god break forth in our lives that could be
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  • Dramatically different than what you will accomplish on your own,
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  • If you will begin to pray.
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  • Simple little prayers.
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  • "god, i need your help.
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  • Lord, help me."
  • 00:19:40.895 --> 00:19:42.597
  • And jesus did.
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  • Hezekiah said, "god, i don't wanna die," and god showed
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  • Him mercy.
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  • We can make an argument that hezekiah should have been
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  • Quiet, but--
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  • I'll give you a list.
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  • It's by no means an inclusive list, but the bible tells us of
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  • Healing prayers, of prayers of repentance, prayers for
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  • Forgiveness, prayers for deliverance, prayers of
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  • Thanksgiving, prayers of provision, prayers of blessing.
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  • And they're not all just the same.
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  • It's like saying, "i'm going in for surgery."
  • 00:20:10.758 --> 00:20:13.995
  • Well, i don't know if you're having a knot removed from your
  • 00:20:13.995 --> 00:20:15.696
  • Elbow or you're having quadruple bypass.
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  • There's a difference.
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  • In prayer, we need a little more differentiation, we need a
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  • Little more awareness, we need a little more interest to become
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  • People of prayer.
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  • God's moving in the earth, folks.
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  • There's a tremendous spiritual conflict unfolding.
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  • We're seeing expressions of evil with a brazenness i never
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  • Thought were possible.
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  • They'll deny fundamental principles of science
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  • And biology.
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  • They'll try to convince you that up is down.
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  • I mean, it's just crazy.
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  • It's a spiritual conflict.
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  • It's not about ideologies or nations.
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  • There's a spiritual conflict in the earth, and god is raising up
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  • A generation of people who will cooperate with his
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  • Unfolding purposes.
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  • I wanna be included, and i wanna invite you.
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  • So we're gonna work on this, some simple prayers that you can
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  • Unleash in your life over the next session or three.
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  • But i wanna close this session.
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  • I truly want to pray for those of you who are sick, because we
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  • Don't pray from our strength.
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  • Isn't that good to know?
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  • You know, when i pray for you to have god's wisdom, it's not
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  • Because i feel so wise.
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  • And i know my god is a healer.
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  • I'll read you a verse.
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  • I didn't put it in your notes, but it's in your bible.
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  • It's matthew 8:16-17.
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  • Jesus is ministering, and matthew records this.
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  • He says, "when evening came, they brought him in capernaum
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  • Many who were demon-possessed and who were sick, and he drove
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  • Out the spirits and he healed all the sick."
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  • But then matthew inserts the explanation.
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  • He says, "this was to fulfill what was spoken through the
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  • Prophet isaiah."
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  • That's isaiah 53.
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  • It's a description of messiah when he comes.
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  • Isaiah wrote it hundreds of years before jesus's birth.
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  • He said, "he took up our infirmities and he carried
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  • Our diseases."
  • 00:22:09.977 --> 00:22:11.779
  • See, jesus's redemptive work on the cross is not just about
  • 00:22:11.779 --> 00:22:15.316
  • Forgiveness of our sins, it's the transformation of our whole
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  • Person, every part of our person.
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  • It doesn't mean we don't face physical challenges.
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  • People say to me, you know, "are you for prayer or medicine?"
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  • Yes.
  • 00:22:30.731 --> 00:22:32.099
  • It's like saying, "are you for mechanics or miracles?"
  • 00:22:35.503 --> 00:22:39.507
  • I'm grateful for mechanics, and when i take my vehicle, i pray
  • 00:22:39.507 --> 00:22:42.243
  • For a miracle.
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  • We get these weird dichotomies.
  • 00:22:45.446 --> 00:22:48.215
  • God doesn't have to work apart from our world.
  • 00:22:48.215 --> 00:22:51.051
  • If he has to sometimes, we'll invite him into those spaces,
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  • But i try not to run into those spaces.
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  • So if you're here today, and you need a physical healing, i'm
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  • Just gonna ask you to stand, wherever you are,
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  • Whichever sanctuary.
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  • If you're at home, you can stand with us right there.
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  • You can type into your keyboard, "i'm standing with you."
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  • I'm gonna pray for everybody standing up, so.
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  • I'm not gonna wait long, my time's going away.
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  • I only asked the lord for enough voice for 42 minutes and i've
  • 00:23:15.142 --> 00:23:19.847
  • Got 90 seconds, so.
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  • It's not true.
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  • Oh, isn't it good to know god does miracles?
  • 00:23:26.420 --> 00:23:30.124
  • Now, how he wants to do that, that's beyond me, you know?
  • 00:23:30.124 --> 00:23:37.531
  • And i've had to make peace with that.
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  • I don't always like it.
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  • Sometimes i still complain bitterly.
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  • But i'm determined to let god be god in my life.
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  • And i would invite you to do that.
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  • Some of you, and it's a subset of this morning, but i don't
  • 00:23:51.579 --> 00:23:54.081
  • Wanna miss it because i felt like the lord quickened that
  • 00:23:54.081 --> 00:23:56.817
  • To me.
  • 00:23:56.817 --> 00:23:58.152
  • It wasn't in my notes, but some of you are frustrated with the
  • 00:23:58.152 --> 00:24:01.288
  • Lord because he hasn't moved in the way that you thought he
  • 00:24:01.288 --> 00:24:03.324
  • Should move.
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  • And i've had those conversations through the years with people,
  • 00:24:05.259 --> 00:24:08.796
  • And it's a real impediment.
  • 00:24:08.796 --> 00:24:11.966
  • And i would ask you, if you need to, to say to the lord, you
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  • Know, "i forgive you for not meeting my expectations, but i
  • 00:24:16.103 --> 00:24:23.043
  • Wanna be your friend."
  • 00:24:23.043 --> 00:24:24.411
  • If you can do that, it'll provide a runway for a whole new
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  • Beginning in your life.
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  • I don't always know the path or understand the path that god
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  • Chooses for us.
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  • I would've preferred to learn a lesson about god's healing
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  • Without fracturing my face.
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  • But i'm grateful that in the midst of the pain and the
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  • Trauma, that god still ministered to me.
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  • Okay, let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you for your word.
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  • I thank you for its truth and its authority and
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  • Its significance.
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  • I thank you that jesus on the cross exhausted the curse
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  • Of sin.
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  • Lord, i thank you that he won a complete and total, eternal,
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  • Irreversible victory over satan and his kingdom.
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  • And we stand in your presence today to acknowledge our need
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  • For your help.
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  • Lord, bring life to our mortal bodies.
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  • Bring strength to us.
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  • Lord, where needed, may we respond to treatments in ways
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  • That exceed any reasonable expectation.
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  • Lord, where the treatments don't provide a resolution, we invite
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  • You in.
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  • You created us to heal and designed our bodies.
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  • We thank you for that.
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  • But we thank you for all the healthcare that's available and
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  • All of its expressions, but we trust you for our future and our
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  • Wellbeing today.
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  • And i thank you for your life, that we can each one fulfill our
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  • Assignment that you may be pleased with us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • You'd better give the lord a hand, huh?
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  • God bless you.
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  • You are chosen, loved, accepted, and redeemed, and as you more
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  • Fully understand how god sees you, it will change how you see
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  • Yourself, how you see god, and how you live your life.
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  • Discover your identity in him.
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