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Allen Jackson - Prayer and Spiritual Authority (Part 2)

July 5, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Prayer and Spiritual Authority (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Prayer and Spiritual Authority (Part 2) | July 5, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • 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: may i help you?
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  • I read it today in the book of psalms.
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  • God, he knows the stars by name.
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  • Every snowflake is unique.
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  • Every human being is unique.
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  • Your thumbprint, your eye, you're a completely
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  • Unique individual.
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  • Nobody like you in all of creation and all the history
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  • Of humanity.
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  • God knows how many hairs are on your head.
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  • So i'm thinking, if you want to pray for your neighbor, you can
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  • Just say, "hey, god, my neighbor," and he has an
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  • Imagination of who you're talking about.
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  • Now, if you want to tell the prayer group where you are about
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  • Your neighbor before you pray, stop and say, "listen, i'm gonna
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  • Pray for my neighbor, but i want to tell you a little bit about
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  • Him before i pray."
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  • But you don't have to wrap it into the prayer.
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  • Now, if i'm praying for somebody that's sick, and i want to be
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  • Really specific, and i know they're going to go have open
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  • Heart surgery, i'll pray that there will be no complications,
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  • That there will be no infection, that there will be no unintended
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  • Consequences, that the recovery will be supernatural, that the
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  • Physician and all those attending will be focused and
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  • Interested, but i can still do all of that in about 30 seconds.
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  • "god, bring health to us."
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  • I mean, i don't know what's--i don't know if i had a--i had a
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  • Bug of some description.
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  • I don't know if it was a bacteria or a virus.
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  • I have an opinion, i don't care; i just want it to go, in
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  • Jesus's name.
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  • "let my voice function, let my head clear, may my energy level
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  • Be restored.
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  • Thank you, father, in jesus's name."
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  • You say, "well, pastor, it didn't work very well.
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  • You've been sick for 10 days."
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  • Well, think how long i'd have been sick if i hadn't prayed.
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  • I might have been croaking for weeks.
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  • Worry: now, i know none of you worry, but i bet some of you
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  • Know somebody.
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  • You could share a prayer with them.
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  • "father, may your peace fill our hearts and minds today, in
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  • Jesus's name."
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  • That's better than filling your mind with every possible
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  • Scenario that would even scare gabriel.
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  • "lord, fill my heart and mind with your peace today.
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  • I choose to turn my mind to you, that you're the creator of
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  • Heaven and earth."
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  • I'll start thinking about all the reasons that, if god helped
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  • Me, why i shouldn't have to worry about whatever it is that
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  • I'm tempted to worry about.
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  • The problems in your life, your problems will choke you
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  • Into inactivity.
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  • They will render you inert if you put them front and center.
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  • "father, give us your wisdom today, in jesus's name."
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  • Did you ever decide you want to lose a little weight?
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  • And you get so discouraged because you're not at the weight
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  • You want to be, you just eat, right?
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  • You know, i know i'm too big, and i probably should exercise,
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  • But i don't feel like exercising; i think i'll have
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  • A cupcake.
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  • I think we do that with the lord.
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  • Our problems push us further away from the lord.
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  • You know, i know i ought to go to church, but i don't feel like
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  • Going to church.
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  • God isn't helping me.
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  • If god was helping me, i'd feel like going to church.
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  • I don't feel like going to church, so i'm not going
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  • To church.
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  • I'm gonna stay home and have a cupcake.
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  • Some of you are at home with a cupcake right in front of you
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  • Right now.
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  • Discouragement, it's that prefix again.
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  • Discouragement isn't about being blue or despondent.
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  • To be discouraged is to be without courage.
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  • You don't have the courage you need for the assignments that
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  • Are in front of you.
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  • "i just don't feel like doing that; i'm discouraged."
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  • So we need the courage to go forward.
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  • "lord, fill us with joy and hope as we move through our
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  • Day, amen."
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  • Loneliness, that's not about people in your life.
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  • You can be surrounded by people and be lonely, or you can be
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  • Without very many people in your life and have a sense of
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  • Well-being and contentment.
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  • "father, send your angels to stand beside us today."
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  • You know, the devil will say to you, "well, there needs to be
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  • More of you," or, "you need more people to agree with you," or,
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  • "if there were more people where you worked that were believers,
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  • Or more people in your neighborhood, or more people in
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  • Your family that would join you in--" whatever.
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  • The devil will show you the scenario that will
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  • Disqualify you.
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  • A lot of times, when we talk to families, you know, the wives
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  • Will say, "well, my husband was just the spiritual leader of
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  • My home."
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  • Then you'd be annoyed by the direction he was leading.
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  • Or, "if my wife would just agree with me, and--" stop.
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  • "lord, i'm going to honor you in the circumstance where i find
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  • Myself today.
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  • Let your--let me be more aware of your angels that are standing
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  • Beside of me than the people who are not."
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  • It's so easy to be distracted for the things that are not.
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  • Don't put your attention there, the heaviness that comes
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  • With darkness.
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  • I'll tell you, if you don't guard your heart, you'll watch
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  • The evening news and become despondent.
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  • And if you watch it for more than 15 or 20 minutes, it's
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  • Almost guaranteed.
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  • That's enough, turn it off, move on.
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  • Turn it off, and begin to thank the lord that he's moving in
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  • The earth.
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  • But i brought you a little prayer, "father, lift the spirit
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  • Of despair and bring your hope to us today, in jesus's name."
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  • Folks, these are prayers you can pray.
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  • Put them in your phone; share them with somebody.
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  • Keep them available to you.
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  • Put them in the front of your bible, whatever you need to do
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  • So they're available to you.
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  • Begin to give expression to them.
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  • Weariness, we all get tired.
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  • You know why i know that?
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  • The bible says, "don't grow weary in doing good."
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  • If you didn't get tired of doing good, that wouldn't be in there.
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  • I get tired of doing good.
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  • I don't know, i mean, you don't have to do a lot.
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  • If you're not used to doing it, doing it once, you're tired
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  • Of it.
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  • "ooh, no wonder i didn't do that before.
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  • I did something nice for somebody, and they didn't say
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  • Thank you.
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  • I'm not doing that again."
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  • Well, the bible didn't say, "just do good that you know to
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  • Do when people appropriately respond to you."
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  • It said, "don't grow weary in doing good," why?
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  • Because, "at the proper time, you'll reap a harvest if--" oh,
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  • That ornery little preposition; if is in there; if you what?
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  • "don't give up."
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  • If you give up, you forfeit your reward.
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  • I don't wanna do that.
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  • So i need a prayer to pray.
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  • "father, help carry our burden through this day.
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  • Give us a sense of your rest, in jesus's name.
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  • Rejoice; lord, thank you for your goodness and your love
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  • For us."
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  • Now, all the prayers in that list, to be honest, are
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  • Very similar.
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  • They're all requests made to god.
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  • They're all an expression of god.
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  • And that's the primary way we think of praying, but it's a
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  • Very limited imagination of prayer.
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  • It's not inappropriate; it's helpful.
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  • You need a list, and you need some prayers to kinda help
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  • Jumpstart your imagination so that you have an--that you have
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  • An awareness you can invite god into these various aspects of
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  • Your lives, but you want your prayer life to be more than
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  • Just that.
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  • These topics may change, but the nature of the interaction is
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  • Pretty similar in that list.
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  • But there are other prayers to be learned.
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  • I brought you a little bit of a sample.
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  • Mark, chapter 2, jesus meets a man who has a physical problem,
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  • And he said, "'i tell you, get up, and take your mat and
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  • Go home.'
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  • And he got up, and he took his mat and he walked out in full
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  • View of them all."
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  • And they were amazed, said, "we've never seen anything
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  • Like this."
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  • Before he said that to him, he said, "your sins are forgiven."
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  • He took care of his eternal problem before he took care of
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  • His physical problem.
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  • You see, one of the prayers that god will invite you to is to
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  • Pray for the people that your life bumps into, to help with
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  • Their eternal circumstance.
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  • Rather than just pray they'll stop being so obnoxious or
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  • Belligerent or resistant or disruptive in your life, or
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  • Causing the problem that you're aware of they're causing, god
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  • Will begin to cause you to pray for them that they'll have a
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  • Revelation of jesus.
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  • "well, let them see who you are."
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  • That's a dangerous prayer to pray because god might actually
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  • Ask you to give, like, your god story.
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  • "oh, god, i didn't mean that.
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  • I meant like, send pastor allen over there to see them."
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  • It's a different kind of a prayer.
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  • Look in mark chapter 4.
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  • Jesus is in the boat with his friends,
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  • The fishermen, and they're caught in a storm, and they wake
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  • Jesus up because they're afraid of the storm, and jesus "got up,
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  • And rebuked the wind and said to the waves, 'be still.'
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  • And the wind died down and it was completely calm.
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  • And he said to his disciples, 'why were you so afraid?'"
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  • So he didn't just pray, he didn't just address the threat.
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  • Now he turned to his friends, and he's gonna help them unpack
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  • The circumstances.
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  • He said, "why were you so afraid?"
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  • Well, the answer is, because the water was filling the
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  • Boat, carpenter.
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  • But he didn't leave it at that; he said, "do you still have
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  • No faith?"
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  • Jesus has an expectation of them, that, having spent a bit
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  • Of time with them, that they're learning, that they're adapting,
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  • That they are incorporating what is being shared with them into
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  • Their behavior so that they can face challenges and threats and
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  • Overcome them and not just be overcome by them.
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  • And their response to what jesus said is they were terrified.
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  • They were terrified, it's what mark said, it's right there,
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  • "they were terrified, so they said to one another," as if
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  • Jesus doesn't know, "'who is this?
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  • Even the wind and the water obeys you.
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  • We've never seen anything like this.'"
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  • See, i would submit to you that our world is desperately waiting
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  • For men and women to give expressions to faith.
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  • Not weirdness, not strangeness, but that calm assurance of god's
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  • Abiding presence.
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  • They are waiting for men and women to give expression
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  • To that.
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify: male, female, southerner,
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  • 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
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • We put together a resource. it's a new booklet.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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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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  • I believe it'll be a blessing to you and to your family.
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  • Female announcer: every day the world tries to define who we
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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  • Word tells a different story.
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Allen: i gave you a list of some different kinds of prayers:
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  • Healing prayers, prayers of repentance,
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  • Prayer for forgiveness, prayer of deliverance.
  • 00:13:05.567 --> 00:13:08.469
  • Those are very different kinds of prayers.
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  • Those 7 sons of the high priest in ephesus, remember?
  • 00:13:10.772 --> 00:13:15.176
  • They didn't really understand prayers for deliverance.
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  • They got in the deep end of the pool.
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  • Doesn't mean you shouldn't pray those prayers; it means you
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  • Might need a little more awareness of who jesus is.
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  • Not every prayer is prayed in the same way, any more than that
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  • Every tool works the same way or every food is prepared in the
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  • Same way or every--i mean, they're different, and we have
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  • To care enough to learn a little bit of prayer of thanksgiving, a
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  • Prayer of provision, a prayer of blessing, different kinds
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  • Of prayer.
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  • We have a hard time.
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  • We struggle with this because we have personal preferences, we
  • 00:13:50.511 --> 00:13:52.981
  • Have personalities, and we've been coached towards some rather
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  • Immature expressions of our faith.
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  • We've been--we don't like to join christian music if it's not
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  • Our favorite music.
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  • Now, i understand that across the hall in the nursery or the
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  • Early childhood area, but, you know, somewhere after you cross
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  • Your adolescent years, we need to have enough breadth that we
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  • Go, "well, that may not be my favorite song, but i'm gonna
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  • Worship the lord."
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  • "well, i mean, i'll do it, but i don't like it."
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  • And i'm not arguing for one format or another, but the
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  • Things that will sideline us, that will cause us to withdraw
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  • From the arena--i think it's safe to begin to say to the holy
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  • Spirit, "help me learn to pray.
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  • Help me learn to pray."
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  • And we talk about things like the baptism in the holy spirit,
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  • Praying in the spirit, spirit-directed prayers.
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  • And i'm amazed that big chunks of the whole body of christ go,
  • 00:14:51.339 --> 00:14:53.875
  • "oh, no, no, no."
  • 00:14:53.875 --> 00:14:58.313
  • And yet jesus gathered his closest friends, peter and james
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  • And john and mary and the whole crew, and he said, "listen, i
  • 00:15:00.982 --> 00:15:03.685
  • Know we've had 3 years together, and you've had a 40-day seminar
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  • After the resurrection, but don't leave jerusalem until
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  • You're baptized in the spirit.
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  • Don't even think about it."
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  • I think all of us might ought to begin to say, "lord, you know,
  • 00:15:14.595 --> 00:15:16.464
  • That's something i'd like to know a little bit more about.
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  • If peter and james and john needed that, maybe, maybe it
  • 00:15:20.568 --> 00:15:25.773
  • Could be a benefit to me."
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  • You see, when we pray, we address the creator of all
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  • Things, almighty god.
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  • It's why we pray to our heavenly father or to almighty god.
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  • We are bringing our request to the one who created heaven and
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  • Earth and everything that's in them.
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  • He's not like us; he isn't limited like we are.
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  • He doesn't grow weary or weak, he's not distracted, he
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  • Doesn't forget.
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  • He's never confused or deceived or manipulated.
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  • He's the one we address with our prayers.
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  • That's an amazing thought.
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  • Imagine, if you knew,
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  • Oh, i don't know, who's the most powerful person you can imagine?
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  • Imagine if, at the white house, there was a special phone, an
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  • Orange phone...
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  • In the oval office, and anytime you dialed,
  • 00:16:17.125 --> 00:16:20.928
  • Either the president or his chief of staff would pick it up,
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  • "how may i help you?"
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  • You have the privilege of addressing the creator of heaven
  • 00:16:31.773 --> 00:16:34.809
  • And earth, and you know what we often say?
  • 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:36.944
  • "well, you know, pastor, i just, i don't pray."
  • 00:16:36.944 --> 00:16:43.284
  • Huh?
  • 00:16:43.284 --> 00:16:45.420
  • We can say, "i don't know how to pray.
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  • I've never thought about praying.
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  • Nobody encouraged me to pray."
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  • Folks, there are kingdoms in conflict in our earth.
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  • Have you noticed?
  • 00:16:52.226 --> 00:16:54.028
  • And god has called you and me, to this generation, to the--
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  • This unique point in history.
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  • Now, he may ask us to ride through the streets of boston
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  • And say, "the british are coming," but, if i'm riding,
  • 00:17:02.470 --> 00:17:04.439
  • I'm praying.
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  • I don't know what he's gonna ask us to do, but i'm gonna pray.
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  • Jesus prayed all night on multiple occasions.
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  • He prayed some simple prayers, "lazarus, come here.
  • 00:17:14.582 --> 00:17:18.252
  • In the name of jesus, walk."
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  • To the wind and the waves, "oh, be quiet."
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  • Again, you and i, you know, we'd have to have a little
  • 00:17:25.426 --> 00:17:27.095
  • More fanfare.
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  • We'd have to kind of warm up...
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  • But we can learn to pray.
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  • We address almighty god.
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  • Luke 11, when jesus was praying, "when he'd finished, the
  • 00:17:35.703 --> 00:17:38.306
  • Disciples said, 'lord, teach us to pray.'
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  • And he said, 'well, when you pray, say: "father, your name
  • 00:17:41.109 --> 00:17:45.046
  • Is holy."'"
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  • "father, your name is holy."
  • 00:17:47.748 --> 00:17:50.051
  • We're addressing almighty god.
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  • And we're the same way; when you say thank you, "god, thank you
  • 00:17:53.521 --> 00:17:55.690
  • For this day.
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  • Thank you we can come to church without fear of reprisal.
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  • God, let them do in tehran what we got to do in tennessee.
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  • Thank you, god. thank you, god.
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  • Thank you for the strength, father."
  • 00:18:09.737 --> 00:18:13.241
  • We have so much to be thankful for.
  • 00:18:13.241 --> 00:18:18.779
  • And then we've been given permission, the authority that
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  • We approach god.
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  • You and i, we don't really, we don't qualify, left
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  • To ourselves.
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  • But if we've chosen jesus as lord of our lives, that whole
  • 00:18:30.825 --> 00:18:35.429
  • Christ, lord and king thing that we talk about--oh, my time is
  • 00:18:35.429 --> 00:18:38.432
  • Gone, wow.
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  • We pray in jesus's name; it's his authority that we approach
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  • God with.
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  • I'll come back to that more, we'll talk about it more.
  • 00:18:47.475 --> 00:18:49.043
  • It's important to understand why.
  • 00:18:49.043 --> 00:18:50.745
  • Jesus said that we could come before the throne of grace and
  • 00:18:50.745 --> 00:18:53.381
  • Find mercy to help us in our time of need.
  • 00:18:53.381 --> 00:18:57.618
  • We can come boldly, actually, he said.
  • 00:18:57.618 --> 00:18:59.954
  • But i wanna close, i wanna give you an application; we're gonna
  • 00:18:59.954 --> 00:19:02.123
  • Close with communion.
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  • You should have received the elements when you came in.
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  • If you're joining us at home, you got a minute, go grab a cup
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  • Of water and a saltine.
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  • Some of you tell me you keep communion kits now by wherever
  • 00:19:13.334 --> 00:19:15.770
  • It is you watch service, so, if you got those, good for you.
  • 00:19:15.770 --> 00:19:19.440
  • I'm not being disrespectful, but, if you're on campus, you
  • 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.676
  • Should have received the elements when you came in.
  • 00:19:21.676 --> 00:19:23.077
  • There's ushers in each of the sanctuaries if you need them.
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  • If you'll raise a hand, they'll bring them to you.
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  • I think we understand the nature of communion.
  • 00:19:29.350 --> 00:19:32.453
  • It's a celebration of jesus's redemptive work for us.
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  • He shed blood and his broken body, so it's the body and the
  • 00:19:34.989 --> 00:19:39.493
  • Blood of jesus that we're reminded of.
  • 00:19:39.493 --> 00:19:42.430
  • But i wanna bring--i wanna come to the communion table with a
  • 00:19:42.430 --> 00:19:44.699
  • Very specific application today.
  • 00:19:44.699 --> 00:19:47.735
  • I'm gonna read a verse of scripture; i believe i put it in
  • 00:19:47.735 --> 00:19:49.770
  • Your outlines, even; it's mark 11:25.
  • 00:19:49.770 --> 00:19:52.707
  • It says, "when you stand praying," this is jesus
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  • Speaking, "when you stand praying, if you hold anything
  • 00:19:54.609 --> 00:19:57.411
  • Against anyone, forgive him, so that your father may
  • 00:19:57.411 --> 00:20:01.515
  • Forgive you."
  • 00:20:01.515 --> 00:20:03.951
  • And we're going to take the elements of communion in just
  • 00:20:03.951 --> 00:20:06.754
  • A moment.
  • 00:20:06.754 --> 00:20:09.357
  • Remember in the lord's prayer, when jesus taught us to pray?
  • 00:20:09.357 --> 00:20:12.593
  • He said, "forgive me of my sins because i forgive those who
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  • Sinned against me."
  • 00:20:16.998 --> 00:20:19.300
  • So i want to ask you a question.
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  • Is there anybody for whom you hold ill will?
  • 00:20:20.668 --> 00:20:27.742
  • And there's a lot of ways to think about that.
  • 00:20:27.742 --> 00:20:29.510
  • If there's a name that comes to mind, or a scene from your past
  • 00:20:29.510 --> 00:20:32.413
  • That comes to mind, does it still cause you angst on
  • 00:20:32.413 --> 00:20:36.450
  • The inside?
  • 00:20:36.450 --> 00:20:38.486
  • Is there somebody that you really don't want to bless?
  • 00:20:38.486 --> 00:20:41.555
  • You're waiting to see god's judgment fall on them?
  • 00:20:41.555 --> 00:20:45.693
  • See, forgiveness is a--the need for forgiveness emerges when
  • 00:20:45.693 --> 00:20:53.334
  • There's a wrong.
  • 00:20:53.334 --> 00:20:54.769
  • There's some sort of an injury; there's--something happens
  • 00:20:54.769 --> 00:20:57.505
  • That's deemed not appropriate.
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  • And, as a result of that, you have a marker.
  • 00:20:59.940 --> 00:21:03.511
  • There's a debt incurred.
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  • And, apart from god, you think, "well, i'm not canceling this
  • 00:21:06.781 --> 00:21:10.017
  • Debt until restitution's been made.
  • 00:21:10.017 --> 00:21:12.787
  • They can apologize or they can say they're sorry or they can
  • 00:21:12.787 --> 00:21:16.057
  • Make physical restitution.
  • 00:21:16.057 --> 00:21:17.425
  • Until they've done something, i'm not tearing up my marker.
  • 00:21:17.425 --> 00:21:21.796
  • I'm owed because they didn't do their best.
  • 00:21:21.796 --> 00:21:27.101
  • They didn't do what was right."
  • 00:21:27.101 --> 00:21:30.504
  • And, if they're a christian, we tend to have even a
  • 00:21:30.504 --> 00:21:32.740
  • Higher standard.
  • 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:35.109
  • You know, you don't have permission to hold unforgiveness
  • 00:21:35.109 --> 00:21:36.977
  • Against a christian more than you do against a pagan.
  • 00:21:36.977 --> 00:21:41.549
  • "well, they should know better."
  • 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:44.352
  • So should we.
  • 00:21:44.352 --> 00:21:47.054
  • So i wanna ask you, as we come to the communion table, to
  • 00:21:47.054 --> 00:21:50.725
  • Forgive anyone against whom you hold anything.
  • 00:21:50.725 --> 00:21:57.031
  • Now, the motivation for that is so that you and i can
  • 00:21:57.031 --> 00:21:59.266
  • Be forgiven.
  • 00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:01.235
  • Because, if we won't forgive, we forfeit our forgiveness.
  • 00:22:01.235 --> 00:22:06.240
  • And this i know for sure; i need forgiveness.
  • 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.479
  • So unforgiveness is a luxury you can't afford.
  • 00:22:11.479 --> 00:22:16.183
  • You will never convince god to join you in your sin.
  • 00:22:16.183 --> 00:22:22.223
  • You'll never make a case that's so overwhelming.
  • 00:22:22.223 --> 00:22:26.494
  • Do you understand the point of communion tonight?
  • 00:22:26.494 --> 00:22:29.029
  • We're gonna forgive.
  • 00:22:29.029 --> 00:22:30.998
  • You can forgive people, you can forgive families, you can
  • 00:22:30.998 --> 00:22:33.234
  • Forgive organizations, you can forgive governments, you can
  • 00:22:33.234 --> 00:22:36.170
  • Forgive churches, you can forgive businesses.
  • 00:22:36.170 --> 00:22:39.673
  • Anger and resentment and hatred and bitterness, they come in
  • 00:22:39.673 --> 00:22:42.710
  • Many packages.
  • 00:22:42.710 --> 00:22:44.945
  • But we're gonna ask the holy spirit tonight to set us free.
  • 00:22:44.945 --> 00:22:49.016
  • If anyone has come to your mind, anything, any circumstance,
  • 00:22:49.016 --> 00:22:53.020
  • While we've been having this little conversation, as we come
  • 00:22:53.020 --> 00:22:55.723
  • To the communion table, i'm gonna ask you to say to the
  • 00:22:55.723 --> 00:22:57.591
  • Lord, "lord, i forgive," and then you name it; you name them,
  • 00:22:57.591 --> 00:23:00.761
  • You name the circumstance, whatever it may be.
  • 00:23:00.761 --> 00:23:02.830
  • It may be me; you may need to forgive me, please.
  • 00:23:02.830 --> 00:23:09.970
  • You can't afford it. it's too much.
  • 00:23:09.970 --> 00:23:12.306
  • It will rob you of god's blessings.
  • 00:23:12.306 --> 00:23:15.743
  • Let's learn to pray a prayer of forgiveness, huh?
  • 00:23:15.743 --> 00:23:19.547
  • Would you stand with me?
  • 00:23:19.547 --> 00:23:20.915
  • If you're at home, you can join right in here.
  • 00:23:20.915 --> 00:23:29.123
  • Jesus put communion in place.
  • 00:23:29.123 --> 00:23:32.860
  • He had a meal with his disciples before he began his passion.
  • 00:23:32.860 --> 00:23:35.496
  • In fact, following dinner, they're going to go to the
  • 00:23:35.496 --> 00:23:38.299
  • Garden of gethsemane, he's going to be betrayed, and he'll begin
  • 00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:42.036
  • His suffering.
  • 00:23:42.036 --> 00:23:43.637
  • But, prior to that unfolding, at the end of the passover meal, he
  • 00:23:43.637 --> 00:23:46.440
  • Takes bread and says, "this bread is my body broken for you
  • 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.910
  • As often as you eat this.
  • 00:23:49.910 --> 00:23:51.278
  • Do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:23:51.278 --> 00:23:52.746
  • He's about to take the punishment for their ungodliness
  • 00:23:52.746 --> 00:23:56.350
  • And for mine and yours.
  • 00:23:56.350 --> 00:23:58.652
  • Let's receive together.
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  • Then he took a cup and said, "this cup is a new covenant
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  • Sealed with my own blood.
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  • As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
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  • Me again."
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  • Let's drink together.
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  • Now let's pray, "father, i thank you for your great love for us,
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  • That you sent your son.
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  • And, lord jesus, for your obedience, that you took the
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  • Punishment that was due by divine justice, our godlessness,
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  • And our rebellion.
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  • And we come tonight in obedience to your word, father,
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  • To forgive.
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  • Lord, we forgive anyone of anything.
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  • Lord, as we have had a moment, if, as you've brought them to
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  • Our mind tonight, lord, we pause to say it, lord, we forgive,"
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  • And you make those statements.
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  • "lord, i forgive whoever it may be.
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  • I release them, i cancel the debt, they don't owe
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  • Me anything.
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  • They don't owe me a response, they don't owe me restitution,
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  • They don't owe me anything.
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  • I canceled the debt, father, in the name of jesus.
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  • Lord, and, as we take that step of obedience, now, i thank you
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  • That you will forgive us.
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  • Forgive us, father, when we have been less than we should be,
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  • When we have fallen short of the glory you created us for, for
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  • The thoughts of our heart and the actions of our lives.
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  • Father, we thank you for your forgiveness tonight, that we are
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  • Clean, that we've been washed in the blood of jesus, that you're
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  • Not holding our sins against us, that we've been redeemed and
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  • Delivered from the hand of the enemy.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • We thank you that, through the blood of jesus, we've been
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  • Justified and sanctified.
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  • We praise you tonight for the freedom that is ours through
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  • Jesus's blood.
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  • For it's in his name we pray, amen, hallelujah."
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  • Let me ask you a question before you go.
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  • If you had a friend or a neighbor or a family member or a
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  • Coworker that was struggling, could you have communion
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  • With them?
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  • And help them forgive and be forgiven, yes?
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  • All right, go in jesus's name.
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