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Better Together LIVE | Episode 97

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September 1, 2020

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Can we really ask God for anything? We're talking about persistent; bold prayers! | TBN Prayer Line: 1-888-731-1000

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Better Together LIVE | Episode 97

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- Jesus told his disciples,
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"If you ask anything inmy name, I will do it."
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This promise applies to us.
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Today we're learninghow to pray,
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with boldness and authority.
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Come on, join us.
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- Y'all let me tell you,I am living in the middle
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of some bold prayersthat have been answered.
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I love that James5:16 says that,
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it is the persistentprayers of a righteous man,
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woman, person, thatavaileth much, okay?
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And let me tell you something,
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I am so excited toshare it with you,
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'cause we're just livingin the newness of it.
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But my husband and Iembarked on church planning,
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which as some of y'allknow about two years ago.
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And we have been homeless.
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We've been like thewandering tribe of Israel.
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I mean, we've been goingto different venues,
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and in the pandemic coronavirus,
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I mean, Rona justkicked our butt.
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So, we were freaking out,and I remembered this prayer.
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And I think that Godanswered my prayers
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because he was tiredof hearing me, okay?
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So, my prayers availeth much.
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But let me tell you something,
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we, God has blessed our church,
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The Father's House,Orange County,
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with 50.000 square feet inOrange County California,
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and I firmly believe,
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it is because when Ms. Lauriekicked off this episode,
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she said that, "We havenot, because we ask not."
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Or Jesus even said, hey,"Ask and ye shall receive."
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You guys, I don't know whyI'm like King James today,
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but all these, theesand thous, I don't know.
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(laughing)
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But let me tell you something,
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we have not, because we ask not.
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And I am, I want us tojust put a praise on it.
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I want us to testifywhat God is doing,
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when we polled, whenwe pray bold prayers.
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So Janice, will youplease be a witness,
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up in the house of God today?
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What are youpraying that's bold?
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How has God answeredyour bold prayers?
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- You know what it is,
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the Lord has beenanswering bold prayers,
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just by getting me todo them first of all.
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Even talking aboutboldness this week,
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like I am naturallya risk averse person.
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I am not the personwho takes risks at all.
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Like, I want thingsto be predictable,
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(laughing)
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and that's justhow I like to live.
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And so, the Lordsaying those things,
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already draws me into thisplace of boldness to say,
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"Hey, listen, I said, ask me.
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"And there are somethings you won't have,
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"unless you ask me."
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And just that thought, justarrests me sometimes like,
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"Oh my goodness, I willmiss out on some things,
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"if I don't pray for them."
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And so in this season of,
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it will, actuallyhonestly, in our nation,
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this season of racial tension,
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there've been somevery tangible things,
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that I've been thinking about,
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that's just beenmissing in my family,
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just because of history.
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And it's like, not mad about,not mad at anybody about it,
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but it's just like,
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"Lord, just like landand housing for myfamily and parents,
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"and siblings and things
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"that would not havegotten passed down to us."
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I'm like, "Do that for us Lord."
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Like, "If you aretruly our provider,
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"it does not have to matter,
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"what has transpiredin this country.
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"I want to see you moveboldly in our lives,
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"and fill the gap, that'sbeen created through sin."
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And so, that's just somethingI've been praying about.
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And I know that that's weighty,
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but, here's the thingabout praying boldly
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in the name of Jesus.
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Then when you start to say it,
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and you think about askingfor something in his name,
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that's a realfilter right there.
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(laughing)
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You're like, let mepray in his name though.
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'Cause let me see, whyam I asking for this?
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What exactly am I asking for?
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Is this somethingthat the Lord has?
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And all of these things come,all of these questions come
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with this filter that encourage,
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more conversation with the Lord.
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So, even in praying boldly,
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the Lord issearching your heart,
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knowing your heart, just sothat he can see what's in it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And really show us what's in it.
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So, that's a part of what I love
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about praying boldly is that,
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it really brings to thetable, all of this stuff
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that you may not haveeven been thinking of.
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And the Lord's like,
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"Ah, huh, that spot right there,
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"I wanna get that,I wanna wipe that."
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(laughing)
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You know, get tothat really fast.
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And I just, so I love it.
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And I'm coming into aseason, especially as a mom,
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I think being a mommakes you do things,
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that you didn't do before.
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And so, just praying boldly,about things of the past,
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things that I can leave tomy kids in a brand new way.
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So, that's whatI'm praying about.
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What about you Mo?
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- You know, it's very, veryapplicable to this season,
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because it's the same way,
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that we've prayedin this season.
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But I remember when hefirst started teaching me,
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so specificallyabout bold prayer,
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and it was in great adversity.
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It was in the midstof trauma, really.
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Where I had, I havethree kids right now.
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And when my middle child, Asher,was just three months old,
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she came down withRSV bronchiolitis,
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and bacterial pneumonia.
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And I mean, in a snap,
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she was literally hangingby a thread for her life.
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And we're in the ICU,and I'm there alone,
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and other people are with kids,
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and my husband'strying to get there,
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and just praying thatshe'll continue breathing,
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long enough untilwe can get her care.
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And I remember sittingin that waiting room,
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and I came to Christthrough adversity.
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And so, you know,suicide of my father,
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and identity issues,horrific car accident,
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I wasn't unfamiliar with it,
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but my prayer changed.
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Having known Christ,walking with him,
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being in faith,in that ICU room,
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for whatever reason,I just cried out,
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"Lord, I do not pray youwill remove this fire,
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"I pray that youwill refine me in it.
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"Use this, use this, use this."
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And most, I think our kneejerk would often be like,
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"Get me out of the fire."
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This is, we say that right now.
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"What is going on?
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"It's so disorienting, all ofthis chaos, just get me out."
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But in that moment,the boldest prayer
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that just overcame me was,
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"I won't, I won't run fromthis, but you use this.
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"Your will be done."
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And y'all, it wasin that ICU room,
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that I received morefluently my prayer language.
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We were getting
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prophetic revelation.- Come on.
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- It was visionscoming, warfare.
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I even mean the hospital room,
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we were put into the number,
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tied to the very scripturesthat were being prophesied over.
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It was disorienting, and divine.
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And it grew, andexploded my faith,
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in a way that if myprayer had just been,
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"God, fix this,"
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and it wasn't happeningat the pace I wanted,
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I would have been in a pit.
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But because it was, "No, youare God, your will be done.
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"You are sovereign, use this."
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I had a peace thatsurpasses all understanding,
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seeing my little newborntubed up, and pale as a ghost.
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And we said, "You knowwhat, you'll do it.
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"You will do it."
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And she's full of energyand wild and wonderful now.
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So, she's just fine.
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She made it through.
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But, my faith wasnever the same,
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after finding that bold prayer,
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of not my will,but yours be done.
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And he will everythingfor his glory,
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if we will pray inalignment with his heart.
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And so, yeah, it'spowerful, it's powerful.
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And I don't know Havilah,
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I'm sure, your prayersgirl inspire me
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even watching from afar,
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and learning on byyour faithfulness.
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So, what's thatlooked like for you?
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- Back at you Mo, Imean, I think if anybody,
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I've had crisis with my kidsas well and in emergency rooms,
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I mean, that'll bringus to our knees.
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I was thinking though, what yousaid, God will use anything.
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And I grew up in a hole,
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where my dad would prayreally crazy prayers,
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but I remember one time,he was praying for...
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he saw somebody prayingfor a parking spot.
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And he goes,
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"God, why do I need topray for a parking spot?"
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Like, is it that big of a deal?
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And he said, "Well, all thepeople that are praying,
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"are getting your parking spot."
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And he kinda laughed like,
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oh my gosh so we, Iremember being in a car,
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growing up my dad wouldpray for parking spots,
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and we would get them, like,no joke, two or three spaces.
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And you think, God isn'tin those little things,
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but he's so is.
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And I remember one time,and I'm probably gonna push
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all of you people, thatare like Havilah, really.
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But I have to share this story
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because, it seems like certainthings are really spiritual,
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and other things arelike secular, likesacred and secular.
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We can get kind of mixedup, but God is in all of it.
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I remember hearingone of my friends
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talk about how she had askedthat God would fill her home,
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with furniture froma specific store.
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And I was like, "That isridiculous, God is not in that.
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"There is no waythat God is concerned
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"about our homes beingfilled with certain things
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"and from certain stores."
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And as I walked intothat store one day,
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I remembered, thestory and I kinda like,
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internally rolled myeyes, and God said,
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"Well, the reason herhouse is full of that,
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"is because she asked me."
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And I said, "Okay God, fine.
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"Lord I love this store,
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"fill my home with thisfurniture from this store.
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"If you're gonna do it,"like the Bianca said,
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"Give me a six pack, fine."
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And so, I went on,
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it was months later,
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I went on a musictour, I wasn't singing,
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but I was just speaking,
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and I get a picture from myhusband, and this is so wild.
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And he says, "Honey, wegot this in the mail.
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"Is there a reason whywe got this in the mail?"
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And he shows me this picture.
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And it is eight gift cards,
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from that store,
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resulting in $8.000,in this store.
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And I'm like,
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"No, I don't knowwhere this came from."
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So I call up thecompany and I say,
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"What is this company?"
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They said, "No, no,it's in our records.
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"This money is yours, I don'tknow, but we don't want it.
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"It's not ours, thisis on your account."
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And so, I went home and Ibought my boy's bunk bed,
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and I bought the couchthat we desperately needed.
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And all the thingsthat we needed,
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it wasn't like frivolousalone could have been.
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It was all the things Iwas hoping I could get,
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and needed for a family of six.
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And all of a sudden, aftereverything was delivered,
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I look around myhouse and God said,
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"You asked me, Itold you I'd do it."
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And I, I hate sharingthat, cause I'm like,
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it doesn't feel very spiritual.
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But to me as his daughter,
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I feel like the Lordwanted me to know,
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that he cares aboutthe little things.
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Like it's everything.
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Bold prayers are sometimesabout the little things,
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and the big things to us.
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And Janice, you weresaying that, like,
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"God, I pray for homes,I pray for prop."
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You know you didn't say this,but we pray for property.
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We pray for inheritance.
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You know, I'm nota trust fund kid.
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Everything that we have,
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we, I've had to kind of, Icleaned homes for six years.
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I'm not afraid of the hard work,
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but there are timeswhen I'm like,
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"Lord, gosh, itwould have been nice
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"to, for you to havepassed these things down."
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And now I'm like,
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"Okay God, give us things thatwe can pass down to our kids,
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"and our grandkids.
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"Give us things that wow, us.
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"That God, you can showus that we have a good,
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"good father that givesgood gifts to his children."
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And those can be health,
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those can be relationships,so many other things.
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But for me, it happened tobe the furniture in my house.
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(laughing)
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- You know that'sso cool Havilah,
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because, yourexperience doesn't have
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to be everybody's experience.
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And I, what I love aboutGod is that Janice,
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in one moment, in one instant,(snaps finger)
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God can change something,and he has his way.
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And he changes all of it.
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Because the word of God isfor every single person.
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And I believe thatwith all my heart.
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As we're talking here,
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I see just past the camera here,
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a big window that lookslike the window behind me,
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and I see my husband,out there on the phone.
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And my husband spends alot of time on the phone.
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He is, managing 31international networks,
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and he's constantlyon the phone.
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But I remember one day,in the last few months,
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and he just walks.
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I mean, he can walk 15 milesa day talking on his phone.
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He has done it many times.
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And he, so he paces.
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So, there's like tracks aroundthe house and it's crazy.
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But he, I was with him,
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and he's just makinga deal on the phone.
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And he hangs up, and helooks at me and he says,
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"Well," he says,"that's impossible,
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"so let's just seewhat God does."
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And I think that's whatGod wants us to do.
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God wants us to askfor the impossible.
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Sometimes praying about things.
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I think, "Oh man, I'mnot asking big enough."
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Because he wantsto do exceeding,
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abundantly above all, we canask, or imagine, or pray for.
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And I believe, this isthe season for that.
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Everyone listening right now.
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Normally it's justthe five of us.
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We are talking aboutasking big from God.
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And I think this is thetime to do it Bianca.
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This world has changedsuch dramatic ways.
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I think it's time toget bold in our faith,
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bold in our prayers, bold withour speaking the word of God.
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- And I think thatthat desperation,
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allows us to attune ourear to the things of God.
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Even listening to Janiceand Mo and Havilah, and you,
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like, I don't want this tofeel like it's far removed
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from most of us.
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So, I started the show with Godanswering some bold prayers,
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which has been amazing.
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But the day that we got intoour new church building,
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we also discovered that thehouse that my husband and I rent
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here in Orange County,
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is being sold, and theowners didn't tell us.
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So, we're at church celebrating.
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Then we get a phone call saying,
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"Hey, there'speople at the house,
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"at your house foran open house."
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And we were just confused.
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So, we, it's this tensionof like, God's gonna answer,
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God's gonna answer hisprayers in his timeline,
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but I never wanna be,
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I never wanna stopasking and believing.
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So, even listeningto Havilah's story,
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about God providingin supernatural ways,
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this is the beautyof bold prayers.
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It's not just that Godanswers our prayers,
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is that our stories,our testimony,
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inspired the faith of others.
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So, I sit in the wakeof your guys' stories,
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and it bolsters my faith.
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And I wanna know,
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as we are seeking God,
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and the topic todayis on bold prayers,
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what have you learned?
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What have you learned inthe process of waiting,
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or the process of seeking,or the process of asking?
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What have you discovered aboutwho God is in that process?
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Janice, talk to me alittle bit about that.
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- Yeah, I think, well,first I have to say,
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yes Havilah, tothe parking spaces.
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My husband has taught me that.
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(laughing)
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I got married to a man who praysfor the best parking spots,
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and he always gets them.
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And so, yes, that thingis true and it works.
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But you know, I, there'sthis story when I was a kid.
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I was riding with my dad,and my dad when I was a kid.
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Well, he is a Bishop,
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in the Christian MethodistEpiscopal church.
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And so, he, as a Methodist,as an itinerary pastor.
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So, we traveled a loton the road as kids.
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And so, this oneparticular time,
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it was just me withhim traveling throughprobably Alabama
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and Mississippi,back to Memphis.
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And my dad would pridehimself on having,
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cars that were, I wouldsay on their last leg,
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but he would say cars,
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he didn't spendtoo much money on,
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that were running well,
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and that he could gettons of miles out of.
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And so, we're in this car, likethis old Ford station wagon,
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which, well, I don't evenknow a station wagon,
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some kind of wagon.
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I had never seenthe thing before,
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that's how obscure it was.
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And he loved this car,
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because he only paidlike $400 for it,
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which is why I was not surprisedon a rainy, rainy night,
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as the road was flooding,that this thing stopped,
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in the middle of the road,
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in the middle of nowhere,in the middle of the night.
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And I was petrified.
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I was kinda like, "Daddy,what are we gonna do?"
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So, I start flipping out, like,
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"What are we gonna, (mumbles),asking all these questions.
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And my dad lookedat me and he said,
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"Have a little faithin me, Janice."
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And I fell asleep.
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And when I woke up,we were home safely.
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And that's what the Lordreminds me of, every time
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when he's like, "Pray,ask the impossible."
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Like you said, "Have alittle faith in me Janice."
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Like, "I am good, Iknow what I'm doing."
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Like, "I'm a good father,you get your kid good gifts.
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"What do you thinkI want to give you,
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"being such abetter father then,
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"because I'm yourheavenly father."
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And so, that's what I've learned
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in asking bold prayersto just bolster my faith,
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and remember, that I canhave faith in my God,
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because he is good.
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He is good.
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And that means goodthings for me, you know?
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So, I'm definitely gonna bepraying about filling mine,
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the house that I'm asking for,
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with the furniture that I want,
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and the parking spotswhen I go around.
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But all the other things aswell, you know what I mean?
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Because he is goodand I can trust him.
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- I have learned so muchlately too in prayer,
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about the power of specifics.
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We kind of spoke in to it,on the very specific things
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that we're desiring,
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but I found it really,really powerful too,
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in prayers of repentance,and prayers for deliverance,
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and prayers for freedom.
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The specifics, identifyingthe specific sin struggle,
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is so powerful.
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It breaks very specific chains.
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And a lot of the time,
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I know I have spent a lotof my life as a believer,
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navigating, well for awhile really just thinking,
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this is all incredibleand amazing,
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but also I guess Christiansjust learn how to cope.
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How to cope with anger,
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or how to cope with X, Y, or Z.
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I guess we just learn howto modify our behavior.
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I think especiallyaround the sexual stuff,
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that was kind of early on like,
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how do I just modify my behavior
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to kind of obey therights and wrongs.
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And, one day hejust opened my eyes
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to the power ofspecific prayers,
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when it comes to deliverance.
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Why I am desiring freedom for,
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and applying thepower of his blood,
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to that very specific thing.
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And when I startedpraying that way,
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of Lord, I needto be transformed.
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We're not meant to beChristians who cope,
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He comes to setthe captives free.
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And so, what chainsare around me,
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and what freedom am I missing,
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because it's a lot morecomfortable to be like,
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"Oh Lord just helpedme with my lust."
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Well, no, I need to bedelivered from a porn addiction.
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So, let me get very specificon what I am struggling with.
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And wow, the way he will answer.
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The way he will answer.
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When we have had eyes to see.
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And he helps us in that.
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But also when we believe himfor freedom and these things,
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and specifically identify them.
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I mean, it's one of,
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I've experienced,
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it's one of the quickestprayers he answers as well.
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'Cause he wants usfree, fully free.
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And activated, and empowered.
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And so, man, it's hard.
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It's hard, but it's Holy.
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And the specifics have beenreally helpful in that way.
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- Yeah, I was thinkingabout how you said,
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when we asked specifically,Mo, this is so good,
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that we have to actuallylook for the specifics,
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how God actually healsus, sets us free.
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Like sometimes wecan ask, ask, ask,
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and then we forget to even look,
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to see like, "Oh God,you actually did this."
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Instead of just likeonto the next thing.
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Onto the next prayer,on the next deliverance,
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versus just seeing it.
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And Bianca, I wasthinking about this,
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not to like throw youlike at to this moment,
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but, I was reading about the,you were praying for rain,
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and then you getinto your lobby,
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of your new buildingand you see,
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and I don't wannatell the whole thing,
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but will you share that story?
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'Cause I was like, that isso, that's the eyes to see
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what you prayed for.
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- It totally was.
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And sometimes weask God for a sign,
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and then we use itmetaphorically like,
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"Oh please God give you a sign."
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And then there's sometimes,he actually gives us a sign.
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And so to, to whittledown the story,
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I shared this, thechurch planning journey,
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has just been an adventure,especially in a pandemic.
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But when we were at the heightof like not having a venue
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and people in our churchwe're getting COVID,
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and it was just areally rough season.
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One Sunday night, Ijust felt very defeated.
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And I went to bed, I'm gonnatry not to get emotional.
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(sighs)
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When you hear thepain of God's people,
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and nothing lookshopeful, you've gotto be people of faith.
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I believe that God cares,that he sees, and he knows.
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Just like he promised tothe children of Israel
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when they were under theoppression of Pharaoh.
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And so, I went to bedthat night, and I said,
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"God, I'm gonna believethat you're gonna make a way
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"where there is no way."
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And on Monday morning, Iwanna say that I woke up,
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filled with the spiritand totally chipper.
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But I was just sad.
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I had a bad attitude,
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and I rolled over ontomy husband's chest,
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and I just started crying.
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And I said, "It's notfor lack of effort,
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"it's not for lack of trying.
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"It's not for the lackof preaching the gospel,
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"and explaining the gospel,and expounding on the gospel,
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"and worshiping the Lord,and giving and tithing.
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"We have sown, we have tilled,we have uprooted the weeds.
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"We have done everythingas church planters
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"that we are called to do.
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"And yet, if there is norain, our labor is in vain.
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"We have, we cannotmanufacture a move of God.
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"You cannot manipulatea move of God.
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"Man can not manufacture.
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"So Spirit of God, you'regonna have to send rain.
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"Because in this season,it is a proverbial drought.
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"And we need to know,
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"that you are a Godwho hears our cries."
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And so we prayedprayers, and that day,
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y'all, I can't makethis up, hand to heaven,
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I cannot make this up.
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That day, my husbandwent to go see a venue,
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and he texted me from the venue,
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and he said, "B, I thinkthat this is a place
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"that we can likeput in a bid for."
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And I went to the natural,we can't afford it.
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We don't have the money.
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The rent is four timeswhat we can afford.
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But I went there to the venue,
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and I walked into theliving room, the lobby,
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it was a movie theater.
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So, I walked into what wereferred to as living room.
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And as I'm looking aroundat this amazing space,
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I turned to, Iturned to the right.
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And there's this beautifulpainting of Gene Kelly,
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in the 1952 Americanclassic, singing in the rain.
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And you guys, I did nothear an audible voice,
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but I heard a voice in myheart say, "This is the rain."
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And I just feel like,when we pray bold prayers,
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God is so faithfulto answer them.
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Whether it's parking spots,whether it's home decor,
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whether it's children's health,
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or whether it's achurch building, Godis a God who answers.
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And we have not,because we ask not.
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So, let's be womenand men of faith,
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who are daring to believe God,
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is who he says he is, cando what he says he can do.
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And we'll keep the promises'cause our God is faithful.
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I just, I love gettingto share that story Hav,
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thank you for bringing thatto memory and to mindset,
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'cause that just happenedjust this week, so.
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- Why don't you pray Bianca,
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and just pray that, pray thatrain on all of our lives.
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I know people are watching
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around the world right now.- Absolutely.
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- That need the boldprayers and rain
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right now in their lives.
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- Yes, Spirit of the living God,
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we ask that youfall afresh on us.
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No, matter what area in ourlife feels dry and barren,
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and arid and cracked.
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I am believing right nowGod, that your living water,
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will fall into the darkest anddeepest places of our hearts.
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Will you fall afreshon your people.
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Will you prove yourselffaithful yet again.
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God, I claim, Iclaim 1 Kings 18,
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where the prophet Elijah says,"I hear a heavy rain coming."
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There is an abundance of rain.
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So God, I speak to, Ispeak life over those,
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whose life feels completelydry, arid and barren.
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And we believe.
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We believe thatharvest is coming.
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We believe that rain is falling.
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So, may we be people of faith,
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that walk aroundwith an umbrella,
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because we believe,that rain is gonna fall.
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We thank you, we loveyou, we praise you,
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in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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- Thank you Jesus.
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- [All] Amen.
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- Amen, you know what?
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God loves to do the impossible.
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He said, "With man, itmight seem impossible,
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"with God, allthings are possible."
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Ask those bold prayers.
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Even if you've askeda thousand times,
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and God maybe hasn't answeredyou like you think you should,
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you just keep praying boldprayers because he hears us,
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he says, "You call on meand I will answer you."
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He's gonna answer you,better than you ever hoped
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or prayed for or dreamed of.
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I just believe that.
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(laughing)
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You know, our BetterTogether Community
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is always here for you.
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You can connect with us onsocial media and let us know,
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how we can pray for you.
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Thanks for joiningall of us today.
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God calls each one of us byname, and nudges at our hearts.
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But what does obeyingour heavenly fatherreally look like?
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That's what we're gonnabe talking about tomorrow.
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You don't wanna miss it, we'llsee you soon, we love you.
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God bless you, bye bye.
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(upbeat music)
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