Better Together LIVE | Episode 97
September 1, 2020
25:50
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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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
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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,
- 00:10:17.173 --> 00:10:19.341
- I look around myhouse and God said,
- 00:10:19.341 --> 00:10:20.876
- "You asked me, Itold you I'd do it."
- 00:10:20.876 --> 00:10:23.546
- And I, I hate sharingthat, cause I'm like,
- 00:10:23.546 --> 00:10:26.449
- it doesn't feel very spiritual.
- 00:10:26.449 --> 00:10:29.351
- 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.
- 00:10:34.256 --> 00:10:35.958
- Like it's everything.
- 00:10:35.958 --> 00:10:37.460
- Bold prayers are sometimesabout the little things,
- 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:39.695
- and the big things to us.
- 00:10:39.695 --> 00:10:41.163
- And Janice, you weresaying that, like,
- 00:10:41.163 --> 00:10:42.465
- "God, I pray for homes,I pray for prop."
- 00:10:42.465 --> 00:10:46.235
- You know you didn't say this,but we pray for property.
- 00:10:46.235 --> 00:10:48.270
- We pray for inheritance.
- 00:10:48.270 --> 00:10:49.672
- 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.
- 00:10:52.942 --> 00:10:55.978
- I'm not afraid of the hard work,
- 00:10:55.978 --> 00:10:57.146
- but there are timeswhen I'm like,
- 00:10:57.146 --> 00:10:58.347
- "Lord, gosh, itwould have been nice
- 00:10:58.347 --> 00:11:00.149
- "to, for you to havepassed these things down."
- 00:11:00.149 --> 00:11:02.118
- And now I'm like,
- 00:11:02.118 --> 00:11:03.652
- "Okay God, give us things thatwe can pass down to our kids,
- 00:11:03.652 --> 00:11:07.389
- "and our grandkids.
- 00:11:07.389 --> 00:11:08.524
- "Give us things that wow, us.
- 00:11:08.524 --> 00:11:10.760
- "That God, you can showus that we have a good,
- 00:11:10.760 --> 00:11:13.262
- "good father that givesgood gifts to his children."
- 00:11:13.262 --> 00:11:16.098
- And those can be health,
- 00:11:16.098 --> 00:11:17.566
- those can be relationships,so many other things.
- 00:11:17.566 --> 00:11:19.235
- But for me, it happened tobe the furniture in my house.
- 00:11:19.235 --> 00:11:22.104
- (laughing)
- 00:11:22.104 --> 00:11:23.372
- - You know that'sso cool Havilah,
- 00:11:23.372 --> 00:11:24.840
- because, yourexperience doesn't have
- 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.209
- to be everybody's experience.
- 00:11:27.209 --> 00:11:29.044
- And I, what I love aboutGod is that Janice,
- 00:11:29.044 --> 00:11:32.581
- in one moment, in one instant,(snaps finger)
- 00:11:32.581 --> 00:11:35.251
- God can change something,and he has his way.
- 00:11:35.251 --> 00:11:39.955
- And he changes all of it.
- 00:11:39.955 --> 00:11:41.991
- Because the word of God isfor every single person.
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- And I believe thatwith all my heart.
- 00:11:45.728 --> 00:11:47.997
- As we're talking here,
- 00:11:47.997 --> 00:11:50.299
- I see just past the camera here,
- 00:11:50.299 --> 00:11:53.002
- a big window that lookslike the window behind me,
- 00:11:53.002 --> 00:11:55.204
- and I see my husband,out there on the phone.
- 00:11:55.204 --> 00:11:57.773
- And my husband spends alot of time on the phone.
- 00:11:57.773 --> 00:12:01.310
- He is, managing 31international networks,
- 00:12:01.310 --> 00:12:06.315
- and he's constantlyon the phone.
- 00:12:08.684 --> 00:12:12.288
- But I remember one day,in the last few months,
- 00:12:12.288 --> 00:12:16.792
- and he just walks.
- 00:12:16.792 --> 00:12:18.327
- I mean, he can walk 15 milesa day talking on his phone.
- 00:12:18.327 --> 00:12:21.497
- He has done it many times.
- 00:12:21.497 --> 00:12:23.098
- And he, so he paces.
- 00:12:23.098 --> 00:12:25.734
- So, there's like tracks aroundthe house and it's crazy.
- 00:12:25.734 --> 00:12:29.104
- But he, I was with him,
- 00:12:29.104 --> 00:12:31.841
- and he's just makinga deal on the phone.
- 00:12:31.841 --> 00:12:36.278
- And he hangs up, and helooks at me and he says,
- 00:12:36.278 --> 00:12:38.180
- "Well," he says,"that's impossible,
- 00:12:38.180 --> 00:12:40.816
- "so let's just seewhat God does."
- 00:12:40.816 --> 00:12:43.118
- And I think that's whatGod wants us to do.
- 00:12:43.118 --> 00:12:45.454
- God wants us to askfor the impossible.
- 00:12:45.454 --> 00:12:49.225
- Sometimes praying about things.
- 00:12:49.225 --> 00:12:51.927
- I think, "Oh man, I'mnot asking big enough."
- 00:12:51.927 --> 00:12:56.866
- Because he wantsto do exceeding,
- 00:12:56.866 --> 00:12:59.768
- abundantly above all, we canask, or imagine, or pray for.
- 00:12:59.768 --> 00:13:04.773
- And I believe, this isthe season for that.
- 00:13:05.941 --> 00:13:08.477
- Everyone listening right now.
- 00:13:08.477 --> 00:13:10.045
- Normally it's justthe five of us.
- 00:13:10.045 --> 00:13:11.780
- We are talking aboutasking big from God.
- 00:13:11.780 --> 00:13:16.018
- And I think this is thetime to do it Bianca.
- 00:13:16.018 --> 00:13:19.121
- This world has changedsuch dramatic ways.
- 00:13:19.121 --> 00:13:22.258
- I think it's time toget bold in our faith,
- 00:13:22.258 --> 00:13:24.894
- bold in our prayers, bold withour speaking the word of God.
- 00:13:24.894 --> 00:13:29.899
- - And I think thatthat desperation,
- 00:13:31.100 --> 00:13:32.601
- allows us to attune ourear to the things of God.
- 00:13:32.601 --> 00:13:35.271
- Even listening to Janiceand Mo and Havilah, and you,
- 00:13:35.271 --> 00:13:39.942
- like, I don't want this tofeel like it's far removed
- 00:13:39.942 --> 00:13:43.145
- from most of us.
- 00:13:43.145 --> 00:13:44.613
- So, I started the show with Godanswering some bold prayers,
- 00:13:44.613 --> 00:13:47.116
- which has been amazing.
- 00:13:47.116 --> 00:13:48.651
- But the day that we got intoour new church building,
- 00:13:48.651 --> 00:13:51.654
- we also discovered that thehouse that my husband and I rent
- 00:13:51.654 --> 00:13:55.557
- here in Orange County,
- 00:13:55.557 --> 00:13:56.825
- is being sold, and theowners didn't tell us.
- 00:13:56.825 --> 00:13:59.728
- So, we're at church celebrating.
- 00:13:59.728 --> 00:14:01.096
- Then we get a phone call saying,
- 00:14:01.096 --> 00:14:02.264
- "Hey, there'speople at the house,
- 00:14:02.264 --> 00:14:03.532
- "at your house foran open house."
- 00:14:03.532 --> 00:14:05.401
- And we were just confused.
- 00:14:05.401 --> 00:14:06.902
- So, we, it's this tensionof like, God's gonna answer,
- 00:14:06.902 --> 00:14:11.040
- God's gonna answer hisprayers in his timeline,
- 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:13.642
- but I never wanna be,
- 00:14:13.642 --> 00:14:14.843
- I never wanna stopasking and believing.
- 00:14:14.843 --> 00:14:16.979
- So, even listeningto Havilah's story,
- 00:14:16.979 --> 00:14:19.081
- about God providingin supernatural ways,
- 00:14:19.081 --> 00:14:21.317
- this is the beautyof bold prayers.
- 00:14:21.317 --> 00:14:22.985
- It's not just that Godanswers our prayers,
- 00:14:22.985 --> 00:14:25.788
- is that our stories,our testimony,
- 00:14:25.788 --> 00:14:28.324
- inspired the faith of others.
- 00:14:28.324 --> 00:14:29.992
- So, I sit in the wakeof your guys' stories,
- 00:14:29.992 --> 00:14:32.995
- and it bolsters my faith.
- 00:14:32.995 --> 00:14:35.164
- And I wanna know,
- 00:14:35.164 --> 00:14:37.166
- as we are seeking God,
- 00:14:37.166 --> 00:14:38.434
- and the topic todayis on bold prayers,
- 00:14:38.434 --> 00:14:40.636
- what have you learned?
- 00:14:40.636 --> 00:14:42.204
- What have you learned inthe process of waiting,
- 00:14:42.204 --> 00:14:44.406
- or the process of seeking,or the process of asking?
- 00:14:44.406 --> 00:14:47.009
- What have you discovered aboutwho God is in that process?
- 00:14:47.009 --> 00:14:49.712
- Janice, talk to me alittle bit about that.
- 00:14:49.712 --> 00:14:51.547
- - Yeah, I think, well,first I have to say,
- 00:14:51.547 --> 00:14:55.584
- yes Havilah, tothe parking spaces.
- 00:14:55.584 --> 00:14:57.453
- My husband has taught me that.
- 00:14:57.453 --> 00:14:59.855
- (laughing)
- 00:14:59.855 --> 00:15:01.323
- I got married to a man who praysfor the best parking spots,
- 00:15:01.323 --> 00:15:03.959
- and he always gets them.
- 00:15:03.959 --> 00:15:05.661
- And so, yes, that thingis true and it works.
- 00:15:05.661 --> 00:15:09.765
- But you know, I, there'sthis story when I was a kid.
- 00:15:09.765 --> 00:15:14.770
- I was riding with my dad,and my dad when I was a kid.
- 00:15:16.205 --> 00:15:19.241
- Well, he is a Bishop,
- 00:15:19.241 --> 00:15:21.510
- in the Christian MethodistEpiscopal church.
- 00:15:21.510 --> 00:15:24.480
- And so, he, as a Methodist,as an itinerary pastor.
- 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:29.184
- So, we traveled a loton the road as kids.
- 00:15:29.184 --> 00:15:32.054
- And so, this oneparticular time,
- 00:15:32.054 --> 00:15:33.856
- it was just me withhim traveling throughprobably Alabama
- 00:15:33.856 --> 00:15:37.926
- and Mississippi,back to Memphis.
- 00:15:37.926 --> 00:15:40.696
- And my dad would pridehimself on having,
- 00:15:40.696 --> 00:15:44.633
- cars that were, I wouldsay on their last leg,
- 00:15:44.633 --> 00:15:49.038
- but he would say cars,
- 00:15:49.038 --> 00:15:50.439
- he didn't spendtoo much money on,
- 00:15:50.439 --> 00:15:53.008
- that were running well,
- 00:15:53.008 --> 00:15:54.676
- and that he could gettons of miles out of.
- 00:15:54.676 --> 00:15:57.746
- And so, we're in this car, likethis old Ford station wagon,
- 00:15:57.746 --> 00:16:02.084
- which, well, I don't evenknow a station wagon,
- 00:16:03.485 --> 00:16:05.421
- some kind of wagon.
- 00:16:05.421 --> 00:16:06.655
- I had never seenthe thing before,
- 00:16:06.655 --> 00:16:07.890
- that's how obscure it was.
- 00:16:07.890 --> 00:16:09.558
- And he loved this car,
- 00:16:09.558 --> 00:16:10.926
- because he only paidlike $400 for it,
- 00:16:10.926 --> 00:16:13.662
- which is why I was not surprisedon a rainy, rainy night,
- 00:16:13.662 --> 00:16:17.032
- as the road was flooding,that this thing stopped,
- 00:16:17.032 --> 00:16:19.902
- in the middle of the road,
- 00:16:19.902 --> 00:16:21.403
- in the middle of nowhere,in the middle of the night.
- 00:16:21.403 --> 00:16:23.972
- And I was petrified.
- 00:16:23.972 --> 00:16:26.008
- I was kinda like, "Daddy,what are we gonna do?"
- 00:16:26.008 --> 00:16:29.611
- So, I start flipping out, like,
- 00:16:29.611 --> 00:16:31.814
- "What are we gonna, (mumbles),asking all these questions.
- 00:16:31.814 --> 00:16:34.616
- And my dad lookedat me and he said,
- 00:16:34.616 --> 00:16:36.852
- "Have a little faithin me, Janice."
- 00:16:36.852 --> 00:16:39.688
- And I fell asleep.
- 00:16:39.688 --> 00:16:42.124
- And when I woke up,we were home safely.
- 00:16:42.124 --> 00:16:45.360
- And that's what the Lordreminds me of, every time
- 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.163
- when he's like, "Pray,ask the impossible."
- 00:16:48.163 --> 00:16:51.266
- Like you said, "Have alittle faith in me Janice."
- 00:16:51.266 --> 00:16:53.969
- Like, "I am good, Iknow what I'm doing."
- 00:16:53.969 --> 00:16:56.839
- Like, "I'm a good father,you get your kid good gifts.
- 00:16:56.839 --> 00:17:00.742
- "What do you thinkI want to give you,
- 00:17:00.742 --> 00:17:02.678
- "being such abetter father then,
- 00:17:02.678 --> 00:17:05.214
- "because I'm yourheavenly father."
- 00:17:05.214 --> 00:17:06.849
- And so, that's what I've learned
- 00:17:06.849 --> 00:17:09.384
- in asking bold prayersto just bolster my faith,
- 00:17:09.384 --> 00:17:13.122
- and remember, that I canhave faith in my God,
- 00:17:13.122 --> 00:17:16.058
- because he is good.
- 00:17:16.058 --> 00:17:18.093
- He is good.
- 00:17:18.093 --> 00:17:19.761
- And that means goodthings for me, you know?
- 00:17:19.761 --> 00:17:22.898
- So, I'm definitely gonna bepraying about filling mine,
- 00:17:22.898 --> 00:17:25.334
- the house that I'm asking for,
- 00:17:25.334 --> 00:17:26.468
- with the furniture that I want,
- 00:17:26.468 --> 00:17:28.103
- and the parking spotswhen I go around.
- 00:17:28.103 --> 00:17:29.872
- But all the other things aswell, you know what I mean?
- 00:17:29.872 --> 00:17:32.374
- Because he is goodand I can trust him.
- 00:17:32.374 --> 00:17:36.211
- - I have learned so muchlately too in prayer,
- 00:17:36.211 --> 00:17:40.382
- about the power of specifics.
- 00:17:40.382 --> 00:17:42.751
- We kind of spoke in to it,on the very specific things
- 00:17:42.751 --> 00:17:45.687
- that we're desiring,
- 00:17:45.687 --> 00:17:46.922
- but I found it really,really powerful too,
- 00:17:46.922 --> 00:17:50.626
- in prayers of repentance,and prayers for deliverance,
- 00:17:50.626 --> 00:17:54.630
- and prayers for freedom.
- 00:17:54.630 --> 00:17:56.532
- The specifics, identifyingthe specific sin struggle,
- 00:17:56.532 --> 00:18:01.537
- is so powerful.
- 00:18:02.137 --> 00:18:04.373
- It breaks very specific chains.
- 00:18:04.373 --> 00:18:08.143
- And a lot of the time,
- 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:09.678
- I know I have spent a lotof my life as a believer,
- 00:18:09.678 --> 00:18:13.849
- navigating, well for awhile really just thinking,
- 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:17.386
- this is all incredibleand amazing,
- 00:18:17.386 --> 00:18:18.887
- but also I guess Christiansjust learn how to cope.
- 00:18:18.887 --> 00:18:23.125
- How to cope with anger,
- 00:18:23.125 --> 00:18:24.793
- or how to cope with X, Y, or Z.
- 00:18:24.793 --> 00:18:27.095
- I guess we just learn howto modify our behavior.
- 00:18:27.095 --> 00:18:29.665
- I think especiallyaround the sexual stuff,
- 00:18:29.665 --> 00:18:31.567
- that was kind of early on like,
- 00:18:31.567 --> 00:18:33.268
- how do I just modify my behavior
- 00:18:33.268 --> 00:18:34.937
- to kind of obey therights and wrongs.
- 00:18:34.937 --> 00:18:36.705
- And, one day hejust opened my eyes
- 00:18:36.705 --> 00:18:39.875
- to the power ofspecific prayers,
- 00:18:39.875 --> 00:18:43.679
- when it comes to deliverance.
- 00:18:43.679 --> 00:18:45.814
- Why I am desiring freedom for,
- 00:18:45.814 --> 00:18:47.583
- and applying thepower of his blood,
- 00:18:47.583 --> 00:18:50.085
- to that very specific thing.
- 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:52.588
- And when I startedpraying that way,
- 00:18:52.588 --> 00:18:54.790
- of Lord, I needto be transformed.
- 00:18:54.790 --> 00:18:56.658
- We're not meant to beChristians who cope,
- 00:18:56.658 --> 00:18:58.660
- He comes to setthe captives free.
- 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:00.929
- And so, what chainsare around me,
- 00:19:00.929 --> 00:19:03.799
- and what freedom am I missing,
- 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.667
- because it's a lot morecomfortable to be like,
- 00:19:05.667 --> 00:19:08.503
- "Oh Lord just helpedme with my lust."
- 00:19:08.503 --> 00:19:11.240
- Well, no, I need to bedelivered from a porn addiction.
- 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.575
- So, let me get very specificon what I am struggling with.
- 00:19:13.575 --> 00:19:18.547
- And wow, the way he will answer.
- 00:19:19.448 --> 00:19:21.750
- The way he will answer.
- 00:19:21.750 --> 00:19:23.652
- When we have had eyes to see.
- 00:19:23.652 --> 00:19:25.587
- And he helps us in that.
- 00:19:25.587 --> 00:19:27.122
- But also when we believe himfor freedom and these things,
- 00:19:27.122 --> 00:19:30.125
- and specifically identify them.
- 00:19:30.125 --> 00:19:32.361
- I mean, it's one of,
- 00:19:32.361 --> 00:19:33.428
- I've experienced,
- 00:19:34.463 --> 00:19:35.931
- it's one of the quickestprayers he answers as well.
- 00:19:35.931 --> 00:19:37.532
- 'Cause he wants usfree, fully free.
- 00:19:37.532 --> 00:19:39.935
- And activated, and empowered.
- 00:19:39.935 --> 00:19:41.837
- And so, man, it's hard.
- 00:19:41.837 --> 00:19:44.506
- It's hard, but it's Holy.
- 00:19:44.506 --> 00:19:46.074
- And the specifics have beenreally helpful in that way.
- 00:19:46.074 --> 00:19:48.810
- - Yeah, I was thinkingabout how you said,
- 00:19:50.045 --> 00:19:52.681
- when we asked specifically,Mo, this is so good,
- 00:19:52.681 --> 00:19:55.384
- that we have to actuallylook for the specifics,
- 00:19:55.384 --> 00:19:57.653
- how God actually healsus, sets us free.
- 00:19:57.653 --> 00:20:00.622
- Like sometimes wecan ask, ask, ask,
- 00:20:00.622 --> 00:20:02.724
- and then we forget to even look,
- 00:20:02.724 --> 00:20:04.726
- to see like, "Oh God,you actually did this."
- 00:20:04.726 --> 00:20:07.562
- Instead of just likeonto the next thing.
- 00:20:07.562 --> 00:20:09.665
- Onto the next prayer,on the next deliverance,
- 00:20:09.665 --> 00:20:12.534
- versus just seeing it.
- 00:20:12.534 --> 00:20:13.802
- And Bianca, I wasthinking about this,
- 00:20:13.802 --> 00:20:15.504
- not to like throw youlike at to this moment,
- 00:20:15.504 --> 00:20:19.074
- but, I was reading about the,you were praying for rain,
- 00:20:19.074 --> 00:20:22.711
- and then you getinto your lobby,
- 00:20:22.711 --> 00:20:24.413
- of your new buildingand you see,
- 00:20:24.413 --> 00:20:25.847
- and I don't wannatell the whole thing,
- 00:20:25.847 --> 00:20:27.449
- but will you share that story?
- 00:20:27.449 --> 00:20:29.151
- 'Cause I was like, that isso, that's the eyes to see
- 00:20:29.151 --> 00:20:32.487
- what you prayed for.
- 00:20:32.487 --> 00:20:33.855
- - It totally was.
- 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:36.391
- And sometimes weask God for a sign,
- 00:20:36.391 --> 00:20:37.893
- and then we use itmetaphorically like,
- 00:20:37.893 --> 00:20:39.861
- "Oh please God give you a sign."
- 00:20:39.861 --> 00:20:41.396
- And then there's sometimes,he actually gives us a sign.
- 00:20:41.396 --> 00:20:44.599
- And so to, to whittledown the story,
- 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:47.235
- I shared this, thechurch planning journey,
- 00:20:47.235 --> 00:20:49.137
- has just been an adventure,especially in a pandemic.
- 00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:51.573
- But when we were at the heightof like not having a venue
- 00:20:51.573 --> 00:20:55.644
- and people in our churchwe're getting COVID,
- 00:20:55.644 --> 00:20:57.746
- and it was just areally rough season.
- 00:20:57.746 --> 00:20:59.314
- One Sunday night, Ijust felt very defeated.
- 00:20:59.314 --> 00:21:02.684
- And I went to bed, I'm gonnatry not to get emotional.
- 00:21:02.684 --> 00:21:05.887
- (sighs)
- 00:21:08.023 --> 00:21:09.224
- When you hear thepain of God's people,
- 00:21:09.224 --> 00:21:11.727
- and nothing lookshopeful, you've gotto be people of faith.
- 00:21:11.727 --> 00:21:16.264
- I believe that God cares,that he sees, and he knows.
- 00:21:16.264 --> 00:21:19.501
- Just like he promised tothe children of Israel
- 00:21:19.501 --> 00:21:21.236
- when they were under theoppression of Pharaoh.
- 00:21:21.236 --> 00:21:23.538
- 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.
- 00:23:43.845 --> 00:23:45.247
- - 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.
- 00:24:49.144 --> 00:24:52.347
- 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,
- 00:25:06.428 --> 00:25:09.297
- 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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