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Greg Laurie - What Happens When Christians Pray Together?

February 6, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - What Happens When Christians Pray Together?
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - What Happens When Christians Pray Together? | February 6, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: but let's be honest, a lot of times prayer is
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  • Our last resort.
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  • We'll try to work it out some other way.
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  • Oh, i'll figure it out.
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  • I'll resolve this, but we can't.
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  • Oh well, now all we can do is pray.
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  • That's the first thing you should have done.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: i heard a story about three men that were hiking
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  • Through a forest, and they came to a large raging river.
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  • So they decided to pray, always a good idea because they needed
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  • To get over the river.
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  • So the first man prayed, "lord, i pray that you will give me the
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  • Strength to cross the river."
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  • Boom, suddenly he has bulging biceps and strong legs, and he
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  • Dives in and and starts swimming across.
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  • It took him about six hours.
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  • He almost drowned twice, but he got to the other side.
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  • So the other two guys are watching this, and the second
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  • Guy says, "lord, i pray that you will give me the strength and
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  • The tools to cross the river."
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  • He, too, had bulging biceps and strong legs, but also a boat.
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  • So he got on that little rowboat and made his way across.
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  • It took him about three hours, and it capsized twice, but he
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  • Made it.
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  • So the third guy said, "lord, i pray that you'll give me the
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  • Strength and the tools and the intelligence to cross
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  • The river."
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  • And poof, suddenly he became a woman.
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  • She consulted the map, walked a few feet up the river bank, and
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  • Walked over the bridge.
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  • So it comes down to this.
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  • There's a right and there's a wrong way to pray.
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  • Maybe i'm talking to somebody right now that is in a very
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  • Difficult situation.
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  • You don't see any way out of your situation or you have a
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  • Great need that only god can provide or maybe you're facing
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  • An uncertain future, and it seems as though you can't fix it
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  • It's just a big mess, your life.
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  • Well, here's what you need to know.
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  • Things can change when you pray.
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  • One thing that will stand out on the story we're gonna read in a
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  • Few moments, is prayer can dramatically change situations,
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  • People, and even the very course of nature.
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  • It's been said, when you're swept off your feet, it's time
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  • To get on your knees.
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  • Listen, prayer can change things, but most of all, prayer
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  • Changes you.
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  • Because there are times in life where god will allow hardship or
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  • A time of great need, or perhaps even a tragedy so he can reveal
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  • Himself to you so you will learn to call upon him so he can put
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  • His glory on display.
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  • See, really when i pray, i'm acknowledging that i'm weak.
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  • I'm acknowledging i need help, and a lot of people don't like
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  • To do this, especially men.
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  • Why is it that men don't think they need help?
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  • Simple answer, because they're stupid.
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  • Remember my story i just told you in the beginning?
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  • Listen, who was the strongest man who ever lived?
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  • Don't say superman, he's not real.
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  • You might say, "well, samson."
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  • He was strong for sure, but he was not the strongest man who
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  • Ever lived.
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  • The strongest man who ever lived was jesus christ.
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  • He had unlimited strength.
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  • He was omnipotent, all powerful.
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  • But yet we read story after story in the gospels of
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  • Jesus praying.
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  • Jesus staying up into the late hours of night and praying.
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  • And if jesus, the strongest man who ever lived, needed to pray,
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  • How much more do we need to pray?
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  • So here before us in acts chapter 12 is the story of the
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  • Power of prayer.
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  • The early church was facing a very difficult set of problems.
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  • And so they realized the only way around it, or through it,
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  • Was with the help of god.
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  • So what is happening now in the church of the first century is a
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  • New wave of persecution has come against them.
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  • This is not the first wave, it's just another wave.
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  • That first wave of persecution came when stephen, that
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  • Courageous young man full of faith, was put to death for
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  • Following jesus christ and proclaiming the gospel to the
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  • Religious leaders.
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  • But then god infiltrated, god intervened, and god turned
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  • Around the chief prosecutor of the church who was known as saul
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  • Of tarsus.
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  • Now he was the apostle paul.
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  • So when saul was doing this dirty work and attacking the
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  • Church, they started to spread out.
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  • But now they're gonna spread out even more because god has spoken
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  • To simon peter and told him that he and the church were to take
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  • The gospel, not just to fellow jews, but to the gentiles and
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  • This encounter with the roman centurion cornelius, and it was
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  • A whole new movement in the church.
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  • If you're driving a stick shift car, you just went from first to
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  • Second gear.
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  • You're picking up momentum.
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  • The church is on the move.
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  • And it's a good remember--a good reminder, rather, that god wants
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  • The church to infiltrate, not to isolate.
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  • The commission of the church is not to wait for the world to
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  • Show up.
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  • The great commission to the church is to go into all the
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  • World and preach the god.
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  • Jesus did not say, the whole world should go to church.
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  • But he did say, the church should go to the whole world.
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  • So now the church is moving quickly, they're reaching even
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  • More people, both jew and gentile, and the devil is
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  • Not happy.
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  • Listen, satan hates god, and he hates those that follow god.
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  • But if there's one thing that satan really hates, it's
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  • Evangelism because when we evangelize, and if you don't
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  • Know what that word means, it means sharing your faith, when
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  • We tell others about jesus, we are invading enemy territory.
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  • And when we have the privilege of leading others to christ,
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  • That's taking captives from satan, and he's not gonna take
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  • That lying down as evidenced in the story before us because
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  • Satan works through a powerful king named herod, who begins a
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  • Horrible time of persecution against the church.
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  • Let's read about it, acts chapter 12.
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  • I'm going to read verses 1 to 5.
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  • "now, about that time, herod the king,
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  • Stretched out his hand to harass some of the church.
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  • He killed james, the brother of john, with a sword.
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  • And because he saw that it pleased the jews, he proceeded
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  • Further to seize peter also.
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  • Now this was during the days of unleavened bread.
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  • And so when he had arrested him and put him in prison, he
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  • Delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending
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  • To bring him before the people after passover.
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  • Peter was, therefore, kept in prison," but underline this
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  • First, "but constant prayer was offered to god for him by
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  • The church."
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  • Okay, so james has been killed.
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  • Peter has been arrested.
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  • It's almost certain that peter will also be executed.
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  • So what did the church do?
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  • We read here in acts 12, "the church unleashed their
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  • Secret weapon."
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  • And it's our secret weapon as well, and i'm talking
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  • About prayer.
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  • I love verse 5 of acts 12, "constant prayer was offered to
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  • God for him by the church.
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  • Though all other doors were closed, one door remained open,
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  • The door of prayer, the door into the presence of god.
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  • The way through to peter was the one through god."
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  • But let's be honest, a lot of times prayer is our last resort.
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  • We'll try to work it out some other way.
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  • Oh, i'll figure it out.
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  • I'll resolve this, but we can't.
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  • Oh well, now all we can do is pray.
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  • That's the first thing you should have done, the
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  • First thing.
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  • Paul says in philippians 4, "don't worry about anything,
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  • Pray about everything, and the peace of god that passes all
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  • Human understanding will guard your heart and mind in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • What are you facing right now?
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  • Pray about it.
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  • I love what the bible tells us about mary when she was asking
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  • About the amazing birth of jesus that would happen through her.
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  • And the lord told her, "with god, nothing is impossible."
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  • So let's see if we can identify some takeaway truths for all of
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  • Us to learn about prayer as modeled by the early church, the
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  • Church that turned the world upside down.
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  • If you're taking notes, here's point number one, the prayer
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  • That has power is the prayer that is offered to god.
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  • The prayer that has power is the prayer that is offered to god.
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  • Verse 5, "constant prayer was offered to god."
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  • You might say, wait, what isn't all prayer offered to god?
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  • Well, no, not necessarily.
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  • Jesus told the story about the pharisees who loved to stand on
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  • The street corners and give long eloquent prayers.
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  • Why, to impress people.
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  • By the way, when you go to a restaurant and your food comes,
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  • It's a good thing to ask god to bless your food.
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  • But don't do long prayers.
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  • You don't need to pray for all the missionaries around the
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  • World and let the food go cold, just pray.
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  • I've seen people in restaurants make a big deal about it.
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  • No, no, just pray and give thanks to the lord.
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  • Short prayers before the meal.
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  • But you see, prayer can sometimes be a performance.
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  • It can be something we do to impress other people.
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  • You know, isaiah in the 6th chapter of his book says, "i saw
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  • The lord sitting on his throne.
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  • He was high and lifted up, and his glory filled the temple.
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  • And i said, "woe is me."
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  • So when isaiah was in the presence of god, he says, "woe
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  • Is me," but sometimes in prayer people are saying, look at me.
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  • Look at how long my prayer is.
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  • Look at how eloquent my prayer is.
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  • Or in worship, which is just prayers at the song, people will
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  • Worship in such a way to draw attention to themselves.
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  • No, you can be praying, you can be worshiping and have no
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  • Thought of god whatsoever.
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  • I mean, think about times you've been in church, and there's a
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  • Worship set going on, and you're not praying.
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  • You're thinking about what you're gonna have for lunch or
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  • You're judging what someone in front of you is wearing
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  • To church.
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  • See, it's very easy to pray with no thought of god.
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  • "no constant prayers were offered to god for him by
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  • The church."
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  • Here's the real objective of prayer.
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  • It's to get our will in alignment with god.
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  • Jesus said in john 15, "if you abide in me, and my words abide
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  • In you, you shall ask for yourself what you will, and it
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  • Shall be done for you."
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  • If you were to go back to the original greek and translate
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  • That, it would go along these lines.
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  • Jesus speaking, "if you maintain a living communion with me, and
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  • My word is at home in you, you can ask at once for yourself
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  • Whatever your heart desires, and it will be yours."
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  • Oh, i like that promise, but don't miss the condition.
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  • Yes, the promise is asked at once for yourself whatever your
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  • Heart desires, but if you're maintaining a living communion
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  • With jesus and his word is at home in you, you're gonna start
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  • Praying for what god wants you to have.
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  • So the objective of prayer is not to get god to do what i want
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  • Him to do.
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  • It's to get me to do what god wants to do.
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  • Greg: have you ever found yourself in a set of
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  • Circumstances and ask yourself the question, how did i
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  • Get here?
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  • Like maybe your neighborhood or where you're working or your
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  • Campus or the class you're in or whatever it is, you go, i don't
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  • Really like these circumstances.
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  • I've got to change them.
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  • Yeah, maybe you do.
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  • But did you ever think about this?
  • 00:12:43.528 --> 00:12:45.497
  • Maybe you're exactly where you're supposed to be because
  • 00:12:45.497 --> 00:12:48.633
  • God put you there?
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  • So in the bible, there's a story of a beautiful young woman named
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  • Hadassah, we know her best as queen esther, who won a beauty
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  • Contest and found herself the queen of persia, and she was
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  • A jew.
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  • And one day, a wicked man named haman hatched a plot to kill all
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  • The jewish people.
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  • But esther was in a position to do something to help.
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  • She was in the palace.
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  • So her cousin, mordecai, appeals to her, says, "esther, you've
  • 00:13:15.293 --> 00:13:20.131
  • Got to do something.
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  • Now if you don't do something, relief and deliverance will come
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  • From somewhere else, but who knows that god has not placed
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  • Where you are for such a time as this?
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  • You've heard that expression before.
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  • That's where it came from.
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  • You're where you are for such a time as this, and that could be
  • 00:13:33.711 --> 00:13:37.916
  • True of you as well.
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  • God put you where you are because he has a work he wants
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  • You to do.
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  • You know, jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel.
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  • Let me personalize it.
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  • Go into all of your world and preach the gospel.
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  • You have a sphere of influence.
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  • You have people to reach that i could never reach and others
  • 00:13:55.967 --> 00:13:59.737
  • Would never reach, but you can reach.
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  • Use that influence, use that position, use that opportunity
  • 00:14:02.373 --> 00:14:07.912
  • To engage people with the gospel of jesus christ and, see what
  • 00:14:07.912 --> 00:14:12.250
  • The lord will do with you and through you where you are
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  • Right now.
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  • Something to think about.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: number two, they prayed with passion and persistence.
  • 00:14:23.461 --> 00:14:28.366
  • They prayed with passion and persistence.
  • 00:14:28.366 --> 00:14:31.035
  • Again, look at verse 5.
  • 00:14:31.035 --> 00:14:32.437
  • "constant prayer was offered to god for him by the church,"
  • 00:14:32.437 --> 00:14:36.608
  • Constant prayer.
  • 00:14:36.608 --> 00:14:38.409
  • This phrase "constant prayer" could be translated "earnest
  • 00:14:38.409 --> 00:14:42.146
  • Prayer" or they were stretching out in prayer.
  • 00:14:42.146 --> 00:14:45.850
  • Have you ever had something just beyond your reach, you know,
  • 00:14:45.850 --> 00:14:48.920
  • Maybe you're under your couch and you're trying to
  • 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:51.256
  • Reach something.
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  • It's a little too far.
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  • That's the way they were praying.
  • 00:14:53.958 --> 00:14:55.293
  • They were just reaching out to heaven, like, "lord, hear our
  • 00:14:55.293 --> 00:14:58.796
  • Prayer right now."
  • 00:14:58.796 --> 00:15:00.164
  • Another way this can be translated is "they prayed
  • 00:15:00.164 --> 00:15:02.834
  • With agony."
  • 00:15:02.834 --> 00:15:04.202
  • It's a word that speaks of intense desire.
  • 00:15:04.202 --> 00:15:07.238
  • By the way, it's the same word to describe the prayer of jesus
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  • In the garden of gethsemane in luke 22, verse 44 when it says,
  • 00:15:10.642 --> 00:15:15.613
  • "he prayed more earnestly."
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  • This was not some ho hum, oh lord, just say peter, amen.
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  • This was, "oh god, lord, hear our prayer.
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  • Lord, don't let peter be put to death."
  • 00:15:28.026 --> 00:15:30.662
  • Maybe they step this prayer up more after james died.
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  • Did they pray for james when he was in prison?
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  • I think they probably did, but probably not with the same
  • 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:39.070
  • Intensity that they had now as they were praying for peter
  • 00:15:39.070 --> 00:15:42.440
  • Because these were dire circumstances, and they
  • 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.343
  • Were desperate.
  • 00:15:45.343 --> 00:15:46.678
  • They're crying out to god.
  • 00:15:46.678 --> 00:15:49.314
  • You know, i think sometimes much of our prayer has no power in it
  • 00:15:49.314 --> 00:15:53.818
  • Because there's no heart in it.
  • 00:15:53.818 --> 00:15:56.020
  • And if we're not gonna put any heart and pray in our prayer, do
  • 00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:58.890
  • We expect god to put heart in answering our prayer?
  • 00:15:58.890 --> 00:16:02.860
  • I love this, passionate prayer.
  • 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:04.896
  • "constant prayer was offered to him by the church," and it was
  • 00:16:04.896 --> 00:16:08.466
  • Constant, not just one prayer.
  • 00:16:08.466 --> 00:16:12.203
  • You know, sometimes we give up too easily.
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  • We pray for something that doesn't happen.
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  • We say, well, it must not be god's will.
  • 00:16:16.541 --> 00:16:18.209
  • "lord, i pray that my son will walk with you.
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  • Oh, he's not walking with you.
  • 00:16:21.212 --> 00:16:22.580
  • Well, i guess that's the will of god for him to not walk
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  • With god."
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  • Or i pray for something else, "lord, i need your provision,"
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  • And you don't receive it.
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  • "well, i guess god isn't gonna give it to me," or you're sick
  • 00:16:31.823 --> 00:16:33.858
  • And you pray for the lord to heal you, and you're not healed.
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  • "oh, i guess god doesn't want to heal me."
  • 00:16:36.894 --> 00:16:38.796
  • Well, maybe that's true.
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  • God doesn't heal everyone.
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  • God does not always answer our prayers the way that we
  • 00:16:43.034 --> 00:16:45.403
  • Pray them.
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  • But, listen, when you're praying for a son or a daughter to come
  • 00:16:46.738 --> 00:16:50.041
  • To the lord, you know you're praying according to the will of
  • 00:16:50.041 --> 00:16:53.344
  • God because scripture tells us, god is not willing that any
  • 00:16:53.344 --> 00:16:57.648
  • Should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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  • Now, i mentioned my mother in my last message and the life she
  • 00:17:00.551 --> 00:17:04.722
  • Lived, and i wanna tell you, my mom did commit herself to the
  • 00:17:04.722 --> 00:17:08.926
  • Lord toward the end of her life.
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  • I prayed for her for over 30 years, 30 years.
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  • That's a long time.
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  • But the lord heard those prayers, and she finally came
  • 00:17:17.602 --> 00:17:20.805
  • Around toward the end of her life and committed her life to
  • 00:17:20.805 --> 00:17:25.376
  • Jesus christ.
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  • So don't give up praying for your mom and dad or your son and
  • 00:17:26.744 --> 00:17:30.214
  • Daughter, or your husband or wife, or anyone you know that is
  • 00:17:30.214 --> 00:17:34.819
  • Not right with the lord.
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  • Keep praying, keep asking.
  • 00:17:36.187 --> 00:17:37.522
  • Jesus said, "ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find,
  • 00:17:37.522 --> 00:17:41.059
  • Knock and the door will be opened."
  • 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:44.095
  • So they're praying, "oh god, intervene.
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  • Oh god, hear our prayer."
  • 00:17:47.698 --> 00:17:50.401
  • Point number three, they prayed together.
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  • They prayed together.
  • 00:17:53.971 --> 00:17:55.306
  • Again verse 5, "constant prayer was offered to god for him by
  • 00:17:55.306 --> 00:18:01.279
  • The church."
  • 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:02.647
  • You remember the title of this message is what happens when
  • 00:18:02.647 --> 00:18:05.483
  • Christians pray together?
  • 00:18:05.483 --> 00:18:07.485
  • What happens when christians pray together?
  • 00:18:07.485 --> 00:18:09.687
  • A lot.
  • 00:18:09.687 --> 00:18:11.022
  • There's power in united prayer.
  • 00:18:11.022 --> 00:18:14.325
  • Jesus said, "if any two of you shall agree on earth, touching
  • 00:18:14.325 --> 00:18:17.995
  • Anything that they shall ask, it will be done for them of my
  • 00:18:17.995 --> 00:18:21.332
  • Father, who is in heaven."
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  • That's in matthew 18:19.
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  • Now when he says, "agree on earth touching," it means two
  • 00:18:24.936 --> 00:18:28.339
  • Believers, not just an agreement, in general, but "two
  • 00:18:28.339 --> 00:18:33.511
  • Believers with the same god-given burden share of his
  • 00:18:33.511 --> 00:18:37.315
  • Well aligned with the spirit of god praying together."
  • 00:18:37.315 --> 00:18:41.819
  • So pray with other christians.
  • 00:18:41.819 --> 00:18:44.388
  • The bible says, bear one another's burdens and so fulfill
  • 00:18:44.388 --> 00:18:47.959
  • The law of christ.
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  • So if you have a burden right now, you have a problem right
  • 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:51.996
  • Now, call up a christian friend and say, "will you pray for me
  • 00:18:51.996 --> 00:18:56.033
  • And with me?"
  • 00:18:56.033 --> 00:18:57.401
  • Get a bunch of christians together and say, "could we all
  • 00:18:57.401 --> 00:18:59.971
  • Pray together about this thing?
  • 00:18:59.971 --> 00:19:02.140
  • And i would like to pray for whatever problems you're facing
  • 00:19:02.140 --> 00:19:04.976
  • As well."
  • 00:19:04.976 --> 00:19:06.310
  • There's power in united prayer.
  • 00:19:06.310 --> 00:19:08.045
  • So these believers are praying together.
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  • Let's see how god answered their prayer.
  • 00:19:10.481 --> 00:19:12.283
  • Go back to acts chapter 12, verse 6, and i'm reading now
  • 00:19:12.283 --> 00:19:16.220
  • From the new living translation.
  • 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:18.222
  • "the night before peter was going to be placed on trial, he
  • 00:19:18.222 --> 00:19:21.159
  • Was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers.
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  • Others stood at the prison gate.
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  • Suddenly there was a bright light in the cell, and the angel
  • 00:19:27.532 --> 00:19:31.068
  • Of the lord stood before peter.
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  • The angel struck him on the side to awaken him and said, 'get up
  • 00:19:34.138 --> 00:19:38.676
  • Quickly,' and the chains fell off his wrists.
  • 00:19:38.676 --> 00:19:41.512
  • And then the angel said, 'get dressed and put on
  • 00:19:41.512 --> 00:19:44.315
  • Your sandals.'"
  • 00:19:44.315 --> 00:19:45.650
  • Sounds like a parent trying to get their kid ready for school.
  • 00:19:45.650 --> 00:19:48.619
  • Wake up, wake up, put on your clothes.
  • 00:19:48.619 --> 00:19:51.222
  • Let's go, right?
  • 00:19:51.222 --> 00:19:52.623
  • "'put on your sandals and now put on your coat and follow me,'
  • 00:19:52.623 --> 00:19:56.127
  • The angel ordered.
  • 00:19:56.127 --> 00:19:57.495
  • And peter left the cell following the angel.
  • 00:19:57.495 --> 00:20:00.531
  • And all this time he thought it was some kind of vision.
  • 00:20:00.531 --> 00:20:03.201
  • He didn't realize it was actually happening.
  • 00:20:03.201 --> 00:20:06.237
  • They passed the first and the second guard post and came to an
  • 00:20:06.237 --> 00:20:09.373
  • Iron gate leading to the city, and it opened to them
  • 00:20:09.373 --> 00:20:14.045
  • By itself."
  • 00:20:14.045 --> 00:20:15.413
  • It's interesting that comes from a root word in the greek that's
  • 00:20:15.413 --> 00:20:19.150
  • Translated automatic.
  • 00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:21.185
  • So it's like the supermarket.
  • 00:20:21.185 --> 00:20:22.853
  • You come up and the door opens on its own.
  • 00:20:22.853 --> 00:20:25.957
  • So now the door is open all by itself and, "they passed
  • 00:20:25.957 --> 00:20:31.362
  • Through, they're walking down the street, and the angel
  • 00:20:31.362 --> 00:20:34.699
  • Suddenly leaves peter.
  • 00:20:34.699 --> 00:20:36.934
  • And peter came to his senses, and he said, 'it's really true.
  • 00:20:36.934 --> 00:20:40.438
  • The lord has sent his angel and he has saved me from herod and
  • 00:20:40.438 --> 00:20:43.674
  • From the jewish leaders and what they had planned to do.'"
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  • I, i love this.
  • 00:20:46.644 --> 00:20:48.079
  • When did this happen?
  • 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:49.614
  • Notice verse 6, "the night before peter was placed
  • 00:20:49.614 --> 00:20:54.151
  • On trial."
  • 00:20:54.151 --> 00:20:55.519
  • Now this is some fake trial in a kangaroo court.
  • 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.589
  • He was gonna be convicted and executed immediately.
  • 00:20:58.589 --> 00:21:03.628
  • So right before the trial, why didn't the lord answer this
  • 00:21:03.628 --> 00:21:06.464
  • Prayer a little bit earlier?
  • 00:21:06.464 --> 00:21:08.532
  • Well, sometimes the lord allows these things, so we will really
  • 00:21:08.532 --> 00:21:13.004
  • Realize that it's him that got us through it.
  • 00:21:13.004 --> 00:21:16.674
  • So let's pull the camera back and see the big picture.
  • 00:21:16.674 --> 00:21:20.444
  • Look at how things changed because of passionate,
  • 00:21:20.444 --> 00:21:24.215
  • Powerful prayer.
  • 00:21:24.215 --> 00:21:25.883
  • In the beginning, we see a seemingly all powerful king
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  • Herod wreaking havoc on the church.
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  • Herod had the power of government, the power of the
  • 00:21:34.892 --> 00:21:38.062
  • Sword, and the threat of prison, but the christians, they had the
  • 00:21:38.062 --> 00:21:42.867
  • Power of prayer.
  • 00:21:42.867 --> 00:21:44.702
  • The story ends in acts 12 with the great king herod giving a
  • 00:21:44.702 --> 00:21:51.609
  • Speech that was met by adulation from the people.
  • 00:21:51.609 --> 00:21:55.479
  • They began to chant the words, "it's a voice of a god and not
  • 00:21:55.479 --> 00:22:00.318
  • Of a man."
  • 00:22:00.318 --> 00:22:01.686
  • You know, it's interesting, the ancient historian josephus
  • 00:22:01.686 --> 00:22:04.689
  • Commenting on the same event, says that herod was dressed from
  • 00:22:04.689 --> 00:22:09.026
  • Head to toe in silver.
  • 00:22:09.026 --> 00:22:11.329
  • So it was probably some kind of a reflective silver cloth he was
  • 00:22:11.329 --> 00:22:15.766
  • Wearing or thread that caused the sun to reflect off of him.
  • 00:22:15.766 --> 00:22:20.271
  • It was shining like the sun.
  • 00:22:20.271 --> 00:22:21.739
  • So here is herod head to toe in silver, shining in front of the
  • 00:22:21.739 --> 00:22:25.843
  • People, gives a great speech.
  • 00:22:25.843 --> 00:22:27.378
  • Oh, you're a god.
  • 00:22:27.378 --> 00:22:28.713
  • He's, like, thank you very much, thank you very much.
  • 00:22:28.713 --> 00:22:30.247
  • And god judged him, and the bible tells him he died and
  • 00:22:30.247 --> 00:22:35.319
  • Worms ate him.
  • 00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:37.588
  • So i don't know if that was immediate and he was stricken by
  • 00:22:37.588 --> 00:22:41.125
  • Worms or of a few days later they realized after he had died
  • 00:22:41.125 --> 00:22:46.464
  • That he was infested by worms.
  • 00:22:46.464 --> 00:22:48.199
  • I don't know, it's pretty gross.
  • 00:22:48.199 --> 00:22:50.368
  • But, wow, look at this story and how it turned around.
  • 00:22:50.368 --> 00:22:53.337
  • At the beginning of the chapter, herod is on the rampage
  • 00:22:53.337 --> 00:22:57.308
  • Arresting and persecuting church leaders.
  • 00:22:57.308 --> 00:23:00.044
  • At the end, he has struck down and he dies.
  • 00:23:00.044 --> 00:23:03.247
  • The chapter opens with james dead, peter in prison, and
  • 00:23:03.247 --> 00:23:07.418
  • Herod triumphing.
  • 00:23:07.418 --> 00:23:09.153
  • It closes with herod dead, peter free, and the word of
  • 00:23:09.153 --> 00:23:13.491
  • God triumphing.
  • 00:23:13.491 --> 00:23:15.092
  • By the way, little footnote, those guards that were in charge
  • 00:23:15.092 --> 00:23:18.729
  • Of keeping peter in prison, were all executed by king herod,
  • 00:23:18.729 --> 00:23:23.901
  • How sad.
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  • I'm sure they heard the gospel from peter.
  • 00:23:25.236 --> 00:23:27.705
  • I hope they believed in jesus christ because, you know what?
  • 00:23:27.705 --> 00:23:31.275
  • Death is gonna come to every man and every woman.
  • 00:23:31.275 --> 00:23:35.579
  • I was talking to an older gentleman the other day.
  • 00:23:35.579 --> 00:23:37.848
  • I was with a friend.
  • 00:23:37.848 --> 00:23:39.216
  • We're having a cup of coffee, and we're at this little table,
  • 00:23:39.216 --> 00:23:41.252
  • And this old dude is looking for a place to sit.
  • 00:23:41.252 --> 00:23:44.622
  • And he says, "can i sit here at your table?"
  • 00:23:44.622 --> 00:23:47.291
  • We said, "sure, sit down."
  • 00:23:47.291 --> 00:23:48.826
  • Well, he had an amazing life.
  • 00:23:48.826 --> 00:23:50.895
  • He had actually been a little boy during world war ii, and he
  • 00:23:50.895 --> 00:23:54.999
  • Had seen the nazis invade.
  • 00:23:54.999 --> 00:23:57.234
  • He was from the netherlands.
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  • And he told us a bunch of stories about his life and what
  • 00:23:59.570 --> 00:24:04.074
  • He did for a living and so forth.
  • 00:24:04.074 --> 00:24:05.609
  • Then he asked me, "well, what do you do for a living?"
  • 00:24:05.609 --> 00:24:07.278
  • I said, well, i'm a pastor."
  • 00:24:07.278 --> 00:24:08.913
  • He was a little surprised.
  • 00:24:08.913 --> 00:24:10.581
  • And so he started asking questions, why god
  • 00:24:10.581 --> 00:24:12.950
  • Allows suffering?
  • 00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:14.285
  • Why does this happen?
  • 00:24:14.285 --> 00:24:15.653
  • Why does that happen?
  • 00:24:15.653 --> 00:24:17.054
  • And so i got to the subject of jesus, and this man happened to
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  • Be an engineer.
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  • And i said, you know, i know it's hard to believe some of the
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  • Miracles you read about in the bible because he said, "it's
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  • Hard for me to believe these miracles."
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  • I said, "you're an engineer.
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  • You know what it takes to build something.
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  • And when you look at this world, you realize that god has
  • 00:24:35.806 --> 00:24:38.876
  • Created it.
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  • God has built it, but sin has entered the human race."
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  • But then i told him, "and that's why jesus came."
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  • I said, "sir, do you know why jesus came to this earth?
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  • He looked at me for a moment, he says, "no, i don't."
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  • I said, "he came to die for our sin because we've broken
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  • God's commandments.
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  • We've fallen short of his glory, but jesus died for us and rose
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  • Again from the dead.
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  • And this is what we all need to know.
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  • We don't have to be afraid to die if christ is living in
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  • Our heart.
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  • And is he living in your life right now?"
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  • Remember how peter was on the outside of this little prayer
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  • Meeting knocking?
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  • Picking up on that analogy, jesus says, "behold, i stand at
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  • The door and i knock.
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  • And if you'll hear my voice and open the door, i will come in
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  • Right now."
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  • Greg: hi, my name is greg laurie.
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  • I started searching for god at a very young age.
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  • And my search led me into a lot of wrong directions, including
  • 00:25:36.433 --> 00:25:40.304
  • Drug use, and i almost destroyed my life completely, but someone
  • 00:25:40.304 --> 00:25:44.808
  • Told me about jesus christ, and it changed my life forever.
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  • And i want you to know that whatever course your life is on
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  • Right now, it can change if you realize there's a god in heaven
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  • Who loves you, and he has a plan for your life.
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  • I prayed this prayer to ask jesus into my life at the age of
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  • 17, and here i am at the age of 70.
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  • And i can tell you i made the best choice i ever could make.
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  • You can make that same choice yourself.
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  • You could just say, "jesus, help me, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I want to go to heaven when i die.
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  • I want a relationship with you."
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  • If you would pray a prayer like that, god will hear you and
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  • Answer you.
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  • Greg: so these are the remains of someone's home, and we have a
  • 00:26:32.656 --> 00:26:36.927
  • Team of people here that are volunteers.
  • 00:26:36.927 --> 00:26:40.464
  • Many of these people are from harvest working with
  • 00:26:40.464 --> 00:26:43.534
  • Samaritan's purse.
  • 00:26:43.534 --> 00:26:45.235
  • So we come here and we do these things for these people in the
  • 00:26:45.235 --> 00:26:48.872
  • Name of jesus christ to let them know that there are people that
  • 00:26:48.872 --> 00:26:52.876
  • Care about them.
  • 00:26:52.876 --> 00:26:54.211
  • And we share the gospel with people and help people see their
  • 00:26:54.211 --> 00:26:58.215
  • Need for jesus.
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  • You know, when you're down, when you're hurting, when tragedy is
  • 00:27:00.184 --> 00:27:03.754
  • Hit, a lot of times you're more open to hearing the gospel than
  • 00:27:03.754 --> 00:27:07.591
  • Maybe under normal circumstances when things are going well.
  • 00:27:07.591 --> 00:27:11.662
  • And i found that sometimes in the worst of circumstances you
  • 00:27:11.662 --> 00:27:15.699
  • Can see amazing things happen because people open their hearts
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  • To god and see their real need.
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  • ♪♪♪
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