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Life Today with James Robison | Jentezen Franklin - Just Pray | July 1, 2026
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- Male announcer: the following program is sponsored by friends
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- Of life outreach international and the friends
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- And partners of tbn.
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- Announcer: coming up.
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- Randy robison: i know there's a tendency for us to sometimes
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- Feel like those short prayers aren't stacking up.
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- I prayed, nothing happened; i prayed, nothing happened;
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- I prayed, nothing happened.
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- Jentezen franklin: and all i would say is yet, yet.
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- You don't know what god can do when you pile up those prayers
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- And keep praying.
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- You need a whole treasury of yet-to-be answered prayers.
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- Announcer: when all you can muster is a short prayer,
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- It's more than enough.
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- Randy: welcome to "life today," i'm randy robinson.
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- Blynda lane joins me.
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- Blynda lane: hi there.
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- Randy: how are you doing?
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- Blynda: it's good, good to see you.
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- Randy: did you get your prayers in today?
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- Blynda: hoo, i am ready to go.
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- Randy: did you spend a lot of time on your prayers
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- This morning?
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- Blynda: you know, i made 'em quick and succinct.
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- Randy: quick and succinct.
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- You know, that's actually a very powerful thing.
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- Today we're gonna talk about prayer and "the power of short
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- Prayers," that's the title of a book, a new book out now by
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- Pastor jentezen franklin, who joins us from free chapel in
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- What, the atlanta area?
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- You got campuses all over though, yeah?
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- Jentezen: we do.
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- It's wonderful to be back.
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- It's been a minute and delighted to be back with you guys.
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- Yeah, we're in the atlanta area, and we have eight campuses and
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- Been there a while.
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- Randy: and a global outreach, i do know that, so i want people
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- To know that.
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- But let's talk about this idea of prayer, and i have tons of
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- Questions, you know, but i kinda wanna hear from you where this
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- Comes from.
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- Jentezen: well, this book is really different.
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- You know, every book that you write is, it's an aspect of
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- What's going on in your life, i think, and you need to feel
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- Pretty sure about what you're writing, but this one came as
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- Easy as any book i've ever done, to be honest, because it is a
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- Short book about short prayers.
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- And i put 15 chapters, and they're only 5 pages each,
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- Because i wanted men to read it, and i wanted people to finish
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- It, because these are the 15 prayers that over 40 years of
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- Preaching and 38 years of marriage and raising 5 children
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- And building a ministry, these are the prayers i prayed over
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- And over and over, prayers over my family, over our marriage,
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- Over our ministry, over our building programs, when we
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- Needed miracles in our lives, these are the prayers.
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- And i found myself being so moved by these prayers, short
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- Prayers, that i begin to pray them over and over and over
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- Until they became a part of my life, so i feel very passionate
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- About this.
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- Blynda: what i love about it is i think in some regard believers
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- Tend to overcomplicate the idea of prayer, because the mountain
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- That's in front of them is so big they feel like they have to
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- Have really eloquent, big prayers to have that mountain
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- Moved, versus what you're saying here is sometimes the simplest,
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- Most heartfelt prayer is the most effective.
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- Jentezen: yeah, the greatest miracles that jesus did in the
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- Bible were interruptions.
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- I mean, you think about he only had three years to do
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- His ministry.
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- I know he lived to be 33, and 30 of those years he never preached
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- A sermon or did anything spiritual other than be the god
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- In skin, learning, feeling what we feel, but then there came
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- The interruptions.
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- He was always going somewhere, every day was important, only
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- Three years to build a worldwide organization that would bring
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- The the truth of life and eternal life to every human
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- Being that would believe, and yet people would come with a
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- Short prayer, whether it's ten lepers, whether it's a woman
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- With an issue of blood, or it's even little children, he allowed
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- To interrupt his powerful purpose for a potential
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- Possibility when they prayed short prayers.
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- You may feel like you're not important, that you don't know
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- How to pray good, that you don't know how to pray these eloquent,
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- You know, theologically-correct prayers, i don't think that's
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- What god's looking for.
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- He's looking for your heart, your heart cry, and when you
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- Learn to pray passionate, purposeful prayers, jesus would
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- Stop, the bible said.
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- He would stop.
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- He was going by blind bartimaeus, and he stopped
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- Because he cried out with a short prayer.
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- And you may feel like god's so important, and you're not, but
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- The truth is he waits for us to pray, and it's not the long
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- Prayers, the short prayers a lot of times that that cause him to
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- Get that desire to send heaven's help.
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- Randy: yeah, i think the easy trap that we fall into
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- Personally and certainly in religious systems is we're
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- Looking for the right word and almost as if it's, you know, an
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- Incantation or that if i just say this particular thing, and
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- It can get real quickly if you're not careful into trying
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- To manipulate god, which is a bad, bad place to be.
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- How do we get past, you know, the right prayer to say the, i
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- Don't know, the effective prayer?
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- Because we do want them to be effective.
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- Jentezen: when i think of what you're asking, it just feels
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- Like that to me, you go to matthew 6 where the disciples
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- Said teach us to pray, and before he gave them the greatest
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- Short prayer, 68 words.
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- Think of that it, it should be volumes.
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- I mean, if the master is going to teach people how to pray,
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- That's an important moment.
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- And he says if you do this, if you pray this little outline
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- Right here, you'll cover your whole life, 68 words.
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- But before he said that, a lot of people miss this, he said--
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- He gave them the negative side, do not pray like the pharisees
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- And the hypocrites who think, he went on to say these words.
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- This is what caught my attention for the book.
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- Who say, who think that by many words, many words, it actually
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- Says that.
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- Jesus said those words, they think that by their many words
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- They will get their prayers answered.
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- I don't want many words, i want to hear your heart, i want you
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- To talk to me, and there's something about a short prayer
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- That has an urgency.
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- You know, when you see a child running out in front of a car, a
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- Mother can just, jesus, help my baby, and there's such passion
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- And force it's almost like you can have water coming out of a
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- Hose, but if you put your thumb on the end of that, it's that
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- Compressed and it's urgent and it's faith-filled and it's using
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- The name of jesus.
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- And i really believe that that is where all prayers begin is
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- Out of your own heart and experience and you don't have to
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- Pray long.
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- And i'm not against long prayer, but you'll never pray long
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- Prayers until you begin to pray short prayers a lot all day, and
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- If you would do that, this is where i am.
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- I love--the one thing that i've been consistent in more than
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- Anything else is prayer.
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- I love prayer.
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- I can't wait to get to my prayer place, and i love to walk and
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- Pray in the woods.
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- But i pray all day.
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- I think even before i came out here, under my breath i said a
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- Short prayer, lord, help me, quicken me.
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- You know the people that'll be watching, and i just wanna
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- Encourage people that the prayers that i put in this book
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- Are prayers that i prayed over my children every day, and satan
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- Came for every one of them in one way or another.
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- But when you pray and you stack up those prayers, and you
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- Keep praying.
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- I read something the other day, and there's a chapter in there
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- Where i talk about the treasury of snow and how that he compares
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- Snow in the bible, and i don't have time to break it all down,
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- But it is in the book of how snow is compared to prayer.
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- It's interesting that snow has six points like the star of
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- David, a perfect star of david if you look at it, a
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- Snowflake under--
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- And they catch each other, and one snowflake, one tiny
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- Snowflake's not gonna make a difference on a highway, but if
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- You get enough of them gathered together, they can drive a mack
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- Truck off the road.
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- And you may feel like the little prayers that you're praying over
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- Your babies when they're going to school or the little prayers
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- You're praying, short prayers for the healing of somebody
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- That's going through chemo or somebody on your heart that's
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- Addicted and bound, you're not wasting your time praying those
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- Short prayers.
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- Just call their name and use the name of jesus and begin to pray
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- Short prayers over them, and that accumulates.
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- And that same text talks about the treasury of snow is for the
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- Day of battle and the time of trouble.
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- This is job chapter 38, so god stores up like a mountain peak.
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- And then it goes on to say, and when the sun melts the mountain
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- Peak, the river begins to flow to the dry, fruitless areas of
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- The valley.
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- And many people feel like, well, i've been praying, i've been
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- Praying, i've been praying for my child, and nothing's
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- Happening, but know that the best time to store up snow is
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- When it's cold, when it's winter time, and when the season
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- Changes, if there's no snow, there'll be no flow of that
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- Life-giving river.
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- But if you store it up, and i prayed some of these prayers
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- Literally for decades over my family and over the ministry,
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- And i've seen god turn it from snow to a flow that brought life
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- And life more abundantly.
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- Blynda: there's like an amount of perseverance that you have to
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- Have in your walk with the lord to pray prayers when you don't
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- Necessarily see anything changing at the moment but
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- Knowing that every prayer is being accounted for.
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- But going back to the idea of these shorter prayers and the
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- Way for me when i think about it almost brings like a little bit
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- Of freedom to think about it, because life is heavy.
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- There's a lot as a mom that i carry and now a grandma,
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- You know?
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- And for me to be able to think, okay, i'm partnering with god
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- Even more on a daily basis because i can get used to these
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- Short prayers.
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- What is your encouragement to the person watching today of,
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- Okay, i haven't seen the answered prayer, but i also kind
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- Of have always just compartmentalized prayer life
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- Into this, i go to my prayer closet, it's really long, i
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- Don't understand this day-to-day, minute-by-minute
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- Prayer life.
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- How has that changed your life?
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- Jentezen: i think it's the invite that god looks for,
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- You know?
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- He said, "acknowledge me."
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- This is your part.
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- This is your part of the deal.
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- "acknowledge me in all of your ways," not part of them, not
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- Some of them, and we used to have a saying, you know, why
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- Worry when you can pray?
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- I believe this generation says why pray when you can worry?
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- And you have to decide, are you gonna be a worrier or a warrior?
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- Are you gonna be somebody who's gonna pray about it, or are you
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- Gonna worry about it?
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- And when you acknowledge him in all of your ways, then god's
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- Part kicks into that deal, and, "i will direct your path."
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- You do your part, "acknowledge me," lord, i'm so worried about
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- My husband, he lost his job, or i'm so worried about my baby,
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- That teenager is getting around the wrong people.
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- I've learned to pray short prayers about that, say their
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- Name, say something that moves you about them.
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- If you've got a child that-- or a loved one that is--or
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- Somebody on your heart today while you're watching this
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- Program, and you worry all the time about them, the lord
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- Invites you today to transform that worry into prayer and cast
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- All your cares upon him.
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- He loves them more than you do, and when you pray, you're
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- Opening the door to god's supernatural deliverance, and
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- It's--and again, the greatest miracles in the bible.
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- Elijah prayed a 64-word prayer, and the fire fell and the whole
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- Nation of israel was broken loose from the spirit of ahab
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- And jezebel, a 64-word prayer.
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- Paul in acts 16 prayed a 14-word prayer, and a woman who was
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- Bound with the occult and demon-possessed was completely
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- Set free.
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- You don't know what god can do when you pile up those prayers
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- And keep praying.
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- When the breakthrough comes, it comes in ways that you couldn't
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- See it.
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- Randy: yeah, yeah, i think i have my personal favorite short
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- Prayer, and it was really something spoken to jesus, but
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- It ties into our culture, which in a lot of ways outside the
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- Church they like to mock the idea of prayer, thoughts
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- And prayers.
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- I mean, you see it in social media just raked over the coals,
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- Like it's completely ineffective, it's worthless,
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- What are you doing?
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- You're wasting your time, and i know there's a tendency for us
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- To sometimes feel like those short prayers aren't stacking
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- Up, that they're not doing--it didn't--
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- I prayed, nothing happened; i prayed, nothing happened;
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- I prayed, nothing happened.
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- Jentezen: and all i would say is yet, yet.
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- You need a whole treasury of yet-to-be answered prayers,
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- Always building them up, always building them up.
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- Randy: and so what you're saying is so right, because we see it
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- In scripture, but we also see it in the testimonies of people
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- Like yourself, but it seems like anybody who's been through life
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- And been through the trials, been through the tough seasons,
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- You go, prayer comes up at the top of the list every time, and
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- So you'd think we would learn, which leads to my favorite short
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- Prayer, and i don't even know if this is in the book, but it's
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- Like, lord, i believe, help my unbelief.
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- And i think that the practicing of it ties into that, because
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- You have to--we do believe in prayer, but yet we seem to have
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- This little bit of unbelief, because we don't we don't stack
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- Them up, we don't put the yet.
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- Jentezen: that was a prayer, and it's in the book, that a father
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- Prayed over his son that was demon-possessed, and he said--
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- It's the most honest prayer in the bible.
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- Randy: i love it.
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- Jentezen: i love it, too, and i think that's why god was quick
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- To release freedom to his son is because, lord, i believe, but
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- Help my unbelief.
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- That's just honest, i pray that a lot.
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- Blynda: as the complexity of who we are.
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- Jentezen: i find myself going to pray for somebody who's in for--
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- You know, in an intensive care unit, and the doctors have said
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- It's over, and i know god is sovereign.
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- We all understand all of that, and yet he invites us to pray.
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- And that's a beautiful prayer to pray when you--and really
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- You're saying, lord, your will be done.
- 00:15:45.367 --> 00:15:47.469
- I believe, but help my unbelief.
- 00:15:47.469 --> 00:15:50.606
- And i think, too, you know, i can't help but think of the
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- Nine-word prayer of the thief on the cross.
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- He'd never been to church.
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- You may say, well, i know god won't hear my prayers, i don't
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- Deserve it, i've not done anything to earn it.
- 00:16:03.152 --> 00:16:06.221
- This guy lived his whole life, he's dying on the cross beside
- 00:16:06.221 --> 00:16:10.392
- Jesus, jesus is dying for the world and the lost, and he stops
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- Everything, he hits the brakes when he hears one guy who's
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- Never been to church, never done it, never forgiven anybody,
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- Never done it.
- 00:16:24.740 --> 00:16:26.108
- All he did was steal, steal, steal, and he said remember me.
- 00:16:26.108 --> 00:16:31.513
- "lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
- 00:16:31.513 --> 00:16:35.184
- And when he prayed that short prayer, jesus said, "hold it.
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- I'm gonna hit the brakes on the whole kingdom of god right here.
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- I've got to make sure this man is with me in paradise today."
- 00:16:42.691 --> 00:16:47.729
- He heard that prayer, and he'll hear your prayer today.
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- I don't care who you are, you don't have to earn it.
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- If you'll call out to god, even a prayer of honesty like you
- 00:16:54.403 --> 00:16:57.673
- Were saying, god, if you're real, god, if you're real,
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- Jesus, if you're the savior, i need you to help my family.
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- We're broken, we need help.
- 00:17:07.316 --> 00:17:09.418
- We can't--my son is being held with drugs or whatever.
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- Begin to invite god into that and watch him move.
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- Blynda: back to the thief on the cross, in the book, i love you
- 00:17:17.526 --> 00:17:20.529
- Wrote something i have never thought about before.
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- You said that we talk about remember me, remember me, and
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- That you compare that to what dismember means, to dismember
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- Something means to tear it apart, to separate it, so when
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- He was saying remember me, he was actually being, he was
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- Asking will you put me back together?
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- Will you restore me?
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- I'd never heard it like that before.
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- It's so beautiful.
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- Jentezen: and it was the cry of adam who was separated from god
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- In the garden of adam and--you know, in the garden of eden,
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- Adam and eve were separated after they sinned.
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- So they were dismembered from the body.
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- A flaming--an angel with a flaming sword said you can't
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- Come here anymore, but here jesus is saying, "i'm gonna
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- Remember, and you'll be the first one.
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- You'll be the adam of the new covenant, and i'm gonna remember
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- My lost family to the kingdom of god."
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- Blynda: that's beautiful.
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- Randy: that's so beautiful, so good.
- 00:18:21.356 --> 00:18:22.724
- There's some of you out there right now, you're thinking
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- About prayer.
- 00:18:24.059 --> 00:18:25.427
- You may have already said a short prayer.
- 00:18:25.427 --> 00:18:27.396
- It's okay to pray with others, and we have people right now
- 00:18:27.396 --> 00:18:30.599
- That are standing by that would love to pray with you, and it
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- May be a very short prayer.
- 00:18:32.701 --> 00:18:35.070
- Again, it's not the length, it's not the words, it's the heart,
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- And so if you wanna call that number, we'd love to say a
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- Little prayer with you, remember you in our prayers.
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- And then those of you that have helped us for so many years with
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- People in dire situations, many of you have prayed, and i wanna
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- Say please continue.
- 00:18:56.792 --> 00:18:58.293
- Let's stack up those prayers, because as we deal with these
- 00:18:58.293 --> 00:19:01.897
- Situations in other countries that are very difficult, we
- 00:19:01.897 --> 00:19:04.933
- Pray, and we know that god is moving, and yet we also see that
- 00:19:04.933 --> 00:19:09.338
- Not yet aspect to a lot of things, and that's why we invite
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- You into action.
- 00:19:12.507 --> 00:19:14.309
- I'm going to show you an opportunity.
- 00:19:14.309 --> 00:19:16.478
- It is an opportunity for prayer, so we ask for that.
- 00:19:16.478 --> 00:19:20.449
- It is also an opportunity for action, and if you feel like
- 00:19:20.449 --> 00:19:24.620
- You're to take action, we ask you to join us in this outreach.
- 00:19:24.620 --> 00:19:28.523
- And by the way, if you want pastor jentezen franklin's book
- 00:19:28.523 --> 00:19:32.094
- "the power of short prayers," we'd love to send it to you when
- 00:19:32.094 --> 00:19:35.764
- You support this outreach, so watch this, pray about it, and
- 00:19:35.764 --> 00:19:40.469
- If god puts it on your heart, take action.
- 00:19:40.469 --> 00:19:44.206
- This is a great opportunity.
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- We need to hear from you.
- 00:19:46.174 --> 00:19:48.210
- John yeatts: hi, i'm john yeatts, director of world
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- Missions for life outreach international.
- 00:19:51.246 --> 00:19:53.615
- Although rare, blount's disease is a reality for thousands of
- 00:19:53.615 --> 00:19:56.918
- Children worldwide that causes the knee and the leg to
- 00:19:56.918 --> 00:19:59.821
- Bow outward.
- 00:19:59.821 --> 00:20:01.290
- It's very painful, and i want you to see a young man named
- 00:20:01.290 --> 00:20:04.526
- Plasdus, how his life was dramatically changed through
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- Corrective surgery.
- 00:20:07.896 --> 00:20:10.699
- Kafwa sichilima: i met plasdus, he was a shy guy, reserved at
- 00:20:10.699 --> 00:20:14.636
- The time, you know?
- 00:20:14.636 --> 00:20:16.004
- And i asked him a simple question, how has it been
- 00:20:16.004 --> 00:20:20.542
- For you?
- 00:20:20.542 --> 00:20:21.877
- I just saw tears started rolling down his eyes.
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- And he opened up and started saying, "my friends actually
- 00:20:26.248 --> 00:20:31.353
- Laugh at me.
- 00:20:31.353 --> 00:20:32.888
- And it's been so difficult for me to just handle this."
- 00:20:32.888 --> 00:20:39.494
- Ilho moho: it was a bit of a complex operation, but it
- 00:20:39.494 --> 00:20:42.297
- Went well.
- 00:20:42.297 --> 00:20:43.965
- In 6 months, he has progressed very, very well.
- 00:20:43.965 --> 00:20:49.338
- So the smile and the encouragement plasdus gave us,
- 00:20:49.338 --> 00:20:52.174
- It was so promising.
- 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:54.810
- John: wow, how amazing it is to see plasdus running like nothing
- 00:20:54.810 --> 00:20:58.313
- Had ever happened to him.
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- This is a result of the dedication of our god-gifted
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- Surgeons who performed the life-changing surgery
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- For plasdus.
- 00:21:05.454 --> 00:21:06.888
- Without this medical mission outreach, he would suffer the
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- Rest of his life.
- 00:21:09.558 --> 00:21:11.226
- I encourage you to partner with us and help provide surgeries
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- Not only for blount's disease but a whole range of
- 00:21:14.196 --> 00:21:16.732
- Pediatric disabilities.
- 00:21:16.732 --> 00:21:18.900
- Because you give, we can keep smiles on the faces of not only
- 00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:23.105
- Plasdus, but children just like him.
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- God bless you.
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- [speaking foreign language]
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- Randy: will you come alongside us right now?
- 00:21:34.015 --> 00:21:37.052
- Will you partner in this outreach of love and of mercy
- 00:21:37.052 --> 00:21:41.890
- And grace?
- 00:21:41.890 --> 00:21:43.358
- Let's make this hospital renovation a reality.
- 00:21:43.358 --> 00:21:47.596
- Announcer: many children in africa are born with severe
- 00:21:48.864 --> 00:21:51.199
- Deformities or suffer life-altering injuries,
- 00:21:51.199 --> 00:21:54.102
- Conditions like club feet, windswept legs, and untreated
- 00:21:54.102 --> 00:21:57.539
- Fractures force them to live in pain because help is out
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- Of reach.
- 00:22:00.976 --> 00:22:02.344
- But you can offer healing today.
- 00:22:02.344 --> 00:22:04.546
- Our mission partner in zimbabwe runs a children's hospital now
- 00:22:04.546 --> 00:22:08.417
- At capacity and in urgent need of renovation and expansion.
- 00:22:08.417 --> 00:22:12.721
- With a $600,000 goal and only a short period of time to raise
- 00:22:12.721 --> 00:22:16.391
- The necessary funds, your best gift today helps children
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- Receive the surgical care they need at no cost to the families.
- 00:22:20.328 --> 00:22:24.266
- Together we can heal precious lives and reveal the love
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- Of jesus.
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- With a gift of any amount, we'll send you the "global impact of
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- Life" journal, featuring inspiring photos from
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- This beautiful journal is a reminder that your prayers and
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- Expansion of operating rooms so children are no longer turned
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- Away and request life's beautiful bronze sculpture, the
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- Good shepherd.
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- Please call, write, or make your gift online today.
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- Randy: hey, let's get this done.
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- We really need you.
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- Please go to the phone or go online, give the best gift
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- You can.
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- And when you do today, we really would like to bless you with
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- This fabulous book, "the power of short prayers."
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- Blynda, i think this is gonna bless people.
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- Blynda: i mean, it's awesome.
- 00:23:33.602 --> 00:23:34.936
- I've read almost all of it, and it is so good.
- 00:23:34.936 --> 00:23:36.872
- Pastor jentezen, thank you for being here.
- 00:23:36.872 --> 00:23:39.074
- We are excited to talk more about it.
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- Would you join us for another show so we can dive in more?
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- Jentezen: i'd love to, let's do it.
- 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:45.347
- I've enjoyed being here, and i just wanna say how much i
- 00:23:45.347 --> 00:23:49.117
- Appreciate what this ministry has done in the world.
- 00:23:49.117 --> 00:23:53.021
- I've seen it firsthand, and you're changing lives feeding
- 00:23:53.021 --> 00:23:56.925
- The hungry, caring for the orphan and the widows, and
- 00:23:56.925 --> 00:24:01.329
- That's a pure and undefiled religion.
- 00:24:01.329 --> 00:24:03.532
- Randy: yeah, well, thank you, we appreciate that, and we
- 00:24:03.532 --> 00:24:05.700
- Appreciate all you, we can't do without you.
- 00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:08.036
- Come back for more next time with jentezen franklin.
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- We'll see you again on "life today."
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- [music]
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- Andy mcquitty: hello, my name is andy mcquitty, and it's my
- 00:24:19.948 --> 00:24:22.083
- Privilege to share some words of wisdom, words of life with you
- 00:24:22.083 --> 00:24:26.688
- This morning.
- 00:24:26.688 --> 00:24:29.758
- And the words of life that i'd like to share with you this
- 00:24:29.758 --> 00:24:31.860
- Morning are from john chapter 15 in verse 7 where our lord gives
- 00:24:31.860 --> 00:24:35.764
- Us a wonderful promise about prayer.
- 00:24:35.764 --> 00:24:39.801
- That promise is simply this.
- 00:24:39.801 --> 00:24:42.437
- Jesus says to all of us, his disciples and followers, "ask
- 00:24:42.437 --> 00:24:47.475
- Whatever you wish and it will be done for you."
- 00:24:47.475 --> 00:24:51.846
- I don't know about you, but in these tumultuous and chaotic
- 00:24:51.846 --> 00:24:55.016
- Days in our world and in our nation, i have many wishes in my
- 00:24:55.016 --> 00:24:59.154
- Heart for the world and for our country, for my family, for my
- 00:24:59.154 --> 00:25:04.225
- Friends, for our lives in these days.
- 00:25:04.225 --> 00:25:07.262
- And when i hear jesus make such a promise, it is overwhelming
- 00:25:07.262 --> 00:25:10.365
- And it's wonderful and it's joyful, but it raises some
- 00:25:10.365 --> 00:25:13.501
- Questions in my mind that maybe it raised in your mind too, like
- 00:25:13.501 --> 00:25:16.905
- How could god make such a carte blanche offer that anything we
- 00:25:16.905 --> 00:25:21.209
- Wish will come true?
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- Well, i didn't read the first part of the verse.
- 00:25:25.580 --> 00:25:28.917
- The first part of the verse gives us the conditions for
- 00:25:28.917 --> 00:25:31.353
- Jesus's carte blanche promise to answer every wish
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- That we might have.
- 00:25:34.689 --> 00:25:36.024
- Let me go back and read the first part of the verse.
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- "if you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask
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- Whatever you wish and it will be done for you."
- 00:25:46.901 --> 00:25:49.638
- "if you remain in me," jesus is saying, "if you are seeking me
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- Out on a daily basis, if you're spending time with me in my
- 00:25:53.775 --> 00:25:58.179
- Presence, in prayer, and my words remain in you, and you're
- 00:25:58.179 --> 00:26:01.583
- Studying the word, and you're obeying the scriptures," jesus
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- Says, "if those two things, then i can make the carte blanche
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- Promise that whatever you wish will be done for you because
- 00:26:09.524 --> 00:26:14.229
- Whatever you wish, if you are remaining in me and obeying my
- 00:26:14.229 --> 00:26:18.333
- Word, whatever you wish is what i wish, and i will never say no
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- To what i wish."
- 00:26:22.871 --> 00:26:24.673
- And so jesus says you enter into what i call the god's
- 00:26:24.673 --> 00:26:30.045
- Never-say-no zone whenever you commit to daily remaining in him
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- And meeting with him and walking with him and obeying his word.
- 00:26:35.650 --> 00:26:40.622
- See, god wants to answer the prayers of those whose hearts
- 00:26:40.622 --> 00:26:46.428
- Are completely his, so if that's you, my friend, make your heart
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- Completely his and you can ask for whatever you wish and it
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- Will be done for you.
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- Chad prather: whether it was the bottom of a bottle of alcohol
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- Or the bottom of a bag of drugs, wherever i could try to find
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- That reality is where i was looking.
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- Announcer: chad prather, next week.
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- Announcer: "life today" is made possible by the supporters of
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- Life outreach international.
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- Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt
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- Purposes of life.
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- The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the
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- Programs it supports and conducts.
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- Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use
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- Unless explicitly stipulated by the donor.
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- The ministry is a member of the ecfa.
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