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- [announcer] coming up tonight on "praise."
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(uplifting music)
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- if you will pray god can fix it,
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I don't care if it's a bad marriage,
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I don't care if it's a child and addiction,
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I don't care if it's a disease,
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I can't promise you that god will heal, but he will heal.
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Everything's better with prayer
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And everything's better with jesus,
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Including trouble.
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- [announcer] tonight on "praise" from dallas,
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New york times bestselling author
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And senior pastor of free chapel, jentezen franklin.
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And now, your hosts, matt and laurie crouch.
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- all right, jentezen franklin, here we go.
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"the power of short prayers."
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I'm gonna quote from your book briefly.
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"longer isn't necessarily better.
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Sometimes, less is more."
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Get ready to discover "the power of short prayers."
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Where are we headed with this today on "praise"?
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- well, the greatest miracles in the bible
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Were not long, eloquent, super spiritual,
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King james language prayers.
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It was desperate people who were...
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Had an urgency, and they came to jesus,
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And they interrupted his schedule.
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- [matt and laurie] hmm.
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- they stopped him in his tracks, literally,
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With small prayers that were heartfelt,
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That were passionate,
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And that move jesus enough to stop over and over again.
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You think about it,
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He only had three years
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To build a worldwide organization
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To cover the planet with salvation.
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- [matt] hmm. - how important was that?
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So, every minute, every message,
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Every day counted.
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Every schedule,
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Every agenda was eternal stuff being recorded for the ages.
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- [matt and laurie] hmm. - and yet,
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Not great people,
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Not kings and people that were powerful and important,
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But in many cases, the overlooked, the unseen,
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The unimportant in the world's mind
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Would cry out in desperation,
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"jesus have mercy on me."
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I think of the 10 lepers,
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Nobody saw him, and jesus is going somewhere.
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He wasn't going to meet with them,
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He was going somewhere else,
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And they interrupted him with a short prayer,
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And it changed their life.
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And there's a pattern,
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It's like a pattern in the bible
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That we almost get condemned, you know,
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About not praying hours and hours.
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And i love that, i'm not...
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This is not a book against, you know,
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Long sessions in god's presence.
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But the truth is,
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If you don't start praying short prayers a lot all day,
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You'll never pray long prayers.
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These are the prayers that i have prayed
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For 40 years of ministry. - hmm.
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- in different aspects and different seasons of our life
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And, in some cases, consistently,
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Over, and over, and over, the exact words.
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Two mountains, two circumstances,
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Because prayer, the most powerful prayer.
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- prayers in the world are the prayers that you,
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When you say back to god what he already said in his word.
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- jentezen, you kind of took away my first question,
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But i like what you said,
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Because i wanted to get the connection
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Between you personally.
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You're not gonna spend your life, you know,
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A season of your life writing a book like this
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And not have it connect to something
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That you fully understand,
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That you feel like you have a word to,
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That's the person you are.
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You have to feel that.
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So you kind of answered it,
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But this is really
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Your prayer life-
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- that's right. - in book form now.
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- that is correct. - that's kind of
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What you're saying. - that is correct.
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- and what i heard you say is declarative prayers.
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What god loves is when you agree with the finished work
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Of the cross for whatever the situation
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You're going through.
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When i started reading your book, pastor,
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I remember my dad saying
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He had an uncle that received an answer to prayer
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With a one-word prayer, "help,"
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And that uncle of his was being chased by a cow
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In the field, and it was about to get him,
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And he was away from god,
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And he cried out to god with one word and said, "help."
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And that meant a lot,
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Because that's all the word he could get.
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And by the end of that day, that had changed him,
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He knew god had intervened in that moment,
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He just knew it, and largely changed the trajectory
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Of his entire life.
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So these moments that we're talking about,
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My short prayer is, "o god, o god, o god."
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You know?
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And apparently he loves that, when you're,
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Let's say, crying out to him.
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And it isn't about some eloquent, something you say,
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You know, right here in the beginning,
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"sometimes less is more."
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- yeah, it's not how much you pray
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Or how long you pray, it's how quick you believe.
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And the power of short prayers is, there's an urgency
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And it's like a mother seeing their baby,
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Their toddler walk out in front of a oncoming car
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And there's an urgency.
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It's like everything that they have, all of their being
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Is totally focused on that prayer,
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"jesus, save my baby."
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That's what god looks for, is that heart.
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And it's so important
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That people are watching not be intimidated to not pray
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Because they don't feel like they can pray
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Like their pastor can,
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They can't pray like granny used to pray, you know?
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And all these people that in their life
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Maybe that were great prayer people that knew,
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Always knew how to pray and phrase things so beautifully.
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And they see prayer as very intimidating.
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And it was never meant to be that way.
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God, you know...
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Let's go back to the book of genesis.
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The very beginning, god would come down
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In the cool of the day
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And meeting with god, which is prayer,
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Had nothing to do with trouble, with needs,
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With needing miracles, provision.
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They didn't have any.
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They had no needs.
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Yet god came down every day at the cool of the day
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And walked with adam and eve.
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What was it about? "i wanna be with you."
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I pray in the woods,
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I have a place that i prayed in the woods for decades.
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And one time the lord impressed upon me
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That because i have a place of prayer
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And a time of prayer, when i miss that time,
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He still shows up, because in the story of adam and eve,
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Even though they had fallen to sin and they went and hid,
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God showed up- - anyway.
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- god still shows up in the prayer place
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Whether you come or not.
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And he's not looking for...
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Sometimes when i go to pray,
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I don't talk necessarily.
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I'm just walking with him.
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I don't have to have a lot of words
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And "o god, now i bombard the courts of heaven and..."
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I don't do that.
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The moment that i get out and start walking,
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I just am saying, "i'm here.
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I need you. i love you.
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You know everything about me and my family and the ministry,
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But more than i even want to ask you
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For anything that i need, i just wanna be with you.
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I worship you, lord." sometimes i...
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- turn on music sometimes i'll just walk.
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And as i'm walking, something will come
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And i'll just begin to praise the lord.
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I'll just begin to worship.
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I'll get a praise praise.
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That is a short prayer.
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- yeah. - jesus i love you.
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Sometimes i'll sing a song.
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I was out the other day.
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I didn't know i was gonna tell this,
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But i just started singing this old song,
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♪ turn your eyes upon jesus.
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And it so begin to move me
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That it's like a damn broke.
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- yeah. - and tears begin to pour.
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And i would've looked silly
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Had i encountered anybody out in the woods walking
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On a trail.
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But that's what it's about.
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- yeah. - and when i come out of that,
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I'm a different man.
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I'm a better man.
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I'm a better father.
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I'm a better preacher.
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I'm a better husband to my wife
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Because prayer, if you will pray, god can fix it.
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- [host 1] that's right.
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- somebody needs to hear that.
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- come on. - if you'll pray,
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I don't care if it's a bad marriage,
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I don't care if it's a child in addiction.
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I don't care if it's a disease
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And i can't promise you that god will heal,
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But he will heal.
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- [host 1] yeah.
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- i know he is a healer.
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I know he does heal,
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But everything's better with prayer.
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- yeah. - mm-hmm.
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- and everything's better with jesus, including trouble.
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- [host 1] yeah.
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- and why not call on him in the day of trouble
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And say, god, we used to sing another song.
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I'm giving you all the goldie hits.
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You know- - i'll give you one here
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In a second.
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- i must tell jesus.
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- oh, wow. - oh, sure.
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- i must tell jesus.
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- yeah. - i cannot bear
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These burdens alone.
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Prayer is simply emptying out
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And saying, lord, i want to talk to you about this.
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'cause you know, i remember we used to have a little used
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To see it on bumper stickers,
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And it would say, why worry?
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Or you know, when you can pray,
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Why worry when you can pray?
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I think that's totally flipped in this generation.
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And it's why pray when you can worry?
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- mm-hmm. - we worry about everything
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And we ought to say, why worry when i can pray?
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- yeah, you know, i love what you just said
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About don't be intimidated-
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- yes. - by many words.
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- yes. - a lot.
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I mean, proverbs warns us,
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In many words, as sin is close.
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You know that.
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- [guest] that's right.
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- but love when god says,
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Call upon me and i'll answer you.
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- the first page in the book, i start the book off
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In matthew 6:7,
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Where jesus said to his disciples
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When they said, teach us how to pray.
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- [host 1] mm-hmm.
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- and they weren't theologians.
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- right. - they were fishermen.
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They were people who worked manual labor jobs.
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They were good people.
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They said, teach us how to pray.
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And jesus said, first of all,
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Make sure you do not pray like the pharisees
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In vain repetition. - wow.
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- because they think
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Through their quote unquote many words.
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- [host 2] hell.
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- they think through their they think through
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Their many words they will be heard.
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In other words, jesus was saying, make sure you don't come
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With a word salad into my presence,
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Throwing these big words at me.
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I don't want that.
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- [host 1] yeah.
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- and then he goes through the 68 word prayer.
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He could have wrote volumes about prayer,
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But he goes with a short prayer of 68 words,
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Our father, which art in heaven, and lays out that.
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And in that is another short prayer,
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Not my will, but thy be done.
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When you go into a prayer place with that attitude,
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I only want your will.
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- [host 1] mm-hmm.
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- if your will for me is to walk through this valley,
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I know you're gonna be with me.
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That's all i need.
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- yeah. - i don't always need
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You to do everything beautiful for me.
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I just need your will to be done.
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And i know that when you are doing something
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And your will, it's working for the eternal good.
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- mm-hmm.
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- it feels like god is always allowing
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Really great things
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And really bad things to be happening
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Kind of simultaneously,
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We just choose what kind of mindset
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We're gonna walk through
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This thing. - that's right.
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- and the other day, lori
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And i were discussing this moment.
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You remember when jesus said,
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There's a lot of things
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I would've liked to have said to you,
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But you just weren't ready.
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- yes. - you know.
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The thought of the moment in the boat
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Where jesus is asleep during the storm,
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And the disciples are panicking
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And there's jesus in the boat.
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What did they had just seen him doing earlier that day?
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Feeding the multitude with a few fish and loaves, you know.
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So they watched physical miracles all day that day.
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Now they're in the boat, jesus is asleep,
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And they're waking him up and saying,
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Don't you care that we're perishing?
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Don't you care that we're gonna.
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- perish.
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And i wonder if they would've gotten together and said,
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"guys, the wind's blowing,
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The waves are... there was water coming in the boat,
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But jesus is here."
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What if they would've collectively said,
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"it doesn't matter, he's here"?
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What if that's what god's really looking for,
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For somebody to say,
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"it doesn't matter my circumstance, jesus is here.
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I'm gonna recognize him here."
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He said he would never leave us nor forsake us.
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- [pastor] that's right.
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- and i'm wondering if that's the maturity
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That this kinda thing,
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That instead of having articulate all my
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Issues and problems
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And things, just saying,
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"whatever my issues or problems are, guess what?
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I'm aware you're here, and thus-"
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- you know, i- - you know, god help.
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- you know?
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- i think a lot of it has been a, in...
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I mean, i know the scripture,
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"we'll enter his gates with thanksgiving in our heart.
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We'll enter his courts with praise," and all that.
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I think we were taught s- maybe that it took a while before-
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- [pastor] yeah
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- we got into the presence of the lord.
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- [pastor] mm-hmm. yeah.
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- and so i've gotta go through this ritual to get there
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Before i can, before i can ask anything.
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I have to do all of this first.
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And i think we were maybe taught wrong.
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God said, "i'm everywhere."
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I mean, the earth- - the earth is the lord's-
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- whether i make my bed now, david said.
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- that's right. - there you are.
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That's what he said.
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- i can't get out of your presence.
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You know, and so i think the mindset has been we have to go
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Through all these steps to get into god's presence
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To be able to ask him, but that's not really what it is.
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I can't get out of god's presence.
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- [pastor] that's it. yeah.
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- oh, god. - oh, god.
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- exactly.
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- no, he knows what we're talking about.
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- and the story you're referring to,
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Is one of the short prayers
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That i deal with when you're in a storm.
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- yeah.
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- and, you know, you don't have to,
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When you're in a storm,
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You don't wanna talk about it all the time.
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- yeah. - yeah.
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- but here's a short prayer you can pray that worked.
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It's wonderful when you can find a great story in the bible
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And sum it up with a short prayer,
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And that's what i did in every one of these chapters.
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- [pastor 2] nice.
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- and they're short chapters, by the way.
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[laughs]
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- [pastor 2] that's good.
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- i wrote it on purpose five pages a chapter.
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It's 15 chapters, 5 pages a chapter,
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Because i wanted men to read the book.
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(female pastor laughs)
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And they won't read it if it's not short.
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I won't. - yeah.
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- but here's the point.
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The story then goes jesus comes walking on the water.
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And simon peter steps out of the boat.
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You're either a boat person or a water walker.
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And he got out of the boat and started to walk,
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And he started to sink.
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And he cries out with that short prayer,
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Kinda similar to your uncle.
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He just adds two words to the one, "lord, save me."
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Another word for save is help me.
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Lord, save me.
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That's not, that's not very eloquent.
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- yeah. - that's not very powerful.
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It's a man in desperation who's going under.
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He's sinking.
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He's got that sinking feeling.
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Everything's going down.
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Nothing's going up.
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- yeah. [laughs] - nothing's working,
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And all these people are watching me fail.
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Here i go.
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And jesus heard that short prayer and walked over
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And took him by the hand, the text said, and raised him up.
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Notice what he could not do on his own,
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As soon as he prayed a short prayer,
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Jesus took him by the hand and the scripture ends by saying,
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"and they," they, t-h-e-y, meaning together-
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- [pastor 3] yeah.
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- he could do what he could not do by himself
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When jesus took him by the hand.
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They walked back to the boat. - it's beautiful.
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- and, that, if you're in a storm just say, "lord, help me.
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Save me.
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Lord, help me."
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Say it over and over, though,
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With that bible knowledge of knowing if it worked
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For simon peter, it'll still work for me in my storm.
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- wow. - love that.
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- beautiful.
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- chapter two, when you or a loved one needs
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To see spiritual truth. - yes.
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All families have in-laws and out-laws,
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And so some need to see spiritual truth.
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What's the short prayer?
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What's the story behind that?
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- the story behind that is the story of elisha,
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And he's surrounded by the enemy.
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And they've come to take his life,
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And he says... and his servant comes in panicked,
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Totally panicked, and he says,
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"master, master, what are we going to do?
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The syrians are all around us.
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There's no escape."
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And he prayed this prayer.
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He said, "lord, open his eyes
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And let him see."
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Just a three-word prayer, open his eyes.
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And so one of the greatest prayers you can pray for
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If you have someone that you love,
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I believe the god of this world-
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- [pastor 2] amen
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- has blinded their eyes that they cannot see.
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And some of you have loved ones that your child-
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- or your friend is in a deceitful relationship,
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Or they're dating somebody wrong,
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Or they're lost and far from god,
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Pray this prayer over them.
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Every time you think about them
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And start to worry about them,
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Just say, "lord, open their eyes."
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- say it to the lord. - i love what you said,
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It's a great positive declaration.
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It's really a faith declaration,
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"open their eyes."
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All i need them to do is see jesus.
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If they see jesus in his mercy,
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If they see jesus in his love,
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If they see jesus
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And how much he's reaching for them,
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And, "lord, you gotta pierce the darkness
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And open their eyes."
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Just pray that continually.
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Go in their bedroom.
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If you've got a crazy teenager.
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(matt and laurie laughing) go in there
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And anoint the bed. - amen.
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- and say, "lord, open their eyes.
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I don't care who you use,
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I don't care how you do it,
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But, lord, let their eyes be open
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To what they're involved in
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And how great you can change things."
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- [laurie] yeah, it's beautiful.
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- i remember a conversation,
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Pastor that we had.
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One time, i'd called you,
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And we were talking about some opportunity or something.
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And i remember you said something to me
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That for some reason i'm remembering right
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Here, right now.
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You said, "you know, matt, i don't need anything.
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At my age, you know, i don't need another thing.
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I don't need, you know,"
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And so whatever the opportunity was,
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I don't remember even what we were talking about.
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So that's interesting as a setup to chapter four
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Where you say, "when you desire greater influence
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For jesus and his kingdom,"
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So where does that come from?
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What's that all about in the book here?
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- i wanna say one more thing
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About that opened my eyes,
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And i'll lead into this- - please.
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- if you don't mind.
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This is a true story about ray charles,
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The amazing musician and singer.
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I would say he's one of the top five american artists ever
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In our history, in my opinion.
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I just love ray charles.
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And of course he was blind.
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But he tells the story in his biography
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Of how, you know,
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Before he got where he wanted to be spiritually,
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That he loved women.
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He loved women. (laurie laughing)
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That was his weakness, and he loved women.
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- okay. (laughing) - and somebody asked him,
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Said, "why do you like so many women?"
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And he said, "i have never seen an ugly woman."
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(matt laughing)
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- i was gonna say,
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Open my eyes. (laughing) - well, he was blind.
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He was blind.
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"i've never seen an ugly."
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The point is this,
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It's amazing how good people look
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When you're blind to what they really look like.
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- whoo, yeah. - wow.
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- and sometimes we as christians
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Only see what people look like right now
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In their addiction,
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Or in their brokenness,
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Or in their rebellion,
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Or in their anger
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And the way that they're treating you or whatever.
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But if you can ever see people like jesus sees-
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- wow. - and even pray that
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Over yourself if you are frustrated with someone,
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"lord, open my eyes."
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It goes back to what you were asking,
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"lord, open my eyes
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That i can see them not as they are,
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But as you see them.
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Not in that situation,
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But, lord, i wanna be blind
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To what they look like right now
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Because i know that you have a greater future
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And plan for their life.
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Lord, open my eyes." - beautiful.
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- to see them the way you see 'em.
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- wow. - so beautiful.
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- and the same is true
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With the particular chapter you're mentioning there.
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It's a prayer i prayed so many times i can't count.
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Something happened in gainesville, georgia,
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Out of all the places.
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There's a guy named bruce wilkerson,
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Who was from atlanta,
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But he got him a cabin out northeast georgia,
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And he started coming to our church.
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When i first, you actually,
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I kinda met you in this time.
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- okay.
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- we'd just built our new sanctuary
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And moved in to the sanctuary.
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And bruce wilkerson started coming down.
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Of course, he had written a book
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Called "the prayer of jabez."
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And it sold 30 million copies.
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It's one of the greatest-selling books of all time.
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And he began to take me out to lunch
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And pour that into me.
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And the phrase that would work,
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I would pray the whole prayer.
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I probably prayed it every day.
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I prayed it today, i pray it every day of my life.
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"oh, that you would bless me indeed,
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That's greater success."
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Not for my will and my kingdom,
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But i don't want, and i love the word.
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- in the superlative.
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I don't just want to reach people,
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I wanna reach them indeed. - [laurie] yeah.
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- i don't want to be average.
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I think god made all of us like that.
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I want to do something that i can do for your glory.
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Since i'm here, bless me, indeed, greater success.
00:23:46.904 --> 00:23:51.308
And enlarge my territory, greater influence.
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Greater influence,
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I started praying that before i ever met you.
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I started praying that
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Before the door to tbn would ever be opened up to me
00:24:01.485 --> 00:24:05.589
Through your precious mother and father
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And through you, quite frankly, and you.
00:24:07.157 --> 00:24:11.061
And little nobody in georgia,
00:24:11.695 --> 00:24:14.465
(laurie laughing)
00:24:14.465 --> 00:24:16.400
Red clay hills of northeast georgia praying,
00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:18.802
"enlarge my territory."
00:24:18.802 --> 00:24:20.371
- yeah. - hmm, thank you, lord.
00:24:20.371 --> 00:24:21.972
- i would get a globe that i had in my office,
00:24:21.972 --> 00:24:25.976
And i would watch tv and on tv,
00:24:25.976 --> 00:24:28.979
And i would lay my hands on that little globe.
00:24:28.979 --> 00:24:31.515
And many days, when i was studying,
00:24:32.316 --> 00:24:34.118
Especially on saturdays,
00:24:34.118 --> 00:24:35.452
I would lay my hands and i would spin that globe,
00:24:35.452 --> 00:24:37.788
And i would say, "enlarge my territory."
00:24:37.788 --> 00:24:39.890
- [matt] thank you, lord.
00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:40.991
- and it wasn't selfish ambition,
00:24:40.991 --> 00:24:42.726
It was a burden, and it wouldn't leave me,
00:24:42.726 --> 00:24:44.929
And i knew i was called for that.
00:24:44.929 --> 00:24:47.097
And i didn't ask for it, i didn't want it, but god chose.
00:24:47.097 --> 00:24:50.501
And so, enlarge my territory.
00:24:50.501 --> 00:24:52.670
So bless me indeed, that's greater success.
00:24:52.670 --> 00:24:57.408
Enlarge my territory, that's greater influence.
00:24:57.408 --> 00:25:01.078
And that your hand would be upon me.
00:25:01.078 --> 00:25:03.380
Here's the key, that's a powerful prayer.
00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:06.083
I must not lose the touch of god.
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I must not become a professional.
00:25:08.686 --> 00:25:10.888
I must not get so into the ministry
00:25:10.888 --> 00:25:15.659
That it becomes numbers and things.
00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:17.861
I want the touch of god.
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If i'm gonna go in his name,
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I need his touch. - [laurie] amen.
00:25:22.132 --> 00:25:23.867
- and that's greater power. - [laurie] yeah.
00:25:23.867 --> 00:25:25.803
- that's the power of the holy spirit.
00:25:25.803 --> 00:25:27.905
What would happen if every minister would start saying,
00:25:27.905 --> 00:25:30.441
Before he goes to the pulpit, "give me greater success,
00:25:30.441 --> 00:25:34.244
Give me greater influence, give me greater power today.
00:25:34.244 --> 00:25:38.349
I want a fresh touch."
00:25:38.349 --> 00:25:40.651
The word is todah, which is open hand.
00:25:40.651 --> 00:25:43.721
Open hand. - [matt] beautiful.
00:25:43.721 --> 00:25:44.955
- i want the open hand of god.
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And then, lastly, and keep me from evil.
00:25:46.991 --> 00:25:51.662
That's greater protection. - [laurie] yeah.
00:25:52.529 --> 00:25:55.666
- you know the higher up,
00:25:55.666 --> 00:25:57.368
And the more god uses you, if we've learned anything,
00:25:57.368 --> 00:26:00.437
We should be praying for greater protection.
00:26:00.437 --> 00:26:03.540
Greater protection on our lives and on our families,
00:26:03.540 --> 00:26:06.977
And on our president, on our nation,
00:26:06.977 --> 00:26:10.514
On our borders, on even over israel.
00:26:10.514 --> 00:26:14.451
That should be a constant short prayer, greater protection.
00:26:14.451 --> 00:26:18.522
And lay your hands on your children greater success,
00:26:18.522 --> 00:26:21.625
Greater influence, while they're little babies.
00:26:21.625 --> 00:26:23.827
I just saw your little grandson bumping around here,
00:26:23.827 --> 00:26:27.331
And we've seen god do it.
00:26:27.331 --> 00:26:29.733
And i know it works.
00:26:29.733 --> 00:26:31.335
And you pray it with great faith.
00:26:31.335 --> 00:26:33.203
- [laurie] yeah, it's so beautiful.
00:26:33.203 --> 00:26:34.538
- so, as i'm sitting here,
00:26:34.538 --> 00:26:37.474
There's this kind of a really great kind of thought
00:26:37.474 --> 00:26:43.447
That comes to my head.
00:26:43.947 --> 00:26:45.082
You realize,
00:26:45.082 --> 00:26:46.684
You walked in to my office right at 30 years ago, jentezen.
00:26:46.684 --> 00:26:52.523
That was 30 years ago. - [jentezen] sounds right.
00:26:53.524 --> 00:26:55.259
- [matt] we were kids, you know?
00:26:55.259 --> 00:26:57.261
I mean, we had little bitty kids, you know, the two of us.
00:26:57.261 --> 00:27:00.297
- [jentezen] that's right. - and the precious saying
00:27:00.297 --> 00:27:02.399
Of god, tommy barnett. - that's right.
00:27:02.399 --> 00:27:04.368
- still alive, and well, and doing good.
00:27:04.368 --> 00:27:07.771
Walked you into my office,
00:27:07.771 --> 00:27:10.974
And we decided that we would do tv together.
00:27:10.974 --> 00:27:15.746
So, i was your tv producer
00:27:15.746 --> 00:27:17.881
Back 30 years ago. - 30 years ago, that's true.
00:27:17.881 --> 00:27:20.684
It touches my heart because i remember that day,
00:27:20.684 --> 00:27:25.289
I remember...
00:27:25.289 --> 00:27:26.857
I couldn't believe that i was with tommy barnett,
00:27:26.857 --> 00:27:29.226
First of all, you know?
00:27:29.226 --> 00:27:30.928
Who am i to be riding around with him?
00:27:30.928 --> 00:27:32.663
He had heard me preach
00:27:32.663 --> 00:27:34.098
And asked me to come preach at his great church.
00:27:34.098 --> 00:27:36.867
And i'd preached,
00:27:36.867 --> 00:27:38.202
And then he said- - [matt] came over to la.
00:27:38.202 --> 00:27:39.536
- "hey, jen, you gotta see the dream center."
00:27:39.536 --> 00:27:41.438
- and i'm sitting there in my office,
00:27:41.438 --> 00:27:44.541
And here comes jentezen.
00:27:44.541 --> 00:27:49.046
And i remember immediately,
00:27:49.646 --> 00:27:52.716
We start talking about television.
00:27:52.716 --> 00:27:56.220
And i wasn't the boss of tbn 30 years ago.
00:27:56.220 --> 00:28:00.958
My mom and dad were large and in charge, right?
00:28:00.958 --> 00:28:04.528
We start working together,
00:28:04.528 --> 00:28:06.964
And your tv program gets slated at 4:00 pm west coast time,
00:28:06.964 --> 00:28:14.505
7:00 pm eastern on mondays.
00:28:15.105 --> 00:28:18.375
- on mondays.
00:28:18.375 --> 00:28:19.309
- and my makeup-wearing mama
00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:22.613
(laurie chuckling)
00:28:22.613 --> 00:28:23.614
Was at 4:00 pm on mondays,
00:28:23.614 --> 00:28:27.050
Always getting ready
00:28:27.050 --> 00:28:28.986
To do a 5:00 pm. - you praised.
00:28:28.986 --> 00:28:32.055
- program for behind the scenes.
00:28:32.689 --> 00:28:34.024
She was doing her eyelashes and doing that,
00:28:34.024 --> 00:28:37.327
Listening to a georgia preacher.
00:28:37.327 --> 00:28:39.897
And one thing led to the other
00:28:40.531 --> 00:28:42.533
Led to the other led to the other.
00:28:42.533 --> 00:28:45.269
And your ministry exploded, jensen.
00:28:45.269 --> 00:28:50.040
And i sit there and think,
00:28:50.040 --> 00:28:52.709
"man, we're the next generation now."
00:28:52.709 --> 00:28:55.879
- yeah. - i mean,
00:28:55.879 --> 00:28:57.447
We're the ones sitting here now with gray hair, you know?
00:28:57.447 --> 00:28:59.950
And we'd have had dark hair back then.
00:28:59.950 --> 00:29:02.252
- yeah. - and all of that.
00:29:02.252 --> 00:29:03.687
- and- - well, we had
00:29:03.687 --> 00:29:05.055
This beautiful instrument he brought with him.
00:29:05.055 --> 00:29:08.025
I think that was the first- - we blew our doors off.
00:29:08.025 --> 00:29:10.127
- the first time- - with your saxophone.
00:29:10.127 --> 00:29:11.261
- you appeared on praise program,
00:29:11.261 --> 00:29:12.563
I think you played your- - it was only music
00:29:12.563 --> 00:29:14.531
For a long time, was it?
00:29:14.531 --> 00:29:15.499
- one of my favorite things.
00:29:15.499 --> 00:29:17.434
- i want to read something from the book. can i?
00:29:17.434 --> 00:29:19.136
- please. - please.
00:29:19.136 --> 00:29:20.737
- this.
00:29:20.737 --> 00:29:21.738
Okay, so this goes right along
00:29:21.738 --> 00:29:23.507
With what you're talking about.
00:29:23.507 --> 00:29:24.975
And i want everybody to really listen that's watching
00:29:24.975 --> 00:29:26.710
'cause this is gonna speak
00:29:26.710 --> 00:29:28.378
To grandmothers, grandfathers, people.
00:29:28.378 --> 00:29:31.748
We think here and now. god thinks generations.
00:29:31.748 --> 00:29:36.119
- right. - he thinks,
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.455
He thinks nations.
00:29:38.455 --> 00:29:40.691
We think here and now. he thinks so much bigger.
00:29:40.691 --> 00:29:44.228
He's thinking generations.
00:29:44.228 --> 00:29:46.296
My grandfather and grandmother in eastern north carolina,
00:29:47.431 --> 00:29:51.201
Jw stone and his wife letty.
00:29:51.201 --> 00:29:54.304
They sent us, an old sound in that.
00:29:55.038 --> 00:29:56.607
- (laughs) letty. - she was 39
00:29:56.607 --> 00:29:58.175
And i never met my grandmother.
00:29:58.175 --> 00:30:00.043
- oh. - she died
00:30:00.043 --> 00:30:01.278
Before i would be born.
00:30:01.278 --> 00:30:03.647
They had 18 children.
00:30:03.647 --> 00:30:05.215
- my goodness. - oh my goodness.
00:30:05.215 --> 00:30:06.984
- and he was a prayer warrior and she was too.
00:30:06.984 --> 00:30:12.322
And they loved god and they loved their family.
00:30:13.257 --> 00:30:14.725
They would huddle every night with the kids and pray.
00:30:14.725 --> 00:30:17.828
Now, now listen to this.
00:30:17.828 --> 00:30:19.730
They built a new home because their old home burned down.
00:30:20.898 --> 00:30:23.967
And of course when they built it, they got indoor plumbing
00:30:23.967 --> 00:30:28.205
And they brought the outhouse from the old house
00:30:28.205 --> 00:30:30.641
And put it in the backyard.
00:30:30.641 --> 00:30:32.042
And it's still there in that old home place
00:30:32.042 --> 00:30:34.811
In north carolina.
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This is the important part of the story.
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:38.015
She turned the outhouse in the backyard
00:30:38.015 --> 00:30:42.085
Into her prayer closet.
00:30:42.085 --> 00:30:43.820
- hmm. - and she trained
00:30:43.820 --> 00:30:45.155
The children that if you ever see mama
00:30:45.155 --> 00:30:47.758
Going out to the outhouse, she's going to pray.
00:30:47.758 --> 00:30:53.096
And she wrote prayer requests all over the walls
00:30:54.097 --> 00:30:58.335
Of that outhouse that became her prayer closet.
00:30:59.336 --> 00:31:01.538
And she's praying for the children.
00:31:01.538 --> 00:31:03.407
And one of those 18 children was my mother.
00:31:03.407 --> 00:31:06.076
- my goodness.
00:31:06.076 --> 00:31:07.344
- and she wrote this on the wall
00:31:07.344 --> 00:31:11.548
And she always dated the prayers.
00:31:12.282 --> 00:31:15.018
"august the 6th, 1948.
00:31:15.018 --> 00:31:19.156
The baby is sick.
00:31:19.589 --> 00:31:21.625
Maybe it won't amount to much.
00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:24.161
Polio is spreading in the community.
00:31:24.161 --> 00:31:27.698
Lord, keep my baby, protect her,
00:31:28.332 --> 00:31:32.369
And help us to be more humble, more obedient,
00:31:32.369 --> 00:31:36.006
More bold, and more spiritual."
00:31:36.006 --> 00:31:39.042
That short prayer- - jesus.
00:31:39.643 --> 00:31:41.411
- from a woman i never met
00:31:41.411 --> 00:31:43.814
Prayed over my mother and the other babies.
00:31:44.748 --> 00:31:49.086
And here i sit today on tbn
00:31:49.686 --> 00:31:52.289
Talking about that prayer that was prayed in 1945.
00:31:52.289 --> 00:31:55.625
- wow. - wow.
00:31:55.625 --> 00:31:57.394
- because we think prayers are forgotten.
00:31:57.394 --> 00:32:00.030
But god says, "i don't forget it."
00:32:00.030 --> 00:32:02.199
There's a prayer bowl in heaven
00:32:02.199 --> 00:32:03.700
According to revelation 5.
00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:05.635
- yeah. - my goodness.
00:32:05.635 --> 00:32:06.536
- and every time you pray,
00:32:06.536 --> 00:32:07.938
You're filling up that prayer bowl.
00:32:07.938 --> 00:32:10.273
And when it gets full, the bible said,
00:32:10.273 --> 00:32:12.642
"the angel of the lord turns that prayer bowl over
00:32:12.642 --> 00:32:16.246
And it brings down the blessings on the people
00:32:16.246 --> 00:32:20.617
Who filled that prayer bowl."
00:32:20.617 --> 00:32:23.086
Don't get discouraged.
00:32:23.086 --> 00:32:24.388
Don't stop praying yet to be answered prayers.
00:32:24.388 --> 00:32:29.259
Pray it in short prayer form.
00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.961
You never know how far your prayers
00:32:30.961 --> 00:32:34.398
Are gonna go generationally.
00:32:34.398 --> 00:32:36.533
I really believe the reason i'm sitting here on this set
00:32:36.533 --> 00:32:38.735
And the reason i met you, i believe that people like that-
00:32:38.735 --> 00:32:42.072
- yes. - prayed prayers
00:32:42.072 --> 00:32:43.440
And stored them up. - thank you lord.
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.409
- and many times i'll walk off and preaching somewhere,
00:32:45.409 --> 00:32:48.412
At a conference or something, and be amazed at what god did.
00:32:48.412 --> 00:32:51.515
And i'll think, and i've done this so many times.
00:32:51.515 --> 00:32:55.218
Why? why did that?
00:32:55.218 --> 00:32:56.720
What in the world happened and why did it?
00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:59.322
And the lord will say, "it had nothing to do with you."
00:32:59.322 --> 00:33:01.625
- wow. - it's prayers like that.
00:33:01.625 --> 00:33:03.827
- wow.
00:33:03.827 --> 00:33:05.629
Isn't that beautiful?
00:33:06.129 --> 00:33:08.231
- you were, now, you're you're sitting there thinking
00:33:08.231 --> 00:33:11.535
About heritage and- - yeah.
00:33:11.535 --> 00:33:14.104
- the other day i was talking on the phone with a friend
00:33:14.104 --> 00:33:18.208
And i was driving from this building back home.
00:33:18.208 --> 00:33:21.411
And for some reason the old hymn,
00:33:21.411 --> 00:33:25.115
"i care not today what tomorrow may bring."
00:33:25.115 --> 00:33:27.751
- that's a good one. - "shadow, sunshine, or rain,
00:33:27.751 --> 00:33:29.419
For the lord i know ruleth or..."
00:33:29.419 --> 00:33:32.255
- everything and all of my worry is vain.
00:33:32.255 --> 00:33:33.390
I'm living by faith in jesus above.
00:33:33.390 --> 00:33:35.625
Trusting, confiding
00:33:35.625 --> 00:33:36.993
In his great love. - in his great love.
00:33:36.993 --> 00:33:38.728
- from all harm,
00:33:38.728 --> 00:33:39.763
I'm safe- - safe.
00:33:39.763 --> 00:33:40.964
- in his sheltering arms,
00:33:40.964 --> 00:33:42.566
I'm living by faith and i feel no alarm.
00:33:42.566 --> 00:33:45.936
- it's a good one. (laurie laughing)
00:33:46.736 --> 00:33:47.704
- it's a good one. (laughing)
00:33:47.704 --> 00:33:48.538
- and how in the world
00:33:48.538 --> 00:33:50.173
Do you remember words like that,
00:33:50.173 --> 00:33:52.809
Except that that heritage that you have grown up in
00:33:52.809 --> 00:33:58.849
Sticks in,
00:33:59.149 --> 00:34:00.383
And when you need something like that,
00:34:00.383 --> 00:34:02.752
You know, this ministry lives by faith.
00:34:02.752 --> 00:34:05.755
We live by faith. - that's right.
00:34:05.755 --> 00:34:07.390
- and i heard my dad and dwight thompson sing that song.
00:34:07.390 --> 00:34:10.927
- jerry bernard. (laughing) - jerry bernard.
00:34:10.927 --> 00:34:12.562
All the old, you know? - i love him. (laughing)
00:34:12.562 --> 00:34:14.064
- you were part of all the telethons all those years.
00:34:14.064 --> 00:34:17.134
And literally, and then all of a sudden,
00:34:17.134 --> 00:34:19.736
One day, that just pops back in,
00:34:19.736 --> 00:34:22.672
And you can remember all that.
00:34:22.672 --> 00:34:24.107
It's just the strangest.
00:34:24.107 --> 00:34:26.276
But the idea that we're standing on the shoulders
00:34:26.276 --> 00:34:31.481
Of all that, you know,
00:34:31.982 --> 00:34:33.116
All of the ones that went before us,
00:34:33.116 --> 00:34:34.818
Isn't it amazing?
00:34:34.818 --> 00:34:35.919
- it is amazing. - it's beautiful.
00:34:35.919 --> 00:34:37.220
- and prayers do accumulate.
00:34:37.220 --> 00:34:40.524
I would encourage people who say,
00:34:41.258 --> 00:34:42.759
"well, i've really prayed and prayed and prayed,
00:34:42.759 --> 00:34:44.794
And god didn't do anything."
00:34:44.794 --> 00:34:46.496
Job 38 says, "have you entered into the treasury of snow?
00:34:46.496 --> 00:34:51.701
The treasury of snow,
00:34:52.202 --> 00:34:53.970
Which is stored up," it says,
00:34:53.970 --> 00:34:56.273
"for the day of battle,
00:34:56.273 --> 00:34:57.574
For the time of trouble."
00:34:57.574 --> 00:34:59.709
What is the treasury of snow?
00:34:59.709 --> 00:35:01.645
Isaiah 55 says,
00:35:01.645 --> 00:35:03.413
"my word would be like rain and like snow.
00:35:03.413 --> 00:35:07.083
When it's sent forth, it will return,
00:35:07.083 --> 00:35:09.786
It will not return void."
00:35:09.786 --> 00:35:12.322
Prayer is like snow.
00:35:12.322 --> 00:35:14.858
It's mountain peaks,
00:35:15.325 --> 00:35:18.094
That, you know, snow accumulates in high places.
00:35:18.094 --> 00:35:23.400
And when we pray,
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:24.768
I believe that it is like snow.
00:35:24.768 --> 00:35:28.104
And sometimes one snowflake,
00:35:28.104 --> 00:35:30.574
And by the way, a snowflake has six points,
00:35:30.574 --> 00:35:33.743
It is the star of david,
00:35:33.743 --> 00:35:35.245
Just a perfect star of david,
00:35:35.245 --> 00:35:37.347
And one snowflake can't do any damage on a road,
00:35:37.347 --> 00:35:41.885
But if it accumulates enough
00:35:41.885 --> 00:35:45.422
And one sticks to another,
00:35:45.422 --> 00:35:47.290
To another, to another,
00:35:47.290 --> 00:35:49.025
It can cause a mach truck to go off a cliff.
00:35:49.025 --> 00:35:52.596
When you pray, every time you pray,
00:35:53.363 --> 00:35:56.066
It's a snowflake of prayer
00:35:56.066 --> 00:35:58.902
That's accumulating in heaven.
00:35:58.902 --> 00:36:00.937
And somewhere up there,
00:36:00.937 --> 00:36:02.472
There are mountain peaks
00:36:02.472 --> 00:36:04.140
Where ice and snow begins to accumulate.
00:36:04.140 --> 00:36:08.078
And when the season changes,
00:36:08.078 --> 00:36:09.746
That's why he said,
00:36:09.746 --> 00:36:11.081
"have you entered into the treasury of snow?"
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There's piled-up, stacked-up prayers in the heavenlies,
00:36:13.717 --> 00:36:18.421
And they are stored for the time of trouble
00:36:18.421 --> 00:36:22.759
In the day of battle.
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There will come a time
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If you keep praying about it and praying about it,
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And i don't mean just laboring in prayer,
00:36:27.063 --> 00:36:29.532
Pray short prayers about it,
00:36:29.532 --> 00:36:31.134
Keep praying about it,
00:36:31.134 --> 00:36:32.402
That one is connecting to another,
00:36:32.402 --> 00:36:34.504
And god will change the seasons.
00:36:34.504 --> 00:36:36.239
And then it goes on to say,
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:37.774
"and then the wind shall blow
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And the river shall flow." (laurie laughing)
00:36:40.610 --> 00:36:43.013
Now, listen to this.
00:36:43.013 --> 00:36:44.614
If there's no snow, there's no flow.
00:36:44.614 --> 00:36:47.851
And the flow is what brings life
00:36:47.851 --> 00:36:49.753
To the dry, barren ground.
00:36:49.753 --> 00:36:51.921
So the more you stack up the prayers,
00:36:51.921 --> 00:36:54.524
The more you pray,
00:36:54.524 --> 00:36:55.925
You're forming a spiritual glacier.
00:36:55.925 --> 00:36:57.994
This is what cornelius did for his family.
00:36:57.994 --> 00:37:01.298
God said, "send an angel to that man.
00:37:02.098 --> 00:37:05.969
His prayers has come up
00:37:06.469 --> 00:37:09.506
Before me as a memorial.
00:37:09.506 --> 00:37:12.075
It's broke through,
00:37:12.075 --> 00:37:13.777
And i have a mountain peak
00:37:13.777 --> 00:37:17.747
Over his house that i can't ignore it.
00:37:17.747 --> 00:37:21.818
I can't look around it." - snow. (laughing)
00:37:21.818 --> 00:37:23.153
- "it's a memorial."
00:37:23.153 --> 00:37:25.388
So when you keep praying
00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:27.724
And you keep praying,
00:37:27.724 --> 00:37:28.892
It's what daniel did on the 21 days,
00:37:28.892 --> 00:37:31.261
He kept praying,
00:37:31.261 --> 00:37:32.395
And one thing is connected to the other,
00:37:32.395 --> 00:37:34.431
There will come a time where god says,
00:37:34.431 --> 00:37:37.434
"where there's much snow,
00:37:37.434 --> 00:37:38.835
There's much flow." (laurie laughing)
00:37:38.835 --> 00:37:41.104
And the breakthrough will come.
00:37:41.104 --> 00:37:42.472
Don't get weary in it, keep praying.
00:37:42.472 --> 00:37:44.774
Enter into the treasury of snow
00:37:44.774 --> 00:37:46.910
For the time of trouble
00:37:46.910 --> 00:37:48.578
In the day of battle.
00:37:48.578 --> 00:37:49.512
- and i love what you're saying
00:37:49.512 --> 00:37:50.513
Because there's a chance
00:37:50.513 --> 00:37:52.182
That we might never see the prayer fulfilled-
00:37:52.182 --> 00:37:54.150
- exactly.
00:37:54.150 --> 00:37:55.652
- 'cause it's generational, (laughing) you know?
00:37:55.652 --> 00:37:58.188
My grandmother said one night to me,
00:37:58.188 --> 00:38:00.023
Watching paul and jan on tv,
00:38:00.023 --> 00:38:01.925
Said, "i'm praying that you meet their son."
00:38:01.925 --> 00:38:04.527
- wow. - right?
00:38:04.527 --> 00:38:06.363
- wow. - and so i believe
00:38:06.363 --> 00:38:09.165
In those generational prayers
00:38:09.165 --> 00:38:10.900
That that's why we're all here.
00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:13.403
- and that's something, that's a short prayer.
00:38:13.403 --> 00:38:15.305
I mean, that's something that parents and grandparents
00:38:15.305 --> 00:38:18.508
Ought to be praying.
00:38:18.508 --> 00:38:19.709
It seems like with social media now,
00:38:19.709 --> 00:38:21.644
People aren't meeting one another.
00:38:21.644 --> 00:38:23.279
Couples aren't connecting,
00:38:23.279 --> 00:38:24.614
Young people aren't dating,
00:38:24.614 --> 00:38:26.015
Guys are not asking.
00:38:26.015 --> 00:38:28.251
Get out and date some, get out and find some.
00:38:28.251 --> 00:38:31.254
- somebody.
00:38:31.588 --> 00:38:32.622
I believe in praying- - amen!
00:38:32.622 --> 00:38:33.623
- about everything. - yeah.
00:38:33.623 --> 00:38:35.892
- and keep stacking up those prayers over your children.
00:38:35.892 --> 00:38:39.396
- yeah. - that god will,
00:38:39.396 --> 00:38:41.030
God was, if they need to slide another way,
00:38:41.030 --> 00:38:43.900
Down another path,
00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:45.168
To meet the right person on an elevator.
00:38:45.168 --> 00:38:47.237
- yeah. - that connects 'em to their-
00:38:47.237 --> 00:38:49.005
- because i'm praying for more grand babies.
00:38:49.005 --> 00:38:50.740
- absolutely. absolutely. - you're kind of prophesying
00:38:50.740 --> 00:38:53.176
To caleb right now, our son.
00:38:53.176 --> 00:38:54.577
- come on. - right. yeah.
00:38:54.577 --> 00:38:55.412
- he's a great catch.
00:38:55.412 --> 00:38:56.446
I mean, she's out there.
00:38:56.446 --> 00:38:57.914
- so, i feel like
00:38:57.914 --> 00:39:01.651
You ought to probably start a church one day.
00:39:01.651 --> 00:39:03.920
I think that'd be, it feels like
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:05.755
You're a preacher. - you'd be a good pastor.
00:39:05.755 --> 00:39:07.157
- you'd be a good pastor, i think.
00:39:07.157 --> 00:39:09.025
Our guest, jentezen franklin. - he is.
00:39:09.025 --> 00:39:11.628
- we're talking about the power of short prayers.
00:39:11.628 --> 00:39:15.265
- i love it. - i have a short prayer
00:39:15.265 --> 00:39:17.267
That i say a lot, "oh god."
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Just, "oh god."
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- yeah. - and god as my witness,
00:39:21.471 --> 00:39:24.140
A pastor friend of mine said to me one time, he says,
00:39:24.140 --> 00:39:27.243
"god loves it when you say, 'oh god.'"
00:39:27.243 --> 00:39:30.547
- because he knows what we need before we ask.
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- he knows. - okay,
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I'm gonna go to chapter.
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- so good, jentezen. - 10, okay?
00:39:38.755 --> 00:39:40.857
Chapter 10.
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When you feel broken
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Or like you're falling apart,
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There may be a few people in the audience
00:39:46.930 --> 00:39:49.499
That something's not going right.
00:39:49.499 --> 00:39:52.101
Help us with that.
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- all of these prayers are prayers
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That have meant something to me,
00:39:56.206 --> 00:39:59.108
That were born out of life situations
00:39:59.108 --> 00:40:02.779
Or a sermon that i preached that i could not shake it.
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It became a part of my life.
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One of the most important ones,
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And it would fit this category,
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I'm not, i can't right now.
00:40:13.490 --> 00:40:16.025
- you used in this,
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"and he said unto jesus, 'lord,
00:40:18.661 --> 00:40:20.697
Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.'
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And jesus said to him, 'verily i say, today,
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You shall be with me in paradise.'" luke 23.
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- the most famous short prayer, maybe.
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Think about this for a moment, really,
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How important was what jesus was doing
00:40:34.811 --> 00:40:39.148
When right then, he was dying on calvary
00:40:39.148 --> 00:40:43.219
For the sins of the world, billions of souls at stake,
00:40:43.219 --> 00:40:47.290
And a thief who had never been to church,
00:40:48.191 --> 00:40:52.495
Who didn't love his enemies,
00:40:52.495 --> 00:40:55.265
Who had never paid his tithes,
00:40:55.265 --> 00:40:57.467
Who had never prayed a prayer to jesus,
00:40:57.467 --> 00:41:01.604
Prayed one nine word short prayer
00:41:02.338 --> 00:41:06.242
In his last few breaths.
00:41:06.242 --> 00:41:08.511
- my god. - don't tell me
00:41:08.511 --> 00:41:10.513
That god can't reach people.
00:41:10.513 --> 00:41:13.816
You don't have the right to judge whether
00:41:13.816 --> 00:41:16.085
Or not somebody went to heaven.
00:41:16.085 --> 00:41:17.921
- right. - even in cases of suicide
00:41:17.921 --> 00:41:20.990
And so on, you don't know what somebody uttered out
00:41:20.990 --> 00:41:25.528
Of their mouths their last few seconds.
00:41:25.528 --> 00:41:28.665
And you don't know how you had prayers,
00:41:28.665 --> 00:41:31.200
Man, this is a word of knowledge
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For somebody. - come on.
00:41:32.435 --> 00:41:33.803
- you don't know how your prayers were stored up,
00:41:33.803 --> 00:41:36.573
And you may be grieving over someone who's in heaven,
00:41:36.573 --> 00:41:39.976
Because nobody would've bet
00:41:39.976 --> 00:41:41.544
This man would've went to heaven.
00:41:41.544 --> 00:41:43.446
- right. - but he prayed
00:41:43.446 --> 00:41:44.847
A nine word short prayer.
00:41:44.847 --> 00:41:47.784
"lord." he didn't look like lord.
00:41:47.784 --> 00:41:52.055
He's stripped, he's beaten, he's bloody.
00:41:52.055 --> 00:41:55.325
But he said, "you are lord.
00:41:55.325 --> 00:41:57.660
Remember me when you come into your kingdom, you are king."
00:41:57.660 --> 00:42:02.999
He didn't look like a king. - wow.
00:42:03.766 --> 00:42:05.735
- how did he know he had a kingdom?
00:42:06.536 --> 00:42:08.805
He sensed this is the son of god.
00:42:08.805 --> 00:42:11.908
This is god in skin, bleeding and dying.
00:42:11.908 --> 00:42:15.211
And he, in desperation, and this is so important.
00:42:15.211 --> 00:42:17.880
You don't earn it. you don't deserve it.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.316
He had no list of things he could say.
00:42:20.316 --> 00:42:22.885
Some of you feel like, "well, i'm not that important,
00:42:22.885 --> 00:42:25.121
And god doesn't hear my prayers."
00:42:25.121 --> 00:42:27.223
You are the very one that he's reaching out for
00:42:27.223 --> 00:42:30.960
And he's waiting on your short prayer.
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:33.496
And i'm tired of preachers minimizing altar calls
00:42:33.496 --> 00:42:37.667
And saying they don't really make a difference,
00:42:37.667 --> 00:42:39.569
That it's a, i understand it's a discipleship,
00:42:39.569 --> 00:42:42.405
But there is a short prayer
00:42:42.405 --> 00:42:44.440
That can change your life forever.
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.909
This man prayed nine words
00:42:46.909 --> 00:42:50.179
And jesus stopped
00:42:50.179 --> 00:42:52.015
The whole kingdom of god's advancement
00:42:52.849 --> 00:42:56.352
And said, "this day, you will be with me in paradise."
00:42:56.352 --> 00:43:01.658
The word that he prayed was interesting too.
00:43:02.558 --> 00:43:03.693
He said, "remember me.
00:43:03.693 --> 00:43:05.695
Remember me."
00:43:06.062 --> 00:43:07.263
Back in bible days,
00:43:07.263 --> 00:43:08.631
The opposite of the word remember is to dismember,
00:43:08.631 --> 00:43:13.903
To pull apart.
00:43:14.270 --> 00:43:15.304
And that's what happened to adam and eve in the garden.
00:43:16.439 --> 00:43:19.208
They were part of god's family.
00:43:19.208 --> 00:43:21.411
- wow. - but they were pulled apart
00:43:21.411 --> 00:43:24.280
And jesus held the bread and the blood.
00:43:25.114 --> 00:43:28.851
What are the elements of life?
00:43:28.851 --> 00:43:31.287
- he said that the life of the flesh, the bread,
00:43:32.221 --> 00:43:34.824
Is in the blood.
00:43:34.824 --> 00:43:36.359
If you separate the blood from the bread, from the body,
00:43:36.359 --> 00:43:41.264
A person dies.
00:43:41.631 --> 00:43:42.999
I mean, amazingly,
00:43:42.999 --> 00:43:44.500
That's a scripture in leviticus before science ever proved
00:43:44.500 --> 00:43:46.936
That oxygen is carried in your blood.
00:43:46.936 --> 00:43:49.505
- right!
00:43:49.505 --> 00:43:50.573
- and jesus said, "as often as you put the blood
00:43:50.573 --> 00:43:55.912
And the body together, symbolically in communion,
00:43:55.912 --> 00:43:59.415
You remember me."
00:43:59.415 --> 00:44:01.584
- [host] wow!
00:44:01.584 --> 00:44:03.086
- and what i'm trying to say is in that moment,
00:44:03.086 --> 00:44:06.222
It's interesting that he said the word, "remember!
00:44:06.222 --> 00:44:09.959
I'm so far from you."
00:44:09.959 --> 00:44:13.229
And jesus used the word,
00:44:13.730 --> 00:44:15.298
"this day, you will be with me in paradise."
00:44:15.298 --> 00:44:17.533
What was garden of eden called? paradise.
00:44:17.533 --> 00:44:19.702
- [host] paradise.
00:44:19.702 --> 00:44:21.003
- this day i'm gonna remember the human race,
00:44:21.003 --> 00:44:23.873
And you'll be the first one.
00:44:23.873 --> 00:44:25.808
You'll be the first one.
00:44:26.309 --> 00:44:27.944
It all begins here because you didn't deserve it or earn it.
00:44:27.944 --> 00:44:31.447
I want a pattern established.
00:44:31.447 --> 00:44:33.216
It's not 'cause you go to church every sunday.
00:44:33.216 --> 00:44:35.818
I hope you do.
00:44:35.818 --> 00:44:37.053
It's not because you do this and that.
00:44:37.053 --> 00:44:39.055
It's only by the grace of god
00:44:39.055 --> 00:44:41.224
That you are remembered from being dismembered from god.
00:44:41.224 --> 00:44:45.495
It's his love, it's his blood, it's his grace.
00:44:45.495 --> 00:44:49.398
And all you have to do is ask.
00:44:49.398 --> 00:44:51.200
All you have to do is say, "lord, i don't deserve it.
00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:54.704
But would you take me back? would you remember me?"
00:44:54.704 --> 00:44:57.607
And this day you will be with me in paradise.
00:44:57.607 --> 00:45:01.043
- wow!
00:45:01.043 --> 00:45:02.278
- you know, i love what you just said too.
00:45:02.278 --> 00:45:03.546
I think you set people free when you said
00:45:03.546 --> 00:45:05.381
You don't know what the last words of somebody was.
00:45:05.381 --> 00:45:08.551
Probably nobody heard that conversation.
00:45:08.551 --> 00:45:10.653
- yeah, that's right.
00:45:10.653 --> 00:45:11.854
- you know? so there's my son up there.
00:45:11.854 --> 00:45:14.257
He's one of the worst people in the world
00:45:14.257 --> 00:45:17.193
And he's probably going to hell right now,
00:45:17.193 --> 00:45:19.262
But they don't hear that last-
00:45:19.262 --> 00:45:21.230
- that's good. - desperate prayer.
00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:23.299
You know? i believe in that.
00:45:23.299 --> 00:45:26.035
I believe,
00:45:26.035 --> 00:45:27.770
- oh god.
00:45:27.770 --> 00:45:28.604
- [both] oh god. oh god.
00:45:28.604 --> 00:45:30.473
- one of the prayers, the last, my favorite chapter,
00:45:30.473 --> 00:45:33.643
I guess, if you have a favorite chapter,
00:45:33.643 --> 00:45:35.478
One of the favorites
00:45:35.478 --> 00:45:36.779
Because of the emotion that it stirs in me,
00:45:36.779 --> 00:45:40.116
Is the last chapter.
00:45:40.583 --> 00:45:42.418
And it's the benediction of the book, i guess.
00:45:42.418 --> 00:45:45.087
But it's the prayer that i speak over our congregation
00:45:45.087 --> 00:45:47.590
And have for decades.
00:45:47.590 --> 00:45:48.925
And it's the prayer that i prayed over my five,
00:45:48.925 --> 00:45:51.594
Cherice and i have been married 38 years,
00:45:51.594 --> 00:45:53.329
We have five children.
00:45:53.329 --> 00:45:54.597
And i prayed that prayer every day of their life.
00:45:54.597 --> 00:45:57.934
- [host] my goodness.
00:45:57.934 --> 00:45:58.768
- numbers 6.
00:45:58.768 --> 00:46:00.703
This is the bottom line on that. god wrote this prayer.
00:46:00.703 --> 00:46:04.774
God gave it to moses. moses didn't write it.
00:46:04.774 --> 00:46:07.543
Aaron didn't write it. numbers 6.
00:46:07.543 --> 00:46:10.213
He says these words.
00:46:10.213 --> 00:46:11.614
He says, "you are to speak to aaron and his sons
00:46:11.614 --> 00:46:14.717
And say to them, 'speak these words over the congregation,
00:46:14.717 --> 00:46:19.589
The children of israel, speak these words.'
00:46:19.589 --> 00:46:21.757
I don't want you to add to it. i just want you to say it."
00:46:21.757 --> 00:46:24.160
Here it is. this is a blessing, a massive blessing.
00:46:24.160 --> 00:46:28.497
And he says, "the lord bless you and keep you."
00:46:28.497 --> 00:46:32.501
The lord bless you and keep,
00:46:32.501 --> 00:46:33.836
It's the lord's will to bless you.
00:46:33.836 --> 00:46:36.572
It's the lord's will to keep you.
00:46:36.572 --> 00:46:38.507
A lot of people get the blessing, but they can't keep it.
00:46:38.507 --> 00:46:43.045
But the lord is your keeper.
00:46:43.045 --> 00:46:45.081
He's the keeper of tbn.
00:46:45.081 --> 00:46:47.383
"no weapon formed against you shall prosper."
00:46:47.383 --> 00:46:50.119
And here's the form of the weapon.
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:51.754
"every tongue that rises up, thou shall condemn."
00:46:51.754 --> 00:46:56.092
Be careful.
00:46:56.092 --> 00:46:57.493
It doesn't mean that we can't do things or whatever,
00:46:57.493 --> 00:47:00.396
But what i've learned is
00:47:00.396 --> 00:47:01.998
The lord bless you and keep you.
00:47:01.998 --> 00:47:04.367
It's not up to you to keep your family.
00:47:05.201 --> 00:47:07.570
It's up to god. you speak this blessing.
00:47:07.570 --> 00:47:10.506
And god said, "i'll back it up
00:47:10.506 --> 00:47:12.208
Because i'm the one
00:47:12.208 --> 00:47:13.709
That wants this spoken over my children."
00:47:13.709 --> 00:47:15.611
The next phrase you'll love,
00:47:15.611 --> 00:47:16.979
He said, "and make his face shine on you."
00:47:16.979 --> 00:47:21.150
The word make his face means the full attention of god.
00:47:22.251 --> 00:47:27.223
Rarely would they see a king ever in their whole lifetime.
00:47:28.391 --> 00:47:30.359
They didn't have tv and all of that.
00:47:30.359 --> 00:47:31.727
They would never see their leader.
00:47:31.727 --> 00:47:33.496
But if you ever had the opportunity for the king
00:47:33.496 --> 00:47:37.300
To actually, that's why david would pray over and over
00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:40.269
About 10 times in the book of psalms,
00:47:40.269 --> 00:47:42.238
"don't turn your face for me,
00:47:42.238 --> 00:47:44.206
O god, i beg you, don't turn your face.'
00:47:44.206 --> 00:47:46.275
If you ever have god, give his full attention...
00:47:46.275 --> 00:47:51.213
And it said, "make his face shine."
00:47:51.948 --> 00:47:56.085
That's not just looking at you. it is shining.
00:47:56.085 --> 00:48:00.790
It's like you did before we started airing this.
00:48:00.790 --> 00:48:04.527
Their their grandson came out and your face lit up.
00:48:04.527 --> 00:48:08.097
The moment you saw it, you...
00:48:08.097 --> 00:48:10.132
That's god said, "that's how i look at you.
00:48:10.132 --> 00:48:13.169
I'm not mad at you. i'm not angry at you.
00:48:14.070 --> 00:48:16.639
I don't dislike you.
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Even in your addiction, even in your failure,
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Even in your brokenness, going through a divorce."
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He says, "i want you to know, i wanna bless you.
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I want to keep you.
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I want to make my face shine with delight."
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- thank you, lord. - he's lighting up.
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Just like when i see my grandkids,
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It's like, ooh. - yeah.
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- he gets that feeling when he sees us.
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The lord bless you and keep you.
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The lord make his face shine on you.
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The lord be gracious unto you.
00:48:43.399 --> 00:48:46.135
The lord lift up his countenance. there it is again.
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You have his full attention and give you peace.
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And when you understand that's god's plan,
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And so when i would take my kids to school every day,
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That was my job.
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I would lay my hands on them
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And i would pray that every one of them,
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Every day of their lives,
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They'll tell you they heard it every day of their lives,
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And god has honored it.
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They've been through ups and downs.
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- yeah. - they've been through
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Crazy things,
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But god has been so faithful. - amen.
00:49:16.966 --> 00:49:18.701
- every one of them blessed,
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Every one of them keeping power of god,
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Watching through it all. - jesus. yeah.
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- i'm telling you, there's power in these short prayers.
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- yeah. - i love that.
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- we need to do that over our families.
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- yes. - we need to take the time
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To speak blessing.
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- amen. - speak that over
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Our audience right now
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As we kind of finish up here. - i would love to.
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- beautiful, yes, beautiful. - i want to encourage you
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To do something, if that's all right.
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- please. - yes.
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- you still have the prayer line, right?
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- of course. - i want three groups
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Of people to call.
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This is a altar call.
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If i were in a service, i would give this altar call.
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This is a healing call.
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If you need healing, it's okay to pray for healing.
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It's okay to speak and ask.
00:50:05.014 --> 00:50:07.349
Hezekiah in isaiah 38 was given a death sentence
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And he prayed a short prayer,
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A 16-word prayer,
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And god gave him 15 more years,
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15 more years. - yeah.
00:50:22.932 --> 00:50:24.333
- the prophet, before he could leave the property,
00:50:24.333 --> 00:50:26.702
Who said, set your house in order, you're gonna die,
00:50:26.702 --> 00:50:29.371
As he's leaving, god says, i changed my mind.
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He turned his face to the wall and wept
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And began to say, god, help me
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And god sent the prophet and said, you get 15 more years.
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I'm simply telling you, god is a miracle worker.
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- thank you, lord. - yes.
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- yes. - this is a healing call.
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This is secondly a family call.
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If you need prayer over your family
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Or over your health, call right now
00:50:54.096 --> 00:50:56.832
And whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord-
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- beautiful. - shall be saved.
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I'm believing for families
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To be restored- - thank you, lord.
00:51:02.705 --> 00:51:04.006
- to be remembered that have been dismembered.
00:51:04.006 --> 00:51:07.143
God can do it. i had to preach it.
00:51:07.143 --> 00:51:09.879
I had to walk through it my own self.
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I've lived long enough to be on the other side-
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- thank you, lord - and say with great
00:51:15.050 --> 00:51:16.752
Confidence god can do it. - yes.
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- a healing call, this is a family call,
00:51:19.722 --> 00:51:23.225
And lastly a salvation call.
00:51:23.225 --> 00:51:25.628
If you're far from god, maybe you're watching,
00:51:25.628 --> 00:51:28.430
You don't never watch this program,
00:51:28.430 --> 00:51:30.833
But god had you tuned in.
00:51:30.833 --> 00:51:33.135
All you have to do is pray a short prayer.
00:51:33.135 --> 00:51:36.605
There's a counselor.
00:51:36.605 --> 00:51:38.107
There's a prayer person on the other end of that phone.
00:51:38.107 --> 00:51:40.176
They're ready to pray with you. let's pray.
00:51:40.176 --> 00:51:42.444
Lord, i pray for healing. - jesus.
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- by your stripes, we are healed.
00:51:46.215 --> 00:51:48.350
- thank you, lord. - i pray for families
00:51:48.350 --> 00:51:50.419
Restored. - thank you, lord.
00:51:50.419 --> 00:51:51.420
- you're the god of all families.
00:51:51.420 --> 00:51:52.922
Heal and reconcile and do miracles
00:51:52.922 --> 00:51:56.692
In homes, marriages, marriages, marriages, marriages
00:51:56.692 --> 00:52:00.529
And families. - yes.
00:52:00.529 --> 00:52:01.997
- and lord, i pray for the lost right now.
00:52:02.898 --> 00:52:05.134
Just pray this prayer. just say, jesus.
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- jesus. - save me.
00:52:07.336 --> 00:52:09.305
- save me. - i believe in you-
00:52:09.305 --> 00:52:11.674
- i believe. - and i want you to be
00:52:11.674 --> 00:52:13.943
My savior. - my savior.
00:52:13.943 --> 00:52:16.045
- i surrender. - surrender.
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- i'm like that thief on the cross,
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And i give you my life, my faith, my trust.
00:52:21.350 --> 00:52:26.021
In jesus' name. amen.
00:52:26.021 --> 00:52:29.191
- amen.
00:52:29.191 --> 00:52:31.327
- the power of short prayers. - so beautiful.
00:52:30.025 --> 00:52:34.296
- pastor, we love the fact that you're a part of tbn,
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Just one of the great- - thank you.
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- pastoral voices in our life. - beautiful.
00:52:40.903 --> 00:52:43.639
- and your new book- - it's an honor. thank you.
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.075
- it's available.
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There's this little company called amazon.
00:52:48.510 --> 00:52:50.045
You could probably get it right now by going there.
00:52:50.045 --> 00:52:53.249
And just in closing,
00:52:53.249 --> 00:52:56.485
Just pray that blessing over the audience
00:52:56.485 --> 00:52:58.821
As we go. - yes, i'd love to.
00:52:58.821 --> 00:53:00.356
- that'd be beautiful. - thank you, jesus.
00:53:00.356 --> 00:53:02.258
- right where you're watching this,
00:53:02.258 --> 00:53:04.193
I know you may be in an apartment,
00:53:04.193 --> 00:53:05.828
You may be in a hospital,
00:53:05.828 --> 00:53:07.162
You may be in your home.
00:53:07.162 --> 00:53:09.832
You might have had a tough day, but,
00:53:09.832 --> 00:53:11.800
And here's the greatest part of that.
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:13.435
I almost forgot it.
00:53:13.435 --> 00:53:14.603
- do it. - the way it ends is god said,
00:53:14.603 --> 00:53:16.972
After you speak this, the last verse says,
00:53:16.972 --> 00:53:20.476
And i will put my name on them and i will bless them
00:53:20.476 --> 00:53:26.282
And the chapter ends. - wow.
00:53:26.949 --> 00:53:29.084
- a supernatural transformation.
00:53:29.084 --> 00:53:31.186
If you just speak this blessing, he said,
00:53:31.186 --> 00:53:33.622
I'll put my name on 'em,
00:53:33.622 --> 00:53:35.891
The name of jesus on your house, and i will bless them.
00:53:35.891 --> 00:53:40.663
And now may the lord bless you
00:53:40.663 --> 00:53:43.932
And keep you. - thank you, lord.
00:53:43.932 --> 00:53:45.234
- may the lord make his face shine on you.
00:53:45.234 --> 00:53:48.304
May the lord be gracious unto you.
00:53:48.304 --> 00:53:51.140
May he lift up his countenance
00:53:51.140 --> 00:53:53.242
Upon you- - thank you, lord.
00:53:53.242 --> 00:53:55.411
- and give you peace
00:53:55.411 --> 00:53:57.846
And put his name on you.
00:53:58.347 --> 00:54:01.317
And he said, i will bless them.
00:54:01.950 --> 00:54:05.654
That's you,
00:54:05.654 --> 00:54:06.889
In jesus' name. - beautiful.
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- amen. - i receive it.
00:54:10.125 --> 00:54:11.794
- amen. - hallelujah.
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We're blessed. - amen.
00:54:13.062 --> 00:54:14.163
- amen. - we'll see you next time.
00:54:14.163 --> 00:54:15.698
- so beautiful. - thank you, pastor.
00:54:15.698 --> 00:54:17.132
Woo.
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Jentezen Franklin: The Power of Shorts Prayers | Praise

March 11, 2026 | 54:29

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