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Rick Warren - The Kind of Prayer God Answers (Part 2)

October 5, 2025 | 27:29

Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.

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Pastor rick warren: is it possible that the pain you're
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Going through right now is because you did not seek god but
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You just went ahead and made a decision without checking in
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With him?
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Highly probable, and now god said, "i could have saved you a
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Lot of effort if you had just sought me.
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Just have a conversation with me two or three times a day and
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I'll go, 'red light.
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Danger red, will robinson.
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That's danger.
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Don't go that direction.'"
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Is it possible?
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Yes, that pain is 'cause you did not seek god in the past.
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You made a bunch of dumb decisions and now you're paying
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The results of it.
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Okay, here's the third step.
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The third step in prayers that get answered is express my
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Desires with emotion.
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Express my desires--when i wanna ask god for something, i'm
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Praying about, "god, i need this," whether it's a physical
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Need, a material need, a spiritual need, an emotional
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Need, whatever you're asking for god in prayer, you express my
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Emotion--my desire--with emotion.
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So many of our prayers are just cut and dried.
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We just say these words.
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We don't even know what we're talking about.
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We have these little, you know, things we've memorized.
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"now i lay me down to sleep.
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I pray the lord my soul to keep, you know.
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And if i should die before i wake, i pray the lord my soul
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To take."
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That means nothing.
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It's just a little thing.
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Or you sit down before food and say, "bless this food to the
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Nourishment of our bodies.
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Bless the gift and the giver."
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And it's not--there's no emotion.
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There's no authenticity.
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There's no--it's just things you've learned.
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God doesn't care how beautiful your prayer sounds.
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In fact, god doesn't even care as much about the words as he
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Cares much about the emotions.
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Have you learned that you can say the right words in the wrong
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Emotion and your spouse doesn't get it?
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Yes.
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You can say all the right things, but you didn't--"what do
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You mean by that?"
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Because of the tone of your voice.
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And so he's saying--god is an emotional god.
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The only reason you have emotions, the good ones and the
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Bad ones, is because you're made in god's image.
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Human beings have emotions that no--none of the animals have.
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We have a whole panoply of emotions because god is an
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Emotional god.
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The bible says god gets happy.
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The bible says god gets sad.
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He's sad when he sees a rape, when he sees a molestation, when
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He sees a war.
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God is sad when he sees what people do to each other out of
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Selfishness, and the bible says god gets angry.
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That's why you can get angry.
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You're made in god's image.
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The bible says god gets jealous.
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Why?
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Because--and that's why you get jealous.
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Because when god sees you giving your love to something else
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Instead of him that belongs to him, he gets jealous.
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The bible says god gets frustrated.
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He looks down and he sees all of the stuff we're doing, he goes,
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"i told you not to do that and you're doing it anyway.
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It's gonna mess you up."
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He gets frustrated.
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Now, could god change it?
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Of course, he could, turn us all into puppets, but god's gonna
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Just back out of your life.
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"have it your way.
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I'm not gonna force you to love me.
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I'm not gonna force you to do the right thing."
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So you and i make selfish decisions every day and people
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Get hurt.
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That's why there's sin, that's why there's evil in the world
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'cause god gives us the freedom to choose.
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And so god just say, "okay, i'll just back off, let you reap the
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Results of your own decision."
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But god says, "i'm an emotional god."
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Jesus dying on the cross was an emotional scene,
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Highly emotional.
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Jesus dying on the cross was emotionally agonizing to him.
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It was agonizing to god the father watching his son die that
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Way but doing it for your benefit.
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It was agonizing to the people who were watching.
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It's an emotional thing, and god is very emotional about you.
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Do you realize this?
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God doesn't just go, "oh, i love you."
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No, god loves you passionately, emotionally.
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God has deep, deep, deep feelings for you, how much he
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Loves you.
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If you don't know--how much he loves you, look at the cross.
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"i'm willing to die.
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I'm willing to die for you."
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That's how much god has emotion for you.
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And so god says, "i want you--when i have such emotion
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For you, i want you to talk to me emotionally.
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Don't just do these little prayer things where you read a
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Prayer and there's no emotion in it."
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Let me ask you.
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Does tone make a difference when you make a request?
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Of course it does, you know.
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I mean, how about, guys, if you had said to your future spouse
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On a date, you go, "i'd like you to marry me.
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Please, i want you to marry me."
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She'd go, "buddy, if you can't say it with a little bit more
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Passion than that, forget it.
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That ain't gonna happen."
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Do any of you remember when you were little and somebody was
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Tickling you and it was fun at the start and then it got too
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Much, okay?
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And when you wanted them to stop tickling, you go, "please stop
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Tickling me"?
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No, you'll, "please stop tickling me!
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I can't handle it anymore!"
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And you were passionate.
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Passion, intensity shows how some--much something matters
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To you.
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Now, if you ask god about something, "god, i really like
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This," but you're not passionate about it, god go, "well, how do
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I know it's just a--" if you only pray about it once, you're
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Not willing to pray about it more than once, and you never
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Talked to god about, "god, i really need this.
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I gotta have this.
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I--you know, i've gotta have it," then god goes, "what is
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This, a wish or a whim; or is it really a true desire?"
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And so the bible says this.
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Here's the third thing daniel did.
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Verse 3, the second part of it.
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He says, "i began pleading with god earnestly in prayer."
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Circle the word pleading.
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God listens to pleading.
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Makes me think about a story i heard a while back where there's
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A kid--a young kid who at christmastime he wanted a "star
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Wars" watch, and it was a really cool watch.
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Had yoda on it and he just--and so he was bugging his parents.
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"mom, i want this 'star wars' watch for christmas.
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Dad, i want this 'star wars' watch for christmas."
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He just keeps on and on and on.
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Every conversation, every meal he's mentioning the "star wars"
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Watch, and finally his dad goes, "johnny, we got it.
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If you mention this one more time, you're not gonna get
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The watch."
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Smart kid, backs off, doesn't do anything.
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About a week later, they're having this--the whole family is
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Sitting at dinner and the dad says, "hey, you know what?
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It's good for us to talk about the bible.
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So everybody just share your favorite bible verse, anything
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You--a bible verse that you know you could say."
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And so one of the kids goes john 3:16 'cause everybody knows that
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One: for god to love the world--and the teenager goes,
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"john 11:35, jesus wept."
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Shortest verse in the bible.
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Anybody can memorize that.
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Two words, jesus wept.
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So--okay, john 11:35, "jesus wept."
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That's his verse.
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So they're going around the room and they come to johnny and
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Johnny goes so--they said, "johnny, what's your
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Favorite verse?"
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He said, 'well, my favorite verse would be mark 13:37 where
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Jesus said, 'i told you once and i say unto you again: watch."'
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Look at this verse.
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In the message paraphrase, daniel 9:3 says, "i poured out
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My heart to god, baring my soul to god."
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Have you ever done that?
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Have you ever poured out your heart to god?
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Have you ever bared your soul to god?
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This is not wimpy, weak praying, this is gutsy praying.
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This is gut-wrenching praying.
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"i'm pouring out my soul to god.
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God, i gotta have your help in this business.
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I gotta have your help in this marriage.
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I gotta have--god, i am tell--i'm pouring out my heart.
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I am being authentic.
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I'm baring my soul."
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It's kind of like jacob wrestling with the angel.
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"i'm not gonna let go until you bless me, god."
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Now, when was the last time you ever prayed like that, pouring
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Out your soul to god emotionally?
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I can tell you.
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You may have forgotten, but i can tell you the last time you
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Prayed like that.
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As your pastor, friend, spiritual coach, the last time
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You prayed like that is when you were in deep, deep pain because
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We don't pour out our hearts to god like that when we're--things
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Are going great and we're skipping the hills of jerusalem,
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Picking flowers, and talking about peace, love, and bobby
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Sherman, you know, just--"have a happy day."
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Smiley face.
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No.
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You pray--you pour out to your god when you are in deep pain.
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Is that the only time you pour out your heart to god, when
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You're in deep pain?
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Can you do it any other time?
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This is called--"praying with emotion," called, quote,
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"crying out to god."
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Someday you might wanna do a study of this in the bible about
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All the times god talks about, quote, "crying out," to god.
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There are many, many examples of people of all sorts who cried
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Out to god and god heard their prayer.
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There are many, many promises in the bible about crying out.
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God does not listen to just complaints.
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He listens to crying out in emotion to god, saying, "god, i
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Really need your help."
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Now, it says daniel, he said he was pleading.
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He's crying out.
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What is he pleading?
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What is daniel pleading with god about?
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He's going, "god, i wanna go back home.
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I'm an old man.
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I'm 85 years old.
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I spent my entire life serving pagan kings.
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I've done good.
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I stayed true, kept my integrity in a pagan world.
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I didn't deny my faith, and i kept getting promoted.
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I'm pretty influential guy in the whole kingdom here, but,
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God, i wanna go back home.
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I really--i wanna--i'm wanna go--i'm gonna die in my
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Home country."
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Now jeremiah, the other guy at the same time, had predicted
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That, after 70 years, babylon would fall and that then the
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People of god in babylon would start praying and pleading,
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"god, let us go back home."
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Here's what it says, jeremiah chapter 50.
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This was his prediction.
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He says, "then my people will join together in tears."
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That's emotional praying.
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"they'll join together in tears to seek the lord.
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And they will ask the way to jerusalem."
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Why?
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'cause it had been 70 years.
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They didn't even know how to get back home.
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"they will ask the way to jerusalem and they will start
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Back home again."
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That is one of the most beautiful phrases of hope in
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The bible.
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They will start back home again.
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America needs to do that.
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It needs to start back home again.
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And other nations need to do that.
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They need to start back home again.
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You may need to do this personally.
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"i need to start back home again."
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And maybe you've been so far away from god for so long you
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Don't even know how to get back to jerusalem.
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"i don't even know how to get back there.
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I've been so disconnected, discombobulated and apart from
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God i don't even know."
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And so what do you do? you plead.
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You pour out your heart. you join together in tears.
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When does god answer that kind of prayer?
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When god's people join together in pra--in tears.
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♪♪♪
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Pastor rick: i know many of you use the "daily hope" devotionals
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Teaching to help you make
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Knowing god your number
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One priority.
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I believe it will help you stay
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Focused on god throughout the
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Day as he provides you with real purpose, lasting peace, and his
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Unfailing promises.
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Imagine starting every day like that.
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This book is a great way to share the hope you have in jesus
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With your friends, coworkers, and relatives.
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I hope you'll get a copy for everyone you know.
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Announcer: be sure and request
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Your copy when you partner with
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"daily hope" to take the word
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Of god to a hurting world.
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Pastor rick: okay, here's the fourth thing.
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Here's the fourth key.
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There's six keys.
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Number four, i need to demonstrate my seriousness.
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When you're praying about something, you need the signal
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To god that you mean business about this; that it's not just a
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Little whim, it's not just a casual thought, but you're
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Really serious about this.
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You wanna let god see how important whatever you're
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Praying about is to you.
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Now, daniel in the next part of this verse mentions three ways
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He shows--he signals his seriousness to god.
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Two of them were cultural customs, which we don't do in
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America or anywhere, i think, today, but one of them is a
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Spiritual discipline that had been going on for centuries and
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Thousands of years and people still do it today.
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Here's what he says in verse 3, the third part of the verse.
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He said, "i started fasting," which means he's going
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Without food.
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That's a spiritual discipline.
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He said, "i started fasting and went without food.
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And to show my sadness," to demonstrate my seriousness, "i
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Put on rough clothes and sat in ashes."
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Now, nobody does this today.
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This is called sack cloth and ashes, and it was done for
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Hundreds and hundreds of years in the middle east and in
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The orient.
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I don't know that anybody does this today.
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Jesus said there are some miracles that happen only by
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Prayer and fasting, not by prayer alone.
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Why?
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'cause it says, "god, i'm super serious about this.
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I'm super serious enough to go without food.
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That's how disciplined and serious i am about this
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Prayer request."
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Moses fasted before he received the ten commandments.
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The israelite fasted from--before they went into
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Many, many major battles.
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Daniel fasted in order to receive guidance from god.
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Nehemiah fasted before he began a major building project.
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You should too, business guy.
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Jesus fasted in victory over temptation.
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The very first christians fasted during decision-making times in
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Their life.
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We'll--i'll teach you a whole lot more about this, but this is
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A point of simply saying, "i demonstrate my seriousness."
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Okay, number five, the fifth thing.
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Thank god for his love and promises.
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Thank god for his love and promises.
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The bible says when you ask, ask with thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving is not a holiday if you're a believer.
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It's a attitude of your entire life.
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You are to live with the attitude of gratitude.
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And the fifth thing daniel does in his prayer is he reminds
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Himself of how good god is, how gracious god is, and how
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Grateful he is to god.
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Daniel 9:4, "then i prayed to the lord and i said, 'lord, you
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Are great.
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You are an awesome god.
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You always fulfill your promises.
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You keep your word.
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You say it, you keep your word.
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You always fulfill your promises of constant love.
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And i'm flaky.
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You're not.
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I'm unfaithful to you, but you're not unfaithful to me.
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You keep your co--promises of constant love to those who love
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You and keep your commands."'
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Down in verse 9 he says, "and even though we have rebelled
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Against you, you, lord, are merciful and forgiving."
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You just tell god, "god, i'm grateful that you're god and
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I'm not.
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God, i'm grateful that you're loving, you're forgiving, you're
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Good, you're merciful."
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And so you thank god for his love and his promises.
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And then number six, the sixth thing you do is you humbly
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Confess, "i humbly confess my sins."
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Confess just means to admit.
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That's all it means.
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The word confess in greek is the word homologeo.
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Homo meaning same.
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Homosexual, homo sapien, homogenized milk.
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Means same.
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Homologeo means to speak the same.
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To confess means, "i just agree.
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You're right, god.
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That's wrong.
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I agree with you, god.
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I was wrong.
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You were right."
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And that's what confession is.
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And so god responds to humility.
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When i'm prideful, god doesn't hear my prayers.
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God doesn't listen to prideful prayers.
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God resists the proud, the bible says, but gives grace to
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The humble.
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But when i go, "god, i really blew it.
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In fact, i've been blowing it for a long time, and let me tell
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You specifically how i'm blowing it."
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Daniel gets very, very specific in confessing.
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I just wrote some of the verses, so i'm just gonna read them to
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You and not even comment, and i want you to circle the verbs
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Which are the sins, okay?
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He says, "we've sinned and done wrong."
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Then he says, "we've rebelled against you."
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That's one, rebelled.
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Circle that.
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"we've rebelled against you."
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He says, "we've ignored your commands."
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Circle "ignored."
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He says, "we've rejected your laws.
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We made up our own morality.
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We rejected your laws."
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He says, "we have refused to listen to your servants, the
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Prophets," refused, "who spoke the message to our kings and our
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Leaders and our parents and everybody else in our nation."
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He says--this is very specific.
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We're all at fault here, every generation.
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It's not like one generation.
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In america every generation's got part of the blame.
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And then in verse 7 and 8 he says this.
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"we've brought disgrace and shame on ourselves as a nation
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Because we've been unfaithful to you."
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He said, "you know what, god?
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We've committed spiritual adultery.
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We gave our love to somebody else when we're supposed to give
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Our love to you.
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We've been unfaithful to you."
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And he said, "this is true of all of us, including our kings,
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Our leaders, and our parents."
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He said, "we--" next verse, verse 10, "we paid no attention
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To you when you told us how to live."
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"you told us what's right and wrong, what's morally good,
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What's not."
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He said, "this clear teaching came through your promise."
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Verse 13, "but we kept on sinning.
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We never gave you a second thought.
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We were oblivious to the clear warnings.
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So, god," he says that, "you had no choice but to let disaster
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Loose in our nation, on us since we persistently and defiantly
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Ignored you."
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And then he sums it all up in verse 16 and he says, "and now
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All the other nations mock us."
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Does any of this sound vaguely familiar to you?
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I just read you a laundry list of america.
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I just read you the last 50 years of america right there.
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Now, daniel knows we don't deserve god's blessing, but he
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Cast himself on the grace of god.
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He goes, "god, we could never earn this.
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We could never deserve this.
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We don't deserve to get back to home, get back to you.
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We don't deserve your blessing, but i'm gonna cast myself on
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Your mercy."
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And in the next verse, he says this.
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"o god, o god, listen to me.
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Hear my request.
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We don't ask because we deserve help.
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We don't.
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We don't ask 'cause we deserve but because you are so merciful.
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You are a good, good father, and you are merciful."
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Now, how does god respond to this kind of prayer, the six
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Things that we just taught you?
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Well, in verse 20, here's how god responds.
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Daniel says, "while i kept on praying--" let me stop
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Right there.
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Circle the phrase kept on.
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Daniel didn't pray this prayer one time.
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He's praying it over and over and over and over.
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"god, i need your help."
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He's praying this over and over.
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He said, "i kept on praying."
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If you don't--you pray about something one time, you don't
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Care about it.
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He says, "while i kept on praying and confessing my sins
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And confessing the sins of my people, and pleading with the
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Lord," he's emotional in this, "suddenly the angel gabriel
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Appeared in my vision."
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Now, you guys know who gabriel is?
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There are three archangels.
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There was lucifer.
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He fell.
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He became satan.
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There's michael, and there's gabriel.
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Gabriel's the guy who shows up at christmas.
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Hello?
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Okay, okay.
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So we actually know the names of these guys, and this is so
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Important that god sends the angel gabriel in a vision
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To daniel.
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And he says, "suddenly, while i'm doing all this praying, the
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Angel gabriel appeared in my vision and said this: 'daniel,
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I've been sent--'" obviously by god.
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"i've been sent to help you understand god's plan.
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Now, the moment you began praying, the answer was given,
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And i'm here to tell it to you, for god loves you very much."
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Now, god doesn't have to send gabriel to me and he doesn't
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Have to send gabriel to you because we have the second half
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Of the bible that was written that tells us all about jesus,
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And so i can tell you right now what god will say to you.
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"i love you very, very, very, very, very, very much.
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I feel very, very deeply--have deep feelings for you,"
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God says.
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"i saw you born.
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I saw you grow.
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I saw all the hurts.
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I saw the happy times, the sad ti--i've seen everything in your
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Life, and i have a plan for your life and i have a timetable for
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Your life.
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And when you started praying, i heard that prayer.
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And i wanna help you understand my plan for your life because i
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Love you very, very much."
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Now, you say, "well, wait a minute, rick.
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This is god talking to daniel.
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I'm not daniel."
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No, you're not.
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Neither am i, but i know this prayer will work for you, and
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The reason i know it will work for you is because the exact
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Same formula is given in another part of the bible to anybody.
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It's to all of god's people.
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It's called 2 chronicles 7:14, one of the most famous promises
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In the entire bible.
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Now, before i read this promise, i want you to understand it's
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One of the most misused, misquoted verses in the bible.
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I've actually heard politicians quote this verse as a promise
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To america.
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It is not a promise to america.
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It is not a promise to any nation.
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It is a promise to god's people, and god's people are in
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Every nation.
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So this is not a promise for america, this is a promise for
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You and me and believers anywhere else in any other
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Nation of the world.
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And it is for us.
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It's not for everybody.
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2 chronicles 7:14, god says, "i got four conditions.
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If you'll do these four things, i'll do three things."
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"if my people, if my people who are called by my name--" are you
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Called by my name?
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Are you called a christian?
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That's being called by the name of christ.
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So if you're a christian, you call yourself a christian--"if
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My people, who are called by my name," and here are the four
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Things, "will humble themselves," that's confession,
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"and pray," that's pleading, "and seek my face and turn from
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Their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven, i will forgive
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Their sins, and i will heal their land."
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All of the elements of daniel's prayer are in that promise.
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We're gonna claim that promise.
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Anybody with me?
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Anybody with me?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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God says that--i don't know what you need healing in.
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Healing in your mind.
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Healing in your heart.
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Healing in your body.
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Healing in your business.
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Healing in your finances.
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Healing in your relationships.
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Healing of your fears.
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Your business needs healing.
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Your family needs healing.
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Your marriage needs healing.
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Your nation needs healing.
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"if my people, who are called by my name," god says, "will humble
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Themselves," "i blew it, lord.
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I just blew it," "and pray," "i'm pleading, god."
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"i did not seek you and i made a bunch of dumb decisions and now
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I'm paying for it," "will humble themselves and pray and seek my
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Face," "you got my attention, god.
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I'm looking at you," "and turn from their ways--their wicked
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Ways, then i will hear from heaven, i will forgive their
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Sins, and i will heal their land."
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Period, done. that's it.
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♪♪♪
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Pastor rick: i know many of you use the "daily hope" devotionals
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As part of your regular bible study, and so i wanna share some
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Exciting news.
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We've put 365 of the best devotionals into a brand new
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Book that we're calling "the daily hope devotional: purpose,
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Peace, and promise for every day."
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This devotional book is designed
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With clear, practical, biblical
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Teaching to help you make
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Knowing god your number
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One priority.
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I believe it will help you stay
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Focused on god throughout the
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Day as he provides you with real purpose, lasting peace, and his
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Unfailing promises.
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Imagine starting every day like that.
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This book is a great way to share the hope you have in jesus
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With your friends, coworkers, and relatives.
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I hope you'll get a copy for everyone you know.
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Announcer: be sure and request
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Your copy when you partner with
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"daily hope" to take the word
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Of god to a hurting world.
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♪♪♪
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Rick Warren - The Kind of Prayer God Answers (Part 2)

October 5, 2025 | 27:29

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