Pastor Tim shares how a response of prayer in the book of Acts 4:23-26 was the first instinct designed for the church when panic could have been what came natural.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Prayer Is Our Protest | September 29, 2025
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- Hey, family is pastor tim
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- Timberlake of celebration church.
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- I'm so excited about the word that god has given us
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- For our time together.
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- And today, as we search through the word of god,
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- I want you to see his goodness, his grace, his steadfast
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- Love and care towards us.
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- And we're going to be talking about prayer today.
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- And my charge, encouragement to you
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- Is that as this broadcast ends, take some time today
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- To get into your prayer closet.
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- Take some time to sit down in your prayer chair.
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- Take some time with the lord and pray
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- So that you can hear his heart.
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- Let's go into the message as it has already begun.
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- Title prayer is our protest.
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- He is sovereign.
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- So look at what peter and john do
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- According to the text when they are released.
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- It says that they go back to their community.
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- They go back to the circle.
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- They go back to their friends, and they begin to pray.
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- Number one,
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- The first instinct of the church wasn█t panic.
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- It was prayer.
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- What was reported
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- As intimidation became fuel
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- For intercession.
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- It was prayer.
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- They weren't stressed.
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- They were prayerful.
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- Scripture
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- Says they went back to their community
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- And they begin to pray.
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- What i've learned
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- Is that what you report
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- Determines what you repeat.
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- Fear reports.
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- They breed silence.
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- But faith reports, birth prayer.
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- And the reality is, is every threat against you
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- Can either be a headline for your fear or a headline
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- For god's faithfulness.
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- It says they pray.
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- Look at your neighbor. tell your neighbor you need to pray.
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- You need to pray.
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- They pray.
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- They pray.
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- The enemy's
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- News becomes heaven's cue.
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- When the church prays,
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- Every enemy, every giant,
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- Every adversary in your life
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- Is an announcement that your season is changing.
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- When you pray.
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- If you
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- Don't pray, things will stay the same.
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- If you don't pray, mountains won't move.
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- If you don't pray, giants won't fall.
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- If you don't pray,
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- Your life will continue to move in the same direction.
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- But when you pray,
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- Things supernaturally happen.
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- So why don't we pray more?
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- I'll tell you why we don't pray
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- Because we believe
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- That comfort is covering.
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- We're so used to being comfortable
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- That we think because we're comfortable,
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- We are covered by god.
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- Comfort does not equate to covering.
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- Sometimes god wants you so comfortable that change.
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- Sometimes god wants you so uncomfortable
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- That you actually transform
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- Into the person he desires for you to be.
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- Sometimes god wants you to do some things
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- That your flesh does not want you to do.
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- And we have the nerve to think that we can live prayerless live
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- And god will bless us.
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- And we have the nerve to think that we can live prayerless live
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- And god will open up doors for us, and we click on youtube,
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- And we turn the channel on to listen to some preacher
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- That promises us some garbage.
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- When we live prayerless lives.
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- Hear me turn that garbage off.
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- Go to your prayer closet.
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- Find you on a corner in your house.
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- Your apartment.
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- Find you a seat in your car.
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- And get before the feet of god and pray the will of god.
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- Pray the mind of god so you can experience the heart of god.
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- I want you to
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- Understand the truth,
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- And you may not like this, and your flesh may not like this.
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- But i'm telling you, when you cross over into eternity,
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- Your spirit and your soul
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- Will take this crazy boy from creedmoor, north carolina
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- For convicting the hell out of you and reminding you
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- That there's a standard that god is calling you to
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- That's higher than your flesh, that's higher than your will.
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- That's higher than your one.
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- That's higher than your ways.
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- Scripture teaches us my ways are not his ways,
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- And my ways are not defined by what he desires
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- For me to do that, to define by what his word says.
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- So hear me when i tell you
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- That you're not judged by what you do.
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- You're judged by what he told you to do.
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- And he says, if my people
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- Who are called by my name will humble themselves
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- And seek my face, then
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- They shall hear from heaven.
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- Stop thinking
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- You're going to hear from heaven without a prayer life.
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- You got your little list and you got your little dream board.
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- And you got your little pinterest.
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- And you got all these different things. and you.
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- And the only thing you're
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- Concerned about is you and what you want.
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- No prayer life, but you got an expectation
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- That god needs to do something for you.
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- No relationship, no consistency.
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- But you demand greatness from god.
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- How dare we demand something from god that we have not first
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- Given him?
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- Scripture says,
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- And they prayed, and they prayed and they prayed.
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- They went back to their community.
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- They went back to their friends, and they prayed.
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- I love this because it shows me
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- That my circle were either multiply my fear
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- Or magnify my faith.
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- You need to choose your friends carefully.
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- You need to choose who you define as friend
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- And who you define as associate.
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- You need to choose who you define as family
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- And who you define as associate.
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- You need to do a row check right now.
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- You need to see who is sitting on your row,
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- And make sure
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- That they are in alignment with what you are believing.
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- God for.
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- And i wonder,
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- Is there anybody listening to me right now that's grateful
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- That god has positioned you around some people
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- That will pray for you, that will lift
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- You up, that reminds you god has a plan for you
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- That will remind you that the devil is a liar.
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- See, there's two types of people on your roll right now.
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- They're the type of people
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- That will thank god and pray to god
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- Because he's done something for them.
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- I'm going to pray because he's blessed me.
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- I'm going to pray because he set me free.
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- I'm going to pray because i got the things that i want.
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- And then there's the other people.
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- These are the people that i love
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- That say, come hell or high water.
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- I'm going to pray and praise god in spite of
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- I don't got everything i need,
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- But in spite of that, god is still good.
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- My body is still right with pain,
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- But in spite of it, god is still a healer.
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- My kids are still crazy,
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- But in spite of it, god is still a redeemer.
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- God is still a deliverer.
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- God is still a restorer.
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- And i want to do.
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- I got about 15 people up in here today that said, it's fine up.
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- I'm going to praise and i'm going to pray,
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- And i'm going to thank jesus because he is lord.
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- Y'all sit down.
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- Y'all acting crazy. y'all acting crazy.
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- Sit, sit sit.
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- Hey, family, as we take a break.
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- My prayer is that this broadcast is blessing you.
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- I pray this message, as we journey
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- Through the book of acts,
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- Unlocks destiny on the inside of you.
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- Remove the scales from your eyes
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- And it removes whatever earmuffs you may have on your ears
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- That are blocking you from hearing god.
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- I want to provide to you a resource today
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- Better, there's some bumps that we have
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- To navigate, some mountains that we have to scale,
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- And some giants that we have to defeat.
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- Let's go back into today's message as we continue to learn
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- The word of god.
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- The first response
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- Was prayer.
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- That was at the last resort.
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- Says when they were released,
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- They prayed.
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- They didn't strategize a comeback.
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- They prayed.
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- They didn't think about how to plot against their enemies.
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- They prayed.
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- They they didn't hop in the chat and go back and forth.
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- They prayed.
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- They weren't worried about who was throwing rocks at them.
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- They prayed.
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- They weren't worried about how people were doing them
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- And their perspective to people they prayed.
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- They were not worried about who was talking about them.
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- They prayed.
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- The reason we don't pray is because we want control
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- More than we want communion with him.
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- Because prayer
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- Requires surrender,
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- And surrender to a control freak
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- Feels like weakness.
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- So we avoid it
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- And we cling to our illusion of control.
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- Understanding in our heart of hearts
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- That we have no control in the first place.
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- We want to rush the process and we want to rush god.
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- And we want things to happen when we want them to happen.
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- Because surely our relationship with jesus christ
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- Is supposed to be about us.
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- And we read the bible with us as the first person
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- Because we got first person syndrome.
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- We are the main star in the text,
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- And if it doesn't apply to me, it must not be for me,
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- When in fact all of the word of god is inspired by god himself,
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- And all of the word of god is for you,
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- Whether your flesh likes it or not.
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- When you apply
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- The word of god, scripture tells you that you are renewed
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- And you're thinking and you're changed
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- And transformed to become more like him.
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- So regardless of
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- If your flesh likes it or not, your spirit man thinks you now.
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- We want to be the star.
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- So we call ourselves david against goliath.
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- We want to be the star.
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- So we think we're moses parting the red sea.
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- We want to be the star.
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- So we think we're adam and eve in the garden.
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- We want to be the star.
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- We think we're the third coming of jesus christ.
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- We want to be the star.
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- How dare we play in jesus face?
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- We want to be the star.
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- To remain silent in the face of coaches, disrespect
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- And mockery to jesus.
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- And we say nothing about it,
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- And we act like he owes us something,
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- All while supporting.
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- Plays where jesus is portrayed
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- By a woman who does not even believe in him.
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- Your favorite podcast and internet
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- Preacher may not talk about it, but i am.
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- We support movies that that
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- Make jesus into a horror movie.
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- Have this image of jesus
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- Being this effeminate man with long hair and
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- Just this model that.
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- When i read scripture,
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- It teaches us about a man.
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- That carried a cross.
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- That cross.
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- Based upon what theologians and historians believe
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- Was over 250 pounds.
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- He carried that cross
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- After his flesh had been torn
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- From his bones. yes.
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- He carried that cross
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- After crown of thorns had been placed on his head.
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- He carried that cross
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- After he was tied to a whipping post.
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- He carried that cross because he had you on his mind.
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- And we spend days where we don't
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- Thank him for that.
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- But yet
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- Still we ask him for everything.
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- We give our money in a mockery
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- Of jesus, and we ask him for everything.
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- We listen to
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- Songs that curse his name, and we ask him for everything
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- That we sleep with,
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- Whoever we want to sleep with, and we ask him for everything.
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- I don't care if you don't like it.
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- You need to hear it.
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- Over.
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- Hear me, hear me.
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- Hear me
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- When i take my last breath.
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- And i encountered the seat of judgment.
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- He is not going to ask me that day.
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- Like what you were teaching.
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- Did they like what you said?
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- Did they feel comfortable in their sin
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- Because you preached a lukewarm gospel?
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- He's not going to ask me that.
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- He is going to ask me.
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- Did you do what i commanded you to do?
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- Did you preach the unadulterated gospel
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- That i gave you to preach?
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- Did you do what i asked you to do?
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- Did you come in my name?
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- Did you live your life with integrity?
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- Did you model a life after the gospel you said you believe in?
- 00:15:19.134 --> 00:15:22.871
- And if you did those things, well done,
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- That good and faithful servant.
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- If you did not depart from me, i know you not.
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- I'm not here to be liked.
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- I'm. not here to build a big church
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- That's popular
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- Because people like coming to celebrate in church.
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- No, no, no.
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- I'm here to steward the people that god sent here
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- And point you back to the feet of jesus
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- And tell you without jesus, you are not going to make it
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- And tell you there is no way outside of the way,
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- The truth and the living god and his name is
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- Jesus.
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- So stop
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- Spending days and seasons where you don't have communion
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- With him.
- 00:16:12.588 --> 00:16:13.856
- You don't talk to him, and you don't fellowship
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- With him when you're not married to him.
- 00:16:15.958 --> 00:16:17.926
- Stop cheating on your savior with idols of this world,
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- With other gods that you set before yourself.
- 00:16:22.965 --> 00:16:26.101
- Stop cheating on your savior with other relationships
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- That you have prioritized above him.
- 00:16:29.738 --> 00:16:31.907
- Stop being a whore to your savior
- 00:16:31.907 --> 00:16:35.544
- And serve him the way he desires to be served.
- 00:16:35.544 --> 00:16:48.757
- Prayer changes you
- 00:16:49.191 --> 00:16:52.761
- And it changes the things around you.
- 00:16:52.761 --> 00:16:57.499
- Peter and john were worried about what happened to them,
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- With two concerned about what's going to happen
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- To us, who will talk about us
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- When they like me, and when my friends leave me,
- 00:17:04.106 --> 00:17:06.675
- And what my boyfriend will think when i tell him
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- I don't want to shake up no more.
- 00:17:08.677 --> 00:17:10.045
- I don't want to sleep with him no more about my girlfriend.
- 00:17:10.045 --> 00:17:12.648
- She might move on
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- If i tell her i can't live my life like this anymore.
- 00:17:13.782 --> 00:17:16.652
- So what if they leave?
- 00:17:16.652 --> 00:17:19.188
- Let them leave.
- 00:17:19.188 --> 00:17:20.722
- You have eternity with jesus.
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- You have salvation that cannot be relinquished
- 00:17:23.625 --> 00:17:27.229
- And taken back from that relationship.
- 00:17:27.229 --> 00:17:30.399
- So if it comes to something, so be it.
- 00:17:30.399 --> 00:17:37.339
- Peter and john were concerned about who is going to leave them
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- Their mind was
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- Fixed on what jesus had already done.
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- It was fixed on him saving them and healing them
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- And delivering them.
- 00:17:51.220 --> 00:17:52.087
- And so they prayed.
- 00:17:52.087 --> 00:17:56.592
- Didn't just pray any kind of prayers.
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- They prayed
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- The prayer of david found in psalms chapter two,
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- Beginning at verse number one,
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- That says, why do the nations rage?
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- And the people supplied in vain?
- 00:18:07.903 --> 00:18:09.404
- The kings of the earth set themselves,
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- And the rulers take counsel together against the lord
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- And against his anointed.
- 00:18:14.910 --> 00:18:18.180
- Prayer isn't about inventing new words.
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- It's about aligning
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- With the eternal ones.
- 00:18:24.386 --> 00:18:27.556
- And when you pray scripture,
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- We step out of panic
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- And into prophecy.
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- You step out of pressure
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- And you step into purpose.
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- What i love about this verse
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- Is it teaches me
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- That prayer turns pressure
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- Into prophecy.
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- Instead of collapsing
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- On the threats, they recognize david psalm
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- As already describing their situation accurately.
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- And so they pray the scripture.
- 00:19:07.729 --> 00:19:10.699
- They pray the word of god.
- 00:19:10.699 --> 00:19:13.702
- And when you pray, the word of god, god
- 00:19:13.702 --> 00:19:17.072
- Always responds because he said it.
- 00:19:17.072 --> 00:19:20.676
- Did you want to know why your prayers aren't getting answered?
- 00:19:21.877 --> 00:19:24.980
- It's because you are praying.
- 00:19:25.614 --> 00:19:26.782
- Prayer is contrary to the heart of your father.
- 00:19:26.782 --> 00:19:31.887
- And it is not until you begin to pray
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- What god said that you begin to see what god sees.
- 00:19:34.489 --> 00:19:37.960
- It is not until you begin to pray what god has spoken,
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- That you begin to see the hand of god moving.
- 00:19:42.764 --> 00:19:46.668
- If you prayed the wrong things,
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- You will see the wrong things.
- 00:19:50.706 --> 00:19:53.008
- But if you pray the right things,
- 00:19:53.709 --> 00:19:56.878
- You will see the hand of god.
- 00:19:56.878 --> 00:19:58.247
- Move things on your behalf.
- 00:19:58.247 --> 00:20:01.583
- We have to pray.
- 00:20:01.583 --> 00:20:05.287
- For a prayerless
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- Life is a powerless
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- Life,
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- And we have many churches
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- That have no power.
- 00:20:14.930 --> 00:20:17.633
- The lights are on,
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- But there is no power.
- 00:20:19.901 --> 00:20:22.971
- The haze machine is on,
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- But there is no power.
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- The singers are singing, but there is no power.
- 00:20:27.676 --> 00:20:31.313
- The preacher is preaching, but there is no power.
- 00:20:31.313 --> 00:20:35.450
- The greeters are greeting, but there is no power.
- 00:20:35.450 --> 00:20:39.087
- If you are a prayerless person,
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- You are a powerless person.
- 00:20:41.123 --> 00:20:43.058
- And the reality is, some of us have gotten used to gathering
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- In the name of the lord with the power of the lord.
- 00:20:47.229 --> 00:20:53.402
- We think entertainment.
- 00:20:53.902 --> 00:20:57.172
- Is an encounter with jesus.
- 00:20:57.773 --> 00:21:02.277
- Hear me
- 00:21:02.511 --> 00:21:03.345
- And hear me loud and clear.
- 00:21:03.345 --> 00:21:06.114
- If the power of god does not hit your life,
- 00:21:06.114 --> 00:21:09.851
- You will leave the same way that you came.
- 00:21:09.851 --> 00:21:14.156
- But if the power of god hits your life,
- 00:21:14.956 --> 00:21:18.327
- You will leave renewed in your mind,
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- Dead to your flesh,
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- Your spirit refreshed,
- 00:21:25.834 --> 00:21:28.704
- And your future set like concrete.
- 00:21:28.704 --> 00:21:32.441
- So why settle
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- For a prayerless life?
- 00:21:35.377 --> 00:21:39.948
- When god has made available to you
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- The key to unlock the doors
- 00:21:44.553 --> 00:21:47.122
- He has set before you?
- 00:21:47.122 --> 00:21:50.625
- May we be a people like peter and john that pray
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- Before we do anything else.
- 00:21:54.596 --> 00:21:58.200
- Understanding that
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- Prayer means god to be bigger than any threat
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- We face.
- 00:22:05.107 --> 00:22:10.645
- You have to have your mind made up
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- That you're not afraid
- 00:22:14.449 --> 00:22:16.618
- Of the threats that come against you.
- 00:22:17.352 --> 00:22:20.522
- I'm not afraid of no demon or no devil.
- 00:22:20.522 --> 00:22:24.025
- I got a direct line to the king of kings
- 00:22:24.893 --> 00:22:27.295
- And the lord of lords.
- 00:22:27.295 --> 00:22:33.735
- I shure aren't afraid of you.
- 00:22:34.369 --> 00:22:38.273
- I get threats every week online.
- 00:22:38.907 --> 00:22:42.411
- I don't send back a threat.
- 00:22:42.411 --> 00:22:44.780
- I pray.
- 00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:45.747
- God, i pray that you would bless that person.
- 00:22:45.747 --> 00:22:48.283
- I pray that you would bless them beyond their wildest dreams.
- 00:22:48.283 --> 00:22:50.819
- I pray that you would grab ahold of their heart
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- And turn them back to your heart,
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- So that they would know true love and encounter
- 00:22:54.022 --> 00:22:56.892
- Your presence. encounter your power.
- 00:22:56.892 --> 00:22:58.994
- Encounter your person.
- 00:22:58.994 --> 00:23:00.562
- Don't be moved by no threats.
- 00:23:00.562 --> 00:23:03.565
- You got prayer, and as long as you got a prayer life,
- 00:23:04.566 --> 00:23:08.637
- You got the activating key that will move you
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- And usher you from the mouth of other people
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- To the heart of the father.
- 00:23:15.410 --> 00:23:16.678
- Can i get a good amen on that?
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- Scripture says
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- Before they address the problem,
- 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.689
- They magnify their creator.
- 00:23:27.689 --> 00:23:30.792
- Sovereign lord.
- 00:23:31.159 --> 00:23:34.463
- Maker of the heavens and the earth,
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- The sea and everything
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- In between them.
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- Before you ask god for anything.
- 00:23:43.371 --> 00:23:44.940
- Thank god for everything.
- 00:23:44.940 --> 00:23:48.043
- You got breath in your lungs.
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- Clothed in your right mind.
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- He's blessed
- 00:23:56.184 --> 00:23:57.219
- You beyond your wildest dreams and expectations.
- 00:23:57.219 --> 00:24:00.922
- And yeah, i hear you,
- 00:24:01.423 --> 00:24:03.792
- Pastor.
- 00:24:03.792 --> 00:24:04.459
- I don't got everything i want.
- 00:24:04.459 --> 00:24:07.929
- But all that you have need of his hand
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- Has provided.
- 00:24:10.932 --> 00:24:18.373
- So we stand
- 00:24:18.707 --> 00:24:21.276
- In awe of his faithfulness, his love,
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- His protection, his grace, his steadfast
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- Kindness towards us.
- 00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:34.189
- And we ask him to forgive us
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- For living our lives prayerless.
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- We're family.
- 00:24:41.463 --> 00:24:42.097
- We're out of time for today.
- 00:24:42.097 --> 00:24:43.331
- But i want to encourage you
- 00:24:43.331 --> 00:24:44.399
- To continue to go on this journey with us
- 00:24:44.399 --> 00:24:46.167
- As we're going through the book of acts
- 00:24:46.167 --> 00:24:48.270
- And as we're seeing how the book of acts changes
- 00:24:48.270 --> 00:24:51.573
- And transforms our lives into becoming more like jesus.
- 00:24:51.573 --> 00:24:55.677
- My prayer is that this broadcast has blessed you, and if so,
- 00:24:55.677 --> 00:24:59.281
- I want you to pray about partnering with us.
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- Help us to continue to spread of the gospel of jesus christ
- 00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:05.820
- At the bottom of the screen.
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- Our team is going to throw some information,
- 00:25:06.821 --> 00:25:09.124
- And if you got your phone, i want you to scan that qr code
- 00:25:09.124 --> 00:25:12.827
- Or put in that web address or email us.
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- 00:25:18.199 --> 00:25:20.602
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- Or partnership too small.
- 00:25:23.104 --> 00:25:24.539
- Every single cent matters
- 00:25:24.539 --> 00:25:26.274
- In the grand scheme of eternity in helping us advance
- 00:25:26.274 --> 00:25:29.144
- The kingdom of god. one soul at a time.
- 00:25:29.144 --> 00:25:31.780
- I want to pray with you right now.
- 00:25:31.780 --> 00:25:33.415
- For those that are struggling with prayer,
- 00:25:33.415 --> 00:25:35.584
- For those that are struggling in their relationship
- 00:25:35.584 --> 00:25:37.619
- With jesus christ,
- 00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:38.653
- Or maybe you're in a season where you feel dry
- 00:25:38.653 --> 00:25:41.089
- When you feel like you're in a wilderness.
- 00:25:41.089 --> 00:25:42.991
- I'm going to pray that god would move in your life.
- 00:25:42.991 --> 00:25:45.493
- And even if your circumstances are not change,
- 00:25:45.493 --> 00:25:48.296
- That you would change in your circumstance.
- 00:25:48.296 --> 00:25:50.732
- And so right now, in jesus name,
- 00:25:50.732 --> 00:25:52.300
- I thank you for my brother and my sister,
- 00:25:52.300 --> 00:25:53.969
- And i just ask right now, in the name of jesus,
- 00:25:53.969 --> 00:25:56.638
- That you would allow them to know that you are with them
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- Every step of the way.
- 00:25:59.741 --> 00:26:01.142
- Your word says that you will never leave us
- 00:26:01.142 --> 00:26:03.345
- Where you forsake us,
- 00:26:03.345 --> 00:26:04.779
- And you'll be with us until the very end of all time.
- 00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:07.248
- And so right now, god, we thank you
- 00:26:07.248 --> 00:26:08.950
- That you are our ever present help.
- 00:26:08.950 --> 00:26:11.653
- You're there in our time of need.
- 00:26:11.653 --> 00:26:14.389
- And god,
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- We ask right now, in the name of jesus,
- 00:26:15.256 --> 00:26:16.324
- That you would give us peace that surpasses
- 00:26:16.324 --> 00:26:18.226
- All of our natural understanding.
- 00:26:18.226 --> 00:26:20.195
- We need it today, now more than ever before.
- 00:26:20.195 --> 00:26:23.164
- And so, god, saturate us with your presence, overwhelm
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- Us with your power, and got change us and change
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- Everything that is not like you so that we can become like you.
- 00:26:30.071 --> 00:26:34.743
- In jesus name we pray. amen.
- 00:26:34.743 --> 00:26:37.779
- The family i thank you for leaning in
- 00:26:37.779 --> 00:26:40.015
- With us for this broadcast
- 00:26:40.015 --> 00:26:41.916
- And these moments that we've had together.
- 00:26:41.916 --> 00:26:44.085
- If you ever in the jacksonville or north florida
- 00:26:44.085 --> 00:26:45.820
- Area, stop by celebration church on any sunday 9 a.m.
- 00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:49.524
- And 11 a.m..
- 00:26:49.524 --> 00:26:50.558
- I can't wait to see you either in person
- 00:26:50.558 --> 00:26:52.927
- Or right back here next week.
- 00:26:52.927 --> 00:26:54.496
- And if you haven't done so already,
- 00:26:54.496 --> 00:26:56.164
- Grab my new book, the bumpy road to better.
- 00:26:56.164 --> 00:26:58.333
- I truly believe that it will change and bless your life.
- 00:26:58.333 --> 00:27:01.736
- I want you to know god loves you.
- 00:27:01.736 --> 00:27:03.071
- I love you and i'll see you right back here.
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- Same time, same place. next week.
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