Pray Wild Prayers | Immersive Prayer Weekend

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- Well good morning, everybody. My name is Brian Tome.

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I'm what's called a senior pastor around here,

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if we haven't met before.

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Everyone staying warm today? I hope so.

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Hey, if you're a part of our church

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and you've ever been on the app and we have your email,

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you got an email from us this last week

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on a very, very weighty matter regarding

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a firing that we undertook.

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And if you didn't get that email and you're like,

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"Hey, I thought it was part of a church?"

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We'd love you to be able to get any sort of email we have.

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Just register on the app and we'll be able

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to send you that and other emails that we do.

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But I just want to say this,

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we're not talking about that today.

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We're going to maybe pray about that.

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But all that needs to be said about that weighty matter

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I put in that email, and that is the details

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and the really deal.

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This week, if you're curious, like,

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why would a church do that?

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Why would they call somebody out like that?

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What does church discipline look like?

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I'm going to write an article, I'm going to put it

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in the in the app this week if you want to understand

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a little bit more about behind

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our thinking on things like that.

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So no statement today. Already made it.

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That's all we're doing. Let's move on.

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And Joel is -- we can move on.

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I'm not going to move on. Joel's a friend of mine,

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by the way, there's a higher standard we hold,

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even with friends of mine.

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We have to hold that standard.

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But this doesn't define us.

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So let me pray and then we're going to get going

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on something pretty fun today. Everyone good with that?

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All right. God, thank You for being a God of truth

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and a God of grace.

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And we want to encounter You today and know You today

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in a powerful and profound way.

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God, we pray that Your Spirit, Your Spirit

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will come and inhabit our rooms today

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and that we would get to a new place

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in our communication with You. Amen.

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- Let's stand together.

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If you're online, join with us.

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Here's what we're going to do, we're going to focus

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our full attention on who God is and say this to Him.

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- It's our hope that today is a special day for you,

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one where you get to encounter God in a powerful way.

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Not just go to church,

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not just watch a church service online,

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but you experience God specifically through prayer,

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in a new way, in a fresh way.

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So to that end, we are actually kind of

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flipping the script and changing things up

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a little bit this morning.

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But I want to give you a sense of some of the things

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that are going on in our community.

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Now we're wrapping up our series called Pray Wild Prayers

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today, which has been so good.

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But actually next week something really special happens as well.

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It's called the Super Bowl of Preaching. Come on.

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And if you are like maybe not around Crossroads

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and those words Super Bowl of Preaching

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in that order sound insane. Hey, I get it.

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The Super Bowl of Preaching is actually something

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we started, man, over a decade ago to recognize

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what was the least attended weekend of the entire year

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and actually kind of change it up.

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It's become one of our most attended,

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one of our most attended for specifically people

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who, you know, maybe don't love the typical church thing

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or aren't going to easily say yes to an invite to church,

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this is -- it's fun and it's meaningful.

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It's like I literally the first time I went,

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I had a friend invite me, and like,

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"You want me to come to what now?"

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I laughed hysterically and I cried in the same service.

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Like I felt like I saw God, I saw church, I saw faith,

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and I even saw myself a little bit differently as a result.

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We'd love for you to come.

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We'd love for you to come to one of our sites

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if you're within driving distance.

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If you're not, we've got an incredible experience.

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It'll even be live and interactive happening

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at Crossroads.net/SuperBowl.

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It's going to be amazing. Don't miss it.

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And if you live within range of one of our sites,

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we'd actually love your help making the party happen.

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If you're one of the people who hears like,

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"Hey, my church needs help and I'm going to jump in,"

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we need you, we have hundreds of volunteer spots,

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particularly with Kids Club,

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that we'd love your help filling.

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Help make the party happen.

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Now, if you're not near one of our physical sites,

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we'd also love your help making the party happen

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by hosting a watch party.

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We're actually going to have a Q&A on how to do that

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and what that looks like immediately after service

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with myself and some of my team.

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You can join us for that.

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Now, whether it's Super Bowl of Preaching,

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whether it's the weekend that you're watching right now,

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all the things that we do are meant to help people

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grow with God and take their next step with Him.

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But it all happens because people are generous

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and faithful and trust God with their finances

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and with their resources.

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Now, you might be new around here.

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We want you to know, like, hey, we're not looking

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to get anything from you. We want something great for you.

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We want you to experience more of God,

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more of His presence, more of His joy, more of His fun,

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more of His purpose in your life.

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If you've got questions about what Crossroads

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believes about money you can do so at crossroads.net/give.

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Or if you're like, ready to take that step

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towards trusting God with your finances,

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you can do that as well, just head to Crossroads.net/give.

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Now, I'm excited about this weekend,

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about the prayer experience that's happening.

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I'm excited about next weekend

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with the Super Bowl of Preaching,

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but man, right after that is something

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incredibly special called the Run Journey.

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It's where everything we do, our teaching is 11 out of 10.

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We've got small group component where you get

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to process what God's showing you alongside other people

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in a really fun, creative way.

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And there's actually this individual guide.

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It's like a custom growth plan that you'll go through.

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If you live near one of our physical sites,

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you'll be picking this up there in just a couple of weeks.

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But if you don't, if you are part of

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our Anywhere Community across the globe

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or across the world or across the nation,

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we need to get these in the mail to you totally free of charge.

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And we want to do that now.

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Make sure you have it ready to start on time,

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so go to crossroads.net/journey.

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You can scroll all the way to the bottom.

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There's a little form that you fill out

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that'll just give us your information

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so that we can get this in the mail so you're ready to start.

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And there's also this small group component,

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this group component where we just know

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we don't grow best on our own.

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You know, we grow best in the context of community.

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We'd love for you to join us for that.

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And I'll actually be leading a small group on Monday nights.

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We've got all kinds of groups led by

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all different kinds of people

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for all different life stages, demographics.

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You can get all those at Crossroads.net/journey as well.

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But let's say who is the Journey for?

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The Journey is for you.

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If you want to understand more of the specific race

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and purpose that God has created you to run,

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if you've ever felt like just wondering

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how do you fit in or what is the unique purpose

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God has for you, I really, really firmly believe

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this Run Journey will help you towards that end.

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And I know it's called the Run Journey,

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but this isn't like a fitness thing.

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This is a chance for you to experience more

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of what God has made you to experience

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and what He wants for you.

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Now, all the things we do around here are meant

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to help you grow, meant to help you experience

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more of God and His love, His purpose,

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and His plan for your life.

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So thank you so much for joining us.

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We're going to continue in our series

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called Pray Wild Prayers,

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not just by talking about prayer,

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not just by learning about what prayer means,

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but about by experiencing ourselves.

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Let's jump in right now.

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- Yeah. That's going to be great in a couple weeks.

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Trust me. And I think today is going to be great too.

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It's going to be a bit different.

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We've been in the midst of a series looking on prayer.

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And some of the teaching has been great, specifically,

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the teaching that I've done has been great, great.

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But we thought, you know, we're like three weeks

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in this prayer series, the last one,

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here's a wild idea, what if we actually pray.

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Wow. What if instead of talking about prayer,

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we actually pray?

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So that's what we're going to do the rest of our time.

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We have a bunch of things to do to stimulate us.

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That's part of the reason why many of our prayer lives

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is nonexistent or it's its very stale is because

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we're not sure how to pray and we don't use

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all the tools at our disposal.

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So today we're going to use a multisensory approach,

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which is really good to keep your focus when you pray.

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So one of the things that we gave you

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was one of these prayer books.

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You can all take that out. We're going to use this today.

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If you're with us online

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or you're not in any of our rooms right now,

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then just find any piece of paper around you at all

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and you can use this.

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We're going to go through a model for prayer

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that I've used for a long time.

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It's not the only model for prayer that I use,

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but it's one that I use, I've used for a while

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and it's been around for a while. I didn't invent this.

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It's a four step process for knowing how to pray.

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P-R-A-Y. P is for praise, R is for repent,

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A is for ask, and Y is for yield,

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hearing from God and doing what He says.

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Now these four steps are pretty related to

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one of the most iconic symbols for connecting with God

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in the Bible, which was the Old Testament temple.

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The Old Testament temple was a sign of

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the character of God and a sign of the way

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things operate in the heavenlies.

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I'm going to go through the book of Hebrews today.

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The book of Hebrews, as we pray through

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these various portions, was created so that

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the ancient Hebrew people could see how the practices

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in the Old Testament are fulfilled in modern times.

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That's the point of Hebrews was.

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And it says this about the temple.

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It says in Hebrews 8:5: They serve at a sanctuary

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(that's the temple, they, the priests)

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that is a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven.

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So the temple, this ancient millennium,

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millennia old structure that was destroyed

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for the last time in 70 AD,

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it serves to mirror things that are in heaven.

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So let me walk you, just give you a basic overview

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of where we're going to go. This is the temple.

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What you would do is you would leave behind

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all of your old world, and you would come up into the temple.

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This is the outer court. These are the steps coming in.

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Actually, now let's come back here.

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Let's do this right.

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You would leave behind your outer world,

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and you would walk up the steps

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and you would come into the outer court.

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We're going to be at the steps in the outer court.

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Then you would come in to where there was the sacrifices.

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In this outer court there was praise.

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You were saying, "I'm going to leave behind

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what was behind me."

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And then you would come up into here

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where there were sacrifices, we'll talk about,

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which is the part of repentance.

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And then you would come into the more inner courts

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and you would be asking, asking God,

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asking Him for things.

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And then you would come up to veil.

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And this veil was separating where you were here

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from where the high priest was.

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And there was a level of mystery in here,

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as the high priest was interceding for people

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and trying to hear from God.

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And this is where we yield, we yield.

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We praise, we repent, we ask, and we yield.

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We're going to do these four things today as a church.

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And if you're not part of our church,

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we're here today just as a group.

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And these are things that you can do in the future.

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Now let's start with our little prayer book here right now.

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First thing I want to do and I want to pray is

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I recognize I am, I'm distracted.

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I'm thinking of things I've got to do.

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Things pop into my brain.

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And so what I want to do is I just want to

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try to get out of my mind.

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Get out of my mind the things that might distract me.

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Like, oh, remember, call Jill.

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Don't forget to pick up bread when I leave church.

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You know, whatever it is.

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So let's use your thing just to do a brain dump.

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Whatever's on there, whatever you're thinking,

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just put it down. Get it out so you can focus.

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So, God, as we dump these things right now at Your feet,

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as we dump them at Your feet, would You take these things

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and just take care of them?

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Just help us get this out, God.

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Go ahead. Write it down. Get it out.

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1 Peter 5:7 says: Cast all your anxieties on Him.

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Cast these anxieties on Him because He cares for you.

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Okay, now we're doing, God, and as I pray right now,

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you're not going to tell maybe when I'm praying

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and when I'm talking.

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When I'm talking to God, when I'm communicating to God,

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it's not a regimented. I'm conversing with Him.

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So you might not be able to tell what it is,

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but God is present and He is here.

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And so God, right now, as we've written these things down,

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will we try to do, God, we want to leave these things

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behind for the rest for the next hour or so,

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however much time we have left, we want to leave them behind.

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Those are behind us with our normal life.

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And so, God, we are now walking.

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We are ascending the Holy hill.

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We want to walk up the steps to have prayer with You.

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God, I pray that You would open that gigantic door

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to help us enter into Your presence.

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God, we don't want the normal stuff right now.

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We want You and we're intentionally turning our back

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on everything that's on those sheets of paper

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and everything else in our life

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that we're not going to pray about right now.

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We're here today, God, to say we want to be different.

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And we recognize that You're different.

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We're here to actually praise You.

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Hebrews 13:15 says: Through Jesus, therefore,

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let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,

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the fruit of lips that openly profess His Name.

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And God, we start by giving You sacrifice of praise

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and telling You thank You and that we are grateful,

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and You're worthy.

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Let's stand right now. Let's just stand

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and tell Him that right now in prayer and through a song.

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- If you could sing those words with a full heart

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knowing that God's been with you every moment,

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every step of the way, then put your body where your heart is.

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Both hands in the air. Sing at the top of your lungs.

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- God, I think about survival.

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That song says I've survived.

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So many of us, God, we could say, "Man,

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I can't believe I'm here. I survived.

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Survived spiritually, survived emotionally,

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or survived physically. I should be dead.

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I should be dead and I have You to praise that I'm not dead."

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Those branches should have broken

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when I was building tree forts 30 feet up in the air

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as a little kid, on branches as thick as my dad's thumb.

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Should have collapsed. I should be dead.

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Should have been dead when I crawled

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under a school bus that was idling when I got off

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to get a can to crush, and that tire skimmed my hand

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just as I left, should have been dead, but I survived.

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Should have been dead when I went 70 miles an hour

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on a rented motorcycle with no helmet

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and flying 60 feet on pavement and air, but I'm here.

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I should have could have been dead just

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a couple of years ago in a stupid hunting accident

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when a bullet hit a tree five feet above my head.

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I am here, and I am here because of You, God.

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I'm here because of You.

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And I may be gone tomorrow. That's fine.

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I have no sense of entitlement that I should have

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a long life, I have no sense of entitlement

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of exactly what should take place in my life.

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I just know I'm here.

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And I know I'm echoing prayers in here for others

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to say I'm here because of You. We praise You, God.

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You're higher than we are.

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You're greater than we are.

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You're of a different category than we are.

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You are exalted. We are low.

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You are holy. We are unholy.

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You are pure. We are impure.

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You are masterful and long term,

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and we are stupid and short term relative to You.

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You are loving and kind and we are mean and gossipers.

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You think about things that we can't think about.

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You empower people the way we can't empower them.

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Because you own the cattle on a thousand hills.

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You own all resources, all of them, because they are of You.

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And You have a way of seeing things

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and empowering people that none of us have.

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Because You are God, the holy, most upright one.

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And who are You to think of us?

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I can't believe, God, You think of us in a way

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that I wouldn't, I don't think of ants,

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I don't think of them at all. They're way beneath me.

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An ant is closer to me than I am You.

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And yet You think of us.

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Go ahead and have a seat.

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Let's have some more prayer right now.

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Here's how you're going to pray.

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Open up your phone. Take your phone out.

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Go to your photos, and your photos are going to serve

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to remind you of ways that God has been good to you,

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the things that you are grateful for,

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things that you're thankful for.

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Just open up those photos.

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You know, I see, uh, gosh.

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I see a 1952 Dodge Power wagon here that I'm restoring.

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God, thanks for giving me the resources to buy

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an old truck that I don't even need. Thank You.

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I see elk. God, thank You.

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You've enabled me take down two elk this year.

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And now there's my great, great friends.

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God, thank you for richly blessing me with *** log 512.

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Thank You, thank You.

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Always gets me, my three kids, seven grandkids

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made me rich. So rich.

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Go through your pictures.

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Use them as a source of gratitude to God,

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how He's blessed you and if you want to write it down,

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that's great. If not, just just use it.

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Thank you God, I praise You. Thank You for being good to me.

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Murmur it to God. Think it to God. Write it down.

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Just tell Him.

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He never grows tired of His children complimenting him.

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We don't do compliments in our culture

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and therefore many of us don't compliment God.

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Just give it to Him.

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You want your kids to compliment you.

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I'd like it too every once in a while.

00:30:00

Give it to your heavenly father.

00:30:11

Matthew 6:9, Jesus says: Pray then like this:

00:30:14

"Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your Name."

00:30:19

God, You are hallowed, which means holy.

00:30:21

You are distinct. You are different.

00:30:23

You're in a class all your own.

00:30:27

We would never -- We would never be as kind

00:30:29

or as good or as generous to lesser things

00:30:32

the way You are to us. Who are we?

00:30:35

Who are we that you think of us?

00:30:38

We want to be more like You.

00:30:41

And we praise You for who You are. It's astounding.

00:30:50

Now, as we talk with God and as we praise Him,

00:30:56

it's really hard, God, for us to look at You

00:31:00

without simultaneously seeing ourselves.

00:31:03

And when we're looking at You,

00:31:05

I feel that much worse about myself.

00:31:09

The less I believe about You,

00:31:12

the higher I'm going to think about myself.

00:31:16

Maybe the reason, God, were so -- we're so defiant

00:31:19

in our culture and we're so unapologetic is because

00:31:23

we just don't know You and we're just too high on ourselves.

00:31:26

But as I see You and Your standard, I come woefully short.

00:31:32

I am sickened, I'm sickened, actually,

00:31:36

by the things that I do, the things I am,

00:31:39

the thoughts that I have, the way I judge others,

00:31:42

hang ups that I have that I just I'm still hung up on.

00:31:51

I'm not going to confess all of those

00:31:53

in front of thousands of people,

00:31:54

but I have and I will privately,

00:31:56

and I will to my closest friends.

00:31:58

But God, I recognize these things are just heinous

00:32:01

and horrible and I want to repent.

00:32:04

I want to turn from the ways that I'm not like You,

00:32:08

turn the things that disgust You.

00:32:12

As they would come into the temple

00:32:15

and they would start their praise,

00:32:17

and then they would go in and they would have

00:32:19

the place where the sacrifice was.

00:32:21

The sacrifice was given as they would bring

00:32:23

a baby calf, say, or a lamb, or if you were in poverty

00:32:27

and you couldn't afford that to sacrifice,

00:32:29

you could bring a little a turtle dove

00:32:31

or a little dove, pigeon to bring.

00:32:34

And the priests who were men would sacrifice these.

00:32:38

One of the theories for why these priests were men

00:32:40

and why God didn't want women, just a theory,

00:32:43

is that this was a very physical job.

00:32:45

It's like manual labor back when, yeah,

00:32:49

it's manual labor, because all day long

00:32:51

these guys would be taking these lambs and these calves

00:32:54

and lifting them up and putting them down on an altar

00:32:59

all day long and required muscle mass that

00:33:01

the average woman didn't have to do that all day long.

00:33:07

When we think about sacrificial system,

00:33:10

we get kind of grossed out because many of us

00:33:13

have never seen blood unless we accidentally cut ourselves.

00:33:17

So the thought of bloody sacrifice freaks you and I out

00:33:21

because we've never seen an animal die, most of us, before.

00:33:26

We've never -- Most of us, even though we eat chicken,

00:33:28

we've never actually killed a chicken.

00:33:30

This is very rare.

00:33:31

It's only really within the last 60 years in America

00:33:34

that this has been affordable.

00:33:37

In the ancient world, the blood wouldn't freak them out

00:33:39

because they saw blood all the time.

00:33:42

What freaked them out was that they knew

00:33:44

the spiritual significance of what was taking place.

00:33:48

They would bring their animal to the priest.

00:33:50

The priest would put it on top of the altar,

00:33:53

and both of them would put their hands

00:33:54

on top of the animal, and the priest would take a knife

00:33:57

and slit the animal's throat.

00:34:02

And blood would go all over the place,

00:34:05

and there would be a bleeding and a death that was happening.

00:34:09

And this person who had their hands on the animal

00:34:13

wasn't freaked out by the blood.

00:34:14

They were freaked out at the spiritual weightiness of this

00:34:17

because they knew what was happening was this:

00:34:19

"God, who am I? I should be dead.

00:34:23

I should be, I should be the one.

00:34:26

Because something that's less than me

00:34:27

does something that dishonors me, I squash it.

00:34:30

Whether it's a bug or another person with my gossip

00:34:32

and God, who am I that You are passing over my stuff

00:34:37

and reminding me from the death that that should be me?"

00:34:43

When you and I come to God, when we come to place

00:34:46

of who You are, we come to a place of who we are,

00:34:48

and it's disgusting.

00:34:51

God, we're sorry for lowering Your standards

00:34:55

so that we can barely meet them.

00:34:59

God, we're sorry for being more interested

00:35:05

in unholiness than we are in holiness.

00:35:10

God, we're sorry for just not being willing

00:35:15

to have Your fire refine us,

00:35:20

to have You do something different in us.

00:35:23

Let's take our books out right now

00:35:27

and let's just write down the things you need to repent of.

00:35:35

The things you're going to confess before God,

00:35:37

He knows what these things are.

00:35:38

But you know when you say that to somebody you care about,

00:35:41

you go, "Thank you. That means a lot to me"

00:35:43

It would mean a lot to God for you to tell Him

00:35:46

what He already knows, and that is whatever. Write it down.

00:35:50

We're going to do something with that. Write it down.

00:35:52

And now, if you're afraid someone's going to look

00:35:54

over your shoulder or beside you, I understand

00:35:56

you don't want them to see that.

00:35:58

Just, you can use a code word if you want.

00:36:00

He knows what you're talking about.

00:36:02

Let's just list our sin that needs to be burned.

00:36:05

Let's say our sin that's separating us

00:36:08

from having a relationship with God we want.

00:36:10

Just write it down.

00:38:46

- There's an interesting transition

00:38:49

that takes place in the temple.

00:38:51

Again, that verse we read earlier says

00:38:53

the temple is a mirror of things that are in heaven.

00:38:56

It's setting the people of God up for understanding the future.

00:39:00

And if you've received Christ, you're a person of God.

00:39:03

You're a part of the people of God.

00:39:04

Hebrews 10:12 says this:

00:39:06

But when Christ had offered for all time

00:39:09

a single sacrifice for sins,

00:39:13

He sat down at the right hand of God.

00:39:17

The priests, as they were offering,

00:39:19

they kept offering and offering.

00:39:21

There was no end to offering.

00:39:23

Just bring more, bring more, bring more, bring more.

00:39:27

Jesus is the perfect lamb.

00:39:29

And when He goes to the cross, it's in essence the altar.

00:39:34

And it's a public spectacle where He spreads out His arms.

00:39:39

Instead of a knife to the throat,

00:39:41

nails go through the wrists.

00:39:46

And the right wrist, and a single nail through both feet.

00:39:58

It was a shameful act where He was cursed publicly.

00:40:02

And this happened because He was our representative,

00:40:06

as was the ancient offerings

00:40:09

were the people's representative.

00:40:10

The difference was it's a one time thing.

00:40:13

One time only. One time he did it.

00:40:15

And then He sat down because as a high priest,

00:40:18

He didn't have to keep offering sacrifices

00:40:20

because there's only one, and He gave it for you and for I,

00:40:24

for anybody who would receive Him.

00:40:25

Now I'm going to pray some prayers of repentance.

00:40:27

And I'll just say this, some of you

00:40:29

aren't going to like these prayers.

00:40:31

Some of you aren't going to agree with these prayers.

00:40:33

That's okay. You don't have to agree with them.

00:40:35

Say your own, but I'm going to represent us

00:40:37

and I'm going to say things and pray things

00:40:39

I want to with repentance, and then you can do the same,

00:40:43

or you can participate with me.

00:40:46

So God I am disgusted at my low standards.

00:40:53

I keep trying to dumb down my standards and 'm sorry.

00:40:57

I'm so sorry that I'm afraid to be like You.

00:41:01

And I'm looking for every reason to be

00:41:03

the person I want to be,

00:41:05

instead of be the person that You want me to be.

00:41:09

And God, I'm sorry.

00:41:10

We're sorry that our church is not better at this either.

00:41:15

We're sorry, God, that we in our church, we want to fit in.

00:41:20

We want to be one of the cool kids.

00:41:22

And we've got all the isms here in our church,

00:41:24

all of them, all the isms that some of us have repented of:

00:41:27

materialism, hedonism, racism, isolationism, judgmentalism.

00:41:35

God, we should be better. We should be better than we are.

00:41:40

God, we confess. We confess.

00:41:42

Man, those of us on the right are more into being in

00:41:46

the right than we are being into the Kingdom of God.

00:41:49

Those on the left are more into our ideology

00:41:52

than we are being in the Kingdom of God.

00:41:54

God, those of us on the right, we have our newsfeeds.

00:41:56

We have our things we believe.

00:41:57

And if we don't hear what we want to hear, we get upset.

00:42:00

Well, what about hearing from God?

00:42:01

Those on the left, we're on the left,

00:42:03

we're getting our own news feeds.

00:42:05

And if we don't hear what we want to hear,

00:42:07

oh, man, we are not happy about that at all.

00:42:09

God, we confess we are more into our politics

00:42:12

than we are the Kingdom of God.

00:42:14

We're sorry. It's disgusting.

00:42:15

We confess that we are broken about our brokenness,

00:42:20

and we're confess God that we're broken

00:42:21

about the state of our country. Horrible.

00:42:24

God, it's the basic incident, man, that

00:42:27

we can't even agree on because we're so divided

00:42:30

because it doesn't agree with our political view.

00:42:34

God, we confess our heart that we're not broken,

00:42:37

that a man could be shot in the back while he lies down

00:42:41

by somebody whose salary paid through our taxes.

00:42:44

God, I learned watching Lone Ranger

00:42:46

when I was a little kid, don't shoot somebody in the back.

00:42:48

That's if they're standing up.

00:42:50

Freaking lying down on the ground and getting shot

00:42:53

in the back with a phone in our hand.

00:42:55

And God, sorry, we're not disgusted by this.

00:42:57

We're more interested in defending our worldview

00:43:00

and political view and our immigration status or beliefs,

00:43:04

then just noticing it's a horrible betrayal.

00:43:07

And God, we confess that --

00:43:10

We confess that we don't react well

00:43:12

when something happens that we don't like,

00:43:14

whether it's a church staff member who gets fired,

00:43:16

if we like that staff member,

00:43:18

we're more into maybe that then we're into the truth

00:43:21

of the unholiness behind it.

00:43:24

God, we're asking we become a better and different church.

00:43:27

We're asking that we would all be raving lunatics of love

00:43:33

while at the same time being broken by our sin.

00:43:38

We know that we get that from You.

00:43:40

You've modeled that, You've loved us,

00:43:43

and You've been broken by our sin because You've been broken.

00:43:47

Mhm. Man, You're good.

00:43:52

Jesus sat down because all things we wrote, they're over.

00:43:55

So whatever your things were,

00:43:57

here's what we're going to do.

00:43:58

Just rip out that piece of paper,

00:43:59

or if you want to make another one,

00:44:01

just rip out that piece of paper.

00:44:04

Like these things, just crumple them up.

00:44:06

They're over, done. They're done. Means nothing to God.

00:44:10

You thought the people who were in the service

00:44:12

before you were really sloppy?

00:44:14

No, because what we're doing now is

00:44:16

we're going to throw them in the aisle,

00:44:18

and we're going to walk on them because they're nothing.

00:44:21

They're beneath us. Means nothing.

00:44:23

So just throw it in the aisle.

00:44:25

If you're in the middle and you can't reach it

00:44:27

and someone's sin hits you in the face,

00:44:29

just put it in the aisle for them, because it's nothing.

00:44:33

Get it away from you.

00:44:34

Here's the great news:

00:44:36

God doesn't identify you with your sin.

00:44:38

He identifies you with who Jesus is.

00:44:41

And we're going to walk all over it

00:44:42

as we walk out of here and around here today.

00:44:46

That's how good His. [applause]

00:44:53

That He has the standards that He has

00:44:57

and still is loving us and it's still sat down

00:45:00

and said, "Okay, I'm done with it." Stunning.

00:45:03

That's our God.

00:45:05

Why don't we want to talk with Him more often, I don't know.

00:45:09

Mhm. Now we've gotten our self, God, in a place to ask.

00:45:18

We've left the things behind us.

00:45:20

We've rightly put You in the place in our minds,

00:45:22

which is where You are hallowed and holy and powerful and pure.

00:45:27

We've done a little cleanse of our life

00:45:28

and we've said to you, God, here's the things

00:45:32

I think are standing away, standing in the way

00:45:34

of my relationship with You.

00:45:36

We've done those things, and now we're ready to ask.

00:45:42

Hebrews 4:16 says this:

00:45:45

Let us approach God's throne of grace with confidence,

00:45:51

so that we may receive mercy

00:45:54

and find grace to help us in our time of need.

00:45:58

So we go to God with confidence now, like,

00:46:02

I'm not like this meager little woe is me. I'm not worthy.

00:46:07

No, like, Jesus has died for me.

00:46:10

He's good with me and I go before Him in confidence.

00:46:14

I go deeper in prayer to where I actually ask.

00:46:18

There's a barrier between many of us and God,

00:46:21

or we perceive there this barrier. There is no barrier.

00:46:25

God can hear from you at any time, in any place,

00:46:28

any type of prayer that you want.

00:46:30

When Jesus dies on a cross, being the ultimate sacrifice

00:46:35

that sets us right before God,

00:46:37

there's a significant thing that happens the moment He dies.

00:46:41

It details it in the New Testament.

00:46:44

When He dies there is a curtain

00:46:46

that's 60 feet high, 30 feet wide,

00:46:49

and about the width of a hand thick.

00:46:52

A big, thick, massive thing that would separate

00:46:56

the normal people from the Holy of Holies,

00:47:00

where there was the Ark of the Covenant

00:47:02

that contained things like Moses's staff

00:47:05

and the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.

00:47:08

And this was the place where the high holy priests would go.

00:47:12

And there was a mystery,

00:47:13

a mystery of what was going on there,

00:47:14

because there was this curtain that was separate.

00:47:16

No one could go in there.

00:47:18

And some of us that might have kept our prayer life back

00:47:21

because we feel like, I don't know what to say.

00:47:25

I don't know what goes on in there, I don't know.

00:47:28

Here's the thing, God breaks down that barrier

00:47:32

that's between us.

00:47:34

When Jesus dies, God reaches down

00:47:38

and He grabs the top of that curtain.

00:48:51

- He has power to heal, power to save,

00:48:54

and He has power to say yes to your requests.

00:48:58

Take out your prayer journal again if you'd like.

00:49:02

And now we're just going to ask.

00:49:05

We're going to ask God what you want Him to do for you.

00:49:12

Because you're more qualified to ask now than ever before.

00:49:16

Because you set your heart right before God exalting Him.

00:49:19

You've cleared out the garbage and junk

00:49:23

and the things you still want to happen right now,

00:49:25

you're probably more more likely to be praying

00:49:29

in alignment with the will of God,

00:49:31

which will cause Him to have more yeses

00:49:34

than had you not done what we just did.

00:49:37

Bible says you have not because you ask not.

00:49:41

It's a good news to know that there are things that

00:49:44

you could have and you don't have

00:49:46

just because you haven't asked.

00:49:51

So write them down right now.

00:49:52

What do you want? Write them down.

00:49:55

I'll pray and you can write.

00:50:04

God, I am praying for those of us

00:50:09

the ends never meet at the end of the month.

00:50:11

They never do. I don't know.

00:50:15

For some of us, there's an income problem?

00:50:17

Is it a wisdom problem? But I don't know.

00:50:19

But I'm praying that You would make a way,

00:50:22

that You would bring resources where there aren't resources,

00:50:27

You'd bring wisdom where there isn't wisdom.

00:50:29

Some of us, God, are unbelievably lonely.

00:50:31

We identify with the isolationism sin.

00:50:35

But it's not by our our own choosing.

00:50:37

We don't like it. We don't want to be isolated.

00:50:39

We're just -- We're not sure how to make a friend

00:50:41

or find a friend.

00:50:44

God, bring a friend. Bring one.

00:50:47

Some of us would like to be married.

00:50:49

We're frustrated we can't find the right person.

00:50:52

God, would you at least give us a date?

00:50:56

Give us a date?

00:50:58

Cause the wart to fall off the end of our nose

00:51:00

so we're attractive to that person. Yeah.

00:51:04

In case you're wondering, God finds me funny.

00:51:06

In case you wonder why. We're talking to God.

00:51:09

I ask that, um, I asked for --

00:51:11

I've talked with folks in here, man, they want a child

00:51:14

or they want another child, and things just aren't working.

00:51:17

I pray that the uterus, the wall lining

00:51:19

would hold what it needs to.

00:51:21

I pray that the sperm would be strong swimmers.

00:51:23

I pray that You would create life for a couple

00:51:28

that wants to honor You because You say

00:51:30

to be fruitful and multiply.

00:51:32

And for those couples that want that,

00:51:33

I ask that you would make that come to pass.

00:51:36

Just if you're here with someone you're married to

00:51:39

and that's you, you both identify with that,

00:51:41

put your hand on right now. Put your hand on.

00:51:45

Do your thing. Do your thing.

00:51:50

God, we pray for our church that in the midst

00:51:53

of all of our differences here, that we would be

00:51:56

a place where Republicans are happy to worship with Democrats

00:52:00

and lefties are happy to worship with righties.

00:52:02

That the world would look at us and go,

00:52:04

"How do those people have some different convictions

00:52:07

about immigration?

00:52:08

How do people have some different convictions

00:52:10

on the budget or whatever?

00:52:11

And yet they still are one,

00:52:13

yet they still love one another?"

00:52:15

Yeah, God, we want to be a peculiar people.

00:52:17

That's what You want. We want to be a different people.

00:52:19

We are different than the average person in our culture.

00:52:23

We choose to not be how --

00:52:25

God, we're asking that we're not defined by our politics,

00:52:28

but we're defined by our identity as a child of God,

00:52:32

that that will be our strong suit.

00:52:35

God, I pray for the medical diagnoses that are --

00:52:38

That seem to be that we've reached the end of the road

00:52:40

and there's no nothing else

00:52:41

other than You to be the Great Physician.

00:52:43

I thank you, God, that you have been doing

00:52:46

legitimate physical healings in our midst.

00:52:50

And we want more. We want more.

00:52:55

God, I pray for the --

00:53:00

We ask for help with the mental illness

00:53:03

that ravages our culture

00:53:04

and ravages many of us in our church.

00:53:07

If You bring healing to the physical eyes,

00:53:10

You can bring healing

00:53:11

to the synaptic connections in our brain.

00:53:14

We ask for, God.

00:53:33

Write down what you want. Write it if you have not,

00:53:36

maybe because you haven't asked.

00:56:28

- Hmm. Okay, now we're going to yield.

00:56:32

God's heard a lot from us, and now we're going to see

00:56:36

if we hear something from God.

00:56:39

When God tore this curtain

00:56:42

from the top all the way to the bottom,

00:56:48

it opened up the Holy of Holies, where there was mystery

00:56:51

of what the high priest was doing in there.

00:56:53

Because there was something, apparently,

00:56:55

that was special between the high priest and God.

00:56:58

And at that time in redemptive history

00:57:02

that was sealed and separated.

00:57:03

Well, now the curtain is torn.

00:57:05

God was saying, "No, it's not.

00:57:06

Anybody can talk to Me any time.

00:57:08

Anybody can hear from Me at any time."

00:57:12

How do we hear from God?

00:57:13

Well, we maybe have a thought that crosses our mind,

00:57:15

"Where did that come from?

00:57:16

Because that's not something I would normally think of."

00:57:19

And Jesus probably likes that thought,

00:57:20

well, just assume that was God.

00:57:23

Maybe it is a literal thing that you hear.

00:57:26

Maybe it's a just a strong urge that's unusual.

00:57:30

We have to learn and can learn to discern

00:57:33

what is just our own emotions and our own enzymes

00:57:36

and what's actually the Spirit of God.

00:57:40

Hebrews 7:25, talking about how the temple

00:57:43

can relate today, says: Therefore He is able to save

00:57:46

completely those who come to God through Him,

00:57:49

because He always lives to intercede for them.

00:57:52

Meaning, as Jesus sat down with God,

00:57:55

He's talking about you to Him.

00:57:58

"Hey, you know, John, I gotta tell you,

00:58:00

God, take care of John. I'm telling You he's with me.

00:58:03

I know he's got -- Take care of him.

00:58:04

Hey hey hey hey, Jill. Have Jill do xyz."

00:58:08

He's -- You're being prayed for by Jesus.

00:58:11

That's how vast His mind is.

00:58:13

And so when I yield, when we yield,

00:58:16

we're just being silent before God.

00:58:18

It's like we're asking God to let us overhear Him,

00:58:23

overhear what He's praying for,

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and see if He says anything.

00:58:26

Jesus says this is an act of the Holy Spirit.

00:58:30

And He likens the Holy Spirit to wind

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that's very unpredictable.

00:58:35

So let's spend a moment just being silent

00:58:38

and see if God actually says something to you,

00:58:42

if the Spirit of God moves in your life.

00:58:45

Spirit, come, speak as we want to yield.

00:59:32

Now something's coming to you that like you say,

00:59:34

"Hmm, that's interesting I thought of that."

00:59:37

I don't think God at least would oppose that.

00:59:40

Well, then just assume that God spoke to you,

00:59:42

and now you get to yield to it.

00:59:45

Actually, make a note of it. Write it down like, Hmm.

00:59:47

So therefore, as you yield, you're saying,

00:59:50

"God, I'm not just going to be a person of conversation,

00:59:52

I'm going to be a person of action.

00:59:54

I'm going to leave here, and I'm going to do this thing,

00:59:57

going to forgive that person,

01:00:00

going to pray for my enemy,

01:00:02

going to bless that person some way, shape or form.

01:00:06

Going to start this thing, going to stop that."

01:00:09

Whatever it is, just go ahead and go ahead

01:00:10

and write that down.

01:00:19

We have in front of the stages and all of our sites

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mock wailing walls,

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a cheap representation of the Wailing Wall,

01:00:29

which if you've ever been to Jerusalem,

01:00:31

which I've been many times.

01:00:33

You can go, and the temple was obliterated.

01:00:35

Temple hasn't been around since 70 AD.

01:00:37

The temple has been destroyed and rebuilt a number of times.

01:00:40

The last time it was around and destroyed was about 70 AD.

01:00:43

Right now the mosque stands there, is there right now.

01:00:47

The dome of the Rock is there.

01:00:49

But what you can do is you can see the stones

01:00:53

that were the former retaining walls

01:00:56

for the foundation of the temple.

01:00:59

Those retaining wall stones are still there today.

01:01:03

Actually, as I speak right now, there are Jews

01:01:07

who are taking prayers and they are sticking them

01:01:11

in the corner of the Wailing Wall, in the slices,

01:01:14

in the rocks, or visitors who are Christians

01:01:18

who are there right now as well,

01:01:20

sticking prayers into those rocks.

01:01:23

Now they do that because it's a good thing for them to do.

01:01:26

They want to enjoy doing that. It's a meaningful thing.

01:01:30

But it goes in rocks and it stays there.

01:01:32

At all of our sites, we have many wailing walls

01:01:36

where we're going to be able to bring

01:01:38

and put our prayers into the retaining walls of the temple.

01:01:42

And unlike the Wailing Wall, if you want,

01:01:46

this week we have a growing list of people

01:01:48

who are on our prayer team.

01:01:49

All of those things are going to be prayed for

01:01:52

by a person who is a prayer guru and loves to pray.

01:01:56

All of them at at all of our sites.

01:01:59

So you could take the page out of here t

01:02:02

hat was all of your asks.

01:02:03

You could just write one more thing on here if you want.

01:02:06

You can do nothing, whatever you want.

01:02:09

But we're going to connect with God.

01:02:11

We're going to do a song, and you're going to be able

01:02:13

to come forward as a as a sacred moment that says,

01:02:16

"God, I need your power.

01:02:19

Power beyond what I understand.

01:02:21

And I need prayer, and I want You to do something."

01:02:25

So, God, we choose to trust in You right now.

01:02:28

We're going to write these things down,

01:02:30

and we want to trust that You're going to do

01:02:33

something that we can't do, and we're going to ask

01:02:35

that You say yes as we declare,

01:02:37

whether you say yes or no, I choose to trust in You.

01:02:45

- We have a father who loves us.

01:02:50

He's not bummed out when we say,

01:02:51

"God, I need You to show up.

01:02:52

God, I need You to bring healing.

01:02:54

God, I need You to bring comfort.

01:02:55

God, I need You to bring whatever."

01:02:57

God loves it when we approach Him

01:02:59

with boldness and confidence.

01:03:02

God loves it, the articulation of trust that it is,

01:03:05

and love for Him that it is.

01:03:07

I want you to say, "God, we need you."

01:03:09

I don't know what your prayer is.

01:03:11

I don't know what the thing is that you're asking God for,

01:03:14

but I know that God cares about it.

01:03:17

And I know that God wants to see you,

01:03:19

not just think about a thing, or even pray about a thing,

01:03:22

but take a step in faith towards Him.

01:03:26

So while people at sites are going to be

01:03:28

putting their prayers, folding them up

01:03:29

and setting them in the little cracks of

01:03:31

our mock wailing walls here, there's nothing magical

01:03:34

about these fake walls at our site,

01:03:36

or even about the real Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

01:03:39

There's nothing magical about it,

01:03:40

but there's something special about taking

01:03:44

a step towards God, about doing that tangibly.

01:03:47

So we're going to do that even online right now.

01:03:49

This is a chance for you to participate

01:03:50

wherever you are in the world, whenever you're watching this.

01:03:53

We have a tool called Tagboard.

01:03:55

There's a QR code that will be up on the screen.

01:03:57

You just need to scan that.

01:03:59

And once you go there, it'll just have you,

01:04:01

give you an opportunity, totally anonymously

01:04:03

to submit your prayer request.

01:04:05

And myself and the prayer teams will be praying for you

01:04:08

and for your prayer request specifically.

01:04:11

Again, this is a moment for you online, wherever you are,

01:04:16

to say, "God, I need You to show up and I yield this.

01:04:19

I hand it over to You," by texting it in to us right now.

01:04:23

So make this an expression of your trust in God

01:04:27

that He wants to answer your prayers.

01:07:18

- We'll keep receiving your prayers.

01:07:20

I'll just close with this: Hebrews 13:20-21:

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Now may the God of peace, that's who He is,

01:07:27

the God of peace, equip you with everything to do His will.

01:07:34

God, thank You for the pleasure of talking with You.

01:07:37

We want to do Your will and we're asking You

01:07:40

to say yes to these prayers, bless these people. Amen.

01:12:10

- I hope today was a reminder that God loves you,

01:12:12

that He has great things for you,

01:12:14

that He wants to connect with you.

01:12:16

And that this journey, this template that we went through

01:12:18

of praise, repent, ask, yield,

01:12:20

this isn't just a one time thing.

01:12:22

This could be your everyday thing.

01:12:24

This could be an incredibly helpful way

01:12:26

for you to connect with God, to hear from Him all the time.

01:12:30

Now, I love seeing these prayer requests come in,

01:12:33

again, totally anonymous.

01:12:35

But all of these requests through tagboard

01:12:37

of people saying, "God, I need You to show up."

01:12:39

I need You to show up for my daughter,

01:12:41

for her to reconnect with her faith,

01:12:42

for her to find a church,

01:12:43

for people to experience healing from ALS.

01:12:47

Lots of prayer requests for people's jobs,

01:12:50

for people to find meaningful work, God,

01:12:53

for people to find gainful employment.

01:12:55

And lots and lots of requests for physical healing.

01:12:58

Whatever your request is, go ahead and send that in.

01:13:00

We want to be praying for those things

01:13:02

all week long and all month long.

01:13:04

And I'll say this also, you can send us an email

01:13:07

crossroads.net/Anywhere

01:13:08

or just email us anywhere@crossroads.net.

01:13:12

Either way, that'll get to me and my team.

01:13:14

We'd love to be praying for you, specifically,

01:13:17

that God would show up, that He would heal,

01:13:18

that He would restore, that He would redeem.

01:13:21

Now, thank you so much for joining us again.

01:13:24

This isn't just a church.

01:13:25

This is a journey that we get to take with God.

01:13:27

He's always inviting us into more and more and more.

01:13:31

Particularly if you've got a friend

01:13:33

who maybe gave up on church

01:13:34

or hasn't been to church ever in a long time,

01:13:36

hey, Super Bowl of Preaching really could change

01:13:40

things for them in a powerful way.

01:13:41

That'll be next week. It's going to be a blast.

01:13:43

And if you're watching online,

01:13:45

if you're attending a site, hey, if you can get to a site, do it.

01:13:48

If you're watching online,

01:13:49

we'll have an incredible experience for you guys as well.

01:13:51

Just like going to the game is awesome

01:13:53

and watching the game at home is fantastic.

01:13:55

But special shout out to those of you

01:13:56

who are hosting Super Bowl of Preaching watch parties.

01:13:59

We'd love to have you guys do that.

01:14:01

Open up your home, invite friends in to experience this.

01:14:03

And we actually have a training like right now,

01:14:05

I'm going to get off this call

01:14:06

and I'm going to go to the QR code, the Zoom link below,

01:14:09

and I'll be hanging out there with some friends

01:14:11

to help you get set up to host

01:14:13

the best Super Bowl of Preaching watch party ever,

01:14:15

or just answer any questions you might have

01:14:17

about our church, or about what God's doing here.

01:14:20

Hey, as always, know that God loves you

01:14:23

and He wants to see you experience

01:14:25

the more full and abundant life that He's promised.

01:14:27

If there anything we can do to encourage you

01:14:29

in that direction, we'd love to.

01:14:31

Have a great week and we'll see you next time

01:14:33

for the Super Bowl of Preaching.

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