Praying Passionately and Expectantly | Luke 11:1-13

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Michael.
Yes, Zach.

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If you talking to our listeners
now, you know, just said your

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name if you were in our service
today, Yeah, the Disney animated

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movie Hercules got a shout.
Out.

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That's right.
And this was one of the few

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times I know I have actually
seen a movie that you haven't.

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I know it is great.
You've still not seen it.

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I still.
Have not seen it.

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No, I, I'm.
So I do some singing from time

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to time and there's a song in
that movie that's basically in

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my singing range.
There's different types of

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voices.
I have more of a serious voice

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and more of dramatic voice.
I'm not a lyrical, flighty all

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over hit, you know, you know,
all those rhymes type stuff.

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And so this song kind of has
some of that stuff in there.

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It's a.
Great song.

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I was.
I was familiar with it.

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Yeah, it is a great song.
It's got like the, if I

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remember, it's got like good
instrumentation, like in the

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background kind of too, you
know?

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Yes, yeah, it's very good.
What's it called?

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Is it go to the, go to the
distance or what's it called?

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OK.
Yeah, so I was, you know, I was.

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There is a play coming up.
Oh, and you're in this?

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And I had to audition for it.
So I'm like trying to think

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which song should I audition
for?

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And so I had warmed up on my way
to church this morning because I

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was singing.
So I did my little gentle

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baritone warm up.
If you Google that or if you

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searched it on YouTube you'll
you'll see the little.

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Behind the scenes.
Little behind the scenes and

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I'll say, OK, well, I'm feeling
pretty good this morning.

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My, my vocal, I'm just, you
know, practice some of the

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things.
And so I was, I sang through

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that, the karaoke version of
that on the way to church.

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And that's why it was on my
mind.

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And I was like, you know, that
really goes with, yeah, the

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singing, so.
It fit well.

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You made a good analogy.
The point was not to to worship

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yourself or Hercules or any of
these things.

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Just for the listeners.
It was a good good segue.

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But the reason I so I don't
watch all the movies.

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Do.
You want to guess why I've seen

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this movie?
Did your high school do it as a

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play or something?
Great, great.

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Good guess.
I was six years old when it came

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out and I was with my
grandparents and my family.

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We take trip to West Virginia in
the summertime and it was in

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theaters, so my grandmother took
me to.

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It was like a Disney movie in
the theaters.

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And so I saw it as a kid.
And to bring down to a bigger

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question, I don't know if your
background was like mine,

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probably not, but I think some
people can resonate to this

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maybe.
I grew up in like an independent

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fundamental Baptist Church.
My parents were teachers and we

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went to church at It was a
school church combo and a lot

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like Northside.
Teachers, teachers, teachers.

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My mom was like a kindergarten
teacher there when I went to

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your.
Dad was still a cancer doctor,

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correct?
Oncologist, right?

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Right.
Yeah, he also taught PE on the

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side.
I just get sorry.

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Thanks for the.
Clarification.

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And beep, if you went to this
church or your parents taught

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there, you could not go to the
movies because that's supporting

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Helly Wood, as some people
called it.

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Helly Woods, but how did you
come out of this place?

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OK.
I made it by the skin of my

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teeth.
No, I was actually a great

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school.
Loved it, Didn't agree with

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everything, but I actually had a
really good experience there.

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But there's like this unspoken
rule that everyone did.

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It's like it while you're in
Memphis, no movies.

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But if you're in West Virginia,
maybe movies are OK.

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Hey, what happens outside of
Memphis stays outside of

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Memphis.
It's only a sin if it happens in

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the city that the church is
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There's like, it was like, it
was like this rule.

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My parents would not let us go.
And I think it was like, you

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don't want to run into people
there.

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But when I we were out telling
my grandmother.

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To run into someone.
Guess what?

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They're breaking the same rule.
It's like that.

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Spider Man was like, oh, that's
you, that's you.

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But it would it.
So that was the rule.

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And by the time I was in
elementary, it got more LAX

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where it was like, oh, no,
movies are OK.

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And unless you're on faculty
there than no.

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And so we would have, my class
would be OK.

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We're school's finishing, we're
all going to movies.

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And it's like me and my buddy
can't go to a movie because we,

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our parents teach there.
I don't think it's a rule now,

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but it was like one of those,
one of those things.

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It's just, it just smacks
legalism.

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Man made power control so much.
So.

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So you went to you.
So basically your grandmother

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had you sinning against your
conscience?

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Probably.
But my conscience was not

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bothered.
Trust me, I was not like as a

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kid.
I was not loving this rule.

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You didn't.
Feel like you were sinning, you

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weren't like.
No, no.

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And, and my parents allowed and
they were like, they were like,

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this is not a sin.
I don't know why, because it

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wasn't rule.
I don't know.

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I don't know all the insurance
and outs, but it just so

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happened I was in West Virginia
in the summer this came out.

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So if a movie falls in that
sweet spot, I probably have seen

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it.
It's a very, very unique niche,

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but great.
You know a lot of good songs on

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the soundtrack.
I was hoping I'd hear you sing 0

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to Hero.
That's a good.

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That's a catchy.
One, I don't know that one, just

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look it up.
The only song I know is I will

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go the distance because it it
shows up on, you know, like I

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I'm looking for songs in that
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It kind of had that kind of
stuff, you know, 'cause you

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know, like the hide the chords.
That's a good song to highlight.

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Yeah, music and like how you can
sing.

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The other one is more of a it
wouldn't do as good.

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It's like a catchy.
It's good though, but man, I

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haven't seen the movie in a
while.

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It's like man, that brought back
the.

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Wait, we should have a Moth Hill
movie night.

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We'll watch movie night, Yeah.
There you go, I love it.

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And you know when you sing, you
wanna sing passionately?

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I've I tried to and I was
thinking today.

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I know you're trying to segue,
but I was thinking, I didn't, I

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wasn't thinking about this, but
a lot, almost all, well, all the

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songs today required a lot of
energy to sing.

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A lot of even some of the, even
the softer ones, like they can

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require like sustained energy.
And, you know, I was like, you

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know, I was really putting the
congregation through their paces

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unintentionally.
But, you know, because there's

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some songs you can kind of sing,
but, you know, they were pretty

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energetic ones.
And and so I was, I was calling

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us to sing passionately.
I loved it and.

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Expectantly, maybe.
That's right.

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And the title of they?
Listening expectantly.

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Who?
Oh yeah.

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Yeah, literally.
She's about to have a baby.

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The title of today's sermon is
Praying Passionately and

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Expectantly, so let's go ahead
and take it to the next level.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level, praying passionately and
expectant.

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Romans 14.
Romans 15.

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Romans, Luke.
Luke.

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I know.
Yeah.

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Yeah, that's so you.
Called it last.

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Time.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Did you know I just had AI?
Just had a sneaking suspicion.

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Didn't know for sure.
Had a vision and so, yeah, in

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Luke to, you know, keep us on
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I'm looking at really the
Lord's, the Lord's Prayer.

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And we just spoke of Hercules,
but I I know you're a pretty big

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Anne of Green Gables fan.
Read the books, watch the old

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movie.
I I at our school, it was like a

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like maybe in 6th grade we'd
read excerpts, maybe I had to

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read a book.
We watched like maybe the movie

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in like a literature class.
But that's my extent.

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I've tried to block it out
'cause, you know, I know people

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love it.
Sometimes I'm a bad attitude

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when people love something so
much money not doing it for me.

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Yeah, kind of like Bill Grim's
progress.

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I just have a bad reaction, you
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I know it's a great book.
I don't want to down it too.

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I don't want to discourage
people, but yeah.

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It's very good for the 1st 1/3
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You've probably heard I've said
that many times.

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Every time it comes up like the
first third of it, I'm down,

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love it. 2nd 2/3, I'm like, I,
it's too much.

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I'm, I'm, I have to sing that
song.

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I'm overwhelmed.
I'm overwhelmed by analogy.

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I often I've thought about when
I when I want to learn how to

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pray, I'm like, let me check out
what Anne has to say.

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But it was a great because I
think a lot of people like love

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this, these books or this, you
know, movie, whatever.

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Yeah, and he read an extended.
I started taking pictures for us

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to read and I'm like, we're not
going to read all of that.

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Yeah, we can click notes.
That's great.

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So if you're familiar with the
story, I'm very I think the last

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I have heard this illustration,
I think in his in his sermon

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before.
And that's my only, my only, I

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guess my ringer still on.
So I'll turn that off.

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My only familiarization with it.
But apparently at the very

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beginning, she moves out to some
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Is she a foster kid?
She an orphan.

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I think she is an orphan.
I think so.

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And she's wanting to stay there
and the person trying to teach

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her how to pray, and she kind of
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OK, Jabba, that kind of sounds
more like a request.

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She's like, very respectfully
instead of Amen.

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And like, she's like, make me
beautiful, you know?

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She's like, trying to be
gracious and ask for things she

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wants.
But yeah, you know.

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Joe's whole point was she needed
to learn how to pray, and we as

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a congregation, we we could
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Pray better, you know, that's
it's one of the things that's

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like a great thing.
Prayer is talked about

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extensively every applications
like read your Bible and pray

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kind of not really and but I
don't think a lot of people know

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how to pray or they feel
intimidated or they feel like

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they pray the same things or
their mind wanders.

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It's like something that I think
can be taught, but I think for a

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lot of people it's really not
taught.

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And it's interesting because it
is like taught in Scripture.

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I think people are familiar with
the Lord's Prayer, but I think

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some people don't even like draw
some principles out of it.

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It's one of those things we talk
about a lot but don't talk about

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because it's there's also not
like you have to pray this way.

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So it's kind of tricky too in
that respect.

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Yeah, you don't want to be
formulaic, but here's some ways

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you might think about doing it.
So we are going to be looking

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basically at the Lord's Prayer,
or some might call it the

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Disciples Prayer I.
I like that better.

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To me, the Lord's Prayer is John
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Right.
Some people call it the model

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prayer.
That that's great.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So if you're a model, you can

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pray this prayer, but we're
going to look at it from Luke

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11.
And so the the outline really

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hits really well.
So we're going to talk a little

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bit about context and then these
three different sections, what

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to pray, how to pray, and then
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So the what to pray is verse one
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happens that while Jesus was
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after he had finished, one of
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teach us to pray just as John
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I love it.
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disciples are asking, hey, teach
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life of Jesus and you can see he
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priority.
And you know, it's in the midst

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of like just traveling
everywhere, healing people

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still, still took that time,
which is pretty instructive for

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us.
That's like, I'm pretty, my kids

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got sports.
It's like, well, Jesus can pray.

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I should pray.
Yeah, and it's almost, I feel

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weird saying this, but it's like
the guy who probably needed it

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the least is the guy who prayed
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And it's like, how instructive
is that to us who we're not God

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the Son, and so we should really
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So there's a couple passages
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Luke 440 through 43 it says
while the sun was setting, all

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those who had any who were sick
or with various diseases brought

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them to him, and laying hands on
and and laying his hands on each

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one of them, He was healing
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Demons also were coming out of
many, some probably some

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pokemons shouting You are the
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because they knew Him to be the
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When the day came, Jesus left
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the crowds were searching for
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keep him from going away from
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But he said to them, I must
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other cities also, for I was
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So you see him, he's healing,
casting out demons, working all

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day.
And then he's like, OK, I've had

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this full day.
I gotta, I gotta go and go and

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pray.
I'll have that kind of gets off

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secluded.
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something similar, it reads.
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spreading even farther, and
large crowds were gathering to

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hear Him and to be healed of
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pray.
Same thing secluded the

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wilderness and and it also says
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This wasn't like a once or twice
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would do specifically to spend
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pattern in his life.
They'd be go, all right, we need

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to learn from him.
Master, teach us how to pray.

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Love it.
And so Michael read verse one

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where and I'll go ahead and read
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And Jesus said to them, wouldn't
you pray, say, Father, hallowed

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be your name, your Kingdom come
give us each day Our Daily

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Bread, and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves also forgive

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everyone who is indebted to us
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And you know.
Seems like you left some parts

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out there.
No, it reads very strangely

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because you know, Luke 11 gets
no love when it comes to the

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Lord's Prayer.
Everyone's like Matthew all day.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we're used to your Kingdom

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come.
Your will be done on earth as it

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is in heaven, and least not in
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But yours is the glory, forever
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Amen.
I love it.

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That's like the little added.
The little yeah, the tag.

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Yeah, this is something the
Lord's Prayer, the Matthew

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Lord's Prayer, believe this or
not, at Bob Jones University

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where I went to undergrad, when
we did, they called them artist

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series where you went to go like
watch a Shakespeare play or

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something or anything.
Opened the community, had a lot

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of people in the community come
every time we start with one of

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those we would recite the Lord's
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It almost seemed like very
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was like, this is this

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seems like a weird thing for the
but they were very big on we're

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going to recite the Lord's
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different.
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We would do this at the end of
our football games when I was

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coaching.
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things like I've I've never been
a part of a, you know, we're

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going to say the Lord's Prayer.
And so like all these kids who

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are living like crazy lives,
like are recited, you know, I

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would kind of fumble on some of
the words and they'd be they

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look at me like, yeah.
And like, how do you not Lord?

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I'm like, well, I mean, I know
the Lord's Prayer.

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I could, you know, diagram it
for you and tell you all the

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parts about it, but I don't.
It's not like you.

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Know, you know, 30 other
passages where that's like,

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that's like the passage, you
know what I mean?

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It's like that's the that's the
one thing and then pastor did a

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good job of just going through
these things quickly breaking,

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breaking them up.
You know, Father hallowed be

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your name.
We don't talk about, you know,

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hallowed, hallowed.
This ground is hallowed but.

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Halloween.
Halloween.

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That's right.
We say Halloween a lot more than

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hallowed.
That's good.

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So it is part of our, you know,
talking a little bit, but, you

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know, honoring God, treating his
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name.
And then this idea your Kingdom

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come and you know, the the what
Matthews have your will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven.
And there's this idea that, you

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know, like in his Kingdom now,
the spiritual Kingdom,

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everything happens according to
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And we see that we desire that
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And, you know, we could get into
a discussion here about the two

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different wills of God.
That's probably a different

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podcast.
It is a different podcast.

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But we do want to see his will
of desire, his moral desire to

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be done more fully on earth so
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And so I would say those first
two bullet points Henry talked

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about, they kind of have to do
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And then there's this shift more
of an interface with us and

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physical and spiritual, but
starts off with with the

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physical needs give us each day
Our Daily Bread sustenance, you

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know, get getting through each
day that that's an OK thing to

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ask God for.
Yeah, so this definitely keto

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diet is not supported biblically
is what I'm reading here.

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Yeah, I wonder.
Yeah, we should.

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I wish we had more detailed on
is this like flour enriched

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bread or like what, what kind?
Of they probably bleached all of

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it out, took all the fiber away,
put a little bit of Roundup on

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it, and then put a whole bunch
of other fake stuff into it and

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made it into bread.
That's that's I think that was

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the recipe that the early
disciples had.

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I also love another side.
I love it when someone like

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takes a verse and they're like
we're and there's like a book.

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It's like the Jonah die I'm like
making.

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Up.
It's like Zekiel bread.

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There.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.
Goodness, I don't want none of

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that Ezekiel bread.
You know, the way he he was

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making that bread.
I've it's, it's pretty SUS,

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right?
This.

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Is great.
This is Ezekiel 4.

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Ezekiel's on my mind.
I've been reading Ezekiel lately

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and he's doing this object
lesson where he lies on his side

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for 390 days on his left side,
then on his rights for 40 days.

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The show how long the punishment
is going to be for exile.

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Are these straight days?
Straight days and he gives him a

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public place.
How does he not so he's not

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staying there 24/7?
It doesn't specify.

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I would guess I don't know if
it's like a couple hours.

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Time like muscle atrophy, yeah,
you're like crazy like.

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Well, and and during this time,
I don't think it breaks up.

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He is is to cook this bread
from, like, different types of

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flowers, beans, lentils, just to
show they're going to face some

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meager time.
Food's going to be scarce.

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And God tells him, you're going
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Oh yeah.
And he's like, and then he's

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like, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And then?
Like, well, you can do it over

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cows dung.
It's like.

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Yeah, wait, much better so.
I don't want none of that to

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take your bread.
I don't know if that's if it's

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based on that or something else,
but that's on my mind.

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I'm like, no.
But anyway, physical needs are

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OK.
Sometimes it gets a bad rap,

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like, oh, you know, you want
this bow, but physical needs are

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important.
Yeah, if you have an ingrown

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toenail, pray for that thing.
You know what I'm saying?

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Spiritual needs.
And the two places are that we

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would have forgiving hearts so
that we would forgive others.

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And I think, you know, if, if
you have a forgiving heart, I

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think it speaks so much more to
your overall temperament.

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You know, you're gracious,
you're loving, you see that

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you're a Sinner to you know,
you're patient, you're

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steadfast.
Cause kind of all those things

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have to be there in order for
you to be someone who can

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forgive.
Yeah, and the people that don't

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forgive, like you're saying, the
opposite's true.

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They're just like, oh, they are
not, not easy to please all all

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these things.
And then, you know, pray for

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protection from temptation.
These things are good to pray

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for.
It's like, man, I should pray

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for protection from temptation
more than I do.

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It's like that's a great, great
thing to do, So that's all we're

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allowed to pray for.
That's it.

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I mean, I think that's we're
done with the podcast because

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that's, that's all.
No, pastor.

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Made the great point that, you
know, if you go on, you keep

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reading in scripture, Paul has
all these great prayers and

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sometimes he doesn't only say
give me my daily bread, he

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deviates a little bit and that
that's OK and.

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There's other places you might
just pray scripture in general,

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like Psalm 23, Jeremiah 2911.
You can pray that.

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Graduation's coming up.
They they.

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Yeah.
And then he did mention, you

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know, even if it's grand, he
said great aunt, but it's

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actually grand Aunt Susie's
ingrown toenail.

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That's what it is.
It's grand.

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Aunt, there's no great aunt.
That's not a thing.

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It's like OK, so.
You have your father.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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You have your grandfather.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
You have your great grandfather.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you have your.

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Aunt.
Yeah, it's the same grand aunt.

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Your great grand aunt.
I never knew that.

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I thought it was just a
different nomenclature, but that

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makes sense that it's
consistent.

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It is consistent and I mean,
we're just all kinds of things.

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But you know, you have your
siblings.

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That's that is a kind of a group
collective noun for your

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brothers and sisters.
Nibblings is a is a collective

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noun for nieces and nephews the
old.

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Nibblings, nibblings, nibblings.
I like that.

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Walk me.
Never mind.

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We won't get into first and 2nd
cousins or first cousins once

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removed.
Not the time.

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Maybe next Maybe.
Next, banter.

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I love it 'cause he was saying
great Grand Aunt Susie's ingrown

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toenail, like it's OK to pray
for that.

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Yeah, you just don't.
Maybe, maybe your prayer

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shouldn't only be for that right
If.

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That's all.
If you're just playing, praying

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for those base level things that
kind of just rise and fall,

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you're not praying that someone
would walk in all the fullness

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of God, no pun intended.
With the ingrown toenail, it's

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hard to walk.
Or that they would bear fruit in

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every respect.
Or that they would be patient

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and steadfast, loving and
bounding in all wisdom and, you

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know, knowledge.
Those kind of things that Paul

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does pray, like you should have
those types of prayer.

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00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,200
Or even in the midst of this
ingrown toenail, that you would

450
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,680
help her see a fuller vision of
you and that you would maybe

451
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,760
help other people to sew into
her life.

452
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,560
You know, so there's a whole
bunch of things that are small

453
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,840
little physical things, if we're
really thinking about how God

454
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,280
uses them, could help us pray
around him.

455
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,360
Oh, that.
That that's really good so and

456
00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,920
so Jesus gives us a lot of
things to pray.

457
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,000
We see other parts of Scripture,
we see Paul's prayers, all these

458
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,880
different things.
The shift comes in verse 5

459
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,680
verses 5 through 8.
He tells us how to pray.

460
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,320
Verse 5 starts out saying Then
he said to them, suppose one of

461
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,040
you has a friend and goes to him
at midnight and says to him,

462
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,160
friend lend ME3 lobes for a
friend of mine has come to me

463
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,440
from a journey.
I have nothing to set before

464
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,720
him.
And from inside he answers and

465
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,240
said, don't bother me.
The door has already been shut

466
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,560
and my children and I are in
bed.

467
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,240
I can't get up and give you
anything.

468
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,520
I tell you, even though he will
not get up and give him anything

469
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,280
because he is his friend yet
because of his persistence, he

470
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,280
will get up and give him as much
as he needs.

471
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,160
And I love this because Pastor
Joel is bringing this, bringing

472
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,680
this to life a little bit.
Yeah, it's not like.

473
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,200
We got a little adventure in
Odyssey from Pastor Joel, so he

474
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,280
kind of plays this.
I think it was Levi and Jacob.

475
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:23,920
Jacob.
Yeah.

476
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,160
There you go.
And kind of plays this out for

477
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,640
us, you know, kind of 'cause you
can read past this and not

478
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,000
really help it come to life.
And so that he's wanting you to

479
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,960
really imagine you're asleep at
night.

480
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,720
You know, someone's knocking on
your door, knocking over and

481
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,920
over and over and over again.
You know, eventually you might

482
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,160
even not like them at that
point, but just so that the knot

483
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,600
goes away, you might give them
bread and like, OK, go, you're

484
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,000
waking everyone up.
I'm trying to sleep, leave me

485
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,240
alone.
Here's your bread.

486
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,840
And that's how God is.
He's like, leave me alone.

487
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,000
You know, I don't want.
That's right.

488
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,120
Is that, is that the point?
Not.

489
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,760
Not not true, but but, but
you're right.

490
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,600
The point is persistence.
It's like not even 'cause he's

491
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,760
your friend, It's like he just,
it's 'cause your persistence,

492
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,120
like he's like just this will
shut you up and go away.

493
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,320
Go there.
And I like, I like this.

494
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,480
If you look at different
translations across Scripture,

495
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:19,320
you know, we see this could be
shamelessness, importunity,

496
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,240
shameless persistence, shameless
audacity, shameless boldness.

497
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,880
I think the ESV says impudence.
So you see these different

498
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,920
different words used for this
percent since he he got to this

499
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,920
part reminded me of the in
Matthew, the Canaanite woman who

500
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,200
was like, it's like that
persistence is really praised on

501
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,920
several times by by Jesus when
it comes to asking for the right

502
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:39,880
things.
Yeah.

503
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,720
Yeah, that's really good.
All right, so we talked about

504
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,280
what to pray for, how to pray,
and now nine through really 13

505
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,400
is 11 in our notes, but it's
really 13 why to pray?

506
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,480
So I'll read those.
So I say to you, ask and it will

507
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,960
be given to you, seek, and you
will find knock, and it will be

508
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,920
open to you, for everyone who
asks receives, and he who seeks

509
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,840
finds to him who knocks it will
be open.

510
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,360
Now suppose one of you fathers
is asked by his son for fish.

511
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,440
He will not give him a snake
instead of a fish, will he?

512
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,760
I thought this hurts.
Maybe I.

513
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:19,120
Would or if he asked for an egg,
he will not give him a scorpion,

514
00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,720
will he?
If you then being evil know how

515
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,880
to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will

516
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,320
your Heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who asked?

517
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,120
Yeah, sorry you had to hear
that.

518
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,400
Michael That was tough, Tough to
hear with the serpent thing.

519
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,120
And I hate to bring politics
into this, but God gives

520
00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:35,360
liberally.
God gives.

521
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,480
Liberally, I think about that
too.

522
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,640
Yeah.
So God does give.

523
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,960
But you, you know, there's a
requirement to ask.

524
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,000
Do you remember this?
It's in the missionary time with

525
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,040
the Miller storybook.
Have you ever read that?

526
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,480
It's Green I.
Don't know.

527
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,000
But I think it's pretty well
known.

528
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,440
You may be familiar with the
story anyways.

529
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,760
But there was this missionary
couple.

530
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,720
They're in a remote place.
I don't know, maybe Africa.

531
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,360
This was a long time ago.
They had some supplies.

532
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,600
They were dwindling.
They needed refreshment.

533
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,560
They got this orphan and they
prayed that night that they

534
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,360
would get.
Do you even remember these?

535
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,400
Like the hot water bottle?
He does like this red rubber,

536
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,680
like really tough stuff.
And you'd put warm water in it

537
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,280
and you could, like, put it up
against something.

538
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,760
Do you have those?
I don't.

539
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,840
Know yeah, so.
My, I mean, they were, my, my

540
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,360
parents had, you know, those,
but I guess the, the one they

541
00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:32,440
had gotten leak or something.
And they're like, we need to

542
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,840
pray because if we don't get one
of these, we, we may not be able

543
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,560
to help this baby regulate its
temperature till the night till

544
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,080
they get older.
And of course they start praying

545
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,240
and they're like, the baby
probably will not live two or

546
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,960
three nights.
Well, it takes longer than that

547
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:51,680
for shipping to get there,
right?

548
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,560
Because they're like in some
remote place.

549
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,440
The next day they get a package
that they threw in some stuff

550
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,720
and it was just happened to have
a hot water bottle, hot water

551
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,080
bottle heater in there.
And that thing got mailed way

552
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,480
before they prayed for it.
And so my question was what I'm

553
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,440
teaching this is if they didn't
pray, would that have gotten

554
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:12,440
mailed?
And I think no.

555
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,840
Oh, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.

556
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,120
God.
Sees, OK, this person's going to

557
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,560
pray.
I'm going to answer that now,

558
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,360
but he answers it based on this
prayer that he sees coming.

559
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,440
Yeah.
You know, so ask.

560
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,560
Ask no and that.
That's good and a big part of

561
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,480
that is there was there's a
need.

562
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,520
You see a need to ask.
When you know things are good or

563
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,800
you perceive that you got it all
together, you probably aren't

564
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,920
going to ask.
You don't see that need.

565
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,280
You don't see that desperation.
And I know we don't like to be

566
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,400
in desperate circumstance, but
sometimes, like man, thank God

567
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,120
that we are because we are.
That pushes us to persistence

568
00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:47,320
because our God is a good God.
We have a good Father who gives

569
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,440
us good gifts.
It says that and James, it says

570
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,480
that here and pastor made this
connection that we all like to

571
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,840
give good things to our
children.

572
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,600
He's a grandfather.
It's like, you know,

573
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,120
grandparents are known.
Oh, my, my parents do this as

574
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,920
well.
They just give my my kids

575
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,200
everything they want.
It's like, oh, it's 830 night

576
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,880
bedtime's in 10 minutes.
Here's some sugar and you're

577
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,360
like, it's like, you know, so
that that desire is just kind of

578
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,480
baked into stuff.
We want our family to succeed.

579
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,720
We want to help people and God
is is the same thing wants to

580
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,960
give us really good things.
But like you're saying, we've

581
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,200
seen Ask Yeah, and.
It the Scripture ends here,

582
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,280
almost kind of implies like he's
going to give us the best thing,

583
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,160
the Holy Spirit.
And so, you know, that's if you

584
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,880
have the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit, then you have so much,

585
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:32,680
right.
And then, yeah.

586
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,840
All that's wrapped up that that
is great.

587
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,080
And then this is also one of
those crazy prayer stories.

588
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,520
I like the names Ronnie Buchanan
and Tony's a Campolo.

589
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,720
What is it Campolo?
That was, I didn't know how to.

590
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:45,760
Spell it.
So that was my best.

591
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,720
That was about it, Campolo.
It makes sense.

592
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,600
And Charlie Stafus.
Oh, that's what I was.

593
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,040
Thinking yeah, yeah, Charlie.
That's what I was thinking.

594
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,000
Charlie Stafus.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

595
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,800
So you want me?
To tell the story, yeah, go for

596
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,920
it.
I'm always bad at remembering it

597
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,880
all, right?
So this Ronnie is Speaking of a

598
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,400
story that Tony told.
So this is like 4th or 5th

599
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,760
person.
But Tony Campolo, I guess, was

600
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,400
at this prayer meeting and
they're praying.

601
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,520
And sometimes people pray stuff
and you're like, and, and, you

602
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,680
know, he's kind of thinking, OK,
but this guy's praying.

603
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,120
He's like just Lord, we want to
lift up Charlie Stafus.

604
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,280
And of course he's thinking,
who's Charlie Stafus?

605
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,040
And but the guy praying, he's
like, Lord, you know, Charlie

606
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,400
Stafus, he lives two streets
over on the right and that

607
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,440
silver trailer.
And, you know, like you, you've

608
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,880
had those prayers where people
like tell the Lord all things

609
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,360
that the Lord already knows, you
know?

610
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,360
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's.

611
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,160
Crazy.
But, you know, he told me today

612
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,320
that he's going to leave his
wife and two kids and we just

613
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,480
pray you would you would stop
him from doing that.

614
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,840
And so didn't think anything
about it.

615
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,040
Tony Campolo, you know, finishes
up.

616
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,360
I guess he was visiting that
church, gets on the, you know,

617
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,920
starts to get on the Turnpike or
the the on ramp to the freeway

618
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,800
and he sees the guy hitchhiking
there and he's picks him up and

619
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,600
he's like, hey, I'm Tony
Campolo.

620
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,760
What's your name?
He's like Charlie Stoffis.

621
00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,720
Crazy and.
He says, oh, OK.

622
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,840
And so he gets off the next exit
and turns right back around and

623
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,080
Charlie's like, what are you?
What are we doing?

624
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,440
He starts getting nervous and
and he's like, I'm taking you

625
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,000
back to your house.
You're leaving your wife and

626
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,840
three kids, aren't you?
He's like, how do you know that?

627
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,560
He's like God told me, I know
where you.

628
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,520
Live.
Drives right to his house and

629
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,840
his his wife is on the steps
like, you know, you're back

630
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,880
you're back.
And and so I guess Tony talks to

631
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,160
both of them and leads him to
the Lord, you know, out of that

632
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,360
and it's great.
Presumably rescues a marriage

633
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480
and rescues even more important
to souls and maybe the souls of

634
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,040
the children too.
Man I I love.

635
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,920
That it's just a plug you should
come up to prayer meeting

636
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,920
because you might hear some
things that that you could be a

637
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,240
prophet to someone.
So they're I'm waiting.

638
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,280
For a quote from Craig Kochel,
but go ahead and read this quote

639
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,880
from Yeah, Come on, Pastor Joe.
Yeah, Piper gets his day in the

640
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,520
sun with Pastor Joe fairly
frequently.

641
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,400
Not as much.
He's got to get on the Coco Coco

642
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,520
bandwagon here.
So this is an extended quote,

643
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,520
but I think it is good because I
think this is like real life for

644
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,720
a lot of people, Piper says.
Unless I'm badly mistaken, one

645
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,480
of the main reasons so many of
God's children don't have a

646
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,600
significant prayer life of
prayer, is it so much that we

647
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,680
don't want to, that we don't
plan to.

648
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,080
If you want to take a four week
vacation, you don't.

649
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,480
Just don't get up one summer
morning and say hey, let's go

650
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,360
today.
You won't have anything ready.

651
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,960
You won't know where to go.
Nothing has been planned.

652
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,120
But that's exactly how many of
us treat prayer.

653
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,200
We get up day after day and
realize that significant times

654
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,920
of prayer should be a part of
our life.

655
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,520
But nothing's ever ready.
We don't know where to go.

656
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,360
Nothing's been planned.
No time, no place, no procedure.

657
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,600
And we all know that the
opposite of planning.

658
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,440
It's not a wonderful flow of
deep, spontaneous experiences in

659
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,560
prayer.
The opposite of planning is the

660
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,440
ruts.
If you don't plan a vacation,

661
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,440
you will probably stay home and
watch TV.

662
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,360
The natural, unplanned flow of
spiritual life sinks to the

663
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,920
lowest ebb of vitality.
There's a race to be run and a

664
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,120
fight to be fought.
If you want renewal in your life

665
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,520
of prayer, you must plan to see
it.

666
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,920
Therefore, my simple exhortation
is this.

667
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,360
Let us take time this very day
to rethink our priorities and

668
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,160
how prayer fits in.
Make some new resolve, try some

669
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,000
new venture with God.
Set a time, set a place, choose

670
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,440
a portion of scripture to guide
you.

671
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,840
Don't be tyrannized by the Press
of busy days.

672
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,960
We all need mid course
corrections.

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Make this day of turning to
prayer for the glory of God and

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for the fullness of your joy
really good, really practical

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'cause that's it.
When it's time to pray, you just

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pray.
If you don't map it out, it does

677
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make prayer more challenging and
less likely to follow through on

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those kind of things.
Yeah, so make a.

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Plan.
I really appreciate what we're

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doing in our church.
We have this pray Charleston so

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that we're, I think it's the
second of the month that we're

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on.
We're coming out with a weekly

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prayer calendar so that through
that week we've got some verses

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that go along with it.
We're kind of changing some

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things up at our Wednesday
night.

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So make prayer a real emphasis.
So on to application #1 where do

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you stand in honestly evaluating
your prayer life?

688
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And probably there's some people
listening that have a pretty

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good prayer life, maybe some
that, you know, could, could

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stand to evaluate it.
And, you know, use what we just

691
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talked about with John Piper,
like, OK, make a plan, get some

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things out now so that you know
you can fall into that.

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Will you humbly ask God to teach
you to pray in 2025?

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What's your plan?
What is the time and place that

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you will set for prayer?
And Michael, just.

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Mentioned this, pray Charleston.
We aren't in Charleston, SC.

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There is a community of churches
that are picking a day to pray.

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We're encouraging our people be
part of that within 30 minutes

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one time a month and pray.
I'm sure there are different

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initiatives.
Whatever it is, just get a plan

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and pray like you were saying,
Michael. #3 get in our new

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routine and start attending
Wednesday evenings as we

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emphasize prayer.
What other routines do you need

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to consider in making prayer a
priority?

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So again, this is a little bit
specific to our church, but I'm

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sure your church has some time
set aside for prayer.

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If not, you know, humbly go to
your leaderships.

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Or if you're in leadership, you
know, talk about how can we make

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prayer a bigger priority for our
church man?

710
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We did a, we did a video
promoting this and I was just

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checking.
I was like, oh, I need to count.

712
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I don't know if you saw this or
not, but someone commented on it

713
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and they're like, oh, like it's
not someone from Charleston.

714
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I was like, oh, I want to I want
to be at this Permian.

715
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It sounds great.
I'm in Charleston, IL What's the

716
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,800
address?
It's like, oh, but that's pretty

717
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,000
cool that our video made into.
Someone if I was like did you

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00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,840
want to reply I?
I like literally just saw this.

719
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I was like, so I did not see
your reply, but maybe someone

720
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has was like, oh, we didn't see
the like, hey, just take that.

721
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,040
You know there's a.
Charleston, IL.

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Just take a yeah.
There, I think it's a, I think

723
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there is, maybe it's a
Charlestown, Illinois, maybe

724
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,560
it's Charleston West.
Virginia, there is Charleston.

725
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West Virginia, Well, we'll have
to check it out.

726
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,360
Yeah, maybe it's one of these
places.

727
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,840
We'll just, I'll, I'll reply
with like a Google map with like

728
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,080
instructions, like to take a 12
hour trip or whatever.

729
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,960
But anyway, what's 1?
What one big lesson is your take

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away from Jesus teaching in Luke
11.

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Can you identify the motivations
given in our passage that

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motivate prayer?
It's good to look at.

733
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Why should we pray?
What's going to motivate us to

734
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do so?
And.

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Then #5 read and meditate on
Paul's prayers.

736
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Ephesians 115 through 223.
Ephesians 314 through 21.

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I think that's just be just
through 2315 through 23,

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probably not 2/23.
His prayer does not just pray

739
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,200
the new.
Testament just pray the new.

740
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,400
Testament, obviously.
Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1.

741
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,720
Paul's prayer that closes out of
chapter 3.

742
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He has one in Philippians 19
through 11, Colossians 19

743
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through 12, My personal
favorite.

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There's probably others out
there.

745
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You know, Jude, you know, closes
out with the little, you know,

746
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,560
these little bee close out
things that skip, skip over

747
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,880
sometimes those are the best,
you know, now to him.

748
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He was able to make you stand
boldly in his presence with, you

749
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,280
know, shameless or something
like that.

750
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You know to him be the glory of
honor and forever and ever.

751
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,920
You know, those are, those are
great things to be thinking

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00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,400
about in your prayer life, man
pray.

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00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,280
Passionately pray expectantly.
Any final thoughts on prayer?

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00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,040
Michael No.
Do it.

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00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,360
I like it, do it well.
That's all we got today.

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That is our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

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Two.
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758
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,080
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