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#251 - From Pizza Ovens to Prayer Gatherings - How God Prepares us For Future Faith Works. · The OneCry Podcast

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  I stood on that spot, and I just about wept to think of how God changed me in those years
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  and how it led to so many other kinds of miraculous works that I can only attribute to the outpouring
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  of the Spirit.
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  Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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  The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and
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  reports.
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  Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast.
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  I'm Bill Ellis, and I am so thrilled to have one of my favorite friends on the face of
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  the earth with us today.
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  You've known Bob Buckey before, and we're here.
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  If you hear some background noise, our One Cry team gets together once a year to do annual
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  planning and evaluation, and thank the Lord for what he's doing.
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  We're in that meeting, and so there's people above us.
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  We're in a bottom floor of a place that we're staying in, and so you may hear some ambient
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  noise.
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  But we just thought we'd capture while we had some of these people, some interviews,
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  and I'm so glad to have you, Bob, I'm telling you.
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  So to introduce you to Bob, Bob, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  You pastored for a zillion years.
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  You're old, basically.
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  Yeah, I pastored my first church starting in 1979.
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  I hadn't yet graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston, but the following
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  year I did.
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  I spent seven years there, seven years in the greater metropolitan New York area in
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  northern New Jersey.
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  It was a bedroom community of the financial district.
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  Wow.
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  Before, the Evangelical Free Church of America called me out to Minnesota.
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  We didn't know anybody out there, and it was freezing cold, and we didn't want to go, but
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  they called us, and we fell in love with the place.
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  We really loved our time there.
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  And we spent 30 years there in a combination of serving the Evangelical Free Church in
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  like a Henry Blackaby-like position, an office of prayer and spiritual awakening.
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  But then the last 16 years as pastor of Hillside Church, before I left, I'm now pastor emeritus
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  of that wonderful church, and now living in a completely different environment.
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  We're in Beach, Florida.
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  Your wife, Sally, said, let's go warm.
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  And we did.
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  And you did.
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  And all through this pilgrimage, God has given you a great passion for revival and spiritual
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  awakening, a great understanding of that.
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  And God has used you in prayer movements.
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  So this is fascinating.
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  Bob was instrumental in the beginning of the Global Day of Prayer, which happened over
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  a 24-hour period, if I understand.
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  And over 200, the estimates are over, what was it over?
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  200 million participants in 220 nations and territories.
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  Wow.
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  That's most of the world.
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  Most of the world.
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  That people were praying on one day.
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  And then not only were you helping to instigate and produce that, but then for many years
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  helped to produce the broadcast of the National Day of Prayer.
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  That's right.
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  And then your heart has turned to really invest your time with the next generation deeply.
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  And now the last years have been working with the Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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  That's right.
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  And we're seeing the answers to our prayers.
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  Yeah.
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  Isn't that amazing?
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  God is moving.
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  God is pouring out His Spirit.
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  Yeah.
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  When I was a young preacher and I started my postgraduate work, I was wanting to study
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  great preachers.
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  But when I began scratching at the great preachers, they started pointing at the great
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  prayers as the source of their prayer and power.
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  And so I got curious about that and began to take that apart and realized that there
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  was a story there that hadn't been told by everyone.
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  And I needed to tell it.
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  God compelled my heart to tell that story.
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  And we're talking in this series about how revival has, as Kyle Reno says, just run.
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  That's right.
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  You know, how revival has affected us, how it's impacted us for the kingdom.
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  And would you say that's where that began in your heart?
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  Was the study of that?
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  Not just the study of it, the experience of it.
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  Like you, the trajectory of my life was transformed during the Jesus movement in the 1970s.
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  I was a student, started college sort of aimlessly.
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  I was an art major.
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  I wanted to paint.
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  I thought I wanted to paint.
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  And after a couple of years of sort of flailing about, my older brother got an early out from Vietnam.
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  He was fighting in the highlands of Vietnam in the army and he got an early out to come
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  back to school.
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  And I joined him because I always wanted to play football with him at Taylor University
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  in Upland, Indiana.
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  I'd never known the place before.
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  And I went there and the school was just what I needed to reexamine my life.
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  But then the move of God's spirit on that campus as it was moving across the country
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  during the Jesus movement, then transformed me.
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  I'd be happy to tell some stories about that.
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  Yeah, I do.
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  Because we're, you know, we're in the foothills of that same kind of movement.
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  That's right.
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  And these podcasts on real life stories, how all of us, and you should know too, Bob is
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  one of the leaders, was one of the initial founders along with Byron Paulus.
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  I was involved in that and through four other men of OneCry, which has been going now for
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  15 years to try to help stimulate.
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  This podcast came out of that movement.
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  And so tell us practically in Makiese, what happened to you in the Jesus movement?
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  Well, obviously, we heard the stories, right?
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  We heard the story of Asbury College, especially on Christian college campuses.
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  We heard the rumors that Aswin was afoot, right?
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  And Aswin was in the land and he was moving about.
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  And they started to creep onto campus more and more.
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  Well, I got involved with a group of guys who had been radically saved and transformed
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  by the gospel and joined them in a work at a coffeehouse.
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  And of course, coffeehouses were popping up all over the nation.
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  It was called Jacob's Well, and it was in the basement of a commercial building in a
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  nearby city, Hartford City.
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  And I wasn't the founder of that, but I got involved with it.
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  And we saw hundreds of kids come to faith in Christ.
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  And there was a wall in the well, just a blank wall.
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  And they would sign their names as they came to faith.
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  And that whole wall was filled up with names.
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  And I realized that I was in the midst of a move of God that I did not fully comprehend,
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  and yet created a hunger and a desire in me to know more and to give my life to it.
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  There were two examples of God answering my prayers that really wrecked me.
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  One of them, we had decided that the coffeehouse should serve pizza.
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  And I had a little bit of construction background.
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  And there was a room off the side of our main room that would work out with a great kitchen.
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  There was a place for a sink, and we could bring electrical in there.
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  And we put the walls up, and we got an old sink out of some other building and a faucet.
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  And we thought we had enough money for an oven, a pizza oven.
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  And I had ordered these electrical units from an operation up in Michigan.
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  And the guy who was supposed to pick them up and deliver them to us forgot them.
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  Now, we had been working for weeks.
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  The coffeehouse was closed.
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  And we had been advertising on local radio and so on that we were going to be opening Friday night,
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  reopening Friday night, serving pizza.
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  And this was Thursday.
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  And there were no ovens.
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  And we couldn't get it.
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  And then the news came to me in the mail that there was no money in our bank account.
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  We had $60 in our bank account.
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  That also happened a lot during the G20.
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  During the G20.
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  So I went up to my little office, and it was an electrical spool turned over on its side.
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  That was my desk.
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  And I was sitting in a wooden chair next to it.
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  I was really feeling depressed because I thought I was well over my skis.
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  I was out of control.
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  I was going to disappoint a lot of people.
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  I just cried out to God, I don't know what to do.
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  And around that moment, a girl came into the office.
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  She was 12 years old.
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  12, I think.
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  And her name was Suzy.
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  Blonde girl.
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  And she said, Bob, I want to get baptized.
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  And the first thought that went through my mind is, oh, great.
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  I've lost my pizza ovens, and now I have to get wet.
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  That was my thought.
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  We had a practice there that if any of the kids came in, and they had given their lives to Christ,
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  and they wanted to be baptized, we would do it.
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  And there was a pastor nearby that agreed to officiate any of those baptisms.
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  And there was a lake right outside of town.
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  Wow.
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  And so we went out to the lake.
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  We all drove out.
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  There was a bunch of the kids hanging around.
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  We jumped in cars, and we went out to the lake.
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  And we went through this path in the woods, some high grass path, went down to the lake.
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  We did the baptism.
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  Of course, I'm soaking wet.
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  We come up out of the water.
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  And as we're walking through this path, I notice something over to my right in the trees, in the woods.
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  And as I look in this little clearing, and the light is coming through the clearing, and in the center of the clearing is a commercial oven.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  So I cried out.
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  I said, look.
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  Behold.
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  What prevents me from taking this oven?
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  And so we went into the woods.
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  Wow.
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  And it was like having a 10-year-old car with 20,000 miles on it.
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  Pristine.
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  Pristine.
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  Absolutely pristine.
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  Double south bend commercial oven.
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  Wow.
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  And we started looking around and making inquiry to see, well, this didn't just fall out of the sky.
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  And there was a small camp nearby.
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  And this oven had been in their kitchen.
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  And they didn't know what to do with it.
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  It was taking up so much room.
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  They never used it because it was so big.
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  And so they decided just the day before to move it out into this clearing, to stick it in this clearing, and didn't know what to do with it.
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  Wow.
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  And I said, would you take $60 for it?
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  Which is all we had.
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  Which is all we had.
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  And that afternoon, it was on a truck.
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  Went into the building.
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  We couldn't get it down the stairs and the front door that would fit into the kitchen.
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  But we could go up to the commercial building on the first floor.
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  And they had a back stairway.
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  And we realized if we put it on its side and jumped on it, we could push it.
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  This is college student engineering.
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  It is.
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  We could push it all the way down.
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  Now, this is the culminating miracle.
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  We got it over to the space that we had planned for the electric ovens.
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  But this wasn't electric.
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  It was gas.
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  Gas.
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  And we already had a wall set up.
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  And I got down on my hands and knees and poked a hole in the wall.
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  And sticking out of the cement slab.
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  Was it gas?
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  It was a gas line.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  The following night, we were cooking pizza.
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  Opening night.
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  Jacob's well.
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  That was the first time in my life, Bill.
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  That God had personally spoken to me in a way that said, I hear you, Bob.
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  And I heard you cry out to me.
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  And in your disappointment, you risked on my behalf, on my name.
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  And you cried out to me and I'm going to answer.
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  Wow.
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  And that was the first of many stories.
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  But the other that affected me as well.
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  And each of these is a story that just changes your life.
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  I was at Taylor during the Watergate crisis.
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  Yeah.
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  And the Lord just laid on my heart, we need to pray for America.
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  And so I went to the president of Taylor, Milo Rettiger, a godly man.
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  And I said, President Rettiger, I want to lead a prayer meeting for the country.
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  And I want to call it a night of prayer for God and our country.
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  Something to that effect.
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  Well, I told him I wanted to do it in the gym.
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  It was Maytag gymnasium, which we also used for chapel.
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  And I wanted to do it all night.
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  I wanted to start right after dinner.
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  I wanted to pray through the night into the morning.
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  And I wanted the whole student body to be invited if they would come.
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  And he paused at that because he thought, okay, girls and guys on the gym floor.
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  Yeah.
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  Through the night.
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  And I said, no, trust me.
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  I said, after we do a joint meeting, I'm going to put girls on one side of the gym
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  and guys on the other side of the gym.
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  We're going to light candles whenever we pray in the night.
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  And when people are sleeping, it's dark, but others will be lighting up the gym with candles.
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  And he reluctantly said, go ahead.
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  Now, I sent out a flyer.
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  I'm not even quite sure how I even got the news out.
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  Just an invitation.
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  This was pre-social media.
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  Pre-social media.
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  Yeah.
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  No texting.
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  None of that.
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  And I remember about 20 minutes before we were to start, and I walked into Maytag gymnasium.
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  There were maybe 10 people in the room.
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  And I felt a little embarrassed that this is all I could muster.
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  I went to a room.
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  It was a door off to the left of the stage, small stage.
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  I got down on my knees.
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  In fact, I think I got down on my face in that small room.
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  And I said, Lord, I don't know what's going to happen tonight.
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  But whatever happens tonight, I give it to you.
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  And please, if there's anybody who is wondering whether they should come tonight to pray for our country, would you draw them by the power of your spirit?
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  Something along those lines.
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  We've all prayed those prayers, right?
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  Haven't we?
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  Even recently, I've prayed such prayers.
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  When I came out at 7 o'clock, I think it was, maybe it was 8 o'clock.
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  There was probably 350 students there sitting on the floor.
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  And I almost wept when I saw it.
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  It was more than I had thought would come.
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  But, of course, less than the student body.
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  And we prayed through the night.
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  We prayed all night.
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  And the guys were really nice.
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  They stayed on one side and the girls stayed on the other.
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  And all through the night, I would wake up and I would see candles lit all throughout.
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  And these young students on their knees before the Lord with their Bibles open, praying and asking God to pour out his spirit upon our land.
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  Now, I could go on with many other stories.
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  But those were two stories that were so personal to me.
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  Because I took risks for God.
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  And in my foolish youth, those risks were taken and God honored those risks.
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  That prayer meeting that I called for at Maytag Gymnasium at Taylor University in 1973, I think it was.
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  I would have no idea that that would lead to me leading some of the largest prayer meetings in the history of the world.
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  And it's stunning to me that I was just at my 50th reunion just a couple of weeks ago, a couple of years ago, I should say.
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  And I stood on that very spot.
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  It's now a worship center.
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  It's not a gym anymore.
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  I stood on that spot and I just about wept to think of how God changed me in those years and how it led to so many other kinds of miraculous works that I can only attribute to the outpouring of his spirit.
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  Wow. Wow.
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  And this is what God does in revival.
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  It does.
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  I mean, this is it's a trail of changed lives one at a time.
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  And you know what's so beautiful?
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  One event at a time.
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  And one event at a time.
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  And, you know, Bob, you and I and OneCry as a whole initiative are just passionately interested in the next generation.
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  Right.
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  Because you have to be.
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  Right. I mean, that's the future.
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  And I think of places where we've been and campuses that we've worked on and working with the collegiate day of prayer now that you're so deeply involved with and OneCry is involved with.
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  And there are thousands of students, tens of thousands of students that are having those experiences.
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  You know, God's doing the same thing.
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  And he's building.
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  I stood at Asbury in three years ago in the balcony.
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  And I was I had been thinking for four, maybe two years about the Generation Z and how messed up they were, that they couldn't.
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  I remember saying to people, you know, what's so wrong with a generation that they can't even tell if they're a girl or a boy?
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  And the utter confusion.
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  And how could this possibly be turned around?
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  And if it wasn't, what's the future of our nation?
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  And I stood there one night while for two hours students were coming to the microphone and giving testimony.
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  I was raped.
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  I was abused.
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  And I got on my face before God at this altar and God has freed me.
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  And it was like I don't need 20 years of counseling.
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  I've been delivered in a moment of revival.
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  And I swept.
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  I thought, or this is how you do it.
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  This is what can turn everything around would be the sweeping move of God.
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  He did it to us because I don't think in my lifetime there's been a generation more like this current generation than what was happening in the 60s.
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  All the revolution, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, all the same kinds of anarchy on college campuses and Kent State and National Guard being called out.
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  All the same things have been happening now.
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  Right.
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  And it created, though, such a desperation that people began to pray and cry.
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  So what a beautiful thing.
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  And it shaped us.
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  Yes.
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  You know, when we started One Cry, I don't know if you remember this, but we we asked 50 men and women to just spiritual leaders to meet us at a I think we met in a airport.
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  Big room is a lot of Atlanta.
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  And as we began, Byron Paulus asked, let's go around and introduce ourselves and answer the question.
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  How did you begin to have a passion for revival?
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  And they're all names that if we called out those names, we'd recognize them.
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  I mean, they're national leaders.
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  And and the vast majority said the Jesus movement, Jesus, Jesus.
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  So we're going to be wonderful.
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  Fifty years from now.
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  That they'd have a similar gathering and they'd say, well, it was the the spirit of God movement or whatever this is going to be called that happened in in 20, 20, 20s, you know, and all that occurred.
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  And so that's why when we ask you to pray and join us and and helping to foster a movement of prayer for spiritual awakening and for the next generation, it's for all of my monkeys that are out there on college campuses right now.
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  And we're praying for pizza ovens and God is doing the miraculous because he's not he's not raising pizza.
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  He's raising men, you know, and warriors for the gospel.
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  And these and these kids today, they're they're risking.
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  They're taking risks like I did.
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  Yeah, but I'm I'm seeing fruit that is far, far greater than than I ever, ever experienced.
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  These kids are believing God for healings.
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  Yeah.
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  They're believing God for deliverances of various kinds.
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  They are you see them in groups and they're praying over each other and they run to to crises and throw themselves into these into these situations, trusting that God is going to answer, trusting that God.
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  Yeah, and he does.
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  And it's just remarkable.
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  So, Bella, you know, we were on the campus of Asbury University, one cry through through the collegiate day of prayer.
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  We were on that campus nine months before the outpouring and we were establishing the relationships and the networks and calling for prayer.
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  And I remember that fall, the the the chaplain, Greg Hasselblad, and he I asked him about this Thursday night prayer meeting.
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  And he said, Bob, I just want to be honest with you.
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  I'm not quite sure.
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  Many students will come to a Thursday night prayer meeting.
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  Wow.
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  And then God surprises us all.
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  And 16 days before our broadcast.
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  Yeah.
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  Which we talked to them about.
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  You talk to them about canceling because the travel was meeting 24 seven.
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  And they said, no, we think this will be the perfect time to bring that to a culmination in the physical sense with the collegiate day of prayer broadcast.
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  And we had five million viewing viewing and praying along with us just on our stream alone.
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  We don't know about television.
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  So God is doing he has done something great in the past.
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  I just believe he's doing even an even greater work now today.
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  And we have to trust him for that.
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  And today, instead of being leaders of that, we are mentors for that.
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  Yeah.
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  And we're coming alongside of young men and young women who are taking great risks and seeing great fruit for the sake of the kingdom.
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  And who we're finding long for mentors in a way that I don't think we ever did.
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  No, we didn't.
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  There's there's a spiritual hunger for we could do a whole program on that for just for spiritual fathers and mothers.
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  And and we've heard that from so many students.
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  You know, I'm not quite sure.
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  I wanted old people around back in the 1970s.
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  We were doing Jesus festivals and all that.
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  But they they swarmed to us.
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  Oh, it's incredible.
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  And they long for us to be around.
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  Yeah.
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  And they treasure.
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  Yeah.
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  The older adults and long to be with them.
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  So, yeah, praise God for what he's doing.
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  Well, Bob, we always.
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  And this podcast by inviting everyone who's listening to pray with us, not just to listen to a prayer, but to really engage in prayer.
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  And would you leave that for us?
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  I sure would.
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  Let's pray together.
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  Father in heaven, we so appreciate.
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  In hindsight, to see throughout the years how you have providentially cared for us and guided our steps.
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  We thank you for the fruitfulness that has come out of unfruitful human flesh.
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  That's right.
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  And how your grace has been sufficient for us in our weakness.
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  But God, we pray for an even greater work today that which you have done in the past.
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  Lord, we don't seek for you to repeat it.
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  We seek for you to eclipse it with an even greater work in this hour.
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  And we see evidences of that.
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  Oh, Lord, not only in America, but also in the nations of the earth.
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  And we pray, oh, Lord, for a great outpouring and a great harvest in our day that we might live to see the greatest work of heaven yet.
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  And I pray, Father, for those who are listening to us right now.
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  I pray that for those who are wondering what part they might play.
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  May they begin on their knees and may they begin by crying out to you for the sake of this generation.
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  That it will be fruitful beyond what we could ask or imagine.
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  So, Lord, teach them to pray. Teach us to pray.
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  Yes.
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  But also then teach us to rise from our knees and be willing and ready to put our hands to work for the sake of your kingdom and the glory of Jesus, our Savior.
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  For whom we work and in whose name we pray.
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  Amen.
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  Amen.
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  Amen.
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  Well, you now know why I love my Bible.
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  And thanks so much.
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  You're so welcome.
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  I'm sorry I'm such a mess, but I tell you, this just so stirs my heart.
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  And I'm so grateful for your life and that God saved a young college guy and set him on a trajectory that impacts all of us more than we know.
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  And he can do that with each of each of you.
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  And I think, Bob, coming off what you just said to just get on your knees and say, Lord, what what do you want me to do?
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  Yes, he'll tell you.
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  And he'll open a path that will startle you and how he wants to use you.
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  So join us next week.
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  We continue to interview men and women who have been impacted by revival and and tell your friends about this.
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  In fact, send the link to somebody about this podcast that we've had today with Bob.
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  It'll be a blessing to them.
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  And we want to thank you for joining us.
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  We'll see you next time.
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  Bye.
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  Bye.