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Chuck Swindoll on Prayer During Sermon Preparation · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Declare the truth as you have been built to declare it.
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  Speaker 2: Explanation of the meaning and the application of Holy Scripture.
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  Speaker 2: It is the most effective method of getting knowledge from
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  Speaker 2: the page of the Bible into the hearts and minds
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  Speaker 2: of the believers.
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  Speaker 3: As a busy preacher, it's tempting to pour all of
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  Speaker 3: your prep time into your words and delivery. It's tempting
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  Speaker 3: to use extra hours to study one more commentary, to
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  Speaker 3: find that perfect illustration for your conclusion, to ensure the
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  Speaker 3: logic of your outline is razor sharp, or to really
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  Speaker 3: wordsmith your principles and applications. But as important as all
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  Speaker 3: of those things are, and believe me, they are very
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  Speaker 3: important to Pastor Chuck Swindle, he says, there's one thing
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  Speaker 3: that surpasses them all. In this video, we'll explore Chuck's
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on the importance of prayer for your sermon, and
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  Speaker 3: I want to start with a clip from a series
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  Speaker 3: on First Timothy. The sermon is titled What's first in
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  Speaker 3: a Meaningful Ministry? And here's what he had to say.
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  Speaker 4: What's first in a meaningful ministry? What's first? According to
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  Speaker 4: First Timothy, Chapter two, it's prayer. It's prayer, doesn't sound
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  Speaker 4: very very creative. It certainly isn't terribly exciting to those
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  Speaker 4: who are engaged in it. It's hard work. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know of any harder work than prayer. It isn't glamorous.
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  Speaker 4: It never is applauded. It is done in the closet.
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  Speaker 4: If it is effective, it represents a solitude one way conversation.
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  Speaker 4: I am concentration effort. Now is it balanced to say
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  Speaker 4: that this is first? Is that New Testament? Without turning?
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  Speaker 4: Let me give you a brief review. And I promised
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  Speaker 4: brief in Acts chapter six, when the congregation was at
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  Speaker 4: odds with one another because some of the people in
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  Speaker 4: the church were not being ministered to, the elder said
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  Speaker 4: to the congregation, choose for yourself, men who will be
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  Speaker 4: able to help in this problem. But we will continue
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  Speaker 4: to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the
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  Speaker 4: Word in that order. You know, we often misquote that
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  Speaker 4: we will devote ourselves to the ministry of the Word
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  Speaker 4: in prayer, but that's not what Acts six' four. Says
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  Speaker 4: we will devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of The.
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  Speaker 3: Word we have more to hear from that, sermon but
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  Speaker 3: that clip Frames chuck's whole perspective on. This what's first
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  Speaker 3: in a meaningful ministry prayer, broadly that applies to the church,
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  Speaker 3: specifically that applies to the, preacher and it applies equally to.
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  Speaker 3: Both and in case you don't, Know I'm Aaron massey
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  Speaker 3: and it's my privilege and joy to serve an insight
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  Speaker 3: for living and to bring you the content and This
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  Speaker 3: preach The word. Series our hope with this series is
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  Speaker 3: to equip and encourage you in the task of, preaching
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  Speaker 3: because we want you to be an, effective strong and
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  Speaker 3: faithful expositor Of God's. Word and it's this. Simple you
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  Speaker 3: can't do that without. Prayer IF i were to Summarize
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  Speaker 3: chuck's point into a single, principle it would be, this pray,
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  Speaker 3: first and pray often during your sermon. Prep but upholding
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  Speaker 3: that attitude isn't always easy or. Natural it takes intention and.
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  Speaker 3: Diligence he has wonderful insights on this in his Book
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  Speaker 3: Saying It, well WHICH i want to read for. You
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  Speaker 3: and by the, way if you don't have this, book
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  Speaker 3: we highly recommend you grab a. Copy Innett chuck goes
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  Speaker 3: into his preaching journey as well as his preaching, method
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  Speaker 3: and believe it or, not he didn't always pray first
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  Speaker 3: and pray often during his sermon Prop here's what he.
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  Speaker 3: Says i'm naturally given to duty and, responsibility SO i
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  Speaker 3: am seldom tempted to avoid the discipline of digging or
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  Speaker 3: studying each. Week, INSTEAD, i like many, preachers struggled to
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  Speaker 3: overcome another, problem a debilitating condition of the heart known
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  Speaker 3: as self. Reliance WHEN i first began to shoulder the
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  Speaker 3: responsibility of preaching Every, SUNDAY i was an eager young
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  Speaker 3: pastor up In, Waltham, massachusetts full of pent up energy and.
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  Speaker 3: IDEALISM i bore no illusion about the difficulties of preaching every,
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  Speaker 3: week BUT i determined to meet the rigors of pastoral
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  Speaker 3: ministry with the same roll up your sleeves work ETHIC
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  Speaker 3: i learned from my father and honed to a razor
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  Speaker 3: sharp edge as a combat ready, marine AS i understood
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  Speaker 3: prayer at that. Time mind, you this Was chuck in the.
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  Speaker 3: Sixties talking To god punctuated the end of human, effort
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  Speaker 3: either to bless it or to accomplish what could not
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  Speaker 3: be done. OTHERWISE i, thought in this, ORDER i do
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  Speaker 3: my part While god does his, part and the job gets.
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  Speaker 3: DONE i therefore prayed as either a matter of duty
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  Speaker 3: or for rescue when my own efforts proved. Inadequate, fortunately
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  Speaker 3: The lord diverted my, course kept me from, crashing and
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  Speaker 3: in the passing of many, years forever changed my understanding of,
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  Speaker 3: prayer along with my whole approach to, life, preaching, ministry
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  Speaker 3: and even. Marriage NOW i want to share with you
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  Speaker 3: how his understanding. Changed but BEFORE i, Do i'd like
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  Speaker 3: you to hear a clip Where chuck talks about our
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  Speaker 3: posture in. Prayer this clip is from his sermon On colossians,
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  Speaker 3: four Where paul, said devote yourselves to prayer with an
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  Speaker 3: alert mind and a thankful. Heart chuck's comments are about
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  Speaker 3: prayer in, general BUT i think they're very useful to
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  Speaker 3: keep in mind for preachers during sermon.
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  Speaker 4: Prep look at.
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  Speaker 1: How paul writes of. This, first he writes a prayer
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  Speaker 1: with word a word like. Devotion devote yourselves to, prayer
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  Speaker 1: The greek, says continue watching in it with. Thanksgiving there's
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  Speaker 1: passion in the. Statement prayer is, active not. Passive prayer
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  Speaker 1: is bold not we Remember hebrews, four we are to
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  Speaker 1: come boldly before the throne Of, grace not in, weakness not,
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  Speaker 1: pleading not, begging not hoping we're going to be, heard
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  Speaker 1: but boldly walking boldly into the presence Of, god yet
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  Speaker 1: humbly acknowledging That he has the right to answer however he.
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  Speaker 1: Pleads we are to pray with an alert mind and
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  Speaker 1: with a thankful. Heart we're not to be dreamy and
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  Speaker 1: wandering in our. Prayers we are to have a series
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  Speaker 1: of thoughts that are expressed. Devotedly in today's, TERMS i
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  Speaker 1: would use the word get the words get with it
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to.
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  Speaker 4: Prayer get with.
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  Speaker 1: It don't mumble the. Prayer don't come, halfheartedly but come with,
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  Speaker 1: vigilance with a mission in. Mind devote yourselves to pray
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  Speaker 1: with an alert mind and a thankful, heart illness with.
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  Speaker 1: YOU i don't know of any harder work than. Prayer devoted,
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  Speaker 1: prayer passionate, Prayer prayer that's uttered behind the, scenes with,
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  Speaker 1: confidence speaking to someone you cannot, see counting by faith
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  Speaker 1: on something you have not felt or, heard and yet it's,
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  Speaker 1: there it's claimed by.
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  Speaker 3: PRAYER i just love That god wants us to come
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  Speaker 3: with boldness before, him and that's true when we're preparing.
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  Speaker 3: Sermons god loves the people you're preaching to more than
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  Speaker 3: you love those. People he wants those people to be,
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  Speaker 3: fed to be, equipped to be, encouraged to be, corrected
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  Speaker 3: to be, strengthened to be. United the church family does
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  Speaker 3: not belong to, you. Pastor it belongs To, god And
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  Speaker 3: god has entrusted it into your. Care but that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean you're left on your own to care for. It.
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  Speaker 3: No god is with you in the entire. Process and
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  Speaker 3: that's What chuck realized that changed his own understanding of.
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  Speaker 3: Prayer here's what he says in saying, It, well my, responsibility,
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  Speaker 3: therefore is to become the means Of god's doing what
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  Speaker 3: he already wants to. DO i am merely his co.
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  Speaker 3: Laborer he called me to do this not because he
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  Speaker 3: desperately needs, me and not because he cannot proclaim his
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  Speaker 3: own word or do so through, others but because it
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  Speaker 3: pleases him to use, me my, voice my, personality my. Style.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever prayer then isn't a punctuation at the end of my.
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  Speaker 3: Effort prayer is my first introduction to what he wants
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  Speaker 3: to do on any given, Occasion sunday or. Otherwise rather
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  Speaker 3: than pray as a last resort after, all else has
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  Speaker 3: failed to produced a worthwhile. SERMON i now pray first and,
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  Speaker 3: often Asking god to let me in on his, plan
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  Speaker 3: AND i think that perspective shift makes all the. Difference
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  Speaker 3: It's god's, mission It's god's, church It's god's, sermon and
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  Speaker 3: it's your privilege to get to be a part of.
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  Speaker 3: It chuck noted a handful of ways prayer has helped,
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  Speaker 3: them AND i can't share all of, them but here
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  Speaker 3: are my favorite. Two here's what he. Says, first praying
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  Speaker 3: keeps my focus On god's approval rather than the applause of.
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  Speaker 3: People prayer just keeps your mind elevated and aware That
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  Speaker 3: jesus is right. There he's not, Distant he's right next to.
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  Speaker 3: You their reaction matters less than his. Approval, second praying
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  Speaker 3: keeps me from shooting from the hip WHEN i know
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  Speaker 3: a passage very. Well this one's about sticking with the
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  Speaker 3: process to study and prepare and outline and formulate in,
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  Speaker 3: wordsmith and to do it all with excellence in the
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  Speaker 3: presence Of, god even though you could probably step behind
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  Speaker 3: the pulpit and deliver a helpful sermon with very little. Preparation,
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  Speaker 3: anyways those are my favorite. Two now to, END i
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  Speaker 3: want to Play chuck's applications from the sermon that we
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  Speaker 3: opened With what's first in a meaningful? Ministry the sermon
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  Speaker 3: covers First, timothy chapter, two verses one through, eight Where
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  Speaker 3: paul Urged timothy first of all to pray for all.
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  Speaker 3: People like, Before chuck's words here are about prayer and
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  Speaker 3: ministry in. General BUT i think these practical suggestions are
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  Speaker 3: useful for preachers who want to rely on prayer during sermon.
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  Speaker 4: Prep practical suggestions on making prayer a priority a couple
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  Speaker 4: of three little three word. Tidbits first of, all four
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  Speaker 4: habit form a. Habit if you're ever planning to make
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  Speaker 4: prayer a, priority you'll have to form a.
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  Speaker 1: Habit.
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  Speaker 4: OH i hesitate to use this, illustration But i'm going.
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  Speaker 4: To in order to get a hold of the problem
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  Speaker 4: you have with, Weight i'm using. It, okay you have
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  Speaker 4: to form a new habit about eating and about, exercise
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  Speaker 4: and about nutrition and about your whole intake or you'll
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  Speaker 4: never lose. It you got to form a new, habit
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  Speaker 4: and it is, very very very hard. Work but it
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  Speaker 4: is nothing like forming a habit to. Pray it's a
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  Speaker 4: piece of cake compared to. That to Four, oh that's a,
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  Speaker 4: bad bad use of. Words piece of change THAT.
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  Speaker 1: I say, that that is.
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  Speaker 4: GREAT i can't believe. It you, guys you were gunning
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  Speaker 4: for me on that. One form a. Habit leave it
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  Speaker 4: at that Number, Two set no, limit set no. Limit
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  Speaker 4: the enemy's gonna come and, say, oh pray about. That come,
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  Speaker 4: on you can handle. That don't believe. It you're setting a. Limit,
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  Speaker 4: well you can do. That you know how to handle.
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  Speaker 4: That you've done it. Before set set in a. Limit
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  Speaker 4: don't set a, limit set no, limit he, Says pray,
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  Speaker 4: first so do. It you'll have, insight you'll have, resilience
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  Speaker 4: you'll have you'll have, perception you'll have strength you never had.
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  Speaker 4: Before don't set a. Limit form a, habit set no. Limit,
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  Speaker 4: third restrain all. Substitutes that's the third. One before you
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  Speaker 4: reach over to pick up a phone and share the
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  Speaker 4: need with, somebody you. Pray that's a substitute for. You
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  Speaker 4: ask somebody which book you ought to read. About don't
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  Speaker 4: read a.
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  Speaker 1: Book pray.
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  Speaker 4: Before you talk about, it before you worry about, It,
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  Speaker 4: pray take it To, god leave it with. Him prayer
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  Speaker 4: is putting the lens of your soul on. Time, exposure
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  Speaker 4: writes one. Person prayer is putting on earphones that shut
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  Speaker 4: out all noises but the voices of you and Your.
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  Speaker 4: God prayer is the recovery room after surgery and before.
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  Speaker 4: Recuperation prayer always, has along with its receptivity for, statements thank,
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  Speaker 4: You i'm, sorry teach, me go with. Me prayer is
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  Speaker 4: the frame of the bridge from weeping to, doing built
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  Speaker 4: across the canyon of. Despair, now you may not have needed,
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  Speaker 4: this BUT i. DID i needed it more than anybody
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  Speaker 4: who's heard, it And god has really used it to challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Me so Thanks god for talking to.
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  Speaker 3: Us so that's it for this. Video remember pray, first
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  Speaker 3: and pray often during your. Sermon Prop, Again I'm aaron
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  Speaker 3: with insight for. Living it's our privilege and joy to
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  Speaker 3: serve you as you Lead god's people and preach his.
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