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#174 Special Report - Revival Ripples: Experiencing God's Presence Across Generations · The OneCry Podcast

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True revival isn't a flash in a pan, true revival, you know,
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it continues to go on and there are ripple effects from that.
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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 reports.
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Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast. So glad to have you here with us.
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My name is Ben Dishner, and I am the Global Ministries Director and the producer
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of the podcast. I'm usually behind the scenes, but I get the great opportunity
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to do an interview this time around.
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And so this week, we have a couple of special guests, and I'm excited to hear
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what they have to say. We have Tabitha Ross and Cade Rex, both of which are
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in the Waco area, Waco, Texas.
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And they have had some awesome experiences seeing God move in some wonderful
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places, not just in Waco, but some other places before.
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So welcome, guys. It's so good to have you on.
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Thanks so much for having me. Glad to be here.
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So, Tabitha, I understand you are a seminary student at Truett Seminary.
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Could you tell me a little bit about how you got connected with One Cry and
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with James Poole? Yes, sir.
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Well, currently, me and Kate are both part of the Highland Baptist Church residency program.
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And James Poole, who's really involved in One Cry, obviously,
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is one of our elders at the church. So a friend of ours who we just got to pray
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with a lot this summer was like, Tabitha, you need to meet this guy.
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You need to press into prayer and some things happening on campus.
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So started going. It was awesome to be there.
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And Cade Rex. So Cade, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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And it sounds like that you have your past school, but you're still involved in school.
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Yeah, currently I'm working at a private school here in Waco and teaching some
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fifth and sixth graders there.
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And then, like Tabitha said, also doing the residency program at Highland.
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So doing both of those, the goal eventually is to do full-time ministry, church plant.
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But for this season, kind of splitting time between, yeah, serving in the church
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and then also serving some fifth and sixth graders.
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That's exciting. And I'm sure it's a stretch as well.
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So I love hearing about the residency program also.
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I've heard some great things about Highland Baptist and also thankful for how
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they helped facilitate some things when we had their revival roundtable.
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In conjunction with Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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But I would love to ask you guys about some previous experiences you've had
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and how you have seen the activity of God in other places and then how you've
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seen that transferred in a ripple effect.
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So before we go there, I'd love to ask you, both of you, when did God lay a
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burden on your hearts for prayer and revival?
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Yeah, I can start and kind of will tie that into some of those experiences of
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what we've seen the Lord do.
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So, yeah, for me.
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It was during my time at Wheaton and particularly junior and senior year.
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And so a lot of that was tied to there were some faithful, faithful brothers
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and sisters who were there before even Tabitha and I were there.
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Who had begun praying for awakening on Wheaton's campus.
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Initially a very small group, but just faithfully meeting weekly,
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praying together, inviting people into that.
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And our junior year, one of those guys had a vision of what it would look like
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to invite a large group from across campus and even from Moody in Chicago and
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also from Trinity, which is in the northern suburbs there,
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to come together and pray for revival.
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And so that was the first night that we had an all-night prayer vigil was December of our junior year.
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And that just sparked, I mean, over the next year and a half,
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like several times of our college, Moody, Trinity coming together,
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praying, interceding for spiritual awakening, for revival.
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And so for me, that was really when the Lord began to spark that in my heart,
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when being really, you know, through the fervency of others and seeing the faith
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of others in that to cry out in prayer and to intercede.
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And I think the endurance in prayer that I saw in those people during that time
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of just this willingness to come back again and again to the Lord,
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often for the same things, but just crying out again and again and seeing that
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in my peers was incredible and pushed me so much in my own walk of prayer.
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And then through that as well, like this passion, this growing passion for what
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would it look like to see the Lord move and revival and see something bigger
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than just what we can accomplish in ministry, but see the Lord truly meet us by his spirit.
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Um, so really junior year and then we'll get to that, I know in a second,
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but a lot, um, without floating to senior year, um, what happened to Asbury
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and all of that, um, as well.
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But for me, really junior year was when a lot of that sparked.
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Awesome. Awesome. How about you, Tabitha? Yeah.
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So when Cade's talking about the first prayer vigil starting in December,
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it would have been December of 2021, which would have been the fall of our junior year.
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I was actually off campus that semester staying abroad.
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But when I came back that spring, the spring of 22, I remember friends inviting
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me to some of the all night prayer vigils.
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And I remember being like, I cannot do that.
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Like, is this a joke? Like I cannot sit and just straight pray for what, nine hours?
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So it was like a, I love to pray. I love to talk to the Lord,
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but it was definitely a, I don't, I have no idea what that could be.
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But I started going and they were incredible.
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Such a beautiful time of seeking the Lord in prayer and worship communally, individually.
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And so that year and then into senior year where those continued,
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as well as just learning what it means to just walk and talk with the Lord.
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I think that has probably marked my life of prayer more than anything else.
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Of just getting to walk and to talk to the Lord of like, Jesus Christ wants
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to be our very best friend.
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And like what a privilege it is just to commune with him. If he says,
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come boldly and you can ask.
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And so I think during senior year, senior fall, and then spring of 23,
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where again, we saw so much movement on our campus was where it really started
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to be a prompting of what does it mean to contend?
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What does it mean to press hard into what the Lord wants to do?
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But I think even the spring of senior year, the spring of 23 is where the Lord
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really gave a vision and kind of a glimpse of like, this is what it could look like to live in this.
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But honestly, this whole, what is it, year and a half since is where it's been
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actually worked out of like, okay, and you're not in these places.
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You're not in these systems. You're not in this almost accountability that the
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community gave, or even the movement that the Lord was doing specifically during that time.
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Now it's been, okay, your call is just to pray and
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to pray and to pray and to pray and so really in this past year and
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a half it's been taking a glimpse of something that
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was given and now pressing it as hard as um he
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gives the grace to so amen amen that's
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awesome you know i uh often we
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hear the term the asbury effect
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in revival circles and a
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lot of ministries that deal with spiritual awakening and prayer
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and uh you know that was something that
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uh was tossed around with previous generations
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but we've recently seen a resurgence of
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that so um now tell me about what happened at wheaton prior to edsbury uh and
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you know it's it's kind of funny you guys were at wheaton and you were kind
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of across the pond where our headquarters is in michigan so well But, yeah,
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so we probably prayed toward you guys a few times.
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So, yeah, tell us about what happened at Wheaton.
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Prior to the Asbury Revival? Yes. Yeah, I think maybe the best phrase that I
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can think of to define what was happening was just this growing hunger.
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And continually over that year,
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really year plus from our junior year into spring semester, senior year,
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just this continued growing hunger where this fire, this passion,
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right, that had initially been really just a small group of people on Wheaton's campus praying for.
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Spiritual awakening and praying for revival by the time our senior year
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rolled around like there was there was a lot more people
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who were starting to catch this vision and catch this
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passion and kind of what Tabitha said
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earlier I think a lot of us were like praying for something that we
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didn't entirely know what it would look like earlier like yeah you know we're
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praying for spiritual awakening we're like I don't really know what that's going
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to be if it happens but this hunger for that was growing and so I think you
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just saw that in the consistency of people praying our senior year of this consistent
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coming back to praying for this,
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even before Asbury happened, even before,
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in a sense, we saw a little bit of what we had been praying for.
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Even before that moment, there was just this growing hunger,
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this growing passion for that. I think it was building on Wheaton's campus.
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So Lord, I'm praying for this. I don't really know what it is, but I'm praying for it.
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And then he answered your prayer.
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Yeah. How about you, Tabitha? yeah
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i guess kind of building off of that i remember
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um that word being tossed around a lot of we're
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praying for revival and genuinely not even doing what
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that meant um that was not something i really grew up hearing or knowing a lot
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about um and so i just remember being like it feels like the only connotations
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i had for revival was like a really hype like worship night or something and
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i was like it feels wrong to ask for something that will just end after one
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day um or a couple days or whatever it may be.
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But we're praying and we're pressing in and asking the Lord to move in these spaces.
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And I guess kind of going into the spring, we had.
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We had one of the prayer vigils, I think, in February, early February of 23.
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And then Asbury hits, and we start hearing about these stories of just,
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oh, there's worship, and it's continuing, and it's continuing, and it's continuing.
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And I remember, I think it was February 13th, 13th, where the worship was still going on at Asbury.
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And we started sending groups of people from weekend
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to go and like be part of the worship and build it
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up support even be present in whatever way possible and so we started sending
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teams of people starting sending groups of people um and i mean like i remember
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wanting to go that day it was like in some ways we didn't know what we were
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praying for but it was also that hunger was there of like lord like it's actually
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happening like you're moving like we didn't
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maybe know exactly what expectations we had for it to look like,
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but we knew we had a hunger for Lord.
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We want you to move. And so when that was happening, it was like,
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okay, he's moving. We want to be there.
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Um, I tried to go on Monday and had a very, very deep sense of you're not supposed to go.
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Um, and so I remember staying and trying to go the next day and Cade,
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Cade can tell you about this too, but Cade took a group of people out on Tuesday
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afternoon on February 13th.
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And I remember getting in the car to go and we're driving down the road.
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And I just remember being sick to my stomach feeling the story of Jonah,
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where he runs away from the Lord. And it's this feeling of like,
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you're not going where you're supposed to go.
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And just this idea of like, if I've been praying and praying and praying for
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the Lord to move at Wheaton, why am I going somewhere else to find his presence?
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And that doesn't make the people who went to Asbury unfaithful.
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I think it was actually a very faithful decision on the behalf of many, including King.
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But for me it was just this feeling of,
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just don't think this is where the Lord wants me to go right now.
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And I remember coming back and praying and praying and praying and talking about being like, why?
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Why, Lord, you're finally moving. Like we've been waiting for this and waiting
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for this. Why can I not go?
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And just this feeling of kind of dissatisfaction of, Lord, what needs to happen
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at Wheaton? What needs to happen on our college before you move,
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before something breaks?
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And it was this continual feeling of something needs to break.
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And again, had no idea what that was, what needed to happen.
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But I just remember praying and praying and praying.
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Lord, something needs to break. What needs to break for you,
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like for your presence to pour out, for your people to hear your voice?
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And Monday night, so the day before when Wheaton groups started going,
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there was a group of Wheaton students who met on Wheaton's campus randomly just to worship.
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They weren't even there that late.
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And then Tuesday night, the group came back plus them and kept worshiping.
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And the next night they came back, plus some kept worshiping.
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And essentially from there, we saw over 60 days straight of students worshiping
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for hours and upon hours and upon hours every single night.
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And it looked very different, I think, from something that you would see as
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very of kind of a nonstop worship.
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Course of days, this was, hey, coming back to the same room.
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Every single night, we would go from, I don't know, 6, 7, 8 p.m. to 12, 1 in the morning.
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Sometimes there were 10 students. Sometimes there's 50 students.
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There's a night or two where there are hundreds and hundreds of students packed
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into that space and just truly watching the Spirit of the Lord dwell very,
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very tangibly so a question
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on that i with with asbury um you
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know some people would look at what happened.
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At asbury without being uh involved in
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it and they would think well people were just chasing it an experience
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and uh it sounds like one
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thing that you guys were praying was uh it
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sounds like now you can correct me but it sounds like uh you were
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praying but you weren't praying asking for an experience you
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were asking for a move of god yeah and so
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could you kind of share some of
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the things that maybe opened your eyes during that
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time that you that you saw but they
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carried forward true revival isn't a flash in
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a pan true revival you know it continues
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to go on and there are ripple effects from that so what
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are some ways you've seen that happen you know it's funny
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um just to backtrack a little bit because this
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ties into what you just asked um when tabitha said
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that prayer vigil that we had in february right before
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um asbury took place our theme
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was actually this theme of worthy and yeah yeah
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um what it means to worship properly and
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it was so good like it was it was there was rich
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truth there but it's also so um humorous in some ways looking back because i
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think the lord taught each of us so much about worship over the next few months
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that i looked back on some of what we talked about and some of what we spoke
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on at that prayer vision was like well lord you just exploded my categories
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of what this looks like and so.
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Question like going down to asbury and you're
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right like there there were people that were critical like you're going for
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an experience or this is just about an experience but i think being there and
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getting to um be there for a few days and see people worshiping it was like
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this was not and other people have said this um but this is there was no like
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hype around this event there was um,
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the worship was about as raw and impromptu and unplanned as it gets.
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And, you know, there were no slides. There were no, like, it was just people
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in a room hungry, singing the same songs over and over and over again,
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because you had no lyrics.
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So like you had to sing the same thing over and over again and coming back to
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the same choruses, leaving time for testimony, so much confession of sin.
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And there was just, there was a true rawness to it of people coming into the
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presence of the Lord and, and letting that be the thing that it was about,
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that it wasn't about having this hype experience.
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And, um, I think we saw that then play out at Wheaton in the weeks that followed
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where many of those worship nights, um, from the outside, uh,
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may not have looked very impressive.
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Like they, they, they weren't planned.
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They weren't always super well orchestrated. Um, there was open mic time.
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Like it was, there was so much there that was, it was not manufactured. Right.
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And, but in that it was because we were seeking the presence of God.
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So there was just this freedom and this openness and this willingness to be
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like, well, we want to be in your presence, whatever that means.
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And come before you in worship and just spend hours in your presence in a very.
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Unhurried, unproduced way.
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And so I think we saw that as very, I think so at Wheaton then just play out.
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And I think the Lord is continuing to do that genuinely in
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our generation of this hunger for a worship
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that is not um that is not big that
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is not focused on an experience but a
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worship that is focused on coming to the Lord's presence I see that I mean I
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see that down here in Waco I see that um with friends of mine who are in other
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places I think that's something the Lord is stirring right now I think Asbury
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was a picture of that and I think kind of building on what Kate said about just
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wanting to be there in the presence of the Lord and worship,
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like it was just this like.
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Pulling and calling of like, I cannot be anywhere else right now.
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Like you, we heard a lot of criticism of, well, you don't have to be in that
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room to be faithful followers of God. And it's like, no, you don't.
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But like, like he's here, come and worship, like come and see him.
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I just remember, um, over and over just this pounding of like,
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come and behold him, like come just to sit in his presence, come just to look at him.
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Um, cause again, like when King Jesus like walks into the room,
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nothing can remain the same.
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Like those who meet with King Jesus, like you cannot remain saying
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you have to make a decision is he worthy or is he not like
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you must make that decision and it was just this pulling of
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oh we have seen him and he is worthy um and
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i think we watched um there's a lot of parallels and
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in some ways to what the lord did there is kind of some of the scripture you
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see in isaiah 6 where you see isaiah see
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the lord in the throne and he says holy holy holy it's the lord god
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almighty um and then combining that with revelation it's
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he who was and who is and who is to come the whole
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earth is full of his glory and Isaiah sees this vision and
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his response is not immediately like joy rejoicing like
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hype worship party like no it's woe is me like for I'm a man of unclean lips
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and I go among the people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the Lord of
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hosts like my eyes have seen the king like once you see holiness the only thing
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that you can respond to is I'm not holy I'm not holy and I think what we saw in a lot of people.
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Especially like i think about myself is like when i
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think about that season like i did not meet revival with
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immediate exaltation i met revival and
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saw my own sin and wickedness and envy and bitterness and jealousy and like
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all the most horrible parts of myself were suddenly exposed in the light of
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holiness but what else can you do in staying god's presence because it's god
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like where else could we be but wanting to worship him um and wanting to seek him and um
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And I think in that, it was just this glimpse of, okay, we've seen him. We've seen holiness.
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We've poured out our, because what else can you say but woe is me?
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And then you see the redeemer heal and heal and heal and redeem.
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And you don't expect that kind of redemption, but he's giving it to you.
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And what else can you do but keep seeking him, keep remaining in his presence?
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And I think about even Isaiah's response later on in that passage where he says,
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like, the Lord is saying, who will go?
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And Isaiah says, here I am. Send me.
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And I love kind of pairing that with St. Augustine says at one point,
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he's like, late, have I loved you?
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And I think about that. I'm just like, late, have we loved you?
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Like, late did we seek you?
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Late were we holy? Late were we? All these different things.
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But like, here we are. Like, burn our hearts. Send us. Prompt us and push us into worship.
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And kind of the only thing that we could respond with in that time was,
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Lord, like, your presence is here clearly.
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Like, we are here. Like, please, would you continue to move and just give us the grace to worship?
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Amen. Yeah.
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That just reminds me of when God moved at the church I was at in Revival.
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And the first, you know, the worship, of course, was great.
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But what happened was the presence of God became very palpable.
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And the congregation had a keen awareness of God's presence.
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And what happened as a result was we were on our faces.
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And in my own life, just the conviction of the Holy Spirit was so strong.
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And so it was, it was that moment of holy, holy, holy.
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It was that moment of I cannot find words to describe how great you are.
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And all I see is my sinfulness.
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So Lord, would you cleanse me? And so.
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You know, in times of revival, I think that's something we see.
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We see that keen awareness of God's presence and a call, a strong call to respond to it.
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And so it's evident that you guys were touched by that.
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And as Bill Eliff, who is one of the hosts of the podcast, he says this a lot.
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Once you've been through revival, the fires of revival, the smoke stays on your clothes forever.
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So you always look back and you'll say, I remember when God did this. Yeah.
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With that in mind, looking toward the future and looking toward next generation.
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How would you, what would you say to them in regard to the generation coming
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up behind you even of saying, okay guys, uh, Would you open your eyes to this?
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What would you say in regard as in response to what God's done in your hearts through this revival?
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You know, A.W. Tozer talks about like we we can have as much of the Lord as we want of the Lord.
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And then I forget who this is from, but this idea of every generation must pay
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the same price for revival.
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And we don't earn revival by any means. Like the Lord is his choice,
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his sovereign will, right?
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He chooses to pour that out. We can never earn that.
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But he does honor decisions. He does honor the seeking of his people,
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the crying out of his people. And so I think in that...
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My heart would be like we just we have
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to have a commitment to his kingdom and a
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commitment to seeing that kingdom that we're willing to
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walk differently because of that
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and we're willing to walk in prayer and in intercession and entering this space
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of intercession that frankly is uncomfortable and um like i i think i think
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tabitha would agree with this uh we prayed a lot during that time after Asbury and during Asbury.
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And it was so good and so rich. And the Lord met us in that. And it was also hard.
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And I don't think I came away from that time. Like I came away from that time
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with a greater love for prayer, but prayer is still hard.
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And prayer is still this coming back and choosing to intercede and choosing
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to walk into the presence of the Lord and see him and confess and all that, right?
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And so I think the importance of prayer for our generation has become more and
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more critical in my mind of just that if we want to see him move,
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if we want to see him move in a way that we can't produce, we have to seek him in prayer.
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And if we truly believe that there are ways that, um, things that he can do
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that we can never accomplish in our own human effort, that we can work for years and do things.
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And yet he can do something in a month that we can never accomplish.
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Um, then I think we have to pursue in prayer and we have to be willing to sacrifice
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in prayer genuinely. me and I say that as much to myself as to anyone else but um.
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I think that importance of prayer, that importance of sacrifice and prayer has
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become so much more important.
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I think with that, when Cade says this is something that remains hard,
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this is something that will cost you something.
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You think about King David saying, I do not want to give to the Lord something,
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a worship that does not cost me anything.
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Listen, prayer does not just cost you something. It costs you everything.
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It costs your hours, your minutes, your moments, your mornings, and your nights.
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It costs everything that you have, and yet it's like, do you remember who you are praying to?
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Like, do you remember the Lord? And do you remember what he has done?
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Because if we have a clear view of like who our God is, if we have a clear view
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of our father, if we have a clear view of Jesus Christ, who literally took love
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to crucifixion, like how can we not think that he's worthy of that?
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And just as what Kate's saying is just like, we pray with expectancy.
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Like I know a huge kind of word that came out of that season was just this idea
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of we pray not with our own expectation,
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expectations or agendas of what we want the Lord to do but
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we pray with expectancy knowing that a holy God that's his
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heart is to move that's his heart to wake up his people like this
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is his heart to bring a generation unto himself and so
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we're praying with this kind of expectancy when the Lord says ask and you will
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receive like seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you like you
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look at the context in that verse in um Luke I think it's Luke 11 and it's like
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how much more will the Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and so it's
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not just asking for things are asking, Lord, do this for me, or asking,
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Lord, would you, whatever you want to say, whatever you want to put in there,
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it's asking, Lord, would you give us more of yourself?
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Like, Lord, would you pour out your Holy Spirit? And how much more will the
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Father give that to us? How much more would he give to those whom he loves?
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Because he who did not withhold his own son from us, like what now will he withhold
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from those that he loves?
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And so I think like, looking at our generation and looking going forward, it's like,
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You get to choose what you will pour your life into. You've been given one life.
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You've been given one, just like fullness of passion.
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Like you get to direct it somewhere, direct it to the one who's worthy,
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like direct it onto the one who's worthy because everything else,
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it will not end in life. It will not end in fullness.
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And again, it will cost you everything, but our God is worthy.
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And so count the cost, but also know like the fullness of life is found in his
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presence. And again, what more are we praying for than for his presence?
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What more are we praying for, for the Holy Spirit?
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I love the passion in both of your hearts and hearing how God has fanned in
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a flame what's inside of you.
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And, you know, moving forward after you've been touched by God like that,
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it affects everything you do.
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It affects the way you approach anything. I was telling a coworker with one cry,
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I was telling him the other day that I remember when God had moved so strongly
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in my heart and I was looking at the speedometer.
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I was torn up if I went one mile an hour over speed limit at that time just
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because God had just worked so deeply in my heart and I didn't want to offend
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him in any way. Now, since then, I have gone quite a bit over speed limit.
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I won't talk about that, but at that time, it was so fresh.
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And we talk about a white hot heart with one cry. We talk about that with revival.
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When God blows on the embers of our hearts.
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And our founder, Byron Paulus, he said this before.
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The best form of evangelism falls on the winds of what God does through revival.
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And so a revived heart, just like you guys, a revived heart is going to talk
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about the activity of God.
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And evangelism is second nature when your heart is revived, because all you
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want to do is talk about what God's done.
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So could we, could we close out this, this interview? Can we close this out with prayer?
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And, you know, often what we do is we pray it in. So the things we've talked
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about and pray into that.
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Also, can we pray toward just a movement of God that spreads through the generations,
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that brings generations together and that the gospel would go forth as a byproduct
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of that closeness with God?
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And it would be there'd be such a focus on talking about him and talking about
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his activity and sharing the gospel that we'd see a great harvest.
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So could we pray that in and I'll let you guys lead us and I'll close us out.
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How about that? Have these started? Yeah. All right.
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Father, thank you. Thank you for the privilege that it is to come into your presence.
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Thank you that you welcome us and you only continue to say come.
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Lord, that you say, come with all boldness before the throne of all grace.
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Come and ask and you will receive.
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Father, and we just pray that we would do that. Lord, coming before you again and again and again.
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Not just to present our requests, not even just to ask for your presence,
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but just coming because you're worthy. Just coming because you're holy.
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Just coming because when we stand in your presence, Lord, again,
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when we see King Jesus, everything changes.
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Lord, for you have not taken your children and taken those who are good and put, Right.
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Jesus on them, Lord, you've taken those who were dead and you've brought them
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back to life, Lord, and may that be the testimony of this generation and for
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all that's going forward of just those who were dead have been brought back
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to life to the glory of God and to the good of his church.
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Lord, give us hearts that burn for that, Father, hearts that burn for your presence,
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that burn for your name, whatever.
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We just cannot do that to ourselves, Father. I just keep thinking that again and again and again.
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It's just we cannot give ourselves the fervency needed to sustain seeking you,
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Lord, in the manner in which you are worthy of being sought.
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I cannot find that in myself. I cannot build that up in myself,
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Lord. It must come from you.
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We cannot bring the fire. It must be given to you. And yet you so abundantly give, Lord.
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You give and you give and you give. And we just pray, Father,
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would you do it once more?
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Lord, I think about as we're praying, Lord, would you grant us a little reviving?
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For we are slaves. We are in slavery. This is the reality.
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We are living in death and destruction and brokenness. And yet,
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please, would you grant some reviving.
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Lord, grant us a little reviving. Father, wake up our hearts.
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Father, wake us up to seek you.
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Lord, may we be bold in our prayers, actually believing that you move on the
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prayers of your people, that you stand upon the praises of every generation,
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those behind, those now, those going forward, Lord.
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And we want to be the generation that says, Lord, all we want to do is seek your face.
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Father, that you would give us clean hands and a pure heart of all we continue
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to say is one thing have I asked of the Lord, this only that I would seek,
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that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
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to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple,
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Lord. That's what we desire.
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We desire to be in your presence, to seek your face, to hear your voice,
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Lord. And we pray that you would give us purity in that, Father.
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Set us on fire, Lord, set us on fire for you and would you sustain what we cannot, Father.
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You have taken our imaginations, Father, and you have shattered them to be able to see you clearly.
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This God is worthy of worship. This God is worthy of our lives.
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What else can I give myself to? What else can I give my hours,
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my time, my days, is my devotion to only the one who is worthy.
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Lord, open our eyes even more than this. Father, burn our hearts even more than this.
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Lord, we long that you would be glorified, that the fame and the deeds of our
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God would be known, not our names, not our stories.
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And yet my stories continue to testify. There is a God who transforms.
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There is a God who redeems. And there is a God who resurrects.
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And that is all we get to continue to speak. It's holy, holy,
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holy is the Lord God Almighty. He who was and who is and who is to come.
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The whole earth is full of its glory.
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Lord, there's so much more than this. There's so much more than what we're currently
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seeing We're asking in your heart, Father, in your spirit, in what you want
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to do, Lord, would you pour your spirit out again, Lord?
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We're asking for the Holy Spirit, believing that our Father delights to give
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the kingdom, delights to give his spirit, delights to give yourself to those who ask.
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Those who may be faithful in asking again and again and again and again, Lord.
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Yes, Lord. Yes, we just, Father, we just declare that, Lord,
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you're so gracious in what you let us experience of yourself, Lord.
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And, Lord, I'm not worthy of what I've seen you do, and none of us talking here
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are worthy of what we've seen you do.
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But, Father, we thank you that you reveal yourself to people who are unworthy,
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and you reveal yourself to people who cry upon the blood of Jesus and who seek
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you, Lord, because we have a great head priest who intercedes for us, Lord,
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and you bring this into your presence, Father.
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And so, Lord, I ask for our generation, Father, would you give us a deep hunger
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for this place of prayer, Lord?
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Would you give us a deep hunger for a place where we meet with you,
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Lord, where it's not polished, where it's not manufactured, where there's nothing
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produced about it, Lord, but we just want to meet with you, Lord,
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and we want to know your heart more, Lord.
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And, Lord, yes, we declare you're worthy of that, Lord. you
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are worthy of all of our time you're worthy
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of our what our callings our dreams
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for the future lord the ways that we're going to structure our lives you're worthy
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of all of that lord especially for those who are just in this
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pivotal season lord who for those who are in college right now would i just
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pray that over them um whether here in waco or what at wheaton or so many other
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colleges around the country lord i pray would you give them with this heart
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that says i want to you change the way that my trajectory looks because of the
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kingdom of Jesus Christ. And I pray, Lord, that you would give them that hunger.
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And would you show, would you show us just more of your character, Lord?
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Show us more of your glory, Lord. We ask that we would see you like Isaiah sees
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you, that we would see you like Ezekiel sees you, Lord.
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You bless, Lord, in the Bible, these people within a vision of you,
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Lord, and your greatness and they're marked forever by it.
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And so what I just pray that over our generation, I pray that over the churches
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that were a part of, Lord, I wish to see your glory in a fresh way,
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in a new way that marks us, Lord.
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Yes, that we can't go back to the way we were before, that we're changed because
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of it, Lord, that we're forever marked by that.
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That smoke is on our clothing because of that, Lord. So, Father, we just ask for this.
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We ask for it because we want to see you glorified. We want to see you glorified
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in the church. We want to see you glorified in our generation.
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Lord, we want to see your name lifted high, Lord. and Lord would you give us
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what is needed to be faithful in pursuing that Lord I pray that over those who
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are listening too or who have just this hunger to pursue you and this hunger to pursue,
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a move of your spirit lord god would you sustain them
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would you sustain the urgency they feel would you give them a an
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ability to walk through the long haul this quest
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of more of your presence more of your glory lord
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i pray that you would keep us from weariness keep us set upon
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you lord and set upon your heart we just declare that you're worthy lord and
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we pray these things in jesus name and father i thank you uh for how you are
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continuing to stir hearts and lord we can look back in an event that wasn't
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even planned to be an event,
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but God, it was a move of your spirit that continued from campus to campus.
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And Lord, we ask that that would continue. We ask that you would use your people
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and take those white hot hearts and Father, that it would make an impact all over this globe.
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Lord, thank you for the works you are doing all across this country.
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And Lord, yes, the catalytic events that happen, but the ripple effects,
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Lord, that continue on throughout the body of Christ.
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And Lord, we pray that that would impact lostness around us.
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We pray that there would be a passionate proclamation of the gospel and that
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we would be, Lord, people who share the word of God and invite others to come
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to know you. So, Lord, would you move in that way?
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Would you stir us up afresh? Would you use us, God?
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Would you impact the generations and bridge those gaps?
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Father, bring your people together in unity. And we pray for something that
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is God-sized, not something we can manufacture.
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Thank you, Lord, for this time. And I do pray for those listening,
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Lord, that you would stir their hearts as well and that you would begin a work
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in them that spreads throughout their families, throughout their churches,
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throughout their communities.
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In the name of Jesus, and amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, guys, I thank you so much for being on.
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And it was such a blessing to meet you and to hear about what God's done.
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Let me encourage our listeners, if this podcast has moved your heart,
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we'd love to hear about it.
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And we'd love to hear about the activity of God. You can email us at info at
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onecry.com and let us know so we can share that testimony with others. So God bless you.
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Music.