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#221 Pray for 7: A Campus Prayer Movement Ignites · The OneCry Podcast

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Speaker0: Wide call for spiritual awakening. The goal, accelerating the movement of God
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Speaker0: through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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Speaker0: Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast. I'm Ben Dishner, and I get to produce
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Speaker0: the podcast, but sometimes I get the blessing of being able to interview friends.
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Speaker0: And so Lord has blessed us so much in the previous weeks by seeing God move on so many campuses.
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Speaker0: And today, we have a couple of friends who are involved with One Cry on the
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Speaker0: campus of Baylor University, Zoe Williams and Evan Maddox.
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Speaker0: And welcome, guys. So good to have you.
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Speaker1: Good to be here.
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Speaker2: Yeah, thanks for having us.
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Speaker0: I know that I was talking to Zoe just a minute ago. Zoe, you are a freshman,
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Speaker0: right, and communications major.
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Speaker0: Evan, you are a sophomore or junior?
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Speaker1: Yes, sir. Sophomore.
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Speaker0: Sophomore. And what are you focusing on at school?
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Speaker1: Yeah, I'm studying business marketing and then religion.
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Speaker0: Great, great, great. So now both of you are involved with One Cry Baylor, I believe.
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Speaker0: And recently we have launched a new prayer initiative that really took off just from the beginning.
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Speaker0: But its beginnings were at Baylor, and it was kind of the brainchild of some
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Speaker0: of the students and James Poole, our collegiate director.
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Speaker0: And we're so excited about that because our desire is to see and to inspire
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Speaker0: extraordinary prayer for a move of God in the lives of people and on campuses.
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Speaker0: And so what we've decided is if we can do that seven people at a time,
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Speaker0: seven days a week, that's going to make a pretty big impact.
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Speaker0: And that can grow and grow as we invite people to be a part of it.
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Speaker0: So can you guys tell me a little bit about, let's start with you, Evan.
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Speaker0: What are some things you're seeing on campus? I know there are some major things,
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Speaker0: FM 72 and other things, which are large events.
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Speaker0: But what would you say the spiritual temperature is on your campus there at Baylor?
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Speaker1: Yeah, I would say at Baylor's campus, everyone knows the name of Jesus.
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Speaker1: Everyone knows, just like has some background in faith.
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Speaker1: And then I feel like at Baylor, God is just waking them up to the reality of
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Speaker1: their sonship and daughterhood.
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Speaker1: And I feel like a lot of folks are being freed from this legalistic thriving
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Speaker1: mindset of trying to be enough in their faith.
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Speaker1: And now it's like, myself included, learning just the amount of grace and sonship we're given.
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Speaker1: And just like learning how to go from this idea of Christianity to then understanding
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Speaker1: the depths of God's love for us personally, and not just like his love for humanity,
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Speaker1: but love for us individually.
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Speaker1: And then from that realization and from that identity, then going out.
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Speaker1: Right. And so people being activated in evangelism and prayer and intercession
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Speaker1: for their community and their friends,
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Speaker1: and then doing all these things not to earn the affection of God,
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Speaker1: but doing them from a place of already having affection already
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Speaker1: being loved and then going out um and
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Speaker1: i've seen that personally spread from baylor's campus to
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Speaker1: other campuses nearby um so down the road from baylor it's what's called tstc
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Speaker1: and that's a trade school just right down the road 10 minutes and the climates
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Speaker1: of both campuses could not be more different on one campus of baylor you get
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Speaker1: like so much welcomeness so much community um and just like the gospel everywhere.
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Speaker1: And then 10 minutes down the road, you get nothing. There's no community,
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Speaker1: let alone Christ community.
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Speaker1: But recently I've seen God do a lot of things there and just changing things. It's awesome.
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Speaker0: Well, that's exciting. And hearing about that, we believe that when you share
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Speaker0: the fame of revival, it spreads the flame of revival.
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Speaker0: In other words, when we share about God's activity, it really inspires others to seek Him more.
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Speaker0: And so that's part of the reason we do this podcast, but we love to talk about specific things.
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Speaker0: And so I love that you're hearing about God moving on other campuses around as well.
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Speaker0: So Zoe, with you, what are some things that you have seen?
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Speaker0: I've heard that there are prayer
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Speaker0: groups that have begun in dorms and Bible studies and things of that sort.
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Speaker0: What are some things that you've seen going on on the campus there?
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Speaker2: Yeah, I think there's a huge like prayer push recently.
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Speaker2: Like I've seen a lot of ministries that are just growing like wildfire.
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Speaker2: Um there's ministries that are praying in the mornings like early and it's cool
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Speaker2: to see people show up early in the morning um like even down the hallway from
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Speaker2: me like there were people like gathering in the hallways to like worship a couple
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Speaker2: weeks ago and it was just really cool to see um
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Speaker2: and yeah definitely people learning that prayer
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Speaker2: has power and is working and to
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Speaker2: see that people are like flocking to that is
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Speaker2: really cool um i got
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Speaker2: to go to early morning prayer last week
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Speaker2: and like just walking we walked the campus and
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Speaker2: like got to pray with um people that we
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Speaker2: didn't really know very well but it was just like a uniting thing to like pray
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Speaker2: with people um and just seek revival on our campus and um see a lot of people
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Speaker2: like want that and are eager and hungry for more More of God and more of just
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Speaker2: his will on our campus, which is so cool to see.
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Speaker0: Yeah, that's so exciting. I know when Unite came to Baylor's campus that there
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Speaker0: was just a great movement there and saw so many people baptized.
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Speaker0: You saw a lot of things and overflow from that.
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Speaker0: We're seeing that at the University of Tennessee right now where I was able
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Speaker0: to go to the Unite gathering here
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Speaker0: as well. So it's so exciting to see that happening all across the country.
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Speaker0: So what are some ripple effects? Now, some of you just mentioned in the sense
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Speaker0: of there are these prayer gatherings that are happening, even in dorms.
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Speaker0: Like you said, they're gathering in hallways to worship, which is pretty exciting to me.
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Speaker0: I know that James Poole mentioned as well that there is a desire for evangelism.
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Speaker0: There's a desire that the students start sharing their faith and they're wanting
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Speaker0: to be equipped. They're wanting to find ways to do that more faithfully.
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Speaker0: And so what are some things you guys have seen with that? I know there's a group,
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Speaker0: or even could you share, there are other ministries that have popped up.
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Speaker0: Could you tell me about some of those?
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Speaker2: Yeah, AIM is a ministry on campus that has just grown a lot, I think, this year.
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Speaker2: I think last year, maybe, like, they started, like, there were a few groups,
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Speaker2: but this year it really took off.
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Speaker2: I'm in an AIM group. I mean, you're going to TSTC, right?
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Speaker2: My AIM group is going to the Community College MCC, which is also a few minutes away.
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Speaker2: And it's like, I just got to see like yesterday, our group went out to MCC and
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Speaker2: we got to watch a girl be saved for the first time and like hear the gospel for the first time.
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Speaker2: And it's like, our group is so diverse. Like our group is a few people from
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Speaker2: MCC. It's a few people from Baylor.
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Speaker2: There's a girl in our group that's a high school student that is taking dual credit classes at MCC.
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Speaker2: And they went and they shared the gospel with her. And she said,
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Speaker2: actually, I'm a believer.
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Speaker2: Can I join you guys? And she joined our group and we just have gotten to witness
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Speaker2: a lot of people kind of open their ears and open their eyes to the gospel.
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Speaker2: And yesterday was just so overwhelmingly exciting to see this girl hear it for
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Speaker2: the first time and be radically invested and changed by it.
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Speaker2: Um and yeah it's been really encouraging to hear the testimonies of people in
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Speaker2: different groups and hear how God is moving in so many different places like
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Speaker2: on Baylor's campus and on TSTC and MCC and
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Speaker2: all of the random places that these groups are going just to like devote an
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Speaker2: hour or more of their day to wanting to intentionally share the gospel and have
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Speaker2: gospel conversations and share in the way that Jesus has changed their life.
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Speaker2: It's just been really overwhelmingly encouraging.
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Speaker0: That is so awesome. That is so awesome. Now, what is, what does AIM stand for?
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Speaker0: You mentioned AIM, Ruin.
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Speaker2: It comes from, oh gosh, what is the verse?
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Speaker1: It's something. I totally forget what it is.
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Speaker0: But it's memorable.
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Speaker1: Yeah,
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Speaker1: it was called the, like, Evangelist, like Evangelist, and they scrapped that
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Speaker1: name after a bit. they just did not like it and so yeah that's
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Speaker0: Awesome well i'm so excited to hear about those things evan some ripple effects
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Speaker0: that you've seen maybe from even
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Speaker0: the unite event did you were you able to be a part of that or was that.
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Speaker1: Yeah for your campus or yeah some
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Speaker1: stories there so i was on the prayer team for it
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Speaker1: and so i got to pray into what was happening there my friend
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Speaker1: charlie was like leading the whole prayer thing and there's
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Speaker1: one story um that he and sage the
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Speaker1: two prayer leaders they had this prayer it's very like a specific
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Speaker1: prayer that god would bring folks from the corners of campus
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Speaker1: to come to unite right which is like
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Speaker1: a baylor you know being baptist you would assume like everyone's kind of assumed
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Speaker1: the gospel kind of knows it um but that is prayer that god would bring folks
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Speaker1: in the corner of wherever and he could bring them to unite and there's one story
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Speaker1: of folks that were walking past common grounds which is where i work the coffee shop
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Speaker1: um and this person just saw all these
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Speaker1: folks walking past common grounds walking towards foster
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Speaker1: building where unite was and then as he
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Speaker1: saw these people he just got his stuff packed up and followed them and came
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Speaker1: to unite um that person hadn't heard the gospel and then got saved that day
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Speaker1: and got baptized um and just god literally brought folks from the corner of
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Speaker1: campus and brought them um to unite and also like
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Speaker1: For more ripple effects uh just recently with tsc
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Speaker1: i've seen god like really activate folks
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Speaker1: in that area the first week we went there to just hang
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Speaker1: out and what we do for our aim group we just
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Speaker1: go we build friendships build community because you know as christ followers
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Speaker1: we're going there not only to like have a bible study but also to bring what's
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Speaker1: needed right there's a big lack of community at tsc and so how can we fill a
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Speaker1: void right because jesus built fellowship built community And, you know,
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Speaker1: he invited folks to dinner, right? Showing that care and hospitality.
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Speaker1: And so on Thursdays, we go and just play football and basketball and just hang
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Speaker1: out and just meet guys with little friendships.
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Speaker1: And then every single time, every week afterwards, we're always asked questions about like our faith.
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Speaker1: You know, they'll share our Bibles and they'll ask us, hey, why are you here?
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Speaker1: You know, what's happening?
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Speaker1: And then we get that privilege to share the gospel after building that capital.
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Speaker1: Um and this is the first week there's a
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Speaker1: guy there um and he saw my friend's bible and
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Speaker1: he was like dude like what's that about and then
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Speaker1: me and him share faith in them shared testimony and we shared about like how
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Speaker1: in high school we had this like pattern of sin we like couldn't get out of um
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Speaker1: but then just god brought us out of that into like fullness of life and then
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Speaker1: he was like dude i'm still there right now i'm still in that sin and just like
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Speaker1: prayed freedom over him and later on I'm here talking for a while afterwards.
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Speaker1: And he told me that the night before he was in his bed
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Speaker1: Um, and just like thinking about life so far, he's a freshman in TSEC.
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Speaker1: He kind of like had a bit of faith in high school and then came to the school
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Speaker1: and kind of lost everything, built all the wrong friendships,
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Speaker1: wasn't all the wrong circles in all this bad stuff.
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Speaker1: Um, but basically he's in his bed and he was just asking God,
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Speaker1: God, give me new community.
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Speaker1: Would you bring people who love you into my life?
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Speaker1: Um, and as he prayed that prayer, the next day we showed up, right.
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Speaker1: The next day we met him um and he told me
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Speaker1: like the entire semester so far he
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Speaker1: hadn't smiled he hadn't you know found any joy
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Speaker1: he was depressed then like that entire day we're just
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Speaker1: like hanging out you know playing games and he was so happy and then
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Speaker1: you know god pray freedom over depression pray
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Speaker1: freedom over anxiety uh and then
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Speaker1: just like built a very strong friendship and the
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Speaker1: past like three weeks he has just grown so much it's
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Speaker1: insane it's like you know we meet and
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Speaker1: we talk and it seems like god is like teaching him on two
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Speaker1: times speed right it's so cool to watch like
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Speaker1: in first person and then like that first tuesday
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Speaker1: i brought him to a life group that i lead it's like a small house church type
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Speaker1: um small group and he was just like yeah i've been like sharing my faith the
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Speaker1: guys my school and it's now all of a sudden we're going there to a school and
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Speaker1: god is activating people to actually be evangelists and to care for folks in
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Speaker1: their own community and their spiritual influence.
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Speaker1: Because I'm not there that often. I'm there like probably one day a week, sometimes two.
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Speaker1: And it does not matter what I'm doing. That's not what is, that's not important.
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Speaker1: What matters is if God can use me to then turn to somebody else and then bring
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Speaker1: them to personal devotion, to knowing Him personally.
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Speaker1: And now I'm seeing Him and so many others in their campus just like
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Speaker1: going crazy and it's awesome
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Speaker0: It really is great i love it and and just hearing about how god is stirring
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Speaker0: up believers to be more active even in sharing is so cool i even see your bracelet,
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Speaker0: your uh time to revive bracelet you've
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Speaker0: got there great tools you've got
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Speaker0: a bunch of those sitting right here so but that's that's great stuff and so
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Speaker0: so exciting to hear about um i know that that That has also the spiritual temperature
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Speaker0: on the campus has affected the community there in Waco.
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Speaker0: And so I know that there are some pretty large young adult ministries in the area.
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Speaker0: Of course, you have some large churches in the area as well,
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Speaker0: but they are starting to partner together and encourage one another and make
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Speaker0: a greater impact than they could individually.
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Speaker0: Do you guys know any of the things that you're seeing happen with that?
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Speaker0: You want to share anything about that? Yeah.
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Speaker1: I mean, in Waco, it's crazy because there is just this crazy church unity that
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Speaker1: I've never seen in my entire life.
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Speaker1: Right. Because through the intentionality of college pastors and other pastors
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Speaker1: meeting together in fellowship, it's kind of like produced this outcome of this interconnectedness.
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Speaker1: Connectedness or now it's not ministries fighting each
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Speaker1: other but it's understanding that we're on the same side we're fighting
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Speaker1: the same fight and now it's like this combination of
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Speaker1: folks coming together and it's just so awesome um yeah
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Speaker1: and so all the churches i'll say like the big brother
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Speaker1: seven or eight have this one united college night
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Speaker1: of worship and i went last year and just
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Speaker1: it was insane the entire like room was
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Speaker1: completely filled every single seat of just you
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Speaker1: know every ministry every college pastor every student from
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Speaker1: those ministries all being together just united in worship um
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Speaker1: and just like repenting and just sharing testimonies um and it's awesome and
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Speaker1: also like for aim in general and pathway one cry all these ministries they're
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Speaker1: not like out of one individual church but it's uniting people at different churches
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Speaker1: to come together um because we're all called,
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Speaker1: you know, to be in unity. Right.
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Speaker1: And so it's so awesome. And then seeing how like people are using their skills
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Speaker1: and their giftings to come together and then like make these things happen. Right.
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Speaker1: FM72 could not happen if not for church unity. It couldn't happen unless every
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Speaker1: church gave a certain thing and every student used their giftings in certain
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Speaker1: ways, not to like rep their church, but to make God's name known at Baylor's campus.
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Speaker0: That's great. So, Zoe, personally, how has this impacted you with your walk
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Speaker0: with Christ, having that kind of community?
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Speaker0: And also, have you seen that expand as far as unity goes?
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Speaker0: What are some things you've seen? I know you're a freshman and you're new to
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Speaker0: the campus, but at the same time, you've seen a lot since you've been there.
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Speaker0: So what are some things you've seen in that realm?
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Speaker2: Yeah it's um been really cool um just to see like i've gotten to know a lot of people who are um
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Speaker2: believers from different churches and um gotten to learn a lot from different
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Speaker2: people and just like their experiences um with their churches and what like
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Speaker2: they've learned and um also like Like,
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Speaker2: I don't know what Evan was saying about how, like,
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Speaker2: all of these different churches come together to grow the ministries that they're a part of. And, like,
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Speaker2: seeing how, like, these ministries grow so much with believers from every area.
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Speaker2: It's been really, really sweet to see.
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Speaker2: Yeah.
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Speaker0: Yeah, that's awesome. So tell me, guys, as far as this new initiative we've
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Speaker0: mentioned, Pray for Seven, I know that there's been kind of a pretty strong
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Speaker0: push on Baylor's campus for that.
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Speaker0: Have you guys seen people adopting that quickly? Are they jumping on board enjoying it?
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Speaker0: Are they looking forward to it? I mean, we've designed the website,
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Speaker0: we've designed all those things and tools to help.
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Speaker0: So hopefully the desire with that is that we see this unified prayer across the nation.
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Speaker0: And so what we're seeing already is that, like we were talking at the beginning,
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Speaker0: already over 20 campuses, God has someone who has jumped on board with Pray for Seven.
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Speaker0: And we're hoping that that continues to spread.
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Speaker0: Can you tell me a little bit about that? Have you guys been instrumental in
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Speaker0: helping get that started on campus? What are some things you've seen with that?
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Speaker2: I think it's really cool because it's not a lot to ask of someone to just to
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Speaker2: pray, to find people to pray for.
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Speaker2: And I think in my own heart, like it was exciting to hear like,
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Speaker2: OK, I can come up with seven names.
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Speaker2: I can find seven people that I know need prayer.
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Speaker2: And like it's encouraging to go and like feel like you're on a mission to like
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Speaker2: look for people and to just ask the Lord.
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Speaker2: Like who like highlight people, open my eyes to see these people that you want me to be praying for.
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Speaker2: And then sharing it with people saying like, hey, like if you find seven people
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Speaker2: like that, you know, could be prayed for, like could get to become disciples,
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Speaker2: become followers of Jesus.
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Speaker2: Like it's a really exciting thing to like want to look for those people.
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Speaker2: And like I shared it with my like CG last night.
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Speaker2: I was like, this is what's going on. and like
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Speaker2: every single one of them is like sign me up and like I can't
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Speaker2: wait to like be praying for people and I think it also
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Speaker2: gives a lot of direction like if
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Speaker2: you have friends that like want to be prayerful and
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Speaker2: want to be um just asking the
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Speaker2: Lord for things but like maybe don't know where to start it's
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Speaker2: like a really great starting place to say okay I can be in prayer daily for
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Speaker2: seven people or I can pray for one person a day like it's not a huge thing to
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Speaker2: ask of somebody and it's um a really exciting thing to like be looking for the
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Speaker2: fruit and I think I've seen a lot of like
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Speaker2: Encouragement in knowing that like you
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Speaker2: can pray for things and then you can start looking for the
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Speaker2: answer and like it's very clear like okay
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Speaker2: here's something specific instead of praying something
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Speaker2: like oh god i just ask for like revival on our campus like
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Speaker2: here are specific names here's where i'm looking
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Speaker2: for your hand to be in um like seeing
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Speaker2: being having a tangible way to see
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Speaker2: the evidence of his faithfulness is like a really cool
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Speaker2: way and a tool of just recounting faithfulness
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Speaker2: and being able to look for the answer and of a faithful God that will like anything
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Speaker2: we ask he hears us and um like being able to see just the night and day of a
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Speaker2: clear like ask and answer in somebody's life is really cool I
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Speaker0: Love it yeah I love it that's that's something I'm sorry that's something i
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Speaker0: saw at the beginning that i think we're going to start seeing these answered prayers,
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Speaker0: and it's just going to throw fuel on the fire i believe and that's so exciting
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Speaker0: to me because as you said it's just such a simple thing but it's not it's it's
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Speaker0: simple but it's powerful and so that's that's what i love about it so evan you
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Speaker0: were going to say something i'm sorry.
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Speaker1: Yeah i mean like the buying is so easy and the output is just like in faith
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Speaker1: we know it's going to be extraordinary.
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Speaker1: Um, because in confidence, uh, we can trust that when we pray,
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Speaker1: the will of God is going to happen and that he's going to do good on his promises.
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Speaker1: And just like, you know, in Psalm 2, David prophesies about Jesus.
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Speaker1: Right. And he just mentioning, I have it right here.
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Speaker1: Um, you know, God's telling him, ask of me and I'll make the nations,
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Speaker1: your heritage and the ends of the earth, your possession.
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Speaker1: And you shall break them with a rod of iron and dashed into pieces like a potter's vessel.
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Speaker1: And it's like, Jesus wants his people. He wants Baylor. He wants TSTC.
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Speaker1: He wants MCC. He wants Tennessee. He wants America.
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Speaker1: He wants his people, right? That's why he died. That's why he came to earth
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Speaker1: is to reconcile him to his church.
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Speaker1: And so we can know that, you know, if we're praying for God to bring our friends
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Speaker1: back to him, like he wants that too. And we're agreeing with him as we're praying.
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Speaker1: Um you know and then like in Luke 11 it says uh
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Speaker1: Luke 11
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Speaker1: 13 if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children how
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Speaker1: much more will the heavenly father give the holy spirit to those who ask him
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Speaker1: and so I'm excited I feel like right now we're in a phase of people kind of
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Speaker1: like kind of hearing about what it is and also prayer for seven is just kind of like
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Speaker1: it's a label on just prayer and like the most
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Speaker1: powerful thing for me is just like the accountability that people have with it
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Speaker1: because like folks want to pray and a
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Speaker1: lot of times they don't have the accountability to kind of do it consistently
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Speaker1: or do it like a grandma you know and like our goal is to pray like grandma's
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Speaker1: right with that kind of dedication and that kind of zeal uh and so i feel like
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Speaker1: it's going to just really help people, myself included,
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Speaker1: just like really stick to that consistency of praying regularly.
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Speaker1: Um, and also like prayer does more than just help the person that we're trying to reach.
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Speaker1: It also does so much in our life and our heart, because now that we're praying
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Speaker1: for someone, the more that God's going to show us how he sees them.
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Speaker1: And the more that he's going to just add a desire for them to know them.
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Speaker1: And that's going to change our actions and change, you know,
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Speaker1: we're doing in public and not just in secret.
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Speaker1: And so having like that personal devotion of prayer is just so powerful and
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Speaker1: it's going to change more than just like the other person, but it's going to
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Speaker1: change ourselves too. And our inner man.
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Speaker0: Amen. That's awesome. I think what we need to do is take the phrase you just
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Speaker0: said and put it on a t-shirt, pray like a grandma.
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Speaker0: And I think that'd be really good.
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Speaker1: So yeah, awesome.
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Speaker0: That's great, man. I love it. So, well, I'm so, so thankful for you guys giving
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Speaker0: your time today and sharing about all these things.
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Speaker0: As we close out, what are a couple of things if you were to challenge someone
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Speaker0: that's listening on another campus or maybe they have friends on other campuses,
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Speaker0: what would you say to them very quickly?
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Speaker0: What would you encourage them in if they hear this podcast?
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Speaker1: I would just say you don't need to be anywhere or be anything before praying
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Speaker1: or even like with that, you don't need to be a certain level of something before coming to Jesus.
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Speaker1: That's like not how it works. You know, we go to him and then he sanctifies
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Speaker1: us. He cleans us and he equips us too.
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Speaker1: And so, you know, we can go into things and just be so like,
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Speaker1: I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Speaker1: It's so crazy. And he's going to equip us, give you all that you need.
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Speaker1: Um, and just like, Yeah.
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Speaker1: If you want to start praying, there's no bar of entry. There's like not a bar.
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Speaker1: It's like for every single person.
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Speaker1: You don't need to be a certain person, be a certain way, be perfect before,
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Speaker1: you know, learning how to pray and learning how to reach a campus.
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Speaker1: Um, and he'll teach you, he'll equip you as you just like in faith, try it out.
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Speaker0: Amen. What about you, Zoe?
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Speaker2: I think i would just say be persistent um i think of like the widow who like
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Speaker2: approached the court and like she kept asking and she kept asking and she kept
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Speaker2: asking and the lord provided and um i think that we need to not lose heart and
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Speaker2: just continue to ask in faith knowing
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Speaker2: If we keep knocking at that door, like he will open it and he will provide.
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Speaker2: And if we ask anything according to his will, it will be given to us.
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Speaker2: And so I think just being persistent and knowing like he loves our knocking.
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Speaker2: He loves it when we annoy him, like a little kid who just keeps asking their
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Speaker2: parents something like he's going to give it. But not because like,
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Speaker2: but just because we asked in faith and we continue to ask and we're persistent.
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Speaker2: So I think that's what I would say. Just don't lose heart and continue to be
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Speaker2: in prayer when you think your friend is not going to budge and not going to give in to the gospel.
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Speaker2: Just keep asking and ask specific and bold things. because then I think then
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Speaker2: we'll see like it's so clear to see his answer when it's specific.
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Speaker2: So I think just continuing persistent and specific and really bold things,
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Speaker2: then you will just see the faithfulness of God.
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Speaker0: Amen. Amen. Well, thank you both for sharing and thank you for your hearts for Christ.
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Speaker0: It's exciting to see how he's using you. and I'm going to be excited to watch
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Speaker0: how he continues to use you while you're on campus and beyond.
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Speaker0: But let me just make a plug real quick for Pray for 7. If you want to know more
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Speaker0: about Pray for 7, go to www.prayforthenumber7.com and you'll be able to find all you need.
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Speaker0: There are some tools to help you invite others and it will tell you more about the entire initiative.
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Speaker0: So we're so glad to see that happening. So glad that I was able to have Zoe
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Speaker0: and Evan on today to share about what God's doing.
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Speaker0: So I hope you guys have a blessed.