Latest / The OneCry Podcast / #224 Pray Like Paul: Partnering with God
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- 0:17Speaker1: Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
- 0:21Speaker1: The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
- 0:31Speaker1: Well, welcome once again to the One Cry podcast.
- 0:34Speaker1: And I'm so thrilled that Kyle and I could be in your life, maybe in your car,
- 0:42Speaker1: maybe we have pastors in Africa that are sitting under trees listening to these
- 0:49Speaker1: podcasts through the internet,
- 0:53Speaker1: and we're just so thrilled that you're tuning in today as we talk about how
- 1:00Speaker1: to pray for people that we love.
- 1:03Speaker1: You know, everybody's a leader. They
- 1:05Speaker1: don't realize, but everybody leaves somebody. It may be just a friend.
- 1:10Speaker1: It may be I lead my family, whether I realize it or not, one way or the other.
- 1:15Speaker1: And as God has designed us to rule, to lead over a fear of people and influences,
- 1:26Speaker1: and we need to learn how to do that well.
- 1:28Speaker1: And the greatest thing you say, well, man, I can't do this or that.
- 1:32Speaker1: Well, I'll tell you what everybody can do. They can pray.
- 1:35Speaker1: And if you pray, you bring God into the equation of those you're trying to lead. And prayer works.
- 1:42Speaker1: It just works.
- 1:44Speaker1: And you're giving us, Kyle, last week, if our listeners didn't hear last week,
- 1:50Speaker1: they need to go back and catch that because this is the second half of one of
- 1:55Speaker1: the greatest prayers in all the Bible.
- 1:59Speaker1: And, Kyle, tell us where we're going today as we look at the rest of this.
- 2:03Speaker0: Yeah, man. Well, I think just catching up a little again contextually,
- 2:07Speaker0: this is coming out of us personally here at our church, walking through the
- 2:10Speaker0: book of Ephesians and then get to this moment.
- 2:13Speaker0: In Ephesians chapter three, and you got Ephesians one, every spiritual blessing.
- 2:18Speaker0: Hey, this is what we've received in Christ, man. You're loved,
- 2:22Speaker0: chosen, adopted, all the beauty of that.
- 2:25Speaker0: You get into two, reminds us of like the probably one of the best pictures of the gospel.
- 2:29Speaker0: Hey, but you received that and you needed to because you were once dead in your
- 2:33Speaker0: trespasses and sin, incapable of making yourself alive.
- 2:37Speaker0: Matter of fact, you're following the enemy.
- 2:40Speaker0: You're in darkness, all those things. and then gives us the gospel,
- 2:43Speaker0: how you're received by faith and just all, man, powerful, what it means to be
- 2:48Speaker0: in the body of Christ, be now united in him, brought into the family of God.
- 2:54Speaker0: You were once aliens and sojourners without God, without hope.
- 2:58Speaker0: I mean, it's just mind-blowing doctrinal understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- 3:05Speaker0: And it's like Paul, because he's inspired by the Spirit, hits the brakes real hard.
- 3:10Speaker0: For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father.
- 3:15Speaker0: And he prays for the church in Ephesus. He prays to make sure that,
- 3:19Speaker0: hey, you just don't hear all this, read all this. It's not being read over you
- 3:23Speaker0: without you actually being strengthened in your inner being.
- 3:28Speaker0: He's writing to the church. He's writing to people that's put faith in Christ,
- 3:32Speaker0: but that you'd be strengthened by the Spirit in your inner being,
- 3:34Speaker0: meaning you'd actually be empowered by God to make it through hard times,
- 3:39Speaker0: empowered by God to go and take the mission to other people,
- 3:43Speaker0: empowered by God, man, in ways that bear fruit in your life,
- 3:47Speaker0: transformative, all those things, and that you would know the love of Christ. That's unknowable.
- 3:54Speaker0: That you could never get your mind fully wrapped around, that you'd know the
- 3:57Speaker0: height, the breadth, the length, the depth of the love of Christ.
- 4:01Speaker0: But he's praying it for that church.
- 4:05Speaker0: He's praying, which we should in turn, Bill, we talked about this.
- 4:08Speaker0: One of the greatest gifts you could ever give a person is that you genuinely
- 4:11Speaker0: pray for them, that you genuinely pray that they would experience the love of Christ.
- 4:16Speaker0: They would experience the power of the Spirit of God in and through their life.
- 4:21Speaker0: And so all of that, you know, and this is one of our favorite.
- 4:24Speaker0: Bill, I've heard you preach this passage. You've heard me preach this passage.
- 4:27Speaker0: But all that leads to this place that I think Paul's got so much faith that
- 4:33Speaker0: he could say what he's about to say because of the strengthening of the Spirit,
- 4:37Speaker0: because of the love of Jesus Christ. Then he goes now to him.
- 4:42Speaker0: And that's what you got to capture about prayer.
- 4:48Speaker0: Prayer is not praying to each other. Prayer is not throwing words into the sky.
- 4:54Speaker0: Now to God himself. That's prayer.
- 5:00Speaker0: And Bill, you know this, man, I can't tell you how many times I have to remind
- 5:04Speaker0: myself in those places of prayer in those times that I'm praying.
- 5:08Speaker0: I'll even say out loud to myself, hey, God, I'm talking to you right now.
- 5:13Speaker0: I'm talking to you. And it's now.
- 5:16Speaker1: It's real time.
- 5:17Speaker0: Yeah. You know?
- 5:20Speaker1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 5:22Speaker0: And so just encourage our listeners, man. Prayer is intended to be directed to a person.
- 5:29Speaker0: It's a person like we're having a conversation. Prayer is at its best when it's relational at its core.
- 5:36Speaker0: That is me speaking to God, me listening to God.
- 5:41Speaker0: And what I love about what Paul says now to him, by the way,
- 5:45Speaker0: church in Ephesus, who is able?
- 5:49Speaker0: Amen. Who is able? And I was struck by this thought.
- 5:56Speaker0: There's nothing that is inside of God's will that is outside of God's ability.
- 6:01Speaker0: Nothing. Like there's nothing. Like there's nothing. There's never been a moment
- 6:06Speaker0: where God's like, I don't have the power for that, Kyle.
- 6:09Speaker0: I don't have the mind for that, Kyle. I can't.
- 6:13Speaker0: You sort of went beyond my ability to comprehend even these things.
- 6:18Speaker0: That there's never been a moment.
- 6:19Speaker0: If you're praying to the God of heaven, if you're praying to the God of the
- 6:22Speaker0: Bible, You're praying to the Lord.
- 6:24Speaker0: There's never been a moment that you've prayed, and the amount of love,
- 6:27Speaker0: it says, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we can ask or think.
- 6:32Speaker0: All we can ask or think. Now, I know Bill real well. Man, we've journeyed a
- 6:38Speaker0: long time in church and leadership, and he knows me.
- 6:41Speaker0: And let me tell you what I'll say about Bill, which is also true about me.
- 6:44Speaker0: Bill can think big thoughts.
- 6:47Speaker0: He's a thinker, dreamer, visionary kind of person. I'm that way. He can pray big prayers.
- 6:54Speaker0: You know, and that God can give him faith to believe.
- 6:59Speaker0: And in this moment, I think Paul is just letting the church in Ephesus know,
- 7:03Speaker0: I'm praying for you to be strengthened by the power of the Spirit.
- 7:06Speaker0: I'm praying you'll know the love of Christ.
- 7:08Speaker0: And now to him who is able to do far more than we can ask or think.
- 7:13Speaker0: Paul's saying, listen, you'll never, you'll never pray a prayer that God can't pull off.
- 7:20Speaker1: Wow.
- 7:21Speaker0: You'll never think a thought, dream a dream that God can't actually do,
- 7:28Speaker0: which should just embolden our praying.
- 7:34Speaker0: To pray, God changed a state. He's like, I can do that.
- 7:39Speaker0: God changed a nation. Yep, I can do that. God saved this person. I can do that.
- 7:45Speaker0: I can do that. Now, there's so much that goes into that. There's spiritual war,
- 7:49Speaker0: man. They have to be on the receiving end.
- 7:52Speaker0: People must repent. I mean, all those things.
- 7:54Speaker0: But God is able to do all those things.
- 7:58Speaker0: And so I just think, and I'd love for some banter. I'm going to finish this thought.
- 8:03Speaker0: Aaron, to get to the place that you pray big, bold, God-honoring prayers because you know he's able.
- 8:14Speaker0: Because you know he can do it. I think bold prayers, man, honor God.
- 8:19Speaker0: They do because they just say, God, we just want you to know that we're praying
- 8:23Speaker0: to you and we believe you're this big.
- 8:26Speaker0: And so we're asking you to do these kind of things.
- 8:30Speaker0: But then the partnership comes with it on the other side, because Paul is teaching
- 8:34Speaker0: some according to the power at work within us.
- 8:39Speaker0: What prayer, when God knows we really mean it, is when we're saying,
- 8:44Speaker0: God, we're going to pray as big as you are.
- 8:47Speaker0: And then we're going to surrender to be a part of it being answered.
- 8:53Speaker0: The kind of prayers that God goes, I'm going to do that, is the kind of prayers
- 8:58Speaker0: that people are saying, Lord, would you change this person? Would you change this church?
- 9:03Speaker0: Would you change this city? Would you change this generation?
- 9:06Speaker0: And would you do it? Would you
- 9:08Speaker0: would you allow us to partner with you and seeing it come to completion?
- 9:14Speaker0: Would you empower us to actually be a part of seeing that prayer pulled off?
- 9:21Speaker0: That's what Paul said, man. Pray it. Believe it. Ask it. Then lean into it.
- 9:25Speaker0: Why? Because to him be glory in the church.
- 9:29Speaker1: Right.
- 9:30Speaker0: In the church. Let me tell you what. I mean, this is the most mind boggling
- 9:34Speaker0: part of the advancement of the kingdom.
- 9:36Speaker0: Just, I mean, seriously, I still can't. I can't get over it.
- 9:40Speaker0: And I'm more perplexed by it and astonished that God would have decided to fulfill
- 9:48Speaker0: his purposes in the earth through his people.
- 9:51Speaker1: Through the church.
- 9:53Speaker0: Yeah.
- 9:54Speaker1: Think of it, Kyle. It's his body.
- 9:57Speaker0: Yeah.
- 9:58Speaker1: You know what I'm saying? Man, it's not somebody else's body. No.
- 10:01Speaker1: This is his manifestation and how the world sees him, his power,
- 10:08Speaker1: his intentions, his motivation.
- 10:11Speaker1: It's through his body walking through this world. And his body is the church.
- 10:16Speaker1: He's the head. And he fills all in all, you know.
- 10:20Speaker1: So for him to be glorified is not for the church to be glorified.
- 10:25Speaker1: It's for him to be glorified. In his body and through the church.
- 10:31Speaker0: You know, you're preaching ahead. You're preaching Ephesians.
- 10:35Speaker1: I can't help myself.
- 10:36Speaker0: No, no, no. I'm saying you're preaching into places we won't get today.
- 10:40Speaker0: You're preaching into Ephesians 4.
- 10:42Speaker0: Because Ephesians 4, he's going to articulate that completely,
- 10:46Speaker0: that he's the head, we're the body.
- 10:48Speaker0: When each part is working properly, he's going to say.
- 10:52Speaker0: And so the beauty of it is what you just said. So it's the body asking the head
- 10:58Speaker0: to do what only he can do in directing us toward actually seeing that accomplished,
- 11:04Speaker0: but willingly partnering to see it actually come into being in this world, even right now.
- 11:12Speaker0: And so I just I mean, just think about in light of I know in the Lord often
- 11:18Speaker0: encourages us not to lose heart in prayer, teaches us don't give up on prayer.
- 11:22Speaker0: Don't give up and pray, you know, all those things because it's a long, hard work.
- 11:29Speaker0: You know, yet continually partner inside of it. And I think this moment is Paul's faith is so full.
- 11:36Speaker0: It's so full because he's just and the spirit of God is just unpacking the doctrine
- 11:40Speaker0: of the gospel, you know, in a powerful way.
- 11:43Speaker0: He's praying for his people to be strengthened in their inner being.
- 11:46Speaker0: He's praying them to know the love of Christ.
- 11:48Speaker0: And just what erupts out of him is, I think, one of the clearest pictures of the spirit of prayer.
- 11:54Speaker0: Man, what real prayer is. Praying to a God that is able.
- 11:57Speaker0: Praying to a God that can do more than we can ask or think.
- 12:01Speaker0: Willing partnership in that, knowing that this is the way that God receives the most glory.
- 12:07Speaker0: So I just would say to our listeners today, man, would you walk into a fresh
- 12:11Speaker0: season of believing through prayer as big as your God is?
- 12:16Speaker0: To be willing to ask and think and then engage inside of it.
- 12:22Speaker1: You know, Kyle, Stephen Kendrick, who the Kendrick brothers that have done all
- 12:29Speaker1: the movies and things and that these, you know, you see the movies,
- 12:34Speaker1: but you don't know these guys.
- 12:36Speaker1: They are incredible men of prayer.
- 12:39Speaker1: Those movies are coming out all out of prayer. It's why the movie,
- 12:45Speaker1: which was the one that was specifically about prayer.
- 12:51Speaker0: War Room.
- 12:52Speaker1: Yeah, War Room. That's their heart. That's them. That's the way they live.
- 12:57Speaker1: And Stephen came to our church one time, and he preached a message on big prayers.
- 13:03Speaker1: And he started telling stories of how this had all happened.
- 13:08Speaker1: You know, two little guys down in Florida just living their life,
- 13:12Speaker1: and all of a sudden, they're touching the whole world.
- 13:14Speaker1: And that church that they were in, Sherwood Church, began to touch out of Albany,
- 13:20Speaker1: Georgia, which is the fifth lowest poverty level in America, in that city.
- 13:27Speaker1: And that church has touched the world, has touched the world.
- 13:31Speaker1: But they had a pastor, Michael Katt, and then these two guys that just started
- 13:39Speaker1: praying and people who started praying big prayers.
- 13:42Speaker1: Now, one thing about this, Kyle, and you know this.
- 13:47Speaker1: This is not we're not talking about just presumptuous prayers like, Lord,
- 13:54Speaker1: today, I want you to pick up the Empire State Building and lift it five feet
- 13:59Speaker1: off the ground and drop it down just to show that you're God.
- 14:02Speaker1: Well, you know, fine. He could do that. He's totally capable.
- 14:07Speaker1: But this is why Paul also talks many times, Ephesians in this book is one place,
- 14:16Speaker1: Ephesians 6, 18, pray at all times in the spirit.
- 14:21Speaker1: And what that means is, is that we are letting him lead us in prayer and we're
- 14:29Speaker1: literally listening to the spirit of God and we are praying prayers that he initiates.
- 14:37Speaker1: Well, God always answers prayers that he initiates. It's not just some random,
- 14:44Speaker1: silly prayer. It's a prayer that God wants done.
- 14:49Speaker1: And what God wants is for his kingdom to come and his will be done on earth
- 14:56Speaker1: as it's being done in heaven.
- 14:58Speaker1: So we have this privilege in prayer of stepping into heaven every time we are
- 15:03Speaker1: moving into the presence of God and really praying in the spirit with spiritual
- 15:08Speaker1: life and with spiritual direction and with Holy Spirit guided praying.
- 15:14Speaker1: And prayer is a loop.
- 15:16Speaker1: It actually starts in heaven, comes through the yielded believer who's learning
- 15:22Speaker1: through this process how to rule and reign with God, and then goes back up to heaven.
- 15:27Speaker1: And God says, well, that's my prayer. That's what I want you to pray.
- 15:31Speaker1: And here we go. Let's go.
- 15:34Speaker1: And so, you know, years ago, there was a book by J.B. Phillips.
- 15:41Speaker1: And I don't even remember the book much, but I remember the title. Your God is too small.
- 15:48Speaker1: Your God is too small. In other words, we're not showing the world the bigness of our God.
- 15:53Speaker1: And part of it is because of the deficiency and the weakness and nonexistence
- 16:01Speaker1: much of the time of our prayers.
- 16:03Speaker0: Yes.
- 16:04Speaker1: We have not because we ask not.
- 16:07Speaker0: Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah, man, you're so right.
- 16:12Speaker0: I'm way less concerned personally about the prayers that seem to go unanswered
- 16:19Speaker0: and way more concerned about the prayers that go unasked. Wow.
- 16:24Speaker0: And I would rather get to heaven and say, hey, Lord, I need you to sort some
- 16:28Speaker0: of that out. Help me understand.
- 16:31Speaker1: But you will.
- 16:31Speaker0: Yeah, I absolutely will. Yeah. The prayers that I mean, the things that I know
- 16:36Speaker0: that are in the heart of God, it's in the heart of God. It's in the heart of
- 16:38Speaker0: God that people are saved.
- 16:40Speaker0: It's in the heart of God that generations are redeemed. It's in the heart of
- 16:44Speaker0: God that families are restored.
- 16:46Speaker0: It's in the heart of God. All the things, man, pray in light of what he desires
- 16:52Speaker0: to do, as big as he is, in light of where God has placed you,
- 16:56Speaker0: nations, man, being shaped and impacted.
- 16:59Speaker0: And then lean into it like, God, I'm going to pray like it matters.
- 17:03Speaker0: And then I'm going to lean in to be a part of actually seeing that happen.
- 17:08Speaker0: I'm going to work like I'm going to work like you're going to actually answer.
- 17:13Speaker0: I'm going to participate in this knowing that, hey, I've asked.
- 17:18Speaker0: I'm empowered by the spirit. I'm going to believe that these things are going to come into being.
- 17:22Speaker0: And the Lord's doing it, man. I got so many stories that are rolling through
- 17:26Speaker0: my head right now of things that started.
- 17:29Speaker0: Bill, you can help me figure this out how to say this. Like there's some things God does.
- 17:34Speaker0: Regardless of how we pray, like I understand, like scope, plan and get all that.
- 17:39Speaker0: But when I back up and see and just watch the story of God unfolding in the
- 17:45Speaker0: life of a human being or in a place among the people,
- 17:49Speaker0: I just wonder how many things actually happened that were not prayed for first.
- 17:56Speaker0: Like, I just wonder, I wonder.
- 17:59Speaker1: You can't get around the scripture. And there are many of them like this.
- 18:04Speaker1: There are 650 scriptures about prayer in the Bible.
- 18:08Speaker1: But one of them is this one I just mentioned.
- 18:12Speaker1: You have not because you ask not. In other words, there are some things that
- 18:15Speaker1: God just will not do any other way but through prayer. And you say, well, that's crummy.
- 18:21Speaker1: Well, you know what? We're partners with him. We're his body.
- 18:25Speaker1: And if his body won't cooperate, something, you know, there are people that
- 18:31Speaker1: need to be witnessed to in your neighborhood.
- 18:34Speaker1: But guess what? You're the body of Christ in that neighborhood.
- 18:39Speaker1: So he's waiting for you to cooperate with the prompting of his spirit and the
- 18:46Speaker1: elimination of his word to get that part of the job done.
- 18:50Speaker1: And he he you know, he's waiting on us and he's training us through this process
- 18:57Speaker1: of prayer because we're going to rule and reign with him forever.
- 19:02Speaker1: So, boy, there's we could just go around here all day, Kyle.
- 19:08Speaker0: I'm telling you, man, I'm right here. And I mean, this I am really overwhelmed.
- 19:15Speaker0: Just thinking about everything that God has done in my life. Yeah.
- 19:20Speaker0: In places of prayer, moments that he heard. He heard people praying for me,
- 19:25Speaker0: things that's happened in my family.
- 19:26Speaker0: But things me and you've been a part of, you know, that you're keeping together.
- 19:30Speaker0: And think of how many times that God gave us the opportunity to bring it into his presence in prayer.
- 19:36Speaker0: And to ask him to do it and to cooperate in it. And then to see it actually happen.
- 19:42Speaker0: Life's changed and stuff. And I just I just say to our listeners today, he is able,
- 19:48Speaker0: man, he's able to go to him and keep going to him, not keep on knocking,
- 19:53Speaker0: keep on seeking, keep on seeking and ask, man, believe, dream all those things.
- 19:59Speaker0: And I know life's hard and it's discouraging at times, but God is good and he
- 20:05Speaker0: is advancing his kingdom. So don't give up.
- 20:08Speaker1: Amen. Well, Kyle, let me, can I lead us in prayer right now?
- 20:14Speaker1: And I want to invite our listeners not to listen as we pray.
- 20:20Speaker1: I want to encourage you to pray as we pray. Okay.
- 20:26Speaker1: And so, Father, we enter into your presence because you said we could come.
- 20:31Speaker1: You, through Jesus Christ, we have
- 20:35Speaker1: an invitation by trusting in you and your son and what he did on the cross to
- 20:41Speaker1: come and stand by faith in this grace in which we now have standing and have
- 20:48Speaker1: peace facing you, not enmity.
- 20:51Speaker1: We don't have to bow.
- 20:53Speaker1: We're not, Lord, there's nothing between us because of Christ.
- 20:56Speaker1: And so we thank you for that. And I pray, Father, you would teach us how to pray.
- 21:02Speaker1: Lord, what a great prayer the disciples gave us to model is,
- 21:08Speaker1: Lord, every day, teach me to pray.
- 21:11Speaker1: Teach me to pray without ceasing.
- 21:14Speaker1: Teach me to pray about everything. And Father, teach us how to pray your size prayers.
- 21:23Speaker1: Your size prayers, not our size prayers, not just baby prayers, Lord.
- 21:30Speaker1: That's when we're young, those are the kind of prayers we pray.
- 21:34Speaker1: But Father, we want to be strengthened with all power in the inner man so that
- 21:39Speaker1: Christ may be at home in our hearts more and more.
- 21:42Speaker1: And that we would understand the love of God and that you're wanting us to ask
- 21:48Speaker1: great things of God so that you would be glorified, not so that we would get stuff,
- 21:56Speaker1: Lord, not so that we would just be
- 21:58Speaker1: more comfortable, but that God would be glorified in extraordinary ways.
- 22:03Speaker1: And, Lord, we're in this season where we see you moving in extraordinary ways
- 22:11Speaker1: around our nation and literally around the world in revival and spiritual awakening.
- 22:16Speaker1: Lord, would you not let us miss that?
- 22:23Speaker1: And, Father, where we're going to get in on that is when we live in prayer with you.
- 22:31Speaker1: So we're talking to you about it, and we're giving you the space to talk to us about it.
- 22:38Speaker1: And then we're joining in in prayer all the time, just all the time.
- 22:44Speaker1: And, Lord, we don't have to have the Internet to do that. We don't have to have a manual to do that.
- 22:51Speaker1: You've given us this extraordinary manual of your word.
- 22:56Speaker1: But, Father, what we have to do is pray. it just resist distractions come into
- 23:03Speaker1: your presence shut the door on all that's
- 23:07Speaker1: outside and all that the enemy would try to say and come into your presence
- 23:12Speaker1: and talk to you, let you sort it out, let your spirit direct us,
- 23:17Speaker1: and then really pray big prayer. So Lord, we pray that you'd take us there.
- 23:21Speaker1: And we pray that today would just be a stimulus for us to begin to pray way
- 23:28Speaker1: more than we have previously asked or thought about,
- 23:31Speaker1: so that you might be glorified through your body, the church,
- 23:37Speaker1: To all generations, to the next generation and the generation past that,
- 23:44Speaker1: and until the end of time for the glory of God. We pray that in your name. Amen.
- 23:49Speaker0: Amen.
- 23:50Speaker1: Well, awesome, Kyle. Thank you so much for leading us through Ephesians 3.
- 23:56Speaker1: And I want to say it one more time before we leave.
- 23:59Speaker1: Memorize this passage. I mean, Paul has several prayers, Colossians, Philippians.
- 24:05Speaker1: They all carry his prayers that are, I mean, they're in the Bible.
- 24:10Speaker1: You're on good praying ground when you're praying the Bible.
- 24:14Speaker1: And memorize these prayers. That's not hard to do. Just as you're praying,
- 24:19Speaker1: open your Bible and just pray that prayer just as it is and let it go wherever the Lord wants to.
- 24:27Speaker1: And if you pray this, if you honestly, if you for the next two weeks,
- 24:30Speaker1: if you just prayed this prayer, which is about seven verses,
- 24:35Speaker1: seven or eight verses, if you prayed it every day, by the end of that time,
- 24:39Speaker1: you'd probably memorize it.
- 24:40Speaker1: Yeah. And so just stay in there and crying out to God for big things.
- 24:46Speaker1: And thanks for joining us on One Cry.
- 24:49Speaker1: Tell somebody about these last two weeks. And you probably know somebody that
- 24:54Speaker1: really needs to be strengthened.
- 24:56Speaker1: They really need to understand the love of God. And they really need to grow in their praying.
- 25:04Speaker1: Maybe as a pastor, you're going to go to your elders and to your leaders in
- 25:09Speaker1: your church and say, guys, I want to start praying this prayer for our people
- 25:14Speaker1: for the next year. We're going to pray this prayer.
- 25:18Speaker1: If you didn't do anything else in prayer, but pray this prayer for your family,
- 25:25Speaker1: your small group, your Sunday school class, your church,
- 25:30Speaker1: you'd be in a way different position 12 months from now.
- 25:35Speaker1: So let us encourage you to do that and join us on One Cry.
- 25:39Speaker1: We're here to just help you. we want to stir you up and stimulate you to do
- 25:45Speaker1: love and good deeds for the glory of God we're privileged you let us do that so we'll