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Praying for Others: A Divine Call to Action · Arise Women of God

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  Do you ever pray for your loved ones?
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  Be protected, blessed and watched over throughout the day.
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  Did you know that praying for them can help shield them with the armor of light?
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  Stay tuned because that's what we're going to be talking about today.
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  Welcome to Bible Women in Bathrobes, the podcast where faith meets comfort.
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  Join us Tuesday morning as the gals from Women warriors of Light and their guests don bathrobes and dive into the inspiring stories of women in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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  Tune in live or at your leisure as we learn lessons from Scripture which empower women today.
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  Foreign.
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  Welcome to Bible Women in Bathrobes.
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  I'm your host Tiffany Fletcher and I'm so excited that you're here with us today.
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  We have our founder, the beautiful Tamara Anderson.
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  How are you Tamara?
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  Doing well.
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  Thanks for having me today.
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  And one of our board members, Sandy Falter.
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  How are you Sandy?
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  So good.
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  So glad to be here.
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  Welcome to both of you.
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  We're excited to talk more about prayer.
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  Prayer.
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  If you tuned in last week, we talked about the importance of praying, of prayer.
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  We talked about in Ephesians how in the Armor of Light series that we're doing, we've talked about all the different armors of light, all the different parts of armor that we wear.
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  And then we talked about the importance of a colon at the end of that sentence in chap.
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  In verse 17 where it says and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
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  And then colon, which in English grammar colon means that there's more to that sentence and what follows directly relates to it.
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  And it says praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
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  So what he's saying there is not only should we be using prayer for ourselves to help strengthen ourselves, but we need to be praying and watching over those around us and that we should be praying for all saints.
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  And then I think that this is such a beautiful thing that he asks, because again, there's a semicolon which also means that there's more to follow.
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  And he says, and for me.
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  So he's talking about prayer and supplication for all saints.
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  And then he asks a personal plea and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, but that ye also may know my sorry
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  for that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak, he says, for which I am an ambassador in bonds.
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  At this time he was imprisoned.
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  An ambassador in bonds, that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to.
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  So he's saying, pray.
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  Pray for others, and please pray for me so that I may boldly still preach the gospel from my prison, that I may be able to help the people come back to Jesus, that I may be able to help
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  serve while I'm still in this in bonds.
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  And for me, I think that's such a personal and private beautiful request that he's asked for them.
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  And it just shows the power of prayer and the power that.
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  That he had right in prayer.
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  He knew that prayer would help him get through these things, but especially he knew that the prayers of his friends would help him get through these things.
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  And I think that is beautiful.
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  So why is it, Tamara, how is it that we can use prayer to help our friends in need?
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  And how does it relate to the armor of light?
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  Oh, my.
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  Well, I know what's interesting here is we're taking these pieces of armor and we're putting them on ourselves.
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  And it's almost like that whole concept of when you're in an airplane, they say, put your oxygen mask on first, and then you can help others.
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  So it's that same idea that once you've got it figured out, you can help others, but you don't have to have it all figured out before you pray for others.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  So once you're starting to clue in that, hey, prayer works, putting the armor of light on works, it helps bless and protect me, then I can pray for others.
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  And I know especially for my.
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  My children, for my loved ones, this is something that I pray for.
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  I pray that they will be blessed and protected from the.
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  The influence of the adversary in their everyday lives.
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  And.
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  And I know that God hears that prayer, and I hope that they're praying for it, too, because I'm like, I taught you guys to pray, right?
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  Especially my kids.
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  But.
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  But I know that God hears that prayer.
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  You know, the prayer of a mother, the prayer of a friend, someone you really love.
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  And I love those words that you read, too, with all perseverance.
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  So it is.
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  It's a constant thing.
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  And.
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  And sometimes I feel like, oh, my gosh, I say almost the same prayer every day, you know, but it's pretty important.
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  That is beautiful.
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  And it.
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  And it is True that perseverance is.
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  Sometimes we, we may think, okay, I've already prayed for this a bajillion times.
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  I probably shouldn't pray again.
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  But we're told to weary the Lord in prayer, right?
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  Like the story of the unjust judge, I believe it was where the woman just kept saying, come on, come on, come on, just give me what I need.
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  And finally he was like, okay.
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  And that is what the Lord is asking us to keep him in our thoughts, to weary him, to make sure that we are persevering in our prayers towards Him.
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  I love that.
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  Thank you.
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  Sandy, your thoughts?
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  Yeah.
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  As I've thought about this, what really has come to mind is that this just fills us with love, right?
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  The two great commandments are that we are to love God and we're to love others.
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  And sometimes we might be self focused, right?
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  And just praying, please help me with this and help me with this.
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  And you know, we might have a laundry list, but when we think outside of ourselves, we're fulfilling those two great commandments.
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  Commandments to love God and connect with him and trust him with our problems and love our neighbor.
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  And when we do that, our heart expands.
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  I don't know if you've ever, I'm sure you have.
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  Everyone's probably experienced time where someone comes back to you after you said, I, you know, can I pray for you?
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  Or I'm praying for you.
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  They're going through a hard time and they come back and say, I felt so upheld during this hard time.
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  I don't know how I got through it.
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  I have a friend, a couple friends going through a really traumatic, awful experience right now.
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  And everyone is praying for them.
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  And their posts are so beautiful in saying somehow we're getting through this.
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  Christ is walking with us.
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  We feel your prayers.
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  And so I think it connects us with each other when we pray.
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  I think it connects us with God when we think about others more than self.
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  And I think it's just a beautiful way to fulfill those great commandments and increase in those characteristics that we want to, to become more like our savior, Jesus Christ.
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  That is beautiful.
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  I love that.
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  And I love that scripture.
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  Love, love, loving God.
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  You know, the two great commandments, love God and love your neighbor.
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  I love in there where he talks about we need to love, love our neighbor as ourself.
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  And I think about that.
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  I pray for myself, right?
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  I pray that I will be protected.
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  I pray that Satan will be cast me.
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  I pray that, that God will grant me healing blessings, all kinds of things.
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  Why wouldn't I pray for other people too, because that is loving my neighbor as myself, right?
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  It's praying for them in the way that I pray for myself and for my family and I love.
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  There's a scripture that's in James 5:16, and it says, confess your faults one to another.
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  I'm going to bring it this way so I can see it better.
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  Confess your faults one to another and pray for one another that ye may be healed.
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  The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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  I love this scripture because it's teaching us to pray for one another.
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  Because he says, pray for another that ye may be healed.
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  And I believe the ye in this means not just you, but everyone that you're praying for, right?
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  That ye, ye all, all of you may be healed.
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  And that is the power of prayer.
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  And praying for other people is that it gives us also blessings.
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  We receive blessings, we receive healing, we receive wholeness when we pray for other people.
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  And I think that is such a beautiful.
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  I mean, that's not why we pray.
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  We pray because we love people and because we know that God can bless them.
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  And we love the Lord.
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  , And we want to invite him in to their lives.
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  Right.
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  Sometimes as we talked in the, when we were praying about ourselves in, in last week's podcast, that, that Jesus has to be invited in.
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  He doesn't force his way in.
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  He needs to be invited.
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  And even sometimes our, our friends aren't praying for themselves.
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  I mean, I really truly believe that's even why he says pray for your enemies because they're clearly not praying for themselves.
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  They have so much anger in their heart.
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  Right?
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  So pray for your.
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  And we do this because we are inviting the Lord into their life.
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  It's a way for us to bring them to him in a way that is non evasive.
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  Does that make sense?
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  Sandy, you had some thoughts?
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  Yeah, I do.
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  I think, you know, when I think about praying for our enemies, a lot of times we think our enemies are these evil people, right?
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  And the reality is, is they're God's children too.
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  And when we pray for our enemies, it softens our heart towards them, right?
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  It reminds us that they're also God's child.
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  And maybe it gives us a little sense of maybe I have some accountability in this situation as well.
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  And I think it helps us to forgive when we pray for our enemies.
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  And, and I love, I love that concept of praying for enemies.
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  It's interesting my, in my coaching world, I was meeting with my coach and talking about, you know, praying and praying for enemies.
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  And.
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  And we were talking about something, and she said, well, is that person really your enemy?
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  And I said, no, actually, no, they're not.
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  Right.
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  Like, sometimes it's just a stressful situation or there's some conflict, but they're not even our enemies.
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  But when we pray for others, it does connect us, it does soften our hearts.
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  And when we're sincere and truly want them to be blessed, that's a beautiful change of heart that we're experiencing.
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  And so I love that command.
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  It's kind of like forgiving 70 times 7.
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  I think we can't wear out praying for others just like we can't wear out forgiving others.
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  I love that.
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  Tamara.
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  A couple of thoughts I've had.
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  One of the things that's.
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  That I love here, it says, pray for one another.
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  And when I.
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  I remember several years ago, we were at church, and one of the.
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  Sometimes we go to church and we look at the people around us, and we're like, oh, my gosh, their lives are perfect.
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  Mine is so not.
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  I don't even know.
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  Do you like, like, God, how is this even fair?
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  Right?
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  But I love when people open up and are raw and talk about their challenges.
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  I remember we were sitting in a lesson with the women in our congregation, and one of the ladies opened up and she said, you guys, my daughter.
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  And she told us who.
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  She says, my daughter is really struggling right now with anorexia and bulimia, and none of us.
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  Well, I didn't know.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  And she said, would you please pray for her and for my family?
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  This is something we really need help with right now.
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  And you know what?
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  The whole tone of whatever we were talking about shifted at that moment when somebody was willing to open up and say, can you help us and pray with me for this?
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  So sometimes I think.
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  I think there's two sides to that.
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  First, we need to be open as members of God's family.
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  You know, he talks about us being members of the body of Christ, right?
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  The hand, the feet, the eyes.
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  You know, that when one part is struggling, we need to pray for that.
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  And.
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  And I think as women, we especially have challenges being judgmental.
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  Oh, look at that lady.
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  Oh, if she would have taught her daughter better, you know, maybe they wouldn't have this problem.
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  We can't judge.
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  We have our own challenges.
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  But the fact that our hearts were softened and we were open and willing to pray for this family in their time of need, and then other people are more willing to say, well, hey, me too.
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  We've got some struggles in my family.
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  Can you pray for us, too?
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  You know, and so it's important when.
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  When we are struggling, and maybe you don't want to open up to your whole church congregation, but open up to your family.
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  There's times in.
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  In my own family when one of my siblings will text out and say, I have a kid who's really struggling right now.
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  Will you please fast and pray for them?
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  And they don't even say everything often that they're struggling with, but just sometimes we're praying to God, saying, God, please help my child or help my friend.
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  But sometimes we don't know to pray for somebody if they're not willing to say, hey, I'm struggling.
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  So I think sometimes you have to open up and be raw and open and.
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  And ask for help with that.
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  I think sometimes our pride gets in the way, doesn't it?
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  Like, our pride just gets in the way and we're like, I don't know.
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  I don't want to share this because it's very private and personal, and so we keep it.
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  And.
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  And really we're doing ourself a disservice because there's so much faith that could be added to our own as we work through that hardship.
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  I think that that's why we pray for others, because it really is an act of faith, right?
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  It is the power of belief, and it's the power of belief in the people that are praying for you that can bring miracles to your life.
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  And I think that as we strive to pray for others, I think it's important that we ask people, what.
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  How can I be in prayer for you?
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  I have a.
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  Have a client that I work with, and that's how she ends every.
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  We have weekly.
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  Weekly meetings.
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  And every time she said, how can I be in prayer for you?
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  Like, just a simple thing in a business meeting.
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  Just to know that she is praying for me, though.
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  It's a strength to me and it builds my faith and helps me recognize that there is power in the people praying for us.
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  And, Sandy, I loved how you talked about our enemies.
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  They aren't really our enemies.
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  I think sometimes in our minds, we see people as enemies and they have no idea, right?
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  They have no idea that we have been offended or that we feel negative towards them.
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  And that is the beauty of prayer and praying for others is because when we put ourselves in a place where we are in the spirit and we can hear the thoughts of our Savior come into our mind, we
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  can recognize that no One is truly our enemy, and that we should really be praying for everyone.
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  And it helps change our perspective to one of seeing things through his eyes and feeling with his heart and loving the way he loves in.
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  In a different way.
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  Right.
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  I mean, growing up with my mom and her multiple personalities, she had a really violent altar that was incredibly abusive, and especially to me.
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  I took the brunt of it so that my siblings didn't have to.
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  And.
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  And in that, it was.
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  I saw her as an enemy for many years because she was the one that was hurting me.
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  And what I realized is that she was not my enemy.
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  I was fighting.
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  My.
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  My husband has a great.
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  He's like, Tiffany, we don't fight people.
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  We fight the devil that's inside of them.
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  Right?
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  Those.
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  Those.
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  Those things that are bothering them and.
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  And the adversary who is trying to pull them down.
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  That's what we're fighting.
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  They are.
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  They are our friends, and they are God's children.
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  And we.
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  We can do so much good for others when we pray that Satan will be cast away from them and that he will be bound from them and that they will be surrounded by angels and that they will be
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  supported so that they can receive the love that's ready for them to receive.
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  Right?
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  They're just.
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  We can pray for them to be softened and clear out all of the negativity around them through our prayers to help them receive what it is that they need to receive.
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  There are so many times that I prayed for my mom, and I saw a difference.
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  There is a true difference in the people that you pray for, and it's not just your perspective.
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  There is real power that comes from praying for.
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  Praying for people in their time of need.
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  Sandy, do you have some thoughts?
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  Yeah, I.
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  When you were talking about enemies, and I was thinking how, you know, we live in a divisive world right now, and there's so much division, and I didn't know President Biden personally, and I don't know President Trump personally.
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  Right.
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  But I can pray for them even if I don't agree with them.
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  They are the leaders of our country.
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  And what can God do when we pray?
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  And what can God do to my heart and my fear when I pray?
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  And so I love that the scriptures tell us that we need to pray.
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  We need to.
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  In.
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  In second, in First Timothy, chapter two, he tells us we need to pray for kings and for all the authority, right?
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  We need to pray that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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  And so he gives us some vocabulary there to pray for.
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  And he gives us that thought that we're part of a much bigger world than our little community and that we can pray.
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  I remember back as a child when Ethiopia was there was the drought, and I remember our congregation fasted and prayed, and I just remember all just as a world.
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  I felt like we came together and we prayed and I, I was young.
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  And that is a core memory for me that the whole world was praying for these people.
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  And I.
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  And so I think that we can come together in.
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  Even in this stressful time of changing, of power.
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  And we can pray regardless of where we sit on, on the aisle.
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  We can pray for God's tender hand to lead and guide and to quench any fear.
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  Quilch.
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  Any fear that we may have.
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  Yeah, I love that.
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  And I think along with that line, we can pray to trust that whatever happens, that we're going to be okay with be.
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  And just trust that God's got us right.
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  He's.
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  He's got us in the palm of his hand and that we can trust that.
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  And as we are praying, rather than having contentious hearts, as you said, that we can be in a place of peace.
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  When we are in that place of peace, our prayers are more powerful because we are praying as we talked about in last week's episode, as Tamara so eloquently said, in the spirit.
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  And when we pray in the spirit, even for those who may not see the way we see, we are helping them and helping God make a difference in their lives and use them as an instrument.
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  Tamara, thoughts?
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  Oh, I love what both of you have said here.
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  One thought that I'd like to tack on to the comment you were saying before Tiffany about how our adversary really is the devil.
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  I have a child who struggled with pornography during their teenage years, and I remember when they were struggling with this that I always reminded them that I love you.
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  You are worth fighting for.
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  You are not the enemy.
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  It is the devil who is the enemy.
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  And so we're.
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  I'm praying for you.
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  You're, you know, you've made a mistake, and we're going to keep praying and fighting for you.
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  And so that was the thought I had when you were talking about how the.
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  The adversary is our enemy.
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  It is making it clear to especially those who are close to us that there's a lot of challenges out there in the world, a lot of addictions.
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  There's a lot of things that can drag us down.
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  And often people feel like they are the enemy and Satan will try to kind of grab Them with those chains and make them feel like they are worth less because they're in these clutches and just remember that they're
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  a child of God, too.
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  And that's what I had to remind them also, is you're a child of God.
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  You have worth.
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  You're worth fighting for.
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  And so I'm praying for you.
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  I'm battling with you in this as a prayer warrior.
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  You know.
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  I think that that's so.
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  Important that we recognize that even in our children, sometimes you may choose to go a different way or that.
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  That God still has them.
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  And our prayers, it may take a very long time, but our prayers are still powerful.
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  We can still pray angels to them.
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  We can still.
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  We can still pray that God will be with them to help soften their heart, to help guide their feet.
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  We can still love them.
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  And that is really what prayer is for others.
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  It is.
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  It is sending God's love to them in a way that is easier for them to receive.
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  I know that there are so many times that I have prayed for people.
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  They have no idea that I'm praying for them.
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  And I see the change that comes in them as I do that.
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  It may take a long time, but I see that God is working in their life because I'm praying him there.
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  Right?
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  And that's the power that we have in our hands of prayer to be able to pray people to where God needs them.
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  Right.
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  I love the story of Job in the story of Job.
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  I mean, we all know the story of Job.
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  Job was like, he lost everything.
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  Satan came and.
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  And he lost everything that he had.
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  And there's like.
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  I don't know, I think it's like 40 chapters of him just, like, talking with his friends and, like, him, like, you know, just sad.
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  And his friends telling him, oh, this is your fault.
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  It's because you said, it's probably because of this, you know, and all of these things.
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  And finally he gets to the end and he has this conversation with God and it.
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  And God.
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  God is like, you don't understand.
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  Like, you don't understand.
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  You.
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  You do not see things from my perspective.
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  And he invited Job to see things from his perspective.
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  And then when he did, God, they had this great conversation and.
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  And he forgave Job.
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  But then he turned to his friends and he.
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  He wasn't so happy with how his friends had treated Job when he was in this difficult situation because his friends had kind of accused him and they kind of.
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  They weren't.
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  I mean, they started out loving and kind, but then it kind of got to judgment, right?
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  And accusation.
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  And I love in verse.
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  And Job 42.
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  So it is 40, literally like 40 chapters of.
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  Of them back and forth.
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  But 42, verse 10 says, and the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.
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  Also, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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  So what happened is the Lord came to him and he said, job, I need you.
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  I'm not going to take a sacrifice from your.
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  From your friends, but I want you to pray for your friends, and then I will forgive them.
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  And that is what he asked him to do.
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  And then that beautiful verse is the.
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  Is the evidence of God's love, right?
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  Everything for Job turned the moment that he prayed for his friends.
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  And not only did God give him what he had, but he gave him an increase because of Job's willingness to pray for his friends who had clearly been unkind to him.
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  Right.
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  Like they had been unkind to him.
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  But he did as God asked and everything turned around for him.
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  And I find that that's fascinating.
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  There's so much power in praying for other people.
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  Sandy, do you have any thoughts?
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  Yeah, I just think, you know, as prayer warriors, we can pray in private for our friends, but I've noticed what a difference it makes when we vocalize that, hey, can I pray for you, or I'm praying for you.
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  One of my clients that I coach, she hadn't been.
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  Had a close relationship with God in a very long time.
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  And we would pray and.
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  And I would text her, hey, I'm praying for you, or is there something specific I can pray for you?
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  And now she texts me, I prayed for you today.
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  And that meant so much to me.
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  But if I had kept it quiet that I was praying for her, she wouldn't have seen the miracles.
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  She wouldn't have attributed the miracles in her life to God's hand.
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  And so I think it's really powerful as prayer warriors, as, you know, disciples of Christ as we try to share this message and to be warriors of light, that we need to be vocal about it.
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  I was going through a really hard, sticky, hard thing, and it was complicated.
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  And I put out to my Bible study group, hey, I could use some prayers.
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  And they're, like, on it, you know, they're all praying for me.
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  It wasn't super vulnerable about the whole situation.
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  And I had one gal reach out to me and say, is there something specific that I can pray for you?
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  And she taught me such a beautiful lesson because a.
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  It.
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  It made me think, well, what is it that I Specifically need.
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  Right.
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  And it made me contemplate that.
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  And then I was able to share that with her, and.
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  And I knew she was praying specifically for what I needed.
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  And I saw these miracles, I felt peace in my life.
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  And.
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  And it was a lesson that was taught to me by another prayer warrior.
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  And I love that as we share and as we ask, we learn from each other and we grow and we are sharing this light.
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  The other thought that I had is as we've, you know, been talking about the armor of light that we can put on and.
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  And we can be in a place of fear.
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  I love how the scriptures tell us that if we trust and if we're prepared, then we don't need to be fearful.
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  And I think the biggest preparation is putting on all these pieces of armor and especially praying, praying for ourselves, praying for others, that as we do that, we don't need to be fearful, that we will be reminded as
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  we pray that he is omnipotent, that he is aware of each one of us, and he can do all things.
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  We don't need to fear.
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  We are in his hands.
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  Such beautiful thoughts.
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  That is so true.
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  I.
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  And I've learned true.
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  I want to just second that praying specific for specifics is so powerful.
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  Being very specific in what you're praying for, for yourself and others can really bring miracles into your life because you are opening it up for God to just see those miracles come and.
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  And provide those for you.
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  It's.
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  It's such a beautiful thing.
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  Thank you, Tamara.
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  Thoughts?
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  Oh, two quick thoughts.
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  First of all, the fact that I'm recording this today is a miracle.
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  We were preparing for this podcast episode to record these today, and I have been sick all week with the flu.
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  And so I put out a call, even on social media last night.
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  I thought, oh, I'm going to put this power prayer principle into action.
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  And I said, hey, friends, will you pray for me?
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  I've been in bed all week.
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  I've got to record these podcast episodes tomorrow, pray that I'll have the strength to be able to do this.
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  And it's been a miracle.
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  We've kind of had to do it in little chunks because Tamara needs a little break in between because I'm still getting better.
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  But putting that invitation out for prayer warriors to be praying for me.
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  And I got so many.
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  And I have felt those prayers.
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  I really, really have.
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  And then the other thing that I wanted to mention is when you were talking about Job, how powerful that is, that principle of praying for those who are harder to pray for and how sometimes that can be a
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  pivotal moment in changing our hearts and souls and moving us forward.
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  And I think some of my most powerful prayers that I've had are when I have turned to God and even thanked him for things that I've gone through in my life that were really hard.
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  And those were some of the most tear filled prayers in my life.
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  Thank you for letting me go through this hard thing.
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  It was so hard, but it has made me who I am.
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  And just weeping through the prayer, the lessons learned or I went this hard person in my life and they were so difficult and stuff like that.
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  When we have those hard, hard heart to heart prayers with God of gratitude for things that are hard, of praying for people who have been challenges in our lives, then God can kind of unlock.
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  I don't, I don't even know how it works, but he unlocks a path to help us begin healing almost.
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  And it's, it's amazing.
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  I really don't know how miraculous that gift of, of his divine love and mercy works, but it does, it does.
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  It totally works.
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  So I'm thankful for it.
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  Thank you.
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  That is beautiful.
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  It is so true.
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  I, I once struggled with someone and I was talking to one of my religious leaders about it and, and he said, have you ever seen the War Room?
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  And I was like, it's a movie.
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  And I was like, no, I've never seen it, so you should go watch it.
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  And I loved it because what the War Room is, is it your prayer room?
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  It's where you fight your battles on your knees.
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  It's such a beautiful film.
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  It's a Christian film called the War Room.
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  And, and it is, it was powerful, realized that instead of fighting people, you know, and struggling with those that we struggle with, like when we really fight our battles on our knees, we're fighting them with the Lord.
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  And that makes all the difference that our battles fought on our knees are going to bring him into our lives and the lives of the people around us.
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  And I think that that is such a beautiful, a beautiful thing and it gives us the opportunity to serve others.
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  And when you're serving others, you're including those that are hard to serve.
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  You are learning to love them because that's what service does, right?
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  Prayer, Praying for others is a form of service and it is serving them in a way that will bring power into life like nothing else can.
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  And it will make all the difference.
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  Well, ladies, we are, we are nearing the end, so let's just talk about a couple of takeaways.
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  Tamara let's start with you.
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  Oh, so many good things here.
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  I'll just mention one because there's so many good ones.
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  But I love how I think you both mentioned it at one point is asking people, can I pray for something specific for you?
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  I think that's a huge takeaway for me.
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  When you know, someone is struggling.
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  What specifically can I pray for you?
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  That's so good.
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  Thank you, Sandy.
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  I think one of the things, my takeaways and one of the things that I'm going to try harder to do is to think more about all of God's children, my community as a world, and who I need to
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  pray for and.
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  And be more intentional about praying for our leaders and praying for those who I may have conflict with.
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  I'm not going to call them our enemies.
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  I don't think they're our enemies.
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  I.
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  I love what Tamara said.
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  The devil's our enemy.
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  Right?
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  We're all sinners, and.
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  And so, you know, we've all made mistakes.
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  And so just being more intentional about expanding my community of who I pray for and seeing God's children everywhere, that I think that's my takeaway for today.
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  I love that.
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  That's a beautiful takeaway.
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  I agree with both of you wholeheartedly.
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  I think for me, mine is to be vulnerable and ask.
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  I think that.
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  That for me, I struggle to ask.
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  But I was really touched with Paul when he was saying, and pray for me.
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  I mean, he was literally teaching us how to do it right.
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  He's telling us all about the armor of God, and then he's saying, oh, by the way, pray for everyone.
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  And me, me, you know, pray for me because I'm imprisoned and I.
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  I still have this mission that I have to fulfill, and I don't know how to do it without your prayers kind of thing.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, for me, I just think, especially women that are tuning into this podcast, we all have missions.
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  We all have things that we need to do, and the adversary is going to work really hard to try to overcome us so that we aren't able to do them.
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  And if we aren't using our prayer warriors, if we are not reaching out to our friends and family and saying, hey, I've, like Tamara did, I've got this big thing coming up, and I can't do it alone.
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  Can you please use your faith?
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  Share your faith with me.
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  Pray for me, and let's combine our faith so that I can accomplish what I know God needs me to accomplish.
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  So that's my takeaway for you.
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  For those those who are listening this week, my what my challenge is is for you to either one be vulnerable and tell people what you need and ask for their prayers or to ask someone else what they need
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  specifically that you can pray for and see how it brings miracles in both your life and theirs.
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  And like the scripture that we read earlier, see if it doesn't heal the things in your life that need to be healed.
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  Until next time, have a great week.
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  Until next time, stay faithful and may your journey be blessed and illuminated by God's love.