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- 0:03Speaker0: The most free and fully alive, you know, places in the
- 0:07Speaker0: Lord is where nothing is hidden and everything,
- 0:11Speaker0: everything is made available to the Lord. Like, God, here it is.
- 0:15Speaker0: Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide
- 0:19Speaker0: call for spiritual awakening. The goal: accelerating
- 0:23Speaker0: the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories,
- 0:27Speaker0: and reports.
- 0:31Speaker0: Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast, man. I'm Kyle
- 0:35Speaker0: Reno, and this is my buddy Bill Elif, and we are
- 0:39Speaker0: humbled to be on this journey. And I mean that. It's been— this is the—
- 0:42Speaker0: even recording these last few podcasts personally
- 0:46Speaker0: for me just helped me engage with the Lord. It's been fun. So we're in
- 0:49Speaker0: these, honestly, these prayers of Paul and learning how to pray like Paul,
- 0:54Speaker0: and we just want to dive right into it again this week.
- 0:57Speaker1: Yeah.
- 0:58Speaker0: I hope that it's helping you foster that conversation with
- 1:01Speaker0: the Lord personally, but also as Paul was doing,
- 1:05Speaker0: knowing how to pray for other people. So Bill, where are we at today,
- 1:08Speaker0: man, in the Word?
- 1:09Speaker1: Yeah, we're in Philippians 1.
- 1:11Speaker1: And, you know, before we jump into
- 1:16Speaker1: the text, the reason we're doing this
- 1:20Speaker1: is because not only are these the prayers
- 1:25Speaker1: of probably the greatest apostle and the prayers that
- 1:29Speaker1: were Spirit-breathed, so much so that,
- 1:33Speaker1: that God wanted them recorded in Scripture so it
- 1:38Speaker1: would instruct us for the rest of our lives in how to pray. It's not—
- 1:42Speaker1: these prayers are not in there so we can just say, oh, that was cool.
- 1:45Speaker1: That was a nice prayer, Paul.
- 1:46Speaker0: Way to go.
- 1:47Speaker1: It's so that we can pick
- 1:49Speaker1: these up, memorize them, chew them up,
- 1:52Speaker1: digest them, get them into our soul that
- 1:56Speaker1: can equip us to pray. Now, Kyle, some people are not
- 1:59Speaker1: all that interested in learning how to pray for others.
- 2:02Speaker0: Hmm.
- 2:03Speaker1: And if so,
- 2:05Speaker1: that's an area of selfishness we need to
- 2:08Speaker1: deal with, because the greatest thing you can do is
- 2:13Speaker1: to pray and bring God into the equation.
- 2:16Speaker1: And that's, I think, Kyle, why Paul's churches
- 2:20Speaker1: prospered as he prayed unceasingly for them.
- 2:24Speaker1: So he comes to the church of Philippi. We love this little letter that
- 2:27Speaker1: he wrote to the church at Philippi.
- 2:32Speaker1: And he says in verse 3, and we're
- 2:35Speaker1: going to just walk through it for a minute and then we'll pray through it
- 2:38Speaker1: briefly. He says, I thank my God in
- 2:42Speaker1: all my remembrance of you.
- 2:43Speaker0: Hmm.
- 2:44Speaker1: Now, I love
- 2:45Speaker1: that Paul Almost always starts
- 2:50Speaker1: out with praise. He just, he just, he just has thanksgiving.
- 2:56Speaker1: I mean, wouldn't it be great if every time somebody
- 3:00Speaker1: came up to you, they say, man, every time I see you, I just
- 3:03Speaker1: thank God for you. Every time I remember you, I just thank
- 3:07Speaker1: God for you. And I thank God because God
- 3:12Speaker1: is the one who has made you. Like you are.
- 3:15Speaker1: And God is the one that gives me the opportunity to
- 3:19Speaker1: know you. So I thank God on my every remembrance of
- 3:23Speaker1: you. And here's the next verse, verse 4.
- 3:27Speaker1: Always— there it is— unceasing. He says
- 3:30Speaker1: this over and over again. I'm unceasing. I am always
- 3:35Speaker1: offering prayer. But here's something he
- 3:39Speaker1: doesn't say. about any other church. I'm always
- 3:43Speaker1: offering prayer with joy,
- 3:47Speaker1: with joy in my every prayer,
- 3:51Speaker1: always offering in every prayer for you all,
- 3:56Speaker1: for all of you. And there was something about that church
- 4:00Speaker1: that just delighted Paul's
- 4:03Speaker1: heart. Oh, you have the letters he wrote to the Corinthians, and he had to
- 4:07Speaker1: wear them out a couple of times. And he loved them and
- 4:11Speaker1: didn't minimize that. But what a delight it was for him
- 4:16Speaker1: to write to the church and pray for the church at Philippi.
- 4:19Speaker1: And he says, every time I remember you in prayer,
- 4:23Speaker1: I'm just filled with joy. And you
- 4:27Speaker1: say, well, why, Paul? Here's verse 5,
- 4:31Speaker1: because you participated with me in
- 4:35Speaker1: the gospel. Koinonia.
- 4:38Speaker1: You joined together with me. You worked alongside
- 4:43Speaker1: of me in the gospel. You didn't— when I came
- 4:46Speaker1: and preached and when Christ came to you, you didn't ignore him.
- 4:50Speaker1: You didn't blow it off. You just jumped right
- 4:54Speaker1: in the halter. You got right in the
- 4:58Speaker1: yoke like a yoke of oxen with me. And you help
- 5:01Speaker1: pull the load. And we know by the rest of this book of Philippians,
- 5:05Speaker1: they were still doing that. They were sending gifts to him and helping him
- 5:10Speaker1: from the first day until now.
- 5:13Speaker1: And so he prays this for them.
- 5:17Speaker1: I'm confident of this very thing.
- 5:21Speaker1: God started a good work in you. He's gonna finish it.
- 5:25Speaker1: Now, Kyle, how many times have we prayed that prayer?
- 5:28Speaker0: Hmm.
- 5:28Speaker0: That's right.
- 5:29Speaker1: And we've had somebody, a child,
- 5:32Speaker1: a friend, a leader, an elder, a deacon
- 5:36Speaker1: that's struggling. And we pray for them. God,
- 5:40Speaker1: you started the work in them. I didn't start that. They didn't start
- 5:44Speaker1: it. You started it. And so, Father, I know that you're going to finish
- 5:49Speaker1: it and take them on through because we come to a lot of spots
- 5:52Speaker1: where we just want to give up. We don't want to persevere. We think,
- 5:55Speaker1: well, they're not going to make it through this. What a prayer to pray
- 6:00Speaker1: and to encourage them in prayer. Lord, you started this.
- 6:04Speaker1: Now, Father, really lay hold of them and finish this.
- 6:08Speaker0: That's right.
- 6:09Speaker1: And then in the next 3 verses, these last
- 6:12Speaker1: 3 verses, we skip down to verse 9. He prays a great
- 6:16Speaker1: prayer that's going to help them be
- 6:20Speaker1: completed in Christ. What is he talking
- 6:24Speaker1: about there beginning in verse 9?
- 6:26Speaker0: Yeah, I'll say this back to even that passage
- 6:28Speaker0: though, verse 6. It reminds me of, you know, we oftentimes—
- 6:32Speaker0: God will allow us to be a part of praying people into the kingdom.
- 6:36Speaker0: Like, he gets you to know that, pray for people to go from far
- 6:40Speaker0: from God into the family of God, see them come.
- 6:43Speaker0: But that's not where prayer stops in many ways. That's where
- 6:47Speaker0: prayer shifts And now we start— now we're praying
- 6:51Speaker0: for their progression in the faith, man, that they would continue to grow.
- 6:54Speaker1: Wow.
- 6:54Speaker0: And I remember Dawson Trotman, he's of course, you know, a legend in the
- 6:58Speaker0: faith, started Navigators. And he had a soul winner that was on
- 7:02Speaker0: his staff that was leading all these people to Christ. But then he was asking
- 7:05Speaker0: us, well, how are they doing now? And, and the guy was saying, well,
- 7:08Speaker0: I don't really know, you know, this guy sort of fell away, I ain't seen
- 7:11Speaker0: this guy in a while. And Dawson Trotman said this, he goes, hand me your
- 7:14Speaker0: Bible. So he handed— the guy handed him his Bible and he opened to Philippians
- 7:18Speaker0: 1:6 and he got a knife out of his pocket and he said, what are
- 7:22Speaker0: you doing? He says, well, I'm gonna cut that passage out of your Bible.
- 7:24Speaker0: So what do you mean? He said, I'm okay. He goes, well, it ain't working.
- 7:28Speaker0: It ain't working.
- 7:29Speaker1: Wow.
- 7:30Speaker0: He said, it says right there, the work he starts,
- 7:33Speaker0: he'll bring to completion. It ain't working in your Bible. You must
- 7:37Speaker0: not need it there. And then he used it as a way of saying like,
- 7:40Speaker0: Hey, you got to walk this guy into the faith.
- 7:44Speaker0: You got to walk. And what Paul's saying is, I am praying
- 7:48Speaker0: in your completion. I'm praying in what
- 7:52Speaker0: God started. He's going to continue to advance.
- 7:55Speaker0: So I would just say this. Hey, our— one of our primary roles as a
- 7:59Speaker0: prayer warrior is to, is to keep praying people into
- 8:02Speaker0: those next right steps.
- 8:03Speaker1: Carry them all the way through. And, you know,
- 8:05Speaker1: he's later going to say in chapter 2 to the
- 8:10Speaker1: Philippians, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- 8:13Speaker1: You got it. Now rely
- 8:18Speaker1: on Christ, let him live through you so you grow in him. And that
- 8:22Speaker1: full salvation, you're just gonna be experiencing more and
- 8:26Speaker1: more of his saving you from yourself and from sin and
- 8:30Speaker1: from Satan.
- 8:30Speaker0: Yeah.
- 8:31Speaker1: So, and then, and then in It
- 8:35Speaker1: goes on in chapter— verse 9 of chapter 1.
- 8:39Speaker0: And it says, and it's my prayer that your love may abound.
- 8:43Speaker0: So he's praying it in, that your love may abound more and more with
- 8:46Speaker0: knowledge and all discernment,
- 8:49Speaker0: so that you may be able to approve what is
- 8:53Speaker0: excellent and so be pure and blameless
- 8:56Speaker0: for the day of Christ. He says, that's what I'm praying
- 9:00Speaker0: in light of, of your continual maturation.
- 9:05Speaker0: You're mature. You've been made new. You've been made new by Christ.
- 9:08Speaker0: But now I'm praying in your maturity that
- 9:12Speaker0: love would be not just a theme,
- 9:15Speaker0: it'd be evident. Yeah. That love would be— would
- 9:19Speaker0: literally come pouring out of you as a
- 9:23Speaker0: person, and that you would have knowledge as your love
- 9:26Speaker0: abounds That you'd have knowledge. You— and, and knowledge is the ability to
- 9:31Speaker0: know things beyond your own intellect.
- 9:36Speaker0: Knowledge is— it's the— I want— and I— the country boy part
- 9:41Speaker0: of me is like, hey, I don't know why I know, but I know.
- 9:44Speaker1: Yeah.
- 9:45Speaker0: You know, that God— and I'm telling you, God does
- 9:48Speaker0: this for his kids. He gives his kids the knowledge to know that's not right,
- 9:52Speaker0: right? That's off— that's off-center.
- 9:55Speaker0: That I have a knowledge and a discernment.
- 9:59Speaker0: It matches, it partners them together.
- 10:02Speaker1: So that, he says,
- 10:03Speaker1: you can approve the things that are excellent.
- 10:07Speaker1: I mean, I think of a jeweler
- 10:12Speaker1: who looks at 10 diamonds and 9
- 10:16Speaker1: of them are worth $1.99 and one
- 10:20Speaker1: of them is worth $10,000. And,
- 10:24Speaker1: you know, Paul uses that term in,
- 10:28Speaker1: I think it's 1 Corinthians 2, where he says a spiritual
- 10:32Speaker1: man appraises all things.
- 10:35Speaker0: Wow.
- 10:35Speaker1: So he looks and he knows, he listened on TV to the news
- 10:40Speaker1: and he say, well, that's what that guy's saying is worthless. But that
- 10:44Speaker1: person is saying that's valuable. What we're doing here is good.
- 10:48Speaker1: What we're doing here. And he has this ability to have
- 10:52Speaker1: wisdom and discernment so
- 10:56Speaker1: that he can approve what's good and what's bad. Well,
- 10:59Speaker1: we— how do we get that? Somebody praying for us?
- 11:03Speaker1: That's right.
- 11:05Speaker0: That would just pure blameless.
- 11:06Speaker1: Yeah, that would take us there. And then we
- 11:10Speaker1: walk in it as we're growing and we're
- 11:14Speaker1: sincere and blameless.
- 11:15Speaker0: Yeah.
- 11:16Speaker1: In other words,
- 11:17Speaker1: when we When we discover, well, this is the right path and
- 11:22Speaker1: this is the way I should be living and this is what I should be
- 11:25Speaker1: thinking and this is the way I should be talking. And now
- 11:29Speaker1: we have the equipping to be able to be genuine
- 11:34Speaker1: and to be blameless and to walk in the right
- 11:38Speaker1: way, which is what he's telling us as we keep growing
- 11:42Speaker1: in him.
- 11:43Speaker0: Yeah.
- 11:43Speaker1: And Phil,
- 11:45Speaker1: Go ahead with all righteousness.
- 11:48Speaker0: Amen. It comes through Jesus Christ to
- 11:52Speaker0: the praise, you know, and to his praise that he might be exalted,
- 11:56Speaker0: magnified. And so you think about like Paul saying, hey, I,
- 12:00Speaker0: I am praying for you, church in Philippi, who he does love,
- 12:04Speaker0: that you would have things that's not natural yet
- 12:08Speaker0: supernatural, that you would have power knowledge,
- 12:12Speaker0: discernment, so that people would look at
- 12:16Speaker0: your life and see a purity, a sincerity, a blamelessness
- 12:22Speaker0: that's not possible outside of Jesus Christ being real.
- 12:26Speaker0: And I, I think what we so often minimize,
- 12:29Speaker0: you know, Bill, is— and, and this is just
- 12:34Speaker0: us, um, pulling up so short of what Christ
- 12:38Speaker0: intended that there should be no people on planet Earth that's more distinguishable
- 12:43Speaker0: than the people of God. Our manner of life.
- 12:46Speaker0: Yeah. And that— and, and hey, listen,
- 12:49Speaker0: we don't get there overnight, you know. Like, hey, I came to Christ
- 12:53Speaker0: at 19 making every bad decision you could possibly make,
- 12:56Speaker0: right? And, and was a hot mess.
- 12:59Speaker0: And, and, and I, I've recently talked to one
- 13:04Speaker0: of the coaches who played a huge part in me coming to Christ, and we
- 13:06Speaker0: laughed, you know, looking back, you know, I was saved,
- 13:09Speaker0: but brother, I needed to be sanctified. Yeah, yeah,
- 13:13Speaker0: rougher, rougher around the edges. But you know what?
- 13:17Speaker0: My children don't know that guy. Yeah, you know,
- 13:21Speaker0: I, I, I'm— man, that's not even 45 years
- 13:25Speaker0: old.
- 13:26Speaker1: He, he—
- 13:26Speaker0: and he's continuing though. I'm not done.
- 13:29Speaker0: He's continuing to bring about a purity and a blamelessness that
- 13:33Speaker0: doesn't make much of anybody other than Jesus and
- 13:37Speaker0: his power. And so to pray that way—
- 13:39Speaker1: When your kids say to you,
- 13:40Speaker1: Dad, why are you like that? You just
- 13:44Speaker1: point one direction.
- 13:45Speaker0: That's right.
- 13:46Speaker1: To the glory of
- 13:48Speaker1: the Lord Jesus Christ. We grow up into him. I mean,
- 13:51Speaker1: he's— this is a— just think, Kyle,
- 13:54Speaker1: how fantastic it would be for our listeners Yeah.
- 13:59Speaker1: If they were equipped with this prayer
- 14:02Speaker1: to pray for the spiritual growth of their children, their grandchildren,
- 14:07Speaker1: their friends, their neighbors every day.
- 14:10Speaker0: That's right.
- 14:11Speaker1: And they're just praying for
- 14:13Speaker1: their child as they go off to school. Lord, I pray that your love would
- 14:17Speaker1: abound still more and more and you would give them real knowledge and all
- 14:22Speaker1: discernment so they can approve the things
- 14:26Speaker1: that are excellent and they can be sincere and blameless all the way
- 14:29Speaker1: to the end. And they would be filled with the fruit of righteousness.
- 14:34Speaker0: Amen.
- 14:34Speaker1: So that God would be glorified.
- 14:36Speaker0: I gotta
- 14:37Speaker0: tell you this, I'm laughing, Bill, because we— and we've had just
- 14:40Speaker0: by God's grace a lot of people that's coming to Christ the last
- 14:44Speaker0: couple years. And yeah, a lot of them from a bunch of brokenness.
- 14:47Speaker0: And this— I got this one guy that's coming to mind, and this is basically
- 14:52Speaker0: what he said. I was asking him, how's it going? You know, how's your,
- 14:54Speaker0: your walk with God? Because he's Went from very far from God. And this— he
- 14:59Speaker0: said it something like this, but the way I heard it was this. He goes,
- 15:02Speaker0: man, this really messes with everything,
- 15:05Speaker0: doesn't it? And, and I'm like,
- 15:09Speaker0: yeah, yeah, really.
- 15:13Speaker0: Yes, sir, it does. But you know, the beauty of that is,
- 15:16Speaker0: is it doesn't leave anything untouched. Every bit,
- 15:20Speaker0: dude. Every bit. The Lord is redeeming all of
- 15:24Speaker0: it. He's redeeming every—
- 15:25Speaker1: Yeah.
- 15:26Speaker0: And so to pray that way for the
- 15:28Speaker0: Lord, keep what you started, bring it to
- 15:32Speaker0: completion, keep changing, transforming, make us
- 15:36Speaker0: like you, bring about a purity, a blamelessness.
- 15:40Speaker0: Like, I think you, Bill, you know these places, man.
- 15:44Speaker0: The most, the most free and fully alive, you know,
- 15:48Speaker0: places in the Lord is where nothing is hidden.
- 15:52Speaker0: And everything, everything is made available to the Lord. Like, God, here it
- 15:56Speaker0: is. Like, man, all— and to pray that for people, like,
- 15:59Speaker0: Lord, make yourself so known that
- 16:04Speaker0: no corner would be unswept. Amen.
- 16:06Speaker1: Right.
- 16:07Speaker0: Yeah. That every part of it would be made pure.
- 16:10Speaker1: Well,
- 16:11Speaker1: let's pray this prayer in, Kyle.
- 16:14Speaker1: I'll begin with it and you finish it up.
- 16:18Speaker1: And we've prayed prayers, and we've been
- 16:22Speaker1: learning Paul's prayers and learning how to pray his prayers
- 16:25Speaker1: in Ephesians 1 about how to pray that people would know God
- 16:30Speaker1: experientially. And then in Ephesians 3,
- 16:34Speaker1: that people would be filled up to all the fullness of God.
- 16:39Speaker1: And now in Philippians 1, his prayer for the Philippians is that we
- 16:43Speaker1: would grow to completion.
- 16:46Speaker0: Mm-hmm.
- 16:46Speaker1: In God, that we
- 16:47Speaker1: would mature and grow all the way to the end so
- 16:51Speaker1: that Christ would be most glorified. So I wonder if you would
- 16:55Speaker1: join us, our listeners would join us as we pray,
- 16:58Speaker1: and we're going to pray for you, and we want to pray with you.
- 17:02Speaker1: Maybe you're thinking of somebody specifically that needs
- 17:06Speaker1: the effects of this prayer from the God that it addresses.
- 17:12Speaker1: So, Lord, I thank my God in all my remembrance
- 17:16Speaker1: of our listeners, Lord, their faithfulness,
- 17:19Speaker1: their continued passion for
- 17:23Speaker1: you. I think of, Lord, many listeners that we have
- 17:27Speaker1: now overseas who go to great lengths to get
- 17:31Speaker1: these podcasts. And, Lord, I just thank the Lord for
- 17:35Speaker1: them. And, Lord, I thank you that we
- 17:38Speaker1: offer up prayer with joy in our prayers for
- 17:42Speaker1: them because they've participated in the gospel from the first day
- 17:47Speaker1: until now. Thank you that we have so many colleagues, so many
- 17:51Speaker1: coworkers, so many partners with us through
- 17:55Speaker1: life in serving you because our hearts beat
- 17:59Speaker1: in unison with you, and therefore they
- 18:03Speaker1: beat in unison with each other. And so, Father, we pray
- 18:06Speaker1: and we believe, we're confident of this very thing,
- 18:10Speaker1: that he who began a good work in them will
- 18:14Speaker1: perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
- 18:17Speaker1: Lord, would you, would you right now,
- 18:22Speaker1: in that struggling believer who's in the sound of
- 18:26Speaker1: our voices, who thinks, I'm not going to make it,
- 18:30Speaker1: I'm not going to make it. I can't get through this. And they just want
- 18:33Speaker1: to quit. They just want to give up. They just want to say, well,
- 18:36Speaker1: I guess God doesn't really care about me. Lord,
- 18:39Speaker1: would you speak this truth by your Spirit
- 18:43Speaker1: to their heart? Assure them that he who began
- 18:47Speaker1: a good work in them is going to complete it.
- 18:51Speaker1: He's going to bring it to perfection in this life.
- 18:55Speaker1: and in the next. And he's— Lord, you hadn't
- 19:00Speaker1: left any man on the field. You haven't said,
- 19:03Speaker1: well, this guy's too hard for me to redeem. I can't seem to
- 19:07Speaker1: get him sanctified. Lord, you're going to do it one way
- 19:11Speaker1: or other. And I pray, Father, that you would assure
- 19:15Speaker1: them of that. And I pray that you would do it in fresh new ways.
- 19:21Speaker0: Yeah, Lord, I agree with that. And I thank you for Paul's prayer
- 19:26Speaker0: for the church in Philippi, that their love, your love, may abound,
- 19:30Speaker0: Lord. And so I pray that your love in our listeners
- 19:35Speaker0: would become their love, that they would love what you love
- 19:39Speaker0: and hate what you hate, that they would have knowledge and discernment. God,
- 19:43Speaker0: I pray today, Lord, for them to know the things that
- 19:46Speaker0: you know that they need to.
- 19:48Speaker1: Amen.
- 19:49Speaker0: God, if that's the revealing of
- 19:50Speaker0: some area of their life that you want to work in, Lord God, if that's
- 19:53Speaker0: understanding around what's next and how to rightly discern
- 19:58Speaker0: the day in which they're living, Father God, I pray that
- 20:02Speaker0: all these things would give them the ability to rightly approve that which
- 20:06Speaker0: is excellent, God, that they would know the right path, that we
- 20:09Speaker0: would know your ways, oh God, to know the— how to navigate.
- 20:15Speaker0: Lord, walking through this broken, harsh, hard world in
- 20:19Speaker0: a way that is distinguishable, God, that makes us different.
- 20:22Speaker0: And I pray, Lord, for our listeners and for those they're going to pray
- 20:26Speaker0: for, God, for a real purity, a blamelessness, a set-apartness,
- 20:30Speaker0: God, that is only possible by the power of the Spirit.
- 20:35Speaker0: That doesn't make us look righteous in ourselves,
- 20:39Speaker0: but it's the righteousness of Christ.
- 20:41Speaker1: Amen.
- 20:42Speaker0: Coming and being, Lord, displayed through our lives. Guys, I thank you
- 20:46Speaker0: that you promised to work in these ways, and we look toward the
- 20:50Speaker0: day that you'll return. And so, God, I pray every season,
- 20:54Speaker0: next steps. Every season, Lord, growth.
- 20:57Speaker0: God, and we pray it for your glory's sake, in Jesus' name.
- 21:01Speaker0: Amen.
- 21:02Speaker1: Amen. Man, what a prayer.
- 21:06Speaker1: And, uh, and you know, uh, Kyle, I want to
- 21:09Speaker1: say Practically to our listeners before
- 21:13Speaker1: we close, here's your homework for this week.
- 21:17Speaker1: Kyle said last week, pray this prayer every day
- 21:21Speaker1: for 7 days. I want to encourage you to get a little piece of
- 21:25Speaker1: paper and write these prayers down. We've covered
- 21:28Speaker1: 3 of them. Write them down on a— be great
- 21:33Speaker1: on a stiff note card, just a little 3 by 5 note
- 21:37Speaker1: card.
- 21:36Speaker0: Yeah.
- 21:37Speaker1: and carry them in your pocket. And when you're going
- 21:40Speaker1: down the road, when you're just sitting in an idle moment, you know,
- 21:43Speaker1: you're going to— here's one for you men. When you're at
- 21:47Speaker1: a mall with your wife and she's shopping,
- 21:52Speaker1: let's, let's, let's do something productive.
- 21:56Speaker0: Yeah.
- 21:57Speaker1: Why not spend that time praying for her,
- 21:59Speaker1: praying for your children, and pull out Paul's prayers and walk through
- 22:03Speaker1: those prayers? And I want to tell you something, Kyle, that you know is
- 22:07Speaker1: true. I've experienced this. If you pray this enough,
- 22:11Speaker1: you'll memorize it.
- 22:13Speaker0: That's right.
- 22:14Speaker1: Just over time,
- 22:15Speaker1: these phrases will get in your soul. I've been
- 22:19Speaker1: looking at these passages really for about 60 years,
- 22:24Speaker1: and the phrases are all familiar to me,
- 22:28Speaker1: right? And so I would really encourage
- 22:32Speaker1: you to get So familiar that the Holy Spirit can pull out any
- 22:36Speaker1: part of these prayers to empower
- 22:40Speaker1: you to pray effectively and powerfully.
- 22:44Speaker0: That's right.
- 22:45Speaker1: So practice that this week and use
- 22:48Speaker1: it for God's glory. And thank you again for joining us.
- 22:52Speaker1: Don't forget to tune in next time. We're not done.
- 22:55Speaker1: And we'll see you there. God bless you.