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How I Keep Track of SO MANY Prayer Requests & Create a Strong Prayer Habit · How to Faith a Life Podcast with Faith Womack

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  SPEAKER_00: If you're listening to the How to Faith a Life Podcast, where we wrestle with questions on how to live a life of faith, from everything from books to Bible studies, even Bible study tips, this is your place to wrestle with the hard questions and dive deep into what scripture really says for the Christian walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, with all that said, let's begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome back to the How to Faith a Life Podcast.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: What episode is this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe like six or seven now?
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  SPEAKER_00: We are getting into a grove.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am still having a hard time getting us listed on Apple Podcasts, so bear with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me check.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have it pulled up on my computer here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are on, I'm trying to get us on Apple Podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's submitted and being reviewed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we are on Spotify and on Amazon Music.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if I don't know what normal people listen to, I always just listen to my podcasts on Apple Podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if there is a player, whatever you call those things, directory that you guys love and listen to, um just request it in the comments or email me and I can try and take a couple extra minutes and purposefully list on that directory just for you.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be happy to do that.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but let's let's talk today about prayer requests.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: So one of the biggest questions that I get after I ask people for their prayer requests is wait, how do you keep track of all these prayer requests?
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: How are you actually gonna pray for this?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so today I figured let's talk about it.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: I honestly I sat down and filmed a video on this topic, like a full-blown like channel video, and I realized that there was really no depth to it because the whole time I kept saying over and over and over again, now I can't show you my list, but this is how I do it.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now I can't show you mine, or I'm not gonna show you mine.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it's the same thing as like with my prayer journal videos.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really want to show my list because there are very private, very secretive things on there from other people's lives to my life to just private things that nobody needs to know about other than the Lord.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so that makes it tricky when I'm showing you guys or trying to show prayer journal stuff or my prayer list because some of those things are like I'm not supposed to know about, or definitely the internet's not supposed to know about because people tell me stuff in confidence.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: That made me realize that this would be the perfect podcast episode is to talk about it's a very simple process that I use to keep track of all my prayer quests, and um I have spent the last like year-ish kind of perfecting it.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so let's begin.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now, first things first, I ultimately had to face this problem because I started a Patreon, and if you guys haven't been here in a while, um I'm really bad with mentioning it, and I've been trying to get better these last couple um YouTube videos and podcasts, but I do have a Patreon that's how we keep the lights on here.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you guys would like to, you know, support this channel.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: I do appreciate my Patreon so much, and I need to like get some kind of way to thank them.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've been throwing around the idea of like putting Patreons' names at the end of my channel videos or something.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, editing Faith here, and the construction noises are just so bad.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: I feel the need to say something.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I am so sorry.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: There is big construction projects going on near my studio, and so there's like nothing I can do about it.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I know how distracting it is if there's background noises in your headphones or playing in the audio, and you're like, is that here?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Is it in my real life or is this through the audio?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's so it's me.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's me.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the problem, I'm the drama.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I hope that we can um get past this soon.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, the construction will be finished as soon as we'll see.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: But all that to say, my Patreon group is what made me kind of have to face the problem that wow, I'm getting a lot of prayer requests every single day from comments on my YouTube channel or you know, just a little chat in my.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: I used to premiere all of my videos on YouTube, so that means like when your video first gets posted on YouTube, there's like a live chat box and people can comment and talk with you like right there in the moment on its first playthrough, and then it disappears.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so there was like this excitement around that, and people would show up and they'd you know give me prayer request updates and things like that.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'd no longer do that just because my life and my routine has changed, but I was getting a lot of prayer requests that way, and then my Patreon was booming, and we have weekly fellowships there, and so I was getting prayer requests from my patrons and getting a little bit confused with like um okay, so how do I explain this?
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Some people, so like if you're a patron, your name on Patreon can be one thing, and then your YouTube handle can be another thing, and then your email can be another thing, and it's it can get really hard keeping track of everybody's face to their name to their YouTube handle to their email, you know.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: And if we're having like four different conversations, I might get confused.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Is that one person or is that four different people, you know?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so um I just really needed to figure out a system, and I was like, I need to have this system figured out like yesterday.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is I'm too, I'm in too deep to not have a better system figured out.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I went on Google and I was kind of doing all the things that other people had said, and I don't know, just trying to listen to what everybody else did and used, and none of them really started to work.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I started out with a prayer board and I actually shared that on my channel, and it worked, but it was a lot harder than I thought to actually like physically erase the board, update the prayer requests, keep track because it kind of involves a lot of information when you record down a prayer request.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like let's say the typical prayer request is you know, Sally, so that's one name, Sally's son Ben.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: I always try and get a name and pray by the name just because that's so important.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say Sally's son Ben, and then the third information is he's sick, and um maybe he has a doctor's appointment on Thursday.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: So right there, that's four pieces of information, and just on like a loose whiteboard, that that's like four pieces of information that you're recording for one prayer request and you're getting like, I don't know, at least five new prayer requests a day.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I quickly realized that wasn't gonna work.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I needed some kind of like lined pieces of paper or um some kind of structural order, and so I moved to my calendar and I still use my calendar often with these prayer requests that are ooh, that just reminds me.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: I need to text somebody.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: I got a notification a few minutes ago that she has her doctor's appointment.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um squirrel.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now I will still use my calendar on dated doctor's appointments or dated prayer requests if a certain day is somebody's wedding or a certain day is an important meeting.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like that I still use to this day, but my it's not my primary way of recording all of the information or all of the prayer requests.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I did move to my calendar and tried to use my calendar for all of my prayer requests.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: And what I did by doing that is like the week's prayer requests were written on that week's page, and I would just read through that list every single day.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I quickly ran out of space and I quickly got really confused about prayer requests.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, am I supposed to still be praying for that prayer request?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot to write down a date, or was that this weekend next week?
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: And it just wasn't clear enough for me.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: I ended up trying a list format, which is kind of a typical prayer request format where you have, you know, the person's name, what you're praying for, if it's another individual's name, a date, any kind of extra information, like or specifics for the prayer request.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: And that helped me, but I still would get confused about how long or how short that prayer request was for.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, let's say one prayer request that I still pray for, and I don't know if I should still be praying for it, is one of my subscribers has having a hard relationship with a friend slash family member.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I haven't gotten an update on that prayer request, and so I still don't know if I should be praying, but I'm just praying just in case.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: And um, it would have been really helpful to like ask that person for a date or for more specifics, like, hey, like we want to pray for this for the next couple months and watch and see as God repairs this relationship.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just like um, because you know, if I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I have people that come and go through my ministry that I do online.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like, people will subscribe and they'll watch me for a couple months and then they'll, you know, get on another person's hype band.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we won't keep up as much.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: And that's just for everything there's a season.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine with me, but sometimes I'm like, wait, but I told them I would pray.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Am I supposed to still be praying?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so finally I ended up coming across um, this was like last ditch effort, and I did not think it was gonna work, but it actually has stuck with me, and it's been the best thing for me to keep track of all my prayer requests, and it is a two-list structure.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I have one list, and this is for the long term.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: These are prayer requests that people have said basically every time you think of me, I want you to pray about this.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is stuff like my church is on that list, my husband, my boys, um, certain family members and certain like long-term situations.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Those things are on my long-term list.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: I I know that list from heart because I'm praying it every month, every week for a long term.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: And it does sometimes change, and I get to scratch things off and be like, God answered this prayer on this date.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: But typically I don't have to update it very often, kind of like once a month, sometimes even just like once every two months.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's very long-term kind of prayers.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: And having those prayers on that list just kind of simplifies the overwhelm or simplifies the fear for getting something that's important.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: I think sometimes we don't pray um or don't make a list because we're like, well, I don't want to leave out the important things, or like I don't, I I want to keep it organized and it's just overwhelming me.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so this just really helped me like when something occurs in my brain that, like, oh, I really need to be praying about this.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Why am I stressing about this?
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: I need to be praying about this.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: I just put it on that list, it's done, it's there.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: And if it's on the long-term list, I know like I'm gonna be praying about this every single day for indefinitely.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can rest and it's before the Lord, you know.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then I have my short-term list, and this I update like once a week, and this is primarily updated.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: I typically do it on Tuesdays because Tuesday night is our Patreon fellowship.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you're a Patreon and you're top tier, we meet every single Tuesday night and we share prayer requests and we share life updates, and that's where the bulk of like my detailed prayer requests come from, um, as well as like emails and things like that.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: But that is where I get the most fellowship, fellowship kind of updates.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so I will then update my weekly list after that.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, things from personal life and things like that will go on the short-term list.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: But that short-term list then is refreshed every week.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, of course, there'll be like tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: So the next day I'll be like, okay, so it's today.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: Now I can like kind of scratch that part off my list, but I can keep praying about the doctor's appointment um feedback or whatever.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm sorry, I feel like I'm talking very theoretically about this all.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: But my heart in this podcast is to just give some kind of idea, some kind of structure for you to work off of because this is what has worked for me, but it may not work for you.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's just starting someplace and giving yourself room to fail because ultimately there will always be the times where you're like, Yeah, totally, I'll be praying for you.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: And you like straight up forget to write on your list.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like you we are human, we do not save ourselves by having a perfect prayer request sheet and prayer request habit.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: It is okay to be a failure because we already are failures, and that's why Jesus went to the cross, right?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like we need to give ourselves grace, but also I think we spend so much time saying, like, I'm gonna pray for you, and then feeling guilty that we forgot to pray for that person, that um we could just put all of that energy towards actually praying for those people and actually loving those people like Jesus loves them by praying for them and bearing their burdens.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that's how I've kind of found some kind of structure in my prayer life and keeping track of my prayer requests is just by having that two list structure.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, my church, I don't I would be curious to hear if your churches do this, but we have a weekly list that comes in our church bulletin, and it's all the prayer requests for all of the people in our church and their life and their relatives and our missionaries.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's like everything prayer request-wise.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that list gets updated uh every week.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I have actually been really struggling to remember to add that to my weekly list because um, to be completely honest with you guys, oftentimes the weekly bulletin um ends up turning into a coloring sheet with my boys in the pews, or Joseph steals it from me because he's notorious for losing his um Sunday morning bulletin.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: We grab it when we first walk into the church, and then you know, we go and go to Sunday school.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: He teaches Sunday school, and then he has to like get up on stage and do all the things, and he's like, wait, what is the next hymn that we're singing?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: Where's my bulletin?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so he always steals mine, and he'll chuckle when he hears this.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've had a hard time adding those prayer requests into my weekly prayer request list because it's long and it I easily lose that, and those are just excuses.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: But because of that, it's made me a little bit more intentional.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, I'm failing to add this into my routine, but at least right now when I'm sitting through the pew and they're doing the offertory and I'm praying over my prayer requests, I have this additional list right here in my hands that I can pray over right now, too.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, though, I do think that we give ourselves a lot of guilt.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: We shame ourselves for not being better with our prayer requests, and we shame ourselves like, oh, I'm a bad Christian because I didn't pray for that person I said I would.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And again, the cross is more than enough.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: While it is good for us to pray for each other, while it's good to bear each other's burdens and to love each other.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I know many a people who say, like, yes, I will pray for you, and then like right to then they pray and they don't keep a list.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like they, if it if that person later comes to their mind, they'll pray for them again.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: But like they don't burden themselves with a list.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Is that a bad way to put it?
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: But they just don't even worry with a list because they've tried it and it didn't work or whatever.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I just say give yourselves grace and the desire to grow your the prayer request muscle, it's not a desire to grow that muscle of keeping track of people's prayer requests and loving them in that way and loving them by bearing their burdens is a godly desire.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you have that, like lean into that, but give yourselves grace because that desire came to you from the Lord and not from yourself anyway.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Rest in his grace, but um, it is quite the joy watching as the Lord does answer prayer, and um it you can't really see that as well, or you you can't map it out in your life if you're not, you know, taking those lists and following those lists.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: One great example of this would be um a woman from Patreon, her name is Mary.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm pretty sure she's okay with me saying her name because everyone's gonna know who I'm referring to anyway, but we watched as her husband lost his job and there was like no hope for him to get another job, and then the Lord provide a job, but then it was a little bit on the rocks, and we kept praying, and then the Lord did provide the job and did provide the paychecks and did answer the prayers, and we were able to walk through all of that with her.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: And if she had been through all of that alone, it would have been an emotional roller coaster by herself.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and she wouldn't have that assurance and that comfort that she had her sisters bearing those burdens with her and praying with her.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you want a prayer community, I really like I cannot speak higher of my patrons.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: They are some really incredible people that are prayer warriors.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, they'll often email me and be like, Faith, I just was thinking about you and I just wanted you to know, like, I was praying for your prayer request, you know, whatever.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I just got a message from sweet Julie this morning who had been praying for my prayer request um that I shared just last night.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Be encouraged that the fellowship of believers is to bear each other's burdens and to pray for each other and to love each other in that way.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: And um, it is so doable, but I think sometimes it's just more overwhelming than not.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so we just don't even try and we get kind of bitter or shut off to the idea that we could actually have a prayer list and like love each other in that way.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to encourage you like if me, my squirrely brain all over the place can have an organized prayer list, then you can too.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just creating a habit that that works well or creating a system that works well with your brain and the way that you get prayer requests.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, people might share prayer requests verbally with you a lot of the time when you're just like walking down the hallways of your church.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: If that happens, like to me, it's really hard for me to actually like pull out a piece of paper and then write down that prayer request and then it for it to make it to my prayer request list.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, those are some of the like most lost prayer requests, okay?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: But um, I get most of my prayer requests online when I'm near my computer, and so it works really well to keep my list right next to my computer.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: So look at your own life and look at your habits, look at the places where you more often than not receive your prayer requests, and you can even just start like your long-term versus your short-term list on the notes in your phone or on your calendar on your phone.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many different options.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do not let the enemy discourage you from the battle and where the battle is won.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, let's think about it.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's the number one thing that the enemy doesn't want us to do is to pray for each other and to bear each other's burdens.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: So be encouraged.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's not impossible.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is what has worked for me, but it may not work for you.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Just try your own process and um be encouraged that ultimately there will always be those um prayer requests that you fail because we are failures and that is okay.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Christ is more than enough.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can always pray in the moment when you see that person again.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I hope this helps somebody.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I was all over the place, and it's so hard not being able to like show you guys my prayer list on my prayer journal, but also I'm not gonna show you guys my prayer list in my prayer journal.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: So there we go.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, ultimately, I find that there is no shame in praying the overarching prayer.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, I pray for all the prayer quests that I'm forgetting.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, I pray for those whom um I may have interacted with and I didn't ask for a prayer request or I didn't really hear their heart and I missed the opportunity to truly hear a prayer request that they were kind of insinuating or whatever.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, those overarching prayers can sometimes even bring to mind prayer requests that you've forgotten to write down.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: So um give yourself grace, just lean into the power of prayer.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: It moves mountains, guys.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: It really does.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: And we've seen that in so many lives on our Patreon group, and we wouldn't have been able to see that if we weren't asking for prayer requests and if we weren't genuinely praying for each other.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna pray really quick.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Father God, you are so good and you give us this tool, this um phone of sorts where we get to dial in and talk to you, Lord.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Only it's even better than a phone because there's no barriers.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so, God, we just thank you for the gift of being able to step into the throne room at any given moment and petition the throne on behalf of our brothers and sisters, on behalf of ourselves, on behalf of the war, the spiritual warfare that's going on around in our lives and those lives around us.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so, God, may we not um grow numb or cynical to the power that that is, and may we see the spiritual warfare um in the lives around us and take it seriously so that we do go before the throne um with power and confidence and and with severity of the seriousness of what's going on in lives around us, God.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: We live in a day and age where there are so many people that are hurting but publicly putting on a mask, whether it's on Instagram and Facebook, or whether it's just showing up to work and plastering a fake smile on their face to go home and cry all day, Lord.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's just so many people hurting.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: May we be lights in this dark world who see the brokenness, who see those who are lonely, eating alone, or who see those who are crying out for your love and searching in all the wrong places, God.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um even those who are coming to mind right now, Lord, may we love them well by being their secret prayer warriors.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: God, may we also be prayer warriors for those who we have told that we would be prayer warriors, not in the way that we want to like earn our salvation or like be a good Christian because we feel like we need to be, but in the ways of like because we believe prayer is actually powerful, and because we believe that prayer does move mountains because your word says that it moves mountains, and because your word says that prayer is powerful, and because your word says that we should bear each other's burdens, may we actually truly believe what we say we believe.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: May we actually truly believe the word and act on it, and so may we actually truly pray and w God forgive us for all the times that we say we pray that we'll pray for somebody and we are only saying it just to please them.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um forgive us for all the times that we say that just to sound good and holy, and then we know we're not gonna follow up on it, and may we create a um prayer habit that actually is not centered around our own prayer requests, but centered around loving others because God, we know that um that is exactly how you are, and you lived a life of sacrifice um and love for us, undeserving sinners.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: How much more can we love those around us?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: So give us strength in the days and in the overwhelm of all the prayer requests, give us um clarity and wisdom on how to do this whole prayer request habit thing.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I pray for the person on the other end of the technologies, and I ask for you to bless them and their uh uh struggles and trials to grow in their relationship with you and in their relationship with their prayer muscle.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Golly words, Lord, you know what I'm trying to say.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I just thank you for these wonderful people and um for their lives and the story that you're unfolding in their lives.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: And um, God, I thank you that they are sent out into the world as your lights.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um just give us the words and the wisdom to preach the gospel to all the nations um as you've called us to, God.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the cross.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: And it's in your name we pray.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: All right, guys.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go pray.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: Bye guys.