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#233 Positioning Your Life Toward Revival in 2026 (Psalm 119) · The OneCry Podcast

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  Speaker0: Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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  Speaker0: The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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  Speaker1: Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast. I'm Kyle Reno, and this is Bill Eliff.
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  Speaker1: And we are humbled, man, to have a few moments with you, our listeners.
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  Speaker1: I'm a little shocked y'all keep coming back listening. I don't know. What do you think, Bill?
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  Speaker0: Yeah, I, I, I, you know, I'm always, uh, I remember when we started the church
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  Speaker0: that, that I've pastored for years here in Little Rock and, and,
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  Speaker0: uh, you know, when you start a church, you're trying to,
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  Speaker0: See if people will join you in that. And they did by the grace of God.
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  Speaker0: But then there's always that day that you think, you know, I'm going to come
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  Speaker0: next Sunday and just nobody's going to show up.
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  Speaker0: And so I'm thrilled that people are listening.
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  Speaker0: You know, Kyle, what's neat, we haven't reported about this much,
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  Speaker0: But we have people now that are listening all over the world in Nigeria and
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  Speaker0: Uganda and different places.
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  Speaker0: We're hearing reports and even pastors that are taking some of the podcasts
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  Speaker0: and using them to train other pastors and leaders.
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  Speaker0: And we're just humbled by all of that. It's amazing that in our day that can happen.
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  Speaker0: But thank you for joining us and for supporting this podcast and letting other
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  Speaker0: people know about it. That's how that grows.
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  Speaker0: So we're on the edge of a new year, Kyle. You got any resolutions coming?
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  Speaker1: I'm working on them. I'm working on them. No, I'm like many people,
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  Speaker1: you know, in this time of year, I'm coming out of with five kiddos coming out of the Christmas throw,
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  Speaker1: still throwing away packages and putting stuff together. I'm I'm sure.
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  Speaker1: But anticipating I do. I'm but you know what, Bill, and you're the same way.
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  Speaker1: So you can't you can't poke at me.
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  Speaker1: I love New Year's. I love them. I love new seasons. I get fired up and fresh faith for those things.
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  Speaker1: And I know, man, what you're going to talk about today.
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  Speaker1: But unless those things land somewhere and are centered in something,
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  Speaker1: it can be pretty useless. And so I know that.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. And it's worth thinking about. I mean, honestly, I don't,
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  Speaker0: whether you call it a New Year's resolution or whatever it is,
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  Speaker0: it is really worth evaluating the past year and saying, okay, where did I miss it?
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  Speaker0: And then what adjustments am I going to make spiritually and practically in the coming year?
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  Speaker0: And what we're going to talk about today is both of those.
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  Speaker0: It's one of the most, one of the greatest spiritual adjustments you can make.
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  Speaker0: And, but it requires some of the most practical adjustments in your life that
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  Speaker0: are very, that are very doable.
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  Speaker0: And let me, you know, we talk about revival here on the One Cry podcast.
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  Speaker0: Richard Owen, probably the greatest living authority on revival in America,
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  Speaker0: and he's in his late 80s now.
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  Speaker0: And I'll never forget talking to him one day, and he said, Bill,
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  Speaker0: we need a word-centered revival.
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  Speaker0: I said, well, what do you mean by that? He said, well, some little movements
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  Speaker0: of revival have been experience-centered.
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  Speaker0: And when God begins to move and revive, it is an experience, right?
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  Speaker0: It is experiential. But he said, if you leave the word of God out of that,
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  Speaker0: it opens it up to all kinds of bad possibilities.
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  Speaker0: And so it needs to be centered on the word of God.
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  Speaker0: It needs to be carried with the word of God and the teaching of the word of God.
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  Speaker0: And so as we're talking about in these last few weeks of the year,
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  Speaker0: how to position ourself for revival, how to position our family and our churches for revival.
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  Speaker0: We talked about being men and women who believe God and surrender to Him and
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  Speaker0: obey, and that will open the way for revival.
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  Speaker0: But also, we need to posture ourselves around the Word of God.
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  Speaker0: And I just want to mention two ways, and I want us to talk about it, Kyle.
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  Speaker0: First of all, posture yourself if you really want to see the movement of God
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  Speaker0: this year in a revived, presence-centered,
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  Speaker0: word-driven, praying church.
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  Speaker0: Now, there's just no substitute for this, right?
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  Speaker0: And God is the one who created the church.
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  Speaker0: Jesus said, this is my church, and I'm going to build it.
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  Speaker0: And he did that on purpose. He knows that we desperately need all the things
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  Speaker0: that a church can provide.
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  Speaker0: I could spend, and you could too, Kyle,
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  Speaker0: 10 weeks talking about that alone, the value of the church.
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  Speaker0: But these people, we live in an age which people say, well, I'll just,
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  Speaker0: I just listened to different preachers or I just, you know, pop in and just,
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  Speaker0: it's just podcasts that are getting me through.
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  Speaker0: All those things are helpful, but they're ancillary.
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  Speaker0: They are not a substitute as C.S.
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  Speaker0: Lewis said, for sitting in a pew and looking across the aisle at the humble
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  Speaker0: farmer in his rubber farming boots who's worshiping God alongside of me and
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  Speaker0: all that that brings to me.
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  Speaker0: And so there's something about putting yourself in a place where every week
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  Speaker0: you're just hearing the Word of God taught.
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  Speaker0: That's been your experience, right, Kyle?
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  Speaker1: Yeah, I heard an old saint recently who was preaching and been faithful for
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  Speaker1: the Lord a long time, but the way he said it, I thought, that is just so true.
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  Speaker1: He said, every follower of Christ needs to be in the house of God,
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  Speaker1: underneath the Word of God, being preached by the man of God every week.
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  Speaker1: And I thought, you know what, that's pretty awesome. You know,
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  Speaker1: like this approach of, you know what, as a part of our spiritual appetite to being fulfilled,
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  Speaker1: God being glorified, us being equipped for the work of the ministry is that
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  Speaker1: we do need to be together in the presence of God and what tethered to the word of God.
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  Speaker1: And even rightly so under the authority of someone teaching that,
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  Speaker1: you know, that we're positioning ourselves. And to lose that is to lose a lot.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. And I'd add another phrase, with the people of God.
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  Speaker1: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker0: A man of God, the preaching of God, the teaching of God, but also worked out
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  Speaker0: with just humble people.
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  Speaker0: You know, young believers, old believers. We just need all of that.
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  Speaker0: And I cannot stress this more that if you're not in church, if you're just not in church,
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  Speaker0: number one, that's sinful because in your pride, you're thinking you don't need that.
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  Speaker0: And it's sinful because God has directly said to you, don't forsake Hebrews 10, 24,
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  Speaker0: the assembling of yourselves together, as is the habit of some.
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  Speaker1: Right.
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  Speaker0: But you need it all the more as the end of human history begins to draw to a
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  Speaker0: close and things get dark.
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  Speaker0: So we need the word of God. And if we want revival in our day,
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  Speaker0: we need to be soaking in the word of God, in the church of God.
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  Speaker0: Secondly, and this is kind of what we're on land, Kyle, here for a few minutes.
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  Speaker0: Posture yourself daily in the presence of God through the regular reading and study.
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  Speaker0: Of his word. Now, I have a very simple process and at a risk of acting like I got it all together,
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  Speaker0: you know, I think of how many years I was inconsistent in this.
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  Speaker0: And, you know, life is tedious. And when you have a bunch of kids,
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  Speaker0: you're up all night and you don't feel good.
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  Speaker0: And And, you know, for me, the mornings are the best time to meet with the Lord.
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  Speaker0: And I have to beat everybody up if I'm going to really have time with the Lord.
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  Speaker0: Now, as my children have left the house, that's easier for me.
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  Speaker0: But I have a little process. And the first thing I do, Kyle,
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  Speaker0: is I spend time in prayer and worship, becoming consciously aware of the Lord's presence.
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  Speaker0: I've realized through the years that it's real possible to say,
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  Speaker0: well, I need to read my Bible and just pick up your Bible and read it.
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  Speaker0: And then 10 minutes later, you think I have no idea what I read.
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  Speaker0: And I wasn't aware that I was in the presence of God at all.
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  Speaker0: And so I got nothing right.
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  Speaker0: There's something about doing whatever is necessary to,
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  Speaker0: to become consciously aware of the Lord's presence, walking into the throne
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  Speaker0: room where he is, observing him, worshiping him, adoring him, honoring him.
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  Speaker0: I even go so far personally now to write that down in a prayer book,
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  Speaker0: just kind of stream of consciousness of my prayers.
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  Speaker0: It just helps me stay focused and not be so easily distracted.
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  Speaker0: And then going to the Word of God, I'm a big believer, I know you are, Kyle,
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  Speaker0: of a set time, set place, set plan that I'm always reading through the Bible, right?
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  Speaker0: And the reason I think that's important is that if I don't have some plan of
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  Speaker0: reading the word of God, I always read Philippians.
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  Speaker0: I always read the Psalms and I need the spinach of Ecclesiastes.
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  Speaker0: I need Zechariah. I mean, I was so blessed in the last few months just reading
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  Speaker0: through the minor prophets in a whole new way.
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  Speaker0: And I'm 74 four years old, you know, but, but so there's something about just
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  Speaker0: the regular diet of listening to God.
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  Speaker0: And that's what you're doing. You're not just reading your Bible.
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  Speaker0: You're listening to God, prayerfully reading the word of God.
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  Speaker0: How would you, what would you add? And I'm going to, I want to get into in a
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  Speaker0: minute why this is so critical to revival,
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  Speaker0: but what would you add to that about people as they approach the reading of
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  Speaker0: the Word of God every day?
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  Speaker1: Yeah, I think it starts with the right belief. Now, you have to rightly believe
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  Speaker1: what God has given us in His Word, that without it, you will never grow.
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  Speaker1: That you'll never become the man or woman of God you intend to be.
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  Speaker1: Like you just said, as you need to put certain things into your body to grow
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  Speaker1: physically and remain physically healthy,
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  Speaker1: that the everyday need for the word of God is what brings about vitality spiritually in every way.
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  Speaker1: And so you have to believe that. And I don't mean like a distant belief, guttural.
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  Speaker1: Like, God, I know that your word, when I feel it and when I don't, is nourishing me.
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  Speaker1: You know, it's not based just on the ah moments.
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  Speaker1: You know, this is the, hey, I'm taking, in good ways, I'm taking my vitamins every day spiritually.
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  Speaker1: But I'm doing it. And the second thing I would encourage is what you said.
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  Speaker1: I don't read, and I have to remind myself, I'm not reading to get through it,
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  Speaker1: the reading. I'm reading to hear from someone.
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  Speaker1: Yeah. I believe that, and you do, and God's Word says this, this is not merely
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  Speaker1: what God has spoke. This is what God is speaking.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. And how can you, if you want to be a man or a woman of revival,
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  Speaker0: if you want to build a family,
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  Speaker0: that experiences the presence of God, if you want to build a church that is
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  Speaker0: prepared for the reviving of God, the work, the movement of God to be used by
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  Speaker0: God, you've got to listen to what he says.
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  Speaker0: You've got to pay attention. You've got to talk to him. And his means,
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  Speaker0: he doesn't have any other means, but the word of God and prayer.
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  Speaker0: And the gracious activity of His Holy Spirit to make all that come alive.
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  Speaker0: And somebody might say, Kyle, well, what relationship does the Word of God have to revival?
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  Speaker0: Why is it important for me to be in a Bible-believing church where I'm hearing
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  Speaker0: the Word of God and getting up every day and just reading and memorizing and
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  Speaker0: meditating and in small groups studying and applying the Word of God?
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  Speaker0: Why is that important to personal revival and corporate revival?
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  Speaker0: Well, I'm glad you asked that, Kyle, because I've been studying Psalm 119 lately.
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  Speaker0: I'm just going to read some scripture to you, all right?
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  Speaker0: Psalm 119.25, my soul cleaves to the dust.
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  Speaker0: In other words, I'm down in the pit.
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  Speaker0: Revive me according to your word.
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  Speaker0: Verse 37, turn away my eyes from looking at vanity and revive me in your ways.
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  Speaker0: Psalm 119, 40. Behold, I long for your precepts.
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  Speaker0: Revive me through your righteousness. Verse 50.
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  Speaker0: This is my comfort in my affliction. You ever been in an affliction,
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  Speaker0: a problem, a difficulty?
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  Speaker0: Your word is what revives me, brings life to me.
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  Speaker0: Verse 88 of the same chapter.
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  Speaker0: Revive me according to your loving kindness so that I can keep the testimony of your mouth.
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  Speaker0: In other words, so I can listen to what you're saying and I can communicate that to others.
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  Speaker0: Verse 93, I will never forget your precepts for by them you have revived me.
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  Speaker0: 107, I am exceedingly afflicted. Revive me, O Lord. How? According to your word.
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  Speaker0: Verse 149, hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
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  Speaker0: Revive me, O Lord, according to your ordinances, your truth, your law.
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  Speaker0: Verse 154, plead my cause and redeem me.
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  Speaker0: Revive me. How? According to your word. Verse 156, great are your mercies, O Lord.
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  Speaker0: Revive me according to your ordinances. And then Psalm 159, consider how I love your word.
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  Speaker0: Revive me, O Lord, according to your loving kindness. I mean,
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  Speaker0: and so what should be my posture?
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  Speaker0: Look at verse 97 of that same chapter.
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  Speaker0: Oh, how I love your Lord. And it's my meditation all day long.
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  Speaker0: So, I mean, if you say, well, I want revival this year. How can I have personal revival?
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  Speaker0: Get your head in the word. Listen to the spirit.
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  Speaker0: Posture yourself in a great Bible teaching, presence-centered church.
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  Speaker0: Get under the spout where the glory comes out, as I already got to say one time.
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  Speaker0: Right? and get there every day.
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  Speaker0: And the results, Kyle, we don't have time, but we could walk through Psalm 119,
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  Speaker0: just one passage from verse 98 in that Psalm to about 112.
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  Speaker0: He says, when I get in your word, you know what it gives me?
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  Speaker0: Wisdom, insight, understanding. I'm smarter than my teachers.
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  Speaker0: You restrain my feet from every evil way. Some of us need to be restrained.
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  Speaker0: You know, you got some boys in your household that need restraint.
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  Speaker0: Right. So do I. How do we do that? I have restrained my feet from every evil
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  Speaker0: way so that I can keep your word.
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  Speaker0: Obedience comes out of the word of God. How do I know what to do to the word
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  Speaker0: of God? How do I get satisfied?
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  Speaker0: Your word is like honey to my mouth. How do I learn to hate evil to the word of God?
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  Speaker0: How do I get clarity? Your word is a lamp into my feet, a light into my path.
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  Speaker0: How do I have protection? Your word protects me.
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  Speaker0: Psalm 109. How do I have joy?
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  Speaker0: I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes. They are the joy of my heart.
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  Speaker1: Amen.
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  Speaker0: Kyle, I just don't know how. It's what you said.
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  Speaker0: We have to believe rightly about the power of the word of God.
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  Speaker0: Because it's God speaking.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. I'm going to place myself.
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  Speaker0: I tell you one little story and then I'm going to shut up for a minute.
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  Speaker0: But I was pastoring this church once and it had a big picture window on the second floor.
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  Speaker0: And it was raining outside, just pouring down rain.
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  Speaker0: And I was watching this guy run to his car, and there were potholes and puddles
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  Speaker0: everywhere, and the rain was coming down.
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  Speaker0: And he had a huge study Bible, kind of like this. And he was using it as an umbrella.
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  Speaker0: And he was walking, running through the parking lot with this Bible over his head like an umbrella.
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  Speaker0: And I laughed at him, you know, I was watching.
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  Speaker0: And then I thought, that's the perfect posture.
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  Speaker1: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker0: That's the way I want to live my life. I want to live under the word of the
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  Speaker0: living God because of everything that the psalmist says it will do in my life.
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  Speaker0: And I want to posture myself for revival.
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  Speaker1: Yeah. Well, there's no way out. I mean, the scripture makes it explicitly clear about the scripture.
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  Speaker1: That there's no way to experience personal revival, to experience it as a people,
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  Speaker1: a local church in a city that's not tethered to the word.
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  Speaker1: Because the word, what he's saying is Psalm 119.
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  Speaker1: In all these different instances and situations and the way that they needed
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  Speaker1: to experience revival, that the way God brought it about is he breathed his word into them.
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  Speaker1: He took truth down there and it made them alive in that way.
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  Speaker1: Made them alive in such a way they could overcome sin.
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  Speaker1: Made them alive so they'd be strengthened for the next season.
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  Speaker1: Made them alive that they might worship God more fully and know him intimately.
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  Speaker1: I had a guy, Bill, and I learned a lot of this from you and so many others in
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  Speaker1: my life. And we were talking about leading a prayer meeting and how to do that well.
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  Speaker1: And this is personal to me watching great men before me do this.
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  Speaker1: I said, I don't know that you can't lead a prayer meeting without an open Bible.
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  Speaker1: I said that at my encouragement, and I was talking to him and I'm thinking about
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  Speaker1: things we're doing here. I said, I want to have the word in my hand as we're
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  Speaker1: listening to the Lord, following the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker1: But I do want our people to know that we're tethered to truth.
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  Speaker1: And that I know that God's going to speak to us, breathe on us.
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  Speaker1: He's going to direct us, and it's going to be through His word and in cooperation
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  Speaker1: with the Holy Spirit. and I think for those listening
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  Speaker1: If you want to live revived, you know, in 26,
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  Speaker1: then you're going to have to position yourself morning by morning,
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  Speaker1: day by day, that God might breathe, that he might breathe on you through your word.
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  Speaker1: And it's one thing for God to be breathing, and he is through his word.
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  Speaker1: It's another thing to be positioned where your lungs can be filled.
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  Speaker1: You know, and and I love that morning by morning that I at least know where I'm going in the word.
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  Speaker1: Yeah, that that I'm catching more breath than I even know every day.
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  Speaker0: And I want to this one thing comes to mind before we pray.
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  Speaker0: And I hesitate to say it because it it may be misinterpreted, but I'm going to anyway.
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  Speaker0: Years ago, when God just manifested himself in our church one Sunday,
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  Speaker0: and the service went to three o'clock in the afternoon, and Kyle,
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  Speaker0: you know about this, and then we came back, and it wasn't planned,
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  Speaker0: but we came back the next night.
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  Speaker0: That service lasted four hours, and we did that every night,
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  Speaker0: and it lasted for five weeks every night.
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  Speaker0: And it was just an extraordinary touch of the manifestation of God.
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  Speaker0: Well, people, you know, said, well, what was it like? I said,
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  Speaker0: well, it was quiet. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker0: And not one time in five weeks did I sense us getting out of the bounds of the scripture.
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  Speaker0: And you know it wasn't nobody was doing anything crazy that you had to say hey
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  Speaker0: you know uh let's pull back here a little bit now i'm here's what i'm going to say that,
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  Speaker0: Please don't misunderstand. And that is, I think for years, we had been building
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  Speaker0: the word of God into people.
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  Speaker0: And so there was an understanding of the ways of God and the activity of God
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  Speaker0: that protected us in a time of extraordinary activity from the invasion of the enemy.
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  Speaker0: Who wants to always pervert the movement of God.
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  Speaker0: So the Bible says, Paul says, look, don't quench the spirit.
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  Speaker0: In other words, if he's moving, you roll with it, but examine everything carefully.
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  Speaker0: And throw out the bad and hold on to the good.
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  Speaker0: So I think, and you do too, Kyle, I believe in this coming year,
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  Speaker0: we're going to see a movement of God across our nation. I pray we do.
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  Speaker1: Yes.
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  Speaker0: In extraordinary ways. But don't for a minute think that the enemy is not going
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  Speaker0: to try to abort that by heresy,
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  Speaker0: by somebody's experience that they say, well, I don't care what the Bible says.
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  Speaker0: You know, this is what I feel or this is what I want to do.
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  Speaker0: You be a man who knows the word of God in advance, in advance to prepare to lead properly.
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  Speaker0: And you measure everything by the word of God. We need a Word-centric revival.
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  Speaker0: And I'd love for us to pray that in. And Kyle, could you begin by praying for
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  Speaker0: all of our listeners, for the churches, or for them to get in churches?
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  Speaker0: Yeah. And I want to pray about our just daily intake of the Word and lead our
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  Speaker0: folks in that as we pray. Yeah.
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  Speaker1: So, Lord, we come in the name of Jesus, and I ask for every listener and every
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  Speaker1: local church that's represented, every person that will listen among the nations.
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  Speaker1: And, Lord, what I ask is, in 26 specifically, would you awaken more churches
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  Speaker1: that would be led by your word, that we'd be a people of the word?
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  Speaker1: Lord, the picture in my spirit even now is more men and women with a hand that's holding a Bible.
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  Speaker1: And as it comes to decisions about where to go to church, they look through the Word.
• 26:40
  Speaker1: As a decision is where the church is going, the leaders would look through the Word.
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  Speaker1: In light of what's God saying, we would look through the Word.
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  Speaker1: In light of what does God want to do in our city, in our community,
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  Speaker1: in our nation, we would look through the word.
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  Speaker1: I just pray that your word would be the window that we look out of and we see
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  Speaker1: everything that you want to do, Lord God.
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  Speaker1: So we just cling tightly again to your word and ask this year, would you breathe on it?
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  Speaker1: Would you breathe on us through your word? Would you breathe on churches,
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  Speaker1: God, that you would take just what might have been stale and stagnant,
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  Speaker1: Lord God, or just merely getting through it, God,
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  Speaker1: but you would fill us with your breath again and that we would breathe it in
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  Speaker1: or that your word would be alive, living and active.
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  Speaker1: It would be alive in every local church represented here in a new way,
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  Speaker1: God, that would bring about revelation and transformation and ultimately bring you glory.
• 27:41
  Speaker1: And it would be a part of the coming move,
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  Speaker0: God. And Father, as all of us stand on the edge of a new year,
• 27:52
  Speaker0: I pray that the word of God would become really valuable to us. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker0: And we would love what you're saying.
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  Speaker0: And we would love to just hear the voice of our master.
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  Speaker0: And Lord, that old Victrola picture of the little dog that's listening to the
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  Speaker0: voice of his master on that old radio player.
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  Speaker0: And I pray, Father, that we would be like that.
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  Speaker0: We would just be standing at attention this year to hear from you.
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  Speaker0: And I pray we would do that in church every week and throughout the week.
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  Speaker0: But Father, even more than that.
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  Speaker0: We would see that as secondary to our primary work of meeting you in your word every day.
• 28:52
  Speaker0: Lord, thank you that you've given us your word. What a miracle.
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  Speaker0: And that you've preserved it so that it's accurate. And we can open up the Bible
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  Speaker0: and know we're listening to God.
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  Speaker0: And then I pray we would hear from you. and you would direct us and correct
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  Speaker0: us and inspire us, lead us and move us and give us wisdom.
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  Speaker0: And Lord, that you would equip us for those moments of revival that you want
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  Speaker0: to bring to us both personally and corporately.
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  Speaker0: Lord, make us people that you look down and you say, my heart is so blessed.
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  Speaker0: Look how attentive my people are to what I'm saying, and they make sacrifices
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  Speaker0: to take time to listen to me.
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  Speaker0: So I pray, Father, we would make that choice right now, Lord,
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  Speaker0: not six months from now, but right now.
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  Speaker0: And we'd make adjustments in our life today and begin to live in this way.
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  Speaker0: Father for your glory and we pray it in your name Amen.
• 30:08
  Speaker1: Well Bill thank you so much I know that was helpful for me man just evaluating
• 30:11
  Speaker1: thinking about a new year and my approach to the word of God and being in his
• 30:16
  Speaker1: presence I'd really encourage our listeners and this is something to not just hear
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  Speaker1: Slow down for a second and answer. How am I going to make an adjustment based off these truths?
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  Speaker1: How am I going to set that time? What's my plan?
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  Speaker1: How am I going to position? How am I going to prepare my heart to hear from God morning by morning?
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  Speaker1: And we're believing big with you. If it was helpful to you, it will be helpful to somebody else.
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  Speaker1: So take a moment and send it on and tell a buddy that you would love to talk
• 30:45
  Speaker1: about this a little bit and hold each other accountable, even in how you're
• 30:49
  Speaker1: going to walk into the word this next year. as always. Honored to have these moments with you.
• 30:54
  Speaker1: Looking forward to being back with you next week as we start a new year and
• 30:58
  Speaker1: really look at a series I think that's going to help us in our approach to prayer.