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#193 Highlights from the 2025 Revival Roundtable - With special guest Aubrie Kimbrough · The OneCry Podcast

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They need you to teach them how to actively enjoy the presence of God,
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how to sit and to be with Him, to hear His heart, to cry with Him,
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to laugh with Him, to do life with Him on the day-to-day basis.
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They need you to teach them how to pray constantly for all things at all times.
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Music.
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Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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Well, hello, my name is Byron Paulus. I'm the founder of the One Cry Movement.
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I am so grateful you joined us today for this very special series as a part of the One Cry podcast.
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When God moved at Asbury, we began to realize that was just the beginning,
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that God's Spirit was on the verge of pouring himself out in greater measure
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all across this nation and even globally.
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And in response to that, several of us just prayed and sought the Lord and said, Lord,
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what is it that we can do right now in the midst of what you are doing to help
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accelerate and to shepherd and really steward the work of God that is taking place.
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In other words, what are the ways of God when he begins to move in revival that
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we need to be cognizant of and then adapt to in order to make sure we do not
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stand in the way of a greater work that God wants to do.
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So as a result of that, we began hosting a two-day, what we call a revival roundtable.
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And honestly, it's an invitation only, about 100 individuals,
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very cross-generational.
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And it is held in the context of the annual Collegiate Day of Prayer,
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so that we can truly be praying together globally through the simulcast,
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but also as leaders and those who are like-minded and like-hearted,
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passionate for revival and spiritual awakening.
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So what we're going to do during these next few weeks in this series is we're
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going to play for you as if you were there,
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and you can listen and participate to some sessions that we just highlighted
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and said, These are critical in what God is doing right now that we understand now.
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I love what God is doing with the Gen Z.
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It's amazing how they are gathering on campuses and elsewhere,
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and just the public testimony and voices coming out in the sports and entertainment world and elsewhere.
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And so this very first podcast that I want to share with you is going to come from Aubrey Kimbrell.
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Aubrey is one of the leaders of Claim Your Campus.
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What I love about this is she is a Gen Z herself.
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And we asked Aubrey if she would just share from her heart what she thinks we
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need to know as an older generation about Gen Z and how we can cooperate together
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with God in seeking him for revival.
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So I am so glad you joined us. I hope you hang on to the end.
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I want to share some opportunities with you.
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And I'm just so grateful for Aubrey. What a life, and what a young lady that
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God has just empowered in this season of her life.
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Talk to us as a Gen Z. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting.
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The Holy Spirit's kind of tag-teaming today, because I'm pretty much going to
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say exactly what Kyle said, but to you as a Gen Z-er, when I was praying about this group,
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I felt the Lord tell me to say something very similar to what I said at the
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NPC, but there was one change that He wanted me to share with you, and that's Acts 20.
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Verse 7 through 12, we hear this story where Paul is in Macedonia and he is
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sharing like a final message and the man of God is lingering on a little long.
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And we hear that he goes into the midnight hours and this guy named Eutychus
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had come to hear Paul speak and he's sitting in the windowsill and he starts
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to doze off and he falls asleep and he falls three stories to his death.
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And everyone's freaking out.
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They're like, oh my goodness, he's dead. What do we do? What do we do?
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And Paul just goes down, picks him up and says, there's still life in you.
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He comes back to life. They celebrate and everything's good.
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And everyone goes on their way.
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And why do I share this story with you? Because I think we have an entire generation
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that is sitting in a windowsill culture right now, and they need older,
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mature leaders to come to them and say, there is still life in you.
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You have a purpose in the kingdom of God.
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Let me pour into you. We have a generation right now that is sitting in a windowsill.
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Their entire world is on their phone through social media.
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They can find anything they want to find. They can know anything they want to know.
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They are so addicted to social media. They get the same hit from scrolling as
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gamblers do from pulling a slot machine.
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This is what's happening. They're dabbling in pornography. They're dabbling in the party culture.
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They're listening to these political narratives and they're taking part in gossip.
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But do not lose hope because they're hearing the things that are coming out of the church right now.
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They're hearing the messages. They're seeing the revivals that are happening
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on campuses across America right now.
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They're watching their peers radically get transformed.
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I was in Ohio last week.
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I'm from Ohio. Proud Ohioan. Um, and there was unite Ohio state that happened.
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And then there was a conference, um, that weekend. And oh my goodness,
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the things that are happening on Ohio state's campus right now is insane.
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Like the Lord is doing crazy things, but you know, what's beautiful is there
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are so many adults on that campus that have a passion and a heart to pour into
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those students that it's going so much deeper than just them being converted.
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It's they're making disciples.
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And it's a beautiful thing because the great commission never said,
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go make converts. He said, go make disciples.
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And there's a generation that needs you as spiritual mothers and fathers to make disciples.
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God is doing amazing things in the next generation. And don't get me wrong.
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There's a lot of them sitting on the windowsill, but there's equally a remnant
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that's sitting in the room, listening to Paul speak, basking in everything.
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He's saying there are hungry ones. You have met them.
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Some of you are in this room, like there are hungry ones who are ready to go
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for the gospel of Christ.
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But the ones that are sitting in the room and the ones that are sitting on the
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windowsill alike need to hear from you.
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You have a place deeper than just organizing events and organizing ministries in the movement.
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They need people in their life to show them what it actually looks like on a
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day-to-day basis to pursue Christ.
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What it looks like to have joy and suffering. They need to watch your life.
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They need you.
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They need you to model what it looks like, not to just pray from a stage or
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pray in prayer meetings, but actually to have a private personal prayer life with God.
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I believe a lot of the problems that this generation is facing right now would
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be solved if we saw a generation that got serious about a personal prayer life with God.
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It would change so much. And I don't need to preach to you about what's going
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on in this generation that makes us excited, that makes us expecting.
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You know that they're hungry for God.
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You know that they're desperate for the things that he has.
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Even if they don't know him, they're desperate for truth and they're seeking it out.
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And so when they find out who he is, when they hear the full gospel of Jesus
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Christ, not the watered down version, not the version that makes them comfortable,
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not the version that says you
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can just keep living in what you're living and go to church on Sundays.
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No, the full gospel of Jesus Christ, they're all in because it's what they've been hungering for.
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They haven't heard truth their whole life. And so when they hear the full everlasting
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truth of the gospel, they're all in for him. They want authenticity. They want truth.
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You know this. Literally everything they see on social media is just lies and unauthenticity.
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They hear all the time of these social media influencers falling and getting
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canceled. And they're tired of it.
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They're tired of the live your truth talk. They don't want it anymore.
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And so when they come face to face with the most authentic man to ever walk
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the earth, they fall so madly in love with him. It's crazy.
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It's crazy. They're willing to give up anything. They believe in the power of
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prayer. They believe that prayer works right now.
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There are middle schoolers and high schoolers and college students that are
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showing up weekly on their campuses to pray for change because they believe in the power of prayer.
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There's a high school student in Ohio who they experienced a tragedy.
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They had lost a student to suicide and they were meeting weekly on their campus.
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And they said, do we even meet tomorrow? What do we do?
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And they said, no, we're supposed to meet. We feel the Lord's asking us to meet.
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They showed up and 45 to 50 students and staff showed up with them because in
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a moment of tragedy, they recognized prayer is the answer. Jesus is what we need.
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And they proclaimed the gospel and prayed for an end to suicide in their generation
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on their high school campus.
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There are students who understand the power of prayer so much so that they're laying aside all pride.
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They're laying aside the reputation they're laying aside
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their social lives to die if they must for the kingdom
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to come on their campus as it is in heaven there is
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a generation that is hungry and on fire and the ones that are sitting in the
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windowsill and the ones that are actively going after the gospel the ones that
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were sitting in the room with paul basking in everything he said and the one
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that was sitting in the windowsill falling asleep all entered the room to hear
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what paul said because they knew they needed to hear what he had to say.
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And there's an entire generation that needs to hear what you have to say to
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them. So where, where can you speak into them? Where can you talk to them? Where do they need you?
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They need you to teach them how to pray.
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They can understand the religious practice of prayer. If I say these words and
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I do these things and I'm good, but it's so much deeper than that.
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They need you to teach them how to actively enjoy the presence of God,
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how to sit and to be with him, to hear his heart, to cry with him,
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to laugh with him, to do life with him on the day to day basis they need you
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to teach them how to pray constantly for all things at all times.
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They need to know how to pray. They need to have people walk alongside them
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and teach them how to just simply talk to their father.
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They need you to tear off the lie that they have to impress people and perform when they pray.
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A lot of students will hear prayer for the first time at a church from a pastor
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that's praying these really eloquent, long-winded prayers.
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And they have this fear that, well, I don't have the communication skills to
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talk like that. So I just can't pray.
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And that's such a lie. Never once do I have to get a public speaking degree
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in order to talk to my dad.
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They need to know that it's just talking to their father.
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It's simply just talking to their father. It's like talking to anyone else.
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I can come to him and I can say, I'm upset. I'm mad. I don't get it.
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And I can come to him and I can be laughing and I can be excited and say,
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thank you so much. And it was such a great day.
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You did this, this, and this. And I saw your glory in this, this,
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and this way. Thank you, father.
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Like, it's just a conversation and they need someone to take off the weight
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and say, hey, just talk to him.
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They need someone to model it for them. And finally, they need you to teach
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them how to hear from God.
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They need you to teach them how to hear the voice of God.
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There are so many students that believe the pressure is on them to hear the voice of God.
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They believe I have to conjure something up. I have to thrive a little bit.
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I have to strive to actually hear his voice. But if you go to any communication
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class in any college, they will tell you that the communicator,
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it's actually the communicator's job to make sure the audience understands what they're saying.
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And so what does this mean? It means it's actually 100% on God to make sure
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that I understand what he's saying to me as long as I just come open and honest and willing to listen.
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He created my mind. He created my emotions. He created me.
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He knows how I need to hear him. And if I'm just willing to come and be humble
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and say, God, I want to hear you, he's so desperate to speak and they need to
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know that it's not on them to hear him.
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They just need to come willing and he will speak.
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Take the pressure off their shoulders. There is a burning passion in the next
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generation to see their campuses changed,
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to see their peers saved, to see a move of God like we've never seen before,
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to see their nation transformed by the Holy Spirit. But there's equally a really heavy yoke.
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They are wearing a very heavy yoke of striving and performance and confusion.
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And they need some spiritual mothers and fathers to come alongside of them to
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take the yoke off their shoulders and say, hey, just watch.
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Just watch how I live my life.
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They need you to teach them to be the Paul in their life, to say,
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imitate me as I imitate Christ.
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They don't need you to preach a 10 point sermon at them. They need you to just do life with them.
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They need to watch how you love your spouse. They need to watch how you parent
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your kids. They need to watch how you handle a day when things are not going your way.
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They need to just watch your life. More than praying for them,
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they need you to just sit and pray with them so they can understand actually
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the dialogue of what it looks like to talk to their father.
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Be the Paul that comes and speaks life and purpose over a generation that has been labeled as dead.
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They're sitting outside the windowsill and everyone's saying they're dead. They're not dead.
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One of my favorite verses is in Mark where Jairus' daughter passed away and
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Jesus comes and he looks at the mourners and he says, why are you weeping and
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wailing? She's not dead, she's sleeping.
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This is the spirit's message to the next generation. There is life in you, wake up.
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And guess what? but he's chosen to use you to speak it to them.
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You are the ones that are going to call them to life and they need you desperately.
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And so this is all I ask of you. As a Gen Zer, I have some of my fellow Gen
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Zers in the room. Let's go.
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This is all I ask. Find one young person, high school, middle school,
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college, doesn't matter.
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Find one young person, two if you're feeling ambitious, three if you're feeling dangerous.
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And let them imitate you as you imitate Christ. Be their spiritual mother.
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Be their spiritual father.
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Claim them as the Timothy in your life and parent them.
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And for my Gen Zers in the room, can I tell you, please, please,
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please, please, please, please, please come humbly.
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Come humbly. Be ready to submit.
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Let them speak truth over you. The best thing that's ever happened in my life was one, I got saved.
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Two, I got filled with the Holy Spirit. Three, I found a spiritual mother that
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was willing to look at me and say, Aubrey, you're wrong.
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It has led me in so much guidance in my life. So humble yourself and submit
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under your spiritual mothers and fathers.
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You guys have walked the walk with Christ. You've checked paths we can't imagine yet.
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You have gone places we can't even fathom going. And so all I'm asking,
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don't make it easy for us. Please don't make it easy for us.
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I'm not asking you to make it comfortable because here's the thing with the
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windowsill culture is you're dying either way. you fall.
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You're either dying outside of the window and you're dying to eternal life and
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saying goodbye to everything the father wants to do in your life.
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And you're living in the world in a temporary timeline, or you're dying to your
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flesh and coming back to life in the resurrection of Christ.
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There's a death either way.
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So don't make it easy. Don't make
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it comfortable. We need to pick up our cross. We need to walk. Let us.
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All I'm asking is go stand behind us. And when we take a step,
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say, nope, that's the wrong way. Go the other way.
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Nope. Go the other way. Yes, that's right. Good job. Good job.
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Good job. And cheer them on. Walk with them. Teach them. Parent them. Pray with them.
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Give them spaces to preach. I love that, that they are preaching and they are,
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because here's the thing, the next generation gets it so much better when it's
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someone that looks like them preaching it to them.
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They get so much better, but please don't stand them up there and have never
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poured a day of your life into them.
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Pour into them, love them, pour into them at a place of love.
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Not that they have to get to a certain place and then you can find the next one.
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They need your guidance. They need the parent that you can be in their life.
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In a microwave generation where everything is now, now, now,
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now, now, now. They need you to teach them the pace of God.
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They need to learn how to walk slow with the father, show them that in their lives.
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And so to the question of, do you have a space in the student led prayer movement,
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student led gospel movement?
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Do you have a space in what God's doing in the next generation?
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It's, it's not a question. It's a, it's a, we need you. Like we desperately need you.
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And I'm speaking on behalf of all of Gen Z who has not come to know the Lord,
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who is actively following the Lord, or who is lukewarm.
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Please, please let us imitate you as you imitate Christ.
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Let us watch your life and learn from you.
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So what I'd love to do, I'd just love to pray a prayer of blessing over you guys.
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As spiritual mothers and fathers, I just, I just, I believe God's going to,
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if he hasn't already put names on your heart, people to reach out to.
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And don't just put them on your team, like welcome them into your life like your son or daughter.
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And so, Father, I just lift these spiritual mothers and fathers up to you, God.
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Lord, they're qualified to be spiritual mothers and fathers because they're
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first your sons and daughters.
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And so, Father, I ask that you would give them a deep revelation of their childhood in you,
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their deep revelation of their sonship and their daughterhood to you,
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God, who you are as a father to them, God, that they would be able to look at
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you and see you as the perfect father and they would be able to mimic that to the next generation.
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Holy Spirit, I pray for fruit in their prayer life, God.
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I pray, Jesus, that students would be drawn to them because they recognize that
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there's a deep prayer life that they have in their life.
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God, I pray that when they sit down to pray with you, to speak with you,
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when they're driving in their car and they call in your name,
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God, turn up the tone of your voice in their ears to hear your name.
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Holy Spirit, I pray blessing over them right now. I pray for fresh boldness. I pray for fresh vision.
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Lord, I pray that you would remind them that it doesn't matter how old they
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are, as long as they have breath in their lungs, you're not done with them yet.
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And God, that you want to use them to reach the next generation,
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to pull them up and to push them farther.
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Holy Spirit, I pray God that you would just begin to download names,
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faces into these people's hearts right now of who they're supposed to reach,
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who they're supposed to contact, who they're supposed to ask to lunch.
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And God, I pray that it would be a fruitful relationship in their life.
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Lord, we love you. We praise you, and we declare that Gen Z belongs to you.
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And God, I pray that as a generation, Lord, we would be humble to submit under
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spiritual mothers and fathers.
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Lord, we love you. It's in your name we pray. Amen. Well, I don't know about
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you, but what Aubrey shared gripped my heart when she first shared it.
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And again, it's gripped my heart as I have been reflecting up on that for the
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past couple of weeks at least. And I think one of her main points out of Acts
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20 is that the Gen Z generation is not dead.
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They're just asleep, just like Eutychus was not dead.
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He was asleep. And they are being raised up, coming alive, if you will,
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by God for this moment in his history books of a revival.
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And so I'm excited for that whole basic foundation, that they're coming alive,
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that they're just asleep. that Gen Z group is not dead by any means.
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But Aubrey also left us with three action points.
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And I just want to read those and let us pause for a moment and just ask the
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Lord, if you listen to this as I did listen to her share, I just want to ask the Lord, am I.
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Am I available for these three steps that Aubrey shared?
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Number one, as an older believer, am I finding, mentoring, and discipling a young person?
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And I remember her sharing, as you probably did from this podcast,
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that she said they want to be discipled.
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They're looking for spiritual fathers and mothers.
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So am I doing that? Secondly, if you happen to be listening and you're a Gen
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Z or you know a Gen Z-er, are you humbly seeking out to learn from spiritual
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leaders, from those who have traversed before you?
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And then finally, and I thought powerfully for everyone, are we praying for
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this generation? Are we investing in them?
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And are we modeling, perhaps above everything else, are we modeling authentic faith?
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Because, as Aubrey shared, and we know this, because God keeps impressing it
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upon our hearts, it's the power of an authentic life that's going to make a difference.
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So I trust that you, as you listen to this revival roundtable session,
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that you won't just race past it, that you ask the Lord, what can I do?
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If I'm a young Gen Zer, then who am I seeking out? If I'm an older person that
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has walked with the Lord, who am I seeking out to mentor?
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And finally, pray for the Gen Z.
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Pray for this season of revival right now.
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And I hope you'll join us for the next Revival Roundtable podcast.
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So let me pray, and I want to pray for you.
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God, every person that's listened to this, that's watched this,
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God, we know this is a very divine moment in the history of our nation.
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It's a divine moment in the context of what you could be doing right now in
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birthing another great awakening.
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And so, Lord, we want to be available to you. I pray every listener would just
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in a fresh way surrender their hearts to you and make themselves available.
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Say, God, do you want to use me to further the work that you've begun. If so, how?
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And Lord, help us by your grace to be obedient.
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Prompt us with your Holy Spirit, and then empower us with your same Spirit,
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and enable us to make an impact, not for our sake, but for the kingdom.
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We pray in the name of Jesus Christ.
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