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What If God Answered? | Book of James | Shan Moyers · Central Christian Church

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Hey church, I want to say welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is good to see all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to say welcome to all of our campuses and everybody watching online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to get to James chapter 5, verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where we're going to be today.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do want to give you an update on something that happened last week, actually a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got back from a trip to Kenya.
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  SPEAKER_00: We worked with Missions Hope International there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told you I was heading on a trip and went with some great people from Central.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see the picture of our team, and we had a phenomenal time.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of those people I knew, some of them I did not know, but just got to know them so well on this trip.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that team molded together, the way they served our Mohi teams and people that we work with over there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was so impressed and just so grateful for them.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: We had a lot of fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was, it was a really, really fun trip.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to see some things that we've talked a lot about here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we last Easter we took up an offering and we built onto our school.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see the school there and just what the normal school that was already there looks like.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Then you can see what we are building on to the school.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: You can see two floors that are there, a third floor that's going to go on top of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see the footings and the rebar that is there that for a building that we'll build in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: And guys, I just want to say I saw some of your sponsored kids and uh just the looks on their faces and just how excited they were.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just such a confirmation of what God's called us to do there, not just with Mohi, but specifically with that school in Mittangoni and with Rachel, their school leader, and all of their staff.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were just reminded that God led us to that place, led them to us, and it's been such a great relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so thank you for your generosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know that your generosity is changing lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is literally not just changing lives, but there in that area of Mittangoni, like it's changing a region, a region, a whole region of people right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just there, it's also what you're doing here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I just want to encourage you to keep giving as one of the easiest ways that you and I can advance the kingdom of God and see God do some great, great things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, keeping with the idea of Mohi on that trip, it was actually probably it was more different of a trip, a mission trip, than I've ever been on before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Been on lots of trips before.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one was very different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Usually when I show up as a pastor, there's a lot of teaching that happens, whether it's in church services, and it and it at Kenya, it's always impromptu.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'll show up and then they'll just say, and so I'm always ready, but they'll always just say, I show up to a church service, walk in, and then in the middle of the service, they'll say, Hey, we want to hear from the pastor, and they don't want to hear 30 seconds.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: They want to hear like 45 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that didn't happen this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had talked to our team and over there to the Mohe team, and we said, What could we do to bless you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the last three trips that we've taken this last six months have been VBSs and they've been kind of your normal mission trip, and and you can only do so many VBSs with the school time and take kids out of the classroom for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said, you know what, this is the last week of school.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys are here on the last week of school, and what you do at home in America is when you have the last week of school and kids are done with everything, you party, like you celebrate all the hard work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so all of these Kenyan kids have just come through their nationwide testing, their teachers have worked so hard throughout the year, and they said, Would you celebrate the little kids?
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  SPEAKER_00: Would you celebrate the big kids?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then would you celebrate our teachers?
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  SPEAKER_00: And guys, that's what we did, and it was so absolutely incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: With our little kids, what we we had the opportunity to do the first through sixth graders is we did bounce houses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not talking about like little bounce houses.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have big obstacle courses.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see one of the bounce houses right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the one I was stationed on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Me, there was a guy named Amos, there was there was a guy named Antoine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Antoine was a massive man.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're talking, played uh football at the University of Arizona, massive man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they put us on these these bounce houses, and when the little kids came out there, we got the biggest shoulder workout you've ever seen in your entire life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the little kids would run up to us, the first through third graders, and they'd just be like, me, me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we'd grab them and we'd lift them up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just felt like hours of lifting kids up there, and they had so much fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: That obstacle or that bounce house is about 15 feet high.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it is really big.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the little kids, we get it part way up there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got the third through sixth graders out there, and guys, they had never seen anything like this before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Usually with us, we had plans like we'll do lines.
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  SPEAKER_00: These kids were like no lines for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: They ran right past us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were used to the little kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: Big kids ran right past us, and they all at the same time, 15, 16 kids, start heading up that cone, climbing up to the top.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's one moment where I look and I see this cone, and there's like 12 kids on one side, three kids on the other side, and it starts going like this, and it's going down, and it's going down all the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm yelling at kids, I'm like, hold on, hold on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And somebody says it gets all the way down, and somebody says, Let go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking, don't let go.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you let go, we're gonna catapult three kids 30 yards that way, and they will never let us come back to this place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they let go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And two of the boys were smart enough, they just let go and fell off as the thing shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: This thing catapults back and does this, and I don't know how this, this, this like fifth grade kid holds on.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is spread eagle all the way out, parallel, horizontal, just like this, and didn't fall off.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was those kids had the time of their life, and nobody actually got hurt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we got to the big kids, so seventh, eighth, and ninth graders.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what they had decided is up the road in Mombasa, there is a water park.
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  SPEAKER_00: These kids, guys, have never seen a water park before.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking legit, you know, water world style water park kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we took them to this water park and we're sitting down in these tables in this lunch area beforehand, and one of our teachers and then one of our workers asked and said, What are you most excited about?
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  SPEAKER_00: And these kids looked at them and they're like, We have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we have no, we've never seen some of these kids have never been submerged in water before, much left even had running water for a shower before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we were able to take those kids in and have the time of their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's funny, Kenyan water parks, because most Kenyan kids can't swim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh like 95% of them, it's only like three and a half feet high.
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  SPEAKER_00: But man, slides, fun, splash, and we just had a great time celebrating the hard work of these kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the best moment, the best moment we had was with the teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in my mind, it's this it's a moment that will stick out, stand out 10 years from now for me.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: We got to have a worship time and kind of a get to know you time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had lunch together, they shared kind of vision for the school, what's been happening, what we've been able to help together accomplish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's just relationships being built, and then all of a sudden at the end, they had this worship leader there.
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  SPEAKER_00: His name is Hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Hope is about five foot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not joking, he's five foot at max.
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  SPEAKER_00: He probably weighs like 95 pounds, soaking wet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And but this guy has this voice that sounds like it's coming out of somebody that's seven feet tall.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just massive voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we worship together in Swahili, we worship together in English, and it was just this beautiful mesh of two cultures and very different cultures that were worshiping the same God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get to the end of this worship time, and and everybody on our team is just loving it and just eating it up, and then all of a sudden, hope brings the worship time down, kind of slows down, it's in this quieter moment, and then they stop worshiping, and every American in the room just stops.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're like, okay, what are we doing next?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of our mode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every Kenyan in the room, hands raised, start walking around and they start praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their eyes are open, their heads are toward the ceiling, toward heaven, and they are praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of them spontaneously, 25 of them in the room are just praying these bold, big, beautiful, faith-filled, eternity-shaking type prayers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're all just standing there like, what is going on right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: It went on for four minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It took me about 30 to 40 seconds to adjust.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden, I was like, Man, can't beat them, join them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just started raising my hands and just started praying with them and just praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was this beautiful moment, and then we stopped, and then hope told us to pair up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the person that I paired up with an American with a Kenyan, I paired up with Marion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marion is one of the custodians.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's just about 35 years old, super sweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said, pray for each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marion asked me a couple questions, and I was so glad she went first because Marion prayed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The biggest, boldest, most beautiful, like earth-shaking prayer over me, my family, our church, as me as a pastor, over the partnership that we had.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, we should just stop there because my prayer is not going to equal that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I was able to pray over her, and I just walked out of there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I told the team later, I said, guys, I almost was so convicted because I felt like they were praying to a bigger God than we pray to.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like in that moment it was almost like these Kenyan people are looking up to heaven and they are praying to a bigger God than you and I actually pray to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're not praying to a bigger God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the same God, it's the same Jesus, the same Holy Spirit, same Trinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just like they were praying with a greater expectation of what that God was able to and willing to do in their lives than you and I actually do.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: We've been in a series for the last seven weeks.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: We've been going through the book of James, we've been talking about this idea of faith that works.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your faith doesn't work, like if it doesn't do something for you, what good is it actually?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've seen all these things where James says, this is what your faith does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It helps you in the midst of trial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith helps you relationally with other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith helps you with what you say, the words that you use.
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  SPEAKER_00: It helps you with generosity and knowing that we are we are blessed to give to other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many areas.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what James does is he saves one topic for the very final topic, and it's this idea of prayer.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because a faith that works is a faith that prays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's what James says, starting in in James chapter 5, verse 13, he says, Is anyone among you in trouble?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let them pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is anyone happy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let them sing songs of praise or other pray with songs of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is anyone among you sick?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let them call on the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer offered in faith will make a sick person well.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will raise them up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I need to stop there for one moment because there's somebody listening to this at some campus or right here, right now, that's just saying, Yeah, I've been praying for healing for a long time and it's not happened yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a very real issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why does God heal some and God doesn't heal others?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Man, the beauty and one of my closest friends has dealt with so much loss and hurt.
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  SPEAKER_00: His name is Matt.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a pastor at my last church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matt always lost his dad at 13 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: He always said, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: With Jesus, we always win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like no matter what, if he heals today, fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if he heals in eternity, we win either way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you may have someone, I have someone very personally, one of my parents, right now, that God is not healed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's what I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the end, no matter what, we win.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we keep praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he says, Therefore, confess your sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so you might be healed.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what James is saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: James says, Hey, good day, pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bad day, pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sick day, pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any day, every day, pray.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: No matter what your circumstances, no matter what your sister situation is, you should be praying.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: You should be a person who is a praying person, a praying Christian.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like James says, hey, we can do all these things in the book and saying that here's the application of how you live out your faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the foundational thing that holds it all together is prayer.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Is prayer.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: You should be a person of prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: James isn't giving us any techniques on prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no how-tos.
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  SPEAKER_00: What he's just saying is get on your knees and pray.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: No matter what the situation is, you should pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: And church, here's what we need to understand: prayer is not the thing that we just do when life isn't working.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guys, prayer is the work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prayer is the work we do to help life begin to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if you have the power of the God of the universe that these Kenyan people are praying with this massive expectation, why will we not pray that way to an Almighty God who has the power to bless, to take care of, and to be there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who does?
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  SPEAKER_00: His ways are higher than our ways, his thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and so sometimes he doesn't answer prayers the way we want him to, but why would we not pray with expectation to that God?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Here's my problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: When life gets hard, when life isn't working, what I have a tendency to do is work harder.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like if just notice that about my life, I have a tendency to just lean in, put my shoulder in when things aren't working, when things get a little difficult, what I have a tendency to do is just to put more effort in to trying to fix the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the actual problem that there are some obstacles and difficulties in life when life's not working that more effort just won't fix.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think every single one of us have felt that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You felt it in your jobs, you felt it in your family, you felt it in relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so many areas where we feel this in our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our problem is that we don't pray harder.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we have a tendency to do is we work harder.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: And God says the opposite should be true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back in August, I went to a pastor's conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was in Park City, Utah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a smaller conference with about 25 guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew most of them really well.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've known them for years, and so it was a kind of room when we got together to talk about church and leadership and life, that there's a healthy amount of vulnerability.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know these guys, and so when we ask questions like, how's your family?
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: How's your spiritual life, your personal life, how's your church, we're pretty vulnerable about those ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're sitting in the room and we started off just going around, and every guy was giving an update in the first two sessions.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Every guy was given about five minutes just to kind of connect, and we do some this session, some the next session, and we got all the way to almost the end.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was the second to the last guy.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And guys have gone through, and they've done a little bit of it.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them are like, man, life's a little hard, but most of them are like, man, here's what happened to my church.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Life's, you know, upper to the right, it's amazing.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: So they're giving all this positive stuff.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I just was like, I know these guys, I know some of that's true, I know some of that's embellished a little bit.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: I just, I was like, guys, my family's doing great.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the truth.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: My family's doing great.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: All of my kids, you just love it when those moments where things are good, it's not always that way.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Then I was able to say, Hey, my church, my church is doing really well.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now we've been going through a transition, obviously, and and we're in the middle of that work time frame, you know, of just kind of building and building toward vision.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's not the easiest yet, but it's great.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: I love our church and I love where we're going.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of hard work right now.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, Sean, well, how's it going personally?
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, guys, I'm dry.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'll just be honest, I'm dry.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like in this just year and a half, two years of being, I've just put so much shoulder in and just pushing so hard.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: And when it and just when things get harder, what I do, I just more effort.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like what I'm doing right now is I'm working out of the effort and not the overflow of my relationship with God.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: And what was really interesting is a whole bunch of guys going around the room and saying, everything's up and all right.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: The majority of that room looked back at me and said, Yeah, we we we feel the same way.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's probably some of you who sit here right now and you're saying, Yeah, different job, different role, different situation, but that's where I am.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: And then they just, you know, some I'm just sharing and I just shared.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: I talked to my counselor and talked to my kind of counselor type coach guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: His name is Tom, and Tom's hearing this, and he says, Sean, you're coming out of summer, like, where are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Energy-wise, where are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you put a percent on it, are you at 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're coming out of summer, you should probably be at 80, 90% to go the rest of the year.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Tom, I think I'm am I 40, 50 percent?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: And there was some emotion with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I should be at a different spot, super happy in the role I'm in, the things that are going on, but the I'm working out of the effort of my effort of pushing into this instead of working out of the overflow of a connection and a relationship with God in the sense of prayer.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, I pray.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: But how many of us what we do is we put the effort in first, we put the planning in first, we do all those things first, and then we just say, Hey, God, would you anoint my planning and my preparation and my effort?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Instead of getting on our knees in front of a holy God, an almighty God, and saying, God, what is your plan for my family, for my children, for our church, for a vision for where you want us to go and doing the work on our knees that fuels the work and the effort that we do out there.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Same time I started reading a book called Lead with Prayer.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: There was a guy that at our Mesa campus that gave me this book and he gave it to me two years ago.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: I put it down, and uh, I was read two um chapters, I put it down, and you know how that goes sometimes, and then all of a sudden, God brought it back at the same time that I was traveling and going to this conference, and the first few words just absolutely floored me.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like it rolls right into the introduction.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: And in the introduction, what lead with prayer is is it's a study that was done of pastors, CEOs, so pastors of churches and CEOs of companies asking the question, like is asking the question of like, how do you deal with prayer?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: And what they found is a majority of pastors spend five minutes a day in prayer.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, five minutes a day in prayer, but then they found this section of pastors and the section of CEOs that had built their whole companies or their whole churches on a foundation of prayer, and prayer was the fuel that fueled their effort in their life.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: And here was the question that it asked.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: The question was: are you a praying leader or are you just a leader who prays?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that for a moment.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a praying leader?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a praying Christian?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a praying mom?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a praying dad?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Are you just a person who prays when times get tough?
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the difference.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: A leader who prays puts their shoulder into problems, strategizes, problem solves, puts in the effort, and then ask God to bless the effort that they're putting in.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: God, would you just put this stamp of approval on everything else I've already decided instead of a praying leader who starts on their knees, who starts on their knees and begins to ask God and pray for wisdom and pray for vision and pray for power and pray for decision making and pray for their kids and pray for their family, and everything begins to flow out of this foundation of prayer.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then when they put their shoulder in to do the work, they've got the power of the Almighty God behind them, pushing into where He's given them direction.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I just say this, church, I got a confession.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like the reality is I would just confess and say, I pray.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: You pray.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you say, Man, I got this running conversation with God.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I value prayer, but I have been so guilty throughout my life as a dad, as a husband, as a leader, and as a pastor.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have been guilty of being a pastor who prays, who plans, who strategizes, who gets the team together and says, Hey, let's talk about the vision of where God wants to go.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we brainstorm and we read books, and then we come back, and then we say, Hey, let's pray about this after we've written it all down and say, here's where we're going.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: And after reading that book, I'm just telling you, man, our leadership, man, my life personally, I have been convicted that God is calling me, God is calling us, God is calling our leadership to be for me to be a praying pastor and a praying dad and a praying husband and a praying leader who goes to God on his knees in prayer.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: You see in scripture what happens, what happened in the book of Acts when they started the church?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a strategy session, it was a prayer meeting.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: And out of that, the The energy of the Holy Spirit exploded across Jerusalem and transformed lives in that moment through a bunch of fishermen who it said were uneducated men, but what they noticed about them is they had been with who?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: They'd been with Jesus.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: And while they were with Jesus, Jesus taught them the only thing they asked him to teach them was what?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Was to pray.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because what they saw in Jesus is that there was power in his prayers.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: And church, I'm just saying to all of you, to dads, to moms, to I'm asking the question, man, are you are you a praying Christian?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Are you just a Christian who prays when times get tough?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: Moms and dads, just think about it this way: are you a praying parent?
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: A praying parent that looks at your kids and gets on your knees and you lift them up every single day and you pray prayers like Luke 2.52 that talks about how Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray for your children every single day that they will grow in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray that God will keep the right people around them and he will keep the wrong people away?
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray that they will know what's right?
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: That they will live what's right, that they will have an affection and a passion for Jesus and for God's word and begin to live that in their character, that they will keep their faith for generations to come.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray for the person that they will marry?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: That they will find a person that loves God like they love God?
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray for your grandchildren, grandparents?
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Do you are you a praying grandparent that may not be parenting those grandkids in a way that your kids are, but you are praying for your children as they parent those kids?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Young adults, students, are you a praying student?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Or a praying young adult that you actually pray about your future?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: Where does God want you to be?
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: What does He want you to invest in?
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: What gifts has He given you?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: Where does He want?
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray that God will put the right people around you?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: You will have find friends that have values that you have.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Do you pray that God would put you in situations with people that do not know Jesus so that you can influence them?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Are you a praying parent who prays these kind of prayers?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: A praying young adult that prays these kind of prayers or student?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Are you just a person who prays when things get tough, when the kids get sick, when the rent is due?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: When the God's calling us what he's saying to us, James is saying to us is this idea is prayer is not something you just stop and do and throw up a Hail Mary when things are working.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: Prayer is the work that transforms lives.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Someone once said this: pray as if everything depends on you or God, pray as if everything depends on God and work as if everything depends on you.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: And most of us are great at the second half.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: And what God is calling us to do is to not work out of the effort, but to work out of the overflow of being on our knees with God in prayer.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: And here's why.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: James 5, 16 says the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that for a moment.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's a lot of you that would sit here, whether you're in this room, whether you're in one of our campuses, watching online, I think there's a lot of you that sit there and say, Well, my campus pastors, you know, they're righteous.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: My small group leader, they're righteous.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, pastors would, I hope they're righteous, but that's not me.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so James gives an example.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Look at Elijah.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, Elijah, in verse 17, he says, Elijah was a human being, even as you are.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: The translation would mean just like you.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: And he would say, Elijah?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like the guy who called down fire that we talked about a few weeks ago and burned up the altar on Mount Carmel and just called down fire from heaven.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed and that happened.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's not me.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then it says, He prayed earnestly that it would rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed and droughts stopped.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: We look at that and we say, Man, Elijah was a prophet.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that's me.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna pray with that kind of power.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that the very next day after the miracles that were just mentioned happened, calling down fire, calling down rain from heaven?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Jezebel the queen, Ahab's wife, she just says, If if Elijah's not dead by tomorrow, man, somebody take my life because I'm killing that guy.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: And what does Elijah do?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: He runs, hides in the cave, and asks God for him to take his life, and he's depressed.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: And some of you say, Yeah, that sounds like me.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: Elijah was a man just like us, and that's the guy James picks.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: But here's what Elijah did.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to see three things.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Elijah prayed expectantly.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Kings 18:1, it says God told Elijah it was gonna he was gonna send rain.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so when Elijah prayed for rain, he was praying something that God already told him was going to happen.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know when you pray expectantly, did you know that there are prayers in Scripture that God will answer?
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: He has promised that he will answer.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: Here they are.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: Prayers God always answers.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Glorify yourself in me.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like glorify yourself through me.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: Second, forgive me.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: God will always forgive the person who asks.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Show me more of you.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: You ask to see more of God, God will show you more of himself.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: Pray for wisdom, God will give you wisdom.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: Help you obey, God will allow you.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you will put your shoulder in and work toward obedience, God says, I will work with you and help you obey and send me to the lost.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: God will always send you to lost people when you ask.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: He will put lost people in your way.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Man, let me just ask you, like those Kenyan people, what prayers are you expecting God to answer?
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then he prayed persistently.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed persistently on the miracle of Mount Carmel.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: God calls, God sends down fire, and then there's been no rain.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: So what Elijah does is he gets down on his knees after the prophets of Baal leave, and uh Ahab leaves and actually slaughter the prophets of Baal.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then what Elijah does, he gets out on his knees and he begins to pray.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: And he begins to pray for rain.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: And he sends, he prays one time.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: He sends his servant to the edge of the mountain to look out to the sea and see if there's rain coming.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: There's no rain.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: Servant comes back, no rain.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: So he prays again and again and again.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: He prays six times, no rain.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: Most of us, how many of us stop at six times?
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: How many of us stop at two times when God doesn't answer?
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: Elijah prays that seventh time and he sends his servant back.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the servant says, It seems like there's like a small cloud rising up that's about a size of a hand, and it got bigger, and it got bigger, and it got bigger, and it flooded the whole region.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: Man, for you and me, God is calling us to pray persistently.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: How persistently do you pray?
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then he says, Pray earnestly.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: In the Greek, it says literally in verse 17, it says, Elijah prayed within his prayers.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he prayed, it means he prayed prayers like those Kenyan people, prayers that meant something.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: Prayers that had meaning.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed earnestly that God would send rain.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed earnestly, that God would send prior.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed with passion that God would do big things and great things in that situation.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: There's an old story that's told about a missions meeting that was happening.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: There was a guy who was just praying kind of over the world and missionaries, and it was just a bunch of words that were coming.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: How many times do we pray religious words?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: All of a sudden, out of the back of the room, some guy just pipes up and says, Would you actually ask something?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: And you ever wonder if God just kind of is like, hey, would you actually ask something?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: John Dickerson is a good friend of mine.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's a pastor in Indianapolis, and I heard him ask a question that just stopped me.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: The question was this it was, if God answered every prayer you prayed this last week, what would change?
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: If God answered every prayer that you prayed this last week, what would actually change?
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to take just a moment right now.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's a card that's sitting on your seat or in the seat back in front of you.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's an index card.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: There's a card for everybody, there's a pen for everybody.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to pick that up right now.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna give you 45 seconds, and I want you to answer that question.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to take your pen, that note card, and I just want you to think about it for a moment and then write out every prayer that you remember praying this last week.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: Big prayers, small prayers, whatever it might be, write them out.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: You got forty-five seconds right now.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now look at your list.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of list did you write down?
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, think about that list.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: If God answered every one of those prayers that you prayed last week, what would change?
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: Some of you, it's a little bit of a wake-up call because the level of prayers you prayed was that God actually give you, you know, give you a parking spot in front of the grocery store, right?
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like you make the commute just a little bit better.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now, some of you prayed some big prayers personally, like from healing from cancer or healing for someone you know, or a prodigal to come home.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Man, those are big prayers.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: But let me ask you this what changes outside of your life?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any prayers that you're praying that are big?
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like when Elijah prayed, he prayed, he prayed for his nation.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed they would come back to God.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: He prayed the rain would come down from heaven.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I got all these texts that are coming through right now.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's voting time frame.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna happen this Tuesday, right?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: And man, you should vote.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the deal, though.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: You should get out and vote.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Man, if you really want to change your nation, you should pray.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: We should pray big, bold, eternity-changing prayers, asking God to bring revival and spiritual awakening into this valley, into this state, into this nation, that people would know that He is God.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta ask yourself, like, what level of prayers am I praying?
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: Am I praying small prayers to a small God?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: Or am I praying like these Kenyan people that are praying to the Almighty God of the universe who wants to answer your prayers?
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: And God, he showed me that and reminded me that this last Tuesday at 4:50 in the morning.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: 4.50 in the morning, I'm laying in bed, my wife is awake and up, and she had some early things she had to do at work, so she's up getting ready.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I hear her in our entryway saying, Can I help you?
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going, What is she doing?
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then I hear her say it again louder, can I help you?
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden she comes to our doorway and says, Sean, you gotta come out here.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's somebody banging on our front door.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so I walk out there, and sure enough, somebody's banging on our front door, and I walk up to the door and I just yell through the door.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hey, I think you got the wrong house.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, has he said anything?
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, no, but I look out the window and it looks kind of sketchy and whatever.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so I yell again.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, hey, I think you got the wrong house.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it's before five in the morning, and I don't hear anything.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I take one more opportunity.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: I walk into the office and I look out the window, see a guy standing there, can't quite see him through the distortion of the screen.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I just say, Hey, can I help you?
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: I think you got the wrong house.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, I don't have the wrong house.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: You're my neighbor.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: To which I'm like, Oh, and I'm so asleep that I don't even like confirm that or anything.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: I just open the door and I'm like, and it's the nicest old couple, nicest old elderly couple stand there, and they look at me and they said, Hey, we just wanted you to know your sprinkler system is broken.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: You got a main pipe that's broken, and it's shooting water into our yard and flooding our backyard, and we're leaving on a trip right now.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we exchange names, I apologize, and we have a conversation for a second.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Man, I'll take care of that right now.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: I turned the sprinklers off, they got in their truck and they drove away.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: I shut the door and I looked at my wife and I said, You know what?
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: I've been praying for the last seven days.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: I've literally been praying, and you can guess what I've been praying.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was praying for the last seven days that God would help me meet my neighbors.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: And what does God do at 4 50 in the morning?
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: He breaks your sprinkler system and he makes your neighbors come find you.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't know.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Man, God, guys, God wants to answer our prayers.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: And the question is, are you praying?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then what kind of prayers are you praying?
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like what prayers are you actually praying to God?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: If God answered every prayer you prayed this last week, what would happen?
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what I want to do.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want to give you 30 seconds right now to write down three prayers.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: And these are kingdom prayers.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: These are bring the rain Elijah type prayers, these are Kenyan kingdom prayers.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: Look into a God of the universe, God Almighty.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: What are three kingdom type prayers that you need to ask God that you want him to answer over the next week, month, year, whatever it might be?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: One of them can be about you.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Two of them need to be about the kingdom of God, our church, the kingdom, the valley, how he's working, whatever it might be.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then one of them needs to be about some other people.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: Take 30 seconds right now.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: If God would answer any prayer, what would it be?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the challenge.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you need to think about it, take it home and do it.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the challenge that pray expectantly, persistently, earnestly over the next seven days.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: Elijah prayed seven times.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: I want to encourage you to pray for the next seven days, every single day, to pray expectantly, persistently, and earnestly those three prayers every single day.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I've been praying: that God would expand your faith, that He would expand our faith as a church by answering prayers that are on every single one of those cards, so that you and I would begin to see that we must be praying leaders.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: We must be praying parents, we must be praying grandparents, we must be praying Christians, because prayer isn't something that we do when things are broken and when things aren't working.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: Prayer is something we do that is the work that moves heaven to actually move on our behalf.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: I just want you to know as a church, that's where we're headed.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: Prayer will not be the spare tire that we pull out when the air's going out of things.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: Prayer will be the tires we run on.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: It will be the foundation that makes everything else go.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: And when I'm inviting you as a parent and as a leader and as a person who is a person of faith to be a praying Christian.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: You are that person, whether you think it or not, if you have Jesus in your life, if you have the Holy Spirit in your life because you have accepted Jesus, his righteousness has invaded your life.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: He traded places with you, took your sin, he gave you his righteousness.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so you and I ought to pray some Jesus-sized prayers.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because God wants to answer those prayers.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: And when he does, I would encourage you to tell one of our pastors, one of our leaders, our prayer team, because we want to be celebrating with you.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, how big is your God?
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: How big is your God?
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: And you remember, Kenya.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Same God, same Jesus, same Holy Spirit, but just greater expectation.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna pray for you, and then we're gonna stand and sing, and we're gonna sing across all of our campuses a song and listen to these lyrics.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_00: There's a portion of this song that says, I know a name, it's the only name that saves, and it's worthy of all praise.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: I call you Jesus.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: I call you, I call you healer, risen and reigning in power.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the part I love something comes out of the grave every time I call you Jesus, every time I call your name.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: And something comes alive in our life when we begin to become a Christian who prays.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: Father, we just come before you and I just want to repent on behalf of our church, on behalf of our people, on behalf of our leadership, and me as a pastor, just repent of this working first and then praying that you would put your stamp of approval on it.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: Father, for the prayers we've been praying for months about where you're directing us as a church.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: Father, we've been doing the work.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: Bless the work.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: Father, I pray that we would be a church of praise.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: I pray our parents would be parents that we are praying parents that pray for our kids.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: Father, I pray this valley would see a revival, a spiritual awakening of your spirit in our families because we are on our knees fighting for you and for our loved ones in prayer.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: Father, we pray all these things and we believe in your power, and we believe in who you are, the great Almighty God.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's in your name we pray.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.