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So in the last session, we talked about intercession and creating a prayer list,

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and I mentioned the usefulness of praying scripture for petition as well as intercession.

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And some of you might have gone to your Bible and you're like,

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I don't know how to pray half of this stuff.

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Like, how do I pray, go up thou bald head and these kind of random scriptures?

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Well, don't pray those scriptures,

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unless the Lord's really specifically asking you to, which I doubt it.

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So I want to give you a list of scriptures that I love to pray.

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These are prayers that I'm praying on a daily basis, on a weekly basis,

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and it's part of my prayer language now.

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When I'm praying for somebody at the front of church,

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there's just scripture that comes out of me, and I don't intend that,

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but the more that I'm praying God's language, the more it becomes my language.

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So why should we pray scripture?

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First of all, it's the language of God.

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It's how he thinks.

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It's how he speaks.

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And thankfully, the Bible is full of prayers, right?

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Like there's the Psalms, there's the Proverbs,

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there's prayers throughout the New Testament.

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Jesus even prayed prayers that his disciples recorded for us,

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which I'm so grateful for.

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And the Holy Spirit inspired these prayers.

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That's what's so amazing to me about them,

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is that they're actually intended for us to steal, right?

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Like he wrote them down so that we would pray them.

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He's like, this is how you should pray, right?

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When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray,

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he prayed in front of them.

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He said, when you pray, pray this,

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our Father who art in heaven,

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and we're going to talk about the Lord's prayer in a little bit.

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Well, I love what my friend Zach Acosta says.

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He says that biblical prayers are like blank signed checks from the Lord,

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and we just write in the amount and who it's for,

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and we can take those prayers to the bank, right?

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Like we don't have to worry about

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whether or not those prayers are going to be answered,

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because these are prayers that the Holy Spirit inspired people to pray,

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and that the Holy Spirit decided to canonize in Scripture

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for us to read and to learn.

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I love 2 Timothy 3.16.

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I alluded to this earlier.

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All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,

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all Scripture,

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and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,

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for instruction in righteousness.

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We're learning how to pray.

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That's an instruction in righteousness,

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that the man of God may be complete, or the woman of God,

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thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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Do you want to be thoroughly equipped in the place of prayer?

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Me too.

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That's why I pray Scripture.

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Jesus even said, John 15.7,

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if you abide in me and my words abide in you,

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you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you.

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That's why I love red letter Bibles,

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because I'm like, oh, I just got all of my prayer list right here.

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I'm going to pray all of these things that Jesus said,

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because that's how his word abides in us.

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So when we see this connection between God's words

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and our prayers being answered,

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that should convince us that we should be praying God's words.

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We should be praying the words of Jesus.

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We should be praying the prayers of the apostles.

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We should be praying the Psalms.

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So I'm going to give you a short list of my favorite scriptures to pray.

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And I want to encourage you to begin praying these prayers regularly.

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Maybe you could pick one a week.

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So you can take this first one

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and you're going to pray it for yourself and those on your prayer list.

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And you could even do some biblical meditation on it piece by piece,

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which would be really helpful for you to read it,

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write it, say it, sing it, pray it, play it.

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And then use that as the source for your intercessory prayer

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and your petition prayer for the people on your prayer list.

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And what's going to happen is your arsenal in the place of prayer

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is going to begin to grow and change and shift and become more powerful.

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When I pray for others,

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I actually find that the majority of the language that I use

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is quotations for these and other biblical prayers.

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These scriptures that I'm going to give you

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come out of my mouth without me even thinking about it all the time.

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When I'm praying for myself, when I'm driving in the car,

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when I'm praying for somebody else.

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So the first one, this is my favorite biblical prayer.

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It's called an apostolic prayer because Paul the apostle prayed it.

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And it's in Ephesians chapter one, verses 17 through 19.

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Let me read it to you.

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That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory,

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I love praying father of glory.

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I love to address him as the father of glory,

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may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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him being Jesus, that the eyes of your understanding or,

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or the eyes of your heart, the eyes of your spirit being enlightened,

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full of light, right?

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Like light shining into your heart that you would know three things.

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The hope of his calling, his calling.

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Isn't that crazy?

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Jesus has a calling and he.

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He wants us to find our hope in it.

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And that's gonna happen as we pray this prayer.

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The second thing, what are the riches of the glory

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of His inheritance in the saints?

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Did you know that Christ has an inheritance in you?

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You're the saints, and He's gonna reveal

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the treasure that He's hidden in you as a jar of clay

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as you pray this prayer.

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And the third thing He wants us to know

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with our eyes enlightened, the eyes of our hearts,

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is what is the exceeding greatness of His power

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toward us who believe?

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That's you, you believe, so this is power toward you.

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According to the working of His mighty power.

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And that is, that's the Greek word dunamis,

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which means miraculous, explosive power of God.

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So you can use this scripture to pray

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for the revelation of Jesus's beauty,

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that you would see Jesus more clearly

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so that you can walk in your calling

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and destiny by God's power.

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That is like an awesome prayer,

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and I might not even pray all of it in one setting.

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I might just pray one bit, like,

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Lord, enlighten the eyes of my heart

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to know the exceeding greatness of Your power toward me

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when I'm believing in You.

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Show me the mighty power at work within me,

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the same power that raised Christ from the dead.

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God, would You reveal that to me?

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I'm praying this scripture,

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and I'm praying it for somebody else.

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Lord, would You give them a spirit of wisdom

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so that they would see Jesus more clearly?

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Lord, would You give this person a spirit of revelation,

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open their spiritual eyes with the revelation?

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See, I could go off on this scripture for hours

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and never exhaust the excitement of praying it.

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The next one is also in Ephesians that Paul wrote.

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This is Ephesians chapter three,

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and it's verses 14 through 19.

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Let me read it to you.

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For this reason, I bow my knees

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to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

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that He would grant you,

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according to the riches of His glory,

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His heavenly bank account, the riches of glory,

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to be strengthened.

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Man, I would love to be strengthened.

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With what?

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With might through His spirit in the inner man,

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or the inner person.

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Whoa, so I'm about to do something great

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if Paul is praying that I would be strengthened

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with might through His spirit in my inner man

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from God's riches of glory,

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from His heavenly storehouses, His bank account.

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I don't even know what he would put in his bank account

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when the streets are already made of gold.

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What is he strengthening me?

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What kind of power is he using to strengthen me?

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And this is why, verse 17,

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that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,

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that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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may be able to comprehend,

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so he's giving us strength to comprehend,

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with all the saints,

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what is the width and length and depth and height

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to know the love of Christ,

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which passes knowledge that you may be filled

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with the fullness of God.

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So what are we praying here?

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We're asking the Holy Spirit,

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we're asking the Father, by the Holy Spirit,

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to put strength and might and power in our inner man

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so that we can comprehend the love of Christ,

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all the dimensions, the height, the width, the length,

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every aspect, the manifold love of Christ toward us.

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He wants us to be strengthened.

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It takes strength to comprehend God's love.

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Did you know that?

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You actually have to be strengthened internally

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in your spirit man to comprehend Christ's love for you.

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And what is great about this is it actually causes us

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to experience more of the fullness of God.

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So as we comprehend his love,

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we experience more of his fullness.

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And I love that this, in verse 19,

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it says it passes knowledge.

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So this is more about knowing something

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and it's more about experiencing something.

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As you pray this scripture,

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you're gonna experience God's love for you.

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As you pray this scripture for someone else,

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you're gonna experience God's love for them.

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And he says in the same way

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that the Father has loved Jesus, he has loved me.

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And as I pray this scripture,

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I'm gonna begin to comprehend that in an experiential way.

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So there's a couple more that I wanna give to you.

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Philippians chapter one.

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Paul wrote this scripture as well.

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Paul prays really good.

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So the Holy Spirit really helped him a lot.

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So I like taking Paul's prayers.

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Philippians one, nine through 11.

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This I pray that your love may abound,

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still more and more.

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Abound, still more and more,

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in the knowledge and all discernment.

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Wow, so love increasing in my heart

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actually makes me more discerning.

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I actually become more aware.

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I actually increase in knowledge

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by love overflowing in my heart.

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That you may approve the things that are excellent,

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that you may be sincere.

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I love that word sincere.

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It means nothing hidden.

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The word sincere means everything's out in the light.

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I'm not trying to hold anything back.

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I'm worshiping God in spirit.

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and truth, and where the light shines, God's power flows.

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So I love that as love abounds in my heart,

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it actually equips me to be sincere

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and without offense to the day of Christ.

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Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,

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the fruits of righteousness, well, I want all of those,

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you know, whatever they are, by Jesus Christ

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to the glory and praise of God.

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So you're praying with a scripture

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for God's love to abound in you

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by the knowledge of God,

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resulting in righteousness in your life.

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That is such a good prayer to pray for yourself,

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for your loved ones, for people around you.

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The next one is Colossians 1.

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An easy way to remember this, Ephesians,

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Colossians, and Philippians, all in the first chapter

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have incredible apostolic prayers

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that Paul wrote under the influence of the Holy Spirit,

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his inspiration.

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Colossians 1, verse nine,

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for this reason, since the day we heard of you,

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we do not cease to pray for you.

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Wow, I would like to pray that way.

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I don't wanna cease.

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I wanna pray for this person or these family members daily

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and ask that you may be filled

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with the knowledge of his will.

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Have you ever struggled to know what is God's will?

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Like, what is God wanting me to do in this situation?

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What kind of decisions?

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Well, you can pray that God would continually fill you

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with the knowledge of his will

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so that you actually begin to walk out

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in alignment with his will.

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in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

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I want all of those things.

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I wanna have the knowledge of his will,

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I wanna have wisdom,

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and I wanna have spiritual understandings.

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fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work

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and increasing in the knowledge of God.

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Oh my goodness.

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If there's one verse in the Bible that I want to be,

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I want to be that.

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I wanna be worthy of the Lord.

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I wanna fully please him.

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Do you know that you can bring pleasure to God,

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emotional delight to his heart

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in the way that you pray,

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in the way that you live your life,

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as you're filled with the knowledge of his will?

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I wanna do that.

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Holy Spirit, help us to please Jesus.

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Help us to be fruitful in every good work.

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according to his glorious power for all patience

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and long-suffering with joy,

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giving thanks to the Father,

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who's qualified us to be partakers

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of the inheritance of the saints in light.

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That prayer is jam-packed.

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You could pray that prayer for your whole 15 minutes,

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and you probably still wouldn't get through all of it.

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There's so many things,

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and you don't have to pray this whole scripture

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in one sitting, just like I did.

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You can just take one piece,

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and God, would you help me to be fully pleasing in you?

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Fill me with the knowledge of your will.

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The next few prayers here are the prayers of Jesus.

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He said, if my word abides in you,

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you'll ask whatever you wish, and it'll be done for you.

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because it's gonna cause his word to abide in my heart.

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John 17, this is called the High Priestly Prayer.

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I'm not gonna read the whole chapter,

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but I would really encourage you

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to do some biblical meditation on this chapter.

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Just take it verse by verse.

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Read it, write it, say it, sing it, pray it, play it.

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John 17, 11.

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Jesus says to the Father, I am no longer in the world,

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but these, that's you and I, are in the world,

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and I come to you.

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Holy Father, keep through your name

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those whom you have given me,

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so that they may be one as we are.

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I pray this all the time.

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Lord, would you keep me in your name?

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Or would you keep this person in your name?

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Would you unify our staff team at church?

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Make us one as you are one.

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I do not pray that you should take them out of the world,

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but that you should keep them from the evil one.

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I pray that prayer all the time.

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Lord, would you keep this person from the evil one?

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Missionaries that are being sent out,

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people that are going on trips.

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Sanctify them by your truth.

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Your word is truth.

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I pray this so much.

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Lord, would you sanctify me with your word?

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Sanctify me body, soul, and spirit,

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so that I can be made complete and blameless

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before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Lord, use your word, use your truth to sanctify me.

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I know that when I know the truth, it sets me free.

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that they may all be one as you, Father, are in me,

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and I in you, that they may be one in us,

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so that the world may believe that you sent me.

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but it's all about the church being unified

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so that we would be a witness to the world,

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a loving witness.

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the world actually gets the gospel preached to them.

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It just happens to them naturally.

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it's the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6, 9.

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Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done

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on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread,

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and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

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And do not lead us into temptation,

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but deliver us from the evil one.

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For yours is the kingdom and the power

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and the glory forever, amen.

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I encourage you to pray this prayer often.

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Memorize this prayer.

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This prayer is kind of a prayer format,

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and you can move through it piece by piece.

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So, thank you so much.

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I hope you have fun praying these scriptures with the Lord,

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and I'll see you in the next session.

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