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Good morning everyone, or good day. It is day 24 on our journey together, and this one

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is entitled Hunger for God. Restful one, listen with your spirit to the Word of God for you.

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There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon, son of David, king of

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Israel, there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. The priests and the Levites stood

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to bless the people, and God heard them, for their prayer reached heaven, his holy

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dwelling place, 2 Chronicles 30, 26-27. This passage deals with the revival under

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righteous king Hezekiah, who lived about 300 years after David. The king directly before

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Hezekiah was an incredibly evil man. The Hezekiah's culture had heard of the great visitation

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of God in the past. They still sang the songs of David and his worshipers. They knew the

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miracles of the past, but they had not experienced them in their lifetime. They found comfort

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in what God used to do. But they ached to see something more than the power of the idolatrous

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culture in which they were living at the time. The remnant knew what it was to be a hidden

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people and a crooked and perverse generation. God moved in Hezekiah to begin a renewal by

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a deliberate and careful process withstanding apathy and opposition. He cleansed the temple,

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the courtyard, then Jerusalem, then Judea, then all of Israel. He called for people who

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had not celebrated the Passover for a generation to sanctify themselves and come together to

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restore the righteous worship that God had instituted with Moses. The people responded

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with heartfelt passion and tremendous joy. They came together and celebrated in Jerusalem

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the greatest Passover that Israel had ever celebrated, because there was an open heaven

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over them. When the Levites prayed, God heard, and a torrent of blessings was released in

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the heavenlies upon His people, and there was great joy.

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Restful one, the culture in which you live is like that of Hezekiah. Most of the culture

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is saturated with sin and iniquity. There is a continual release of depraved ideas and

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depraved leaders, leading people into a deeper depravity. But there is an aching among righteous

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people, a hunger for a visitation of Holy God. The stories of past visitations are selling

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very well, and fresh biographies have been written about great men of the past. Part

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of the remnant of today is looking back, as in the days of Hezekiah, Lord, I have heard

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of your fame. I stand in all of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time.

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Make them known, and wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3.2. The remnant that is looking

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back knows what God has done, where He has been, and they are looking to see the past

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reoccur today. Restful one, God is not planning to reproduce the past in our generation. He

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is planning to do a new thing, and there is a hunger for a new move of God in our time,

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whether it is a revival in our own family, or our community of faith, or your city, or

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your nation. I bless you with the joy of experiencing a visitation of the presence of God in your

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life. I bless you with seeing a new move of God. I bless you with the joy of experiencing

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a fresh taste of the presence and the glory of your Father God in a decadent culture.

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I bless you with having a fresh manifestation of the glory and power of God in your day

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and in your time. I bless you with a powerful new move among righteous people who have deliberately

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and intentionally sought God, who have paid the price of doing the holy things that needed

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to be done, and of destroying the altars and idols of a culture that does not want them

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destroyed. Restful one, I bless you with the passion for God that King Hezekiah had. I bless

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you with starting as a minority of one like Hezekiah. Very few religious leaders backed him

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when he first proposed returning to God. I bless you with having the intentionality and tenacity

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in your lifetime to multiply yourself, multiply the faith and the passion in your life into two,

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then four, then sixteen, and more. I bless you with igniting such a measure of hunger

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and holiness in your family, your community, and your nation.

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many will experience a visitation of God. I bless you with knowing about the past

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and knowing the hopes and prophecies about the future. In that bracket between

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yesterday and tomorrow, I bless you with the extravagant joy of being today's man

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experiencing a visitation of God in a fresh way in your day and in your time. I

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bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the Lord of the revived heart.

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Lord, I pray today for more hunger. I pray, Lord, for an insatiable hunger for God.

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Lord, sometimes the hunger leads us to eat like in the natural. And sometimes

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in a spiritual way of speaking, Lord, we have to eat like in the natural. Sometimes we have to eat

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even if we don't want to. But there's an aspect, spiritually speaking, where we eat to become

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hungry. I pray, Lord, that you would give us the backbone and the boldness to stand up, not just

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against unrighteousness to, for lack of better term, argue with our neighbor about our belief

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systems or along those kinds of things, but to stand up in a way of what our life is supposed

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to look like, to lead in a sense, as Hezekiah did in his time. He was the king. He had ultimate

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authority. Well, Lord, we're all kings in certain fashions. We're all kings as we are co-heirs with

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Christ Jesus. We are all kings in the place of the order of Melchizedek, who was, Melchizedek

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was a king and a priest, and we're all kings in our own castles, so to speak, in our own places

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where you've given us authority. And in that measure, Lord, we have the same ability

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to be able to stand up as He did. And in that sense, Lord,

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so many, so many of us

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get stirred by hearing the moves of the past, whether it's Azusa Street or the Welsh Revival or

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I think it's the Hebridean Revival in Scotland, Lord, or what happened in Argentina,

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Lord, to read about paragons of the past, Lord, that we can glean things from,

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just like there are those to say, oh, Lord, we pray for another Pentecost,

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that we could go back, or to live in the time of Jesus, when you walked the earth,

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when you said the greater things will now be available to us because of where you've gone,

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that we live in the divine tension between what was and what will be.

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In the present moment, Lord, we have everything that we need.

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In this present moment, we are right where we're supposed to be.

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But in that place, Lord, we have to have faith to believe for something more. Sometimes it's

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doing our day-to-day, what you've given us in our assignment for this day, not knowing where

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we're heading in the grand scheme of things. And there are times where we have to look forward.

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Then it's difficult at times, even in present circumstances, in my own life, in a day-to-day

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circumstances, in my own life, in a sense, Lord, to feel like you're living in a fogginess

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of not knowing what's ahead or what's going on, or the world seems to be in such a swirl.

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But just like in Hezekiah's time, Lord, we can't just look backwards to try to return to what was

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when you're wanting to do something new. You're wanting to do something new in us.

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So for many, in seasons of transition, in times when you're trying to move us from one place to

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another, or you're trying to grow us in a place that we haven't been grown before,

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the things that we did yesterday won't work today. It's not that they're not good or godly,

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but they were for that season. Or maybe we've come to rely on a way of being or thinking or

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a system in which you do not want us to rely because you're wanting us to move into a new place.

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Sometimes you'll remove water from one place to move people to a place where there's fresh water.

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In a sense, Lord, everyone has prayed for revival so much it almost became, there were

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whole new positions created where people called themselves revivalists and everybody is praying

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for revival.

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But I'm reminded of the song that said that, you know, revival starts with me.

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Lord, I do pray that there would be sweeping revival, that there would be whole moves of

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God, that there would be a transcendent shift.

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But today, Lord, what I pray for is that there will be revival in the individual lives of

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the people that are under the sound of my voice.

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I pray, Lord, that there be such a fresh, humble, anointed prayers that you would hear

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from heaven, that there would be an open heaven over them, Lord, you would hear their prayers

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and pour out blessings upon them.

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And that, Lord, this would come in a way of honoring, glorifying you, it would come in

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a place of humility in a sense, an alignment, Lord, that isn't from a system of activity

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to get you to do what we want, but it comes out of a place of relationship.

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And finally, Lord, I'm reminded of, please forgive me if I get this wrong, but I believe

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it was Josiah.

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Oh, Lord.

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It was a king of, it was one of the kings, and, or it was a Jehoshaphat, anyway, it was

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a J, and there was a prophecy about him.

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And he came to be king, and the impression is that he didn't particularly think a whole

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lot about what he was doing, but he, again, like Hezekiah, turned back to the Lord, and

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in cleaning out the temple, he finds the scroll of which is written and prophesied by his

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own name, of him doing the very thing he would do, and from which, what would come, what

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would transpire.

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Now, in Scripture, it doesn't say that he was a mess.

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But I think for each and every person, Lord, we need moments like that, Lord God.

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Or we could at least use them, or we would like them, whether we need them, as we need

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water and air to breathe and drink and live, and it's, I pray that for these ones, Lord,

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for these restful ones, that they have an experience like that, Lord.

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It says all of our days were written before we lived a single one, that you knew us before

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the foundations of the earth, that there was some level of relationship that existed with

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us, even if it was just out of your heart where it was birthed from, Lord, that there

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was some aspect of relationship that existed before the foundations of the world.

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You know, I've heard it said, the book of life is not just where the names of those

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that are saved are written, that there's so much more to it than just that, and Lord,

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I pray today that there be a reading aloud for each one of these, Lord, in the heavenlies

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as a reminder of all that has been written for their lives, and that they would have

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those experiences, Lord, where their present day meets a historical prophecy to which they

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are now walking that gives them the courage and insight of the greater thing that they're

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called to and what they're called to do.

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Now we don't have necessarily scribes in our life that have written these things down,

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and some of us have words, small and large, that have been written over our lives, and

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some of us maybe don't feel like we have those things, maybe we don't feel like we've had

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a prophet come across our path and give these things, let alone a scroll that's in a temple

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has been abandoned for some time as the nation had abandoned you.

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But in some form or fashion, Lord, there is a greater destiny over our lineage,

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over our generation, there is some greater destiny as it is written in history.

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about the greater things, about the great cloud of witnesses

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which we're surrounded, Lord, where we are finishing a race the day began.

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There's a baton being passed towards us, and with great anticipation,

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they are cheering us on.

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There was a great teaching by a man that I respect

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who talked about Mount Moriah.

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Moriah meaning that God is looking over with anxious anticipation,

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with bated breath about what's going to happen, and that Mount Moriah

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is the same place where Abraham offered up Isaac,

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where Jesus, where the temple was built,

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so many things, and I used to almost visually see like this

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railing with people in heaven looking down to see

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what is about to unfold, that there was a bated breath.

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There was something happening, transpiring, that all of heaven was eagerly awaiting

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and looking to see what was going to happen.

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They now know the great glory. They see the resurrected Christ face to face.

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They know all of the things in clarity that was in obscurity to us,

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and as it has been said that all of the angels sometimes I think are

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like in amazement of how apathetic or

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how we don't get it, and at the same time because we are obscured by the faith

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that we exhibit, but in all of that, that there are

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aspects of what's happening in the world, in creation now,

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and dare I say for each person under the sound of my voice

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where there are Mount Moriah moments.

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With bated breath heaven is looking eagerly

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with bated breath about what's about to happen.

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Beloved for those that I'm speaking over,

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and but Lord I offer these restful ones up to you.

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Lord I pray and I bless them with Mount Moriah

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moments right this very second

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that whether Hezekiah

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who built a modern marvel of the tunnel of Hezekiah

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that led and led people back to the Lord and was the greatest Pentecost

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that had ever been. It was the greatest holiday, the greatest

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time that had ever been up to that day.

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That there be some aspect of that,

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that there be some greater purpose, that there's a culminating experience

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to the lives of the people that are under the sound of my voice that all of

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creation, all of their generation, that the great

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cloud of witnesses and all of heaven has been waiting to see unfold.

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I pray for boldness. I pray for courage Lord.

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I do pray for insight. I do pray for clarity God,

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but in the midst of even the obscurity Lord that you would give us the nudges and the

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courage and the boldness to be able to follow them and see them through.

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I pray Lord God that you'd be glorified and that the greater

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glory, the greater glory be released and

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that we'd be positioned and aligned for it. And I pray God,

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a spirit of truth to reveal all truth. My Lord, that you would bring alignment to us

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in great preparation. And as Graham Cook again to borrow one of his to

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say that a quickening spirit be released, that a

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week can be done in a day that, you know, months be done in a week,

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that years be done in months, that what would normally take years can

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be done in months. Spiritually speaking, that even as we sleep,

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Lord, you would prepare us and teach us that you would be our rabboni, that you would be our teacher.

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Lord, please break the power where history,

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our history to be the predictive

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teacher to become the prophet of our life when it is

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not. You are a teacher, Lord. We

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bless you, Lord Jesus. We love you in Jesus name.