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Hello and welcome to my very first prayer quest.

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As I like to say, no question, no quest.

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But before we get started,

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I would like to open with a word of prayer

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because that's why we're here, right?

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Father, in the name of Jesus Christ,

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I thank you for this day.

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I thank you, Father, for your love, your grace, your mercy,

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being wrapped around each and every person

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as they listen to what's in your heart for today.

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Father, I thank you that you take the words from my mouth

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and wrap them in your Holy Spirit

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and allow them to touch each and every person

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that is listening to this.

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I just lift it and I thank you for it.

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In the name of our living Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Now, I wanna ask you a question

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because that's why we're here, right?

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Why are you here?

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Okay?

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Have you found yourself between a rock and a hard place?

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Now, I gotta get very real and vulnerable with you.

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I have to get real.

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For me, my hard place started about 20 years ago.

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I once thought that the best thing for me to do

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was to leave my family.

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Yeah, you heard me right

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because I mistook numbness for the peace of God.

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I was not spiritual there for my family.

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I wasn't there the way God intended it to be.

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And about three years into this place I was at,

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I decided that I'm gonna ship them off to Sweden,

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which I did.

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So, this is hard because I'm being as honest

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as I possibly can.

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Now, I tried to do the right thing by leaving them

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and not knowing at that time that I was placing myself

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in the hands of the enemy, the devil,

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for him to steal, kill, and to destroy.

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Now, let me make this clear.

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Like I said before, I didn't see what was going on.

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I was a Christian for 20 years.

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I should have been able to see the enemy's attacks.

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Instead, I thought that the best thing for me

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was to leave my family.

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But thank God for the Holy Spirit

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who kept bringing up one thought

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and that nagging thought kept on and on and on

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until I finally had the courage to answer it.

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And here was the question.

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Did God say this woman was gonna be your wife?

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Think about that.

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I did.

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And it scared me because if God spoke,

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it was an answer to my prayer.

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He fulfilled a promise.

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He spoke and I was turning my back on him.

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If he spoke, I was turning my back.

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I was being disobedient to the creator

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of the heavens and the earth.

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I was being disobedient.

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I was not, you know, either God was real or he was not

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because if he spoke, then I was really being disobedient.

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Did you get that?

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I chose at that time that God spoke.

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And I asked God and I asked my wife for forgiveness,

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which I didn't really think I would get.

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I didn't think I would get it from God

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and I didn't think I would get it from my wife,

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but they both said yes.

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And when I came to Sweden,

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I found out that there were people who were praying for me.

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So prayer propelled me into my quest.

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I learned that you're not between a rock and a hard place.

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You are between a promise and a hard place.

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Your quest is determined by your next decision.

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Do you allow the hard places to determine

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or to dictate the outcome?

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With the help of God, turn those hard places into a furnace to burn up the chaff, the doubt, the worry, even the disbelief, and grab hold to the promise of the almighty God and say yes.

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Then, we're able to see the face of the promise. Oh, my God.

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Because you know what, it's time to get real. Really is. It's time. It's time.

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It is time to take off the gloves.

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It is time, because you know what the enemy will never take it easy on you. He never will.

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He will never get to the place where he says, Hey guys, come on, you know, give him a break, let him catch his breath.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He will never say that. You know why? Because the breath you take may be the breath of the living God.

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He doesn't want you to ever see God for who he wants to be for you.

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Now, our quest is to learn how to lean into the God of the promise and access the deep things of the heart and bring them into fruition.

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Now how do we do this.

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Well, first, our desire is to say yes, it doesn't matter how long you served as a Christian, how many years you humbled tried to humble yourself before God, because there's always places to be explored.

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I like that you know, I really do.

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Because in that explanation we will find gems that still need to be under, and to God wants to be more be intimate with you more than you can imagine.

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This is what I found.

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I felt that I could that I couldn't dare pray, because at that time I was shy.

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So I had to, you know, say what I heard other people say.

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I was an imposter, because I didn't allow God in. I didn't allow to be touched by God. That was the thing. I couldn't pray also because I thought that, gee, I'm not smart enough.

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I'm dyslexic.

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My words were not flowery or poetic enough.

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When others prayed it seemed like heaven moved and swayed.

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So who was that, that I even had the right to pray, because the enemy always tried to remind me of what I did.

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I had did this, I had did that. Remember that hard place. And you want to now pray. Oh my gosh.

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You know.

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So, does these things resonate with you. Do you, do you see these things. Are they a part of where you were at one time. If so, maybe you have your own little story if so that's okay.

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Because it still points to a rock or hard place, or it will also point to a promise that is right next to that hard place to that rock. I think that's awesome.

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So, all of these explanations all of these objections to prayer are all one big lie.

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The one thing I found that hinders our quest into prayer is an orphan mindset.

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You know, what is an orphan. Is it more than a mindset.

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What if it's spiritual.

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If it is that might answer the question that an orphan is more or is not just a child without his parents, you know, Jesus took care that the spiritual side, when he hung on the cross for you and for me.

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When God raised him from the dead. We were raised with him into newness of life.

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And the sin nature was left behind in the grave, and now we deal with the mindset. I have it that can be changed and can be renewed.

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Now, do you remember what Jesus said in Matthew 22?

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Let's read it.

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Matthew 21, I mean.

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In Matthew 21, Matthew 21, verse 22.

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That would be best if I was in Matthew, I'm in Habakkuk.

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Matthew 21, verse 22, it says,

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and if you believe, you will receive

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whatever you ask for in prayer.

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Wow.

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No question, no quest.

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Why?

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Is it that we seemingly get few answers of our prayer?

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The next question is, did Jesus lie?

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I don't think so.

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So what is prayer?

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In my humble opinion,

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I believe that it describes a conversation

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with the creator of the heavens and the earth.

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I believe that what it does is it allows us

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to tap into his heart for me, my family,

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my friends, my job, my city, my country.

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Basically, whatever the situation I face

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and the circumstances that come my way,

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God's heart on that subject must be my stance

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in that circumstance.

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You know, my mentor Graham Cook said,

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prayer is finding out what God wants to do

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and then asking him to do it.

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I think that's awesome.

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So what about a quest?

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This is what we're on, you know.

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For me, the meaning is to be in search of.

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It is a diligent search for something.

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And the thing that we're in diligent search of

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is the deep things of God's heart.

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And through our connection with him

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allows you and I in on what he sees

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and what we can do to bring his glory into our world.

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Wow.

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After all, there is something sexy about going on a quest.

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That comes right out of my childhood, I'm sorry.

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But I love that.

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You know, as Jesus said,

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whatever things we ask for in prayer,

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believing we will receive.

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If we are not receiving,

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if we are not getting answers

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or receiving answers of our prayer,

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we must be, it must be that we are doing something.

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You know, you don't want to say wrong

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because it's not wrong.

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I think that it's because of how we've been taught.

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I think that's the big thing.

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So tradition has taught us that we,

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that when bad things happen, we should pray immediately.

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And you know what?

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On the surface, it looks good and it sounds right.

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But as Graham Cook says,

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when we rush into prayer too quickly,

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we find ourselves praying out of shock, trauma, panic,

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out of our worry, anxiety, and our concern.

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Wow.

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Think about that.

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What, you know,

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I know you're probably saying,

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what the heck are you talking about?

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We should be able to pray.

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It is, we should, as soon as possible, right?

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We should pray.

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Yeah, we should pray, but pray what?

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All we have is another flawed human's perspective

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on what's happening.

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Even if it's the person that is most involved

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in the whole situation, we need to lean

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and learn how to step back into our secret place

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and confer with the one who knows best.

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And that's our father.

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He knows what's best.

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He knows more of what's going on than we do.

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And we have to let him guide us

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into what we should pray for.

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You know, I have to ask the question,

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when it comes to prayer,

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what do you think is the biggest thing

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that is missing from prayer?

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I think it is love.

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It is family.

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And I think that's why our...

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quest into the father's heart is to be drenched in his love, in his understanding, and experiencing

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his love for us so that we can love others. Prayer is not a juggling act, a performance.

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It is an act of love, first for the father and his child, you and I. We, as children,

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are like tuning forks, resonating his love and tuning others, sons and daughters,

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to the frequency of the father's heart in that situation. I think that's awesome.

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Here's another question. Does prayer give you access to God?

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No. It's thanksgiving that brings us into his presence. We enter his gates

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with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his holy name,

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Psalm 104. This is our quest, and this is where we begin with thanksgiving and praise. It is

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living out of Psalm 95, verse 2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and let us

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shout joyfully to him with praise. To be honest, this is not just a recitable little prayer.

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Oh, Lord, thank you for letting me enter into your presence. Amen. Why? Because it is an engagement

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of the heart. It is intimate. It is getting intimate, and as you know and you have experienced,

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getting intimate takes time, and time on our part is to clear away the junk so that it is,

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you know, it is the junk that gets in the way, right? It keeps us hindered. It keeps us bind up.

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We got this. We got all this stuff going on, and when it comes time to pray, we run it all over

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the place, and we can't do that. You know, C.S. Lewis said, it is in the process of being worshiped

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that God communicates his presence. Wow, isn't that nice? It is in his presence where we find

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our secret place, and there we still our hearts and our minds and listen to his heartbeat,

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and he will speak and reveal to us what he wants to do, and then we ask him to do it.

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Just like David said in Psalm 46, 46 verse 10, be still and know that I am God. Wow.

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How many times have problems, excuse me, how many times have you had problems

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recognizing your mother's voice?

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How many times? When she calls, did you ever go,

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who was that? Who's calling me? I didn't recognize that voice. For me,

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when my mother called me, it was, oh, crap, what did I just do? Did I do something wrong?

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Did I do something wrong? And the problem was with that little statement there. All my life,

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when I heard that and thought about it, I took that scenario and placed it on God.

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So whenever I thought, whenever I believed God was calling me, the first thought was,

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what did I do wrong? What did I do now? Because that came out of that background,

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but you know what? That's not at all true. You know, Dr. Mark Verkle said,

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God's voice sounds like spontaneous thoughts.

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Spontaneous thoughts that light upon our minds while our eyes are fixed on Jesus.

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If you want to know God's voice, you have to still yourself, get a vision, tune the flow,

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and write it down to journal. That's out of Habakkuk chapter two, verse one. Let's read that.

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I'd like to read that.

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Habakkuk chapter two, verse one.

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And it reads,

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I will stand at the watch and station myself

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in the ramparts.

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I will look to see what he will say to me

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and I will answer and what answer I am to give him

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to his complaint.

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Verse three.

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Then the Lord said,

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write the revelation and make it,

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write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets

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so that a herald, a man, that I may run with it.

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Oh my gosh.

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Gotta think about that for a minute, don't you?

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This is when we present our quest to God.

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By stilling ourselves, keeping our eyes on Jesus,

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tuning to the flow of thoughts,

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because you know where he is, right?

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God is out there, right?

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No, he's in us.

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Remember those verses of scripture that talk about

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that out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

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That's the Christ in us.

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So it's gonna flow out of us in thoughts.

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And we write those things down

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because this is where it's gonna bless us.

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It's gonna bless our souls.

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Now, what I want you to do is this is homework.

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Find someone, a friend, a family member,

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maybe someone you haven't talked to in a very long time.

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And I want you to think about them.

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And then I want you to ask God a question.

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God, how do you see this person?

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And then God, if you were gonna write him a letter,

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write this person a letter, what would you say to them?

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And then I want you to write it down.

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You know, if you get a word here and there,

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take your time, write down a couple of words,

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then go back and say, okay, God,

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if you're gonna put this in a letter,

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what's it gonna look like?

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And you start writing a little letter

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and you trust that God knows him

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because even if he's not a Christian,

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I got a friend here, this is my audience.

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Because God is with him as much as he is with you.

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So don't you think that God knows what he needs to hear

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right at that moment?

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Then he's gonna tell you and you write it down.

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exhorting, and comforting.

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he don't want you to write about that.

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You ask him, what do you do about that?

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What could you say?

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What would edify him or edify this person?

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Those are the things you settle for.

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That's what we have to do.

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And I think that we get a chance to discuss this.

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And, you know, if you,

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I'm not asking you to write it out

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and send it to me so that I can read it.

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No, no, no.

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But I think that what it will do is that

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maybe what you ought to do is send it to them,

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to that person.

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Send it to them and say, hey,

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I was thinking about you today

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and I thought if God was gonna write you a letter,

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I thought that this might bless you.

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And ask, hey, let me know what you think.

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Let me know if it blessed you.

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And then that's the thing that we could talk about.

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Because the whole point is we wanna go deep with prayer.

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We want to see God work, not only in us,

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but through us to those around us.

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And this is what this group is all about.

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That we could explore strange new places

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in the heart of God so that we could come back

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and discuss them so that we could grow.

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The whole point is growth.

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The whole point is growth.

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And if we're living beings, God wants us to grow.

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So I'll see you tomorrow.

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God bless you.