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We're reading from a w tozer
for the Christian leader for April 4th.
You didn't,
you didn't read the back of Kate.
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What?
Where?
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Really?
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Is that not maybe?
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April 4th.
Long before the Lord is the
title of this devotional.
And Exodus 34,
34 is the reference that says,
but when Moses went in
before the Lord to speak with him,
he took the veil off until he came out.
And he came out and spake
unto the children of Israel
that which he was commanded.
It is written of Moses that
he went in before the Lord
to speak with him,
and he came out and spake
unto the children of Israel.
This is the biblical norm
from which we depart to our
own undoing and to the
everlasting injury of the souls of men.
No man has any moral right
to go before the people who
has not first been long before the Lord.
No man has any right to
speak to men about God who
has not first spoken to God about men.
And the prophet of God
should spend more time in
the secret place praying
than he spends in the
public place preaching.
One swallow, the bird,
one swallow does not make a
spring nor one hot day a summer,
nor will a few minutes of
frantic praying before
service bring out the
tender buds or make the
flowers to appear on the earth.
The field must be soaked in
sunshine over a long period
before it will give forth its treasures.
The Christian's heart must
be soaked in prayer before
the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
Quiet my heart today, Lord.
Slow me down, I pray.
Amen.
It's a great analogy, right?
You can't just sprinkle a
little bit of water and
expect a flower to come out.
The fields must be soaked in sunshine.
Yes.
It was,
it is a constant theme this week
for a while for torture the
importance of prayer and we
talked about that yesterday,
but we talked about it in
the devotional roses in a
Jackie Perry and she's like
we can't just like
Americans are kind of
arrogant we just show up
and think it's enough.
uh and it's just such an
american thing to do to not
get on our knees before the
lord and be prayerful and
thoughtful lord what do you
want to say to your people
today what can I give them
that is from you not that's
from me but what is it from
you that I can give them
And then expect to hear from the Lord,
to be in a conversation
with him before you just
create content for the
purpose of creating content.
Right.
Yeah,
there is that difference that I feel
now of actually spending time with God.
As opposed to just spending
a couple hours on Sunday with God.
That I used to do.
And then feel like you can
talk to a bunch of people about God.
Because I heard, you know,
the pastor on Sunday talked
about Matthew.
The book of Matthew in some sort.
And that's the only book he reads from.
But yeah,
just going to church on Sunday
doesn't make you a biblical scholar.
no so you do have to spend
time with them you do have
to read the devotionals it
does help to have people
like aw tozer and
wigglesworth and all those
types that we can go to
them to see what their um
you know their their
interpretation is that okay
to say well I mean they
give you nuggets yeah it's
good nugget teaching
devotionals it helps to get
their perspective because
in our in mine not yours but
in my shallow understanding
sometimes of what the
scripture saying it'll just
point to one like very one
dimensional thing yeah
where people like aw and
wigglesworth they they make
it three-dimensional they
give you a lot more context
it puts you in the moment
they give you like the
background of you know what
was going on at the time
that this particular book
was written all that is
very helpful when you want
to understand god and his
motivations and his
purposes at the time
absolutely I think that
that's very helpful because
you can take it to mean
something entirely
different if you don't
understand the context of
sure where the book comes from
and knowing whether it's Old
Testament or New Testament.
I mean,
I think I even struggle with that for,
I mean, who,
Yeah.
I don't think I even knew
half the time if I was an
old Testament or new Testament,
which I think is
interesting now because
somebody will say something.
I said,
I think it was yesterday day before
yesterday.
I almost like I shocked myself.
I said, well, you know,
that's old Testament.
I don't know what we were
talking about food,
but I acted very smart at that moment.
And it kind of made me like, oh,
I actually knew that that reference,
whether you meant it or not
was an old Testament.
Yeah.
Old Testament law.
Yeah.
So all that stuff is very
helpful because then, you know,
it makes it a little bit
better when you're when you are speaking.
And again,
this book is talking to Christian leaders,
people of authority,
supposedly not the average
Joe who's newly become a Christian,
because I don't want to
make people think that they
can't talk about their experience.
Sure.
With their relationship with God.
They don't necessarily have
to have a whole, you know,
doctrinal background or
study to be able to talk
about how God has affected them.
This particular discussion
mostly has to do with
people who are leading a
church or pastors.
But we do get called up to
speak sometimes.
Do you think that...
call them to speak like to
speak at a church like you
have spoken to churches
sure your your
understanding of the bible
now but I'm not called to
preach I'm giving the
testimony but it puts you
in a little bit better
position when those
questions come in what does
uh your knowledge that you
sat down and actually oh
study the bible I think
it's an you know your talk
would be just about you and
your experience
but you've been able to
actually refer to references in the Bible,
Old Testament, New Testament,
how Israel is felt,
why we need to be friends with Israel,
why we love them.
But I think that only comes
with knowledge of the Bible.
Yes.
Not just relationship with God.
True.
When you seek knowledge, seek wisdom,
gain understanding.
I can't remember.
Carrie cited it yesterday.
It was Proverbs.
So important.
Seeking wisdom.
What's Carrie say?
Our sound is bad.
You know, Carrie,
we've went through a lot of
things with the sound,
but they basically have
lowered our levels of
so that it's equal to
everything that's on the
real life network and so I
noticed I told andy the
same thing when I was
listening on facebook I
could barely hear on my
phone so that's a thing
that we can't really fix
sorry about that yeah we have to um
I think we need to let them
know because they keep saying, well,
it sounds good now.
Every time we've lowered the volume,
I think they just don't want to hear us.
Give me that too.
Maybe that's their whole purpose.
Give me that too.
The last couple of times, go, no,
that sounds really good.
Now you guys really sound
like at the best level.
But as soon as we did that, we...
it's hard for some people to hear us.
Yeah.
Does it turn their volume on
their phone all the way up?
Yeah.
I turned it all the way up.
I couldn't, I still couldn't hear.
Yeah.
I'm losing a little bit of my hearing.
Yeah.
Well,
That's what happens.
Along with everything else.
So Carrie says also,
I'm doing the research and
finding out what people
were doing and how they
were living in that context
and what makes it exciting.
Although devotionals and
other sections are good too.
I picked up what she's putting down.
What is it?
That she's researching to
know more about the context of the books.
Sure.
But
It is you don't you still
the devotionals and other
things that she's reading
are good to to make sure
that you just learn other
people's perspectives Okay,
other than the study in the
history of the you know the
facts at that time okay yeah.
that's great that's what I'm picking up.
Let me carry last.
What does the scripture say?
Does that give us any more
nuggets that we... Oh, I love it.
If you think about, I'll say it after,
but it actually has come up
repeatedly in sermons we
were listening to.
And I think Pastor Bob even mentioned it,
this concept of his face shone, of Moses.
So this is a story of Moses talking to God,
of course, on Mount Sinai,
and then coming down and
speaking to the Israelites.
Now it was so when Moses
came down from Mount Sinai,
and it's in a parenthetical,
and the two tablets of the
testimony were in Moses'
hand when he came down from the mountain,
that Moses did not know
that the skin of his face
shone while he talked with him.
So when Aaron and all the
children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
the skin of his face shone,
and they were afraid to come near him.
Then Moses called to them,
and Aaron and all the
rulers of the congregation
returned to him,
and Moses talked with them.
Afterward,
all the children of Israel came
near and he gave them the commandments,
all that the Lord had
spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
And when Moses had finished
speaking with them,
he put a veil on his face.
But when Moses went into the
Lord to speak with him,
he would take the veil off
until he came out and he
would come out and speak to
the children of Israel,
whatever he had been commanded.
And whenever the children of
Israel saw the face of Moses,
that the skin of Moses' face shone,
then Moses would put the
veil on his face again
until he went in to speak with him.
And the Lord repeats three
times that his face shone.
And when you think about it
now with us having the
indwelling of the Lord,
the Holy Spirit within us,
we even have greater claim
to our face being shiny.
And it's something we should strive for.
this to have a face that
shines from being in the
presence of the Lord,
whether it's from prayer or
reading his word, what have you,
that our face would shine
with faith and with
devotion to the Lord as a
testimony of our discipline.
Well, I mean,
your facial expressions can
be a huge part of that
first contact with somebody,
that first impression you're making.
So if you're a Christian and
you are just so grateful
for everything that God has done for you,
and you're in that mode of
talking to somebody,
they can see it right away
in your countenance, in your face,
and in the tone of your voice,
and in the way that you're talking.
Yes.
So I think that's
I mean, if you, if I just spent,
I felt like my face was shining, shining.
I don't want to say shiny
because it gets shiny when I'm sweaty.
But the reference here is Sean.
But it's the best sense of shiny.
Yeah.
The moment that I was in
Utah and Jesus was standing
in front of me, I felt like.
It was refractory.
Yeah.
Like I felt like I was like
glowing because the
internal side of me was
like so full of love.
So that love,
the love light was coming out
of my pores.
That's awesome.
At least that's how I felt.
I felt that at times.
Because even people around
me who barely knew me goes, hey,
did something happen to you?
Like there was like this comment, like,
are you okay?
Like, is everything good?
You look like you're in a daze,
like you're in shock.
And this stupid grin on my face, like, wow,
that was really...
That was a radical encounter.
So nice.
And then I think of when
you're reading this passage,
I kind of got slightly
distracted because then I
thought about Aaron.
Freaking Aaron.
I just don't understand.
He's experiencing all this
stuff because he's there
with Moses because Moses
has difficulty talking.
Right.
So Aaron's there the whole time.
Right.
Yeah.
And yet,
and then he goes down there and in the,
in the, in the, in the, in the, in the,
in the, in the, in the,
Yeah.
I mean, I, uh, you know,
this is not something that's biblical or,
you know,
it's not based on necessarily
the discussion we're having,
although you have this shit Tony,
I think his name is,
I can't remember you guys
that know baseball know his name.
He's a Japanese player.
I think he's a pitcher.
Uh, he played for the angels.
Maybe he still does play for the angels.
I don't know, but, uh,
he only speaks Japanese.
So he's been in this country now.
I don't know how many years,
four or five years,
and he's got this interpreter.
Well,
It's not clear,
but they tried to say the
interpreter was gambling
and in taking the pictures
by the pictures,
like one of the highest
paid players in baseball,
making millions of dollars a season,
like $50 million a season.
He's got like a $500 million contract,
something huge.
Okay.
And the interpreter is
getting paid tons of money,
but there's also this thought like,
wait a minute.
What happened?
I don't know.
They got caught gambling.
You can't gamble.
And if you're a baseball player,
you can't gamble.
Oh, so who was gambling?
Well, see,
that's where I'm getting to is
that it was the they
thought it was the interpreter.
But it really I most a lot
of people believe that it's
actually the pitcher who was gambling.
So what I'm thinking of Aaron,
you got this pitcher who's
making the most money
possible playing a game,
hundreds of millions of dollars.
And that's not enough.
He's got to then gamble it
to see if he can make more money.
Like the sin.
Lust is just the lust after
things like what?
And I would say maybe it was interpreted,
but the interpreters
getting paid $300,000 a
year to be as an interpreter.
Oh, he does.
He doesn't even play baseball.
He just falls around and, you know,
he just goes, yeah, he said, uh,こんにちは.
Hello.
Or thank you.
Goodbye.
And that's all he's doing.
300,000 a year.
Not bad.
But you think of this,
here are these guys that have so much.
You could be in the presence
of God and then say, you know what?
I think this other God might be better.
Like you just saw what this God can do.
You were there when you went
through the Red Sea.
You were there.
You saw the stick turn into a serpent.
You saw the locusts.
And you think there's going
to be a better God?
Like you want, what more do you need?
Sorry, I'm getting so,
that's why our volume needs to be low.
But I'm just like, it's so crazy.
Like, what the hell, heck.
Such nonsense.
Oh, you know what Jackie says instead of,
oh my gosh?
Oh my lands.
So she doesn't use the gosh, golly.
She avoids the whole controversy.
She says, oh my lands.
I think that's a good one.
Yeah, what is with people though?
I don't know.
It's like me wanting to get
a different wife.
Yeah.
I have the best wife possible.
Why did you got to use that example?
Because I was like, why would I do that?
But this is different.
Worship is different.
I mean, temptation,
lust of the flesh is not different.
Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh,
the pride of life.
Those are the three
temptations of which
everything on earth that
tempts us is categorized as.
There's nothing new under the sun.
but it is uh old habits that
die hard right they had
just left egypt that's that
was familiar to them it's
what they knew and when
they suddenly felt insecure
actually I was listening um
to jackie again today and
she was talking about her
old life and um her and her
husband were discussing
what fell off of you first
like what required the
sanctification process for
you to get rid of
And what left immediately
and we've had similar
discussions sometimes on
between us to say, you know,
so she said smoking pot was easy to drop.
She's like, but then going to clubs,
she loves music,
because we're going to clubs,
and that kind of stuff was really,
really hard.
Like I had to get sanctified to do that.
Because I really had to fight my flesh.
So our habits,
our habits are so dangerous.
They lead us away from God
because they're just
comfortable and familiar,
which is a really great
quote where she was talking
about how Christians think
that following Jesus is boring,
but it's just because
they're used to a life that is so sinful.
They don't know the joy of purity.
They never experienced the joy of purity.
So they're like,
how could I have joy if I'm
not doing any of those
things that bring me joy?
Right.
No point of reference for
the joy of purity.
So similar to Aaron,
the first thing they do
when they become insecure
because Moses hasn't been
around for 40 days is build a bonfire,
melt everything down,
create a cow out of it.
You know?
think of all things white cow.
Well, you know why though,
but you know what?
And the reason I saw the example of Jackie,
she says that she would
catch yourself being like stressed out,
upset about something and being like,
maybe I just go grab a shot
of tequila at the bar down the street.
That's what Aaron did.
So common.
We go back to the spirits.
Right?
How many people go back to the spirits?
How many times did you go
back to the spirits?
Did I go back?
How many times have you sworn to yourself?
Oh, I'm not going to do that again.
And you just fall right back into it.
So it's not as far away from us today,
I think, than we would hope.
Well, that was BG.
Before Jesus, before God,
before God was easier just
because we didn't have an alternative.
We didn't have God.
I mean, we had it was there,
but we just didn't.
Didn't partake.
No, we were Christians at the time.
Yeah, but again,
I was Christian in name only.
I didn't really have God.
I mean, that's the difference.
Like you have the choice.
Are you going to be weak for something?
So it's silly.
stupid no you this is this
is post utah that we were
drinking yeah but it wasn't
because that was an
alternative to god we just
thought it was okay it was
not an alternative it was
not an alternative but it
was an alternative in the
sense that instead of doing
godly things to have fun
we're like let's go to a
happy hour we fell back
into old patterns because
they were familiar and we
thought that's what fun
means like a blanket
Like a blankie?
Like a blankie.
Yeah, like a passive blankie.
Yeah, let's go do that.
Let's go do that because
that's what's familiar.
You know,
whether it's to relieve stress or
to have a good time.
I mean, Aaron, the way I envision it,
and I don't know if it's
because I saw some Moses movie,
but they were dancing
around this giant bonfire.
They were partying.
And they were dancing and
playing instruments and melting gold and,
you know, maybe barbecuing a pig.
I don't know,
but I just have this vision
of them being just crazy
because that's what they did.
And then we learned when we
went to San Diego that we
can go and have a party and
it's way better.
Well, exactly.
Exactly.
That's what Jackie was
saying is that you learn to
enjoy the Lord's blessing
that comes from purity.
Yes.
You know,
there's just a there's a
different kind of there's
just a majesty that comes
from it that you don't know
until you live it.
Look at Corrine.
She's on the road again.
I think,
wasn't she in Hawaii like a couple
weeks ago?
Yes, you're having a lot of fun, Corrine.
Yeah, now she's in Lake Tahoe.
I think her kid's all grown up,
so she gets to explore.
Is it snowing now?
Because I know the weather's
been so weird.
I wonder if it's snow right now.
And Carrie said she's seen
her husband's face only shine like that.
I love that.
That's so beautiful.
Very cool.
And Lisa says,
lately my desire just keeps
getting stronger to connect
with God and get a clear
sense of his presence throughout my day.
I love it.
So beautiful.
And Lisa says, me too, Carrie.
Definitely a data junkie.
Oh,
that's in response to Carrie saying I
love research.
Yes, Lisa, for sure.
Lisa, I too,
and I think many others are as well.
And Carrie saying maybe
Aaron had weak faith.
Yes.
And being a people pleaser.
Yes, that too.
Lisa saying,
I'm reading the book of James
and I'm praying for God not
to let me resist the
convicting and confirming
power of his Holy Spirit
and to keep me sensitive to
his work in me.
Amen.
We had a great speaker at
Pastor Jack's church last night,
Mark Spence.
I don't know how many of you
guys have heard him preach,
but it was awesome.
Talk about convicting.
I loved it.
It was really good.
It took a while, I think,
for him to get going.
But once he got going, I was like, wow,
that's really great information.
And Creed says, there's lots of snow.
and um so we didn't get a
chance to go we didn't go
to church last night we
must confess no we listened
to the video yes um but we
did meet with a bunch of
people that are of the
jewish faith jack tells us
all the time to hang out
with jews and atheists
Not that Jews and atheists
are the same thing.
He says,
make sure you have friends that
are atheists.
Make sure you have friends
that are Jewish.
Yes.
I had a great opportunity.
I had a fantastic
conversation to witness about Jesus.
How'd that go?
It was amazing.
It was fantastic.
I really felt like I had a
chance to plant a seed.
I firmly believe I watered a seed.
There were many before me who planted.
I just think that she's just
really struggling with letting it grow.
She grew up in a family of
two denominations of
Muslims and Christians, not denominations,
two different faiths.
It made her very confused.
And so she didn't understand who God,
she still does not understand who God is.
So I had a chance to explain
it from my perspective,
which was awesome.
And to tell her that I would pray for her.
And I prayed for her a lot last night.
I prayed for her again today.
I will do it today on the
broadcast because I really feel that, um,
it's that time.
She seems to be at a
crossroads in her life and
that's just the best time
that the Lord shows up.
Now I spotted her right away.
She sat at our table at this
event that we were at.
And, um,
noticed that she had a
jewelry on that was looked
a little bit like new agey
yes it's a little like eye
that eye and then a snake
for a for a ring that went
across like three or four
fingers yes and so I caught
that but you caught it to
meaning that she's confused
about who god is like you
were just saying what
She's looking for God, it seems like,
a God.
Yes.
And maybe, unfortunately,
was going in the wrong direction.
Yeah,
and it's something that happens a lot
to Persians in particular.
Oh, really?
They're very turned off to Islam,
and Christianity seems somewhat foreign,
and there's this huge push
for new-agey stuff.
Yoga, meditation,
all these other things that attract them.
Of course,
it is the fastest-growing church
in the world, too,
so thank God Jesus is always on the move.
So I just think that they
need a little encouragement.
to find solace to find um
saving faith in christ did
you get an understanding of
what it was that she's
looking for um in these
other gods is she looking
for I mean because if she's
you know was didn't like
the muslim faith because
the dog the god dog the god
is not a loving god I can
see why that would be a no
you think that's what she's
looking for she wants to feel loved
For sure.
But I think she also, when I told her,
she said what stuck with
her about Islam was that
God didn't need a son.
And I said, well,
it wasn't that God needed a son.
God needed to come incarnate
to relate to us.
He was like us,
and he had experienced all kinds of sin,
but yet had not.
He was tempted in all ways as man was,
but did not sin.
So he came to relate to us
to be able to pay that
price so that he could
plead on our behalf and pay
that ultimate sacrifice
that no one was able to
abide by in the law.
And she said, well, he never answers me.
And I said, well, he will.
I guarantee you.
You know,
it's just a matter of continuing
to have that conversation
and making sure you're open.
And then she reveals a little bit later,
I don't know if I'm open.
And I said, well, that's in your hands,
whether you want to be open or not.
That's probably why she's
not hearing from him.
He's speaking,
but she's not in the
position to hear what he's
saying and seeing how he is in her life.
Yes, exactly.
Wow.
What's the follow-up?
Yeah, what's the follow-up?
Well, we'll see her again next month.
And I told her that I would
be praying for her and I've
prayed all kinds of prayers
that the Lord would come to
her in a miraculous way
that she would know it was him.
Because that's another thing that happens.
It also becomes like the guy
with the boat and the
rescue and God saying,
I sent to rescue you,
is that you hear message after message.
Some people just refuse to
accept that it's God.
Right.
Where one person comes to
you and says this,
and then another person
comes to you and you're like,
wait a minute, there is a theme, you know,
but you're like, it can't be God.
You should have told her that story.
About people that came to rescue her?
Yeah.
I sent three helicopters, a boat.
I didn't know how
appropriate that would have
been at the time.
And I don't even know that
that's her story,
but I'm sure there were
people who planted seeds before me.
And then there was another couple.
There was a girl that we
know from previous events there, too.
Yes.
And this time she showed up with a man.
With a bow.
The only reason I bring that
up is because the thing
that was common with
everybody who saw her with this,
with Joey,
is that they all got super excited.
Everybody went, oh my gosh.
So excited.
She, to me, every time,
I've only known her from
meeting her at this place.
Right.
But she's always so nice and
happy and good person just
seems to be a good person.
But everybody seemed to be
truly happy for her.
I love that I think is awesome.
Can you imagine folks
walking into a place with a new
you know a love interest and
that everybody just falls
over themselves with how
much they love you that
you're just like the
greatest thing ever so when
you're like they're like oh
my god you're dating her
like you must be amazing
because we know she's
amazing it was like it
couldn't have been scripted
you know she's like yes I
paid every single one of these people
It was really sweet.
I told Andy, I was like, wow,
like what a testament to
who she is as a human being
to have that experience.
There wasn't a single person
that didn't light up like a
firecracker to know that
she had a new bow.
And she's a Christian, right?
I'm pretty sure she is.
Good question.
No, no, no, no.
Excuse me.
No, she's Jewish.
He's Christian.
Okay.
Yeah, no.
I know for sure.
She needs to straighten up.
She needs to be a Jew for Jesus.
Messianic.
Yeah.
So overall, it was a good event.
It was a conservative event.
Jews who love this country.
A lot of them were there.
It's a great place that we
go to with our friends.
The house.
They're just really good people.
It's awesome.
All right,
I'll give you a couple of
minutes to let us know if
you have any prayer
requests that you would
like us to include in the prayer.
We'll be going to prayer in
just a few moments.
So if there's anything I was thinking of,
I do want to pray for my
friend Nick again.
just feel like he's so this
is my uh my my coach um I
don't know I just he's so
close on the cusp so close
and he has a oh you should
see his son his son is so
cute a cute kid yeah like
just it really seems to be
a good kid um but I'm just
you know he's like in he's
in that in between in between
Hell and Heaven.
And I just don't know how to
help him make that transition.
I mean, only God can save him.
But I just want to say, bro,
he's always dealing with
the question of whether he
should go out and party or
go out with a new girl.
And I tell him all the time, dude,
you got to focus right now on your son.
Everything else will come.
Focus on your son.
Be the best dad possible.
Being a good example to him.
Being a good example isn't
going out to bars and getting drunk.
Being a good example is not... Yeah,
people have a hard time being alone.
He's not alone.
He has a six-year-old son.
He doesn't?
No, but he sees him a lot.
Yeah, that's true.
How much does he see him?
I told him to call me.
I know.
Because he's got so much free time.
Well...
Call me.
I didn't say let's go out.
Call me and we'll talk.
Hey, what's happening?
No.
Yeah, I probably wouldn't answer anyway.
I normally don't answer my phone.
He may have called me like 10 times.
I'm surprised he didn't say,
I have been calling you.
I didn't answer your phone.
All right, what's Denise saying?
Denise says,
please keep my adult children
on your list.
Can you give me their names, Denise?
Because I was actually
thinking of that last night as well.
Both my sons have disowned
me and my daughter is
showing signs of doing the same.
They just don't want to hear about Jesus.
I gave them the gospel and
now just pray for them.
I don't know what else to do for them.
God knows.
Amen.
Denise, we can't make people believe.
Some people's eyes and ears
are shut and it's up to the
Lord to open it.
And if you've given them the
gospel and you've witnessed to them,
there's just,
you have to trust that the
Lord has a plan and a
purpose for their lives as
he does all of us.
So please give us their name
so we can continue to pray.
Never give up.
Yeah, for sure.
Same prayers for me and Eddie.
Prayers for Shirley,
85-year-old who doesn't know Jesus.
And Lisa's praying for her kids.
And siblings and family.
Lisa,
I think I'm going to need to get a
list from you soon.
Oh, yeah.
I got lots of family members.
Denise, let go.
It's his job to save them.
Love them enough to let them go.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I have a daughter,
my oldest daughter that we've
We're seeing a little bit more often.
It kind of comes and goes.
Yes.
But I'm grateful that she
hasn't made that choice.
Like,
I'm not going to go around hitting
Andy because all they do is
talk about Jesus all the time.
Well,
I think we're kind of tactful about it.
I mean, we're not constantly like Jesus,
Jesus, you know, it's, uh,
it's in the context of our lives,
which is unavoidable.
We went to church,
we did this with us into that.
We, you know, um,
when she talks about having difficulty,
we ask about prayer, you know, we,
we try to be tactful about
it because I think otherwise, um,
you risk repelling them for sure.
So, yeah.
Diana, David and Devon didn't Devon.
Okay, so yeah,
because he said it's two boys.
So David and Devon and Deanna.
Okay.
Kate says that Amir Sephardi
is asked for a prayer for
Israel because something
big is about to happen.
Yes,
we saw the this exhibit that they are
doing.
Bring them home.
Is that what it's called?
I believe so.
And it was all these cards
with their faces on it of
all the hostages that still
have not come home.
And it really made me cry.
She just started telling the
story and it just made me start crying.
And it's just such a tragedy
of all the people and just the women.
What made me cry is I'm very
sensitive to rape victims.
And so just talking about the girls,
she says, you know,
the girls that came home
yeah, they're alive,
but their eyes are dead, you know,
based on whatever they've suffered is so,
it's just so horrible.
Oh, Denise has a.
uh a message pastor jackie
not long ago showed me I
had my kids as I worship I
let go then and I'm
thankful the holy spirit
shows me if I bring them
back denise that's exactly
what the lord showed me
directly in prayer um in
the midst of my storm with
my daughter um it was a
very very difficult time and
As I was going through that,
that's exactly what the
Lord had said to me,
is you made your daughter an idol,
and I cannot have you do that.
And it changed me.
Hearing those words changed me.
So I get exactly what you mean.
And we have to.
We can't torture ourselves
over something that is
absolutely outside of our control.
We had a job to do up to a certain age.
And God willing, we did it.
And after that, they're adults.
They're of the age of responsibility.
They've heard the gospel.
They have to do with it what they will.
They're our prodigals.
Okay.
You're quite the list there.
I do.
I'm hoping I can remember.
You're going to have to help
me if I don't.
Okay.
Sorry, folks.
My daughter's not at home, so she's...
Okay, she's coming.
Indeed, I cried enough.
Yes, sister.
I know that feeling.
Okay.
Thank you, Lord.
that we can come to your
throne of grace and receive
the grace and the mercy
that we need in our time of need.
We are so grateful for the
never-ending water of life
that just fills our
reservoirs full of faith
and of healing and of joy
as we go through the
mountains and valleys of life, Lord.
It's a weird, weird time on the earth.
We're living in a tumultuous time.
We're expecting your return any day, Lord.
And meanwhile,
we see people given over to
a debased mind.
We see nations fighting each other.
Such violence, such moral decay.
And
unfortunately many of our
loved ones and our family
members have fallen victim
to that whether they have
never been in the faith or
they have fallen away from
the faith lord we ask that
you draw them close and
whatever it takes um to
draw them near lord
whatever difficulty um that
is thrust upon them so that
they could see um your
mercy and that you would be
an ocean of safety lord um
we are willing.
We just want them to come to
saving faith before they
leave this earth.
So we're praying for Denise's children,
Diana, David, and Devin,
all of Lisa's adult children,
their spouses, their loved ones,
and her siblings,
all of my family members, Lord,
We just pray that they come
to saving faith in Christ,
that through the difficulty,
through the challenges of this world,
they see that Christ is the
answer and that every
tongue will confess and
every knee shall bow that he is Lord.
No one will come to the
Father except through him.
It's a difficult conversation sometimes,
Lord,
so give us boldness and give us
courage to preach the
gospel with love and compassion.
And we know ultimately it is
only you who saves.
It's only you that can open
the ears and the hearts and
the eyes to be able to
receive the message.
And it's just up to us to
make the gospel known, Lord.
So give us the boldness to do so.
And we ask for healing for
Carrie and Eddie and for Kate,
ongoing healing for her
ailments and her knees, Lord.
And we have other prayers for healing.
Eddie and Carrie.
And all of those, all of our friends, Lord,
they're suffering from some ailment.
Jan, that we ask that you pray for her,
that you give her healing.
And my friend that's
recovering from cancer surgery, Lord,
such a painful and difficult process.
And my new friend, Elale, Lord,
I know you have the ability
to show up in a miraculous way.
So I just keep feeling that
prayer that she'll have a miraculous,
a radical encounter with you.
That's deeply personal and
she won't mistake it for anything else.
We love you, Lord.
We offer ourselves as a living sacrifice.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
All right, my friends, we love you guys.
Have a great day.
It's a long list, Eddie.
Sorry,
a bunch of comments came in while we
were praying.
All right, my friends, we love you guys.
Love you.
God bless.
Take care.
Bye.