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Greetings everyone. 
This is Doctor John Ewart. 

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I'm the senior pastor at 
Englewood Baptist Church in 

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Rocky Mount, NC, and I just want
to welcome you to this episode 

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of Walking in Prayer. 
I hope that you've been 

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listening to this some of these 
podcast episodes as we've just 

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been walking together through 
how to pray for various areas of

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our life and for one another. 
We've talked in the past, if 

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you'll go back and look at some 
of our episodes, we've talked 

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about how to pray in a general 
way. 

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We've talked about how to pray 
for the lost another. 

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So I just hope you'll tune into 
all of these episodes. 

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These can be used in a couple of
ways. 

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One is you could actually use 
these as you are walking, which 

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was the original idea that as 
you're out walking the dog, 

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walking around the neighborhood,
walking with your spouse or 

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friends, that you might just 
listen to these and and actually

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have a guided prayer walk as 
you're walking, praying for your

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neighbors and your world. 
They could also be used as 

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you're at home sitting and 
having your quiet time. 

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And so you enjoy these. 
I hope they're helpful. 

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We've enjoyed doing these. 
And I'm joined today by Pastor 

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Charles Taylor, who is our our 
pastor of prayer here, pastor of

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prayer at Inglewood and also of 
our our member care. 

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And so today we want to talk 
about how to pray for the weak. 

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What we mean by that? 
Is there people that we know who

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are not feeling well? 
They could be physical, it could

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be emotional or mental. 
So we're going to focus on some 

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of those prayers of 
intercession, encouragement, how

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to uplift one another when 
people might be physically ill 

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and, or, and some other way 
they're just not feeling well or

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they're just weak in their life 
right now. 

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So we, we don't know a better 
way to pray than to ask for 

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healing. 
We, we really don't have a 

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better direction than that. 
And so we know that God heals in

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a number of different ways. 
And so when we do pray for those

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who are sick, we generally begin
with that idea of Lord, heal 

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them, please, Father, heal them 
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When we're visiting somebody in 
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homebound or somebody who's 
really struggling with something

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in their life, we pray for that 
healing because we we have no 

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better way to pray than that. 
And we believe that God hears 

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us, but we also recognize that 
his timing, his method may not 

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be ours. 
And so we also recognize that we

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have to wait upon him and be 
patient with what he's going 

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going to do. 
So as you begin your walk or you

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begin your prayer time, just 
join us as we guide you through 

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some scripture and through a few
principles and ideas. 

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In fact, Charles, thank you for 
being here. 

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And why don't you read a 
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There's a great passage in James
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Yes, James 513 and 15 through 
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Is anyone among you suffering? 
Let him pray. 

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Is anyone cheerful? 
Let him sing praise. 

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Is anyone among you sick? 
Let him call the elders of the 

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church and let them pray over 
him, anointing him with oil in 

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the name of the Lord. 
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save the one who is sick, and 
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if he has committed sins, he 
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Yeah, that's a powerful passage.
And so we want to pray for 

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people who are spiritually sick 
who are lost. 

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And there's an entire episode 
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But we also recognize the Bible 
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those who are physically sick as
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a, a mental or emotional this 
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I have a brother who's a medical
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this quite a bit to where he 
believes that God has called him

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into medicine in order to help 
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And I'm often reminded of what 
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as when they were building and 
designing the Tabernacle and the

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the priestly garments. 
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gave a spirit of skill to those 
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And I believe he does the same 
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care for us. 
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do is we pray for healing. 
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person, obviously. 
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a couple of moments to think 
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might be suffering in some way. 
And we'll give you time to pray,

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but while you're doing that, 
also think about those that have

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been given this spirit of skill,
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fields, those who, who are 
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used by God to, to either 
counsel or to provide medicine 

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or to provide treatment. 
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who would help us with our 
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health as well. 
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them in a healing process. 
So Pastor Charles, do you have 

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something maybe from the Psalms 
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encourage us? 
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especially verses 2 through 5 
where the psalmist said Bless 

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the Lord, O my soul, and forget 
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Who forgives all your iniquity? 
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Who redeems your life from the 
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Who satisfies you with good so 
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the Eagles? 
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think about praying for healing 
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That's our first thought. 
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that God would heal them. 
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surgery or maybe, you know, 
somebody facing cancer treatment

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or something serious like that, 
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emotionally or just just 
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now. 
So how could you pray that God 

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would bring healing? 
So take just a few moments and 

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as we pause to pray for those 
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The. 
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We also want to encourage you to
pray for patience and endurance,

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which is often very difficult 
for people who are suffering and

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and hurting. 
It's difficult when we don't 

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feel well, but there can be so 
many lessons to learn that God 

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might be trying to teach us 
through an illness or through a 

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difficult season. 
And so we often hear the phrase 

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in the Bible, waiting upon the 
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Charles. 
Charles, talk to us a little bit

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about that. 
Pastor John Also early this year

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I did not feel well. 
I was sick, couldn't get well. 

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I relapsed many, many times. 
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what do you want me to learn? 
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especially a essential lesson 
for me to trust in God's timing 

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and plan and actively seeking 
his will while remaining patient

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and hopeful. 
That takes the strength and the 

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power of God. 
We're we're actually looking for

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his intervention, his plan. 
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waiting, and sitting around, but
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trust and reliance on God's 
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And this involves actively 
walking with God, praying and 

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seeking His wisdom, all while 
trusting that He is working like

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you said earlier, even when His 
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Yeah, that's really powerful 
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I really do believe it's 
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The, the lessons that we try to 
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that we have to sometimes learn 
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times for us. 
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maybe it's even harder when it's
a, a family member, somebody 

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that you love dearly and you're 
watching them go through things 

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and you, you're questioning God 
and you're wondering why is this

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happening? 
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make it through it? 
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who's really going through it? 
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sympathy for them, a child or a 
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you know, what, the strength and
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and medical tech technicians 
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that the emotional weight that 
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Even you, as you do member care 
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weight that we have to to bear 
with others is often very 

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difficult. 
So what are some passages maybe 

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that would help us related to 
suffering and enduring things 

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that we could learn about and 
and think through together? 

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Pastor Charles. 
Yes, and when people ask me to 

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pray for them when they're not 
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crisis or they're suffering, I 
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that they will look to Him. 
I think about Proverbs 3, five 

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and six. 
Trust in the Lord with all your 

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heart and do not lean on your 
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ways. 
Acknowledge Him and He will make

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straight your path. 
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Also, I think about Psalms 46, 
that whole passage of it's just 

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really tremendous. 
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with us, the God of Jacob. 
It is our fortress or our 

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refuge. 
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Lord is with us. 
He is not forgotten us and we 

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can look to him here. 
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For I consider that the 
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are not worth comparing with the
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us. 
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away when we're going through 
pain and we're going through 

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suffering, but to remember to 
worship the Lord, to look to 

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Him, and to expect and trust Him
that He will be with us and walk

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with us and lead us. 
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And and the idea of waiting upon
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I've actually had to look up 
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referring to. 
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passive I'm doing nothing while 
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Waiting is a is anticipation. 
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I'm expecting God to do 
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Sometimes it may not happen as 
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know, and sometimes we even have
to understand why the illness 

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won't go away. 
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we're stuck with it. 
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Paul's thorn in the flesh idea 
or the woman who, who was 

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bleeding for years before she 
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and, and to think about why, why
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One of the things that I'm going
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session in another format is, is
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Why did that person get healed 
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healed? 
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understand that sometimes 
healing takes place in ways that

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we don't, we don't understand, 
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God actually can heal a believer
by taking them home and 

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restoring them completely. 
And and that's a very difficult 

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idea for a lot of us, but but to
to think about suffering and 

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pain. 
You have any other thoughts 

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about suffering and pain before 
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Well, I know in God's words, 
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as a multifaceted experience 
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emotional dimensions. 
They are often linked to the 

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consequences of sin and the 
brokenness of this world, but 

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also Pastor John, for 
opportunities for growth and 

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testing and ultimately 
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And so when I pray for others, 
and I'm asking God to help me to

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pray for others correctly, I 
pray that as they go through 

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this time that they will lean 
and rest upon Him and He will be

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glorified as they trust Him and 
wait on Him. 

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Right, So let's take just a few 
moments and not only have you 

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been praying for healing, which 
is something you should continue

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to do, but but also pray for the
patience and endurance that this

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person, this person or these 
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it's you need to be able to 
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So just take a moment as you 
pray through some of these 

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ideas. 
The. 

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And as we continue as pastor, 
Charles was just saying, you 

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know, we were talking about that
we also want to pray that this 

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time would draw us closer to God
and that the lessons we learned 

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wouldn't just be lessons, but 
they would actually translate 

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into life. 
And so we want to pray that that

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through what we are enduring, 
through what we're trying to get

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through, frankly, and be healed 
from, to be released from, we 

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also recognize that this this 
could be a spiritual journey 

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that actually impacts us for the
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And so Charles talk about how to
pray that his presence would be 

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really very real to us. 
We desire for God to be close to

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us and He says He is, but many 
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not aware of His presence. 
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I pray that they would be aware 
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The reality of His presence will
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wrote. 
Trust in him at all times. 

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You people pour out your heart 
before him. 

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God is a refuge. 
God is with us. 

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He's a very present help in time
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present help. 
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be aware that he is with us. 
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I know we use a lot of times 
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happens, but I say many times 
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It's a daily Psalms that we can 
go to talks about us being aware

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of his presence, David wrote. 
The Lord is my shepherd. 

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I shall not want. 
He makes me lie down in green 

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pastures. 
He leads me beside still waters.

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He restores my soul. 
He leads me in paths of 

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righteousness for his name's 
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So here's the David, here's the 
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who's going through things and 
they are aware that the Lord is 

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with them and he's leading them.
He even says, even though I walk

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through the valley of the shadow
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for you are with me. 
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the presence of the Lord. 
I will fear no evil, for you are

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with me. 
Your rod and your staff, they 

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comfort me. 
You prepare a table before me in

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the presence of my enemies. 
You anoint my head with oil. 

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My cup overflows. 
Surely goodness and mercy shall 

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follow me all the days of my 
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house or the presence of the 
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So as I'm praying Pastor John 
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would be aware that the Lord is 
leading them, but to be aware 

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that He's leading them and He's 
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He's providing for them. 

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presence and the reality of God 
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Yeah. 
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actually will not only allow our
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force it to grow. 
It'll stretch us. 

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honest. 
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necessary times. 
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would often, or I've often said 
to people is because of what you

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went through, there are going to
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be able to pass on to others. 
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those who have been through some
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deepened and their, their 
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strengthened because they 
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these experiences. 
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the presence of the Lord, but 
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sensitivity to ministry even 
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we're sick, we're not going to 
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one and that we experience 
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We recognize that in the midst 
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horrible a part of the fallen 
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the original design, that what 
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intended for evil, God can still
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it. 
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and strengthen us, but also help
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Lord, Pastor Charles, do you 
have any other words for us 

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before we pray? 
Just ask the Lord to as you are 

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going through this time to lean 
on Him and to pray for others to

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look to Him with trust, trusting
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what He is wanting to do in your
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loved ones and others. 
And maybe you're just walking 

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around and on the street in your
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people you don't even know. 
But you may know that somethings

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you've seen the EMS truck pull 
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things happening and that say, 
hey, this person is going 

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through a difficult time. 
The Lord knows exactly what that

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time is and what they're going 
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Ask the Lord to that that they 
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them, He cares for them, and He 
has a plan for their lives. 

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So let's just take a moment. 
Whether you're walking right 

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now, as Charles alluded, or 
whether you're in the middle of 

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your personal quiet time, 
they'll be people that you know 

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already that are suffering and 
going through things, but also 

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others in your world, your 
neighborhood. 

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wheelchair ramp, or maybe you 

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see that handicap sticker, or 
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even something more dramatic. 
So to think about who you could 

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pray for that that not only 
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only would they have patience 
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this would be a time that would 
draw them closer to God. 

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So take a moment and just pray 
for those things. 

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The. 
The. 

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The. 
The. 

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The. 
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that this time could be used to 
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that this is our our primary 
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somebody is hurting or someone 
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cancer or even faces death or, 
or some kind of mental illness 

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or, or emotional distress. 
But there are moments in these 

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to where there's actually a 
gospel opportunity. 

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At times. 
People are watching you, People 

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are going to see how you are 
going through what you're going 

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through. 
And as believers, if we don't go

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through these experiences in a 
different way, then perhaps 

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we're missing an opportunity to 
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And so this can be a time that 
God can actually use to draw 

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others to him. 
And so think about the 

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testimonies to your caregivers, 
testimony to the rest of your 

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family, your friends, your 
neighbors, even fellow believers

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who are wondering how you're 
facing, what you're facing now. 

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Charles, what do you think about
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Yes, like you, Pastor John, I've
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the the prep time right before 
surgery with someone and I've 

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been so amazed as I, as I've 
experienced God's presence, as 

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the person who's getting ready 
to go into surgery says to the 

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doctor or to the medical team, 
can I pray for you? 

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I'm trusting in the Lord. 
I know he's with me and I'm 

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thankful for how God skilled you
and I'm so thankful God's giving

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you the abilities you have. 
And I just want to thank the 

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Lord for you and pray for wisdom
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physically to me. 
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And it is has inspired me to 
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times and I'm in times at the 
hospital where I'm talking to my

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doctor, that I'm making them 
aware that I trust the Lord and 

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take those opportunities to 
share with them how God is 

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ministering to me through this 
time. 

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And hopefully let them see that 
I trust in the Lord at all 

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times. 
Yeah, there's been some powerful

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testimonies over the years that 
I know about. 

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And I had AI had a church member
who was almost 90 years old 

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probably when I first met him 
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And Charles either had seven or 
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I can't remember which one. 
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walking miracle in the sense 
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everything you could remove from
a human body and he was still 

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functioning. 
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on in my pastor it there and his
sweet wife called me to the 

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house And basically they were 
sharing with me that he had just

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been diagnosed with another kind
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And I, I was trying to be 
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was praying with him and, and it
was really funny because he kept

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interrupting me. 
He and he goes, you know, I 

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wonder why this is happening. 
And I thought, well, you know, 

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this is a a common question. 
They're going to question God. 

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How come this is happening to me
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But that wasn't it at all. 
He, he was looking at his wife 

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and he said, Gene, he, he goes, 
I wonder who we haven't shared 

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the gospel with at the cancer 
ward. 

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And they went to the same 
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floor that everybody knew him 
and he knew everybody who worked

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there. 
And he goes, there must be a new

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nurse, There must be a new tech,
there must be a new Doctor. 

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And we haven't had a chance to 
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And I was like, you know, 
Charles, let me, let me pray for

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you. 
No, no, let's pray for them. 

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I mean, and he wanted us to, he 
actually wanted me to pray for 

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the person that they hadn't met 
yet who needed to gospel. 

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So, so a couple of days go by, 
he goes to the hospital and I go

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over to the hospital to see him,
you know, third floor cancer 

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ward and same hospital he always
went to. 

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And I walk in, he goes, pastor, 
I was right. 

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He goes, there was a new nurse 
on the floor that we've never 

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shared. 
In fact, here she is now she's 

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walking by the door. 
She calls her, he calls her in 

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there and he goes, I want you to
meet our pastor. 

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And then she, you know, he 
introduces me to her and she is 

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she trusted in Jesus in our room
last night and prayed to ask 

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Christ into her heart because I 
knew there was a reason why I 

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was here. 
And he was so sincere in that 

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thought process. 
And, and I, I'll never forget if

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I could grow up to be Charles 
Grier. 

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He passed away from that cancer.
And that we had, we had one of 

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the greatest homecoming 
celebrations I could ever 

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remember as far as a funeral 
goes, because of the impact that

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he had had on so many lives. 
And that doesn't mean that 

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there's something flippant about
the suffering. 

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That doesn't mean that there's 
something light about cancer or,

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or, or deathly diseases or, or 
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These are real, real, real 
struggles. 

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So we don't make light of them. 
But at the same time, I 

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recognize the testimony that's 
possible not only while you're 

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going through it, but even 
afterwards. 

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What did you learn from that and
how you could actually be 

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uniquely qualified to minister 
to somebody who's going through 

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something similarly? 
And any closing thoughts, 

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Charles? 
Just to remind us that the Lord 

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will be with us and guide us 
through these times. 

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He will lead us in passive 
righteousness for His name's 

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sake. 
I love that He restores. 

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He restores us. 
He restores our soul. 

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He knows how to speak to us 
through His Word. 

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And my prayer is, Lord, don't 
let me miss opportunities like 

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you just shared about Charles 
Grier. 

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Don't let me miss opportunities 
to glorify your name. 

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Do not let me miss opportunities
to share. 

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My Lord and Savior is real and 
that He is with us. 

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Well, and the very fact that 
Charles Greer's name is 

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mentioned here is a continuation
of the testimony, you know, that

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that's part of the legacy, isn't
it? 

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You know, I'm just reminded that
you know, the Psalm 46 that you 

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mentioned earlier that he's a 
very present help in times of 

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trouble, even when the river 
rises and the earth shakes and 

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we we have to cling to that or, 
or I think in terms of Isaiah 

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chapter 26, verses 3 and 4, 
where it says you keep him in 

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perfect peace whose mind is 
stayed on you because he trusts 

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in you trust in the Lord 
forever. 

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For the Lord God is an 
everlasting rock. 

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Which then segues right into 
what Paul wrote to, I think one 

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of his, his most loved churches 
in, in Philippi, where he says 

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that we don't have to be anxious
about anything, but with a 

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spirit of Thanksgiving, we can 
let our requests be made known 

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to God who will give us a peace 
that surpasses all 

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understanding. 
That's the remarkable part of 

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it. 
Because the people who are 

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around you, very likely, 
especially some of the folks who

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are not believers that you 
encounter along the way, that 

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the doctors, the nurses, the 
helpers along the way, they're 

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not going to understand how you 
can have peace in the midst of 

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such a storm. 
But he gives you a peace that 

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surpasses all understanding, 
that'll guard your hearts and 

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mind in Christ Jesus. 
And that testimony can ring out 

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in a way so authentically, so, 
so powerfully that that God can 

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use it to actually change lives.
Again, we're not praying for 

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that. 
I'm not going to pray that 

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tomorrow you are sick or that 
you are weak so that that can 

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happen. 
But when it does happen, and in 

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our fallen creation, it is far 
too common, when it does happen 

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there, there's an opportunity to
use the season to bring God 

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great glory. 
So as you finish your prayer 

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time, whether you're walking or 
sitting right now, just lift 

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that up to the Lord to say thank
you. 

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That even in the midst of a 
sinful, fallen, imperfect, 

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broken creation, where disease 
exists, where broken 

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relationships exist, where death
exists, that we can still cling 

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to you, and that we can also 
testify of your glory and our 

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ability to trust and have faith 
in You. 

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So you just take a moment as you
pray. 

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The. 
The. 

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The. 
The. 

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The. 
Well, I just want to thank you 

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for joining us as you finish up 
your walk and your prayer time. 

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Thank you for joining us in this
episode of Walking in Prayer. 

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Tune into the other episodes. 
They're coming coming in several

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different topical areas. 
So I just hope that you'll 

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TuneIn and listen to everyone of
them. 

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I hope these are encouraging. 
Also, watch for one coming your 

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way that will actually help you 
in your Bible study or where 

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we're going to help guide you 
through questions to ask about 

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Scripture and how to interpret 
Scripture as you're reading your

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Bible. 
And so I hope that'll be helpful

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as well. 
Charles, thanks so much for 

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joining us again. 
Yeah, it's always a blessing. 

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And I look forward to joining 
you again soon. 

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If you don't have a church home,
we'd love to have you. 

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Have you come see us on a Sunday
or a Wednesday here at Inglewood

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Baptist Church in Rocky 
Mountain, North Carolina. 

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You can look us up and find our 
service times and we'd love to 

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see you. 
And if you, if you do come, come

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and find me and introduce 
yourself to me. 

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I'd love to meet you. 
Look forward to seeing you.