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Hey everybody, this is Pastor 
John Ewart from Inglewood 

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Baptist Church in Rocky 
Mountain, North Carolina. 

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Thank you so much for tuning 
into our podcast. 

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You're going to hear from God 
today as we share from His word 

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about important issues facing 
your life that can guide you 

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according to the Bible. 
So what I want to do, you hear 

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Pastor John talk a lot about 
connecting the dots and that 

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everything we do here connects. 
And so this tonight I want what 

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I want to do before I get 
talking specifically about how 

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to become a prayer warrior, I 
wanted to use our EBC, our 

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mission, our vision and the 
essentials and just kind of 

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launch off of that platform 
tonight. 

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So God's mission here that we 
talk about a lot at Inglewood 

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Baptist Church is to bring 
glory. 

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God. 
God's mission is to bring glory 

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to himself and for us to join 
him in redeeming the nations. 

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And so as a follower of Jesus 
Christ, I should be aware and 

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desiring that God's glory is 
being manifested through my 

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life, that people are 
recognizing I'm different, that 

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I know Jesus Christ and they see
the evidence of it by the glory 

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of God, that he is glorified 
through my life. 

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And so that should be true with 
each one of us as Christ's 

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followers, and it should be true
of us as a family. 

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Inglewood Baptist Church should 
be a family, a congregation that

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brings glory to God. 
When people talk about 

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Inglewood, they should be 
saying, man, those people over 

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there are messed up, but God 
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God has done a work. 
I I believe they talk about that

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about me. 
I remember when God was doing 

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the work early in my life. 
I was a Christian when I went to

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high school, but man, I did not 
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I did not display his glory in 
high school. 

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And not long after I got out of 
high school, I surrendered. 

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I said, Lord, I'm not living the
way you want me to live. 

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My life's not bringing glory to 
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I'm in disobedience. 
And so, Lord, do a work, lead 

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me, do a work in my life. 
Not long after that, and God did

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begin to do a work, I went back 
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I had to pick up my sister. 
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I went to pick her up and while 
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they were practicing. 
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people, and I picked her up, 
took her home. 

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And then the next day as she got
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have been the talk of our school
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I said I have they. 
She said yeah. 

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She said everybody was talking 
about the change in your life, 

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that you were so different now. 
And really honestly, I did not 

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say. 
I didn't go around saying, hey, 

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guys, the Lord's changing me or 
I'm, I'm walking this way now. 

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I never said anything. 
I just walked up to people 

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again, I think because I was 
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I don't think I'd been nice. 
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been a word that would describe 
me in high school. 

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But again, somehow God worked 
through my life and they saw a 

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change. 
Just me checking on them, just 

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me asking how questions, how you
for me to walk up to somebody 

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and say, how are you doing? 
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You know, God did something with
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I think about the Scripture 
first in First Corinthians where

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Paul wrote to the Corinthians in
chapter 10, verse 31, where he 

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writes, so whatever you eat or 
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to the glory of God. 
That should be us. 

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And so one of the ways, as we're
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begin to see in our lives that 
God's not being glorified, that 

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God's not being honored with the
way we're living, that God's not

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being honored with our 
congregation, that should be 

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something immediately we begin 
to go to God about, Lord, change

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us. 
Bring glory to your name. 

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Bring glory to yourself so 
people can see you. 

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You need to be the primary 
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can see you, so people can 
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And then we will be joining God 
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because we will have a heart 
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We'll desire people. 
I wanted to people in the high 

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school, I didn't tell them this 
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I wanted them to know Jesus. 

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That was a different reasoning 
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That was a different priority 
with me when I went before, it 

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was all about me. 
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noticed. 
I wanted the teachers to give me

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a good grade and I didn't want 
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So and they would tell you 
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So the glory of God, does that 
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Do we? 
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And so that's why we say here, 
Inglewood, this is God's 

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mission. 
God's mission is to bring glory.

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That is Inglewood's desire to 
see God glorified through 

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Inglewood Baptist Church and 
Inglewood's vision to make 

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disciples who love God, love 
people, and join him on his 

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mission in redeeming the 
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And so at Inglewood, if we're 
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accepted Jesus as our Lord and 
Savior, we are disciples. 

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And that keyword in the Greek 
for disciple is a learner. 

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I'm a learner of the Lord Jesus.
I'm in the school of Christ 

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daily where I'm learning at his 
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No matter where I am, no matter 
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my task is that I am a disciple.
I am a follower of the Lord 

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Jesus Christ right where I am. 
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when we say Inglewood, you are 
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We are disciples of the Lord 
Jesus Christ and we are exiting 

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here to go bring glory to his 
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bring glory to his name and to 
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And so that as we think about 
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Father, help me truly to be a 
disciple. 

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May people see Christ your Son 
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Paul wrote, Christ in you, the 
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And so there should be a 
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We should have a desire to see 
the nations redeemed. 

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We should have a desire as a 
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family to see his glory. 
We should be excited about that.

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Paul said, whatever you do, if 
you're eating or drinking, I had

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some fried chicken today. 
I said, Lord, this is good. 

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May you be glorified. 
And but truly here's what I did.

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So we had a well, I'm dressed 
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We had a funeral today here for 
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We were all in here earlier 
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We had a meal for the family and
we have a wonderful bereavement 

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team and many of you, some of 
you prepared food today for that

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family. 
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food, I was thinking about the 
ministry of the hands who 

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prepared that food for this 
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This family were grieving, but 
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And as we as they made the edge 
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they had that meal together, 
they were able to fellowship 

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around table. 
Inglewood was able to love on 

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them. 
We were pointing them to Christ.

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But it was several people. 
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It wasn't just a few, it was 
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And so my prayer was Lord, even 
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your name. 
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If that's, if that's not on our 
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not in front of us, we should 
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Start asking now, Lord, now. 
Do it now. 

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May I be so aware of you and 
your glory and desiring that You

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are bringing glory to yourself 
through me. 

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Lord, I don't desire the nations
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I don't desire people around me 
to be redeemed. 

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I walk by people all the time 
and never ask their name, never 

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talk to them in the office. 
Matter of fact, they bug me so 

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much I do not want to talk to 
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Sometimes I pray as Lord Get Me 
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There's a deep we need to dig 
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But Lord help me. 
There's people all around me who

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do not know you. 
There's people around me who 

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know you and yet they're not 
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They're not being a disciple 
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And so that's this is a 
launching pad for for us at 

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Inglewood. 
That's why we spend so much time

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talking about this. 
This is essential for us. 

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This is essential for each one 
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Baptist Church and as a 
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And then we had the seven 
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essentials is of the seven 
essentials of a disciple of 

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Jesus. 
And so there may be more 

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essentials than this, but we 
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and sought the Lord. 
And, and we we did this over 

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several, several people and 
several teams and several times 

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where we say, what is it? 
What is the essential basic 

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biblical essential of being a 
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That's why you hear about Pastor
John just finished engaging the 

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Bible, the word of God, engaging
the Bible with a humble and 

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teachable spirit, a disciple of 
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The essential is unites in 
fellowship through hospitality 

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and authenticity that should be 
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The third abides in prayer with 
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That's the one we're going to 
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what we're starting to talk 
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weeks. 
And then a disciple of Jesus, a 

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sensuous commits to the commits 
to service with generosity and 

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compassion. 
A disciple of Jesus responds in 

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worship with all and surrender. 
A disciple of Jesus lives out 

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evangelism with boldness and 
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A disciple of Jesus participates
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sacrifice. 
And so tonight, in the next 

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several weeks, we're asking 
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prayer? 
Are we abiding in prayer with 

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dependency on the Lord and are 
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have expectation and 
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Are we really going into any 
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With that in mind, that word 
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dwells, it is into it. 
So when you say, when we talk 

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about abiding a disciple of 
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means simply we're living in a 
attitude of prayer that we are 

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constantly desiring and seeking 
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communicating with him and 
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Our whole attitude is prayer, 
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communication with God, isn't 
it, where we are aware of his 

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presence? 
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presence by faith, I know he's 
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By faith, I know he's alive by 
faith I know God is present. 

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And so when we are saying we are
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attitude of prayer with 
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here's here's where we want to 
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We want to start showing that, 
displaying that. 

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I really want Inglewood to be 
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I desire for that to be my life 
and I desire for that to be your

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life. 
Yes, all the essentials, all the

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essentials we're asking to be a 
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focus on abiding in prayer. 
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listen for a little while 
tonight as we talk about it. 

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I don't know if I can talk as 
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going, I'm going to make a 
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So if you have a problem with 
this tonight, if you say, man, 

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that really messed me up, you 
can e-mail jurit.com. 

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I've been wanting to say that 
he's going to be listening. 

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So I wanted to you got some 
quotes on your paper tonight. 

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And one of the things I do want 
to say too, in the beginning, it

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took me a long time, but I began
to realize prayer is a gift. 

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And here's what I I mean, when 
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prayer is, it's conversation, 
it's a dialogue with my Heavenly

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Father in Jesus Christ. 
And by the power of the Holy 

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Spirit, when we think about 
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And when we think about we have 
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Father, to God himself, the God 
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who's for everlasting to 
everlasting, that should shake 

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us up. 
So when we think about, we have 

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in a relationship through Jesus 
Christ with him and we don't 

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have to send an e-mail out. 
You don't have to send a 

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voicemail out. 
You don't have to wait for days 

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to say, did they get that 
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We have direct access to the 
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That is powerful. 
And so so I wanted to put some 

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quotes down tonight for you to 
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Simpson. 
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that connects us with God. 
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It's the connector. 
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praying or when we're listening,
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about those habits in just a few
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communication that we're having 
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actually communicating with Him.
It's a link and it's precious. 

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Anybody, everybody who knows 
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Prayer is the link that connects
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Then Elizabeth Elliott, I used 
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I don't get to listen to her. 
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still play a lot of her, her 
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earth. 
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the link. 
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pastor, and I've said it in my 
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What, what is God's will for me?
What's God's will for Inglewood?

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What's God's will for my family?
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asked them? 
Have you actually began to seek 

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him and say, Lord, what is your 
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What is your will for me today? 
What is your will for us right 

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now as we're talking about 
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warrior and how to abide in 
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What is your will for us? 
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Elizabeth Wrights it here. 
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You see that embracing. 
We go after it. 

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Robin will tell you one of the 
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few people know this because I 
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I like sports now. 
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I never was that great. 
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catcher's meet and I think I was
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But I do enjoy it and I do love 
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just matter of fact, most time 
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to the TV. 
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I'm engaging. 
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most of the time and just watch 
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When I'm watching sports, I, I, 
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Nobody's in the room. 
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they, they leave me. 
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and I'm engaging. 
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says we should lay whole, prayer
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going to the father and laying 
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will be done. 
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We want your will. 
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Jesus taught his disciples to 
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praying your will be done here 
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And many times when I'm praying 
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Lord, your will be done in 
Charles's life right now as it 

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is in heaven. 
Your will be done in this 

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surgery right now, Father, as 
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surgery, your will be done as it
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They're going to a doctor's 
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me and they said pray for us. 
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appointment, Father, your will 
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As they meet with the doctors 
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about a plan, your will be done.
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begin to be aware of these 
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We begin to pray and ask for 
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Here's another quote by George 
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He was well known as a preacher 
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and most people know him about 
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He recorded so many answers that
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prayer. 
Here's this in order to enjoy 

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the Word, the Bible, we ought to
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praying. 
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God, the less we desire it, and 
the less we pray, the less we 

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desire to pray. 
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And so we know that the enemy, 
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world desires to just put 
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weary, that we don't even feel 
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like being in the Word of God. 
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tries to keep us from having a 
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God and dwelling and maintaining
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God, because the enemy knows the
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meditating on the Word of God 
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in their heart. 
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love the world or the things in 
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If anyone loves the world, the 
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them. 
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world, the desires of the flesh 
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the pride of life is not from 
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world. 
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tries to do is to get us to love
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That which satisfies me, that 
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keeps me focused on what's going
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the past. 
Me, me, me. 

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And then it also the enemy tries
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to distract me, to keep me from 
focusing on what's really 

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important and what's what should
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person, a Christ follower of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the enemy in 

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the world and the flesh. 
Try to water that down where we 

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don't look any different than 
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And then we begin to say, you 
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We can't look like him. 
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we are. 
Oh, I'm just Charles. 

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But there should be a difference
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a power that shows and displays 
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human strength. 
This other quote by George 

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Mueller, he said here is the 
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Work with all your might, but 
trust not in the least in your 

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work. 
Pray with all your might for the

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blessing of God, but work at the
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with all patience, with all 
perseverance. 

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Pray then and work, work and 
pray and still again pray and 

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then work and so on all the days
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The result will surely be 
abundant blessing. 

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Whether you see much fruit or 
little fruit, such kind of 

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service will be blessed. 
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I've been able to be a part of 6
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December the 31st. 
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situation, I'm thinking, Lord, 
you know what this family is 

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going through. 
You know the desires and you 

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know their heart and you know 
the emotion. 

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You know everything. 
I may, I may learn a little bit,

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but you know everything that's 
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what this family needs. 
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will to be done use Inglewood, 
use us that you've opened that 

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door for us to be able to 
minister to this family that 

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they may experience and know 
your presence, that they may 

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know you, that they may have a 
desire in a sense that you are 

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with them. 
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even today, I walk off that 
platform and I'm thinking, Lord,

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I hope you use this mess today. 
I hope you were able to work 

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through me. 
I hope, I hope. 

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And then I just say, Lord, but I
trust you. 

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I trust you. 
I've done everything I've known 

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to do. 
I've studied, I've done 

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everything I've known to do. 
I trust you to do a work that 

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only you can do in the lives of 
people. 

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And I do pray that you draw them
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I'd rather be able to pray than 
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Jesus, he was a great preacher. 
God used him mightily, but he 

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says Jesus Christ never taught 
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only to pray. 
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series and this time in the as 
we talk about prayer, I pray you

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will begin to write down some 
things like, Lord, teach me to 

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pray and not only think about 
you, Lord teach us. 

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May we be known as a praying 
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May we be known as a praying 
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Somebody came up to me the other
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listen, I want to get you to 
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I know you're a prayer warrior. 
Well, how, how do you know that?

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Well, you're a preacher. 
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They said, no, I see the 
evidence because I, I see you 

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pray when you call me and I 
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pray about it. 
You, you, you take it right to 

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the Lord. 
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Lord for that. 
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we're out and at the office and 
somebody comes and say, Hey, I 

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know you go to church and I, I, 
I see your life. 

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I, I need some prayer and I've 
got this going on in my life. 

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I got this going on with my 
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And that's an opportunity right 
there for to minister right on 

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your job. 
And then and then you can write 

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it down and say, hey, I'm going 
to take this back to my church 

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and we're going to pray for it 
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That's a little hint there. 
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doing as well. 
There's hundreds and hundreds of

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opportunities probably with us 
during the daytime to hear about

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prayer requests and for people 
bringing prayer requests to us. 

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I wanted to share something as I
walk in, walk into this time of 

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really looking at what a prayer 
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I learned from a real early age.
I, I was, I surrendered my life 

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to Christ at the age of nine 
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And it happened after not long 
after I, my sister, she was 

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three years younger than me. 
I was seven years old when this 

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happened and she was 4 and my 
sister got hit by an automobile 

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in front of our house and she 
died 24 hours later and and it 

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happened in front of me. 
I saw it all happen, but that's 

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not what really spoke to me. 
Afterwards, I'm I begin to watch

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my mom and dad go through that 
time and I begin to see people 

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come and love on them and pray 
with them. 

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I saw how my mom and dad 
responded to that situation in 

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their lives and I begin to ask 
questions long after that 

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happened. 
So I was two years even after 

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that happened. 
I was still asking questions and

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finally one day I realized I 
don't have. 

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I go to church Mama, I had a 
drug problem. 

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My mom and dad drugged me to 
church. 

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I know you heard that, but it's 
still I like using it, But I 

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began to say I go to church, but
I don't have what they have and 

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I have heard about I knew about 
Jesus and I I knew it was a 

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relationship. 
I I heard that and so I I went 

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to my mom 1 evening. 
I think I first done it to get 

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out of homework because it was 
like a Tuesday night. 

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But I said, Mom, I, I want, I, I
want Jesus. 

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I want to surrender my life to 
Christ. 

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And I thought she was going to 
say, OK, I'll take you to the 

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preacher Sunday morning. 
But she didn't do that. 

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You know what she did? 
She talked to me really what it 

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meant to be a Christian. 
She opened the word of God and 

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shared with me all about the 
different, what it means to be a

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Christian about my sin. 
Do I acknowledge my sin? 

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Do I realize I'm a Sinner, that 
I need Christ, I need 

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forgiveness, and Christ is 
willing. 

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God is willing to forgive me, 
waiting to forgive me, waiting 

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to come into my life, change my 
life, living my life. 

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She explained that to me. 
And right there in our den we 

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knelt and I asked Christ in my 
own words to change my life and 

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to come into my life and for me 
to surrender my life to Christ. 

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I learned something. 
My mom taught me right then how 

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to go to God and ask him as a 
nine year old boy. 

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Not long after that, my 
grandparents, my paternal 

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grandparents lived across the 
street from where we went to 

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church. 
And at their house, behind their

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house, they had a field and we, 
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And so my mom and dad, on 
Saturdays, we all get over there

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with some of the other family 
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And one particular Saturday we 
were over there working, we were

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all dirty and it was hot in the 
summertime. 

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And we've been picking and I 
think pulling potatoes out of 

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the ground and stuff like that. 
The next day, Sunday, was the 

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beginning of revival at the 
local church. 

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And my mom and my grandmother 
said, hey, let's go pray right 

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now for revival. 
Now. 

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They didn't have shoes on. 
Their feet were dirty. 

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I remember looking at them, they
were sweaty, but they grabbed my

445
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,920
hands. 
I don't know why, but they 

446
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,080
grabbed me and drugged me right 
into that church. 

447
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,160
And they, the church was not 
locked at that time. 

448
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,760
It was, it's different today, 
but the church wasn't locked. 

449
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,360
We walked right in. 
We went to the altar and my mom 

450
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,520
and my grandmother got on their 
knees and they begin to cry out 

451
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,560
to Lord, to the Lord first and 
foremost for themselves. 

452
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:16,120
First God do a work in my life, 
change me. 

453
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,840
And then they, they, yeah, they 
drug me into it. 

454
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:25,760
They pray for me, but then they 
begin to pray for the other 

455
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,160
members of of Oakview Baptist 
Church. 

456
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,560
They've been there and they it 
felt like two or three hours. 

457
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,800
It felt like an eternity to me, 
but they prayed. 

458
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,320
I began to see a difference. 
I began, I said, man, they're, 

459
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,640
they're talking to the Father. 
They're crying out. 

460
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,080
They have a burden for others. 
A few weeks later, I was sick. 

461
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,520
And so I was at my grandmother's
house, that same grandmother. 

462
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,960
And I remember I said, 
Grandmama, how do you pray to 

463
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,760
the Father? 
How do you talk to God? 

464
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,760
And she said, you got his phone 
number, God's got a phone 

465
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,920
number. 
And I said God's got a phone 

466
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:06,920
number. 
You joking? 

467
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,679
She said, no, he's got a phone 
number. 

468
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,280
Some of you know my Grandma 
Taylor, I see George Bailey and 

469
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,199
Lois Bailey, they knew my 
Grandma Taylor. 

470
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:23,639
And she said yes, Jeremiah 33 
three She said that's called to 

471
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:26,639
me. 
The he says call to me and I 

472
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:31,199
will answer you and I will show 
you things that are hidden that 

473
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,560
you know not of. 
She was you see what she was 

474
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,920
doing. 
She was taking her little 

475
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:42,480
grandson to the Lord. 
She was teaching me how to pray 

476
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,400
on my own. 
She was teaching me I could go 

477
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,480
directly to my father as a 
little boy and I had to learn. 

478
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,840
I had to grow in that. 
But I begin to realize I had 

479
00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:01,080
access to the Father. 
So what is a prayer warrior? 

480
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,880
When you think of a prayer 
warrior, most of us, and we do, 

481
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,920
we think of somebody who 
faithfully prays. 

482
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,920
We, we see it in their lives. 
We know they pray, we've watched

483
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,760
them, we've observed them over 
time. 

484
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,560
They put, they pray in the 
connect group. 

485
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,080
They, they, they, they've got 
people cornered at a welcome 

486
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,520
desk and they're praying for 
them. 

487
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,000
We've seen them out at the ball 
field or somewhere maybe where 

488
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,960
we are. 
We've seen them at Walmart and 

489
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,640
they got this person and they're
praying. 

490
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,200
You know, they're a praying 
person. 

491
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:40,040
The evidence is there. 
But also that warrior is a 

492
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:45,240
fighter. 
It's a person that that gets 

493
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:49,040
right in the fight. 
You think of a soldier that's 

494
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,120
equipped and ready for battle. 
And most of us, as I was 

495
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,360
thinking about as we kick this 
series off, we kick it off with 

496
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,520
a heavyweight, don't we? 
We Pastor John's going to be 

497
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,480
talking about different topics, 
why we pray, praying for 

498
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,240
missions and other things like 
this. 

499
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,240
But we kick this off tonight 
'cause this is a desire, This 

500
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,640
should be a desire of our hearts
that we are prayer warriors. 

501
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:19,440
When I was a little boy and and 
we had VBS, my mom was the 

502
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:24,400
worship leader for the VBS and 
you know what she made us sing. 

503
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,560
I got so tired of it. 
Every year we sung Onward 

504
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,440
Christian Soldier. 
I thought, well, next year I was

505
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,160
in another age group. 
I said we'll sing another song. 

506
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,880
But no, she made us sing that 
song. 

507
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,880
I think it too. 
I was out of VBS. 

508
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,360
Every year we sung Onward 
Christian Soldier. 

509
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:48,400
But I began to realize, and 
especially as I got older, I am 

510
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:53,120
a soldier of the cross. 
I am a warrior. 

511
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:59,120
There is a battle going on. 
Haven't been aware of it because

512
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,640
I'm not aware of His glory. 
I'm not following in His mission

513
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,320
to see the nation's redeem. 
I'm not in the fight. 

514
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:12,160
I'm not in communication with 
Him When we began to step out by

515
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:17,680
faith and begin to allow Him to 
lead us in passive righteousness

516
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,760
for His name's sake, we begin to
see we're in a, you know, 

517
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,320
warfare. 
And so we're in the fight. 

518
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:30,360
All of us, all of us. 
That's not a few of us. 

519
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,280
That's not just for pastors. 
That's not just for a few. 

520
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,280
That's for every. 
Did you hear me again when I 

521
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,000
said the essential of a disciple
of Jesus Christ is one who 

522
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,760
abides in prayer, abides, lives 
out in prayer, lives out that 

523
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:52,440
communication with dependency 
and expectation, with a 

524
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:58,480
dependency and anticipation to 
God. 

525
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:06,440
And so how do I become a prayer 
warrior in Ephesians 618 through

526
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,360
20? 
Paul wrote this to the believers

527
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,200
in Ephesians. 
At Ephesus he just talked about 

528
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,480
putting on the whole armor of 
God. 1st 10 starts off and says 

529
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,720
finally, my brethren, brethren, 
be strong in the Lord and in the

530
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:27,880
power of His might. 
That is a prayer we should be 

531
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:33,720
praying for one another, that we
are strong in the Lord and we're

532
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,280
moving and walking in the power 
of His might. 

533
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,200
The reasons sometimes the church
and we as believers experience 

534
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,080
defeat is because we're doing it
in whose might power might. 

535
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,160
And sometimes we have to fail 
many times to realize, wait a 

536
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,240
minute, this is not working. 
And it's not working because I'm

537
00:38:55,240 --> 00:39:00,240
doing it in my strength and the 
Lord is trying to get our 

538
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,200
attention. 
And so he wrote, be strong in 

539
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,680
the Lord, in the power of his 
might. 

540
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,080
And then he talked about putting
on the whole armor, wearing the 

541
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,520
whole armor of God. 
And then he says these words, 

542
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:18,000
praying at all times in the 
Spirit. 

543
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,960
And that just means by the power
of the Holy Spirit, the Holy 

544
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,360
Spirit is in us as Christ's 
followers. 

545
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,440
And the Holy Spirit knows how to
make intercession. 

546
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:30,960
Holy Spirit knows how to take us
to the Father. 

547
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,800
The Holy Spirit knows how to 
make us aware of what's going on

548
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,000
around us and what to pray. 
Praying at all times in the 

549
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,520
Spirit with all prayer. 
How much all prayer and 

550
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,600
supplication. 
That supplication we know is 

551
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,960
earnest pleading. 
We're pleading for us. 

552
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,120
We're pleading on other, for 
others, on others behalf. 

553
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:03,360
We're pleading for them. 
It's an intense intentional when

554
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,720
it uses that word supplication. 
It's like a begging almost. 

555
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,280
I'm begging you. 
It's like when I need something.

556
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,320
I need the doctor. 
I'm begging you to give me that 

557
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:21,800
erythromycin, I'm, I'm begging 
you to help me get rid of this 

558
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,680
flu. 
It's a urgent. 

559
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,800
It's a cry. 
To that end, keep alert. 

560
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:36,480
How alert are we? 
How alert are we of the dangers,

561
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,480
the pitfalls of the things that 
are before us? 

562
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:43,960
And so we pray for one another. 
We pray for ourselves and we 

563
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,840
pray for us as a church. 
Lord, help us to be alert. 

564
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,080
Help us to be aware of the 
warfare. 

565
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,160
Help us to be aware that the 
enemy is trying to destroy my 

566
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,200
family. 
Help me be aware that the that 

567
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,000
the enemy doesn't want my 
children to follow you and to 

568
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,800
obey you and all the voices 
they're hearing at school and 

569
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,280
and different places and even 
your our grandchildren. 

570
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,200
We pray, we get in the in the 
war room and we pray and cry out

571
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:22,600
for God to help us and to do a 
work in their lives and to 

572
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:29,040
protect our family and others. 
Keep alert with all 

573
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,800
perseverance, making 
supplication for all the Saints 

574
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:39,360
and also for me, he says. 
So I beg and cry out for your 

575
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,160
prayers. 
I ask for you to pray for me and

576
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,280
all the pastors here at 
Inglewood Baptist Church, as 

577
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:52,120
we're praying for you. 
Pray for us that we would be 

578
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,440
experiencing that we would be 
strong in the Lord that words 

579
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:03,280
may be given to me in opening my
mouth boldly to proclaim the the

580
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,920
mystery of the gospel for which 
I am an ambassador in chains, 

581
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,760
that I may declare it boldly as 
I ought to speak. 

582
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:21,400
And so I'm going to focus now on
three areas as we think about 

583
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:28,720
prayer, prayer warriors. 
And the first area is grow and 

584
00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,920
develop in our walk of faith a 
little bit. 

585
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:36,680
What we've been talking about 
that if we're not growing in our

586
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:43,120
faith, if we're not experiencing
trust in the Lord in our daily 

587
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,800
lives, it's pretty much evident 
and it's pretty much true that 

588
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:53,160
we're probably not going to him.
Our prayers may be, Lord, Get Me

589
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,960
Out of this mess. 
Help this youngin take care of 

590
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,400
this Co worker. 
You know, it may be simply that 

591
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,560
may be the extent of our prayers
when it can be. 

592
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:11,480
Lord, I'm in a mess. 
I got myself here. 

593
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,800
I put myself in this mess. 
I deserve to be in this mess, 

594
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,400
but I don't, I don't. 
It's not bringing you glory for 

595
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:26,200
me to be in this mess. 
So Lord help me, show me what I 

596
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,600
need to do, lead me and teach 
me. 

597
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,440
Help me with my next steps in 
getting out of this situation. 

598
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,280
Or if you want to keep me in 
this situation, show me and 

599
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,040
teach me all that you want while
I'm in this mess. 

600
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,040
Father, I'm having trouble with 
this Co worker. 

601
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,200
It's probably me as much me as 
it is anybody. 

602
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,880
But Lord help me. 
Help me to be patient. 

603
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,920
Help me to do what I need to do.
Sometimes you might just need to

604
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,280
step away from the situation. 
Sometimes you might need to just

605
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:02,880
step out of that person's life 
for a while. 

606
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,120
And so, Lord, help me with that.
Give me wisdom, give me 

607
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:14,800
direction, and show me. 
But then, Father, I pray for 

608
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,520
that person. 
I pray that they will experience

609
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,000
you and know you. 
And Lord, I pray for that peace 

610
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,200
that passes all understanding to
be in their life. 

611
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,520
I pray that they will be 
obedient and follow you and walk

612
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,920
with you and talk with you and 
have communion with you. 

613
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,440
Father, my child, I pray for 
them. 

614
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,800
I cry out for them, help them, 
help them when they're in 

615
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,640
school, help them when they're 
away from me. 

616
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,680
I knew I was in trouble when I 
came home from school and my 

617
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:51,160
mother said, how was your day? 
That that woman already knew my 

618
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:57,720
day and that's why she asked me.
And I thought, how in the world 

619
00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,480
did she find out? 
I might as well tell her. 

620
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,080
Sometimes I told her more than I
should. 

621
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:06,680
I told her more than she knew. 
And but she straightened me out 

622
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,320
so, but God knows, right? 
He knows the end. 

623
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,000
He knows the beginning. 
And so we, we, we bring that 

624
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,360
before him. 
We cry out. 

625
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:23,120
Lord, help us with this in 
Second Corinthians 57, for we 

626
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,920
walk by faith and not by sight. 
Is that true of you? 

627
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:33,560
Is that true of me? 
Are we encountering the 

628
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,200
circumstances of life? 
Are we encountering daily life 

629
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,240
with faith? 
Are we walking that? 

630
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,600
Where is simply? 
Are we living by faith, to live 

631
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,120
by faith, to live out in faith? 
Are we actually doing that? 

632
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,640
Are we, when the crisis comes 
and the pressures come and they 

633
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,240
will come and they do come, 
don't they? 

634
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,440
How are we encountering them? 
How are we interacting? 

635
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,320
Are we interacting, interacting 
with that, with by faith? 

636
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,480
Are we trusting God to give us 
wisdom in that encounter, in 

637
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,360
that struggle, in that victory? 
Do we cry out in the morning? 

638
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:17,000
Lord, today I want to walk by 
faith and not by sight. 

639
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:23,440
Help me with that. 
I want to to be an example of a 

640
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:28,520
faith person who's living out 
faith in their lives. 

641
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,840
I pray for Inglewood that we 
would be a congregation that 

642
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,320
walks by faith, that lives by 
faith. 

643
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,000
I pray for our Connect Group 
leaders that they would be men 

644
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,480
and women who live by faith and 
walk by faith and trust you 

645
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,200
daily. 
And so it's seen when we come 

646
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,680
together and worship. 
I pray for the people in the 

647
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,200
Crow's Nest up there with the AV
folks. 

648
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,680
I pray, Lord, that they would 
encounter you daily and walk 

649
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,880
with you daily. 
That they would walk by faith 

650
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,880
and not by sight. 
I pray for our children here at 

651
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,280
Inglewood and for our preschool 
here at Inglewood. 

652
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,360
I wake. 
They preach that they would know

653
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,880
how to learn to walk by faith 
and not by sight, To live that 

654
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,200
out every day in our lives. 
When we go on vacation, when we 

655
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,040
take some time off, when we're 
at the Walmart, when we're 

656
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,160
driving and get behind a car 
that's going 10 miles an hour 

657
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,920
when it should be going 30 miles
an hour. 

658
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,680
When that tire flattens, When 
you go to work and everything 

659
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:42,840
goes wrong, Somebody said the 
other day to me said, man, it's 

660
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,320
been a rough day at work. 
And I said, I, I don't know if I

661
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,640
I can say that and reason I 
couldn't say that because I had 

662
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:58,000
some of my coworkers beside me. 
Proverbs 3, five and six 

663
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,360
scriptures that we know. 
These are scriptures that we 

664
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,840
know so well. 
Trust in the Lord with what? 

665
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:09,960
Oh, your heart, is this true of 
us? 

666
00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:14,480
You know, Pastor John, one of 
the things I've been doing this 

667
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,200
for years, but he brought this 
to my attention in in a very 

668
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:23,320
vivid way when he started asking
why the discipline of why, as he

669
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,120
calls it. 
And he asked why, why are you 

670
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,360
doing this? 
Why is this? 

671
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:34,560
And so that's a good question. 
Why, why did I behave this way? 

672
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,840
Why is this happening? 
Am I trusting the Lord 

673
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,320
completely daily? 
Am I really doing that? 

674
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,120
Am I trusting the Lord? 
Is Inglewood the members of 

675
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,240
Inglewood Baptist Church, are 
they trusting the Lord with all 

676
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,960
our hearts? 
Is that true of us? 

677
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,560
And so the as we think about 
being a prayer warrior without 

678
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:08,080
trust, do you think we are 
having effective prayer without 

679
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:12,840
trusting the Lord for the little
things, the little activities in

680
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,880
our lives, the the daily little 
schedules. 

681
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,840
Or we could trust God for 
everything. 

682
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,800
But it says here with all your 
heart and do not lean on your 

683
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,040
own understanding in all your 
ways. 

684
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,600
Acknowledge him and he will do 
what make straight your paths. 

685
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:38,760
Hebrews 11/6 and without faith 
it is impossible to please him 

686
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,520
for whomever, for whoever would 
draw near to God must believe 

687
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,520
that he exists and that he 
rewards those who seek him. 

688
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,640
A prayer warrior praise faith 
filled prayers. 

689
00:49:55,160 --> 00:50:01,200
A prayer warrior is coming to 
God in faith, and we're coming 

690
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,360
to God in faith because He 
exists and we are aware of His 

691
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,440
presence. 
Again, let me read this. 

692
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:19,400
Without faith it is what? 
Impossible to do what to please 

693
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:25,400
Him Are we? 
Are our lives pleasing him? 

694
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,440
Or are we a church that pleases 
God? 

695
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:37,200
Are we a church that brings 
blessing to Him? 

696
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:45,800
Are we a church that brings Him 
glory and brings Him honor and 

697
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,520
He delights in us being 
together? 

698
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:55,960
That's the good questions, and 
it's in the Word, so it can 

699
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,600
happen. 
I can live my life without 

700
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,160
pleasing Him because I can live 
as a Christian. 

701
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,680
I can trust in so many more 
things than trusting in the Lord

702
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,960
Jesus Christ. 
And so even as a Christian, I 

703
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,120
believe I can live my life where
I'm not pleasing him. 

704
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,640
I believe you can be a church 
that doesn't please God. 

705
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:25,560
And so we pray and hope. 
We desire to be a church that 

706
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:30,360
pleases God and we cry out for 
that to happen for each one of 

707
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:37,200
us. 
Ian Bounce said this. 

708
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,720
We can never expect to grow in 
the likeness of our Lord unless 

709
00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:47,160
we follow His example and give 
more time to communion with the 

710
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,720
Father. 
A revival of real praying would 

711
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:57,760
produce a spiritual revolution. 
And so, hey, that time with Him,

712
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:02,720
it could be in a prayer closet. 
It could be a time where we're 

713
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,560
shut off to ourselves. 
But also that praying without 

714
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:13,520
ceasing that attitude of prayer,
praying as we're moving along, 

715
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:19,200
praying like Nehemiah, lifting 
up that prayer and praying to 

716
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:27,040
God right there in that moment. 
Another area I want to just look

717
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:32,880
at tonight is, and I'll be real 
quick after this, establish 

718
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,560
consistent studying of God's 
word and prayer habits. 

719
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:40,440
And so second Peter 318 but grow
in the grace and the knowledge 

720
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,240
again, grow in the grace and the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior

721
00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:49,480
Jesus Christ. 
We should be praying and asking 

722
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,120
for ourselves and being in the 
word of God, studying the word 

723
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,760
of God. 
Make meditating upon the Word of

724
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,000
God daily. 
We know that's right. 

725
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,640
Nobody has to preach that to us.
Nobody has to tell us that's 

726
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,880
what we should be doing. 
But or is it happening in our 

727
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,960
lives and why is it not 
happening? 

728
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,080
And so we have to be intentional
to make it happen. 

729
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,760
We have to set some time aside 
to be in the Word of God. 

730
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:25,040
We have to make it a priority, 
the word of God, a priority in 

731
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,040
our lives. 
We have to look to His word. 

732
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,280
We have to say, hey, I'm going 
to do this no matter what 

733
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,480
because I know it pleases Him. 
I know this is what I need. 

734
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,680
I think about when I think about
the Word of God. 

735
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:44,360
Think about these verses in 
Psalms 119 that the psalmist 

736
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:49,160
wrote that David wrote verse 97 
to 104. 

737
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:56,160
I asked this question a lot. 
Does this reflect me? 

738
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:05,280
Do I resemble this these verses 
Oh how I love your law is my 

739
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:10,520
meditation all the day. 
Your commandment makes me wiser 

740
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,800
than my enemies. 
That's where where it says don't

741
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:18,920
lean on your own understanding. 
His word makes us wise and helps

742
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:23,800
us with our everyday decisions. 
Your commandments make me wiser 

743
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,640
than my enemies. 
I have more understanding than 

744
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:32,440
all my teachers for your 
testimonies or my meditation. 

745
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:39,280
I understand more than the 
aging, for I keep your precepts.

746
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:45,720
I hold back my feet from every 
evil way in order to keep your 

747
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:49,200
word. 
I do not turn aside from your 

748
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,040
rules, for you have taught me 
how sweet. 

749
00:54:53,480 --> 00:55:00,160
How sweet are your words to my 
taste, sweeter than honey to my 

750
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,080
mouth. 
Through your precepts I get 

751
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,680
understanding. 
Therefore I hate every false 

752
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,320
way. 
That's why the flesh, that's why

753
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,560
the world, that's why the enemy 
tries to keep us out of his 

754
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:16,720
book. 
And so we have to be in tension.

755
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:22,000
We have to, we have to even say,
Lord, give me the desire to be 

756
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,960
in your word. 
Give me a desire. 

757
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:31,480
Make this a priority in my life.
And so I praise God for that, 

758
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:38,160
that that he changes our lives. 
Your word is a lamp to my feet 

759
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,560
and a light to my path. 
I have stored your word in my 

760
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,440
heart that I might not sin 
against you. 

761
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:50,800
So we have these habits and we 
know it's a desire. 

762
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,120
It should be a desire of ours to
study the word of God. 

763
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,320
But right now I want to talk 
about in the next few minutes, I

764
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,040
want to talk about prayer 
habits. 

765
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,960
And I've listed not in your on 
your paper. 

766
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,440
So you can write these down if 
you like or go back and listen 

767
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:11,840
to the podcast because here in 
First Thessalonians 517, it says

768
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,880
pray without ceasing. 
Philippians 46, do not be 

769
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,080
anxious about anything, but in 
everything by prayer and 

770
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,520
supplication with Thanksgiving, 
let your request be made known 

771
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,400
to God. 
And Colossians 42 continue 

772
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,080
steadfastly in prayer, being 
watchful in it with 

773
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:30,760
Thanksgiving. 
These are just these are some 

774
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,360
prayer habits that I've put down
in my life. 

775
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,000
And then when people ask me, I 
talk to them about it. 

776
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:44,400
So here, here to go, go to God 
first, make a habit of going to 

777
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,360
God 1st instead of talking to 
others. 

778
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,840
You can talk to others, but go 
to God first in Matthew 6 where 

779
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:58,840
it talks about 633 where it says
seek ye first, the Kingdom of 

780
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:03,240
God and his righteousness. 
So one of the things I realized 

781
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:08,040
I wasn't going to God first. 
And so a prayer warrior begins 

782
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,400
to realize the importance of 
going to God first in 

783
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:15,040
everything. 
When I hear about the issue, I 

784
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,240
go to God first. 
And a lot of times when we hear 

785
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,600
when we're asking people, and 
sometimes we don't want to ask 

786
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,440
people, do they want us to pray 
for them? 

787
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:25,880
Or what can I pray for you 
about? 

788
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,720
Because we're afraid they may 
tell us. 

789
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,160
And then when they tell us, we 
think, what do we do with this? 

790
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:36,280
This is huge. 
This is a mess, what they're 

791
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,400
telling us. 
They've opened up the door of 

792
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,320
their lives. 
They've they've opened up that 

793
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,760
curtain. 
And behind that curtain is some 

794
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,920
really hard, deep, difficult 
stuff. 

795
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,120
Wow. 
I wish I didn't know that. 

796
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,320
But what do we do? 
Go to God first. 

797
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:57,520
God's big, and he may show us 
later on some things we can do 

798
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,040
physically, but we're not there 
to solve the problem. 

799
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:06,040
We can't. 
We're not their Savior, we go to

800
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,200
him seek ye first, go to God 
first. 

801
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:14,040
Secondly, incorporate, 
incorporate Thanksgiving and 

802
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:18,560
praise to God. 
I found when I do that it other 

803
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,920
things begin to fade away. 
If you just start reading a 

804
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,400
little bit and meditating and 
thinking about what when Paul 

805
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,960
wrote to the churches, one of 
the things he said a lot is I 

806
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,520
give God thanks. 
We I pray for you with 

807
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,000
Thanksgiving. 
And in these verses I just read 

808
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,400
in First Thessalonians, I mean 
in Philippians and Colossians, 

809
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,640
he's talking about with 
Thanksgiving. 

810
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,160
Continue steadfastly in prayer. 
Be watchful in it with 

811
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,160
Thanksgiving. 
Colossians 42. 

812
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:54,760
And so that should be a part of 
as a prayer warrior, as a people

813
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,520
who are abiding in prayer, 
praise and Thanksgiving should 

814
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,320
be on our lips. 
It should be in our hearts, no 

815
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,400
matter what we're going through.
And I know it's easy for me to 

816
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,280
stay stand here and say that 
right now. 

817
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,480
But you and I have gone through 
difficult moments. 

818
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,000
You and I will continue to go 
through some difficult moments, 

819
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:19,800
some hard moments, things that 
we don't want to go through. 

820
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:25,520
Never wish we would go through, 
incorporate Thanksgiving and 

821
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,320
praise. 
Third, pray God's word. 

822
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,840
Now you've heard this is I'm not
telling you anything you haven't

823
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:37,080
heard, but I'm saying we've got 
to implement this. 

824
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:43,440
When I think of Psalms 23, the 
Lord is my shepherd, I begin to 

825
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:48,000
say thank you, Lord, that you 
are my shepherd, that I can say 

826
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,760
that like David said it, you are
my shepherd. 

827
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,200
You're leading me. 
You're guiding me. 

828
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,880
You're making me to lie down in 
green pastures. 

829
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,280
You're leading me beside the 
still waters. 

830
00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:59,800
You know where those still 
waters are. 

831
00:59:59,960 --> 01:00:01,680
You know where those green 
pastures are. 

832
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,000
You know when I need to rest. 
You know when I need to shut up.

833
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:11,040
You know what I need? 
You restore my soul. 

834
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:14,080
Thank you for restoring. 
And then I begin to pray. 

835
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,080
Father, I pray for Pastor John, 
I pray for Pastor Jordan. 

836
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:23,480
I pray for my family, I pray for
my friends, I pray for Inglewood

837
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,000
Baptist Church. 
These things help us to be our 

838
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:31,960
soul, to be restored, lead us in
passive righteousness for your 

839
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,720
name's sake, for your name's 
sake. 

840
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:41,160
And so praying God's Word, and 
you can do that with many about 

841
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,560
all the scriptures, maybe all 
the scriptures. 

842
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:47,240
I haven't prayed all the 
scriptures, but I prayed a lot. 

843
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,480
Pray God's word, ask God to help
you be aware of your 

844
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:59,920
surroundings and opportunities. 
I don't ask God to give me 

845
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:03,720
opportunities anymore because I 
realized God has opportunities. 

846
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,720
So I ask now, Lord, help me to 
see those opportunities. 

847
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:12,080
Help me not to miss those 
opportunities that you have 

848
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:16,000
before me, that you have for me.
And this is what I pray. 

849
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:21,360
I pray for Inglewood. 
I know you're all scattered out 

850
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,240
through the week. 
Some of you are travelling to 

851
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,400
other states, some of you are 
travelling maybe to other 

852
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,360
countries. 
I've heard about that at times, 

853
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:36,160
some of your at home schooling, 
some of you are doing one thing 

854
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,320
and another. 
Lord, you know where they are. 

855
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:39,960
You know where Inglewood is 
today. 

856
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:47,800
Lord, today I pray that they 
would be aware of what you want 

857
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,960
to do in their lives. 
I pray they would be aware of 

858
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:55,240
the dangers and pitfalls. 
I pray that we won't be those 

859
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,920
dangers and pitfalls to one 
another. 

860
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:04,440
I pray we won't be those who 
devour one another, but we are 

861
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:08,240
supporting and praying and 
encouraging one another. 

862
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:16,560
Incorporate prayer into your 
daily activities begin to you 

863
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,920
can be at the ball games. 
I praise God for dealing how he 

864
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,680
goes and supports our students 
and goes to ball games, but he's

865
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:27,240
praying while he's watching. 
Well, that's what he tells me. 

866
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,520
No, I believe it. 
But in our daily activities, 

867
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,360
wherever we are, whatever we're 
doing, whatever you do, do it to

868
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,240
the glory of God. 
So incorporate prayer into your 

869
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:42,080
daily activities. 
Use prayer journals or prayer 

870
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:46,200
apps. 
Embrace moments of stillness. 

871
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:51,960
That's hard for us. 
Pray with others. 

872
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,160
And that leads us to the last 
area of focus. 

873
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:07,040
And I'll be closing but 
intercede for others. 

874
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,400
I can tell I'm not abiding in 
prayer and I'm not abiding in 

875
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,720
Christ when I'm more focused on 
me than I am on others. 

876
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,480
Because when Christ begins to 
move in my heart, I begin to 

877
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:27,040
have a desire for others. 
I begin to pray for others. 

878
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:36,200
I begin to pray that they would 
first of all pray and have 

879
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:39,760
supplications and prayers and 
intercessions and thanksgivings 

880
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:44,800
be made for all pay. 
I, I pray that that you, us will

881
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,280
be doing that, that we'd be 
praying for our community. 

882
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,400
We'd be praying for our city. 
We'll be praying for our state. 

883
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,560
We do this, we don't have to 
always do it in here. 

884
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:03,280
We pray, we do that in here we 
pray for, but we, we are the 

885
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:06,680
church. 
We pray for our, we pray for our

886
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,560
country, we pray for the 
nations. 

887
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,480
We make intercessions and thanks
with Thanksgiving and 

888
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,280
Thanksgiving is being made for 
all people, for kings and all 

889
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,280
who are in high positions that 
we may not leave, that we may 

890
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:22,720
leave, excuse me, that we may 
leave a peaceful, quiet and 

891
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:26,400
godly life which is pleasing the
sight of God and Savior who 

892
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:31,640
desires all people to be saved. 
We intercede for the loss around

893
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:32,440
us. 
We intercede. 

894
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,400
We may not know our neighbors. 
That's one of the things why we 

895
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,160
did the prayer walking. 
And we will continue talk about 

896
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:43,320
prayer walking from time to time
to be out in the community and 

897
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,280
to pray for our street and for 
our community, for our area, 

898
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:50,320
where we live, our neighborhoods
when we're walking through 

899
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,800
Walmart praying help. 
That's what I mean when we're so

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01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:58,160
we are aware of our 
surroundings, we're in the 

901
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:00,840
Walmart. 
We're just trying to get out of 

902
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,520
there and not and, and, and and 
not have to wait in line too 

903
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,280
long. 
We're looking to see how long 

904
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:15,670
that self checkout is. 
But I say to you, love your 

905
01:05:15,670 --> 01:05:19,190
enemies and pray for those who 
persecute you. 

906
01:05:19,190 --> 01:05:23,190
Every one of us have difficulty 
difficulties. 

907
01:05:23,190 --> 01:05:28,280
Every one of us have people in 
our lives, even in the church, 

908
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,080
that causes trouble, that causes
difficulties. 

909
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:41,200
It's a real, it's reality. 
But it says pray again. 

910
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,960
Sometimes it's best to remove 
yourself out of that situation, 

911
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:51,120
but you still pray. 
Pray for those who persecute 

912
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:55,200
you. 
That's a prayer warrior and 

913
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,840
that's abiding in prayer. 
That's living in the attitude of

914
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,560
prayer when we when somebody 
comes up and and and causes us 

915
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:08,480
trouble and pain and heartache. 
And sometimes I'm the one doing 

916
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,280
that to y'all and I'm aware of 
that. 

917
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,400
So Lord, you pray for me. 
Say deal with him. 

918
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:25,040
Lord, deal with that old 
obstinate preacher Philippians 

919
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:30,400
one, let's play Philippians 1/3 
and four, I thank my God in all 

920
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:34,680
my remembrance of you always and
every prayer of mine for you 

921
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:39,240
all, making my prayer with joy. 
Paul, pray for those Christians 

922
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:44,080
that he wrote to. 
He goes on to say, and it is my 

923
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,760
prayer. 
So this is how he prayed for 

924
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,120
people. 
And it is my prayer that your 

925
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:52,960
love may abound more and more. 
This is he's praying for the 

926
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:57,640
Philippians, for those 
Christians in Philippi, that 

927
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,840
your love may abound more and 
more in knowledge and in the 

928
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,000
sermon, all discernment so that 
you may approve what is 

929
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:08,000
excellent and so be pure and 
blameless for the day of Christ,

930
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,920
filled with the fruit of 
righteousness that comes through

931
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,640
Jesus Christ to the glory and 
praise of God. 

932
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:19,080
That's the way we should be 
praying for one another when 

933
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,000
we're going when we know 
families going through difficult

934
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:27,040
times, we pray this prayer. 
Lord made a spiritual love and 

935
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:29,640
made a love even when they're 
going through this difficult 

936
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:31,360
time. 
May they know your love. 

937
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:35,880
Lord use Inglewood use us to 
love on them and then Ephesians 

938
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:40,560
618 be again to that end, keep 
alert with all perseverance 

939
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:47,160
making supplications for all the
Saints interceding for others is

940
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,160
a trademark of someone who's 
abiding in prayer. 

941
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:55,920
It's a it's a spiritual 
indicator that we are prayer 

942
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,600
warriors and we're praying for 
others more than we even pray 

943
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,440
for ourselves. 
Ian Bounds wrote this. 

944
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:06,040
Unless prayer has an important 
place in a Christian's life, 

945
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:10,560
listen to this their experience 
and influence will be powerless 

946
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,680
without prayer. 
The Christian graces will wither

947
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:26,800
and die. 
And so as we close, we will take

948
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,120
this time these that next few 
minutes to pray these prayer 

949
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:35,240
requests that you have before 
you tonight. 

950
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,120
And I pray you'll be able to use
a little bit. 

951
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:42,560
I'm sorry, I probably bored you 
stiff tonight. 

952
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:50,319
That wasn't my prayer. 
My prayer was, Lord, help us to 

953
01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:56,319
grow and to be prayer warriors, 
but more than that, to abide, to

954
01:08:56,319 --> 01:09:03,960
be people who abide in prayer. 
To that end, Lord, do it. 

955
01:09:04,359 --> 01:09:06,720
So take a few minutes. 
We're going to put that on the 

956
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:10,520
screen on those sections. 
Most of you already know that. 

957
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,359
So let's take some time now. 
And if you want to pray out 

958
01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:17,960
loud, if you want to bunch up, 
if you want to move around and 

959
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:22,520
stand up and pray, that's fine. 
Let's just take time and pray 

960
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,479
now and I'll come back and close
this. 

961
01:09:37,140 --> 01:09:40,540
Father, we thank you tonight for
this time and I pray you've used

962
01:09:40,540 --> 01:09:42,979
it and we'll use it for the 
glory of your name. 

963
01:09:43,660 --> 01:09:49,060
I do pray that we would be a 
people that abide in prayer, 

964
01:09:50,460 --> 01:09:53,300
that Lord, that we will be a 
people in constant fellowship 

965
01:09:53,300 --> 01:09:59,820
and with you, aware of you, 
glorifying you, honoring you. 

966
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:04,200
So we praise you for that 
tonight. 

967
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:08,560
Thank you again for your love 
and your mercy. 

968
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:14,120
I think about that quote if you 
laid on my heart about from 

969
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:18,280
Richard Foster. 
If we truly love people, we will

970
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:23,960
desire far more than it is 
within our power to give them. 

971
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:29,640
And this will lead us to prayer.
Lord, I'm aware that many things

972
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:34,680
are out of my ability to handle.
And so Lord, help me to 

973
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,680
constantly go to you first. 
And I pray that for each and 

974
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,640
every one of us. 
I pray we will be consumed and 

975
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,800
with a desire for you to be 
glorified in our lives daily and

976
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,920
also with one another, praying 
that for one another and as a 

977
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,880
church. 
So again, we thank you for that.

978
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:58,760
Lord, we love you. 
Help us Father, help us to be 

979
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,480
all that you would desire for us
to be. 

980
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:04,880
Help us to live out these 
principles for the glory of your

981
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,440
name. 
And we pray this in Jesus name 

982
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:12,800
and all God's people said, Amen,
you are released. 

983
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,920
Thank you so much for listening 
today, and I also hope that 

984
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:21,440
you'll go to 
ourwebsite@englewoodbaptist.com 

985
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:24,520
as well as our app and find many
other resources that will bless 

986
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,680
you and your families. 
Thank you once again.