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Final Episode! Episode 6 of The Purpose Practice and Power of Prayer series. This is a church small group Bible study series from Buddy Owens at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.
CHECKING IN
CHECKING IN
1. Share something you are thankful for.
2. How did our lesson on “Praying with Persistence and Power” impact your prayers this past week?
KEY VERSE
In all things God works for the good of those who
In all things God works for the good of those who
love him.
- What do you take away from Job’s story and from his
- response to God?
- “Jesus knows what it’s like to pray to a God who says ‘no.’ ” Discuss this truth.
- Do you have a vivid example in your life of God’s “no” turning out to be a “yes”?
- How have you grown as a result of this study? What changes have you made or do you plan to make? How do you see prayer differently?
PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
This week, start and end each day praying with your hands the way Buddy closed this session. Start with your hands open and bring your requests before God. Turn your palms down, surrendering to God. Then turn your hands back up to receive God’s grace.
PRAYER DIRECTION
As a group, thank God for the work he has done and the seeds he has planted through this study. Ask him to continue growing each group member’s prayer life. Thank him for being a God who listens to us, cares about what we care about, and loves us unconditionally.
DIVING DEEPER
Dive deeper this week by watching Pastor Rick’s message, “What to Remember When Things Don’t Go Your Way.”
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What is The Purpose, Practice, and Power of Prayer: A Saddleback Church Small Group Study?
The Scripture makes it clear that we are in a great cosmic battle. It is not a battle against people. It is a battle against spiritual forces of evil that are trying to destroy the work of God—in the world, and in our lives. But God has equipped us, empowered us, authorized us, and called us to partner with him in accomplishing his purposes on the earth. And we do it primarily through prayer. This is a small group Bible study series by Buddy Owens from Saddleback Church. Download the study guide here: https://saddleback.com/watch/the-purpose-practice-and-power-of-prayer
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Hi, everybody, and welcome to our final.
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Session in our study.
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Of the purpose, practice and power of prayer in our last.
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Session, we talked.
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About.
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Persistence.
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In prayer.
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And I know that some of you have been asking.
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Seeking and knocking for a long time for lots of things. Could be relational.
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Could be something.
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With your health.
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Your business, your kids, your marriage, Some of you have been asking, seeking.
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And knocking for a long time.
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So I want to talk about a difficult question what do you do when God says no?
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You see, God.
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Answers every prayer.
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But sometimes his answer is wait, and sometimes his answer is no. When it seems that God has not answered your prayer, when it seems like God isn't even listening.
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Like your prayers are just.
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Bouncing off the ceiling, what are you supposed to do? We think he isn't listening because he hasn't.
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Done things the way we wanted him to or the way we might.
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Expect him to. But just because God has not obeyed.
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Me doesn't mean that He is not paying attention.
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So what do we say when God says no?
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What are you left to believe when children die or when your health fails?
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Or when a spouse walks out the.
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Door or your business.
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Goes upside.
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Down? When a dream turns into a nightmare, what are we left to believe?
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Is this whole faith thing a hoax? Is God teasing us? Is He being.
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Cruel?
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Is God a.
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Liar? Is he playing.
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Games is he mad.
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At me?
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Have I done something wrong?
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And maybe.
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That's why he's not answering.
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My prayers.
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That becomes a test of my trust and my faith. Will I truly trust.
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God in that.
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Test? Will I.
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Truly believe that He knows.
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What is best? There's a couple of pictures of in Scripture of God saying No.
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That I want to park in for a moment.
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To see what we can learn.
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First.
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Consider the life of Jobe.
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We read about Jobe in the Old.
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Testament here's a man the Bible describes as blameless and.
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Upright who feared the Lord.
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And stayed away from evil. He was also one of the wealthiest men in the world, and the Bible says that he.
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Prayed for his family every day but in one day.
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Jobe lost everything. He lost his health. He lost his wealth. All of his servants were.
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Murdered by terrorists and all of.
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His wealth was stolen. All of his children.
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Were killed when a building collapsed on them. He lost.
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All.
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Of that. Every thing in one day. This man.
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Who was living.
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A.
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Righteous life lost it all even his wife said to him, Jobe, why don't you just curse God and.
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Die you know, growing up in church, I've.
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Heard so many sermons about jobs, wife.
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People judging her, wagging their finger at it.
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Listen.
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I get her. Those were her.
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Kids. That was her house. That was.
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Her wealth. That's her husband. I get it. I understand why.
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She would say.
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I'm just giving up. I understand that. And my heart goes.
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Out to Job's wife. I'm not saying I.
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Agree with her.
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But I don't see her as a bad person. She's a.
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Broken woman.
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She was absolutely devastated.
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And yet the.
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Bible tells us that Jobe was stubborn in his faith and that he.
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Surrendered.
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To the sovereignty of God. It says Job fell.
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To the ground in worship. No, he fell to the ground in worship, not in cursing. He fell to the ground in worship.
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And he said.
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Naked, I came from my mother's womb and naked I.
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Will.
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Depart. The Lord.
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Gave.
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And the Lord has taken away. May the name of the Lord be praised.
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Shall we accept.
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Good from God and not trouble?
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Listen to this, though He slay.
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Me, yet.
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I will trust him. And the Bible says in all of this, Jobe did not sin by.
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Charging God with wrongdoing.
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And considered the prayer life of Jesus.
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In Luke Chapter 22, Jesus is praying.
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In the garden of Simone.
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He's about to go to the cross and he is so afraid that he's sweating blood Jesus understands our weaknesses and our fears. He is sweating.
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Blood.
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He doesn't want to go through with this he knows what he is about to.
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Experience and he doesn't want to go there and he's begging God to deliver Him.
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He's saying.
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Father isn't there some other way?
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Look at what He says.
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Father, if you are willing.
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Take this cup.
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From me. Don't make me do this. If you're willing yet not my will, but yours be.
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Done. Jesus practiced what He preached.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done. And here He prayed, not my will, but your will. And the Father did not do.
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What Jesus asked.
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Him to do. And look at the next.
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Verse says An angel.
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From heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. Notice the angel didn't deliver him.
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It says the angel.
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Strengthened him to keep going. Think about.
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This.
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In human terms. God did not.
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Answer Jesus prayer. And even on the cross Jesus cried out.
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My God, my God, why have.
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You forsaken me? It's the.
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Only time in all.
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Of Scripture.
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Where.
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Jesus feels as though God is absent.
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My God, why have you abandoned me? Why have you forsaken me?
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And isn't that how we feel sometimes.
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When.
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God doesn't.
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Answer our prayer the way we want Him to, we think He's forsaken us.
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We think He.
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Has abandoned us. Isn't that what we're saying? When we wonder why? Why are you not answering my prayer?
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Why did you let this happen? Don't you see what this is doing to me? Don't you.
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Care? God, where are you but the father had a higher purpose.
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In mind when he told Jesus no. It was the purpose for which Jesus came.
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The purpose.
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For which He was.
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Born, the purpose for which he.
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Lived all of his life. It was the purpose to which Jesus surrendered.
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When.
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He said.
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Nevertheless, not my will, but let your.
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Will be done.
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And we have to remember.
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That those words.
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Why have you abandoned me?
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Why have you forsaken me? Those were not Jesus final words.
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His final words. His last words on the cross.
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His last.
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Words before he died were his greatest.
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Statement of faith to a God who said no. Jesus said.
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Father, you who have abandoned me Father.
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You who don't seem to.
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Be here right now. Father, you who I cannot.
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See.
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Or feel or hear Father into your hands, I commit.
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My spirit. It's Jesus ultimate statement of faith.
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Now, think about this Jesus.
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The Son of God.
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Understands what.
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It feels like.
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To pray.
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To a God who says no he gets it. He knows the pain.
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He knows your heartache, he knows your confusion.
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He knows what it's like.
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When God.
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Doesn't.
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Answer your prayer the way.
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You hoped you would. He knows how that feels and that is the.
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Wonder of the.
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Incarnation that Jesus in His.
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Humanity understands.
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What it's like.
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To pray to a heavenly Father who.
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Doesn't even seem to be.
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There.
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And who says No, He gets it. But in his ultimate statement of faith, he says, Nevertheless.
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In spite of how everything looks right now.
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I'm placing myself.
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Into your.
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Hands.
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Into your hands.
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I commit my spirit, you said, and get this God's know to Jesus was a.
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Resounding.
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Yes to all the rest of us. God's no to Jesus.
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Was a resounding.
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Yes to the rest of us, because God had a.
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Bigger plan in mind. We may not understand.
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Why He says.
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No, but when.
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He says no to you, sometimes.
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He might be.
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Saying yes to somebody else. The question is, will I trust him? You see.
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Ultimately prayer is.
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About faith.
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And.
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Faith. Listen, faith is about.
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Who it's not about.
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What faith is about a person.
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It's not about an outcome.
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It's about who. Because I don't always know what to believe. I don't even know what to ask for.
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But I know who I'm talking to. And I have to understand.
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Who this God is, who loves me. And that's why I must be a.
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Person of the word.
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Jesus understands what it's like to.
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Pray to.
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A God who says no.
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So when you cannot understand the father's hand.
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You have to trust.
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The father's heart and believe that he knows.
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What is best, that he wants, what is best.
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And that he ultimately is going to do.
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What his best jobs.
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Words were.
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Prophetic about Jesus, though he slay me, yet I will trust him. Those were prophetic of Jesus. We have to trust God. Listen, we have to trust God.
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Enough to let Him.
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Fail and you say, Well, that's not possible.
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God can't.
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Fail. And that's exactly my point.
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He cannot.
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Fail.
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Therefore.
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We must trust.
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God enough to let Him.
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Succeed. But to let him succeed on his.
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Terms and the way he.
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Knows is best.
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Not the way we think would be best.
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But to trust.
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Him enough.
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To let him succeed on his terms.
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Not on our terms.
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We make our case before the throne of God but we surrender.
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The outcome for yours.
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Is the.
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Kingdom and the power and the glory.
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We trust Him to succeed.
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Even when.
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He tells us.
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No.
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And that's what he's looking for. The character of Christ in us.
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The character of Christ who knew what it.
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Was like to.
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Pray.
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To a God who said.
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No.
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But who said.
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Nevertheless, your will be done. Nevertheless, into your hands.
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I commit my spirit. The Bible says in.
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Romans 828, in all things God works.
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For the good of those who love.
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Him in all things.
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That includes the things that God says no to. He works for the good of those who love.
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Him in all things.
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Not just.
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Some things.
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Not just the happy things.
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But all things. Even in that no things.
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He works for the good of those who.
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Love him and nothing.
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The Bible says.
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Nothing.
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Can separate us.
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From the love of God in.
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Christ Jesus. And so.
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We pray to the one who alone.
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Is able to keep us from falling.
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We pray to the one who is able to.
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Complete what he has.
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Started in us. We pray to the one who.
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Has a purpose and a.
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Plan for our lives. We pray.
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To the God.
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Who cares more about every detail of your life than even you do.
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We pray to the God of peace.
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We pray to the God of hope. We pray to the God of comfort. We pray to.
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The God of compassion. Trusting that out of who is of His.
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Very nature and character, he will hear and respond in the way that he.
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Knows is best.
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Because ultimately the ultimate aim of prayer is the glory of God.
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All of our requests are.
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Made in the context of surrender, not my will, but yours be done and.
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All of that.
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Surrender. Ultimately, for the glory of God and the Earth. That's what prayer is about. And God.
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Invites us to.
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Pray.
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He asks us.
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To pray.
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He commands us to pray. And He expects us to pray. He teaches us to pray. He waits for us to pray.
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And we can pray without fear because we're praying to a God.
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Who loves us and who wants what is best for.
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Us. We're praying to a person who will work all things for our good.
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Because we love him.
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Do you love him? If you love him, then pray. In fact, I want us to.
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Do that as I close this session. I want to lead.
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You in a method of prayer that.
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Maybe some of you.
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Have done with me before.
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But it's the way I like.
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To pray often where I pray with my hands now, you know, raise them way up high over your head. This kind of prayer is sort of an outward sign of of an inward surrender.
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It's a sign on the outside of.
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What I'm doing on the inside. And so what.
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I'll do is I'll just come to.
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The Lord with my hands open right in front of me, maybe even in my lap, but they're open.
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And it symbolizes.
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That I am presenting my requests.
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To God I just sort of see.
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Them in my mind's eye. My requests are right here in my hands.
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My kids, my job.
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My bank account, my health.
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Whatever it is. I just sort of see it in my hands.
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And I'm bringing it to God. Like a kid bringing a broken toy.
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And I'll present my request to God.
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I'll tell him all about it. I name names, I give him all the details and then I turn my palms down.
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And it symbolizes.
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Lord, I'm letting go.
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It's yours. I brought it to you.
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Here you go. I'm letting go. I'm surrendering it. And then I turn my palms up again.
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To receive God's grace.
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To receive his provision and whatever answer he has.
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For me and to say.
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Lord, now that I have emptied my hands of what was going on in my life.
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What can I do for you with these hands so I want to lead us in a moment of prayer. And I invite you to close your eyes, bow your heads. You don't have to say anything out loud.
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And if you're comfortable with it, open your hands.
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Up. And as I pray, you can just let.
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My words be your prayer. All right.
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So. So with your.
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Palms open in front of you as I pray.
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You can just say.
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These words in your own heart and mind.
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Father, I come to you today.
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In Jesus name, and I want to start by saying thank you. Thank you for life. Thank you for love. Thank you for your faithfulness that has.
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Brought me.
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This far.
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Lord, I thank you for everything you've given to me.
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And I thank you.
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For everything.
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That you have withheld. I trust your wisdom.
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And, Lord, as I come to you today with my hands open, I'm bringing my.
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Life to you.
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Before your throne.
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Or I bring you.
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My strengths and my weaknesses.
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I bring you my.
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Hopes and my fears I bring you my successes and my failures.
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Or I'm bringing you my dreams and my nightmares and you know, there are certain things today that are on my mind, things I'm very concerned about, even worried about and I just want to tell you about them right now. So, Lord, in my hands now.
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I place these things.
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So now in the in the quiet of your own prayer, go ahead and tell him what's in your hands.
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Your kids, your spouse.
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Your home, your health, your parents.
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Just tell him.
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What's in your hands that you're bringing to him.
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This take just a few seconds and do this.
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And now turn your palms down and in your heart, just say.
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This. Now, Father, I release all of these things.
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Into your hands. I'm just I'm just leaving them right here in your lap of grace. I surrender to you. I pray let your will be done. Let your kingdom come in.
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All of these.
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Areas.
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On earth as it is in heaven, I surrender it to you.
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Now, just let go.
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Let go and turn your palms up.
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And say, Father.
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Now that my hands are empty.
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I receive from you.
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Everything that Your Grace will afford today.
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I receive strength from my weaknesses.
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I receive health from my body. I receive hope for my future. Lord, I receive peace from my.
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Fears.
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I receive.
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Provision for my.
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Needs.
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I I receive wisdom from my confusion what I receive, the forgiveness of my sins.
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And I receive grace to forgive those who sinned against me. And I thank you. My faith I receive from.
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You whatever it is you want to give me, Lord, let your will be done. And while my hands are opened before you.
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Lord, I just want to say.
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My hands are yours.
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What can I do for you? How can I serve you today with these hands? Whose life can I touch? What difference can I.
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Make for your kingdom? Lord, I pray.
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That you will use my life today.
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To bring glory to your name.
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And I ask this in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Feel better you know you can do.
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This every day.
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Just simply come to the Lord. Present your.
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Request. He asks you to. He invites you to He's waiting for you to do this.
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Whatever it is, it's on your heart. And remember, it.
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Doesn't have to be fancy words.
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Sometimes you can't even put it into words.
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But just remember this one last thing. What God wants most.
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From you in prayer.
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Is you.
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Well, thanks again for joining.
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Me for this study.
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I hope you have a wonderful discussion time.
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God bless your friends.