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Maybe you've heard someone say or said it

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yourself.

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We've done all we can.

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The only thing we can do now is

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pray.

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If we really understood the power of prayer,

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it would be a first resort rather than

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a last.

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Hey, join us for the road to reality.

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It's Richard Buse here.

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I've heard preachers sometimes say seven days without

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prayer makes one weak.

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No guilt trip friends, but to look back

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over this past week and examine our daily

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prayer life, how would we assess it?

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We might feel a bit shaky.

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In the paranoia of life today, the practice

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of prayer is too often replaced by the

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practice of blogging.

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This week on the road to reality, Brother

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KP Yohannan is going to dwell on the

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power of prayer and how prayer can be

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a daily practice.

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Seeking the Lord and connecting with him is

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to be our top priority.

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Hi, this is KP Yohannan.

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You know, this is true of me.

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Every time I come into the studio and

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sit in front of this microphone, I say

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to myself, you know what, I really wish

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I could be with this brother or sister

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in their car or in their kitchen or

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wherever and just talk to them face to

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face.

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Obviously, that is not possible.

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So here is a miracle.

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Once again, the Lord has provided that we

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can have this conversation.

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You know, I don't know, just a few

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months ago, I heard that some study was

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done by some people in Atlanta, Georgia, about

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the prayer habit of believers or Christians here

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in North America.

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And I do not know if this is

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accurate or not, but what I read goes

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something like this.

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Average Christians in our country here pray less

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than 8 minutes a day and ministers or

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clergy or pastors spend less than 12 minutes

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a day in prayer.

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Now, that kind of tells us maybe how

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many tens of thousands or millions of Christians

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actually may not even pray at all.

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Their prayer habit may be just say, Lord,

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thank you for this food and make the

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sign of the cross and go on with

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life.

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How many really understand the seriousness of spending

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time with the living God on their knees

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and really interceding for the crisis, the need

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or in other words, for the things that

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God is concerned about.

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Now, my objective today is not to criticize

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you or condemn you or put you down

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or anything like that.

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But think about it.

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What is the one crisis we have in

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the church today?

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If you ask me, I'll tell you it

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is the lack of the knowledge of the

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living God.

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People keep asking me often the same question.

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Just the other day, somebody was visiting with

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me and who come from a very well

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-to-do financial situation.

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Lord and asked me a question in the

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You see, you've been working with God now

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40 years and serving God.

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Tell me one thing that you think is

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so important and critical in a believer's life.

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And I didn't have to think much about

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it.

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I said, you know, believe it or not,

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the most important thing is to seek God

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and know Him.

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But I said, the problem is you cannot

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know the Lord and have this scripture fulfilled

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in the life of believer.

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That is, we are not called just to

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be obeying this and that and not doing

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a bunch of bad things and doing a

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bunch of good things.

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No, actually we are called in the new

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covenant to be partakers of the nature of

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our Lord.

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It is no more something objective or outside.

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Rather, it is the life of the living

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Christ now we are able to experience and

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have Him incarnate through our earthen vessels and

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fulfill His plan in the light of eternity.

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and unless we come to the place where

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we experience the reality of being with Him

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in prayer.

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Not just five minutes a day, not just

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ten minutes, you know, crying out for this

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need and that need and all those things

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and make all our plans and say, God,

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please bless this.

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I'm doing this for you now.

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But really waiting to hear Him and to

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know Him.

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And the scripture says, you will seek me

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and you will find me when you do

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so with all your heart.

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Those who seek me will find me.

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And this is exactly what I think we

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need now in our time with all the

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crises and problems, everything going on.

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But, you know, here's a problem.

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Especially people in North America.

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People are conditioned to think from the childhood,

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no, we can make it happen.

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We are very pragmatic.

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Don't tell me it cannot be done.

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It can be done.

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So we transport this cultural thinking into Christian

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faith.

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So you go to the Christian bookstores, what

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do you find?

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Hundreds of titles, how to do this, how

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to have that, how to achieve it, how

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to be a good husband, how to be

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a good wife.

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And, you know, we are constantly bombarded with

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things from the pulpit.

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As to all the things we must do

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to be pleasing to God, to fulfill His

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plan.

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But so little do we hear about being

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the slaves, the servants who will wait and

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watch to hear what God had to say.

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And I think, my brothers and sisters, the

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answer to whatever we are looking for, it

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needs to be from the Living God.

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we come and be with Him.

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I've been spending quite a bit of time

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reading the history of the early church.

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Not only the first century, of course, you

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know, all traditions passed down by the church

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fathers.

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Then, of course, you know, these desert fathers

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and people who left the limelight and all

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the busyness of life just seek God.

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Not for something from Him.

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They went out and spent weeks and months

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and years seeking God.

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And some of their stories and their journey

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impacted me greatly.

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Old Testament, in chapter 22, verse 30, we

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have this interesting verse.

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Well, rather convicting verse.

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God says, I looked for a man among

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these people who would build up the wall

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and stand before me in the gap on

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the behalf of the land, so I would

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not have to destroy it, but I found

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none.

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Now, if you know the passage, I mean,

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there are hundreds of prophets and, you know,

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in our contemporary language, pastors and preachers and

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evangelists and, you know, and whatever names you

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want to call these people in so-called

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full-time ministry, God says, you know, they're

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everywhere.

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one man, one woman who will wait and

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stand before me on the behalf of the

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land so that they will not be destroyed.

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But I am not able to find one

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person.

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I talked to a pastor some time ago.

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I mean, this kind of conversations usually don't

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happen, but it was kind of a heart

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-to-heart conversation.

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the ways of the Lord and my journey

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with the Lord and all these things.

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And he was quite hungry.

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freedom to ask him the question.

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I said, you know, brother, if you don't

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mind, can you tell me how much time

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you spend to prepare your Bible study for

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your church, like Sunday morning or midweek Bible

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study?

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And he said, yeah, but the truth of

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the matter is I spend eight, nine, ten

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hours, no less than that.

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Sometime, he said, take three days of daily

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study, several hours.

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Then I said, how much time did you

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pray?

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I paused.

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you were on your knees for an hour

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or half hour?

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I said, please understand, I'm not trying to

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put you on any kind of trip or,

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you know, and make you feel bad.

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Then he put his head down and kind

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of quietly said, yeah, I know what you're

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saying.

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It kind of reminds me of one time,

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you know, this dear pastor friend of mine

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who actually passed a very large church in

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Washington state.

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our mission field overseas.

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week in one of our major seminaries.

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him at the house.

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But so there was a young brother assigned

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to take care of this pastor, you know,

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bringing tea and food and different things because

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it was a full assignment of teaching.

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taken care of.

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So one day I asked this young brother

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who was actually the caretaker for this pastor

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who was there in India doing the teaching

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at the time.

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And I asked him, so is he doing

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OK?

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And this young brother said, you know, one

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problem.

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I said, what?

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Every morning I make the tea and bring

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it and I can see the door is

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kind of open maybe.

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And I look in, but I find him

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on his knees.

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So I put the tea outside hoping that

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he will come out and take it.

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He said so many times when he tried

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to bring something to him or whatever, often

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he find this pastor actually kneeling by the

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bedside and praying.

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And one time he said, I heard him

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crying.

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I often wondered what actually is the secret

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of this man's teaching that something God uses,

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people's hearts are gripped.

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It is not entertainment and oh, wonderful teaching,

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but rather people's lives are transformed and there

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is fruit that remains.

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Repentance and transformation was not self-induced or

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temporary, but year after year, whenever he goes

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to any of these nations to teach, report

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I hear of how the lives been impacted.

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Now, you don't need to be a pastor

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to have a large congregation built.

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Really, when you think about it, some politicians

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draw huge numbers of people.

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They are very well learned and they can

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articulate their thoughts well and brilliant orators.

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But the kingdom of God, it is not

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in words, but in power.

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But none of us in the ministry can

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truly represent the Lord unless we stand before

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Him, wait before Him, pleading, interceding to hear

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from God.

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The Lord saying, this is what I wanted

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to tell my people.

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This is what I am thinking about it.

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Well, in so many belief systems, God is

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thought of as unknowable and beyond our communication.

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Not so with the Bible.

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His friends can talk to Him anywhere and

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at any time.

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Do we use this astounding privilege?

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We are hoping and praying that the Lord

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will use today's road to reality to stir

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many hearts to enter into prayer as a

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daily way of life.

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We will hear more from K.P. Yohannan

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in just a second.

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First, may we give you something today.

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In Learning to Pray, K.P. shows us

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in this booklet how we can grow in

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our daily lives.

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You can download the PDF free from our

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website, or if you'd rather have the booklet

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sent to you, we can do that too.

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We suggest £1.50 plus postage and packaging

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for Learning to Pray.

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K.P. also recommends getting a world map.

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We'd like to send that to you as

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well.

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And in this full colour map, we highlight

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what is called the 1040 window, which represents

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the most unreached areas of the world.

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The suggested donation for a small map is

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£2 and a large map £5 plus postage

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and packaging.

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And to receive emails with up-to-date

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prayer requests from the mission field, just go

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to roadtoreality.org.uk to sign up to

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our prayer team.

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That's roadtoreality.org.uk or call us on

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01904 643 233.

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01904 643 233.

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Now here's K.P. with the rest of

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today's message on the power of prayer.

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I'm so grateful.

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Recently, during one of my visits to the

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East Coast in Philadelphia, a dear friend of

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mine who is pastoring a huge congregation, I

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think 7 or 8 thousand people or more

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than that, and he said to me, we

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are cancelling our Sunday evening service.

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That means, I mean, he teaches through the

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word, verse by verse, and he said, I'm

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cancelling that.

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Rather, now we are calling Sunday evenings for

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prayer meeting.

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Well, I was delighted to hear that because

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I knew families are in crisis, the economy

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is in crisis, and the problems are mounding.

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And I know so well, there's no answer

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except the dad and mom waking up in

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the middle of the night, praying on their

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knees for their children, for their future, for

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their life, and for the nation, and for

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the society.

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And the churches coming together, not for entertainment

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and more knowledge, more this and that, rather

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crying out to God and weeping before Him.

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And when I heard that, oh man, I

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said, so wonderful.

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So, after that prayer meeting on the Sunday

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evening, I called him after a couple of

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days and said, oh, by the way, I'm

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just calling to find out how did the

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prayer meeting go Sunday evening?

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He said, oh, wonderful.

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I said, can you tell me more about

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it?

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He said, well, we had 1800 people show

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up for the Sunday night prayer meeting.

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Oh man, then he began to talk, he

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said, you just won't believe it, people are

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weeping all over the place.

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People just getting up and going to others,

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praying with them, repenting and seeking forgiveness and

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reconciliation.

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And he said, the Lord showed up.

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And I was so happy.

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And he said, oh, we are going to

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continue to do that.

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We are not legalists.

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He said, you know, I mean, the Lord

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can tell us not to do it, fine,

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but right now we know the most significant

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thing in life is to seek God and

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know Him.

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You know, again, I want to ask you

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a simple question.

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Just a few weeks ago, maybe a couple

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of months ago, did you hear what happened

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in Pakistan?

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Within a few days, nearly 2000 people lost

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their lives.

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They all died in that flood, nonstop monsoon

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rain.

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Did you hear that 70% of the

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entire country's crops completely destroyed?

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Did you hear several million children are wandering

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without any hope?

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Did you hear about the bomb blast by

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the Taliban destroying the schools where they are

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teaching young girls?

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Did you hear about the flooding in Sri

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Lanka?

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Just a few weeks ago, what happened in

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Bangladesh?

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Do you know what's going on in different

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parts of the world?

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You say, what do you mean?

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Well, this is all over television or magazines

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and whatever, but the question I want to

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ask you, what did you do with the

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information?

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Did you say, well, man alive, what am

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I supposed to do?

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Or did you say, oh Lord, on the

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behalf of this world, the people in Afghanistan,

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in Albania, in Cuba, in Mexico, in Spain,

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and Haiti.

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Lord, I want to take this time to

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plead, to intercede.

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It aches, it's painful, our flesh hates it.

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But you know, prayer, you will never learn

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by reading books.

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Yes, E.M. Bowne's books and Arthur Wallace

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and thousand other books are out there, wonderful.

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But my brother, my sister, you learn prayer

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by praying.

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Some people ask me to tell them about

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Gospel for Asia, the mission I'm part of

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and how our life is and how this

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all began and all these different things.

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You know, I tell them, you know what?

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Some 32 years ago, when I was pastoring

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a church, being a clergy of a church

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in Dallas, Texas.

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The Lord spoke to my heart about walking

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away from everything to give my life for

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the lost world.

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And I really didn't know what to do.

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And one day, my wife and I said,

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OK, we'll just start praying.

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So Tuesday evenings, we will call some of

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our friends and we will just pray.

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We have a world map up there on

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the wall instead of television set.

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And we just pray for different countries of

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the world.

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And we say, Lord, whatever you tell us,

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we will do.

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And it took weeks and months as we

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began to pray and seek the Lord.

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The Lord began to minister to us what

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we were supposed to do.

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That was the beginning of Gospel for Asia.

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Today, scattered throughout dozen nations, seeing multiplied millions

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of people come to know the Lord.

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Some 60 plus minor seminaries where thousands of

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young people are trained and reach in the

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lost world.

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And, you know, Christian gospel broadcast in 110

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languages.

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I can go on and tell you a

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whole bunch of things that's happening.

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But it all began with prayer.

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And that is reason, by the way, around

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the world, even today, we have the tradition.

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I would say a good tradition.

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Every Tuesday evening, every week, we meet from

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7 o'clock in the evening till 9

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in the evening, just praying.

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And first Friday of every month, we gather

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our entire staff, some 160 people here in

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the US headquarters in Canada and UK and

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all over the world.

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We meet from Friday evening till morning hours,

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praying all night prayer meeting.

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I tell you, we finish our Tuesday night

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prayer or Friday night.

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We can't cover all the information.

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I mean, think about the book Operation World

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that is out there.

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Information about every country in the world.

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What to pray for?

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What kind of people live there?

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What are the things happening every single day

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that we watch?

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That can become prayer request.

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And by the way, for some time, our

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staff have been talking about maybe opening a

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prayer meeting for brothers and sisters like you

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and congregations who want to join us through

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streaming.

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And we tested this out, by the way.

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It's absolutely amazing.

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Hundreds and hundreds of families and prayer groups

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are able to log on and do the

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streaming.

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What that means is that they can see

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actually all our people praying and prayer requests

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are shared.

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And like, you know, I'm sharing prayer requests

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and I say, look, we are going to

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pray for Burma.

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And we say, you know, this is what

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happened.

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This is a need and this is a

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crisis or persecution, what is going on in

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some parts of the world.

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And this is the prayer request.

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And all of a sudden, we are now

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dividing into three or four small groups and

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kneeling and, you know, and huddled together praying

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for these things.

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And at the same time, people who are

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streaming, they are also now praying for this

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prayer request in their homes.

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Here, among our staff, you'll find a daddy

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and mommy and two kids, you know, as

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a family, they're praying together or brothers and

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sisters praying together.

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And there in the homes, people are joining

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us in prayer.

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So we have decided that we will open

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it up for anyone who want to join

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us for these prayer meetings.

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It's a revolutionary, fantastic, exhilarating experience.

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And if you'd like to know more about

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it and join us in this kind of

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prayer experience, again, you learn to pray by

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doing it.

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And I ask you to go to our

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website and Gospel for Asia's website and learn

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about this Tuesday evenings.

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You can join us also Friday, the all

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night prayer.

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You don't have to join us for the

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entire six hours or eight hours.

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You can join us for an hour or

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whatever.

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But here's the thing.

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God is looking for those whose hearts are

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completely His.

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It is not by might, not by power,

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but by His Spirit, say the Lord.

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Please listen to me.

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When life on earth is over, God will

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make sure that whatever that remains as a

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result of our life on earth will not

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be things we have done with the power

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of money, our energy or influence or any

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of those stuff.

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He will make sure those things will remain

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that are of Him.

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And things that are of Him actually comes

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about through our absolute dependence on our Lord

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and the power of the Holy Spirit.

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But we need to understand this.

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Our flesh always will want to get the

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credit and make things work.

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But as far as God is concerned, He

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is not looking for majority or huge things,

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but a mighty minority that know Him.

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People that He can manifest His glory once

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again through their lives.

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So I earnestly request you to consider this.

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And maybe you should get a world map

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and put it there somewhere in your room

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and look at the world.

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TV and radio and magazines, whatever news that

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you listen, let not that be just news,

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let that be prayer request.

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Get an alarm clock and see if we

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can use it to wake you up maybe

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12 in the night or 1 in the

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morning and spend that half hour before the

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Lord.

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I have a little booklet I wrote, Learning

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to Pray.

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It is free for downloading and you can

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get it or you can ask for it,

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whatever.

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Again, one of my dreams, Lord, would you

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please raise up a few million people who

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will know you, who will pray on their

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knees.

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Who will see fasting not as a means

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to lose weight, but rather weeping before you

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on behalf of the society, the community, the

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world.

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Remember, 80,000 people die every single day

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having never heard Jesus name, especially in the

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Asian part of the world.

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And then think about the whole world.

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Let us be those people who know the

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living God, who will do exploits, but that

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happens on our knees.

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May the Lord speak to us and draw

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us close to Him.

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Thank you for listening.

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KP also recommended getting a world map, remember?

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We can send you one for a suggested

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donation of £2 for a small map or

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£5 for a large map plus postage and

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packing.

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Both maps highlight the 1040 window, that most

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unreached area in the world.

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And then, friends, if you want to join

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our prayer team, go to roadtoreality.org.uk

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to sign up to receive emails sharing prayer

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requests from the mission field.

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Our web address again is roadtoreality.org.uk.

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You can also call us on 01904 643

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233.

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That's roadtoreality.org.uk or 01904 643 233.

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Hey, that'll do for this week.

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We'll be with you next time on the

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Road to Reality when KP Yohannan will once

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again encourage us from the Bible.

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In the meantime, a resolution.

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We are going to be men and women

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who pray.

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This is Richard Bews with Gospel for Asia,

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sharing with listening friends a love for Jesus

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and a love for even the most unreached

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in His world.