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in over 25 years of prayer ministry I
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have never seen anything happen like
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what is happening around the world in
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our day whether you know it or not
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you're living in the midst of the
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greatest prayer movement as far as we
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can tell in the history of the church
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more people praying in greater numbers
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with greater power than ever before I've
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been privileged to serve the last 14
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years as chairman of the board for the
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National Day of Prayer in the United
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States this year we saw over 49,000
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different prayer events with millions of
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us gathering to pray what the exciting
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about that is there are a lot of
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Christians in other nations who are
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committing to pray for us here in the
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United States for which we are so very
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very grateful this year we've seen so
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many things happen don't have time to
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tell those as we gathered in Washington
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DC in July and together 16 we saw over
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300,000 young people gather on our
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National Mall to seek the Lord and to
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pray I just came from Dallas yesterday I
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think it was yesterday
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and we were there with Tony Evans and
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the gathering it was extraordinary
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gathering of Christian leaders and
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pastors coming together to seek the Lord
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to repent so much of what I saw an
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experience there I am seeing here with
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you and it's continuing on now I want to
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tell you I believe that there's
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something that is fueling this there is
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a holy desperation that is sweeping
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across this nation there is an awareness
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that we're in trouble there is a sense
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of crisis in this nation now it doesn't
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matter where I go it doesn't matter who
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I talked to everybody believes we're in
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crisis it does depend on who you talk to
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as to what the crisis is
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some people believe that the crisis has
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to do with with international issues
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with terrorism and the threat of war and
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certainly that's a very very real crisis
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for others the crisis has to do with the
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economy trillions of dollars of debt and
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no real way to pay that back in the fear
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of economic collapse for others the
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crisis has to do with issues of morality
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and ethics in the sense of a nation that
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is increasingly turning its back on God
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for others the crisis has to do with
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issues of justice and of equality and
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fairness some of your going can I vote
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for all of the above because it's kind
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of the sense of what I'm finding even
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with many is that we're seeing these
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crises come together in almost a perfect
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storm in our day the good news is were
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beginning to pray about it you know here
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in the United States that has often been
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the case in times of crisis we have
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again and again gone to the Lord in
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prayer very early on in the years of our
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nation our founding fathers discovered
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that what they had to work together as
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States was not working well the Articles
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of Confederation allowed us to simply
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have a loose-knit Association the states
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were more like friends than actually one
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nation it wasn't working well and so we
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came together in a constitutional
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convention to form a better framework to
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work together as a nation and I know I
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know this is going to come as a shock to
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you but that group of politicians came
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together and couldn't agree on anything
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they were getting ready to go home with
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one morning the oldest delegate to the
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convention and the man who had perhaps
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the most unorthodox faith their 87
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year-old Benjamin Franklin stood and he
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addressed the president of the
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convention George Washington
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with these words I have lived sir a long
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time and the longer I live the more
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convincing proofs I see of this truth
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that God governs in the affairs of men
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and if a sparrow cannot fall to the
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ground without his notice is it probable
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that an empire can arise without his aid
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we've been assured sir in the sacred
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writings that except the Lord build they
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labor in vain that build I firmly
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believe this and I also believe that
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without his concurrent aid we shall
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succeed in this political building no
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better than the builders of Babel we
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shall be divided by our little partial
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local interest our work today will be
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confounded and we ourselves shall become
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a reproach and a byword down to future
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ages and what is worse mankind may here
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after this unfortunate instance despair
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of establishing governments by human
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wisdom leave it to war and conquest
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I beg leave to move that henceforth
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prayers imploring the assistance of
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heaven and its blessing on our
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deliberations beheld in this assembly
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every morning before we proceed to
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business and that one or more the clergy
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of this city be requested to officiate
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in that service and we continue to this
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day to have prayers that open our
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sessions of Congress crises continue
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and so does prayer some 80 years after
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that the nation found itself in another
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great crisis it was almost unimaginable
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for us today
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as North was fighting the South in the
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midst of this great civil war for over
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five hundred thousand Americans were to
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die President Abraham Lincoln on March
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30th 1863 issued this call to prayer to
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Congress he said we have been the
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recipients of the choicest bounties of
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we've been preserved these many years in
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peace and prosperity we have grown in
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numbers wealth and power as no other
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nation has ever grown but we have
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forgotten God we have forgotten the
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gracious hand which preserved us in
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peace
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and multiplied and enriched and
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strengthened us and we have veinly
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imagined in the deceitfulness of our
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hearts that all these blessings were
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produced by some superior wisdom and
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virtue of our own intoxicated with
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unbroken success we become too
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self-sufficient to feel the necessity of
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redeeming and preserving grace to proud
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to pray to the God who made us it
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behooves us then to humble ourselves
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before the offended power to confess our
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national sins and to pray for clemency
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and forgiveness again and again in times
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of crisis we've gone to God in times of
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prayer and these are simply a few of
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those who led us before the throne of
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grace in times of crisis
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how will we pray for our nation in this
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time of crisis
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the principles that I want to share with
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you today drawn straight from the pages
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of Scripture most certainly I'm focusing
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on the United States but I want you to
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know that they apply to literally every
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nation I would go beyond that and say
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that they'll apply to you as an
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individual anybody here ever have a
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crisis of course you do you've had them
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you're in them you will be in them and
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many of these principles will help us to
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pray in our own personal crises but I'm
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going to focus on how do you pray for
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our nation I'm going to say some things
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that are tough some things that might
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offend you it's okay we're all leaving
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here in just a little while before I get
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into what it says in Scripture can I
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just tell you something we needed to
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quit doing we need to quit praying silly
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prayers you know our silly prayer is
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this is where all might offend some of
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you god bless america
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my friends quit praying that God's not
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going to bless america
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not as we are not right now not in a
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nation that has continually turned its
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back on God that has literally outlawed
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him from the public square a nation that
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continues to kill our unborn we cannot
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in all integrity ask God a holy God to
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bless that kind of a nation now I
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believe I'm praying that we will see
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such a move of the Spirit of God touch
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the heart of this nation that will once
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again be able to pray such a prayer but
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until then let's learn how to pray
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biblically I want us to look at a nation
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that was in serious crisis it's the
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southern nation of Israel called Judah
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and it was a time when Hezekiah was the
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king the story we're going to look at is
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found in Isaiah chapter 37 we've been
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reading in chapter
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Chapter III Isaiah 37 beginning in verse
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14 but I want to tell you that before we
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read this you need to hear what was
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happening and what what brought about
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this prayer Judah was in trouble they
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had the first terrorist nation the
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Assyrians camped outside their front
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gate the Assyrians really were the
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prototype of what it meant to be a
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terrorist terrorists do things that
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aren't always logical but they strike
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fear into people's hearts and that's
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what the Assyrians did they were so evil
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so cruel to those whom they conquered
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that sometimes when a city or a nation
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heard that the Assyrians were coming
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they absolutely surrendered before ever
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fighting and hoped they'd somehow find
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mercy that's what terrorists do and now
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it was little Judas turned basically
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most of the nation was behind the walls
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of Jerusalem assuming that none of them
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were going to survive three hundred
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thousand Assyrian soldiers under their
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King Sennacherib were outside the walls
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Sennacherib true terror study was
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prepared a letter it was a letter that
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that mocked God had mocked Hezekiah it
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encouraged surrender from the Israelites
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and then he had that sent all around the
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outside wall of the city and proclaimed
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loudly so that everyone in Jerusalem
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could hear it and be afraid
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that's what terrorists do then after
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that had been proclaimed and everyone
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had heard it he had that prepared on the
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scroll sent it by messenger to King
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Hezekiah and that's where this story
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picks up Isaiah chapter 37 beginning in
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verse 14 Hezekiah received the letter
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from the messengers and read it they
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went up to the Temple of the Lord and
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spread it out before the Lord and
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Hezekiah prayed
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to the lord lord almighty god of israel
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and thrown between the cherubim you
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alone are God over all the kingdoms of
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the earth you have made heaven and earth
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give ear Lord and hear open your eyes
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Lord and see listen to all the words
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Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the
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Living God it is true Lord that the
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assyrian kings have laid waste all these
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peoples and their lands they've thrown
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their gods into the fire and destroyed
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them for they were not gods but only
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wood and stone fashioned by human hands
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now Lord our God deliver us from his
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hand so that all the kingdoms of the
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earth may know that you Lord are the
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only god it's a powerful prayer and
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there are principles within this prayer
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that are so amazingly contemporary it is
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almost as though God wrote these for our
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day because so many of the circumstances
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are almost identical we can pull these
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principles out and we can begin to pray
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them in powerful effective ways this
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very day I want you to see the before
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Hezekiah began to pray he did a couple
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things
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he took the letter the scroll from
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Sennacherib and he and he read it now
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that may not sound very profound but
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remember he'd already heard it along
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with everybody else in Jerusalem he had
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already heard what was in the letter but
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he took time to once again read this
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he paid careful attention to what was
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going on into the circumstance he didn't
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want to miss anything no friends I find
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a lot of Christians don't want to pay
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attention when it comes right down to it
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many times we get a little overwhelmed
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by all the crises all the things going
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on in the world in our nation and we
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reach a certain
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duration point where we kind of want to
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say I don't want to hear anymore I've
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got my own things I got my family I got
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my friends I just want to kind of circle
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the wagons and stay right here I don't
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want to know what's going on but if you
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don't know what's going on you don't
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know how to pray and you're not able to
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see what God is doing and how he is at
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work in our nation and around the world
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Cenac whether Hezekiah becomes a great
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example of someone who paid attention to
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what's happening around him one of the
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ways that that I've been praying in my
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own life is that God would make me like
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like the sons of Issachar mr. Carr was
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another one of the twelve tribes of
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Israel and was said of them in another
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place in Scripture that the sons of
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Issachar understood the times in which
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they lived and knew what Israel must do
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so I've been praying for that spirit
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Lord would you make me like those folks
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from Issachar that I would understand
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the time in which I live and then have
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an idea of how to pray and what to do
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and what the people of God must do in
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our day
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Hezekiah becomes a great example for us
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of paying attention to what's going on
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the second thing that I see before he
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began his prayer is he immediately upon
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reading that went to the temple of the
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Lord now you and I live in New Testament
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times and when we want to seek the Lord
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when you stop we just stop where we are
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and we we pray but if you live in Old
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Testament times and you want to seek the
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Lord you go somewhere you go to the
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temple of God
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you go there to seek the Lord and I find
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it interesting that in the midst of this
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great crisis Hezekiah didn't call
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together his counselors he did not call
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together his generals he didn't try to
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survey what's going on here he
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immediately began to seek the Lord where
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do you go in times of crisis
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what happens when crisis comes to you
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here's what I love about Hezekiah
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he immediately went to the one who could
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solve the crisis rather than focusing on
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the crisis see all too often even in our
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prayers we spend all of our time praying
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focusing on our crisis focusing on the
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issue focusing on the problem and then
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we wonder why we don't feel any better
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when we're done praying we're called to
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be like Hezekiah we take the issue to
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the Lord then he did something very very
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interesting he took that that scroll
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Young unrolled it and laid it on the
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table in the temple and since he does
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this God would you read this Lord would
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you look and see what this guy said
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about you Lord what are you gonna do
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about it he took this to the Lord he
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began to seek the Lord and then he took
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the issue and he laid it out before the
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Lord he did not take a survey a poll of
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how everybody felt he took it to God and
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with that he began to pray I want you to
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see just a couple simple things the you
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and I can pray in the midst of our
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crisis the first thing that Hezekiah
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does is he begins by acknowledging God's
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power it is a wonderful opening to a
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prayer
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you have to admit that don't you listen
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to this again Lord Almighty God of
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Israel enthroned between the cherubim
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you are God over all the earth you made
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all of heaven and earth man that is
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powerful he does not start by focusing
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on the crisis he focuses on the one
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who can solve the crisis he comes into
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the presence of God he focuses on who
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God is he acknowledges God's power I'm
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convinced that most of us don't do that
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now I'm not pretending to know all of
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your prayer life and some of you have
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learned this principle but over the last
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25 years I've heard a lot of Christians
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pray and I believe that most of us have
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a tendency to look at the opening part
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of a prayer as introduction you know I
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mean even if we're reading a biblical
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prayer you know we read this great
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prayer that great way to open Oh creator
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of all things and and we kind of go oh
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that's good now get on with the real
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thing come on let's get on to the real
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prayer you hear people pray that way and
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you kind of feel like I wonder if they
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really mean it
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oh great and most gracious Heavenly
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Father and sometimes you think that
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there's more like saying dear God
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that we're not really saying anything or
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meaning anything my friends I want to
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tell you the way you begin your prayer
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maybe the most important part of the
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prayer because as you do so you are
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focusing on the one who can deal with
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this
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it isn't your words it isn't simply your
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authenticity it's God Himself that's
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going to solve the crisis friends that's
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how Jesus taught us to pray isn't it the
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disciples came to Jesus one day and they
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said Lord would you teach us to pray
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Jesus said sure I'd be glad to teach you
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to pray I prepared a neat little outline
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for you and I want you to start off yeah
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okay this is Dave's version I want you
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to start off your prayers guys by paying
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attention to who you're talking to but I
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want you to start your prayers kind of
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like this our Father
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who art in heaven hallowed be your name
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you see that's exactly what Hezekiah was
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doing Hezekiah was praying like Jesus
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taught us to pray pay attention to
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you're talking to all too often we come
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running into prayer with all of our
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prayer lists and things we want God to
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do and we don't stop and think and
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consider who's on the other end of this
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what's really happening as I pray I find
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it fascinating that Hezekiah prayed a
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prayer begin his prayer the way Jesus
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taught us to pray and then I start
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thinking well of course Hezekiah was the
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great great great great great great
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great great-grandfather of Jesus on his
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mother's side and you find that so many
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of these kings in the godly lineage of
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David prayed in this powerful way in
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Jesus in a sense summed it up for us
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and gave us this instruction here's how
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to pray now the second thing that I see
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after we have begun to acknowledge the
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one who can deal with the crisis
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Hezekiah does a powerful thing that I
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find most Christians today never ever
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get to he recognized that this letter
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and this attack and these Assyrians out
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there were in fact assaulting God that
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this whole situation was an assault
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against God now obviously Hezekiah and
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the people of Judah were also concerned
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for their own lives they understood
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their lives were at stake but Hezekiah
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did this brilliant thing in which he
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took the prayer and he made it not about
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them but about God they prayed it the
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Swayne give here Lord and here
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open your eyes Lord and see listen to
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all the words
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Sennacherib has sent to ridicule you to
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ridicule the Living God
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god this isn't about us ultimately it's
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about you he's attacking you and you see
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it takes all of this requests and puts
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it on a whole different level when it's
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no longer about us but it's about God I
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want to suggest you no I just want to
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tell you that at least some of the
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crises that we face as a nation are in
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fact assaults against God
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I'll give you two examples there are
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more the first deals with with what we
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often call Islamic radicalism or
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jihadism I'm not talking about Islam as
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a religion that's another home message
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all those who are Muslims need to know
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Jesus is Savior and Lord
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most Muslims want to live peaceful lives
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and are in fact the ones who are
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typically in real danger and are often
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losing their lives with the growth of
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radical Islam and though they may be a
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small number percentage-wise they're
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still over a hundred million of what we
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would call radical or jihadist among
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Islam now I would say to you based on
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their own writings not on what I would
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tell you what other what they would say
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is that they are absolutely opposed to
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Christianity and are committed to the
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destruction of our faith they are
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opposed to our God they have set
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themselves up against him it's kind of
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interesting that one of the one of the
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negative terms that they would use that
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that radical Islamic terrorists would
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you
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against anyone living in our nation and
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many other nations in the West is they
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would call us Crusaders and you know
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Crusaders the Crusades wasn't that like
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a long time ago and the trouble is most
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of us don't like history but so often in
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other cultures especially in the Middle
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East memories are very very long and
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there is still a battle going on between
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the Crusaders and Islam in the minds of
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many it is a spiritual battle there is
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an assault against our God against our
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of faith and our prayer rather than
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praying against them needs to be Lord
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what are you going to do Lord what will
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you do with this attack against you and
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against who you are now the second the
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second assault against God is a little
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harder for us to hear because it's from
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inside last summer the Supreme Court of
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the United States decided that they knew
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better than God how to define marriage
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listen friends before I go any further I
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want you to hear this God calls the
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church to love that's our only option we
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are called to love we are not to be
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haters is we are not determined by who
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we're against we are not to be hating
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those who are different to have
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different desires and than others but we
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also take stands for God for what God
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has said and the Lord has clearly
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defined marriage between a man and a
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woman and our Supreme Court
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the highest court in our land
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representing us like it or not has
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declared no God you did not get it right
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we're going to do it this way my friends
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when that happens it is an assault on
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God it is saying his word no longer
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matters in our nation and it's not a
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matter of n of us being angry though I
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understand being upset it is a matter of
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learning how to pray as Hezekiah prayed
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God will you open your ears will you
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keep your eyes open
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Lord are you hearing what they said
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about you are you hearing how they're
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rejecting your word you see that's the
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biblical way to pray I'm just calling us
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to pray what scripture says to follow
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this model of a godly king who saw God
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move there's an assault against God now
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there is a a small section in here I
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won't take but just a a couple of
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minutes he acknowledges in the midst of
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this prayer that there victories of the
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enemy have indeed happened against these
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other nations and their gods and their
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idols but he kind of doesn't funny in a
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sense what Hezekiah doesn't think God
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you know that part of what Sennacherib
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said was right they did defeat all these
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other nations and they took their gods
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and their idols and they threw him into
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the fire but God you and I know those
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weren't God's at all they they've never
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come up against you I can't wait to see
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what you're going to do so many times we
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despair we look at the situation around
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us and it seems so big so out of control
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and it is if you got to solve it or if
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I've got to solve it or even the person
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we elect as president if they
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to solve it but if it's God be at peace
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now we come to the final part of this
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prayer here's where it gets real good
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because here finally
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Hezekiah gets to the point that we've
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kind of been waiting on deliver us
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deliver us now Lord our God deliver us
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from his hand so that all the kingdoms
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of the earth may know that you Lord are
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the only God you know what I love about
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this this whole prayer leads up to this
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simple request deliver us and you know
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what Hezekiah did that we so often don't
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get he didn't tell God how I don't know
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about you but I'm pretty good at telling
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God how you ought to do things and you
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are too
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come on admit it right everybody nod
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that's different than nodding off just
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just okay okay we're pretty good at
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telling God now here's the crisis and
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God here's what I want you to do to
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solve the crisis I gotta tell you
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Hezekiah had no idea what God was gonna
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do
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he couldn't have dreamt of the answer he
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just made a simple request deliver us
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but then he did something really really
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powerful he added on to that deliverance
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request what my friend bill Elif calls a
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cry for deliverance with a purified
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purpose he put a purified purpose Lord
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deliver us but would you do it in such a
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way that all the nations of the earth
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would know that you alone are God you
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see he purified the purpose
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it wasn't about Judah it wasn't about
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the inhabitants of Jerusalem
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it wasn't about
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hezekiah it was about God it is God I
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want you to deliver us but I want you to
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do it in a way that you're the one that
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gets the credit that nobody's going to
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think it was our army or our brilliant
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strategy or our design or our budget or
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our plans and all the things we
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sometimes get caught up in God would you
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do this
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so that all would know I want to tell
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you there are a lot of so that prayers
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in Scripture and my wife Kim and I do
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some writing and we often thought we got
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to write a book called so that praying
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because there are a lot of that and what
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it always does
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is it makes it someone will make a
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request and then they add to so that and
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the so that always takes it and makes it
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about God God would you do this so that
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you would receive honor and glory God
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would you do this so that your kingdom
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would advance you know you can do that
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not just for the nation you can do that
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in your own life all the time if I go to
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a hospital room to pray for someone I
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always pray for healing but then I
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always add it on say I so that prayer
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Lord would you heal my my sister here so
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that the doctors and nurses and family
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would know that you're the one that did
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this Lord that you would receive
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increased honor and glory because of
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what you've done here in this place you
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can do that in almost any situation
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and Hezekiah does that it's fascinating
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that he prays this simple prayer he has
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no idea what's gonna happen he really
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doesn't you know you and I get to read
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the end of the of the book you know we
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know what happens but Hezekiah was right
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in the middle of this he didn't know he
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didn't know that he was gonna go to bed
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that night wake up the next morning and
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during the night one angel was gonna
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show up and kill a hundred eighty-six
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thousand Assyrians he didn't know that
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he didn't know that that that the rest
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the the survivors of the Assyrians would
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hightail it back to Nineveh to their
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home city
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they didn't know that he didn't know
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that Sennacherib when he got back home
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was gonna end up going into his his home
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temple where two of his sons were
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waiting on him to assassinate him
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Hezekiah didn't know that he prayed a
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simple prayer in the midst of a crisis
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and God heard now I want to read one
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more verse before we're done before we
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pray that very next verse was one I had
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not read verse 21 but I want you to hear
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this I'm just going to read a part of
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that because the prophet Isaiah gets
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involved at this point it says then
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Isaiah son of amos sent a message to
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Hezekiah this is what the Lord the God
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of Israel says because you have prayed
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to me now the rest of the chapter goes
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on to explain all the what I told you
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what's going to happen to the Assyrians
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about the angels join up and all of
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these things he didn't know that when he
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prayed it but the Prophet came and the
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Word of God to Hezekiah I gotta tell you
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this is the Word of God for you today
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because you prayed to me Hezekiah
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history has changed because you prayed
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Hezekiah
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nothing will ever be the same again
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because you prayed I stepped into a
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hopeless situation and changed
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everything
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just because you prayed my friends the
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same god of Hezekiah is right here right
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now in this room
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[Applause]
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and he is saying to you the exact same
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thing because you have prayed nothing
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will be the same because you prayed I
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will step in just this person's life and
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that person's life because you prayed
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I'm gonna work in that church because
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you've prayed I'm gonna change something
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in the power structure of my city or our
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nation because you prayed it is so easy
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for us in a nation of 320 million to
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feel totally totally helpless to look at
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the situations in Washington DC and
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other places and say I'm I'm without
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power I can't do this
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it's decision makers in in Moscow and
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and in London and in Tehran and in
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Jerusalem and in Washington DC those are
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the ones that are important they're the
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ones that are making decisions and God
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who say no I'm not looking to those
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places I'm looking to my people and
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because you have prayed I will step in
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and I will change things do you believe
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that
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then it's time to pray lord I thank you
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for your word I think you that your word
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is not a book like any other book that
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it's living it speaks to us today I
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think you Lord that in your words you
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don't simply tell us to do something
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without typically showing us how what
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the disciples ask you Lord how to pray
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you said pray like this I thank you for
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the the faith and prayer of of this
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ancient King as a kayak Lord would you
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show us how to pray continue to show us
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how to pray as as he and others prayed
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in Scripture thank you Lord for Mina God
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who hears and answers prayer I thank you
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for my sister's in this room who have
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been so challenged and accepted that
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challenge to become a people of Prayer I
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pray for that spirit of grace and
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supplication to fall upon them that the
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Prophet Zechariah speaks out Lord made
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that spirit of Prayer be upon us not
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just here but goes with us and we will
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see something that happens in the church
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not only in this nation but around the
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globe that sparks the awakening that we
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believe is on your heart that your
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desiring to do to wake up your people to
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see your purposes accomplished and your
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name proclaimed throughout the earth we
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pray it in a powerful name of Jesus
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