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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms, helping

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Speaker 2: you pray God's word for your family in the areas

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Speaker 2: you need it most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. Here,

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Speaker 2: we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our first

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Speaker 2: and best response in parenting, and every day we come

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Speaker 2: together to partner with God for the hearts of our children.

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Speaker 2: As we journey towards Easter. Together, we are unpacking the

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Speaker 2: final prayers of Jesus as we break them down. I

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Speaker 2: believe these prayers will show us the heart of God

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Speaker 2: and can teach us so much about connecting with the

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Speaker 2: Father in prayer. Today, we're going to discuss the power

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Speaker 2: of persistence in prayer as we turn our attention to

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Speaker 2: Jesus's prayer in the Garden of guessemone. To learn more

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Speaker 2: about the Million Praying Mom's ministry, visit Million prayers Moms

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Speaker 1: Link in our show notes.

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Speaker 2: After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together

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Speaker 2: for our children. Matthew twenty six forty two, He went

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Speaker 2: away a second time and prayed my father. If it

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Speaker 2: is not possible for this cup to be taken away

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Speaker 2: unless I drink.

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Speaker 1: It, may your will be done.

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Speaker 2: My daughter, Josie is what I would call extremely persistent.

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Speaker 2: Whether she wants a popsicle, to watch a show on TV,

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Speaker 2: to go outside and play, for a new toy, whatever

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Speaker 2: it might be, she will ask for it again and

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Speaker 2: again and again. It's something we're really working on in

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Speaker 2: our house right now. So the popsicle example, in the

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Speaker 2: middle of winter, she started asking for popsicles, and I said, baby,

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Speaker 2: I'm out of popsicles and I probably won't buy any

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Speaker 2: more until it gets a bit warmer outside. But Mommy,

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Speaker 2: can I have a popsicle? Mom? Can I have a

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Speaker 2: popsicle today? And then she began to ask me, is

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Speaker 2: it warmer today, mom? And I would say, no, Josie,

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Speaker 2: it's not quite warmer today, and she would say, oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: And I said, why did you ask? And she said,

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Speaker 2: I really wanted a popsicle. Just persistent, persistent, persistent. And

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Speaker 2: that's what I kind of think about when I think

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Speaker 2: about this prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gessimone.

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Speaker 2: Here we see where Jesus went away a second time

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Speaker 2: and prayed, And this is a detail that I feel

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Speaker 2: like I kind of looked over in the past when

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Speaker 2: I have looked at the Garden prayer. We read the

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Speaker 2: part about take this cup from me and Jesus sweating

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Speaker 2: drops of blood, and the agony that he felt, and

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Speaker 2: that he was face down on his that he was

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Speaker 2: face down before the Father. But we don't always notice

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Speaker 2: that he went back again. He went away a second

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Speaker 2: time to pray and prayed the same thing, Father, your

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Speaker 2: will be done. Now. Jesus didn't go away a second

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Speaker 2: time to pray because he didn't think the Father heard

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Speaker 2: him the first time. Right, He had a direct connection

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Speaker 2: with God. So we can be confident that Jesus knew

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Speaker 2: God was hearing his prayers. So we don't persist in

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Speaker 2: our prayers because we think God isn't hearing us, or

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Speaker 2: God isn't answering us. But there was something important that

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Speaker 2: Jesus was teaching us here about persistence in prayer. It

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Speaker 2: makes me think of the story that Jesus told in

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Speaker 2: Luke chapter eighteen that's known as the Parable of the

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Speaker 2: Persistent Widow, and I'd like to read it to you

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Speaker 2: Luke eighteen, starting in verse one, and he told them

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Speaker 2: a parable to the effect that they ought always to

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Speaker 2: pray and not lose heart. He said, in a certain city,

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Speaker 2: there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

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Speaker 2: And there was a widow in that city who kept

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Speaker 2: coming to him and saying, give me justice against my adversary.

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Speaker 2: For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself,

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Speaker 2: though I neither fear God nor respect man.

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Speaker 1: Yet, because this widow.

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Speaker 2: Keeps bothering me, I will give her justice so that

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Speaker 2: she will not beat me down by her continual coming.

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Speaker 2: And the Lord said, hear what the unrighteous judge says,

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Speaker 2: And will not God give justice to his elect who

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Speaker 2: cried to him day and night? Will he delay long

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Speaker 2: over them? I tell you he will give justice to

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Speaker 2: them speedily. Nevertheless, when the son of Man comes, he

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Speaker 2: will find faith on earth. We also know that in

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Speaker 2: Matthew six' Eight jesus tells us that The father knows

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Speaker 2: what we need before we ask. Him that's one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: True god knows what we need better than we know.

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Speaker 2: Ourselves But jesus goes on In matthew six and tells

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Speaker 2: us to ask. Anyway he models this for us in

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Speaker 2: The lord's. Prayer he says what he tells us what

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Speaker 2: it looks like to bring our request To, god and

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Speaker 2: that's what we see with this widow here in this.

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Speaker 2: Passage she kept showing up coming Before, god And jesus

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Speaker 2: says that that's something that The father loves and. Honors

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Speaker 2: sometimes when we, pray it can feel like we're Aggravating

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Speaker 2: god right, Like, god it's me, Again i've got the

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Speaker 2: same Request i've brought to you a lot of. Times

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Speaker 2: but that is not How god sees it when we

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Speaker 2: are persistent in. Prayer And jesus wanted us to know

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Speaker 2: that we may not always get what we ask for

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Speaker 2: or what we think is best when we think it is,

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Speaker 2: best but we will always get peace In god's presence

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Speaker 2: when we, pray and this.

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Speaker 1: Is for our.

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Speaker 2: Benefit we believe that prayer, Works we believe that prayer

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Speaker 2: can Change god's, heart but prayer is as much for

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Speaker 2: our benefit as it is For god's or the person

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Speaker 2: we are praying. For so when we continually bring things Before,

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Speaker 2: god we are exercising our trust muscles in. Him we

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Speaker 2: are saying To, him we trust you more than we trust.

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Speaker 2: Ourselves we know that you want what's best for us

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Speaker 2: and our loved. Ones that we're praying, for and so

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Speaker 2: we can come To god again and, again persistent in,

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Speaker 2: prayer seeking peace in his, presence That he will be

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Speaker 2: faithful to give us again and. Again let's.

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Speaker 1: Pray, father help.

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Speaker 2: Me to be persistent in prayer even when it seems

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Speaker 2: Like i'm not getting the ANSWER i. Want help me

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Speaker 2: to trust you as my good father who knows WHAT i.

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Speaker 2: Need help me to be assured THAT i can come

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Speaker 2: to you in prayer with an honest, heart and help

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Speaker 2: me to trust you with the outcome In jesus.

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