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Speaker 3: Welcome back, friend.

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Speaker 4: You are listening to the Teach Us to Pray podcast,

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Speaker 4: where we teach you believers practical and real life tips

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Speaker 4: on how to grow your faith and relationship with God

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Speaker 4: through the power of prayer. I'm Christina Patterson, hosts of

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Speaker 4: the Teach Us to Pray podcast and founder of Beloved Women,

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Speaker 4: where I encourage, equip and empower women in the love

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Speaker 4: of Jesus Christ and the truth of God's Word. I

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Speaker 4: am so excited to share with you a recent conversation

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Speaker 4: I had with my dear friend, April Christina April Christina

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Speaker 4: Farmer is a vocalist and speaker who has traveled the

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Speaker 4: world sharing her gift of song and words of inspiration

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Speaker 4: with audiences great and small.

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Speaker 3: In addition to serving as worship leader, speaker, and Bible

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Speaker 3: teacher at events and churches throughout the country. April is

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Speaker 3: currently the director of Adult ministry Environments at Buckhead Church

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Speaker 3: in Atlanta, Georgia. April and her husband, David Farmer, senior

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Speaker 3: are empty nesters and reside in Metro Atlanta. Listen, you

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Speaker 3: are going to love our conversation today. April and I

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Speaker 3: talk about what Jesus teaches us about prayer so that

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Speaker 3: we can pray powerfully. What two practical areas believers need

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Speaker 3: to be praying about now, especially with the state of

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Speaker 3: our society in world today. And we're also going to

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Speaker 3: talk about practical ways that we can pray first thing

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Speaker 3: in the morning, be intentional about prayer, and pray without ceasing. Listen,

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Speaker 3: April is going to give us a sneak peek into

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Speaker 3: her own prayer life to encourage and inspire ours. You

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Speaker 3: are going to love this conversation.

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Speaker 4: I love that you compel others to seek God first,

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Speaker 4: to make Him your foundation. I think that's one of

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Speaker 4: the greatest gifts that we can give the world. For

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Speaker 4: that very reason, I wanted to ask you what part

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Speaker 4: do you believe prayer plays in keeping God first and

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Speaker 4: making him our foundation.

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Speaker 1: It's a great question. I think it's everything.

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Speaker 5: And in Matthew chapter six, Jesus lays out in the

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Speaker 5: Sermon of the on the Mount how to pray. He

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Speaker 5: tells us not to pray like this don't pray like

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Speaker 5: the hypocrites too. And when you really look at that

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Speaker 5: text and you break that down, the first part of

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Speaker 5: the Lord, what we consider the Lord's prayer, is all

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Speaker 5: about God, Jesus, our five in heaven. So he's acknowledging

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Speaker 5: this relationship.

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Speaker 1: He calls him father.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't say God up in the sky. He calls

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Speaker 5: him father. That means you know me and I know you.

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Speaker 5: We're close, we have intimacy. Our Father in heaven. Will

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Speaker 5: hallowed be your name, which is worship, glory and honor

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Speaker 5: to you.

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Speaker 1: So immediately as Jesus is.

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Speaker 5: Starting this prayer, his focus is already on God. We

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Speaker 5: don't even know what he's coming to God about, but

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Speaker 5: he's teaching us immediately that our focus should be on him.

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Speaker 5: Glory and honor to you, hollowed be your name. And

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Speaker 5: then there's this submission of authority to him. Your kingdom come,

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Speaker 5: Your will be done. So before I've even asked or

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Speaker 5: petitioned you for anything, I'm already submitting myself to your will.

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Speaker 1: It already places my whole world in your hands.

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Speaker 5: So no matter what the outcome is, I'm submitted to

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Speaker 5: now give us this day our daily bread, daily daily bread.

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Speaker 5: Give us to this day our daily bread. So Jesus

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Speaker 5: is immediately teaching us, hey, you should come to me

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Speaker 5: for sustenance every day. You should depend on me every day.

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Speaker 5: So this is the role that prayer plays. Is Jesus

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Speaker 5: give us this day our daily bread and forgive us.

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Speaker 5: Forgiveness is huge. You know, we're going to God about

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Speaker 5: our delgate, forgive us our debts as we as we

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Speaker 1: But deliver us from the evil one. There is an

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Speaker 5: Right, there is one that is that there's an adversary

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Speaker 1: Your heavenly Father cannot forgive you. He says that so plain.

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Speaker 5: And so when we look at this prayer that Jesus

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Speaker 5: acknowledging having relationship with him, worshiping him, and submitting to

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Speaker 5: Him before we even petition God for anything else in

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Speaker 1: Because the moment we do that, what I'm coming to

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Speaker 1: God for, it is already taken care of.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because I've taken the first part of that to

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Speaker 1: It turns my eye off of my need or off

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling and experiencing, to the reality of who God

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Speaker 5: is and that He's in full control. And if I'm

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Speaker 5: surrendered to him, you got it, Lord, you know. And

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Speaker 5: so that's that's that role that that prayer. It's it's

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Speaker 5: pivotal to everyday living and it's food to our souls,

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Speaker 5: it's sustenance, it's it's everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it kind of ties back into what we

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Speaker 3: It kind of ties into worship.

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Speaker 4: You talking about Jesus acknowledging the authority of God, yes,

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Speaker 4: and then responding to it and saying and I need

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Speaker 4: you daily and teaching O, this is how we should

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Speaker 4: be responding.

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Speaker 3: To God with a I need you daily.

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Speaker 4: And we can receive him daily through praying to him

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Speaker 4: and coming to him to get that focus on him

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Speaker 4: so we can have a firm, sure foundation in such

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Speaker 4: an uncertain world. Yeah, curious to know what your prayer

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Speaker 4: life looks like. I know you're a busy woman on

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Speaker 4: the go and a lot of our sisters are as well.

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Speaker 4: What practical ways are you using to keep prayer a

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Speaker 4: daily habit.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. Honestly, it took time. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: Okay, time, time.

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Speaker 5: And intentionality those are so key. But really I did.

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Speaker 5: I started small. I made a commitment to God. I

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Speaker 5: it's and I started with the five minutes, right, the

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Speaker 1: I put the app on my phone.

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Speaker 5: I have it, you know, for the devotional But one

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Speaker 5: of the things when my former pastor taught me this,

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Speaker 5: there's something significant about even if it's first thing in

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Speaker 5: real quick and just start simply, God, I'm just thanking

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Speaker 5: I gotta get him. But I want to acknowledge you

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Speaker 1: Is the first conversation.

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Speaker 5: But even in that moment, you can say, God, I

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Speaker 5: thank you, I acknowledge.

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Speaker 1: You help me today. I trust you. I'm surrendered to you.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what today is going to look like.

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Speaker 5: I know how I feel, I know what's going on

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Speaker 5: when I went to bed with But I'm going to

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Speaker 1: And that took thirty seconds, you know.

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Speaker 5: But it's that start starting small. So for me, it's

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Speaker 5: a morning thing. I know what my personality is. If

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Speaker 5: hard for us to get it done that intentional time

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Speaker 5: For me, it's in the morning, So I get up

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Speaker 5: do a daily Bible reading. I'm actually I started a

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Speaker 5: and so I have a portion that I read because

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Speaker 5: I want to read the Bible every year, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: And I knew that that was something I hadn't done.

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Speaker 1: And that actually.

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Speaker 5: Sparks prayer time too, because as you're reading through the

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Speaker 5: Bible and you're seeing certain things, you just stop me

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Speaker 5: just like, oh my gosh, Lord, And that's the Holy

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Speaker 5: Spirit's job to bring things to you, and you'll just

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Speaker 5: stop in that moment and you'll pray. And so sometimes

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Speaker 5: and I'm praying God, thank you for your word, and

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Speaker 5: then I go on about the day.

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Speaker 1: But throughout the day is.

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Speaker 5: If I'm in my car, I'm praying and I'm just

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Speaker 1: My thoughts, my prayers.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I'll reach out to click on my Marco Polo

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Speaker 5: and we're just it's so it's just that continual communication

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Speaker 1: I'm not I don't have to be on for God.

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Speaker 5: We have to be on for other people, right, you

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Speaker 5: your mom face on, you got to put your teacher

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Speaker 5: don't have to be on for God. I can be

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Speaker 5: totally honest with him. Lord, I'm frustrated this.

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Speaker 5: That is that continual communication with God and trusting that

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Speaker 5: it that cultivates that obedience to God, that surrender, that submission. Lord,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to do that, but yes, okay, I

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Speaker 5: will be nice, I will smile, I will let that go.

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Speaker 1: I will forgive that.

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Speaker 5: Even though I feel like I was wronged, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's what it looks like for me.

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Speaker 5: It's just it starts with that intentional time in the

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Speaker 3: Do your that's that intentional part right there, and.

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Speaker 1: Do what works for you.

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Speaker 5: I put it in there. So I've even told my staff, like, hey,

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Speaker 5: If you can schedule going to lunch with so and so,

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Speaker 3: I don't know this.

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Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you need to see someone else do

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Speaker 4: that's why I love asking that question. As far as

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Speaker 5: The Bible says you shall know that you truth, and

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Speaker 5: truth is solid ground. But our culture continually changes what

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Speaker 5: this is the anchor by which we live our lives,

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Speaker 5: seeking to understand it. We are not brilliant, We're not

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Speaker 5: So seeking that out, Father, what is true? So I'd

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Speaker 5: say truth, so that we can share truth and love,

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Speaker 5: I'm insecure. So truth is important and it's vital as

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Speaker 5: us to pray for truth number one, that we know it,

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Speaker 5: and we know that through continually spending time in God's word. Right,

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Speaker 5: So I challenge believers. It's one of my biggest things.

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Speaker 5: read it, read it, and I don't want to be

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel like the enemy tries to make me

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Speaker 1: You're being to this or you're being too churchy, or

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Speaker 5: No, if I have to put a car together, I

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Speaker 5: as the Church was formed and God what Jesus himself

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Speaker 5: called us to. How can too walk together unless they agree?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those are very powerful because we know Jesus himself

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Speaker 4: and I truly believe that prayer can change things, even.

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Speaker 4: And I think that oneess is something that undoubtedly aligns

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Speaker 4: with God's will. So how much more powerful for us

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Speaker 4: to pray about something that God actually wants, it will

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Speaker 4: take the time to do it. It is my hope

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Speaker 4: that today's episode has provided you with insight and helpful

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Speaker 4: tips on how you can pray. We have so much

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