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>> I feel the weight
of unanswered prayers.
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Next on
LIFE Today!
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For most of us,
prayer is a struggle
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and many times can feel like
it is a waste of time.
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>> I felt like
God had abandoned me.
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I would reach out
to God in prayer
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and I didn't sense
God's presence.
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I'm being faithful, I feel
like I'm checking the boxes,
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I'm doing the right things
but God has checked out.
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Addison Bevere
helps us
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to truly experience
Words with God. Next!
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RANDY: Welcome to LIFE Today!
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I'm Randy Robison.
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Tammy Trent is with me.
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There is a gentleman
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that we've talked to
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multiple times.
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I've talked to him online,
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and we've talked to him
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here in the studio.
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You're going to see him
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today because Addison Bevere
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made such an impact.
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We talk to a lot of
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great people but this
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is what I told Addison later.
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I was like, man, I've been
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thinking about what you said
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in our conversation
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and like over and over.
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And then you dive into
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the book Words With God
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and you see this depth
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and it is life-changing.
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I know it impacted you.
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TAMMY: It did.
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Randy, I remember
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falling apart.
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I remember just crying
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and I couldn't pull myself
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back together because
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I definitely had those
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questions about how
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I pray to God, and when
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I felt like my prayers
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have fallen short.
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This book is so powerful.
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It was also teaching me
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how to have the right words
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with Jesus.
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RANDY: All right!
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We want you to see this.
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Whether you've seen it
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or not, and if you're
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watching online,
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share it with someone else.
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This will bless you.
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Here's Addison Bevere.
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ADDISON: There is a moment
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in the garden that I love
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that I think brings
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the tension of prayer,
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brings it front and center.
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We see Jesus in his moment
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of greatest need,
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the Garden of Gethsemane
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where he is crying out.
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And he says, "Father,
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if there is any way
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this cup could pass,
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please let it pass."
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He is specific.
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So God wants us to be specific
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in our prayers.
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There is a lot in scripture
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about asking.
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The Greek word aiteo,
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which means to ask,
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means to put a demand on God.
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It means to ask with a sense
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of you expect a response.
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It might not necessarily be
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what you're asking for
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but you know you have
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a right to make a request,
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you know you belong
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in the presence of the one
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you're bringing
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that request to.
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So first of all,
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he was specific.
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Second, he was steadfast.
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He prayed again and again
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and again.
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And for so many of us,
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the process of praying
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prepares us to better
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understand and receive
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what we're asking for.
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It is going to God
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and contending that
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prepares us to receive
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what he has for us.
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So he's steadfast.
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And there's a third component,
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he was surrendered.
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He said, "Not my will
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but yours be done."
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We want to swing the pendulum.
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We want it to be really easy.
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We want it to either be
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God, I give you my list
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and you answer everything
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on my list the way
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I expect you to answer it,
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and prayer works,
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or I'm just going to pray
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a vague prayer, not my will
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but yours be done.
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TAMMY: So you've listed
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the three.
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Have you ever struggled
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yourself with the three?
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Have you ever been
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in a season in your life?
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Because I want to know
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I'm not alone, Addison.
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Have you ever struggled
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yourself and just thought,
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what am I doing wrong
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with my prayer life right now?
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Have you been in a dry season?
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ADDISON: Absolutely.
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I was going to say
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not a season,
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multiple seasons of my life.
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But there was one season
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in particular where
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I navigated insomnia
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for five years.
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I lived in a perpetual fog.
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I felt like God
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had abandoned me.
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I would reach out to God
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in prayer and I didn't
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sense God's presence.
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I remember toward the end
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of this season,
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my wife had invited
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a few couples over
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for a time of prayer.
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Really? Are we doing this?
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Because I knew that moment
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would happen where
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everyone is talking about
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how God is touching them
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and ministering to them.
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All I wanted to do is pour
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out my complaints to God.
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Like that's where I'm at,
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just being real.
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Like that's where
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my prayer life is.
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And we're sitting there
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and my wife shares
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and she looks at me like
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it's your turn to share.
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I'm like I'm not sharing.
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I'm not saying anything.
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Everyone else is crying
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and talking about how
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God has touched them.
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And I'm just sitting there
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and I'm quiet.
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And finally, I shared
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with them and said, "Hey,
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to be honest with you,
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I haven't sensed
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God's presence in years.
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And I feel like I'm being
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faithful, I feel like
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I'm checking the boxes,
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I'm doing the right things
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but God has checked out
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of my life.
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And honestly, I don't know
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what to do."
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I discovered in that season
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because I had an idea
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of myself and I had
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an idea of God that
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I struggled to let go of
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during that season.
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I realized God has a way
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of not delivering us.
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For me, it was insomnia.
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For so many of us,
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when it comes to prayer,
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we want the answers.
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We do because we want
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to get life right.
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But I learned that peace
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isn't found in having
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all the answers,
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it is found in being in tune
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with the one
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who is the answer.
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I discovered that God has
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a way of not delivering us
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from a thing if he knows that
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that thing will ultimately
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deliver us to him.
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See, I had a transactional --
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going back to
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the transactional view
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of prayer.
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But God is like actually, no.
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This is about intimacy.
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This is about you
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letting go of old constructs,
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old ideas of what it means
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to be a son, what it is
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to be someone who is
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in connection with me.
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I'm encouraging you,
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I'm creating an environment
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for you to let that go
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so you could be grasped
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by me in a fresh sense.
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RANDY: I think it is funny,
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we oftentimes pray for God
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to show us our purpose
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or to help us fulfill
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our purpose.
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But we're not there yet,
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and the process of refinement,
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of conforming us
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to the image of Christ,
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which is his ultimate goal
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of sanctification, we don't --
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we want to skip
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a lot of that.
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What I hear you suggesting,
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both from experience
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and from study is that
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sometimes a lot of
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the frustrations we may
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be experiencing, a lot of
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the dry seasons is a part
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of that transformation
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that will ultimately get us
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to what we're praying for.
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ADDISON: Absolutely.
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It prepares us.
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Like those specific requests,
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they're good for us
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because they create
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tension in our lives.
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We pray vague prayers.
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We don't know if God
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is responding to our prayers.
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When we pray specific prayers
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we have to wrestle with
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God's answer to our prayers
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or what seems like a lack
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of an answer to our prayers.
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Prayer is the gateway
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into the heart of God.
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It is the gateway
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to understanding how
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God created us to flourish
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in human relationships.
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It is the gateway
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to understanding ourselves.
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We're so obsessed with
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the therapeutic in our world
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right now, I think so much
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of that is we've let go
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of the robustness of prayer.
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TAMMY: What is prayer?
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[Laughter]
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Someone is watching today
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going what is prayer?
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What's the simple --
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simplest prayer I could
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start with right now?
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ADDISON: I'll share a prayer,
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a very simple prayer.
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Three words: I am here.
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I'm going to explain
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what these words do for me.
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I take a deep breath
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and I pray, I am here.
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Number one,
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the great I Am is here.
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God is with me in this moment.
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Whatever I face in this
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moment, God is with me.
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Number two, because
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I'm here I can't
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be somewhere else.
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We're really bad,
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really bad at living
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in the non-present.
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God is saying, actually,
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meaning, purpose,
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and connection happens
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in this present moment.
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So for me, "I am here"
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is a surrender to this place.
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I can't be in two places
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at once.
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I'm not God
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so I'm going to be here.
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And the third dimension
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of this prayer for me is,
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I am here in this place
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and time.
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I'm not where I once was.
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I'm not where I'm going to be.
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I'm here in this journey.
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That's okay.
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It's been a good growth,
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it's been a good work.
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And what I have found is that
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the enemy of our soul
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wants us to live in the past,
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and when that happens,
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we're filled with
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hopelessness and regret.
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Or he wants us to live
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in the future.
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When we live in the future,
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we're filled with anxiety.
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We weren't designed
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to engage with the past,
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present, and future.
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We were designed
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to engage with this moment.
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So to answer your question
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about what prayer is about,
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I believe prayer is the way
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that we connect
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to the heart of God.
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If what Paul writes
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in places like
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First Thessalonians 5:17
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or Romans 12:12, this idea
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of praying without ceasing
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is real, then that means
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our entire lives are
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supposed to be
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an integrated prayer.
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That does not work with
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the religious box that prayer
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has been forced into.
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So obviously, prayer has
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to be something more than
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what we've known it to be
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while still including
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these fundamental parts
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of prayers like asking God,
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going to God, and bringing
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our requests to him.
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RANDY: Since we talked last,
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because we talked on
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the Life Today Live stream
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before today, I started
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thinking about that and
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I realized that I will pray
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and repent of my sins,
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which I should,
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which is the past.
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And then I will pray
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and ask for maybe direction,
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blessing, wisdom,
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which is the future.
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And that was it.
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There was no present
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prayer on any regular
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basis that I can even --
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I wasn't always thinking
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of it in those terms.
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But when I became conscious
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from talking to you of this
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idea of present prayer,
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you realize wherever I'm at
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I'm able to ask for wisdom
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or discernment or sometimes
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God is like be quiet.
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I've got to listen to that.
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That is a whole different
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dynamic because then
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you can pray without ceasing
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in a sense, which sounds
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like some weird kind
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of nice idea from church.
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You're saying that --
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to me, that was
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the missing piece.
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I got the future prayer down,
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I got the past prayer down,
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it's this present thing
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and that's transformational.
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ADDISON: It is.
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Our lives flourish
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when we're present
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to the presence.
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Present to the presence of God
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but also present to
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the people in our world.
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Because if you want
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to enjoy a good life,
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be present to the people
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in your world,
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to whoever is around you.
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That will transform
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their life and it will
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transform your life.
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You will see things,
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you will garner insight
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that will lead to foresight.
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And that is so powerful.
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And prayer is how
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we center and how
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we're present to the day,
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and how we know when to speak
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and we know when
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to be silent.
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So many of us, we're terrified
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of the silence of prayer
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because, in that place
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of silence, we hear
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the voice of accusation.
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We hear you're not enough,
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you'll never be enough.
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And that's not what
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this is all about.
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RANDY: Did you struggle
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with that one?
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ADDISON: Absolutely!
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I've struggled with that one.
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RANDY: I didn't know.
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But a lot of that comes
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from our upbringing,
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religious upbringing.
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I did have
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a level of that,
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God's probably not happy
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with me because
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I'm not perfect.
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And so, when you dare
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to go to him in prayer,
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it better be with
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full repentance
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and then more repentance.
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And then maybe
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you'll be okay.
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But I think that's a wrong
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view of God if you look
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at the prodigal
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who was looking in the pigpen.
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The Father was not like
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what we think God's like.
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ADDISON: Like he ran to him.
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He received him.
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He spoke dignity,
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and honor to him with a ring.
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I look at Hebrews four
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and this statement that
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the writer of Hebrews makes,
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like God, the word knows.
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It searches, it divides,
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soul, spirit, bone, marrow.
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There is nothing unseen,
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nothing unknown.
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And that sounds scary.
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I think that's where
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we stop.
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But then the writer
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of Hebrews goes on to say,
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"Since then we have
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a High Priest who can
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sympathize with us
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in our weaknesses,
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that knows the struggle,
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that knows the pain."
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And I believe the great pain
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is the belief that
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we're separated from God.
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I believe Jesus
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fully encountered the
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human experience on the cross
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when he cried out,
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"My God, my God,
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why have you forsaken me?"
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I think that our greatest
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temptation is to believe
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that we are forsaken by God.
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TAMMY: What do we do
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with unanswered prayer?
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ADDISON: So I feel like
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with unanswered prayer,
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I feel this need to fix it,
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to balance the equation,
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if you will.
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And the reality is when
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there is a prayer that
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isn't answered,
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there is a tearing in us.
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And as long as we view
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this transactionally,
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going back to the old
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and trying to return
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to what was old and trying
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to recover what was old,
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we'll actually miss out
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on the faithfulness
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and goodness of God,
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and how God moves
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through unanswered prayers.
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I kind of want to put
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that in air quotes because
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I believe that there is
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no prayer -- no prayer when
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it leaves our lips that does
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not find its rest in
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the Father's heart
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until its time has come.
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God's not afraid of
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our doubts.
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He wants us to bring
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our doubts to him because
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doubts lead us to faith.
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You can't experience faith
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unless you first doubt.
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Otherwise, it is just
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a continuation of what
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you already know,
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what you could already see,
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and what you could
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already perceive.
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And God is saying, no,
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I'm calling you to fresh ways
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of understanding yourself,
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understanding pain,
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understanding promise,
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understanding purpose,
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and that is going to come
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with a profound type
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of disorientation that
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often comes in and through
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moving past and beyond
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but being honest about
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unanswered prayers.
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RANDY: Read that part
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that you wanted to read.
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TAMMY: If I can
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get through it.
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Like I'm just so...
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[ Emotional ]
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I feel the weight
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of unanswered prayers.
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I feel the weight
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of something not going
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your way.
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And I think so many people
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walk away from their faith
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because their prayers
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aren't answered.
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And they give up
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and they don't think God
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is listening in the silence.
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The voice of the accuser
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is so strong and so heavy.
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And there's so much of
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the lie but a little of
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the truth to pull us in enough
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to keep us from a connection
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with God, and to keep us
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close to the heart of God
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and chasing after that.
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So we walk away.
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Your words,
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the Words with God
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have meant so much to me
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and taught me so much
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about prayer.
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I feel like every believer,
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it is like when we come
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to faith we should be taught
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immediately about prayer.
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Sometimes we skip
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over that, Addison.
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And I think chapter nine
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is my favorite chapter
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of your book.
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I'm going to read it
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many times.
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You probably never want
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to tell someone to start
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in the middle but
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chapter nine ministered
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to me so much.
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And this passage just says,
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"Prayer is so powerful
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that God must retain the right
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to grant certain requests
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within our desired timeline.
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But the moment a prayer leaves
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our lips it begins its work."
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That is powerful, Addison,
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right there.
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"The moment it leaves
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our lips it begins its work.
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There is no prayer
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that goes unheard but for
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our sake, there are prayers
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that must go unanswered.
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But no prayer,
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even the bad ones
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are without purpose.
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Even a wrong step
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is better than no step.
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And the truth is,
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every finite step in the light
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of God's infinite wisdom
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is less than a perfect step.
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So run to the Father
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or away from him if you must,
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but for Heaven's sake
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don't stand still.
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God has a way of
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guiding people who move
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their feet."
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That meant so much to me
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and it might mean so much
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to you today, too.
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I hope it does in the sense
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that God is saying,
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keep moving.
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Some way keep trusting,
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and keep praying
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even in the silence.
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There is never a time
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when Jesus is not speaking
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or listening or present
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in your life.
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You cannot take that
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as abandonment.
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God is so walking this out
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with you.
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He wants you
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to understand prayer.
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And Addison, that's
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what you're teaching me.
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Thank you so much
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for that gift to me.
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ADDISON: Thank you.
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And that was my experience.
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TAMMY: Was it really?
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ADDISON: That was
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my wrestling with God.
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I felt abandoned by God
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and I realized,
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the silence was not
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a rejection,
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the silence was
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an invitation,
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an invitation to know him
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in ways that I didn't
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think were possible.
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And that for me,
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has changed everything.
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And so that's one of
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my favorite --
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like that's one of my favorite
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paragraphs in the book.
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So, Tammy, I love that
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it spoke to you
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the way it did.
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TAMMY: Deeply, yeah.
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ADDISON: Because God
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can handle it.
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Be honest with God,
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whether that's running to him,
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or being honest about why
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you feel like you must
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run away from God.
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God will respond to us
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in those moments.
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It is the apathy,
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it is the indifference,
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it's the I've got to be
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in control of all the answers
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and so I'm going to deny
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what's going on here,
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that's what's dangerous.
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RANDY: Wow!
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TAMMY: I'm right back
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there again.
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Oh, my goodness!
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RANDY: It changes the way
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you view everything.
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Does it not?
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TAMMY: He just does
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such an incredible job
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explaining it all,
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especially to me, in a way
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that I just got it, Randy.
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I just understood it.
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His book does the same thing.
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RANDY: It does.
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Listen, if you're watching
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and maybe you're struggling
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in your prayer life
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or with a particular issue
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and you're like,
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okay, I hear him.
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I believe that.
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I know God really cares.
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He wants me to bring
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my struggles to him.
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Listen, sometimes we need
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someone to talk to.
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We have a telephone line.
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It is available to you
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at any time.
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You can call this number,
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someone will be there
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to pray with you,
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just to kind of walk with you
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to God and just lift up
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whatever it is
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you're dealing with,
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whether it is personal,
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whether it is someone
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in your family.
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We want you to know God
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the way that Addison
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was talking about.
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So if you want someone
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to share that with,
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please don't hesitate.
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Call that right now.
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If you support the outreach
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we're going to tell you about
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in just a second,
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we will send you
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Words With God
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by Addison Bevere.
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Tammy, I know when people
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get this, it will at least
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force them to confront
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some of their misconceptions
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or maybe just open up
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that invitation to know God
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in a deeper way.
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TAMMY: Totally!
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That real connection
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with God is matchless.
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Nothing compares.
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I think when we are in
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a season in our lives
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where maybe our prayers
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feel empty, how do we swap
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that out for a real
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connection with Jesus?
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And I think that's what
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Addison does in this book.
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RANDY: Prayer is a gift.
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It is not a burden.
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It is not a task.
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It is a gift.
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It is an invitation.
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Look, we're coming up,
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we're thinking about
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Christmas already, actually.
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We want to give you
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the opportunity to give
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a gift to someone else.
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We do this every year.
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It is a fun thing.
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Tammy, I know
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you've been there.
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You've gotten to participate.
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But the Christmas Shoes
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and Smiles outreach this year
00:19:47.452 --> 00:19:48.520 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53%
is a little different
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but it is very special.
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Watch this and just say
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a little prayer.
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And say, Lord,
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what's my part in this?
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I hope you will be a part.
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Watch this.
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TAMMY: We're so excited
to help you.
00:20:05.337 --> 00:20:07.339 align:start line:85% position:23% size:55%
For nearly two decades
00:20:07.406 --> 00:20:09.408 align:center line:79% position:50% size:60%
friends of LIFE Outreach
International
00:20:09.474 --> 00:20:11.476 align:center line:79% position:50% size:53%
have made it possible
for us to bless
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thousands of children
during the Christmas season
00:20:14.012 --> 00:20:17.182 align:center line:79% position:50% size:68%
through our Christmas Shoes
and Smiles campaign.
00:20:17.249 --> 00:20:19.217 align:start line:79% position:28% size:43%
Because of
their generosity,
00:20:19.284 --> 00:20:21.386 align:center line:79% position:50% size:70%
we have been able to provide
shoes for children
00:20:21.453 --> 00:20:24.389 align:center line:79% position:50% size:60%
of impoverished families
throughout the world.
00:20:24.456 --> 00:20:27.659 align:start line:74% position:20% size:58%
And for children
impacted with cleft lip
and palate disorders,
00:20:27.726 --> 00:20:31.296 align:center line:79% position:50% size:65%
we have blessed them
with corrective surgeries.
00:20:31.363 --> 00:20:34.232 align:start line:79% position:28% size:43%
This year we want
to do even more.
00:20:34.299 --> 00:20:36.234 align:start line:79% position:23% size:55%
We want to provide
surgeries for children
00:20:36.301 --> 00:20:39.504 align:center line:79% position:50% size:75%
who are suffering with various
neurological disabilities
00:20:39.571 --> 00:20:42.107 align:center line:79% position:50% size:30%
including
spina bifida
00:20:42.174 --> 00:20:45.911 align:center line:79% position:50% size:73%
and hydrocephalus, also known
as water on the brain.
00:20:54.052 --> 00:20:56.688 align:start line:79% position:23% size:53%
This Christmas season
and all year round,
00:20:56.755 --> 00:20:58.924 align:center line:79% position:50% size:48%
the quality
of children's lives
00:20:58.991 --> 00:21:02.094 align:center line:79% position:50% size:63%
and in many cases their
very lives depend on them
00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.230 align:center line:79% position:50% size:58%
receiving corrective
neurological surgeries.
00:21:05.297 --> 00:21:07.566 align:start line:79% position:25% size:50%
We need your support
to help build
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a state-of-the-art
surgical center
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so that we can
say yes to children
and their families
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who are waiting
for lifesaving care.
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RANDY: What an opportunity!
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Tammy, I love the
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Christmas Shoes and Smiles
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every year.
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Obviously, the shoes
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are a lot of fun.
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That shot that you saw where
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all the kids are running,
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they look like they're on
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the same soccer team
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or something, right?
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But just to be able
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to give them
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something simple.
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What you don't realize
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is that it does save lives.
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Literally, the shoe
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can save lives because
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there are a lot of things
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in the soil, hookworms,
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and things like that
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that cause all sorts
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of problems.
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It seems so simple.
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We can do this.
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TAMMY: It is a simple act
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of love.
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It is a great way
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to give love and hope
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and fun to these children.
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Some of them, Randy,
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have never even had shoes.
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RANDY: No, they haven't.
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And the way they're built,
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by the way,
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I've got one here,
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they pass these things down.
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You know, kids,
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how they outgrow shoes
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and they pass them along.
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You can go to certain places
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around the world
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and see these shoes
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for a long time.
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And you make that possible.
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I'm waving a shoe at you.
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But listen, the cleft palate
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surgeries, Tammy, I know
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you've seen the before
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and after pictures,
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what a change!
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A lifesaving change
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in these cases.
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TAMMY: Totally lifesaving!
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And will change
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their lives forever.
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When I think it would
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only take $500 to change
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a little kid's life for
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the rest of his life,
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that is very little
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in comparison,
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and it is totally doable.
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Some exciting things
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are happening right now.
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RANDY: There are.
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The $500 is the average price
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for a corrective surgery.
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Once that's done,
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the child can eat,
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can breathe.
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It really is a lifesaver.
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But listen, this year,
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we have such a huge
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opportunity to go above
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and beyond the normal
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blessing that
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Christmas Shoes and Smiles
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will bring, and that is
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with the surgical center.
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I don't know that I can
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stress how critical this is.
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We have a location
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in Uganda but people
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come from, not only from
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all over the region but
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from all over the world
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for these various
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neurological issues.
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We have people right now
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doing these but
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they are overwhelmed.
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There is more need than
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they have the capacity for.
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And this facility performs
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more surgeries every year
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than the average hospital
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here in the United States
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or Canada or Australia.
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They are doing the work.
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They are beautiful,
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dedicated doctors and nurses
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and staff there doing
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the work to save lives.
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But we want to do more.
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Tammy, you were asking before,
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someone has graciously
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granted a huge gift,
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more than half
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of the $1.2 million
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to make this possible.
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We need to finish that out.
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TAMMY: Incredible!
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We need $500,000
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immediately to help
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finish this.
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The need is great.
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We get to be a part of it.
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Look, this is how
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it breaks down.
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For $36 you will provide
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shoes for ten children.
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For $72 you will provide
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shoes for 20 children.
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For $180 you will provide
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shoes for 50 children.
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It is an incredible
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opportunity.
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Here is the other one.
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For $500 you can do
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a complete corrective surgery
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on a child that needs
00:24:31.803 --> 00:24:33.004 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
something today --
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done today.
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Let's give them
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a better future.
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If you can do
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an extra $1,000 or more,
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we're going to put that
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toward this surgical center.
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That is going to change
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the lives of more than
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we could even imagine, Randy.
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RANDY: Yeah, well,
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we talk about Christmas.
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It is early, I know,
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but the spirit of Christmas
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is one of giving and
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sharing Christ with the world!
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Emmanuel, God with us.
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What better way to say
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God is with you than
00:24:57.662 --> 00:24:59.164 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
through the expression
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of saving a life?
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So I hope you will
00:25:02.634 --> 00:25:04.236 align:start line:10% position:10% size:25%
go online.
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Go to the phone right now.
00:25:06.004 --> 00:25:07.873 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
Just listen, look,
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do what God puts
00:25:09.341 --> 00:25:10.375 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35%
on your heart.
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Let it be an expression
00:25:11.610 --> 00:25:12.777 align:start line:10% position:10% size:20%
of love.
00:25:12.844 --> 00:25:14.212 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35%
And just know,
00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:15.447 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
you will put a smile
00:25:15.513 --> 00:25:16.581 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43%
on a child's face
00:25:16.648 --> 00:25:20.385 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75%
and very possibly save a life.
00:25:21.386 --> 00:25:24.289 align:start line:10% position:23% size:55%
For almost two decades
LIFE's Christmas Shoes
and Smiles
00:25:24.356 --> 00:25:26.658 align:center line:58% position:50% size:40%
has continued
to provide shoes
00:25:26.725 --> 00:25:28.960 align:center line:58% position:50% size:63%
for impoverished children
throughout the world,
00:25:29.027 --> 00:25:30.962 align:center line:10% position:50% size:50%
as well as
corrective surgeries
00:25:31.029 --> 00:25:33.131 align:center line:10% position:50% size:58%
for children with
cleft palate disorders.
00:25:33.198 --> 00:25:35.734 align:start line:10% position:13% size:75%
By responding today,
you can help provide new shoes
00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:39.304 align:center line:10% position:50% size:63%
for 150,000 children
in time for the holidays,
00:25:39.371 --> 00:25:42.207 align:center line:10% position:50% size:55%
and for some children
a beautiful new smile.
00:25:42.274 --> 00:25:44.209 align:start line:10% position:30% size:40%
Your gift of $36
00:25:44.276 --> 00:25:46.378 align:center line:10% position:50% size:58%
will help provide shoes
for 10 children.
00:25:46.444 --> 00:25:49.214 align:start line:10% position:23% size:53%
$72 will help provide
shoes for 20.
00:25:49.281 --> 00:25:52.117 align:start line:10% position:23% size:55%
$180 will help provide
shoes for 50.
00:25:52.183 --> 00:25:54.119 align:start line:10% position:28% size:45%
And a gift of $500
00:25:54.185 --> 00:25:57.088 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68%
will help provide
a corrective smile surgery.
00:25:57.155 --> 00:25:59.224 align:start line:10% position:18% size:63%
This year we have
an incredible opportunity
00:25:59.291 --> 00:26:01.559 align:center line:10% position:50% size:53%
to help construct
a new surgical center
00:26:01.626 --> 00:26:03.628 align:center line:10% position:50% size:50%
that will provide
lifesaving surgeries
00:26:03.695 --> 00:26:06.698 align:center line:10% position:50% size:73%
to children suffering serious
neurological conditions.
00:26:06.765 --> 00:26:08.967 align:start line:10% position:18% size:63%
This $1.2 million project
00:26:09.034 --> 00:26:11.236 align:center line:10% position:50% size:50%
is up and above
LIFE's normal budget
00:26:11.303 --> 00:26:14.039 align:center line:10% position:50% size:73%
but because of
one generous friend for LIFE,
00:26:14.105 --> 00:26:16.741 align:center line:10% position:50% size:33%
only $500,000
is needed.
00:26:16.808 --> 00:26:18.843 align:start line:10% position:20% size:60%
As a thank you
for your gift of support
00:26:18.910 --> 00:26:20.845 align:center line:10% position:50% size:48%
to this life-saving
outreach,
00:26:20.912 --> 00:26:23.381 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68%
be sure to request the blue
crystal shoe ornament,
00:26:23.448 --> 00:26:26.117 align:center line:10% position:50% size:53%
a treasure to display
each Christmas.
00:26:26.184 --> 00:26:28.219 align:start line:10% position:30% size:40%
With your gift
of $100 or more,
00:26:28.286 --> 00:26:30.889 align:center line:10% position:50% size:58%
you may request
this keepsake boxed set
00:26:30.956 --> 00:26:33.391 align:center line:10% position:50% size:58%
featuring four
crystal shoe ornaments.
00:26:33.458 --> 00:26:35.393 align:start line:58% position:10% size:55%
Finally, please
consider an extra gift
00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:37.395 align:center line:63% position:33% size:43%
of $1,000 or more
00:26:37.462 --> 00:26:39.831 align:start line:58% position:10% size:68%
to help construct
LIFE's new surgical center.
00:26:39.898 --> 00:26:42.801 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75%
And with this gift,
you may request this beautiful
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bronze sculpture,
"A Cup of Water."
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Please call, write, or make
your gift online today!
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RANDY: I hope you are
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calling right now
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or going online to make
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the best gift you can.
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You can make this
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Christmas so special.
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When you do, we have
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a gift for you.
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You can request
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Addison's book.
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And Tammy, I've got
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to tell you, I'm so excited
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about this surgical center.
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TAMMY: Honestly, I am too.
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It is happening right now.
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We've raised
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what like $700,000?
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Or our partner gave us.
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So we are needing
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about $500,000 more.
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We can do this today.
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Make a call.
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Oh my goodness! Go online,
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whatever we can do
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to just push this thing
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forward.
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It's exciting.
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Thanks for watching!
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We'll see you next time
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on Life Today!
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♪
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After suffering
two heart attacks,
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Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright
shares about the importance
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of preparing
to meet Jesus.
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Next week
on Life Today!
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LIFE Today is made
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