Dynamic Discipleship VI, The Disciple's Prayer Life

I trust that when you came in, you picked up a copy of this little sheet that we're going to be giving you every Wednesday night called Community Connections. In lieu of Sunday morning when some of us maybe miss being here for worship or Saturday night, whatever, this will bring you up to date on the most important things that are happening. Now, folks, are we there at Luke 11? All you'll need right now is the green sheet. You're saying that's all I got. Well, that's good. You're on track. Listen carefully if you don't have your Bible. Let's read together, shall we? One day Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his, let's say it, disciples... That's what we're talking about here, growing in the prayer life of a disciple. We're in the middle of a series on dynamic discipleship. So we're looking exactly at the scripture that talks about how the disciples learn to pray. One of the disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples. And he said to them, when you pray, say, Father, how it be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us, and lead us not into temptation. Then he said to them, suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to say before him. Then the one inside answers, don't bother me, the door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything. I tell you, though, he will not get up and give him the bread, because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness. Some translations say shameless persistence. The King James says what? There's two King James translations. Very good. It's a dying translation, I'm afraid. What is the word? The opportunity. He will get up and give him as much as he needs. And so I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. He who seeks, finds. And to him who knocks, the door will be opened. As you might imagine tonight, I approach this very brief teaching time on the subject of prayer with quite a bit of trepidation, because, number one, there's no way to do justice to this subject in less than 30 minutes. I've wrestled with not even trying to call it a teaching on prayer, except that I feel like it's in the Lord's sovereign time that we have a bit of a prompting in this area. I have some other trepidations, just like I know some of you do. A lot of you hear more teachings than I listen to. Some of you are radio and tape freaks. Every place you go, you have Walkmans on, and you're listening to everything that's out there. There's all kinds of opportunities to grow, and so most of what's been said about prayer covers the gamut. I don't know that there's going to be a lot of new revelation. I get a little skeptical when I hear of a new revelation. I get books from people who have a new revelation. Usually, it's the same revelation in a different package. And I also have trepidation because I know that as much as I'd like to say, hey, do everything I do in prayer, and we'll all be fine, I don't feel that way. I'm not the Praying Hyde of North Way. Do you know who Praying Hyde was? Most of you don't. He was a guy that wore out his floor with his knees. When he got down to pray, he got there so many times, and I guess he prayed so much that he got thick-skinned about all the people around him. They called him Praying Hyde. Never mind. All right. But at any rate, there's so many models out there that kind of put us to shame, or they're not. And we can be intimidated. How many of you read a biography of someone like John Wesley? Prayed two hours every morning before he rode hundreds of miles and did all these four or five sermons every day. Martin Luther, who most of us don't necessarily associate with being a great prayer warrior, said this. He said, if I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. How many of you believe that you wouldn't win many battles, if that were the case in your life? I have so much business, I can't get on without spending two or three hours every day. That's Martin Luther. George Woodfield went to bed at ten o'clock sharp and got up at four every day to pray. You think we're being tough, and we have prayer meeting at six. We call that floating, you know, whatever. And all of us, I suppose, at this point in our journeys, have been exposed to the ministry of Paul Young-Gee Cho in Korea, who has really set a model of prayer. People that I talk to who go to Korea say that, you know, the organization is amazing, but what really blows them away is the prayer ministry. Where they go up to this place called Prayer Mountain, and they have these little individual grottoes, prayer grottoes, they're called, and they're carved out of the ground, just a little, like a little hovel with a light in it. And people go there, and they stay in those little places, you know, for sometimes several days without eating, anything, just praying. Three thousand on an average day. Ten thousand on the weekends, you know. We're out hunting, boating, fishing, camping, leisurely. They're out there. That's why, folks, that's why, you know, there's 500,000 people in that church. And that's why something like on the order of 40% of Korea now is turning to Christ, and it's on the rise. So, I know all those things, and I know that we all kind of struggle with that. And so, you know, when I share with people my own frustrations, here's some of the things I get back from some of you. Don't worry about it. Just pray when you can. You know, pray in the bus. Pray when you're waiting, you know, in line at the supermarket. Pray when you're in the shower, and God will hear you. How many believe that's true? I hope so. Is that a prayer life, though? No. I mean, the problem with that is it doesn't seem to be all that effective to me, to build anything. And number two, you know, when I read in the scriptures, it doesn't say that Jesus went off to a, you know, grocery store and prayed. No, it says he went to a certain place, he prayed, he made a point of it. Another option people try to comfort me with is, well, this is a different time, you know. I mean, this is the modern, this is the 90s. I mean, we've got more responsibilities than the people back in Whitefield and Wesley's day. We've got more options, so, you know, don't feel so bad about it. Just kind of go with the flow. But I have a problem with that, too, because how am I going to stand before God and say, well, you know, Lord, you know, I had TV, and I had a nice yard to keep up, and I had some other, you know, good things to do. I don't think God's going to be all that impressed with my agenda. How about you? And so the third option is, let's look at our lives tonight just for a little bit, you know, 20 minutes or so. Can I just ask you to be honest? Don't be afraid. No one's going to rate you. I decided no ratings tonight. No one's going to have a 1 to 10 as your prayer line. Someone say amen. Okay, we're not going to. However, you need to be honest about where you are, folks. Because I have a deep conviction tonight that one of the things that's happening to us as a church is that we lose our prayer focus. And when we lose our prayer focus, we lose our power base. And that leads to frustration to every person in the place here tonight. I believe that. There are four things that motivate me to pray. Here they are real quickly. This is on your green handout now, number one. It's example. I get motivated by example. Several years ago, I was down in Dallas, Texas with a couple of brothers, and I went to a prayer conference with Larry Lee. And I'm going to talk about him a little bit later as well. And we were in this big room about the size of this auditorium. And we were all in there praying. And that was part of the conference. You practice what you're learning. And I was up here near the front. And would you know that Larry Lee came right up here and just laid down on his face right beside me and just started praying. And we were there for, I was there for an hour. He was there a good half hour just going on in prayer. And this was maybe five years ago. And, you know, when he first came up there, I'm just like, wow, maybe he'll reach over and have a word for me. He's really a godly man. So maybe something of that anointing, maybe God will miss and we'll just come over that way. You've done that, haven't you? I mean, you've gone to those conferences and hoped that some big name would come and just rub on you. It didn't happen. But I'll tell you what did happen was I was kind of inspired. Just hearing his heart and his zeal for prayer. I was stirred by that example. That stirs me up. If you have a problem praying, get around people who like to pray. And it'll rub off on you in a positive way. I mean, it'll fire you up. Another way that motivates me is extreme emergencies. I asked Dick Hatch on Friday last week, how will your life be different since this heart attack? He listed several things, a couple of which probably he'll tell you at some point. But I'll tell you one. He said, I'm going to take prayer more seriously. Many people don't even understand the importance of prayer until something happens in their life. Some kind of a smack in the side of the head or some kind of a financial thing or a relational disintegration. And then, in an emergency, they cry out to God. If that's the first time you cried out, you're in trouble. Not that God won't hear you, but you just don't have all that resource to draw on. However, for many people, it becomes the beginning point of building relationship. That motivates me. I'll tell you what. When things happen around here I can't understand, that motivates me to pray. Number three, exhaustion motivates me. What do I mean by that? If you're like me, I get to the point, I try awfully hard to please God, don't you? I mean, I want to please the Lord. I want to do what's right. I want to serve God. And sometimes I just flat burn out. And it's at those times when I'm just sort of at the end and say, Lord, I've called as many people as I can. I've done everything I can. I've studied all I can. I've done all I can. I'm tired. I'm whooped. I'm exhausted. And it motivates me to pray because I'm at the end of my own resource. I don't know, God sometimes takes, He'll let you just run with that line, you know? Like some strong sport fish. He'll just let you run out as far as you can go until you get tired. Then you call out to Him. The fourth way that I get motivated is exciting answers to prayer. I get excited when I hear of God answering prayer. Maybe I'm just a little bit simple about it all, but I get really excited when someone tells me that something I've been praying for has happened. And it motivates me to want to pray some more. Now, for tonight's sake, I want to just look at a couple of those because we don't have time. And I developed this the way that it really deserves. But I want to touch on a few things. And I realize, you know, folks, I realize that I could talk about character formation in prayer. I could talk about communion with God. Please don't send me letters saying, well, you know, when you talked about prayer, you left out the most important thing. Maybe I will for you tonight. But I'm touching on what I think the Lord wants us to hear as a congregational whole tonight. And I think it's important. I have to say, are you willing to say, Lord, show me where I'm at tonight? Show me my own heart. Show me how I can grow as a disciple of prayer. You know, in a church like this, people make mistakes. This person makes mistakes. In a church like this, expectations get real high. People get disappointed and disillusioned. Lots of different things happen. But I wonder if sometimes we use the failure of people and the struggle of circumstance to kind of condone our own lack of zeal and devotion to the Lord and to a life of discipline. I don't know. Sometimes the problems that you are encountering aren't because someone around you has failed you as much as you failed yourself. And when I started just thinking about tonight, you know, there's so many things that can ensnare us. But there's one sure thing that can see us through. And that's a tight relationship with Christ. Knowing Jesus will carry us through anything at all. I can go through anything as long as I know he's right there with me. How about you? And our prayer life is what ensures that, folks. Our prayer life is how we know it's going to be real. And so when the disciples looked at Jesus, they saw his miracles. They saw his powerful teaching. They saw all the things that he did to turn his world upside down. And what did they ask him? Lord, teach us to do miracles, right? Some of you would shake your head if I said, is the sky green? No, he didn't say that. What did he say? Teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. Not teach us to teach. Not teach us to deliver things out of people. Not teach us to heal. Teach us to pray. And I think Jesus' response is absolutely clear, don't you? I mean, there's no way. He doesn't waver there. He says two things that I'm going to touch on. Number one, Roman numeral, I think it's number two in that. Can I see one of those just to see what's coming down here? All right, the first thing he says is the Lord's Prayer. The Lord's Prayer is not a formula, but it is a pattern. In other words, it's nothing magical. Let's all say the Lord's Prayer. In fact, let's stand and say it, shall we? Come on. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Well, that's powerful. But that's not a magic formula to anything. You can say that prayer, and that doesn't guarantee anything. But the Lord's Prayer is a wonderful pattern. Go ahead and be seated. It's a wonderful pattern for prayer. And I want to say something here that I believe you'll understand. Some years ago, when I was kind of going through a real searching time in my own prayer life, someone slipped me one of those cassette tape binders of Larry Lee's teaching on the Lord's Prayer. Now, I get stuff like that. I probably have 2,000 or 3,000 cassette tapes. They're good insulators. I have them in the walls of my basement. And what I do with those oftentimes, you know, I listen to them in my car like most of you do or, you know, just to fill up time rather than listen to radio. And when I listened to the first tape on that album, I knew it was a little different than the average thing. I just want to say those tapes helped me a great deal in my prayer life. For the next year, I integrated that stuff in my own prayer life on the Lord's Prayer, using it as a pattern, and it made a big difference. It helped me a lot. I want to say if you don't know what to do when you sit down to pray, some of you are younger believers and some of you even are a little more mature believers, when you pray, your mind wanders. You don't know what to say. You get lost. You know, you pray for the six or seven things that are on top of your mind and say, well, now what? You know, I've been here three minutes and I'm done. I want to recommend what I did about a year after I had worked through those tapes, is I took that same material and I kind of reworked it from my own perspective. And what you have, if some of you anyhow, is that beige outline that you're reading right now. Is it good? And if you would like a copy of that and didn't get one, you can get one on the way out tonight. And we made several copies, extra copies, of that teaching on the Lord's Prayer. That will help you in a functional, practical way. And I really can't recommend that too highly. I know it helped me. I know I recognize that some of you have more years in the Lord than I do. But it helped me a lot. I say to you, if you need practical help, don't sit there and nod your head and smile and walk out. Pick one up. Do something with it. It will really help you. I was out the other day running in North Park. We got back there. We were just going, cruising along, praying the Lord's Prayer. Just praying through the names of God like we do here every Tuesday and Friday morning. Just worshiping the Lord. And I'll tell you, even painful things can be good when you're communing with the Lord. And I found that those kinds of little helps are very practical. They work. I think that's what the Lord intended them to be for us. It's not a formula. It won't be magic tomorrow, but it will help you. And I just can't say too strongly, give it a try, if you haven't done that as of yet. Tapes are available and the sheets are available to you. Now, let me get into what I felt the Lord said this is what's for tonight. The second part of what the Lord gave was, I call, lessons in faith and opportunity. Jesus was extremely sensitive to the fact that prayer was a problem for his followers. He said in Luke 18, we ought to pray and faint not. Matthew 26, he talked about the fact, could you not tarry one hour? Over and over again, he seemed to be sensitive that we as human beings have a difficult time sustaining a prayer life. How many people here have been on a diet once? All right. Maybe you've been on a diet perpetually. Folks, listen. Have you discovered something about your body? If you don't discipline your body, if you don't diet consistently, what does your body do to you? What does it do? Just keeps going, you know, doing its own thing. You know, just keeps getting out of control. It will just keep going. Every one of us have the same, there's something in our metabolism, most of us, that just kind of make us, and if we don't get bigger, we get softer, don't we? And saggier and all the rest. Now, am I the only one, or does that happen to you when it comes to prayer too? If I don't work at it, if I don't discipline my life, if I don't take some things seriously, I find that my prayer life slowly ebbs away. And I find myself thinking, God, it's been two weeks since I spent an hour in prayer. Or something like that. It's been, you know, a month since I've really carved out a chunk of time just to be with you and those kinds of things. And every single one of us here tonight, we have a whole list of responsibilities that say, well, hey, you know, you've got a lot of duties, a lot of things that you have to do. But folks, what's more important than our communion with God? What's more important than tapping in to the supernatural power that God supplies in prayer? Prayer gives us, in my estimation, rarely quick results. How many pray a prayer one day and get the answer the next? Would you come right up here and just take this? It's happened. Yeah, it does happen. And you know what I find? If you're a younger Christian, it happens more often. So I don't want to discourage you. But the more you go on, the more the Lord just seems to say, no, let's see how serious you are about this stuff. So you younger Christians, enjoy it, all right? The Lord lets you grow up and He lets you kind of learn. But, you know, the big kinds of things, you know, the Lord, take a city, you know. Let's turn this city upside down for Jesus. You know, let's affect my neighborhood. Let's win my neighbors to Christ. Let's affect the place where I work, whatever. Those kinds of prayers don't happen in short order. You've heard me tell story after story of people who persevered. And I'm not here tonight to say to you that everything's going to take 50 years of intercession. I don't think so. Folks, let me just pause in my notes right now. You know what I think? If this group of people, just this little group here, three or four hundred people tonight, if we got into unity about a few things and held on to God, just this little group of people, if we really held on to Him in unity, we would absolutely be amazed at what I believe God would do. The crying need in the body of Christ is unity in prayer. Prayer to me is kind of like an education. It doesn't really... When you went to college, you know, the first year, did you feel smarter? By the time I was at the end of my freshman year, I was just glad I was a survivor, you know. My sophomore year, well, you know, I started to get things under control. But honestly, when I graduated, I was supposed to be smart now. It just didn't happen that way. However, I got an education. Prayer is like that. It just takes time. Letting God kind of fashion attitudes and put things into place. But Jesus says this. Let's look at this story. He says, right in the same context, here's what to pray. And then He says, verse 5, He talks about this issue of the prayer of faith. And I want to end with this tonight. Because I think it's what the Lord would have us to really focus on. He says, it's like a man who has a friend. And he goes to him at midnight. He says, lend me three loaves of bread because I have a friend of mine on a journey that's come. And I have nothing to give him. And the story goes on. We already read it. Folks, there's two things in that story that I think need to rivet our attention. Number one, the friend had a real valid need that he perceived. There was a valid need. What was the need? Loaf of bread. He was convinced that he needed that loaf of bread. There was no doubt that that loaf of bread was important to him. And what was the second thing? It wasn't being a friend. What was the second thing? Shameless holdness or persistence. Just, I'm not going to leave. I'm going to keep knocking. Two things. Two things that we need to get a hold of. We've got to believe that what we're praying for is a life and death need. We've got to believe that. If we just think that whatever it is, revival in Pittsburgh, or renewal of our congregation, or an impact in the North Hills, or a nationwide awakening to Christ, if we don't believe that that's life and death, if we're not convinced that that's a genuine need, I have to say before God, I don't think we'll hold on. And if you're honest tonight, are there times that what you pray about, you really wonder, is that really all that important? I mean, do we really believe that your next door neighbor or your co-worker is going to die in their sin and be separated from God forever? Do we really believe this stuff, or do we think it's just sort of a doctrine, and God will sort it all out in the end? You see, he knew that that bread was important, and he wasn't going to be discouraged from it. So important. Do you believe these things, or are they just nice ideas? In our culture, we have a nice culture. We never see hurt and stuff. I mean, even when we see dead animals, they're kind of picked up right away, let alone people. I mean, in India, folks, you walk around, there's just rotting carcasses everywhere. I mean, there's poverty, and you're hurt everywhere. Most third-world cultures are like that. But we just kind of cruise on, and I think it kind of insulates us to wonder, is this stuff really all that important? Because we know our weaknesses, and we think, well, my neighbor's not really any... My next-door neighbor's a generous, loving, great, wonderful guy. I look at his life, my life, gee, I don't know. If God's greater than the scale here, I don't know. It's going to be close. But I don't know that he knows Christ. And if our Bible is true and the revelations are true, his eternal destiny is at stake. I've got to believe that, and I've got to have enough... I've got to believe it. So then I'll be shamelessly persistent and bold, and I'm not going to give up. Very important. Do you see that? You see, it's not his friendship, really. It's the fact that he was shamelessly persistent and bold. He trusted in the character of God to listen to him. He trusted in God. He believed that his friend was going to hear him. Now, let me just conclude here with your outline on the three things that I think make for faith and opportunity. What's the first one, Nancy? Go ahead. The first thing you've got to do is be clearly directed toward specific goals. You have to see that the Lord is waiting for you to be very specific. That's the only way you're going to know if he's answering or not. I love the bless everyone in America prayers, but I don't know how effective they are. Bless them with what? Ten years ago, a group of us, some of whom are here tonight, were praying for God to do something powerful in the North Hills. And the Lord gave us a vision of what came to be this church. And so we had a very clear understanding of what it was we were to pray for. And you've heard me tell the story of how when the Lord seemed to be moving me out of the picture, I said, well, someone else he'll be sending, because that vision was from him. That vision of a vibrant, spirit-filled church where people, as you were tonight, were praising his name unashamedly. And it became a clear object, a focal point of our prayer. Over the years, my prayer life has always been energized by the clear answers. I remember praying specifically for a CPC to open up, praying for it for months. And then I saw it happen. We said in Wexford. We didn't say somewhere on the north side. We said in Wexford. I remember praying years ago that the Lord would supply our funds. Years ago, we needed $5,000 a week to operate. You didn't see that kind of money? We started praying for that. Remember that, Pastor Scott? And after a few months, the Lord supplied. So we started praying. Well, things were growing. We needed more. We started praying for $10,000. Several months later, the Lord was supplying. And then $15,000, and then $20,000, and then $25,000. And the ministry kept growing, and people kept going out, and the needs kept. Now what are we praying for? $50,000 a week. I said, that's a lot of money. We have a lot of people. And I'm believing it. And it's an encouragement. I mean, it's just great encouragement. So you need to see, Lord, this is what I specifically sense you're calling me to believe for. Don't go out there. I'm not saying, I'm praying for champagne, cream colored, Rolls Royce. It's not going to happen. But what God is prompting you, but be specific. Don't just sort of scatter shot the whole thing. Zero right in on it. So important to do that. Number two, then, the prayer of faith is a prayer that allows this request to take formation in your own mind and heart. Use your imagination. It's a gift from God. Let me ask you a question. What is a dream or a vision in Scripture? How many believe in visions and dreams? Okay. And how many believe that the Lord said that in the last days, through Joel, he said that, what was it? The old men were going to what? Dream dreams. And the young men are going to do what? See visions. And on all flesh, the Lord was going to provide a spirit. Okay. So we believe in that. What is a dream and a vision? Could it possibly be the Lord using his imagination and letting you see it? And when you see it and begin to lay hold of it, it happens. The Lord imagines what it would be like for a place like this to be filled with people. Praising his name. And he lets a 15-year-old girl, riding in a school bus, whisper to a displaced youth pastor. You know, the Lord gave me a glimpse of his imagination the other night. She called it a vision. And he showed me this room full of people with their hands lifted up, praising him right in the middle of Wexford. Here it is. That was his imagination. You see, because visions and dreams don't come to pass necessarily. How many of you have had a dream or a vision that hasn't come to pass yet? I've had some. What is it? Well, the Lord's imagination is working, but it's going to require you believing it to come to pass. I'm not trying to mystify anybody here, but this came to me today. So what I'm saying is, use your imagination. Can I tell you something I see in my imagination every single day I come up here? I drive down that driveway and I see a building right up on the hilltop. I didn't make it up. I didn't say, well, wouldn't it be neat? I better be like Paul Yonggi Cho and start seeing things up there. That didn't happen to me. One day I drove down there and I saw it in my... That's why I know that eventually it's going to happen. And that's become the object of my faith. Now, that's a big thing. There's little things. There's more important things than buildings, by the way. I see people. There's certain people I see in my mind what they would be like, born again, filled with the Holy Spirit, loving God, serving Him, using their gifts to impact the kingdom. I see them that way. They're not that way, but I see them. And that's how my faith just keeps having its object. Do you understand what I'm saying? There's lots of things that are much... I see my children. Do you see your children as grown up and serving God? And do you have a vision of that? You know, just saying, Oh, God, get me through these years. You know what I mean? All right. Now, I could lead you to Romans 4. We don't have time. But read about Abraham because God told him to go out and look up at the stars and get a vision for what his progeny would be like. Remember that? And what did Abraham do? He went out. He said, Wow. And we have all these people? And Romans 4, 23 and 24 says, Abraham is the father of faith to all of us. He's our model. He's our model. Let me finish quickly here. The last thing, just to build a life of prayer that operates in faith, is remove your negative obstacles. Now, happily, many of you tonight, I think, are quickening to what I'm saying. You want to be a man or woman of prayer. You want to grow. You want to be persistent. But what happens? You're going to walk out of here, and what are you going to do? You're going to get in your 1972 Dodge Dart that's falling apart, and you've been praying for a new car for three years or whatever. And the real-life obstacles come up, and the same person that you've been angry with will bump you on the way out. All those things are real, folks. They are. But how many of you know God has given us an instrument to overcome negative obstacles? Negativity. Who was it that said God will never use a discouraged Christian? Pat Robertson said it. Other people said it. God will never use a discouraged Christian. See, the enemy will come in a lie and say, This isn't going to happen. You're too this, this, and that. And, folks, we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. I read today, didn't you, in Psalm 149, that He's given us a two-edged sword in our mouth. The word of praise. The best way I know to scatter, the best way I know to defeat discouragement is praise. I discovered this 14 years ago when I was a senior in seminary out in California. I discovered the power of praise to turn my orientation around from negativity and doubt to belief and confidence. Let me say to those of you who are newer to the church, the reason why we put an emphasis on praise is not because we want to be known as the potbangers. It's because God says in His word, I'll inhabit the praises of my people. He says that He will inhabit the place where the cherubim and the seraphim are postured. He'll come and He'll display His presence there. And I've discovered that when I'm praising, the devil cannot defeat me. He cannot discourage me. He cannot rob those visions and dreams from me. And that's why we give proper emphasis to that. And that's why I want to encourage you tonight. Let's believe that if we've been praying for something and we haven't seen it, that the secret of turning it around is to come and let praise banish doubt and fear from us. I believe that with all my heart. I've grown up with it in these last 15 years. If praise is just going through the motions, then folks, you're missing why God allows us to enter in together. I want to ask us tonight, I think it's appropriate that we pray and then we praise. We've got time. I want us to stand. And I'd like the gals to put up on the overheads five things I'd like you to pray about that I feel are things we've not yet seen, that I believe God w