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Hello and welcome back to the way. My name is Lizzy. Who are you? I'm Michelle. Who are you? I'm Zach.

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Today we're going to look at another parable. This is week two of Luke's parables.

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Oh, I think we're going to be in Luke. I think this series is, yeah. Oh, why? I don't know.

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Every little helps. So, that was it. Should we jump into the parable?

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Neural. Neural.

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So today we're going to be reading from Luke 18, the parable of the persistent

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widow. Mm hmm.

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Why? Would you like me to read? Oh my gosh. Thank you for volunteering.

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I would love you to read. Of course. That's not low. This is one to eight.

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So let's just read it all along. Yeah.

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Then Jesus told us disciples are parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

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He said, in a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

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And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea,

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grant me justice against my adversary. For some time he refused, but finally he said to himself,

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even though I don't fear God, I care what people think.

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Yet, because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice,

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so that she won't eventually come and attack me.

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And the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says,

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and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night.

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Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice and quickly.

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However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

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Mm hmm. It's a good one.

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Well, well, well, well.

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Um, by the way, let's start with verse one as I feel like it kind of sets up.

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Why Jesus is saying this and what's

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trying and then what does what does go through? Yeah, it's damn.

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What are your thoughts?

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Absolutely deflecting from us.

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Zach, what does Zach have to say? Well, the best one.

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Zach thinks about verse one that Jesus is so kind to us.

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And he's also a genius. Oh yeah.

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This guy knows people so well.

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He knows that people struggle with prayer.

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Yeah. He knows that we struggle to stick with things.

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And like habits are difficult.

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Like low key habit.

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I'm trying to implement right now.

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That's super simple is to make my bed every morning.

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I struggle to make my bed every morning.

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Yeah, they've made my bed in the morning.

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Yeah, do you make your bed in the morning?

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Every morning, I must put your last book put together.

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You are? You're last more put together because of that.

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I'm sure.

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Really? Well, okay.

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Anyways, I was I was just saying that to say that

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to do things consistently is difficult.

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And the same happens with prayer.

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Yeah, I also try to pray every day,

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but I find it equally as difficult.

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If I'm being real, if I'm being real,

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but Jesus knows that I and others,

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and probably you guys I assume as well,

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are going to find it difficult to persist in prayer

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that means keep going in it.

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And so he tells us this parable.

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And it's kind of useful that he tells us

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like with other parables,

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he doesn't tell us the explicit purpose of the parable.

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Yeah, he just gives us the story and lets us interpret it.

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But this one he tells us exactly what the meaning is.

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He wants us to pray.

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Yeah, and I think, I mean like Jesus like modeled it

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so perfectly throughout the whole of the New Testament.

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Like he would have constant communion

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and communication with the Lord.

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Like he literally withdraw and go away.

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And like spend time with God.

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And he models that so perfectly for us

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because that allows that allowed him

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to remain rooted in the Father

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like throughout his whole ministry.

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And I think that's like, like you said,

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it's a kindness of Jesus to be like,

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guys, I know it's difficult,

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but let's be consistent in it

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because there's a reason for it.

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You know, there's a reason why it is

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said to like pray continually.

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I mean Paul says it in, is it Hebrews?

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Where does he say it?

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Paul doesn't write Hebrews.

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Maybe I think it's first to slurn in.

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He may have written Hebrews.

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I think it's first to slurn in

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when he says, pray continually, right?

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Oh, yeah, that sounds good.

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Yeah, that sounds nice.

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I do think there's two bits in the first one

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where he says we should always pray

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and then not give up.

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And I think it is like both sides of that

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is an interesting thing

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because how can we like always be praying?

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And I don't know if that necessarily means

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like we're always like on our knees.

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Like, uh, right.

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But it's like in a spiritual state of like

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we're praying in our life.

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Like, yeah, through, through it all.

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And I do think he knows that like,

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I think he's made us to be naturally like

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crap or people,

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but he also is obstacles come.

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And so he's encouraging us through that.

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Yeah, I like, sorry.

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Oh, no, go.

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What were you going to see?

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I'll try to go on to giving up.

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How is it?

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I just think that it's like really cool

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that Jesus even acknowledges the fact

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that is difficult.

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Like I was, I was reading up on it earlier on.

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And like a few, I don't want to get all like theological,

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but like there's like Augustine, theologian,

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mentioned how like the mind wonders

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not because God is absent,

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but because we are not yet whole.

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And I guess like the thought of that

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is like physiologically,

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we are like because of the fall.

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Whoa.

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And because of sin,

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we're so easily distracted

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and our minds fall under that.

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And it's so easy for us to like even when we're praying,

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our minds can drift, you know,

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and like we have to be really intentional about it.

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And I think that's the thing.

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Being intentional with prayer is a discipline

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and like to implement that discipline takes time

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and like giving ourselves grace

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within that process is really important.

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And I love also another theologian, Kiki God,

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said the function of prayer is not to influence God

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but to change the nature of the one he prays.

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And it's so true because like when we experience difficult prayer,

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like when when we feel like it's a drier season

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or we don't really feel like we hear God

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or stuff like that or we don't have answers to our prayer,

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we can get easily discouraged.

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But that's actually I think within that we're growing

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because like it's not that God's gone silent.

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I think it's more God's wanting to stretch our capacity

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enough faith in him because we can so easily like drop in faith

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and decide to not pray anymore

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because we don't see the outcome

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that we sort of eagerly desire, you know, so.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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And that's exactly what is encouraging us to do

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is in this is to not give up as well.

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Very totally.

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And I wrote a little note

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where it says like prayer is hard work

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and we often approach it a bit too lightly.

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I think we often think prayer can be quite like

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an easy thing and it can be.

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But also it's all my persistent prayer,

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especially it can be really hard.

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And I wrote some notes like if prayer was powerless,

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it would be easy because actually if it's got power

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it means we're going to have to let work for a bit.

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But join God with that.

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And then we often give up because we're not convinced

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by the reality of its power.

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Which I think is really true for myself

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because it can just feel like we're talking to an empty room

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and we lose sight that we're actually talking to God.

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And I think as you both are saying like Jesus knows

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this is how we work and so therefore he

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presents this story to us to explain.

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Well actually kind of like what God isn't like actually.

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But so we understand more of who God is through through this.

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So should we jump into the...

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What Jesus was chatting about?

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Should we read it again or should we just go with it?

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Well you kind of just said it though, didn't you?

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Like Jesus here, I think it can be quite confusing

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like okay why is Jesus talking about

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like an unjust judge in this case?

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But I think like what he's trying to get at

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is the fact that like God is not like the unjust God.

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And like actually wanting to like encourage us to pray

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because God does want to meet us in our prayers

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and in our need rather than like the unjust God.

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I'm just God.

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No.

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I'm just judged.

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The judge.

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The way like that widow was persistently like being like,

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hey, look, please.

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And then him like not like showing an answer to like her out of love

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but actually out of this like I guess being tired of her request.

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Oh yeah, he wasn't that didn't have love at all.

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He gave into his request because she kept bothering him.

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So then very reluctantly he was like fine.

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Which is so yeah interesting.

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And it's like you don't want to like think

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that God is reluctant God from reading this.

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Like that's literally not what Jesus is saying.

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He's the opposite of it.

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He's the opposite.

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I think I think it's interesting because

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like the original hears of this would have thought

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what a terrible judge.

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Like this guy kind of sucks.

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He has no respect for God or for people.

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And I guess like in my understanding

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that's the two main motivations for why he might

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help out someone namely a widow.

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So he might help out someone because he respects people

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or he's got like a moral compass right like we see this.

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There's like I might help out someone

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who I don't know because I care for people.

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But this guy doesn't have that.

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And then I also might do it to like try and get

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in God's good books right because God commands me

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so I'm going to be good to other people.

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This guy also doesn't have that.

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He's got like zero motivation this judge

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to do anything good for any of the people around him.

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And Michelle you were just saying like

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God is not like this judge.

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But like how often can we think that God is

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distant and doesn't actually care about

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the people that are on earth.

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And like I've got a story that maybe I'll share later

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where I actually thought like God did not care

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about the small things in my life.

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And actually he answered a prayer of mine

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that was to do with something so minuscule

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that I thought it was a baller to him to ask.

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I thought he couldn't possibly be concerned

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about me to this level and he was.

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And so like I guess immediately coming to the story

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we need to understand that God is not like this judge.

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God is being compared to this judge

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as being different than him.

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We're not so right because this judge like

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I'm just saying hate God hates people only answers

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this widow very reluctantly because it was bothering him.

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Whereas like God loves to answer our prayers

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and helps us when we pray and he's on our side as well

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where this judge didn't really seem to be on

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the widow's side like at all.

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our persistence is needed to like

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overcome God reluctance towards us.

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So we're trying to persuade him to like

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to answer our prayers but actually

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he is saying that we should pray

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because God isn't reluctant

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and that should be like an encouragement.

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Like God wants to answer our prayers.

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God wants to be with us.

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because he was like he's the opposite of this judge.

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He cares for you.

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He's with you which I think is a really good reminder

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is it's so easy to think that we the more we pray

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we then may persuade God or I mean I don't know

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how all the logistics always work of it all.

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to answer my prayers.

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is like no pray because he isn't reluctant to answer

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he wants to answer and he wants to be with you

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and is on your side and he works all things out for those

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who love him and all that stuff.

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Which is a really encouragement.

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Thanks Jesus.

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He's deeply relational.

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Yeah like God is God wants to hear from us

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yeah anything prayer is relationship

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and that's like communication and communion with God.

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It's actually such a gift that we have prayer

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that we can actually like come before God

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and present our requests but also our worries and stuff

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and we can lay them on his feet through talking to him

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like that's such a gift you know.

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So quick question.

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So if the beginning of this like section

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he was talking about like keep praying and to not give up.

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So what do we do like he's saying he's encouraging us saying

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that God is a God that loves to answer our prayers

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and is right beside us.

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Like what how do we take this when we feel like God really

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isn't answering our prayer.

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Like we feel like we're really praying for something

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we're really persistent we're really not giving up

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and we just feel like we're not really seeing any change

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because that is the reality of life that is what happens

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sometimes we pray and nothing happens

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it feels like nothing is happening.

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Well what advice do you have for me for me?

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Yeah I mean I like to compare a prayer to going to the gym.

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Here's the thing right um going to the gym

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you can go to the gym for like six months

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and not see the reward of going to the gym day by day

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but if you go to the gym for three years consistently

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you're going to be unrecognizable at the end of the three years.

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Absolutely ripped.

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Absolutely ripped.

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Here's the thing right I think it's the same with spiritual disciplines

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like prayer and reading your word.

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If you do it for like a month or two you might not see the fruit of it.

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You might not see the game but if you do it for a lifetime

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you're going to be unrecognizable by the end of it.

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So I think there's like initially if you don't see the benefit

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it's not a sign to give up just like how if you don't see the

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gains when you're at the gym it's a sign to stop going to the gym

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because it's actually having an effect on you

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and that's just straight up truth.

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Don't need no evidence for that.

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But that doesn't necessarily help practically.

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That's just helpful like in terms of understanding prayer

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but I think um uh what you were saying earlier Michelle

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um about how prayer is not a outcome-based

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thing it's actually about building ourselves up

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so more than praying for a specific outcome

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I'm praying that I might be transformed by God

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to fit the outcome that he's put me in does that make sense?

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Rather than trying to fix God it's the other way around where

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prayer is actually exposing my heart.

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Yeah like sometimes what was that yeah what was that quote the read earlier

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which one?

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Kick it God yeah um the function of prayer is not to

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influence God but to change the nature of the one who prays

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and I wrote some notes here sometimes it can seem to us that God is reluctant to

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answer our prayers but the the delay in prayer changes us

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I don't know how like for me the amount of times I've prayed

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for months or maybe even years for something

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still haven't received an answer to yeah

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that actually like exposes where my heart was in

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in that prayer and in those prayers like almost like trying to be

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trying to prescribe something to God and be like hey I want all these things

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but actually God's just like hey like why is it that you want those things

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and then like exposing where my heart was in that in that moment

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being like okay you're putting your your hopes in these things rather than in

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me and it actually just it almost flips the

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coordinates head there oh yeah it's actually exposing

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my heart rather than God's if that makes sense and like God actually draws

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name as kindness to show me his grace and his mercy

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and like chisels away at my character and builds endurance

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yeah consider it pure joy that the testing of your faith produces

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produces endurance is building faith because I think we can lack the reason

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why we like can get I mean for my like I know for myself like

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in moments in seasons of when I'm praying and on things feel a little bit

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drier and I'm not really hearing anything from God I can

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get a bit discouraged and decide to not pray anymore but actually

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like I'm lacking I think sometimes I can like faith in that and you know

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what was it in I wrote the scripture yeah Hebrews 111

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faith is confidence in what we in what we hope for

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and assurance about what we do not see we believe in something unseen so it

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takes faith to actually believe in God alone

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so yeah you got it like asking God for faith for more faith and like

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God to say like you know if a child asks the dad for

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something he's not going to go give him like a snake or something like that

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what is that scripture something like that it's close

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it's close and and and like how much more does your father care for you how

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much more will he give you like you know it's like reminding

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yourself of God's faithfulness through scripture but also in your own life of

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like reflecting back in moments where God has answered your prayers

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in moments of drought and unanswered prayers

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dude what do you think because I think I genuinely like

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I I struggle with persistence and prayer and in a lot of things but I know

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you're a prayer warrior so what like what keeps you going in prayer

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I think it's interesting like even looking at these verses

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like six term six to eight but it's it's talking about

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people that are crying out to God and these people that are in persecution

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so these aren't just people that are like oh I just really want

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they're not like things it's heavy things it's like a they're in deep

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persecution and they feel like is God listening like is going to come to

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yeah and like I think where I probably also with prayers where I do

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struggle is like why am I not seeing healing why am I not seeing

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justice why am I not seeing things that I believe God really cares about

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I don't understand that but I think part of prayer it's almost like I don't

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understand and in that in that space where I don't understand

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I just have to give it to God because he is he is in control

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and I think like I like it's that does work on your character and your heart

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and but I don't know if it necessary and I will realign like your desires

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and all that stuff but at the same time as I actually know this really hurts

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it's really sucks and I do not get why he hasn't answered these prayers

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because he seemed to be biblical prayers that Jesus would have healed or Jesus

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would have rescued or the Red Sea would have parted

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do it in me like it feels like why this doesn't feel

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out of God's will to do but then we just have to give it to him

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and this I think this is where Jesus saying be encouraged like God is a God

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that is close to us he is a God that does care for us he is a God that

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wants to answer our prayers so that is that's why he's encouraging us in this

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and I do feel like when I was reading through this that's what came

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to my mind I think a lot of like my story my family is as like my dad has

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blinded and so a lot of my like testimony is like working out like

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I was God a good God how is he who he says he is and my dad hasn't been healed

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so that kind of thing so I'm reading this and I'm like okay he says to keep praying

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even if we don't feel like we're seeing results and I think sometimes we just

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don't understand and I actually think that's so okay

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but still turning to God and coming to him and asking him those questions

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um it's really really powerful but to go back to the question you asked me

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of how how you keep going I don't know I just didn't know what else to do

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to be honest but what else is let's do like I can't just give up I want to

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bring God in it so like what else can I do but pray and talk talk to him

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about it I feel like it's falling back on love

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isn't it it's like at the end of the day like what was the first thing that

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brought me in it was love and that that's Jesus's love towards me

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and like even if I'd like uh yeah I don't know I just thought of that when

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you're speaking as like when you're on the reason why

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I continue praying is because I love Jesus and I know you did too and it's like

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like it's almost like your force to relinquish control because you're like

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like I literally don't know and like anything I don't I don't know what's

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going on don't know whether you'll even like answer the prayer that I'm

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I'm praying and see the healing that I'm really like looking for like all

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these things but the like I feel like the forefront of it is like just

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knowing and and also experiencing just the love of God

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yeah in in my life that's what keeps me going and keeps

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keeps me praying and he does answer prayers yeah

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no that's the thing too like we can get so caught up on the prayers he's not

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answering it and we miss all the ones he is yeah exactly

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and like I feel like you should tell your story of of God answering the

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little prayers because I feel like it's really is cute

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that's so it's really sweet yeah okay so um basically

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I about uh two three weeks ago I was I was cycling I cycle everywhere

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and I was cycling through the rain and my shoes are that are like my main

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pair of shoes and my most recent pair of shoes like my newest shoes

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have them for like two and a half years they got holes all on the side of them

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so my socks were just like squishing in the rain as I got off my bike

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and I literally thought in the moment I was like gosh I should really like

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pray for some new shoes and then I thought that's so silly like

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aha whatever I'm not gonna pray for shoes and I actually got the sense that

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the Lord was saying to me um do you think that I don't care

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for your smallest needs and I was like oh dang and I felt really

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challenged to pray for it and I literally sat there and I was like looking

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around like isn't you watching me this is kind of crazy

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and I said out loud I was like all right Lord this feels really weird

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and there's some things that I definitely want you to do

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more than give me a new pair of shoes like I can go by a pair of shoes

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I just really don't want to spend the money but I said if you want to give me a pair of

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shoes in Jesus name I declare that I have a pair of shoes

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I was like that felt so silly I didn't think about it for like two weeks

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until last week um uh is he invited me over to one of our friends houses

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because he gets like given loads of clothes he's an influencer

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and so occasionally he's got like clothes he needs to get rid of

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and he just gives them to to people he's super generous

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but he's like a size or two bigger than me in shoes

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and while we were over someone made a comment I think maybe he was

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is he made a comment about how I needed some new shoes

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and told this guy to go check if he had you she didn't know I'd

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prayed so anyways he comes back with a pair of shoes

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that he happened to have been given that were too small on him

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and fit me perfectly and I don't know how because he's again a completely

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different size in shoes and I am and I didn't realize it even in the moment

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I was like dude sick thanks like this is a huge help to me

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and as I was leaving his house the Lord reminded me again do you remember this

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prayer that I told you to pray oh my god and he said

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actually I want you to be dependent on me for everything

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there's not anything in your life that I don't want you to come to me with

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in prayer and it was a beautiful beautiful moment

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but anyways that's the story and I was like God really does actually answer

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prayers yeah big and small and I don't know why like

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there's been other things that have definitely prayed in life that he hasn't

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answered yeah but I guess he just in this moment

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wanted me to depend on him and wanted me to have this testimony of his love

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so what a good father is that kind of cool that's really cool

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it's really encouraging I think yeah you're so you're so

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as I do that can't believe this like you just came up to me and was like

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is the only time a story that is so crazy it's super cool super cool

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I've got to like that's crazy I feel like I've got stories too

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so this one this one's kind of I'm sure I've already shared it before

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but this is like an example of like when you pray and then God kind of gives you

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something like in the moment when exactly when you kind of need it

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like kind of what you just shed but basically it was before I moved on to

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London and I was like praying for just okay I was basically

497
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praying I was like okay God I really need reassurance in terms of like

498
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financing myself in London use that exact word reassurance

499
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said amen and then two minutes later this guy calls when he says hey

500
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just wanted to like reassure you just felt like I needed to like call you and

501
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let you know what we have enough work for you you'd be fine financing yourself

502
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I was like flip man like that wasn't even like

503
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I didn't have to wait years for that all months for that and you just literally

504
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that's so cool instant I know crazy right yeah

505
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that's insane wait that's actually insane I know

506
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using the exact word I prayed and that's like it's just so kind of him to do that

507
00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:08.000
so kind yeah he does listen to the details doesn't he?

508
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no yeah he sees it all yeah and he cares so deeply like

509
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like you were saying like it was just so sweet like God

510
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wanting to remind you that like your dependence on him is

511
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with everything and not just like these big life decisions that you might

512
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need to make but even into the mind to the point of like

513
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your necessities you know like your shoes you know

514
00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:32.800
yeah it's pretty cool that he cares right I think we actually just jump back

515
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into the story for a moment but and I think we should look at this example

516
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that Jesus is using and like the people he's using because he's spoken a bit

517
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about the judge and how that is the opposite of what God is but there's also

518
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the widow who's feelings I mean first of all shout out women

519
00:26:51.360 --> 00:26:54.240
shout out women shout out women for real

520
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because in this time people wouldn't have shouted out women

521
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and the main character in this story is a woman but further

522
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.560
she's a widow right which means what like she's a

523
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she's a victim she's been left behind she's probably got some

524
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pretty significant hurt from those that she's

525
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:20.320
being with and loved yeah and then also like the fact that she's showing up

526
00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:24.960
to the judge by herself remember like at this time

527
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women were not fully considered to be people so you would actually normally have

528
00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:33.680
a man show up in court on behalf of you but the reason that she's showing up

529
00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:39.680
is because she don't got any men that are supporting her in her life

530
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:44.880
man like that's crazy imagine imagine not being respected as a person

531
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.960
and then all the people that are respected as people are not standing up for you

532
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.440
and she's persistently going to this judge I think Jesus makes

533
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:58.400
an example of a widow because the widow would have been like

534
00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:02.080
stereotypically at the bottom of the social

535
00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:06.480
ladder yeah and so I think what he's saying is like there's no one that's

536
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:12.160
disqualified from prayer there's no one who's got too much

537
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:18.080
kind of like hurt or pain or negative experience

538
00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:22.640
or disregard by other people that disqualifies them

539
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:29.680
from being heard by the Lord and I think actually like there might there might

540
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.200
actually be someone who's watching this actually maybe several people

541
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:38.800
who maybe fit into some of those categories who feel the hurt of being rejected

542
00:28:38.800 --> 00:28:43.280
by others or feel the hurt of others actions

543
00:28:43.280 --> 00:28:46.080
or even the circumstances that they find themselves in maybe you've been

544
00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:50.640
disconnected from God for a really long time but actually there's no one he

545
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:56.720
would rather hear from than you and God really wants to

546
00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.520
contact you in prayer I think that's actually like

547
00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:04.320
maybe prophetic for someone watching this but I think that's like a large

548
00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:08.240
part of what he's saying here you're not disqualified you're not disqualified

549
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:13.520
I'm not disqualified there's no one who's disqualified

550
00:29:13.520 --> 00:29:18.160
because Jesus came to qualify a son I'll be out

551
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.880
I also think that God is a God of justice and actually a lot of this stuff that

552
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:25.920
has happened to this widow is a lot of out of her control

553
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.760
well life just been really rough and it's like actually

554
00:29:29.760 --> 00:29:35.360
Jesus is seeing that he's given this as an example to be like I see the

555
00:29:35.360 --> 00:29:40.000
injustice and you can you can come to God for that and I'm like God is one that

556
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.200
is close he's one that cares one that loves

557
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.120
that wants to you know bring justice and I think that's a real beautiful thing

558
00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:49.600
especially we've got our own situations that feels like it's out of our

559
00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:53.520
control or some of the stuff he said earlier where we may not be a widow

560
00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:57.120
but we definitely have had a life happen at us and it's like what we can

561
00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:03.440
actually still bring that to God and do what he wants to do with it and I

562
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:05.920
think that's also part of it too is that we're not in

563
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:11.680
control of it at all that we can't control life but we can trust God

564
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.040
and whatever that looks like and maybe that does just look like

565
00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:19.280
bringing him in prayer and letting him do the rest

566
00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:25.200
um my mum used to say we're not growing up she used to be like

567
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.280
do your best and God will do the rest that's what my grandma always says

568
00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:32.320
it was like for exams and stuff she was like do your best and God will do the rest

569
00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:35.600
yeah it's so funny I always I always pray that for our youth we pray with them

570
00:30:35.600 --> 00:30:38.960
and they're like it rhymes are like I know I used to think that was I used to think

571
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:43.040
that was scripture oh pericy huh I used to think it was

572
00:30:43.040 --> 00:30:46.480
scripture growing up oh there's totally no

573
00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:49.920
yeah it's clear it's probably like meditation

574
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:52.880
is anything else that you guys want to put out from the last couple verses of

575
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:58.560
this parable I'm aware that this is like um this is very much

576
00:30:58.560 --> 00:31:02.480
touching the surface of like a topic of prayer which is spoken about a lot in

577
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.640
the bible and so we're really just like skimming some topics and

578
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.360
maves opened many thoughts so watch our other videos and you know

579
00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:16.960
and read the bible but on my study scripture yeah is it anything else you

580
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:21.280
want to put out from the last couple verses I don't know what this last

581
00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:26.080
verse means like on a real um I like I understand what you've just said

582
00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:31.280
about um my translation says I tell you he will give justice to them

583
00:31:31.280 --> 00:31:33.920
speedily that makes sense that wraps up the story

584
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.520
that that next sentence does not make sense to me nevertheless when the

585
00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:44.160
son of man comes will he find faith on earth I'm like low-key

586
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.720
what's going through my mind is what the heck does

587
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:55.520
christ's second coming have to do with prayer I wrote a little note I don't know

588
00:31:55.520 --> 00:31:58.720
if it's going to be a full explanation because I'm also I also read that and

589
00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:05.680
was like um but I think it's a bit of like we need to know who

590
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:11.760
God is and also we need to be people that pray and don't give up and those

591
00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:17.360
things are the kind of faith that Jesus will be looking for when he returns

592
00:32:17.360 --> 00:32:21.520
was my understanding of him yeah that kind of hit though

593
00:32:21.520 --> 00:32:25.200
yeah wait that was actually pretty fire that makes a lot of sense

594
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.080
because I was persistent people were persistent in the relationship with him

595
00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:33.680
and prayers definitely a sign of that yeah that makes a lot of sense and knowing

596
00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:37.280
what he's like isn't so he's not like the judge so that's like he's

597
00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:42.560
he's fair he loves and he cares um he blesses those for their good

598
00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:47.120
understanding that's who God is and like your faith isn't actually the right

599
00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:51.440
understanding of God yes and then also persistent in prayer is it like that

600
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.880
signifies our faith and that's what yeah maybe Jesus will be look

601
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.720
of all I've got some manipulation or you can say yeah you go you got I was

602
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.240
going to say just like really quickly that makes a lot of sense with

603
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.040
that that's a whole verse those two sentences

604
00:33:07.040 --> 00:33:11.680
because like even if he does not bring justice

605
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.520
speedily even if we do not see the outcome of our prayer

606
00:33:15.520 --> 00:33:20.320
will he find faith on earth commitment over circumstance

607
00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:24.720
oh what were you going to say literally something similar

608
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:27.520
well I'll be I wrote this in my Bible praise God

609
00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:30.720
will there be people who will continually put their trust in the Lord

610
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.160
and have faith that God will see to them receiving justice even if they

611
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:38.160
don't see it then and there oh we are going to see the exact same thing

612
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.600
that's actually fire air high five

613
00:33:41.600 --> 00:33:47.600
wait why did you get accepted man that's that feels like a fire note

614
00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:51.520
yeah well let's be people that know who God is

615
00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:54.960
and pray amen praise the Lord

616
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.240
so that's that that's this parable I have to say

617
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.520
it's a parable that I don't think I've actually explored much my life before

618
00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:06.720
so yeah thanks privileged doing that with you guys

619
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:11.120
but again let's continue reading around this topic of prayer and always understanding more of it

620
00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:14.800
yeah but you guys can join us next week for another parable

621
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.760
can't tell what it is off the top of my head but I'm sure it's going to be a good one

622
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.960
because Jesus said it am I right amen praise God

623
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:29.440
I am going to request an emoji of and to new shoes in the in the comments

624
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:33.680
I should guide into new shoes I want to see what shoes you think exactly to see

625
00:34:33.680 --> 00:34:36.720
is this new shoes that could be some high heels I could be some flip tops

626
00:34:36.720 --> 00:34:40.640
that could be like crocs boots is that a compliment no there's not a

627
00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:46.960
crock emoji that would be amazing believe a comment show some love

628
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pray bye I'm seeing the next episode