And I'm going to do it.

Spiritual forces impacting the course of nations, but they don't do it without the engagement of people.

See, most of us think we could do it from our prayer closet and I'm an

advocate for the prayer closet. But I've told you before your prayer closet

is not sufficient to cause a garden to grow.

You need a way to till the soil, you're going to need some seed, you're going to need some water, you're going to have a hole, you're going to pull some weeds,

you can't pray your way to summer vegetables in Tennessee.

You've got to do, there's a little sweat equity involved.

And we've been so spiritually minded, we've been so inauthentic in our faith that our impact and our

culture has been minimized because we thought we could have the conversation

and be polite and then it would happen around us or apart from us.

It's not the biblical pattern.

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Be blessed.

We've been working through a little study on angels, demons, and you.

The and you parts, the most important.

You know, those of us in the Christian church realm are famous for doing studies and we do them in a kind of theoretical sense, a distance sense.

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