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Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

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All right, here's a big question.

What would Elijah do? Amen?

We are going to spend a few months answering that question, dear friends. Here's what I need to do.

I need to pray. I think this is the most difficult, prophetic, clarifying, exhausting, frustrating, troubling

sermon I've preached in 27 years. And we're living in

the days of Elijah. And the question is, what would Elijah do? Father God, I pray against the

enemy of servants, their works and effects. We pray against the passive spirit of Ahab that has captured a generation of young men and destroyed and ruined and wrecked them and sent them out of the workforce and out of the church, out of life as we know it and into passivity.

We pray against the Jezebel spirit that is seducing entire generations and nations

that is controlling and destroying and wrecking and ruining and deceiving. And we say in Jesus' name,

the Lord rebuke you. Holy Spirit, we invite you into this time. We invite you into this moment.

Holy Spirit, I didn't intend to start here,

but apparently this is where we begin. We begin with you. We begin with prayer. We begin with

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