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Why don't you open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke chapter 10?

And then we're not going to read the poem Sunday, the story,

although it would certainly be worthy of our time.

It's just the time that we have and what I feel I needed to do.

But what I want to do is just take you on a mental journey back to the gospel of John.

So just walk through this with me.

In chapter 11, Lazarus is resurrected.

At the beginning of chapter 12, Mary takes the costly ointment and pours it over Jesus.

Following that is the triumphal entry where people lay down clothing and palm branches as Jesus enters the city.

Don't ever underestimate the value of abandonment in your

worship and how it affects and impacts the atmosphere and climate of an entire city. It was following

that priceless act of worship that we have people crying out, Hosanna.

Passion translation says,

Jesus, be our Savior, Hosanna, be our Savior.

An entire atmosphere of a city changes.

I'd like to suggest in response to an offering of one person

because it was everything. It impacted the atmosphere of a city. We're going to move from that

into the subject of prayer, which has been on my mind a lot just from what the Lord's doing

here. I had somebody say to me,

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