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What I want us to see this morning is a facet of prayer that I know in my own experiences

Serving in context overseas God has taught me the most about and its desire in prayer.

Two particular situations of circumstances come to my mind.

One was the first time I had an encounter with House Church believers in Asia,

believers gathered in underground locations to study the word in a country where

it was illegal to be a follower of Jesus Christ and illegal to gather like we had gathered.

I remember we were sitting there, just in this small room a circle of about 20 or 30 believers

sitting on little stools, sitting in a circle there and began to pray.

They were sharing testimonies about what God was doing in their lives.

They said, we need to pray.

All of a sudden, they fell down on their knees and on their faces and they began to weep just to audibly weep before the Lord

and for the next hour all they did was pray and weep and they weren't praying. I was having their

prayers translated to me. They weren't praying big theological prayers. They were

praying things like, God, thank you for not forgetting about us.

God, thank you for loving us. God, thank you for knowing our names.

And for an hour, that's what they prayed, non-stop, just weeping before him.

And I know preachers have a tendency to exaggerate, but this is no exaggeration when we got up off the floor.

Because I lost it. I was right there with him. We got up off the floor because I lost it I was right there with him we got up off the floor and literally there were

Puddles of tears around the room for people who were so passionate about their God in prayer.

The other situation or circumstance that comes to my mind is in the middle of Sudan,

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