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Luke, chapter 6, verse 12. In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray. And all night,

he continued in prayer to God. If you follow this podcast, you know just a previous episode.

In Luke, chapter 5, we saw how Jesus withdrew to a desolate place to pray. And chapter 6,

verse 12 shows Jesus doing it again. He went out to the mountain to pray. But this verse says,

an all night, he continued in prayer to God all night. I share about this some in a new book I

have coming out called Don't Hold Back. And in that book, I share about some time I spent in South

Korea over the last couple of years where I was so convicted learning about the story of the church

in South Korea about how basically South Korea or the Korean Peninsula went from less than 1%

Christian in 1900 to over 10 million Christians a century later by the turn of the 21st century.

Just a hundred years from less than 1% Christian to 10 million Christians. Just imagine that

happening over the next 100 years somewhere in the world today that's less than 1% Christian.

Imagine Afghanistan a hundred years from now having 10 million followers of Jesus. That's astounding.

And you read about the story of the church in South Korea and you know and you learn it was built on

prayer people rising, gathering together to pray every morning early for hours at a time and

getting together on Friday nights to pray all night long. And I was so convicted. This was just

a few years ago when I came back from this particular trip in South Korea. And I realized I'd

never prayed all night to God. I'd never been a part of an all night prayer gathering with other

people or all night in prayer alone to God. And I told our church family, this needs to change

my own life. And for us, the church family, we need to do this. And so we gather together and

prayed all night from 8 o'clock to about 6 in the morning and it was awesome. And we've continued

doing that not all night every time, sometimes all night, sometimes late into the night. But there's

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