that we're going to start Ezra tonight so you can turn there if you're not there already

and as you do I want to just maybe take a couple of moments and answer a question that I've been

asked about as of late and it's a great question and actually it's a question that really

blesses my heart because

it's concerning our next prayer meeting.

For those of you who weren't here, we had a prayer meeting on a Thursday night and I was

just quite frankly blown away by how many people came and how powerful it was. And it just really hit me and what the Lord

really ministered to me in and through that time together as a church praying together

was that we need to do that again very soon. Well, anyway, it wasn't long after that. In fact, I think it was the very next week we left for New York and one of the things on my bucket list as it's called, it was to go to the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

And as I think I've shared in the past, Pastor Jim Simbola has been used mightily of God in my life for many years, actually from back in 1994, which was about 20, how many years ago now, somebody that

do the math, 23 years ago.

And I had been given a VHS tape at the time.

Remember those?

For you young people, it's a plastic cartridge which actually has tape in it.

And you would play the video. Well, anyways, it was a video of him at the praise gathering conference in 1994.

And his message was titled, My House Shall Be Called a House of Prayer.

And that video has been viewed countless millions of times over the years, and God has

used it over the years in many people's lives.

In it he shares very candidly about the testimony of his daughter who had gotten

away from the Lord and how one night at their Tuesday night prayer meeting they prayed,

labored in prayer, and it was that very night that God brought his daughter back to them and back to the Lord.

Well, I was stunned.

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