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Open your Bibles to Acts Chapter 12, if you would please.

Acts chapter 12.

It's amazing these friends that just healed i think i just mentioned it to you the letter i got

they're on their first real vacation in 34 years can you imagine it can you imagine the children

or i'm guessing to be in their low 30s, can you

imagine being children that have never had a healthy mom? And they were there when she got healed.

And suddenly she's able to do everything. And they actually sent me a video of her running

around the pool and they're in Hawaii having a blast doing

stuff that normally can't do. So I just, it just never gets old. How many of you, the Lord,

has done a miracle in your body, you have experienced an actual miracle in your body? Look around

the room. Isn't that extraordinary? It's amazing. Thank you, Lord. Do it again and again and again and again.

Acts chapter 12. We're going to read a pretty long portion of scripture, so I need you just to kind of

hang with me. My favorite parts of the Bible are the stories where the lessons are easy to get.

You know, like David and Goliath, anyone can get that

one. You know, you got the little guy facing the big guy and he wins. And it's just a good story.

Daniel in the Lion's Den. It's, you know, just that trust in God and that you see in these stories.

Well, Acts chapter 12 is actually one of those kinds of stories.

The Lord makes note of something that we had better make note of. And it's concerning prayer.

I want to talk to you about fervent, fiery, enduring prayer today because I have felt the summons of the Lord over my own life

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