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This is the second week of, I think we're doing, is it three weeks or four, three or four weeks on the subject to prayer?

I think it's, is it three or four?

Anyway, there's more coming.

My wife started last week with a message on prayer, wonderful word, and they asked if I'd do the second one.

And I love, I love so many subjects.

Perhaps the one that rocks me the most in some ways is the subject of prayer.

When I was growing up in my coming into early adulthood, late teens, I hated reading.

And I read one book, my whole life through school. I faked every book

report. I did. And I just, I hated to read. I read one book in the eighth grade.

About a hot rod, go figure.

I still remember details of that book that marked my life.

So what you remember?

But I remember when I said that abandoning all for Jesus, yes.

I became an avid reader immediately, which was a miracle all by itself.

I remember I would consume books, especially on prayer.

I remember reading, I think it was seven or eight books back to back to back,

just continuously read about prayer.

So prayer, the whole issue of prayer,

the privilege of communing with God,

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