We are in the One Prayer Series. There are 1,356 churches globally doing the exact same thing right now.

1,556 churches that are all participating in one prayer.

And I just think, you know, as a God who has a bunch of kids on the planet,

you know it blesses him to see his kids kind of getting along

and doing the same thing and so I

believe it fulfills the one prayer that Jesus had and that is that they might be

one and today in some small way there are about 1300 churches fulfilling Jesus prayer today and I know it honors him.

Today I've been asked to share my one prayer. It's very simple for me to come up with

what that would be and today I want to share with you a prayer that actually is a

spiritual discipline that you need during tough times. Now I'm personally going

through a very difficult time right now. In fact I wasn't even sure if I was going to be

able to be here because we've been told I was told two weeks ago that my dad had two weeks

to live. He's standing strong and we're still trusting the Lord and and I even called Pastor Robert and I said man I don't even know if I'm going to be there and and I'll still try to come if you know if if things are going well at the house and my dad's doing well and

but we're just standing through that and any of you have ever walked through

something like that it's pretty difficult it's you know you have to deal with a lot of

things you deal with your emotions and you're dealing with your family and you're dealing with you know watching him he's been

battling cancer for about two and a half years now and just to watch that

process and then you're trusting the Lord and then you know what you believe about the scriptures and you

man you start even questioning your theology and your faith and what am I doing and what's going on here and it just

honestly very honestly it can get a bit confusing from time to time and I think all of us are going to face difficult times from time to time in fact the Bible says that there will be terrible times in the last days.

It's going to be a rough ride.

Jesus even gave it to you as a promise that in this world you're going to have trouble.

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