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We're in a great book of the Bible called Nehemiah.

And we're in chapter 9, so we're about two-thirds of the way through.

And today's question is, what happens

when religion turns into revival?

You can read it this week.

I'm going to go through Nehemiah, chapter 9.

It's the longest prayer, I think, in the whole Bible.

It's a very long prayer. And here's what I know.

Prayer is how we process. How many of you are verbal processors? You don't have an internal voice, right? You're my people, all right?

I love you.

We think out here.

When Grace and I first got married,

she didn't understand that I would verbally process

and so I freaked her out all the time.

She thought all my ideas are actually going to happen,

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