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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

We're talking about a shift in our lives specifically. We're talking about prayer.

And I just wanted to say today, I know we've got intercessors in this house.

You know what an intercessor is? They wake up praying. They go to sleep praying. They got a prayer journal.

They are always attuned to the Holy Spirit. Their function in the house is to intercede and to call on heaven.

And that's life for them.

But I also know we have other people in our house today who barely pray.

And if I were to call on you right now and say, how long have you been in Passion City Church?

I've been coming around here a couple of years. I say, great, come lead us in prayer right now. You'd be like, oh no, no, no, no.

No, I don't do that. Thank you so much. I'm not in front of people anyway.

And we've got people all over the spectrum on prayer.

And so what I'd really love to do today is sort of lean in and help all of us find an on ramp, if you will,

by remixing some of the routine prayers a lot of us have prayed our whole life.

So we can get some fresh words and some more accurate theology into our prayers.

We talked last week and this isn't the B.O. Lindell definition of prayer.

We just, as the starting place said, prayer is a steady state of awareness of Father, Son, and Spirit.

Creating a constant and seamless union of heart and mind with the Almighty.

That shifts earthly perspectives, plans, and purposes as heaven becomes visible on earth.

And the shift that I would love to see happen today is a shift in some of the basic things that we pray,

so that we can move from the root into a relationship, from the routine into the real.

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