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Coming up on today's edition of a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie brings practical counsel

for our prayer lives. All prayers are answered effectively right?

Yes, no or way. We don't like no generally. We usually are happy with yes. We definitely don't

like way, but is there anything we can do to see our prayers answered more often in the affirmative?

I believe there is. So I want to talk to you about secrets to having your prayers answered in the

affirmative. This is the day when the last I found. This is the day for a moment.

Prayer is one of our most important privileges and one of our most powerful tools.

Yet many of us don't feel like we've maximized our prayer lives.

What's today on a new beginning? Hopefully we'll all take a giant step forward.

Pastor Greg Laurie looks in the Lord's model for prayer to bring us practical counsel we can

all put to work today. He's on the island of Maui today, having just visited and preached at one

of the satellite campuses of his home church in Southern California. You know if you're in a

restaurant and someone is seated in a table near you and there have been a conversation you may

not even be noticing, but if one of them says I want to tell you a secret and no matter what I don't

want you to share this with anyone question do you listen in? Of course you do even if you don't

know the people you want to know a secret. You know a game I often play with my grandkids is when

we're going somewhere maybe in a restaurant or here or there I'll say now we can go the regular way

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