I'd really like to I'd love to spend some time praying right now and you know sometimes I know in a conference like this it's easy to just okay I'm supposed to pray so close your eyes here we go and we don't recognize the magnitude of what we're about to do. I mean you think about it if we literally came into the present, if you as a human being literally came into the presence of Almighty God right now in heaven.

What would that experience be like?

I mean, breathtaking beyond anything we've experienced

thus far.

And so I know that sometimes when I come on a stage,

I can be so aware of people and a crowd that I forget about who I'm coming before and I don't

want to do that right now. Many of us are leaders and you know exactly what I'm

talking about. You get up here and you just start saying things for the sake of the people. You start praying things because it's expected of you rather than really thinking about who you're speaking to. See, I believe that if I speak to him in all of my sincerity,

if all of us do because of the blood of Jesus,

because we can come to him with confidence because of the blood of Christ.

I believe that if we speak to him right now, in all of sincerity, he will hear us.

And something can happen in the next few minutes that's beyond like someone just coming up giving a sermon and everyone go okay that was good or that was okay or whatever like like something real could happen, like exactly like the stuff I read about in this book.

And I think for some of us, maybe we haven't experienced something like that in a long time, but go quite possibly it's because we're not really

dependent on our prayers and really believing that we're coming into the presence of

God and without that type of faith he says you're not going to receive anything.

And so I want to believe right now that something can happen because we're about to come

into his presence and I'm going to beg him because I'm a little bit overwhelmed.

I go, I don't know these people.

I don't know where they're coming from.

I don't know their backgrounds.

I don't know who needs to be encouraged and who needs to be confronted.

I don't know the truth.

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