The Power of Presence
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Pastor Mark's first-ever book on manhood just released for order! It's 30 years in the making, and over 100 million people have viewed the “Act like a Man” series! Join the millions who have been inspired to punch life in the mouth and become the man God has created them to be.
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| 0:00.0 | God can't be present even when you can't. |
| 0:03.4 | This is really, how many of you right now, |
| 0:04.8 | there's somebody you love, they're in a hard season. |
| 0:07.3 | They live somewhere else, they're on military deployment |
| 0:09.3 | or they're in the hospital. |
| 0:11.2 | You're like, I want to be with them, but I can't I can't be there right now. God can and |
| 0:16.8 | God is and what Paul is saying is I can't be there right now but I'm so glad that |
| 0:21.9 | God is there with you and I see God |
| 0:24.2 | working through each of you to love and serve and enjoy one another and this is |
| 0:29.1 | where as well number two even if you can't be with someone physically, you can be with them |
| 0:34.7 | spiritually. And that's what Paul is saying. And what he says is, he says, I've been |
| 0:40.1 | praying for you day and night. And so if you can't be there physically, you can |
| 0:46.3 | pray and you can be there spiritually because then the Holy Spirit goes to comfort |
| 0:51.6 | or to encourage or to bless the person that you're praying for. |
| 0:56.1 | This is where I always like to say this way. |
| 0:58.2 | The shortest distance between two people is prayer. |
| 1:02.4 | How many of you, if people are praying for you, even if they can't be with |
| 1:06.9 | you, you know that God is with you and God is answering their prayers and he's |
| 1:11.0 | present with you? And so this is where what prayer does, |
| 1:15.0 | prayer causes our hearts to be aligned. |
| 1:17.0 | You can't be angry at somebody you're praying for. |
| 1:20.0 | You can't be done with somebody you're praying for. |
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