The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Oh Father in heaven, there are some things that we know how to pray and that we ought to pray and that we ought to pray and must pray. I pray for an anointing upon the ministry of the word. I pray for dead to be made alive. I pray for dead to be made alive I pray for blind to see and deaf to hear and weak to be made strong and

proud to be humbled and hateful to be made loving and hard to be made tender.

I pray for the confused and perplexed to be given light and guidance.

I pray for the alienated to be reconciled. And I pray for the lost to be found.

I pray for Christ to be exalted in your name to be honored. I pray for humility in the ministry of the word and a deep

reliance upon the spirit's help. And I pray for docile teachable minds.

And now come, please.

And in your great mercy towards me and us, be our teacher and help us.

In Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Christianity is the only religion in the world and in history to affirm and embrace that there is only one true God and that in the one true

God there are three persons, God the Father, God the Son, Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit.

We call it the doctrine of the Trinity. The Church does not and has not embraced the doctrine of the Trinity because there's a sentence in the Bible that says

there is one true God existing in three persons equal in essence and distinct in their

personhood. You won't find a sentence like that in the Bible. The reason the church has affirmed and embraced the doctrine of the Trinity

is not because there's a paragraph on the Trinity or a sentence that states the doctrinal

precision of the Trinity. The reason the church has always embraced this

doctrine and affirmed it and shed blood over it is because the Bible teaches

unwaveringly that there is one and only one true and living God.

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