So Father in heaven, how amazing to call you Father and together call you Our Father and to come before you now on the surety of Jesus and his blood and to be confident that you hear us. the one who made everything, the one who revealed himself in his son

and came and was among us, because of Jesus at your right hand, we can come before you and you hear us in our prayers.

And so Father, we pray, we ask, we request with boldness and reverence that you would be honest in these moments

as we talk about this most amazing topic of prayer.

Thank you for these dear brothers and sisters.

Thank you for your grace that's brought us us far in this conference of two days and we don't

presume on your past grace for this evening but ask now to our generous

father who loves to give good gifts to your children that you would

give us grace for this session for our freshly applying and

and freshly appreciating

this amazing reality called prayer

and seeing its extensions and possibilities

and habits in our lives and with others and in our families and with friends and in our church.

And so smile upon these moments together. In Jesus, name we pray.

Amen.

I got some things in this last session I'm so excited to talk about. So thank you for coming back.

This is amazing on a Monday night.

Who cares about Monday night football?

We can come together to church and we can talk about prayer as an amazing means of God's

grace.

So here's where we're going in this session.

We did, to put it in context again,

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