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Coming to you from Central Tokyo.

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This is Wild Branch Radio. Welcome to another episode of Wild Branch Radio. I'm your host, Jeremy Dinkins, coming to you today from Central Tokyo and with us today, or with me today, because it's just me. Although Kumi is in our studio audience today. But we have a very special guest, uh Brian Heasley, who is with a movement out of England, a prayer movement called 24-7 Prayer. And uh I'll let you introduce yourself and tell us a little more about that. Uh but some of you may know 24/7 Prayer. Uh especially in recent years, the there is an app called Lektio 365. And uh that has over two million downloads, which is an app of guided prayer. It's a wonderful tool. If you have not ever um experienced Lektio 365, um check it out on your app store. But Brian, welcome. Hey Jeremy, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me. And this is your first time to Japan and first time to Tokyo, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Indeed, yeah. I've never been here before. Loving it. Was a bit worried about the typhoon, but you know, we seem to have made it through.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

Yes, it didn't didn't amount to much in the end. But we're enjoying the the cool a little bit here. And now your your title is International Prayer Coordinator. Or no, International Prayer Director. Director. I'm so sorry. No, don't worry. It's cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

It feels a bit fancy as a title anyway. I think it's great.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Well, tell us a little bit about uh about uh what you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

My role really is to help encourage, coordinate, inspire a whole group of people around the world who are seeking to engage the church and serve the church in 24-7 prayer, which is pretty well what it says on the tin 24 hours, 7 days. We we've been part of this movement for about since it began about 26 years ago, which is basically a friend of mine set up a prayer room and it took off and grew, and now we have uh people heading up 24-7 prayer in about 29 different nations around the world. So I have the joy of helping those guys, encouraging, pastoring, looking at structure, how do we do that, cultural intelligence, all those kind of things.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

That's great. And you do that with really feet on the ground in those 29 different countries. That's amazing. I love to travel, so it's that's good. That's that's a that's a blessing in grace for sure. Yeah, yeah. So uh tell tell us a little bit about you you mentioned just briefly um about the start of 24-7 prayer, but um can you give us like a snapshot of for someone who this is their first time really hearing what this is? And uh, and this is a movement, and I want to get into that a little bit about why this is a movement and not just an um an organization, it's not just um a ministry, but a real global movement. But can you give us kind of a a summary? You mentioned it started with a prayer room and now it's spread all over. So, what what is it that's spread all over?

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Well, uh it started with a prayer room. A friend of mine, Pete Gregg, was deeply inspired by Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf and the uh hundred-year prayer meeting that happened in Hernhut in Germany, which inspired a missions movement which sent people out all around the world. And I guess at that point in the UK, back in the late 90s, there was a sense of God was on the move, but we weren't sure what he was doing. There were lots of great initiatives around, there was loads of different evangelistic thrusts happening, there were lots of good ideas, and we were exploring, we were part of an organization called Cultural Shift, which was about exploring church in emerging culture. So people were looking at new forms of church, new ways to do things, and right into the middle of that, God spoke to Pete about this prayer room. Why don't you try and run a prayer room for for a week of non if they could do if the Moravians could do 100 years, could you do a week? And so he set up, well, him and the team, they set up a prayer room in Chichester, England, creative space. It was a room, you know, paintings on the wall, space to write your prayers, paint your prayers, music in the corner, quiet zones, you know, uber creative, you know. And then they said, let's just get people to sign up for an hour at a time. And so people would come in for one hour, two hours, and and it just took off. The church really engaged with it, people were coming in. Uh, one guy went in and they had on the wall name people that uh you would like to see become a Christian, and he saw his name on the wall, was so touched that people were praying for him, he gave his life to Jesus. So, in this actual space, it wasn't just a place to help people connect, but it was also a place where the lost could connect with people. So, yeah, it was a beautiful moment, and I think their initial one week went into three months, which was a fair fairly hefty amount of time. Yeah, people were started to travel to go and have a look at it. It was uh just it was a interesting, it was definitely a moment, it was a special moment, but I think the moment then became a movement when other people grasped hold of it. So so we were I was at uh our cultural shift conference in England, and Pete said, Hey, we've been doing this in our church. Could we do this for one year? Non-stop night and day prayer. At that time, the only place you could go to see non-stop night and day prayer was like Korea on Yonggi Cho's Prayer Mountain. It wasn't a thing, so he said, I need 52 churches to engage with this. I was one of the pastors in the room and also Pete's friends, so I was like, We'll do a week. A whole load of other people said we'll do a week, and from that moment, a movement was born because other people took hold of the idea and ran with it. There wasn't any uh prescriptive this is what it would look like, but it was a specific space set apart for you and the church to go and pray non-stop 24-7. So the first year is 52, 56 churches engaged, and then all of a sudden it was like it went viral before things went viral, right? So we we heard that uh a group of Christians in Switzerland were doing it, and they did a year of non-stop night and day prayer, and then the salvation army in Australia got involved, and they were doing non-stop night and day prayer, and then we were getting all these kind of random reports saying, Hey, we're just doing a prayer room. Uh, we had one one group of guys said we we love this prayer room idea, we've just set one up in our brewery in Missouri, which is a preacher's gift, you know, like the brewery in Missouri. It's such a beautiful rhyme. Uh, and and yeah, there was one on a battleship on in the Gulf outside of Kuwait. So it was like this creative space started to sort of grow legs of its own, and people were like, we can do this anywhere. And so it it just grew and grew and continues to grow.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

That's amazing. So for 26 years.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

For 26 years, non-stop, night and day prayer.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Well, that that's amazing uh to hear because it's like what I what I didn't hear there was any like strategy planning about how you can scale what's happening. It it's like a fire that caught on around the world. And uh I imagine that there's there's been ebbs and flows over the over the years. How like how do you know like how have you stewarded that? Like with what what began in that moment that you named? Like, how do you know what to prioritize when this is just kind of going all over?

SPEAKER_01 8:14

I I think initially it was like uh we don't make waves, we surf the wave. So it was look where God is at work and join in. I think it was also how do we serve the church? It wasn't let's have an idea to promote something to the church, it's how do we serve the church. So the church at that time were and continues to be quite hungry to learn about prayer. Right. It's quite weird, really, that the you know the the the the church globally that should be a prayerful church, kind of you know, and so there was a there was a sense in which the best way to learn to pray is to pray. And giving people the tools to do it probably was was one of those ways of helping steward it. And and I I I think noticing what God was doing was one thing. The uh the other piece which I've said before was I I I feel we we prioritized relationships. So I think as a movement we move at the speed of relationships.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

That's so good.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

We put friendship over function, and and feel that's an incredibly important part of what we do. So someone else could possibly have taken this idea, marketed it, turned it into something, and made it go global, quicker, faster, bigger, larger. But we just wanted to make more friends and get to know more people, and in the process help other people get to know Jesus. And as that grew, uh we very low on being prescriptive, i.e., you can have a prayer room in a brewery, you know, it's not like a specific place. Uh, you can set it up as you would like it. We've had people set up prayer rooms in caravans, it doesn't have to be 24-7, that's the aim. But we don't want to set the bar so high that people think they can't do it, but at the same time, a little bit of challenge seemed to work. People, you know, you'd struggle to get people to prayer meetings, but then they'd turn up at four o'clock in the morning to do their one-hour slot. So it was a mixture of like I I think relationship, noticing what God was doing, and responding to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, which for me were incredibly important. I think when Peter and John went to Gate Beautiful, they had spent a lot of time with Jesus, and they'd walked by that guy at Gate Beautiful lots of times, and that time they respond to some sort of prompting. It's a bit like when I was a child, and I've got four brothers, we would mess around at the dinner table, and my dad would go, especially if we we were with guests, my dad would go, uh-huh. He'd make a little cough with his voice, and no one else in the room really knew what the matter was, but he was controlling the table, saying, Get your elbows on, you know, just with his little uh uh-hum. And I think we we, as it were, were listening to the little uh uh-hums of the Holy Spirit and trying to remain sensitive to his leading. So uh-hum, you know, let's try and do uh uh prayer spaces in schools. A friend of mine, Phil, said, Hey, we're doing this in churches, could we do this in school? So let's give it a go. I mean, we're we're always we're not frightened to try things, don't be frightened to fail if you're a movement as well. There's too much fear of death in the a faith that's based on death and resurrection. So sometimes we're very we're not really very good at letting things die, you know. So willing to have a go and fail, uh, and not beat ourselves up when we do fail. I think it was John O'Donnell who you who said uh be incredibly gentle with yourselves. So we've continued to try and be it's a poem, he's a it's a beautiful poem, but uh we've tried to be gentle with ourselves, we've tried to try new things, but all of the time we're hoping desperately that we're we're listening to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

That's so good. Um I've heard you uh say the you make this distinction, and this is not just you, but uh you were telling me uh about uh a story about Pete Pete Greg, uh which maybe some of our listeners know because he's written some books on prayer. And uh one one book that I often hear that people come across, by the way, and it this might connect the dots for people, is a book called Red Moon Rising. So I've met so many people that didn't know they like you say 24-7 prayer, and they might not that might or might not register, but they know they've read that book at some point. But uh you were telling me about how he made a distinction, and you you you all make this distinction that 24-7 prayer is not just a prayer movement, but it's a prayer and missions movement. Yes. Could you could you share a little bit about what you mean by that?

SPEAKER_01 12:51

I think in the early days as well, we we recognized that the future it was Leonard Sweet who said this, the future belongs to the storytellers and the connectors. Oh, I love that. And so we tried to tell stories and connect. And very quickly, really quickly, like the guy going into the prayer room and reading his name, giving his life to Jesus, you you all of a sudden think, we were just into prayer, but actually, and we're not really into prayer, we're into Jesus. And the minute you get into Jesus, your heart becomes aligned with his heart, and it's a bit like that old thing you did it in your chemistry or physics. I I was rubbish at science, but you know where you rub a needle against a magnet and you put it on a cork in a bottle, and the needle automatically points towards magnetic north. Right, right. This is true. I've I've this is an actual thing that happens, and I think there's something that happens when we truly engage with Jesus in prayer, is that our hearts become aligned to his heart, and his heart is always pointed towards the least, the last, and the lost. One of the great archbishops said the church is the only one of the few organizations that exists for its non-members. And so when we pray, we end up pointing towards we if we you know, Bob Pierce, Lord, break my heart with what breaks yours, that sense of being pointed towards this the world that is dying and broken and hurting, that should come from a place of prayer. So we would liken that to breathing in and breathing out, that we breathe him in. It's not just transactional, it's something more than that, but it's a very good analogy where we inhale him in prayer, we inhale him in the word or even in worship. And but if we just inhale, we're gonna faint, but then we exhale him out into the word. So we breathe him in, we breathe him out. It's a kind of a beautiful analogy of what I would call prayer and mission. I think for too long, Jeremy, that's been a the kind of like the prayer people are on one side, the mission people are on the other side, and it's a bit like we do mission, we do prayer, we we're a prayer organization, we're a mission organization, we're a mission organization, and we've kind of outsourced our prayer life to some godly old grannies. You know, we're we're a prayer organization, we're just gonna pray for the nations and call ourselves prayer missionaries. I don't think that works. It creates a weirdness in in the missional context that even if you read Bosch on Transforming Mission, very little in there about prayer. Every missional book you read is almost like there's nothing really it kind of like it's about listening, it's about culture, it's about in culture, you know, it's all sorts of wonderful, beautiful theories and ideas about listening and connecting, but it's very little about prey. And it was Arthur Wallace who said every great revival is born out of prayer, sustained by prayer, and brings forth more prayer. And so we have this kind of you know, yeah, weird kind of separation of the two, which we need to bring back together. So breathing in and breathing out. If you stop doing it, if I stop doing it, we're dead. If the church stops breathing in and breathing out, it's dead. And I see all around the world missions organizations that are struggling with burnout because they're breathing out, breathing out, breathing out, and they never breathe in. I look at prayer organizations that are struggling with isolationism and they go off down weird bunny trails because you know, seriously, because they're not breathing out, they're just breathing in, breathing in, breathing in. When you bring those two together and you have Christ's heart beating at the center of all you do, it's it's super healthy. Super healthy. Sorry, I got into got into bit of rattles.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Yeah, no, that's that that's beautiful. You said it so well. And I mean that's one thing that Kumi and I always talk about, and and when we with our community here and we talk about the the need for going into the secret place, and and we have a lot of friends who are evangelists, and they're like, You got you know, you gotta go out. And um, but but I've found like my time in the secret place with the Father, that he'll lead me out.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

And it's it's like when when my tank gets full, it's uh there's an it it naturally overflows, and I find I find I'm striking up conversations I'm uh I've uh with people. I find I'm uh initiating just uh reaching out and and sharing the gospel more. Um but I've I've certainly done both. I've I've been me to I've exhaled too long and I've inhaled too long. And uh I wonder that was my question for you was have you found yourself over the last 26 years, even though you're part of this this movement where you were doing more one more than the other.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yeah, I I would say there are different seasons of your life where you're I'm an activist, so I like to do things, I like to make a difference, and sometimes I remember once uh I was praying, and you know, it says in Psalm 46, be still and know that I am God. And I felt this impression from the Lord saying, You're not very still and you're trying to be me. You know, and so you know sometimes yeah, like if we look at the life of Jesus in Mark 1, he heals Peter's mother-in-law, the whole and it says in Mark 1, and the whole town turned up. So that's what a lot of us are living for the transformation of our towns and cities. So Jesus has done it in like especially if we go with Mark in priority as being the first gospel, first gospel, first chapter. Jesus has accomplished everything that most missionaries are wanting to do. Yep, the whole town turns up. That's true, and then you hear this it says, and then the next morning he got up early and he went to a solitary place to pray. The disciples come looking for him, they say, Jesus, everybody is looking for you, which is kind of almost code for. We need to get back and build on the breakthrough. And he goes, No, no, no, there are other places I need to go, we need to go to elsewhere. So he was so in tune with the Father that he didn't let this kind of earthly success lead him off track. And so I if I was to look at the life and and and the ministry of Jesus, it was it was deeply embedded in prayer and led through prayer.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Indeed, yeah. I I heard it just reminded me, it's purely pre purely humorous, but I I heard a comment once that if Jesus worked for most missions organizations today, he would be fired. Yeah, because he ended up with about 12 followers. You'd be like, oh my god. Send everybody away. But no, it it just shows a really different really different priority, doesn't it? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's that is beautiful. Well, what would you what would you say just more um you know, bringing it just into a moment, somebody listening to this conversation, and I'm I'm sure being stirred to press into God more, but but also feeling perhaps kind of exhausted and discouraged. And you'd this breathing in, breathing out, we're we're not talking just about people in ministry, are we? It's it's all of us following Jesus, all of us in our walk with the Lord. We need we need those rhythms, we need we need that time breathing in in his presence, uh breathing out, breathing out in mission. But what would you what would be like a first step, like if somebody is feeling kind of exhausted or discouraged or or lacking motivation?

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Uh E.M. Baum said that prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence. And I like the idea that we at first.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Oh, that's that's so good. Let's let's repeat that. Just one let's just pause there and think about that. Prayer prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence. Omnipotence. That's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

It really is, isn't it? That sense of overwhelm that we all feel, I think is is necessary for our faith. Because if we thought we could do it, we wouldn't need God. If you looked out the window here at the Tokyo skyline and thought, I can take this city for Jesus. Well, I know, 32 million, it's not gonna happen in by you alone. But if you think Jesus, you could do this, God you could do this, you the creator of the universe, you could do this. So I'm I'm I think for me, first of all, is acknowledging that you don't have to have all the answers, that you we, I, am weak, and he is strong. That he's the one who is there to make the difference, not me. So I think acknowledging weakness and smallness is a really important key. I think that there's really something about let me try and get my head around this properly, Jeremy, because I don't want to just uh build something out that I don't really think. There's something about humility in that. Weakness is marked as well alongside that sense of humility that God is looking for in people that who are humble.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

I'm thinking about Paul when he's he said he said I'd r I would rather boast in my weakness. Yeah. Uh that that whole passage that there's been a lot of a lot of um discussion about the Paul's thorn in the flesh and him asking the Lord to remove it and uh what the but the l what the Lord said to him. I think sometimes we miss we we hear it, we we we hear a certain thing um but we didn't hear what the act what actually the Lord said to him. But that's that's what the Lord said to him. My my strength is made perfect in weakness.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

I I think as well alongside that there's the need to practice the art of perseverance in a culture of immediacy. But I don't think we're necessarily discipled in perseverance. I think about the children of Israel being in in Egypt 400 years. There'll be people who prayed prayers there that did get answered, but not in their lifetime. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

So there's a sense in which every time you pray, something's something happens, but the timing isn't always you know, so it's understanding that that well can I tell you a little story? Yeah, please. When when I was young, I uh my I my mother passed away when I was eleven years old. I took that very badly. I ended up uh by the time I was 18, I was, you know, into drink and drugs and homeless and eventually went to prison four times. So I I grew up in a Christian home. My father's a pastor, so you know it wasn't the best look, as it were. And as I slowly fell away from Jesus, my father kept praying, just kept praying every day, prayed for me, and he didn't really know what was happening because I was very isolated and moody teenager, 18, wasn't giving him much. Went the first time I went to prison, I walked into a prison cell, first prison cell I ever went in, and the guy turned to me, my cellmate, who I didn't get to choose, you know, it's not it's not like an optional vibe, and he uh he was like uh I've just become a Christian. Do you know anything about Jesus? Wow. And it was like, oh my goodness, I'm now locked up with this guy. And I know lots about Jesus because I grew up in a Christian home to the point where when I was young, my father used to teach me New Testament Greek, because to quote, one day this will be helpful. And uh and and then I had a solicitor, she was a Christian. I had a probation officer, he was a Christian, and it was almost like my father was praying, but he wasn't it it he wasn't seeing what was happening behind the scenes, and so every time we pray, something happens. It's like God, you know, it says and it says, do not give the devil a foothold. But every time we pray for someone, we give God a foothold, and it says the devil's like a lion, but God is the lion, Jesus is the lion of Judah. So we give this much, it's a much fiercer foothold that God will take in someone's life than the devil. We give that verse way too much credit as a kind of like, oh don't give the give every time you pray, you you get the opportunity to give Jesus a foothold in someone's life. It's like haunt them, Lord, haunt my father who's away from you, haunt my children. I don't mean that in a scary sense and a divine stalker sense, but there is like God get into their lives, and now you might not see that. So eventually, from me, the probation officer, I breached my bail one night, and this probate which means I had to go back to prison. I was out on bail, I had to go back to prison, it's complex. And my probation officer came into the cell. The last time I ever saw him, he threw a Bible at me, which is not standard UK probation practice. It landed on my chest, and he said, You should read that. And so I was like, Oh my goodness. So my dad's praying, my dad's praying. And about so I didn't read it immediately, but about six months later, I was lying on my bed in this probation hostel, which is kind of halfway house, and I opened a Bible and I remember saying, God, if you are real, can you save me? Now I believed that I was already saved in a theological sense of give my life to Jesus, I was just having a difficult time. So let's anyway, uh once saved, always saved would probably be my strength on that one.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

So you're not you're not questioning whether you're going to heaven or not.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

I never questioned that. Even when I was in prison, I never questioned that. But I just felt I'm probably gonna be really up the back and get told off. But uh, and you're dad. Really bad theology on that one. But anyway, Vinny's poor theology of grace. And uh there was as I I said, God, if you're real, just save me. Save him from this life, this lifestyle, this circular nature of in and out of prison, in and out, in and out, messing around, getting in drugs, all that. And so I threw the Bible on the bed and said, if you're real, save me. And literally, Jeremy, it was like it fell open at Isaiah 59, verse 1, which says, Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor is his ear too dull to hear. And so I guess in that moment I just broke down on in tears and gave my life. I said, I'll give you the rest of my life. That was that was when it happened. Thirty-six years ago. I would give you the rest of my life, and I have, and that for me should stand as and my dad. I remember talking about it, he prayed every single day. Every single day. And he didn't give up in prison four times. He didn't give up, kept praying, kept praying, and he saw the results this side of eternity, but you won't always do that. And so for me, not only weakness and humility, but perseverance are what we need as people of prayer.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

That's that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. I I uh boy, there's so much there that I'm thinking about when you when you say perseverance in prayer, and uh I'm thinking uh also about how many have really they've labored here in Japan and have prayed for Japan. I mean I I know a lot of missionaries, I'm thinking about some missionaries I I talked to when I was coming in as a young guy uh twenty-six years ago, and uh they were you know, they were at the end of their ministry. They were in their seventies and eighties, and um really hadn't seen much, but they were but they were people of prayer. And uh there's yeah, I uh but I I just I remember being really encouraged by and I I've met I've met all kinds too, and I've met some really discouraged people in in ministry that my you know my heart really breaks for them. But I've met some people, I've met a lot of people that uh they still are expecting, they still are believing, and that's such that's uh such a testimony, but I I do think I love that giving giving the Lord a foothold. Yeah. And so praying for a nation and giving the Lord a foothold in the nation.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

It's like uh behind every history you see, there's always a secret history. Every great revival that happens, you know, you look at the Hebridean revival, and we everyone talks about the great preacher who preached, but I I guess we have looked at it more, but the two little old ladies who prayed. You know, whenever someone gives their life to Jesus, someone's prayed, you know, and so whenever we see a great church growing well, doing good, there's probably people been praying for that town, that nation, you know, and so there's behind every history we see, there's always a secret history of prayerful people who haven't given up.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

That's beautiful. There there's another aspect, you know, actually, when you first said about uh prayer and and perseverance, we need it, we need to have a perseverance because we're in such a kind of an instantaneous uh culture. But the I was thinking about the part of prayer with that we're lifting up to the Lord really more about ourselves and our own life. That it's like the questions we have that are not answered. But sometimes I feel like the Lord is He He's inviting us into these deep questions that our life is kind of oriented around, but he he's it it's because of he wants to take us somewhere in that. And it's like we don't see always what he's doing in us either. But um but that was such a beautiful uh picture you shared, story you shared. Thank you for sharing that.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

We we learn more sometimes in those moments where things aren't going well. It's why God says to children of Israel in Deuteronomy, when it goes well with you, don't forget about me. Tend to p we tend to pray better. We tend to pray less when things are going better, and we learn more during these harder, darker times. Now I'm I'm all for praying that the Lord would lift us out of those harder, darker times, and if you're going through one, God is with you in it. Yeah. I I I'm really big on that. I I think Jeremy just the presence of God has been the dearest thing to me the last twenty-seven d thirty-six maybe even all my life, the presence of God has been the most beautiful thing. Not not necessarily the the things he does. I don't want to turn my relationship into a house of trade, as it says in John 3, I think. I've come to this little moment in my own faith, where it's Jesus, you are enough. And his presence is enough. And I guess whatever you're going through right now, he might not reach in and lift you out, but he will always come in and say, I am with you. Which I love. I love that he is with us. His presence is dear in the midst of the pain and the struggle.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

That's so beautiful. I feel that it would just be so appropriate to end our time with prayer. And uh would you would you pray for the people listening, Brian? And just whatever, however the Lord would would lead you in that. But uh that is that is the promise of the Lord that his his presence is always with us, he's always with us, so we can boldly say the Lord is my helper, I won't be afraid. What can man do to me? Yeah, would you would you uh pray for us? Yes indeed.

SPEAKER_01 32:49

Yeah. Father, we are all weak, but you are strong. Lord, we all have desires laid upon our hearts to see you answer our prayers for ourselves, for our families, for our towns, for our nations. And Lord, we come once again to you and say, You're the only person that can do this. You are omnipotent, all powerful God. Come and move on our behalf. May your kingdom come in our lives. And Lord, for each one of us who sits right now in the place of pain, I pray that in the place of pain we would sense your presence. That your presence would come to us. And Father, with your presence, I pray that you would give us the tenacious spirit that will not let go, that will hold on, that will persevere until your kingdom comes. So, Lord, be with each one who listens. You are with us, and we thank you for that in Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

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