Embracing God's Holiness and the Power of Prayer

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"We're so honored to serve a God who's holy. You're so holy in Isaiah 6. The scripture says, the angels refer to you not just as holy, not just as holy, holy, but as holy, holy, holy. Emphasizing, God, your perfection, your holiness. And God is people that sin all the time. And we are honored to be able to say we have a holy God who still loves us even when we make mistakes. What a compassionate, kind Father. We are so honored to serve." [00:18:43] (30 seconds) Edit Clip


"And thank you, Jesus, for taking away the penalty of sin. And thank you that we can walk in our sanctification and our process of growing holy. God, none of us are there yet, but we're continuing to walk in that. Thank you, God, for how you've changed people in this room's lives. Some of us, when we go back and we think a year ago, two years ago, we're different people today because of what you've done, God. Thank you. That's all from you. It's not just us trying to be good people." [00:19:31] (29 seconds) Edit Clip


"Thank you, God, that all things truly are possible through you. People can change from the power of God. Thank you, God. We just want to take a moment today and just tell you we love you. We honor you. We bless you. We pray that you would have your will be done throughout the rest of this service, that you'd speak to every one of us personally. We've put action behind our faith. We've physically come to this room to meet with our Creator. So, God, I ask that you would honor that." [00:20:27] (29 seconds) Edit Clip


"Then the second thing that we're waiting on to be fulfilled is the rapture and one Thessalonians tells us this God's the Lord will come down from heaven with a loud command the voice of the archangel the trumpet of God the dead in Christ who arrives first and after that we who are still alive and left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we'll be with the Lord forever." [00:42:54] (23 seconds) Edit Clip


"Whenever we see Gabriel he's always delivering messages so he's always a messenger we see this in Daniel 8 he's giving a message to Daniel we see it in Luke 1 11 he's delivering messages to Zacharias we see it later in Luke 1 where he's delivering messages to Mary so we see these two roles God uses angels for both of these purposes and it's pretty cool." [00:54:56] (22 seconds) Edit Clip


"Have you thought about that? Are you praying with someone? So pray with someone. You know, we see this in Acts 1 14. The Bible says they all met together. They were constantly united in prayer. The early church norm was coming together and praying. What is the church in 2025's norm when it comes to praying? My hunch is it's not coming together and praying. It's praying individually." [01:01:23] (31 seconds) Edit Clip


"Matthew 18, Jesus said this, if two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, talking about prayer, my Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three gather together as my followers, I'm there among them. You can't accomplish that verse by yourself. And that's the point. Many of us, this is stretching, isn't it? For some of us, we live this, we're like, whew, man, this is stretching." [01:03:47] (28 seconds) Edit Clip


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