Praying Big

Reflecting on Your Prayer Life

Today's message is titled "Praying Big." I have a question for you today: How is your prayer life? If you were to stop and rate yourself, maybe one being the worst, 10 being excellent, where would you rate your prayer life at? Are you pleased with your prayer life? Who's pleased with your prayer life? Are you pleased? Who wants to do better? Does anybody want to do better with their prayer life? Does anybody think that they could do better calling out to God in prayer? How is your prayer life? There's power in prayer. We believe that today. There is power. Do we believe that today? There's power when God's people pray.

The Power of Jeremiah 33:3

God put a verse on my heart today from the book of Jeremiah. If you've got your Bibles, open up there to Jeremiah. We're going to be going there to springboard us into our message in a moment. But before we do, as many of y'all know, we've been reading through the Bible this year. Hey, raise your hand if you're making an attempt to try to stay in the word and read through the Bible with the church. That's a good portion. That's great. So, you know, there are 66 books in the Bible. So, we've got an accompanying workbook that complements as we read the Bible that helps complement what we read. But what we've been doing is we've been saying basically every week we're taking one book in the Bible and we started with Genesis and then to Exodus and then to Leviticus and then we stopped. No, we didn't stop. A lot of times Bible plans end at Leviticus, but we didn't stop. We kept going. And for the most part, every Wednesday night, we talk about what God gave us as we spent time in the word of God that week on whatever book we were in. A couple of times we'll take two weeks, like the book of Psalms is 150 chapters. So, we took two weeks to read and then we talked about it. We talked about the first half one Wednesday and the second half another Wednesday.

A Divine Interruption

Now, when we came to Jeremiah, we were going to study Jeremiah a couple of Wednesdays ago, but God had another plan. We had dinner going on that Wednesday, and I just walked through here for a moment. And as I walked through here, it's like God just put on my heart, we got to pray. And that night, we came in here after dinner and we gathered around Myra to pray for her with the health issues going on. And then all I can explain that happened next is the Holy Spirit just took it. You ever had those moments of prayer times where the Holy Spirit just shows up? I know at least for me that Wednesday night I felt, have you ever felt the Holy Spirit move while God's people pray? Have you? That Wednesday night I literally felt the Holy Spirit moving in this place. God just showed up and by the time we finished the prayer it was already 7:30 or 7:45, so we didn't even get to Jeremiah. But last Wednesday, we did get to the book of Jeremiah, so we took two weeks before we talked about Jeremiah. Last Wednesday, this Wednesday we'll talk about Lamentations, so if you haven't read that, it's only five chapters, you can read it before Wednesday, so no excuse.

Lessons from Jeremiah

But anyway, as I was reading through Jeremiah last Sunday, we went to Jeremiah 3 where it talks about Israel backsliding. And God said, "Return to the Lord." And Jeremiah, his prophet, was told to say, "If you don't return, there's going to be punishment for your sin. Jerusalem and Judah will be conquered. Jerusalem will be conquered by Babylon." And we know Israel didn't return to the Lord at that time. So, there was punishment.

The Call to Prayer

For today's message, God put on my heart Jeremiah chapter 33. We're going to verse three. So, if you've got your Bibles, go ahead and open up there. This is a verse that many of you might know by heart. Jeremiah 33:3. This is actually a verse one time when it really hit me. I was in the prayer room. Who goes in that prayer room ever? Does anybody ever go in that prayer room back here? Man, we need to get more people in that prayer room, man. Hey, sign up. We want people to pray every Sunday in there during service and throughout the week. There's a signup sheet, but on the wall as I looked up, I saw that verse Jeremiah 33:3. Somebody years back at Longleaf Baptist put that verse on that wall. And I tell you, I love the idea of having God's word written on the walls. I'd love to see Jeremiah 33:3 written somewhere where everybody sees it. And I love what Jesus said, "Let my house, my house ought to be a house of prayer." I'd love to see that up somewhere. I'd love to see the Great Commission up somewhere. Amen. The Great Commandment. But there in Jeremiah 33:3, it's just a beautiful verse that reminds us of the power of prayer.

Reading God's Word

We're going to read that to springboard us into our message for today. I do invite anybody that would like to stand with me if you'd like in honor of the reading of God's word. And we're going to read just that one verse and then speak to it. Jeremiah chapter 33, verse three. The word of God says, "Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know."

A Prayer of Thanks

God, thank you for your word. Thank you for the promises of scripture and thank you for this verse that we read about in Jeremiah in a situation that must have seemed hopeless. Thank you that there's always hope with you, God, even when it seems hopeless. And God, I just pray you work in our hearts today however you see fit. And one way I hope that you work is that it would work inside of us to be more dedicated to prayer and that when we pray, we pray big and we believe big. God, we love you. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you. Y'all may be seated.

The Simplicity of the Message

When you take just a verse, sometimes it can be kind of a simple message, but I do also want us to get into the context around that verse in a moment. But first, I'd say this: when we read that, let's not overcomplicate it. Sometimes there's a simple message. The gospel can be simple. We can overcomplicate it sometimes, but there's a simple message, but it's an important message. It's an important reminder to all of us. And I tell you, if God works on one person's heart today to cause them in this place to be more dedicated to prayer, to me, this sermon is completely worth it. Either way, it's what God said to preach.

Calling Out to God

But I tell you one thing we're reminded of is when we call, we're reminded that we must be a people that call out to God. The scripture starts off with "Call to me." And we know that "me" is capitalized. And we know that "me" is talking about God Almighty. It says, "Call to me." We must be a people that call out to God. How are you doing calling out to God? And when I think about being a people that call out to God, I think about, for one, in our own prayer life, in our own day-to-day time with the Lord, we must be a people that spend time calling out to God. How are you doing day-to-day in your life taking time to call out to God in prayer? And is God maybe working on you about being more dedicated to prayer?

The Importance of Communal Prayer

And what about this? I'll tell you what else I think about when I think about "call," we must be a people that call out to God. I think about, in addition to our own time, our own quiet time daily with the Lord. And if you don't have quiet time daily with the Lord, I hope today you take that away to say, I'm going to carve in time with the Lord every day. I pray you do. But also when I think about calling out to God, I think about the importance of God's people coming together in prayer. There's our own time with the Lord and there's that time when God's people come together. I don't know about y'all, but just now when we pray with Greenley and Raquel, you know, to me that built me up. That encouraged me to pray with God's people. When we gather to pray different times, it always encourages me. So today, when we talk about we must be a people that call out to God in prayer, I hope that it encourages us to call out more in our own life and that it causes us to pray more together as believers.

Struggles with Prayer

But you know what the truth is? A lot of times with prayer, you know what the truth is? Christians often struggle with this, don't they? Have you ever struggled with your prayer life? Have you ever felt like you want to pray more, but for whatever reason, you just don't? Anybody? I think there's, to me, I've heard a phrase, it's not exactly worded this way, but something to the effect of prayer is the most underutilized spiritual weapon that Christians just don't use. I mean, prayer is powerful. We get to call out to Almighty God and he hears us and he works through prayer. We see it over and over in the Bible when he works through prayer. And so often, for whatever reason, Christians just struggle with their prayer life.

Overcoming Busyness

I think one reason can sometimes be that we get busy. Have you ever let busyness get in the way of your prayer life? Have you ever been going so fast, so hard, and maybe you just think, "I just don't have time to pray." Or maybe you just get so busy that you forget to pray. I don't know what it is that we do, but we get so busy as if we think all that busyness is more important than taking time with God. But we do it, don't we? Sometimes we can be guilty of letting busyness keep us from prayer. We get up in the morning and we go straight to our to-do list, or we get up in the morning and we go, go, go, go, go, go, go trying to knock everything out and before you know it, we haven't even taken quality time to pray.

Busy People Can Pray

I mean, other times, but I want to say this about busyness: busy people can be prayer warriors. Amen. You can be busy and have a lot on your plate. You've heard the old phrase, "Busy people get it done." Like a lot of times people will say, "How does this person do it? They got so much on their plate." Or they're the ones that oftentimes get things done. If you've got a lot on your plate, trust me, God can make a way for you to be a prayer warrior. I mean, other times we might just be lazy, right? Other times we might just get into a Netflix series, and I'm not trying to dog if you do. I watch Netflix, but sometimes we can just start watching TV or start being on those phones and just look at those phones all day long. And we just, honestly, when it comes down to it, sometimes other end of it is we can just waste time and we just don't prioritize prayer and we do other things instead.

Relying on God

I think other times what can keep us from prayer is we try to figure it all out ourselves. Like, anybody ever have problems? I know y'all do. Am I the only one that does? You ever have problems that come up in life? Sure you do. What's that? Yes. You have problems with your family. You have problems with your work. You have problems. Everybody has problems with finances. I think you have problems with this. You have problems with that. And our tendency can sometimes be to just figure it all out, to go right to and a blessing to try to use the common sense God gave us. But we got to realize we can't do everything on our own. We need help from God. And sometimes when we don't pray and we're just trying to figure it all out or ask other people for their advice. I don't know. There could be a deeper spiritual problem. If we do that all the time, could it be that we don't really believe and have faith that God can help us? Could it be that we have more faith in ourself, in our friends to help us figure out problems than having faith in God? Could it be that maybe we are not really trusting that God can work as we pray? I don't know what it is for you, but I believe sometimes we also try to just do it all ourselves and before you know it, we don't cry out to God.

The Need for Discipline

There's all kinds of reasons that God's people sometimes don't pray like we need to. I think probably perhaps the most, the thing that could perhaps help us the most and that maybe hurts us the most is sometimes we just don't have discipline. You know, when I think about anything in life, discipline and habits help us to achieve goals and sometimes we don't have that discipline. So today, if maybe you're hearing about, yeah, we got to be a people that need to call out to God. If God works in one person here today to say, "You know what? Yeah, I'm gonna be more dedicated to calling out." If God works in one of y'all here today, with all my heart, I'm jumping up and joining. I'm like, this message that God gave was worth it. If it causes one of us to be more dedicated to prayer, if that is you, if you want to pray more, anybody want to have a better prayer life? If you do, in my opinion, I do believe having spiritual daily disciplines help. I do believe having habits of prayer help.

Jesus’ Example of Prayer

We see Jesus would often withdraw to the wilderness and he would pray. We see he would often rise early in Mark 1. He had just had a ministry. He had had a day of ministry in Mark 1. If you go back and read Mark 1 tonight, he had cast out a demon in the synagogue. Then he had healed Peter's mother-in-law. And then after the Sabbath ended, at the end of the day, the whole town of Capernaum came over to him and healed all kinds of people. Anybody ever have a day of ministry where you're tired and you're weary because you did so much ministry? Anybody? I've had those days. I don't think any of us can imagine a day like Jesus. You know what he did the next morning? He rose early before the sun came up and he got alone with God to a desolate place and he prayed. If Jesus needed to do that, I believe we do too. But I hope today that it'll cause us to say, I need to form habits. I need to form disciplines.

Building Prayer Habits

Years back, God just put it on my heart to rise first thing and to walk and to pray. And some mornings, I feel like I connect with God more than others. Some mornings I might have things on my mind that kind of affect me, but so many mornings I feel the presence of God. And I'm thankful God did that because that daily discipline, God has helped me just to daily do that no matter what to keep getting up first thing and walking and just talking to God out in his creation and praying. Do you have any daily disciplines for your prayer life? If we want to pray more and connect with God more and feel his presence and see God do a work, if we want to, those daily disciplines are going to help us. I don't know if you're wanting to pray more, is there something today that as you're talking to God that maybe you could firm up in your life to be a discipline to take time with God?

The Blessing of Collective Prayer

I'll tell you what else: again, coming together with God's people to pray in addition to our own time is a blessing. We shared many of those times. Tomorrow at 11:30, every Monday, the sanctuary, we're here praying. We either pray here or in another part of the church. Tuesday, the church is open and Jerry and Terry are here. And if anybody wants to drop in and pray anytime from 5:00 to 6:30, maybe you've had a hard day at work, maybe whatever it is, and you just need to come pray. Come and pray. Tuesdays at any time from 5 to 6:30. Wednesdays 5:15 and then you get to eat at 6. Amen. That's good. Baptists like to eat, right? Sunday morning. But my point is, if you're wanting to be more dedicated to prayer today, I hope God will work in you to set some spiritual goal disciplines. We discipline ourselves for diets. We discipline ourselves for exercise. We discipline ourselves for work. Shouldn't we discipline ourselves for things of God? Yes, we should.

God Answers Prayer

You know, I tell you what, this scripture, it says, "Call to me and I will answer you." Something else we're reminded of is when we call out to God, we hear from God. It says, "Call to me and I will answer you." It doesn't say, "I might answer you." It doesn't say, "I'll think about answering you." It says, "Call to me and I will." And "I" is talking about God. I will answer you. That's one blessing. There's a lot of blessings that come out of calling out to God in prayer. But another blessing is when we're faithful to keep calling out to God. We're going to hear from God. You will. If you stay faithful and you keep disciplines in your life to pray, you're going to have moments where you get to hear from God.

Hearing from God

Isn't that cool? God created the heavens and the earth. Do you believe that today? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. I think that's 10 words. I can't remember. If you believe those first words of the Bible, you'll believe. You can believe anything in the Bible. If you don't, how can you believe anything in the Bible? God created the heavens and the earth and he gave us life and we get the blessing. He allows us to call out to him and we get to hear from him. That's amazing. Have you ever had moments you've heard from God? Anybody? I have. You know, I've had all kinds of ways that God will give us guidance when we're struggling, right? Do you ever have times you just maybe you've got something you're trying to decide in life and you call out to God and it says, "My sheep hear my voice and you just hear from God." What a blessing that God can give us guidance. It says, "And the Lord shall guide thee continually."

Jesus’ Prayer Life

Hey, I think about Jesus. You know what it says he did? He went out and I believe this is in Luke's gospel. He went out on a mountain. It says in Luke's gospel, "And he prayed on that mountain all night long." All night long. And it says he prayed to God the Father. Of course, he was God in the flesh. But if Jesus, who was God in the flesh, needed to call out to God the Father, don't you think we need to? And you know what it says? After he prayed all night on the mountain to God, you know what happens first thing in the morning? Anybody know? He went to his disciples and he selected the 12. Y'all remember that? I believe it's in Luke's gospel. And then after that, he says he healed many. And then after that, it looks like he started to preach the Sermon on the Mount. But my point is this: when I read that passage, it seems to me to basically be saying part of what Jesus was crying out to the Father about was about the 12 because immediately after that night, he selected the 12. Don't you think we could benefit when we've got weighty things in our life to decide on to call out to God? And I tell you, when we do, we're going to have moments of hearing from them.

Personal Testimonies of Prayer

I remember one time being so under attack from the enemy and thankfully it had just been a few days but I was struggling and I was walking and praying early that morning. It was still dark and I just say, "God, am I going to be okay?" Have you ever been so deep and like under attack you just wonder if you can get through? I just say, "God, am I going to be okay?" Because I had already experienced being under attack where it nearly killed me. And at the moment I cried, I was crying. My daughter later told me later that day when I was walking, some bus went by and some boy when she got on the bus said, "Was that your dad? I saw him holding his hand up in the sky and all this." But I remember crying out, "God, am I going to be okay?" And the very instant I cried out, this big shooting star just went by. And the only way I can describe what I felt was it was God just telling me, "You're going to be just fine. I got you." Other times you'll just get a peace from God.

God’s Calling Through Prayer

I remember when I was spending time, I'd been a believer for about four years and I was pouring into the word and praying more and you know what happened as I poured in the word and I prayed more. I started to hear from God as he called me to preach. I mean, you'll also hear from God on what he wants you to do for him. You know, and I remember as pastor here many times hearing from God and one time I was and it's when I was praying a lot of times. One time when I was praying on our street on Wildlife Drive in Leland, God just put that vision on my heart to see the Spirit of God work through the people of God in such mighty ways that multitudes are saved, multitudes are baptized, and multitudes are growing closer to Jesus Christ and living more and more for Jesus Christ. And I love that he did that because that's a kingdom vision, man. Do y'all want to see people getting saved and baptized and all of us growing close to the Lord? I'm seeing a lot of people growing close to the Lord and I praise God for it. And I tell you what else, last year we had more salvations and baptisms than we've had in the years I've been here. So God's working, but it takes his Spirit. But when we call out to God, we're going to have moments of hearing from God.

Jeremiah’s Perseverance

When we think about the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah, he had a hard ministry. Amen. A lot of people call him the weeping prophet, but we were talking about this Wednesday night. Perhaps a more appropriate name would be the persevering prophet because he had a hard ministry, but he kept pressing on for the Lord. He kept sharing the message. God, he had a hard message. He was telling Israel, "You're sinning. You're backsliding. You're worshiping false gods and you better return to the Lord or else God says he's gonna just like northern Israel was conquered. He's also Jerusalem's going to be conquered. It's going to lay in ruins. You got to return to the Lord." He had a hard ministry where he got beat. He got rejected. He got locked up in prison. But the Bible says over and over where he heard from God. I read Jeremiah and over and over it says he heard from the Lord. And I think how cool that is, how often he heard from the Lord. I think it's because he spent time with the Lord.

Jeremiah’s Context

But it says in around Jeremiah 32 before the chapter that we read today, we read Jeremiah 33:3. Right before that, if you're building up to Jeremiah 33:3, Jeremiah is in prison. And he's in prison because the king Zedekiah chapter 32 tells us this doesn't like the message that Jeremiah is preaching. Now Jeremiah is just preaching what God told him to preach. But a lot of the people don't like it and the king doesn't like it. The king doesn't like that Jeremiah is telling them that God is saying, "Y'all better return to the Lord or God is going to send people from the north from Babylon and they're going to conquer Jerusalem." And the king also doesn't like it that Jeremiah is saying, "And you, Zedekiah, are going to be taken captive." So Zedekiah shuts him up in prison.

God’s Instruction to Jeremiah

Jeremiah's in prison there in chapter 32. And while he's in prison, we read that God tells him that his cousin is going to come to him in the court of prison. And his cousin is going to tell him to buy a field. Now, Jeremiah had to be like, "Uh, Babylon's surrounding us. They're about to conquer us. I'm in prison. We're about to be conquered. You want me to buy a field in Jerusalem?" Well, then it says in chapter 32, if you go back and read it, that his cousin, his uncle's son, comes to him and says, "Buy my field." So Jeremiah knows it's from the Lord. So Jeremiah buys the field. And in chapter 32, we read that he has witnesses to the deed and everything. And they put it in an earthen vessel, the deed, so that it'll last. But then later on in chapter 32, Jeremiah is trying to understand. I believe it begins in verse 16 and he's trying to understand why God told him to buy a field. And he's praying for understanding. He already obeyed God, but now he's trying to say, "Okay, I'm in prison. Babylon's surrounding us. They're about to conquer us. Why would you have me buy a field here when the land's about to be laying in ruins?"

God’s Promise of Restoration

And then God answers him. I mean, God in chapter 32 tells him, "Yeah, Jerusalem is going to be conquered for the sin of my people, but there's going to come a day where my people return back home. There's going to come a day when the captives are brought free and returned back to Jerusalem. And there's going to come a day when homes will be rebuilt in Jerusalem." And then when we flip the page to chapter 33, we see Jeremiah hears from the Lord again. And he heard from the Lord in chapter 32 about that. Then in chapter 33, he hears from the Lord again. And then we see that famous verse where God tells Jeremiah as he hears from him, "Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know."

God’s Mighty Works

And to close today, I would just say when we call out to God, not only do we hear from God, and there's many other things that happen, but also from this text, we're reminded when we call out to God, God can do great and mighty things that we can't even imagine. Do you believe that today? Do you believe that God can? I've got to imagine Israel when they were when Babylon conquered them and they were taken captive and many of their family were killed or slain or died with pestilence or the sword or famine. I've got to imagine many of them were like, "How can this ever work out?" And Jeremiah, we know, he was like, "Why are you having me buy a field?" Because God can do things in situations that seem hopeless. There's always hope with God. If you're in a situation today where it's hard and it seems hopeless, remember that verse. Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know.

Believing Big

God can do things that we could never see coming. And today I just want to close by again challenging myself and challenging the flock here, God's people. Let's be a people that step up our prayer life. Let's be a people that call out to God and pray big and believe big because God can do things that we can't even imagine. So today, a challenge I would have is, hey, would you want to take on and challenge yourself to be more dedicated to calling out to God? And when you're calling out to God, believing, having faith, Jesus, you know, his disciples could, he gave them the power to heal, but they couldn't heal this one boy. We read about in one of the gospels, they couldn't heal the boy that was the epileptic. And then Jesus came and healed the boy and he cast out the demon and they went to Jesus privately and they said, "How come we couldn't do that? How come we couldn't heal that boy, but you could?" And he talks about if you have faith as a mustard seed you can move mountains. And then he goes on to say this kind of healing only comes out by prayer and fasting.

Prayer and Fasting

Sometimes we might, I mean, have you ever heard of people taking a fast to pray? But I want to tell you what, when we think about calling out to God, let's have faith to pray big and believe big. And if God answers those prayers, give him the praise. Give him the honor. Give him the glory. Have you ever prayed big and seen God answer big? Anybody? God can do things we can't even imagine. God can do more than we can even think about. But I believe one way that we see God work is when we're faithful to keep calling out.

Persevering in Prayer

You know, sometimes someone will say, "Well, I'm calling out and I'm not feeling his presence or I'm calling out and I'm not hearing from God." Keep calling out. Keep praying. Be faithful. Don't give up on calling out to God every second and every day. I've never experienced to be a mountaintop, but I know when I keep faithfully praying, I get those sweet moments like that Wednesday night where I felt the presence of God. And when I keep praying, I get those moments of getting a peace from God. And I just want to challenge myself and challenge y'all. Let's be a people that call out to God, that pray big and that believe big.

Praying for Revival

And let's do that in our own lives. Maybe there's something in your life you need to really take to prayer. Jesus said we ought to always keep praying and not lose heart. Sure, sometimes we have a thorn in the flesh. Paul did. Sometimes we have to bear things, but I'm going to tell you what, sometimes I just wonder how many times we just don't call out to God about it and don't have faith he can answer it. And if it's health, if it's family, if it's marriage, if it's relationships, if it's anxiety, if it's depression, there's nothing too big for God. Nothing. Do you believe that? We got to believe that. There's nothing too big for him. And in addition, if we're committed to pray more, to praying in our own lives, something we've been praying about a lot lately is revival. Do y'all want to see revival here at Longleaf Baptist? Y'all want to see this church grow? Y'all want to see the parking lots filled up? I do, too. I hope and I pray God does that. I know it's not going to happen by my efforts or your efforts. It's going to happen through the power of God. And it's going to happen by God's people being broken and God's people praying.

The Power of God’s Spirit

Now, when we call out, yeah, God's going to call us to different things to do, and we're going to be working for the Lord, but it's not by what we do. It's by the Holy Spirit. It's by the power of God. And we've got so many opportunities to gather together to pray. And we've been praying the sanctuary, this church will be open every day. That someone will want to volunteer for a Friday, someone will want to and this sanctuary is always open for people to pray because revival is going to happen. Not by our strength or our power. It's going to happen by the power of God. And it can happen. We've got to have faith. We got to believe. Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know.

God’s Faithfulness

God revived Israel. Hey, at one point, Israel wasn't even a country anymore. And people used to wonder, "Well, how will all this happen in the Bible?" You know what happened? Israel was a country again. God's got a plan. It's going to come to pass. Amen. And in this passage of Jeremiah and in the book of Jeremiah, God's people were taken away, either killed or taken captive. Jerusalem lay in ruins. But God told Jeremiah when he prayed for understanding in chapter 32, he said, "I'm going to bring a remnant home. Jerusalem will have homes again. This will be a place where my people live again." And just like God did that, then God can do that again. And God can do it right here at 317 Shipyard Boulevard, Long Leaf Baptist Church, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28412. God can do it right here. But it's going to take God's people to pray.

A Call to Action

Do y'all want to see multitudes getting saved? It's going to take calling out and depending on God. Do y'all want to see multitudes getting baptized? It's going to take calling out and believing big and praying big. Would you like to see the Holy Spirit move to work in people's life? Whether it's healing or whether it's help, whatever it is, restored relationships. God can do it. We got to pray. And we got to pray big. And when he chooses to do it, give him the praise. Do y'all want to see believers who have drifted away return to the Lord? Maybe family, maybe kids, maybe loved ones, maybe yourself. God can do it. But it takes God's people praying. Do y'all want to see the Holy Spirit move in ways that you can't even imagine? God can do it. But it takes God's people to pray.

Committing to Prayer

I just want to challenge you today. We're going to take some time to have invitation and take some time to pray. Will you commit to being more dedicated to calling out to God in prayer? Will you commit to that in your daily walk with the Lord? And will you commit to that to come together with God's people to pray? And if you will pray to God about a plan for you that would help you for disciplines and will you commit to pray big and believe big. Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know.