Well, I started talking to you last week about prayer, and it's because the Lord had literally drawn me to that, to that, has drawn me to challenge you and to remind us. I know that I'm standing before praying people. I know that. I've heard you pray, and I love to hear you pray. But and I know that, but I think sometimes our minds, our pure minds need to be stirred up as to what we're praying, why we're praying, and how to pray. And there's so many scriptures in the Bible that I could that I could choose. In fact, it was hard when the Lord began dealing with me about prayer for me to settle in on some particular scriptures because I could stand here all day sharing scriptures from the word about prayer, because it's full of scriptures about prayer, which lets me know it's important to pray, and I know you know that. Um when we pray, when we really get in down to pray on a personal level, um, the Holy Spirit will bring revelation to our mind. And when you when you push through and you begin to pray and praise the Lord and magnify Him, then you get into a spirit of prayer. A spirit of prayer. Things begin to happen, and you begin to know what to pray for. Have you ever gone to pray and just start praying and just get into a spirit of prayer, and all of a sudden, people and situations begin to come to your mind that you didn't even have on your mind when you started to pray. That's the Holy Spirit. And that's a spirit of prayer, and we need to pray that kind of praying. I'm talking about personal prayer right now. In fact, I'm gonna talk about two different kinds of prayer, just a little bit about personal prayer, because I spent a lot of time on that last Sunday. I'm gonna talk about corporate prayer today. But uh, when you get to praying in a spirit of prayer, you lose all track of time. I remember years ago when um, oh, I can't remember what his name is, wrote that. Could you not spend one hour in prayer? Anybody remember that book a long time ago? And it convicted me so, and I thought, I'm gonna get up every morning and I'm gonna spend an hour in prayer. I'm gonna do that. And I'd be so sleepy, I'd just fall over. And I'd look at my watch, you know, and that's not that's not a spirit of prayer. That's trying to follow somebody else's plan. But when you go to pray because you just want to be with the Lord, you just want to go spend time with him, um, you lose all track of time. Time doesn't matter. You won't look at your watch, you just get caught up in prayer. Um, it it just comes, this kind of prayer comes from just loving on the Lord, just coming into his presence and loving him. Um, and this kind of prayer leads to praying in the spirit. Now, I didn't talk about that last week, and I'm not really going to today, but I've I urge you to pray until you pray in the spirit. When you begin to pray and you go, you're all of a sudden your words become that heavenly language that you're praying in. Something begins to happen. Something begins to happen to you and in the heavenlies. And so I urge you to pray that kind of prayer until you pray in the spirit. But this week I'm going to kind of focus on um corporate prayer. Um, but before I do that, I'm going to share. Tammy posted a, I don't remember who it was by, Tammy put something on Facebook this week that that I thought was just so good it caught my attention. And some points that were in this article that she published said that sometimes flesh will resist worship or prayer, and it hinders our it it your flesh will hinder your desire to come to a prayer meeting or to even go pray on your own because we're human and we'll put it off. Anybody ever put off praying when you need to pray? Thoughts on me too. How many kind times have you come to a prayer meeting that was called just because you felt obligated to come? Um because our flesh will fight us from coming to a prayer meeting, but those are times when we need to just press on to. Pain will silence our prayer. Um, not only physical pain. It's hard to pray when you're hurting or when you're in pain, but and that will hinder our prayer, but but emotional pain will hinder our prayer life. If we're going through a tough time, you you you feel sorry for yourself. That's what the enemy, that's flesh. We're still fighting flesh. He does not want you to praise the Lord, but praise is the thing that gets you through it. Um, grief will try to close your mouth from prayer. And I don't mean just grief. There's a lot of grief right this week. We've had some deaths in our church. We know what grief over death is, but we can grieve over other things. We can grieve over losses, we can grieve over people that are hurting us, we can grieve for a lot of different reasons. And if we aren't careful, that grief will close our mouth to prayer when prayer is the really thing we need. It'll help us to get through that. And there is a kind of prayer, or prayer will it will cost you something. Um, that's when you have to make a sacrifice of what you want to do to go spend time with prayer. Uh, the Bible teaches over and over and over the importance of prayer, and Jesus himself is the greatest example of that. We know that uh we read how Jesus would draw aside to go pray, he'd go to the mountain to pray sometime, uh, he'd go to the garden to pray sometimes, he would pray and go to pray in solitude. Um, and then sometimes he would pray with his disciples. When we read the gospels, we we see how Jesus himself prayed, and certainly if Jesus needed to pray, I know I need to pray. How about you? He taught them how to pray. But today I want to focus on, I want to I want to make sure you know that your personal prayer has got to happen, first and foremost. That's more important to your spiritual well-being and your spiritual growth than anything else, along with the word. And you need to pray the word, you need to pray the word back to God. But I want to focus today on corporate prayer. That's when we all come together and pray. That's what corporate prayer is. Um, because that's what the Holy Spirit really began drawing me to when I started to teach on prayer. The need for corporate prayer, where we all come and pray together. Um, there are still people, and I'm sure there's some in this class that you're very shy and inhibited, so to speak, about praying out loud in front of people. And um, and that's hard for you. But when you really get into a spirit of prayer and you really want to participate in that prayer, you don't care what people think. And because no, if some everybody else is praying, they're not listening to you. And if they are listening to you, they probably need to hear you pray and so they can learn to pray too. So don't be afraid to pray out loud and pray when we come together today to prayer. Um, the early church was built on corporate prayer. They would meet together in houses and and pray about, they would pray together, they would pray for certain things. In fact, um Acts 12 and 5 is the where the the church had come together when Peter was in prison, and the next day he was facing a trial that could mean his life. And the they met together, and and this is what the scripture says. So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. And while they were praying in the middle of the night, an angel came and let him out, just led him right out of that prison. And he went to the house where they were praying, and Rhoda, a little girl, went to the gate to let him, to heard him knocking. And and and she went and told them Peter were outside, and they didn't even believe it. So sometimes we don't believe God's gonna answer our prayer, we just pray, don't we? Um but we need to to to um when people, this is a very important statement. If you don't remember anything I say today, I want you to remember this one thing. When people gather together and pray, something happens. And God will always show up. When people gather together to pray, something happens. Um, there are five biblical um principles of prayer, of corporate prayer, that I want to share with you this morning. The first one I'm gonna look at is desperation. Um we need to learn that the more desperate we are when we pray about something, the more vibrant or more alive our prayers will be. Um just words are not enough. But God wants us to be desperate about what we're praying for. The Bible says in James that the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. That means when a when when when people who live right get together and pray fervently, that something's gonna happen. That's just God, God answers. Then in Psalm 63 and 1, or well, I had that one up there, didn't I? Um, this is David's desperate prayer. Oh God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you. My my soul thirsts for you. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Uh, can you hear desperation in that? Can you hear what David is praying? And then he prayed in Psalm 42, as the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? You may think, well, I just don't know how to say it pretty like David did. You don't have to say it pretty. If you're desperate, however you say it, you God knows you. And if you try to pray somebody else's prayer or use somebody else's word, that's not that's not desperate. When I get desperate, I say, God, this is me. Oh, God, this is me, and I need you today. I and I start telling him the way I would tell him, and I get desperate, he knows that. Um when we come together with a desperate need, God works. I remember several years ago, and I think I may have mentioned this less recently. Sometimes I tell the same thing over again. Y'all just have to do like my daughter-in-law used to do when I tell something the second time she'd hold up two fingers. You already told me that. You already told me that. But I remember several years ago when Jodie Harrison in our class was diagnosed with cancer, young man with five, six children, and and we felt a need to gather in that Sunday school room down there on a Sunday afternoon and pray for him. And Jody came and we put him in the middle of that circle and we prayed. I'm talking about we prayed. And you know what? God healed him. We heard his testimony just a few weeks ago. God healed him. That's desperate prayer. So that's the first rule of getting together and praying. We need to be desperate about what we pray about. And the next one is we need to have one focus. Um, prayer, powerful prayer is focused prayer. It's not shotgun. Now, we prayed shotgun praying this morning. God hears us. He hears any prayer we pray. But if we come together and we just got about 10 or 15 to request and we all start praying, that's not focused on one thing. We're just, now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. Don't misunderstand me here. But when we come together desperate and we pray and we focus on what we've come to pray for, they were they were focused in on praying for Peter to get out of jail. That was their focus. That's why they were praying. And that's why years ago, when I'd come here to prayer meetings, I have y'all heard me mention this, I know, and all those senior saints of God, those older ladies, uh, would come and they'd stand around there and oh, they'd pray and they'd pray. And then when they got through praying until they touched God, they'd stand up and get in a circle, and they'd put you one at a time in the middle. And when you got in the middle, they weren't praying for anything else except what's right there in that circle. That's focused prayer. And God honors that. That's what corporate prayer should be about, focused prayer. And then it's one voice, and it's similar. Uh, this is a powerful dynamic when an entire congregation prays on the same page. Uh, for example, if the congregation all began to pray for God to send a revival, or if if they focused on something that they're wanting God to do, that'll bring glory to Him. It's focusing not on ourselves or something we need, but on something that will bring glory to God. Um, our prayer should be kingdom focused when we when they're released. Uh everything that's everything, everybody praying for the same thing, but something that brings glory to God. And then the next principle of corporate prayer that is that your purpose should be to invoke the presence of God. To invoke the presence of God. Second Chronicles says, now, my God, I pray, let your eyes be open and let your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place. Psalm 22 and 3 says, But you are holy, enthroned in the praises of Israel. So when we come before the Lord, and we just let's just say we came to the Lord today and we uh we had a special need that we all were going to pray about. The very first thing we need to do is go after his presence. Lord, we've come to worship you today. We've come to we've come to call upon you today. We need you, God, we need you to show up. Do you ever just pray, God, just show up in church today? Just let the Spirit of the Lord move. God, I just pray that you would show up because I want to glorify your name. I want to praise you, Lord. I want to be in your presence. There's nothing, nothing as good and as wonderful as being in the presence of God. When you pray in a situation, when you when you've met and you've prayed together, and the God just shows up and his presence is just so real, you just leave feeling like, oh, that was so wonderful. Oh, it's a it revitalizes your soul. It does something for you. We're a body, we're together, we're praying, and we have just been in the presence of God. In fact, when you get into that kind of prayer, the manifest presence of God begins to show up. Um, in other words, when we worship and we begin to pray that way, his presence begins to manifest. I've seen this manifestation in a lot of different ways. I've I've seen when people begin to pray together and the Lord shows up, people just begin to weep. Just begin to weep. I've seen people run, just take off and run because you just gotta do something. I've seen people shake. Have you ever seen anybody just shake under the presence of God? Or of course I've heard other people, when that happens, that people begin to speak in another language, a Holy Spirit. I've seen people begin to jump. I'm stirring up your minds. What have you seen? I've seen people fall out in the spirit when we get corporate prayer. I've seen people lay prostate on the floor, and I've heard people get louder and louder and louder as they pray, and the presence of the Lord just shows up. There will be a there will be something will begin to happen when people come together and pray together. And we're all human, we're all different. You may, your, your reaction to the presence of God may be totally different from someone else's. But I can tell you that there will be something, a manifested presence of God when people come together and pray. Um, his power becomes evident when we pray that way. And you know what happens when we become become, we're ev we become aware of his presence. All of a sudden, faith rises up in us and we believe for miracles. That's when miracles come. I've heard people say, why don't we see miracles? How long has it been since you've been to a prayer meeting? I didn't come to condemn today. Hope no, because I'm pointing this finger right here. We need corporate prayer. We need corporate prayer. Um, then the next, the last, the fourth, fifth one about a law of corporate prayer is we need to be in agreement. An agreement prayer. First Corinthians 1 and 10 says, I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. Uh, this is a corporate prayer where people pray in agreement as to what they're asking for, but but it's different than focused prayer. This is where the people are all in one accord as they pray, as they were on the day of Pentecost. There's no schism, there's no anger, there's nobody mad at anybody. Everybody loves each other and they've come together as God's children to call upon the name of God. This is an agreement prayer. Um, and this kind of brought me to a podcast that I heard that I wanted to share with you. I heard this week. One night I was thinking about teaching, and I was asking God to show me what to pray. And I'd been I'd been talking, praying and thinking about these folkes, but these laws about getting together in corporate prayer. And and I remembered a book I read several years ago by Jim Cimbala, who is the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church in New York City. In fact, Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is very famous. I used to listen to every song they came out with because that's where we'd get some of the songs for the youth choir. Of course, uh Devin did for the adult choir. We sang those Brooklyn Tab songs. Oh me, they were wonderful because they have church. In fact, one day I'd love to go to that church. But I remember reading his Jim Cymbala's story of how he felt led to start that church and how they were struggling to get the church going. They just they just couldn't, uh every obstacle was against them. But he said when they started to have a Tuesday night prayer meeting every week, that that's when that church began to grow. And he gives that that Tuesday night prayer meeting total credit for that church growing to the place it has grown today. His wife leads that great uh choir that that sings there. But but the church is so much more than just that choir. It's a church where people come in off the streets. Every nationality in the world is there, and they come in off the streets and and their lives are changed. And that church has grown because the people begin to come together. So I thought, well, okay, I'm gonna look up one of the, I'm gonna see if one of these Tuesday night prayer meetings are online, and that's what I listened to. That's what I watched. And as I began to pray, watch that, it opened up, that that um podcast that I was looking at, that video, it opened up with those people just standing in the altar, and they were holding up pieces of paper, which I found out had their request to God on them, and they were singing and in one accord, Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe, all things are possible. Lord, I believe. Oh my goodness. You just felt it. You just sensed, oh my goodness. They God was there and they were bringing their request to him, and they began to believe that God was going to do it. They were fervent, they were in accord, they were like uh what I've just been talking to you about. And um he said that he said that there that that um when I began to listen to Jim Zabala, he said that there are laws to everything, and he said it that there are laws to prayer. And I thought, well, he's gonna talk about this same thing I've been talking about, about these laws of prayer, but he went a totally different direction. And I thought, well, Lord, did you lead me to this for a reason? Did you lead me to this particular thing about corporate prayer because you want me to share it with our class today? Um, he said that if you want God to answer your prayer and expect him to do that and not just be praying and saying words, he said, if you don't have faith, you can't expect to answer, and you can't be a phony and pray. And he stopped right there. You can't be a phony and pray. Now I thought he was just about to talk about some of those principles, but um then he started with this scripture, and I thought, hmm. Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift, therefore, before the altar, and go your way. Now he's talking to his church in this prayer meeting. This is the scripture he used. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. I'm sharing what he shared this morning because I feel like the Lord led me to this for some reason. Unforgiveness and bitterness in your heart against another person will hinder your prayer. I just want y'all to I just want y'all to chew that up a minute. I'm gonna say it again. Unforgiveness and bitterness in your heart against another person will hinder your prayer. You can't hold grudges and unforgiveness and ever get a prayer answered. It's just that simple. You can pray all day long. Beg God. Oh, God, would you please save my children? God, would you please heal this person? Would you do please? You can pray all day long. But if you have got unforgiveness and bitterness in your heart, the scripture says God won't answer that. Jesus Himself, let's just look at when the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray. We know what he said. Let's just look at it one more time. I did this for a reason. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive our debts, our sins, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Now that was the end of the prayer. But Jesus didn't stop right there. This is what Jesus said to him after he told them how to pray. He said, For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. He went on out of everything he told them to pray, he picked out that part and he emphasized how important forgiveness was. And he, and it's just a short, simple prayer, but he wanted them to know the psalmist David said in Psalm 66, 18, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear. Jim Zimbala told a cute story, not a cute story, but he told a story in that message that night that he was speaking at that prayer meeting. He told how early in his marriage that he and his wife lived in a little apartment in Upper New York somewhere, and that um that he had bought steaks for them her to cook for their dinner. And he said she knew he liked his medium well. Well, he said she cooked that steak, and when he went to sit down and eat it, it was like eating a piece of shoe leather. He said, and he told her, he kind of lashed her and said, You have run this steak. This is ridiculous. This steak's like eating a piece of my shoe, and he just went off on her and she came off back at him. And he got up from the table and said, I gotta go to prayer meeting, put his coat on and went out the door to go to prayer. It was prayer meeting night, and he had to go to church. So he said he got to church and it came time for them all to pray. And he started praying and just couldn't feel a thing. He said, It's just like he's praying against the wall. And he said, Almost he heard the God, he heard the Lord say, Are you kidding me? And he said, When he when he heard that, he said, Oh, it smote his heart. And he began to weep before the Lord and say how sorry he was. And he now people couples are gonna have spats, we know that. But unforgiveness and anything not fixed will hinder your prayers. And he said he got up from that prayer meeting and he went home with tears in his eyes. She met him at the front door, she had tears in her eyes, and they fixed it, and it was okay because they asked forgiveness. But I thought about, when I was thinking about this, about things people can hold grudges for years and not realize it. Be angry at what somebody did to you for years ago. I got kind of tickled. I was just eyes off on my thought pattern when he was talking. Uh, y'all all know little Mary Akers that's worked in our nursery for years. Mary and I were in the first grade together. She was like a year or two older than me, and I don't know why she was in that first grade, but she was. And at recess, we'd go out and build our little playhouses out of straw out behind Sipsi School. That's where I went to school. And we'd we'd build our little playhouse during recess, and Mary and her little gang came and just tore it all up. Well, I just got all I just got all mad at her and was telling her, well, she beat me up. I'm telling you. She tore the buttons off my blouse. I'm telling you, she beat me up. What's so funny about that is that every year, for some reason, one year I gave Mary some of my Mary Ball fudge I bake every Christmas. And every year she comes and she said, I'm waiting on my fudge. You're gonna bring me my fudge. So last year on Christmas Eve, I went to Mary's house and carried her her fudge, and she met me out in the yard, and we just laughed about. I said, Mary, you remember beating me up in the first cry. She didn't remember it, but I did. But you know that is a silly example. People hold grudges over such a simple thing as that. Did you know that? Little things that, you know, now there's things much more serious, much more serious. And I've told you my story of how someone that really turned on me on a choir tour one time years ago, and I I got down to pray and I read this very scripture that day, that when someone has done, if somebody has something against me, if they've done me wrong, now make sure you understand that. Not if I've done wrong, I need to go apologize. We know that without saying, but if they did me wrong, I'm supposed to get up from prayer and go fix it and go to them. And that just does not seem fair. But if we don't, we keep that in our mind. We keep it in our heart, in our mind what they did to me. But but this scripture says that if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord won't hear me. So I had to get up and go to her house, and by the time I got there, we she met me at the door, and I just called her name and said, The Lord sent me. And that's all it took. We both started weeping and before the Lord and fixed it. And you know, it's really hard when someone does you wrong, first of all, to forgive, second of all, to forget it. And sometimes we have things in our mind that now we can't help but remember things. I'm not telling you that you'll just you'll just forget it and never think about it anymore. You may think about it again, but if you have ill will toward that person because of what they did to you, it's up to you to go fix it even though they did you wrong. And that's the only that that's the kind of thing, when I think about the prayer that they were praying together in the upper room for the Holy Spirit to be poured out. It says they were in one accord. They were in agreement, and they were in one accord. That meant that they didn't have any schisms among them. Now there might have been people in that group that had done each other wrong. And that might be when they had taken them ten days before it happened. I don't know. I just know that it takes a while sometimes to fix things. But and there's some times that you can't. But if you do what you can do and you get it out of your heart, and they don't, they're not willing, they don't want to fix it, they're still mad at you, you have just walk away, shake off the dust on your feet, and let it go. You're free. You're free. You don't have to carry it anymore, and you have to work at not thinking about it. Um, I don't know why the Lord took me to this place in this lesson today, this week, because the truth is I just really wanted to talk to you as a class about corporate prayer. And I just want to talk to you and urge us that we've got to do something, class. We've got to have some corporate prayer together. And I you think, well, when our class, that's the only place I I can have, I have a platform to talk about it, is to talk to you. And I believe you are the church, and I believe you affect our church. And um, and I I I'm I came from the beginning of this because I wanted to challenge us to come together as a class and pray. Um and I asked you last Sunday, when we talked about this, to pray this week about a way that God would could bring us together for this kind of praying. That's the whole purpose of me teaching all these lessons about prayer. Because I believe that it's time for us to pray for our church and for God to move, and for us to see souls brought to the kingdom of God, that there's such an atmosphere set up in this church that it draws sinners in off the street, that it brings people to God, that it brings people that are sitting in the congregation that may have grudges, just like I talked about, to get rid of that. And we come in one accord as a church where God can begin to manifest, like I talked about. And the manifestation of his presence would begin to show up, and it'll happen through prayer. So I asked God, what could we do? And and one person came to me, in fact, it was Deb last week after class, and she had a wonderful idea. She said it would be great if different ones just began calling prayer meetings like in your home or someplace. Just call, you know, just call four, five, six, ten people, whatever you want to say. We're gonna meet at prayer. We're gonna meet for prayer at my house Tuesday night. Will you come over and pray at 6:30 for nothing but just to pray? Just to pray. That's a wonderful idea, Deb. And I really feel like every person in this room has the capability of doing that. Just call a prayer meeting. But I somehow feel like that God wants us to get together as a group and pray. Uh as a whole Sunday school class. Something happened this week. I keep telling y'all what happened. God just amazes me. In fact, can I just tell y'all right now that I've told y'all heard me say, Well, I'll declare God. This one days while I'll declare, and I will tell y'all my good news today. I recent for the last three years, off and on, off and on, and off and on, I wrote a book. I was writing on a book and I had to quit because I didn't think nobody wants to read my book. That was that's just my stories. But it was about the times when God would show up in my life and I just say, Well, I'll declare. Well, my book is ready, I'm picking it up tomorrow, and I'll have it next Sunday. They call me Friday and I'll get the book tomorrow. So if you want to read it, you can. I'm not up here selling books. I'm just telling you that I just love it when God shows up and have well, I'll declare moments. I had one of those this week. The exterminator came to my house to spray for bugs, and and um he comes once a month, and he's a church of God man, and we were just standing there talking about the Lord, which we usually end up doing when he comes by. And he told me at their church that when they built that church, hadn't been there that many years, that they laid Bibles all under the foundation of the church, and then they poured the concrete over it. And uh and they had it's built on the on the word, is what their purpose in doing that. And he said there's this one lady in their church that she knows right where her Bible was that she brought. Evidently the people brought Bibles, I don't know. And when they are in church and she has a need, she goes and stands on her spot. Well, when he was telling me that, I just thought, oh, I was having well, I'll declare God moments. Oh, I can just see us doing that. So y'all may think I'm crazy, and you don't have to do this. This is just me. So today, what I want to challenge us to do, I want to give us a week to talk about it, think about it, prepare. One week from tomorrow night, this is my idea. I want to hear yours. One week from tomorrow night, on Monday night at 6.30. I want us to meet right here to pray. If you can come. If you can't, you know I understand. But today, when we leave, I want you to spread out out there or up here, anywhere you want to go. And I want you to take, if you brought your Bible, put your Bible in that spot just for a minute. If you didn't, it's okay. Some of you have your Bible on your phone. I want you to pick you a place. That's your place to pray. This is your place. Is there any significance in that? Nothing except it'll build your faith. This is my place. And this is the other thing I feel led to do. I brought my television. Last Sunday, we two weeks ago today, we prayed for Vanessa right there. God has brought her through that surgery. God has heard our prayer. So I'm I'm I'm making this, I'm making a proclamation this morning. If you come on any Sunday, I feel the Lord. If you come on any Sunday and you have a special need, a special need, I want you to go stand where that Bible is. That's our place. Any significance in that place? Nothing except it's a place where we're gonna go, where God is gonna hear our prayer. I believe it was on the prayer that we pray over that. She would have I thought that I thought that I remember thank you for I thought that same thing. I mean, God judgment wrong, God, and praying for that. What if a catastrophe of some kind hit you this week or your family, and you were torn all to pieces? Would you come stand right there? Yes, you would. Yes, you would. But if we do that and we have that as a spot where we pray for people, now we're gonna still have Sunday school. We're gonna teach the word. Because if our prayers are based on the word, if we don't have the word of God to pray, then then we're we're praying wrong. But we have to pray the word of God back to him. And that's why I put the Bible down there. But if we have a place where there's a certain need, and Pam, in just a minute, I want you to come. You may think to pray for a little boy's fingers being cut off is not big. It is to that grandmother and to that granddaddy. So in just a minute, Pam Mike, gonna stand right there, and we're gonna pray that that that uh Harper will be okay, and God will take care of this. You know who it's gonna touch? Not just Harper, but his mom and daddy. And and his aunt, his uncle. We don't know. God's far-reaching when he does miracles. But I want to ask you this morning. Jesus himself had a certain place he went to pray, and I'll just remind you of this scripture. Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, Sit here while I go over there and pray. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. That's how he did when he began to pray. Then he said to them, My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch with me. And going a little further, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, My father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. You know what else happens when we pray? We get willing for God's will to be done in a situation. And that's how we have to pray, God, your will be done in this. You have a perfect will. So this morning, first of all, has God spoken anybody in here, something that you feel like would be pertinent to this class about corporate prayer, us praying together. Anybody this week God gave you something or you feel like you want to share about praying together. Or maybe a time when people came together and prayed a miracle that happened. We just heard one. What? Every single one of them. Started with prayer. Every single one of them. I've heard my mother say that so many times, I cannot count it. She would say, revival don't come till people pray. Do y'all want revival in yourself? In this church? Do we need it? Oh, yes, we do. I want that to be our prayer focus as we leave this morning. And this is what I want us to do. I want us to gather right there and pray for Harper. And then I want you to leave and go out. You can stay here. It can be up here on this stage, it can be out there. When we come together next Monday night to pray, not tomorrow night, but a week from tomorrow night at 6.30. We come together to pray. The first thing I want you to do, I want you to have your prayer request written down on a piece of paper and go stand in your spot. We're going to pray that God moves on all these needs. We may even sing that song. But then we're going to come together and pray corporately for one focus, one thing, for God to send revival to this church. And I want you to come with anticipation. Don't you come if you don't believe God's going to do it. Just stay home. But if you believe God's going to do it, if you believe God's going to do it, I want you to come. Yes, Ronnie. She has one daughter. And her daughter's not spoken to her for years and will not allow her to see her only grandbaby. And she's prayed until she doesn't know how to pray anymore. Do we care? I love that precious girl. I love Raima. She grew up in my youth group, and I don't know what has happened. Maybe lots of things have happened, but God can fix them. God can fix them. And that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. When we put Robin in the middle of the circle and we believe, and Robin, I want you to be here on that Monday night if you can. And we're going to put you in the circle and we're going to focus on that prayer. And we're going to believe God for that. But our real focus is going to be for revival. When we pray for revival, y'all things like that's going to start happening anyway. Do you understand? Anyone have a thought? Yes. It works. It works. Okay. So anybody else? Terry? Okay. Okay. We've got to go to church, so don't I we we can't we can't pray as long as I wish we could pray this morning. But we can call upon God and He will hear us. So we're going to have Mike and Pam come first and stand on the word and we're going to pray. Yes, Ron. CJ, I would never hear CJ. CJ don't worry, right? That's baseball. That's God. Hey Ron, that's God. CJ. You know what baseball meant to you, son. This boy was a star baseball player. Went to college on a baseball scholarship. CJ, would you just come right now and stand right here? Pam and Mike come stand with him. Just stand by the Bible. Y'all don't have to step on it. Y'all get to stand by it. And after we pray for them, I want um the next thing we'll do is I want anybody in here who had breast cancer that you would stand in for Amanda. Okay, we, Jamie, we'll put you there for because of your mom. We'll pray for Amanda. And then I want you to go just go stand for a minute any spot in this church that's your place where you're going to believe God. That's your spot. And then go to church. Is that okay? Let's pray. Come on, everybody.