In John 17, I'm not going to read the whole prayer, but Jesus is giving His intercessory prayer for those that have believed on Him and all those that ever will believe on Him. And it's a really good prayer and we'll make mention of it later as well. But if we look at verse 9, I'll just read the one verse that says, I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me. for they are thine. And let's go ahead and pray. Then you can be seated. Dear Lord, Heavenly Father, I thank You for this time that we have to gather and worship You and look into Your Word. I pray, Heavenly Father, that Your will be done in this hour and help us to learn from Your Word, have our hearts open. I pray that You'd speak to each heart that's present, dear Lord, and just have Your will accomplished. And I pray this in Jesus' name, Amen. Please be seated. I pray not for the world, I pray for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. So the title of the message is praying for your people. Hopefully you can see that I've never really given a PowerPoint presentation before. Well, it's been a really long time. So hopefully this will help you follow along. If not, don't worry. I won't be giving another one for quite a while, I'm sure. All right. But let's look at this. And just by way of introduction, it's always good to get an explanation and definition of what we're talking about. So here's the definition. It is to act or interpose on behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble as by pleading or petition. It's to attempt to reconcile differences between two people or groups or to mediate. But the key word here that I want us to look at, not the examples, I don't know how to go back. All right. Here's where we are. The key word that I want us to look at though is in behalf, which is different to really get to understand what it means to intercede on somebody's behalf as well. I've often heard it, but you're really interceding in their behalf, which is different because when you do something on someone's behalf, you're really acting as that person's agent. So for instance, When I was younger, we have a smaller church now than the one I was in when I was younger, and we would always give the hand of church fellowship. And every several months, we'd do it the way we do it here, where everyone comes around and shakes the hands of the new member. But after someone was baptized, every time someone was baptized, we didn't do that. We would have somebody, usually a deacon. I remember there was Brother Sonny. Brother Wright, and it was usually one of those two, would come and give the Hand of Church Fellowship on behalf of the church. They were acting as an agent, and Brother Wright would shake the person's hand and say, on behalf of the church, I want to welcome you to our fellowship. And he'd say a few other nice words welcoming them to the fellowship of the church. But to do something in behalf of somebody, you're really doing that out of compassion for them or for their benefit. So that's the difference there between in behalf and on behalf. Somebody when we intercede for somebody, we're often often interceding because they're not in a position to ask for the request themselves. And we're going to we're going to see that a little more here in just a moment. So that's the that's the definition. Now, if we look back at the we look at some examples, because in our text, we have our Savior praying for for the joy and sanctification. and the unity of those who will believe on him. But, you know, furthermore, if we want to look at more examples, really everybody or anyone who's ever going to be anybody in the in the kingdom of heaven, I believe is somebody that has practiced intercessory prayer. Matthew chapter 10 tells us that If you're going to be great in God's kingdom, you're going to have to be the servant of all. You don't exercise lordship over each other to be great in God's kingdom. To be great in God's kingdom, you're going to be the servant of everyone. And I think what better way to serve, certainly involved in that, is interceding in behalf of others. Those people that God has put into your life. If we think about it, Abraham pleaded for Sodom and Gomorrah. He pleaded for those cities. And he did it in behalf of the righteous people that were there, but also for the city. He said, are you going to destroy that city? What if there's 50 righteous people there? And he interceded for that city. Certainly, he is somebody that's going to be someone in the kingdom of heaven. We also have Moses interceding for the children of Israel. He was up on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments and some of the other laws. down below off the mountain the children of Israel were making a golden calf they were they were doing all kinds of committing all kinds of terrible sins and and really just denying the God that brought him out of Egypt and God was going to destroy him but he Moses interceded in their behalf they were not in a position to they weren't in a position to ask God to please spare our lives. But Moses was in a position where he could do that. God spared the children of Israel not because of them asking for their own sakes. It was because of Moses asking. Actually pleading with the Lord, giving Him all kinds of reasons like, you brought us out of Egypt. You don't want the Egyptians to think that you brought us out just to destroy us. He actually mentioned in different words point to God. And God answered his prayer. He didn't destroy the children of Israel. He didn't start all over with a new nation with Moses. Look at Paul. And if you turn to Romans chapter one, verse nine, I can just read it to you. But we see this kind of language often in his epistles where he says, For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. So the Apostle Paul was an interceder. He was somebody that interceded for God's people. Think about Stephen. He interceded, prayed for those that were stoning him. The Apostle Paul was actually there at the time, not as the Apostle Paul, but as Saul. And God answered his prayer. But Stephen was interceding for those people that were killing him for the gospel's sake. And then just one other example, the early church. When Peter was in prison, he was about ready to have his head taken off. Herod had already taken off the head of James. No, John. I believe it was John. No, James. James. Thank you. It was about ready to happen to Peter, but the church was interceding for Peter. They had met in the house. In Acts 12, it says, Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when that prayer was made, God answered that prayer. of the war. The angel came and loosed him and took him out of the prison. And it says that when he came out, it says he came to the house where many were gathered together praying. So those folks were interceding for God. So there's some examples of people that have interceded. We're expected to intercede. God expects us to intercede for for people, the people that he's put in our circle. Actually, he expects us to intercede for everyone. We'll look at that, but we're focusing on those tonight, those that God has really put in our circle of influence, those whose lives we come in contact with on a regular basis. Given in the context of being a successful spiritual soldier and having a successful spiritual warfare, The Apostle Paul writes to Timothy and says, I exhort thee, therefore, that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men. So that's the exhortation that was given in the model prayer, I think this was brought up just recently in the model prayer. When when Jesus says this is how you need to pray, he always says, Pray that we, he says, give us this day our daily bread. So four times the words us is mentioned. We're told he prays, tells us to pray, give us this day our daily bread, tells us to pray, forgive us of our sins and deaths as we forgive our debtors. We're told to pray that he would lead us not into temptation. So lead us and deliver us from evil. So in all these ways, we're admonished. to intercede. And God, I just believe God expects us to be interceding people, people that pray intercessory prayers. So looking back at our text, I pray for them, pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. I ask this question, who has God given you? Who has God placed in your life? And I ask this question myself, who has God given to me? And I think of several people right now that really aren't they're not really open to the gospel message. But that doesn't matter because I can pray for them. And God can work all of that out. He can make them open. So it's my responsibility to pray for them. So as we continue on, I'll get this figured out. Get a little bit ahead of myself. Sorry. Who can we pray for? Well, number one, Let's think about this. Who has God put into your life? Many of you have children. A lot of you don't. But everyone in this church, God has put children into your life in some aspect or another just by virtue of the fact that there's children in this church. There's another generation of church members coming up. As Brother Jed said, our future choir the other night was singing to us. So, as we think about your posterity, your children, I have a good example of this in my life about some people that have prayed and have a testimony of praying that all their descendants would come to know the Lord, and that's my grandparents, brother and sister Gibson. Let's turn to Job 1. Job 1. And we'll just look at verse 5. Everyone here is familiar with the story of the account of Job. God's telling us about his life, telling us about his testimony, what what he did before Satan attacked him. In verse five, it says, And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent. And that's the feasting of his children. Let's go back to verse four. And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job. continually. So why did he do that? Because of the danger, because of the risk that there was with his kids. What was the risk? Well, it's that their hearts might not be right with God. That's a pretty serious position to be in for anybody, and I don't think anyone in here would ever want your children to be in a position where they're out of the will of God. When you're out of the will of God, oftentimes really, really bad things can happen. You're not in God's will. Maybe He removes His protecting hand, His providing hand. He chastises you. That chastisement doesn't seem joyous at all when you're going through it. So, because of the risk, because of the danger, Job interceded for his children. I think this is a little different than my notes here, just because I put together a different time. Why else? Pray for your prosperity because it's your duty. And I think Job understood that and he did it continually. He was faithful in his duty. Psalm 127 tells us that children are an inheritance of the Lord. We need to exercise good stewardship over the children that God has given us faithful and praying and interceding for them. And then also because we're really dependent upon the Lord in that same psalm, that same chapter, the Bible tells us that Except the Lord build a house, they labor in vain that build it. So that's another good reason to really be faithful and praying for your children. For any children that you think you might want to have an influence on. I'm really thankful for the people in this church and for the young people that want to be a good influence on those that are even younger than them. They make a point to try to do that and they pay attention to them. That's good. Don't ever forget that if you really want to have an impact on someone's life, the best thing you can do above all is to intercede in their behalf for God. Because you don't know. We don't know. Job said it may be that they've cursed God in their hearts or that they've sinned. And I don't know what kind of sin they may be into. I don't know what's going on in their heart. And that's where the battle really is. It's in the mind and in the heart. So we need to intercede for our young people, for the children. Here's one. Sorry, I'm getting behind here. We need to pray for our persecutors. We need to pray for our persecutors. 2 Timothy 3 tells us that all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. We're going to suffer some persecution at some point in our lives for righteousness sake if we're living righteously. So we need to be prepared for that. I think, you know, sometimes I think, wow, there's not a lot of persecution. Then I get a reminder, well, there is. It's maybe not here. Maybe I'm not experiencing it. And then sometimes I say, well, maybe this is a little bit of persecution, a touch of it. But now I'm reminded about what Hebrews 12 says. You have not yet resisted unto blood. I really haven't experienced any serious persecution in my life. But I do know this, that the devil would like to destroy this church. He would like to destroy every Christian's testimony that's in this church. So we need to be prepared for persecution. And we need to pray for our persecutors. So if you'll turn to Matthew chapter 5, Matthew, chapter five, verse 43 and 44. Again, you know, these are very familiar scriptures. I just think the Lord's laid them on my heart for us to just be reminded of these things before we before we have our prayer meeting tonight. Matthew, chapter five, verse 43. The Bible says, You have heard that it has been said that thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." So we're commanded there to intercede for those, to put it mildly, that aren't treating us like they should, for those that are persecuting us. So why? Why are we told to pray for them? Well, if we look at verse 46, I'm sorry. Verse 45 says, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. That's why we need to pray for those who are persecuting us. I think our testimony on earth is really at stake. concerning how we're going to respond to those that would do wrong to us. So we need to pray for them to keep our hearts right and keep our testimony right. So, our testimony with who though? Let's think about this. The testimony with your persecutor. In the book of Acts, in chapter 16, verse 25, it says, At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them. Here they had been beaten, The Bible says the jailer put them fast in the stocks. I think it means he tightened them up, made sure they weren't getting out, and probably made him a little uncomfortable. Maybe enjoyed doing it. You know, enjoyed making him a little uncomfortable as he was putting their feet and hands fast in those stocks. And what did Paul and Silas do at midnight? They were praying and singing. And the prisoners heard them. That's what the Bible says. The prisoners heard them. And then we're led to believe that somebody else heard them too because There was a great earthquake, the chains fell off all the prisoners and the jailer, the person that had put them fast in the stocks was ready to kill himself because he was afraid that he had just not done his duty and if he didn't kill himself that his superiors would have him killed. So he figured he'd just take care of it and be done with it and not have to go through any more shame. Paul said, do thyself no harm, we're all here. In verse 29, it says, "...the jailer called for a light and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" So, had Paul and Silas not been praying and singing, who knows what would have happened to them. Certainly, certainly the jailer wouldn't have received that testimony from them. So the testimony of our persecutor, if we think about it, it might be that the only chance our persecutor, you know, a lot of times somebody that's going to be persecuting, that they're not good people anyway, so they probably are not going to have a witness other than the person that they're persecuting for righteousness sake. It might be their only chance. to experience the gospel message, to have somebody intercede for them. This is really important and we'll get to this later, but I read a book earlier in the year, taught a series of lessons from it to my Sunday school class, but no one's ever going to be saved that doesn't have anyone praying for them, that hasn't been prayed for. And I'd never really thought about it like that before, but I I don't know of anybody that's ever been saved that nobody prayed for them before they were saved. So that's really important when we think about the testimony that we'd have with those that would be persecuting us. Think about this, the testimony with our peers, those that are around us, those other prisoners, They heard the testimony, they heard the prayers, they understood what was going on. So when we're persecuted, the Bible says in Hebrews that we're surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses. I've often heard debate, and I don't think there's much debate on who the cloud of witnesses is, but those that have gone on before, but also those that are witnessing our lives here on this earth, our peers, those that see us and interact with us to see how we respond as children of God when somebody treats us wrongly, when we would be persecuted. And then also, I put this in here, our testimony just privately and within that, you know, when God just gives us grace and we're thankful and we can have that to look back on it to say, you know, God, I'm thankful for the way that you allowed me. You gave me grace to respond according to your will. Thank you for helping me to be obedient to your word. So our testimony is at stake. But if we look back at Matthew, Chapter 5, let's read verse 46 again. It says, For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? So. We've got our testimony with our persecutor and we've got our testimony on earth, but we also have our treasure in heaven, right? That's that's at stake, too. You know, when in verse 46 where it says, If you love them which love you, what reward have ye?" That leads me to believe that if you love those that don't love you, if you love those that really everyone else would consider unlovable, and if you love them to the point where you pray for them, if you love them that much that you intercede in their behalf for God, that you would have compassion on their state and bring their case to the Lord, not because of anything that they deserve, but because you're a child of God and you have access to his throne and you care for them. I think that that's something that will withstand the trial by fire. I think that's a work of gold and silver and precious stones. It's not a work of wood, hay and stubble. may know that you're praying, but God knows. And I think that there's going to be treasure in heaven when you intercede for your persecutors. If you've ever been done wrong, if somebody's treated you evilly, slandered you, it can be hard to do. But God will give you grace if you just try to follow His Word and live according to the Word of God. Here's somebody else that we can pray for. Need to pray for those that are in power. This is a real quick. I don't have a whole lot to point out here But first Timothy chapter 2 verse 1 going back to first Timothy again says We're exhorted that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving a thanks be made for all men but that says for Kings and for all that are in authority and that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." So when we think about praying for those that are in power, our elected officials, those that are rulers in this world, we need to pray for them in their behalf. And I'll tell you, when I think about some of the people that are ruling this world today, They're really not in a position to ask God for anything just because of anything that they've done. There are some wicked, evil people that are in positions of power. But we need to take their case towards God and pray for them, for their salvation. Pray that they'd leave us alone. That we'd be able to live quiet and peaceable lives. I think of children, you know, I think of your persecutors, your parents. Parents are not your persecutors, young people, but they are an authority over you. So you need to pray for them as well. Let's continue on. We need to pray also for our pastor. And if we look at Let's look at 2 Thessalonians 2. 2 Thessalonians 2, and there's multiple places in the Bible where we could see an exhortation to pray for our pastor, but 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 16. really exhort you to pray for him in chapter 3. But let's look at verse 16. It says, Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. So if we're going to be established by the Lord in every good word and work, the very next thing that's mentioned Paul writes, Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it is with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men, for all men have not faith. So we need to pray for the success of our pastor, pray for his ministry. And, you know, when we think about his ministry, it's not measured. The success of the ministry, according to this verse, isn't measured according to the size of the offering or the size of the attendance. But what it is measured by is how much free course does the Word of God have as it's going forth when he stands before us and brings the Word of God to us? Are there things that hinder it from getting into the heart? Are there things in you know, maybe a bad spirit or maybe somebody's not getting along with someone else or, you know, whatever it might be that's quenching the spirit and keeping the Word of God from having free course and getting to where it needs to do and being effectual. We want to make sure that we're interceding for our pastor and for You know, when we think about this for our missionaries, Sunday school teachers, children, pray for your parents. They're trying to teach you the Word of God. But especially for our pastor, we need to pray that the Word of God would have free course, that the Word of God would be glorified. And when that happens, souls will be saved and that's an aspect of the success of someone's ministry, certainly, but just that the Word of God would be effectual in the lives of the people he's ministering to. We need to pray also for his safety. The Bible says that where Paul has requested prayer that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith. Sometimes people will come into a church and they may appear to have faith and it turns out later on you find out, you know what, they didn't really have faith. And we need to pray for the situations that pastors find themselves in with people that, you know, members of the congregation at times. Because, you know, I like to think, I like to look around and say, yeah, all of us have faith but it may be that there's one here that doesn't. If that's the case, You've got people praying for you here and you need to get saved. But we need to pray for the pastor's deliverance. Deliverance from unreasonable and wicked men. And along these lines, why not go ahead and pray for these things? Let's pray that he'll have wisdom. and everything he has to deal with in life, but certainly wisdom in dealing with the members of the congregation, those that God's put in his care. And why not pray for this? Pray that his joy would be full. That's what Jesus prayed for, for his followers. It's certainly biblical for us to pray that for our pastor. And pray that he'd be encouraged in the work that God's given him. Pray that he'd be faithful to his calling. Pray that he'll have boldness to preach the Word of God. And I mention these things because it seems like there's so many things in the world, especially today, that can rob a minister of the Word of maybe their joy. There's serious situations that sometimes pastors have to deal with that can be discouraging. And I just finished a short series of lessons in my Sunday school class on the church of Laodicea. How would you like to be the pastor of the Laodicean church? That might be kind of discouraging. God didn't have anything good to say about the Laodicean church in Revelation chapter 3. But then, now nobody get upset with me. I'm not talking bad about our church. But if we are in the Laodicean age, then are we not the church of Laodicea? in a sense. Now, I'm not saying that God doesn't have anything to say about any good to say about any individuals in the Laodicean Church. And this is why I stressed our Sunday school class. And, you know, they took a survey. They agreed with me. Yeah, we're probably a Laodicean youth group in a sense. But here's the encouraging thing. And this is why I tried to stress with each person in my classes that When we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and as we go through this life, Lance isn't responsible. He's not accountable to God for the entire youth group. He's accountable to him. And Jesus said, behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, I'll come in and suffer with him and have fellowship with him, and he with me. So if we are in the Laodicean church age, personally believe that we are, then we're not bound by being a laodicean Christian. But here's the thing. It can be discouraging for pastors out there that are trying to be faithful. I've heard our pastor in the pulpit say it seems like preachers across the country kind of get worn out and beat down and sometimes give up. We don't want our pastor to be that way. We need to pray for him and intercede with God in his behalf that we keep him encouraged and keep his joyful, keep him filled with the spirit of God that he be faithful to the work that God's called him to. So let's continue on. We need to pray for our peers. And here I just have a quote from Spurgeon actually, he said, if he that hath done you ill, when you have taken that ill to the mercy feet and prayed over it, you must forgive. Surely you could not be such a hypocrite as to invoke blessings on his head before God and then come forth to curse him in your own soul. So, We need to pray for our friends, pray for those that, you know, just everyone that we come in contact with that may be an equal to us, we need to pray for them. And certainly, especially in the church, we need to pray for our peers. And I have to think about this. I don't want to sound too negative. I don't really have any bad thoughts towards anyone in the church. I hope you all believe me on that. And it's just the way it is. I don't really have any ill feelings toward anyone. But sometimes, you know, you look at your friends in this church, your friends in your family and, you know, people you come in contact with at work and they just have some pretty pitiful situations that they have to deal with in life. So we need to pray for them and intercede in their behalf for God and that causes sometimes I know that just in life, sometimes people get upset with someone else and they say, well, they're so proud, they're so obnoxious, it just, you know, kind of sickens my stomach to be around them. Like I said, that's not me. I've heard that before though. And what I would say is, you know, if you ever feel that way, you need to pray for your peers in that sense because When you take it to God, it might just be that you're the person that's got the pride, right? So if you take it to God and let Him deal with any differences, and He can work all that out. But intercede for these people, for your friends. Job prayed for his friends. His friends certainly were not in a position. God wasn't really... When you read the story of Job, God wasn't really pleased with his friends toward the end of the book. And Job prayed for his friends. He interceded on behalf of his friends. So, let's go to the last point here real quick. We need to pray for the perishing. All these Ps, I was thinking we need to pray for the physically ill, like Sister Andrea's sister, Connie. He's got some real health problems. Brother Pelicone. Others in our church that are mentioned often. We need to make sure we're continuing to intercede to God on their behalf. But we need to pray for the perishing. If we look at 1 Timothy 2 again. 1 Timothy 2. We were told to pray for those in power and authority over us. In verse 3 it says, For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. So we need to pray. See, this interceding prayer is mentioned also in the context of praying for the lost. We need to pray that they'll be saved. And I'm not going to You know, several men in the church have read a book. It's kind of been passed around. I don't know where it's at now or who has it, but I mentioned Praying for the Lost. I taught a series of Sunday school lessons to my Sunday school class from the material that was in that book. And, you know, it's really serious for us to pray for lost people. Here's why. I'll just give you the list real quick. that was presented and says because they're children of the devil. That's a pretty bad situation to be in, right? To be a child of the devil. When you pray, pray for them. But also because they're really not only children of the devil, you think about that, they're under the authority of Satan. And the Bible says that they're his property and his prisoners. You think about that. You know, somebody that's holding prisoners of war, they don't just but a prisoner loose just because they feel like it. There's nothing in Satan's being that wants to see any of his prisoners come to know the Lord. He's going to do everything he can to keep that from happening, so we need to pray for him. And because they're blinded to the Gospel, Satan's got them blinded, so we need to pray for them. But as such, we need to pray. And this sums up This sums up that material in like two minutes. But we need to pray for lost people to be sanctified. That God would set them apart for His salvation. When you think about a lost person being sanctified or set apart, what he just means by that is that everything that comes into their life, everything that comes into contact with them, would be something that would point them to Christ. That would help prepare them for salvation. or get them thinking about their need for salvation, or doing something to just bring them to the Lord. So pray that God will set them apart. We can also pray that God will bless the person. Why? Because it's the goodness of the Lord that brings men to repentance, right? So we need to pray that God will bless them. You say, well, bless them with what? When I think about that, I think, you know, they don't need to be blessed necessarily with more money. They don't need to be blessed with a better job than, you know, it might be. But what better to be blessed with than a tender heart, right? What better to be blessed with than a heart that's broken about their sin in their life? Something that'll get them ready to receive the salvation of God. So pray that God will bless them. Pray that God will convict them. You know, because if they're never convicted, they're not going to be saved. And we need to pray that they'll be illuminated, that this blindness that they're under, Satan's got them blinded. Pray that God will remove that blindness. Pray that God will help them see what Christ has done for them, that they could be saved. And we also need to pray finally, that they will be saved. And it's not that we're asking God to please change your mind and save them. We're praying that God will bring them to a place where they're conducive to asking the Lord to save them, where they're ready, where they'll believe and ask. So, with these thoughts in mind, we need to We need to be found faithful praying for those whom the Lord has given us. Those that the Lord has put in our circle. Those that we know. We need to be faithful in interceding for them. And finally, if you're here tonight and maybe you're not in a position to intercede on anyone's behalf because you're not a child of God. God's not going to listen. You're not in a position to ask God to do anything for you concerning anyone else at all. You've never been saved. Could be that there's a person like that and tonight you need to get that taken care of. Tonight you need to ask the Lord to save you. You've got people praying for you because I know that often it's a burden on my heart that, Lord, if there's anyone in this congregation that doesn't know you, bring them to you. And I'm not the only one that prays that. I hear that prayer often. You need to get that right tonight. Now, as we close the service, we're just going to go ahead and break up into our prayer groups. Does anyone have a prayer request that maybe you didn't get on a card or that you want to mention to the rest of the church before we