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0:20 All right, day four. 0:22 Uh in our study in the book of Philippians, we're in chapter one, verse three. 0:25 Paul says this: I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making my prayer with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 0:40 This type of prayer that Paul is talking about here is called the prayer of intercession. 0:44 Intercession just simply means to pray for other people. 0:48 So let me ask you this, man. 0:50 Who are you praying for? 0:54 Are you praying for people or are you praying about people? 0:56 Do you know the difference? 0:58 You see, praying about people is that you're praying to God and you're mentioning their name, but what you're actually mentioning is that God would change those people so they would be more likable to you. 1:09 Who are you praying for? 1:11 Let me ask you this. 1:11 This might be even more important. 1:13 Who do you have praying for you? 1:16 As you know, one of the drums that Kyle and I beat over and over and over is you need men in your life, you need Mac Carriers, you need men at the King's table, you need Foxhole Brothers. 1:26 And one of the reasons that you need them is because you need some people praying for you. 1:30 Who is actually praying for you right now? 1:34 And one of my favorite places to go here is when Jesus goes to the Garden of Gethsemane on the night that he was to be arrested. 1:40 He goes before his father. 1:42 Gethsemane means the place of crushing. 1:44 He feels the weight of the sin of the world on his shoulders. 1:48 He goes before his father and he says, Father, if there be any other way, let this cup pass from me. 1:54 The cup that he's talking about is the crucifixion. 1:57 The cup represented the full wrath of God that had been stored up against sin and sinners by a just and holy God. 2:04 He says, Father, if there be any other way, let this cup pass from me, yet not my will, but your will be done. 2:11 And in those moments, as he's sweating drops of blood because he is praying with such intensity, he goes, Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, goes and gets Peter, James, and John and says, Boys, will you come with me a little farther and watch and pray? 2:26 So if Jesus Christ needed somebody to pray for him, then who in the heck do you think you are to think that you can make this life without having people pray for you? 2:36 So let me ask you, seriously, how's your personal, private prayer life? 2:41 And if you say it's lacking, then be honest. 2:45 Is that why your spiritual development is so stale? 2:48 I mean, maybe you are disciplined to listen to sermons and even read your Bible, but if you are not spending serious personal time in prayer, then you are missing out on your relationship with Jesus. 3:00 One of the things that you're going to see bleed through the book of Philippians is Paul's serious and intense prayer life. 3:07 And one of the things to notice is that Paul does not spend all of his time just praying for himself. 3:14 One of the questions I like to ask at 1122 is this what if God said yes to all of your prayer requests from last week? 3:22 How would the world be any different? 3:24 I mean, are you praying big, bold, audacious, earth-shaking kind of prayers? 3:30 Or do you just simply pray weak, wrote, memorized prayers? 3:35 Do you just thank him for the day and pray that your food will nourish your body and pray that your team wins and all the lights turn green? 3:42 I mean, if God said yes to all of your prayers last week, would your friends' marriages still be on the rocks? 3:49 Would your friends' prodigals still be running away? 3:53 Would your friends be cured of cancer? 3:55 Would there still be starving children around the world? 3:58 Would there still be war and famine? 4:01 I mean, what are we actually praying about? 4:04 Because the Bible has this unbelievable invitation. 4:08 James, the brother of Jesus in James 4.8, says, Draw near to me and I will draw near to you. 4:14 Do you understand that because of the cross and resurrection of Jesus, because of the blood of Jesus, you and I are invited like children into the king's chambers to make our requests known to him. 4:25 When Jesus pushed up on his nail-pierced feet and he says, It is finished, an earthquake cracks right through the middle of Jerusalem, right through the middle of the Holy of Holies, and it separates, it tears the curtain, it separated the people of God from the presence of God from the top to the bottom as a holy invitation 4:41 for God's children to come before him and make our request known to him. 4:46 The Apostle Peter will say it this way: Cast all your cares upon me because I care for you. 4:52 So, men, let me ask you, who are you praying for? 4:56 And if you don't know who to pray for, pray for me. 4:58 Pray for Kyle. 5:00 Pray for your family. 5:02 I mean, pray for them with such intensity, with such fervency. 5:07 Pray like everything depends on it because it does. 5:12 And Paul says, I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making my prayer with joy. 5:20 Men, we may we be the kind of men that pray for one another. 5:24 Amen.