Celebrating Unity and Transformation: The Evolution of Prayer in UChurch

Ever experienced that powerful shift when a community comes together in prayer? Well, get ready to dive into something truly special. In our latest message, we're taking you on a captivating journey through the history and growth of our prayer and intercession journey, from humble beginnings in the early '90s to the global outreach we see today.

Join us as we share personal stories and pivotal moments that highlight the beauty of silence, the wisdom passed down through generations, and the incredible impact of communal prayer.

We're also shining a light on the amazing healing and revelations that have unfolded within UChurch. From jaw-dropping tales of recovery to moments of divine intervention, these stories remind us of the profound role that group prayer plays in our church family.

And hey, we're not shying away from the challenges either. We talk about integrating principles like 'Restoring the Foundations' and the importance of making sure everyone's voice is heard and valued in our collective journey.

So, consider this your personal invitation to join us. Whether you're leading a home group or simply craving a deeper connection to Holy Spirit, this message is packed with encouragement. Let's celebrate our collective faith in action and look ahead to the vibrant future that awaits us as a unified community in the Kingdom. Don't miss out! Tune in now!

Episode Transcript

Jodie Cardoza (00:00):
The way that I want to begin is well, first of
all, a question over the pastfive years, let's say I'm
shaking too much.
I love it.
So how many have been to a timewhere you gather to pray for a
specific thing at someone'shouse, where there's this sense

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of you know whether it'sintercession or called prayer,
but it's a gathering where youcome to hear something that God
is saying or you come to prayfor someone, that kind of thing,
and when you arrive, you kindof sit down and you gather and
everything that's said.
Sometimes you ask a history,how did this start happening?
What's going on?
And you get a bit of the storyand then you maybe spend some

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time to listen and you start topray.
And so I would just invite younow into a moment like that
where we're going to share a bitof history, but it's not just a
four-year information kind ofhistory, although maybe it'll be
informative but to listenbecause we want to.
We're doing something together,right, intercession or prayer,
when we step into it together,it does something beyond.

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Just you know, inform us, oryou know God will answer a
prayer, but there's somethingthat in stepping into something,
it actually shifts theatmosphere.
So that doesn't make sense toyou at this point in time.
That's totally fine.
This will begin to unfold inour midst.
Like Grant was saying, we're inthis place where the Kingdom is
here, and we're just discoveringit in new and delightful ways,

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and so I just invite you in tohear the story.
First, we want to lead out byjust sharing a bit of the
history of prayer andintercession in you church.
The reason for that is where wewant to go is to hear God
together about what this lookslike as a community in this new

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territory that we're in in theKingdom, and it'll be really
interesting.
As I took some time to just jotthis all down in preparation
for today, I was like, wow, it'sreally neat how God's built.
Just like when we're young, youcan only learn so much, like
you can't get the whole thing on.
What is repentance orforgiveness?
It's very basic with young onessay your story, say your story,

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you know that kind of thing.
But as you grow, there'ssomething in the heart that
needs to exist alongside thatrepentance that you are starting
to draw out.
And so I think, just as acommunity we have been, and the
body of Christ as a whole, ofcourse, but we're just going to
focus on you, church.
It's been on this journey ofmaturing and growing, and so I
just want to share that with youso that when we kind of get to

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just what we sensed is a realkey for us of stepping in
together, we'll all be on thesame page, right?
And so just to preface this allI think Brent mentioned it, but
there's Donna Jen and I hadbeen just praying over this Like
, what does intercession andprayer look like, and what is
the season, what is he revealing?

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And so we got together a numberof times and we ended up talking
to a lot of different people orjust picked up in conversations
with each of you, just what isGod actually doing.
And so this time together isreally it's not the result of,
because it's just one step ofmany as we go, because as you
look at the history, you kind ofgo, oh wow, that was a

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significant moment, but it wasreally just part of a bigger
narrative that God was layingout.
So I'm going to start back todon't worry it won't take too
long, but I do want to, just soyou can hear.
I'm going back to the 90s ofthe 1900s and 90s, and so I was

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really young yes, I was ateenager, and so I just I'm
going to start at that beginningand I'm going to call this
phase the beginnings and I'lljust share what was going on at
that time as it pertains toprayer.
Back in that time I rememberthat I so wish Catherine was
here.
I don't know if her car was,whatever ended up happening, but

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you'll hear her name throughoutthis weaving.
She is such a gift to thiscommunity as a watchman, as
someone who has just held prayerin her heart.
But back in the early 90s Iremember coming and she had this
giant book and it was theprayer book, and what it was is
it would sit at the back of anykind of gathering and you could

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write down your prayer requestin it, and so people would, and
then she would take that bookhome and, whether she or she
would gather, a couple of otherpeople who were the prayer team
would pray over the things inthere, and that was kind of the
first thing that I recall asbeing a significant, you know,
just like beyond, just yeah, wesay grace or yeah, we open in
prayer at the beginning of themeeting, but she really had this

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heart to pray over thecommunity and the family and
pray for needs.
We also at that time had youknow, in the gatherings we would
pray and that sort of thing,and that was it at the very
beginning that I recall, as weheaded into like the late 90s
and early 2000s, there was asurgeon, there's a lot of
students that began coming tothe campus and then at that

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season there was also a numberof people who felt called into
full time, to be a full timemissionary to the University of
Calgary.
Carl, chauvin were some ofthose Tash at the time Me, who
else?
Bruce, lenore, rowena, john.
So this is that era of where wewere all like we had no idea

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what we're doing but we wereraising support and going out
there on campus for the Lord.
And this is a time of growth inprayer, not only just people
but in prayer.
And so I remember, carl, youbeing at the middle of some of
the leading these prayer things.
There was also an internationalfocus and so our prayer focus
went from just our community tothe nations.

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We started praying over nationsand praying over Canada and
praying over campuses, and soour scope expanded significantly
and I recall some prayermeetings where we would pack out
houses where you honestlythought the floor might cave in
and we would just be praying anda lot of the praying was like
yelling in tongues.
A lot of it was like prayingjust loud and groups, and I

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remember just like you can'teven hear what the person across
from me was praying becausethere's just so much.
And then you'd like we all cometogether and like try to report
on it and it was just likemayhem, but awesome.
But also what is happening?
We also had in that time in ourculture what was called this was
just in, as we were young andsome of the structures we were

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given were super helpful to likelearn and grow, and one of them
was the hour of power.
So this was where you wereencouraged like your first
morning or first waking hourwould be with the Lord.
And so I remember, like 6 am or7, whatever time you had to
wake up, you minus an hour andyou wake up then and then you
like try to focus on the wordsin your Bible and you pray and

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you spend time with the Lord.
And as wonky as that was and asstructured as it was, don't
worry, we've prayed through allof the negative impacts of that.
The positive is that this wasestablishing that this is
important, like no matter whatyou do it.
If you're going cross-eyed,falling asleep, I woke up so
many times with highlighter onmy pillow and a line across my

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forehead, but I was there inspirit for the hour of power.
Also at that time on campusthere were some key things Carl
again was central to that, aswell as Grandpa John Brant of
just bringing prayer to like acorporate sense of prayer to the
clubs, the Christian clubs oncampus, and so there was just

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this growing sense of theimportance of prayer and the
breadth of it, heading intoprobably 2005, 6, 7, I don't
know exactly.
It's just kind of the order andI'm giving you general dates.
You can correct me, yell it outif you think it's important.
But there was a time when Iremember Catherine started

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forming like strategic prayer,like these little groups that
would be like well, we'll prayfor what we feel like God's
doing, and as a watchman, shewas the one who would see ahead
and she would.
She gathered some people topray.
It was wonderful but alsoreally hard for those because we
didn't understand some of theother more elements like how to
do that in a safe way.

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You know, if you start railingagainst the demonic or something
like that and you don't haveauthority in these places, you
know it can cause issues.
And so it was like a.
It was tough.
They didn't necessarily feellike they made a lot of progress
, but there was something inthat gathering again that God
was like teaching us and we wereleaning into that.

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I remember we had priest serviceprayer at the time and
Catherine one time well, on afew occasions would try to get
us to like we'd gather and she'slike everybody don't say
anything for one minute.
And do you think we could do it?
Someone inevitably, would likehave a scripture and have to.
Like it was so hard to listenand be quiet.
This is when that becameevident.
Like we were so used tostepping in discerning what we

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thought God was saying, likecome and prepare, and we would
just go for it and pray what wethought his will was, and so he
was starting to lean into going.
Actually, have you checked withme?
That that's the thing.
And so I remember that and howawkward it was in a corporate
environment to be quiet with theLord.
So this next phase was, I'm justcalling it.

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There's a deepening revelationor a deepening of prayer into
our mix.
And so this is when, the seasonwhen Ante-Olive was with us and
she and Grandpa John, we hadhad this richness of generations
like being poured in and what agift we had.
I know that for you and Jen,like Ante-Olive was just like

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what you needed in a place wherethere was, like all these young
people running amuck and, likeyou know, like just how this all
running amuck in a very godly,non-chaotic, biblical way.
But she was such a gift and sheactually, I remember she had a
few visions and I was, and shewould say, I see an angel or I

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see a big thing snake goingthrough.
And that was my first while Iknew about the prophetic and I'd
had prophetic words, someonewho was a seer, who's like
literally seeing this, I'm like,so you like, you actually see
this.
And so we began to grow in ourunderstanding of like the gifts,
and in a different way thanwhat we had originally taught,

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which a prophetic would be aprophetic word that you got
versus these other elements thatactually help you see and
discern the atmosphere.
So in that season, I think thatwas one of the things that was
happening is this broadening of,of.
Oh, like God's actually notjust talk to us in here, but
he's like there's stuff going onout there that some are gifted

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to see and then we get todiscern together Like, what does
that mean?
And you have to start asking,because now these are issues
beyond your understanding.
Naturally you can't just golook that up in the Bible and
say what does it mean when bigangel shows up?
And so that was one of thethings, and she really had a
heart to see some key thingslike prayer established in our

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context and at the same time,just as a sidebar, which I think
is really interesting is Godhad us going through a deep dive
into restoring the foundations,which was learning about the
interhealing and learning aboutthe four ways that our hearts
can get blocked and not receivefrom the Lord all the revelation

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and this understanding of whowe are.
And so in this, people wouldactually say are we an RTF
church, and you know the acronymstarted flying around and and,
but nonetheless it was such aprofound time.
So that understanding of thefour doors, of, of, how, like
trauma actually affects you,generational curses and
blessings like these, these arethings that just became

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generally known, and if youdon't know what those things are
, that's okay.
You could probably look aroundand, and you know well, over
half of the people would knowthat because God released this
into our culture as a family andso that, I think, really
affected, that was an importantkey for us to understand,
stepping into the next phasesand so In I don't know if it was

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2011, 2012, some, or like thatAnte-Olive wound up having a
stroke and so it was 20,.
Okay, so it was before then.
Okay, I just yeah the video, Iguess, anyways, so 28, nine,
somewhere in this realm.
She wound up having a strokeand I remember this Sunday we

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were all called together to pray.
By the way, our church at thattime was also very good at like
something's happening.
We would get into small groupsin the big Amphitheater, like
the theater at the university,and we would like on the awkward
stairs and form groups aroundchairs, and a few people fell
over and not slain in the spirit, like literally tripped on the
stairs, it was.

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But we would like gather, andso we were really good at these
moments of like gathering.
I remember I was really sick, Ihad the H1N1, I was pregnant
and I, just like, that morning,everyone gathered and prayed and
I literally was like healedthat day, you know, and there
was an impact.
But what happened with AuntOlive is she was well into her

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90s, 96, I believe, at this time, and a stroke is nothing you
bounce back from quickly,generally in the natural.
And so we gathered together topray for her that morning and
she, like long story short,asked Brandt about this story.
It's quite cool.
But she walked out of thehospital like the day after, and
the day after we prayed likeshe's, like I'm good, I'm out,

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and they're like what are youdoing?
And so, and in that she hadsaid that she believed that that
all happened because God hadsomething that we needed to
learn about prayer that wedidn't know and we thought like
we kind of knew, like we lookedwhat happened there, you know,
and that we were just in thatculture of praying and groups

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together.
But there was more, becauseright after that, I remember in
2000, I think 13, early in theyear, someone named Dennis
Wedrick came and it was aconnection through Bruce I
believe Bruce Martin, for thoseof you who know they'd met at
some conference and somehow heended up coming and he was
talking on the birthrights ofnations and I just wanna find my

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notes here because this is cool.
And so at that time he sharedthis thing about birthrights and
I remember just being like thisis so cool, like, again, this
expansion of like that God wouldactually put something unique
in a nation and in a person orin you know, like it just blew
my mind.
But he said at the end of thathe said so I honor the

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intercessors in this house.
I honor the part of this bodythat deals with the offenses and
the disappointments and theaccusations, the part that oils
the wheels and keeps the toxicstuff from building up so that
this can be actually a healthychurch that the unsaved can come
in and feel the presence of Godand recognize something is
happening here.
You know that something ishappening here.

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You're a healthy church and I'mthrilled that you're here.
And I was like intercessorCatherine's used that word
before.
She might be an intercessor,but I don't know what that is,
but I remember him using theword and I just kind of like
merged it in my lack ofunderstanding into prayer and
cool, he's, prayer's going on.

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That's kind of what I recallthinking A year or so later.
I don't know again the exactconnections, but I know Brent
and Jen were chatting with himabout some stuff that was going
on in our community.
I think it was around that timethat he actually moved to
Calgary and he began to say hegave us this word, this amazing

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word, that we can share it withyou.
But it just talked about where,like the future direction of
you church and some of thesethings were beginning to see and
others wondering how on earththat will ever happen.
But there's something in itthat really sat.
But he said you must prepare,you have to dig down deep for a
foundation, you have to have thepower lines.

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It was just all this propheticpicture.
But saying you are nowhere nearthe intercession and prayer
that's required for what Godwants to unfold in your midst is
the gist of it.
And so we're like all righttime to learn.
And so at that time heintroduced us to Marlon, who
many of you know.
He came in and he said well,I'll help you establish

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intercession, but the very firstthing that's absolutely key is
the lead pastors have toactually cover this and
participate, and they areshowing up at every meeting kind
of thing where in many churchesthere's a prayer ministry kind
of out there that's developed.
It's not, it's connected tolike they kind of report to the
pastors.
But both Dennis and Marlon saidno, like you guys have to go,

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all in which they did, and we'reso thankful because it opened
up this journey of learning on anew level.
So in 2015-ish, I remember Jen,who has this amazing gift to
establish things and activatethings and make a way, and so,
like this intercession, youcan't just suddenly go from not

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really understanding how tolisten corporately, how to do
all of this, to like, oh, it'sestablished like what does that
path look like?
And so at that time, the patterngiven was that each of the team
leads would now like because wehad at that time in New Church
like a worship team and kidsministry and hospitality.

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We had all of these teams andthe starting point was each of
those need to start followingthe pattern that we were given,
which would be I'll share thatin a second but it was kind of
structured so if you are a partof a team, you are invited into
learning intercession, and westarted using the word
intercession to delineate fromwhat we knew, but that was

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actually, in and of itself, partof some of the issues that we
had later on, becauseintercession became this word
that now it suddenly sounds likeit's something very special and
specialized and unique and ifyou don't know, if you're not an
intercessor, you can'tparticipate.
But really what we werelearning is how to corporately
listen.
Back to that comment, I saidwell, catherine tried to let us

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make us be quiet for a while,and we couldn't do it.
This was now like next level.
Marlon actually laid out apattern that he had learned from
Dennis and of actually we allget in the room together and you
share, like okay, we're gonnalisten for whatever context you
church or for the worship orkids or whatever and then you

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would like literally be quietfor 10 to 15 minutes.
Not that that equatesintercession, now I think we
know, but sometimes you justneed like the stopwatch to help
your heart like settle intosomething, and so we had these
for a couple of years.
That was the nature.
So we followed this pattern oflistening and then sharing what
God revealed and then discerningtogether what that looked like

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and what that meant, and thatbecame to be.
That style became known asintercession, whereas
intercession is actually justthe word.
It means to stand in the gapbetween.
So we learned some tools fordoing that, but listening prayer
was, like, I think, the numberone thing that we learned and
then what to do with it.
And then, once you discern thatGod's saying, hey, participate

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with me in the kingdom, and nowwe'll actually shift the
atmosphere, make changes, orwe'll pray into something to
actually see, because you're nowpraying from his heart and he's
revealed what the issue is.
And so now you pray a littledifferently than we would have
back 10, 15 years ago, where youcome to the prayer meeting,
obviously God's saying this andyou just go at it and you pray.

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How delightful to have donethat, honestly.
But it's a better way whenyou're aligned to what he's
saying, right?
And so we had a few years ofthat where we developed the
system of being able to reportback and actually begin to hear
what God was saying in all ofthese areas.
And then I recall, and we alsolearned how to repent and

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actually clean up the past.
So when and this kind of tiesback to that lesson from
restoring the foundations how doyou be free from something that
happens in the past, that washurt, like that was harmful to
you is.
Often you'll go back to thatplace and forgive or repent of
your pardon, forgive the peoplewho hurt you, and then God

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actually has an amazing way,outside of time and space, of
undoing the impact of that,where you can actually say that
season doesn't necessarily causepain in the present any longer.
You can actually see it asalmost as a gift that formed who
you are and deepened yourrelationship with him, and when
you can have that perspective,he's healing the past.

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And so we actually did thatcorporately.
Over all of the thing, westarted repenting and forgiving
and praying for everything,right back from the beginning of
the of you church and againfollowing some of the that,
restoring the foundations, likelooking at the generation, who
where did we come out of as afamily?
Like we went there, like we hadwe just and we.

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When I say we, that's not justlike me, brent and Jen, or like
there would be different groupsof people and so we is just a.
It needs to be a broader termbecause it was different people
at different times, depending onwhat their pardon, the
experience was, or if itaffected them, or just God would

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just reveal names because webegan listening Now almost there
.
So there's this maturing.
That's happened where, in 2018,2019, I remember, we were in a
room like just a packed outliving room at your house, with
all the team leads, and we werelistening and suddenly we were

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like, I think it just felt likethe repentance was done and we
were listening and not reallygetting any sense to go back,
because there was a lot that Godwas wanting to do in our midst.
He actually revealed no,there's a maturity coming where
this can now look different thestructures that had been

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established to build something.
We saw a scaffolding that theywere meant to come down and it
was meant to be released into abroader group in a broader way,
and not we didn't have to followthe exact pattern that we'd
been given, where you listen For15 minutes or 20 or whatever,
and then you share and etc.
So we felt a freedom to flow init a little bit more In that

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time.
It was around the time when2020, when suddenly we couldn't
gather corporately, etc.
But what started happening wasintercession was going on every
night of the week, sometime insome ways in places where people
in homes would say man, I'mgoing through something really
tough.
Can you gather and pray andlet's listen to hear what God is
saying.
So that is a beautiful thingthat came from the time.

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There was also some strategicprayer.
Yeah, it was all on Zoom orsneak meetings and living rooms,
but it was something that well,I mean, this went beyond.
This wasn't just for that year,but the sense of like wow, this
has now infiltrated our culturea little bit more.
Now some I know felt thatperhaps left out of that because

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they weren't called into allthe ongoing intercession that
was happening, which is part ofthe growing pains of the process
, which we actually want toaddress very shortly.
Just some of the things thathappen as you're growing and as
God is revealing.
You're not necessarily greatabout communicating or ensuring
people aren't left out.
There's stuff that happenedwith all of the good.

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That was also maybe hard forsome because it's like what is
this intercession?
Like I mentioned earlier, ifI'm not part of that, maybe am I
actually praying?
It might have brought somequestions in that season, but
more on that in a second.
So, basically, over the lastcouple of months well, since

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last year's summer for sure, webegan sensing well, and it's
been said continuously thatwe're stepping into new
territory, that there's a shiftgoing on the body of Christ and,
of course, in you church.
So what does that look like forintercession and prayer?
Because we were feeling againthat sense of the patterns that
we had.
We would have a weekly meeting,that sorry, not weekly monthly

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intercession time where everyonewas invited but it was like the
same people that we're showing.
Then we started hearing like oh, I didn't know I could be
included or whatever.
So we're like I think somethingneeds to shift because it's
natural, like, as you've seen,prayer and intercession has
shifted and changed all throughthe years.
You grow and then God's likeand here's a new thing, you're

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ready now to build on therevelation.
So this is where we're at nowand I want to invite Donna up
just to share a little bit aboutwhat's been going on in this.
The last, I don't know probablyfive, six months or so, and
then we'll go from there.

Donna Chyz (25:34):
Okay, yeah, we've been praying that today would be
led by him, and this verse justcame up to me and I'm going to
share it Ephesians 4, versethree to six be faithful to

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guard the sweet harmony of theHoly Spirit among you in the
bonds of peace, being one bodyand one spirit, as you were all
called into the same glorioushope of divine destiny.
For the Lord God is one, and soare we, for we share in one

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faith, one baptism and onefather, and he is the perfect
father who leads us all, worksthrough us all and lives in us
all.
So I just felt to start thereand, yeah, I think, starting

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back in September, we just feltto pray about where we were
going and Jen, jody and I wouldmeet and we would pray, and we'd
pray on our own and we'd getpictures.
I've got a half a book ofthings that he downloaded to me,
so I'm going to try and make itvery short, but the one thing

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that I kept hearing was I wantyou to grow in prayer.
And then, a month later, righthere, I want you all to grow in
prayer.
So it was just very subtle, butjust bringing us all together
and I'd say to Jen and Jody,like how is this sitting with
you?
Because that's what I'm getting?

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And I just felt that what wehad been doing on Zoom was very
precious.
So it was down to just a few ofus towards the end, but it was
precious.
But there seemed to be life notflowing as much as it was and he

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just was bringing to us that.
Don't think of it as a badthing.
I want you to honor the pastand you can't step into the new
if you don't have a past.
You have to come from the past.
And there was.
He was calling us to just lookat our past and honor it and

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then he would do the rest.
And I heard him say come andI'll reveal my heart to you.
And then again there'd be acouple of months later come to
me, I want to reveal my heartfor all of you.
So there was always.
It started out with me and itwould end with all of you.

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So we would just keep prayingand meeting and I had this
picture of him wanting to revealto us something together.
And I said to Jody and Jen Idon't know what this is and I'll
share the picture right awaybut then we were praying and we

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started getting a bunch of namesand like, yeah, I can look
around this room and there was alot of names we were given and
we just thought what are thesenames for?
And we just sensed that theywere a part of a puzzle or we
are a part of the body and we'renot going to figure this out

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the three of us because we'resort of some intercession team.
That's not what it was, but wewere just listening and wanting
to hear what he was saying andwe got names and we either met
in person I phoned I don't knowhow many people and Jen and Jody
did the same and we just sensedthat there was a lot of things

(29:34):
being shared.
Some things were like, yeah,that was good, but I feel like
we need to go somewhere else.
There was hurt.
I felt left out.
I felt that I wasn't heard.
There were things about hey,I'm already doing prayer.
There were so many thingsshared.

(29:54):
So we got together a couple moretimes and just prayed about
what people said to us and askedFather about what does this all
mean?
And the more I prayed, I gotthis picture that I was telling
you about and there waschampagne, there was cream puffs
.
And we were all in this roomaround these beautiful tables

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that were set, and I heard himsay it's a reveal party and I
thought what the heck is thatLike?
I've never been to a babyreveal party.
But I think it must have beensomething like that, because
behind a curtain he wanted toreveal something to us, but it
wasn't for just a few people, itwas for everybody.

(30:44):
And I just feel so stronglythat he put in my spirit that no
one is to be left behind.
This isn't for just some people, this isn't for adults, this is

(31:06):
for kids, this is for everybody.
So we just kept praying moreinto it and he just said I want
you to grow in prayerindividually and corporately.
And he said come and I'llreveal my heart to you all, but

(31:29):
I want you to come in unity andtrust.
So before I even go on about alittle bit more, I'm just
sensing that some of the thingsshared were about hurt and I

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feel like this is a time wherewe can say that if there was
anything done by any one of us,we only did what we thought was
the best at the time and wereally, truly want to say we're
sorry if anybody was hurt orleft out, that they felt left

(32:17):
out, because that was never ourintention.
So we just I think publicly andwholeheartedly want to say
we're sorry because that wasnever an intention by anybody
doing corporate prayer,intercession whatever, because

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he calls each one of us toprayer and we're a body.
So we are sorry.
And then I would get morepictures, and the last picture
that I got was we were kind oflike in a semi-circle and we had

(33:05):
our arms around each other.
Some people had their armsaround backs, some people had
arms around shoulders, but wewere all together and we were
being called.
Because he said he's going toshow us the way he's going to
reveal this task, but he'scalling us to come together
because we're one body.

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So I believe we can step intothis together.
And you can tell the StephenHill books were out over
Consecration Week, because Ihave a quote from one of his
books and he says the Father hasno problem with us

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experimenting.
He loves to see it.
So we are experimenting withthis.
So I'm going to give this backto Jody.

Jodie Cardoza (33:58):
So good Donna.

Jackie (33:59):
Thank you.

Jodie Cardoza (34:05):
One of the things that we learned as an important
key in intercession and, like Isaid at the beginning, it's
like we've been all invitedtogether to establish something
in the spirit and this is whatDonna shared this sense of like
prayers for all and then just agrace that we can step into that
in the new territory and as wemove forward from this point

(34:29):
where it's just part ofeverything and we have all the
resources we need, if we need tolearn something, it's there.
You don't feel like I'm cluedout and I just you know, I guess
it's not for me Like thosethings are all a thing of the
past.
However, one of the importantkeys that we've learned is that,
as Donna just said before, youlike a repentance on behalf of

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us to say sorry where you didfeel left out or anything that
was sort of felt off in it,where you didn't feel equipped
or included, etc.
So that's the forgiveness.
And to give sorry again orintimidated by even the term
intercession, you know wherethat would.
You know that's not for me, andso where we created that

(35:11):
atmosphere, we want to repent.
But the other thing that'simportant in intercession is
then to say for you to be ableto release that.
Or let's just take a momentwhere you know, okay, it's not
like we just launched arepentance over the fence and
like, okay, we're good, we'removing on.
But let's just give a moment,because where we want to go from
here is that if you can forgiveor if there's anything else,

(35:33):
just we'll let the Lord revealit and then, once that's cleaned
up, if you will, then there'sthis element of celebrating the
past and stepping into the newtogether.
Right, that's what Donna saidand that's what we're
representing where we can comeon behalf of the family and say
this is how it's going to bemoving forward, because God has

(35:54):
led this and so we want to dothat.
So let's just take a couple ofminutes and reflect on your own
journey in this release whateverneeds to bring up before the
Lord, and then maybe one of youwill like sense to pray
something in terms of the justexpressing forgiveness, and then

(36:17):
we'll see what happens thereafter that, all right, so let's
just take a minute Father, wethank you for what has been
shared, and right now, reveal toyour kids, your people, what's
on your heart in this moment.

(36:37):
All right, I know that was quickand if some of you need more
time.
You can actually, if there'ssomething really brewing,
continue to listen and pray.
You don't have to tune into meright now, but yeah, I just so
in giving that space.
Does anyone have, like, I justhave one or two people.
If anyone is like, what did Godshow you in that in that moment

(37:00):
, you can come and share if youwant.
I won't belabor it for long,but if somebody does, it would
be great to hear from you.
Okay, so basically, from thispoint of releasing and forgiving
assuming that's what wouldhappen if not, please hands up
and let us know, because anotherthing we learned as we go

(37:21):
through this corporately is youlike, you literally need to make
space to hear what's going onfor everyone and so you know for
you.
If you're like, all I heard wasthe kids having so much fun and
you didn't get to focus on it,that's okay.
That's why we're a communityand a family.
You know We'll tune in atdifferent times and moments, but
yeah, and so from this point,we just wanted to together say

(37:44):
the past is the past and wecelebrate.
Can I say this yet, or doesanyone have a check that they
need to come up?
You want to make the space Goin once.
All right, come on up.
I felt like there was something.

Sandy (38:06):
I think when we were just taking a minute there.
I am profoundly grateful tobelong to a church family where
there is such an enormous amountof kindness and humility and
grace and I am so grateful toyou guys that have gone before
us in intercession and whateverthat has looked like, whatever

(38:29):
that has felt like to some of us, or how that's morphed and
emerged and evolved over theyears.
And to hear the story again ofyou church and to have you break
it down to really tell thestory of specifically prayer in
this house has been so humblingto think that you guys not only

(38:54):
plowed the field for us but nowyou're asking our forgiveness
for not doing it right and forthe things that you missed.
And I just want to tell you howgrateful I am and I'm sure I'm
not alone and I was excited whenI read in our email somebody

(39:16):
who ever wrote the email for usthis past week they said that we
declare 2024 to be a year ofprayer.
And that just resounds in myheart because in that
consecration week the thing thatthe Lord was saying to me or
not saying to me, the thing thatmy heart was saying to the Lord
, was Father, teach me how topray.
Jesus, teach me how to pray,and even though I'm on this

(39:41):
journey of actually learning howto pray, even after all these
years, I really need to learnhow to pray corporately with you
guys, and so I'm looking to youto teach me.
Thank you, guys.
We love you.
Oh, one more.
All right, the Kiles are as one.

Dave (40:16):
So I've been busy analytically over there.
Yeah, it's a new word.
I made it up it's a verbversion of analyzing, because
that's what I do and I've got alittle background to this.
Donaphone was I don't know howmany months ago and was talking
about intercession, and as wewere talking on the phone, I

(40:40):
said to myself what the heck isintercession?
Actually, I've been around thechurch for 40 years.
What is it?
So I went to my little AppleBible and typed in a search for
intercession and one of thetranslations I have no idea what
, and about eight of them cameup and as I looked through, in
every case it was somebody movedwith compassion, emotion, their
heart to pray for someone else.

(41:02):
That's it.
That's really, really simple.
And as you're recounting thisjourney, I'm sitting here
watching a picture painted ofhow this comes about.
Like he stepped you through andI feel like the last step has
been Father Heart, where we havebeen moving towards connecting

(41:24):
with God so that the love that'splaced in us falls out of us.
James said it gets to the pointwhere God's love actually falls
out of you and half the time youdon't even know it.
That was a really significantthing.
And then I'm looking upsomething that I just lost here.
Oh, come on, see, that's whathappens when you drop your phone

(41:48):
too many times.
And there we go.
Second Corinthians this, to me,closed the gap.
Meanwhile, moved by theextravagance of God in your
lives, they'll respond bypraying for you in passionate

(42:09):
intercession.
The one doesn't come withoutthe other.
The first part is moved by theextravagance of God.
So this isn't something we drumup ourselves, and I think we
have all been in that placebefore, where we're trying to
drum up within our hearts whatwe think we should be like and
it just is death.
And so this closes up.

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Moved by the extravagance ofGod, they'll respond by praying
for you in passionateintercession, and I feel like
he's been stepping you guysthrough for years because he's
not in a rush, and now we'removed into connection with our
Father, who fills us with ourlove, and this will just flow
out of us.
This is amazing and you guyshave put in the footwork of all

(42:52):
of those years.
So thank you.
And then I get to come in atthe end with one little verse,
and here's my contribution tothe cause.
But thank you so much.

Jodie Cardoza (43:05):
That's so good.
So just one second here, that'sawesome.
So where I would?
You can tell where you want tostep in or not here, jen.

(43:26):
But what I sense to do next issay, like I began before Dave
came up, which was awesome.
I think the definition ofintercession will begin to
unfold and I'm glad you broughtup that journey of sonship,
because the perspective fromwhich we pray had to shift.
We're not like these people onearth, kind of looking up to
heaven trying to get God to doour will.

(43:47):
He's actually bringing us tothe place of being seated with
him, seeing from his perspectiveas he reveals, and then our
prayer becomes more strategic.
Our intercession, whatever.
Dennis Weedrick spoke on 21different kinds of prayer and I
was like, oh my gosh, I'll neverlearn them all, only to
discover I actually do them all.
They just named, they just gotnamed, you know, like it's one

(44:09):
of these things.
But he's going to reveal thismore and more in our midst.
Can we together just maybe take?
Well, first of all, what wewant to do is declare that that
past season, for all of its likeI think you guys just did that
saying for all of its foiblesalong the way, and that kind of
thing, that it was good.
It brought us to the revelationthat we're at now.

(44:29):
It brought us to this phasewhere we can now step in
together into prayer and when wesay 2024 is a year, declare
that to be a year of prayer.
It does not mean the same thingas it would have back 24 years
ago at all.
Right, there was elements of it, but it's a fuller picture now,
and so, together, we want tostep into that place and declare

(44:51):
the past is the past and pullwith us to.
This is me praying and, ifyou're agreeing, this is
intercession.
This is us declaring togetherthat there's a shift happening
and we're all part of it.
And so, father, we thank youthat the past is the past and we
pull into the present and intothe future all of the beautiful
blessings that you instilled,that you deposited in us as a

(45:13):
family throughout those seasons.
We thank you for the revelation, the growing revelation, that
you brought us to this point,and we expect so much more to
come that you will reveal moreas we step in, as we now, as a
community, make space to hearyour voice together.
This will also affect how wehear you in our own personal

(45:33):
time and we just thank you thatyou have now created a
foundation for exponentialgrowth and revelation that you
just as we're in your presenceyou will reveal so much more.
And so we thank you and we'rejust grateful and declare that
we are grateful for all thosewho went before us, all of the
people who deposited things inour hearts, for all of the
journeys.

(45:53):
We thank you for Brent and Jen,for opening the door and all
along the way, but especially inthat 2015 time, to say yes, we
are all in.
We want to learn what this lookslike and to make space for it
in the community to grow, and sowe, together and maybe just
stand up for a moment we want todeclare.

(46:14):
Are we ready to declare or doyou have something to share?
Yeah, what do we declare?
Yeah, so together, can we agree?
Can we declare together?
So declaration is sayingsomething that God has given us
to say and we establish it.
We establish it through ourwords.
Words have power.
Right Words actually establishthings, and so when we speak the

(46:36):
words that are in God's heartand he's done the work to clear
out the past to whatever degree,now there may be more, god will
take care of that, but together, as a family, we declare that
2024 is a year of prayer.
We're going to go, yeah.

Donna Chyz (46:53):
And I just really feel strongly, too, that all
those pictures that I wasgetting and the words that we
were getting, he is going toreveal to each one of us.
We're not going to tell youwhat to do.
He is going to reveal to us,but remember to step into what
he's revealing to you.
Okay.

Katie (47:14):
I missed the moment because the kiles came up, but I
did want to encourage you guysthat, yeah, just repenting on
behalf, like that really didresonate with me because it was
interesting hearing Jody talkand, having been a part of you
church for so many years, I washaving, I was laughing with Matt
, I was having memories of likewhen I was a kid, witnessing

(47:35):
some of those things and thenbeing a part of some of them in
different capacities.
But I do think there wassomething that God needed to do
in my heart and hopefully otherstoo, probably for people that
aren't maybe physically herethis morning.
But and then when Donna said,like everyone's included, I know

(47:58):
like I'm caring that for myself, but for my kids, you know like
, and all the kids that are partof this community, the ones
that aren't here, but thisexcitement of what's this going
to look like for their littlehearts and their little spirits
and to understand prayer andstart to understand at that age.
Anyway, that is something that,when we took that moment, was

(48:22):
coming up for me.
And then the picture God gaveme which I hope this is an
encouragement because it was forme Just I felt someone said, oh
, and Brent and Jen opened thedoor and it's funny because I
got the picture.
I heard like a door click behindme, kind of like not just me,
but after what we did today thatwe're stepping in, we're in,

(48:44):
we're included, we're all a partof this.
Like some of us were standingoutside of the building or the
room, whatever it was, but we'vestepped in and the door is not
a scary way where you're stuck,but it's shut behind you, it's
closed behind you and you're apart of it and you're always
supposed to be, and in somecapacity you still were, but

(49:07):
no-transcript.
And when you're a part of thefamily, like there's no, you can
just fully be yourself and be apart and participate.

Donna Chyz (49:15):
So anyway, I'm sorry , I totally missed the boat
earlier but I just sense thatthere's some people who still
maybe want to share something,so I'm just gonna do okay.

Jackie (49:31):
Okay, I think Doug and I and he's not here, he's not the
robot we've been intercedingfor decades and I think we're
just fatigued and I'm veryencouraged that there is like
outcome, and I think we're justfatigued from having to do it's

(49:55):
such an intensive type ofintercession we did in the 80s
and then in the 90s and now wefeel free that we can do.
You know, from such goodteaching, you know stepping out,
coming to intercession, leavingyour stuff behind.
You know doing that, repentingit really is effective.

(50:18):
But I think we just need torepent that we've kind of
fatigued and not participated tothis point and I think our
fatigue was from not seeing anyfruit at the end of our time
interceding.
And I think we're reallyencouraged that there's
champagne and not that we needto do that specifically, but

(50:43):
just that we can then celebratethe fruit of our intercession
time.

Jodie Cardoza (50:49):
So wonderful.
Yeah, oh, okay.
So I'm just going to let youknow like it's.
Obviously we've gone over andwe have kiddos to pick up or
whatever, but also we want tohear from you in this moment.
So if you need to go, just slipout quietly.
If we'll keep it here for acouple more people to share

(51:12):
briefly.

Christine (51:18):
Yeah, yeah, thank you guys for doing that this
morning and just yeah, it wasreally beautiful.
I just felt in that too.
I don't like I'm just feelingemotional this morning for
whatever reason, but I think inthat, like I was feeling like
there was going to be this bigthing that I needed to let out.
But God just, and I just wantto share this too because I feel

(51:41):
like it might encourage othersas well.
So that's why I'm sharing.
But I feel like it was justlike a little thing to let go of
, and let go of the past andmaybe any hurts that were in my
heart too about feeling left outand just I don't know, like
that we're a family and I couldhear the kids playing and that

(52:03):
might have been a distractionfor some, but I just felt like
it was like, okay, we get toenter in and play now and like
this is just yeah, it was justvery encouraging to me.
So I wanted to share that tohopefully encourage others as
well, that like we all get toenter in and play now.
And yeah, I want to enter intothat too.

Jodie Cardoza (52:25):
Thanks, Christine .

Jenna (52:28):
I will try to be brief.
I prayed with Donna probably Iguess it was in November, when
she was just asking, I guess, topray about intercession, and
right away I just really sensedthat the kids are so significant
to this.
And you know, you keep hearinglike it's the next generation
that's going to unlock the newthing and it's just so powerful.

(52:50):
And I grew up in a church thatwas so small where you felt
insignificant.
But you kids aren'tinsignificant, you're very
significant and you hear and seethings in the spirit that we,
that you teach us in ways thatwe don't even know.
A while ago my daughter's nothere, but she had just heard
from God like something abouttwo paths and there was a better

(53:10):
path.
And I was like Freya, that'sactually in the Bible and she
was like what?
And it's amazing, these kidsare getting revelation but they
need space to be seen and to beheard.
And it's not that we haven'tdone that, but it's in a way we
haven't.
It's looked differently, right,and not because we didn't want
to, we just didn't know.
But I really sense God ismoving us into a place where we

(53:33):
are going to be inviting thekids, not on a different level
but on the same level, becausewe're all sons and daughters.
At the Consecration Week wehosted the end of the night, and
I just want to share a quickpicture because I feel like this
is where we're going.
So I saw this picture of.
It was adults, kind of.
There was a massive wall andadults were like climbing, kind

(53:55):
of like they do in the circusright, one on top of the other
to make a ladder, and then I sawa person climbing that ladder
and then, when I looked closer,I realized it was a child, and
it was the child that was letdown on the other side of the
wall that opened the gate, andso, when that gate was open, we
were all able to enter into thisnew era, this promised land,
this place of freedom, and sothe revelation that it got was

(54:19):
that it was two-fold.
You know, it says in the Biblein order to enter the kingdom of
heaven, you need to be like achild.
So it was one that we are meantto have the posture, the heart
of a child, but also thesignificance of it's the
children that are going to beleading the way as well, and so
I just have this sense to startbringing the kids.

(54:39):
Oh, and then I heard God sayshake things up, try something
new.
Kids sharing their hearts inchurch in intercession, matthew
1914.
And then this morning I justhappened to be reading in
Timothy, where he says don't letanyone look down on you because
you're young.
And so just to remind us, thesekids are carrying revelation

(55:03):
and it's up to us, because weare the parents, to give them
space and a place to be seen andheard.
And I, lastly, will finish withthis We've been soaking with
our kids for years, since Ifirst learned about what soaking
was, and it's been cool to hearwhat they've gotten over the
years and to try and teach them,when I feel like I'm still
learning all of this as well.

(55:26):
But I know Rob's a Big MarkBurglar fan.
This is a great book.
There's one for adults, butthis is also a teen edition.
I am reading it with all of mykids.
So, though we've been soakingfor years, this is also giving
practical tools, and so what Iwas just hearing this morning is
bringing back practical toolsfor all of us, because what is

(55:48):
intercession?
What does that look like forthe kids and the adults?
So, anyways, that's it.
And just to say I just honoryou guys.
From where my faith started towhere it is now is just because
of the vulnerability.
You guys have all walked in tohear from God and do a new thing
and even when it's hard, evenwhen our church has flexed, it's

(56:14):
amazing because this is thefoundation.
I really feel like this is astrong foundation that he's
building on.
That's awesome.

Jodie Cardoza (56:23):
Alright, let's do a little dance up here, shiva,
okay, and then after.

Siobhan (56:34):
I'll just be real quick .
But I, just as I was sittingthere, I just felt just the Lord
saying that there's many of youthat maybe haven't been
involved in corporate prayer butyou've been praying and he's
seeing you and those prayers areso valid and I just felt like,
yeah, I just felt Him sayinglike I see you, I saw you, I

(56:56):
heard your prayers.
Those were a beautiful incense,those shifted things.
So don't stop, because I gotthat scripture.
And when you pray, don't belike the hypocrites, because
they love to pray, standing inthe synagogues, on the street
corners to be seen by men and Itell you the truth, they've
received their award.
But when you pray, go in yourroom, close the door and pray to

(57:17):
your Father, who's unseen.
And so I just sensed the weighton that.
You know, I know God's bringingus into more of a corporate and
hearing the history of thecorporate and it's powerful.
But the hidden place of theprayers of the saints is really
what's shifting the atmosphere.
Whether you're seen or unseen,God sees.

Jodie Cardoza (57:39):
Oh, so great, All right.
So I know some of you may havemore to share and I don't know
how like write it down.
We'll send out an email withany joint things or joint
thoughts.
We would love to capture thosethings, but I just want to
summarize now.
I think it's so cool.

(58:00):
I wanted to share just some ofthe key things that we do know
that God has revealed, and Ithink everyone who came up
touched on one of them.
So one is corporate, isimportant, but so is the secret
place.
We know that God is going to bebirthing or growing both of
those things and that's reallyimportant.
The other thing is theimportance of teaching.

(58:21):
We know that in many ways thatthis needs to be taught and we
need to actually bring it to theforefront and talk about it and
help us to grow and maturethrough teaching.
We know that it's generational,so I love that.
We know that the kids, all theway to the oldest, need to be

(58:41):
involved together in ways andwhether it's like in every
single meeting or there'scertain times for kids and other
but just that all generationshave a part to play in this and
that there's more that we haveto learn about like this.
You know they're just words,but intercession and prayer and
listening together, and so Iguess it's kind of tied to
teaching, but all of thesethings are what God's revealed.

(59:02):
And then the last point is thathe's going to give things to
you to do, and they don't haveto be corporate, put on the
UChurch website, thoughobviously that's practical if
you need the help to do it, butit's more just like let's see
how this unfolds and sharewhat's in your heart, because
connections can be made.
We're not going to just start abunch of initiatives that are

(59:23):
like the corporate UChurchinitiatives.
They all come from all of ushearing this and stepping in.
So what we're going to do nowis the last part of what we
always do in these meetingstogether, and that is just close
it.
And well, just join me together,because this is also an
important thing that we'velearned through the years, when
we gather together to pray.

(59:44):
So, father, we thank you forwhat you have done in this time
and in this space that you setaside, as when we opened up, we
just sensed that we werestepping into a place to do
business with you, and so wethank you that what you have
established in the Spirit willremain, and that anything that
is not of you, that it can justfall to the ground.
But we thank you, father, thatthe seeds that have been planted

(01:00:07):
would grow to fruition.
The things that you are goingto bring forth out of this will
come to fruition.
We also now just pray overevery person here and everything
associated to their name.
We just bind down anyretaliation, anything that would
come against because of thetime of prayer and intercession
today.
We thank you, father, that weare hidden under your wing.

(01:00:28):
Your word says that, that weare hidden in a safe place when
we come to do business with you,and so we thank you for today.
We thank you for what you'veestablished.
We thank you for every personhere, amen.

Donna Chyz (01:00:41):
But I know he's put some things on Jen's heart and
she's gonna share those with you.
But remember to step into whathe's revealing to you, Okay.

Jennifer Reding (01:00:53):
I totally, and I was gonna say that, donna, but
I do.
That was really a specialmoment, like what Jodi led us
into.
Just there's a solemnly about.
I Think there's something aboutthe power we learned about the
power of the prayer, ofagreement and declarations, and
I think in my heart, as we weresaying, 2024 is the year of

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prayer, it's also we want to seeprayer grow and an increase in
our community and with eachother is.
Are we in agreement with thatas well?
Like, I mean, obviously 20 yearwithout means that, but just
breaking it down, that we wantto be involved and see it grow
in each one of us and each oneof us with each other.

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And you know, this has been sobeautiful listening to Jodi and
Donna and I think they've saidmost of it.
I had of some practical thingsbecause I got to pray with them
maybe four times this fall andthen into the new year.
And you know, because the Bibleis isn't a teaching, but the
Bible does say Colossians 4, todevote yourselves to prayer.
And and in First Timothy 2asays, therefore, I want a holy

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man everywhere to lift up handsin prayer, without disputing it.
Says later in Colossians 4, 12that epiphras.
I don't know who he is, buthe's always wrestling for you in
prayer, like how much do we dothat for each other?
I know we do.
I'm not trying to speak a goodnaming word, but it's like the
importance.
The Bible is peppered Withexhortations and encouragement

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that there needs to be lots ofprayer and pray continually,
right first, thessalonians 5 17pray continually, and that it's
easy and that we're all to do it.
And I think that's just thepoint that I was wanting to
emphasize but it's already beensaid is that I think prayer has
to get out there, everyone allthe time, in different ways, not

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just our monthly zoom callthing.
That was what we actually feltand it was, I'll be honest.
But don't have got the picturein September that it was done.
I struggled initially that theonce a month zoom prayer was
because there was beautiful,precious times, presence, but
yet you could see how God's handwasn't on it any longer because

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we were down to maybe fourpeople or three people and so.
But the sense is that prayerneeds to happen everywhere, lots
of ways, what.
Lots of different places.
And In some ways I'm not sayingyou have to do anything by any
means.
This is what God be, what Godputs on your heart, but that
everyone involved, not just fora few who you might view as

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elite intercession Sessors.
And how can I do that right?
So this isn't a teaching onprayer.
I've had these scriptures cometo me over this fall, so I hope
I'll get to do a teaching onprayer and intercession in the
different at some time.
But we need prayer.
And then I I even heard BillJohnson say about a week ago,
like you can think, I don't knowhow to pray, the Holy Spirit

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teaches us.
We all have Holy Spirit.
Romans 8, 26 we don't know howto pray, he teaches us.
So it's really simple.
And the word that was coming tome and it also came to
Catherine Williams when I talkedwith her on the phone for about
an hour Was grassroots.
I was getting that off,grassroots level and to me this
means Like again, like I said,not just for elite few who gonna

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commit to want some, buteveryone in some way, whether
it's an hour zoom call once amonth or it's Praying more in
your home groups, making sureprayers incorporated into your
home groups or a prayer meetingat night.
But After Donna shared thereveal and I, you know, like I
said, I had to just like getwitness from Holy Spirit.

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Yeah, we got a drop what wewere doing, because there's new.
Then, all of a sudden, fatherstarted populating me with ideas
.
And you know he's in us, we'rein him, but it wasn't like I was
in deep prayer and gettingthese ideas.
But you know he's in us,weren't him?
So as I prayed, it's like Ibore witness.
So I'm not saying that any ofyou have to do any of these

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things, as Donna said, but theseare just things that came to me
as different ways we could getprayer out there more and be
more involved in prayer.
One hour a week, zoom calls.
Maybe you're a business persondowntown, but you could devote a
lunch hour.
Doesn't even matter if youdon't work downtown, you can
still devote a lunch hour.

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And I had this thought you know, instead of one some months,
three hours of prayer.
If we had this is just athought, not saying this is
gonna happen or I know but if wehad four different people
initiate that one hour a weekthere's four weeks in a month if

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four different people at leastin issue, we'd have four hours
of prayer for each other and thechurch and whatever our
neighbors going on in a month.
So just an idea moms with youngkids Meeting in living rooms
while your kids are playing ifthey're preschoolers, you know,
or not even preschoolers, I know.
Our previous pastor and I didthat for a whole year on a

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Wednesday, but our kids were allreally compatible.
We would pray.
You could meet on a playgroundand pray.
I was looking and thinking Ijust added this the junior hire
and the teenagers like thisisn't just for us grown-ups like
there's so many of you with aheart for God that can initiate

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a one-hour prayer time with yourfriends and and maybe that's
over zoom too, you know, ormaybe it's your parents have to
drive you to get together.
I don't know, but there's somany ways.
Imperson prayer meetings in ahome in an evening.
I Mean we're just, I'm justthinking like groups of four or
five, it doesn't matter thenumber, right?

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Pre-service prayer this we usedto have this when Catherine
Williams led it, and Lance hasbeen sharing with me how he
really notices when he wants tolead us and the anointing on him
and lead us into presence.
He would really appreciate thatwe meet, be, have beforehand
and pray, so, and then there'sanother one there.

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The two things that came to mymind were the one-hour zoom
prayer, one hour a week,different people, initially
those.
But the other thing was the24-7 prayer.
Have you heard about that?
So let's see if I can explainit.
If there's 24 hours in a dayand there's seven days in a week
, so you have a sign-up shoot,and our church did this for a

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period of time.
Brandt, how long was it?
Six months, we did it.
And you sign up to take aone-hour time slot.
Now, I know that could sound alittle overwhelming.
What do I pray for for an hour?
But you do.
You take a night and one away,maybe after your kids go to bed.
Some people took the middle ofthe night, during the day.
If you're not working and If wehad enough people, which I

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don't think we will right now,but it still would be very
significant.
You have so much prayer for ourchurch, for our communities,
going on in a week.
So just an idea, and I'm justgonna say the topics, like.
We won't dictate, but Of courseit's like for each other, of
course it's for needs, it's forOur community, our community of

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faith, our leaders.
It says to pray for yourleaders in our community.
I know I feel ill-silly, that'sme, but you know, for a
co-worker, for a neighbor, youhave a heart for that, doesn't
know the Lord, a family memberand I mean these were not gonna
dictate, of course, but there'sthe whole gamut.
But I even had this thoughtwouldn't it be neat if just in

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this one hour time you coveredthose three areas?
Wow, what a blessing.
So I'm gonna say, because Ipresent, have felt to present
this, I'm been praying aboutthis all fall.
I can't say these things andnot ask all what I'm to do.
So I am actually feeling quitestrongly led to start a one-hour

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zoom call once a month over anoon hour Right now.
I think it'll be the secondThursday of the month and so I
love people to join, but I'dalso love you know I realize
that you may not be ready to sayI'm gonna commit to this right
now, but I'm hoping that throughthis time this morning, as

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we've shared, that your heartshave been stirred.
I can tell your hearts havebeen stirred, but stirred to
start saying what's my part orhow am I involved?
And I get it like you, maybeyou're already running leading a
home group Just to be.
Maybe it's already happeningthat you're gonna incorporate
prayers part of it.
So that's about it.

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I do want to say I am a teachertype who breaks Difficult things
.
Oh, I just wanted to give onepractical.
Do you want to share Mm-hmm, usme, yeah, or Jody or Donna?
I Wanted.

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That kind of relates to what Iwas gonna say.
I don't expect people to knownecessarily today, but I have
sign-up sheets at the back andthat is only so that you don't
just we end and you just forget.
But I made all kinds of thingslike I like to initiate a group.
I'd like to start an eveningprayer group.
I'd like to be part of one.
I'm interested in this 24-7thing and we're not saying we're

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gonna start it, but I Wouldreally appreciate if you could,
yes, visit and pray for eachother, but go look at those and
just See what the Lord has foryou.
I have one more thing to say andI thank you so much for sharing
that this is like Gotta comefrom us, and that was
confirmation and answer toTara's question.

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I did want to just share, likeyou don't have to tell us that
you're initiating a prayer, likewe just want this to happen,
but in some ways it would bebeautiful if so we would know.
That would encourage us.
Okay, hey, you know it wouldencourage us who have felt this,
but it would also allow us tolet others know.

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So Do you understand what I'msaying?
We're not telling you what todo.
We're not saying you have totell us, but it's just beautiful
if you do.
In some ways, cuz isencouragement that people can
get directed to those groups aswell.