Mission Fest Alaska 2008 — George Verwer

Now I'm going to introduce our speaker. We're going to do it a little bit differently normally when I or somebody introduces the speaker. We have them come up immediately but with our Worship committee decided to do things a little different.

I'm going to introduce him and then we're going to have some praise and worship music for a little bit and then George is going to come up. Now George Verwer is a man. That's a lot of us don't know him very well some circles.

He's known very well. 53 years ago he went to a Billy Graham crusade in New York City and became a Christian 50 years. This year is the anniversary of operation mobilization an organization that he founded and he was the director for many many years.

He's I Kind of question he's not director because he travels constantly for our operation mobilization all over the world but He has turned the actual day by day operational over to a younger person this man Had a dream of Meeting Billy Graham personally you know I'm going to take a little bit of his thunder.

He's going to share some of that a little bit too, but I thought it was so interesting. He prayed for 53 years. That he could actually sit down one-to-one with Billy Graham the man that he became a Christian under ten days ago.

He had the opportunity to do that. He sat down with Billy Graham for 45 minutes. They prayed for each other and just shared with each other and Billy's 89 years old. His health is Failing but his mind is still very sharp, and it was just a really neat experience for for both of them.

Our committee works with some of the mission fest groups in Seattle and Portland and some of them are you know there have thousands of people Come. George has been very supportive of mission fest in Vancouver's gone many many times been featured speaker.

Which is the largest mission? Festival in the world. They had 30 ,000 people here recently come to their. I Got to attend the Portland one that had 190 workshops. They had I forget ten or twelve thousand people come and so his George's name came up as a suggestion.

I said well George is not going to come to Fairbanks, Alaska. But I made an invitation and he said I'd love to come and he's very supportive. Operation mobilization is a worldwide organization. They're in a hundred countries.

He told me that they figure they have personally one-on-one. Reached over 1 billion people through the 50 years. They have two ships online they have a third. It'll be online very soon that reaches ports all over the world ones in the Caribbean.

Right now and ones I forget where the other one is. But then they're soon to build a third ship is being remodeled right now. They give away books. He's going to talk about that tonight. They do a lot of neat things and George if you just stand where you're at and we give him a round of applause.

We just appreciate his willingness to come all the way from to to Alaska. He I've been corresponding with him for quite a while, and it's always interesting because one time. It's from Nigeria another time.

It's from England another time. He's off the coast of France. I never know when it where these emails are going to come from but we just appreciate you coming tonight. George and At the end of the music.

George will come up. Amen, thank you musicians.

Such a privilege to Be here with you in this great City. God bless you. Thank you for your prayers. I Have a strong assurance That God is working in our hearts. That God is making Fairbanks, Alaska and Antioch as we had in acts 13, which we'll look at in a moment and We thank God for all those that have already been sent out from Fairbanks and surrounding areas to Short-term and long-term missions.

Some have actually been on our ships. The OM operation mobilization mainly a European movement that then spread globally about 5 ,000 of us now on our staff Is not very well known but we thank the Lord for some who have known and some who have gone and we appreciate your prayers as We're in the midst of some really Giant steps especially in India where there's this huge response among the untouchables known as the Dalits with hundreds of thousands of them professing faith.

We want to give everybody and it's been great to be here most of the day. Some of you got to the seminars. But we would like everyone tonight to pick up at least one Free book when you go out there on the right.

You'll see a tremendous Book table and any of the books you see a lot of copies of you can take one free. We'd love to give you five or six free, but we don't have enough books. But we would like you to take at least one of those books free.

You'll meet mark my Helper there. He's from England. Some of you got to his seminar and Some of you have already seen his blog of me dog-mushing. Already getting emails from different parts of the world.

They've seen me for the first time in my life. Doing that and We just really would appreciate if as you leave you just slow down a bit and pick up one of the books aids in you. Is one of the free ones?

Randy Alcorn a great supporter of our ministry. Why pro-life. That's another one that's available free. My own book out of the comfort zone. Going on toward a quarter of a million copies that one's also free.

The other books and CDs DVDs are just available on a donation basis anything you can afford. I learned that from one of the most influential musicians in my life a man named Keith green who used to sell his His cassettes.

Now it would be CDs for whatever you could afford. I was with Keith shortly before his death which was an overwhelming experience for many of us and have the challenge of speaking in many of his memorial concerts where thousands made commitments to get involved in global missions both in America and in Europe.

Jesus' Compassion and the Great Harvest

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 8. I mean chapter 9 if you have your Bible if you don't that's okay. I'm reading from a new living translation. The man who gave us this Bible Ken Taylor was one of my closest friends.

It was a powerful experience to be at his funeral a couple years ago and Living Bible International merged with International Bible Society and this past year one of the companies that I started 50 years ago merged with the International Bible Society and God must have a great sense of humor in it all.

One of the things I hope you'll just take into your spiritual DNA into your heart and mind. Is that God wants to use each one of us? As God looks at this meeting and he can see the hairs on our head mine are disappearing fairly fast but He doesn't just look at a talented musician or an old missionary speaker.

He looks and knows each one of us and We would just presume that Those who are believers in Jesus really are experiencing God's love. Well, we've had a hundred and thirty thousand people on OM they come mainly when they're younger.

130 ,000. 50 of those young people needed some kind of counseling. 50 were dealing with emotional scars from childhood. We're dealing with many with a sense that God didn't love them and The counseling often wasn't major.

There were some major situations as well. Largely they needed to talk things through and pray things through and just realize God loved them. I Struggle with that as a young Christian and I just thank God for his word and for his promises.

I remember as a teenager. My big thing was mainly girls and Seeing this advertisement of a skinny guy like me with a beautiful girl on the beach some of your old people may have seen that ad and And He was with this nice-looking girl long came a big strong Good-looking guy and knocked the skinny guy away and took the girl.

I Thought this this is this is what it's going to be for me. I don't have a chance. You know, I looked in the mirror. And then on the bottom of the ad it says you also can be a man Charles building Charles Atlas weight gaining Muscle building you can be a man as a ray of hope came.

I Wrote in for this material and I read this material and I started into this program lifting weight. Eating extra food after six months. I gained about half a pound. It was pretty discouraging but when Jesus Christ invaded my life, and I'll share that story in a moment, I realized God's acceptance.

Ephesians 1 6 you are accepted in the beloved. I Was overwhelmed that God could love a character like me. I didn't like myself. I had a foul mouth. I had a bad temper. I was moving into the world of pornography at 16 I owned three businesses knew how to lie cheat fast life, New York City, and I didn't like myself.

Even though I had a giant ego. Somehow when I when Jesus found me and saved me and I realized he loved me it totally revolutionized my life. Enabled me to grow in faith enabled me to deal with some of my weaknesses and struggles and Here I am 53 years later.

Personal Conversion and the Call to Evangelism

After my conversion, I think of this letter that Tony Campallo. It's one of my favorite preachers. I'd love to get Tony up here to Fairbanks or has he already been here and He's a wild Italian American.

I love to speak we have we sometimes speak together because after he speaks I come across this so mellow and That helps my reputation. But Tony Campallo sent out this email about the thunderstorm. I wonder if you saw that this family in this horrific thunderstorm lightning and thunder even the adults were scared.

They were in the living room suddenly realized the little girl seven year old was up in her bedroom on her own. They ran up the stairs. They opened the door and there the little girl is looking out the big window at the lightning and sort of listening to the thunder.

They said what are you? Okay, she said I'm fine. I think God is taking my picture. I had never thought of that. Would God take my picture? Is it digital or is it one of these Walmart throwaway cameras?

It's beyond all of that God's love God's concern for each one of us and I think that's just so important. We cannot build global missions on an insecure spiritual foundation. We need men and women of God whether they're young or whether they're old.

We need men and women who can walk in moral purity. We need men and women who can handle money. We need men and women who can be trusted and The Word of God is very clear about young people. I remember that as a young person let no man despise your youth.

But be thou an example. Be thou an example even as a young person in all the great areas of the Christian walk. In Matthew 9, we have this beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus going into all the towns and villages.

We'll pick it up in verse 35. Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area. Teaching in the synagogue announcing the good news about the kingdom. He healed every kind of disease and illness.

When he saw the crowds he we he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples the harvest is great, and it still is great. The harvest is great, but the workers are few.

So pray to the Lord who's in charge of the harvest. Ask him to send more workers into his field that was written 2 ,000 years ago. That was taken from the very mouth of the Lord Jesus. God's Word he said to his disciples.

It's red letter in this particular Bible the harvest is great the workers are few. Let me share quickly my own story because I think that will also help you understand what I say after that. But I wasn't from a Christian home.

It was sort of a nominal Christian home in some ways. My grandfather was an atheist from the Netherlands and he and my dad when my dad was real young came over from the Netherlands to the New York City area and my other grandfather he was Irish Scottish and English blood, which is probably toxic and he was an alcoholic.

My grandmother divorced him and I only saw my grandfather a couple times the final times dying of alcoholism. I Was living sort of a typical American selfish life doing my own thing. I think part of me wanted to do good.

I joined the Boy Scouts. You couldn't get into the Girl Scouts in those days and Was about to get the God and country award and I guess I was trying to do good. I would cheat at cards at the Scout camp then feel a little bad about it.

And so take half the money and buy some of the people. I cheated some ice cream. It's lucky. I didn't get caught and beat up. But a woman came into my life a woman of God like some of you a woman of prayer woman who believed this book was God's Word and She took this passage literally from Matthew chapter 9.

She began praying forth laborers she picked on the high school near her house and Regularly workers were going out from an ungodly drunken high school near her house people never knew why one praying woman.

And I went to that high school. I Was quite famous in my freshman year. I was voted class clown. That'll really get you far. But by the time I was a senior I was about to be elected the student council president of this school.

And so she really targeted me because her son a godly young man had been president when I was freshman. And so she put me on her Holy Ghost hit list. And she not only prayed that I become a Christian she prayed specifically Send it.

I don't know whether it's because she didn't want me around. She prayed that I would become a missionary and then she sent me a gospel of John through the mail this little book. Around that time of my life.

I was slowly moving into. What back in those days? Would be thought of as sort of mild forms of pornography. You know the nude picture of Meryl Monroe on the bottom of my bed and a few other things. I won't talk about so on one hand I Had this gospel of John and the other hand I was moving into this world was in this world of lust.

She kept praying every year. I got worse. And then Billy Graham came to New York City just one night. It was not a crusade. That was two years later. He came for one night for an anniversary meeting of a converted band leader named Jack Worston who another incredible testimony of God's grace.

And I remember going to that meeting. I took this gal that I was interested in. I thought maybe she could use some of this kind of religion. This was not my scene. Somebody said Billy Graham's a hypnotist.

I actually brought my binoculars. I sat as far away as I could and watched him to see if he had some kind of tactics. But I heard a simple message Billy Graham says you walk in one direction you stop and you go in God's direction.

And that night when he gave the invitation to repent and believe on Jesus, and I'm not exaggerating anything tonight. Somehow though I didn't understand it all I got out of my seat. I went in the front of this huge fight auditorium Madison Square Garden in front of 20 ,000 people and I surrendered at the cross of Jesus and was born from above.

I Discovered that Billy Graham was highly criticized. One college said he was even part of the Antichrist movement. That was a little bit of surprise to me. Other people said well these converts don't last.

You've probably heard that it's just emotionalism they go forward. Everywhere I've gone in the world everywhere I've met men and women. Who've come to Christ? Through Billy Graham. I'm staying with some people and the dear woman of the house came to Christ.

We're a television broadcast with Billy Graham. Because it's not Billy Graham. He's just a servant of the Lord. It was always my dream and I've lived out of the United States for 47 years. So that's one of the main reasons That I'd someday be able to sit with this man.

I met him backstage at Urbana when I was speaking. We got a couple of minutes. Maybe I thought maybe that's the answer to my prayer, but I had this nagging that. Maybe someday I'd sit down with this man of God who not only influenced me at my conversion.

But through his writings through his message at Urbana the strongest message on discipleship I ever listened to we made it required listening in our movement for the first 25 years that Had such a huge influence on my thinking the middle road.

The acceptance of people from different churches and backgrounds so many ways he influenced me together with another man from Canada named. Dr Oswald J. Smith and ten days ago. Even though Billy's not well.

And he's just been operated on the door just flew open to go and spend some time with him there in his home in Montreat, North Carolina, and I just stood in front of him of an emotional character. I just began to cry tears of emotion and joy and He accepted that and prayed for me and you can catch some of it on my blog George Verwer calm thanks to Mark Roberts here is such a good blogger.

So one minute you see me with Billy Graham the next minute you see me with this dog sled and People are surely going to wonder what is going on in my life. God saved me almost the same night. He sent me back into my high school by then I was about president of the student council.

It was still legal to speak about Jesus in our high schools in 1956. Preach to the entire student body. Organized prayer meetings gave out Gospels of John in the high school. Thousand students promised to read them people just started to get saved all over the place.

I found out that lady had been praying for this drunken school for 15 20 years because her children had gone there and Then we saw a Holy Ghost and break. I came back from college Christmas break 600 people came out to hear my testimony including my own father who wondered what is going on with his son and I just shared the gospel that I had learned from his servant from the word and when I gave the invitation 125 of my high school student friends stood to believe on Jesus and among them my own father.

Yes That's what God can do. I And I'd been delivered from Lust and pornography by the power of God not that I would never sin or fail again that would be wrong to give you that impression and we must understand that the victorious life as so clearly outlined in Scripture and Especially in 1st John chapter 2 includes knowing what to do when you do sin and by God's grace, I Learned the message of grace and realized that when I failed and did something stupid God still loved me and he could use me.

I soon found myself in Mexico and I discovered in Mexico. I could learn a language I discovered such a love for the Mexican people. I discovered the churches would welcome us as young people to help them with their youth programs.

Doors opened in prisons doors opened in in amazing ways and That caused me to leave my university studies and transfer to Moody Bible Institute and study God's Word in Chicago an amazing step in my life During this period.

Moral Purity and Personal Struggle in Christian Service

However, I had a lot of struggles and I share this especially for young people. I could not help constantly becoming infatuated with girls and I Thought now that I'm a Christian boy, you know this This isn't going to be so intensive it got worse now all these little gospel girls and these little Christian smiles and I Couldn't find verses, you know thou shalt not kiss if I had that verse it would have been easier.

I've been necking up a storm since I was 12 and I wasn't planning to stop that on the basis of becoming a Christian. I knew that Sexual relationships in my view it was it was out of the question, but it's these other middle ground and that I was in so accustomed to and I remember leading a girl to Christ in Washington right by the Washington Memorial and Then you know necking with her for the next hour or so I'm ashamed to tell you that It's not really in the follow-up books.

I looked there as well and then another girl Sort of fell in love with love with me and was thinking about marriage. I was going off to college marriage. That's just bizarre just even think about it, and I realized I was deceiving.

I was deceiving myself. I was deceiving these girls with my language of love God in his mercy as a baby Christian. I used a particular experience to wake me up. I Don't tell about this much, but Fairbanks your climate has an invigorating Side to it, so I'll tell this story.

But I was with this particular girlfriend I've been witnessing to her then we started some pretty intensive kissing and I was just about to go a little beyond Kissing we were parked in the woods in New Jersey when a police car pulled up.

It might as well been an angel. What are you doing in there? So that was all over. I Put the car in the wrong gear instead of backing up. I went into a ditch. Her father was an alcoholic. He had told me to make sure she's back at a certain time.

I knew that was going to be difficult now with a car in a ditch. We ran down the street got him on the phone and asked him to meet us at a particular Street. So they wouldn't see the car in the woods in the ditch.

And he was had been drinking a bit. And he said you know I want to see the car when he saw the car he started making these accusations against me. That romance ended up breaking she ended up marrying her half-brother, and I felt a total failure.

So I made a decision. Called operation cold turkey for romantic nutcases like me. No more kissing no more girls of course that's when God sent me to Mexico not because of that and. And That's when this worth this work later in Europe called operation mobilization initially called send the light STL.

That's when this work was born. That went on for about two years. I left University. I went to Moody Bible Institute. This was a new test of this whole area of struggle in my life as I got to Moody I thought they're all Bible carrying committed girls if you tried anything with one of them.

You know they walk you with a big King James Bible. But I was infatuated with about seven girls in the first ten days and It was it was difficult, but because my focus was Jesus world missions the Word of God.

Nothing happened, and then God in his mercy. I just got to tell you this story. I wish my wife was with me we just celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary, but I went to. That still happens. I wanted to evangelize the YMCA there was no room for me at the Institute for living so they put me in the YMCA and Evangelism winning people to Christ was a just a huge passion of my life, and so to reach those men I wanted to show a moody science film so I went up to the eighth floor of the Institute and I Got out of the elevator.

I'll never forget it, and I saw this lovely gal on charge of the films. I broke my fast and moved in on the target. She's a little quiet girl from Iowa farm girl. She had never met any loudmouths from New Jersey.

And I think the first thing I said to her. I guess you're not going to be a missionary. Are you why do you say that? Well, I mean all the attractive girls and all the attractive girls. They're just out hunting pastors.

She didn't quite put that together. I managed to get her on the first date. I'm not exaggerating this like a Gideon's fleece. I Said look probably nothing going to happen to me between you and me. That was my attempt at reverse psychology.

Nothing going to happen between you and me, but you need to know this. I'm going to be a missionary, and if you marry me you'll probably end up being eaten by cannibals in New Guinea. Amazing enough though.

I was cockeyed in love. She was not in love with me. The next week I gave her a bag of dirty laundry. I wasn't big into washing much. I redeemed the time by sleeping in my clothes. I gave her a bag of dirty laundry, and I said look would you wash this as unto the Lord?

Whoa. It's a miracle. She ever spoke to me again. She reminded me the other day that she'd been washing my clothes for 49 years. She also reminded me that after a while. I started putting my friends clothes in the same bag, and it's a miracle.

She kept doing it. Eventually she fell in love. There's no time to tell the story. We got married and headed for Mexico. I didn't believe in honeymoons. I hardly even believed in a wedding ceremony. We just tacked it on the end of a Sunday Sunday morning service and All kinds of things happen.

Some of you may know the story it's I guess in one or two books and I managed to get one of the wedding cakes aside and Use that to barter for gasoline the next morning and the first guy that the gas station in Wheaton, Illinois.

You just couldn't believe this guy wants to sell his wedding cake. Just gave me the gas and no keep the cake. I think he thought it was holy or something. The next gas station. Hundreds of miles south toward Mexico.

He wasn't a believer, but he said no no he was a believer. He keep the cake gave me oil and gas. The third gas station hundreds of miles. He wasn't so Kind, but he liked cake and he gave me the cake. I gave him the cake.

He gave me the gas. Then I started to sell my wife's possessions. Everything else I could get my hands on and we got my goal was to get to Mexico. Without spending any money so that we could use we had thousands of dollars given to us at the wedding.

So we could use the money to start a bookshop. Well We had some difficulties in our marriages. We realized we were a typical Bible college marriage. We didn't really know each other and I was the kind of person everything I wanted to do it really fast.

And she liked to do things more slow and methodical. We couldn't even walk together. I used to wait on the street corner giving out tracks for her to sort of catch up. I Was very tight with money and all the money was for world missions.

We don't want to spend any money on anything. We get our clothes from the missionary barrel. Let me just testify that getting certain women's items from the missionary barrel the right size is Difficult to contest your faith.

So I I came into balance. I was reading a book about balance and so I gave her a dollar and said she could feel free you know to spend that however, she wanted and We picked up this little book there's a few copies of it on the book table called Calvary Road and We turned to the chapter revival in the home and God used that book to humble this insensitive needy character and Get me to really be honest about myself my bad temper my insensitivity my extremism and we got on our knees as I apologized and repented and God filled us with our Holy Spirit with his Holy Spirit and it's kept us together as a couple these 48 years.

We never even had our first furlough. We soon went to Spain after Spain. It was France then the Netherlands then we lived in India then we lived in Nepal then we lived on our ships. We had three children by then whoa now.

We're into grandchildren. Do any of you have grandchildren. Aren't they wonderful? Tony Campala says grandchildren is God's prize to you for not you know killing your own kids. It's my heart cry from sharing my story that we will just Realize it fresh how God can use all kinds of people.

People with struggles people with doubts which I battled all my life. People who don't feel naturally very Christian like me. I'm a natural backslider. Not a naturally spiritual person if God doesn't meet with me.

And I don't meet with him every day, and I've more or less done that I begin to slip away. And and lukewarmness comes in bad attitudes comes in and doubt and I just believe with all my heart. This this grace for weak needy people.

God's Strength Made Perfect in Weakness

One of the passages I also wanted to share is in 2nd Corinthians Chapter 12 where it talks about his grace being made perfect his strength made perfect in weakness. Let me just Find that passage. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 talking about the thorn in the flesh.

And how he prayed that this thorn would go this difficulty many different interpretations of what that is. But somehow it didn't go. Verse 8 chapter 12 2nd Corinthians Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away each time.

He said my grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness. So now I'm glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ. Wow. Power of Christ can work through me. That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses in the insults and hardships persecutions and troubles.

That I suffer for Christ for when I am weak then I am strong. So few people today in the United States. You know more about your own particular state, but so few are willing to consider long-term missions.

You know since OM was one of the birth movements of the whole short-term mission program you can be sure I'm in favor of it. But let's be realistic it in no way a substitute for long-term missionary work especially as we consider 20 of the people in the world.

Have never even once heard the gospel a similar number of people live in countries Where there is hardly any short-term work. Have you ever heard of short-term work in North Korea? Tibet, Afghanistan, Libya, Tunisia Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Somalia Turkmenistan, Chechnya, Bhutan, the Maldives.

Yes, there's a little. But those places are Restricted access. They have hardly any churches. And it's just so important to realize that short-term has enormous Limitation most short-term, and I believe in it with all my heart.

We have dozens of programs you can see on our website. But we need also people who are willing to think and pray long-term. A Lot of people going on short-term make a decision to go long-term. But then their churches will not support them.

It takes money to do missions, and if you're in Alaska it takes a little extra money. Praise God for these programs where you pick up 40 ,000, you know miles points at one shot. I Believe with all my heart We need to become more realistic.

The Global Mission Field and Spiritual Warfare

We're in a warfare. We're told that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. That's also from Corinthians, but mighty unto God to the pulling down of strongholds. I brought my gloves specifically just to mention Some of these countries there about 40 countries that have hardly any missionaries at all.

I'm not going to name all those countries. Don't worry. But I just touched on some of them like Libya and Tunisia. Only a dozen or so believers in the whole of Libya. Tunisia has a few hundred. Turkmanistan hardly any believers up here.

Iran the church is growing. That's the more encouraging of all those top ten countries. Iraq in the midst of the war a land that God put on my heart 50 years ago is Beginning to see an amazing number of conversions, but it's still small compared to the size and the complexity of the country.

Tibet has almost no witness though some Chinese from other parts of China are going there now to share their faith. I believe that's an answer to prayer. It's not time to mention so many other countries.

Not only do these places. Unreached places many of them in the 1040 window not have hardly any missionaries. I find that not many people are even praying for these places. I Pray that tonight. There'll be this this vision to pray for the nations of the world.

I guess that's why I wear this global jacket just to get the point across. Go into all the world. Preach the gospel to every person. I know it doesn't look very good on me. Does it sort of hangs? It looks a lot better on that.

I mean global people and It's also actually quite practical. I was I went when you used to be able to visit the cockpit of Certain airlines. British Airways welcomed you into the cockpit and I remember flying once from Sao Paulo down to Buenos Aires.

In Argentina I went up to the cockpit is around 1999 or so and I'll never forget it the co-pilot said to the pilot. I think we're flying over Ecuador. Well Ecuador is way up here. They used my jacket in a jumbo jet to see where they were going.

They were actually flying over Uruguay at that time. So if you're going to do a lot of travel be sure to bring a map with you. Years ago there was a blue dull-looking book called operation world. The bookshops were returning the copies.

One came across my desk. I think 35 years ago. I gave it to my man in charge of publishing. I said let's republish that book. I believe God's anointed that book. Let's republish it with a nice cover. That's the book and since that day 500 Thousand copies of this book in half a dozen languages have gone out across the world.

Presenting prayer requests on every single nation in the world. It's another illustration. That God works through prayer, and I want to ask you our time is limited. I want to ask you. How's your prayer life?

Corporate Prayer and the Sending Church

You know are you getting to some missionary prayer meetings even if it's just for an hour. What is an hour in a week in the light of all? The time we have in the light of the time we often spend. Watching sports or our favorite program or talking about this or that this place for all those things in the kingdom.

To be able to get into at least one prayer meeting in your own church preferably or somewhere else not where there's just this general Bless me prayer going on but specific intercession which we see running from Genesis to Revelation in the Word of God.

That's why I'm here because that woman prayed for me we see that model in the book of Acts. Turn to Acts chapter 12 very briefly where we see Peter in prison. Peter was in prison verse 5 acts 12. The church was very earnestly praying for him.