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Hi there. Welcome to Don't Miss this, a scripture study podcast with Dave Butler and Grace Freeman.
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Each week we point out things in the scriptures that we love and think you don't want to miss.
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Thanks for listening. Hi, everyone. I'm Dave Butler.
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I'm Grace Freeman.
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Welcome to Don't Miss this, our weekly scripture study class. You guys, we have such a jam today, section 93. We're so excited about. It's our last week of summer, so not really. Not officially. This Grace's birthday, September 21st. That's when summer. But this will be our last one where we're doing a principle. The summer of prayer. School's kind of back in. It started. You can have a fall of prayer. So don't be sad. Yeah. Don't be sad about that. Yeah. We did order more of the Ask God bracelets too, so people could just. If they wanted to do a thing with their family at the start of school or something.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that's actually really smart. Back to school night thing. Anyways, it might be too late.
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No, it's okay. You can just still do it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have a night. Have a night. You know, or. Or whatever. This is sort of a cool thing that you can do. And you can go back and get all the principles.
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That would be so cute to say. What are you asking God for this year?
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Yeah. In fall and school as you start.
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Oh, see, Great. Everyone do that.
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It's fine. You could do that. So we're sad about summer ending, but fall's great also for three reasons. Football, number one. Number two.
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We are loving this.
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We said this last week. Swiss days. Good news. Brand is having a booth there and we're now 99% sure. I'm leaving that 1% because you just don't know everybody that the don't miss this. Things for Old Testament 2026 are all going to be available and doesn't that.
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Just seem so much.
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Yeah. I love the Old Testament so very, very much. I cannot wait for it. I'm so excited to be in 93 today. But my heart and my soul and my spirit are in the Old Testament already. Because I love that book so much. The things that we put together for it are so rad. We have the tippins. Just one set this time. That's what everybody wanted. So we went back to that. And they're so banger. The posters are have the Hebrew word on the. Anyways, the journal. We read it. We did a journal again. We took a break. The journal. But everybody wanted the journal. Back. And it's so awesome because it's like a study journal and note journal. Like. Anyways, we'll tell you all about the things, but there'll be a Swiss days, which is.
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Which is soon.
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What's that weekend?
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Labor Day.
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Labor Day weekend. Friday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It's called Labor Day. Yeah. So that's something to look forward to. Also, at the time of this recording, the details aren't up yet, but I'm just going to tell you because why should you not look forward to this? On September 17, there is an event that we are having a good news brand concert. The event, like a Christian praise.
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I wish that if you were just listening, I wish that you could have just seen David's face when he just.
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Said, I'm really excited for it.
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Listen, he is. This is Christmas Eve.
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I took my whole family to the Forest Frank concert. It was like one of the best things we've done all year. And so I'm trying to recreate that. And it's so awesome. So awesome. Artists coming just in the park. Look on the goodish brand website, look on the. Look in the newsletter, look in the places and you will see where to get tickets to that. But it's. That is going to be so rad. We can't wait for that. So don't be sad. The summer's ending because look at all the fun that is coming into your life and ours. All right, are you ready? 93.
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93.
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Ready for 93. I love this one. This is another one. You just want to read the whole thing because it gives you that. Remember, was it 88? 88 was like this. 76 was like this. Where it's this just new, expansive way of thinking. It opens up the definition of heaven. It, I think, adds so much richness to the character of God. In fact, there's a verse that's in here that we really like. And I don't know if we'll come back to it or what. Where's that one? How you worship what you worship. Where is that verse? I just.
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19.
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Okay, let's just start in 19. Because just as a little preview here, he says, I give you these sayings, like, what's happening in this section that you may understand and know how to worship and know what you worship. And I think there's something about. As we understand the character and the heart of God better as. As our. Our understanding of him matures, I think our worship gets deeper and it gets richer. We're like, wow, I thought you were good. You are Way better than I ever imagined. And that in turn causes our hearts to. To just long more, feel more deeply, have more reasons to praise. I have more reasons to think. It makes me think about when Jack was born. Our oldest was born. He'd been home a newborn month or, I don't know, two months, something like that. Short amount of time. And I called my parents and I just said, I just want to call and say thank you because I had no clue what you did for me. Like, I have maybe six memories from zero to 18, you know, like we're like zero to 12 or whatever, max. And I was like, but you took care of me and loved on me every single day. Like you planned birthday part. Like you did so much for me that I didn't know. Like, the newborns take so much work and parents give so much and they don't even remember or know. And it wasn't until I had a realization of what they had done, my gratitude grew. And I think that's something that happens in, in section 93 also.
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And one of my favorite parts about that is there's something really beautiful about worship that you. And especially in that verse, it kind of explains it that you have to understand who you are worshiping. And when you read section 93, it. You are introduced to a God that is like, you want to use like words that you've never even heard in the English language to describe him. Like, he's like majestic and like regal and it's like royal. And it like feels really big, but it also feels really personal and individual. It's like it feels like this is like a funny word, but like, it really does feel like magic almost when you read it. And it's.
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And there's phrases that you. That you won't even understand when you read it. And it's. Yeah, to me it's. It's just a, like a. An example of somebody trying, you know, when you. We even use this all the time, this phrase where we're just like, ah. I can't quite explain what I'm trying to say.
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Yes.
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Like, I wish I could. Or this. What I'm telling you does no justice. The picture does no justice.
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Yeah, I don't have words for it.
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Exactly right. We use that phrase. And I think that's what happens as Joseph tries to like write down all these revelations, but particularly the big ones like 93, where he's just like, okay, I'm going to say phrases that just sound almost Star wars, you know, because you're just like, I just I'm trying to capture what I'm seeing and understanding and sensing into, you know, the English language.
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100. I think it just changes the way that it is. Like, maybe a reminder for me of who God is and how big he is, but also so like, it. It just like, seems so. I don't even see. Oh, look. Oh, no. I don't even have the words for it. That it's just like. When you read it. Yeah, when you read it, it's like, oh, wow. Like, he is so much better than I thought he would be.
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Yeah, it's awesome. So let's just. Let's talk about some of those things that are in here. About that. You'll see if you downloaded the journal from the app. You'll see this little box next to the word fullness. That's to count up how many times you. You see that in here. And that's what the tip in is. It's about this word for the kids, adults and teens, all of them. This word and concept and idea of fullness that's in this. I don't even know what that means. Right. But there is a promise of experiencing the fullness of God in this section. Right? And it's sort of an amazing promise. The word for the week on the posters is fullness, by the way. And can I just read the quote on it? It says, the nearer a man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views and the greater his enjoyments till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin. And like the ancients, arrives at the point of faith where he is wrapped up in the power and glory of his Maker and caught up to dwell with him like we are given this. Just this. I don't even know. Top of the podium, like, promise in this section over and over and over again, if I counted right. And one of the things you might want to do in this is go and highlight every time fullness shows up. I think it's 15 times in and there.
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And there are not that many verses.
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No.
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Like, if there's like 115 verses, you're like, okay, well, he was running out of words, but it's like, not that many.
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That's crazy. But I want you to notice also this associated with fullness. Not only does he use that time, that word so much, and can we comprehend what that word means mentally? Yes. We're giving an idea of it experientially. Not yet, maybe. Although I think we can look, almost have experiences now and then look back on our life. And see, like, oh, I am experiencing a greater measure of the grace, the goodness, the presence, the wisdom of God in my life. I have seen that it has increased over time, which leads me to believe it could continue to until you reach whatever fullness actually is. My grandpa said to me one time when we were our Jones was having his baby blessing and having a little party at our house after or whatever. And my grandpa just took me aside and he just said, you won't understand what the phrase joy in your posterity means until you're standing in a blessing circle of your great grandson. And it just taught me about this idea of, oh, there is more to come. Things mature over time, blessings mature over time. And just it seems like God has pointed us this idea of you can experience. I'm not going to give you some of who I am and what I am. I intend to give you a fullness of who I am and what I am.
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And I feel like this is not a word that's only exclusive to section 93. When we read in Scripture, we hear about fullness in a lot of different, like in the whole entire standard works. That's a common theme is hearing about the fullness that we can receive specifically in the Doctrine and Covenants. That comes up a lot. But this last time when I was studying section 93, all I could think about was like a scarcity and an abundance mindset and how that affects specifically me and my relationship with God because I have the tendency to live in a scarce mindset specifically with God. And that to me comes, I think, probably because of fear, disappointment, that I start thinking like, oh, if God is blessing this person so much, he probably won't have enough for me. Or if I'm getting too much, I don't want to ask for too much because then there won't be enough for other people. I don't need that as much as someone else needs something or someone feeling.
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Like I'm not deserving of that.
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Right 100%, there's someone else that could use that more. I don't need that. I don't deserve that. That's not for me. And the more I read this, I wonder if that is like the solution to my scarcity mindset is just that word fullness. And that that is what God is offering us is not scarcity, is not limited, but it is a fullness in anything that we could ask. And it's interesting because we go through and you can see different words that it's connected to. And David, you can kind of say More of them. But you see, in verse 36, he's gonna offer you a fullness of light. In verse number 11, he's gonna offer you a fullness of grace. In verse 26, truth, 33, joy, 24, knowledge. And the more I was, like, looking through those words, the more I started thinking. Because even I find myself, if I'm, like, living in a time of joy, and I just always feel like, oh, if I'm so happy right now, that must mean something bad is coming. And if God is blessing me so much right now, then probably there's gonna be a tragedy that's gonna happen in, like, two months that's gonna ruin my life. Or if I just got this huge piece of revelation, then there's no way, like, this is my moment of revelation. And now I'm probably not gonna hear God speak for a long time. Or if this was, like, my chance at, like, receiving light from all of these really good people, then I'm probably gonna, like, lose all my friends and not have that anymore.
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And.
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And that is the exact opposite of what Section 93 is teaching.
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Yeah.
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Section 93 promises that no matter what you have, God is capable of giving you fullness. And not just in moments and times, but he is capable of giving that to you abundantly.
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That's so awesome. That's seriously such good, good teaching. And I wrote down this phrase. This is sort of the promise in the middle, right? We're in a place where we're not experiencing a fullness of God's blessing yet, and he's giving us this promise of it. Not only a promise of an eventual fullness, but of experiencing more and more along the way as well. Right? We don't just one day jump from here to fullness. Right? And that's another really great lesson that this section and chapter teaches. It's verse 11. Go to verse 11. And he's quoting John the Apostle, the early New Testament apostle. He said, I beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, even the Spirit of truth, which came and dwelt in the flesh and dwelt among us. P.S. verse 11 is sort of like, I just realized this thesis verse for the entire thing where, like, you've got, like, this fullness of God that came to dwell among us. And it's this connection that this section does so well of the heavenly and divine, but bringing it onto earth and into our life and experiences. But then he says this, and I, John saw verse 12 that he received not of the fullness at first, but received grace for grace. And then one more verse, it says, and he received not of the fullness at first, but continued from grace to grace until he received a fulness. I don't know exactly what that means, like technically speaking, in the theology of Jesus. Okay, but this section is teaching us a really important principle that it won't all be right now, but you can move from grace to grace or grace for grace. This section teaches us a doctrine of progression, a promise of more that things can be better tomorrow than they were today. In light, in power, in grace, in joy, in knowledge that there is an increase available that you can experience and have through this. And. And a person moves grace for grace. It's actually in this section, we'll tell you exactly how to do it too. And it's pretty simple, right? And it frames the commandments of God into this context, which is he's God saying, the reason I gave you them is because they help you move from grace to grace or grace to grace. That's what they were designed to do. Is that add on, in case you don't think it's about you, 19 and 2019, we read and says, I give you these sayings that you may understand how to worship and what you worship, worship. By the way, Elder McConkie one time said the most perfect way of worship is emulation. And so when it's talking about how to worship, it's almost like looking to wait, how do I experience and live that kind of abundant life? Also that you. It says in verse 19, may come unto the Father in my name and at due time receive of a fullness. For if you keep my commandments, you shall receive of his fullness. That is not a even trade. And that's just evidence of. I think of somebody. When somebody ever feels this, like, I do not deserve all that goodness in my life, my advice to them would be like, oh, please get your eye off of yourself and get it onto God. This should not cause us to like, be paralyzed with perfectionism. It should lead us to praise is what should be happening. You know, it's like, I know you don't deserve it. Isn't that fantastic how good and great and wonderful God is? Like, that is what 93 is leading our hearts to do, to praise and to worship instead of to be like, oh, that can't be me and I'm not doing good enough. And I was like, I know, I know, I know you don't. You're not. And. But God's still doing it. And that leads us to worship him and to say, wow, thank you. This is like, you know, like to get a gift that you never earned or never thought was possible. Like, that's the kind of feeling 93 is trying to invoke in us.
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Well, and I think this gives you a really good picture. If you ever wonder what God's plan is, 93 is a really good section to go to.
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That's a great.
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Because at the end of the day, his goal for you is to give you a fullness of all of the words you see described. His plan is to give you as much light as possible, as much glory as possible, as much power and grace and truth and joy and knowledge as possible. That is his plan. His plan is to give abundantly to you. And the reason we have the commandments is because he knows that that is the method for the blessing. He says, look, I'm going to give you everything I have. The reason I'm giving you the commandments is to help you access that. And I think if there was any other way that he could give those to us, he would command us to do that. He said, I'm going to give you these commandments because this is how you'll receive it. If there's a different way to receive it, he would have commanded us to get that. And I think it's interesting because there's this level of us that's like, okay, so now we have the pathway, we want to receive the goodness. We know that he's abundant. And then we get so caught up in not doing it perfectly or screwing it up. And then we say, I'm the problem. I don't fit into this plan because I'm not good enough. I didn't follow it correctly. And now I'm missing out on all of these things. And from the very beginning of him describing what this plan is going to be in section 93, he says, this is going to be a step by step. This is going to be little by little, grace for grace. And one time I was in seminary, I've maybe said this on here, but one time I was in seminary and one boy raised his hand in the middle of class and he said, oh. He said, I think that I'm starting to understand God's plan better. And I said, tell me what you mean. And he said, if God's plan was just to test us, then repentance would mean that we failed and we like messed everything up and we can't recover. And now, oh, like this is backup plan. Like test retakes, but that's never as good as the original test anyways. But he said, but if that's not God's plan, and God's plan is actually just us becoming like him, then repentance means we're progressing.
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Yeah, it's part of it.
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That's it. You are experiencing his plan. You are working. You are living it. You're going through it completely. And that is what is described in section 93 as his plan is growth. It's little by little. It's him giving you guidance and a pathway and ideas and commandments so that you can experience his fullness. And even on the days where you say, wait, I messed up, he says, listen, the plan is for you to grow day by day, and repentance is growth.
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Yeah, and. And. And he brings up. And I think it's important in verse 39, he was like, the purpose of the wicked one is to come and take away light and truth. So if we can grow and progress in it, it also means it can be taken away. It can go both. You know, both directions are a possibility. And he just says it's through disobedience and the tradition of their fathers that he's gonna. That he's going to. That's what he is trying to do. And so there's this tug of war right in. In the soul of every person. But I love that God is, like, offering and saying, this is what it can be, and this is what you can experience. It's like, I feel like the beginning of the Bible, the Old Testament, which we can't wait for, starts off on day seven in Eden, perfection, with God saying, I want you to rule and reign. And he's gifted, gifted, gifted, gifted, gifted and created for them. And just like, here, and I'll enjoy this and reign over it as a king and a queen, you know, and it's almost like the front of the puzzle box right at the beginning. It's like, look what is possible now. Let me show you how to get there. And 93 kind of seems to do the same thing for us. And I love this one. Sort of like happened in section 88. Then after he does this, like, he lives up in heaven with them for a minute, then just says, okay, now can I give you some advice, specifically and particularly in your lives, in how to do this. And to all three of those listening, receiving this, originally it was parenting advice.
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I thought you meant, like, on the podcast. Oh, no, all three.
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All three of you.
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It's like, my mom, your mom, grandma, Grandma Leslie.
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Yeah, but he says to those three, section 43, you're going to find really similar advice here where he just says, set and order your own house. Verse 50. Be more diligent and concerned at home and pray always. And I just think that's interesting that he just takes it down to like, okay, this is a possibility now how do we do that inside our own houses? And he was like, teach this to your kids. Help them learn the progression, rebrand repentance for them. Pay attention to like, this. This is where you're going to find light and grace and truth and joy and knowledge is right here. Like, we're creating a fullness in heaven right here in our own houses. Like, work on it here and, and, and you'll see that happen. It's this idea of like, heaven came. Like Jesus came down to earth. Heaven's coming down into the places that, that we live. And, and I think that's something that's so awesome about this section because it's like they're living in these log houses, you know, and God's promising them a fullness. And it's like it happens right there in the living room is where you can experience it and have it happen. And that there's something so, like, like majestic about that. So awesome. And by the way, I wrote this down in my notes in the journal that Joseph wrote this revelation in. This is what he said. He was like, on the 6th of May, received the following. Just like casually, as if this were the grocery list. And he's just like, bro, you're living in backwoods Ohio and casually just receiving this. And that's just like the miracle of what God can do, that we said over and over just comes into the most ordinary people and places and just promises and exalts those experiences in people. Like, it's just awesome.
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And that for a plan this grand and marvelous and shocking even when you read it, that at the end of the day he's like, listen, and I don't need you to worry about everything because my plan is just happening right inside your very little house.
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Yeah.
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So just go home. If you want to experience it, go home.
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That's so awesome.
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That's it.
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It can just happen right there. Let's end on this promise that's in the very, very beginning of the chapter 93. This is on the adult tippin in particular about this fullness, this process and promise of the fullness. And you can almost count the seven things he says to do. Verily, thus saith the Lord, it shall come to pass that every soul who forsakes his sins shall and cometh unto me and calleth on My name and obeyeth my voice and keepeth my commandments shall see my face and know that I am. It's remarkable. That promise is almost too big to believe. Elder Faust one time said it like this. I'd surmise that all who are members of this great church have a desire to see the face of the Savior. This is an available blessing. Too few of us catch sight of this as we fail to avail ourselves of God's promises that we can see the face of the Savior. We can experience light, glory, power, grace and truth, joy, knowledge in our lives. They can progress to a fullness. And we experience them in our. In our own little log houses, wherever they are, in places of work and. And all of those things. It's the promise of this. And he said, I've shown you that the pattern of how to do that. Next time's lesson, we'll be about more of that God. Just trying to encourage. So you're going to see everything that happens after is like almost to this end. Right? This is what I'm trying to get you to and to do. You'll see a principle of prayer in verse one, of course, that's part of this process. Call upon his name. And we have two principles of prayer for the summer prayer because it's the last day, so you might as well have a double, doubling, double up. One is. Prayer is part of that, of that process of receiving more of the presence and power and goodness and grace of God in our lives. That. That's one of the ways that we draw upon his strength, that we draw upon his courage, that we draw upon his goodness is. Is through prayer. And I hope, we hope you've seen that all summer long as you focus on that or in the fall when you have the fall of prayer, if that's what you are wanting to do. Can I just show one last. The double one, because I love this one so much. It's at the end of verse 51. And he says this. They're talking about. Sidney Rigdon is going on this mission and he says this by your prayer of faith, I will uphold him is verse 51. And I think that is such a fantastic principle of prayer also that we uphold people with our prayers of faith. Christian chose as his missionary verse that story of the four friends who carried their paralyzed buddy to Jesus and lowered him down through the roof. And he particularly loves the line when Jesus looks up at the four friends and says, because of your faith, you four, your sins are forgiven you to the boy, I will perform this miracle because of the faith of your friends. And I think there's something really powerful about this. Right before we pushed record, the three of us here in the studio prayed for a friend of ours who's facing like a giant in front of her. And this is a principle I believe, and I love the practicality of it, that how can three imperfect people pray together? And God so willingly hears and answers and upholds one of our friends because of that request? That's how. That's how good he is. And hopefully we've taught enough in this section to say, get rid of that line, like, oh, I'm unfit, or whatever. This gives you permission to just be in the process to be anywhere in it and experience it along the way. So anyways, double, double principle of prayer.
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And you just love it because it's interesting to me that this chapter, this section is like, bookend. Like, the beginning is about prayer and the end is about prayer. And it almost seems like, wait, why does that feel like it's so important? And why is that mentioned right at the beginning and at the end, it's like, especially with a section that is as, like, marvelous as this one is. And there's just one little, like, I think, glimpse in verse 49 that he says, what I say unto one, I say unto all, pray always, lest that wicked one have power in you and remove you out of your place. And throughout this entire section, you're given a glimpse of a God who is willing to give you a fullness and of an enemy who wants to take it away. And I think from the very beginning until the very end, he said, I need you to pray that you will not be overcome by him, because he will do anything he possibly can to remove you from the possibility of experiencing the goodness of God. And prayer is. Prayer is the trick. Prayer is the way to get rid of him. And it's interesting because that's something that I've been really praying for that I've never really prayed for in my life until this year. And it's because we had, like, the bug guys come to our house one day, and they were, like, getting rid of all the bugs in our house. And we were all so happy. And I remember thinking, like, oh, I've never needed an exterminator before. And then I was, like, laughing about how weird that word is. And then that night I got down to pray, and I was like, you know what? I loved those guys. That came over to my house and got rid of all those bugs. And I love that they didn't just get rid of them or just, like, hope. They exterminated them. And then when I prayed, I was like, God, that's what I need you to do for Satan in my life. I need you to just exterminate him. And I just keep using that praise over and over when I pray. And I'm not kidding you, it's so powerful to me when I say it. Like, I am, like, proud of a God who will do that for me. And that is true because of section 93. That's the evidence. He said, if you want me to exterminate Satan, the one who is capable of removing the possibilities of this plan from your life, pray, pray. And that is the promise.
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Yeah, I won't. You know, this has been so awesome to focus on this all summer, just because it really is the invitation of the presence and power of God into your life. That's what prayer is, right? You and me, we don't have to do this by ourselves. We can call the bug guys over, right? So anyways, so good. All right, y', all, see you next week. If you want to follow along in everything we're doing, you can find us on Instagram at don't miss this study, at this week's Grace and at MrDave Butler.
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See you next week.