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All right, Sower Nation, good morning. It is Wednesday, August 12th, in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm John David Walt, and this is your wake up call. I don't do this very often. I rarely do it outside of my own family, immediate family members. But I got two birthdays today. I just want to remember. I want to remember Maxi Dunham. It's his birthday today. My mentor and friend. And I want to remember my first friend and best friend all the way to the present day, Jeff Estes. Jeff's down there in Madison, Mississippi, his birthday today. And Maxie's in Memphis, Tennessee. So here we go. You ready for consecration? Today we're meeting with Jesus. He's pulled us all together here. Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you. I fix my eyes on you. I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. Jesus, we belong to you. And we're praying in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, today's entry is entitled in the beginning Prayer. In our text. We went all the way back to the beginning. Genesis, chapter one, verses one through three. Hear now the word of the Lord. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, and we'll just leave a pregnant pause at the end of that text and say the word of the Lord. Now consider this formless, empty, darkness, deep. Roll those four words around and off the tip of your tongue a few times so your ears can hear them. Formless, empty, darkness, deep. Just repeat them after me one by one. Formless, empty, darkness, deep. That's our problem. We spend far too much energy giving voice to the problem, to what is not. And in doing so, we unwittingly magnify the status quo, the present state of affairs. How often in the course of a single day do we give voice to and so amplify our problems. We speak of this family conflict and that work challenge and this sickness and that global ticking time bomb. It is as though we go around all day long speaking the words formless, empty, darkness, deep. We even try to convince others of just how formless, empty, dark and deep the problems we face are not. Who does not do this? God. The Bible does not begin with God rehearsing the problems of the not yet universe. If God were to say Formless, empty darkness and deep, it would only multiply them exponentially. At the same time, the Bible does not deny this reality of nothingness. Just as rehearsing the reality does not reorder it. Neither does denying the problem diminish it. The Good News, chapter one does not begin with verse two. The key is verse one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The biblical foundation for prayer begins neither with pre existent nothingness, nor with broken everything. Our whole understanding and practice of prayer must begin with the beginning, Genesis 1:1. It means prayer begins with faith. Now, by faith I don't mean to say the activity of human belief, but the reality of divine action. Faith is the willful decision of a community of people to live the totality of their existence in the light of God and in the world of God's making. Faith is not asking and hoping. Faith means living in an alternative dimension of reality. What if the world we see with our eyes only comprises 10% of reality? Or even 1%? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. No one ever talks much of the heavens. But what if the heavens make up the other 90% or 99%? What if the heavens and the earth were actually a seamless part of a unified whole? What if the fall of humanity breached this unity? And what if the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit inaugurated a new age wherein the heavens have broken in on the earth. We understand these what ifs as eternal verities. And these eternal verities are not our faith. They are the faith. As we get past our technical understanding of saying prayers and seek to understand the deeper milieu of ultimate reality, prayer will will take on enormous significance. It will in fact, enter the realm of world making. That's what prayer is, world making speech. This is what God does. Remember now the last three words of today's text. Right in the midst of formless, empty darkness. Deep. Here are the three words. And God said, let's pray. Lord Jesus, you are right here, right now. I confess I so often give more focus to what is formless, empty, dark and deep than to the God who created the heavens and the earth. My vision is limited by what I see. Instead of being anchored in the greater realm of the unseen, I welcome you to crush my thin categories, expand the horizons of my understanding and blow my mind right here, Jesus. Right now, Jesus. Amen. Got a few journal prompts today. Number one. How do you find yourself magnifying the problems in life? Magnifying formless, empty darkness and deep. I know I do it. I know I do it. What would it take to stop this? I think it would take learning the creative speech of prayer. It would mean learning to talk like God talks. And God said right in the beginning, prayer, I think God is when God begins speaking creation, this is prayer. And God's prayers are answered. And there was. Let there be, and there was. We'll go to that tomorrow. Number two question. Where do you put the percentages? What do you think is the percentage of the. Of the cosmos really of what we can see? And what is the percentage of what is unseen? What is unseen, like the earth is what percent the heavens is what percent. Think about that. I know these are big, big questions. They're unknowable. They're unsolvable. But I'm inviting you into a realm of exploration and, like, pondering. Can we do that this week? Third question. What do you think of this understanding of prayer that I'm positing as learning to speak as God speak. Like when I go into a hospital room and I'm going to pray for somebody who's sick in there, do I want to just talk like I talk, or do I want to actually begin to broach the possibility of speaking into and over and around this person like God speaks? I bet you they want the latter. I think they would pick that 10 out of 10 times. Teach us. Teach us to pray, Lord. All right, we gotta hand it off. We got dad here. He's here all week, and we're having a good time together. So we're gonna sing today. Here we go. All right. We're having a. We're having a good week here on the Wake Up Call. I love these little mini series, and we're talking about prayer. I haven't even said a word about this, but actually I'm pulling these entries from a book that I've written on prayer. I wrote a whole book, a whole Wake Up Call series years ago, called right here, right now. Jesus.
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Let me have a copy of it.
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You want a copy? Yeah, I'll get you a copy.
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You get me one.
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It's called Moving from a Prayer Life to a Life of Prayer.
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That's all like the title.
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Moving from a Prayer Life to a Life of Prayer. And this. This book, it is. I say this every time. It's my favorite. It's kind of like all my kids are all my favorites. But I'm your favorite kid, right? Sorry, Missy and Erica. You didn't say that. I did. There's 66 different entries in this book, and I'm not going to hawk it here, but just. I just want to let you know that's where this is coming from. Now today we are, we're looking at an entry called in the Beginning Prayer. We've already gone through it. But, dad, the bottom line is how the Bible opens up says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now, the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep. Okay. Formless, empty darkness, deep. That describes a lot of situations in this world. Now, scary, scary. That's the world that we live in, sadly. But what's this next verse? And the spirit of God was hovering over the. The waters. And so we're always going out into situations of formless, empty darkness deep. But the spirit of God is hovering. And so we're going to sing a song today that. That gets at that. It's a prayer to the Holy Spirit and it's one that everybody knows here pretty much. But we're going to sing it through twice. Tell them what it is.
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Is it Spirit of the Living God.
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That's the one.
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Yeah.
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What's the number?
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299.
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299.
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I know that song.
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The spirit of God is always hovering about us, wanting to fill us up, wanting to melt us, mold us, fill us and use us. So this is going to be. It's another great prayer of longing that we're going to sing this week. And we sang this a lot in our Mark series, but it's good, good to reprise it today. You ready?
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Of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on melty morning Fill me you. The spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.
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Sing it again.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me un me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
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Amen.
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That's a good one.
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That's. That's an everyday. That's a song that you want to sing out on the road when you're out in the work in the fields doing the. The things today.
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Yeah.
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You can always say, come, Holy Spirit. Yep, he's there. He'll come closer.
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I'll sing to the gut pipe.
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That's. Gut pipe. That's what they water with now. They roll out these long plastic rolls. My cousin the other day told me that they had laid 37 miles of gut pipe. You roll it out, you pump the water in it and you punch Holes
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you punch about in a quarter of a mile, you might punch, oh, 100
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holes, and those go down the rows. That's a great notion of prayer, isn't it?
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Yeah, it's just pushing water out, Right. And the pressure you have depends on how many holes you can push, because you need a good stream, so it won't take so long to water and that.
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Just think about yourself as gut pipe. The spirit of God is coming in. You punch a hole, let the.
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Let the flow fall afresh on me.
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All the fresh on me and flow out of me.
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That's a good. That's a good word, Dad. I never thought of that before. That's a. That's a motif of prayer. We're irrigating dry and parched land out there, right.
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We're watering those beans, and, you know, God will give us rain, but he also gives us knowledge until he can get the rain going to water the beans.
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That's good. We pray for rain. He says, well, how about some gut pipe? Yeah, how about you hook up to that? Well, I'm gonna bring you rain, but I'll also help you water.
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Right. And just think who all I gotta bring rain to. And you're not.
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First you got to bring rain to a lot of people. A lot of people get in line. That's good. I like that. It's not God helps those who help themselves. It's God helps us help ourselves, and then he just helps us more.
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Right. He's. He says, we might not be doing all that good a job. Then he'll pull a plough over and it'll rain an inch, inch and a half.
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We need a rain. You want to teach him that song right quick?
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Yeah.
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We need a rain about an inch and a half. We need a rain about an inch and a half. We need a rain about an inch and a half. Have faith. It will.
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Where did we learn that song?
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Probably out in the field.
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Dad would take me and Missy and Erica. We'd need a rain. He'd get us in the truck, he said, we're gonna go pray. And they drive around the farm.
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That's right.
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Field to field. And dad would lead us in that song.
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We'd sing that song and. And, you know, sometimes it wouldn't rain, but a lot of times it would rain. But you know, when it wouldn't rain, God will take care of the crop.
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Yep.
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Because he knows that we're trying.
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That's right. But we would sing that song. That was a prayer.
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That's right.
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And you know What? There's a lot of situations in your life, in our life where we need a rain.
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That's right. We need them. We need it now.
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We need a reign of mercy. We need a reign of provision. We need a reign of healing. We need a reign of joy. We need a reign of peace. And that's a way of praying. Just go sing that song. Inch and a half.
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Yeah. Inch and a half. It just. That's usually a perfect rain. Not too much, but enough. It's not.
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Not too much. Yeah. Sometimes you might need to go on up to two. You don't want to go three.
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Usually.
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No, it's a little too much.
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Three is a little much, but it's.
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Yeah, we got to do it.
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We got to let them go, dad. We got to let them get out in the field where they can pray for rain today.
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Right? You just pray for rain for everybody?
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Yep.
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Everybody that needs it. Now, some people, if they just got through watering, you know, they don't need a rain.
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That's right.
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So. All right. But God knows who did and who doesn't.
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Yes. For The Awakening. I'm J.D. wall.
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And I'm David Wall.
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We'll see you on the field.

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Podcast Summary: The Wake-Up Call – "In the Beginning: Prayer" (August 12, 2026)

Podcast: The Wake-Up Call
Host: John David (J.D.) Walt
Date: August 12, 2026
Main Theme:
This episode explores the foundation of prayer by returning to Genesis 1:1–3, examining how the act of creation by God forms the original paradigm for “world-making speech”—and, thereby, for prayer. The discussion invites listeners to move beyond rehearsing problems and instead to engage prayer as imaginative, creative participation in the ongoing work of God.

Episode Structure

Scripture Reading & Reflection ([04:00]–[13:00])
Discussion: The Nature of Prayer ([13:01]–[20:22])
Musical Prayer & Storytelling ([15:00]–[20:43])
Practical Analogy and Legacy Stories ([17:09]–[21:30])

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Reflection: From Problem to Creation ([04:00]–[09:00])

Scripture Focus: Genesis 1:1–3
- “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said...” ([05:08])
Central Insight: The Bible doesn't start with a rehearsal of problems ("formless, empty, darkness, deep") but with divine creative speech.
- "We spend far too much energy giving voice to the problem, to what is not. In doing so, we unwittingly magnify the status quo." ([06:40])
Contrast: Humans often focus on their problems, but God begins with creativity, not complaint.
- "God does not begin with rehearsing the problems of the not-yet universe... The biblical foundation for prayer begins neither with pre-existent nothingness, nor with broken everything." ([07:45])

2. The Foundation of Prayer: Faith as Divine Action ([09:01]–[11:00])

Redefining Faith:
- "Faith is the willful decision of a community of people to live the totality of their existence in the light of God and in the world of God’s making. Faith is not asking and hoping. Faith means living in an alternative dimension of reality." ([09:23])
Eternal Perspective: What if reality, as we perceive it (earth), is only 1–10% of the cosmos? Prayer locates us in the wider, unseen world (“the heavens”) that God creates and continuously re-creates.
- "No one ever talks much of the heavens. But what if the heavens make up the other 90% or 99%?" ([09:54])
Prayer as ‘World-Making Speech’:
- "As we get past our technical understanding of saying prayers and seek to understand the deeper milieu of ultimate reality, prayer will take on enormous significance. It will, in fact, enter the realm of world making. That’s what prayer is: world making speech. This is what God does." ([10:40])

3. Memorable Quotes & Notable Moments

On Magnifying Problems:
- "It is as though we go around all day long speaking the words formless, empty, darkness, deep... we even try to convince others of just how formless, empty, dark, and deep the problems we face are." ([06:56])
On the Transforming Power of Prayer:
- "My vision is limited by what I see, instead of being anchored in the greater realm of the unseen. I welcome you to crush my thin categories, expand the horizons of my understanding, and blow my mind right here, Jesus. Right now, Jesus." — J.D. Walt ([11:20])

4. Journal Prompts & Reflection Questions ([11:25]–[13:00])

Prompt 1: How do you magnify life’s problems (“formless, empty, darkness, deep”)? What would it take to stop?
- “I think it would take learning the creative speech of prayer. It would mean learning to talk like God talks.” ([12:06])
Prompt 2: What portion of reality is visible vs. unseen? (Encouraging listeners to ponder the cosmic scale.)
Prompt 3: What does it mean to ‘pray like God speaks’—to speak creative, faith-filled words over people and situations?

5. Singing & the Spirit: “Spirit of the Living God” ([14:52]–[16:45])

J.D. and his father, David Walt, lead the classic hymn as a prayer of invocation for God’s Spirit to “fall afresh” on them and the community.
- "The spirit of God is always hovering about us, wanting to fill us up, wanting to melt us, mold us, fill us and use us." ([15:01])
Memorable Moment: Singing together (“Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me...”) underscores prayer as longing for renewal and presence.

6. Practical Analogy: “Gut Pipe” and Irrigation as Prayer ([17:09]–[18:47])

David Walt explains the farm irrigation process (“gut pipe”): water piped to thirsty fields as a metaphor for prayer.
- "Just think about yourself as gut pipe. The spirit of God is coming in. You punch a hole, let the flow fall afresh on me and flow out of me." ([18:06])
Insight: True prayer channels God’s presence to the “dry, parched land” of life—the Spirit flows “through us, not just to us.”

7. Legacy Prayer & Singing: “We Need a Rain” ([19:25]–[20:43])

The hosts recall family memories of singing a prayer for “a rain about an inch and a half” while riding across farm fields, reminding listeners that sometimes God answers with rain, sometimes with other provision.
- "We need a reign of mercy. We need a reign of provision. We need a reign of healing. We need a reign of joy. We need a reign of peace. And that's a way of praying. Just go sing that song. Inch and a half." ([20:27])

Key Quotes with Timestamps

“Faith means living in an alternative dimension of reality.” ([09:38] J.D. Walt)
“Prayer will take on enormous significance. It will, in fact, enter the realm of world making. That’s what prayer is: world making speech.” ([10:40] J.D. Walt)
“Just think about yourself as gut pipe. The spirit of God is coming in. You punch a hole, let the flow fall afresh on me and flow out of me.” ([18:06] David Walt)
“We need a reign of mercy. We need a reign of provision. We need a reign of healing. We need a reign of joy. We need a reign of peace. And that's a way of praying...” ([20:27] J.D. Walt)

Noteworthy Illustrations & Metaphors

Gut Pipe: A practical, agricultural metaphor for channels of prayer, reinforcing the idea that God’s spirit is meant to flow through us into the world.
Rain Prayer: A tangible example of childlike, persistent faith, and the familial legacy of praying concretely for needs.

Takeaways for Listeners

Begin and root prayer not in problem repetition but in creative, faith-filled speech that echoes God’s creative act.
Live and pray with an awareness of the “unseen” world—the 90% or 99% of reality that is God's realm.
Let prayer be the channel (“gut pipe”) through which God’s Spirit and world-making power flow out to refresh the world.
Engage prayer as both personal and community-forming, with songs and simple petitions—practical and poetic.

Closing Thoughts

This episode of The Wake-Up Call reframes prayer as creative speech rooted in God’s Word and presence, rather than problem amplification. Through rich metaphors, scripture, and songs, J.D. Walt and his father invite the community to become conduits of God’s renewing life—to “pray like God speaks,” ushering in God’s kingdom “right here, right now.”

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All right, Sower Nation, good morning. It is Wednesday, August 12th, in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm John David Walt, and this is your wake up call. I don't do this very often. I rarely do it outside of my own family, immediate family members. But I got two birthdays today. I just want to remember. I want to remember Maxi Dunham. It's his birthday today. My mentor and friend. And I want to remember my first friend and best friend all the way to the present day, Jeff Estes. Jeff's down there in Madison, Mississippi, his birthday today. And Maxie's in Memphis, Tennessee. So here we go. You ready for consecration? Today we're meeting with Jesus. He's pulled us all together here. Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you. I fix my eyes on you. I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. Jesus, we belong to you. And we're praying in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, today's entry is entitled in the beginning Prayer. In our text. We went all the way back to the beginning. Genesis, chapter one, verses one through three. Hear now the word of the Lord. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, and we'll just leave a pregnant pause at the end of that text and say the word of the Lord. Now consider this formless, empty, darkness, deep. Roll those four words around and off the tip of your tongue a few times so your ears can hear them. Formless, empty, darkness, deep. Just repeat them after me one by one. Formless, empty, darkness, deep. That's our problem. We spend far too much energy giving voice to the problem, to what is not. And in doing so, we unwittingly magnify the status quo, the present state of affairs. How often in the course of a single day do we give voice to and so amplify our problems. We speak of this family conflict and that work challenge and this sickness and that global ticking time bomb. It is as though we go around all day long speaking the words formless, empty, darkness, deep. We even try to convince others of just how formless, empty, dark and deep the problems we face are not. Who does not do this? God. The Bible does not begin with God rehearsing the problems of the not yet universe. If God were to say Formless, empty darkness and deep, it would only multiply them exponentially. At the same time, the Bible does not deny this reality of nothingness. Just as rehearsing the reality does not reorder it. Neither does denying the problem diminish it. The Good News, chapter one does not begin with verse two. The key is verse one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The biblical foundation for prayer begins neither with pre existent nothingness, nor with broken everything. Our whole understanding and practice of prayer must begin with the beginning, Genesis 1:1. It means prayer begins with faith. Now, by faith I don't mean to say the activity of human belief, but the reality of divine action. Faith is the willful decision of a community of people to live the totality of their existence in the light of God and in the world of God's making. Faith is not asking and hoping. Faith means living in an alternative dimension of reality. What if the world we see with our eyes only comprises 10% of reality? Or even 1%? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. No one ever talks much of the heavens. But what if the heavens make up the other 90% or 99%? What if the heavens and the earth were actually a seamless part of a unified whole? What if the fall of humanity breached this unity? And what if the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit inaugurated a new age wherein the heavens have broken in on the earth. We understand these what ifs as eternal verities. And these eternal verities are not our faith. They are the faith. As we get past our technical understanding of saying prayers and seek to understand the deeper milieu of ultimate reality, prayer will will take on enormous significance. It will in fact, enter the realm of world making. That's what prayer is, world making speech. This is what God does. Remember now the last three words of today's text. Right in the midst of formless, empty darkness. Deep. Here are the three words. And God said, let's pray. Lord Jesus, you are right here, right now. I confess I so often give more focus to what is formless, empty, dark and deep than to the God who created the heavens and the earth. My vision is limited by what I see. Instead of being anchored in the greater realm of the unseen, I welcome you to crush my thin categories, expand the horizons of my understanding and blow my mind right here, Jesus. Right now, Jesus. Amen. Got a few journal prompts today. Number one. How do you find yourself magnifying the problems in life? Magnifying formless, empty darkness and deep. I know I do it. I know I do it. What would it take to stop this? I think it would take learning the creative speech of prayer. It would mean learning to talk like God talks. And God said right in the beginning, prayer, I think God is when God begins speaking creation, this is prayer. And God's prayers are answered. And there was. Let there be, and there was. We'll go to that tomorrow. Number two question. Where do you put the percentages? What do you think is the percentage of the. Of the cosmos really of what we can see? And what is the percentage of what is unseen? What is unseen, like the earth is what percent the heavens is what percent. Think about that. I know these are big, big questions. They're unknowable. They're unsolvable. But I'm inviting you into a realm of exploration and, like, pondering. Can we do that this week? Third question. What do you think of this understanding of prayer that I'm positing as learning to speak as God speak. Like when I go into a hospital room and I'm going to pray for somebody who's sick in there, do I want to just talk like I talk, or do I want to actually begin to broach the possibility of speaking into and over and around this person like God speaks? I bet you they want the latter. I think they would pick that 10 out of 10 times. Teach us. Teach us to pray, Lord. All right, we gotta hand it off. We got dad here. He's here all week, and we're having a good time together. So we're gonna sing today. Here we go. All right. We're having a. We're having a good week here on the Wake Up Call. I love these little mini series, and we're talking about prayer. I haven't even said a word about this, but actually I'm pulling these entries from a book that I've written on prayer. I wrote a whole book, a whole Wake Up Call series years ago, called right here, right now. Jesus.
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Let me have a copy of it.
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You want a copy? Yeah, I'll get you a copy.
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You get me one.
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It's called Moving from a Prayer Life to a Life of Prayer.
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That's all like the title.
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Moving from a Prayer Life to a Life of Prayer. And this. This book, it is. I say this every time. It's my favorite. It's kind of like all my kids are all my favorites. But I'm your favorite kid, right? Sorry, Missy and Erica. You didn't say that. I did. There's 66 different entries in this book, and I'm not going to hawk it here, but just. I just want to let you know that's where this is coming from. Now today we are, we're looking at an entry called in the Beginning Prayer. We've already gone through it. But, dad, the bottom line is how the Bible opens up says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now, the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep. Okay. Formless, empty darkness, deep. That describes a lot of situations in this world. Now, scary, scary. That's the world that we live in, sadly. But what's this next verse? And the spirit of God was hovering over the. The waters. And so we're always going out into situations of formless, empty darkness deep. But the spirit of God is hovering. And so we're going to sing a song today that. That gets at that. It's a prayer to the Holy Spirit and it's one that everybody knows here pretty much. But we're going to sing it through twice. Tell them what it is.
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Is it Spirit of the Living God.
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That's the one.
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What's the number?
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299.
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299.
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I know that song.
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The spirit of God is always hovering about us, wanting to fill us up, wanting to melt us, mold us, fill us and use us. So this is going to be. It's another great prayer of longing that we're going to sing this week. And we sang this a lot in our Mark series, but it's good, good to reprise it today. You ready?
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Of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on melty morning Fill me you. The spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.
[16:03]
A
Sing it again.
[16:04]
C
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me un me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
[16:45]
A
Amen.
[16:46]
B
That's a good one.
[16:48]
A
That's. That's an everyday. That's a song that you want to sing out on the road when you're out in the work in the fields doing the. The things today.
[16:57]
B
Yeah.
[16:58]
A
You can always say, come, Holy Spirit. Yep, he's there. He'll come closer.
[17:04]
B
I'll sing to the gut pipe.
[17:09]
A
That's. Gut pipe. That's what they water with now. They roll out these long plastic rolls. My cousin the other day told me that they had laid 37 miles of gut pipe. You roll it out, you pump the water in it and you punch Holes
[17:32]
B
you punch about in a quarter of a mile, you might punch, oh, 100
[17:39]
A
holes, and those go down the rows. That's a great notion of prayer, isn't it?
[17:44]
B
Yeah, it's just pushing water out, Right. And the pressure you have depends on how many holes you can push, because you need a good stream, so it won't take so long to water and that.
[18:00]
A
Just think about yourself as gut pipe. The spirit of God is coming in. You punch a hole, let the.
[18:06]
B
Let the flow fall afresh on me.
[18:09]
A
All the fresh on me and flow out of me.
[18:12]
B
Right.
[18:12]
A
That's a good. That's a good word, Dad. I never thought of that before. That's a. That's a motif of prayer. We're irrigating dry and parched land out there, right.
[18:24]
B
We're watering those beans, and, you know, God will give us rain, but he also gives us knowledge until he can get the rain going to water the beans.
[18:37]
A
That's good. We pray for rain. He says, well, how about some gut pipe? Yeah, how about you hook up to that? Well, I'm gonna bring you rain, but I'll also help you water.
[18:47]
B
Right. And just think who all I gotta bring rain to. And you're not.
[18:52]
A
First you got to bring rain to a lot of people. A lot of people get in line. That's good. I like that. It's not God helps those who help themselves. It's God helps us help ourselves, and then he just helps us more.
[19:16]
B
Right. He's. He says, we might not be doing all that good a job. Then he'll pull a plough over and it'll rain an inch, inch and a half.
[19:26]
A
We need a rain. You want to teach him that song right quick?
[19:28]
B
Yeah.
[19:29]
C
We need a rain about an inch and a half. We need a rain about an inch and a half. We need a rain about an inch and a half. Have faith. It will.
[19:44]
A
Where did we learn that song?
[19:46]
B
Probably out in the field.
[19:47]
A
Dad would take me and Missy and Erica. We'd need a rain. He'd get us in the truck, he said, we're gonna go pray. And they drive around the farm.
[19:56]
B
That's right.
[19:57]
A
Field to field. And dad would lead us in that song.
[20:00]
B
We'd sing that song and. And, you know, sometimes it wouldn't rain, but a lot of times it would rain. But you know, when it wouldn't rain, God will take care of the crop.
[20:14]
A
Yep.
[20:14]
B
Because he knows that we're trying.
[20:18]
A
That's right. But we would sing that song. That was a prayer.
[20:23]
B
That's right.
[20:23]
A
And you know What? There's a lot of situations in your life, in our life where we need a rain.
[20:28]
B
That's right. We need them. We need it now.
[20:31]
A
We need a reign of mercy. We need a reign of provision. We need a reign of healing. We need a reign of joy. We need a reign of peace. And that's a way of praying. Just go sing that song. Inch and a half.
[20:44]
B
Yeah. Inch and a half. It just. That's usually a perfect rain. Not too much, but enough. It's not.
[20:51]
A
Not too much. Yeah. Sometimes you might need to go on up to two. You don't want to go three.
[20:56]
C
Usually.
[20:57]
B
No, it's a little too much.
[20:59]
A
Three is a little much, but it's.
[21:04]
B
Yeah, we got to do it.
[21:05]
A
We got to let them go, dad. We got to let them get out in the field where they can pray for rain today.
[21:10]
B
Right? You just pray for rain for everybody?
[21:14]
A
Yep.
[21:15]
B
Everybody that needs it. Now, some people, if they just got through watering, you know, they don't need a rain.
[21:20]
A
That's right.
[21:22]
B
So. All right. But God knows who did and who doesn't.
[21:25]
A
Yes. For The Awakening. I'm J.D. wall.
[21:29]
B
And I'm David Wall.
[21:30]
A
We'll see you on the field.