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Let us pray. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27.1 Thank you, Lord, for saving me from the darkness of my sins that led to death. I was lost until you shined your glorious light into my darkness and revealed your truth. Joy entered into my heart once I found you and gave me strength. You are the strength of my life.

I can live without anyone or anything but you. You are my provider, protector, provision, deliverer, and soon coming king. There is nothing anyone in this world can do to make me afraid when I know you are surrounding me. You defeated my enemies on the cross and I declare that victory over my circumstances. I refuse all fear. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Welcome to Pray.com's Sunday service. We are Ignite Christian Business, a community of spirit-led business leaders dedicated to encouraging and empowering one another as leaders, family members, and believers so that the marketplace can become the miracle place. We are honored to be your hosts. Today we wanted to share an episode of our Ignite Kingdom Talk podcast featuring our co-founders, Craig and Desiree Booyer.

Craig and Desiree are a success story where the first line of every chapter reads, Then God moved. As co-founders of Ignite and as president and vice president of Extreme Recognition, Desiree and Craig have sown themselves in obedience to God's leading and been blessed mightily as a result. You can find more from the Booyers on the Pray.com app and everywhere you access Ignite Media. Let's pray. Father, thank you for choosing each of us.

Thank you for the opportunity to be called children of God. King Jesus, it is an overwhelming privilege to live, speak, and serve in your name. Holy Spirit, thank you for dwelling in us, safeguarding our hearts for the truth. Lord God, thank you for empowering us to live like you, loving the people around us, made in your image. Thank you for the gift of faith given to each of us.

Let it grow and flourish that you would have the full measure of glory through us. We love you, God. Friends, may your faith and hope be ignited afresh and anew right now in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey guys, we're so happy to be back with you. Ignite.

Kingdom Talk. I've got my beautiful wife Desiree back with us. And guys, we just got done. We just got done with our conference just a couple weeks ago. And it's like, oh my gosh, we're just kind of coming off of this

this big exciting thing that just happened. And there were so many great things that happened. So many things that took place during the conference. What, what's some of the, what's some of the things that stuck out, stood out to you more than, more than anything? Well, we had incredible worship music worship with Jasmine Brady and higher ground, but I would have to say just how hungry people were to glean and to

The speakers did not disappoint. They were so powerful and the things that they taught and brought and revelation that came, it was, and even some of the struggles that a couple of the speakers had in getting there, Sean Foy had such trouble getting there. In fact, he said it was the most difficult place he had ever had. The flights canceled. In fact, he had to fly into Des Moines to get to Omaha to rent a car. He drove.

And so that was crazy. And that happened to one other speaker. I can't remember who the other speaker was right now, but the same type of thing. Yeah, but so many things, so many hindrances happened this time around that we just knew. We just knew that God was going to do something big. And he did. And it's just, it's just, but I think I'm going to back up a little bit. The hunger. Yeah. The hunger that is there.

with the people is to me, it's encouraging

They're hungry, they're looking. And as business professionals, as business owners, kingdom minded people, we wanna go to a different level. We wanna go to a higher level. We wanna make a difference. And I think this conference was one of those things that encouraged people to step out. And I guess I just gotta read this out of Psalms.

Talking about fearless faith. But listen to this. The Lord is my revelation light to guide me along the way. He's the source of my salvation to defend me every day. I fear no one. That's good. I fear no one. I'll never turn back and run from you, Lord. Surround and protect me. The evil one comes to destroy me.

They will be the ones who turn back. My heart will not be afraid. Even if an army arises to attack, I know that you are there for me. So I will not be shaken. That's encouraging. I will not be shaken. Here's the one thing I crave from God. The one thing I seek above all else. I want the privilege of living with him.

Every moment in his house, finding the sweet lovingness, lovingness of his face, filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace. This is good. I was just going to read a little bit. I think you okay if I just read this whole chapter here? I want to live my life so close to him that he takes pleasure in my every prayer.

Listen to this word. You like that, don't you? Yeah.

aesthetic joy. Yes, listen and you can hear the fanfare of my shouts of praise to the Lord. God, hear my cry. Show me your grace. Show me your mercy and send the help I need. Lord, when you said to me, seek my face, my inner being responded. I'm seeking your face with all my heart. I don't

I didn't hide yourself, Lord, when I come to find you. You're the God of my salvation. How can you reject your servant in anger? You've been my only hope. So don't forsake me now when I need you. My father and mother abandoned me. I'm like an orphan, but you took me in and made me yours.

Now teach me all about your ways and tell me what to do. I mean, we're searching for what to do. Lord, tell us what to do. Make it clear for me to understand for I'm surrounding by waiting enemies. Don't let them defeat me, Lord. You can't let me fall into their clutches. They keep accusing me of things I've never done while they plot evil against me.

Yet I totally trust you to rescue me one more time. Amen. He'll do it again so that I can see once again how good you are while I'm still alive. Here's what I've learned through it all. This is the best part. Don't give up. Don't be impatient. You always say I'm impatient, but don't be impatient. Be entwined as one with the Lord.

Be brave and courageous and never lose hope. Yes, keep on waiting for he will never disappoint you. What a great word. That is a great word. What a great word. That's Psalms 27. And that's David actually before he was anointed king. And again, guys, we look to the word.

For our hope. We look to the world. We look to him. Lord, what do we do next? How do we do this? How do we navigate in this stuff that we're living in? And how do we operate our businesses? How do we go to market? How do we do this work?

you know, with our employees, how we, you know, how do we resist or what are we supposed to do in this woke culture that we live in? And I think everything we need is right here in the word. And there's so many times that, you know, we talked about it on the way here, you know, Des, why is it that we give up so easily anymore? I think we have a drive-through mentality where

we're used to just instant answers. You get online, you order something from Amazon, it's there the next day and in some cities it's there that afternoon if you order it in the morning. And you drive through to get your food, your coffee or do your banking. You know, the majority of it you can do on just driving through or online and it's just instant. And I think it's, we have lost the practice of patience and

Even, you know, when a farmer goes out and he tills the soil and removes all of the, you know,

the weeds and gets it the soil rich and ready to you know plant the seeds in then you have to cover it and you water it I'm not a farmer but this is kind of what you do and and then you begin to see a sprout come up and you just see this little tiny seed that looks like nothing and once it's planted

you know, and it sprouts. And if you allow it to continue to grow and nurture it and water it and the sun shines on it, you end up with a harvest, a crop. And

in that there's no fast. I mean, I guess there's bioengineered foods and all of that kind of stuff, which isn't food. But we want to wait on what's good. And so many things are counterfeit nowadays as well. And so anyways, I just believe that there is a waiting on the Lord. And some of the most incredible things that we've ever been through

Received from the Lord have been through hard times Long, you know where you're waiting for a long period of time for something and you keep praying you keep seeking God Lord when you can answer that, you know and Then in his time and in his way he answers and he never disappoints and so You talked about Joseph you talked about Joseph there at the conference. He waited and

Oh, he waited. Yeah, yeah, he waited a long time. He waited. But tell us, back up a little bit. Tell that story how he was in the pit, his brothers came back. And because you revealed something to me that I'd never thought of. When his brothers come back, they put him in the pit, and then they come back. Yeah. And what happens then? Well, when they came back, you know, poor Joseph died.

And he's, you know, in the pit and his brothers come and they're bringing him out. And at that moment, I can just imagine Joseph, like it kind of could get you emotional thinking about it, that he's just like, you know, I have a father that loves me.

And this is family. This is my family. And my brothers, you know, they're coming back to say they're sorry. They're coming back to get me out. And, you know, they're trying to teach me a lesson, whatever it might be. And instead they said, oh, we see a caravan coming. We can sell our brother and make money off of him. And so they lift him out to only betray him again.

and how the wounding of your heart, it was bad enough to be in the pit once, but then to be sold twice, you know, like for the second time. And I just think how it would be so easy to carry that offense and that wound. But the story, you know, then goes where he's in Potiphar's house and everything he did touch. It was just success and favor.

And then Potiphar's wife tried to seduce him and he said no. And so he ends up in prison for doing something that was good and right. And that the Lord would have been, yeah, that's my boy. And yet he found himself in prison unjustly. And so I just look at that and I think in the worst time, and so many people can find themselves in a place where you feel imprisoned, you feel in a dark place.

And yet it's in those places that God is refining and redefining who we are and who Joseph was to be. And the favor in that that was even on him and the success. But he never lost hope. He, you know, interpreted dreams even in the prison where he didn't have to do that. And, you know, that one day he interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams and the king brought him out.

And then elevated him and he was second in command and the beautiful part of this I mean the whole story is incredible But when you know, it wasn't just a nation. It was nations that came to get food and be fed and so by the Lord allowing him to be in that place and

and have the mind and have a kingdom mindset because he was, obviously the Lord was grooming him into being a man that was able to be successful in all that he did and everything he put his hand to and his mind and that he had visions and dreams and could interpret. And so when he was in that place, I just really believe that the

favor of God being so strong on and one of Pastor Kent and then Pastor Hank just the other day was talking to you about the favor of God and man and how important that is. And, you know, Samuel grew in favor and stature with both God and man. And you could tell that Joseph was a man who grew in favor with both God and man and how when he was called out and into the kingdom,

And his brothers came. It says he wept over them and kissed them. And obviously, he had to have forgiven during the process of being in prison. And maybe part of the time of him being in prison was to make sure that there was no wound. No, you know, maybe part of the length of the time was being able to let go and just I'm not wounded. I forgive them. I love them.

and being able to actually walk that out when he saw them again. Yeah, and think of the church. Think of all the offenses, all the things that people get offended by, leave the church, or get bitter, of just little things. And look what happens. Look what he goes through, went through, but yet forgave. And I just think what a different story

What a different story that would be if there was unforgiveness. Totally different story, totally different outcome. But yet he forgave. He endured. He never, ever gave up. I'm sure he had to have wanted to at some point to give up, but he didn't. He kept the faith and kept going and going strong. I just think we need that.

I just think we need that mentality. I think we need to get back to who we are in Christ and understanding that he's there. He's never left us. He's never going to forsake us. And to continue on in such a bold way.

And it's like, we just, we give up way too soon. Marriages, look at marriages all the time. I think of how you and I fought for our marriage, but it's like any more people just, they give up so easily and it's over, sometimes it's just over silliness, silly things, fixable things. And it's easier for them in their thinking just to give up.

And I even think that of businesses.

how many times people have a great idea. Maybe it's something that God breathed, maybe it's something God downloaded on them, but they came up against some difficult times. And instead of fighting through seeking wisdom, seeking counsel, they've just given up and let it go, let it go along the wayside. And I just think if we can just get back to fighting for what we believe,

fighting for truth. It's in every area. It's in every area of our life. And I just think once we get back to the word, once we get into the word where we need to be as believers, as business owners, man, I just think we can make a huge impact, a huge change within our culture, within our cities. Well, I

the story about Isaac and Abraham and Isaac, you know, there's so many people, like you said, about wanting to give up on business, wanting to give up on marriages, your family, you've got a prodigal child, whatever it might be. But I think when people really understand the kingdom and you understand who your father is and, you know, our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be your name.

He's holy. He's just. He's righteous. He's everything. Like, there's not enough words that could ever describe the beauty of the Father and of the Son. And, you know, we are joint heirs with Jesus. And I just wanted to read...

for anyone who is going through a place where you feel like it's been dry and barren and where, Lord, where are you? You gave me a promise, you know, and it's been how many years and I'm getting old and I'm not, you know, I feel like I'm not going to see that come to fruition. And with Abraham, you know, he was 99 or 100. And it says, you know, he had heard the word of the Lord.

through an angel saying that you're gonna have a child and You know Sarah laughed and like yeah, right why it kind of funny and But I thought even so says Genesis 22 says sometimes late sometime later God tested Abraham and so I know many times we feel like you're in a testing period and we do go through tests and it says

He said to him, Abraham, here I am, he replied. Then God said, take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about. And I thought about that. And I thought, okay, you've given me the promise of my son. And, you know, he told Abraham that you won't be able to count the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore.

through this promised son of yours, but now I'm asking you to go kill him and sacrifice him. And I just thought, I feel like so many people, regardless of what it might be, it's your business. Your business has been successful and you know that God gave you this business and all of a sudden it's nosediving and it's like, do you still trust the Lord even when it looks not good? And so I

It says,

On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you." And I thought, well, there's a key right there because so many people, they hear something and it's like you're in a place of testing. And the number one thing to do in a place of testing, obviously, is to obey what God is saying.

And to worship. To worship. To worship and not be, woe is me. Oh, my gosh, I'm undone. How in the world is this going to even come to pass like what God has spoken, what God has promised? God's promises are always yes and amen. Like he is always faithful, even when we're not faithful. But the obedience of Abraham, and it says,

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife, and the two of them went on together. Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, he says, Father, yes, my son, Abraham replied, the fire and the wood are here, Isaac said, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And you just think right there and you think, gosh, we have a son.

and for your son to say, Dad, you know, where's the offering? Where's the lamb? Where is what we're going to sacrifice to the Lord, because we're going up to sacrifice something. And normally they would have taken the, you know, whatever animal they were sacrificing with them. And he says, this is so crucial.

Abraham answered, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering my son. And the two of them went together. Life and death is in the power of the tongue. And so when we speak life, when we speak faith, God delivers. And because he made the promise to Abraham about his son. So I just think that's just powerful. When they reached the place God had told them about, Abraham built an altar.

and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. And I thought, Oh, even that, you know, you have to know he's old enough to talk. He's old enough to say dad and no, he carried the wood and he carried the wood up and not. And so at that point, I really believe that Abraham it doesn't say but I really feel like Abraham had to say son, God is requiring me to sacrifice you.

and because he knew God, you know, Father God as Father as well because of what Abraham had modeled. I feel like he had to willingly lay down his life just as Jesus willingly laid down his life because his father had asked him for to do that. And so, and he said, no one can take my life. I lay it down willingly. And I feel like Isaac had to lay it down willingly because how would a hundred-year-old man

be able to catch his son, tie his son, fight with his son to bind him to the altar. Like I just don't know humanly if you could actually do that and have a crying, wailing son laying there. And yet there had to be the peace of God to know at that moment that God is going to either resurrect the son. And so anyways, it goes on. It says, then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

We love the word but in there. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham, here I am, he replied. Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son. Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by his horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

So Abraham called that place the Lord will provide. And so I just feel there's so many people that might be listening and are watching and that you're just in a place of feeling so tested. So, oh, God, this is a hard place. I don't think there could be a more difficult place than what Abraham was in in that. But it was accredited to him as righteousness. And he was known as the father of faith.

And through his through Isaac, the generations and the blessings of Abraham, you know, that went on to his son into the generations to follow. And I just feel like had he not obeyed, where would we be? Where would you know? And so I feel like there's a lot of us that are in the place of do you trust God? Do you willingly lay down the dreams and the promises that God has given you?

to see the Lord raise it back up and to see it then become a harvest. And because the harvest of souls, the harvest of people through Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and the seed, you know, that continued on. And to worship, get back into that. I think that's a crucial point of what he did through that test, through that whole test. They walked up

to where that took place, worshiping. Well, and I really feel like you read all throughout the Old Testament that when they would go to worship, sacrifice always accompanied worship.

And when Moses went to say, let my people go to Pharaoh so that we can go and worship, but they had to take the livestock with them to be able to sacrifice. So sacrifice and worship are hand in hand. I think even when Sunday morning you think, well, what does it cost on a Sunday morning or every day when you're at home worshiping the Lord, but you are setting aside time. You're getting lost in time.

just in love with the one that you love, like praising and worshiping the Lord. And there is a place of just being abandoned to him. And God, it doesn't matter what's going on in my life. It's just, you're going to come through. You are the one I adore. You are the one that I, my eyes and my gaze are fixed upon you.

My ears are tuned because had Abraham not had his ears attuned to the spirit when the angel spoke and said, Abraham, Abraham, you know, don't hurt your son. Don't touch your son. He had to hear. And then he had to see. And God calls our ears to be in a place where we can hear and our eyes to be where we can see and to keep our eyes so fixed upon him. He's the author and the finisher of our faith.

And I believe he does want to just pour out so much blessing that we cannot contain it. But worship is always going to be key in encountering the Lord. Wow. Wow. So if you're out there, you're thinking about starting a business. She just told you. You just laid out a business plan right there. Here's what you need to do. And here's the things that you need to put into place. And I love these. I love how God works.

shows us reveals to us but how important we get so we get so caught up with the things of the things of the day things of the world that we we just kind of scoot those things off and and we don't go back into the word or again we give up he could have gave up and and and and not

I don't know. It's just, it says, wow, what a, what a powerful story. And there's even things in there that every time, every time you read it, every time you, you read a story within the word, you kind of learn something new that, that, that God maybe reveals, you know, the Holy Spirit reveals something different to you or in a, in a, even in a deeper, a deeper way. What would you, what would you say to people that,

or maybe starting a business or thinking of starting a business and comparing it to this right here, how would you navigate that? Well, I would say first, even before I answer that, when Abraham first was told that he's going to have a son and it's not going to be that his inheritance wasn't going to be going to

his name's Elias, I don't even know how to pronounce his name right, but anyways, pretend I did. But it's confirmed that no, you're going to have a son that will be your own seed. And it says after that, he took animals and he cut them in half and

And there's an important part in there. And I never really paid much attention to it. But it says he had to drive off the birds that were coming the prey that was coming to eat the sacrifice. And I thought, how many times when we're worshiping and you're sacrificing, like there's a sacrifice and you're worshiping, you know,

And it's something costly. You're having a bad day. Your work is crazy. And yet you're saying, Lord, I'm just going to go and spend an hour, two hours, whatever it may be. I just need to be with you. I need to hear from you. I just need to love on you. And how many times those birds come to try to take away your worship, take away what you're doing. And it says Abraham shooed them away.

And I thought we need to shoo away the things that will come to try to stop your worship, to stop your time with the Lord and to get clean revelation from the Lord. It's very hard to get revelation from the Lord when you were just reading 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there. But to absolutely set aside time, because in order to worship back in the Old Testament,

that it required time. You had to repair the altar and there's a lot of places in us. I feel like there's repairs that need to take place. And because we've been wounded in churches, we've been wounded by family, friends, you know, we've been just

And Christians are the worst for shooting the wounded. And I just feel like even in that, I'm kind of rabbit trailing a little bit, but that we need to become unified as the body of Christ. And, you know, we are a strong, vast army when we lock arms and we lift one another up. And to be the brother, I just quick with David.

It says after he was anointed, you know, I'm sure his brothers were very, well, they were very jealous, it says. But it says that they would bicker with him when he came out to kill Goliath, you know, and, oh, you know, what are you coming to do? And like kind of belittling, mocking, making fun of him. But it was so interesting to me that when David then is running from King Saul and he has his mighty men,

his brothers became part of the mighty men. And I'm like, Lord, let us

those brothers that have been filled with jealousy, like I want to be king. I want to be on the platform. I want to lead worship. I want to whatever I, I, I, and instead it's like, Lord, what place do you have me? Where would you want me to be? I may not be the owner of a business, but God, if I can help that business get to the next level, but God, if you do want me to be a business owner, I,

Lord, bring those people that are going to lock arms with you to help you get to that next level. And so I just think that's just a beautiful story because they had to have humbled themselves to be able to come and be under his authority. Wow, isn't that something? You know, guys, again, the Ignite Christian business, really, that's kind of our heart. We want to be able to be there for people not only physically,

successful business owners, but those people that are starting out, how do you do this? How do you take the next step? We want to be there for you. We want to be able to help you guys take that next step and bring even the resources or the people that can help. I remember, I talk about this all the time, but I remember it like it was yesterday when we first started in business. There was absolutely, it just felt like we were

on this island all by ourselves, didn't know what we were doing. We kind of didn't know what we were doing, but we knew we were doing the right thing. But there almost wasn't that help. There wasn't that, even when we asked other, even other believers, you know, how do you do this? It just wasn't much of an answer. There wasn't a direction. And, you know, you try to seek wisdom. You try to seek understanding on what to do.

That really is kind of the heart cry for Ignite. And you guys need to check out a little bit more. Go to ignite-cb.com. You'll find a lot of great information there. But let's get back to that story, that story of David just going up, going up. And he wasn't going there to fight Goliath.

He was going there because he answered the call of his father to take his brother's lunch, right? Snacks. Some cheese and crackers or whatever it is. And he goes up there and is almost, I don't want to say embarrassed, but he can't believe that no one has taken a stand against this Philistine.

But yet there he is and the leadership, the leadership even within him, the boldness to be able to step out, step up and conquer a giant, kill a giant. What a story right there. What a testimony of courage.

of just doing it, just going, just doing that. I mean, he didn't plan it. He didn't have a business plan. He didn't have an attack plan. He just had that thing in his heart. And sometimes, I don't know, I'm not saying you don't need a business plan. Don't take that wrong. But I'm saying there's sometimes where when God lays something on your heart,

I think you just need to step out and go and just do it. And that was David at that time. He didn't strategize with anybody else on how to go slay this giant. He knew exactly what he did because of the past experiences that he had with slaying a bear,

I can't remember what else was there, but just take either one of those. And that's a pretty good track record right there. And he goes and he does the exact same thing, but that boldness that he has, he stepped out and he did it. And oh my gosh, you know, I'm thinking of today's world, how many times we would start to weigh the...

you know, this is this, this challenge is too big. He's too, he's a, it's too big. I can't, I can't do it. I'll never, I'll never do that. And he didn't go and ask everybody because look at, look at what would happen if David would have asked his brothers, asked all the people, all those mighty military people, look what would have happened. Look at all the bad negative,

all those different things that he would have had. And it's like, oh my gosh, but he stepped up and just did it. What a story. Well, and I'm just thinking of when David was, when he was 14,

So he's against Goliath. And I thought it's interesting how it mentions that he's a small, ruddy boy. And so that would even make it that much greater for the giant to be able to annihilate a small, ruddy boy. Like there was nothing to his size. But the faith and the heart of him was obviously so in tune with the spirit of God. But none of that could have happened, I don't believe,

without the anointing of the Lord upon him. And he had been anointed by Samuel to become king at that point. And so it's just interesting because I think anyone...

who has a business plan from the Lord, a kingdom strategy that is released in and through that you may not even know. But at the moment you walk into it, he knew he had his sling grabbed, you know, five stones and he knew that I've got what I need. And with the faith and determination and the anointing of the Holy Ghost,

He went and he's like, how dare you come, you know, come against me and against the Lord. And how dare you defy the living God? And he just took it and believe, you know, that the Holy Spirit aimed that rock right to his head. He falls and he takes a sword and severs it like this will not come back. There is nothing that can, you know, come back to get us on from this giant. And it was gone. But I just really feel like I just want to pray for some of the people that are listening. Do it.

And so, Father, we thank you. We thank you for your goodness, your mercy, your love. God, you are the one that never changes. You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. And what you did for Joseph, what you did for David, Lord, God, you will do. And what you did for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, you will do for us. So whatever situation you may find yourself in,

Jesus, you are more than enough and that you are at the right hand of the Father interceding on our behalf.

and that there is nothing too difficult. You take everything that could be wrong and you bring good from it, Lord. As long as we keep our eyes upon you, as long as we hear your voice and listen and obey, that we walk in faith, Lord, you give us the steps of the righteous are ordered of you. So Lord, I pray you order each person, each listener steps, Lord, today. God, that your gifts and your blessings and the fruit and the gifts of your spirit

are there, Lord, for the taking, that we reach out and we grab and we take a hold of that which you have said to take a hold of, Lord. And God, that we apply kingdom strategies, kingdom principles to our lives, Lord, that we seek first the kingdom of God and your righteousness and everything will be added to us. So, Lord, we thank you that you never disappoint.

that even in the time of testing and trials, Lord, God, the end is always worth going through the testing and the trials.

because, Lord, you refine us in the fire and, Lord, that we come out like pure gold. So, Lord, we pray, make us stronger. Make us more like you in everything we say and everything we do. Let our lives be pleasing to you. Take away hurt. Take away wounds, Lord. We say grab it. Take it from the roots, Lord, and just tear it out of us.

Let us love as you love and let us hate what you hate. And God, be glorified, be magnified in our families, in our marriages, in our businesses. Lord, God, we pray that we become

successful, generous lovers of you, that we never put anything in front of you, no idols, no love of money, of self. Lord, that we give you all the honor, all the glory, all the praises due your name. So we thank you, Lord, and we just bless your holy, wonderful name. And Holy Spirit, as you came upon David, as you were upon Joseph, as you

are upon us, Lord, your children, we pray increase the anointing, Lord, to do what you've called each of us to do, where we've been anointed. God, you are opening doors that no man can shut and shutting doors that we don't want open. So, Father, thank you for your favor.

And we say, Lord, that we would grow in favor and stature with both God and man. Let it be even revealed today in your name. Amen. Amen. Guys, we love being with you. Kingdom strategies. Wow. I love that. I love that word that you used.

Guys, keep the faith. Remember, what you do today determines your success for tomorrow. Go out and conquer. Go out and change your business. Change your world. Change the people around you. We love being with you. Guys, be blessed. We hope you were encouraged by today's session. It was an honor to be with you all today for Pray.com's Sunday service.

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