Learning to Pray, Part 6: When The Enemy Comes Knocking
Type: Wednesday Evening Service
Series: Fresh Fire: Learning to Pray
Sermon: Part 6: When The Enemy Comes Knocking
🗣️ Speaker: Pastor Daniel Hahn
The final petition of the Lord's Prayer — "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" — is not a prayer of weakness, but one of honest self-awareness and deep dependence on God. Though God never solicits anyone to sin, He does sovereignly allow His children to walk through seasons of intense testing, just as He did with Jesus, Job, and Peter. This prayer covers both scenarios: asking God to spare us from trials we aren't ready for, and crying out for deliverance when we find ourselves in the middle of them.
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Somebody said praise the Lord.
Boy, it's easy to preach after that.
Amen.
That's good stuff.
All right.
Good evening, everybody.
I am not Pastor Tom.
I am Pastor Daniel.
I am the online campus pastor here at Oxford Assembly.
I get the privilege of bringing the word to you tonight.
Amen.
Thank you.
So, for the past five weeks now, Pastor Tom has been uh walking us through one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture, a prayer that Jesus Himself taught his disciples.
And we've moved through adoration and submission and provision and forgiveness through this prayer.
And tonight we arrive at the final petition of the Lord's Prayer.
And I want to suggest to you that Jesus saved the most urgent for last.
And so we're going to read from our text.
We're in Matthew chapter 6.
So if you have it, you can turn to it.
We'll have it on the screen as well.
Matthew chapter 6.
We're going to read verse 13.
Hang on because it's long.
And lead us not into tempt into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Or as some translations say, the evil one, which we're going to talk more about later.
And the parallel to that is in Luke chapter 11, verse 4, and it says, and lead us not into temptation.
Now I want to be honest with you up front, the petition of the of this part of the Lord's Prayer, this petition has been uh making theologians squirm for about 2,000 years.
Because if it doesn't make you squirm a little bit, you probably haven't really read it carefully enough.
Think about it.
Jesus is asking us to pray to God: lead us not into temptation.
The obvious question hanging in the air is, would he?
Would he lead us into temptation?
Would God lead us?
What are we actually asking here in this verse?
And why does Jesus consider this so essential that he builds this into the model prayer that he gave believers for all across the world and all across time.
Why is it so essential that Jesus left us?
uh this part of this prayer.
So we're gonna dig into that tonight.
But w before we go further, let's take note that Luke's version Of course, uh the gospels are all the account of Jesus, but Luke's version of this prayer is a little bit shorter.
He only records the first half.
Lead us not into temptation.
Matthew gives us both halves.
Lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Most scholars believe that Matthew preserves the fuller form of Jesus teaching while Luke just kind of gives us an abbreviation.
So tonight we're going to primarily work from Matthew's account, the fuller version, but reference Luke where it's helpful.
So let's start at the beginning.
Let's, point number one, let's understand the request that we're making here.
Understanding the request.
What does the word temptation really mean?
Okay, so the Greek word here, and I am not a Greek scholar, and neither are you, so don't judge me.
Okay, I'm gonna butcher the word.
I'm sorry.
Alright, the Greek word here is periasmos It's probably wrong, but that's the word, periesmos.
And it's one of those words that carries a double meaning, and both meanings matter for this text.
Periaasmos can mean temptation, which is a solicitation to sin, an enticement to do evil.
And that's how we usually hear this verse.
But Periesmos can also mean testing or trial, a situation that puts your faith under pressure, not necessarily to destroy it. but to prove it or refine it.
And this distinction is critical because the rest of the New Testament holds both meanings. intention there.
So we need to find out what's happening.
James chapter 1, verses 2 through 4 says this.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials.
The word trials there is our Greek word, periasmos. of various kinds.
For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
There, here it is, right here in this verse, it's in a positive light.
It produces steadfastness in your faith when you go through these trials.
But then just a few verses later, the same chapter of James, verses thirteen through fourteen says, Let no one say when he is tempted That's the same word, periezzo.
I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one, but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed. by his own desire.
So James says God doesn't tempt anyone.
And yet Jesus says, ask God not to lead you into temptation.
Is this a contradiction?
No.
And here's where we need to think carefully.
This is why it matters that we understand this carefully.
God does not solicit us to sin.
James is emphatic about that, and the character of God, through all of Scripture, affirms what we're learning here.
God is holy, he is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
But, and this is important, God does sovereignly allow his children to enter seasons and circumstances where they will be tested and the temptation will be fierce.
Think of the most striking example in all of Scripture, Matthew chapter 4, verse 1.
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Now catch that.
He was led by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
God did not tempt Jesus, Satan did.
But God led Jesus directly into the arena where the temptation would take place.
The Spirit escorted him into the battlefield.
Or think of Job.
God didn't afflict Job.
Satan did.
But God permitted it.
God set boundaries in place and but allowed it to happen.
Or we think of Peter.
In Luke 22, Jesus says, Simon, behold, Satan demanded that I have you, that he might sift you like wheat.
But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.
God allowed the sifting.
Jesus didn't stop it, but he prayed Peter through it.
So when Jesus teaches us to pray, lead us not into temptation, he's teaching us to appeal to God's sovereign governance over our lives.
We're saying, Father, in your providence, as you guide the path of my life, spare me where you see fit from those seasons of extreme testing that I might not be strong enough to endure.
It's a prayer of humility.
It's a prayer of self-knowledge and self-awareness and it might be it might be the most honest prayer you ever make There's an old story about a recovering alcoholic who asked his friend to take a different route to their destination so they wouldn't pass by the old bar that he used to go to.
And his friend says, oh, come on, you've been sober for two years.
You mean you can't just go by this bar?
And the man said, probably I can, but why would I volunteer for the test?
That is the spirit of this part, this portion of the Lord's Prayer.
It's the prayer of a person who has looked honestly in the mirror and said, I know what I'm made of.
I know my weak points.
And I know I'm not going to swagger into the enemy's territory pretending I'm invincible.
Martin Luther reportedly said, you cannot keep birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.
They probably wouldn't nest in my hair.
This prayer is about asking God to limit the number of birds nesting in our hair.
Okay?
This is not a prayer of cowardice.
This is a prayer of wisdom.
Some people read this petition and they hear weakness.
Don't don't lead me into temptation, Lord.
They hear weakness.
But it's actually the opposite.
Proverbs 22, 3 says, the prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
We're not going to march right into danger when we could do something smarter.
Jesus isn't teaching us cowardice.
He's teaching the kind of clear-eyed self-assessment that says, I take sin seriously, and I take my own vulnerability seriously, and I refuse to be presumptuous about my ability to stand.
The Apostle Paul echoes this in 1 Corinthians 10, 12.
Therefore, let anyone who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
So this petition is the take heed of the Lord's Prayer.
So this is not a prayer of cowardice, but a prayer of wisdom.
All right.
So now we've we understand lead us not into temptation.
We understand what that means.
But now let's understand the next part.
Understanding the rescue.
Let's notice the structure of this verse.
There's two halves of this verse, and they're connected by another Greek word that I'm not going to try to pronounce.
They're connected by the word but.
In Greek, this particular word that they use there is a very strong adversative.
Okay?
It's not a gentle, gentle, however.
It's a sharp pivot, a contrast.
Okay?
We're moving from prevention.
To rescue.
The first half of the prayer is prevention.
Lord, don't bring me there.
But the second half of the prayer is now rescue.
But Lord, when I am there, please kick me out.
Please get me out.
How many's ever been there?
Okay.
Jesus is covering both scenarios.
It's like he knows a thing or two.
And he knows that God will lead us to the trial, as he did with Jesus in the wilderness, as he did with Peter, as he did with Job.
And in those moments we need something beyond prevention.
We need deliverance.
Say amen or owe me.
There's a translation question here that matters.
Okay?
The original Greek phrase can be translated from evil.
Okay.
How many memorized the Lord's Prayer when you were younger?
Okay.
We we most of us, if we grew up in the church, we hit we memorize the Lord Prayer, and most of us learned the King James Version, right?
We learned deliver us from evil.
But some translations, so the King James says deliver us from evil, but some translations say from the evil one.
The ESV, the NIB, the NASB translations, they say the evil one.
Many scholars argue that the evil one is a better translation here, and here's several reasons why.
First, the same Greek phrase For the evil one is used by Jesus elsewhere in Matthew to refer specifically to the devil.
Matthew chapter thirteen, he the the parable of the sower, he's referring to the evil one.
Second, it fits the context of the petition.
We're not just praying about evil as an abstract concept.
We're praying about the personal adversary who deploys temptation as his primary weapon.
That's his prime weapon against us is temptation.
We're praying against that.
And third, it aligns with broader New Testament scripture.
Ephesians 6. 16 says, In all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.
1 Peter 5.
8.
Be sober-minded.
Be watchful.
Your adversary, the devil, same Greek word, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 John 5.
19.
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Same Greek word.
Now, I want to be careful.
I want to be careful.
Okay.
Some corners of the church talk so much about the devil that they give him credit for every traffic jam and every burnt piece of toast.
They talk so much about it, it seems to be constantly that the devil is in it.
In other corners of the church, on the other side of the spectrum, never give him any mention at all.
It's like he was a medieval superstition that we outgrew.
Okay.
Um the biblical posture towards the person of the devil, the evil one, referenced here in the scripture, is neither obsession or ignorance.
It's sober awareness of who he is.
C.
S.
Lewis wrote in the preface to the screw tape letters, there are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils.
One is to disbelieve in their existence.
The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
They themselves are equally pleased by both errors.
Jesus clearly believed in a personal adversary and he taught his disciples to pray with that adversary in view.
Y'all say amen while I take a drink of water.
Sorry, it's uh allergy season for me.
Alright, so now let's talk about what the word deliver means.
We've talked about the evil one.
Let's talk about the word deliver.
The Greek word for deliver is a strong word.
It doesn't mean help me cope, Lord.
That's not what it means It means to rescue, to snatch away, to pull out of danger.
The word you'd use for pulling somebody out of a fire or rescuing them from drowning out of a river.
It's the same word and the same language there.
It's It's urgent language, it's rescue language.
And it tells us something important about how Jesus views the threat.
And when you pray, deliver us from the evil one, you're not asking God to help you manage a minor inconvenience.
Okay.
If you've lived long enough.
If you've been a Christian long enough, the devil is not a minor inconvenience.
You're asking to be extracted from mortal danger.
You're calling for the cavalry.
Paul uses the same word in 2 Timothy 4.
18.
The Lord will rescue me.
The word rescue there is the same word, the same Greek word.
The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom.
And there right there is the great comfort here.
The prayer implies power.
Come on, y'all.
The prayer implies power.
Jesus would not teach us to ask for deliverance from the evil one if the Father were not willing and able to grant it.
The very existence of this petition is a promise.
The promises of God are yes and amen.
The very existence of this petition is a promise.
God can deliver, God does deliver, and God will deliver.
Hang on to the to the promise.
I need to take another drink.
That's good.
Somebody say amen.
All right, sorry.
All right, so next, we're looking now at the two sides of the same prayer.
Okay The rescue and also the evil one.
We're looking at two sides of the same prayer.
The two sides are uh so let's let's let's put it like this.
Imagine you're taking a road trip through the mountainous through the mountains Um the last time I've been to the mountains, I was a kid.
Okay, there's no mountains in Florida or South Alabama where I'm from.
We used to go up to the mountains uh regularly enough as as a as a kid my parents, my dad, would take me up to the mountains.
I love the mountains.
I didn't like driving in the mountains.
I was a kid, I wasn't the one doing the driving.
I have a terrible fear of heights.
I get about two rungs up on a ladder and things start to spin.
I cannot imagine walk uh driving six feet from a tumble to my death.
I just can't wrap my brain around this.
So imagine you're planning a road trip through mountainous terrain You might pray two things.
First, Lord, keep me away from dangerous roads.
I'd be praying that.
Keep me away from dangerous roads.
That's the lead us not into temptation.
But if you do end up on a narrow, icy mountain pass at night, you're gonna pray a very different prayer.
Lord, get me through this alive.
That's deliver us from the evil one.
Okay?
Jesus gives us both prayers in one breath because he knows the Christian life involves both It involves both.
Seasons where God graciously spares us, praise the Lord, graciously spares us from trials we aren't ready for, and seasons where he walks us through trials that feel like they're going to destroy us.
Think of three Hebrew the three Hebrew young men in Daniel 3.
It's my favorite book of the Bible, Daniel.
The three Hebrew children, Rakshak and Benny, they didn't get spared from the furnace.
They got delivered through the furnace.
And they didn't even smell like smoke.
When they came out of it.
Okay?
The Lord did not spare them, but he walked through them with it and he delivered them.
That's deliverance.
Now, point number three, the two petitions together is a theology of dependence.
Okay, it's worth asking why does Jesus in the prayer right there?
Okay?
Of all the things he could close with, of all the things that he could put into the prayer, why did he end it right there?
What is this final petition?
Why is this the final bit?
I think it's because this petition captures something that undergirds the entire prayer.
Total dependence on God.
Total dependence.
Let's look at the structure of the whole prayer.
We begin by looking upward.
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
We're looking upward.
We submit to his agenda.
Your kingdom come, your will be done.
We bring our physical needs, give us this day our daily bread.
We bring our relational brokenness, forgive us our debts, or forgive us our transgressions or trespasses, whichever version you learned.
And now here at the end we bring our spiritual vulnerability.
Don't let us walk into what will destroy us.
And when the enemy comes, rescue us.
All parts of the prayer.
Every single part is a petition, an act of dependence.
Every single part.
But this last one is perhaps the most personal and the most raw because it's the prayer that says, I cannot protect myself.
I cannot see the traps ahead.
I cannot outsmart the adversary.
I need you It's a prayer of dependence, the entire thing.
And it's also a prayer for every day.
It's not just for the crisis moments in our life.
It's a prayer for every day.
I want to make sure that we don't relegate this prayer, this part of the Lord's Prayer, to emergencies only.
Jesus placed the Lord's Prayer there as a daily prayer.
A daily prayer, give us this day, our daily bread, lead us not into temptation.
This is a prayer for For Tuesday morning, when nothing bad is really happening, but you have your phone in your hand and you have a choice at what you're going to look at that day It's a prayer for the ordinary Wednesday afternoon when a coworker says something that lights their fuse and you have exactly two seconds to decide whether or not you're going to throat punch them.
Oh you guys act all holy and righteous like you ain't thought that today.
The prayer is for that day.
The prayer is for the quiet Thursday evening when loneliness settles in and old habits start to whisper The great Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon said it well.
Temptations when we first meet them are like a lion that once roared at Samson.
But when we have overcome them, the next time we see them, we find a nest of honey within them.
The point being, you have to face them with God's power the first time, or there will be no sweetness on the other side.
Most of us most of the time do not fall in the dramatic moments.
Most of us fall in the ordinary, everyday moments.
And that's why this is a daily prayer.
Pray this prayer every day.
Now, there is a promise.
It's underneath the prayer.
We've already talked about the promise.
Let's open that up a little bit.
Let's connect this to one of the most important verses in the New Testament on this topic.
Now Before I read the scripture, I must confess I hate this scripture.
Oh, sorry, that's not right.
I more accurately hate how foolish Christians use this scripture.
Tell me if you've ever heard this.
And I'm gonna get mad.
Sorry.
Tell me if you've ever heard this.
God will never put more on you than you can handle.
Ah!
That's not what it says Ah!
That makes me so mad.
If if you've if if people say that, they're ignorant.
Okay?
That's not what this says.
Please stop saying that if you say it, okay?
That's not what it says.
1 Corinthians 10. 13 says, No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.
No temptation. has overtaken you that is not common to man.
God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability.
God will not let you be tempted beyond your ability.
But with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Notice it says that God provides the way of escape.
He does not say he will not put more on you than you can handle.
In fact, in my experience, God often puts more on you than you can handle to cause you to run to Him, the prayer of dependence.
We just talked about that.
I need God.
I need him to get me through this.
God often puts things in my life that I can't handle, so I have to trust him.
I have to run to him.
I have to cast my cares on him.
God does that, but God also provides the way of escape.
And what is Jesus teaching us to do in Matthew 6.
13?
He's teaching us to ask for that way of escape The petition and the promise are in conversation with one another.
God is committed to finding a way out.
And Jesus teaches us to ask for it.
Prayer and the promise work together.
You might say it this way, 1 Corinthians 10, 13 is God's answer to the prayer of Matthew 6.
We pray, lead us not to temptation, but to but deliver us from the evil one.
And God responds, I am faithful.
I will not let you be crushed and there will always be a door.
Come on, say amen.
That's the promise, the promise that Jesus gave us right there.
And I've always appreciated the realism. of Jesus in this moment.
The realism.
He doesn't sugarcoat the Christian life in this prayer.
He doesn't say, pray like this.
Thank you, Father, that temptation isn't really a problem for your children.
Has anybody else had that life?
I haven't.
He doesn't say if your faith is strong enough, you won't face trials.
I grew up here in that one.
I grew up telling me with people telling me, Pastor Jeff just said this at our staff meeting this past week.
I grew up with people telling me, oh, if your faith was strong enough, you'd get through this.
He says, You are going to face temptation.
You're going to face it.
You're either coming out of a storm, currently in a storm, or about to go into a storm.
That's the way it works.
You will face temptation.
You are going to encounter the evil one.
And when you do, the single most important thing you can do is ask the Father for help.
Ask the Father for help.
There's something beautifully realistic about that.
Jesus knows, and He knows what we're up against.
He knows who the enemy is, and He gives us a prayer that matches reality.
It's not a pep talk. but a lifeline.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from a Nazi prison, reflected on this petition.
He said, In the hour of temptation we find we are powerless.
We cannot fight alone.
So Jesus taught us to call upon God and flee to him.
If Bonhoeffer in a prison cell with the weight of the world on him found this prayer necessary, I think we can admit that we need it too.
Musicians you can come on up.
I'm gonna wrap this thing up here shortly.
I do want to uh make a a quick note about the doxology.
Okay, if you if you memorize the Lord's Prayer, you probably also memorized For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.
How many knows what it knows what I'm talking about?
Okay.
Let's talk about that for just a moment.
Okay.
This is a doxology.
Um Some of your Bibles include that after verse 13 in Matthew 6, for yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, and forever.
Amen.
But some translations don't include that.
Why?
Because it's a doxology.
Just real quick, for those of you that don't know, a doxology is just a short hymn or expression of praise to God.
That's it.
Big fancy long word for a hymn or an expression of praise to God.
This doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer, which is beautiful and theologically sound.
It is not found in the earliest and most reliable Greek manuscripts of Matthew's gospel.
It doesn't appear in the earliest copies that we have.
It's absent from Luke's version of it entirely.
Most textual scholars uh believe it was a liturgical addition, meaning the early church who prayed this prayer regular regularly in worship added a closing doxology as was common in Jewish practice.
So this was a normal thing for them.
In their practice, they often included a doxology, a moment of praise after they recited Scripture.
Over time it was incorporated into some manuscript traditions and eventually in the King James Version, which was based on later manuscripts.
That's why uh a lot of uh uh the modern versions of the bible can be superior in that in that regard because they use earlier versions of the manuscript for their translation.
This doesn't mean it's wrong or bad.
In fact, it echoes the language of 1 Chronicles 2911, where David prays Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty.
It's wonderful scripture.
It's theologically sound.
It's just probably not original to Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount, at least uh as Matthew recorded them.
That's why modern translations usually omit that part or just place it in a footnote.
For tonight, we're focusing on the words on the earliest manuscripts to preserve from uh from Jesus' own lips.
Okay.
So if you memorize that as a kid and you're confused about why it's not included Just know that it is theologically sound.
It just probably wasn't from Jesus' words in that moment.
Okay.
So So we've walked through the entire Lord's Prayer.
And we've walked through lead us not to temptation and deliver us from the evil one, what it means.
So what do we do with this?
Let me leave you with three applications for this portion of Scripture.
Okay, the Lord's Prayer.
Number one, pray this prayer literally every day.
Pray it every day.
This isn't just a formula to recite.
It's an orientation of the heart.
This prayer is an orientation of the heart.
Before your feet hit the floor in the morning.
You can say, Father, I don't know what today holds.
Lead me away from what will destroy me and where I do face the enemy, deliver me.
Every day.
If you pray no other part, Of the Lord's Prayer on a given day, pray this part.
It may be the most practical prayer Jesus ever taught because it deals with something you will face every single day of your life.
You will face it.
Two.
Stop volunteering for temptation.
Don't put yourself in a place where you can be tempted.
If you struggle with alcoholism, you shouldn't have it in your house.
I'm not gonna stand up here and t today is not the time for the sermon about that.
But if that's a struggle for you, don't have it in your house If you struggle with pornography, maybe you shouldn't use the internet if somebody else isn't nearby to keep you accountable.
Don't volunteer for temptation.
Don't put yourself in those positions.
If we're gonna pray, lead us not to temptation with any integrity, we'd better stop marching toward it on our own It's a strange kind of hypocrisy to pray that, lead me not into temptation, on a Sunday morning, and then spend Sunday evening deliberately placing ourselves into situations, environments In company where temptation thrives.
It just doesn't make any sense.
We can't pray one thing and live another.
That right there is a sermon We can't pray one thing and live another.
I should have wrote that down.
So this part just implies some responsibility on our part.
Okay?
If you if you know your triggers, most of us do if you're honest with yourself Most of us do.
The part uh uh then part of answering your own prayer is making wise choices about what you watch, where you go, and who you spend time with. and what you allow to occupy your mind.
Okay?
And as the old saying goes, if you don't want to fall in the ditch, don't walk along the edge.
I grew up in a country.
That's the kind of stuff we say.
Number three, remember deliverance is the final word.
Deliverance is the final word.
The prayer doesn't end with temptation, it ends with deliverance.
And that's no accident.
The final word Jesus gives us is in this prayer is not fear.
It's not a white knuckle grip on our own willpower.
It's a cry to the Father who rescues.
And that Father has already accomplished the ultimate deliverance.
Colossians 1. 13, he has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
He's already done the ultimate deliverance.
He can handle the ones that you face every day.
If God has already rescued you from the ultimate dominion of evil, if he has already already transferred you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his son, then you can trust him with your Tuesday.
You can trust him with the temptation you'll face this week.
You can trust him with the one that kept you up last night.
The prayer is lead me not into tempt into temptation, but deliver me from the evil one.
And the God who taught us to pray is the same God who is faithful to answer it.
Dear Lord, we come before you tonight as a people who know We know our own weaknesses may be better than we'd like to admit.
But we thank you.
Jesus, we thank you that you didn't give us a prayer for superheroes.
You gave us something realistic, something that we can legitimately pray.
And you gave us a prayer.
Prayer for real people who face real temptation from a real enemy.
Teach us to pray this This prayer and petition honestly every day with open hands.
Keep us from the paths that lead us through destruction and where me we must walk through the fire god walk with us walk with us through the fire and bring us through we know that you've already accomplished the greatest miracle of all Salvation of our souls.
We know that you rose from the dead.
We know that this is a promise.
We know that this is a prayer, and that you are faithful to answer our prayer.
God, we ask you to keep us and hold us.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
If you need prayer tonight, We have some people that can come up here and uh and pray with you.
We have a few minutes left.
I want to encourage you Take a few moments before you you run out and grab your coffee or grab your kids.
If you need prayer tonight, our prayer partners are here, but let's take a few moments.
Let's worship the God who answers prayer.
Can we do that?
