With a message from god’s word, here’s Charles Stanley.
Would you turn, please? The Exodus chapter 17.
I want us to read verses 8 through 13.
When the time of this message, prayer is where the action is.
Chapter 17 of Exodus beginning in verse 8.
And this is the story of the conflict between Israel uh, and the amylokites, and there’s a principle here that is so very, very important to us in the area of prayer.
So beginning in verse 8, Then came Amalek and fought with Israel and refugee.
And Moses said unto Joshua, choose us out men and go out fight with Amalek.
Tomorrow, I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of god in my hand.
So Joshua did, as Moses had said to him, and fought with And Moses, Aaron, and her went up to the top of the hill.
And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed.
And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses hands were heavy.
And they took a stone and put it under him.
And he sat there on, and Aaron and hers stayed up his hands.
The one on the one side and the other on the other side, and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
And Joshua Discomforted Amalek and his people with the edge of a sword.
Now you say, well, what does that have to do with Pray? I want you to listen very, very carefully.
The nation of Israel had come out of Egyptian bondage by Moses leadership across the Red Sea into the wilderness down to Sanai and then on their way to the promised land.
And he says in Deuteronomy in 20 referring to this very incident that many of those who a week were straggling along behind.
And so, uh, the nation of Israel was stretched out of a along, uh, geographical location.
And so, Amilec, who desired to attack the nation of Israel, use the strategy of attacking those who were lingering behind.
And so they were just picking them off left and right.
So They had to go to war recognizing that the amalokites were more prepared for war.
They’d been used to it. They’d been fighting for a long time. They were a he the nation.
And now, Israel, the wealthy they are coming out of Egyptian bondage having taken gold and silver and many of the animals out of Egypt, they were prepared, uh, wealth wise, but they weren’t prepared to fight.
And so god said to, uh, Moses, he said, You tell Joshua put him in command of the army.
You get him out the ready to fight, but the key is this.
I want you and Aaron and her to go to the top of the hill.
Take the rod with you, the same rod that you use in Egypt to show pharaoh that your god I am is god.
He said now, as long as you he said, what I want you to do is I want you to hold that Rod, I want you to hold your hands to heaven.
And he says, as you hold your hands to heaven, that will be the determining factor in this conflict tomorrow with Hamlet.
So that’s exactly what they did.
Aaron and her went with Moses up on the top of the hill where they could see the battle.
And here, 2 armies coming to fight one another in mortal combat.
And so the scripture says that Moses lifted up his hands and, uh, the rod of god in his hand.
Adam, whether you ever done this or not, so I tried it three times just to see for myself.
You said, well, Why did he get tired? I’ll tell you what you do. You hold your hands up.
You don’t even need a rod in your hand and see what happens.
When you first put your hands up, you think, well, I could hold them up for a long time.
But here’s what’ll happen. While you’re talking or while you’re thinking or while you’re praying whatever you’re doing without even realizing what’s happening little by little against all of your effort all of your strength, all of your energy, and all of your determination, and all of your willpower to hold those hands up, they’re coming down.
And after a while, you feel like the 20 pound weights on you, think, oh, I’m gonna raise them back up.
And you begin to grunt moan and what’s hap they just keep coming down.
Little by little, they’ll come all the way down until they get right by your side.
And you’ll realize that in spite of all of your strength, and as muscular as you are, there comes a time when they’re coming down.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to Moses.
He held them up, talking to god, praying to the father, about the nation of Israel and their battle, and they’re maybe not outnumbered, but they were overpowered because of the fierceness of the amalokites and their preparation for war.
But he noticed that as long as he held up his hands and held up the rod of god, Israel prevailed, When he began to get weak and after all he just dropped his hands, the amylocates began to prevail.
So finally, uh, her and Aaron, Made him a seat out of stones, sat him down, and then they held up both of his hand.
As long as they held his hands up, the scripture says that Israel prevailed in the battle.
And so they won the battle that day, but the battle was not won on the field of conflict.
The battle was won on the hill as Aaron and her held up the hands of Moses.
Now, let me tell you something. Don’t you dare miss what I’m gonna tell you?
If you do, you will be a loser and 2 other people in your life are gonna be a loser.
Three things I want you to get out of this passage. You’ll get yourself a pencil piece of paper.
And jot down these three things.
Many of you have walked through many of life’s battles, and you’ve come out bloody and torn and beaten and defeated.
You’ve faced financial problems. You’ve gone through battles in your home. You’ve gone through battles in your vocation.
You’ve gone through battles and your relationships with other people. All kinds of battles.
I wanna show you something here that is a principle. It works.
It works over and over and over if you and I will apply the simple principle found in the scriptures.
So there are three things I want you to jot down and the first one is this.
That our life’s battles are won or lost in the place of prayer.
Now just stay with me for a moment. Our life’s battles are won or lost in the place of prayer.
You say, well, but suppose I don’t have a place.
And that’s the reason you’re being defeated over and over and over again in your life.
Our life’s battles and all of us have them are lost or won in the place of prayer.
Now, let me show you something here.
If you ask the average person where they think the success prevailed, just take a church, for example.
If you think that what goes on in a church is the result of what into the pulpit and the past is preaching and the musicians singing the choir and all of that, that this is the criteria of success of failure.
You’re wrong. You see, the world looks at the outward part. The world looks at men.
The world praises man. The world raise his organization and plan in all of this.
God doesn’t win his battles on platforms.
God does win his battles on the field of conflict, god wins his battles when men are willing to get on their face before god and seek his face that’s where the battle is won.
Now let me show you why.
When you and I began to look at this particular incident, for example, god wanted to teach Joshua the commander as well as Moses and the rest of those people a very basic lesson.
That in the field of battle, what we see is not the determining factor where battles are wanna lost because oftentimes, A man will walk into an arena when he is absolutely totally outnumbered by his end of it, and he comes out of winter.
He comes out of winter because he fought the previous battle and the prerequisite battle, which is the important one, on his face before god somewhere else alone with god.
Now, watch. Why is it and how is it that god determines the success of the failure of the battles you and I face in their life, not by what seemingly is open conflict, but because of what we do private.
When a man or a woman gets upon their face before god alone, what do they do?
First of all, god turns their eyes towards themselves, and against to examine their heart.
And so the sifting cleansing process goes on.
A man is able to see himself on his knees as you’ll never see himself any other way.
Number 2, he begins to look upon god and he sees god in a whole different light.
God clears his eyesight God begins to clear his mind and on his face before god in preparation for conflict, he’s able to see himself from a whole different perspective.
Not as one out in the battle of conflict and being outnumbered, but one standing upon the rocks surrounded by the angels of the angelic host of god.
And under the canopy of god’s protection and standing upon the rock from which all the resources he’ll ever need will always be pressed.
So he sees himself different.
He’s able to see the conflict for what it is and not what it appears to be.
He’s able to see the heart of his enemy as it is, not as it appears to be.
He’s able to foresee the snares and the temptations of Satan.
He’s able to spot the traps that Satan lays before and he’s able to discern what the people are thinking.
He’s able to understand the reality of the circumstances in which he finds himself regardless of how they may appear to be to others.
So that when the man gets upon his face before god and he battles out his own relationship to the lord and god’s sifting process takes place, he He focuses his eyes upon god.
His faith is set. His sense of direction is settling his mind, and he knows what he must do.
And the way he must do it He can face anybody anywhere under any circumstance fearlessly and boldly and courageously, and never that and I not because he won’t get bloody, not because he won’t be knocked down, not because he won’t be scarred, but because he’s battling all out with god in prophecy.
There are many men who are suffering in business who wouldn’t have suffered in business, had they battled out the decisions on their knees before god not walking into some committee of carnality and trying to make a spiritual decision with people who know nothing about god.
There are battles in the home that would be brought to a conclusion quickly if we would simply bow before god, search at our own hearts, Let him work in our lives.
Let the battling go on there so that what appears to be the open conflict is no open conflict at all.
God wants to teach you something. What is it?
He wants to teach his people that it is not in public where the battles are on.
But it is as a man bows himself before Holy god and recognizes that Holy god and god alone is the source of all of his needs.
Therefore, as he bows before god in absolute and total dependence upon him, god will release his supernatural power, his supernatural forces to surround that man cover that man undergird him and fuse through him everything he needs to face that boom.
But you see, the world in which we live, everything appears to be a certain way, but what it appears to be oftentimes is not that way at all.
And you see what really took place this day is that almighty god who sent Moses air and heard of the top of that mountain sent them up there to teach them and to teach Israel a lesson that Joshua as great a strategist as he was to become.
Later on, god wanted Joshua to know because he told him he says, you rehearsed this in Joshua’s ears because he knew that one of these days, Moses would be set side as the leader.
God would take him Joshua to be given the mound to take the nation of Israel into the promised land, and he didn’t ever want Joshua to think that Joshua was a super strategist.
He wanted Joshua to ever remember the fact that he was almighty god that it was the intercession of Moses, Herron and her, Aaron and her, who brought about the victory of Israel that day as they thought so outnumbered by military might the day they fought amalek and all of his followers.
Now here’s the principle. God wants you and me to fight our battles in the prayer room, not in public.
Now, let me tell you why. There will be public confrontations in our lives at times.
But listen, it’s one thing to have a public confrontation. It’s something else to walk into that confrontation.
With the decision already made of defeat of failure.
When you walk into a conflict and you and god have settled in privacy, you can face anything anywhere under any circumstance with perfect peace in your heart that god has already determined the outcome of the situation.
That’s the main you won’t suffer. That’s the main you won’t have pain.
That’s the main you won’t hurt, but it’s the outcome. Who’s going to be the victim? Now here’s the reason.
Because what appears to be the enemy sometimes is not the enemy at all.
The enemy is Satan and his forces.
The reason he attacked god’s people in this particular situation is because he knew the nation of Israel was to be the Messianic nation through whom the Messiah come through whom all the nations of the earth would be blessed.
So he used amalek as a tool to defeat the people of god.
If you and I don’t get our direction from god off our knees, we’re gonna think this is the enemy.
That’s the enemy. He’s the enemy. She’s the enemy. When that may not be true and it’s not true.
The enemy is safe. The enemy is the demonic forces of evil that attack and seem sick to ensnare and thwart the purpose of god in life.
And oftentimes believers are in conflict with each Believers and non believers in conflict with each other because they believe the other is the enemy.
Satan is the enemy sowing seeds of this unity throughout the world.
God wants us to recognize we’re in a spiritual battle.
How do you do spiritual battle with spiritual things?
What is the mightiest force under god’s heaven and time of battle?
It is the word of god in the heart, and it is a man upon his knees calling out of the supernatural power of god.
When you and I focused upon him, our heart is clean.
We are lifting our hands and our hearts before him. What is almighty god doing? Almighty god.
Here’s the prayers of his children, and he releases his supernatural servant divine omnipotent into the life of that individual, that circumstance, whatever it may be.
That’s god’s way. Man’s way is what? It is effort, eloquence, preparations, plans, programs, do this, do that.
We must do so much of this and we must do so much of that.
When god says my way is to fight the battle on your knees, and then let’s see what god is going to do.
Doesn’t mean we do nothing, but it means, listen, we either walk into the battle from the basis of victory or we walk in and up from the basis of defeat.
God wants his people thinking right, believing right.
And when we think right and believe right, right, we will respond and act properly.
The battle was won that day on the hill side, not down in the field.
And if you think about whatever battle you may be facing, whatever battle you may be going through, listen.
Don’t look around to blame someone else. Don’t ring your hands.
Get on your face before god and battle it out with him.
The cleansing process that takes place, the clearing of the mind, the clearing of the heart, the clearing of the eyes, a perception Like you have never known before, you battle it out of the prairie and you say, well, how long do you have to stay?
That depends upon the nature of the battle, It depends upon the condition of your heart when you go there to ask god to begin to search you and to cleanse you and prepare you for whatever it might be.
And you see every area of life is applicable to what I’m talking about.
We come up to decisions that oftentimes we don’t know how to make a decision.
That’s the place to get it made. Don’t call her, him, this person, that person, all of these folks.
Why don’t you talk to the person who has the answer? You see, god wants to teach us now.
Watch this carefully as you misunderstand.
God doesn’t want us absolutely independent of everything and everybody with him.
But he does wanna teach us to depend upon him.
Trust him and to see him as the source of all that we need because there is an interdependence.
There is an interrelationship that he votes to build into our life is his children.
The second thing I want you to notice here is this.
When we when we face life’s battles, we will grow faint hearted at times.
When we when we do face life’s battles, we will grow faint hearted.
Now for example, here’s Moses, god’s greatest statesman, the greatest statesman that has ever lived on the face of this earth.
And here he is holding the rod of god in in the in the symbol of intercession before god in the scene for his help and his dependence in this particular battle.
But after a while, his hands get heavy.
And they just get so heavy that after a while, he just drops them.
And when they’re down by his side, all of a sudden, he notices there’s the change in the battle.
And Hamlet and his forces begin to defeat the people of god so up his hands go again, but they get tired.
Up they go again, but they get tired. Up they go again, but they get tired.
And finally, Aaron and her set him on a rock, hold up his hands, and they hold up his hands until the battle is finished and won an amalek and his forces are conquered once and for all.
Here’s what I want you to see.
You and I, in spite of what Jesus said, he said, men are always to pray and faint not, but we do think.
Why do we think? That means we some lose heart.
We lose heart oftentimes in when we face battles because we look at the circumstances and we longer we look, well, that’s what would Satan do.
Satan takes our viewpoint of the circumstances, puts his interpretation upon him.
And what is the little ant he’ll be against to grow larger and larger?
And let me think, oh my god. What in the world am I gonna do?
When if we looked at it from god’s perspective, we’d just say, there’s nothing to that.
But you see Satan interprets and brings out of reality and into an illusion what is not there.
And we begin to see these tremendous barriers. We said, oh my god.
What in the world am I gonna do?
God knows that you and I are gonna grow up faint hearted at times.
We are going to get weird.
They’re gonna be some times when you ought to pray when you don’t even feel like praying.
You know you ought to pray, but you say, god, I just don’t even wanna pray. I’m tired of praying.
I don’t see any result. And you see, you’re gonna pray about some things over and over and over again, you think, lord, you’re not doing anything.
So why should I keep on praying when nothing is happening?
And Satan just jumps up and down with glee when you say that. Listen, I’ve discovered a long time ago.
There’s some things you have to pray through like you tunnel through them out.
You just have to keep hanging in there and telling God about entrusting him and believing him and thanking him and praising him, though everything your eyesight beholds says, defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat with deed done inside.
If you listen to god, god says, but victory is on the way.
And you see, since when we turned tail and run, when everything looks like, we’re gonna be defeated.
We said, well, I knew it was gonna happen that way anyway.
We embarrassed god We hinder our relationship with him. We hinder other people’s spiritual growth.
We’re going to have periods of faintheartedness.
Which brings me to number 3, which is the most important thing in the whole area. And that’s this.
The third thing is our greatest asset when we’re going through spiritual battles is to have an area, an Aaron, and a herd.
The greatest assets we have when we’re going through spiritual battles is our prayer partners.
Now you say, well, what do you mean by prayer partners?
God sent Moses up on the top of that mountain knowing that he couldn’t hold these hands up here very long.
That’s why he he told him to take two people with him. Now, listen.
God is about to allow any one of us to be absolutely and totally independent.
He does not break that way because he’s built his church house. He’s built his church.
He said, by this shall all men know that you’re my disciples that you have loved one person.
People who love each other can depend upon each other. People who love each other are loyal to each other.
People who love each other, encourage one another. People who love each other wanna build up each other.
People who love each other are available to one another.
God has built his church on an interdependence among themselves upon each other.
As they ultimately defend upon god, they likewise interdepend upon each other as god’s vessels and twos to be encouragements to one of the So the scripture says that god sent him up there with Aaron and her.
Now why Aaron and her?
If I should ask you, what do you know about, uh, her?
Most of you’d say, Her, you mean her or her? I’m talking about her. Her, a man’s name.
What do we know about him?
The only thing we know about him significant is that god’s servant needed someone to assist him in a period of intercession, and god gave her the great privilege of holding up Moses’s right or left arm while he held up the rod of god while the spirit of god came upon Joshua and the nation of Israel and they defeated the amylocates.
Alright. Now listen. Everybody needs an Aaron and a herd.
God has given me an Aaron and a herd. I know that passage works.
I know it works because the scripture says it works, but I know it by months of experience, everybody needs an errand and a herd.
That is somebody who can hold up your arms when they’ve drooped when you get discouraged, when you lose heart, when you think, oh, god.
I just can’t hold them up any longer, and you’ve got somebody to hold up both your arms and to assist you in your intercession before god That’s god’s way of getting his supernatural power into your life and mine when we do, grow, faint hearted.
Jesus said, they’re not always to pray and fate not. And yet we do lo lose heart.
What do we need when we lose heart? Not someone to say, well, I told you so.
Not when someone said, man, you just gotta put yourself up by your own brute trips.
An Aaron and a herd does not argue. They do not they do not use the world’s ways.
You know what? They do. An Aaron gets on one side.
A her gets on the other side and began to intercede with you for you in your behalf.
Before god or the situation which you face. And what does god do?
A 3 full cord is not easily broken. You and I can talk to god the father.
2 of us can talk to god the father.
There’s something about 3 men or 3 women on their face before god lifting up each other. Now watch this.
This morning, for example, you may be in one of those conflicts. It may be in your home.
It may be in your finances. It may be in your business.
I don’t know where it is, but you may be going through a tremendous conflict in your life.
And today, of those 3, Moses, Erin, and her, you, Moses.
You’ll say, I’m the one who’s facing the conflict, but now watch this.
When your Aaron gets on one side and your her gets on the other.
And they began to pray for you and lift you up, and they began to pray for the circumstances.
And they begin to talk to god about the situation, and they begin to call your name.
And they begin to ask god to strengthen you and to bolster your faith and to supply your needs, what happens?
Here’s what happens. Both of those people, for example, if you’ve got here, you are, for example, and you’re in the battle.
And you’ve got one of them this side, and he begins to pray.
If this brother’s weak, somehow this brother’s strength does want, It just infuses strength into both.
And if you’ve got two people wandering outside of you lifting you before god, there is a supernatural, indescribable sense of strength and encouragement and help it looms up in your life that breathes new, fresh faith, and trust in the lord god almighty.
And here’s what happens. So they they live with you. They work with you through that battle.
They pray you through it. Then what happens? All of a sudden, Aaron over here, he’s in the battle.
So what do you do? Man, you swap places. He gets in the middle.
I’m not talking about physically now, but I’m talking about spiritual. Here he is. He’s in Moses position.
He’s going to the battle. Now what do you have the privilege of doing?
You have the privilege of lifting a hammer.
You have the privilege of praying for him, calling his name, talking to god about his needs, Praying a supernatural pile of god to come in his life.
And you know how to do that with tremendous faith because you’ve been where he is.
And now you’ve taken his place where he’s taken your place, and now you can hold him up and encourage him and what happens.
All three of these people, what are they doing?
Aaron of on this side, Moe’s in the middle, and and Aaron, her here.
Her gets in the middle one time. Aaron’s in the middle. Moe’s in the middle. You know what they’re doing?
They’re just building a relationship, building a faith.
God begins to do something, and he wraps that threefold caught around and those three people before god become a tremendous indescribable, mighty supernatural force of god in prayer.
Now you think about this, how many times did god say to us, ask, see my he says we’re to pray.
What is he doing? He says he’s a prayer answering god. He wants the answer as president.
He said, you have not because you ask not.
God has so arranged that he’s willing to release his power when you and I are willing to come to him.
But if we come to him alone often times, we get discouraged but Aaron on the side, her on the side, lifting you up and encouraging you.
And what happens? That faint hardness begins to dwindle and the supernatural power of god becomes a reality because you have 2 encouraging forces, one on the one side, one on the other.
What in the world would happen in this nation of ours if god’s people, 3 full cord, not easily broken?
There’s a love relationship that grows. A loyalty that begins to develop.
Something begins to happen in those three people But you see, before you can do that, you’ve gotta have a couple of people that you can trust.
You’ve gotta be one to find somebody you can trust.
So let me just take for for a moment and give you a few little characteristics of an Aaron and a herd.
Alright? Because you ought to be one and you’re gonna need one one of these days, somebody that you can open your heart and share your burdens with.
The first, I think the first thing that’s important here is this that you and I must notice.
Your air on the her may be more spiritual than you are as spiritual as you are or not as spiritual as you are.
And you see, that’s not important because who are we to judge how spiritual someone else is?
That’s not the issue. The issue is that they are a person who is spiritually minded seeking god is willing to obey god, willing to trust god, and who, listen, who wants God’s best for you.
Not won’t bear best, not their way, but somebody who can objectively say, I want what god wants for you.
So they have to be that type of person.
The second thing, they must be a person who is willing to accept you as you are, whatever the problem you may be facing, whatever your circumstance, They can accept you in that and not thinking less of you or any more of you just accept you as you are and know that god has put them on your side to lift you up and not criticize you.
I’ll tell you what you ought to do, but say, lord, god almighty.
We have beseeching for our brother that you give him wisdom to know what to do.
Give him strength for his body, give him energy for his spirit, give him faith to trust you, somebody who will lift you up, accepting you as you are, not criticizing it.
The third thing is this, somebody who cares, somebody who has a compassionate heart who can feel what you feel.
Who knows what it means to hurt? The next thing is somebody who can love you.
That is somebody who can give themselves to you without asking anything in return somebody who’ll give themselves to you not expecting you to do something for them.
Genuine love always asks what’s best for the other one. What can I do for the other one?
How can I pour out my life into someone else’s life? The next characteristic is somebody who’s faithful.
Not somebody who will pray with you when it’s convenient, oh, yes, I would come and pray, but you see today, I’ve gotta do this and so.
But somebody who’ll come when you need for them to come, somebody who’ll pray when you need them to pray.
Somebody who will recognize that your need is such that they’re willing to stop whatever they’re doing and come get by your side and cry out to god with you and in your behalf.
I will tell you something, brother, something begins to happen in the man a woman’s life when they’ve got an errand or a hearse standing by their side beseeching almighty god in their behalf.
But you see, takes a certain kind of person.
A selfish person will never be an error or her.
And I’ll tell you the lord’s taught me some things as god has sent me an errand that I heard to stand by my side and to pray with me And I can call those fellows anytime a day or night, 24 hours of any day.
I could call them. They’d say I’ll be right there if it’s all possible.
I’ll get on my face right now and lift you before god.
That’s the way god wants the battles fought. What does he want? He wants us to join together.
He wants that 3, 4 cord, uneasily broken.
The 3 of them encouraging each other, building up on another, lifting up each other, And you see, there is no way for three people to bind themselves together in Christ Jesus to pray for one another without them growing and becoming stronger and deepening in their faith and more and more Christ.
Right? That’s where the battles are fought.
That’s where god intends for you and me to fight our battles.
On our face before him somewhere, and all of us are gonna go through this period of getting tired weary.
But I’ll tell you there’s nothing in the world like somebody getting on your side saying that’s okay.
We’re gonna call your name before god. We’re gonna tell him what you feel.
If you don’t feel like telling him, we’re gonna tell him in your behalf.
And the only way somebody can do that is to love you and know you.
And the only way somebody’s gonna be able to love you and know you and stand by your side is for you to take the take all the plastic, all open up your heart and say, look, here’s what I am.
Here’s my problem. Here’s my difficulty. Here’s my bondage. Here’s my conflict. Here’s my decision.
I need you to pray for me. I am not adequate within myself. I am absolutely helpless at this point.
All God, I need you, and I need my brothers to bear me up. And I wanna tell you something.
God’ll do something in your life and the life of your heir and your her.
Then when he puts you in the side of Aaron over here and he makes you a hurl over here and you have the same privilege of doing something for somebody else, you’re gonna find out what praise is all about.
That is the heart and the core of intercession.
Being willing together under somebody else’s burden and lift them up. What in the world would happen in families?
If they became each other’s, Aaron and her. What among the children in your family?
In the church house, in your business, 2 of the people that you can trust, who will lift you before god, and you know in your heart You never have to worry about them ever telling anybody, but god and god has never told anybody You know why we’re so weak?
We believe the devil. 2nd reason we’re so weak is that we think we’re gonna do it ourselves.
Listen. God is gonna strip every one of us of our pride.
He’s not going to use he’s not going to use pride.
He wants us in a sense of total dependence upon him, and that means recognizing our need one for the other.
I want to ask you one simple question. Which of these describe you?
Are you like Moses today walking through a ballet facing a tremendous battle.
Then you need an errand and a her, and I wanna pray that god will send you the 2.
Maybe you and not in a battle right now. And you’re saying god, I wanna be somebody’s errand.
I wanna be I wanna be somebody’s heard.
And I wonder if you’re willing to commit yourself to forget yourself.
And commit yourself to be somebody’s intercessing before god.