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How Your Prayers Can Help In Guatemala! (Romans 15:30-31, 2 Corinthians 1:10, John 14:13, Acts 21:30-32, Acts 23:19-23, Acts 21:17-20)

Michael O'Brien, June 26, 2011
Part of the General series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

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Romans 15:30–31 (Listen)

30 I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, 31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

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2 Corinthians 1:10 (Listen)

10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

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John 14:13 (Listen)

13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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Acts 21:30–32 (Listen)

30 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. 31 And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. 32 He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

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Acts 23:19–23 (Listen)

19 The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?” 20 And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. 21 But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.” 22 So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”

23 Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.

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Acts 21:17–20 (Listen)

17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. 18 On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. 19 After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 20 And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,

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