The Power of Prayer - Brian Alarid

This was not my dream. I didn't dream this. It was a better dream, but my dream died. And sometimes we have to let our dreams die and then God's dream, what resurrects is not our old dream, but a new dream. And that's kind of what happened to our family. A lot of our dreams died in Albuquerque. But you know, I think that's faith, too. I love Hebrews 11 by faith, Moses, by faith, David, by... And then it says, and by faith, others die, yet having received the promise. Faith isn't just the power to win. Sometimes faith is the power to lose gracefully. Welcome to Faithly Stories, the podcast that brings you inspiring tales from conversations with church leaders. As they navigate the peaks and valleys of their faith's journeys through their ministry work and everyday life. Join us as we delve into their challenges, moments of encouragement and answered prayers. The Faithly Stories podcast is brought to you by Faithly, an online community committed to empowering church leaders, pastors, staff, and volunteers. Learn more at Faithly.co. Get ready to be uplifted and inspired as we unveil the heart of faith through stories from the front lines of ministry on the Faithly Stories podcast. Welcome to another episode of Faithly Stories podcast. I'm Pastor Adam Durso and excited to be with you and have our guest, Brian Allorid, who will introduce himself in a moment. We're going to get to sit next to the CEO and founder of Faithly Alicia Lee. Hello. Hello. Welcome. And Brian, what part of the world are you in today? Yeah, Adam. Hey, Alicia. Great to be with you guys. I'm in Guatemala this week. So Palm Springs next week, but Guatemala this week. So Guatemala this week. And you live in Guatemala. You're completely fluent in Spanish. And before we jump into the ministry side of it, you know, there was something really unique about why you move to Guatemala. And we'll backtrack and get to all the other stuff. But why Guatemala? That's a great question. Some days I'm still asking myself. You're dead in mind, but yeah, you know, that was never part of our dream or plan. I'm hurt my wife, Mercy is from Honduras. Which Brian is absolutely the best name for a pastor's wife is mercy. Because if us pastors need anything, we need mercy from all of us daily, bro, hourly, hourly. You know, but that's so we travel a lot to Latin America. We have staff here. We have a team here. We would come three four times a year, but never did I think. Yeah, one day we're going to live here. I mean, like that never thought never crossed our minds. We were preaching here. It was about two and a half years ago, August of 2022, a couple conferences. And then there was a youth crusade in Antigua, Guatemala, about 16,000 teenagers. And I was getting ready to go about to go to the platform to speak. And the Holy Spirit said, your family needs to be here. The fire for your families here, the burning bushes here in Guatemala. And so I mean, I'm just convobulated. I'm like, what? Get up. And now Brian Ellard, I'm like trying to preach through that. And now that night had to unpack and say to Mercy, I think we're moving to Guatemala. Like what? We just built a home that she helped design and her dream home in Austin, Texas. So, you know, it was like, what? And yeah, it was a real surprise at him. But sometimes the Holy Spirit does that. He surprises us. So we talked to each of our three kids, three teenagers. And so we're going to make this decision as a family. I want you to pray about it. Fast one meal, not a whole day, but at least one meal. And get off your phones for a couple hours, spend some time in prayer. So not easy to do with three teenagers. And so, you know, because the whole family was with us in Guatemala during that trip. So, you know, by that night when we did family, all three of our kids said they felt called by God to Guatemala. They weren't happy about it. Wow. We're going to miss their friends and their house and their school and their life and their church and et cetera. But, but they felt called. And so that was middle of August by October, middle of October, we were here in Guatemala. And so, been here about two and a half years. Best decision we've ever made as a family. Transform it. It's life like you couldn't believe. Talk about that because there's so many pastors that are doing great ministry and, you know, home is tough because their kids aren't really serving the Lord. And I, you know, I think about second kings for the widow, the prophet tells her, bring your sons in with you when you close the door behind you. We have kids that witness the struggles of ministry, but they're not part of the miracles of ministry. They don't get to see that side of it. And you brought your kids in to see this miraculous side of it. And now, two and a half years later, you're looking back and saying it's the best decision. Talk to that a little bit, not only the decision, but the process of the last two and a half years and how to encourage pastors and leaders that are struggling with, hey, my kids are at home. And I'm doing great stuff on the platform, but my kids are spending out of control. Yeah, you know, it was kind of poignant. We went to, I preached in India to thousands of leaders in that summer, July of 2022, got back, we went to Disney World. And I remember thinking at him, this was the worst vacation we've ever had. Our family was so disconnected. You know, it's like they're taking photos like, we're on a ride and it's like, you know, Instagram, and I'm like, off your phone. Okay, phones away. We're going to throw them away. And just I remember thinking we're so disconnected as a family. And I remember my heart hurting. And in India, I preached on the family altar. And I'm like, man, our family altar is struggling. And that had always been our strength as a family every morning and every night with our kids praying, reading the Bible together, you know. And we just reached that point, you know, and it was just like, man, so when we came to Guatemala, I was saying, God, we need a change. We need a shift. Our family is not not doing great. And we know it. And they're fighting amongst each other. And how do we get that unity back, that joy back? And so honestly, it came out of a place of deep struggle and brokenness and disappointment. And so when we got to Guatemala, you know, in October, we just said, let's reset as a family. And so on the way to school in the morning, we do the Bible. We don't do our phones in the car. We don't listen to music. We're going to go through the Bible and the car together, read the Bible, pray over each other. And night, nine o'clock, phones away, TV off, you know. And we're in our room for family devotions. And you know, it's not like it happened in a week. But within a few months, our family reset, you know, they read just rhythms and then to habits. And this last two years with our family, our family's gotten, I would say this is the most unfire forgot. All three of our kids have ever been. It's the happiest we've ever been as a family, the unity stronger, not perfect, but stronger than it's ever been. My son's now in college and he went to our Roberts on fire forgot devoted to God. And that was my prayer. I didn't want my son to leave for college struggling. I wanted him to go because college has his own struggles, right? And they all have all our kids at the choose their own faith. She's have to walk in the in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob right on their own. But I didn't want him to go there struggling, wanted him to go there strong, wanted to Chloe, been sick for nine years. So that was part of our family brokenness is when you have one kid who's chronically sick, it doesn't just affect that kid. It affects the whole family, right? And I know Adam, you've got a lot of questions for Brian. But I just want to say I'm just struck by the vulnerability and transparency of what you just said because you know pastor Adam asked you. Like you went to Guatemala, tell me about that. And I think a lot of pastors might have started with how they were ministering in Guatemala. But I mean, you came out with like how Guatemala is ministering to you and to your family. And there's something so beautiful about that. Thank you for sharing that with me. Thank you, Lisa. Yeah, I think you know, I got to meet your son just last fall and in Oklahoma City from first time I was in Oklahoma. Apparently you can get to anywhere in the world on a direct flight except Oklahoma City. But I can get to Guatemala from JFK without problem. But you know, really there's this interesting, just way that God has really your ministry and your family come together. I mean, you talk about in your book when we pray that you know, it was really the struggle with your daughter. And I think some of our audience, most of which are ministry leaders, many of which are pastors, they don't know that. And you're talking about nine years because people think, you know, weeping indoors for a night. Joy comes in the morning like is if that's a 24 hour period. Sometimes that weeping that indoors for night is years. And it's it's believing God and it's holding on. Can you tell us a little bit of that? I got to read it in your book, but I got to get it from you firsthand. That first restaurant that we were sitting there when you know, we just connected and knew that it was a God moment for the two of us and our hearts that can you share and encourage the people that are watching and listening to say, hey, this is how this prayer movement really began in my home with what happened with your daughter. Yeah, thank you, Adam. You know, as people faith and we're used to seeing God answer prayer, the question is, what do you do when God doesn't answer your prayer? Do you still trust him? Will you still love him with your whole heart? You know, what I've learned in the Bible sometimes Lazarus dies. He's Jesus best friend if you read the narrative and marrying mother like come and he says, I'm going to come and sometimes God says, I'm coming. I'm going to do a miracle and it doesn't happen the way or when or how we thought. When Jesus finally arrives, Martha is like, yeah, but I can't like why why do you show? He's already dead. He's already stinks like you're late. If you had showed up, you know, what's she saying? Why now? Why are you coming now? You came too late. You didn't do the miracle, right? Sometimes even when when when you have faith, Lazarus still dies. Sometimes you still go through bankruptcy. Sometimes you still go through poor closures. Sometimes the ministry still closes, right? So sometimes God doesn't answer prayer. We knew that we had a lot of theological understanding of that, but then God took us there. The story is nine years ago, we were pastoring in Albuquerque. I was a civic leader in the city with the mayor and the chief of police and Shaplum for the Senate, those kind of things and also work for full time for Billy Graham Association. So traveling every week doing pastors events with with BGE and you know, one day my daughter said, play was 12. And she got sick of the track meet. She was a starting point guard, starting track star. So so you know, running with the eighth graders, you know, winning per second and a third in every race. She got sick stomach flu. I mean, we thought right. So like she came home hurting wasn't the talkies, you know, maybe I don't know, you know, she got a stomach ache two, three days. It was a little bit better. She went to school. So I went on a Billy Graham trip. And I think it was little rock. And I got the little rock mercy said, hey, babe, fly home. Albuquerque, the little rocks on an easy connection, either, right? So and Franklin did loan me the private jet. So I was flying commercial. I don't think I got to Albuquerque to about midnight. And I text mercy. I'm way, you know, the ER. She goes, no, they moved us to the main hospital. They're talking about surgery. And I'm like, sir, I am in mingon 12 hours. What do you mean surgery? You know, and so, but they did the MRI. They did the ultrasounds and they didn't find anything. And so they center home, fortunately, no surgery. But I took about three, four days. She got better, but she had a level 10 stomach pain. So like really, really violent. And so she got a little bit better. One in another trip. I mean, this time is very mercy calls, babe, get home. We're back in the ER. So couple, couple weeks in a row like that. I'm like, okay, I'm not traveling anymore, you know. And so in about three months, she just digressed and got worse every day. She went to the point where they had to hospitalize her full time at children's hospital. And so, you know, and then she stopped walking. So from track star from one day, the next day, she couldn't walk in one day. So in that doesn't come on that fast. Like there. So they they couldn't understand. They'd never seen that happen before. And so and then her eyes went open. And so she can't walk. And now she can't see anybody. She's scared. Right. So there's and still in level 10 pain. They can't get the pain under control. The crisis moment for us was May 13, 2016. That's when she got complete amnesia. And she didn't know her name. So I said, Hey, Chloe, I had to hold her eyes open to talk to her. Hey, Chloe, she goes, I, I Chloe started talking like a two-year-old. And so yeah, baby, you're, you're Chloe. Do you know who I am? And she struggled and strained and just said, you, you dad, how you love me? I'll never worse than my life. And I'm like, I'm half German, half Mexican. I was like, I can scream. So I was like, Dr. You know, get in here. And it all just comes in. And I'm like, what is going on now? Like what is this? And they tested her and didn't know. And so the doctor gave her 20 questions. She didn't know any of them. They know the name of her school didn't know what a school was. Didn't know the year didn't know her name didn't recognize her mother. So very painful moment. And that was the day they got called us to prayer. So leave your church, leave Billy Graham and pray for the whole world. And you know, I think it's true of all of us. God always ask of us what's hardest for us. Right. David said, I won't, I won't give something to God that doesn't cost me something. So true worship is costly. Obedience is costly. And for me to start a permanent when I don't see answers to prayer. Right. Like a year before I'll start a permanent. I've seen so many miracles right prayed for the 16 miracles. Yeah. In that moment, I don't want to start a prayer. I don't see any answers to prayer. And so that was the struggle, you know, and God just said, if you'll, if you'll pray for the whole world, I'll take care of Chloe. And so we had to make a choice to bring in a trust God when he doesn't make sense when he's not answering prayer. She's not getting better. She's getting worse. She's getting a trust God. And it was a very painful slow, slow recovery. She's still not 100% today. But she was able to open her eyes, took a few days. She got, she got over her amnesia. About three, three to six months to get out of the wheelchair. Never got to run again. Never got back to sports. So this fatigue issues. And. She came a lot of chronic pain. So she battles chronic pain day to daily chronic pain, chronic fatigue. So, you know, last year she spent three weeks in bed at a time, just 20 years old, just hard, hard, hard to go preach to 10,000 leaders in African come home. And your daughter hasn't got out of her bedroom in three weeks. You know, just like Lord, please throw me, throw me a bone here, Lord, you know, and we've just learned through pain, through disappointment, that that broken faith isn't rejected faith. And his faith isn't rejected faith. You know, the father came in, he said, Lord, I brought my son, my son struggling to your decide they couldn't, they couldn't heal him. And you do something and oh, you have little faith, but he still healed his son, right? Like he's still, he didn't withhold the miracle because he had doubt. And so I've learned that that God is more loving and more gracious than I that I knew before. But there were moments of doubt and struggle and even Adam and I would even say even three years ago, the movement grew, the movement exploded so many great things. Three years ago, three, four years ago, she was back in the hospital again in Denver, this time for three months. And I just, I wrote my resignation letter to our largest donor in the chairman of our board and said, I'll be a volunteer for world praise, but I just can't lead him too broken. I'm burning too much. My baby girls back in the hospital. I just don't feel like getting into playing and going and training leaders on the power prayer. I don't see the power prayer. And so here's what I learned. I learned this that the, you know, the prayers more about the object of our prayer. Jesus, then it is the outcome. And I think we're taught to pray for outcomes. I think the real purpose of prayers to love on the object of our prayer. And that's Jesus. And so I would say that my prayer life's deeper now. I learned just to focus. I don't see outcomes. All that's in God's hands. There's things out of my control. And I think everybody listening could relate to that right. There's things in your marriage or your family dynamic or your health or your finances that you can't fix. And you've been praying and praying and praying and haven't seen that answer to prayer. And I might, my broken encouragement is just to hold on to Jesus because he's faithful. Even when prayers aren't answered and miracles don't come and you cry in pain. There are nights and nights and nights. I'd stay awake with my daughter all night in pain. And then have to get up and go do a Bible study to senators or the police department or help on a plane and just broken, you know. But I think God doesn't want our comfort. He wants our transformation. Right. And so now, you know, nine years later, Chloe found awesome. So her husband was waiting down here for her. So they're working towards marriage. She found a godly young Guatemalan pastor and just this the one that God, we're just like what a prince, you know. And so we're just so proud of Joshua. Her health isn't 100% but she became an intern last week. World praise. He's one of our graphic designers now and and living her purpose and my sons, you know, an old Robert student grade my 15 year old Lauren. We asked her last summer when my summer to college, baby, do you want to move back to America? And as she really missed Austin of the three kids, she struggled the most down here. And she goes, dad, I miss my school and my friends and your best friend lived like one, one house away, right? Like that. And she said, the dad, I'm closer to God in Guatemala. And I think you hurt my walk, walk with God to go back to Texas. So can we stay here, even though I'd rather be in Texas, can we stay here so that I can be more devoted to Christ? So you just like, that's okay. Yes, we're staying like, what's it afraid about when your 15 year old says I want to stay to be more devoted to Christ? Yeah. So that's the journey. You know, it was in the hospital when Chloe didn't know her name. That's the genesis of this movement of praying for everyone by name. Because God told me everyone's my Chloe. And I call everyone by name. So that's that's the dream of our ministries that one day we pray for every man will manage. I'll by name. And so last year we prayed for 600 million people by name. 5 million churches engaged. How that happened only Jesus. You know, only only Jesus. And so God's been very good. Wow. That is breathtaking. That is just breathtaking. Did you, did you ever get any answers as to what, what happened to Chloe? Like why she came down with that illness? No, no, she went to about 13 different doctors, hospitals, clinics, and they said unknown virus. Attacked her nervous system in a way that they hadn't seen before. They never seen her combination of symptoms and blood work was clean. MRI always came back clean. Older sounds always came back clean, you know. And so, you know, when there's not a natural natural answer, there's probably a spiritual answer, you know. And Adam got to be there for my 50th birthday last last year in our 7th anniversary world praise and Chloe shared her testimony, Alicia. And she just said the pain was worth it, you know, to see all these people getting prayed for. If my sickness was a catalyst for that, then it was worth it, right? And to see her loving God now. But yeah, never got answers. She about a year ago, they diagnosed her with fibromyalgia. They think that's the chronic pain, but that doesn't explain what happened before. And so we've asked God and sometimes the answers don't come and you just have to trust, right? You just have to walk and trust. But I would say she's about 90% still has some rough days. She was in the hospital again three weeks ago. Here in Guatemala. So still has some rough moments, you know, but she loves Jesus with our heart. And you go, then it was worth it. What do we want is mom and dad said that our kids love Jesus. And so she loves Jesus with our heart. It was worth it, you know, and I mean, I wouldn't be living my this. Right. And so they some died in faith. And so I love that. If he hadn't finished the statement, it'd be like only people if you only you only have faith when you win. But sometimes you have more faith when you lose, when you break, when you have heartache, when you go through struggle, when families are divided, when churches struggle, when there's health issues, right? I think that's actually where faith is stronger. I think that's where faith is really forged is in the fire. And so our family's been through some fire. But so is every family watching, you know, different different dynamics that we've all had our pain. We've all had our struggle. And through that is a faithful, faithful God. We don't preach the back end of Hebrews 11, you know, where they saw it into and the world wasn't worthy of them as much as we preach the by faith. They, you know, ripped apart giants and subdued kingdoms and, you know, a good friend of mine once told me, is a mentor. He said, a faith that has not been tested cannot be trusted. And the truth of the matter is, we've got weak faith because when it gets tested, we fold. And so the beauty of the dichotomy of what you were going through, Pastor Brian, and I heard the mayor of Albuquerque give a greeting to a room full of 400 pastors outside of New York City at a pastors press. And when you were with me, you were going to get up and preach and encourage these pastors to begin to pray by name for their communities and, you know, I'm 100% behind it, you know, and true in true New York fashion out show up on your 50th and bring you a pair of unreleased Nike Jordans just for the record. You know, I'm saying we're we're going to do it. But I heard this mayor who wasn't necessarily particularly got give credit to God for the prayer movement in Albuquerque and the socio economic conditions therein while you're dealing with what was going on in Chloe. Can you tell us a little bit about what happened in Albuquerque because then that becomes the impetus for now what you're doing globally in around the world. Yeah, thank you, Adam. Yeah, you know, I think you always got to start where you're at, right? Like if you want to change the world, change your community, you know, and that's one life at a time. So we just said, well, we're here. We live in out. I don't know how we're going to pray for the whole world. But we're in Albuquerque. I know a bunch of pastors surely we could get, you know, 30 pastors to join us. And so we started a month through prayer rhythm where every church would take one day for a month and cover that day in prayer. You need 24 intercessors. They're one praying an hour a day. And so we're hoping for 30. We got 150. So that, that to me was like that had never happened in Albuquerque. Yeah. Catholic Archbishop John Wester is a very dear friend of mine, my prayer partner. And he called me and said, can we join you like that? And never not in a Catholic state. That doesn't happen. You know, but he's like, hey, can we join you? And so, yeah, shoo John, you know, and so do you believe in the apostles creed? Yeah. Okay. We're good. You know, like, you know, we're probably not going to co-authored books together or plant churches together, create together, care for the poor together and fight for life together. Right. And so that was almost a sign in a wonder because in New Mexico's 50% Catholic, not 8% evangelical. So it's not, it's not Texas. Right. It's, it's not, it's not Tennessee. It's, and so that the Catholics would join was also a sign, Catholic mayor, a lot of the, about the city council or Catholic, the governor was Catholic and so it was like a sign in a wonder, right. And so, yeah, we took Jeremiah 297. That was the verse that God gave us. Pray for the peace and prosperity, right. The Shalom. And so I think that's the power. Where Jesus said, pray your kingdom come. You're will be done on earth as I think that's Shalom, you know, pray has the power to bring the culture of heaven down to earth, which the culture of heaven Shalom. It's, it's peace. It's prosperity itself. It's goodness. It's allness. Right. And so, and I love it that Jeremiah is talking about Babylon, not Jerusalem. Right. He's talking about the world. It's like it's sitting in history, destroyed three times in the Bible. Right. When center reaches its zenith, it's called mystery Babylon. Right. Like this is not worse. So New York's bad Vegas is sensing. And so, but God said, there's some people, some men and women who know how to call upon my name. My name is more powerful than any sin than any demon and hell. And if they know how to pray, they can bring Shalom. They can bring peace and prosperity. So we just said, well, we've tried everything else. Nothing else worked in Mexico. Like, let's try that. Would that work with the widow of midnight and look 18 could that bring justice. And it happened faster than we could have dreamed or imagined. And so we saw crime go down 32% 26% 18% every crime index went down. And the FBI said it was the largest drop in crime in one year they'd ever seen in the city. Our economy turned around. So when we started praying, we were in deficit bankrupt as a state. And it's a small state. No, you know, California just keeps borrowing money. Not in New Mexico. Like, you know, the worst economy, small population. No one's going to loan us more money. And so we started praying could prayer, transform an economy. Yes, again. And so actually went to number one in job growth in 2017 from 50th to first in one year. And so Bloomberg news came out like, how this happened? You can go for 50th to 30th, but not 50th to first. Like, how does that happen? Only God. The only explanation was God. And so they discovered the second largest oil field in North America. They'd been joining there for 100 years. And they thought it was dry. And one day a random technician scans and finds out it's five times deeper than they ever realized. So they've been there 100 years thought it was about to close it. And God said, I got more welfare. I got more in there than you can see, right? And so actually, so that someone asked me in Argentina a few weeks ago. Yeah, that was in 2017. What about now? I said, it's continued every year bigger. Last year, 13 billion dollars or plus. So every year that surplus has gone up with COVID and everything and all the struggles. It's continued to gone up. And so, you know, we always teach what you gain in prayer. You have to sustain in prayer. Right. So yes, it was of all the crime indexes. All of them are still down murder went up. That went up nationwide in 2020. Most cities saw an increase of murder. There was so much angst and anger and frustration. Isolation, right? And when there's isolation anger. So we decided, and then we got to focus on that. We got to pray for peace, you know, in Mexico. And so, but yeah, it's been so that became a catalyst. And so two years ago in Argentina, they asked me to preach on Rosario. Messy's hometown, which the murder capital of Argentina. So we trained 5,000 pastors that week, November of 2023. And we launched 24 seven prayer, you know, we watched the Jeremiah 29 seven model told the Albuquerque story. And what I meant to say in Spanish, Adam was, I'm believing that God could do twice as much in Argentina. Right, crime went down 32% in one year. You're in the murder capital. God could. But what I said was God. Very different verb in Spanish. After I was ever like, so your profession, I'm like, no, I'm just saying, God, could you that we pray that God, I wasn't saying you like, no, you said, and I'm like, oh, Lord, if that wasn't you, could you adopt it? You know, I could. True story. Last year murder went down in in Rosario, Argentina, 66%. Wow, you're over date. And so the mayor and the governor, again, Catholic mayor, Catholic governor, attributed did a video for us and said, this is the power per. There's no other explanation. Because inflation in Argentina was 150%. So they had less officers, less military than ever to control violence and yet yet it went down 66%. And so I believe God must do that in every community. I believe we're here to transform. Not just to hold on to the bitter end, not just to get to heaven. I don't think that way. I think we're here to impact to transform society. The church I see in the book of Acts, they were changing cities. Right. When they showed up that the enemy was nervous. Well, these are ones that turning the world upside down. They come to our town. Right. The economy, the goddess Diana was destroyed in Ephesus because so many people started following Jesus and weren't buying idols anymore. Right. And so I think we should bring transformation to earth. And I think this doesn't it's not only prayer. It's prayer plus compassion is prayer press service. It's prayer plus mission. But I think it starts with prayer. I think it's sustained by prayer. And so that's kind of what we've seen. God is doing great things. And I believe God wants to do that New York City and all around the world. You know, Brian, I mean, my mom growing up used to say you can either be a thermostat or a thermometer. A thermometer tells you the temperature of the room. A thermostat changes the temperature of the room. And what you're doing in cities and globally is a godly kingdom thermostat man. And every time I'm around you. I think I dream big and I think I'm excited for what God's doing around the globe. And then I get have dinner with you or hang out with you for a couple of days in Oklahoma City or Austin, Texas. And I leave like just charged up ready to believe God. And there are some very unique things as we wrap up this episode. There are some very unique things that God is calling you to do and help to lead in this season in partnership, not only in leading world praise, but in partnership with Pastor Rick Warren in partnership with the green family. So that the gospel is preached between now and 2033 to all the nations of the world. Could you share with the ministers, the pastors, the leaders that are listening to this right now. What God's called you to lead in this season in partnership with those other ministries and how they can get involved. Yeah, thank you, Adam. I think it's a collective dream. Victor Hugo said it this way. He said there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Right. And I think that the time has come to pray for everyone and reach everyone. Get the Bible. Everyone's language. Right. We've been 2000 years since Jesus. Like we have the money. We have the tools. We have the technology. We have the reach. It's time to finish finish the job. I don't think that for me that's not eschatological. That doesn't mean we finish it and then Jesus comes back the next day. I don't think that way. He said occupy to icon. No man knows the hour. So for me, that's not eschatology. That's that's discipleship. That's mission. Right. Go make disciples of all nations. So there's a collective dream. That many movements have Rick Warren's one of them leading finish the task. I hope lead prayer for that. Another movements in power 21 with Billy Wilson. I lead the program for power 21. There's another Catholic movement out of Rome called global 2033. My friend Henry leads that. So we're part of that as well. And so a lot of different movements have come together. Baptist Catholic evangelical Pentecostal and have said, Hey, what if we what if we did a moonshot. Right. What if we what if we said, would there be a way by 2033 we could pray for everybody by name and share the gospel with eight billion people. I'm not sure that we can or we will. But why if you don't shoot for right. If you shoot for the stars, you might hit the moon. Right. So let's shoot for the stars. And so there's this collective dream. A lot of movements working together. A lot of denominations working together more than I've ever seen in my life. I'm 50. Never seen this kind of unity on mission. Right. We don't need doctrinal mission. I don't think that happens to Jesus comes. But we do need missional unity. Right. We need a unity around Jesus who he is and unity around his power and his mission. Right. There's things we're going to disagree on. I think to Jesus come. But we can agree on Jesus. We can agree on mission. And the mission is what's make disciples the whole world. So, you know, with the green family and illuminations, they're shooting to get the Bible and everyone's language, at least audio version of it. You know, by 2033 that everyone in the world have access to the Bible. Right. There's a dream that everyone would hear the gospel. Probably a lot of that's going to be through house churches, social media. There's places that's going to be hard to get into. But, but their Facebook is everywhere. Instagram is everywhere. There's probably social media. There's also the house church planning to be in the Middle East is exploding. And so there's this idea for big, big, big audacious. I don't like airy goals. I like a big audacious. Holy goes. Right. So, you know, my, I are B hags. You know, we pray for everyone by name by 28 billion of us, you know, by 2033. Everyone here, they got a clear presentation, the gospel. Everyone would have the chance to be in a life giving church and everyone would have the access to the word of God in their heart language. Right. Because it's not just let they make a decision on their phone with an Instagram post. Who's going to disciple them? Where are they going to get plugged into a community virtual or in person. So yeah, those are some big, hairy audacious goals. And all the new students who said we got a lead with prayer. I think that's what's different. So when Rick took our finish in the task, he said, Hey, we haven't finished the task. We haven't finished the Great Commission because it wasn't led by prayer. So the first thing we're going to do is start a permanent and Brian's going to help us lead it. I'm like, I am okay. Sure. You know, and so yeah, it's been great to see how God's bringing people together. And this by name thing, right. This who you pray for, you care for it's so intuitive. Anybody you love you pray for them by name. It's really intuitive. It's like, Oh, yeah. So how do you pray for eight billion five at a time? That's the challenge. Could every believer take at least five minutes a day and pray for five lost people. So a neighbor, a friend, a family member, a classmate, a teammate. My daughter Lauren did it. Pray for seven friends when she was when she was 11 and led five of her friends to Christ in our living room. And so if an 11 year old can do it, come on. Why can't we do it? So yeah, that's the sub nations. They pray for 10. So it's not a formula. But it isn't. It's a effective strategy that God's using. And so yeah, we're just excited to see what's great is everyone can have their everyone has a piece of that movement. Right. We all can share our faith. We can all disciple. We can all pray. Right. We're not all going to go to China. We're not all going to go to Iran. But we can all pray. We can all share faith with people. We know we can all disciple somebody. And we can all help with Bible engagement. Right. So. I didn't catch that. How many names have you prayed for so far? Yeah. So last year, we prayed for over 600 million people by name 600 million. Right. So we have about seven billion more to go. Right. But, you know, twice the size of the United States population. So we'll take that. And what we're going to do. We'll make sure that our guest today on on faithless stories is Pastor Brian Allorid. We're going to get some of those key tools and things uploaded on faithfully so that people can follow along, can get links to what you're doing. The opportunity for pastors that are watching this literally around the country and the globe can be able to say, you know what, we want to pray for our city. 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