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Hello, I'm Alec Rowlands, pastor of
Westgate Chapel in Edmunds, Washington.

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I come to you today on behalf
of the pastors from all over our

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state who have formed a ministry
to pastors called Sound the Alarm.

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Sound the Alarm exists
to provide a vehicle for

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the pastors of our state
to call the pastors and

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Church of Jesus throughout
Washington to repentance,

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to prayer, and to
united action as needed.

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We believe that the urgency of our
times, the spiritual forces arrayed against

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the things of God and the promise of an
awakening for those who call on the name

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of the Lord, all combine to make this
the perfect time for us to set aside our

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denominational and doctrinal differences
and function as one church in our state.

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The message you're about to see was
given at the Veterans Arena in Spokane as

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thousands of Christians from over 160
churches gathered to pray for our nation.

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As you listened to one
of the messages given

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that day, would you pray
about what it would take

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for you and your
congregation to become one of

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the intercessors God is
looking for in our state?

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I'd like to thank the pastors
of the Spokane area and the

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churches and believers
of the area for giving me

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the privilege of coming
and sharing with you and

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linking arms across the
two extreme parts of this

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state and joining our cities
and our churches together.

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In Isaiah 59 God listed the conditions
in Israel about 700 years before the

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birth of Christ and when you read the
chapter Isaiah 59 it sounds hauntingly

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like the headlines you would
find in the Spokesman Review.

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You have feet that run to do evil
and hasten to shed innocent blood-

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Verse seven. You hope for
light, but you only find darkness-

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Verse nine. You grope along the wall like
blind men, like those who have no eyes-

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Verse 10.

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You hope for justice, but
there is none, verse 11.

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Your iniquities are
transgression and denying

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the Lord and turning away
from our God, verse 13.

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No one soothes righteously
and no one pleads honestly.

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They conceive mischief and
bring forth iniquity, verse 4.

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Righteousness stands far away for truth.

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has stumbled in the streets and he who
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Verse 14. Solomon was right.

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There's nothing new under the sun because
here we are 2,700 years later and Isaiah 59

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tragically describes
that we're lit the times

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that we're living in
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Things that would have caused most
Americans to blush with shame 50 years ago

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are now a prime time entertainment
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Our feet are running to
do the evil on every hand

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driven by an insatiable
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The innocent blood of 25 million babies
murdered under the misguided banner of

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women's choice over the past 35 years,
cries out from the ground for justice.

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And now we want to harvest
stem cells from unborn

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babies while they're still
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Our judicial system, instead of
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place from which a godless agenda
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The absolute truth of God's word has
stumbled in the streets of our land, and

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anyone who's determined to stand for
righteousness quickly becomes a target.

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After listing the sins of Israel and
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his people to know in verse 15,
that he saw what was going on.

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It came to his attention.

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He took note of what was happening.

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Don't think for a moment
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Don't think that he is distracted.

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God sees everything
even behind closed doors

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when people think
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And not only does he see, but verse 15
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It grieves him.

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That means that the evil God sees
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and we simply do not
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on the sidelines and
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Some Christians believe
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says things are going
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return of Christ, it's futile to do anything
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I say that's a cop-out.

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Sin and darkness and bondage
was not God's will in Isaiah's

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day, and it's not His will
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We need to be reminded
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going on and has an opinion
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Abortion is not God's will.

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Embryonic stem cell
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Partial birth abortion is not God's will.

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Same-sex marriage
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It is sheer fatalism and defeatism
for us to believe anything different.

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Believing that everything that happens is
going to happen and be God's will is Islam.

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It's not Christianity.

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It is God's will that
none perish, but that all

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come to salvation through
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in Jesus Christ.

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It is God's will that
righteousness exalt a nation.

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His word says sin is a
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Proverbs 14.34.

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This is not the time
for God's people to be

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confused about what
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His will is righteousness.

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Isaiah 59 said that God
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and verse 15 says he was
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Then in a move that surprises me,
verse 16 says God goes looking for a man.

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Why?

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Couldn't he just eradicate
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like he did in the days
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Couldn't he just wipe
out sin through judgment?

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After all, he's God and
can do anything he pleases.

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Maybe you're here today
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will see the mess we're
in and will do something.

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Well, he sees the mess we're in, and
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condition of his church in America,
which is why he's looking for a man.

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And verse 16 says, he was astonished.

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He was stunned.

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He was stupefied.

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He was amazed that he did not find a man.

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He found no one who
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I want you to listen carefully to me.

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I'm in no way belittling what
you're going to hear from this

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platform already and what
you will hear later this afternoon.

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But what God was looking for in
Isaiah 59 was not political activism.

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It was not public protest.

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It was not voter registration.

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He was looking first
for someone to intercede

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and was amazed he
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Isn't that the case today?

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And if it is, why is
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Because there are not many of
us left in the Church of Jesus Christ

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who really believe that intercession
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We tried it six years ago and
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We prayed once about something
and didn't get the answer that we wanted.

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We've been taught for too long
that the best we can hope for out of

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prayer is that it changes us and
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or change circumstances.

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So we relegate prayer to a few old
people in a back room somewhere because

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we're not convinced that prayer is
effective and we give lip service to it.

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And we run rather to pour our energies
into visible strategies and activities that

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make us feel better because we're doing
something in contrast to those who are praying.

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If Jesus said that he could do nothing
except what he saw his father doing, then how

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can we expect to make any difference in
our society until we've prayed, until we've

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called on his name, spent long enough in
his council chamber that we know what it

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is he's doing and what he wants us to do
when we come out of his council chamber?

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Then we can come out of
God's presence and do with

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confidence and with faith
what He's told us to do.

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Not some little prayer
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light seasoning on our
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unwavering, faith-filled
intercession, content that we

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serve a God who still hears
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The apostle John writes, this is
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God, that if we ask anything
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And if we know that he hears
us in whatever we ask, we

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know that we have the requests
which we've asked of him.

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We are foolish, brothers and sisters,
to think that we're going to change a

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thing in America with pressure
tactics and political strategies, with some

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little prayer at the beginning and end
of our meetings in the vain hope that

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God will bless our activity and establish
righteousness in the land once again.

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God's indictment of the
ministers of Jeremiah's

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day was that they spoke
and acted out of their

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own imaginations and
hearts and did not stand in

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the council chamber of
the Lord, Jeremiah 2318.

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The Church of Jesus in North America stands
indicted today for its prayerlessness.

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Christianity Today reported that the average
American pastor prays 25 minutes a week.

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Is it any wonder that we're
in the condition that we're in?

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Listen carefully today.

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The real problem is not the
militant homosexual agenda.

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The real problem
is not activist judges.

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The real problem is not Hollywood
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It's not political liberalism.

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The problem is us, the
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God looks down on America, sees the
injustice and the sin, wants to rain down

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in righteousness, but will not until
somebody stands in the gap to intercede.

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God is as displeased with
the condition of America

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and of his church as we are, and I
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And today, he's looking for men and
women who will be willing to intercede.

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I am here in the name of
Jesus Christ to link arms

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with your pastors and
churches in eastern Washington

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and tell you that it's time for the
pastors and churches of our state and

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our nation to repent and to put the
altars back in the house of the Lord.

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Let's start with genuine
repentance for the sin in

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our own lives and our own
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Let's put prayer back in our lives
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churches before we tell politicians
to put prayer back in our schools.

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And let's make the father's house
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Let's get our own house
and order so we can be

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available to God as
intercessors for our land.

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I believe with all my heart that it's
not God's will for us to stand idly by

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and watch our nations sink into the
filth and darkness that surrounds us today.

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I believe we're on
the verge of a spiritual

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awakening right here in
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If we, the Church of Jesus,
will repent of our sins and begin

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to call on the name of the
Lord, this is our wake-up call.

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Hundreds of pastors from all over
our state have been stirred by God

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to sound the alarm, to call every
one of the 5,200 pastors and churches

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of our state to be united in a call
to repentance and prayer so that

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when God looks down on our state,
he'll find thousands of us interceding.

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The pastors of Sound the
Alarm would like to have

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every pastor and every
church of the state on

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a voicemail broadcast
network to be able to send

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out urgent calls to prayer
and action as needed.

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This is our only agenda and our
only hope to intercede for our state.

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If you're a pastor here or
you're representing your church,

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please stop by the Sound the
Alarm table as you exit section

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122 by the main entrance and
sign your pastor up and sign your

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church up today to be a part
of a network whose only agenda

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No other.

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We won't be asking for money.

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We won't be asking you to
come together for meetings.

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We won't be asking you to buy
books or support any personality.

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This is not time for personalities.

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We've far gone and passed
the day when people can stand

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up and draw crowds just
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It's time for us all to
stand up and be the

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people of God and be
intercessors before Him.

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If you've not heard already, and I'm
sorry I came in late, you'll be hearing

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later today about many ways that you
can engage, and please hear my heart.

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I am not saying that we're
not to engage in every

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open and available avenue,
but I am saying it is our

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tendency to rush to do
what we can do and bypass

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what we must do, and we
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I'm going to ask you
if you would stand with

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me and take the hand
of the person next to you.

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I'd like us to join the Church of
Jesus in Eastern Washington together,

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cross over the aisles if you can, so
we can be one body in this auditorium.

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And your pastors here have asked me
if I would lead you in a corporate prayer.

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And if you will, I will give you a
phrase and ask you to repeat the

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phrase with me so we can go before
the Lord together in prayer right now.

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Would you say, would you pray after me?

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Father, we come before you today
in the name of your son, Jesus Christ.

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We humble ourselves before
you and we confess that we

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have lived to please ourselves
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We confess our prayerlessness.

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and the littleness of our faith to
believe that you will hear us and heal

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our land, that it is your will to heal
our land and bring righteousness.

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Please forgive us our own sin
and by your spirit cause us to walk

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in righteousness before
you and before our world.

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Let us be the salt and
light once again in this land.

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Revive us, O Lord, in this
urgent hour to be intercessors

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before you, for our families
and our state and our nation.

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Please send a spirit of prayer on our
pastors and our leaders and our churches.

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We call on you right now for our churches,
for our state, and for our nation.

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Push back the darkness.

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Bring confusion into the enemy's
camp and let righteousness reign.

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Once again, as you heal our land,
in Jesus' mighty name, we pray.

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Amen.

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Let's put our hands together and
thank God for answer to prayer.

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Thank you, Lord Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord Jesus.

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If this message resonates
with what God has already

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been speaking to your
heart, we, the pastors

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of Sound the Alarm, would
humbly and respectfully

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like to encourage
you to do four things.

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One, would you as a
fellow pastor in the state

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of Washington consider
joining us in setting

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more personal time aside
to earnestly seek God's

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direction for your life
and for your ministry?

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In Jeremiah 2318, God indicts the spiritual
leadership of the prophet's day for not

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speaking God's words to
the people because they

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had neglected being
in his council chamber.

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I'm afraid that as busy as
you and I have become, trying

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desperately to be successful
in our ministries, that we've

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neglected the one thing that
will make a difference in our lives

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and in our churches, and
that is our personal prayer lives.

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Number two,

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Would you consider calling your congregation
to a protracted ministry of prayer,

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asking the Lord for spiritual awakening
in His church in the state of Washington?

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Something powerful happens when
the Church of Jesus comes together to

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call on the name of the Lord, fully
persuaded that prayer changes things.

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I believe that God will
direct you to the times

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and manner for prayer
best suited to your people.

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Jesus said, my house will
be called a house of prayer.

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I'm convinced that God is
sending a spiritual awakening to

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the Northwest and that He
will hear and answer our prayer.

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Number three, we're asking that you
give us your phone number and sign a

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permission form allowing us to send
you an occasional voicemail message.

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The pastors of Sound
the Alarm are sensing an

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urgency for the Church
of Jesus in the state of

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Washington to be united
in heart, united in prayer

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focus, and if the need
arises to be united in action.

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We'll be very discreet in how often we send
you a voicemail message and we'll reserve

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the content for important issues of spiritual
urgency for the church and for our state.

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Think of how incredible it would be
with one voicemail message to unite the

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pastors and churches of our state for
prayer, intercession, and united action.

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It would be an unprecedented
opportunity for us

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to walk as one church in
the state of Washington.

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The printed materials that we
have for you will allow you to

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process and pray about your
response to each of these action items.

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Number four, our fourth
and final request is for you to

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help us build this pastor's
network for united prayer

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and action by encouraging
all the pastors you may know

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in this state to sign up to
be a part of Sound the Alarm.

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If you have any questions, we can
be reached at soundthealarm.com

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and may God bless you and your
congregation in the days ahead.

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you