How firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Have you ever heard about the patience of Job?

What about the prayers of Elijah?

Well, to some, these are names they remember vaguely from Sunday school, but hopefully, for

those of us riding the Bible bus, they bring to mind stories of great people of the Bible,

people whose stories teach us about what it means to have confidence in God.

This time on through the Bible, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, provides us with examples of how

we can personally apply what we learn from the lives of people like Job and Elijah.

I'm Steve Schwartz, and as you find your place in James 5, Greg Harris and I have a little

time to talk about our world prayer team.

And I am so grateful that we have this time because let's talk a little bit about the history of

this amazing team of people. A little more than 10 years ago, we had an idea that was,

we knew people were always praying for through the Bible. That was always critical. But we said,

what if we get people focused on a

different country every day, get them, you know, motivated? And all we wanted was for them to uphold

the ministry. We didn't realize that the world prayer today was going to change their lives.

Yeah. Yeah. The impact that it's had on individuals has just been, I think the majority of the

feedback we get, the

testimonies that we read in the U.S. are members of the World Prayer Team. And, you know, it's a relatively

small number, 17,000 people when you think of, we've talked about, you know, is the number a million

or more that listen every, on a weekly basis, but 17,000 people that are committed every day to getting that email

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