When you understand the bigger pyramid of prayer, so to speak,

when he says no, it's because he knows better.

When he says, wait, he's wanting to develop our faith.

When he says, yes, he's wanting to respond to what our immediate needs are.

And he does all three of those.

And to confine him to any one of those answers is to say,

I know better than God knows as to what I need.

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All right, well, I'm excited. I'm so excited today.

Yeah, we've got Dr. Mark Bailey from Dallas Theological Seminary, and Dr. Mark, I mean, you want us to call you, Mark?

Mark is great.

Okay.

You know, one of your famous students, Mr. Jim Mitchell.

Your most famous student.

He says he's your most famous student.

He's our producer.

It's terrific.

I hope our listeners and watchers know Jim's name at least.

They haven't seen him on camera.

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