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StandYour
Books and prayers for the man still in the fight.
You don't need another sermon. You don't need a five-step plan.
You need to know another man has been in the pit and climbed out.
Brother, you are not alone.
Where do you want to start?
“I'm tired.”
Then don't start with a book. Start with a letter I wrote for the man who has nothing left.
Read the letter →“I want to pray.”
Four movements. One prompt at a time. No account, no audience, no one watching.
Start the prayer →“Give me the book.”
Book One. The battle begins on your knees, long before it reaches your hands.
See the books →“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent.”
Isaiah 62:6
The watch has rules.
01
Get on your knees first.
Prayer isn't what a man does when the plan falls apart. It's what he does before he has one, and skipping it just means fighting on your own strength until it's gone.
02
Tell the truth, especially about yourself.
The thing you're hiding is heavier than the thing you're afraid of. Say it out loud to one man and watch how much of its power was in the silence.
03
Guard your house.
Nobody else is standing at your door. The people under your roof don't need you perfect, they need you awake, and most of what gets in gets in while a man is looking at his phone.
04
Carry the man next to you.
You were never built to hold the line by yourself, and the man beside you is losing worse than he lets on. Ask him the second question, the one after he says he's fine.
No account. Nothing to buy.
You do not have to know how.
Four movements, one prompt at a time, at your own pace. Nobody is watching and nothing is recorded. Start where you are.
Pray with me