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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: No Fear
Publishing Date: 2016-06-05T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/no-fear/

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Two weeks I've met surprisingly a large number of people who have had situations in their

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life, I'm talking about physical and emotional and sometimes relational situations in their

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life, just because of this thing called fear which happened to them either recently or

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happened to them when they were younger. And it's surprising how long its effects last,

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so felt that we talked about security last week and feel the need to address this whole

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thing about fear and so I'm calling it no fear. And so John 16, 33, in that Jesus does

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tell us that in the world there will be tribulation, but he also says be of good cheer for I have

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overcome the world. So the fact that there will be turbulence in the world is not negative

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thinking, Jesus had said it, he said there will be tribulation, but be of good cheer for

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I have overcome the world. What happens with most of us is that we have a lot of people

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who have been in this church for a while, and we know how to not panic for a while,

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so our trust in God is there to a certain point. Most of us who have been in this church

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and who have been Christians for a while, we know how to not panic for a while, but

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it comes to a point and then we go back to panic prayers as if we really either don't

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know God or don't think that he governs the world. We either think he doesn't govern

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the world or we almost behave as if the same God we were trusting for about two days now

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doesn't seem trustable. And we go into this fear mode. One of the things fear does guys

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is fear makes your situation appear like a giant, fear makes your situation appear like

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a giant, it makes you appear like a grasshopper and it makes God non-existent. Fear makes

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your situation look like a giant, it makes you feel like a grasshopper and it makes God

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seem non-existent. Throughout the Bible we see this and we have seen it in our own lives.

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I am surprised at how I can stand for two days, three days, four days and when nothing

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lets up in the situation I am facing, I am suddenly put back into a place where I start

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going panicky. Once you go panicky and peace is abandoned, guys God gets so distorted.

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And so it is a major stressor, fear is a major stressor and it creates anxiety and anxiety

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it creates conflict and anxiety and conflict affect our bodies and affects our souls. Guys

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it is very difficult this last 10 to 12 days watching what a toll fear is taking of people's

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bodies, people's minds, people's emotions and people's relationships. Anne and I were

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ministering to somebody, Heidi and I were ministering to somebody, different situations

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but the amount of fear there is and it surrounds us, comes from different places. And the odd

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thing is this is an ancient spirit and why do I call it an ancient spirit? Because it

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was the second thing after the serpent that was spotted in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis

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chapter 3 verse 10 Adam actually says I heard your voice in the Garden and I was afraid

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and I hid. Spirit is a fear, sorry fear is a spirit, fear is a spirit and it is an ancient

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spirit. It has been around for very very long. This spirit has learnt its ropes right from

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the beginning. It is an ancient spirit that first affected man in Genesis 3 10. You know

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like an octopus, it has its ability to squirt that inky murky liquid, it brings confusion,

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it distorts God's voice, it provokes dread or suspicion of God and it forces you to hide.

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That's what happened to Adam. First it created confusion, he suddenly finds himself naked

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as if he wasn't before, of course he was but it confuses him, he doesn't know what to do,

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he needs to hide. Then it distorts God's voice. He wasn't afraid of God's voice, he had heard

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it every day and then suddenly he says I heard your voice and I was afraid. It casts suspicion

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on God and you begin to dread God. The real reason fear succeeds is because of a dread

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of God. Fear wouldn't have ground if it wasn't for the fact that I am suspicious of God and

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his intent towards me. That is the only reason fear has the foothold it has in the world.

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That is the only reason fear has the foothold when it does in my life because I at that

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point am not able to trust God and I suspect him of not being who he says he is. There

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is a distrust that develops. Fear thrives because of the distrust of God. Finally it

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makes me hide. Hide where? Hide behind other things that can help me deal with fear, not

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God. We talked about this last week and we said that God promises us the essential of

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security and what does security mean? We talked about it. We said security begins at this

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place where we hide ourselves in the cleft of the rock. From there we move to the next

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place which is resting in the storm and from there we move to the next place which is running

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towards the giant. These were the three phases we talked about last week. That we first hide

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in the cleft of the rock, then we rest in the storm and then we run towards the giant.

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Three phases of coming from a place of fear to no fear. So let's talk about hiding in

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the cleft. If you go to Psalm 71 verse 3, tons and tons and tons of scripture, I was

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finding it hard choosing a few. Psalm 71 verse 3, it says there and David is saying to God,

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Be my rock of refuge to which I can always go. Give the command to save me for your my

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rock and my fortress. Lovely. Be my rock of refuge. He's telling God as if he knows

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God is but this is a conversation between a child and his father and he's saying, God

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will be my rock and refuge. I know you are but he says be my rock and refuge. And then

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he says to which I can always go. He's saying the obvious but he's literally speaking to

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himself. One of the things David used the Psalms for was to encourage himself. He knows

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God is always and he knows God is rock and refuge but he says be my rock of refuge to

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which I can always go. Then he says something so brilliant. He says give the command to

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save me for you are my rock and my fortress. David knew that his safety lay in the promise

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of the word of God. That's why he says give the command to save me. Once he knows what

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God has said, David knows God can be trusted. This is the same guy who wrote Psalm 23. Go

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to Psalm 32 verse 7. Most of us know it. Psalm 32 verse 7. Psalm 32 verse 7. And it says

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there you are my hiding place. You are my hiding place. We are talking about the cleft

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in the rock. You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround

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me with songs of deliverance. You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and

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you will surround me with songs of deliverance. Again it's the same thing. Oh God this is

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who you are. With your words you will keep me. Let's look at another one. Psalm 91 verse

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1. Most of us know that one too. He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall

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abide under the shadow of the Almighty. He who dwells in the secret place of the most

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high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. And then later on in verse 10 it tells you

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what will happen if you do that. No plague shall befall you. No evil shall come near

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your dwelling. Guys at the end of the day here's a statement you need to remember.

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The first place, the first place you go in times of fear and trouble should be in the

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heart, which is the cleft we are talking about, the heart of God. The first place that I should

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go in fear and trouble must be the heart of God, must be the heart of God. I'll never

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tire of reminding us of what it is to be a child to a father, what it is to be a much

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loved child. Can you imagine the difference it will make to the tribulation that awaits

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you during a day if you start like this? Where the first place I go when I am in times of

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fear and trouble is to the heart of God. Because if I go to the heart of God, start my day

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there, continue my day there, now you see why Psalm 91 kicks in. He that dwells in the

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secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Find that

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secret place, it's the heart of God. What do I mean by the heart of God? I'll explain

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it when I read out this next line. Guys we always will have a choice. We will either

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magnify the heart of God over us or we will magnify the situation currently over us. We

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will always have a choice. We will either magnify the heart of God over us or we will

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magnify the situation that is at present over us. This is always going to be a choice.

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We will either magnify the heart of God over us or we will magnify the situation over us.

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So what do we mean by heart of God? It is how God sees your situation and how God sees

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you both. That's the heart of God. If you can't locate this, then it's a miserable

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prayer life kind of a Christianity you'll have to lead. Yes, calling out, please help

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me, please help me, please help me. This is how we live life. Once you locate this, it's

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very different guys. Every day I have this choice. Magnify the situation over us. I will

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magnify the situation I am in or magnify the heart of God over me. Any questions before

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we go on? This is why it's so important to run to him in the morning or whenever you

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wake up, if that's afternoon, then afternoon. Kamala and Ann wake up around noon. That's

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why I thought I'll throw that out and most pastors do except this one. We run to him

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and we discover his heart and in that when you start walking, you're already walking

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in safety and then as turbulence comes, so much easier because you know the heart of

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God over you. Guys, this is the word of God and I know that your situation may be horrendous

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but I just want to tell you that regardless of how horrendous your situation is, what

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God is saying and what God has towards you is greater than your horrendous situation.

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When you find out God's heart towards you and towards the situation, you both get delivered

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out of fear and you find solutions. Hear me again. You get delivered out of fear and you

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find solutions. You know what to step out of and you know what to step into. You know

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what to hold back. It's like that gambler song. You've got to know when to hold on,

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know when to fold up, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money.

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When you're sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting. When the deal

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is done, this must be a Christian church. You are not clapping and I sing the gambler.

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The point being, guys, God gives you both the solution and deliverance from fear. Both.

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If you know God's heart over you and over your situation. I'm not just satisfied with

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being freed from fear. I want to know how to deal with this situation too because otherwise

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I've got to do this again tomorrow. Both. These are such simple lines but it takes so

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long to learn this, guys, because it can only be learned through practice. I'm still trying

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to learn it. In the face of fear, guys, next time fear comes along, you've got this amazing

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opportunity in the face of fear to say Hebrews 13.6, to say to fear what God said we must

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say. Learn to say, I will not fear. The Lord is my helper at this very moment in my present

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condition. Hebrews 13, verse 6. What can mortal man do to me? I will not fear at this very

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moment in this present time the Lord is my helper. To say to fear, next time fear assails

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you and I'm sure there'll be occasions when that happens. I will not fear. The Lord says

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and so I say, I will not fear. The Lord is my helper at this very present moment in this

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situation. Quote Hebrews 13.6. If Jesus used the word to combat spirits, may I suggest

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that you use words to combat this ancient spirit. This is an ancient spirit. By calling

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it an ancient spirit, I'm not trying to make it bigger than it is. I'm just trying to say

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that it has plagued man for very, very long and it's learned the condition of sinful man

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and knows how to play with us. Now let us use the word to change things. The next thing

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is resting in the storm. If what we spoke about is hiding in the cleft, what does resting

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in the storm look like? Do you guys want this fan up or up? Could the man in the cleft be

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in the fan department to deal with that? Thanks. I don't know who the fan department was but

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thank you Prashanth. You can talk to your other buddies in the fan department who didn't

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move a muscle.

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Oh, they're next door.

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The next one is resting in the storm. One of the verses that comes to mind immediately

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is, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

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Again, it comes back to no fear guys. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow

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of death, I'm fascinated at how every time I've heard someone quote this verse, they

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always are trying to help magnify the valley of the shadow of death. Every time I've heard

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this, oh you know it was like the valley of the shadow of death, that isn't the most

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important part. But every time I've heard it, that's what everybody talks about. Even

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though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. I mean that

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must be restful where you're walking through the valley of the shadow of death and you

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fear no evil. That's rest.

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Remember, you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. And the rod and the

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staff was to defend and to pull back from danger. The rod was to chase away cougars

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and leopards and no tigers there and to pull back sheep that were going astray.

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This is the thing we haven't really learned as a church and most Christians haven't learned.

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We are people who know how to call out to God when we are afraid. But we are not people

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who know how to walk with no fear. I want us to come to a place where our condition

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is I will fear no evil. I don't want us to be a people who call out to God every time

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we are afraid. That's not mature. That is immature Christianity. We have to come to

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a place where when you confront fear, surprisingly you may be afraid but you are not afraid.

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We'll talk about that. Another scripture that comes to mind, Psalm 112 verse 7. I love this

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verse. I learned this verse 25 years ago and it shows in my life guys. Psalm 112 verse

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7 and 8. They will have no fear. Again that word, no fear. It's almost like this is a

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strange bunch of people. They will have no fear. Why? They will have no fear of bad news.

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They will have no fear of bad news. Why? Because their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the

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Lord. Their hearts are secure. They will have no fear. In the end they will look in triumph

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on their foes. One of the versions, I think it's a living translation says, they will

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have no fear for they know that Jehovah takes care of them. This is what I'm inviting us

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to become guys. To walk in a place of rest where it's not father I'm afraid and I'm calling

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out to you but it is even though I'm walking through this and it is scary, I will have

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no fear for I'm beginning to come into a place where I know you are with me. Is this possible?

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Absolutely. Have I seen change in you in this area? Yes I have. Have I seen change in me?

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Yes I have. I remember the first time I drove in the U.S. After driving in Canada this was

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my first time across the border and I was heading to Portland. Man do those guys drive

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fast and man do they have flyovers and these exits that come on you suddenly and if you

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miss one you're in San Diego. I remember people honking thinking there goes another Canadian

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with his driving skills. It was a little difficult but soon I got the hang of it. We get the

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hang of it as we practice in real life situations. Thank God that you will have an opportunity

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to try this because there's nobody here who won't have a situation in the next little

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while that you can try this at. Have no fear. No fear. No fear. That's where we are heading.

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And then there's a third stage. This is only the second stage. I remember God saying this

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long ago. He said Jacob I will guard your life. This is my joyful privilege. If you

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try to guard it yourself you unwittingly remove yourself from my deliverance. Jacob I will

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guard your life. It's my joyful privilege. If you try to guard your life you unwittingly

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remove yourself from my protection. Jacob I will guard your life. It's my joyful privilege.

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When you try to guard your life yourself you unwittingly remove yourself from my protection.

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I carried on my phone. Half the reason we control life is because we want everything

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to be safe and protected. Control is an illusion. You cannot control anything. You don't control

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anything. Tell me one thing you control. Give me one thing you control. Breathing. I got

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news for you. Your children. Your cats? Absolutely not. Tell me one thing you control. You think

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you've got some control over your spouse. That's an illusion. One thing you control.

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Your own? Even that you can't. The only thing you really control guys is your will. It's

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the only thing God has given you sovereign rule over. Only thing that you can control

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is your will. The only thing that God does not rob or take away, hijack, overpower is

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your will. Even your thoughts you don't control. Right now I'm controlling it. Or I think I

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am. That's an illusion. You control nothing. So why not stop? Oh I'm preaching to myself.

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See guys Jesus knew all this. That's why he slept in the storm. It's a perfect picture

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of natural exhaustion and supernatural confidence. Jesus sleeping in the boat in the middle of

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the storm is this perfect picture of natural exhaustion as in he was so tired. The Bible

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says I was reading it over and over again and it actually says water was coming into

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the boat. It didn't break his sleep man. He's getting wet and he's still sleeping. So he

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must have been really really tired like some of you about five minutes into the sermon.

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So it's a mix of natural exhaustion and supernatural confidence. But Jesus was so sure of this.

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What was he sure of? That's what blows my mind eh. We'll talk about that. Let's talk

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about it right now. Guys the essence of practical rest and faith is this. The essence of practical

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faith and rest is this. Do I take my father's care seriously? The essence of practical faith

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and rest is simply this. Do I take my father's care of me seriously? Therein lies practical

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faith and practical rest. Everything else is theory. Do I really take or what I'm saying

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is do I actually believe God's fatherly love and the love of God's son Jesus Christ? Do

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I really care of me? Do I take it seriously? This is why a man can sleep in a boat. It's

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both supernatural confidence and natural exhaustion. So your primary ministry every day, I've read

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this line before I'm not sure where I got it from. Your primary ministry every day is

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to let God touch you. Your primary ministry every day is to let God touch you so that

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you can know him, rest in him and make him known in every circumstance. Your primary

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ministry every day is to let God touch you so that you can know him, rest in him and

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make him known in every circumstance. Some of these lines are the A to Z of Christianity.

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Your primary ministry every day is to let God touch you so that you can know him more,

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so that you can rest in him and so that you can know him more, so that you can rest in

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him and so that you can make him known in every circumstance. So, so simple. So simple.

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All it takes, guys, all it takes is one step towards and he comes running a hundred steps

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back towards you to make him known in every circumstance. Take one step towards him and

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he comes running a hundred steps back towards you to make him known in every circumstance.

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Take one step towards him and he just comes running towards you. But the thing is tomorrow

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morning will I? And will I with the heart of a child towards the father or will I with

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the heart of a devotee towards his God? It just sucks. Every other religion has devotees

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and God. We've got children and father. Starts there, guys. And here's the beautiful thing.

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Jesus was in the boat. You saw how he behaved. The opportunity to be like Jesus is constantly,

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instantly and immediately available to me every minute. Every minute of the day. Every

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minute of the day. The opportunity to be like Jesus was when he walked the earth is constantly,

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instantly and immediately available to me in the face of opposition, in the face of

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mocking, in the face of being made small, in the face of low self-esteem, in the face

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of threat, in the face of fear, in the face of sickness, in the face of danger, in the

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face of inadequacy. Constantly, instantly, immediately. I have an opportunity to be

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like Jesus in that situation always. I don't want to be a Christian. I don't want to be

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like Jesus. Who wants to be a Christian? Find another church. Who wants to be like Jesus?

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Who wants to be like Jesus? Stick around. We're not here to be Christians. Go ahead,

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Tate. You want to be like Jesus, right? Good, man. I'm glad one guy raised his hand. Me

00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:19.720
too. Let's look and see if there's anybody else. Oops, Tate. There are more, man.

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Any questions before we go to the last bit? Any disagreements? Challenge me if this is

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impractical. What sounds and practices in our lives do you listen to here? What are some

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of the practices? Yeah. One of the things that's happened again over the last two weeks

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is the number of people that I met with that went on mission trips with YVAM or the other

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organizations. They're really great organizations who've done amazing work throughout the world.

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But many of these went when they were 19, 20, 21 years old. They went to foreign countries

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like India and other places. They went without either the moral muscle or the spiritual muscle.

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They went and they were taken into places that were highly demonic, but we go with the

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sign of Jesus' power over everything else. Jesus does, but do you know him that way?

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They went into these places and they came back after the mission trip. Then for 10 to

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15 years, they're completely undone, either because they've been ravaged emotionally

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or mentally or physically. I've met six people in the last 10 days like this. All of them

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are believers and all of them went on trips to places. You can't take a child into an

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R rated movie and expect the child to come out okay. All I'm saying is, guys, we can't

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play with things that bring fear and then expect to say no fear. You build yourself

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in God, which is why I said our primary ministry is to be touched by God. To be touched by

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God, James puts it very simple. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Simple.

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Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. That is your primary ministry. That you

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get right, everything else begins to fall into place every day. Every day. Last one.

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Run towards giants. Run towards giants. I think Graham Cook said this. You can only

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run towards a giant if you know the outcome already. You can only run towards a giant

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if you know the outcome already. You don't go running towards a giant if you don't know

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the outcome. 1 Samuel 17 verse 48 and David ran towards Goliath and while he was running

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he started fishing in his bag for five stones. 1 Samuel 17 verse 48 and David ran towards

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a giant. And then in verse 46 you realize that the guy knew the outcome. Before running

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towards the giant he is saying, oh by the way I just want to make a quick announcement.

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Use uncircumcised Philistine. In a few minutes I will chop off your head and I also want

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you to know before I chop off your head that I am going to chop off the heads of a few

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of your friends too. And then he goes running towards Goliath. That is what it says in verse

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46. I think it is a great insult that you uncircumcise Philistine. I think it is a great

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insult. It has some strength to it. How many have read Tintin comics? Aren't Captain Haddock's

00:34:55.660 --> 00:35:02.660
words sometimes just brilliant? Well if you haven't read Tintin. I must tell you this.

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Many years ago when the movie came out I wanted to watch Tintin. But didn't know who to go

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with. So finally I picked on the youngest guy I could find. And that just happened to be

00:35:16.640 --> 00:35:23.640
Mr. Wayne Callahan. And so Wayne and I turned up for Tintin and this is a 3D movie. I think

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he and I were the only ones there without kids. So all the other people were looking

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at it strangely because there were two grown ups and the rest were all dads with their

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kids. Yeah, they must have thought that. But the thing is Wayne doesn't look old enough.

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That's a problem too. You can only run towards a giant if you know the outcome already. And

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faith is the gift that enables you to see what God sees in the invisible. Faith is the

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gift that enables you to see what God sees in the invisible. You can only run towards

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a giant if you know the outcome and faith is the gift that allows you to see what God

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sees in the invisible. These are not nice little cliches even though they sound like

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it. But I'm talking about a place where we come to rest in the storm and now we have

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the ability to see things the way God sees them and charge into Goliath's path without

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being afraid because we know the outcome. When God has surely spoken, guys, and he said

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something, be reckless immediately. Be reckless immediately. Totally unrestrained, willing

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to risk everything. Once God has surely spoken, and I've underlined surely spoken in my notes

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because sometimes you think he's spoken when he's not, once God has surely spoken, obey

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recklessly immediately. Don't even think. If you think you're finished. If you think you're

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finished, recklessly obey. Recklessly obey. If God has surely spoken, be reckless immediately.

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Unrestrained, willing to risk everything. Once you recognize it's God, step out into

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the recognition of him and you won't see how big Goliath is. Once you recognize that what

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is being asked of you is God, then step out recognizing what and who God is and you won't

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even see that Goliath, you won't even realize that Goliath is ten feet taller than you because

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you recognize what God has said and you recognize who he is and you step out and you won't even

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see how big Goliath is. Anything I've done in my life that has been beyond what I have

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and who I am has only been a result of reckless immediate obedience because I was sure I heard

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God and then the enormity of what I was going to do did not even come into my line of vision

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and therefore I didn't have to spend time thinking about it. May I suggest that this

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is not even a Christian thing? Then anything attempted in the world that is impossible

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by any Christian, Hindu, Muslim, non-Christian, atheist, whatever has only been done because

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of this. They have a sense, they recklessly step out. We don't even have a sense. We have

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a God-given directive. If the world can step out just on a gut instinct, then we can step

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out recklessly immediately, recognizing what they have to do. Then they no longer look

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at the size of the mountain they have to climb. Much more so for us guys. You know we always

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hear these sermons about dreaming big. That's the good part, the dreaming big, oh dream

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big in the Lord, dream big in the Lord. That's fine. But then when you face reality, it's

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so humongous, you go back to dreaming.

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Recklessly immediately obey, recognize it. This is what Peter did. Look at what he does.

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It's brilliant. Jesus if it's you, command me to come. Come. Recklessly immediately

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started walking on water. And he does not see the water because he recognized the voice

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and the person who called him. He does not see the storm. They couldn't row against

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that storm. Peter was a fisherman. He was struggling. He was scared of what's going

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to happen. He does not even see the storm and he begins to walk on water. This is how

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God does mighty exploits to normal people. Running against Goliath is not running against

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Satan. Running against Goliath is anything that prevents you from letting God be everything

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he wants to be through you. Let me say that again. Running against Goliath is preventing

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God from being everything he wants to be through you. It's not about you really. And I dare

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this question at Acts 29. I want to dare this question at Acts 29 every few months. What

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is it in your life that you're presently doing that you would not be able to do if God wasn't

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there? What is it in your life that you're presently doing that's way beyond your present

00:40:53.100 --> 00:40:59.460
ability, capacity, talent level, education, pay scale? What are you doing in your life

00:40:59.460 --> 00:41:06.460
at present that is risky, that requires faith, that is impossible?

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This is the people we are going to become, guys. You don't want to be anything less.

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Why would you settle for anything less? Why would I settle for anything less? This has

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nothing to do with what you do. You can be retired or pastor, both are the same, or you

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can be a nurse or a student or homemaker or wife or mom. You can be anything. Nothing

00:41:50.140 --> 00:41:57.140
stops what I'm saying from happening. Teacher with report cards too to do, still doesn't

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change anything.

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I love this next line. I don't get the hang of it fully, but I know it's true. So obviously

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it's not my line. You can feel fear and not be afraid because Jesus said, fear not, I

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am with you. You can feel fear and not be afraid. Our bodies will feel fear. We have

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a fight or flight mechanism built into our bodies. So you can feel fear but not be afraid.

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As in, but after that, hey, if you see a cougar come out of the woods while the shepherd is

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leading the sheep and you're the sheep, you think you won't be afraid. Kids get scared.

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But immediately after that, I mean, Gillian just shook in a booth. But at the end of the

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day, gosh, that will sound so odd on the tape, eh, in the between. That will too.

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The point is, guys, you can feel fear and not be afraid because he said, fear not, I

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am with you. I want to learn this, guys. I want to learn this. This is how Jesus lived.

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The opportunity to be like Jesus is instantly, constantly, immediately available to us. You

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can feel fear and not be afraid because you hear Jesus saying, do not fear, for I am with

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you. So plan to lose fear as a lifestyle. Guys, the number of diseases, the number of

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diseases that are related to fear, anxiety and conflict runs into 240 pages in a book

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that I have. Pardon? Not everything in the book is good, so I won't give the name. But

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240 pages of fear-related diseases written by a guy who has a very long history of fear

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medical background. Fear, anxiety and conflict. So if I am afraid four times a day, I am afraid

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about 1500 to 1600 times a year. And if you live 35 years like I have, that's a whole

00:45:01.820 --> 00:45:08.820
lot of fear, man. So, I am afraid of fear. I am afraid of fear. I am afraid of fear.

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Just silence in the peanut gallery. Guys, some of the things that you and I are going

00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:26.860
through in terms of physical ailments and emotional upheaval will begin to die a quiet

00:45:33.740 --> 00:45:39.180
death. And you won't even notice that it has disappeared. You will think, oh shucks, it's

00:45:39.180 --> 00:45:44.180
been a while. May I suggest to you something else? The more I control something, the more

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I will be afraid of losing control. Control sets perfect soil to cultivate fear. Because

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the more I control something, the more people and the spirit realm will try to disturb the

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controlling. And the more that happens, the more afraid I will get because the more I

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will have to gather in the sheaves and keep them safe. Lose fear as a lifestyle. Lose

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fear as a lifestyle. Lose fear as a lifestyle. One of the ways that fear captivates us is

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this simple progression. Fear tries to have you focus or pay attention to a certain thing,

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certain event, certain circumstance, certain ailment. Once you start paying attention

00:47:01.460 --> 00:47:06.220
to it, your affections or your emotions are drawn towards it. Affections are not falling

00:47:06.220 --> 00:47:12.340
in love with it. It's affections as in your emotions, your feelings, your thinking is

00:47:12.340 --> 00:47:17.740
now involved in it because it's gotten your attention. Once your affections are taken

00:47:17.740 --> 00:47:24.740
captive or are drawn towards it, it is natural for you to follow now that direction of fear.

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It's very natural.

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Don't try this at home. But if you actually spent a whole day just listening to the disclaimer

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after any medicine is sold on TV, by tomorrow evening you will think you have multiple diseases.

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You will think you have multiple diseases. But we think we can handle it. So we let it

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come in through our ear gates and our eye gates. And the next time you eat and you find

00:48:13.780 --> 00:48:20.620
that your elbow isn't lifting off the table, you think, I got elbow fasciitis or whatever.

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If that disease hasn't been invented yet, you'll hear about it tomorrow. You have no

00:48:31.940 --> 00:48:38.940
idea how potent our ear gates and our eye gates are. You have no idea how potent it

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is. I don't take the ears and the eyes for granted. I protect them like crazy. I'll

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refuse to listen to that which poisons my mind with a worldview that is different from

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the one that God prescribes. Why do I need extra battles? I got enough without them.

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I don't need to fight for my own life. I don't need to fight for my own life. I don't need

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:20.460
to fight for my own life. Why do I need extra battles? I got enough without them. These

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are the ways we win, guys. These are the ways we win. So that God can be all he wants to

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be through us. Lose fear as a lifestyle. Otherwise circumstances will get into us. So we have

00:49:43.460 --> 00:49:49.300
to get inflated beyond actual proportions. Circumstances will get inflated beyond actual

00:49:49.300 --> 00:49:56.300
proportions. Circumstances will get inflated. I'm going to share something with you which

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will be slightly gory. Perhaps it's a good idea. Happened some time ago in this church.

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I don't know why. I have an idea. I have a vague idea but I won't even go into this.

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I was leading worship here and then preaching. Suddenly I knew that something was wrong in

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my stomach. My stomach wasn't hurting or anything. This might really sound gory but too bad.

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I'm just trying to convey a point. I knew that my pants were full of blood. I'm standing

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here and I'm thinking to myself, what's going to happen next? What do I do next? I've just

00:50:47.580 --> 00:50:52.060
led worship. I know what I'm preaching. I know who God is but I also know that my pants are

00:50:52.060 --> 00:50:58.140
full of blood. I'm thinking to myself, well, keep preaching because you know God knows

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how to take care of these things. The only thing I decided is I'll stand still because

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I didn't want to freak you guys out. I stood still, finished preaching. People came up

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for prayer, prayed for people here. Not for a moment did I think that God would not take

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care of it because I know what God says. I don't care what the world says. After all

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of it is done, I went home. I had to throw away my clothes because they were so caked

00:51:34.180 --> 00:51:41.180
with blood that they could not be washed. Then the next day I didn't even check to

00:51:45.540 --> 00:51:52.260
see or look to see whether I had the problem or not because it did not matter. Once you

00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:59.260
know who God is, then what does it matter? Why should I feed my imagination and Google

00:52:01.380 --> 00:52:08.380
what this means? Why? Why? Praise God. Never had that problem again. So my dear friends,

00:52:22.260 --> 00:52:29.260
it depends on what we feed ourselves. I haven't shared that because, partly because it was

00:52:34.660 --> 00:52:39.980
a gory incident, but I think this is the right time to share it because guys we've got to

00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:44.660
learn how to protect our ear gates and our eye gates because those are the pathways to

00:52:44.660 --> 00:52:51.660
our mind. If I was able to walk like that, it is only because of years of protecting

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the ear gate and the eye gate and not falling for what the world will tell me is wrong with

00:52:57.620 --> 00:53:04.620
me and what God cannot do and can do. I refuse to live by the standards and the ways of the

00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:11.980
world because the kingdom that I cannot be shaken out of has a completely different

00:53:11.980 --> 00:53:18.980
system of operation. We live under a king who is completely different. Completely different

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If you are not careful with these things, then what happens is our circumstances get

00:53:37.820 --> 00:53:43.540
inflated and when our circumstances get inflated, then you will think a certain way and your

00:53:43.540 --> 00:53:50.760
thinking will always take you somewhere. Your thinking will always take you somewhere. Circumstances

00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:57.320
get inflated beyond actual proportions and your thinking will always lead you somewhere.

00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:04.320
Fear happens because my thinking now leads me somewhere. My thinking leads me to a place

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that God did not creatively imagine for me that I imagined based on the input from around

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me. Your thinking will always lead you somewhere. Let me finish. Find out quickly guys when

00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:25.720
fear assails you. Find out quickly. Once you find out, quickly agree with God. Quickly

00:54:27.160 --> 00:54:31.960
agree with God. What are you agreeing with God? Aha! I see how you see me and I see how

00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:38.960
you see the situation. I see how you see me and I see how you see the situation. Quickly

00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:45.960
agree with God. Once you do that, you will bring yourself into alignment with some kind

00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:55.360
of an encounter that God will bring about that will change your situation. If not in

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a day, then in two days. If not in two days, then in three days. If not in three days,

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then in four days. Tell me when to stop. If not in four days, then in five days. If not

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in five days, then in six days. If not in six days? If not in six days, then in six

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days. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to stop now and I'm going

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to ask that we repent of fear in our lives. Different areas of fears we have. All of us

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here. I've got stuff to repent of. Repent of fear in our lives. Some will be instances

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we are or incidents that keep recurring. Repent of fear in your life. So that's the

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first thing. And then we'll repent generally of fear. After that, we'll turn and trust

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the Father. We'll turn and trust the Father's love. We'll turn and trust the Father's love.

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After that, we'll cast out this fear. Cast out the fear. After that, we'll bring our

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body and our soul to God and say, could you heal us and deliver us from the cast of fear

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that the world and the enemy and I myself have put on me. And after that, we can go

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home. Okay? So it's a five-step process to going home. So first, take time to repent

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of fear. Repent of fear. What does that mean? Father, I've taught that fear is a natural

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part of human life and I repent of it because everything it represents is against you. It

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basically distorts your voice, casts suspicion on you, dreads you, hides from you and I refuse

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to be part of it. So repent of it. No music, no nothing.

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Repent of control if control is leading to fear.

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I want our primary ministry to be that of being touched by you so that we may know you,

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so that we may rest in you in every circumstance and so that we may show you, Father, through

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every circumstance to make you known. Ah, how the world will marvel. They saw Jesus

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sleeping and they marveled at him. How can you do this? I want people to marvel at you

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because of your presence in my life. And now having submitted to you, Father, we want to

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cast out fear. And so it will require maybe a whispering, maybe an audible speaking because

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fear is a spirit, fear is a condition and we will need to cast it out as in when there's

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something stuck in my throat, I've got to spit it out. I've got to spit it out. And

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it's in the same way. I can't spit it out without opening my mouth. I'll only swallow

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it. Ha, spit it out, Father. And so I just pray that audibly in whispers or as loud as

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people want to be willing to, I just pray that you would help us now say to the spirit

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of fear and to every condition of fear that I do not have any part in you. I have submitted

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to God and I have resisted and repented fear. And now I say to you, spirit of fear, I cast

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you out of my thinking, my body, my emotions. I just command you to leave. I'm free from

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you. For I have opportunities now to be instantly, constantly and immediately present before

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God and be like God. So Father, we're going to do that now. I declare this upon this church

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and the people here that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God who said,

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do not fear for I am with you. I command the spirit of fear to leave us. I drive you out

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of our lives and out of this church as a body in the name of the head of this body, Jesus

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the Christ. I command these spirits of fear and control out of our lives in Jesus Christ's

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name. Amen. Amen. And finally guys, bring your bodies and your thinking and your soul

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to the Lord and say, oh God, now begin, would you heal my thinking? Would you heal my emotions?

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Would you heal my body? Made me free from, now that it's free from fear, would you begin

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to heal it? I've taken away the reason. Now would you, now that the root has been removed,

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would you, would you heal this body? Let's just pray that. Let's just pray that. Let's

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just pray that. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. Thank you Abba. I just thank you Father.

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Thank you Holy Spirit. Thank you for the healing of my body, the healing of my emotions, the

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healing of my mind. I won't be responsive to fear like I have been in the past. Thank

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you for healing bodies across this room. Healing bodies across this room. Many ailments of

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the stomach, of the blood, anything that has been a result of anxiety and conflict and

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fear, any fogginess of the mind that prevents us from making decisions that paralyzes us.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, would you begin to heal? Please, would you

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heal your body? Would you heal your body Jesus? Would you heal your body Jesus? We are your

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body. Would you heal your body Jesus? We are your body. Would you heal your body? Would

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you bring health now? Would you bring health now? In Jesus Christ's name. In Jesus' name.

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Guys, would you just indulge and sing the Lord is my light before we leave? Yeah? Marcus,

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you want to come up? I'll only sing it once so don't worry. I won't do it eight times.

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Ryan, could you do the needful? Matt, can you just turn the projector on?

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I think it's Psalm 27. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Is it? The Lord is the

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strength of my life. One second.

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The Lord is my light, he's my salvation. The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord

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is my light, he's my salvation. The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord is my life,

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he's my salvation. The Lord is the strength of my life. So I will not be afraid. No, I

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will not be afraid. So I will not be. So I will not be afraid. No, I will not be afraid

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because the Lord is my light. The Lord is my light. The Lord is my light in the darkest

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tower. In the darkest tower he will hide me. In the darkest tower he will hide me. In the

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darkest tower he will hide me. In the darkest tower he will hide me. In the darkest tower

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he will hide me. The Lord is my light, he's my salvation. The Lord is the strength of

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my life. The Lord isお願い. The Lord is my life, he's my salvation. The Lord is the

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strength of my life. The Lord is my light. The Lord is my light in the darkest tower.

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The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord is my light in the darkest tower. In the

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Because the Lord is my life, the Lord is my life, the Lord is my life

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Amen

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Show yourself this week how you can live this way

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Yeah?

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Bless you guys

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Amen