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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Power Surge Part 5 - Essentials
Publishing Date: 2024-05-26T06:04:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/power-surge-part-5-essentials/

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in ramencubines.com

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We'll start a new church called Pavlov's.

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Pardon?

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Oh really?

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Okay, let's go.

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Guys, I want to talk about some essentials if we want to walk with the Spirit.

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So if you want to title it Power Surge,

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which is a topic we've been speaking about for the last little while,

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and today we talk about the essentials.

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Some of the things that God guarantees.

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Some of the things that God guarantees.

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So that's what we want to talk about.

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Okay, my preacher is here.

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Some of the things that God guarantees.

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So here are some things that you can take for granted.

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Here are some things that you can take for granted.

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That's present 24-7, all the time, always for us.

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Always for us from God.

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It never goes away. Never.

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And if you can take advantage of guarantees that God places,

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then we can do things without ever thinking that these things will disappear.

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And so here are the guarantees from God.

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One, ever-present love.

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Ever-present love.

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This is a guarantee.

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He says that my love for you will be present always.

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It will never be withdrawn.

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Ever-present love.

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Ever-present love.

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So if you were to divide your life into a box,

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most of the time is spent here where there's guilt, fear, shame, uncertainty.

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Rejection.

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Lack of acceptance.

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Lack of belonging.

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Tit for tat, as in we've got to do something to get something.

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Not good enough.

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Betty is upset with me.

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These are the list of things that we have on one side of our life.

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On the other side is this huge pool.

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It's the largest swimming pool you can think of.

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And in that swimming pool is this thing called ever-present love.

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This is where we live.

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This is where we live.

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The thing is this may not stop, but what you've got to try and do is every time you find yourself here,

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you've got to take a dive.

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You've got to jump in.

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It's a guarantee.

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It's always present.

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It's just the ability to dive into the other place.

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Some of these statements I've made are statements that are not always present.

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Some of these statements are actually thought of even today.

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But it's almost like he's surrounded you with a matrix called ever-present love.

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And so one of the things I'm called to do is to still my or stir myself in ever-present love.

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Either still my soul in ever-present love as in when it's turbulent, when it's full of turmoil,

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love, either still my soul in ever-pressing love as in when it's turbulent, when it's

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full of turmoil, to still my soul in ever-pressing love. It's literally like diving into that

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thing. And there I begin the recovery process or to stir up my soul in ever-pressing love

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where it's dull, where nothing is happening and I dive into that pool and it is... So

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what do you mean, Jacob, dive into the pool? The love of God is how he created things.

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It's not visible but it is tangible. It's the same thing kids know. Kids know the love

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of their parents. Even when the parent is upset, the kid knows the love of the parent.

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Doesn't matter that the kid may have been scolded two minutes ago. When the kid is in

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trouble, when the kid is scared, when the kid has an owie, when the kid's stomach is

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hurting, what does the kid do? Doesn't analyze what I got scolded two minutes ago. Jumps

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into ever-pressing love because it's settled in the heart that here is my place of safety.

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So when we try to describe it, it's hard to describe but if you practice it, you will

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find it's real. You're not jumping into an empty pool where you hit the cement. You jump

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into a pool where you find yourself once again surrounded by God. Ever-present love. The

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trick is to do it every time you find yourself here. And sometimes it will take time because

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every time you try to cross over, you'll still think it didn't happen. We have gotten so

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used to living here that this is our default. We do need collars. Any question on that one?

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These are guarantees. It will always be there. It has never been absent. Perhaps the one

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place that I would dare to say it was absent was when Christ hung on the cross. Maybe there

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was an actual forsaking of Christ so that we may be grafted in, accepted. But only one

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man experienced it. But the earth has never experienced the absence of the love of God.

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Never experienced it. It's odd. You can take an orphan. You can take a child that has been

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brutalized. But that child who has never known love will recognize love. How? Thanks man.

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This is Davant. He wanted to be on TV. How's that, Davant? Thanks, Davant. You'll never

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do that again, right? Yeah. Thank you though. I'll give you a ride home. So ever present

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love. Any questions on this? It's always there, guys. It's just getting into the habit of

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it. It's so difficult. Like I said earlier on in a teaching, sometimes you have to come

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up with some kind of an action or a gesture or a symbol where you pause and you, I mean

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it's better than snapping the elastic band. Where you pause and you say, Jesus, I need

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to step into this because right now I'm just driving myself on turbo engines that are mine.

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Can you take the echo off, Bishop? Any questions, guys? Yeah. Even when a child has been abused

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or harmed or has been an orphan, the child has the ability once love is shown to immediately

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gravitate towards it because we are created that way. We are created in the image of God.

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So it's very natural for us. But because of practice, practice, practice of being on the

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other side, we do not know what it is to step into love. One of the questions I asked, I

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don't know whether it was this church or somewhere else, do you even know? And it's an aggressive,

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provocative question. Do you even know what it is to receive love without doing something

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back? Do you even know, as human beings here, Christians here, I'm asking myself, I'm asking

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you, do you even know what it is to receive love without reciprocating? Can you just receive

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love from your spouse, from your dad, from your mom, from your friend, from your lover?

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Can you receive love and just receive and bask in it without saying anything back, doing

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anything back, reciprocating it? Do you know how incapable we are of even receiving love?

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As soon as we start receiving love, what do we do? We try to somehow do something that

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can express our love back. It's strange how we don't even know how to receive love without

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doing nothing. This is why children can be quite irritating, and cats.

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And cats, Jeremy. You thought you could hide behind that mask? You show those two creatures

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love, and both of them just receive it and don't respond. But you can't get rid of your

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kids, but you can get rid of cats. Moving on, we don't want to, we don't want to, I'm not

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an anti-catite. Second thing that is guaranteed, he's always drawing you to himself. He's always

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drawing you to himself. Fundamental truths that we miss, he's always drawing you to himself.

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So when I talk about diving into the pool of love, I'm not asking you to dive into that

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pool of love so I'll stay up. I'm not asking you to dive into the pool of love. Is this

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a deliberate thing to prevent me from going down that you turn on the echo? No way. Okay.

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So can you lower it a little? Because I'm hearing myself. Yeah. The idea of diving into

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the love of God is so that you can receive it, that's all. It's not to make you sing,

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it's not to make you pray, it's not to make you worship, it is just to receive it. David

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put it this way. He said, he says this in Psalm 37 I think, when I place the pieces

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of my life before you, you put them back together with your love. When I place the pieces of

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my life before you, you put them back with your love. Psalm 37, just turn to it. I think

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it's Psalm 37. I think it's Psalm 37. I think it's Psalm 37. I think it's Psalm 37. I think

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it's Psalm 37. Message version. Nope, it's not. Psalm 18. Yeah. Psalm 18, starting at

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verse 19. Oh, starting at verse 18. 17. That enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning,

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they hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide open field.

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I stood there, saved, surprised, and I was so happy. I was so happy. I was so happy.

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I was so happy. I was so happy. I was so happy. I was so happy. I was so happy. I was so happy.

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They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide open field.

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I stood there, saved, surprised to be loved. God made my life complete when I placed all

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the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to

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God's ways. I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works. I try

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not to miss a trick. I feel put back together. I'm watching my step. God rewrote the text

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of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. Beautifully, God rewrote the

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text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. That's what we're talking

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about. The second part is that he's always drawing you to himself. He's always drawing

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you to himself. He's actively drawing you to himself. Right now, every moment, he's

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actively drawing you to himself. It's not you who's trying to draw him to you. It's

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he who's drawing you to him. Who seeks who first? The child, the father or the father

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of the child? It's always the father of the child. Who seeks who first? The sheep, the

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shepherd or the shepherd, the sheep? The shepherd, the sheep. Who seeks who first? The teacher,

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the student or the student, the teacher? The teacher, the student. So he's constantly seeking.

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You've got to know that every time, regardless of whether you're doing well or you're not

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doing well, he's seeking you out. Always seeking you. What does this do to you? It makes you

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confident that it does not matter what your condition is, there is someone looking for

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you. The parable of the coin is very simple. The parable of the coin is if you went and

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lost a penny under your sofa, you won't look for it. Why? Because it has no value to you

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anymore, particularly because you can't even use it at TNT. So what do you do? You let it

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lie under the sofa. If I moved your sofas, we would have enough money for a whole month's

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rent here. But the reason we let it remain is because there's no value to those coins,

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to the five cents, to the ten cents, to the penny. What gives a coin value is the one

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who looks for it. And that's the story of the parable of the coins. The one who looks

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for a coin is the one who puts value on it, ascribes value to it. And there's someone

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who's constantly trying to draw me in. Constantly trying to draw me in. And he's drawing me

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into what? Not into I want you to sing, I want you to worship, I want you to be holy.

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He's drawing me into himself. All he wants is a relationship, which is why he made me.

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He keeps drawing me into a relationship. When will it end? When my relationship with him

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is as perfect as Jesus' with him. So when will it end? It won't end here on earth. Be

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constantly aware of his drawing. Third thing, these are guarantees. They are 24-7 active

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from the morning till the evening and it will continue like this till the earth ends. And

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then it will continue in the new heaven and earth. Third thing, guarantees that you can

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live by. His tangible presence, his tangible presence does not dissipate one bit. Tangible

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is the first word we want to work with. Tangible means something that can be sensed, felt.

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So when you talk about God's presence, you have to have both feeling, sensing, emotion,

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and truth to it. It all comes together. You can't separate it. How can this be real Jacob?

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I don't feel him. Do you feel your white body? Do you feel your white body? Do you feel your

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belief when she's not around? Yes, you do. When she's missing, why is there an absence?

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Sometimes when you get up in the morning and she's already gone to work, what do you do

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first? You feel around to see if she's there and then you realize it's only the pillow.

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He is always there. He wakes up late but she is busy. The point being, you can tangibly

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feel the absence of people. You can. Once you've lost a parent or a child, once you've

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lost a child, you can feel the pain of a lost child for years on end. Spouses who lose their,

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I mean husbands and wives that lose their spouses can feel the pain. If that is how

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it is with created things, how much more with the creator? Here's what's happened guys.

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Our minds have forgotten or don't have any recollection of living like this. Therefore,

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it's not the way we think and we settle for less. We are Cinderella with amnesia. Not

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only does she not realize that she's lost her shoe, when you bring her to the shoe,

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she still doesn't recognize it's her shoe. And so now it's time to go back to realizing

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that there's something called presence, yes, but it's tangible. Are you aware of it? Are

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you aware of it as you're listening now? Because I'm aware of it as I speak. Sometimes my heart

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cries out. I want to like heave sometimes because of sobs or sighs inside me because

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I know he is present and that he can change lives in a second. That if this becomes real

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as it is right now, when I'm doing things that are just normal, that I'll live a life

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that will affect so many. Tangible presence and it never dissipates, it never lessens,

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it never goes down a little, never goes down a little. Tangible presence when you're making

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jokes about cats, tangible presence when you're talking about the holiness of God. This is

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how it works. And it's for every one of us always all the time. These are 24 7 guarantees

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that will never change. In eternity all this will be more heightened because you don't

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have to deal with the wrestling of the soul that we do right now. We don't have to deal

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with the decaying body that we have right now. These things will only get heightened.

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And that's why I should start practicing it now. Any questions? Jesus lived this way.

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Any questions? Okay, fourth guarantee. There are things he desires to do. He desires to

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say to you today. For him it's always today. It's always today. There are things that he

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desires to say to you today. Is that the expectation? Is that the, I mean when Remy and Hamari wake

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up, they expect Riyaya to say things that sound legible and Judah to say things that

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sound absolutely illegible and thrill with both. Yesterday I watched Judah and Emmanuel

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having a deep discussion. It is fascinating. They talked a language that nobody in the

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world understands, including them, but it was a conversation. One is three, one is two,

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okay. So they're born under two and they're having this intense discussion with each

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other. Every parent wants to speak and children expect their parents to speak. Can you imagine

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a child not expecting a parent to speak? You know what that'll do to a child? Do you know

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what that does to grown up children? You should hear a song called Cats in the Cradle. It's

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a song about that. He desires to speak to me today. He expects. There are things he desires

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to say to me today. Every day today. Every day. But Jacob, I haven't heard yet. I haven't

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heard yet. Here's the question. Is this your expectation? Most things are born. One of

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the greatest things given to humans, I'm not talking about Christian, I'm talking about

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humans. One of the greatest things given to humans is hope. It is the one thing, regardless

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of whether you're Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, it doesn't matter. Hope is the one

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thing that has resulted in inventions, in creation, in the progress of man, in rising

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up from situations that would completely destroy anybody. It's always expectation.

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Any of you know who Hulk Hogan is? Praise the Lord. Hulk Hogan was a wrestler. There's

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been nobody like him. And so he would wear yellow. And he would be totally pinned to

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the mat. And you would think he was out. And then he'd be lying there. People are clapping

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and saying, yeah, Hulk Hogan's down. And then his little finger would start moving.

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And as his little finger starts moving, the whole stadium starts erupting because there

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is hope. His little finger is moving. And then Hulk Hogan would rise and he would then

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be the pulp out of everybody else. Point being, hope is like Hulk Hogan's little finger.

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So the question is this, is this your hope? Is there an expectation that God will speak

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to you every day? The moment you think he's father, you must have that expectation. Otherwise,

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it's a distorted image of a father. When expectation comes, attention comes. What you expect, you

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pay attention to. What you pay attention to now focuses you on that one thing. And when

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focus is intentional, you begin to hear, regardless of whether it is Zia saying, oh God, please,

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I want to play soccer. He didn't say, oh God, please, heal me so I can go to church on Sunday.

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He said, oh God, please, heal me so I can go and play soccer on Saturday. Regardless.

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Regardless. So regardless, there are things they desire to say to you today. Please, is

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this your expectation? These are guarantees. These are guarantees. Any questions? Yep.

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How do you differentiate, repeat the question. The question is, how do you differentiate

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between God wanting to talk to you and your own thoughts? You actually don't differentiate

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it because God speaks to us sometimes through our thoughts. Sometimes our thoughts reflect

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his heart. So I would not try to clinically differentiate it, but start having conversations.

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Like when you have conversations with your son Sam, sometimes you're speaking his thoughts

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out. And he's surprised that dad is not opposed to me going to Hawaii. In fact, dad's paying

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for it. May he listen to this? And so what happens is sometimes we shouldn't differentiate

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our thoughts. And the closer you walk with God, you will find that your thoughts are

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his thoughts. Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. What's

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he trying to say? As you and I get to walk closer, your thoughts become my thoughts,

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your likes become my likes, your dislikes become my likes, dislikes. Just like a spouse

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that is in love with his wife. I mean, have you noticed how Derek wears exactly what Iris

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is wearing? Look at them. Could you just stand for a second? It's blue and blue. How do they

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match this? The Derek I knew was colorblind. He was a very, very, very, very, very, very

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stylish. And now, oh my God, he's styling. Yeah? So, I mean, if the other brother is

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not there, pick on you. The other brother was in Spain yesterday, not attending a service.

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He was at the Real Madrid game. And he was wearing a red shirt. And he was wearing a

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paper towel. So, he called Ravensea. He calledpotters. You had to talk to him about his idols when

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he comes back. The next guarantee is his fullness, or full person, living and breathing in you.

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Living and breathing in you. His fullness, his full person living and breathing in you.

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It's something we are not aware of and oddly enough on one hand you should not be aware

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of it, on the other hand you should be aware of it. Like when you breathe you are not aware

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of it but you know you are breathing. It's the same way if you go to Romans chapter

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8, go to Romans 8 again the message version, Romans 8, Romans 8, verse 11ish, yeah verse

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11 from the message. It stands to reason doesn't it that if the alive and present God who raised

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Jesus from the dead moves into your life he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus

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bringing you alive to himself. When God lives and breathes in you and he does as surely as he did

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in Jesus you are delivered from that dead life with his spirit living in you your body will be

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as alive as Christ. When God lives and breathes in you and he does as surely as he did in Jesus.

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That's a beautiful thing eh? When God lives and breathes in you and he surely does as he did in

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Jesus. Guaranteed, never going away. So when I want to sink into God's glory I have to not

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seek it somewhere there or in some some authentic or false manifestation out there. The place where

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I find the fullness of God is in me and how do we do that? I don't know but we got to begin to

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practice this. When you realize that God is fully alive and breathing and living in you just as he

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did in Jesus. Colossians 2.9, the fullness of God dwelt in Christ and now by the Spirit he has

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imparted that same fullness to us. The fullness of God dwelt in Christ and now Christ lives in us by

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the Spirit. So God lives in us by the Spirit. The more I realize this the sooner I'll become what

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John the Baptist said of himself. May I decrease and may he increase. The reason I'm still very

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present and he is in the background is because I'm more aware of me. To become aware of his

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presence is to become less aware of yourself. To become aware of his presence is to become less

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aware of yourself. Awareness of his presence? Not out there, not in something here. Christ in you,

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the expectation of glory. Colossians 1.27. These are essentials and truths that will stay forever,

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inviolable, as normal as oxygen, as the sky, as gravity these things are. It'll only end when the

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earth ends or when you die and then immediately you get back into living a heightened life that's

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even crazier. And the last thing that we can talk about for now is he is holy and he is holy and

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he is holy. You know there's nowhere in Isaiah 6 verse 3 it says that when Isaiah saw God and he

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heard scenes from heaven one of the things that he kept hearing that shook the very foundations

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of the temple was holy, holy, holy. You never hear God is love, love, love. You never hear God is

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mercy, mercy, mercy. You never hear God is grace, grace, grace. But the one thing you always hear is

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God is holy, holy, holy. And he'll always be like that. We need to preach a holy God who is loving,

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not a loving God who forgives. We've got a shift in this, eh? We've got to stop preaching that we

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have a loving God who forgives. We have to start preaching we have a holy God who loves. And when

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that becomes something that's intrinsic to me then I will desire holiness more than forgiveness.

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We have a holy God who is loving. At resurrection a holy God moved into this person by the Spirit.

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But we have a holy God who is loving not a loving God who is forgiving. One comes after the other.

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And so the way to function on earth is to understand that we are holy people who will be loving.

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First, not loving people who will be forgiving. It just messes up everything. And this is another

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24-7 guarantee. I'm always going to be holy Jacob. If you want to know my secrets, if you want to

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always walk in closeness, yes I've provided all this for you so that you can participate in it.

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But you can never fully grasp it unless you become the substance that I am. And the substance that I

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am is holy. My love is holy. My truth is holy. My grace is holy. My mercy is holy. My judgment is

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holy. My relationship is holy. The way I think is holy. The way I act is holy. And what does holy

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really mean at the essence of it? Separated. Unlike the rest. That's the very meaning of the word

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ecclesia, the church. Called out, separated. We get this right. God won't know what to do.

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So find me, God says, in every moment, in every situation. Try to use these six things. Try to

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use these six things. In every moment, in every situation, can you quickly default to this? Can

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you quickly deflect to this? Can you quickly just drift to this? Can you still yourself in my love?

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Every morning, do you have the ability to listen with expectation? Can you stay aware of my presence?

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Hey guys, there's another thing when it comes to connecting and being aware of presence. You can

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stay aware of his presence. You can stay connected to his presence. But then after that, you have to

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come into agreement. It's okay to know the presence of God. It's okay to stay connected to it. But the

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question is, once you are aware and you are connected to his presence, are you in agreement

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with what he is asking you to do? You'll find couples that can be very loving. They're very

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aware of each other and so connected, but they don't agree on anything. What's the point then?

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Salvation is about a holy God who loves, not a loving God who forgives. God put the holiness of

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his Son in me by the Spirit and it's the Spirit who produces holiness in us. Go to 1 Peter 1-2.

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If you have the NIRV version, try reading from that. NIRV. So NIRV, read 1 Peter 1-2. Here's what it says

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in the NIRV. You have been chosen in keeping with what God the Father had planned. That happened

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through the Spirit's work to make you pure and holy. God chose you so that you may obey Jesus

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Christ. He wanted you to be made clean by the blood of Christ. May more and more grace and peace be

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given to you. Let's take another scripture. 2 Thessalonians 2.13, again from the same version.

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2 Thessalonians 2.13 from the NIRV. Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. The

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Lord loves you. God chose you from the beginning. He wanted you to be saved. Salvation comes through

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the Holy Spirit's work. He makes people holy. It also comes from believing the truth. Beautiful,

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eh? It's his work, man. Any questions? So when it feels like God's presence is

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absent or lifting, God's presence is absent or lifting, when it feels like you are frustrated,

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or when you feel like the awareness of God is suffocating, awareness of God is suffocating,

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then do a U-turn and dive into the six essentials.

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Is it there now? Okay. When it feels like God's presence is absent or lifting, and it can be for

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different reasons, sometimes circumstances, sometimes sin, sometimes distractions, do a U-turn.

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So what's the key here? The key is how quickly can you do a U-turn? That's the key. God does the

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rest. He's always drawing you back. The trick here, the key here, the key to this entire thing is how

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quickly will you do a U-turn? That's all. You know how it is, yeah? You're driving and the

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Navi says you're going the wrong direction. Your wife is saying you're going the wrong direction.

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Everything is saying you're going the wrong direction, but somehow you feel like, no, no,

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I'm sure it will work out. And then you find that if you're in the US or it's on a highway that will

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take you to Alaska before you can do a U-turn. Or otherwise, if you're smart, you do a U-turn quickly

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and you head back the right way. How quickly will you do the U-turn? That's the question. I want to

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do this U-turn fast, man. The moment this happens, to quickly do a U-turn. So that's one trick. The

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other trick is, are you aware, you aren't aware of love, presence, spirit, voice, direction,

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holiness? Are you aware? That's the second question. One is to do a U-turn. The second one is,

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are you aware? I would say we are all aware. Every person knows when the person is out of

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sync. It's a question of whether we've gotten used to it or not. Or how desperate we are to go ahead

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and do what we know is wrong. Are you aware? And if you're aware, can you do a quick U-turn? If you

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don't do the U-turn, you'll continue down that road. Any questions?

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Yeah. So I was in Bahrain recently and while I was there, I had an opportunity to do something

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that would, through an investment, have me make some money. And I decided I'll go ahead with it.

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And as I'm going ahead with it, I realized that the laws of the land don't really clearly define

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whether I can do what I should do. But part of me is thinking, there's enough money here. The law

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doesn't say this way or that way. It's gray. So let's just go ahead with it. And so I'm stepping

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into an area which I know is wrong. But my heart wants it so badly that I'm heading that way. And

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then I hear the voice of the Spirit saying, it's gray. I do not live in the gray. And I remember

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doing an immediate U-turn saying to the person sitting next to me, saying, can't go ahead with

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this. Sometimes it is sin circumstances that sometimes you have to stop and do a U-turn. And

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once I did it, where do I jump? Not into great holiness, but Father, I just want to return to

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your love because I'm shocked that I was willing to go ahead with something that I knew wasn't

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clearly black or white. I'm just appalled that I even considered it. What I need right now is a

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return to knowing how loved I am and a return to being in a place where I know your presence again.

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I was appalled at how easy it was. That's one instance. Another instance is even something

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like watching something that I shouldn't watch. Not something evil, but just knowing that the jokes

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that are being spoken or the insinuations that are being made or the dialogue is coarse, is not what

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one should watch or listen to. And the rest of it may be okay, but there's that part that I'm

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listening to and I'm thinking to myself, this is not the way to go. So do a U-turn, jump back into

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the presence of God. And so it's how long one takes. Then the question is Jacob, will you do it

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immediately or will you not? Or what if you have already done something wrong and now you're in

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that place where you're guilt-ridden, shame-ridden, feeling lousy, you know you have a service to go

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to, you've got to preach and you know there's guilt in your heart. You ask the Lord for forgiveness,

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nothing seems to change because there's a sword hanging over your head saying you're still

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messed up, Pastor Jacob. And then I never called myself that, but let's assume. And so you messed

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up and you're thinking all that. And then what do you do? You go diving into that place where you say,

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father, stand naked before you, just needing you to clothe me with your love. Because that's the

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only thing I have. I got nothing else but that. And in your love could you restore back to me

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everything that I so hunger after. And what do I hunger after?

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What do I hunger after? I hunger after a mic that will work right now.

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Do I, what do I hunger after? I hunger after, there are two things that I hunger after at times like

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that. One, oh God, I just want to live a blazingly holy life because I really enjoy it. It allows me

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to connect with you in a way that nothing else does. And two, I hunger after presents. I want to be

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aware of you continuously. It's the way humans were supposed to live. It is the way humans were

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supposed to live. Guys, what's our biggest call? Our biggest call is can you show the world what it

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is for man to be in relationship with God? Can you show the world what it is for a man to be in

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relationship with God? Show them man. The earth is thirsting for it because they don't know how.

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Why do you think there are idols and there are gods and there are religions? Why? Because man is

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desperately in need to connect with something bigger than him.

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And so the father of lies, the devil supplies enough for man to worship while the father who

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is true says, show them what it is to be in relationship with me.

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I want to touch on one more verse and then we'll close by 6.15.

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Go to John chapter 3 verse 8.

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John 3, 8.

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We won't finish it today, but I'd like to start it. John 3, 8.

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John 3, verse 8.

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John 3, verse 8.

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John 3, verse 8.

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John 3, verse 8.

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John 3, verse 8.

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The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from

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or where it's going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. The wind blows wherever it pleases.

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You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it's coming from or where it's going.

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So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. Once we have these essentials set in place,

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now the next thing is to follow the Spirit of God. And if you notice there, we always misread this

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verse. This verse isn't saying that the Holy Spirit is like the wind. This verse is saying

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those born of the Spirit are like the wind. Very often when we read this verse, we think,

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it says the Holy Spirit is like the wind. You don't know where he's coming from. You don't

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know where he's going. That's not what it's saying. What it's saying is those born of the Spirit are

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like the wind. You don't know where they're coming from. You don't know where they're going.

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And if you are born of the Spirit, it simply means that you are born again. If you are born

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of the Spirit, this is the way you're supposed to live. I want to just introduce that thought today.

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Think about that. What does it mean to be someone who is like the wind? And we'll continue it next

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week. What does it mean that you're supposed to be someone who is like the wind? Comes one way,

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goes another way. You have no idea where the person is going, where the person is coming from.

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The wind may change direction sometimes. All you see is the evidence that it passed by. What does

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it look like to live like that? And it is not an invitation to some pastors or some teachers or some

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evangelists or some prophets or apostles. It's not to some leaders, some young people, some missionaries.

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It is to every person sitting in this room. It does not count your age. It does not say,

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if you're 60, this applies to you. This applies to everybody sitting here to live like this all the

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time. Any questions on that one?

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I love scriptures. You can't challenge it.

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What does it mean to live like that?

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Any questions, guys?

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One of the things that will happen if you begin to live like that is people will misunderstand you

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like crazy. One of the things that will happen if you live like that is God will suddenly begin to

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actually take you at face value and will begin to treat you like he treats the wind. You know,

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in ancient times, the understanding based on say Psalm 137 verse 5 or certain verses in Jeremiah,

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people used to think that God had chambers where he used to store the wind and that whenever he

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wanted, he would release the wind and the wind would go and it would drive the clouds and make

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things happen. You see this in Job chapter 37, verse 12 and 13. Just go to Job 37, 10 to 13,

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read it from the message. Job 37, first go to Psalm 137 verse 5. Psalm 137 verse 5.

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Nope, not Psalm 137 verse 5. Shoot, let me just get the word.

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Psalm 135 verse 7. Psalm 135 verse 7. Psalm 135 verse 7. And there are other scriptures like this

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in Jeremiah and Isaiah too. Psalm 137 verse 5. Psalm 135 verse 7. Psalm 135 verse 7. And there are

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other scriptures like this in Jeremiah and Isaiah too. It says in 135 verse 7,

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he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and he brings

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out the wind from his storehouses. So that was how in the ancient days people imagined it to be.

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It's not a geographical, meteorological explanation of the thing, but it was how people

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used to think. But now go to Job 37. Job 37 verse 10 to 13 or 11 to 10 to 13. Job 37, 10 to 13,

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reading from the message. Job 37, 10 to 13, reading from the message. This is what people born of the

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spirit are like. Job 37, 10 to 13. It's God's breath that forms the ice. It's God's breath

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that turns lakes and rivers solid. And yes, it's God who fills the clouds with rainwater

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and hurls lightning from them every which way. Now listen to 12 and 13. He puts them through

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their paces. First this way, then that. He commands them to do what he says all over the world,

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whether for discipline or grace or extravagant love. He makes sure they make their mark.

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This is the idea of people born of the spirit. Can I now take you Jotna? Can I take you Emily?

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Can I take you Sheldon? And release the wind of the spirit underneath your wings so that you are

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completely at my command to bring at times extravagant love, other times discipline,

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other times grace to different places, different people across the street and across the oceans.

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Whenever I so please, can I use you like that? Because that is the nature of those that are born

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of the spirit. I love the demands God places on us. And these are demands he places on everybody.

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He is aware of your situation. Whenever we talk like this, we immediately get scared,

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but I've got a job, I've got three kids, my husband will be away during those days. I don't

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have vacation. You don't know the condition of my bank account. I can't take that many days off. I

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have an ache in my back. I can't go there. I don't have a visa. I don't have a passport.

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You think God doesn't know? Knowing all that, he wants you to say,

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here I am. And then once he knows the heart and the mind that is yielded before him,

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he is so aware of your circumstances, just like a father is aware of a child.

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You may have three children. You won't ask them all to do the same thing. But for all three of

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them to line up and say, dad, what's next, papa? Where do you want us to go? And then based on the

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strength, based on the ability, based on experience, you will tell them where to go. But can you imagine

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your three kids lining up early morning? You've just had your oatmeal because you're old now,

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and then you're standing there and these three kids line up and they say, what's next, papa?

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Where do you want us to go? And you'll send one of them to the backyard to just dig aimlessly. To

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another, you'll send him to get money from the bank. The third one you might send to buy a car

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based on their age and their ability. This is the same way God behaves with you.

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Trust him. He is not like me.

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He's so nice.

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I'm just nice. He is so nice. He takes everything into account. He knows your fears. He knows my

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hesitations. He knows where I've fallen, how I might fall again. He knows everything.

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Yeah. Where's Tuni? In the crushing.

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Derek, the service ends at 6.15, not 6.30.

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Can you give the intro?

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In the crushing.

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In the pressing.

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You are making new wine.

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In the soil I now surrender.

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You are breaking new ground. In the crushing.

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In the crushing.

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In the pressing.

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You are making new wine.

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In the soil I now surrender.

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You are breaking new ground.

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So I yield to you and to your careful hand.

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When I trust you I don't need to understand.

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So I yield to you and to your careful hand.

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When I trust you I don't need to understand.

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So make me a vessel. Make me an offering. Make me whatever you want me to be.

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I came here with nothing but all you have given me. Jesus bring new wine out of me.

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You've given me ever-present love. You've given me your constant drawing me to yourself.

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You've given me tangible presence. Tangible presence that never dissipates.

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You've given me an expectation that you will speak to me daily.

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You've given me all of yourself breathing and living in me right now.

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You've given me a tangible presence right now in me, around me, amongst us.

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You've given me yourself as a holy God.

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You've given me all these things. I came here with nothing.

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But all that you've given me, you've given me all this through Christ and through the Spirit who lives in me.

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I'm the richest man. We are the richest people on the face of the earth.

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A people who have God. Hallelujah. A people who have God.

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A people who have been brought to God.

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So make me a vessel. Can you sing that? Sing it with great appreciation, guys.

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Make me a vessel. Make me an offering. Make me whatever you want me to be.

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I came here with nothing but all you have given me. Jesus bring new wine out of me.

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Did Jesus bring new wine out of me?

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Where there is new wine, there is new power.

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There is new freedom and the kingdom is here.

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I lay down my old flames to carry your new fire today.

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Where there is new wine, there is new power.

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There is new freedom and the kingdom is here.

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I lay down my old flames to carry your new fire today.

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I lay down my old flames to carry your new fire today.

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So make me a vessel. Make me an offering. Make me whatever you want me to be.

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I came here with nothing but all you have given me. Jesus bring new wine out of me.

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Check, check, check.

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Quick announcement.

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20 year olds. How many here are in their 20s?

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20s?

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Alrighty.

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Okay, if you're in your 20s, 7 to 9 pm this Friday, May 31st, drop in at Jacob's place and it'll be a party you won't forget.

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If you're in your 20s, 7 to 9 pm, drop in at Jacob's, Friday, May 31st, it'll be a party you won't forget.

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