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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Running with Horses
Publishing Date: 2024-06-09T23:00:00-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/running-with-horses/

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If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with

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horses?

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If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the tickets by the Jordan?

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If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with

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horses?

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If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the tickets by the Jordan?

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So guys, the actual context of this verse is God saying to Jeremiah, listen, I know

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you've been facing opposition from false prophets around you, but why are you getting so veered

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out by false prophets that are resisting you, by priests that are resisting you?

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Because there's something more that I need you to do and if you get veered out by the

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human opposition you're facing right now, how in the world are you going to deal with,

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in this case, horses actually means the military might of Babylon?

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That's what he's actually talking about, that right now you're dealing with internal struggles

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like false prophets and priests and that's beginning to suck your dry.

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If that's the case, when I put you up against the military might of Babylon, the horses

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of Babylon, what are you going to do?

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And so this idea of running with horses is to muscle up so that God can be supernatural,

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to muscle up so God can be supernatural.

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The idea of running with horses is not that we run faster, but to muscle up so God can

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be, hey there's too much of an echo, to muscle up so God can be supernatural.

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Running with horses is natural, that's what God is saying, sorry, running with horses

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is not natural, sorry, running with horses is not natural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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And so what God is saying is, can you muscle up Jacob so that I can be supernatural?

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Because you're getting veered out by things that are pretty normal to human experience,

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like sometimes lack in some areas, like sometimes small time fears, like sometimes trauma from

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the past, like sometimes just being offended by people who may actually be causing real

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offense, like sometimes a hostile boss or hostile environment.

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These things are veering you out to the point where I can't put you up against anything

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greater than these because this is a natural part of human experience.

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So it's a very direct statement to Jeremiah, God used to deal with Jeremiah pretty strongly,

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he would not give him much leeway.

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This was a prophet who really served God well, but whenever he'd go off a little, God would

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not give him space and I pray that the same thing be with us, that he doesn't give us

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too much room to wiggle.

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So if you look at Jeremiah 15 or 17 for instance, just go there for a second, you'll see Jeremiah

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pretty upset with how things are working out and so he begins to complain.

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When he complains, you would think God would say, oh poor Jeremiah, come let me take care

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of you, not so.

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Here's Jeremiah's words in Jeremiah 15 and here's what he says in verse 18 and this is

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so typical of us and yet what Jeremiah was facing was far greater than what we are facing

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but these words sound so similar.

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You and I have said this before, Jeremiah 15 verse 18, why is my pain unending?

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Why my wound grievous and incurable?

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Then he says to God, will you be to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails?

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That's what he's saying to God.

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Now look at God's response.

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If you repent, I'll restore you that you may serve me.

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If you utter worthy not worthless words, you will be my spokesman.

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Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

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I will make you a wall to the people, a fortified wall of bronze.

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They will fight against you, but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue

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you and save you declares the Lord.

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And so his response was, listen, stop talking nonsense.

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Stop talking like a fool.

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So he had a very short leash with Jeremiah and I pray that he has a short leash with

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us so that there isn't much wiggle room when it comes to serving him because very often

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what happens is the circumstances and the cares of life and the pains that we endure

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choke out serving him.

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Sometimes it's age, sometimes it's a pain, sometimes it's lack, sometimes it's work,

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sometimes it's other commitments.

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It chokes us out from running after him.

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And yet his statement in Matthew 6.33 was, seek first and all other things shall be added.

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So running with horses is not natural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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The question we have to ask is, do you have an appetite for the impossible?

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And I deliberately use the word impossible because when we say, do you have an appetite

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for the supernatural, we might say yes, but when we ask the question, do you have an appetite

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for the impossible, that then throws a different spin on it.

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Do you have an appetite for the impossible?

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Because your God is like that, you're made in his image, your image has been restored

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and he lives in you.

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So do you have an appetite for the impossible?

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And if I say yes, then a hungry man goes looking for it.

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That's how you know someone has an appetite for something.

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You have an appetite and not feed it means you don't have an appetite.

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Everything about this God is supernatural and what often happens is we don't have this,

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it is unnatural for us, which shouldn't be the case.

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Why?

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Because over a period of time, by subtle degrees, it's not a deliberate decision that we make,

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but by subtle degrees, we pull away from your kingdom come, your will be done, here on earth

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as it is in heaven.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done.

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On earth as in heaven, we pull away from this.

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In this lies the work of the supernatural God.

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We pull away from this, all of us.

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When I first came to Canada 31 or 32 years ago, I remember I was like fresh off the Christian

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boat and just had such a passion for everything that had to do with healing and miracles

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and the supernatural.

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I remember talking about it when I first came here and people would look at you strange.

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People would look at you like, oh, you must be one of those Ramah faith guys and they

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would keep a healthy distance from you because faith guys had developed a reputation here

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so you couldn't talk openly about it because you would be branded as one of them.

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And subtly it begins to take a toll because Western civilization and now all over the

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world rationalizes things.

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And you cannot rationalize the supernatural so subtly you begin to withdraw.

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You begin to get quieter.

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And the strange thing is though out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, when

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you stifle the mouth, the heart begins to stop thinking that way.

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On one hand, Jesus said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak.

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But if one deliberately stifles one's mouth, then eventually what is inside the heart will

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begin to die.

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And that's why sometimes during worship, I made a statement earlier on before we were

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singing.

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I said, if my heart is aligned with God, my heart will begin to sing and my mouth will

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speak and my body will respond.

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I didn't elaborate it that way but that's what I was saying.

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And when you decide that your mouth will not speak, the heart becomes dry.

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It works both ways.

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Yeah, so sometimes when the heart wants to speak, say something.

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Sometimes when the heart wants to flip your elbows a little, flip them.

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Don't go all the way up.

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At least do this.

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Na na na na na na na na na na na na.

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So, pardon?

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How do I know that?

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I'm as old as you.

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Oh, by the way, I wanted to take a poll on this question.

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If someone is 54 years old and eight months, should they come or should they not come to

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the event?

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They should, right?

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Yeah.

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Dilna, you have to come.

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I don't know if you remember but when I turned 55, Nick gave me a blow up of the Denny Senior's

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menu.

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He went and blew it up.

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He made a big poster of the Denny Senior's menu and gave it to me.

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I think it was Nick and Diana.

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If you wonder why you've never been invited since.

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Yeah, I'm only concerned about Dilna.

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I don't care about anyone else.

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Okay, guys, any questions on what we've said thus far?

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Do you have an appetite for the impossible?

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That's where I want to go.

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And if it's missing, then there's something seriously missing in our lives, eh?

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It's an aspect of God that we cannot avoid.

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We may be jaded because we haven't seen things happen.

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But being jaded about things that haven't happened shouldn't lead to the next thing

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whereby subtle degrees we begin to withdraw.

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Do you have an appetite for the impossible?

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And then the next question is, what is the last impossible thing you attempted because

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you felt the prompting of God?

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What is the last impossible thing you attempted because you felt the prompting of God?

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And if it is 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 6 years ago, then again, there's a lack of an

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appetite.

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What's the last impossible thing you attempted because you felt provoked by God?

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Because he's the one who invites us into the impossible.

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He's the one who drives up the brook chariot so that you have to go to a widow who has

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a little bit of flour and oil.

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Any questions before we move on?

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Jesus felt that he needed to make sure that he was someone who believed in the supernatural

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because your works, your works give evidence of your parentage.

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As in, if you look at John 8, 39, or if you look at John 10, 37 and 38, you'll see that

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Jesus says, hey, if I don't do the works of my father, don't believe me.

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If I do not do the works of my father, don't believe me.

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What a statement to make, hey?

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What a statement to make, hey?

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This church can't make that statement.

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Now here, he's not talking about the works as in being friendly with each other, loving

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each other, supporting each other.

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This was in the context of the supernatural works of God.

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And he makes the statement, if I don't do the works of my father, do not believe me.

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That's what he says.

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We won't be able to stand before anybody and say that.

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We see occasional things happening, but it's not a normal thing for us as a church.

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We shouldn't back off this, we should press more towards it.

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Any questions?

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Any comments?

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Read John 10, 37 and 38.

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If I do not do the works of my father, don't believe me.

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But if I do them, even if you don't believe me, believe the works so that you might learn

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and know that the father is in me and I am in the father.

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Is your parentage evident?

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As a church, the response is, not really.

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I don't know how you would speak for yourself, but if I were to speak for the church, not

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really.

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Occasionally, yes.

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Every so often, but not really.

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Suddenly, running with horses is difficult, eh?

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This is usually a ya-ya, ra-ra message and this is just going the other way.

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Any questions?

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Because I don't see, this is my answer, I don't see healings, signs, wonders, miracles

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happening often in this church.

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I see them occasionally, I hear healing reports and I see them happening in individuals' lives,

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but it's not a commonplace occurrence.

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Yeah.

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And it's a, I don't want to say it's a shame, but I'm saying it's a shame.

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No, it's not a shameful thing, but it's a shame.

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Because God isn't into shaming us.

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How we think will matter, therefore, so that's where we start.

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How we think will matter.

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Our minds inadvertently, our minds inadvertently become, our minds become the gatekeeper, our

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minds become the gatekeeper of the supernatural.

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Our minds become the gatekeeper of the supernatural.

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Once I decide that this is not going to happen too often or this is not how God behaves anymore

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or if I create a theology around miracles and signs and we're for the New Testament

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time and not for us, you can do any number of acrobatics and make this a thing where

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your mind now begins to guard the gate of the supernatural and as we do that inadvertently

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our minds become gatekeepers of the supernatural and we do not now consider it, think about

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it, expect it.

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Most things in Christianity require expectation.

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Another word for expectation is confident hope.

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Hope.

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The word hope means expectation.

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So once the mind begins to not have an expectation, there is not necessarily hope that draws

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you towards or faith that propels you towards this.

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We all are entering that gray, foggy area.

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Live in a reasoning society for a while and it'll happen.

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Sometimes God sends revivals to save generations from this kind of a trap.

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I take you back to the initial question.

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Do we have a hunger, an appetite for the impossible?

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And if we do, when was the last impossible thing that you attempted?

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So to keep the mind from going that route, we have to train the mind to transform it.

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And the operative word here is not trying but training.

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The cool thing though is that the trainer is the Holy Spirit and he dwells, this is

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your personal trainer who lives in the house, dwells in your house.

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I think if I had a personal trainer living in my house, I would start, I don't know,

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I'm not too sure.

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I think I could end up with him putting on weight because he'd go to sleep and eat.

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The operative word is training, not trying.

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So if you go to 1 Corinthians 9, 1 Corinthians 9, 24 and 25, 1 Corinthians 9, 24 and 25.

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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?

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Everyone in such a way as to get the prize, everyone who competes in the games goes into

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strict training.

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They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last

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forever.

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Therefore, I do not run like a man running aimlessly, I do not fight like a man beating

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the air.

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No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I preach to others, myself will

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not be disqualified for the prize.

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The trainer is the Holy Spirit, he dwells in you and he uses the word and people to

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train you.

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So that's the first thing when we, the moment you think of any area that you ask God to

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train you in, these are seven or eight things that God will immediately start to do.

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And here's the thing, guys, because God does not live in time, he's not living in your

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past, present or future, he's living in the now, therefore, anything you have said to

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him since you became a believer, anything you have said to him, he still holds it as

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true and is faithful to it.

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So if you said to him 10 years ago that, oh God, I will follow you to the ends of the

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earth, I will live to serve you, even though you are not, he still remembers what you said

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and he wants to be faithful to it, because when you said it, you meant it.

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He doesn't live in time.

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He knows your future and he knows your present-day failures, but he also knows the heart that

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spoke five years ago, five months ago, five days ago, when you said, oh God, I want this,

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I want you to take my heart and set it on fire, I just want to follow you at that moment

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and that moment for him is not in the past, it's not in the present, it's not in the

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future, it is right now.

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He is faithful to it because he knows that when you said it, you were true.

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So he stays faithful to it.

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He doesn't back off from it.

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One of the things about God, one of the words you have to add before anything God says is

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the word relentless.

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Whatever he does, he's relentless.

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He's relentlessly kind.

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He does not, at some point, stop being kind.

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He's relentlessly kind.

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He's relentless.

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He just keeps at it, keeps at it, keeps at it, till the day that you go to meet him,

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on which day you'll be perfect, but otherwise he's relentless.

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So this is how he trains.

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So in any area, once you say, oh God, do this, train me, he'll put these steps into action

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and he won't back off.

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You can back off, he won't.

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He says that in Timothy.

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He says, you may be faithless, but I will not be faithless.

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I will be faithful.

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This is why when he actually sees a spouse declaring his or her vows at a wedding and

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heart, he actually believes it and will do everything till someone backs off.

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That's how he does things.

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He's a strange God.

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He takes things at face value whenever they are sincere.

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He takes things at face value whenever you're sincere.

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The trainer is the Holy Spirit.

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He uses people to train you.

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So if today you said, oh God, train me to embrace the impossible, this process will

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start.

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The first thing he does is he'll help you study or divide, help you divide the word

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or study it so you are approved.

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That's the second thing he does.

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First one is he dwells in you.

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Second he begins the process.

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He'll help you study the word in the area that you've asked for training.

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And I pray God that before we leave here today, you ask God, oh God, in this area, I want

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to be ready.

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Can you train me?

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And in that area, this process will kick in.

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Why?

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Because he does want you to run with horses.

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It's his thing.

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You see it in 1 Kings 18, Elijah is praying for rain.

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Ahab has gotten into his chariot because Elijah said, I hear the sound of rain.

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Ahab gets into his chariot.

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Elijah prays.

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The rain begins.

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Elijah wraps up his cloak and he runs faster than the horses.

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Yesterday I was at the airport in Ottawa and there's this really old lady.

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She must be in her 85s or 90s and she comes back and she's grumbling to her husband.

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She's saying, I don't know what the world is coming to.

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There's signs on the washrooms.

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The girl looks exactly like the guy.

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I walked into the guy's washroom.

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Cloak, robe, they all look the same nowadays on all these.

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It doesn't relate, but it suddenly came to mind.

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But here's another question.

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No, let's not go there.

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Help divide the word or study it so you're approved.

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Next one.

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Do you know the deposit?

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Do you know the deposit of your inheritance?

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Do you know the deposit of your inheritance as in?

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Do you have an idea of God's main work for you over the next four to five years?

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Because if you do, you'll have an idea of where God will want to train you.

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What is it that you want?

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Let's take the impossible.

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Is your area of specialty finances?

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Then the impossibility that God will bring you into will be in the area of finances.

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Is your area of ability starting a business?

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Then he'll do the impossible with your business.

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Is it to do with singing?

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Then he'll do the impossible in singing.

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Is it to do with being a pastor?

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Then he'll help you to do things impossible in terms of pastoring.

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Is it in parenting?

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What is your area of specialty?

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Is it a particularly difficult nation?

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Is it sports?

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Is it counseling?

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Is it being intelligent and highly intellectual?

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What is it in the area that you kind of know God wants you to focus on for the next four

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to five years, you'll find an area that he really wants to train you in so that you'll

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be splendid in displaying his glory.

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Fourth one.

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This is a hard one.

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Diligence.

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Diligence is when you take custody of things and make a decision.

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And make a decision.

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It's when you take things into custody.

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This is when you decide.

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You will step up no matter what the cost.

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And every decision does one simple thing.

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It prioritizes.

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All decision making starts with one simple thing.

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I will step up.

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And the moment you say you step up, how do you know someone stepped up?

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They prioritize.

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That's the first step.

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And the moment you prioritize, what happens?

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Your time, your affections move towards what you have prioritized.

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Your time and your affections move towards what you have prioritized.

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Diligence is when you take custody of things.

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You decide I am going to grab this with both my hands and I have now decided that I will

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prioritize this.

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And the moment you prioritize it, your time and your affections are directed towards it.

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How do you know someone's prioritized something?

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Invariably time and affections change.

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How do you know you are prioritizing your spouse?

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Your time and affections are directed towards the person.

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How do you know you are prioritizing chess, hockey, church?

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Your time and affections are set towards it.

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Diligence.

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It is not possible to go to the next step, which is discipline, without diligence.

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Yeah.

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They are kind of sequential, but they can interchange, but it follows a certain way

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of...

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Discipline is putting the decision into practice.

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Discipline is putting the decision into practice.

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Discipline is putting the decision into practice.

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And once you do that, a rhythm, God develops a rhythm for you.

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And once a rhythm develops, your choices are consistent.

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It's beautiful when this works.

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Your choices are consistent.

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And once your choices are consistent, you become successful.

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It's very simple, guys.

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But it's beautiful.

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It's so simple and beautiful.

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And I pray, God, that some of us are able to do this in response, that we actually do

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this in certain areas of our life today.

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So diligence is when you decide and your decision is easily visible through how you prioritize

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And priorities, as soon as you prioritize, time and affections are channeled a particular

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way.

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Time, affections, money.

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When time and affections are prioritized, money will be prioritized.

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After that comes discipline.

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Discipline is putting the decision into practice, as in, can I do this again and again and again

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and again?

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And what it does is, it creates a rhythm.

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Now there's a rhythm.

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There's a new rhythm of grace.

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And when God is involved, it's gracious.

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It's full of grace.

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There's a rhythm of grace.

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Once that rhythm of grace comes in, your choices are consistent.

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It's always this, you're making godly choices consistently.

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You're not going up and down.

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Consistent godly choices.

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And when consistent godly choices happen, you become successful.

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The secret to successful Christian living is consistency, nothing else.

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Anyone who's doing well in any area in Christianity is there, not because of anointing, not because

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of gifting, not because of talent, not because of external pressures.

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One thing, consistency.

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Samson was talented, gifted, strong, and had the hand of God upon him.

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But he did not have this.

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He did not have discipline.

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Because he would never take custody of things, even though he knew the deposit of God in

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his life, even though he had the spirit of God dwelling in him.

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You don't know how critical these two steps are, guys.

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You can have the Holy Spirit.

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You can have the anointing, the gifting, the talent.

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You don't know the thousands and thousands of highly gifted, highly talented believers

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who have the Holy Spirit, who know their purpose, that do not amount to what they need to because

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steps are missing.

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That's when you have to use smoke and mirrors so that it comes out well.

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Consistent Christian living, nah.

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Any questions?

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Just imagine, God today will respond in these ways once we decide that, oh God, could you

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train me in this area?

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I mean, you ask any musician here whether they had to do this and they'll say yes.

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Their fingers were sore, their wrists hurt, a whole lot of things went wrong.

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Next one.

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When it comes to God, it's impossible to train without dependence because he thinks

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very highly of the body.

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Dependence is training together.

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Dependence is training together because we are one body and we are members of each other.

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I can't train my elbow without getting my forearm and wrist and lower arm involved.

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I cannot train just the elbow.

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It's pointless training the elbow.

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All you can get to do if you train your elbow is do that slam and like the wrestling thingy.

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But other than that, the elbow doesn't help at all.

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But if you train the entire arm, then it changes.

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So the next step is dependence and these are steps that God will take over and he'll stop

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when I resist any of these steps because he won't force me.

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He'll create circumstances to help me, but he won't force me.

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Dependence is training together so that you stand in formation or battle formation.

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One of the reasons Roman armies were highly victorious was just because of this.

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They used to take their shields, phalanxes, and then they would begin to create such formations

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where if the arrows were coming, all the shields would go up and none of them would be hit.

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If there were spears coming, they would all shut their shields together and just after

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everyone's come, it would open for a second and there would be a thrust.

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They had different formations.

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Dependence is training together because we are members of each other.

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The next one is demonstration.

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Demonstration.

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Demonstration is the visible evidence of training.

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It's the visible evidence of training.

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I think I've shared this before.

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When you drive from LA to San Diego, at one point on the side of the road, right on the

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beach, that's where the SEAL teams are trained.

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If you look carefully, you'll see these mock-ups of houses in the desert or in some Eastern

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European country or wherever they're supposed to go next, they set the whole thing up and

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you can see them training on the beach there, but they set the whole thing up and the only

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thing they don't use is live ammunition.

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Everything else is real and so demonstration is the visible evidence of training and this

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happens during training.

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It happened in Daniel's life.

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It happened in Joseph's life.

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In all our lives, we don't realize how much God actually uses circumstances to train us

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for the real thing.

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When you struggle with things, always change the word from struggle to wrestle, guys.

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It's not semantics.

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It's important.

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Whenever you're struggling with things, you're struggling with somebody, you're struggling

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with an issue, you're struggling with your own sin, you're struggling with how you think,

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then go the route of struggle, go the route of wrestle.

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Change the word.

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Struggle almost seems like self-defeating.

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Wrestling is you're going to get through.

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How you don't know, but God sees, my God, this boy wants to get through.

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At present, he may be offended with someone.

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At present, he may not like someone.

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At present, he may be pressed down by this issue, but he is wrestling through it.

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And you'll hear a scripture here or you'll have someone say something else there or you'll

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read something and slowly the pieces begin to come through and you get through.

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God uses circumstances continuously to train us so that we can demonstrate the area.

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Joseph, right from when he was a kid, he was being trained for?

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Princip.

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Every situation in his life.

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David, the guy had to learn not to slay Saul so that he could be a legitimate king without

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taking Saul's life into his own hands.

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Joshua and Caleb trained 40 years ahead for a glorious 40 years later.

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It's happening every day.

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Our God takes what you asked for at face value.

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That is what we mustn't forget.

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He remembers everything I have said from day two of me being one again to day before yesterday.

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And he knows the failures in between, but he remembers each of them as if it just happened

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because he lives in now, not in the past or present or future.

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He remembers.

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This is why sometimes when you go for a meeting or in your prayer meeting or you're listening

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:58.320
to 106.5 or something, you'll hear something and immediately you'll remember,

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ah shucks, I said this 20 years ago.

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It just so happens that it happens that God is such a master orchestrator.

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I was sitting on a bench in Central Park the day before yesterday, and I'm telling the

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Lord that Father, I messed up in this area.

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I really messed up.

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One, I want you to just forgive me for not obeying, for messing up, and two, I need a

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new break.

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Give me a new start.

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My words, I was writing a psalm, so I write there, bring me new.

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As in, you're the only one who can give me new.

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I want to start again because I didn't obey you in this area and messed up.

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Bring me new.

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I finished that, and a guy comes and sits right next to me on the bench.

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He had so many benches to choose from, but he sits right next to me in the bench, and

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he's got a bag in which he has his lunch, and he pulls out his lunch.

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On the bag are just the simple word, Naya.

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Now, it doesn't mean anything to anyone who doesn't speak Hindi, but Naya in Hindi is

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just the simple word, new.

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I said to him, can I take a picture of your bag?

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He said, sure.

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I took a picture of his bag, and then I continued with my psalm, how do you keep doing this?

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You just love me so much.

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I just dedicate my entire life to you.

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You buy me a bag to set me free, but even if you set me free, nail my ear to the ear

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all because I want to be a slave for life.

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You can ask me anything.

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Why?

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Because I just asked him to bring me new, and he turns up, a guy turns up with a bag

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that has the word Naya in it, which is basically another word for new.

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Why share the story?

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Because he will do this to remind you of the things that you want, and that he's continuously

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training you towards, and he will be faithful even when you are faithless, but the great

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thing about him being faithful is you can run back and start again.

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You can run back and start again.

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You can run back in the next two minutes with just a whispered word saying, I want

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to start again.

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That's all.

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And he begins the process.

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See, the thing with God is he likes words, but he knows heart.

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So he recognizes the heart immediately, and then he waits for your words.

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You know why he waits for your words?

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Because he wants you to express yourself.

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It's important to him that you hear the desires of your heart, because he knows your heart.

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As you speak, your desires get expressed.

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When people don't talk, their desires don't get expressed, both in worship and in prayer.

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When people don't talk, you do not express your desires.

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If you do not express your desires, you actually do not have a framework for your desires.

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They're like those tweety birds that spin around in your head.

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They have to be put into words.

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Demonstration is the visible evidence of training, and it's a measure of your faithfulness during

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the process.

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See?

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It's a measure of your faithfulness during the process.

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And if you're not faithful, God will just keep training, because he ain't relenting.

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Remember, he is relentless.

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He is relentless.

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Last one, demand.

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That's the last, for now, maybe you can add more to it later, demand.

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He begins to place a demand once he trains.

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He places a demand once he trains.

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He places a demand once he trains.

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And why?

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So that you may be stretched, and you can shrink back, but he will stretch you.

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You can shrink back, but he will stretch you.

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Why does he stretch you?

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Because you have to die to be fruitful.

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And when he places a demand, it is always to bring you into the unfamiliar, because

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unfamiliarity brings new life.

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Beautiful again.

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Anyone who wants to be trained to go back into the familiar is one who has to start

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over and over again.

00:43:59.720 --> 00:44:02.880
It will be Groundhog Day for you, only the heavenly variety.

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It will just go on and on, it will be a repeat.

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But once he trains, he will demand, he places a demand on those that he trains.

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And the demand is always stretching, always stretching.

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And when it stretches, we usually back off, we have excuses.

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When there's a possibility of us being stretched, we come up with excuses.

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And the intent of stretching is fruitfulness is impossible without dying.

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Something has to die for fruit to happen.

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And so demand will always bring you into the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar always brings

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out new life.

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So should you ask today in an area to be trained, these are the things that will begin

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to kick in.

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Any questions on this?

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But please ask, because it's a highly enjoyable product, like fruitful process.

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And this is what you were made for.

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So even while I'm talking, think of an area that you want to be trained in.

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If you don't move into, what happens is when God places a demand, put things to work.

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If we don't, we lose the opportunity and the power that was there.

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When God places a demand, put it to work.

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Otherwise opportunity and power is delayed or lost.

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Because one of the things Satan loves doing, and it's from Matthew 13, verse 19, when

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the seed of the word is scattered into your life, if you let it lie there, then the birds

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come in, take them away.

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So when something is given to you, don't delay it, either say no or say yes, that is better.

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But don't let it lie, because when you let it lie, the birds come in, pick it, and the

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opportunity is lost.

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Say no, it's better, it'll come back.

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Remember he's relentless and he heard your honest desire 20 years ago or 20 minutes ago.

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But say yes or no, don't leave it lying.

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You don't need to understand everything, understanding comes as it unfolds.

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You don't need to understand everything.

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You don't need to understand the whole process, it comes as it unfolds.

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It comes as you walk.

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Here's a scary thing.

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When God says something to you, if you don't move into it, into that experience, the word

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he said is locked in your mind and you think it's active.

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You think it's active when actually it's rusting.

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That's a subtle thing.

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You hear this, I've done this, you may have done this, where you say, you know, God said

00:48:40.340 --> 00:48:44.540
to me that he's going to do this and God said to me he's going to do this and God had a

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prophetic word and he said he's going to do this.

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And then you realize that four years have gone by and you're still saying the same thing

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to different people.

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Why?

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Because it was received and it's locked in your mind and because it's locked in your

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mind and you're playing around with it, you think it's active when really it's rusting.

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Because nothing's been done with it.

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God said this.

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If you don't move into the experience, the word he said is locked in your mind and you

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think it's active when actually it's rusting.

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There'll be a special crown for you guys for reading this, sir, when you get to heaven.

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Go ahead, Vivian.

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I can't hear you.

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Where does God's timing come into play?

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You begin the walk and then see how God works it out.

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Because if God has said something, then I must begin the process.

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Then how it happens, how long it takes, not in my hand.

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Mine is only to obey.

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And delayed obedience is not obedience.

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The question is, how do you know that you're doing what God asked you to do?

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God asked you to do the right way.

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Let's assume that it's the wrong way, okay, that you're doing it.

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Who is he?

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He's your father.

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What does he see in you?

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A desire to obey.

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What does a father do when a child wants to obey and is getting it wrong?

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He?

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Correct.

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That's the worst case scenario.

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And should I fail?

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He has the opportunity to help me restart again.

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Why?

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Heart.

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He can bring a guy to sit next to me saying, I bring new, start again.

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Kind God.

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Relentless in his kindness.

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You can't remove the fatherhood of God from anything he does.

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Go ahead, James.

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Yeah.

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Anytime God says something and I take...

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If a word is spoken by God and if I don't put it into practice, what happens?

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Anytime I hear something from God and I let it lie, and let's say I take it up five years

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from now, I have less time to fulfill it.

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God can accelerate it, but why even delay it?

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Step into it right away.

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The longer I take, the lesser time I have to do what I had seven years for.

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So now I get...

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I mean, God can accelerate things, but why?

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Go through that.

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Go ahead, Amari.

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Emily, go ahead.

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I didn't hear you.

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Just pull down your mask.

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How do you know...

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If it's happening in my mind...

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If you think it's active in your mind, how do you know whether it's working or not?

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Yeah.

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What action have you taken?

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Whenever something is said to you, what action have you taken?

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The question was, if it's in your mind, how do you know whether you're working it out

00:52:47.780 --> 00:52:49.180
or not working it out?

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My response is, if something is said to me, what action have I taken?

00:52:52.780 --> 00:52:54.500
Have I initiated an action?

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Have I obeyed the first step?

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I may not know any other step, but have I obeyed the first step?

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It's all God wants.

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Either obey the three steps I told you or the one step I told you or show your faith

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by the way you see, the way you speak, the way you act.

00:53:12.820 --> 00:53:13.820
Two things.

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One, did you obey the steps that I asked you?

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Two, let's say I didn't give you any step, but you believe what I said.

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How are you looking at life now?

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What are you confessing and how have you acted on it?

00:53:29.820 --> 00:53:34.980
Even if there was nothing to go on, God didn't say do this or do that, but He said something

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to you.

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How do you see now?

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What is the lens you use?

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How do you speak now based on what you've heard and how are you acting?

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That's how we go about it.

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When there's no steps to obey, you still are able to do that.

00:54:04.660 --> 00:54:09.180
Sometimes we have to accept the fact that when you put things into practice, when you

00:54:09.180 --> 00:54:13.700
put things into practice, let's even forget receiving a word from God.

00:54:13.700 --> 00:54:19.540
Let's take a word that already exists in the Bible, like go pray and the sick will be healed.

00:54:19.540 --> 00:54:23.380
Go cast out demons and the demons will be cast out.

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Let's take the simple things.

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Let's not even go to the other side.

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The things that are already established that we are still struggling with.

00:54:34.220 --> 00:54:40.380
So let's take Mark 16, 16-18 that we are still struggling with, which is why I said I cannot

00:54:40.380 --> 00:54:49.040
say that this church thinks or behaves supernatural.

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So if you went with what Jesus said, when you put things He said into practice, you

00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:13.200
may not get it right 100%.

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We better accept that.

00:55:16.520 --> 00:55:21.680
I would like to get it right 100%, but you may not get it right 100%.

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But you will learn every time you try it.

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And you can press him because he is faithful.

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There may be some of us here who tried things when God said something, tried things that

00:55:48.160 --> 00:55:51.520
were written in the Word and it did not work and it's kind of jaded you.

00:55:51.520 --> 00:55:52.960
It's kind of pushed you back.

00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:59.200
It's kind of made you think, I don't want to try this again.

00:55:59.200 --> 00:56:00.840
Two responses to that.

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Yes, God understands how you felt in terms of being let down and yes, you need to repent.

00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:09.840
It's both.

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Yes, He understands how you felt when you went out and did what He said and it backfired

00:56:16.240 --> 00:56:21.120
or you're gun-shy now, once bitten, twice shy kind of a thing.

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On the other hand, repent because He is faithful.

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He is true.

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He is holy.

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Repent.

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It's both.

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It's not one or the other.

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Janelle, is that a hand up or just a hand on your head?

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Hand on your head, okay.

00:56:43.720 --> 00:56:45.400
So you might not get it 100% right.

00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:50.440
You might start praying for people that are sick and only hit 30%, but you will learn

00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:56.800
and you can press in further till you get to 40, 50.

00:56:56.800 --> 00:57:01.800
What's the ultimate bar?

00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:06.280
Jesus.

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Real likeness is so precious and if you still have it, hold on to it for dear life, eh?

00:57:22.080 --> 00:57:31.040
You have to repent of being jaded and hesitant and apprehensive about stepping up and doing

00:57:31.040 --> 00:57:35.680
things God has clearly said in the Word or doing things that God has spoken to you.

00:57:35.680 --> 00:57:40.920
You need to repent of it as in, say, I am sorry, O God, that in my experience I now

00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:48.720
distrust you because you are holy, faithful, good, perfect and you do not fail and you

00:57:48.720 --> 00:57:50.320
do not let me down.

00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:55.360
But this has colored my psyche now and it is how I live.

00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.000
So on one hand, God is saying, I understand how you felt.

00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:01.560
On the other hand, God is saying, stop saying nonsense.

00:58:01.560 --> 00:58:09.280
But again, like I said, it's Jeremiah 15.

00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:14.000
When we were new Christians, failure didn't seem to bother us.

00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.440
When I prayed for a blind man and he didn't get healed, my immediate response was to go

00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:18.440
read the Word.

00:58:18.440 --> 00:58:20.560
Why didn't he get healed?

00:58:20.560 --> 00:58:24.000
Now when a blind man doesn't get healed, you won't pray for the second blind man who comes

00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.480
along.

00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.480
Child likeness is precious.

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Oh, what a shame that our children grow up into people.

00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:42.520
It's precious.

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All of us still have it.

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It's just covered with layers, man.

00:58:50.520 --> 00:58:59.120
When a young Muslim boy died, I took the pastor of the church and we are standing over his

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grave.

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Oh God, he's dead and they buried him because they wouldn't allow me to pray for him in

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the mosque.

00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:09.920
Now that he's buried, oh God, after everybody's left, could you wake him up because you know

00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:11.240
I live in Goodabia.

00:59:11.240 --> 00:59:14.680
You can direct him home and I'll take care of him.

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Absurd, silly, ridiculous, but childlike prayer.

00:59:20.120 --> 00:59:25.680
And the pastor standing beside me saying, yes, Lord, yes, Lord, I'm thinking of myself.

00:59:25.680 --> 00:59:29.160
For him to encourage childlike faith.

00:59:29.160 --> 00:59:32.160
But I wish we could go back there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Use reason for everything and know that when it comes to science, miracles, wonders and

00:59:52.240 --> 00:59:57.480
the supernatural, it always is beyond logic and reason.

00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:01.480
So it's like two separate worlds literally.

01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:08.520
One world you use reason, and by the way, do you think if the fall hadn't happened,

01:00:08.520 --> 01:00:11.520
reason and speculation would have happened?

01:00:11.520 --> 01:00:14.340
No, because there would be no doubt.

01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:19.640
Reason entered with doubt.

01:00:19.640 --> 01:00:23.720
There was no need to reason before doubt entered.

01:00:23.720 --> 01:00:39.080
When doubt entered, reason entered, speculation entered.

01:00:40.080 --> 01:01:03.720
I'm sorry, guys, I don't know why I can't hear.

01:01:04.680 --> 01:01:10.280
Why when God has given you science and you are walking close to God, but everybody else

01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:14.320
doubts the science, that's the beauty of walking in faith.

01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:15.680
Everybody else doubts it.

01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:18.320
Now show me your faith.

01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.200
You think people didn't doubt Joseph?

01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:24.000
You think people didn't doubt Jesus?

01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:25.200
You think people didn't doubt Moses?

01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:27.640
They were going to stone the poor guy.

01:01:27.640 --> 01:01:30.900
You didn't think people doubted David?

01:01:30.900 --> 01:01:33.320
This is the beauty of science and wonders.

01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:37.760
You are standing saying, God is going to do this, and the entire world is laughing and

01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:42.160
saying, Noah, we don't even know what rain looks like, and you're going to say that it's

01:01:42.160 --> 01:01:47.760
going to flood the earth?

01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:54.720
Faith ain't faith if it's not challenged.

01:01:54.720 --> 01:02:02.080
I remember this guy who saw an episode of Faith in My Life, and at the end of the day,

01:02:03.040 --> 01:02:06.800
he was a Muslim, and this is what he said, tell me something, Jacob, how does your God

01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.760
speak because mine does not?

01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:11.320
Why?

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Because Psalm 40 kicks in.

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Many will see and many will fear and put their trust in the Lord.

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But what is the process?

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I waited patiently for the Lord.

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He turned and heard my cry.

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He lifted me up from the miry clay.

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He set my feet on the rock to stay.

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Now many will see and many will fear and put their trust in the Lord.

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God proves your metal, M-E-T-T-L-E, and if you stick with him, it'll smell of Yahweh,

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and the aroma of Yahweh is life-giving.

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Next time we'll talk about how do we deal with disappointment?

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How do we deal with disappointment?

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How do you deal with the signs that didn't come to pass?

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How do you deal with the things you stood for and they didn't happen?

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How do you deal with things you're presently standing for that haven't come to pass?

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How do you deal with the number of people that you prayed for, some dear to you, your

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dad, your mom, your sister, your brother, your child, and nothing happened?

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How do you deal with that disappointment and not sweep it under the carpet?

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How do you actually deal with it so that you can run with the horses?

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Because sometimes these things that happen in our lives literally hamstring the horse

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from running.

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It literally breaks the kneecaps of the horse, and so you have horses that are hobbling around

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but not running, and so next week we'll deal with that.

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How do we deal with that?

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Because we have to, eh?

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Otherwise we will be afraid of embracing the impossible.

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So before we break bread, I want you to begin to think of one area that you need training

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in.

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One area.

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Yeah?

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Can you just think of it for a minute or two?

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One area that you want to be trained in.

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The area that I want to be trained in is, Father, how, oh God, can I embrace the impossible?

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Can I embrace the life that you lived of signs, miracles, and wonders?

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And how, if I can do that, can we all as a church begin to embrace it?

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That's my cry.

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Train me, oh God, in that.

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What do you need to train me in?

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Not take the glory, be more humble, learn more of the word, be bolder, go out.

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What is it?

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All of it.

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What is yours?

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What are you calling out to God to train you in?

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Just ask, eh?

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And then he'll begin this process.

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Why?

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Because if you're sincere, oh my God, he is faithful.

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And if you're not sincere, he helps you become sincere.

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Can you turn with me to Exodus 12?

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And the Lord begins to give instructions to Moses.

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The first instruction is in verse two.

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This month is to be for you the first month.

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The first month of your year.

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Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to

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take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

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That's the second instruction.

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The third instruction is in verse five.

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The animals you choose must be a year old male without defect, and you may take them

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from the sheep or the goats.

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The fourth instruction is from verse seven.

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Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door frames

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of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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Next one, verse 11.

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This is how you are to eat it.

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With your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in hand.

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Eat it in haste, it's the Lord's Passover.

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Next one, verse 12.

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On that same night, I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn, both men

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and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.

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I am the Lord.

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Next one, verse 13.

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The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I

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will pass over.

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No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

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Next one, verse 14.

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This is the day you are to commemorate for generations to come.

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You shall celebrate it, celebrate it, celebrate it as a festival to the Lord, a lasting ordinance.

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Next instruction, verse 15.

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For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.

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Next instruction, verse 17.

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Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread because it was on this very day that I brought your

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divisions out of Egypt.

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Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for generations to come.

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Next one, verse 22.

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Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin.

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Put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the door frame.

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Not one of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

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Next one, verse 25.

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When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

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Next one was a response in verse 27 and 28.

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Then the people bowed down and worshipped.

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The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded, Moses and Aaron.

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Then the last one is verse 29.

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At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt from the firstborn of Pharaoh who

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sat on the throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and the firstborn

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of all the livestock as well.

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Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night and there

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was loud wailing in Egypt for there was not a house without someone dead.

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During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, up, leave my people, you and

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the Israelites.

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Go worship the Lord as you have requested.

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Take your flocks and your herds as you have said and go and also bless me.

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The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country for otherwise they said

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we will all die.

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A million people, held captive for 400 years, delivered in a night.

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This is, the God we serve is a supernatural God of the impossible who likes rolling up

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his sleeve and showing his mighty right hand.

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Where is that God?

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Where is that God?

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He must be seen in our midst because he is the one we worship.

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Hunger for it guys, hunger for it, yeah?

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And so as we eat bread, oh God, we say, we welcome you supernatural, delivering miraculous

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I Am.

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We welcome you.

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Use us, show us, train us so that the world may see the lion of Judah and not some domesticated

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cat.

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The lion of Judah and the lamb of God.

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And so as we eat this, we are reminded of Revelations 5.

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I looked up and I saw the lion of Judah and I looked again and I saw the lamb of God.

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We celebrate both today.

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We celebrate it.

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We don't eat this solemnly.

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There'll be a shout in the camp, oh God.

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The shout of the king is in the camp.

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That's how we lead the sabbath.

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Hearts charged.

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I remember the scene from Braveheart where the people begin to gather themselves together

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because they know that victory can be theirs.

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Rally us Holy Spirit around the Christ, around the Christ.

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Rally us oh God.

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He is our champion.

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He is the one that rides the white horse with a sash across his chest which says King of

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Kings and Lord of Lords.

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This is who we celebrate today.

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We eat as an army will eat.

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We eat as an army will eat.

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In Jesus name, Amen.

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We eat and drink, guys.

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Tony, can you do that song, Counselor, Mighty God, the last one you had?

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I saw the notes there.

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Sing that one.

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This one.

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This is the song, right?

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So we thank you Father as we eat.

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We eat and drink your body and blood.

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We want to be followers of the divine warrior.

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Guys, remember to confess with your mouth what you think of God this week, eh?

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Become tired of the coping mechanisms that Christians preach.

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Be defiant.

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Follow the line of Judah.

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When you are sick this week, go to him.

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Ask him, the healer, the divine warrior, to touch your body.

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When you are in need, call out to him.

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Let him be strong on your behalf.

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Beautiful words.

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The eyes of the Lord roam to and fro looking for someone on whose behalf he may show himself

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strong.

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He is not even asking you to be strong.

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He is saying show me a loyal heart so that I may be strong on your behalf.

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He wants to be the doer.

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Go ahead.

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So eat and drink.

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I won't be saying the rest.

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Eat and drink.

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Eat and drink with the king.

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Let there be a shout of the king in our midst as we sing this song, eh?

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The shout of the king.

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There's only one strong enough to save.

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There's only one who overcame the grave.

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There's only one who's worthy of all praise.

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In his hands, the keys of dead and hell.

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And in his name, a power that can heal.

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By his blood, our sins are washed away.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is wonderful, counselor, almighty God.

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The nations kneel and glorify the Lord.

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Let all the earth tremble before he comes.

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He will judge the living and the dead.

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The Son of Man coming on the clouds with trumpet sound.

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And every knee will bow and tongue confess the name above all things.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is wonderful, counselor, almighty God.

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He's counselor.

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He's mighty God.

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He's the prince of peace.

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The omnipotent.

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He's wonderful.

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He's radiant.

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The almighty God.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is wonderful, counselor, almighty God.

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He's counselor.

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He's mighty God.

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He's the prince of peace.

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The omnipotent.

01:18:12.460 --> 01:18:15.460
He's wonderful.

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He's radiant.

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The almighty God.

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We worship you.

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We give our lives to you.

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Oh, we sing out.

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Oh, we cry out.

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We worship you.

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We give our lives to you.

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Oh, we sing out.

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Oh, we cry out.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is Jesus.

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His name is wonderful, counselor, almighty God.

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If you need prayer, there'll be people here to pray with you.

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Otherwise, thank you, church.

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Otherwise, thank you, church.

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We will get to where we need to, yeah?

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This is a heart's desire.

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I know it's your desire.

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And tomorrow, remember?

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Hi.

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What's your name?

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Andy.

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Hi, Andy.

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Welcome.

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I wasn't sure if you had been here before.

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Welcome.

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He's Prashanth's friend, and so go say hi to him.

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And tomorrow, 7 p.m., turn up, eh?

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Yeah.