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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Take Your Rightful Place 2 – By Faith
Publishing Date: 2024-01-14T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/take-your-rightful-place-2-by-faith/

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Take your rightful place starting last week and we'll be on it for a while I think.

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Oh no, that is negative psychology, that is the wrong posture.

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Keep your eyes open.

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That is not to encourage you, that is to discourage you.

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That is what happened when I tried preaching to him.

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All righty, Brandon, I don't know why you put such pictures up, man, take it down.

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Okay, yeah, so we've been doing this series called Take Your Rightful Place and so today

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we do the second part of it and we'll be here for a while I think.

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So today we talk about Gideon from Judges Chapter 6, verse 1 to 24.

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And so if you want to turn to Judges 6, I'll read it.

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Hey, these little boxes here are not tissue boxes, you don't take things out of them.

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These are offering boxes, you put things into them, eh?

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So, you know, pardon?

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Yeah, don't go blow your nose on a $50 bill, yeah?

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That's the offering box.

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Okay, Chapter 6, starting at verse 1.

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Again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and for seven years he gave them

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into the hands of the Midianites.

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Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves

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in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.

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Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern

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peoples invaded the country.

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They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living

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thing for Israel, neither sheep, nor cattle, nor donkeys.

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They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.

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It was impossible to count the men and their camels.

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They invaded the land to ravage it.

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Midian so impoverished, ravaged it.

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Midian was so impoverished that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.

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When the Israelites cried to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet who said,

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this is what the Lord God of Israel says, I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the

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land of slavery.

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I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors.

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I drove them before you and gave you their land.

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I said to you, I am the Lord your God.

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Do not worship the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live, but you have not listened

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to me.

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The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Oprah that belonged to Joash the

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Abbezerite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press to keep it from the

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Midianites.

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When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.

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But sir, Gideon replied, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?

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Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, did not the

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Lord bring us out of Egypt, but now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand

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of Midian?

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The Lord turned to him and said, go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's

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hand.

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Am I not sending you?

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But Lord, Gideon asked, how can I save Israel?

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My clan is the weakest in Manasseh and I am the least in my family.

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The Lord answered, I will be with you and you will strike down all the Midianites together.

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Gideon replied, if now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really

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you talking to me.

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Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.

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And the Lord said, I will wait until you return.

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Midian went in and prepared a young goat and from an effa of flour he made bread without

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yeast.

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Putting the meat in a basket and his broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them

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to him under the oak.

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The angel of the Lord said to him, take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them

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on the rock and pour out the broth.

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And Gideon did.

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With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the Lord touched the meat

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and the unleavened bread.

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Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread.

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And the angel of the Lord disappeared.

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When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, ah Sovereign Lord,

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I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

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But the Lord said to him, peace or shalom, do not be afraid, you are not going to die.

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So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and he called it Yahweh's shalom or the Lord's

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peace.

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To this day it stands in opera of the Abizarites.

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So when you look at the background and the life of Gideon, life was being plundered.

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They were impoverished.

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He was in dire poverty.

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They were living in caves.

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The enemy was swarming them like locusts from a field.

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They were in their situation because of sin and because of idolatry.

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They were weary of any sign of hope because every time there was a sign of hope, it would

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be cruelly crushed when these enemy armies would come in.

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And they would, I mean there's nothing as bleak as hope destroying as when something

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is going to bud and someone comes and takes it.

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Always be aware of that, eh?

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One of the tricks Satan uses very effectively in the lives of believers is come and destroy

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something just when you think there's a glimmer of hope.

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That's when he tries to, if he can destroy hope then there is no question of exerting

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faith, there is no question of joy.

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And if faith and joy are banished from your life then there's only a going down the spiral.

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There's not a coming up.

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That's the intent.

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He cannot stop things from bearing fruit when the seed is God but he does try to destroy

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the early bud so that you don't have the strength to wait for the fruit.

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Hear me again.

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He knows that he cannot destroy God's seed.

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He's strided with Moses, he's strided with Jesus.

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Did not happen.

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But he has the, he has this ploy because the Bible says be aware of the devices of the

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devil because they are the same.

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He has this ploy to go after the early bud so that as it begins to blossom if he can

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chop it off it makes you feel like there is no hope.

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And once hope goes and once joy goes a man cannot get out of the pit he is in.

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Because once expectation is removed and once joy is removed a Christian does not have strength

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anymore because faith is built on expectation and joy is the reason you're strong.

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Joy of the Lord as in my expectation of God brings me joy and if that is removed there's

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nothing left and that's what has been happening here.

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This is exactly what happened to Job too guys.

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One after the other.

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It wasn't one blow.

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It wasn't a second blow.

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It was a blow after blow after blow till this man realizes that it doesn't matter how much

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I pray, how many sacrifices I offer.

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There was no expectation.

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That is when he sinks into his lowest.

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And that's what's happening here.

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Swarms like locusts coming and invading the land and just when the harvest is ready they

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come and take away the harvest.

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And so Gideon now finds himself threshing wheat in a well where usually they used to

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tread upon grapes to get wine out of it.

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He's threshing wheat there.

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And he's unaware that the one who is speaking to him is actually Yahweh.

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It's not that Gideon is unaware of the history of Israel because he goes and quotes what

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the forefathers have said.

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So this man is not unaware of the history of Israel but in his dire circumstances he's

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not able to recognize Yahweh.

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One of the best things to do when circumstances get really dire is to somehow find a place

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where peace, hope and joy begin to glimmer again.

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If that doesn't glimmer there is no traction for what God does.

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There's no traction even in terms of recognizing that He is present.

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As soon as hope goes what is it that replaces hope?

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Resentment.

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When hope goes, resentment replaces it.

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It's not hopelessness that replaces hope.

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Hope is always replaced by resentment.

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And so before resentment can bear its fruit one has to learn.

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You have to learn, I have to learn.

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Because we're all in the same boat in this, eh?

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It happens to all of us.

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It's just that we have varying degrees of dealing with it now.

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That's all.

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Some of us have coping mechanisms, defense mechanisms.

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Some of us have spiritual mechanisms to deal with it.

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So what happens then is...

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Yeah.

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So Gideon is thrashing a wheat in a well, unaware that the one who appears to him is

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Yahweh.

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Why isn't he recognizing that God has appeared?

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He knows that the angel of the Lord is always the one who is in our understanding now the

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pre-incarnate Christ.

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But he knows that this is God.

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He knows how Jacob fought the angel of the Lord.

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But instead, because of his lament, because of his resentment, he does not recognize that

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God is in the place.

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He laments and he resents.

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And what's he lamenting and resenting about?

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His lack, his insignificance, the hollowness and the delay of God's promises.

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That is so like us, eh?

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When we see our lack, when we see the insignificance that we operate in, and then worse, when we

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think that God's promises are hollow or God's promises are delayed, it's the same lament

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and resentment that comes up, eh?

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And once it begins to come up, it's so hard to see God.

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And yet here is God saying, take your rightful place.

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And he wants to use the story of Gideon to show us how to take our rightful place.

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And by the way, you're in great company, like great lousy company.

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Moses, same thing.

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Guy was in the backside of the Sinai lamenting that he was just a shepherd, he had run away

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from Egypt and so on.

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You take Saul, King Saul.

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When it came to be chosen as king, he was hiding in the cargo hold, not wanting to come

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out.

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Take Gideon, take Jonah.

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That guy was a poster boy for resentment.

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Take Mefiboshe, Saul's son.

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God was saying to all these characters I've mentioned, come take your rightful place,

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Mefiboshe.

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David had him seated at his table.

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Moses, he says, hey, you're a deliverer for Israel.

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Jonah, he says, you can go and prophesy and save a city.

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Saul, he says, you're going to be the first king of Israel.

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And all these men were not able to take their rightful place, either because of a lack of

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confidence or because of weakness or because of a past experience.

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Here are some of the reasons we don't take our rightful place.

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Lack of confidence, where I would suggest to you that Saul knew that they were picking

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tribes, clans, families, and then the individual by lot to make the king of Israel.

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So he knew as soon as they said the family of Kish, he knew that it could likely be him.

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What does he do?

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The first thing he does when he knows that he might be picked and when he thinks of the

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weight of responsibility, he runs and hides in the cargo hold.

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He runs and hides himself in the baggage.

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There are different reasons why we don't take our rightful place.

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Here are some of them.

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Lack of confidence, weakness as in, I'm not even talking about sin, I'm talking about

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weakness as in some kind of a complex that we all have.

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All of us in some area of our life feel inferior.

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Like when I stand here, I bet you feel bad about your looks.

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So each of us has these struggles, eh?

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That didn't fly at all.

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All righty, moving on.

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Okay.

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So weakness, past experience, past experience, fear, resentment, lack of acceptance.

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And the guilt of sin.

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Any of these, guilt of unresolved sin.

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Any of these can cause you to hesitate from taking your rightful place.

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And then let's throw in another one.

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Habits, these are not sinful habits, these are just human habits that are so not conducive

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to stepping into your rightful place.

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Yep.

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No, lack of being accepted by people.

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Yeah.

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Because sometimes there can be a sense of, people don't like me, and sometimes it's real,

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sometimes it's imagined.

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It can be both.

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Sometimes it's a mixture of both.

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Yeah.

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So these are the reasons we fail to take our rightful place.

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Saul hid in the luggage hold.

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Moses hid behind his speech impediment.

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Remember?

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He begins to say, but oh God, I can't speak.

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And so they had to send Aaron.

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We always hide behind something when it comes to taking our rightful place.

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So Saul hides in the luggage hold.

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Moses hides behind his speech impediment.

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Gideon hid in the winepress in fear.

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Jonah hid behind his resentment.

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Matthew Bush had hid because he was scared that David would kill him because Saul was his enemy.

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We have different reasons for hiding.

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It prevents us from taking our rightful place.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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So how do we go about then, with all these things that plague our lives,

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how do we still go about getting to that rightful place that God wants us to be at?

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So the process is three-faced.

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The process is three-faced.

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First one is, know your rightful place.

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Know your rightful place.

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As in, have you seen what God is calling you to?

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Have you seen what God is calling you to?

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Know your rightful place.

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I'll really explain each one after I put them down.

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Two, train for your rightful place.

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Train for your rightful place.

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And three,

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take your rightful place.

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And all three require faith.

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All three require faith.

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And it's not easy, it's very difficult because everything in the world will prevent you from taking your rightful place.

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Because if you took your rightful place, it would benefit, or it would deliver, or it would build,

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or it would tear down a whole lot of things on earth.

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Because most extraordinary things on earth are done by very, very ordinary people.

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At least in the Kingdom, that's how it works.

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Know your rightful place.

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As in, do you have an idea of what God is beckoning you towards?

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You may not have a clear idea, but do you have a murky idea, a blurred idea?

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Begin there.

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And each of these requires faith.

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And if you were to talk about the anatomy of faith,

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faith requires that I see, then faith requires that I believe,

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then faith requires that I speak or confess what I believe,

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and then speak requires that I do, because faith is an action.

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That's the anatomy of faith.

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Whatever I see, as in, whatever God is saying, can I see it?

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Can I see what God is saying? Can I see what God is trying to show?

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That becomes the horizon that I begin to walk towards.

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Can I see it? After I see it, can I begin to believe it?

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Is it a deep conviction that cannot be shaken?

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Where it doesn't matter that my 32,000 men have now been brought down to 300

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against an army that is innumerable to count.

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Can I still carry that deep conviction of what I have seen?

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Can I then begin to speak it?

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Because in Proverbs and in other places, in Mark 11, Proverbs 18,

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it talks about the mouth speaks what the heart carries.

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The mouth speaks what the heart carries.

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Can what I believe now be put into words?

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And then finally, faith does something about what it believes.

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Faith does something about what it believes.

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That is the anatomy of faith.

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And so in all these three things, know your rightful place,

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train for your rightful place, take your rightful place,

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faith is required.

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David and Paul knew. David knew what he was being called to.

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The moment Samuel poured a flask of oil on him,

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he knew what he was being called to.

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Paul was the same.

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Once he falls off the horse and the blinding light hits him

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and Ananias comes and begins to speak over his life,

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he knows what he is called to.

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And as soon as he knows, because of what both David and Paul see,

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and I'm taking two guys from the New Testament and the Old Testament,

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as soon as they know, they begin to actually believe it.

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There's a deep conviction in their hearts that this is what I'm called to.

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Till that deep conviction comes,

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you cannot train for the rightful place.

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Because the training will be difficult

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and the training is not some kind of a course or some kind of a Bible study.

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The training is real life.

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How do you maintain a straight track when life comes against you?

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This is why wild horses will never make it in the kingdom.

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Wild horses are people that love the Lord,

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they love serving the Lord.

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Think they are not wild horses, but are absolutely wild.

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They are fun to ride till you get thrown off.

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But we'll talk about wild horses another day.

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Yeah.

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So till the deep conviction comes,

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I can't even train for my rightful place.

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Do you think David would have survived running around in the wilderness

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like a refugee, chased by Saul, acting mad at times,

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having people that he was fighting with stone him?

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Do you think he would have survived that had he not come?

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He would have survived that had he not come

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to this deep conviction inside him

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that I am supposed to be king.

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And yet knowing that, he refuses to kill Saul

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when he has him at his mercy.

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Because he knows that the way this happens

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will have to be a God thing.

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I cannot take this into my own hands.

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And he waits.

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To take my rightful place,

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for the church to take his rightful place,

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for you to take your rightful place,

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for me to take the rightful place,

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one of the hardest things is to actually believe what you see.

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Very difficult.

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Because what God is showing you about yourself

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is so different from how you think about yourself.

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It is so different.

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If you went and told somebody,

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they would laugh thinking,

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Hold on to those things that you are so sure God has spoken.

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You may only be able to tell one or two people in the world,

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but one day the world will see.

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Remember, David did this.

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He goes and tries to tell his brothers

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that I am the one who can take out Goliath.

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The brothers get quite angry.

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They say, go back and take care of sheep.

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You need faith to accept, see and think what God is saying.

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David and Paul knew this.

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The recognition, as soon as they knew it,

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as soon as the conviction came, training began,

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where both of them were trained on the job,

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on the job.

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They were trained on the job.

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They are trained on the job.

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David and Paul knew this.

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They were trained on the job.

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They were trained on the job.

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They were trained on the job.

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They were trained on the job in the wilderness.

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Paul spends time in Saudi Arabia for 14 years.

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David spends time in the wilderness of Tekoa

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and other places in Israel learning the ropes.

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But the day is coming when a man called Paul

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revolutions the world and a man called David is called the...

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His name is used to describe Jesus, Jesus son of David.

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How nuts is that?

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Any questions?

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Any questions, guys?

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Do you think coffee is good for plants?

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No? Okay.

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How do we develop a deep conviction?

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A conviction only develops when you are fully persuaded

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about something as being the truth.

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This is why you even have people who believe falsehoods

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to be true and can stand on it.

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That the earth is flat, that White Rock is surry.

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Stuff like that.

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So in the US courts, a conviction is something

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that is not true.

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It's something that is not true.

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In the US courts, a conviction is something

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you are willing to go to jail for.

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They differentiate belief from conviction.

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Belief is something that may change.

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I believe this today, I can believe something else tomorrow.

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A conviction is something that you stand on so firmly

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that you are willing to go to prison for it.

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And that is the nature of the word conviction.

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Until I am fully persuaded that it is the truth,

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I will not stand on it.

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So Hebrews 11 is full of people who were fully persuaded

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that what they heard was the truth.

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Some of them got what they were standing for in their lifetime,

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others didn't, but they were fully persuaded

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and they are mentioned in that list.

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You and I are fully convinced or persuaded

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that Christ is Lord, that He is Savior.

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Even though the thought of you being persecuted

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may frighten you, I would say almost everybody in this room

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would be able to say, I will not turn my back on Christ.

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Have you seen Him? No.

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Have you spoken to Him face to face? No.

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Have you had a different experience,

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like an angel showing up or a dragon in the south of the world?

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You know, some sort of like, a little bit of a moment, right?

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Did we actually need that kind of moment

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or like, some other way of realizing it?

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Yeah, we'll be talking exactly about that.

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One of the things you need when it comes to training

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to take your rightful place,

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you need the faith to molt out of the old skin.

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How do you molt out of it?

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How do you molt out of the lack of confidence?

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How do you molt out of fear?

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How do you molt out of inadequacy?

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How do you molt out of weakness,

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past experience, rejection, resentment,

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wild-horses, horcidness?

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That's not a word, but I'm using it.

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How do you molt out of it?

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How do you say, oh God, I know what you've called me for,

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but this means that I will have to begin to

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have bitten bridle put in my mouth?

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I don't like it.

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I want to run wild.

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I want to save people for the Lord,

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but don't tell me to straighten out and discipline my life.

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No.

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There's a proverb in, I think it's Proverbs 19.1,

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I'm not too sure.

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It says that zeal without knowledge is dangerous.

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I'm always afraid of people that have great passion,

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great zeal, but limited knowledge.

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Because they are so passionate about God,

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but they are scary.

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Because zeal without knowledge is actually dangerous.

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It's like a missile without a guidance system.

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So how do you molt out of old,

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I mean you need faith to train and molt out of old skin.

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Old skin like the lack of confidence, weakness,

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past experience, rejection, fear, resentment.

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So you need faith for that.

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What do you mean?

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How can you get rid of that by faith?

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Hey, let's assume that the first time I spoke in a church

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my accent was so heavy and so bad

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that people started laughing.

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Let's assume that didn't happen,

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but let's assume it happened.

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And then I'm scared every time I speak to an audience

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that is not Indian, I get scared.

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That's not East Indian, let's assume I get scared.

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What do I do now?

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I have to have the ability to be inadequate

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and depend on a God who can take words

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that I don't pronounce well

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and use it powerfully by the spirit to affect hearts.

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That requires faith.

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Faith can be used to overcome these things.

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In training you need faith.

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When David was surrounded by his enemies

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there's this beautiful line.

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It says, David went down to his stronghold

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and encouraged himself.

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How in the world do you do that?

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How do you go down to your stronghold

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as in whatever place was safe for him

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you would go down to his stronghold

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and he'd begin to encourage himself in the Lord.

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That's how these psalms are used.

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How these psalms come.

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Oh Lord, I'm feeling really lousy.

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I'm feeling like when the Canucks didn't make the play-offs

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it really sucks, oh God.

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And then you keep writing

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and then you begin to say

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but Quinn Hughes is playing well

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and Miller is scoring

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and Besser is on top of the game

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and then it begins to build up again.

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Encourage yourself.

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Poor Golden Knights,

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they're about six points behind the Canucks now.

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The next thing is you need faith.

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You need faith to fill,

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you need faith to fill the place

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that you have been appointed to.

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Fill the place you've been appointed to.

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Do you think Don needs faith?

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And May needs faith

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and Gillian needs faith

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to fill the places they are appointed to.

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Do you think so?

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I assure you they do.

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They'll have to trust God that

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gosh, I hope we are able to pull this off.

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Because at present

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who knows what their preaching is really like.

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Maybe it really sucks.

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I hope this is encouraging guys.

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So you need faith to fill the place

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you've been appointed to.

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And why do you need faith to fill the place

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you're appointed to?

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Because there will be

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satanic opposition,

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satanic opposition.

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There will be human resistance

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to God.

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There will be delay

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in the things you're expecting.

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There will be the thing called time

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which you can't control.

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There will be lack of fruit.

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There will be

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a lack of applause,

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recognition

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and there will be failure.

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Pure and simple failure.

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There will be.

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In the face of this

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you need faith.

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What when you've done something

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and it failed miserably?

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And it's your fault.

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You messed up.

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What when people resist you

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and resist what you're doing?

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What if they assign to you motives

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that are false

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but it sticks?

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What if they say you don't care

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when you've done everything

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in your power to care?

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What about satanic opposition?

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You think anything built in the kingdom

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is not opposed by the devil himself?

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This is why it's impossible

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to take your rightful place

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unless you have

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this magnificent element called faith.

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Any questions?

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So one of the things

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that I think would be wise

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for you to do

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especially because it's still January

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is to go home

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and just start with the first one.

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Take your rightful place.

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So God,

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can you at least

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can I at least begin to explore with you

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the rightful place

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I must occupy

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by the end of this year?

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That's all.

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So,

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I'm going to end this talk

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with a few words

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that I want to say

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to you.

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Just an invitation.

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What is a rightful place?

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God's saying,

00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:13.380
hey, when you were born,

00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:14.380
before you were born,

00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:15.380
Jill,

00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:16.380
before you were born,

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:17.380
Davand,

00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:18.380
before you were born, Mike,

00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:19.380
any of the Mikes,

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:21.380
before you were born,

00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:25.380
this is where I expected you to be

00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:27.380
at the end of 2024.

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:29.380
I'm inviting you into it.

00:32:29.380 --> 00:32:30.380
It doesn't matter that

00:32:30.380 --> 00:32:31.380
you may have squandered time

00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:32.380
in the past.

00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:33.380
I can make up the years

00:32:33.380 --> 00:32:34.380
that you have lost.

00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:35.380
That's not a big deal for me.

00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:36.380
But this is what I'm inviting

00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:37.380
in you to do.

00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:38.420
Can you begin to see it?

00:32:38.420 --> 00:32:39.420
Can you begin to see it?

00:32:39.420 --> 00:32:40.420
And if you can see it,

00:32:40.420 --> 00:32:41.420
can I invite you

00:32:41.420 --> 00:32:42.420
to take your rightful place?

00:32:42.420 --> 00:32:43.420
I'll help you.

00:32:43.420 --> 00:32:44.420
And I'll help you.

00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:45.420
And I'll help you.

00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:47.420
Helping is my favorite thing to do.

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:49.420
In fact, I even named my spirit

00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:50.420
the helper.

00:32:50.420 --> 00:32:51.420
I'll help you.

00:32:51.420 --> 00:32:52.420
But can you see it?

00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:53.420
Because if you can't see it,

00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:55.420
deep conviction will not arise.

00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:56.420
And if deep conviction

00:32:56.420 --> 00:32:57.420
does not arise,

00:32:57.420 --> 00:32:58.420
the storms of life

00:32:58.420 --> 00:33:00.420
will direct your course.

00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:03.420
So,

00:33:03.420 --> 00:33:04.420
I'm inviting you

00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:05.420
to take your rightful place.

00:33:05.460 --> 00:33:07.460
Why is it important to speak it?

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:09.460
Because our tongue is a rudder.

00:33:11.460 --> 00:33:12.460
Tiny little thing

00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:13.460
that directs the ship.

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Our tongue is a rudder.

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I mean,

00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:21.460
you think I'm going to quit

00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:23.460
talking about Hebrides 2.0

00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:24.460
and that there's a revival

00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:25.460
that will come across the earth

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.460
amongst the young people

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.460
and that it will happen

00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:28.460
through this shirt.

00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:29.460
You think I'm ever going to

00:33:29.460 --> 00:33:30.460
stop speaking about it.

00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:32.460
I'm so convicted about it

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.460
that I know I will see it.

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Any questions?

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:38.500
Any questions?

00:33:38.540 --> 00:33:39.540
Any questions?

00:33:43.540 --> 00:33:44.540
Any questions?

00:33:44.540 --> 00:33:45.540
Any questions?

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Faith.

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How do you store

00:33:48.580 --> 00:33:50.580
men's history

00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:51.580
and see the faith

00:33:51.580 --> 00:33:52.580
upon gifts?

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And how do you flex

00:33:54.580 --> 00:33:55.580
your faith muscle

00:33:55.580 --> 00:33:58.580
as you journey through the process?

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And like you're saying,

00:33:59.580 --> 00:34:01.580
you're in a conflict of decisions.

00:34:01.580 --> 00:34:03.580
How do you exercise faith?

00:34:06.580 --> 00:34:07.580
Okay, that's three questions.

00:34:07.580 --> 00:34:08.580
You're only allowed one.

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Okay, so here are the questions.

00:34:11.580 --> 00:34:12.580
One, how do you

00:34:12.580 --> 00:34:13.580
store the gift of faith?

00:34:13.580 --> 00:34:14.580
Two,

00:34:15.580 --> 00:34:17.580
how do you practice faith?

00:34:18.580 --> 00:34:19.580
Because

00:34:19.580 --> 00:34:21.580
when we're in a time of conflict

00:34:21.580 --> 00:34:22.580
we cannot just switch on

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and face it.

00:34:23.580 --> 00:34:24.580
Okay, and the third question.

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I'll speak to you about it.

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Okay.

00:34:29.580 --> 00:34:30.580
Okay, so

00:34:30.580 --> 00:34:32.580
when we think of the gift of faith

00:34:32.580 --> 00:34:33.580
the gift of faith

00:34:33.580 --> 00:34:34.580
is a supernatural ability

00:34:34.580 --> 00:34:36.580
given by the Holy Spirit

00:34:36.580 --> 00:34:37.580
to a person

00:34:38.580 --> 00:34:40.580
for the benefit of the body

00:34:40.580 --> 00:34:42.580
so that this person now

00:34:42.580 --> 00:34:44.580
has from the Spirit of God

00:34:44.620 --> 00:34:45.620
this ability

00:34:45.620 --> 00:34:47.620
to exert

00:34:49.620 --> 00:34:50.620
faith for

00:34:51.620 --> 00:34:53.620
absolutely impossible things

00:34:53.620 --> 00:34:55.620
with relative ease

00:34:55.620 --> 00:34:57.620
and then rest knowing

00:34:57.620 --> 00:34:58.620
that they don't have to pray,

00:34:58.620 --> 00:34:59.620
they don't have to do anything.

00:34:59.620 --> 00:35:01.620
It still has to be exerted

00:35:01.620 --> 00:35:02.620
but there's an ease

00:35:02.620 --> 00:35:04.620
with which they do it.

00:35:05.620 --> 00:35:06.620
It's the same difference

00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:07.620
between someone laying hands

00:35:07.620 --> 00:35:08.620
and praying

00:35:08.620 --> 00:35:09.620
anointing with oil

00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:10.620
and praying and the person gets healed

00:35:10.620 --> 00:35:11.620
and a person who has

00:35:11.620 --> 00:35:12.620
a gift of healing

00:35:12.620 --> 00:35:13.620
where it's a supernatural ability

00:35:13.660 --> 00:35:14.660
given by the Holy Spirit

00:35:14.660 --> 00:35:16.660
which still has to be exerted

00:35:16.660 --> 00:35:17.660
where a person lays hands

00:35:17.660 --> 00:35:18.660
on someone

00:35:18.660 --> 00:35:19.660
and certain diseases

00:35:19.660 --> 00:35:21.660
seem to always get healed

00:35:21.660 --> 00:35:22.660
by the person.

00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:24.660
With faith it's the same way.

00:35:24.660 --> 00:35:27.660
I mean, it's supernatural faith

00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:29.660
that causes a man to step out

00:35:29.660 --> 00:35:31.660
and walk on substance

00:35:31.660 --> 00:35:33.660
that he has no business walking on

00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:35.660
like Peter did on water.

00:35:36.660 --> 00:35:37.660
It is supernatural faith

00:35:37.660 --> 00:35:39.660
for a man to have

00:35:39.660 --> 00:35:42.660
a venomous snake wrapped around his arm

00:35:42.700 --> 00:35:43.700
everybody is expecting

00:35:43.700 --> 00:35:44.700
him to fall dead

00:35:44.700 --> 00:35:45.700
and he shakes it off

00:35:46.700 --> 00:35:47.700
like you're shaking a water

00:35:47.700 --> 00:35:48.700
and continues preaching

00:35:48.700 --> 00:35:49.700
as if nothing happened.

00:35:53.700 --> 00:35:55.700
That's extraordinary faith

00:35:56.700 --> 00:35:58.700
but it's done with such ease

00:35:58.700 --> 00:36:00.700
that you cannot take credit for it.

00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:03.700
It is an ability given by the Spirit

00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:05.700
and it's usually for the benefit

00:36:05.700 --> 00:36:06.700
of the body.

00:36:08.700 --> 00:36:09.700
Once that happens

00:36:09.700 --> 00:36:11.700
and they expect him to fall down

00:36:11.740 --> 00:36:12.740
dead and he doesn't

00:36:12.740 --> 00:36:14.740
and throws the snake into the fire

00:36:14.740 --> 00:36:15.740
the entire island of Malta

00:36:15.740 --> 00:36:16.740
gets saved

00:36:17.740 --> 00:36:18.740
because they see

00:36:18.740 --> 00:36:19.740
this guy who's just done

00:36:19.740 --> 00:36:20.740
something incredible.

00:36:23.740 --> 00:36:24.740
And when conflict comes

00:36:24.740 --> 00:36:25.740
how do we turn on faith?

00:36:25.740 --> 00:36:27.740
You cannot turn on faith in conflict.

00:36:28.740 --> 00:36:30.740
Any faith that you exert

00:36:30.740 --> 00:36:32.740
is faith that was already learned.

00:36:32.740 --> 00:36:34.740
You cannot turn on something

00:36:34.740 --> 00:36:36.740
in a crisis.

00:36:37.740 --> 00:36:38.740
You cannot turn it on.

00:36:39.740 --> 00:36:40.740
It's not some kind of

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:41.780
cookie that you grab

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:43.780
and say quickly eat the faith

00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:44.780
cookie before

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:45.780
the enemy comes.

00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:46.780
It's either in your stomach

00:36:46.780 --> 00:36:47.780
you can't get it from the shelf.

00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:51.780
What charismatics often do

00:36:51.780 --> 00:36:52.780
and I'm calling ourselves

00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:53.780
charismatics too

00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:54.780
is that we grab the cookie

00:36:54.780 --> 00:36:55.780
and start eating

00:36:55.780 --> 00:36:56.780
in the name of Jesus Christ

00:36:56.780 --> 00:36:57.780
by the blood of Jesus Christ

00:36:57.780 --> 00:36:58.780
I believe in you a lot

00:36:58.780 --> 00:36:59.780
or I believe in you a lot

00:36:59.780 --> 00:37:00.780
that doesn't work.

00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:02.780
It's just a whole lot of scriptures

00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:03.780
written on your mirror

00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:04.780
it doesn't help.

00:37:04.780 --> 00:37:05.780
What really helps is what's

00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:07.780
inside.

00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:09.780
That is what comes out

00:37:09.820 --> 00:37:10.820
under pressure.

00:37:11.820 --> 00:37:12.820
That is why some of you

00:37:12.820 --> 00:37:13.820
are amazing

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:14.820
when it comes to finances.

00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:15.820
You have strange faith

00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:17.820
when it comes to finances.

00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:18.820
You trust God.

00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:20.820
It doesn't matter

00:37:20.820 --> 00:37:21.820
that the market is going up

00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:23.820
or your wife lost

00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:26.820
fifty thousand dollars.

00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:28.820
It doesn't matter

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:29.820
you seem to be as calm

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:30.820
as a cucumber.

00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:31.820
I don't know why they think

00:37:31.820 --> 00:37:32.820
cucumbers are calm.

00:37:34.820 --> 00:37:35.820
And then

00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:36.820
some of you have tremendous faith

00:37:36.820 --> 00:37:38.820
when it comes to healing.

00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:39.860
It doesn't matter what happens

00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:40.860
you walk through it like

00:37:41.860 --> 00:37:42.860
I'll get healed.

00:37:43.860 --> 00:37:44.860
It's in different areas

00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:45.860
that you've already developed

00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:46.860
the ability.

00:37:49.860 --> 00:37:50.860
So

00:37:54.860 --> 00:37:55.860
examine where you are

00:37:56.860 --> 00:37:57.860
in these three phases.

00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.860
So let's go back to Gideon.

00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:01.860
He is resentful,

00:38:01.860 --> 00:38:02.860
he is hopeless.

00:38:02.860 --> 00:38:03.860
He even uses words like

00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:04.860
I feel abandoned.

00:38:05.860 --> 00:38:06.860
In chapter 6 verse 13

00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:07.860
he's telling God

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:10.900
he's yet to recognize him as God

00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:12.900
but he knows he's a divine visitor

00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:13.900
and he says

00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:14.900
you've abandoned us.

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:17.900
Gideon is almost talking like us.

00:38:17.900 --> 00:38:19.900
We use the same words

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:20.900
and look at how God reacts.

00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:23.900
God simply ignores

00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:25.900
what Gideon is saying

00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:27.900
and he continues where he left off.

00:38:28.900 --> 00:38:29.900
God ignores

00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:31.900
God ignores

00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:33.900
what Gideon is saying.

00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:34.940
And this continues on.

00:38:37.940 --> 00:38:38.940
Hint, hint

00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:40.940
you can lament and complain

00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:41.940
all you want

00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:42.940
and think you'll get a response

00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:43.940
he'll ignore it.

00:38:44.940 --> 00:38:45.940
Because he's got bigger fish

00:38:45.940 --> 00:38:46.940
to fry and you're the fish.

00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:49.940
He'll ignore it.

00:38:49.940 --> 00:38:51.940
Look at chapter 6 verse 12

00:38:52.940 --> 00:38:53.940
it says that

00:38:55.940 --> 00:38:56.940
so

00:38:56.940 --> 00:38:58.940
he says to Gideon

00:38:58.940 --> 00:38:59.940
the Lord is with you

00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:00.940
mighty God

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:01.940
and he will not leave you

00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:02.980
and he says to Gideon

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.980
the Lord is with you

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:04.980
mighty warrior

00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:05.980
but sir

00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:06.980
Gideon replied

00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:08.980
and then in verse 14

00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:09.980
the Lord turned to him

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:10.980
and said

00:39:10.980 --> 00:39:11.980
go in the strength you have

00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:12.980
it's almost like

00:39:12.980 --> 00:39:13.980
he didn't pay any attention

00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:14.980
to all

00:39:14.980 --> 00:39:15.980
that Gideon said

00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:16.980
you have abandoned us

00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:17.980
you've let us down

00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:18.980
look at how impoverished I am

00:39:18.980 --> 00:39:19.980
I'm the least of the clan

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:20.980
and God says

00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:21.980
go in the strength

00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:22.980
what strength?

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.980
But the point is

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:24.980
that God can ignore

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:26.980
all my laments

00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:27.980
because he knows

00:39:27.980 --> 00:39:28.980
how he created me

00:39:28.980 --> 00:39:29.980
why he created me

00:39:29.980 --> 00:39:30.980
what's in me

00:39:31.020 --> 00:39:32.020
he just knows

00:39:33.020 --> 00:39:34.020
and because he knows

00:39:35.020 --> 00:39:37.020
he's not going to waste his time

00:39:37.020 --> 00:39:38.020
on your lament

00:39:38.020 --> 00:39:39.020
because he knows

00:39:42.020 --> 00:39:43.020
you think he doesn't know?

00:39:47.020 --> 00:39:49.020
it's like you with your children

00:39:50.020 --> 00:39:51.020
got a tiny little owie

00:39:51.020 --> 00:39:52.020
somewhere here

00:39:52.020 --> 00:39:53.020
that doesn't hurt

00:39:53.020 --> 00:39:55.020
crocodile tears are coming up

00:39:55.020 --> 00:39:56.020
you think you pay any attention?

00:39:56.060 --> 00:39:57.060
he knows man

00:39:58.060 --> 00:39:59.060
God simply ignores

00:39:59.060 --> 00:40:00.060
what he's saying

00:40:00.060 --> 00:40:01.060
every time God talks to you

00:40:01.060 --> 00:40:02.060
it will be in the context

00:40:02.060 --> 00:40:03.060
of how he sees you

00:40:04.060 --> 00:40:05.060
every time God talks to me

00:40:06.060 --> 00:40:08.060
every time God talks to me

00:40:09.060 --> 00:40:10.060
or you

00:40:10.060 --> 00:40:11.060
every time God talks

00:40:11.060 --> 00:40:12.060
to you

00:40:13.060 --> 00:40:14.060
it will be

00:40:14.060 --> 00:40:15.060
in the context

00:40:15.060 --> 00:40:16.060
of how he sees you

00:40:21.060 --> 00:40:22.060
and that's why

00:40:22.060 --> 00:40:23.060
he's saying

00:40:23.100 --> 00:40:24.100
it will be in the context

00:40:24.100 --> 00:40:25.100
of how he sees you

00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:27.100
try remembering that

00:40:27.100 --> 00:40:28.100
because if you keep

00:40:29.100 --> 00:40:30.100
repeating

00:40:30.100 --> 00:40:31.100
I'm this I'm that

00:40:32.100 --> 00:40:33.100
he'll

00:40:33.100 --> 00:40:34.100
you'll actually hear

00:40:34.100 --> 00:40:35.100
a streak of annoyance

00:40:35.100 --> 00:40:36.100
in his voice

00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:37.100
where he'll say

00:40:37.100 --> 00:40:38.100
alright Moses

00:40:38.100 --> 00:40:39.100
I've told you I made your mouth

00:40:39.100 --> 00:40:40.100
but if you don't believe me

00:40:40.100 --> 00:40:41.100
great I'll get to Aaron

00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:42.100
and he gets Aaron

00:40:44.100 --> 00:40:45.100
Aaron then later goes

00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:49.100
and he gets Aaron

00:40:50.100 --> 00:40:51.100
and he gets Aaron

00:40:51.100 --> 00:40:52.100
and he gets Aaron

00:40:52.140 --> 00:40:53.140
and he

00:40:54.140 --> 00:40:55.140
builds a golden calf

00:40:56.140 --> 00:40:57.140
a whole lot of things

00:40:58.140 --> 00:40:59.140
ensue because

00:40:59.140 --> 00:41:00.140
one man decided

00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:02.140
that he would keep complaining

00:41:02.140 --> 00:41:03.140
even though God is giving him

00:41:03.140 --> 00:41:04.140
proof after proof

00:41:04.140 --> 00:41:05.140
after proof

00:41:05.140 --> 00:41:06.140
that you're the guy

00:41:06.140 --> 00:41:07.140
you're the guy

00:41:07.140 --> 00:41:08.140
you're the guy

00:41:09.140 --> 00:41:10.140
hey in some things

00:41:10.140 --> 00:41:11.140
you are the guy

00:41:12.140 --> 00:41:13.140
you are the guy

00:41:14.140 --> 00:41:15.140
not me

00:41:15.140 --> 00:41:16.140
not anybody superior

00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:17.140
not someone who's got

00:41:17.140 --> 00:41:18.140
more education

00:41:18.140 --> 00:41:19.140
not someone who's greatly

00:41:19.140 --> 00:41:20.140
skilled or greatly gifted

00:41:20.140 --> 00:41:21.140
you're the guy

00:41:22.140 --> 00:41:23.140
and it doesn't matter

00:41:23.140 --> 00:41:24.140
how much you lament

00:41:24.140 --> 00:41:25.140
how much you complain

00:41:25.140 --> 00:41:26.140
whatever you say

00:41:26.140 --> 00:41:27.140
you're the guy

00:41:28.140 --> 00:41:29.140
and he'll completely

00:41:29.140 --> 00:41:30.140
ignore your lament

00:41:30.140 --> 00:41:31.140
and say

00:41:31.140 --> 00:41:32.140
I'm going after you

00:41:32.140 --> 00:41:33.140
because I'm the one

00:41:33.140 --> 00:41:34.140
who made you

00:41:34.140 --> 00:41:35.140
I positioned you

00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:36.140
where you were placed

00:41:36.140 --> 00:41:37.140
I've appointed you

00:41:37.140 --> 00:41:38.140
to boundaries and nations

00:41:38.140 --> 00:41:39.140
like it says in Act 17

00:41:39.140 --> 00:41:40.140
for a time such as this

00:41:40.140 --> 00:41:41.140
you think he cared about

00:41:41.140 --> 00:41:42.140
Esther

00:41:42.140 --> 00:41:43.140
saying I'm scared

00:41:43.140 --> 00:41:44.140
to go up to the king

00:41:44.140 --> 00:41:45.140
Mordecai speaks for God

00:41:45.140 --> 00:41:46.140
and says

00:41:46.140 --> 00:41:47.140
you were raised

00:41:47.140 --> 00:41:48.140
for a time such as this

00:41:48.140 --> 00:41:49.140
if you don't want to

00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:50.140
God will raise someone else

00:41:50.180 --> 00:41:51.180
you can only say no to him

00:41:51.180 --> 00:41:52.180
and he'll stop

00:41:52.180 --> 00:41:53.180
but complaints

00:41:57.180 --> 00:41:58.180
I remember one Westerd

00:42:00.180 --> 00:42:01.180
guy who makes

00:42:01.180 --> 00:42:02.180
all the announcements

00:42:02.180 --> 00:42:03.180
saying if you have

00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:04.180
any complaints

00:42:04.180 --> 00:42:05.180
just write it on

00:42:05.180 --> 00:42:06.180
a hundred dollar bill

00:42:06.180 --> 00:42:07.180
and give it to us

00:42:07.180 --> 00:42:08.180
if you've got any

00:42:08.180 --> 00:42:09.180
complaints about God

00:42:09.180 --> 00:42:10.180
write it on a hundred

00:42:10.180 --> 00:42:11.180
dollar bill

00:42:11.180 --> 00:42:12.180
and put it in one of

00:42:12.180 --> 00:42:13.180
those boxes

00:42:13.180 --> 00:42:14.180
or about the pastor

00:42:14.180 --> 00:42:15.180
either

00:42:15.180 --> 00:42:16.180
write it on

00:42:16.180 --> 00:42:17.180
two hundred dollar bills

00:42:17.180 --> 00:42:18.180
because there'll be more

00:42:20.180 --> 00:42:21.180
every time God talks to you

00:42:21.180 --> 00:42:22.180
it'll be in the context

00:42:22.180 --> 00:42:23.180
of how he sees you

00:42:23.180 --> 00:42:24.180
not how you see yourself

00:42:25.180 --> 00:42:26.180
and so the sooner

00:42:27.180 --> 00:42:28.180
my thinking

00:42:28.180 --> 00:42:29.180
aligns

00:42:29.180 --> 00:42:30.180
with

00:42:30.180 --> 00:42:31.180
what God is

00:42:31.180 --> 00:42:32.180
declaring

00:42:32.180 --> 00:42:33.180
the sooner

00:42:33.180 --> 00:42:34.180
I can initiate

00:42:34.180 --> 00:42:35.180
these three phases

00:42:35.180 --> 00:42:36.180
in my life

00:42:36.180 --> 00:42:37.180
the sooner I do it

00:42:37.180 --> 00:42:38.180
the sooner I can initiate it

00:42:42.180 --> 00:42:43.180
any questions

00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:46.180
the sooner I can align

00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:47.180
my thoughts

00:42:47.180 --> 00:42:48.180
in my life

00:42:48.220 --> 00:42:49.220
the sooner I can align

00:42:49.220 --> 00:42:50.220
my thinking

00:42:50.220 --> 00:42:51.220
and my feeling

00:42:52.220 --> 00:42:53.220
with what God

00:42:54.220 --> 00:42:55.220
has declared

00:42:55.220 --> 00:42:56.220
shown

00:42:57.220 --> 00:42:58.220
spoken

00:42:58.220 --> 00:42:59.220
the sooner

00:42:59.220 --> 00:43:00.220
I can initiate

00:43:01.220 --> 00:43:02.220
these three phases

00:43:03.220 --> 00:43:04.220
of

00:43:04.220 --> 00:43:05.220
see your rightful place

00:43:05.220 --> 00:43:07.220
train for your rightful place

00:43:07.220 --> 00:43:08.220
take your rightful place

00:43:08.220 --> 00:43:09.220
it's an invitation

00:43:10.220 --> 00:43:11.220
it's permission

00:43:13.220 --> 00:43:14.220
rightful place is permission

00:43:15.220 --> 00:43:16.220
that's what it is

00:43:16.260 --> 00:43:17.260
it's permission

00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:25.260
what do you know

00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:26.260
Gideon like you

00:43:26.260 --> 00:43:27.260
and me

00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:28.260
and like Jeremiah

00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:29.260
and like Moses

00:43:29.260 --> 00:43:30.260
what does Gideon do

00:43:31.260 --> 00:43:32.260
he begins

00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:33.260
to plead his inadequacy

00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:34.260
for the task

00:43:35.260 --> 00:43:36.260
he begins to say

00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:37.260
but I'm the least of my clan

00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:38.260
Moses did that

00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:39.260
but I can hardly speak

00:43:39.260 --> 00:43:40.260
Jeremiah did that

00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:41.260
but I'm just a youth

00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:43.260
you read all those three stories

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:44.260
God responds the same way

00:43:44.300 --> 00:43:45.300
come on man

00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:46.300
we got to recognize

00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:47.300
how he responds

00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:48.300
there are patterns to God

00:43:49.300 --> 00:43:50.300
there are patterns to God

00:43:50.300 --> 00:43:51.300
Jeremiah

00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:52.300
but I'm only a young man

00:43:52.300 --> 00:43:53.300
don't say you're young

00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:57.300
Moses

00:43:57.300 --> 00:43:58.300
but I

00:43:59.300 --> 00:44:00.300
can hardly speak

00:44:00.300 --> 00:44:01.300
who made your mouth

00:44:02.300 --> 00:44:03.300
sometimes God can sound

00:44:03.300 --> 00:44:04.300
a little rude

00:44:06.300 --> 00:44:07.300
if someone came to you

00:44:07.300 --> 00:44:08.300
and said

00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:09.300
but I can hardly speak

00:44:09.300 --> 00:44:10.300
you would

00:44:10.300 --> 00:44:11.300
rarely respond

00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:12.300
saying who made your mouth

00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:13.340
I said Gideon

00:44:14.340 --> 00:44:15.380
same thing

00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:17.300
you and me

00:44:18.300 --> 00:44:19.300
we have a tendency

00:44:19.300 --> 00:44:21.300
to plead our inadequacy

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:22.300
for the task

00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:24.300
but the quicker you realize

00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:25.300
guys this is important

00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:26.300
the quicker you realize

00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:29.300
the quicker you realize

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:32.300
the seriousness of God

00:44:32.300 --> 00:44:33.300
the seriousness of God

00:44:34.300 --> 00:44:35.300
the quicker you realize

00:44:36.300 --> 00:44:37.300
the seriousness of God

00:44:39.300 --> 00:44:40.300
and the seriousness of God

00:44:40.300 --> 00:44:47.300
The quicker you realize the seriousness of God, the sooner you find favor and faith to run.

00:44:47.300 --> 00:44:58.300
The sooner you find favor and faith to run.

00:44:58.300 --> 00:45:03.300
God is serious about His invitations. God is serious about it.

00:45:03.300 --> 00:45:08.300
He doesn't do things with plan B.

00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:12.300
He's not a God who says, this is plan A, but I better develop a plan B.

00:45:12.300 --> 00:45:17.300
The reason He doesn't develop a plan B is because He knows everything.

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:21.300
When you don't know things, that's when you have plan Bs.

00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:27.300
So He's dead serious about the rightful place that He's calling you to this year, because He thinks it can be done.

00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:32.300
He also gives you the free will not to do it. But He's really serious about it.

00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:39.300
Why not see it, guys? Why not hunger for it and see it?

00:45:39.300 --> 00:45:47.300
It's those that seek that find, those that ask that get what they are looking for, those that knock that get answered.

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:52.300
There must be a drive towards it.

00:45:52.300 --> 00:46:00.300
And every time the drive dies, go to your favorite friend who is smarter than you and ask them to revive you.

00:46:00.300 --> 00:46:04.300
Or go to the word which is rich and ask it to revive you.

00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:12.300
Or cry out to the Spirit saying, I'm cold, I'm lukewarm, help me.

00:46:12.300 --> 00:46:23.300
Any questions?

00:46:23.300 --> 00:46:26.300
Remember this. Sorry, a question?

00:46:26.300 --> 00:46:32.300
How do you fight against being passive as he's known in the past regarding the late days?

00:46:32.300 --> 00:46:43.300
Yeah. His job is the timing of it. Your job is suppressing every day.

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:48.300
It applies to all of us. I'm not holding it in you.

00:46:48.300 --> 00:46:55.300
Mark, the truth is there's nobody in this room who hasn't gone through the pain of delay,

00:46:55.300 --> 00:47:02.300
through the pain of things postponed, through the pain of where is this promise, oh God?

00:47:02.300 --> 00:47:12.300
To the pain of Jeremiah's words, oh God, you're like a deceptive brook.

00:47:12.300 --> 00:47:19.300
And even though that kind of angst and resentment and complaint and hopelessness rises,

00:47:19.300 --> 00:47:22.300
his job is to make sure things happen on time.

00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:25.300
Your job is to make sure that you're pressing every day.

00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:29.300
God's response to Jeremiah when he says you're a deceptive brook is to say to Jeremiah,

00:47:29.300 --> 00:47:35.300
listen Jeremiah, if you do not separate the vile from that which is clean,

00:47:35.300 --> 00:47:39.300
if you don't stop suspecting my nature, I will stop using you as my mouth.

00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:44.300
I'm going to send you to them. You will be like a fortified wall of bronze.

00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:47.300
They will not be able to overcome you. You will overcome them.

00:47:47.300 --> 00:47:49.300
So now go. Be my mouthpiece.

00:47:49.300 --> 00:47:53.300
Until Jeremiah gets up again and he starts again.

00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:59.300
Have two or three days max of valowing and self-pity.

00:47:59.300 --> 00:48:05.300
After three days, the smell should make you throw up and then get back to,

00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:08.300
I've got to go and get things started again.

00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:14.300
There's no, we don't know. I don't even want to guess why God delays things.

00:48:14.300 --> 00:48:16.300
I don't want to take the blame on myself.

00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:18.300
Oh, it's because of my sin. Oh, it's because I didn't pray.

00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:21.300
Oh, it's because what if it's not?

00:48:21.300 --> 00:48:25.300
What if it is just kindness to someone?

00:48:38.300 --> 00:48:41.300
You kind of sense that, what God's calling you,

00:48:41.300 --> 00:48:45.300
but you know there's other people that have to come into it as well.

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:46.300
Yeah.

00:48:46.300 --> 00:48:53.300
So when do you know that, when should you start acting on that,

00:48:53.300 --> 00:48:54.300
trying to grow other?

00:48:54.300 --> 00:48:56.300
Good question. Two ways.

00:48:56.300 --> 00:48:59.300
When you know that other people have to come alongside you

00:48:59.300 --> 00:49:01.300
for something to happen and they are not,

00:49:01.300 --> 00:49:04.300
sometimes have the audacity to go and say to them,

00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:07.300
please come alongside me, otherwise I won't be able to do this.

00:49:07.300 --> 00:49:13.300
And then other times it will be, even though there is nobody that walks with me right now,

00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:16.300
I'm going to take a step at a time and see what happens.

00:49:16.300 --> 00:49:18.300
It's one or the other.

00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:23.300
Sometimes it is, Mark, if you don't come, I can't do this.

00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:24.300
I'm asking you.

00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:29.300
Or Mark, you're in charge of this, please use me.

00:49:29.300 --> 00:49:33.300
It's coming and asking. It's humbling sometimes.

00:49:33.300 --> 00:49:34.300
So that's one way.

00:49:34.300 --> 00:49:40.300
The other way is, all right, nobody's helping me, but I'm going to take a step.

00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:47.300
It might be a tiny step, but I am blooming going to take a step.

00:49:47.300 --> 00:49:50.300
And maybe you take a step and then you have to wait for three days

00:49:50.300 --> 00:49:52.300
before you have the courage to take the next step.

00:49:52.300 --> 00:50:02.300
But my God, man, you're noted in heaven.

00:50:02.300 --> 00:50:05.300
Listen to this, say, my strength lies.

00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:11.300
Please, if we can sometimes get this, it might change our approach.

00:50:11.300 --> 00:50:16.300
My strength, my strength lies.

00:50:16.300 --> 00:50:19.300
My strength lies in what?

00:50:19.300 --> 00:50:22.300
My strength lies in what?

00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:31.300
I am being chosen for by God.

00:50:31.300 --> 00:50:34.300
My strength lies in what I'm being chosen for by God.

00:50:34.300 --> 00:50:38.300
If God chooses a man to carry the gates of Hebron up a hill,

00:50:38.300 --> 00:50:44.300
then his strength lies in stepping into what God has chosen.

00:50:44.300 --> 00:50:46.300
This is why it's so important to sometimes find it.

00:50:46.300 --> 00:50:48.300
This is why it's so important for a church to sometimes say,

00:50:48.300 --> 00:50:51.300
this is where our strength lies.

00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:55.300
And then step into it and it changes from year to year.

00:50:55.300 --> 00:51:01.300
Man, if you're retired, please don't count yourself out.

00:51:01.300 --> 00:51:04.300
That's a terrible thing to do.

00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:10.300
To put life on pause when you turn sixty-five?

00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:13.300
Don't do that.

00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:16.300
And your job is not, please hear this again,

00:51:16.300 --> 00:51:18.300
and I might get into trouble for this,

00:51:18.300 --> 00:51:21.300
your job is not taking care of your grandchildren.

00:51:21.300 --> 00:51:23.300
It is part of what you do.

00:51:23.300 --> 00:51:26.300
It is not all of what you do.

00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:32.300
There's been this move in the church from family-oriented ministries that say,

00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:36.300
once you cross sixty-five, your job is to be a wonderful grandmother

00:51:36.300 --> 00:51:38.300
and grandfather to your grandchildren.

00:51:38.300 --> 00:51:44.300
They are terrors. Let their parents deal with them.

00:51:44.300 --> 00:51:46.300
You know, the first part didn't get me into trouble.

00:51:46.300 --> 00:51:52.300
It's this part that got me into trouble.

00:51:52.300 --> 00:52:00.300
So, there's so much more to your life that was meant to last for another twenty or twenty-five years

00:52:00.300 --> 00:52:06.300
that you're supposed to do.

00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:09.300
My strength lies in what I'm being chosen for by God,

00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:16.300
and that is when you will have great, you will assign great importance to,

00:52:16.300 --> 00:52:19.300
I will be with you, the promise that God gives people in the Bible,

00:52:19.300 --> 00:52:21.300
I will be with you.

00:52:21.300 --> 00:52:24.300
I will be with you sounds like a big deal.

00:52:24.300 --> 00:52:26.300
That's like saying good morning.

00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:27.300
Obviously, God will be with you.

00:52:27.300 --> 00:52:33.300
No, the weight of I will be with you takes on a strange strength

00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:38.300
when he sends you out to do something that you know you are chosen for.

00:52:38.300 --> 00:52:40.300
If you check the Bible, he usually says,

00:52:40.300 --> 00:52:43.300
I will be with you after giving them an assignment.

00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:46.300
So, he says to the twelve, and now go,

00:52:46.300 --> 00:52:49.300
baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit,

00:52:49.300 --> 00:52:54.300
teach them to observe everything I've done, and know I will be with you.

00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:57.300
Every time he says, I will be with you, it carries in it.

00:52:57.300 --> 00:53:01.300
Listen, I know the task I've given you.

00:53:01.300 --> 00:53:03.300
Dawn, I will be with you.

00:53:03.300 --> 00:53:05.300
I'm not, this is not Jacob saying it.

00:53:05.300 --> 00:53:09.300
Don't expect me to be with you.

00:53:09.300 --> 00:53:12.300
God saying Dawn, I will be with you.

00:53:12.300 --> 00:53:14.300
Kezia, I will be with you.

00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:16.300
Saying to Jillian, I will be with you.

00:53:16.300 --> 00:53:18.300
Saying to May, I will be with you.

00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:21.300
God saying it, because I know the assignment I've given you.

00:53:21.300 --> 00:53:30.300
It ain't no easy thing.

00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:38.300
Even though Gideon knows it's God, and here's where we come to Anne's kind of question.

00:53:38.300 --> 00:53:41.300
Even though Gideon knows it's God, he needs a sign.

00:53:41.300 --> 00:53:44.300
This is a habitual issue with Gideon.

00:53:44.300 --> 00:53:46.300
It's a habitual issue with Gideon.

00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:49.300
At some point during the conversation, he recognizes it's God,

00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:52.300
and God's given him a promise, but he needs a sign.

00:53:52.300 --> 00:53:54.300
Gideon needs a sign, like us.

00:53:54.300 --> 00:53:56.300
He needs a sign.

00:53:56.300 --> 00:54:03.300
You see that in 617, then you see it in 637, then you see it in 639, then you see it in 710.

00:54:03.300 --> 00:54:09.300
The man, he needs a sign.

00:54:09.300 --> 00:54:11.300
Give me a sign if it's really you.

00:54:11.300 --> 00:54:13.300
Give me a sign if it's really you.

00:54:13.300 --> 00:54:15.300
He keeps repeating this quite often.

00:54:15.300 --> 00:54:20.300
And God obliges, strangely, he brings this disproportionate sacrifice before God.

00:54:20.300 --> 00:54:25.300
He brings a whole goat, and an ephah could feed multiple families,

00:54:25.300 --> 00:54:27.300
and he brings it places before God.

00:54:27.300 --> 00:54:29.300
And what does God do? He waits while he prepares it.

00:54:29.300 --> 00:54:34.300
God actually rests on the tree in Oprah, waiting for this guy to bring the sacrifice.

00:54:34.300 --> 00:54:37.300
He brings the sacrifice, he has a staff in his hand,

00:54:37.300 --> 00:54:40.300
and the angel of the Lord touches the staff and it's consumed by fire.

00:54:40.300 --> 00:54:44.300
But look at what really affects Gideon.

00:54:44.300 --> 00:54:46.300
What Gideon doesn't know is he's always looking for a sign,

00:54:46.300 --> 00:54:49.300
but it's always the words of God that affect him.

00:54:49.300 --> 00:54:53.300
Hey, you know what God says to him?

00:54:53.300 --> 00:55:01.300
Listen, I want to say to you that I'm Yahweh Shalom, and you will not die.

00:55:01.300 --> 00:55:04.300
Two things that affect Gideon for the rest of his life.

00:55:04.300 --> 00:55:08.300
One, that God is peace and he will give me peace.

00:55:08.300 --> 00:55:12.300
And two, I have seen him and my life is preserved and it will be preserved forward.

00:55:12.300 --> 00:55:16.300
That is what gives this ordinary guy the guts to do what he does.

00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:19.300
And look at what he does.

00:55:19.300 --> 00:55:22.300
His dad has an altar to Baal.

00:55:22.300 --> 00:55:24.300
His dad is Joash.

00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:27.300
Joash is a pagan cult leader basically.

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He has an altar to Baal and a few Asherah poles.

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Asherahs were the feminine side of Baal.

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And now Gideon has to go build another altar.

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It's in the same yard.

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It's in his father's complex.

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And he builds two altars.

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And now in Oprah there are two altars.

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One to Yahweh and one to Baal.

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And then God makes it even more difficult.

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Listen, tear down the altar of Baal.

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He has to go tear down his father's God's altar.

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Once you take your rightful place, know that there will be some things that come your way.

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That will be challenging.

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That will sometimes cause a breach in relationship.

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But he knows you're capable.

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So don't shy away from it.

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It'll cause a breach in relationship.

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It's okay.

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Because this man, because of the action he takes, he saves his entire family.

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His father, who's a pagan cult leader, now begins to behave like Elijah.

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Where the next morning when he sees the altar torn and people from the town come and say,

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Hey, we need to kill your son.

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His words are, Hey, can't Baal contend for himself?

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Why do you need to kill my son?

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And they name his son Jerubal.

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Let Baal contend.

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This guy who was supposed to be the priest of Baal now turns out to be someone who speaks for Yahweh.

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All because a young boy decided that in his father's complex, there will not exist two altars.

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There'll be one altar.

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If that means he get killed, if that means he be disinherited, so be it.

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Because when you take your rightful place, people benefit.

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You don't take your rightful place to fulfill your destiny.

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We got to understand that destiny is a real thing, but that destiny is not what we are after.

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Destiny is a real thing, but it is not what we are after.

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It is individualism that begins to hunger for destiny.

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I need to walk in my destiny.

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Oh, I'm a man destined.

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You're a man destined to benefit others and to pour out your life for others.

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That's your destiny.

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What shape it takes depends on the invitation that is being given to you.

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Any questions?

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There's not a person in this church right now it doesn't apply to.

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This applies to everybody here.

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It doesn't matter how old you are, how young you are, how little you know, how much you know.

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If you have Christ in you, then this is yours for the taking.

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If you do not have Christ in you, it's still yours, but you will need Christ before you can take this.

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Any questions?

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Sorry, can you say that again, Jill?

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Yeah, I'm just going down that route.

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Really, let me get there quickly.

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The clincher is, guys, before, here's how we need to do it.

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We need to be able to do it.

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We need to be able to do it.

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We need to be able to do it.

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We need to be able to do it.

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The clincher is, guys, before, here's how we need to understand it, and then I'll answer those questions.

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Learn to receive, learn to receive, sift, distill the words, the voice, and the words of God.

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The voice and the words of God.

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You have to learn it, meaning it takes time and practice.

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But learn to receive, sift, and distill the voice and words of God for the reassurance that your spirit,

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that your spirit seeks is in the words.

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So that's the first thing.

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Second, the sign, the sign or the confirming act calms the soul.

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Third, the altar or monument becomes a symbol or a reminder that revives your memory of who God is.

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So that's the way we need to look at it.

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And the emphasis should be on the first one.

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So your spirit doesn't really need, my spirit doesn't need a sign.

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It's our soul that craves for it.

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And because we at present are always struggling between spirit and soul in this body,

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God may supply it, but his preference is, hey, can I give you my voice and my words,

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both voice in terms of Rama and voice in terms of Logos, can I give you my voice and my words?

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Because that is what reassures your spirit.

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And then sometimes I'm willing to give you signs because you're so troubled in your soul

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that without a sign you won't be able to step out.

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And then after I've done both, build a monument, build a memorial, build an altar.

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The Old Testament was full of it.

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We should practice the same thing.

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Why?

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So that when you see this monument or this symbol, you will remember that God did this then and he will do it again.

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One addresses the spirit, the second addresses the soul, the third actually addresses the mind, reviving your memory.

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But the emphasis should be on the word and spirit because that's who we are essentially, word spirit beings.

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But because we are so human in our approach to God and to the kingdom of God,

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we tend to want a sign to give us that soulish comfort.

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But the problem with the soul is it's constantly craving.

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So confirmation today does not mean that tomorrow's storm will be navigated with yesterday's sign.

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So we need another sign tomorrow.

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All of us go through this, guys.

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So the idea of fleas that Gideon puts out, and he puts it out twice,

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first let it be dry, let it be wet, is actually used as a model for confirmation when it actually was quite sucky.

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It was him saying, I know you're God, I know you've given me a promise, I know you consumed the sacrifice that was on the rock,

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I know all that, but please can I have a sign?

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And now that you've given me a sign, please don't get angry, but can I have another sign?

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And so even though it's used as a model of seeking confirmation, it's actually not what God was trying to teach through that.

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And then you see in chapter 7, verse 10, God knows where Gideon is at.

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The battle is imminent. It's going to happen now.

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And look at the words in 7, 10 to 15.

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It says, God says to Gideon, Hey Gideon, I know the battle is imminent if you are afraid.

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That's God's way of saying, I know you're afraid.

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He says, if you're afraid, take your servant Pura and go down to the camp of the enemy.

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And when you go down to the camp of the enemy, you'll hear people discussing a dream, and that will give you courage.

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But the beautiful thing is between 637 and 710, Gideon has started changing.

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In lesser circumstances, he wanted a sign.

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Now that the battle is imminent, and look what God has done to him.

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He's taken a guy who had 32,000 people and reduced it to 300.

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And then he shows him the enemy armies, and it says they were like locusts, meaning they couldn't be counted.

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And then in the midst of that, if I were Gideon and I could keep up my old habit, it would be like,

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put a rainbow in the sky if you want me to battle this one.

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And instead, Gideon is saying nothing.

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And that is when it is brilliant when you and I can get to a place where God sends confirming signs because he wants to calm your soul.

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It's like a parent that wants to wean the child.

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Ah, that is brilliant, where he knows the condition of your soul.

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And he says, let me send you a sign because I know you're scared.

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Guys, if you want to be someone who functions well in the kingdom, fearlessness is not the first prerequisite.

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Obedience is the first prerequisite.

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Obey first.

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Don't wait for faith to kick in.

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Obey first.

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Once you obey, I assure you, God begins to give you the faith required to destroy fear.

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For any kingdom person, obedience is the first requisite, not fearlessness.

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So to kind of answer both Jill and Anna's question, Anne's question,

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when it comes to confirmation, Gideon had this habit.

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It's an always remember, guys, unresolved old habits will always come up when momentum gathers and events begin to unfold.

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Please hear me.

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Unresolved old habits always emerge.

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The emphasis there is on unresolved.

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All of us have old habits.

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Unresolved old habits reemerge at the height of momentum and events unfolding.

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That's when old habits reemerge.

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And they always throw a spanner in the works.

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Ask someone you trust, what are the old habits that keep coming up every time I'm doing well?

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And they'll tell you gently or strongly, take it and try to resolve it because it will come up again and again.

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Gideon begins to hesitate.

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Just when things are beginning to go, he begins to hesitate again.

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But God obliges, he doesn't.

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Here's the thing.

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It goes back to what I said in the beginning.

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God had decided before Gideon was born that you, my boy, will be a mighty warrior.

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And you will deliver Israel from the Midianites.

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And he'll relent and show him signs and he'll show him this and that.

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But the one thing he isn't backing off from is you will be a mighty warrior.

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The difference then is God could come to you, to me, and say this is what I want you to do.

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And you can choose not to respond.

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All that means is you have less time to do what he wants.

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If you decide you'll be a mighty warrior at 70 and you're going to die at 72, you've got two years to do it.

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If you do it at 35, you've got 37 years to do it.

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But he doesn't decide, he doesn't go saying, eh, not working out.

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This is what he wanted from the beginning.

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Sometimes he gets what he wants.

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Sometimes we are so stubborn that he doesn't get what he wants.

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But he doesn't back off.

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God obliges, he doesn't relent from turning Gideon into a mighty warrior.

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Later, it's beautiful, eh, the same Gideon who hesitates, who always is looking for confirming signs.

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Read Hebrews 11.32 and here's what Paul is saying.

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I don't have enough time to tell you about others like Gideon, like Barak, like Samson.

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Guys, giants of faith in the roll call of faith, guess who's mentioned?

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You know what David isn't mentioned?

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Like David's exploits are not mentioned?

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Or you would think David and Goliath would be mentioned,

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but David just gets a passing remark with Gideon and Barak.

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When God gives a sign, it's so much better.

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I remember this was in 2018, March 1st.

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I was supposed to go to Bahrain on March 14th.

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And on March 1st, the Lord wakes me up and says, I want you to go to the UK.

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And I said, great, I'll stop by on my way to Bahrain.

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And God says, nope, I want you to go to UK now.

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And so I said, but that's a waste of money, I can do it later.

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He says, nope, you have to go now.

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I said, okay, so when?

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And God said, within the week, go.

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And so I said yes.

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After I said yes, I'm sitting in Surrey having samosas at a Punjabi restaurant there.

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I'm sitting in Surrey and eating.

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And still I'm willing to obey and go to the UK, pay more, don't even know why I'm going for UK.

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Don't have any meetings there.

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And this car pulls up right next to my car.

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And it has the strangest number plate, UK 06.

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In my mind it was, duh, book your tickets on the 6th and go.

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And that's exactly what I did.

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And I'm thinking to myself, sometimes if you obey, he will send the sign you need instead of asking for a sign.

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Because when you ask for a sign, every number plate becomes a sign.

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Have you noticed that?

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There'll be a car going by and it'll say approved.

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Then another one going, saying poisonous.

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Now what do you do?

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So when you look for signs, the danger is the soul craves it.

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I mean the soul craves it.

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Sometimes you may get what is from God, but it turns to sawdust in your mouth.

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And I remember after this I went to the UK and it was so cool.

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I spent three and a half days there.

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Didn't know what to do.

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First day was walking along the streets of London.

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Someone calls me and says, next time you're in London, please give me a call.

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I said I'm in London and I meet him and his life is affected.

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The next day there was a meeting.

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Nobody turned up.

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The preacher didn't turn up so they asked me to preach.

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The third day it was nothing so I kept sleeping.

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Then in the afternoon we got to go to this church called Mount Moriah in Lugo in Wales

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where the Welsh Revival started and write a letter and leave it for a guy.

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When they left a note for the guy and don't know what it did to his life.

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And the fourth day it was on your way back to Heathrow.

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Stop at this church and preach there.

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So I stopped at the church and I had one word written for a girl called Chiara

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that I was supposed to give Chiara.

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But there are so many Chiaras in the UK.

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And so I go into the church and the worship leader's name is Chiara.

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I had written the word before I went.

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It was such a beautiful word.

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She's like weeping because my question at the end of this, at the end of it,

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and I know some of you have heard this before,

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is aren't there enough Christians in the UK that God can use to accomplish all this?

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Why in the world does he have to send someone from Vancouver to UK,

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pay that expense, send you to do stuff when there are people there in UK that can do this?

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Why? Because he is not this economical God.

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This isn't a kingdom run on this is a budget for this year.

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We better accomplish everything heaven wants in this budget.

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No, he's a God who wants to take his children on adventures.

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It's the adventure of it.

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When Chiara received the word, there was adventure in it.

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This is a stranger who's come from 3000, 4000 miles away to give me a word and the word is accurate.

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A man calling you and saying,

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if when you're in London next, can you please give me a call?

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And I'm walking three streets away from him.

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You know what that does to people?

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God likes taking his children on adventures, both you and the one who's receiving.

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Take your rightful place fight because everything is going to fight against you guys.

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I mean, think of this.

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Do you realize how hard it is to take your rightful place?

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Do you know how much we struggle?

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It is so hard.

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Everything in life screams that you say, you're not the guy, you're not the guy, you're not the guy.

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But before the foundations of the earth, someone said, you're the guy.

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And he refuses to back off from it.

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It just so happens that he's God.

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Guess who wins?

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You're the guy.

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I'm the guy in certain things guys.

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I want to see it.

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Doesn't matter what happens, what people say, what obstacles come.

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Whether I have money, don't have money.

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Whether people like it, don't like it.

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I'm the guy in certain things that I have to press forward.

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And the same applies to you.

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And so every morning get up, wear your work clothes again, put on those blooming army boots.

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And get to work.

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Please guys, we've got to do this.

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Take your rightful place.

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It's only January.

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Mold that old skin.

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Mold that old skin.

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Get rid of it.

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It is not conducive to the rightful place.

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Mold it, please.

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Yeah?

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Alrighty.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Once he says something, so let me repeat Jill's question.

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So let's say God says something to you and how do you engage him?

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Let's say he comes to you and says, mighty warrior, how do you engage him with it?

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Why does that clock say minus 1357?

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Is it that I've gone over time?

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And since when have you started doing this?

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Alrighty.

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Okay.

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I'll have to start preaching like this now.

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Yeah.

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So how do you answer that question?

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Guys, once God says something, expect him to say it again.

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And then you can engage him.

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And then you can engage him.

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And then you can engage him.

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And then you can engage him.

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And then you can engage him.

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Expect him to say it again because he says in Psalm 60, once God has spoken, twice have I heard it.

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So God does have a tendency to come and say something and elaborate on it.

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And as he begins to elaborate on it, don't be in a hurry to come to a conclusion

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because God builds things line by line, precept by precept, brick by brick.

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But he builds it slowly.

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And as he builds it, things begin to develop.

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A stronghold develops.

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Only this is a divine stronghold.

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It begins to develop.

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Simple example.

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Today, I've been reading about certain things about the Lion of Judah and stuff like that.

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And without going into details of what I sense God saying to me, I've been waiting on God for that.

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And then at some point, and this might sound like such an odd, silly example,

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but silly examples are only in the sight of somebody else.

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When that example happens to you, it's precious.

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And so Yahya comes running up and she says, I've got a drawing.

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I can't give it to you.

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It's not for you, but I want to show you the drawing.

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I said, sure.

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And she shows me the drawing and you can't see it.

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But it's this face of literally Aslan-like lion with a smile on his face.

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And I ask her, can I take a photograph of it?

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Now, I'm not going to go and examine this and the lines and stuff like that.

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I just took a photograph because given what I'm reading,

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this for a little child to come and show me this, she may not think it's much,

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you may not think it's much, but for me, this is a simple hint from God saying,

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hey, keep going down this line.

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There's more to discover.

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So I take a photograph of it.

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So that's how you begin to engage it.

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And once you reach a certain place in your engagement,

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he'll then bring in another twist to it and you keep exploring it.

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It's an adventure for him, guys.

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This is not a teacher student.

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It's a father, son, or father, daughter.

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He wants to grow us into something that he is.

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Always remember, he's growing us into something that he is.

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He's not growing us into doing something.

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He's growing us into something that he is.

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Mighty warrior, it's something that he is.

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He's growing us into something that he is.

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That takes time.

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And so, go ahead, Jill, do you have a follow-up?

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Psalm 60 verse 11.

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And if it's not there, then look at the Psalms,

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two Psalms before that and two Psalms after that.

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Is it Psalm 60 verse 11?

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Okay, Anna, quickly ask your question.

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You know, you start doing this when you want to ask a question,

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but go ahead.

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Don't even lift your hands from now.

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Just start doing this.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Yeah.

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So, do we look for divine recitation?

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Because most of them had it.

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It must have been easier for them.

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So, we think.

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And this is because we live human lives in the kingdom.

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And what we don't realize is the divine one now lives in me.

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And so, it is much easier for me to hear, touch, feel, taste, smell

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than for them where visitation would happen once in a while.

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And it would happen to a few.

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And they would be so scared that they would think they would die.

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Gideon's first words, when he finds out that this ain't an angel,

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this is the angel of God, his immediate reaction is,

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oh, my God, I'm as good as dead.

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And so, it was few and far between that it would happen.

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Now, we have the divine one living fully in us.

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It's just because I don't live like that,

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that I do not have a vibrant living relationship with him.

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But some of the people who live like that,

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their lives are both transformed and transforming.

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And to live like that would be so brilliant, eh?

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Let's pray.

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Okay, it's Psalm 62, verse 11.

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I was right, it was two chapters this way or two that way.

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Mike, did you see the nod on her face when she said that?

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You're lucky, you know.

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Yes, I'm sure you do.

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All righty, let's pray.

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Father, there's not a single person in this building

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that you're not personally inviting into this discovery.

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It's not so that I become great or they become great or we become great.

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It's not so that we become Destiny Walkers, nothing like that.

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It's, hey, before I made you, this was my plan for you.

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You're the man, you're the woman, you're the guy.

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I have half of my day titled this teaching, You're the Guy.

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And you are not going to back off.

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And I am grateful.

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People in this room right now, we want to say to you,

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we are grateful that you will not back off.

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Pastors may back off, mentors may back off, spiritual fathers may back off,

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prophets may back off, apostles may back off, teachers may back off,

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but there is one who will not back off.

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And I am grateful, Jesus, because if it were not for that,

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we would have given up long ago.

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But you keep coming back, you keep coming back, you keep coming back.

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Because you know, you made me, you made each person here.

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You know, you styled us a certain way, formed us a certain way,

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put certain gifts, certain abilities, appointed us to certain places at certain times,

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sent us onto the earth at a certain year,

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everything so precisely orchestrated so that we could be that guy.

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Jesus, by the Spirit of God, who I know is here, Spirit of God, I know you're here.

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We begin to work in our hearts, in our spirits, something so deep that there will be a desire,

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that I want to, I want to.

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That's part of the reason we've been spending time getting up in the morning,

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spending time with your word, listening to you.

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That's part of the reason we've been doing this.

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Praise Jesus for your own namesake, for the benefit of the earth.

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Not to us, but to your name, we lift up all praise.

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Not to us, but to your name, we lift up all praise.

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We lift you up, we lift you up, we lift you up with our praises.

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You are lifted up, you are lifted up, you are lifted up on our praises.

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Last time, not to us.

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Not to us, but to your name, we give up all praise.

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Not to us, but to your name, we lift up all praise.

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For your namesake, Jesus, do it in our midst. Amen.

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Guys, there'll be people praying here.

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If you need prayer, feel free to come up and receive prayer.

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Otherwise, tomorrow is quest, day after is... tomorrow is... tomorrow is dawn, day after is May.

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It'll get me a little while to get used to this name.

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Tomorrow is dawn, day after is May.

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And so, if the Wally guys could come and just meet me before you leave,

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I'll just say a quick hello to you.

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And that's it. See you guys when we see you next.