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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Take Your Rightful Place Part 5
Publishing Date: 2024-02-04T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/take-your-rightful-place-part-5/

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We continue with the series, Take Your Rightful Place.

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Before we go into that, March 17th is the AGM for the church.

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We have to have an AGM every year.

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So March 17th is the AGM.

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And Heidi, what else?

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March 17th is the AGM.

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And you'll get a note on it soon.

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But it's supposed to be announced a few times.

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So I've announced it four times now.

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Oh, it doesn't work that way.

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You have to announce it four different times.

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OK.

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OK, this is your first announcement.

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OK, Take Your Rightful Place.

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And this time, we're talking about taking your rightful place

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in the favor of God.

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Some of the places that we have to occupy

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are so difficult to stay in.

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They're easy to break into.

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They're difficult to stay in.

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And sometimes staying in is harder than breaking in.

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It's often the case, right?

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We know how to get into something of God,

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but we don't know how to stay there 24-7.

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And staying in a place that you occupy

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requires follow-through and practice.

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I don't know if anyone golfs here.

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It looks so easy till you golf.

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And then the ball doesn't go where you and your nose is pointing.

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It goes somewhere else.

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Because if your elbows bend, then the ball goes there

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instead of going there.

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And then people who are able to shoot it

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are people that have follow-through and practice.

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The elbows are straight throughout.

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Chad tried that for a while.

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He's still pretty bad.

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So staying is very hard.

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So our premise today is, can you occupy this place of favor

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that is yours when you get born again?

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What does it look like?

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Can you occupy this place of favor

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that I am pleased with you

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and you are special to me place

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in the furious love of God,

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in the furious love of Jesus?

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Can you occupy the place of favor?

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Can you occupy this place of I am special to you?

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Or you are special to me.

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God saying, you are special to me.

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God saying, I am pleased with you.

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Can you occupy that place and stay there?

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Take your rightful place as wanting, you take it.

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But occupying is staying.

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How do we get to that place where you can spend almost a day

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not stepping out of here?

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So why does favor equate to I am pleased with you

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or you are special to me?

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Because that's what God says to people in the Bible.

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To Moses he says that.

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To Jesus he said that multiple times.

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That I am pleased with you.

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He says that multiple times to Jesus.

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And anything he says to Jesus, we now,

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because we are embedded in him,

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should be a place that we occupy.

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But it's so hard.

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You can take the place, but you,

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I find it so hard to stay there.

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Because things around me begin to draw me out of it.

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So can you stay there?

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And can you stay in that place in the furious love of Jesus?

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There's never a passive moment in the love of Jesus.

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Never a passive moment in the love of Jesus for me.

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Never a passive moment.

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There's never a resigned moment.

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It's always furious love.

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It raiders.

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When I was young, my dad used to work at a steel mill.

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And so they would have these huge furnaces

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where they would throw in raw iron.

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And it would melt it.

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And then they would pour it out.

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And when you pour it out, it would come out

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raiding, raiding hot molten lava.

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Flowing like liquid.

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And in seconds it cools.

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That's the furious love of God.

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Only it doesn't cool.

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It comes out of a smelter and it's continuously furious.

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And is it possible?

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Why am I holding in on the furious love of God?

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If I hold in on the furious love of God,

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perhaps I'll begin to believe that he is pleased with me continuously.

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In isolation, it's very hard to believe someone can think of you like that.

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Even parents can't think of their children like that always.

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So some of the words that we can think of when we think of favor,

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and if we could play a word association game,

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we don't even know if we could immediately connect these words to God.

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Like every time I say this word,

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your immediate reaction would be,

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God, God.

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But surprisingly that might not be the case.

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So when you think of the word approval,

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you immediately think, God.

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And there was dead silence in the room.

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But perhaps you're just one of those silent types.

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High esteem.

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You immediately think of God.

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Delight.

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Do you associate that word with God?

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Love that makes you laugh or cry.

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Love that makes you laugh or cry.

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Do you associate that with God?

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Targeted kindness.

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Do you associate that word with God?

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Access to the throne.

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Do you associate that word with Jesus?

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Intentional bias.

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Intentional bias towards you.

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Intentional bias towards you.

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Do you associate that word with God?

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Extra benefits.

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Do you associate that word with God?

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Settling your debts.

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Or settling anything outstanding.

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Be it sin or sin,

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or being a sinner.

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Be it sin or money or love or deficit.

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Settling debts you associate it with God.

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Tailored goodness.

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Tailored goodness.

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As in goodness that fits you.

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You associate that with God.

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And so in asking the question that way,

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the intent is to on one hand

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define what favor looks like

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or different words for favor.

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And also perhaps expose

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the condition of my heart

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in that these are not words

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that I immediately associate with God.

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Approval, high esteem.

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Delight, yeah.

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Love that makes you laugh and cry, yeah.

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Targeted kindness sometimes.

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Access to the throne, yeah.

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Intentional bias, not so sure.

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Extra benefits, kind of.

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Tailored goodness, kind of.

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There's so many words that are missing.

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And for different people in this room,

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the response will be different.

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In the case of Jesus or in the case of someone

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who really knows how to walk in favor

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and stay in favor, all these words should

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immediately associate with Christ.

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And that's part of what the word is supposed to do, right?

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It's supposed to expose our heart.

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Any questions before we go on?

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We suddenly realize that there's a lot more

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to go in our Christianity, at least for me.

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Nick, was that a question?

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Yeah.

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Favor is the kind of love that just melts your heart.

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You know it is because someone loves you so much

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and knows you so well that they did something

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for you that just melts your heart.

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And sometimes makes you cry.

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It's the kind of crying that comes out of joy.

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Any questions?

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Or let's go in one last one.

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You're my favorite.

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When those words are spoken, do you think, God?

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Or do you think that God is just a friend?

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But our hope is that we can get here.

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Take your rightful place.

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And after you take it, occupy it.

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Occupying is staying there.

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Beautiful, eh, if we can get here?

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Can you imagine how life will be?

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I would say if I don't work on this,

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it may be impossible.

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If I get here, it will be impossible to escape favor.

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As in, you'll recognize it every day, every second, every hour.

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You'll anticipate it.

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It will be impossible to escape it.

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You'll see it.

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You'll anticipate it.

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Because now your thinking is different.

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And when I don't think like this,

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I'm usually a product of my past, present, or future.

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Or I'm a product of your words.

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What you say is what will either grant me favor

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or will grant me disapproval.

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So when I don't think like this,

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this is why we often get ravaged by our past, our present, our future,

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and by the words that people say to our restoration or ruin,

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is because this is not necessarily the way I think.

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Therefore, my past, present, and future

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do have a critical role on a daily basis in my life.

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Therefore, there will be a deliberate attempt

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by the world and by this enemy

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to use circumstances to try and persuade me that this is false.

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Every circumstance that is not engineered by God

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and sometimes even engineered by God

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will be used by the enemy

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and by people sent from the enemy

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to disprove this.

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And it will never be an outright disproving.

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It will be, did God really say he has an intentional bias towards you?

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It's always, did God really say?

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It's the same Eden trick.

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It's always, did God really say that?

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But look at what's happening to you.

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And yet, when you look at this,

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you have to look at it through Christ.

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And so the question is,

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did he both believe this, live this, show it?

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Is this how he lived?

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Did he know he was highly approved?

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Did he know he was highly esteemed?

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Did he know his father's delight?

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Did God's love make him laugh?

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Was he targeted by God with kindness?

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Did he have access to the throne?

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Was there an intentional bias towards him?

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Did he have extra benefits?

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Did God take care of everything in his life

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so that there were no deficits?

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Was God's goodness tailored towards him?

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Was he God's favorite?

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And then I have to find myself in him

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and then begin to work my mind around it.

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And circumstances will always come against us

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as they did come against Jesus.

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They did come against Jesus too.

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Worse than us.

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Any questions?

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So one of the things that happens with favor

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is you access the ultimate power.

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Is you access the ultimate place of relationship.

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Ultimate place of relationship.

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Why do you say that?

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Because if you have all this,

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what kind of relationship is this?

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If I had Derek's approval,

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if he esteemed me highly,

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if he delighted in me,

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if he loves me in a way that makes me laugh,

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if he targets me with kindness,

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if I have access to him 24-7,

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if he has an intentional bias in this room towards me

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more than towards anybody else here,

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if anything he gets, I get the extra benefit,

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if he settles my debts,

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if he tailors goodness towards me,

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and if I am his favorite,

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is there any possibility that the relationship

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will be anything but rich?

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It's the ultimate place of relationship.

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One who displayed it, John 13.23, you see it.

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You see a young boy called John

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resting against Diesel's chest.

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That's how he spent his days.

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Why?

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Because he knew how to walk in the favor of his master.

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And favor will always lead to intimacy.

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Favor and intimacy are connected.

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Favor and intimacy are always connected.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So how do you navigate through God

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has no favorites, he has no bias?

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Because the intentional bias he has towards me

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is unfortunately the intentional bias he has for you too.

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Only don't tell me about it,

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because I want to be the favorite.

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So, on one hand,

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but here's the difference, Joanna.

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Are you Anna or are you Anna?

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You're Anna with an E or an A?

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Okay, you're Anna.

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Okay.

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I mean, it's kind of late in the day

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to ask you this question, but...

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Yeah.

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And your husband's name is George, right?

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Yeah.

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Okay, so...

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So, here's the thing.

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There is an intentional bias towards you from God,

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as he has towards Jill or Wayne,

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or Derek.

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But how do you play it?

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How you play it is how you begin to experience it.

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All of us have the same favoritism,

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the same bias.

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But some of us will be able to capture it

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and relate to him in such a way

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that now you have the intimacy to richly experience it.

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That's where you sometimes think,

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oh, God favors him.

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It's not God favoring him.

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It is that God favors everybody in the second row,

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but he happens to know

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how to get into it

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and now connect

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and experience, taste, enjoy

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the favor that he has.

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While the rest of the second row thinks,

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hmm, he looks highly favored.

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It's not that he looks highly favored,

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he suddenly realizes it.

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That's why some people look like they're more favored.

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They just anticipate it.

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They expect it.

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We don't.

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Not we don't. I don't.

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Yes, but at some point Christ must make a difference.

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Yes, it is true

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that our background and our growing up

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really affected,

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but I was treated well.

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They fed me like crazy.

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My sister and I

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had to get a tin of condensed milk

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just so we can glug it down whenever we want.

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That was how well I was treated.

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And my sister is going to get me for this.

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But see, and yet why is it that I'm struggling with?

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A favor.

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Because our lives

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are exposed to approval and disapproval continuously.

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Even the best homes with the best parents

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will still struggle through approval and disapproval.

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It's an orphanage that, the earth is an orphanage.

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The earth is an orphanage. Our parents will mess up.

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We will mess up. Our sisters and brothers will mess up.

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Pastors will mess up.

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Friends will mess up.

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We're continuously in this,

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what do you call that dish that you cultivate?

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Petri dish or petri dish.

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We're cultured in that.

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And at some point,

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I must break out.

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And breaking out is easy.

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Staying is difficult.

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That's where, yesterday,

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Conor McDavid won the skills competition.

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He already earned 13 million.

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He would win another million for winning it.

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And so,

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he won the skills competition.

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He won eight.

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Guys, feel free to come in and leave anytime you want.

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Oh, Sunday school, okay.

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Sorry.

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Sorry. Guys, you're doing a great job.

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Yesterday, Conor McDavid won the all skills competition.

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He won it because night out,

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night in, night out, day in, day out,

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he practices, he practices, he practices, he practices.

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What he does in the contest is a reflection of all this.

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Practice. Nobody wins

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on the day of the contest.

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Nobody wins on the day of the contest.

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Everybody wins

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before the practice that we put in.

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To go back to Wayne's point,

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we should make allowance

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for newcomers into the kingdom

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and afford them

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the fact that they may have come out of background

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where disapproval was normal.

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But after four or five years in Christ,

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that should not any longer be an excuse.

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We should be increasingly creating distance

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from our environment

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because of the new kingdom alignment

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that we are supposed to be stepping into.

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You're going for Sunday school too.

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This is the ultimate place of relationship.

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If I could be like Jon

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because favor is an open door to intimacy.

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Favor

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is an open door to intimacy.

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Favor is an open door to intimacy.

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If you are favored, you know you can be intimate.

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IfPh you are favored,

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you know you can be intimate.

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If you are favored, you know you can be intimate.

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And so to know I'm freeward allows me easy, I can traipse into his presence with hardly

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a thought because I know I'm freeward.

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Otherwise we have to do the song and dance with please forgive me and all that stuff.

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Such a pain, asking for forgiveness every day.

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It's so much easier to jump into his lap and then tell him you're sorry, then do the

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sorry before you jump into his lap.

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Conversely, lack of time or intimacy dulls you to favor.

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I'm so glad when I ask around the church or when Mark Butler calls me or I call someone

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and ask you how are you doing in terms of spending time with God.

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Most of us have increased the time we spent with God.

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Most of us in the church have increased and that's awesome because time and intimacy prevent

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dulling you to the favor of God.

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It's a virtuous cycle.

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Favor allows me to know that the one who favors me, I can run into his arms without a thought

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of what I may have done, what I feel guilty about, I can run into his arms.

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But once I run into his arms, in his arms, out of that intimacy, I begin to recognize

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even more the favor that he has towards me.

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And so the more the time and the intimacy we have, it's got the greater the realization

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of favor.

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And I'm sorry, I keep going back to this, but when you look at this, you realize how

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this can change your life.

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Living like this will absolutely change your life.

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Favor is being condemned to his generosity.

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Favor is being condemned.

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It's one of the few places you can use the word condemned well.

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Favor is being condemned to generosity.

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Favor is being condemned to generosity.

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Condemned to generosity where it is preferential, it is undeserved, and it stirs your heart.

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You want to see favor?

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You go to the book of 1 Samuel and you see David inviting Mephi-Boshehr, who was laid

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in his bed, to his table, even though Saul tried to kill him.

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He invites Mephi-Boshehr.

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Mephi-Boshehr is now sitting at the king's table.

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That's favor.

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Condemned to generosity.

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That family wanted Saul's family wanted David dead.

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David decides that I knew Saul and Jonathan.

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You will sit at my table.

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Later, even when Mephi-Boshehr doesn't turn up after David returns from his exile, after

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Absalom is dead, David still treats Mephi-Boshehr well.

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He brings him to his table and hides his lameness under the table and treats him well.

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Favor is being condemned to generosity.

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The question, though, church, is do you feel condemned to generosity?

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The resounding answer usually is no.

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It's preferential.

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Do you see yourself as preferred?

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It's undeserved.

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That I find very easy to figure out because undeservedness is an easy thing for most humans

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to handle.

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The two things humans handle very well, undeservedness and entitlement.

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Both are very, you can taste it.

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And then it stirs your heart.

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So God often uses favor and generosity to restart you.

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When your heart is cold, when it's passionless, when you feel distant from God.

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One of the tricks God uses is to do something that's tailored to you, that suddenly stirs your

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heart again.

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And usually by doing something so favorable, so generous that you think you're something,

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why now, when I so don't like you, are you beginning to like me so much?

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It wrecks you.

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It's an old God trick.

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Favor overflows.

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It's important to write this in caps because we think it's an occasional thing when God's in a good mood.

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Favor overflows.

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Favor overflows.

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It's not, nothing in heaven is rationed.

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Nothing in heaven is rationed.

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Nothing in heaven is this is what I have today.

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Favor overflows.

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So if you read Isaiah 61, verse 3, and Jesus actually changes that word when he reads it in Luke,

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verse 4, Jesus says, I've come to proclaim to you, or I'm asking you to go out and proclaim,

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or the Spirit of God is upon me, and I proclaim the year of favor.

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Now the word for favor was your bell or jubilee.

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The whole idea of jubilee was favor.

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Crazy, eh?

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We talk about jubilee as the year of jubilee.

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The year of jubilee was basically the year of tremendous favor.

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And so when you read Isaiah 61, 3, you find that when he talks about favor overflowing,

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can you imagine these things actually, if we could believe this, that favor means provision is supplied.

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Security is bestowed.

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Read Isaiah 61, 3 to 61, 5.

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You'll find these things there.

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Double honor bestowed.

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Enemies avenged.

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And debt or bondage reversed.

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Work fruitful.

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And as Kevin Bacon says in A Few Good Men, these are the facts and they are undisputed.

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Isaiah 61, 3 to 7 or 8 talks about this.

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Any questions?

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Why is this not a reality in our lives?

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How about we pose this question to you?

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I would like to change the question and say, is this your expectation?

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Is this your clear understanding of God?

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Is this the faith you have?

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And is this the place you occupy?

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My answer is usually no.

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Have you noticed how, till you buy the car you just bought, you didn't know there were so many of them in Vancouver?

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The moment you buy a Kia, you see Kias everywhere.

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The moment you buy a Volkswagen, you thought that was a special car and there are Volkswagens all over the place.

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You buy a yellow and green Acura and everybody has a yellow and green Acura.

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You have to see this way to be able to recognize it.

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It's the way heaven works and there is no way to change it.

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Heaven works like this.

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Heaven wants you to recognize an attribute of God.

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And the moment you recognize the attribute of God, you will see the attribute all around you.

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All around you.

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It's a divine principle.

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Let's say you see the attribute of God being compassionate and somehow it grabs you inside.

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It just changes you inside.

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What happens then?

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Everywhere you go, you will see situations and people who need God's compassion.

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And then it changes.

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In other situations, you may see people who need something else.

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But you see the nature of God and it begins to change you.

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And people who serve in certain ministries serve in certain ministries because that path has touched their hearts.

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I remember I used to work downtown and a group of businessmen called me to talk to them about what was happening downtown in terms of helping the homeless and things like that.

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And I really made them feel so guilty that they never turned up for another meeting.

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Because in my mind it was, hey, you guys should be downtown, not running your businesses.

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Take all the money from your business and put it downtown.

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And stuff like that. They never came back again.

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Because that was not their call.

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Sometimes what really ruins you is because you have caught a glimpse of the nature of God in a certain area.

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And it moves you and it may not move others to the same extent.

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That's okay.

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Some of you are passionate about justice.

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Some of you are passionate about telling people what God has for them.

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Some of you are passionate about compassion and goodwill.

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Some of you are passionate about going out and gathering people who do not know Jesus and telling them.

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Everybody should do every one of these things.

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But something about it grips your heart and then you can't escape it.

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It's the same way with favor.

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Once your heart begins to be gripped that this is how God is with his children.

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Everyone sitting here who has received Christ into their lives, this is yours.

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And once you begin to see like this, you'll see favor everywhere and you'll begin to anticipate it.

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I mean you don't get it.

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The trick is not to feel entitled but to expect.

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We won't talk about that today.

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Any questions, guys?

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No.

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So, condemn to generosity as in, I mean Nick brings me food but I'm condemned to bok choy every time he brings food.

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Doesn't matter what he brings me.

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He can bring me sausages, he can bring me steak, he can bring me omelets, he can bring pizza that's loaded with crap.

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But with that will come two bok choy.

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I'm condemned to bok choy.

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It's like you cannot escape it.

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Pardon?

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What choy?

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I'm condemned to you, choy.

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It's like inescapable.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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So, sometimes when you get used to being treated a certain way and you don't get treated that way,

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you might say, I'm a king's kid, it's my right and all that stuff.

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And that is entitlement where now because you didn't get what you think,

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you behave like a churlish kid who has been denied what they think is rightfully theirs.

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It is rightfully yours in Christ but there will be times where you and I will go through privations that are not fun because God has some other purpose.

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At that time, I can't begin to scream murder.

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Exodus 33, 11 to 15.

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Exodus 33, 11 to 15.

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We've looked at the scripture so many times.

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Never ceases to fascinate me.

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Exodus 33, 11 to 15.

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I'll read from the New Living Translation.

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Exodus 33, 11 to 15.

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Inside the tent of meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend.

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Afterwards, Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua, son of Nun, would remain behind in the tent of meeting.

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Verse 12.

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One day Moses said to the Lord, You've been telling me, take these people up to the promised land, but you haven't told me whom you will send with me.

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You have told me, I know you by name and I look favorably on you.

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If it is true that you look favorably on me, let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor.

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And remember that this nation is your own very people.

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The Lord replied, I will personally go with you, Moses.

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I'll give you rest.

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Everything will be fine for you.

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Moses said, If you don't personally go with us, don't make us leave this place.

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How will anyone know that you look favorably on me, on me and on your people if you don't go with us?

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For your presence amongst us sets your people and me apart from all the people of the earth.

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And so how do we now break into and occupy favor?

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Favor demands engagement.

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It demands inquiry.

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It demands that you know what God has said.

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Favor demands engagement.

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The trick, the thing is, guys, anyone who wants to occupy a place of favor does not settle, does not settle for specialness.

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Instead, they push into pursuing not favor, but the one who's favor.

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Favor demands engagement.

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So Moses engages God.

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God has already told him, listen, I favor you, you're special.

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But that's not enough.

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He doesn't settle in a special way.

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That's what instant Christianity does.

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We have the favor of God.

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We have the favor of God.

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Great.

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There is a specialness upon the people of God.

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Yes, we have a relationship with God that no other religion and nobody without Christ has.

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But it's not enough to settle in that specialness.

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There's engagement.

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There's an inquiry saying, okay, if you say I'm favored, I want to increase in favor.

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So can you make sure that you begin to let me in on your plan?

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I'll spend time with you.

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I want to push into not favor.

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Favor you will give me.

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I want to push into you so that I know you.

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If I know you, I'll know how you think.

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If I know how you think, I'll know that your favor is with me.

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It's pushing into the one who gives favor.

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This requires time.

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Thank God we are creating time for it.

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It's good that we are creating time for it.

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Any questions?

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In today's instant gratification Christian culture, we neither have the time or the discipline or the strength to explore God's favor.

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In today's instant gratification Christian culture, we sometimes don't have the time or the discipline or the strength to explore favor.

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And so what happens?

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Like kids, this is important, like kids, like kids, we either delight or despise it based on answered prayer.

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Just embed that thought in your head that because we don't have the time or the discipline or the strength to explore favor,

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we become like little kids who think that if their request is answered, then the parent likes them.

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And if the request is not answered, then the parent doesn't like them.

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It boils it down to answered prayer.

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And that just completely implodes this idea of favor.

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Because when the prayer is not answered, it's a sense of God doesn't like me, God doesn't favor me.

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And if the prayer is answered, it is highly favored.

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That's childish. It's not childlike, it's childish.

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But all of us have fallen into that trap at some point or the other in the last one month.

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It implodes favor, it just collapses.

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Because my prayer is not being answered right now.

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What am I going to do?

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What if I had the ability of a prayer not being answered,

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but being able to stand happily in all those things that God has said, in the favor of God?

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What does it look like to delight, to laugh, to do your little jig in unanswered prayer?

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It's called the unanswered prayer jig.

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Won't that be amazing?

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Any questions?

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You do that two or three times, you break the back of this thing.

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It takes very little to break the back of bad habits.

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They have persisted for so long, but their back, their spine is actually very brittle.

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You break a habit two or three times, it cannot rise again.

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Next time a prayer is not answered, I mean, I really mean unanswered prayer jigs.

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Next time a prayer is not answered and you feel like favor is not on you,

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do one of those things.

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Could be, but I would say let's do the jig.

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And then in doing the jig what we are saying is,

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Father, I still believe your favor regardless of what.

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And now I'll go and find out whether this is the right time, not the right time, what I should do.

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But the jig I will do and I'll refuse to go down the road of...

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Yeah, agreed.

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Let's go and find out why.

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But can I do the jig so that the reason I'm saying the jig, however you want to phrase it,

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is instead of letting the heart become sad,

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let the heart go into a place of joy because of the favor of God.

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Unfortunately I get...

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I feel like a shucks.

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I wish it had come to pass.

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I want to do...

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I mean, things you're standing for and it doesn't happen and your heart feels disappointed.

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I want to know why and I'll go find out why, but my heart...

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First do the jig.

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Really.

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I go and I start...

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When something doesn't happen, the first thing I go and do is,

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Father, I know you're good.

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I know you're fair.

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I know you're perfect.

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I know you love me.

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There's nothing that you do wrong.

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I know how my heart is feeling right now, but I also not know what David has done.

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I know what Gideon has done.

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I know what others would do.

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They would begin to open their mouths and they would declare the goodness of God.

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And I come to declare the goodness of God.

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Then a song comes to mind and I start doing the little hop.

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And now my heart comes to a place of rest.

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Rest can come either through a hop or rest can come without a hop.

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You can choose your method of rest.

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I'm just telling you one of the things you do.

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And then when you come to a place of rest, now God has the ability to use his voice to speak

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and you have the ability to use your ears to hear.

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Because once you trust God, hearing is easy.

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Until you go back to that place of restful trust that joyfully praises God.

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Because remember, religion always tries to banish two things.

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Love, joy.

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Every time anything comes against you, the two things that are always attacked.

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Love, joy.

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Love, joy.

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Constantly under attack.

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Peace goes as a result.

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But love and joy are attacked.

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Can I bring in a wedge between God and you so that you don't think you are as loved and you can't love back?

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Can I bring in something between God and you so that you don't have the joy, the gladness, the anointing of joy or gladness?

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Can I bring that in?

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And if those two things come in, then peace begins to unravel.

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Which is why in most circumstances, if I have enough sense to quickly go into love and joy, I come into a place of rest.

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Once I come into a place of rest, I start hearing again.

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We don't have the time, the discipline or the strength.

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Sometimes running after God or sticking with God on something requires stamina.

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It's not easy. We flag easily.

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I was listening to the story of a leader of a very large nation here on earth who had to inaugurate an institution.

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And he fasted for 11 days and prepared himself to engage in that ritual.

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And I'm thinking to myself, this man is the leader of a huge nation.

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He has a political religious thing to do.

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He fasts for 11 days to do that.

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And why is it that, Jacob, you don't have the stamina to fast for two meals sometimes to see something in the spiritual come to pass?

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It requires stamina. It's not easy.

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But once you start with stamina, you'll find that whatever you're doing, you'll find a joy in.

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Getting up to run is the worst thing ever.

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Once you start running, I have heard, it is highly enjoyable.

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So you do require stamina in Christianity.

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You do require stamina in Christianity.

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I was talking to someone yesterday and I said, you and I are lazy.

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Because we don't use time well.

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Ask this question of ourselves, do you make time, do you find time, or do you waste time?

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Do you make time, do you find time, or do you waste time?

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You can only make time for something that you're absolutely delighted.

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You find time for things that you know are a necessity.

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And you waste time when you are not passionate about something.

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Anybody who says, I don't have time for this, usually means, I'm really not passionate about this.

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Anyone who says, I don't have time for this, is usually someone who does not have a passion for it.

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But you always make time for things that you're passionate about.

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You find time for things that you know are necessary.

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And you waste time when there is no passion for this.

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So how can we stay in this?

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Adapt to what God is focusing on.

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Adapt to what God is focusing on.

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Let's assume it's, can I help you walk in favor?

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Adapt to it.

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As in, make favor, centerpiece, and adapt life and the way you think, the way you behave, the way you respond, all into this.

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Adapt to what God is focusing on.

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And if you do, he gives you stamina to pursue it long term.

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Why does God need to give you strength to pursue it long term?

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Because a miracle is something God can do instantly.

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But a habit is not cultivated through a miracle.

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A habit is cultivated through practice.

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And so he gives you the strength.

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He gives you the stamina to pursue it long term.

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And when you pursue something long term, it becomes...

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Jesus had to go through the same thing.

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That one verse is so non-descriptive sometimes, but it says in Luke 1.52 or Luke 2.52,

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and Jesus grew in wisdom and favor and stature.

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Look at it.

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Jesus grew in... wasn't he full of favor?

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But Jesus grew.

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Crazy.

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The one who is highly favored.

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There's nobody that has favored as him.

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It is because of the favor on him that you and I are favored.

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But Jesus grew in it.

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He had to learn it.

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Jesus grew in wisdom, in favor, and in stature with God and with man.

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That's why you need the strength to see through.

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The other thing is, guys, sometimes I wonder why after I do two days of sticking with something,

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why it doesn't work.

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Because singular focus, the opposite of singular focus is double-mindedness.

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Where when something doesn't work after the second day, you abandon it.

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Hey, like a gymnast that attacks those uneven bars, you fall off, get back on.

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Singular focus, because double-mindedness gets you very little.

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James 1, verse 6 talks about it.

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Go back. Go back.

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If even one or two of these things became normal for us,

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normal as in breathe in, breathe out.

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Back's on, back's off.

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And when you're not feeling like it, then go back to the thing we've repeated many times.

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Use words to move.

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You're also going for Sunday School Zia? It's the other way.

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Use words to move from feelings, to feelings of not being favored,

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to the truth of favor.

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Use words.

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Replace negatives. Practice replacing negatives.

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With something more powerful in thought and in language.

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Words matter, guys. Construct your own sentences.

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Use words. It's so important.

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God is a word god.

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He uses words. From the beginning, he's used words.

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Audible words.

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So replace negatives with something more powerful.

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So replace negatives, use words.

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Phrase it into something.

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So use the iPhone to your advantage.

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Samsung may work too, but use it to your advantage.

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Write down stuff and say, Jesus, this is how I always get triggered,

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but these are the words I will use now.

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Yeah, where you, as long as the words are used.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Sometimes quickly, repeatedly, speak back God's words of favor to him in agreement.

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Why? Because can Amos 3-3, can two walk together except maybe?

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Agreed. Speak words. Speak words back to him.

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The very words that you have seen him speak, say it back to him.

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You have said, and I believe it.

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There's a Sunday school song. God said it. I believe it.

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And that settles it for me. God said it. I believe it.

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That settles it for me. And it goes on about six times.

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But basically, God said it. I believe it. And it settles.

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You're saying it back to him. You're not saying it back to him like a mantra.

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You're saying it back to him in agreement. Father, I agree with this.

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And then change it. Change it.

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Pardon? You have to know the word.

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You have to know the word. And then use JLT. It's a great version.

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Yep. JLT is not a version. It's Jacob's Living Translation.

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Just in case people were Googling JLT. Sorry.

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Three.

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Guys, the other thing is, this is a side topic, but it's important for everybody now.

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Social media is not a strengthener. It's a pacifier.

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Social media is not a strengthener. It's a pacifier.

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Just like you put that little rubber thing in a kid's mouth,

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that's how Facebook, Instagram, and the other thing is.

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What's the other thing? YouTube. Aha. Found you.

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So you seem to have a problem. None of us said YouTube.

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So Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or X, and let's add YouTube.

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Yeah? So, TikTok. Yeah.

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So what happens is, we see these are pacifiers.

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And they dull you, they dull your exhausted soul to the transfusion of the spirit

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in the waking and the sleeping hours.

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I want to word it correctly. Social media is not a strengthener.

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It's not a thing that gives you anything.

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It's actually a pacifier that dulls your exhausted soul.

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Because most of us begin to look at it when we are weary and exhausted.

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And as you lie down, you begin to flip through it.

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It dulls your exhausted soul.

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To the infusion and the transfusion of the life of the spirit, it dulls us.

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Most of us only go and look at it because we work and our bosses wouldn't like you Facebooking during working hours.

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We look at it when you go to bed.

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I'm not saying we're looking at anything bad or sexually corrupt or anything of that sort.

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It's mindless.

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I mean, one day our thumbs will disappear.

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One day my nose will nearly disappear because I dropped the phone on my nose.

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That's what happened.

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So, just be mindful of it.

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Favour rockets when you stop piloting your life.

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Favour rockets.

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Favour rockets when you stop...

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Favour rockets when you stop piloting your life.

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Stop piloting your life.

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And when you ditch control.

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When you ditch control, favour rockets.

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I remember Eric telling the story of how his son was building a...

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With chairs and with a lot of cloth he was building this tent.

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And Eric was looking at it and he was telling his son, listen, that'll collapse.

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You need to do this.

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But the son wanted to do it all himself.

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And so he builds it and then he goes into it.

00:56:05.720 --> 00:56:08.720
And when he goes into the whole thing, collapses.

00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:09.720
He didn't want to let go.

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And then Eric goes in, he fixes it and the whole thing stands.

00:56:13.720 --> 00:56:19.720
Without ditching control, without giving up piloting, favour is very hard to recognise.

00:56:19.720 --> 00:56:25.720
Because as long as I'm in control, there's only limited favour that I can experience.

00:56:31.720 --> 00:56:34.720
How do you recognise when you take back control?

00:56:34.720 --> 00:56:38.720
I think one of the ways you recognise when you're taking back control is you lose rest.

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Yeah, you lose rest.

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It's the sense of suddenly, suddenly everything is back to frantic.

00:56:46.720 --> 00:56:47.720
I've got to make it happen.

00:56:47.720 --> 00:56:48.720
I've got to do this.

00:56:48.720 --> 00:56:50.720
Deadlines are approaching.

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God, you have no sense of time here on earth.

00:56:54.720 --> 00:56:56.720
Got to do it right now.

00:56:56.720 --> 00:57:00.720
It's the sense of, you know, you're not going to get it.

00:57:00.720 --> 00:57:02.720
Got to do it right now.

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It's literally like taking back.

00:57:06.720 --> 00:57:10.720
I know I'm back in control when I realise that rest is gone.

00:57:10.720 --> 00:57:13.720
And it's back to juggling everything.

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I hate it.

00:57:14.720 --> 00:57:16.720
Again, I was talking to this person last night.

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I'm telling the person that.

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You go pick this option because you think it's gone.

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And then you see an option out of the corner of your eye which seems better and cheaper.

00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:25.720
So you go get that option.

00:57:25.720 --> 00:57:27.720
By the time you click the button there, that's gone up.

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And then you go back here and this has gone up too.

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And then it's this mess, man, that happens in your heart.

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Sometimes I don't like preaching because it looks like I'm the only one who has these problems.

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But the thing is that's one of the ways you can recognise that you have taken control.

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And the other way you can recognise that you've taken control is there's no need of faith.

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There's no need of faith.

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When I'm in control, I don't need much faith.

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I don't need much faith.

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I don't have to trust God for the outcome.

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Because the idea of control is to determine the outcome.

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That's the whole idea of control.

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The idea of control is to determine the outcome.

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Go ahead, Sade.

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Rest in? Complacency.

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Yeah. Rest is doing exactly what God tells you to.

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Complacency is doing nothing, hoping that things will work out.

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Complacency is God is in control.

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God will do what he needs to do.

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Keisar Asra, whatever it will be, will be.

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Kamsi Kamsa.

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He's good.

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He knows what is right.

00:58:47.720 --> 00:58:49.720
He knows what is wrong.

00:58:49.720 --> 00:58:50.720
He's good.

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He knows what is right and what is wrong.

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That is complacency.

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Rest always involves obedience.

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If you read Hebrews chapter 4, very clearly it says there that they did not enter my rest

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because they did not mix these two ingredients together, faith and obedience.

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And you cannot obey unless you know what you're being told.

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So Gideon complacent, no, Joshua complacent will be,

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these walls look big, but, and he starts singing Don's favorite song.

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These walls will fall, but he doesn't do anything about it.

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So that's complacency.

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Instead, what does Joshua do? Joshua goes, seeks God.

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God says, go around the walls seven times.

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He doesn't do anything else.

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He does exactly what God tells.

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Rest will always have faith and obedience, and obedience will require a command.

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And you can't do anything more.

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The moment you do anything more, you've gone from rest into once again taking control.

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Well, complacency is not doing anything.

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Just waiting for God's goodness to make it happen.

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Nothing wrong with that, but that's like, let's assume you were married

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and it's your wife's birthday and you have to buy a gift for her.

01:00:05.720 --> 01:00:10.720
And you're saying, whatever will be, will be, and you go to Bay

01:00:10.720 --> 01:00:13.720
and you pick up something like a vacuum cleaner and you can't understand.

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You just can't understand why she's not excited.

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So you have to know. As you know, you will hear.

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Never make that mistake, I'm sorry.

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Pardon?

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Unless it's Dyson.

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Yeah.

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When?

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When, Anna?

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Sorry, I wanted to use your name. Sorry, when?

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Other than taking control back, be a type of restlessness.

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Even when things are with God, even if you want to give up,

01:00:55.720 --> 01:00:57.720
you're still somewhere to experience the restlessness.

01:00:57.720 --> 01:01:00.720
This is not where it's supposed to be.

01:01:00.720 --> 01:01:03.720
Yeah, if there's a restlessness, go and engage again.

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Father, this isn't, something doesn't seem right.

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Please, can you help me?

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Either give me peace about it or help me understand why I'm feeling the way I'm feeling.

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Guys, always remember, this is a father-child conversation, everything.

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Part of the reason he does not sometimes answer you immediately

01:01:19.720 --> 01:01:21.720
is so that he can engage you in a conversation.

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Crazy. Your parents do that with your children.

01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:30.720
They ask you for something and you ask them questions like, why?

01:01:30.720 --> 01:01:32.720
I go with a problem, math problem to my dad,

01:01:32.720 --> 01:01:35.720
and he would want to know why I don't understand it.

01:01:35.720 --> 01:01:40.720
I don't.

01:01:40.720 --> 01:01:45.720
The why question is always so that you can engage the father in a conversation.

01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:50.720
So when restlessness comes, again, it's a question of going.

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Let me conclude because the water is getting cold.

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His promises are dynamite sticks of goodness and favor.

01:02:25.720 --> 01:02:31.720
His promises are dynamite sticks of goodness and favor.

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Can you and I begin to, when we claim promises or look at promises in the Bible,

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can you look at each promise in terms of it carries his heart towards you?

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It announces his presence for you.

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It guarantees his presence for you.

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It guarantees his tailored outcome full of goodness.

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Can we do that? Yeah?

01:03:31.720 --> 01:03:36.720
Try that so that promises are not just things he has said,

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but a promise, be it for healing, be it for provision, be it for love,

01:03:41.720 --> 01:03:45.720
be it for marriage, be it for restoration of relationship,

01:03:45.720 --> 01:03:49.720
be it for spiritual growth, that each promise carries his heart towards you.

01:03:49.720 --> 01:03:54.720
Sometimes the way you can take a promise and figure out the heart of God

01:03:54.720 --> 01:03:59.720
is to rewrite it as if he's saying it to you.

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So by his stripes, you are healed.

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Why not take it and write it as either you saying it or he's saying it?

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Everything good, Zia?

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So why not rewrite it as Jesus, your back was plowed open.

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When it was plowed open, it was done so that I may not have to carry the sicknesses and diseases that I carry.

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You even thought of that.

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You don't want me as your child to have to carry it.

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When you rewrite it that way, what you're doing is you're digging into a promise

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and not taking it as a check to the bank.

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You're taking it as this is what he did and why he did it.

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Each promise carries the heart of God.

01:04:51.720 --> 01:04:53.720
Each promise announces his presence.

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A promise must usher his presence to you.

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He should be there.

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You don't want his word there, you want him there.

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If he's there, then you are not contractually looking at the promise.

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You are happily looking at him.

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His promise should usher in his presence.

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And finally, look at his promises guaranteeing you an outcome where his goodness will bathe you.

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Where his goodness will bathe you.

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I said this last time, CS Lewis's line,

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if we don't slow down, our hearts cannot be formed.

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It's essential guys, at this stage in our lives at this church,

01:05:56.720 --> 01:06:01.720
if we don't slow down, our hearts cannot be formed.

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We have to slow down.

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So if this is what you think God is focusing on, embrace it.

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I'm trying hard to get up and see myself through these eyes that Christ has

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so that I can walk in it regardless of what circumstances or what ravages or what waves come.

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This is where I lodge.

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Yeah? Any questions?

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May, Lenny, you want to go there?

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Make sure you don't have your watch, your wallet, and stuff like that that doesn't react well to water.

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Guys, I'm going to Ewonee to come up.

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Ewonee, if you can do that song.

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I'm going to see you, victory.

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Brandon, it's okay to have the baptism on live stream. That's fine.

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Is this, this works in water?

01:07:41.720 --> 01:07:44.720
No. Okay.

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See you, victory.

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Thank you.

01:08:47.720 --> 01:08:50.720
Oh, my God.

01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:03.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:06.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:08.720
Oh,

01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:11.720
the battle.

01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:14.720
Oh,

01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:17.720
the victory.

01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:19.720
Oh,

01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:22.720
the victory.

01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:25.720
Oh,

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the

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victory.

01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:40.720
This power in the mighty name of Jesus.

01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:48.720
Every war he wages he will win.

01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:55.720
I'm not backing down from any giant.

01:09:56.720 --> 01:10:01.720
I know how the story ends.

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This power.

01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:09.720
This power in the mighty name of Jesus.

01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:16.720
Every war he wages he will win.

01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:23.720
I'm not backing down from any giant.

01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:29.720
I know how the story ends.

01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:37.720
I know the story ends.

01:10:37.720 --> 01:10:40.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:44.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.720
Oh,

01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:48.720
the battle.

01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:50.720
Oh,

01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:52.720
the victory.

01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:55.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:59.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:10:59.720 --> 01:11:01.720
Oh,

01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:04.720
the battle.

01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:08.720
Oh,

01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:10.720
the victory.

01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:12.720
Oh,

01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:14.720
the victory.

01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:16.720
Oh,

01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:19.720
the battle.

01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:27.720
You take what the enemy meant forever

01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:31.720
and you turn it for good.

01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:35.720
You turn it for good.

01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:41.720
You take what the enemy meant forever

01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:45.720
and you turn it for good.

01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.720
You turn it for good.

01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:55.720
You take what the enemy meant forever

01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:59.720
and you turn it for good.

01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.720
You turn it for good.

01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:09.720
You take what the enemy meant forever

01:12:09.720 --> 01:12:13.720
and you turn it for good.

01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:17.720
You turn it for good.

01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:20.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:24.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:26.720
Oh,

01:12:26.720 --> 01:12:30.720
the battle belongs to you.

01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:34.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:38.720
I'm gonna see a victory.

01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:40.720
Oh,

01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:43.720
the battle belongs to you.

01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:50.720
It's getting a little cold here.

01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:53.720
I should have asked you to do a shorter song.

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Do a shorter song.

01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:01.720
Thanks, Tony.

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Okay, guys, wanna read two scriptures

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and then what we'll do after that is

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May will ask Lenny the question she wants to ask

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and then baptize her.

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And then we'll pray for her that

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because she's emptied herself

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may the Holy Spirit infuse her with new strength.

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And then as the rest of us go to change

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we'll end with that song which says

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what's that song?

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Yeah.

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No, he reigns.

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How does the first verse go?

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Let the song of the redeemed, yeah?

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We'll sing that.

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I mean, when you look around you suddenly see

01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:46.720
how many different tribes, nations, and ethnicities

01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:47.720
we come from, eh?

01:13:47.720 --> 01:13:49.720
It's been good, guys.

01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:50.720
So here are the two scriptures.

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One is from 1 Peter 3.20

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and it says,

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Those who disobeyed God long ago,

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when God waited patiently

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while Noah was building his boat,

01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.720
only eight people were saved from drowning

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in that terrible flood.

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And that water is a picture of baptism

01:14:08.720 --> 01:14:10.720
which now saves you.

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Not by removing dirt from your body,

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but as a response to God from a clean conscience.

01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:17.720
That's what she's doing, eh?

01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:21.720
A response to God from a clean conscience.

01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:25.720
It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:28.720
Now the verse is from 1 Corinthians 10.

01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:33.720
1 Corinthians 10.

01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:35.720
In 1 Corinthians 10 it says,

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I don't want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters,

01:14:37.720 --> 01:14:40.720
about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago.

01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:42.720
All of them were guided by a cloud

01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:43.720
that moved ahead of them.

01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.720
All of them walked through the sea on dry ground.

01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:48.720
In the cloud and in the sea,

01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:51.720
all of them were baptized as followers of Moses.

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Only in this case we are being baptized into Jesus.

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Yeah?

01:14:55.720 --> 01:15:02.720
And then one last scripture, John chapter 1.

01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:10.720
John chapter 1, verse 32.

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The reason I'm reading the baptism of Jesus

01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:14.720
from this scripture is because we realize

01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:18.720
that the dove was not something that just Jesus saw.

01:15:18.720 --> 01:15:20.720
It was something John saw too.

01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:23.720
The voice perhaps was heard by more than just Jesus.

01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:25.720
And so it says here in John 1, 32,

01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:28.720
Then John testified, I saw the Holy Spirit

01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:30.720
descending like a dove from heaven

01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:32.720
and resting upon him.

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I didn't know he was the one,

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but when God sent me to baptize with water,

01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:38.720
he told me, the one on whom you see the Spirit

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descend and rest is the one who will baptize

01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:42.720
with the Holy Spirit.

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I saw this happen to Jesus,

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so I testify that he is the chosen one of God.

01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:49.720
That's what we expect to happen today too, yeah?

01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:52.720
That the Holy Spirit will descend upon Lenny

01:15:52.720 --> 01:15:54.720
in her obedience and in her emptying herself.

01:15:54.720 --> 01:15:57.720
That she'll be infused with strength from heaven.

01:15:57.720 --> 01:15:59.720
I will be able to walk like she hasn't walked before

01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:01.720
and she has desire to walk, yeah?

01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:03.720
Okay.

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Go ahead, Mei.

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So Lenny, do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?

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Yes, yes I believe.

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Do you believe that Jesus died and rose again?

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I do believe that.

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And do you believe that Jesus is your Lord and Savior?

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Yes, he is my Lord and Savior.

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So Lenny, just personally, the transformation

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I've seen in you in the last six months

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is none other than the Holy Spirit working in you.

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And I know now also by you taking this obedience,

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when you came and asked me to get baptized,

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I was first surprised, but also like,

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I knew this was the Spirit moving in you.

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And so as you take this step of obedience,

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I just, you are blessed with his Holy Spirit.

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There's no turning back, but much more to come

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in your intimacy with him.

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So in the name of the, you want to step forward a little bit?

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So in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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you are baptized.

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You okay?

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Let me pray for you.

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Next time we should have fire rescue here, just in case.

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So Father, we just thank you for, come, may we lay your hands on her.

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Father, we just thank you for Lenny,

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and we go back to John chapter one, verse 32.

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You changed her life.

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We heard the story.

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You do this again and again and again.

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We think back to who we were.

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Ah, you changed us.

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Many of us wouldn't be here, we'd be dead.

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Ransom from heaven, rescue of sinners,

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ransom from heaven, thank you for each life here,

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sitting here today, that you rescued, oh God.

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One had to die for one to give life.

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And then you did this for Lenny too.

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Today she's publicly declaring it, oh God.

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And just like it happened with Jesus, because she is in Christ,

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and Christ is in her.

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We as a church ask now,

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Holy Spirit, would you begin to fill this woman like it has never happened before?

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That Acts chapter two, that Acts chapter four begin to happen.

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So as I lay hands on her, I ask Holy Spirit,

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that just as she was immersed in water, could you immerse her in your life?

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I ask that you descend upon her like you have descended upon disciples, upon Jesus, upon people in the book of Acts,

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would you descend upon her right now?

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Would you descend upon her and give her gifts that you have, Holy Spirit?

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Some gifts that come to evidence, oh God.

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When people were baptized in Acts chapter two, in Acts chapter ten, in Acts chapter four,

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they began to shout praises and they began to speak in tongues,

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and they began to prophesy.

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Let those gifts be hers too, Lord.

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Those gifts be hers too.

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Holy Spirit, you haven't changed.

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We call this church Acts 29, a continuation of the Acts of the Spirit of God,

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as was in the New Testament, and it continues now.

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So Father, we ask at the beginning of the year, even with the first baptism in this year,

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and many more I trust will come this year,

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that would you cause your Holy Spirit to fall upon her father,

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changing her father, dedicated to you, a woman of God,

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walking the earth, Abba, in places she never dreamt?

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So we ask this, Father, we ask this for Lenny,

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for a filling to overflowing now,

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in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we pray.

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Amen.

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Bless you, Lenny.

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So, can we do that song and then after that,

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can you take my phone?

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After that we'll conclude the song.

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Thank you.

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It's the song of the redeemed

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Rising from the African plain

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It's the song of the redeemed

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Rising from the African plain

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It's the song of the redeemed

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The song of the redeemed

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Riding on the

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns, he reigns

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It's all got children singing

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns

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Let it rise above the four winds

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Caught up in the heavenly sound

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Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals

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To the faithful gathered underground

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Of all the songs sung

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Songs were meant to persist

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Of all the bells run from the thousands steeples

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None rings truer than this

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It's all got children singing

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns, he reigns

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It's all got children singing

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns

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It's all got children

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It's all got children singing

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns, he reigns

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It's all got children singing

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Glory, glory, hallelujah

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He reigns

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He reigns

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He reigns

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He reigns

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Alright, see you next week!

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laughter

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So there will be guys praying on our left and our right

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So if you need prayers, there will be people available

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for prayer