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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Train My Hands For War - Part 6 - Terrain
Publishing Date: 2025-12-31T02:04:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/train-my-hands-for-war-part-6-terrain/

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So that gave me an image as we head into 2026, and Brandon will play that in a bit. But can

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you guys hear me? So he wants to remind us that he is a covenant God, and another way

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of putting that is just as we were singing, he is a promise-keeping God. He has made a

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contract with us, and he will keep it. In Genesis 12, when God promised Abraham that

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He would make Abraham into a great nation and he would be blessed, He also said that

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Abraham would be renown, like his name would be known, and he would be a blessing. Those

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who blessed Abraham would be blessed, those who cursed Abraham would be cursed. God ended

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by saying that all people on earth would be blessed through Abraham, right? And then as

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we are reading through Genesis, four more times God reminded Abraham of His promise,

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and one of those times Abraham actually got to walk the breadth and width of the land

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was promised to eventually the Israelites. And then at 99, when Abraham was still childless,

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God again reminded Abraham that through him a people would come, right? So that was the

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third time. And then for the final time, after Abraham obediently was about to offer up Isaac,

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God again reminded Abraham that because of your obedience, all nations on earth will be blessed

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by you. So what does this mean for us? So what is God covenant in Tinguarath? What is He promising

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us? That we will be a stronghold base in His kingdom, that this church will be a fortress

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church, a place of refuge for people. The second thing I got was we get to promise God

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that He will not let us down. We get to put on His garment of splendor. That is a part of our

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weaponry. We get to clothe ourselves in His glory, and He cloaks us in that. Those who want to take

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up positions in His kingdom will have the freedom to do that. This is from Isaiah 52-12. God is also

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promising us that He is leading us, so there is no need to be hasty in what we do. Not only is

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He going to protect us, but He is going to protect us in our guard so that no one will be left behind

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or forgotten or fall behind as we move into 2026. And just as He did with Abraham, He will keep

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reminding and reaffirming His promises with us. He hasn't hacking forgotten, and He's not late

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He will keep reassuring and reaffirming us as much as we need. Especially as we walk in greater

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obedience, the promises will be revealed in fuller and fuller measure for us. The image He gave me,

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I tried to do it with AI, and it's kind of there, but this is the image He showed me.

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So, He's a covenant-keeping God, so that's why I represented by the ribbon.

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And for those who want to, with their hands up, He's going to come cloak His covenant over us.

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Okay, cool. Okay, what May had sent has to be put up so we read it. First time someone hears it,

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it's hard to comprehend it, but during the year you'll find little bits of it happening in your

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life and you'll be thankful for it. So we'll have to put it up where everybody can access it.

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Right now we go on to Train My Hands For War, and that's the series we've been doing.

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It's the sixth in the series, the sixth one. So it's Train My Hands For War.

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Hey, can you make this, Brandon, can you make the writing thinner? I don't know how to.

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Or maybe I do. Train My Hands For War. Yeah, I do. Train My Hands For War. And today we're going to talk about terrain.

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Because if you are going to war, you should know the terrain that you operate in.

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And so, we are crossing our 20-year threshold, okay guys? Next year will be our 20th year.

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20-year threshold, sometime in February. Now as we cross this 20-year threshold,

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we in a sense are entering into another large room.

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Okay, so we're entering into another large room. So the question is, how do we define this room?

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What do we call this room? That's what I want to talk about today. So about two years ago we talked

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about how we enter thresholds. Meaning, if this is where you used to live, at some point, because

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you've been faithful, God brings you into a larger space. Once you enter this larger space,

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you can't bring anything from there in here. What we usually do because we love familiarity,

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is we start bringing things from the smaller room into the larger room. When there are tissue boxes

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that the larger room will have, familiarity is something God wants us to completely bypass.

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By the way, one of the things that happened when Phoebe was singing that song about the blood,

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in a vision that I was seeing, I saw the same tree that you read about in the last chapter of

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Revelation beginning to sprout about here. It said that the tree would have leaves that were for the

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healing of the nations. I was asking the Lord, so what are we supposed to do with it? His response

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was, start telling people that healing happens here and bring them in exclusively for healing.

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Like guys who are sick, bring them in for healing. Tell them that, hey, if you come to this church,

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you'll get healed. And then either we'll fall flat on our faces or we'll become pretty much

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known for healing in this church. But let's just trust, yeah, guys, stuff like this, you've got to

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give me more than one amen. Because what if this is true? Yeah, there are more groans when the

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Canucks get scored on. You've got to give me more than one amen. Yeah, we've got to change that next year.

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Yeah, oh my God. I'm scared of the other extreme too.

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But let's assume that what I saw is actually God. And my question was, why, Father? And his thing was,

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make me known. Make what I do known. But make me known through this church saying, you come here,

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you will get healed. Dare to bring some people that are really in bad shape.

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I remember when this church first started casting out demons, we didn't have a clue what we were

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doing. But one of the first persons God brought to this church was a person who was struggling

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with so many demons that we didn't have a choice but to learn on the run. And we learned fast.

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And I remember the first few years, anybody in Vancouver, any of the churches in Vancouver

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that had to deal with any demonic issue, they would send it to us.

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But if this tree, which has leaves for healing every month of the year, is being planted somewhere

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between Betty and Evan, then I mean, it doesn't mean that we have to make them all sit here.

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I'm just saying, bring them in. So that's one thing on the side. Brandon, this thing's working?

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Okay. I always think that we need to make sure that we're not going to be able to do that.

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Okay. I always knew I'd be on TV.

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These dad jokes are getting worse by the minute. Okay, so we're getting into our 20th threshold,

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we're crossing it and we are entering into another large room. And so the question is now what?

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One of the first places we need to start it is define the room. Define the room. If someone says

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you got a promotion, your first question is okay. So what's the promotion? If someone says you got,

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you moved locations or you moved house, the first question is, so what does it look like now?

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And so just to say, oh, God is taking us to a large room is very nice, but it means nothing.

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You have to define the room. So the intent today is to try and define the room and if we

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get somewhere by 1020, so be it. And then we'll do the rest later. What is a room?

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So we begin with this idea that there are 223,000 people in Richmond.

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I hope you memorize this. Not the number, the whole room thing. 223,000 people in Richmond

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and the promise was from Acts chapter three, verse 20, which said, I will send times of refreshing

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on these 223,000 in Richmond who don't know their right hand from their left. That's what God said

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about the occupants of the citizens of Nineveh when Jonah wanted them destroyed. And so it's

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the same statement being made here. 223,000 in Richmond, I will send times of refreshing

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from my presence amongst two, amongst all of them, but especially the 20s and the 30s.

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What are we doing? We are defining the room. What else?

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God is trying to raise and will get what he wants, an anointed bride in army boots

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on assignment. Don't forget these things. You have to hold these things together.

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You do it at work, you can do it with the church too.

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Anointed bride in army boots on assignment.

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So what's the role that this would entail? Guys, you have to literally think of yourself as the arc

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in Richmond. And we will explore this and I'm so eager to explore this. What is the arc in Richmond?

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Think of what the arc was in the Old Testament. It carried four things. It carried presence,

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it carried government. It used to be carried on people's shoulders. It carried government as in

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what happened, the jurisdiction that God had. Everything that would happen in that area would

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be because of what God would say. Three, it represented power. You saw what happened in the

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temple of Dagon when they put the arc next to the idol called Dagon. And later during times of David,

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it ended up being a place of ridiculous worship that we still have today.

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These are four distinctives. Who am I talking about? I'm talking about us.

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Hey guys, here's the thing. We'll get there. Any questions thus far? Look at what we are saying.

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We are defining the room. How are we defining the room? We are saying that the room is the

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center of the temple. We are saying that we are trying to describe the terrain we are entering

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in a few hours or we have already entered. We are entering our 20th year. That itself is a big deal.

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We are entering into a larger room. What does this room look like? Define the room.

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We are defining the room as saying we have entered a city where there are 223,000 people

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who don't know their right hand from their left and God sent us to this city very specifically.

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We did not need to move out of FCC. There was no need to move out of FCC.

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The rent is about the same now. We hadn't outgrown that place. It was more central for some of you.

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Some of you have started buying EV cars since we moved here. So we are not going to move out of

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since we moved here. That is how bad this move was. Stop smiling, Subin.

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223,000 people in Richmond. I will send times of refreshing in Richmond, especially on the 20s and 30s.

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Anointed bride in army boots on assignment. We talked about it two Sundays ago.

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We left out the bit of the bride because we didn't have time, but we talked about what it is to be

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anointed, what it is to be in army boots and what it is to have assignments. We'll visit it again.

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And then today I'm saying, so what do we have to do? These are the four things that this church

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will have to establish in the next 12 months. Presence, government, power, worship. Right from

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Mia onwards or Phoebe onwards. What did I come and say to Phoebe when she was here?

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That Phoebe, you worship so well. Continue to worship. We'll teach our children whether they

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have a flag or don't have a flag, whether they have a mic or don't have a mic. From Milan, from

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Mia, from Phoebe, they'll all learn how to have one of these aspects so pat down that there'll

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be no question about it. We don't even know what this means. We know what this means. We know what

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this means. We know what this means. We have no idea what this means, but praise God, that's why

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we have this thing called church where we learn. Do you know that the enemy has all this too?

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Hey, kingdom implies warfare. I'm not shouting at you. I just want to catch our attention

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to the reality of the ground that we stand in right now.

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Do you know that the enemy has presence, that the enemy has government, that the enemy has power,

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and the enemy has worship? What are we doing? Meeting in church for a service? Is that what

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we are about? Definitely not and you know it. Trust me, I'm not shouting at you. I'm just angry

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at the fact that we cannot stay here. We've got long ways to go. All of us.

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This is what we are born for, man. Because in combating what the enemy brings,

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I'm going to sing a victory. I know who wins. I know my God does not fail and in the process,

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people are set free. You sit here because someone had the ability to deal with this to set you free.

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When you sing the song of the blood, you know why I like that song? You suddenly realize that

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all the things you've achieved are simply because of the blood. You think you can hear the Holy

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Spirit? He lives in me because of the blood. I got nothing without the shed blood of Christ.

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So those four things we have to really build up. I'm not saying we haven't done it already.

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Government is something we do not understand, which we'll explore, but the other three,

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we can take it to another level, man.

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Then we talked about two Sundays ago, we talked about the Lord's Prayer.

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God is in the process of creating an army in this church that can march in formation.

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We very much believe that God is in the process of creating an army in this church that can march

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in formation. We went to Isaiah 13, verse 2 to 4, and I read from the message, Isaiah 13, 2 to 4.

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Isaiah 13, 2 to 4.

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Love this. Isaiah 13, 2 to 4. Listen, church, listen. May your ears and my ears be open

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to the word of God. It says, run up a flag on an open hill. Yell out. Get their attention.

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Wave them into formation. Direct them to the nerve center of power. I've taken charge of my

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special forces. I've called up my crack troops. They're bursting with pride and passion to carry

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out my angry judgment. Thunder rolls off the mountains like a mob, huge and noisy. Thunder

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of kingdoms in an uproar. Nations assembling for war. God of the angel army is calling his army

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into battle formation. They come from far off countries. They're pouring across the horizon.

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It is God on the move with the weapons of his wrath, ready to destroy the whole country. We're

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talking about the fact that war is not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities

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and rulers and authorities and spirits that keep people captive, that keep you and I captive.

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Hey, do you realize how sometimes we are so dull to the word of God? How come we have doctors sitting here,

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post-graduates sitting here, and we can still be dull to the word of God? How come?

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How come you can go to UBC and still not do half what you do in UBC

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out here on the mission field? Why is it that I can't do better than this? Because there is resistance, guys.

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And so the breaking that we are talking about happens both inside and outside. Break it in me so that I can go and break it out there.

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This is so real.

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We talked about Isaiah 13, 2-4 and Micah 5, 4-6. Turn to Micah 5, 4-6. I want us to know these scriptures, man.

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Like if you enter, you know, when you go into a new location, sometimes you drive to a new location,

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you know, you're in a new location, you're in a new location, you're in a new location, you're in a new location.

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Like if you enter, you know, when you go into a new location, sometimes you drive back from home,

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drive back from work and you go to your old home and you realize, oh, shut, took the same road that I've been taking always,

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ended up in the wrong part of town. I moved to Burnaby and I thought I was in Surrey.

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It's the same thing. If we don't learn this, then we keep going back to Surrey.

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Micah 5, verse 4 and 6. Micah 5, verse 4 to 6. I love this. I'm reading from, let's take, NIV.

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Micah 5, verse 4 to 6. He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord,

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in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God, and they will live securely for then his greatness will reach the end of the world.

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And he will be our peace when the Assyrians invade our land and march through our fortresses.

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We will raise against them seven shepherds and eight commanders who will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,

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the land of Nimrod with drawn sword. He will deliver us from the Assyrians when they invade our land and march across our borders.

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Just keep that in mind. We won't touch it today, but keep that in mind.

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And then the next thing we talked about, and this is the last part of the story,

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is Isaiah 61, especially verse 1 and 2, where we set the captives free.

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Guys, what are we doing in Richmond? We are, hear me, hear me very clearly, eh?

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I'm asking for your attention. Yeah?

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What are we doing in Richmond? Let the enormity of this settle down on you.

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What we're doing in Richmond is we are setting captives free from regional and territorial powers.

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This church has been set aside for this work. Are we qualified yet? No.

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Will we qualify? Yes. Can we start this process? It has started.

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Do we know how to finish on it? No.

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We have a highway that weaves a net over people just like Artemis used to in Ephesus.

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And if there was only one way to dethrone Artemis in Ephesus,

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there is only one way to undo the powers that line up a highway and weave a net across the city,

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across 223,000 people who do not know their right hand from the left hand.

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Now either we can come and sing songs here and have a great time and be touched by the Lord,

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or we can take that and touch others.

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There are many meers out there who do not know Jesus Christ and who will not know Jesus Christ.

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There are many Phoebe's out there that will never have the joy of singing the blood.

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There are many Eliakims who will have problems with their heart and will not survive.

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Why? Because we have an evil enemy and especially in this city they weave a net crowded in one highway.

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It's almost like the pagan times.

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So either step up to the plate or stand aside and don't get in the way.

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What's your choice? Mind to step up to the plate.

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I say again and again, I'm just so blooming angry with what happens to people in a city not at you.

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But we can't sit on our jobs and our studies in neutral spaces at work thinking it's Derek's job or Jacob's job

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or Mae's job or Gillian's job or Sheldon's job or Dilna's job. It's not.

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Any questions? You want to challenge me on any of this?

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You want to push back? You want to shout back? Not at me, but at anything that really irks you about this.

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It's very difficult to get a Christmas message or a New Year's message in this church.

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Why don't you take into the main territorial powers?

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Yes. So I will lay out before this church the main territorial powers in this city when the cameras are off.

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And I'm not asking you to switch the cameras off right now.

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But given certain bills that are being passed in this land, we can be wise.

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One of the things we want to do at some point in January in this church is to not do a camp for the young adults in some resort somewhere else

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where all of us struggle to pay because it's blooming expensive.

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But we can come here and eat pizza and chicken to your fill.

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You can even bring your sleeping bags and sleep here.

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And what we'll do is talk about these things because we're not here to now talk about let's have more boldness or let's have more spirit.

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Now it is let's take our sleeping bags and come here and spend a day from nine to whatever they'll allow and then deal with these things.

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Where we talk about what are the real powers that are here?

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What is the false front and what is the real thing?

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Go ask a lawyer if there are any lawyers here.

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Thank God we have only one.

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And so go ask a lawyer and they'll always tell you that this is the front but this is what's happening behind.

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Go ask a doctor if they're safe.

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This is what the symptom is but this is the actual diagnosis.

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But this is not for Gangho, Genghis Khan.

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This is for people who actually want to march in front of the church.

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They want to march in formation because it's the command of Jesus Christ.

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He's waving us into formation.

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If you can't come into formation, this ain't for you.

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Hire yourself out to some other organization that can use you as a mercenary.

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What do we call this space?

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What do we call this room?

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We've defined it.

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What do we call it?

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What's a name we can give it?

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I want you to know something that's going to happen in this church if you want it to happen to you.

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2 Kings 6-17.

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Let's look at some scriptures.

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I'll tell you what you can expect over the next 12 to 24 months.

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Some of you will be so changed and such a gift.

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Such a gift to the world because of what God will do through you.

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2 Kings 6-17.

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You know, this is what we...

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I mean, don't kids play cops and robbers?

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When I was a kid, it was not cops and robbers.

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The bandits were the good guys.

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I'd have this gun on my back and a mask on my face and go around shooting people.

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It was so much fun, man.

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And why is it that we now stop?

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They replaced everything with water pistols now.

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That's another story.

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2 Kings 6-17.

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2 Kings 6-17.

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2 Kings 6-17.

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Listen to this, eh?

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I'm going to read you some scriptures and you'll get an idea of what God is going to do in our midst.

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2 Kings 6...

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Let's start at verse 14.

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Then he sent...

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And this is a king...

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He's sending people to capture Elisha.

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Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there.

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They went by night and surrounded the city.

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When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning,

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an army with horses and chariots surrounded the city.

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Oh, no, my Lord, what shall we do?

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the servant asked.

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Don't be afraid, the prophet answered.

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Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

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And Elisha prayed.

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Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.

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Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes and he looked and he saw hills full of horses and chariots of fire.

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All around Elisha.

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Next one, Luke 24, 30.

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Luke 24, 30.

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Luke 24, 30.

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Luke 24, verse 30.

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Let's start at verse 28.

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Luke 24, verse 28 onwards.

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As they approached the village to which they were going,

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Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.

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But they urged him.

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And you can see such these patterns you'll observe even today with you.

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Where Jesus, you've just spoken to the Lord.

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He talks with you.

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He gives you an answer for the prayer you're asking.

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And then he begins to move further.

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And he wants you to stop him.

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He's not satisfied with giving you an answer.

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There's more to talk about.

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Stop him.

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He's deliberately moving further.

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He's hoping they'll stop him.

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He's deliberately moving further.

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He's hoping they'll stop him.

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But they urged him strongly.

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Stay with us for it's nearly evening.

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The day is almost over.

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So he went in to stay with them.

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When he was at the table with them,

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he took bread, gave thanks, broke it,

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and began to give it to them.

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Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him.

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And he disappeared from their sight.

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Next scripture.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Genesis 21, 19.

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Let's go to

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verse 15

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and start reading from verse 15.

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When the water in the skin was gone,

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this is Hagar and Ishmael.

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When the water in the skin was gone,

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she put the boy under one of the bushes.

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Then she went off and sat down about a bow shot away.

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For she thought,

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I cannot watch the boy die.

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And as she sat there, she began to sob.

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God heard the boy cry.

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And the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven

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and said to her,

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What is the matter, Hagar?

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Do not be afraid.

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God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

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Lift the boy up and take him by the hand,

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for I'll make him into a great nation.

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Then God opened her eyes

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and she saw a well of water.

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So she went and filled the skin

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and water and gave the boy a drink.

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I just wanted to say to someone here

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that one of the scriptures you should look at

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is Genesis 16, 30.

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Genesis 16, 13.

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Genesis 16, 13.

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It's a word for someone here.

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Genesis 16, 13.

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This is a story again of Hagar.

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But this time, she calls him

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Bir Lahai Roi.

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Which means the God who is seeing.

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You think

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that God doesn't see anymore.

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Every time things don't work out,

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your heart gets so bitter against him,

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you need to read Hagar's story

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and understand that he wants to be

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your Bir Lahai Roi.

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He'll be that

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brilliantly this year.

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Sometimes promises have to be believed.

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It says in the scriptures

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that unless you believe,

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you cannot see it come to pass.

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What does believe look like?

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Every morning getting up and saying

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once again, oh God, I'm struggling

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with it, but I've come to

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say to you that I heard your

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Bir Lahai Roi.

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The one who sees.

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Day by day by day you go.

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And guess who's in

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the way to prevent you?

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To dull your heart and dull your mind?

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There's one

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who's actively resisting.

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I want us to

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become so aware

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of this

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other kingdom that is at work.

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The next scripture, Ephesians 1

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16-18.

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It talks about how Paul is praying

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a prayer and he says that

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I want

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your eyes to open.

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I want your eyes to be

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enlightened. I want your eyes to be open

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so much so that you have

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a spirit of wisdom and a spirit

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of revelation so that you

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not only know the breadth and the depth

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of God's love, but you also know

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the purpose and the reason

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he has called you and you also

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know the power that is at work in you

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which is the same power that was at work

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in Jesus Christ.

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Again there is this idea of open

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eyes.

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You know

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there's a restaurant in Vancouver, it's called

00:34:02.360 --> 00:34:04.360
Dark Table. I don't know how many have gone there.

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Dark Table is a restaurant

00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:08.360
that is run by blind people.

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As soon as you come to the

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entrance, once you enter in

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everything is dark.

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Someone will come and they'll ask you to

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:18.360
put your hand on their shoulder

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and they'll lead you to the table.

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You want to experience pitch dark?

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You need to go there.

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It is totally dark.

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All the waiters are blind.

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And you sit at this table and you can't

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see your food.

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The idea is that you experience

00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:36.360
what it is for a blind

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person to live every day.

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The waiters are blind,

00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:42.360
the ones who pour water are blind, the ones

00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:44.360
that take you in are blind. Some of the chefs

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and I'm not kidding you, are blind.

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And they even have a mystery dish

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:50.360
that they bring.

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And you have to figure it out.

00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:54.360
That's Dark Table.

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But God is saying to us that

00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.360
listen, I'm bringing you into

00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.360
a dimension

00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:04.360
called open eyes.

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I'm bringing you

00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:08.360
Acts 29, I'm bringing this church

00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:10.360
into a dimension called open

00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.360
eyes.

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And if you are willing,

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I'll teach you to see.

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See what the enemy is doing,

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:20.360
see what a person's condition is,

00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.360
see what I am doing.

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I've longed for a

00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:26.360
people like this. And I think

00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:28.360
you can be trained into this.

00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.360
I'm not saying that.

00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:34.360
I'm saying God is saying that.

00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:36.360
Therefore for me to see this tree

00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.360
with leaves that are healing for the nation

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:40.360
every 12 months, did not

00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:42.360
surprise me because I know what

00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:44.360
he wants. But here are the

00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:46.360
three reactions we can have.

00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:48.360
We can either be ones that have

00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:50.360
our eyes open and enlightened

00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.360
so that we see what God is doing,

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.360
we see the condition of man, and we see what

00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:56.360
the enemy is doing, and the Holy Spirit

00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:58.360
is able to use it. Or

00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.360
we can be like the guy

00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.360
in Psalm 32

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where David writes saying

00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.360
Do not be like the horse or the mule

00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:08.360
which need bitter

00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.360
bridle. I have my eye upon you.

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:12.360
I will instruct you. Do not be like the horse

00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.360
or the mule. That's when there is this resistance.

00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.360
And that resistance

00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:18.360
will lead to the next stage.

00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:20.360
And that stage is when he says in

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.360
Isaiah 6, this is

00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.360
very sad eh? Isaiah 6 he just

00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:26.360
says, Who shall we send? Who will

00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:28.360
go for it? Isaiah raises up his hand

00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.360
and says send me. And the next verse says

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:32.360
I'm sending you. But I'm sending you

00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:34.360
to a people who

00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:36.360
hearing will not hear, and

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.360
seeing will not see.

00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:40.360
Later on in Mark

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chapter 4 verse 13, Jesus

00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:44.360
quotes that, that the things of the

00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.360
kingdom are meant for you, Acts 29.

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It is to the others that the

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.360
parables are not clear. But to

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.360
you, I speak

00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.360
things clearly. I've given you eyes to see.

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So see with your eyes.

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May the category,

00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.360
the third category that I just mentioned

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.360
be so limited in this church.

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.360
The way to avoid the third

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.360
category is to avoid the second one.

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Hear me again. You

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:14.360
will end up, I will end up

00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.360
in the third category if I

00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.360
fall into the second.

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Dullness always slides this way.

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When I become like the horse of the

00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:26.360
Mew,

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.360
that needs bit and bridle to get it to

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.360
move anywhere.

00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:32.360
There was a horse I rode, I still remember

00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:34.360
the name of the horse, Silk. It was

00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:36.360
not Silk at all.

00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:38.360
We went on a race.

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:40.360
That thing would just go,

00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:42.360
start eating grass by the wayside

00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.360
while all the others were racing.

00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:46.360
It didn't matter what you do, till both

00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:48.360
me and the guy started pulling it.

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.360
But boy, it was a stubborn horse.

00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:52.360
And he kept calling it Silk.

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Silk. Doesn't matter.

00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:58.360
It's an Indian thing.

00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:00.360
But

00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:02.360
the point being, do not be like that.

00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:04.360
Any questions?

00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.360
I mean,

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:12.360
I know I'm right, but let's

00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:14.360
phrase it a different way.

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.360
What if I'm right? If I'm right,

00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.360
what is God saying to us?

00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:20.360
I'm inviting you into a dimension

00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.360
where I am going to call

00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.360
this space or

00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:26.360
room, I'll call it open

00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:28.360
eyes.

00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.360
Here's what's going to happen guys.

00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.360
The children might get there

00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.360
faster than us if we are stubborn.

00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:36.360
Mia will see

00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:38.360
faster.

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.360
Let's pick her dad.

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.360
Mia will see faster than Vivek.

00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:54.360
How will this happen by the sheer

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.360
power of the Holy Spirit?

00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.360
You know the crazy thing about this?

00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:04.360
It's once an invitation like this is given.

00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.360
Now it's your choice.

00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.360
And my choice.

00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:10.360
Trust me man, when I say it's your choice,

00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:12.360
it's my choice too and the onus on me

00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:14.360
is greater than it is on you.

00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:20.360
I've got no guarantee that I'll do this well.

00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.360
Because one of the things you need for this

00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:26.360
is consistent belief in the promise of God.

00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.360
I want you to see things from the enemy's perspective for a second.

00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:40.360
Yes, we know that Goliath would come out

00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:42.360
twice a day for 40 days

00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:44.360
and he would frighten

00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:46.360
the armies of

00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:48.360
Israel. They would go scurrying

00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:50.360
into their foxholes.

00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.360
Now change it around.

00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.360
And yes, we know

00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:56.360
that there are regions and nations

00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:58.360
on the earth where prayers go up

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.360
five times a day.

00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:02.360
Two spirits that

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:04.360
bring in such abysmal

00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:06.360
darkness into those lands that

00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.360
the things that happen there are brutal.

00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:14.360
There is power in the decrees and declarations

00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.360
that people make over

00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:18.360
a place. Just like Goliath would

00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.360
make it. And Goliath would come

00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.360
out shortly after the morning sacrifice

00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.360
and shortly after the evening sacrifice.

00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:26.360
You can't imagine how

00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:28.360
discouraging it is.

00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:30.360
You've just worshipped Yahweh,

00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:32.360
burnt an offering on the altar,

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.360
and out comes this giant and you go scurrying

00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.360
into your foxholes.

00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:38.360
You think that's a new trick?

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:40.360
That's an old trick that happens to us every

00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:42.360
week where we think we've gained

00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:44.360
something and then the Goliath called work

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.360
or the Goliath called money or the Goliath

00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:48.360
called relationships comes up

00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.360
and it gets you down again.

00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:52.360
Same thing in these

00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.360
nations and regions where prayers

00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:56.360
go up five times loudly

00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:58.360
over an entire

00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:00.360
area and for thousands

00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.360
of years. You think

00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:04.360
invoking the names

00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.360
and worship of

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.360
spirits will not

00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.360
do anything to the residents

00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.360
that live there?

00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:16.360
Now turn it around, reverse it around.

00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:18.360
Now go to Jericho. And in

00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:20.360
Jericho something else is happening.

00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:22.360
In Jericho what is happening is

00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.360
there's a people inside a very strong

00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:26.360
city that are so scared

00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:28.360
that they've shut their gates. Why have they

00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.360
shut their gates? Because

00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.360
every day they're hearing

00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.360
the same march

00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.360
and then this awe

00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:38.360
and shock of the

00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:40.360
trumpets and the horns

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:42.360
just bursting together.

00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:44.360
And they know something is going to happen.

00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.360
But they don't know what.

00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:48.360
And it happens day

00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:50.360
after day after day

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:52.360
after day to the sixth day. And the

00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.360
Bible says Jericho shut

00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:56.360
itself up because they didn't know

00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:58.360
what was going to happen. You have no

00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:00.360
idea what happens to Satan

00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.360
and the enemy armies

00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:04.360
when people decide that their worship

00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:06.360
is more than their worship to God.

00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.360
That's

00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:10.360
such an odd sentence to say because most

00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:12.360
people would think that's what it is about, worship

00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:14.360
to God. Worship is used by

00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:16.360
God on multiple levels.

00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:18.360
I've been talking to

00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:20.360
Tuni about how if we go

00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:22.360
into this, how do we take the very

00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.360
songs we are singing right now and how

00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:26.360
do we change them around?

00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:28.360
What does it look like when an

00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.360
army begins to sing

00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.360
a song? Armies

00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:34.360
are made up of the same husbands,

00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:36.360
same wives, same young

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.360
men, same young women who can sing

00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:40.360
love songs to each other, who can sing

00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:42.360
funny songs to each other,

00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:44.360
who can have a joyful time.

00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.360
But then the moment they come into

00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:48.360
formation, you give them any song,

00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:50.360
the way they sing it changes.

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.360
It doesn't matter the words of the song.

00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:54.360
It's the condition and the attitude

00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.360
of the heart.

00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:00.360
What does that look like in a church like this

00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:02.360
that's being invited into what we are supposed

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:04.360
to step into? What does it look like for him

00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:06.360
to play like that, for her to sing like that,

00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.360
for Evan to drum like that?

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:10.360
What does it take?

00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.360
What does it take for us to then worship like that?

00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:14.360
What happens to the flags?

00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.360
Because if

00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.360
the prayers of people

00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.360
in a region five times a day for a thousand

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:26.360
years is beginning to affect them,

00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:28.360
then I want to say to you that Richmond

00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.360
is alert at a group of people

00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.360
who have gotten the hang of worship

00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:34.360
in this church, who know how

00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:36.360
to shout, who know how to dance,

00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:38.360
who know how to abandon

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:40.360
themselves to God.

00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.360
You think it has no effect?

00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:44.360
You don't realize that on a Sunday

00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.360
it happens, on a Monday it happens,

00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:48.360
on a Tuesday it happens, in Newton,

00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:50.360
on Wednesday it happens, on Thursday

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.360
it happens in Northland.

00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:54.360
It just is relentless.

00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:56.360
For the last six

00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:58.360
months you think it doesn't have any effect?

00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.360
If the enemy can use his

00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.360
words, what happens when the

00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:04.360
people of God use the word

00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:06.360
that's called the sword of the spirit?

00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.360
Become aware, let our eyes

00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:10.360
open to the reality

00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:12.360
of what we've been called to.

00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:16.360
This isn't church anymore like it

00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:18.360
used to be.

00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:20.360
We've entered a different room, guys.

00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:30.360
Joshua said,

00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.360
Joshua chapter 6, verse 15

00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:34.360
or thereabouts, he says, hey,

00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:36.360
when I tell you, shout, shout

00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:38.360
saying, this city,

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:40.360
we shout saying the city

00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.360
is for the Lord.

00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.360
I would say to the churches

00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.360
at Acts 29, every

00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:48.360
so often when you gather Beed in Newton,

00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:50.360
Northland or Richmond, start with

00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.360
Joshua 6, 15.

00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.360
Start with Joshua 6, 15.

00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:56.360
Initially, it'll be difficult.

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:58.360
It'll feel false.

00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.360
It says in Joshua 6, 16,

00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.360
shout, shout,

00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:04.360
Joshua 6, 16, shout,

00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:06.360
the Lord has given us

00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:08.360
the city.

00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:10.360
Right now, if I do it,

00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:12.360
you won't have the muster for it.

00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:14.360
Let's just try it.

00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.360
You'll see how it sounds.

00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:18.360
Joshua 6, 16,

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:20.360
very simple words, shout,

00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.360
the Lord has given us this city.

00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:24.360
Try it on three.

00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:26.360
One, two, three.

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:28.360
Shout, shout,

00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:30.360
the Lord has given us the city.

00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.360
Good, but imagine when this takes root.

00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:36.360
Do you know what happens

00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:38.360
when you're losing 4-1

00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:40.360
and they come back and tie it 4-4

00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:42.360
and then they score

00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:44.360
a tiebreaker and it's

00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.360
5-4 and the Canucks

00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:48.360
get a victory? I mean it happened

00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:50.360
many years ago, but it did happen.

00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:52.360
I was there.

00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.360
Boy, when it happened, you should have seen the

00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:56.360
place roar.

00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:58.360
It was the Canucks have taken

00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.360
this city.

00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:04.360
It'll happen in this church.

00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:14.360
Crazier than a city, the first

00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.360
city, guys just think of this, the first

00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:18.360
city that fell

00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:20.360
in Canaan, the first city

00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.360
that fell to Israel

00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.360
was a joint declaration by

00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:26.360
divine intent. It was just a joint

00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:28.360
declaration. It wasn't war, it wasn't

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:30.360
fighting, it was a joint declaration

00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:32.360
by divine intent.

00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:34.360
Let us declare this.

00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:36.360
What did they declare? Shout for the

00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.360
city is the Lord.

00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:40.360
That statement

00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:42.360
brought down

00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:44.360
the first city. Israel got its

00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.360
first city through a joint declaration

00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:48.360
of divine intent.

00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:52.360
Don't need too many, man.

00:46:56.360 --> 00:46:58.360
It's a challenge to believe this,

00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:00.360
eh? And to live in this new expectation.

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.360
It's a challenge, but

00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:04.360
my God, if we get a few

00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:06.360
sergeants that can shout like

00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:08.360
I'm shouting, we can do this.

00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:14.360
It's not ra-raing.

00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.360
It's keeping us on point.

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:18.360
You know,

00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:20.360
I've got a friend who rose

00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:22.360
at these dragon boat things.

00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.360
One of the most important people in the boat

00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:26.360
is a guy whose only job is to go

00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:28.360
boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.360
He gets it wrong,

00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:32.360
the whole thing will go wonky.

00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:36.360
We need a few of these guys,

00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.360
whatever they call them.

00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.360
The boom boom guys.

00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:42.360
If we can get a few of them, we can stay on course.

00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.360
Everybody rose together.

00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:46.360
So, how do you get these boom boom guys?

00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:48.360
You get these boom boom guys

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:50.360
by, by

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.360
by the way,

00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:54.360
boom boom guys by

00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:56.360
by teaching this and suddenly

00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:58.360
your heart goes boom boom.

00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.360
And you realize,

00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:02.360
oh my God, I'm a boom boom guy.

00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:04.360
Because something is happening inside.

00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.360
And if it ain't happening inside,

00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:08.360
then ask the guy next to you

00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.360
to feel your pulse.

00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:20.360
No, no, it's happening to Don.

00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.360
What happened to Don?

00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:26.360
In this new space,

00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:28.360
in this new space, the Holy Spirit

00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:30.360
will alter our atmosphere.

00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.360
In this new space,

00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:34.360
the Holy Spirit will alter our atmosphere.

00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:36.360
Guys,

00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:38.360
you will find the worship,

00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.360
the music team changing,

00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:42.360
you will find Tuni changing, you'll find me changing.

00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:44.360
You'll find me changing in the last one and a half weeks.

00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.360
Leave alone in the weeks ahead.

00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:48.360
Because the Holy Spirit will begin to change the atmosphere.

00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.360
And it's not because we sing the song,

00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.360
the atmosphere is changing.

00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.360
Now, it won't be because of that.

00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:56.360
It'll be something internal that happens

00:48:56.360 --> 00:48:58.360
that causes the external to change.

00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:00.360
So that's what you're signing up for in 2026.

00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:06.360
So,

00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.360
I'm going to go ahead and

00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:10.360
I'm going to go ahead and

00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:12.360
I'm going to go ahead and

00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:14.360
Let's go.

00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:20.360
We'll begin to act,

00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.360
think, speak a little different.

00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.360
I'm looking forward to it.

00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:26.360
So if you're craving the same apologies,

00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:28.360
the same sensitivities,

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.360
the same understanding,

00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:32.360
the same pampering from people that you've experienced in 2025,

00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:34.360
then you

00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:36.360
will not be able to run with the horses.

00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:40.360
You know, one of the worst

00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:50.400
jobs on a soccer team is a guy, I don't know, maybe it's changed now, but when I was young,

00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:58.600
the guy who had to run around with glucose, his job was when a player would finish, he'd

00:49:58.600 --> 00:50:02.680
be very tired, he'd carry this plastic bag full of a white powder.

00:50:02.680 --> 00:50:08.920
I was, God only knows whether it was glucose, but the moment they would take the glucose,

00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.040
they'd come back to normal.

00:50:11.040 --> 00:50:16.880
But the point is, the glucose guy is not what you want to be, man.

00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:18.380
You want to play.

00:50:18.380 --> 00:50:22.520
You don't want to be the glucose guy.

00:50:22.520 --> 00:50:32.640
And the thing is, if we don't decide how we want to take this on because of what God is

00:50:32.640 --> 00:50:37.480
doing, if you're craving the same apologies, the same sensitivities, the same understanding

00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:41.240
and the pampering from people, then you won't be able to run with horses.

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This will be a place of greater sacrifice, greater sacrifice.

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A few other points I'll make and close.

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A new room means you have to delight in discovery.

00:50:52.120 --> 00:50:53.840
You have to delight in discovery.

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I remember, not I remember, I remember reading, I'm not that old, I remember reading how God

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takes Abraham after the rift with Lot.

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He takes Abraham and he shows Abraham the land in Genesis 13.

00:51:08.200 --> 00:51:13.200
And Abraham, look, look left, look right, look north, look south.

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Whatever you want, you can take.

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And then begins this process of delight in discovery.

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You want this, you'll have to delight in it.

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If you don't delight in something, discipline is painful.

00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:30.760
Any discipline that does not have delight in it is painful.

00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:36.520
That's why people stop running by January 5th.

00:51:36.520 --> 00:51:38.200
Because there's no delight in it.

00:51:38.200 --> 00:51:39.840
It's just the discipline of running.

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Jeremy Sheldon, when was the last time you went to the gym?

00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:52.360
And before that?

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Point proven.

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On Monday and Monday, they've stuffed themselves with turkey, with chicken, with pizza, with

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a whole lot of stuff.

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Ay, ay, ay.

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So a new room requires delight in discovery.

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Guys, you know what will keep me going at this?

00:52:16.080 --> 00:52:24.700
This idea of, oh gosh, we as a church have been given a strange, wonderful, not often

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opportunity in a city to experience something that could become a pattern for other churches

00:52:30.940 --> 00:52:32.940
in the future.

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Gosh, man.

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I mean, again, it goes back to just one thing, the blood.

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Got nothing to boast of.

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It means something, guys, that he thinks that he can give us this.

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You must understand the word us in this.

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It is not, and you know I'm not modest at all, it is not because of the pastor.

00:53:06.540 --> 00:53:08.360
It is not because of the leaders.

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It is because a group of people have begun to shape themselves in a way that God can

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and make them anything he wants at any time for any short time or any long time.

00:53:19.340 --> 00:53:22.780
It is becoming a place where when the cloud moves, the people move.

00:53:22.780 --> 00:53:26.300
When the cloud stops, the people stop.

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You must understand what you have become.

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In understanding what you've become, you must realize then that God has been in to trust

00:53:33.260 --> 00:53:36.620
us with little more, saying, can I try this on you?

00:53:36.620 --> 00:53:37.620
Will this fit?

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Can you wear it?

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If you can wear it, I'll fill the suit up with you.

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So pat yourself on your back.

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Pat yourself on your back.

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Really.

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God has no problems acknowledging things, eh?

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There is not an acknowledgement from me.

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Any questions guys before I conclude?

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Any questions?

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Remember that any discovery or delight with anything new will, cannot be done without

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breaking things, without learning and stumbling, without risk, without fear.

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This thing cannot be done without breaking things, without stumbling, without making

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mistakes.

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Cannot be done.

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So we will make mistakes in this process.

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That's okay.

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One of the things I wrote down is decide with God that you and God will have the pleasure

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of working together.

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Decide with God that you and God will have the pleasure of working together.

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Beautiful, eh?

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Because he doesn't separate his divine nature from your humanity.

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He doesn't separate his divine nature from your humanity.

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He actually thinks my spirit and his spirit are one.

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So decide that you both will actually take on the pleasure of working with each other.

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Dare your imagination, dare your hearing, dare your faith.

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Dare it.

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Alrighty.

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So, some cautions at thresholds like this, where we are stepping into something new,

00:55:57.900 --> 00:56:02.380
people you care about will come alongside with good intentions and introduce things

00:56:02.380 --> 00:56:07.740
that will dilute your resolve and infect your thoughts and rob you of your inheritance.

00:56:07.740 --> 00:56:08.860
Please hear me.

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At times like this, whenever you're going to cross into a threshold, every time, you'll

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see this in the Bible, any time God is bringing a people or a person into a place where they

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now transition into something new.

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What will happen is people that really care for you will come into your life and introduce

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a stream that will dilute what you are supposed to do, that will rob you of your inheritance.

00:56:32.340 --> 00:56:39.340
You see that with, in Matthew 12, you see that with Mary.

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Mary and Jesus' other brothers weren't too happy with how Jesus was going about doing

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things, so they're standing at the door and they want to take him home.

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And they're saying, Jesus, can you come out?

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We want to have a word with you.

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And Jesus, it's at that point that Jesus says, who are my mothers, who is my mother and who

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am I?

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Brothers.

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It's in Matthew 12.

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And he doesn't go and meet them.

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It seems offensive, but he knew why they were there.

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Matthew 16, Peter has just declared that Jesus Christ, you are the son of the living God.

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And then he pulls Jesus aside and says, Jesus, do not talk about the cross.

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That should not happen to you.

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God forbid that that should happen to you.

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And what does Jesus say?

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Get thee behind me.

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Satan.

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You go to 2 Samuel 6 and you see Michael or Michael, the wife of David.

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He has just done something that we still talk about in terms of dancing before God, taking

00:57:37.100 --> 00:57:42.820
off his kingly robes, dressed up in just a loincloth, dancing before God.

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And he comes home.

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And the first thing that Michael says with a lot of disgust is how could you make a fool

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out of yourself?

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Like those vulgar guys on the street.

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What in the world were you doing there?

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Usually when you cross a threshold, the ones that will prevent you are the ones that you

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care about.

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Be aware.

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If you listen, you get robbed off your inheritance.

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So that's in terms of people and relationships.

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And my God, I'll come against it if I see it and I'll warn you about it.

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Hey, things will shift, eh?

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Things must shift.

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It's like this.

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If you're a nurse, you wear those white thingies and then you go to a triage and you're gently

00:58:50.020 --> 00:58:55.020
trying to pull the person out of a wreck and you're bandaging their toe, making sure there

00:58:55.020 --> 00:58:59.260
are no cuts and bruises and you have a certain order.

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But what if you turn into a fireman tomorrow?

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Then everything changes.

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You ain't wearing white.

00:59:04.200 --> 00:59:08.680
You're wearing the dirtiest clothes possible that are fire resistant.

00:59:08.680 --> 00:59:15.560
If a guy is trapped in a car wreck, you don't care about breaking his toe.

00:59:15.560 --> 00:59:18.160
You'll break his leg to get him out.

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Everything changes.

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The anointing changes.

00:59:20.160 --> 00:59:21.440
The function changes.

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The way you treat people changes.

00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:32.120
Things change.

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You know who has the toughest job now?

00:59:33.980 --> 00:59:37.180
The leaders in this church.

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They'll have the toughest job because they've been super caring.

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How do you continue being caring and yet raise an army that isn't formation?

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How do you do that?

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It's not easy.

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You still have to be a father.

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You still have to care.

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For me, it's easy.

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You still have to get out on Sundays and go home.

01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:08.360
They have to take care of you the rest of the week.

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That's not true, but you know what I mean.

01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:18.360
Another thing that happens at most transitions is that most transitions when a church is

01:00:18.360 --> 01:00:23.360
going to break into something that might affect a city, that might affect the earth later

01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:31.360
on, whenever that happens, there are spirits like evil powers that constrict your path and

01:00:31.460 --> 01:00:37.740
try to constrict you mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially.

01:00:37.740 --> 01:00:38.740
You see that with Paul.

01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:46.740
Paul is at a place in Acts 16, 16 where the gospel is going to leapfrog from Asia to Europe.

01:00:46.740 --> 01:00:50.340
It's just at the brink.

01:00:50.340 --> 01:00:53.020
We are in Asia Minor, in the cities of Turkey.

01:00:53.020 --> 01:00:55.820
The next move is Rome, Spain, and so on.

01:00:55.820 --> 01:00:59.460
What do they meet in Macedonia or in Philippi?

01:00:59.560 --> 01:01:04.160
They meet a woman who has a spirit of divination.

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How ancient is that spirit?

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As ancient as Jezebel.

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And then you find the same spirit in Thyatira in the book of Revelation, constricting Paul's

01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:18.400
path.

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So much so that once he casts that spirit out, the entire city rises up in a riot.

01:01:25.820 --> 01:01:30.980
And then you hear that famous speech in Acts 19 where Demetrius says, a silversmith, oh

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dear Ephesians, you know that over the last many years, Artemis has brought us great wealth.

01:01:37.500 --> 01:01:41.380
Guys, every false religion will always be connected to wealth and when Christianity

01:01:41.380 --> 01:01:48.380
becomes about wealth, it also takes on the role of false religions in the world.

01:01:48.380 --> 01:01:55.380
Satan has been a trader since the beginning.

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You read Isaiah 14 and you'll see it there.

01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:11.280
And so he says, we've been gaining a lot of wealth through our selling of these silver

01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.320
idols, but look what they have done.

01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.100
They've come and ruined our trade.

01:02:15.100 --> 01:02:19.900
And so he gathers the whole city and this happens.

01:02:19.900 --> 01:02:24.460
There are people here who know that it happens in different nations where you can gather

01:02:24.460 --> 01:02:30.660
people and they'll shout together, oh great is Diana of Artemis, the ruler, the territorial

01:02:30.660 --> 01:02:32.180
ruler of this entire region.

01:02:32.180 --> 01:02:33.460
I've known city after city.

01:02:33.460 --> 01:02:37.420
I've seen video after video of people being raised up like this and then they go beat

01:02:37.420 --> 01:02:38.420
up Christians.

01:02:38.420 --> 01:02:41.900
This is reality.

01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:44.140
It is not new.

01:02:44.140 --> 01:02:47.500
It is not political.

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At the end of the day, it still goes back to what has been happening for hundreds of

01:02:51.780 --> 01:02:58.780
years.

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Guard each other, eh?

01:03:10.460 --> 01:03:12.380
Leaders, guard your flock.

01:03:12.380 --> 01:03:15.820
Go read Acts chapter 20, verse 28 onwards.

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Paul is leaving.

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He turns to the Ephesian elders and he says, listen, guard this flock that God has placed

01:03:22.100 --> 01:03:23.100
you over.

01:03:23.100 --> 01:03:24.860
Make sure you oversee them.

01:03:24.860 --> 01:03:26.220
Make sure you care for them.

01:03:26.220 --> 01:03:28.180
Make sure you're alert.

01:03:28.180 --> 01:03:33.620
Every time leaders are like that, the enemy gets routed.

01:03:33.620 --> 01:03:38.420
Every time leaders are asleep, leaders get struck and the sheep scatter.

01:03:38.420 --> 01:03:39.740
Very simple, guys.

01:03:39.780 --> 01:03:43.980
So what's your role then if you're not a leader or if you're a future leader?

01:03:43.980 --> 01:03:45.100
What is your role?

01:03:45.100 --> 01:03:48.940
Your role is to pray that the shepherd does not get struck because whenever the shepherd

01:03:48.940 --> 01:03:52.500
is struck, the sheep are scattered.

01:03:52.500 --> 01:03:54.340
What is your role, leaders?

01:03:54.340 --> 01:03:59.900
Your role, leaders, is to make sure that you care, that you're alert, that you oversee,

01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:02.140
that you guard.

01:04:02.140 --> 01:04:07.140
Just like you would an Eliakim, you would have to guard the others.

01:04:10.420 --> 01:04:16.540
And yet you're raising him up to be an army kid who may be good at poetry and violin and

01:04:16.540 --> 01:04:19.340
painting sunrises, but he's still an army kid.

01:04:21.820 --> 01:04:23.540
That's his primary definition.

01:04:38.540 --> 01:04:39.340
Cool.

01:04:39.340 --> 01:04:40.540
Any questions, guys?

01:04:43.340 --> 01:04:46.140
Is there anything that you'd want to question?

01:04:46.140 --> 01:04:47.340
Please feel free.

01:04:48.820 --> 01:04:52.940
My enthusiasm should not be what persuades you.

01:04:58.220 --> 01:04:58.940
Any questions?

01:05:00.820 --> 01:05:02.740
Do you understand what we are about to take on?

01:05:03.740 --> 01:05:06.820
I wanted to let you know this before the New Year.

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Go over the notes that you wrote down on the room.

01:05:10.100 --> 01:05:12.100
It's important to define the room.

01:05:12.100 --> 01:05:17.100
Once you define the room, you then have to decide whether you want to enter this room or not.

01:05:21.700 --> 01:05:26.100
Because if I know there are four people that will carry a weight, there's a certain distribution of it.

01:05:26.100 --> 01:05:31.100
If I know there are eight people that will carry the weight, then the distribution changes.

01:05:31.100 --> 01:05:32.100
You have to know.

01:05:32.100 --> 01:05:35.100
I'm not going to come and question, but Maya has to know.

01:05:35.380 --> 01:05:38.380
But Maya has to know, is this something she wants?

01:05:38.380 --> 01:05:40.780
Sue has to know, is this something she wants?

01:05:40.780 --> 01:05:42.980
Diana has to know, is this something she wants?

01:05:42.980 --> 01:05:44.380
You have to decide in your heart.

01:05:45.500 --> 01:05:47.780
Be honest before God when it comes to stuff like this.

01:05:49.780 --> 01:05:56.580
This is why in 2 Timothy, it says so clearly that soldiers cannot get entangled in civilian affairs.

01:05:57.060 --> 01:05:59.060
I don't even know how to end.

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We don't have songs appropriate for this, you know?

01:06:14.060 --> 01:06:16.060
Yeah, that's one.

01:06:16.540 --> 01:06:21.540
That was more of a freedom emancipation song, sung for freedom from oppression.

01:06:25.540 --> 01:06:27.540
I'm not saying we should sing a song.

01:06:27.540 --> 01:06:31.540
I'm just saying the lack of songs shows that there is a gap.

01:06:35.540 --> 01:06:37.540
Yeah, so I'm not saying we should sing a song.

01:06:37.540 --> 01:06:41.540
I'm just saying the lack of songs shows that there is a gap.

01:06:42.020 --> 01:06:44.020
Yeah, so I'm not saying we should sing a song.

01:06:44.020 --> 01:06:46.020
So let's pray then.

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Guys, I want to end this way.

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If you really think you are beginning to grasp what God is saying to us,

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then there's a mic here.

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Come and pray the best you can.

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Because remember, it's not how well-worded your prayer is or how many amens you get,

01:07:13.500 --> 01:07:14.500
because I get none,

01:07:14.500 --> 01:07:19.500
but it is how you're able to word by the wisdom of the Spirit

01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:23.500
what the church may need to hear from someone other than the pastor.

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Yeah, so that's how we'll end.

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Then at some point I'll conclude.

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Hey, Manny.

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Father, we thank you for this new room.

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Yeah.

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Father, we thank you for this new room.

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Yeah.

01:08:08.980 --> 01:08:10.980
We don't take it lightly.

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But at the same time,

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may you help each one here

01:08:21.980 --> 01:08:23.980
wrestle with you on this, Father,

01:08:23.980 --> 01:08:27.980
so that we don't step into things that we don't want,

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but that we come to a place of delighting in this, Father,

01:08:32.460 --> 01:08:35.460
delighting in the invitation that you're giving us

01:08:35.460 --> 01:08:38.460
to come and step in and discover

01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:43.460
this new dimension called open eyes.

01:08:48.460 --> 01:08:50.460
Father, earlier you were saying,

01:08:50.460 --> 01:08:52.460
can you touch our hearts?

01:08:52.460 --> 01:08:54.460
Father, can you touch our hearts

01:08:54.940 --> 01:08:58.940
so that we begin to see and grasp

01:09:03.940 --> 01:09:06.940
what these next 12 and 24 months are going to look like?

01:09:06.940 --> 01:09:08.940
Just the beginning, Father.

01:09:08.940 --> 01:09:10.940
We just have to begin to catch the beginning.

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Because as soon as we begin to catch the beginning,

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it requires, Father, that you open our eyes.

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So, Father, I come saying,

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Father, I want to be aware, I want to be alert.

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May I never coast,

01:09:24.420 --> 01:09:27.420
may I never just go with, oh, there's other people here.

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But, Father, help me to always come,

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always, in everything I do, be alert, be aware.

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Be continually looking, saying, Father, I want to see.

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I want to see.

01:09:42.420 --> 01:09:44.420
I don't want to depend and say, oh, it's okay,

01:09:44.420 --> 01:09:45.420
other people will see.

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No, Father, this is an invitation that is for this church,

01:09:48.420 --> 01:09:51.420
but it requires each one of us to be aware

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and it requires each of us coming and saying,

01:09:53.900 --> 01:09:54.900
I want to see.

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Can you begin to open my eyes?

01:09:59.900 --> 01:10:02.900
Can you begin to change how I think, how I function?

01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:05.900
Everything about me begins to change, Father,

01:10:07.900 --> 01:10:11.900
so that I can walk in this formation

01:10:11.900 --> 01:10:15.900
and this army that you're calling us to become.

01:10:15.900 --> 01:10:16.900
Hallelujah.

01:10:19.900 --> 01:10:20.900
Thank you, Opa.

01:10:21.900 --> 01:10:22.900
Thank you.

01:10:27.900 --> 01:10:30.900
Jesus, you're the warrior king,

01:10:30.900 --> 01:10:34.900
and you are indeed asking us to step into a new territory.

01:10:35.900 --> 01:10:39.900
And this is a new chapter where we are taking the offensive.

01:10:39.900 --> 01:10:41.900
So it's absolutely new for us.

01:10:43.900 --> 01:10:45.900
Most of the time we have been on the defense

01:10:45.900 --> 01:10:48.900
or protecting what we have, holding ground,

01:10:48.900 --> 01:10:50.900
but now you're asking us to take territory.

01:10:51.380 --> 01:10:53.380
This is a new territory, new lives, Father,

01:10:53.380 --> 01:10:56.380
and something that most of us are very new at.

01:10:56.380 --> 01:10:57.380
We haven't done this before.

01:10:57.380 --> 01:10:59.380
This is the new room you asked,

01:10:59.380 --> 01:11:01.380
that we take the offensive, Father.

01:11:01.380 --> 01:11:04.380
And so, Father, I just pray that you help us

01:11:04.380 --> 01:11:05.380
to step into this.

01:11:05.380 --> 01:11:09.380
Open our eyes to the things that you already see, Father.

01:11:09.380 --> 01:11:10.380
You already see them,

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and you will open our eyes to see as you do, Father.

01:11:14.380 --> 01:11:17.380
So I thank you for this new chapter we step into,

01:11:17.380 --> 01:11:19.380
which is into the offensive, Father,

01:11:19.860 --> 01:11:22.860
and that is to claim lives back into your winning team.

01:11:23.860 --> 01:11:24.860
Yeah, thank you.

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Father, change our worship.

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Yeah.

01:11:35.860 --> 01:11:37.860
Change our worship of God.

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And I, as one of the worship leaders here, Father,

01:11:40.860 --> 01:11:43.860
let it start with Jacob, let it start with me,

01:11:43.860 --> 01:11:45.860
let it start with the leaders of God.

01:11:45.860 --> 01:11:46.860
Yeah.

01:11:47.340 --> 01:11:51.340
I refuse to settle with what we have known,

01:11:51.340 --> 01:11:53.340
what we have learned over the years.

01:11:53.340 --> 01:11:56.340
So, Father, may there be different dimensions

01:11:56.340 --> 01:11:59.340
that you will add into our worship of God.

01:11:59.340 --> 01:12:02.340
I pray that from the youngest to the oldest,

01:12:02.340 --> 01:12:05.340
may we learn how to war in our worship of God.

01:12:05.340 --> 01:12:07.340
Out of the mouths of babes, I have ordained strength

01:12:07.340 --> 01:12:09.340
to silence the avenger.

01:12:09.340 --> 01:12:10.340
Yes.

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And so, Father, I pray may we learn

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:15.340
how to war in our worship of God.

01:12:15.820 --> 01:12:17.820
May we learn how to decree.

01:12:17.820 --> 01:12:19.820
May we learn when to bind the enemy,

01:12:19.820 --> 01:12:22.820
when to rebuke, when to command.

01:12:22.820 --> 01:12:26.820
I pray that healings, strongholds begins to break.

01:12:26.820 --> 01:12:29.820
May miracles begin to flow in our worship of God.

01:12:29.820 --> 01:12:34.820
I pray that no one will be silent about

01:12:34.820 --> 01:12:35.820
when it comes to worship.

01:12:35.820 --> 01:12:39.820
I pray may there be a shift in our worship of God.

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And so, Father, I pray that we don't take time

01:12:42.820 --> 01:12:43.820
to change this.

01:12:44.300 --> 01:12:46.300
May it begin right here, right now.

01:12:46.300 --> 01:12:49.300
And, Abba, I pray that starting with

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for the coming days, whenever we gather,

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I pray that our worship never remain the same,

01:12:57.300 --> 01:12:58.300
I pray.

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Father, show us what it means to worship

01:13:01.300 --> 01:13:03.300
like Paul and Silas in prison.

01:13:03.300 --> 01:13:07.300
Even after being beaten and whipped and in chains,

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may we learn how to get up and rise up

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even in the middle of the night

01:13:11.780 --> 01:13:15.780
and continue to praise and let chains break loose.

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Oh, God, I pray may we learn how to worship

01:13:19.780 --> 01:13:24.780
with a different attitude where we will expect,

01:13:24.780 --> 01:13:26.780
expect, Abba, whenever we worship,

01:13:26.780 --> 01:13:29.780
may we expect strongholds to break.

01:13:29.780 --> 01:13:32.780
May we expect miracles to break forward.

01:13:32.780 --> 01:13:35.780
May we expect new grounds to break forward.

01:13:35.780 --> 01:13:38.780
Every time we worship, Abba, I pray that now

01:13:39.260 --> 01:13:42.260
may worship not just be about worshiping who you are,

01:13:42.260 --> 01:13:46.260
but may we now begin to expect that miracles

01:13:46.260 --> 01:13:49.260
will break forward in the lives of our friends,

01:13:49.260 --> 01:13:53.260
of our neighbors, of people who have not experienced

01:13:53.260 --> 01:13:57.260
you, oh, God, so that things now begin to change, oh, God.

01:13:57.260 --> 01:14:00.260
And so that's one thing I pray for in Jesus' name.

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Thank you, Father.

01:14:06.260 --> 01:14:07.260
How about you?

01:14:09.260 --> 01:14:12.260
You're equipping us with army boots.

01:14:12.260 --> 01:14:15.260
And funny enough, I'm wearing army boots today.

01:14:15.260 --> 01:14:16.260
Crazy.

01:14:16.260 --> 01:14:18.260
But I just want to say that as a symbol

01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:22.260
that army boots were created to tread things.

01:14:22.260 --> 01:14:25.260
Army boots were created to tread things.

01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:27.260
And something that you were showing me

01:14:27.260 --> 01:14:29.260
as we were listening to the teaching

01:14:29.260 --> 01:14:31.260
and what you're revealing in this room is that,

01:14:31.260 --> 01:14:34.260
Jane, can you learn to put systems under your feet?

01:14:34.260 --> 01:14:37.260
Can you take systems like school?

01:14:37.740 --> 01:14:40.740
I'm starting school and I've so desperately asked you

01:14:40.740 --> 01:14:43.740
to help me not be bound and restricted by this thing

01:14:43.740 --> 01:14:46.740
called school because ultimately it's something

01:14:46.740 --> 01:14:47.740
that you have called me to.

01:14:47.740 --> 01:14:50.740
And I know there are things for each of us like that,

01:14:50.740 --> 01:14:52.740
where there are systems in the world that you've asked us

01:14:52.740 --> 01:14:55.740
to step into, but they are starting to constrict us.

01:14:55.740 --> 01:14:57.740
They start to dictate things.

01:14:57.740 --> 01:15:00.740
And I pray that you teach us to put them under our feet

01:15:00.740 --> 01:15:03.740
by the authority of Jesus and by the wisdom

01:15:03.740 --> 01:15:04.740
of the Holy Spirit.

01:15:05.220 --> 01:15:07.220
So I just stand here as a symbolic gesture

01:15:07.220 --> 01:15:09.220
that we, Abba, want to say, yes,

01:15:09.220 --> 01:15:12.220
can you show us how to put these systems under our feet

01:15:12.220 --> 01:15:14.220
so that we walk different this year,

01:15:14.220 --> 01:15:18.220
coming into 2026, I ask it in Jesus' name.

01:15:18.220 --> 01:15:19.220
Amen.

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Father, as Nick comes up, I pray a very simple prayer

01:15:26.220 --> 01:15:27.220
for all of us as a church.

01:15:27.220 --> 01:15:30.220
I pray the same prayer that Elisha prayed for his servant.

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I pray for myself and I pray for the church.

01:15:33.700 --> 01:15:35.700
Oh, God, would you open our eyes

01:15:35.700 --> 01:15:40.700
so that we can see what you are doing

01:15:41.700 --> 01:15:43.700
in the invisible land in the city.

01:15:44.700 --> 01:15:46.700
Would you open our eyes, oh God,

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those that are here and those that are not here.

01:15:48.700 --> 01:15:50.700
Would you open our eyes, oh God,

01:15:50.700 --> 01:15:51.700
so that we may see.

01:15:51.700 --> 01:15:54.700
I ask this, like Elisha asked for his servants,

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I ask for all of us.

01:15:55.700 --> 01:15:57.700
And I pray, Lord, that as we begin to see,

01:15:57.700 --> 01:15:59.700
that you would give us the discernment

01:15:59.700 --> 01:16:02.700
and the wisdom to know that which is off you

01:16:03.180 --> 01:16:04.180
and that which is not.

01:16:05.180 --> 01:16:06.180
We will learn through mistakes,

01:16:06.180 --> 01:16:10.180
but we will learn in discernment, in Jesus' name.

01:16:10.180 --> 01:16:12.180
I thank you for hearing this prayer.

01:16:12.180 --> 01:16:14.180
The reason I'm so confident you're hearing and answering

01:16:14.180 --> 01:16:16.180
is because you started this.

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Father, I just come as one amongst many,

01:16:29.180 --> 01:16:32.180
one who does not have his own name.

01:16:32.660 --> 01:16:36.660
I'm wearing the hoodie that you,

01:16:36.660 --> 01:16:39.660
that have your intentions on them,

01:16:39.660 --> 01:16:42.660
your announcement, and it's just,

01:16:42.660 --> 01:16:45.660
I'm just coming up as one, an unnamed one

01:16:45.660 --> 01:16:47.660
who does not have his own name

01:16:47.660 --> 01:16:49.660
but has the name of Christ.

01:16:49.660 --> 01:16:51.660
Hallelujah, hallelujah.

01:16:51.660 --> 01:16:56.660
I thank you, Father, for setting aside this for us.

01:16:57.140 --> 01:16:58.140
Hallelujah.

01:16:58.140 --> 01:17:01.140
I thank you for the joy of,

01:17:06.140 --> 01:17:09.140
of living for something beyond,

01:17:09.140 --> 01:17:12.140
having a call from heaven, having a connection from heaven,

01:17:12.140 --> 01:17:17.140
the joy of a fantastic master and a fantastic king

01:17:18.140 --> 01:17:21.140
that we can bring into this world.

01:17:21.140 --> 01:17:24.140
And Father, I just thank you for the taste

01:17:24.620 --> 01:17:28.620
of what we're about to, the taste of victory.

01:17:28.620 --> 01:17:32.620
Father, I thank you for the taste that will just change us.

01:17:32.620 --> 01:17:37.620
I thank you for preparing us for this

01:17:37.620 --> 01:17:40.620
and for giving it to us, for giving it to us.

01:17:40.620 --> 01:17:45.620
This is our inheritance, and I just bless you for it.

01:17:45.620 --> 01:17:49.620
And Father, I pray, I thank you that we get to do this together,

01:17:49.620 --> 01:17:52.620
that we don't have names, we don't have anything to lose.

01:17:53.100 --> 01:17:56.100
We don't have anything of our own to,

01:17:56.100 --> 01:17:58.100
like, I love this family.

01:17:58.100 --> 01:18:01.100
Every year, Father, that I stay here,

01:18:01.100 --> 01:18:04.100
I think I love them, and then the next Christmas comes

01:18:04.100 --> 01:18:06.100
and I'm like, oh, I love them more.

01:18:06.100 --> 01:18:10.100
And Father, this is a privilege and a joy to do this

01:18:10.100 --> 01:18:12.100
with each other, beside each other,

01:18:12.100 --> 01:18:15.100
seeing how different parts of you appear

01:18:15.100 --> 01:18:18.100
in the different aspects of us,

01:18:18.100 --> 01:18:21.100
in our neighbor, in our brother, in our sister,

01:18:21.580 --> 01:18:24.580
and it all comes together to show what you're really like.

01:18:24.580 --> 01:18:27.580
So Father, I just thank you for unity.

01:18:27.580 --> 01:18:31.580
I thank you for oneness in movement and fluidity.

01:18:31.580 --> 01:18:36.580
And I just want to pray just that for unleashing

01:18:37.580 --> 01:18:41.580
of inhibitions in worship, and I thank you for,

01:18:41.580 --> 01:18:43.580
and those boom-boom guys.

01:18:43.580 --> 01:18:46.580
Well, I just pray that, or it's not even guys,

01:18:46.580 --> 01:18:49.580
it's just not one or two, Father, or three or four guys,

01:18:50.060 --> 01:18:52.060
it's all of us at different times,

01:18:52.060 --> 01:18:56.060
following the leading, your leading,

01:18:56.060 --> 01:18:59.060
and it's just you.

01:18:59.060 --> 01:19:02.060
So I just pray in Jesus' name.

01:19:09.060 --> 01:19:12.060
Father, I just pray for unity amongst us, Father.

01:19:12.060 --> 01:19:15.060
An army cannot win a territory if each individual

01:19:15.060 --> 01:19:18.060
has their own thoughts and ways, Father.

01:19:18.540 --> 01:19:20.540
So I just pray for your ways

01:19:20.540 --> 01:19:23.540
and your thoughts amongst us, Father.

01:19:23.540 --> 01:19:26.540
Even though each different part has different ways

01:19:26.540 --> 01:19:30.540
of operating and different gifts, Father,

01:19:30.540 --> 01:19:34.540
we are a single body that belongs to you.

01:19:34.540 --> 01:19:37.540
So Father, I pray that we will be united

01:19:37.540 --> 01:19:42.540
and uplift each other and build each other up, Father.

01:19:42.540 --> 01:19:45.540
And make us so confident in approaching you, Father.

01:19:46.020 --> 01:19:49.020
Make us so confident that you hear us

01:19:49.020 --> 01:19:52.020
whenever we ask anything according to your will, Father.

01:19:52.020 --> 01:19:53.020
Thank you.

01:19:55.020 --> 01:19:56.020
Thank you.

01:19:56.020 --> 01:19:58.020
We know you hear us, Father.

01:19:58.020 --> 01:19:59.020
Hallelujah.

01:19:59.020 --> 01:20:01.020
And we know that we already have

01:20:01.020 --> 01:20:03.020
what we have asked for in your name.

01:20:03.020 --> 01:20:04.020
Amen.

01:20:04.020 --> 01:20:06.020
So make us united, Father.

01:20:06.020 --> 01:20:08.020
Keep us united in the name of Jesus, I pray.

01:20:08.020 --> 01:20:10.020
Thank you, Father.

01:20:10.020 --> 01:20:13.020
Father, even as we are praying,

01:20:13.500 --> 01:20:16.500
I just thank you that we will not forget

01:20:16.500 --> 01:20:19.500
the 223,000 lives,

01:20:19.500 --> 01:20:22.500
each of which you know, each of which you made,

01:20:22.500 --> 01:20:24.500
each of whose names you know.

01:20:26.500 --> 01:20:29.500
You are making us this for the sake of others.

01:20:31.500 --> 01:20:35.500
An army that exists for its own is pointless.

01:20:35.500 --> 01:20:39.500
We exist for the advancement of the kingdom

01:20:39.500 --> 01:20:42.500
and the rescue of those that are being oppressed.

01:20:42.980 --> 01:20:44.980
We will not forget that.

01:20:45.980 --> 01:20:46.980
Remy sent this.

01:20:46.980 --> 01:20:47.980
He's watching.

01:20:47.980 --> 01:20:50.980
The Lord showed me a rolled scroll.

01:20:50.980 --> 01:20:53.980
In it is written Acts 29 in the heading.

01:20:53.980 --> 01:20:55.980
And then it's filled with names, new names

01:20:55.980 --> 01:20:57.980
that will be written down in the Book of Life,

01:20:57.980 --> 01:21:01.980
lives that we will impact in 2026.

01:21:01.980 --> 01:21:04.980
There are names of nations written too.

01:21:04.980 --> 01:21:07.980
Sweden and Bosnia specifically jumped out.

01:21:07.980 --> 01:21:10.980
Sons of the house will walk in the miraculous.

01:21:11.460 --> 01:21:13.460
They will speak with boldness.

01:21:13.460 --> 01:21:15.460
They will prophesy with such accuracy

01:21:15.460 --> 01:21:18.460
that those who hear will fear the Lord and turn to him.

01:21:18.460 --> 01:21:22.460
Then Isaiah 43 is the other chapter he's quoting.

01:21:22.460 --> 01:21:24.460
Thanks, Remy.

01:21:24.460 --> 01:21:26.460
Derek, you wanted to come up?

01:21:26.460 --> 01:21:28.460
And after that I might ask Sen.

01:21:28.460 --> 01:21:31.460
Derek, you come, otherwise you'll end up waiting forever.

01:21:32.460 --> 01:21:35.460
After Derek, Sen, and after that I might call me up

01:21:35.460 --> 01:21:37.460
if there's nobody else.

01:21:37.940 --> 01:21:42.940
I just want to read out a few verses

01:21:42.940 --> 01:21:44.940
and remind us of a few things.

01:21:44.940 --> 01:21:48.940
One of the things God said is this is the third day

01:21:48.940 --> 01:21:51.940
and we have to look at Richmond and the story of Richmond

01:21:51.940 --> 01:21:55.940
as a third day that God will bring about for the city.

01:21:55.940 --> 01:21:56.940
What is the third day?

01:21:56.940 --> 01:22:00.940
Devil thinks everything is dead.

01:22:00.940 --> 01:22:04.940
Devil thinks it's decaying, but God shows up.

01:22:05.420 --> 01:22:07.420
He shows up and it's not like before.

01:22:07.420 --> 01:22:11.420
He shows up and what was thought to be dead is alive.

01:22:12.420 --> 01:22:16.420
So when Jacob said these many people in this city,

01:22:16.420 --> 01:22:18.420
the devil thinks they're dead.

01:22:18.420 --> 01:22:20.420
The devil thinks they're gone.

01:22:20.420 --> 01:22:22.420
Devil thinks there is nothing good that can happen,

01:22:22.420 --> 01:22:25.420
but God comes through, God opens the door

01:22:25.420 --> 01:22:28.420
and God says no, they will live.

01:22:28.420 --> 01:22:32.420
So this is going to be a third day type of day

01:22:32.900 --> 01:22:33.900
for Richmond.

01:22:36.900 --> 01:22:39.900
Second, let us know, Acts 29.

01:22:39.900 --> 01:22:41.900
Let us press on to know the Lord.

01:22:41.900 --> 01:22:45.900
Let's press on like Anna said together as a people.

01:22:45.900 --> 01:22:49.900
Press on because there is a purpose like Nick prayed,

01:22:49.900 --> 01:22:52.900
a purpose that is greater than any of us

01:22:52.900 --> 01:22:54.900
could ever have dreamt of.

01:22:54.900 --> 01:22:57.900
Who are we that he is mindful of us?

01:22:57.900 --> 01:23:00.900
That we get to participate in the purpose of God

01:23:01.380 --> 01:23:03.380
who rules heaven and earth.

01:23:03.380 --> 01:23:07.380
He rules everything and we get to participate with him.

01:23:07.380 --> 01:23:09.380
So let us know, Acts 29.

01:23:09.380 --> 01:23:12.380
Let us know that we are meant to stand together

01:23:12.380 --> 01:23:16.380
and inherit the promises that God has for his people.

01:23:16.380 --> 01:23:19.380
Number three, four and then that's it.

01:23:19.380 --> 01:23:22.380
Number three, this is what God desires of us.

01:23:22.380 --> 01:23:25.380
For I desire steadfast love.

01:23:25.380 --> 01:23:27.380
See, when we talk about steadfast love,

01:23:27.380 --> 01:23:29.380
we're talking about the promise of God.

01:23:29.860 --> 01:23:31.860
When we talk about steadfast love,

01:23:31.860 --> 01:23:34.860
we talk about his steadfast love to us.

01:23:34.860 --> 01:23:37.860
But he desires steadfast love from us to him.

01:23:37.860 --> 01:23:41.860
And our love to him also has to be love for people.

01:23:42.860 --> 01:23:45.860
Our steadfast love for his people.

01:23:45.860 --> 01:23:48.860
Can we then begin to see people without really

01:23:48.860 --> 01:23:51.860
seeing even their faces, but be their faces too

01:23:51.860 --> 01:23:53.860
and begin to love them.

01:23:53.860 --> 01:23:56.860
Love people who we don't know yet.

01:23:57.340 --> 01:23:59.340
Teenagers, 20 year olds, 30 year olds,

01:23:59.340 --> 01:24:02.340
80 year olds, it doesn't matter, but love them.

01:24:02.340 --> 01:24:04.340
Because God desires it.

01:24:04.340 --> 01:24:05.840
What else does he desire?

01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:09.340
The knowledge of God rather than burned offerings.

01:24:09.340 --> 01:24:13.340
That his knowledge that has been shared with us

01:24:13.340 --> 01:24:17.340
about the city, about the people of God.

01:24:17.340 --> 01:24:19.340
This knowledge is important for him

01:24:19.340 --> 01:24:21.340
because we aren't walking into a warfare

01:24:21.340 --> 01:24:24.340
without understanding what he wants us to do.

01:24:24.340 --> 01:24:26.340
We walk into warfare like Jacob said

01:24:26.820 --> 01:24:29.820
and saying information, information.

01:24:29.820 --> 01:24:31.820
Oh, this is what you want me to do?

01:24:31.820 --> 01:24:33.820
Yes, I want to do that.

01:24:33.820 --> 01:24:37.820
Obedience, so knowledge that translates into application.

01:24:37.820 --> 01:24:38.820
And then the last thing.

01:24:39.820 --> 01:24:42.820
I'm misquoting this verse because this verse

01:24:42.820 --> 01:24:45.820
is meant for something else when you read this chapter.

01:24:45.820 --> 01:24:47.820
But the principle is important.

01:24:47.820 --> 01:24:50.820
God talks about a people and he says,

01:24:50.820 --> 01:24:53.820
as robbers lie in wait for a man,

01:24:54.300 --> 01:24:56.300
when priests band together,

01:24:56.300 --> 01:24:58.300
they murder on the way to check him,

01:24:58.300 --> 01:25:00.300
they commit villainy.

01:25:00.300 --> 01:25:01.300
But think about it.

01:25:01.300 --> 01:25:05.300
As robbers huddle together and scheme together,

01:25:05.300 --> 01:25:07.300
priests get together and try to murder people

01:25:07.300 --> 01:25:09.300
in that story.

01:25:09.300 --> 01:25:11.300
But what is expected of us,

01:25:11.300 --> 01:25:13.300
what is expected of you and I,

01:25:13.300 --> 01:25:15.300
is that we band together

01:25:15.300 --> 01:25:17.300
with the strategies of the spirit of God,

01:25:17.300 --> 01:25:20.300
with the unity that Anna prayed for.

01:25:20.300 --> 01:25:22.300
And we say, God, what's your plan

01:25:22.780 --> 01:25:24.780
for this particular part of Richmond?

01:25:24.780 --> 01:25:27.780
What is your plan as we now as two by two

01:25:27.780 --> 01:25:29.780
and four by four go out,

01:25:29.780 --> 01:25:30.780
what is your plan for these people

01:25:30.780 --> 01:25:31.780
that we're going to be meeting?

01:25:31.780 --> 01:25:33.780
This is real, real guys.

01:25:33.780 --> 01:25:34.780
We have to touch it.

01:25:34.780 --> 01:25:37.780
It's so tangible because God births these things.

01:25:37.780 --> 01:25:40.780
It is only for us to walk into it.

01:25:40.780 --> 01:25:41.780
Who are we?

01:25:41.780 --> 01:25:42.780
There's nothing special about us,

01:25:42.780 --> 01:25:45.780
but his spirit is in us that makes us special.

01:25:45.780 --> 01:25:48.780
His spirit makes us special.

01:25:48.780 --> 01:25:50.780
So let's band together.

01:25:51.260 --> 01:25:52.260
And when we band together,

01:25:52.260 --> 01:25:53.260
we operate in unity.

01:25:53.260 --> 01:25:55.260
And what's the difference this time?

01:25:55.260 --> 01:25:57.260
When God's people band together,

01:25:57.260 --> 01:25:59.260
when God's people walk in unity,

01:25:59.260 --> 01:26:02.260
we become people who give life.

01:26:02.260 --> 01:26:04.260
We then look at situations and say,

01:26:04.260 --> 01:26:06.260
in the name of Christ Jesus,

01:26:06.260 --> 01:26:07.260
the real ruler of Richmond,

01:26:07.260 --> 01:26:09.260
the real ruler of these people,

01:26:09.260 --> 01:26:12.260
we give and pronounce life.

01:26:12.260 --> 01:26:13.260
And life flows.

01:26:13.260 --> 01:26:14.260
Amen.

01:26:21.260 --> 01:26:24.260
Father, we're entering this new room

01:26:24.260 --> 01:26:29.260
and we're entering this new year with a shout.

01:26:30.260 --> 01:26:32.260
And what is this shout?

01:26:32.260 --> 01:26:35.260
It's a shout that breaks the silence.

01:26:35.260 --> 01:26:36.260
Sorry, say that again.

01:26:36.260 --> 01:26:38.260
It's a shout that breaks the silence.

01:26:38.260 --> 01:26:39.260
Yeah.

01:26:39.260 --> 01:26:41.260
It's a shout that cuts through

01:26:41.260 --> 01:26:44.260
the howling winds of desolation.

01:26:44.260 --> 01:26:47.260
It's a shout that breaks the silence.

01:26:47.260 --> 01:26:50.260
It's a shout that breaks the silence.

01:26:50.740 --> 01:26:51.740
Hallelujah.

01:26:51.740 --> 01:26:54.740
It's a shout that's announcing something.

01:26:54.740 --> 01:26:56.740
And who is this announcing?

01:26:56.740 --> 01:26:58.740
What is this announcing?

01:26:58.740 --> 01:27:01.740
This shout is announcing our King.

01:27:01.740 --> 01:27:02.740
We're entering this new year

01:27:02.740 --> 01:27:04.740
with the shout of a King.

01:27:04.740 --> 01:27:05.740
Hallelujah.

01:27:05.740 --> 01:27:09.740
And this is a shout that screams of his victory.

01:27:09.740 --> 01:27:13.740
That isn't coming, but it's already here.

01:27:13.740 --> 01:27:15.740
This shout announces the victory

01:27:15.740 --> 01:27:18.740
that our King has already won.

01:27:20.740 --> 01:27:22.740
It is a shout that announces

01:27:22.740 --> 01:27:24.740
that heaven is coming to earth.

01:27:24.740 --> 01:27:25.740
Amen.

01:27:25.740 --> 01:27:28.740
It is a shout that is bringing heaven to earth, Father.

01:27:28.740 --> 01:27:30.740
So if this is what we're supposed to do, Father,

01:27:30.740 --> 01:27:34.740
I just pray that you would make us a people

01:27:34.740 --> 01:27:36.740
who is able to shout this way, Father.

01:27:36.740 --> 01:27:37.740
Yeah.

01:27:37.740 --> 01:27:41.740
Help us to be able to step out of the routine, Lord.

01:27:41.740 --> 01:27:43.740
That we're not just coming here

01:27:43.740 --> 01:27:46.740
on the days that are designated.

01:27:46.740 --> 01:27:48.740
We're not just coming here on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,

01:27:49.220 --> 01:27:50.220
we're not just coming here

01:27:50.220 --> 01:27:52.220
because someone said we need to come.

01:27:52.220 --> 01:27:56.220
We're coming here because we know what we're called to do.

01:27:56.220 --> 01:27:58.220
We know the importance and the weight

01:27:58.220 --> 01:28:00.220
of what you've asked us to do, Father.

01:28:00.220 --> 01:28:03.220
Help us to come with eagerness.

01:28:03.220 --> 01:28:05.220
Help us to come with questions

01:28:05.220 --> 01:28:08.220
asking what we can do next.

01:28:08.220 --> 01:28:11.220
Help us to come with dissatisfaction, Lord.

01:28:11.220 --> 01:28:14.220
Help us to come with the visions and dreams

01:28:14.220 --> 01:28:15.220
that you give us, Father.

01:28:15.220 --> 01:28:17.220
Help us to come with all of these things

01:28:17.700 --> 01:28:19.700
and come and realize what it is to partner with you

01:28:19.700 --> 01:28:21.700
and partner with the body, Father.

01:28:21.700 --> 01:28:23.700
Amen.

01:28:25.700 --> 01:28:27.700
So Father, I just pray that you would help us

01:28:27.700 --> 01:28:29.700
stand in formation, Father,

01:28:31.700 --> 01:28:33.700
and even show us how to shout, Father.

01:28:33.700 --> 01:28:36.700
And finally, Father, I just pray that you would help us

01:28:36.700 --> 01:28:39.700
to come around those that lead us as well, Father.

01:28:39.700 --> 01:28:41.700
There's already a battle to be fought.

01:28:41.700 --> 01:28:43.700
Let us not make it harder for them.

01:28:43.700 --> 01:28:45.700
Father, I just pray that you would help us.

01:28:46.180 --> 01:28:51.180
I, myself, Lord, I don't know how I can best support

01:28:51.180 --> 01:28:54.180
or pray for my leaders, but can you teach me?

01:28:54.180 --> 01:28:57.180
And Father, can you teach the rest of us as well, Lord,

01:28:57.180 --> 01:28:59.180
that if we're supposed to do this together,

01:28:59.180 --> 01:29:01.180
then we're supposed to come under the leaders

01:29:01.180 --> 01:29:03.180
that are placed and trust the vision

01:29:03.180 --> 01:29:05.180
that you have given them, Father,

01:29:05.180 --> 01:29:08.180
and trust what you have for us through them as well.

01:29:10.180 --> 01:29:12.180
So I pray all of this in your name, Father.

01:29:12.180 --> 01:29:13.180
Amen.

01:29:13.180 --> 01:29:15.180
Who's next?

01:29:15.660 --> 01:29:17.660
Come.

01:29:21.660 --> 01:29:23.660
You're going to grab a mic.

01:29:25.660 --> 01:29:26.660
Praise the Lord, Church.

01:29:26.660 --> 01:29:29.660
I was, I had a vision as I was praying,

01:29:29.660 --> 01:29:33.660
when Pastor was talking about, preaching about,

01:29:33.660 --> 01:29:36.660
teaching us about the new room,

01:29:36.660 --> 01:29:41.660
and with the series sermon, sermon series going on

01:29:41.660 --> 01:29:44.660
with training your hands to battle.

01:29:45.140 --> 01:29:50.140
If you've got personal battles in your life,

01:29:52.140 --> 01:29:53.140
say amen.

01:29:53.140 --> 01:29:54.140
Amen.

01:29:54.140 --> 01:29:56.140
Okay, amen.

01:30:00.140 --> 01:30:02.140
Now listening to the sermon,

01:30:02.140 --> 01:30:06.140
every time Pastor said, or rather,

01:30:06.140 --> 01:30:09.140
Pastor was talking about training your hands to battle,

01:30:09.140 --> 01:30:11.140
I've been there in that place,

01:30:11.140 --> 01:30:14.140
trying to actually tell people to train your hands to battle,

01:30:14.620 --> 01:30:17.620
and I'm in a stage in my life

01:30:17.620 --> 01:30:20.620
where there are so many personal battles

01:30:20.620 --> 01:30:23.620
that going through a day

01:30:23.620 --> 01:30:26.620
and getting out at the end of it all,

01:30:26.620 --> 01:30:29.620
alive seems like a win.

01:30:31.620 --> 01:30:33.620
And then you come Sunday on Sunday,

01:30:33.620 --> 01:30:35.620
sit here, listen to a message where

01:30:35.620 --> 01:30:39.620
Pastor's teaching you to train your hands to battle,

01:30:40.620 --> 01:30:42.620
completely different battles,

01:30:43.100 --> 01:30:45.100
not your personal battles.

01:30:45.100 --> 01:30:46.100
So when we spoke about,

01:30:46.100 --> 01:30:49.100
when he started talking about entering a new room,

01:30:49.100 --> 01:30:52.100
I'm like, I have not even made peace

01:30:52.100 --> 01:30:54.100
with where I am right now.

01:30:54.100 --> 01:30:57.100
And we're talking about taking up something

01:30:57.100 --> 01:30:59.100
much more larger.

01:30:59.100 --> 01:31:01.100
And I'm wondering to myself,

01:31:01.100 --> 01:31:03.100
is it just me or is there more people like this

01:31:03.100 --> 01:31:06.100
because it doesn't feel,

01:31:07.100 --> 01:31:09.100
I'm not confident about it.

01:31:09.100 --> 01:31:10.100
What do I do, Lord?

01:31:10.580 --> 01:31:13.580
How am I going to take steps forward here

01:31:13.580 --> 01:31:15.580
as part of this congregation

01:31:15.580 --> 01:31:20.580
when I'm struggling with things myself?

01:31:21.580 --> 01:31:24.580
And at that time, God showed me a movie.

01:31:26.580 --> 01:31:28.580
Forgive me for dramatizing this,

01:31:28.580 --> 01:31:33.580
but I have grown up watching a lot of animated stuff.

01:31:34.580 --> 01:31:39.580
And The Prince of Egypt was a movie

01:31:40.060 --> 01:31:42.060
which caught my attention a long time ago

01:31:43.060 --> 01:31:45.060
for very specific reasons.

01:31:45.060 --> 01:31:47.060
Forget the biblical aspect of it,

01:31:47.060 --> 01:31:49.060
but just the way in which the art was done.

01:31:50.060 --> 01:31:51.060
Let my people go.

01:31:51.060 --> 01:31:53.060
Moses coming and talking to Pharaoh,

01:31:53.060 --> 01:31:55.060
Pharaoh talking back to him as a friend

01:31:55.060 --> 01:31:57.060
and eventually, right, brother, sorry,

01:31:57.060 --> 01:31:59.060
eventually turning back.

01:31:59.060 --> 01:32:02.060
And the third time around where his eyes now show

01:32:05.060 --> 01:32:08.060
the scripture that is written where it says,

01:32:08.540 --> 01:32:11.540
the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.

01:32:13.540 --> 01:32:15.540
And so continuing with that movie comes to the point

01:32:15.540 --> 01:32:19.540
where the Israelites eventually walk out of Egypt

01:32:19.540 --> 01:32:23.540
and they are now in front of the Red Sea

01:32:23.540 --> 01:32:26.540
and Pharaoh's army is now chasing them

01:32:26.540 --> 01:32:29.540
and they turn around, they look at it,

01:32:29.540 --> 01:32:34.540
and Moses stretches his hands out and Red Sea parts.

01:32:35.020 --> 01:32:37.020
I had to go back and read the Bible

01:32:37.020 --> 01:32:41.020
to make sure that I actually was not missing something

01:32:41.020 --> 01:32:43.020
which the Bible was talking about

01:32:43.020 --> 01:32:45.020
and the movie had shown

01:32:45.020 --> 01:32:47.020
and I did not know what the Bible spoke about

01:32:47.020 --> 01:32:50.020
because the Bible says they walked on dry ground.

01:32:50.020 --> 01:32:53.020
They walked in between the sea

01:32:53.020 --> 01:32:57.020
where the sea turned into walls on their right and their left.

01:32:57.020 --> 01:32:59.020
If you go and watch this movie,

01:32:59.020 --> 01:33:01.020
it looks like as if they are actually going

01:33:01.020 --> 01:33:03.020
from one room into another room

01:33:03.500 --> 01:33:05.500
because there's a light which comes on,

01:33:05.500 --> 01:33:08.500
the second the sea splits and then they start walking inside.

01:33:08.500 --> 01:33:10.500
Just like how when you are entering inside a new room,

01:33:10.500 --> 01:33:12.500
you are going to go turn on the light

01:33:12.500 --> 01:33:14.500
because you are not entirely sure

01:33:14.500 --> 01:33:16.500
what exactly is there inside that room.

01:33:16.500 --> 01:33:18.500
Now add in your own personal battles.

01:33:20.500 --> 01:33:23.500
Add in fear of the dark, add in a crutch,

01:33:23.500 --> 01:33:28.500
add in past experiences of entering inside a room

01:33:28.500 --> 01:33:30.500
and somebody going, boom!

01:33:30.500 --> 01:33:32.500
Or worse, a lizard jumping on you.

01:33:33.500 --> 01:33:38.500
We have no idea of what 223,000 people are ready to do

01:33:38.500 --> 01:33:40.500
yet God is asking us to walk inside

01:33:40.500 --> 01:33:43.500
and I'm sitting there and I'm like, Lord, how?

01:33:43.500 --> 01:33:45.500
And he showed me this scene

01:33:45.500 --> 01:33:49.500
and it's so beautiful that Derek came and spoke

01:33:49.500 --> 01:33:51.500
and he said band together

01:33:51.500 --> 01:33:54.500
because the entire lot in that movie,

01:33:54.500 --> 01:33:56.500
all they did was band together

01:33:56.500 --> 01:33:58.500
and say, you know what, we don't have much of a choice

01:33:58.500 --> 01:34:00.500
but to walk in the way of the Lord

01:34:00.500 --> 01:34:02.500
and we are going to walk in the way of the Lord

01:34:02.980 --> 01:34:04.980
and the Lord is going to take us to the other side.

01:34:04.980 --> 01:34:05.980
That's about it.

01:34:05.980 --> 01:34:07.980
They were still fed, they were still protected,

01:34:07.980 --> 01:34:09.980
they still all went to the other side.

01:34:09.980 --> 01:34:11.980
All their personal battles remained,

01:34:11.980 --> 01:34:13.980
all were taken care of by God

01:34:13.980 --> 01:34:15.980
but the mission was completed

01:34:15.980 --> 01:34:17.980
because when they reached the other side,

01:34:17.980 --> 01:34:19.980
they did not see the Egyptians once again.

01:34:24.980 --> 01:34:27.980
One of the things that we have to realize

01:34:27.980 --> 01:34:30.980
is there was no one worse off than Gideon

01:34:31.460 --> 01:34:35.460
and yet purpose is what gives Gideon his courage.

01:34:35.460 --> 01:34:38.460
Yeah, there's nothing like purpose

01:34:38.460 --> 01:34:42.460
that begins to make my problems smaller

01:34:42.460 --> 01:34:45.460
than the problems when I face them myself.

01:34:45.460 --> 01:34:47.460
Gideon is a classic example.

01:34:47.460 --> 01:34:49.460
His response to the angel of God was

01:34:49.460 --> 01:34:51.460
I'm the least of my clan,

01:34:51.460 --> 01:34:54.460
where was God when we were being ravaged?

01:34:54.460 --> 01:34:55.460
And then he's given purpose.

01:34:55.460 --> 01:34:58.460
The moment purpose comes, Gideon changes.

01:34:58.940 --> 01:35:01.940
Sometimes our personal struggles are so intense

01:35:01.940 --> 01:35:03.940
because that is the only thing

01:35:03.940 --> 01:35:05.940
we have going on in our lives.

01:35:05.940 --> 01:35:07.940
God has the ability to take people

01:35:07.940 --> 01:35:09.940
who in their personal struggles

01:35:09.940 --> 01:35:11.940
including Joseph, Mary, Gideon, Moses,

01:35:11.940 --> 01:35:14.940
Moses was running from a murder.

01:35:14.940 --> 01:35:17.940
Please, none of you have been there.

01:35:20.940 --> 01:35:22.940
And then when purpose comes,

01:35:22.940 --> 01:35:24.940
you are fascinated at the strength

01:35:24.940 --> 01:35:26.940
that comes into you

01:35:27.420 --> 01:35:30.420
and God taking care of the other problem.

01:35:35.420 --> 01:35:36.420
Come here.

01:35:39.420 --> 01:35:41.420
Yeah, Father.

01:35:42.420 --> 01:35:45.420
As you open our eyes, Father,

01:35:45.420 --> 01:35:47.420
you're opening our eyes to

01:35:47.420 --> 01:35:51.420
even on this day on the 31st,

01:35:51.420 --> 01:35:53.420
that there are people who

01:35:53.420 --> 01:35:56.420
are dancing to the beat of hell.

01:35:56.900 --> 01:35:58.900
They are trapped, Father,

01:35:58.900 --> 01:36:00.900
isolated, lost.

01:36:00.900 --> 01:36:02.900
They don't know they're left

01:36:02.900 --> 01:36:04.900
from their right hand.

01:36:04.900 --> 01:36:06.900
So, Father, it's to a people

01:36:06.900 --> 01:36:07.900
that you're calling us to, Father.

01:36:07.900 --> 01:36:09.900
That's the inheritance.

01:36:09.900 --> 01:36:11.900
So, Father, that's the prayer that we pray

01:36:11.900 --> 01:36:13.900
that train us for war,

01:36:13.900 --> 01:36:15.900
train our fingers for war, Father.

01:36:15.900 --> 01:36:18.900
And our trust just comes in that

01:36:18.900 --> 01:36:22.900
we have the Lord of the angel armies

01:36:22.900 --> 01:36:24.900
who goes before us,

01:36:25.380 --> 01:36:26.380
who goes before us.

01:36:26.380 --> 01:36:28.380
That's where we can get the courage from, Father.

01:36:28.380 --> 01:36:30.380
We don't look to ourselves.

01:36:30.380 --> 01:36:31.380
We look to you, Father,

01:36:31.380 --> 01:36:32.380
because you go ahead.

01:36:32.380 --> 01:36:33.380
Why?

01:36:33.380 --> 01:36:35.380
To rescue people.

01:36:35.380 --> 01:36:38.380
Just like you and me, to rescue us.

01:36:38.380 --> 01:36:40.380
Just like our kids, to rescue those people

01:36:40.380 --> 01:36:43.380
who are lost, dying in filth,

01:36:43.380 --> 01:36:45.380
but God is calling them out.

01:36:45.380 --> 01:36:47.380
And he has chosen us to go

01:36:47.380 --> 01:36:49.380
and rescue them.

01:36:49.380 --> 01:36:51.380
So it is also a privilege, Father.

01:36:51.380 --> 01:36:53.380
So, yeah, train us for war.

01:36:53.860 --> 01:36:56.860
And we'll be humble to fall into formation.

01:37:02.860 --> 01:37:04.860
Okay, before I give this to Mia,

01:37:06.860 --> 01:37:08.860
I was just thinking of mothers, eh?

01:37:08.860 --> 01:37:10.860
They've just given birth.

01:37:10.860 --> 01:37:11.860
They're in pain.

01:37:11.860 --> 01:37:13.860
Some of them go through C-sections.

01:37:13.860 --> 01:37:15.860
Some of them go through other problems.

01:37:15.860 --> 01:37:17.860
It's strange how

01:37:17.860 --> 01:37:20.860
it doesn't matter what their personal problems are.

01:37:21.340 --> 01:37:23.340
The one focus they have is

01:37:23.340 --> 01:37:26.340
the child they have to take care of.

01:37:26.340 --> 01:37:29.340
There is no greater purpose than someone else, guys.

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You'll be surprised at how

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my personal problems become...

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They don't disappear,

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but they are handleable

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because of a greater purpose.

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This is the way of Christ.

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This is the way humans were built.

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Embrace it,

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and you live, and you see your problems solved.

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Do not embrace it,

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and you become the architect of your own future.

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How's that been working?

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Yeah?

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So as Mia begins to sing,

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I want us to remember

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a verse out of Psalm 2.

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And it says...

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Psalm 8, verse 2.

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Psalm 8, verse 2.

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Out of the mouth of children

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I have ordained strength

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that will silence the accuser.

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So it's a very deliberate

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thing that I'm doing.

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I'm not doing this to encourage Mia.

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I'm not doing this because she's a kid.

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I'm doing this because scriptures say

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this is what should be done.

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And so we begin this whole idea of worship

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with that simple scripture.

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And she's not going to have any instruments.

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She's going to do it on her own.

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And as she does, if you join her,

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remember that, out of the mouth of babes,

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and suddenly we become the babes too.

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We become the children.

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Out of the mouth of children,

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he has ordained strength that silences the avenger.

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Across the city tonight,

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people are partying,

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but people are also being set free.

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It's crazy.

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People are partying, but people are being set free.

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They're being set up to be set free.

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They're going to go home

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and there will be such disillusionment

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in some places.

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Such hope in other places.

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Yeah?

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She's made a great choice for song.

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Our God, He's an awesome God He reigns.

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From heaven above with wisdom, power, and love.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God He reigns.

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From heaven above with wisdom, power, and love.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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He reigns from heaven above with us.

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Stump our love, our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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God, He reigns from heaven above with us.

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Stump our love, our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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He reigns from heaven above with us.

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Stump our love, our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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He reigns from heaven above with us.

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Stump our love, our God is an awesome God.

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I don't know what happens next, but I think you're supposed to go to the fireside room.

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And eat and pretend you're having a party.