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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Who Touched Me
Publishing Date: 2020-03-22T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/who-touched-me/

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To all the guys in Bahrain who are watching and I'm sure Anne is awake, welcome.

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If you want to put a title for this message, it's called Who Touched Me?

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And it'll sound a little disjointed, but once you listen to the whole thing, all the pieces

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will come together to form a picture.

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And so the title is Who Touched Me?

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And guys, what I have to say, while it does apply to Acts 29 as a local church, much

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of what I have to say is an unfolding of God's counsel and it will at some point affect the

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globe.

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It's such a presumptuous thing to say, especially when you're being live streamed, that what

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are now going to say, what I'm going to say now has global implications and that we may

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not elaborate on everything we're going to talk about, but people will pick this up.

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I'm talking to different leaders in different parts of the world.

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People will pick this up.

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And so what I have to say is not some kind of message that is going to make you feel

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comfortable during coronavirus or stuff like that.

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It goes further than that.

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And so it is an unfolding of God's counsel for a time such as this.

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And it has the potential to affect the globe in terms of some of the things that we'll

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talk about.

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But over the next few weeks, we'll probably stay on something like this to see how we

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can unfold it.

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The first thing I wanted to say, and like I said, it might sound a little disjointed,

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but don't worry about it.

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It'll come together in the end.

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The first thing I want to say is how do we deal with faith and with the regulations that

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are in place?

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And I would suggest to you that wrestle with the issues of faith and with regulations.

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I'm looking forward every day to wrestle with the new regulations that governments will

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put in place and how to yet walk in faith without breaking the law.

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Wrestle with it.

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It's times like this that begin to help you become sound in a doctrinal or doctrinal way.

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It helps you become sound because you have to take on one hand what God is saying and

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on the other hand what rules and law is saying and you've got to put them together and you've

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got to wrestle through it so that your stance is absolutely godly.

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So on one hand, you have to walk in faith.

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So I mean, I was reading Ezra 822 and in Ezra 822, here's what Ezra says.

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The king says to him, hey, you're going to travel through bandit country.

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I'm going to offer you soldiers to go with you.

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And Ezra says, I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers because I had already told the

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king that God will take care of us.

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If I had already said that to the king, how could I then go and ask him for soldiers?

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So on one hand, he has the stance of faith which says, I have declared that God is good,

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God is protective, God can take care.

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After saying that, how do I go and then begin to ask the king for his protection?

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So here was a man who was willing to walk in faith through bandit country and yet in

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Romans chapter 13, verse 1 to 4, you find that there is a place where you have to now

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listen to what authorities have to say.

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I put this in the email I sent out yesterday.

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If you started verse 3 or verse 4, let's start at verse 4 and then read backwards.

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And so we're talking about authorities.

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For all authority is God's servant to do you good.

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But if you do wrong, be afraid for he does not bear the sword for nothing.

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He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment of the wrongdoer.

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For rulers hold no terror for those who do right but for those who do wrong.

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Do you want to be free from the fear of one in authority?

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Then do what is right and he will commend you.

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And so wrestle through this idea of faith and regulations through this time.

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On one hand, I don't intend to mollycoddle your fear.

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When I was a young Christian, I remember these two instances with which God reminded me of

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a couple of days ago.

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One was when I went to the pastor in Bahrain and I said to him, there's a boy who's died.

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He's in the hospital.

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He just died.

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His parents are Muslims.

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They are willing to do anything to revive him.

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And I go up to the pastor and I say to him, we got to go raise this boy from the dead.

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And any pastor in his sound mind would have said he's already dead.

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He's a Muslim boy.

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This is a Muslim country.

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It may not be such a good idea.

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He could have come up with all kinds of reasonable explanations.

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This is Chantel's dad who was the pastor then.

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Instead, he said, okay, let's go.

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And he drove me in the car to the hospital to pray for an 11 year old boy who was dead.

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And this was two years into my Christianity.

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And I remember thinking to myself, I don't know if I'd have done that for someone else.

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But because that man chose to encourage my faith and I didn't know better, I never for

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a second doubted from 1990 till today that the debt can be raised.

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You've got to encourage people's faith.

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Through these times of rules and regulations, we have to encourage people's faith.

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We cannot let little sparkles of faith, we cannot douse them.

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We cannot kill them.

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You may have to walk with them.

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You may have to carry them.

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You may have to pick them up when they fail in faith.

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But you must encourage people's faith.

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On the other hand, do not mollycoddle people's fear because we have a tendency to do that

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too.

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I remember shortly after I was at a place where I had to leave Bahrain because my visa

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was running out and it was easy at that time to get visas through ways that were not proper.

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And I remember going to this pastor's wife and she had very straight words for me.

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She said, you may be afraid of leaving this country and going back to India.

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You may find ways to get visas that are not right.

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But if God is really behind this and you've got to trust him and you've got to leave and

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come back.

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It was very straightforward.

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There was no comfort.

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There was no mollycoddling.

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There was no flout to regulations.

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It was very straightforward.

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And we've got to adopt this attitude that through this time we will not mollycoddle fear

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and we will encourage faith.

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And that's the first step.

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And that's the second step.

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And that's the third step.

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And that's the fourth step.

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And that's the fifth step.

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And that's the sixth step.

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And that's the seventh step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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And that's the eighth step.

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Hey, if you're afraid, face the fear.

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After facing the fear, go into the word.

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After going into the word, use words to move from fear to the truth.

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Fear is a feeling.

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Fear is a thought pattern.

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The only way I can move from fear to the truth is with words.

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I've said this before.

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It's so critical that I face my fears.

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I can't disguise my fears under rules and regulations.

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We're doing that.

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And I've seen it.

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Whereas you keep listening to news.

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And just imagine this.

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This is why we were singing as we were singing.

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There is such an enormity of news that is continuously bombarding you.

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That it is almost impossible not to inhabit fear.

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What you think you inhabit.

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How do you think thoughts?

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You hear them or you see them.

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That is all you see and hear around us.

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Now there requires that people rise up to speak another name.

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To speak a different language.

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To speak what we hear from heaven.

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This is why we first sang that song in the beginning.

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Let heaven come.

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Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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As in, we will begin to declare it as loudly as others are declaring the fear that's gripping

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the world.

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We need to do this, guys.

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Because you inhabit what you think and what we think is being massively shaped by the

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things around us.

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And so it's critical that we face fears, then go into the word, find what is required, and

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then use words to go from this place of fear that we have thought or we feel to the truth.

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Don't use regulations as a disguise for your fear.

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Follow the regulations but don't use them to disguise or cost you more hide your fear.

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And then the other thing is, guys, hear his voice and obey today and then hear his voice

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again tomorrow to decide what to do tomorrow.

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I mean over this last week, I was so bent on having church meet here today.

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I was so sure of what God was saying, that church will meet here today and I wasn't going

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to budge.

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I did so much work, sent so many emails.

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But every morning I would get up and I would ask the Lord, Father, this is what you said

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yesterday, what are you saying today?

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Because manna must be found every day.

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You know the odd thing about hearing God is that hearing God is not so much about the

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outcome.

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Hearing God is much about the obedience.

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The outcome is a byproduct.

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Please listen to this.

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Hearing God is not so much about the outcome.

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Hearing God is not so much about I've got to find the will of God.

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Hearing God is I've got to obey the will of God.

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And so it is required of me that today I ask God and find out, Father, what are you saying

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today?

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And once you hear him and hear what he is saying today, you take that.

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Tomorrow when you wake up, you got to ask him tomorrow, Father, what are you saying

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tomorrow?

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Because it changes, man.

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It changes.

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Israel didn't know how to do this.

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So they kept living by the preceding word instead of the proceeding word.

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Let me remind you of Deuteronomy 8.3.

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You shall live not by bread.

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Bread was something you could bake yesterday and put in your freezer, pull out today, toast

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it and eat it again.

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And he says you shall not live by bread alone, self-generated means of sustenance or something

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baked yesterday.

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He's saying you shall live by every word that proceeds as in continuously comes out of my

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mouth.

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And therefore yesterday afternoon I had to again listen and see what God had to say.

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And sometimes God will speak through people, other times he'll speak directly.

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But then after that I knew that it was out of question to continue meeting here and so

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we meet like this.

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Bless God, man, for his wisdom.

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Yeah?

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There's a question, Jeevan.

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Question from Diana.

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Why am I not surprised?

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Can you ask Jacob to repeat?

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Repeat the steps to counter fear again.

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World, this is Diana.

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Even when we are live streaming she has questions.

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Okay, so the steps that I wanted to repeat are, guys, do not use regulations and rules

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to hide your fear.

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If you're afraid, don't say, no, no, the rules say so, that's why I'm doing this.

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No, the rules may say so, follow them.

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But face your fears and after you face your fear, go into the word.

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In front of fears, move into the word.

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And once you move into the word and begin to let it change your thinking, use words

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to move from your feeling and your thinking to the truth.

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How?

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Through repeating it again and again and again.

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I'm so sure of certain things, but every time that shakes me, I go back into the word and

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I look, what did God say?

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Ah, shucks, that's what you say.

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And then I'll go over it five or six times before I get up and then I'll go over it again

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and again till my thinking changes, my feelings change and now I've moved from fear to a place

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of walking absolutely unaware of what I was afraid of.

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That's how you do it.

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You got to move from a place of being afraid to not being aware of what you were afraid

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of.

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Because many people say, fear is a natural thing, not for Jesus.

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This is how we move from one place to the other.

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We're not claiming promises out of the Bible to combat fear.

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We are looking at the nature of God towards us to combat fear.

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Critical difference, eh?

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People go into the Bible to look for promises to combat fear.

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We are not looking for promises to combat fear.

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We're looking at the nature of God.

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He's ways towards us to remove fear.

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That's what children do.

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Children are not looking for reassuring words from their parents.

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That's part of the equation.

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What they're looking at is the parent itself.

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This is why children cannot trust someone who fails them.

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It doesn't matter what words you offer them, children will shy away.

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But a child will trust a parent whose word is true even if the words are two.

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This is what we're looking for in the word.

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Anything done?

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Okay.

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And the other thing is guys, God has dealt with lockdowns like this in the past.

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This is not the first lockdown he has dealt with.

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He's done this in the past.

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He locked down the world for a year.

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If you go from Genesis chapter 7, 10 or so to Genesis 8, 13, you'll find that he locked

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And he locked up Noah and eight other people.

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And sometimes God uses lockdowns like this that have been brought about by plagues or

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evil.

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He uses it as a Sabbath to renew land and life.

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Unfortunately, it's up to people how they respond to it.

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But God can use situations like this to our benefit.

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He isn't behind this, but he can use this lockdown to our benefit.

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To give the land and to give lives a Sabbath so that it may be renewed.

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And what do we mean by Sabbath?

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A time of rest so that things may be recovered.

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A time of rest so that things may be recovered.

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And out of this may come Shem and Japheth or out of this may come Ham.

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Out of this may come Noah who starts again.

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Out of this may come Noah who raises a vineyard and gets drunk.

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It depends on how I respond to this rest.

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One of the things I wanted to say later, but I'll say it right now.

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Do not use this time to mindlessly watch media and TV.

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It will cripple you.

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Some who were on the border of watching things that were not kosher will go into porn.

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Some who had high standards of what they watch will go into things that are not kosher.

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And I'm saying to you, avoid mindless TV watching and social media because you'll suddenly find

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that you have lots of time and you have an instrument attached to your hand that you'll

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begin to go over mindlessly.

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These are the things we must be cautious about.

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These are the things that will destroy the Sabbath renewal that God has purposed for

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our lives.

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Back away from it.

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Be careful.

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Develop habits that you have longed to develop and haven't had the time to.

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You'll begin to love those habits and once you love those habits, when everything goes

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back to normal, those habits will not go back to normal.

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They will stay.

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One of the habits I want to develop is for long I've wanted to send out letters and

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emails and blogs and short messages to different parts of the world saying, this is what God

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is saying.

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I've never had the ability to do so.

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And suddenly this is like a breakthrough for me.

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Even this simple thing like live streaming is a huge thing for me.

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You can ask Dan how I've spoken to him about this three, four years ago.

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The best we got done was those seven minute sermons.

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But suddenly it is like I can create a new habit now.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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I don't know who I'm saying this to.

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No questions yet?

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Derek, you're checking your phone, right?

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Oh, I thought it was a two second delay.

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Okay.

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Oh, shucks, so for people here, there's a gap between what they're seeing and what

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they're hearing, right?

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Cool.

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So can we like if I say something that's wrong, can we just shut it off like those?

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No?

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No.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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The other thing is guys, wanted to talk about economy.

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Wanted to talk about economy.

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You know, in December last year, I had a word for Acts 29 from God.

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It was from Zechariah 8 verse 10 to 12.

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And I want you to take this to heart.

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And if you're listening to this somewhere else in the world, this is for you too.

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Zechariah 8 verses 10 to 12.

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I remember suddenly stopping in the middle of the sermon and saying, guys, this is a

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word for people in this church.

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And I began to read it out.

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And this was given to us on September 27, 2019.

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And it was a word that was given for the future, 2020.

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And here's what it said.

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And I want you to hold on to this.

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Zechariah 8 verses 10 to 12.

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Before that time, there were no wages for man or beast.

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No one could go about his business safely because of his enemy.

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For I had turned every man against his neighbor.

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But now, I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past, declares

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the Lord Almighty.

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The seed will grow well.

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The vine will yield its fruit.

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The ground will produce its crops.

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And the heavens will drop their dew.

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I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of the people.

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As you have been an object of cursing among the nations of Judah and Israel, so will I

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save you now.

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And you will be a blessing.

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Do not be afraid.

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Let your hands be strong.

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Your economy is not going to be disturbed by what is happening.

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This was a reymah word given to this church ages ago.

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You've got to hold on to it.

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Go about your business like you normally would.

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If you're sowing, prepare to reap.

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If you're plowing, prepare to seed.

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Do not change what you're doing.

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Because there is a God we believe in whose name is Jesus Christ, who is the Lord and

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the sovereign King of the universe, who is very different from things that run our economy

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here.

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And so, even if you looked at Jeremiah 32, Jeremiah 32, Jeremiah 32, Jeremiah 32, verse

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24 to 27, Jeremiah 32, verse 24 to 27.

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That must be my phone, I think, somewhere.

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Jeremiah 32, verse 24 to 27.

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Look at what it says.

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See how the siege ramps are built up to take the city.

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Because of the sword, famine and plague, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians

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who are attacking it.

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What you said has happened as you now see.

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And though the city will be handed over to the Babylonians, you, O sovereign Lord, say

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to me, buy the field with silver and have the transaction witnessed.

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And so, here is Jeremiah completely confused.

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There's a time of war, there's a time of famine, Babylon has set up siege ramps and God is

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saying to him, you go ahead and buy the field.

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Don't hold back on what I purpose you to do.

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And then it goes on to say in verse 26 and 27, then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah,

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I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.

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Is anything too hard for me?

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So in terms of buying and selling an economy like anything else, get up and ask God in

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the morning, but do not now begin to respond in fear saying, is this the time or not?

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If this was the time that you were told before, then this is the time unless He tells you

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otherwise.

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Genesis 26, 12, same thing.

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God sends Isaac to a place where there was a famine so that he could plant and harvest

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100 fold.

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Genesis 26, 17.

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Hey, are you able to put up those verses here?

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If you can't, it's no big deal.

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And guys, become God's distribution system here on earth, eh?

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During this time, become God's distribution system.

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By doing two things, one, seek God and two, seek people.

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Seek God as in Father, and I'm planning to do this every day.

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Father, today as I go out, is there any particular place you want me to go to, any person you

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want me to go to so that you can use me as your system of distribution to give to that

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person whatever the person requires?

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I mean, Derek did this just three days ago where he was driving and he felt that he should

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go to a particular mall where there was a shop and he goes there and then he asks God,

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what am I supposed to do?

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And there's a man sitting outside the shop and God says go and speak to him.

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And so Derek goes and speaks to him.

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It is very specific.

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What if a people began to do this every day?

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Hey, this is how the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the seas.

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Glory is nothing else but the goodness of God.

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The weight, the magnificence, the goodness, the splendor of God distributed through a

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people.

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I'm looking forward to how we, how I can impact the world right now like I have never

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looked forward to.

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Yesterday, May texted me about using wisdom and the power of God and I wrote back to her

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saying there's a fire in my stomach saying Father, now is the time like no other time.

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My God, man, if this is the time we keep threshing wheat in the wine press, that would be terrible.

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For a time such as this we were born where you can keep regulations, walk in faith and

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do what is required.

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And by the way, Acts 29 will be giving out to people in the church gift cards and cash

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so that you can use it for yourself or you can give it away.

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Really.

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You know, some of you remember this.

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There were times at Acts 29 where we would put up a white box on a table and during or

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after the service people could come and throw money into the white box and people could

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come and take money out of the white box.

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So anyone could come and just put money in the box.

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It was not meant for the needs of the running of Acts 29.

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It was just a box into which money was thrown.

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And then anybody who needed the money could put their hand in and take it out.

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And so one of the things we've decided to do is to interact, Heidi, any money that you

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want distributed through the people of the church.

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So you can just, and in the memo when you interact her, put down white box and you can

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send her, this money will not be receded.

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So you can just send her the money, interact her the money and then through the house churches

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or through some other means, this money will be given back to you to either use because

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some of us may have jobs that have disappeared.

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Some of us may be laid off next week.

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So you can either use it for yourself or you can give it to somebody else.

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Gift cards will be given out, money will be given out.

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And given that flights are not taking off from Vancouver, this money, if it goes to

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Heidi, will remain with Heidi because she can't go to Brazil or Hawaii because all the

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flights are shut down.

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So the money is safe.

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So feel free to interact her the money and just put white box on it in the whatever.

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I think she's got auto deposit so it will go in without a password.

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So send, we've already had people sending her money.

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So this is how we now begin to distribute.

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And then you can add to it whatever you want.

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But this is something we want to do.

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Any questions?

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Any thoughts?

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Any brighter ideas?

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If you have better ideas, let me know.

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This is just begun, man.

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And I just pray that we become so sharp like an arrow that God can put into his bow and

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shoot wherever he wants.

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And come back with stories of the goodness of God through you, where you become God's

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distribution system.

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Distributing not just money or gift cards, distributing healing, distributing hope, destroying

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fear, releasing the name of Christ.

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Man, I'm telling you, we have no idea how powerful our words will be during a time like

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this because remember, what is creating what has been created is words too.

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And it is so heavy, it's like a building on your back.

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That is the heaviness of the words that are being spoken around us.

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Be Hercules.

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Just that blooming building off your shoulder.

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The next thing I wanted to talk about is one of the things that we have to be careful of.

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These are the points that I hope the world will notice and that different parts of the

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world, when they hear this message or see this message or when it spreads around, that

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there'll be an active stance against it.

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Guys, there is this thing that the enemy is trying to bring into the worldwide church,

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which is virtual reality, as in this will become commonplace and it will be hard to

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go back to being a connected limb to limb body.

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There is an insidious attempt that is being launched by the enemy to make the church a

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place that will become more and more virtual because during this span, live streaming and

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virtual church will become so well streamlined and so polished that people will begin to

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use this as a substitute.

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The technology is there.

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And so you will find more and more that it will begin to take root in the body of Christ.

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You'll have a smorgasbord of choices.

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Suddenly you'll eat at multiple tables.

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You'll have multiple pastors.

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You can pick and choose who you want to listen to on a Sunday morning.

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You can flip from service to service.

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So without actually subscribing to a virtual reality website, you now have such a wide

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variety that you can go from Australia to Asia and pick what you want in a three hour

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window.

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And I've had such a violent stance against this for years now.

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And when I began to sense that yesterday and I was telling Jeevan about it, I realized

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that we've got to take a hard stance against this because what will otherwise happen is

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itching ears will be scratched and lazy feet will remain at home after this is done because

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this thing will be so highly tuned that people will now have an alternative.

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And so I pray God that as this word goes out, the great thing is it's not like I'm the only

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one who's saying this.

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I don't know who else is saying this, but there are others I'm sure that God has made

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aware of.

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And let it be a net that spreads across the earth.

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The pastors will know how to drop this like one of those white pigs saying, all right,

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this is done.

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We're not going any further.

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This was for a time and we completely renounce it.

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We turn our backs on it because this is not the way church has done.

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Because if we don't take a stance against this, then we will soon find that the church

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is like a people without a king.

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We'll be like a bunch of locusts that can follow any witch draft into any harvest field

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and eat it dry without even visiting the field.

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If you go to Judges chapter 17, verse 6 and 10, Judges 17, Joshua Judges Ruth, Judges 17,

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verses 6, yeah, verse 6, starting at verse 1 and then I'll go to verse 6.

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In those days Israel had no king, verse 6, no, verse 3.

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When they were near Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite.

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So they turned in there and asked him, who brought you here?

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What are you doing in this place?

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Why are you here?

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He told them what Micah had done for him and he said, he has hired me as I am his priest.

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Then they said to him, please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.

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The priest answered, go in peace.

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Your journey has the Lord's approval.

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Wait, I've got the wrong verse.

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Shoot.

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Oh, I'm reading the wrong chapter.

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Judges chapter 17, verse 6, yeah, listen to this.

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In those days Israel had no king.

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Everyone did as he saw fit.

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A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living with a clan of Judah, left

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that town in search of some other place to stay.

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On the way he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Micah asked him, where are you from?

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I'm a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, he said, and I'm looking for a place to stay.

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Then Micah said to him, live with me.

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Be my father and priest and I'll give you 10 shekels of silver a year and your clothes

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and your food.

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So the Levite agreed to live with him and the young man was to him like one of his sons.

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Then Micah installed the Levite and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

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And Micah said, now I know that the Lord will be good to me since this Levite has become

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my priest.

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This is how it will be, man, if you don't take a stance against this virtual reality

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thing, where people will find their priests online, where there will be churches on hire,

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priests on hire, messages on hire.

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Something that hadn't happened yet will now become such a library that you can go to.

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It'll be like the Christian version of Apple Music or Spotify.

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I'll elaborate on this more later.

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But remember, the church cannot go back to becoming prosthetic limbs that are attached

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on a Sunday.

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And we cannot go back to having fathers on hire and messages on hire.

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We cannot tickle itching ears.

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We cannot have eating at multiple tables.

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I'm not saying don't listen to others, but my God, what we are setting ourselves up for

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if we are not careful is the insidious move of the enemy to dismantle the church and make

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it a collection of limbs.

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Any questions, any comments you want to add?

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Pardon?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that's a strange thing.

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It's almost like an angel of light where you are polishing up your livestream, you're

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doing everything so that people can access, but it now becomes the very, it becomes a

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beast that will attack you later.

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The next thing I want to talk about is not something I'll elaborate.

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I'm deliberately putting this out in this message so that God will cause people to take

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it and run.

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Guys, so we got this thing called the coronavirus, and we know the fear it has cast on the world

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and the gloom it has brought globally.

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But there is a spiritual reality behind this, something so massive that can shut down the

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modern world and lock it down the way it has cannot happen just because of a virus.

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The virus is the outer agent that is causing it, but what is the internal or invisible

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spiritual move behind it?

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I'd like you to go to Job 41.

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Job 41.

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Because in Canaanite mythology, there is this, in Canaanite mythology, chaos is personified

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in the person of the Leviathan.

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It is a spirit, and I won't go into details because I don't think this is the right forum,

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but it is a spirit that is actually a ruler or a power.

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I'm just going to read out Job 41 verse 1 to 9 and then 25 to 34, and we'll touch on

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it briefly and then move on.

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I'm only supposed to put this out there and then in later blogs or whatever those things

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are called, we'll talk about it more.

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Job 41.

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This is the reality behind what is happening, and we'll elaborate on it more.

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It seems unfair not to talk about it more, but unfair is fine.

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Can you pull in the Leviathan with a fish hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

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Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

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Will he keep begging you for mercy?

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Will he speak to you with gentle words?

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Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?

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Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?

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Will traders barter for him?

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Will they divide him up among the merchants?

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Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again.

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Any hope of subduing him is false.

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The mere sight of him is overpowering.

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Now go to verse 24 onwards.

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25 onwards.

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When he rises up, the mighty are terrified.

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They retreat before his thrashing.

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The sword that reaches him has no effect, not as a spear or the dart or the javelin.

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For iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten woods.

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Arrows do not make him flee.

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Sling stones are like chaff to him.

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A club seems to him but a piece of straw.

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He laughs at the rattling of the lance.

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His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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He makes a depth churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

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Behind him he leaves a glistening wake.

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One would think the deep had white hair.

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Nothing on earth is as equal.

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A creature without fear.

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He looks down on all that are haughty.

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He is the king over all that are proud.

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I want to say to you that Leviathan is a ruler or an evil power that every now and then emerges around

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a few hundred years or a few score years, makes an appearance, has the ability to take on the world,

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has done it in the past, we'll talk about it another time, and then has the ability to disappear from memory

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and return to the dark.

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And the only way to deal with this power that is actually at work behind what we are seeing is in Isaiah 27, verse 1.

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Isaiah 27, verse 1.

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And these are scriptures we'll be using to pray in the future.

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Isaiah 27, verse 1.

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In that day the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword,

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Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent, he will slay the monster of that sea.

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In that day the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent,

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Leviathan the coiling serpent, he will slay the monster of the sea.

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I want to end this bit about Leviathan with just two words.

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One, to deal with this particular spirit that has the ability to literally cripple the world.

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Like it says in Job 41, who in the world can tame this?

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Who in the world can come against this?

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Who in the world can make an agreement with it?

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Can you put a hook in its nose and take it captive?

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The mighty retreat in its presence.

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So how do you deal with a power like this?

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And I'm not calling it a spirit, I'm actually calling it a power.

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How do you deal with a power like this?

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You deal with a power like this, one, by being a people who walk in ridiculous humility.

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I've got to learn that.

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If I want to deal with this, I'll have to learn such humility.

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If I want to deal with this, I'll have to learn such humility.

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And part of that humility may include fasting and weeping.

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People that walk in ridiculous humility. Why?

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Because this power is king over the sons of pride.

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But it finds ground very slippery when a group of people humble themselves.

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When a group of people walk in humility, this spirit finds it very hard to even slither around

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because the ground gets very slippery.

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We only operate where there is pride.

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And then the second thing is we use the mighty sword of Yahweh, which is the word of God.

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We begin to use it to slay this monster.

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Who are we doing this for?

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Guys, the strange thing is at the end of the day, we are in Goshen.

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We are under the shadow of the Almighty, in the secret place of the Most High.

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But if that is where we want to stay, then that is so sad.

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He didn't want heaven without us, so He brought heaven down.

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It's our turn. Let heaven come.

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We'll talk more about this later.

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I was trying to jeevan about it yesterday.

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I know this is just anecdotal, so it doesn't really matter.

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But I just thought I need to convey this.

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I was trying to jeevan about this yesterday.

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I wanted to throw up when talking about this because you don't know how wicked this is.

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Do you really think that the world can be locked down without there being an invisible demonic power behind it?

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This is not God punishing people.

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Don't entertain that for a second.

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Judgment will first start in the house of the Lord before it goes out into the world.

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God is kind. He is kind to people.

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This isn't something that He is using as a plague to destroy people. No.

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Moving on.

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Like I said, these are disjointed but highly important pieces that, when put together, will form the picture that needs to form.

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Go ahead. Who is it from?

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As read by Jacob, everyone did what was right in his eyes.

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This is one thing many Christians struggle with even after becoming believers.

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Church leaders also end up having very strong opinion of managing the church and filling God's purpose for them.

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Any advice for such division to discern God's will for the common good?

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Ask the question again. Just a question. Any advice?

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Any advice for such division to discern God's will for the common good?

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I don't think there is a problem having opinions that are different.

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Once opinions are different, I should be able to handle your opinion and you should be able to handle my answers to your opinion.

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As long as I can prove from the word that this is what the nature of God dictates.

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So let there be divided opinions in the church.

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My God, if there were no divided opinions, we would all be bricks.

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If there were no divided opinions, then no one would challenge me.

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Everything I said would be scriptural truth.

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The reason we have questions and challenges is so that what if I'm making an error?

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What if your question is one that is wrong?

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So have divided opinions, but once you bring it forth, then we have to look at the word and say, what does God have to say?

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And at that time, that is where I find Acts 29 really helpful in my life.

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I find that every time you have asked a question, you have asked it never to pull me down, but because the question is genuine.

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You don't know what a rarity that is.

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And that must be cultivated. That matrix must be cultivated.

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Because I've been to other places where people will ask questions, but the question is either to preen your feathers to show how intelligent you are,

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or to bring down the guy who is supposed to give the answers.

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But the strange thing about Acts 29, and I'm taking a detour here to highly commend this,

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is that the questions that are asked have almost never been to either show your caliber or to pull me down.

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And when that honor is established, and that takes time to establish in a family, in a home, in a school,

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once that is established, guys, God can begin to work because he will bring the truth out through discussions.

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This is what you think was happening when Jesus was 12 and he was in the temple.

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He was standing there with scribes and Pharisees, and they were having a discussion.

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You think they were agreeing with everything that Jesus was saying?

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If they were, then there would not have been the need to talk the way they were talking.

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It went on for hours, so much so that Jesus lost track of time and lost track of his parents.

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So that's my answer. I think, I'm quoting scripture.

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Paul said, let there be disagreements. It will show who's right, who's wrong.

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Once there are disagreements, let's talk and see what is right.

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But my God, in a culture of honor where the intent is to find the truth, and that is so difficult to cultivate,

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so difficult to cultivate.

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And we keep getting better at it, eh?

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Don't think that my pride isn't hurt when you sometimes ask me questions,

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and I have to learn how to not swallow my pride, but how to make my pride disappear so that I can handle your questions.

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Here's the other point that again is important to make.

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Guys, with Elijah in 2 Kings 2 and with Elisha in 2 Kings 6,

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in both instances, when they were dying, you would see the chariots of fire and the horses of fire appear.

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Elisha saw it, and Joash, the king who was by Elisha's side when Elisha was dying, saw it.

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And we always think, oh, chariots of fire, they just take us to heaven.

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Not really. Chariots of fire and horses of fire are God's invisible army.

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They were God's invisible army, so much so that the powerful Syrian army that had chariots by dozens

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could not stand up against God's chariots of fire and horses of fire.

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But the ones who bring it forth into a place are an Elijah and Elisha type.

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This is not heavy. It's very simple. Let's go to 2 Kings 6.

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2 Kings 6, 2 Kings 6, verse 15 onwards.

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2 Kings 6, verse 15 onwards.

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And it says there, 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 had surrounded the city.

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Oh, my Lord, what shall we do the servant does? Don't be afraid, the prophet answered.

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

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That's the scripture we often quote. And then look at what he's actually talking about.

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Elisha prayed, Oh, Lord, open the eyes that he may see.

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

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Chariots and horses of fire stood for Yahweh's invisible forces,

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which Elijah afforded to the kingdom of Israel by his spiritual clout and position.

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Do you know sometimes, guys, that when I pray for you and this,

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sometimes this is when I think the livestream is such a bad idea,

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because what I'm going to say will sound so presumptuous if people don't know me.

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Guys, you don't realize it, but there are times when I pray for you,

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where I take this position of, Father, I have the spiritual authority and the clout required in the spirit realm

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to be now protection to this person or that person,

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to be now the kind of Elijah who can bring to this person's need either invisible divine forces

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or the same kind of protection that Boaz offered Ruth when he spread his skirt over her.

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You have no idea how many times I've afforded you that protection.

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I'm not saying this to you so that you can owe me something.

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I'm saying this to you because it is true.

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A church affords its people protection.

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A pastor or a person, forget a pastor, a person who knows the spiritual authority can offer protection,

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can spread his skirt over, can call invisible forces to the aid of a people

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because of the place that he occupies in the spirit realm.

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Paul would go to the extent of saying, excommunicate this person, release him from the church,

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and once you do, here's what's going to happen to him.

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Here's what's going to happen to him.

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He will no longer have the protection afforded to him by the body of Christ.

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There are places I've gone to where I've taken people with me

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and the only reason they were safe was because of the protection they had under my covering.

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Be Dano in Bhutan. Be Josh in Christ's church.

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Be Legend in Kandy.

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Why am I saying this?

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I'm saying to you that Acts 29, I believe, has the clout, at least for this city,

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to afford this city the help of God's invisible forces and power.

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This is such a huge claim to make, but we must back it up now with actual action and prayer.

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And the intent is to do that over the next couple of weeks.

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I mean, if Trump can say he's a war president,

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if presidents can say that we are on a war footing,

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then why is it that only the church is not saying anything?

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Derek, you have something?

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As a church, as house churches, as leaders, Jacob, as the one who leads the church,

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will become to the enemy the chariots of Anhoi,

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and the enemy the chariots of the city.

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And if we can't do that, then why is it that only the church is saying anything?

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Why is it that only the church is saying anything?

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Why is it that only the church is saying anything?

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Jacob, as the one who leads the church, will become to the enemy the chariots and the horses of fire,

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and will become to Israel the protection of God.

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That's a cool thing. There are so many times I've prayed this prayer,

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and it's been highly effective, where I'll say,

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God, as I go into this situation with this person, or as I go into this nation,

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or as I go into this particular church, or for Acts 29,

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today I stand here, Father, as one who to the enemy is the chariots of fire and the horses of fire,

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and will oppose the enemy from touching what is happening here.

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And to this people, or to this person, or to this land, I shall become protection.

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How dare I say that? Because I know my spiritual authority in certain realms today.

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And so Acts 29 is not going to be presumptuous in this.

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We will only take what God allows us to handle.

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But in the small portion that God allows us to handle over the next couple of weeks,

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I would say, guys, like we were singing prophetically at the beginning of the service,

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arise, O church, arise, so that the north wind may blow across the garden,

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so that the fragrance of Christ may bring life in a place where the aroma of death is spreading.

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Arise, my love, arise. Song of song suddenly becomes a song of war.

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This is what we are called for, guys.

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Do you suddenly realize the times you're living in?

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Like Mordecai, we should begin to say, Esther, get up!

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I didn't know this. I was talking to Chantal's mom, and she was telling me that

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Mordecai was probably visiting the palace once a day for a year, man.

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Wanting to find out about Esther, wanting to find out about Esther, wanting to find out about Esther.

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What kind of consistency is that?

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And then one day, finally, he gets word that people are going to be destroyed.

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May we be consistent through this time, man. May it not be from Sunday to Sunday.

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My God, the fire that is in my belly now better be there tonight and tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night.

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This is like playoffs.

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Playoffs. It's like hockey playoffs.

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Yeah. Well, not everything connects.

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Three more subheadings, and then we'll go somewhere else.

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Guys, restoration.

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Some of the things, you remember when I started preaching on Zechariah 8, and then I stopped?

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I got stuck at a worst because I did not know what to do with it.

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I even prepared the teaching. I even prepared the teaching.

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I even prepared the teaching.

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I didn't know what to do with it.

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I even prepared the teaching, and then I just felt God saying, don't teach it, don't teach it yet.

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You don't have the full picture.

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Zechariah 8 was given to us on September 27th, where God said, this is a chapter that Acts 29 will walk in in 2020.

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I remember the first time I read it out was at Josh and Charlene's house just after they got the house.

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And I started reading Zechariah 8 and explaining it.

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Some of you were there that night.

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And in Zechariah 8, there's a strange verse that I'm going to claim for the city,

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for different parts of the world, as God's plan of restoration.

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So if you go to Zechariah 8, and this is the verse I got stuck at, and I couldn't go further,

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because I'm thinking to myself, how do I talk about this?

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What exactly does it mean?

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And it says in Zechariah 8, verse 4 to 7, and first read 4 to 7, this is what the Lord Almighty says once again.

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And this was for 2020.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says.

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Once again, men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand because of his age.

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The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says.

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It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?

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declares the Lord Almighty.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says.

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I will save my people from the countries of the East and the West.

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I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem.

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They will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.

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You should read it, man.

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Put Vancouver in that.

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Put Bahrain in that.

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Put different places in that.

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But if that was given to us in September 2019 for 2020, then I'm beginning to claim this as what should happen.

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And when should this happen?

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Go to verse 19.

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I would say let's start praying.

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Again, the word of the Lord Almighty came to me.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says.

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The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah.

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Therefore, love, truth, and peace.

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And I pray that things begin to happen even in the month of April.

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That the fourth month be the beginning of a turnaround because of a promise that was given to us last year for 2020,

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saying a time of restoration is coming where the young and the old, once again men and women of ripe old age,

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will sit in the streets of Vancouver, each with cane in hand because of his age.

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The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.

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Man, if a reymar was given one year, I mean six months ahead of time,

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this is when a people will either get excited and sing worship songs about it or will pray and practice it.

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Go to 2 Kings 17, 2 Kings 17, 24-29, 2 Kings 17, 24-29.

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There's a way that we will have to behave.

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We will have to think.

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We will have to act.

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We will have to speak during this crisis.

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You must take this to heart.

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It is impossible to behave, think, speak and act unless we lose our fear.

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Dwell in Psalm 91.

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Receive promises from God either from the word of let there be reymar given to you,

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words of life that you can hold on to, that you can take a stand with.

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I remember before I went on my last trip, I remember receiving this word from God

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that I have stood on for the last four weeks and I am not afraid.

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I am not afraid.

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I am not afraid.

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I am so not afraid.

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Not afraid of giving you anything, not afraid of receiving anything,

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but that which is good from your life and that which is good to give you from my life.

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I will follow the rules because I seek the welfare of the city

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and I am someone who understands and follows order.

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We have to be a certain kind.

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The story not too many of us have read, a fascinating story.

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2 Kings 17, verse 24 onwards.

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Don, I need some hot water, man.

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2 Kings 17, 24-29.

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The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon,

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Qutah, Avah, Hamath and Sefarvain,

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and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites.

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They took over Samaria and lived in its towns.

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When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord,

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so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people.

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It was reported to the king of Assyria.

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The people you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria

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do not know what the God of that country requires.

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He has sent lions among them which are killing them off

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because the people do not know what he requires.

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Then the king of Assyria gave this order.

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Have one of the priests you took captive from Samaria

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go back to live there and teach the people what the God of the land requires.

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So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria

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came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the Lord.

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I want the kings of Assyria.

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I want the Assyrians to come and ask Jacob,

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Jacob, how shall we live?

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How shall we live?

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I remember a Muslim gentleman from 25 years ago

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once asking me this question when I was going through

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an amazing, adventurous, difficult time.

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His question was, Jacob, tell me something.

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How does your God talk because mine does not?

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I want that same thing to happen for us, to us.

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Show us the ways of your God in this land

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because there's a lion roaming around

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devouring whomever steps out into the streets.

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Tell me how you live.

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Find opportunities, guys.

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Present yourself to God every morning.

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Open those doors and windows and declare the name of Christ to begin with

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like Daniel did.

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Present yourself to God every morning.

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Stand before the Holy Spirit and say,

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Holy Spirit, this morning I receive you.

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Why? That I may bear witness to Christ.

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This is important. I do.

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I've started doing this on a regular basis.

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I stand before you. Come down.

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Guys, Dawn is bringing a cup of water.

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This is Dawn.

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This is Dawn.

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This is Dawn again.

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Okay.

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And at the end of the day, if you look at Malachi 2, verse 7,

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I love what it says in Malachi 2, 7 about priests.

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It says, one must find knowledge on the lips of the priest.

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Malachi 2, 7. Malachi 2, 7.

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God is so brilliant, man.

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You think he is caught by surprise by any of this?

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Malachi 2, verse 7.

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For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge,

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and from his mouth men should seek instruction,

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because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

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For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge,

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and from his mouth should men seek instruction,

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because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

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I say to you, may you not find your information

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solely from Fox or CNN or Global or CTV or Facebook.

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May it inform you, but may you and I spend time

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shaping and forming our thoughts,

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so that when questions come at us,

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the answers we give are sound bites that carry in it.

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Precious gold.

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Let it be like hand sanitizer. Precious.

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You put one drop, but it cleanses a person's hand.

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Guys, all we'll get is sound bites.

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I remember Chad telling me this.

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Jacob, it is so hard to speak to the media,

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because you get only 20 seconds.

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If you start with, oh, I'm a follower of Jesus,

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that's all they'll get.

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You have to learn how to prepare what you're going to say

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ahead of time, so that in 20 seconds,

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they get interested and give you two minutes.

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I get 20 seconds in an elevator from P4 to Flo 21.

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In those 20 seconds when someone says something about coronavirus,

01:00:36.720 --> 01:00:38.720
my usual response is, yeah, terrible.

01:00:38.720 --> 01:00:40.720
Oh, man, what to do? We are all stuck in our houses.

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Really? That's what you were supposed to say?

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And I step out of the elevator thinking,

01:00:50.720 --> 01:00:52.720
you're just like everybody else.

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Words of life, man.

01:00:56.720 --> 01:00:58.720
Poke me and out comes words of life.

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Shape what you say.

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Knowledge should be found on the lips of priests,

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because men seek instruction,

01:01:08.720 --> 01:01:10.720
because you are the messenger of the Lord.

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Fast from F.B. Fox and CNN.

01:01:12.720 --> 01:01:14.720
Find the ways of God every few days

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so that you can shape your understanding,

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so that when someone says it's a Chinese conspiracy,

01:01:19.720 --> 01:01:23.720
when someone makes a remark that it is the punishment of God,

01:01:23.720 --> 01:01:26.720
when someone says, oh, I heard about Leviathan,

01:01:26.720 --> 01:01:29.720
know how to avoid certain things and say certain things.

01:01:29.720 --> 01:01:31.720
I'm not going around talking about Leviathan

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every time I meet somebody.

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That was just for our consumption,

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and to put it out there in the world,

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because I know what the Lord said yesterday.

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Put it out in the world,

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because I'm asking others to do the same,

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and people will catch on.

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And I have people in every nation

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who will rise and begin to pray a certain way.

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That is all sometimes we are, eh?

01:01:52.720 --> 01:01:55.720
We're just a trumpet that's announcing something.

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Last point, which is the title of this teaching.

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Who touched me? Who touched me?

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Luke 8.45. You know the story.

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Jesus was in a crowd.

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There was a woman with the issue of blood.

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Reaches out, touches him, and he says, who touched me?

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And at the end of the day, guys,

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I was taken back to this simple thing

01:02:15.720 --> 01:02:17.720
that God said to us at the beginning of the year.

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He said, Acts 29, remember what this year is.

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This is the year of the Holy Spirit.

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This is the year of the Holy Spirit.

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When we didn't know about coronavirus,

01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:28.720
when we didn't know about any of this,

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we knew one thing, that this was the year of the Holy Spirit.

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Acts 10, verse 38.

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And Jesus Christ went about,

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and Jesus Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power.

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And he went about healing those that were harassed by the devil.

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Bill Johnson put it this way,

01:02:49.720 --> 01:02:51.720
the Holy Spirit is in me for my sake,

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but the Holy Spirit is upon me for your sake.

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The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake.

01:02:56.720 --> 01:02:58.720
The Holy Spirit is upon me for your sake.

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Jesus Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power,

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as in he was upon him the Holy Spirit,

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dwelt for the sake of others.

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Man, the Holy Spirit is upon me for the sake of those around me.

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So, yes, I understand.

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If people want to stay at a distance,

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I'll let them stay six feet away.

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But as they stay six feet away, my words still carry life.

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I must learn over this time to create opportunities.

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I must learn over this time to create opportunities.

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Based on people's faith and your faith,

01:03:30.720 --> 01:03:32.720
based on people's willingness and your willingness,

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lay hands and pray.

01:03:33.720 --> 01:03:35.720
Pray over the phone.

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Pray at six feet distance.

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But I must not forget that long before any of this happened,

01:03:41.720 --> 01:03:43.720
the Spirit of God said to us,

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listen, this year, Acts 29, is my year.

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It's the year of the Holy Spirit.

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And if it is the year of the Holy Spirit,

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I want to see God blaze through this church,

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blaze through the ones who are listening,

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blaze through the ones who will listen to this

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three weeks from now, four weeks from now.

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But Spirit of God,

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they must say, who touched me because something...

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I mean, go to Luke 8.45.

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I don't want to preach, man. I want to teach.

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But sometimes I'm...

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How can you not preach when you see scriptures like this?

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Luke 8, verse 45.

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As Jesus was on his way,

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the crowds almost crushed him.

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And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years,

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but no one could heal her.

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She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak,

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and immediately her bleeding stopped.

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Who touched me, Jesus asked.

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When they all denied it, Peter said,

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Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.

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But Jesus said, someone touched me.

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I know that power has gone out from me.

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Someone touched me. I know that power has gone out from me.

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Someone touched me. I know that power has gone out from me.

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I pray, God, that Father, you make it possible

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for this church, in its going out and coming,

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every day, to be able to affect people's lives,

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because we pray up in the morning,

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saying, Spirit of God, I receive you.

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Let me be a witness to Christ.

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Let people be affected about.

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Let handkerchiefs and let aprons that touch us

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become to others a source of comfort,

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a source of healing, a source of deliverance.

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Oh, God, in this time of darkness,

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let Isaiah 60, verse 1 and 2,

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begin to blaze.

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Blaze, Spirit of God, we cannot do this.

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It is impossible for flesh and blood to accomplish this.

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But I believe that the words that have been spoken today

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are words of Spirit and life.

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The flesh profits nothing.

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I say, oh God, let Isaiah 60, verse 1 and 2,

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go into effect.

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Arise and shine, for your light has come,

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and the glory of God has risen upon you.

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The earth was covered with great darkness,

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but in the midst of that great darkness,

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there has arisen a light,

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and that light is Christ,

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comes through our people,

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and he shall cover the earth with his glory

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as the waters cover the seas.

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Let it be so, oh God.

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Let it be so through your people.

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Oh, God, let this fire not be doused by me.

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Let it begin to rage, oh God,

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for the sake of those made in your image,

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so that I see myself as one who is

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continuously distributing the very life of God

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through my words and through my presence.

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I pray, Father, that we become aware

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of your presence in us,

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so that we become aware that our presence

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affects those around us.

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Father, change me where I need to change,

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in my attitude, in my facial expressions,

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in my humility.

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Change me. Do whatever you want,

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but let me become an aroma,

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not of death, but a fragrance of life.

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Let me not join in conversations

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that continue to perpetuate, oh God,

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the gloom that has been brought by Leviathan,

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but let me begin to now spread, Father,

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the fragrance of life through my words,

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through my smile, through my expressions,

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through where I go, through receiving you

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and then distributing you.

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God, I don't even know how to pray this further.

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I'm going to sing that song, Father.

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Hear these praises.

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I'm going to sing that right now.

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So I'm going to ask the worship team to come up.

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Hey, Church, if you're still watching, great.

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I don't know how long the service has gone,

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but we'll break bread in a short while,

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and then we'll end.

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And then all the meetings for this week

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are going to be in the next week.

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Thank you.