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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Will God Do What He Said
Publishing Date: 2021-04-25T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/will-god-do-what-he-said/

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Okay, guys, the topic for today is,

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will God do what he said?

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Will God do what he said?

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Will God do what he said?

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Given the distress that the world is under,

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given the condition of the church worldwide,

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given the revival that is here and is coming,

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given God's command to us as a church,

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given his delight over the people of this Nineveh

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or this Vancouver, it's time to pray like Elijah.

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On Friday night when the meetings were going on,

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and man, I loved what these young guys did

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and how the meetings went.

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And I was half thinking of early retirement.

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Given all these things that I've mentioned,

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the distress the world is under,

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the condition of the church,

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the revival that is here and is coming,

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God's command to us, his delight over the city,

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felt God saying on Friday that it's time to

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switch to active prayer, and active prayer,

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not the prayer that you knew how to in the past,

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the way you have heard prayers and revivals,

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the way you have looked at prayer meetings in the past.

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No, he said, I'll teach you how to actively pray

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and to pray like Elijah,

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to pray like Elijah.

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And so the topic is, will God do what he said?

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And it's perhaps one of a whole set of series about prayer.

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And so when you look at Elijah,

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you find that the ravens brought him food,

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a widow provides bread for him from unending flour,

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he raises a widow's son from the dead,

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he wins a power encounter at Carmel,

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he calls down fire from heaven,

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he strikes down 450 false prophets,

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he outruns horses for 25 kilometers,

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he appears with Moses at the Mount of Transfiguration,

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he's called the type of John the Baptist,

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he's someone who's sent ahead to prepare the way,

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and he's so not like us.

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Given the resume I've just read out,

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there's nobody here that has even one-tenth of the resume.

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He's so not like us, and yet in James 5, verse 16 and 17,

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James makes an extraordinary claim

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when he says Elijah was a man like us.

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Let me go through that list again.

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Ravens bring him food, a widow provides bread

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from unending flour that he prays over and multiplies,

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he raises the widow's son from the dead,

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he wins a power encounter at Carmel,

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he calls down fire from heaven,

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he strikes down 450 false prophets,

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he outruns horses for 25 kilometers,

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he appears with Moses at the Mount of Transfiguration

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to talk to Jesus, he's a type of John the Baptist,

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he prepares the way, and yet James has the audacity

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to say he was a man just like us.

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And so if Elijah is like us,

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if Elijah is like us,

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then I wanna be like him.

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I wanna be like him.

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Yes, it's true that we should aim to be like Jesus,

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but let's kinda start with Elijah.

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So be it prayer for a dead boy,

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or be it the power encounter atop Mount Carmel,

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Elijah would do a few things when it came to prayer

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that perhaps we can begin to do too,

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and see the results that he saw

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because he was a man just like us.

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He was a man just like me.

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He was a man just like me.

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That's nuts, eh?

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I got more advantage than him because of Jesus in my life,

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but he was a man just like me.

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So be it prayer for a dead boy,

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or be it the power encounter atop Carmel,

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some of the simple things he would do in prayer was one,

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he would see, he would pray,

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he would see, he would pray, he would proclaim,

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he would persevere.

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And we'll break these down differently

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from how you've heard it in the past.

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He would see what he needed to see as God was showing it,

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he would then begin to pray before the event,

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he would then proclaim what was gonna happen,

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and then he would persevere to make sure

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that what he proclaimed because of how he had prayed

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and seen would actually form and happen.

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Elijah was a man just like me.

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Elijah was a man just like me.

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In 1 Kings 17, one, 1 Kings 17, one.

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Elijah was a man just like me.

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1 Kings 17, one,

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Now Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead said to Ahab,

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as the Lord the God of Israel lives, whom I serve,

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there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years,

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except at my word.

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So that's the proclamation,

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that there will be no rain.

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So where's the seeing and the praying?

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If you go to James chapter five,

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you realize that the guy must have prayed before.

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Hebrews, James chapter five,

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verse 16,

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no, verse 17.

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Elijah was a man just like us.

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He prayed earnestly that it would not rain,

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and it did not rain on the land for three years,

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three and a half years.

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Again he prayed and the heavens gave rain,

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and the earth produced its crops.

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So this we see in 1 Kings 17, one,

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but then the secret is revealed in James 5, 17,

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that he did pray.

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And God did show him what he needed to see.

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When it comes to seeing,

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you see things in four different ways, guys.

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You see things in the word that the Spirit is showing.

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You see things in the word.

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So that's one way you see, you see things in the word.

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All of us have that access to the word.

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You see things in the word,

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and the Holy Spirit shows you what you need to see

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so that you can now begin to pray.

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Second way you see is you see things

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that the Spirit is doing.

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You see things that the Spirit is doing,

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because the Spirit says, hey, look what I'm about to do.

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See things the Spirit is doing.

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And one of the things I was noticing

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when I was listening to the guys speak

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on Friday and Saturday was most of them kept saying,

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and then God said to me, oh, I heard God.

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And it seems to be quite natural in this church

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to speak like that because it's becoming a reality for us.

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So the second point isn't a stretch,

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to see things that the Spirit is doing.

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The third is to see things happening in other realms

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because of where you're seated,

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because of where you're seated.

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And this is when God shows you what the enemy is going to do,

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or what is going to happen in the world.

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He either exposes or discloses,

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he either exposes what the enemy is going to do

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or he discloses what he is going to do.

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And there's a prophetic,

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or at least a discerning element to it.

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So you see things in other realms

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because you're seated in heavenly places.

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And the last one is what perhaps

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we are going through right now.

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You see things in other realms,

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you see things in appointed seasons,

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as in God says, hey, now this is the time in Brandon's life

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where I'm going to do something.

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And so you know there's an appointed season

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and so you begin to see things more clearly.

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Like you see blossoms

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because there is an appointed season for blossoms,

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which is spring.

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And so you expect it, you expect things to turn pink.

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You expect, you expect it

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because you know this is the season for it.

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You expect pink petals to gather underneath blossom trees.

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So these are the four ways we see things.

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They are not very complicated, not hard to access,

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not for a few special people, not a stretch.

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And Elijah probably saw like this too.

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He knew that whenever, that the Torah had said

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that when a people turn away from their God,

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that the land will become like hard ground,

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famine will break out and the skies will turn to bronze.

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Elijah knew that from the Torah.

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Leave alone God telling him that.

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Many of the things that we need to understand

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are already in the word.

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Then there is the voice of the spirit.

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Then there is because you have learned

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how to watch with God, God shows you things

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that are happening either by exposing the realms

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that are evil or disclosing things from heaven.

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And the last one is, but this is the season

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so you should expect it.

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The seeing is not very complicated.

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Elijah saw and then Elijah began to pray

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as we saw in James 5.17.

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And then he would make an announcement

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as we saw in 1 Kings 17.1.

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And then in 1 Kings 18,

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you'll see how he begins to persevere.

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The only thing that seeing requires is time.

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Time and by time, sometimes I mean time

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in terms of duration.

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Sometimes I mean time in terms of intensity.

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Not intensity, intent.

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Intent.

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You don't have to be intense, you just have to have intent.

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So, Karen said could we have more volume?

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You saw that right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so,

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seeing requires time as in sometimes it's duration.

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You may have to spend some time to read,

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you may have to spend some time to listen,

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you may have to spend some time to figure things out.

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And the second one is intent.

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Sometimes it's not even amount of time, it's the intent.

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God, I got a passionate, deliberate, serious intent

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to figure this out.

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Not even for my sake, but for the sake of

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what you've called me to,

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for the sake of someone else who's in need.

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When we go about things like this, guys,

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we can reach the end of our lives

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or different points in our life.

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And we can say like Solomon said in 1 Kings 8.56,

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not one word has failed of all his good promises,

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which he spoke by Moses.

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What a statement Solomon's making, eh?

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Not one word has failed from all the promises

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that God has made.

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Not one word has failed.

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Wanna say stuff like that at the end of my life

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or at the end of different chapters.

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So, let's look at the see, pray, proclaim, persevere.

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Pattern.

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And it's important for us because we're dealing with

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huge things across the earth and as a church,

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we are called to do something about it.

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So, prayer must precede proclamation.

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Prayer must precede.

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So we've already established what seeing looks like.

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So now we're going on to prayer.

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Prayer must precede proclamation.

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Prayer must precede proclamation.

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Prayer must precede proclamation.

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Guys, the only way to get things right

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is to abandon any self-interest in the process.

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In John 5, verse 30, Jesus says,

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the reason my judgments are just,

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the reason my judgments are trustworthy,

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the reason what I say is trustworthy, is fair, is just,

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is because I am not out to get my own way.

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I'm here to just do what my father tells me.

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I'm not here to get my own way.

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I've got no desire to see my desires fulfilled.

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That's the hard part, eh?

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Because when we pray, we sometimes have our own

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theological slants, our own reactive slants,

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our own cultural slants,

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and they begin to affect our judgments.

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They begin to affect the answers we want

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or the answers we are craving.

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But what if every day you went and told the Lord,

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Father, today in the decisions I make,

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in the judgments I make,

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in the, I just want to let you know

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that I really don't want my desire to be the trump card.

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I don't want things that come from my self-interest

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to be the kingpin.

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I just want my judgments and my decisions to be just,

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to be fair, to be trustworthy,

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because I have no other desire

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but to do what you're ordering me to do.

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Your will is my command,

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so can you help me with my decisions

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so that they are just?

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John 530, let me read it.

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John 530.

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John 530.

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It's a secret to getting your decisions right.

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John 530.

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I myself can do nothing.

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I judge only as I hear,

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and my judgment is just,

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for I seek not to please myself,

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but him who sent me.

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Prayer must precede proclamation,

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as in begin to see,

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and then once you see, begin to pray that,

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oh God, this is what I'm seeing.

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Let me start praying.

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Guys, the thing is,

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what you see is fleshed out in prayer.

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What you see is fleshed out in prayer.

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You see something,

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and then as you pray,

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the Holy Spirit begins to put the pieces together.

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He connects the dots.

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He adds sinew here.

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He adds muscle there.

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Things begin to take form as you pray.

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The problem with declarations,

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and I think declarations are wonderful things

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and I so am into making declarations,

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but the problem with declarations is there is,

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just the need to speak what God has said,

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and there is no need to,

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there's no need to work with it.

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It is just, I declare,

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and that's great.

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Declarations are important,

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but after you declare,

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there's no,

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there's no,

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there's no tilling the soil.

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There's no watering the plant.

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There is no clearing the weeds.

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That is the,

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that is what happens in prayer,

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where what God wants to birth is,

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is to be born again.

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What God wants to birth is now fleshed out in prayer.

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You've seen the seed.

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You've planted the seed.

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You've declared upon the seed that you shall grow,

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but now comes the whole process of weeding,

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watering,

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fencing.

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If you don't do that,

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the fruit you get will be less than what it could be.

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So with regard to this revival,

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with regard to COVID,

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I want us to pray today.

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You see that in the stories with the Hebrides revival,

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and I've deliberately titled it,

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Will God Do What He Said?

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I'll share,

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against my good judgment,

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an anecdotal story with regard to the revival of

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how I had to

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wrestle with God because I was struggling with,

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will God do this?

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It's, we're talking about a global revival.

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I'll talk about that.

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The reason I say against my good judgment is because

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I know this is being recorded and can be seen

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by people other than the ones who know me at Acts 29.

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So prayer must precede proclamation.

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The next one is,

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prayer is propelled.

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Prayer is propelled.

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Prayer is propelled from

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a place

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of disadvantage.

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Prayer is propelled from a place

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of disadvantage.

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As in, disadvantage is the sling

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that really shoots prayer out at a velocity

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that is nuts.

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Prayer is propelled from a place of disadvantage

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because your God loves to be at a disadvantage

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before he wins.

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Your God loves to be at a disadvantage

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just before he wins.

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Your God loves to be at a disadvantage

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just before he wins.

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On Carmel with Elijah,

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the odds were 450 to 1.

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One prophet of God,

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450 prophets of Baal.

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So the odds were 450 to 1.

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Those guys had dry wood,

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but just so

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it was a fair fight, God said,

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make sure you soak the wood.

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Those guys had a dry bull.

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Elijah

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had to soak the bull that was going to be consumed.

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So dry wood versus soaked wood,

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dry bull versus soaked bull.

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And then just so it gets a little tougher,

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the other guys had a trench

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that was dug around the sacrifice.

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Elijah had to put water in the trench.

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So your God loves being at a disadvantage

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before he wins.

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You see the same with others.

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Joseph,

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imprisoned before he becomes the Prime Minister of Egypt.

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Gideon with 300 before he routs Midian.

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Daniel in the lion's den.

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Jesus on the cross.

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60 people at Acts 29 in a city of 2.6 million.

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At the end of the day,

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prayer is propelled from a place of disadvantage.

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It's a helpless people that really need to be

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shot out from the sling of disadvantage through prayer.

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And your God loves to be at a disadvantage before he wins.

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It's like the Hulk Hogan thing,

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which none of you will understand.

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But

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that's the second point.

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Pray from a place of disadvantage.

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It's a great place to pray from.

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We'll try and put this into practice.

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The third one is

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perseverance in prayer.

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Perseverance in prayer.

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Perseverance in prayer.

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Perseverance in prayer.

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Must proceed.

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Must proceed.

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After proclamation.

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Make sure that after you have made your proclamation

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or your declaration that you begin to persevere in prayer.

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That's something that we're not very good at.

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We know how to hear God.

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We know how to speak what he's saying,

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but we don't necessarily know how to or have applied ourselves

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to persevering in prayer after the declaration of the

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proclamation is made.

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We don't necessarily

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know how to do that.

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Thing is God will make rain from the little cloud that you

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form in prayer.

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God will make rain from the little cloud that you form in

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prayer.

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God will make rain from the little cloud that you form in

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prayer.

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That's what he does.

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Elijah begins to persevere after making the proclamation.

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And as he begins to persevere,

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and as he begins to persevere, God makes rain out of a small cloud that is the size of a fist rising up out of the sea.

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And so understand the invitation of God in the parable of the persistent widow.

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You know the thing about the widow is she knows that the only one who can give her justice,

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the only one who has the authority to, the only one who has the power to, the only one who is appointed to,

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the only one who has the right to give her justice is the judge.

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So it doesn't matter. She can be persistent as much as she needs to because she knows that here lies everything that I want.

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I mean it's the same with you guys when you don't get a service that you have paid for

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and you know that this is the office that I need to go to or this is the person I need to approach.

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So what do you do? Keep calling, keep sending emails, keep trying to meet. Why?

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Because you know that this person has the authority, has the office, has been appointed to, has the power,

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has the resources to grant you your request. So what do you do? You keep at it.

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Why do you keep at it? Because you know this is the person who can give it to you.

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It's the same principle with the persistent widow. Why do we now persist with God?

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He's not an unjust judge. He's using an unjust judge as a way to say,

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if an unjust judge who has the authority, the position, the appointment, the resources and the ability

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to have his heart melted by the continuous persistence of a woman who knows that this is the place that I can get justice from,

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then how much more? When you realize that I have the power, the authority, the appointment, the resources, the goodness and the justice to give it to you,

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why would you not keep coming back to get what you need to?

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Sometimes for your sake and mostly for the sake of others. Keep at it.

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I'm inviting you, I'm using this parable to invite you to begin to form a cloud that I can then use to send rain.

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Why? Not because I can't do it without your help, because I do a hundred things without your help every day without your prayer,

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but so that you can engage with me as I go about doing it. Let you and I work from a place of disadvantage.

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Do not look at your disadvantage as anything that holds you back. Look at your disadvantage as something that allows me to win.

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So when you look at a global revival which seems impossible, great, you're in perfect place.

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Did you see it? Did you hear it right? Oh you did. Did you pray into it? Oh you did.

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And then you made an announcement? Great. Now pack that chapter up, put it in the past and begin to move towards the future

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because the future requires that what you proclaim now you have to persevere in prayer so that your disadvantage becomes a sling that shoots you out only like God can.

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What we did over the last two days, Friday and Saturday, is to try and make an announcement or a declaration.

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Now begins the real work guys. That's why on Friday, so clearly I'm hearing God saying, alright, time to form that cloud.

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You've done the announcement, time to form that cloud. Doesn't matter how many times you have to go up Mount Sinai,

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go up Mount Carmel to check whether there's anything rising out of the sea. Time to form that cloud.

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You form that cloud and I'll have you hear the sound of rain. But you form that cloud by going on your knees.

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You know the sun doesn't get weary of shining. A fountain doesn't get weary of flowing. God doesn't get weary of doing these things.

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We think, ah, if I persist, God will get tired. No, you are getting tired so you're thinking that.

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One of the things I hear the most is people will say, we didn't get weary of doing these things.

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One of the things I hear the most is people will say, we didn't want to bother you.

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We didn't want to ask you because we thought you've got so much to do you'll be bothered.

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Hey, if your intent is genuine, I have time. And if that is corrupt me, think of God.

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What are we talking about in terms of praying? We are talking about praying for the decline of nations,

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for the fall of kingdoms, for the raising up of kings over a period of time.

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We are not talking about things like name it and claim it kind of stuff that enriches us.

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We are not talking about that. This church and churches connected to us are meant to affect the rise and fall of kingdoms and kings nations.

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And the advancement of the kingdom. I'm not kidding you. This is not rara. This is factual.

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It's been like this for the last 16 years. We didn't do anything to get here.

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It is just a God given desire and a God given right. Not even a right, a God given appointment.

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We've got nothing to do with it. We didn't do anything to qualify for it.

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But when I'm talking about prayer, I'm talking about praying for the decline of nations, for the fall of kingdoms,

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for the rise and fall of kingdoms, for the rise and fall of kingdoms, for the rising up of kings, for like it says in Jeremiah,

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I have appointed you to root out, to pull down, to build and to plant.

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I remember 14 years ago when we predicted in a corporate prayer meeting,

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when there were hardly five or six people that a time is coming where seven years from now

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a man will rise who is both political and religious and will govern India.

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And just like the fat cows and the lean cows, the church was given time to prepare,

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to strengthen herself for there would be a time of leanness. And then after seven years,

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things would change again. And this is the seventh year. But it is one thing to make a declaration.

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It's another thing to persevere so that the declaration you have made now begins to take

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the form of a cloud that will result in the sound of rain.

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So on one hand, there are these things that happen over a long duration.

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On the other hand, we're also talking about everyday miracles, everyday miracles.

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First Kings 17, 15 talks about this woman who makes him a cookie using the only flour and oil she has.

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And then it says in 17, verse 15, that for the rest of the famine, she had enough flour.

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Every time, I mean, imagine this, you go to the bin and you open it because you

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are looking to make some more food and there's flour there. You scoop it out and you use it.

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The second day you go, you're scared because you don't have what it takes to trust what this man

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said. But you go and you find it again. By the eighth or ninth day, you're laughing because you

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know what to expect. By the 20th day, you're not even concerned because you know there's flour.

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By the 25th day, you're distributing it to people who are also suffering from the famine.

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And at this point, I want to say Elijah was a man just like me,

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who had a God just like mine, but he did not have a God who lived in him.

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Elijah was a man just like me. If Elijah was a man just like me, I want to be like him.

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He was able to do things sheerly by the power of the Spirit.

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So we're not talking about things that are just long duration. We're also talking about everyday

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miracles, immediate fulfillment of God's words, immediate fulfillment. 2 Kings 19, verse 32 to 37,

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and a Syrian king has laid siege to Jerusalem. And a word comes from God. This is what I said,

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enormous odds, nations involved. A word comes from God saying, I know they've laid siege,

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but I want you to know that not a single shot will be fired. As he has come, he will go. The next day,

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the Syrian king goes back to his city and he's killed there and Jerusalem is free. Immediate fulfillment.

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And Elijah was just like me. He was a man who had the same nature as me.

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He was a man who had the same nature as me.

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If Elijah was just like me, I want to be able to walk like him.

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I can do that because now I have the same Spirit, not living upon me, not visiting me occasionally,

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but living in me. I will follow these paths then, right? See, pray, declare, and then persevere.

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This seemed to be a pattern in Elijah's life.

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2 Kings 6, 33 and 7, 1. You see another story. This is a fabulous story where people are eating

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dung and dove's heads. They're beginning to consume their own children because there's a famine in the land.

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And then along comes Elijah and he makes a simple declaration. This is after years of famine

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and a siege. Enemy armies around, famine in the land, eating dung, eating dove's heads,

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beginning to consume their children. And in the midst of that, Elijah comes and he makes a statement

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that needs such boldness and courage. And here's the statement he makes at this time tomorrow.

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At this time tomorrow, you will be eating loads of grain. You will be feasting that the famine will end.

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You can imagine what the people are thinking. Really? You can stand here and say that in a day,

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this time tomorrow, exactly what happens. One man who does not believe, Elijah says to him,

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you will see it but you will not eat it.

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There's a price to unbelief. I like what Mae said. She said she found it hard to grasp and understand this

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whole idea of the revival. So what did she do? She decided to go and listen to it all over again and as she did,

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she began to have God speak to her directly. It takes time, guys. There's an effort involved.

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One of the things that's bothering me like crazy is

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This weekend, one of my viewers got a shock.

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In the meantime prices are rising.

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door tells me there areick deals and that's shocking.

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He does an interview with a local

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AF Tinke Manager. He arrives and when he Listening, he says,

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Well, Muкоach, cut the campfire.

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is

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The kovid rates in India. I've been talking to people in India. My mom's in India right now

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We're talking to her I've been talking to Chad as I talked to them man. What you read on the news is

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Perhaps 50% less than what is actually happening

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The number of deaths the number of deaths just at new life assemblies of God with Chad pastors

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I

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Here's my problem because go it's been going on for a while, but here's my problem

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It's a nation that does not know Jesus Christ is Lord

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And it's almost like a sickle is being used to

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To end people's lives

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Cremations have long lineups now

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Pires are being lit as people are being burnt after death

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All going to an eternity that is dark and without God and you think this is God

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Thousands and thousands and thousands who probably went in

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Who probably went in

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Participated in that pilgrimage that is supposed to wash away their sins

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Thousands and thousands dying

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Numbers that we do not know of gasping for breath run over out of oxygen and you think it is God

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He's a God who loves he's a God who has tremendous mercy. He is a God who has tremendous power

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It is strange how this disease has struck certain nations that are

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predominantly non-christian and opposed Christianity beat Iran be it

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India be it

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Places where there are forms of Christianity that do not talk about being born again like Italy like Brazil

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Thousands perishing man. It's like a sickle from hell a

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Sickle from heaven harvest souls a sickle from heaven hell just brings death

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It's not enough to make declarations saying or in the name of Jesus Christ let India live now after I say

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India live I have to go up Mount Carmel going up is always painful

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It requires ascending and then persevere saying oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Will you not do what I say?

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Will you not do what you have said? I'm just talking about cool it on one hand then there's a revival on the other hand

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Church we've been trained long enough for this remember that series called prevailing church

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I was looking through it and we've we've talked about this before

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I'll be called to task if I do not persevere and try to form a cloud that rises up out of the ocean

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God is a God of mercy God is a God of love God is a God of power before he is a God of the prophetic

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One of the things that can happen to a church like ours is that we can get so hung up with prophetic and with

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declarations that we forget that at the end of the day if prophecy were to cease tomorrow and

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Declarations were no longer valid we have to learn that we have a God who is merciful a God who is super gracious a God

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Who is good and a God who is merciful?

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We have to learn that we have a God who is merciful a God who is super gracious a God who is good and a God

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Who has power and that is what makes things work even if we had no prophets and nothing prophetic happening in this church from this moment on

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I

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Was reminded of that a couple of days ago when God said listen

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I'm glad that you prophesy I'm glad that you make declarations

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But don't forget that I'm a God who is super merciful super gracious super loving and super powerful

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And that is why I do think so if you stop prophesying I would still be on task

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So don't think it's a prophetic or your declarations that do this

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Learn how to approach me in prayer knowing that I'm gracious and merciful. I'm loving and I'm powerful

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And then don't worry about whether you have asked over you declared whether you prophesied you've already learned that well now learn the other things

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Well, too

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The problem with any church or any strong Christian is that we become stronger in the area that we already strong in

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and

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The cool thing about the

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Gaddites

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Was that they could know the cool thing about the bentham inides

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Was they could sling and use a sword with both left hand and right hand they had strengthened both left and right hands

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think second Chronicles I

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Don't know second Chronicles I

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Don't know second Chronicles

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Twelve maybe

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Yeah, second Chronicles 12

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These were the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish

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They were among the warriors who helped him in battle

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They were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or a sling stones right handed or left-handed

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They were kinsmen of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin

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That's what we must learn a aggression prophetic edge

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Then on the other hand mercy grace love both

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God halves of ones

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he

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Charred cards to himself with mercy. God turns halves to himself with mercy

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God keeps halves to himself with grace

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God turns halves to himself with tylko goes keeps halves to himself with grace

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It's not your skill. It's not your skill. God turns halves to himself with mercy

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God keeps halves to himself with grace. It's not your skill. It's not your words

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cry out as an Elijah people for things eh? Elijah knew this in first Kings 1837

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first Kings 1837 look at what he says first Kings 1837 he says answer me oh

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Lord answer me so these people will know that you oh Lord are a God are God and

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that you are turning their hearts back again turning their hearts back again

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Elijah though he was one of the most amazing prophets that ever existed knows

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that it is God who turns hearts this is why I really liked May's letter yesterday

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it is such a cool letter where's my phone let me just get my phone there's

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such a cool letter I was going over it earlier today and it says these points

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were something else God saying this I haven't forgotten you Vancouver far from

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it you're on my mind full-time God of mercy God of grace God of power I see

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the hurt of the lonely loneliness beneath the surface I know the yearning

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and the longing that constantly tugs at you I'm not hurt by your forgetfulness

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and distractedness I know you're hurting even though you mask it well I adore you

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Vancouver I was caught off guard by that word I adore your creativity in

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making the city and the world better I adore your heart to care for others I

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adore the uniqueness each of you brings to the city I know because I adore you

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and because I adore you I want you to experience more than you presently

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experience you have no idea what's in my storehouse for you Charles Spurgeon

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wrote this eh? I'll read it twice and I'll read it slow just remind me to pray

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for Kamal I just got a text from Ann and it says please pray for Kamal he can't

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walk because of very bad pain on his knees and he's on crutches and his jaw

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is paining too so just remind me to pray for him before we finish guys this is by

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I loved what he wrote he says our heavenly banker delights to cash his own

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notes never let the promise that he has given you rust draw the word of promise

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out of its sheath and use it with holy violence think not that God will be

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troubled by your persistent reminding him of his promises it is his delight to

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bestow favors therefore go at once to the throne with do as you have said oh

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God one more time our heavenly banker delights to cash his own promissory notes

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never let the promise of God to you rust draw the word of promise out of its

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sheath and use it with holy violence think not that God will be troubled by

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your persistent reminding him of his promises it is his delight to bestow

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favors therefore go at once to his throne with do as you have said oh God

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and reminds me of all those situations in Hebrides I remember reading these

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two stories out in 1949 the spirit of grace and supplication fell upon the

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congregation in the village of Arnold on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish

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Hebrides they had prayed they had been praying for revival from Psalm 85 verse

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6 to 7 will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you show us

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your mercy your Lord and grant us your salvation one night they crowded into

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the home of the blacksmith the spiritual atmosphere was very dry a sense of

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deadness prevailed as one after another tried to break through in prayer Duncan

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Campbell the visiting evangelist called on mr. Smith the blacksmith to pray the

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short and sharp Oh God you made a promise to pour water upon him that you made a

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promise to pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground

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and Lord it's not happening he paused and then continued in a rising voice

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Lord I do not know how mr. Campbell or these other men stand with you but if I

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know my own heart I know that I am thirsty for some strange reason church

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God is asking us to approach him with a challenge he's not asking us to approach

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him as Oh God I know you are faithful for some strange reason both with regard

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to the sickle of Kovac that is cutting young and old lives in India short and

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with regard to this global revival two things that I want us to focus on he's

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saying come to me saying do it again will you not do what you have said he's

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saying test me come challenge me provoke me not out of a place of you are not

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faithful but from a place of since you are faithful please hear me we've been

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invited by the spirit of God to do this God is saying I sit like this and I

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listen to your prayer church and not necessarily talking to accident but

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church and then I listen to your prayer church and my arms don't feel like

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unfolding pray a little harder and see what I can do as I roll up my sleeves

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what a prayer to pray man this guy called Smith who happens to be a black

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man not a very imaginative name but my god his prayer is look at what he says

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and guys if you and I am NOT where this guy is at then ask God Oh God I am NOT

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where this guy is and I said that to God Oh God I can't pray like this I'm not

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here yet change my heart before I can launch into these kind of prayers Duncan

00:45:45.560 --> 00:45:51.440
Campbell the visiting evangelist called on mr. Smith the blacksmith to pray the

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prayer was short and sharp Oh God you made a promise to pour water upon him

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that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground and Lord it's not happening he

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paused and then continued in a rising voice Lord I do not know how Jacob or

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these other leaders stand with you but I know my own heart and I know that I am

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thirsty come on man cry like this you have promised to pour water on him who

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is thirsty if you don't do it how can I ever believe you again your honor is at

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stake you're a covenant-keeping God fulfill your covenant engagement at that

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instant the granite house shook like a leaf and a power was unleashed that

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swept the entire parish form a cloud that can bring the sound of rain church

00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:17.920
here's another excerpt just as I was walking down the aisle along with this

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young deacon who read the psalm in the barn again from the Hebrides he

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suddenly stood in the aisle and looking up to heaven he said God you can't fail

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:32.760
us God you can't fail us you promised to pour they go back to the promise man

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every one of them goes back to the promise see see what's in the word see

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what the Holy Spirit is showing see the appointed season and see from a vantage

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point of sitting in the heaven is and seeing what other realms are doing he

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suddenly stood in the aisle and looking up to heaven he said God you can't fail

00:47:53.240 --> 00:47:58.720
us God you can't fail us you promised to pour water on thirsty on the thirsty and

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floods upon dry ground you can't fail us soon he is on his knees in the aisle and

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he is still praying and then he falls into a trance again just then the door

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opens it is now 11 o'clock the door of the church opens at the local black

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Smith comes back into the church saying mr. Campbell something wonderful has

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happened we were praying that God will pour water on the thirsty and floods

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upon the dry ground and listen he's done it he's done it when I went to the door

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of the church I saw a congregation of approximately 600 people 600 people

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where did they come from what had happened I believe that very night God

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swept in Pentecostal power the power of the Holy Ghost and what happened in the

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early days of the Apostles was happening now in the parish of Barwas what is

00:48:43.740 --> 00:48:48.920
inviting us saying can you challenge me can you provoke me can you have me

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unfold my arms and roll up my sleeves on your behalf because I am seeing how you

00:48:54.760 --> 00:49:01.400
just keep coming up this mountain keep fleshing out the announcement I asked

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.720
you to make keep reminding me of my promises keep saying that your honor Oh

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God is at stake

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sometimes it's just repeating one simple line let God arise let the enemies be

00:49:16.820 --> 00:49:20.920
scattered remember the words that was given to us for the revival for I will

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pour water on thirsty lands from the Hebrides revival for I will pour water

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.280
on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground I will pour out my spirit on

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your offspring and my blessings on your descendants I will bring your children

00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:38.600
from the east and I will gather them from the west I will send orders north

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and south I will say to the north give them up to the south do not hold them

00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:46.440
back you will raise up young men and young women bishop strong apostolic

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ministry strong teachers going out from your company they will reproduce this

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anointing and this next line has already come to pass over Friday and Saturday

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your young people as in Acts 29 your young people will freely join you at the

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break of dawn with all the vigor of youth resplendent in holy armor on the

00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:09.040
day of your conquest and I believe that has already come to pass so how about

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the rest remind God of his promises saying you cannot fail us oh God you

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cannot fail us I don't know about Jacob I don't know about this person I don't

00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.440
know about that person but if I know my heart I know that I am thirsty oh God

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you made a promise to pour water you made a promise to bring in the young well

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then your honor is at stake if you don't know it how can people believe you

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what I'm going to read to you next is what I said I wasn't sure I should do

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so this happened shortly after the Shekinah seven meetings now seven day

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meetings we had and so it is around January 22nd or thereabouts and I was

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still struggling with his idea for global revival because in my mind it was

00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:11.520
if you could revive acts 29 that should be quite an accomplishment global

00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:16.840
revival there are too many signs that had me go down that route check I now one

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to seven but I still struggling with it so I'll read it out shortly after the

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Shekinah seven meetings I was struggling on the 22nd morning I said to

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God if what you have said about me is true then show me otherwise I can't go

00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:39.800
forward into what you have said if I am to announce the start of a global

00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:45.720
revival show me your plans give me certainty let my words not fall to the

00:51:45.720 --> 00:51:50.800
ground answer my prayers renew my faith give me plans and keys and

00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:54.720
understanding and phrases for this revival give me access let me know your

00:51:54.720 --> 00:51:59.520
presence because if you aren't going to do that I can't step into or do what

00:51:59.520 --> 00:52:03.240
you're asking even though I will attempt to I can't do this anymore if you don't

00:52:03.240 --> 00:52:08.200
go with me and he answered he answered by asking me to go look at a billboard

00:52:08.200 --> 00:52:14.640
on Heather and Southwest Marine and so I did the billboard has a simple word on

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it global and then he took me to Isaiah 49 6 from the message and here's what it

00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:28.880
says he says but that's not a big enough job for my servant just to recover the

00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:33.520
tribes of Jacob merely to round up the strays of Israel I'm setting you up as

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a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global I went to my

00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:42.560
room I turned off the light and thought about it in bed for a while going over

00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:49.480
the whole thing and I asked God if he would do a Genesis 15 flaming torch like

00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:54.320
thing that passed between the sacrifice when Abraham laid it before him I asked

00:52:54.320 --> 00:53:01.280
him if he would do that at some point I knew God was in the room I got off the

00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:08.560
bed and knelt with my head in my hands to the ground at some point I realized

00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:14.320
it couldn't move my whole body was without strength I tried how I tried

00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:21.520
three times five times but not a muscle would move though my thought willed any

00:53:21.520 --> 00:53:28.440
part of my body to move I realized I was completely at his mercy and I heard what

00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:35.080
I had heard in 1995 from Demoshek Aryan's book will you ever doubt my power

00:53:35.080 --> 00:53:42.200
and my promise again and then suddenly I could move I pulled out the excerpt from

00:53:42.200 --> 00:53:46.640
Demoshek Aryan's book he had been told that he would one day start an

00:53:46.640 --> 00:53:50.160
organization for businessmen the full gospel business and fellowship that

00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:53.600
would span the globe and today there isn't a nation that hasn't been touched

00:53:53.600 --> 00:53:58.240
by the full gospel business and fellowship after that I was deeply

00:53:58.240 --> 00:54:02.960
desiring prayer I called up Derek and prayed with Derek for long I told God I

00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:08.040
had found him faithful I found him merciful I had found him kind and found

00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:12.160
him accommodating and found him gracious I said he had kept his sight of the

00:54:12.160 --> 00:54:16.960
bargain now he could have my money my time my strength my will and do as he

00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:21.600
pleases and I would obey I cannot hold back I have no reason to hold back from

00:54:21.600 --> 00:54:29.680
him you must have all of me all the time sovereign God I think it's necessary

00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:36.480
for me to read this so that I burned this bridge and I cannot go back again

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my prayer is that we will take these things that we have spoken about I pray

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for two things with the kind of perseverance that forms a cloud that

00:54:51.360 --> 00:55:00.400
will bring the sound of rain both for a breaking of the sickle of COVID that is

00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:13.560
devouring lives into an eternal dark place forever in India and then for this

00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:22.920
revival that is global that will bring in a harvest of souls a harvest of souls

00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:28.520
one is a sickle that brings death now there is a sickle that harvests souls

00:55:28.520 --> 00:55:36.000
into heaven do both church I'm charging you with this I'm charging you with this

00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:41.280
because God is charging us with it God is charging me with it

00:55:43.560 --> 00:56:10.080
what's the difference between active and passive prayer difference between active

00:56:10.120 --> 00:56:13.760
and passive prayer passive prayer is how I've learned to pray thus far active

00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:17.960
prayer is constantly engaging with God to see okay you've taught me enough and

00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:25.400
I stand on that and but teach me more I don't want I don't want to pray like I

00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:34.320
prayed yesterday teach me how to pray today it's it's always dynamic it is

00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:41.520
never only what I learned yesterday it is what are you showing me today what

00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:45.440
are you teaching me today how do you want me to go about this today like

00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:50.320
simple thing active prayer for us as a church would be the ability to learn how

00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:57.860
to persevere so that the cloud that is formed by a perseverance turns into the

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sound of rain active prayer would be to learn that habit because we've learned

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seeing well we've learned praying with what we see kind of we've learned how

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to make proclamations and declarations and now we got to learn how to persevere

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active prayer is doing exactly what I read out just now our God you're asking

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us to come and challenge you you're inviting us well you are faithful you're

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gonna say we're not gonna come and say oh you're not being faithful you're

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gonna say since you're faithful but we'll come and challenge you you're

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inviting us into that that's what active prayer looks like can I have a pick can

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I have a pick

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and after the song we'll pray for come on

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you

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hallowe

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your name

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your lead

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Your will be done

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On earth

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Our Father

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Who art in heaven

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Hallowed be

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Your name

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And Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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So we'll go where we are sent

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Jesus Christ we represent

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In our life for all to see

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For the glory of the Lord now dwells in me

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Our Father

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Who art in heaven

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Hallowed be

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Your name

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And Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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So He sets us to by new

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Take no bag or bread with You

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Let the lamb of praise today

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For the glory of the Lord now lives with You

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Our Father

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Who art in heaven

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Hallowed be

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Your name

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Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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Set to show the works of God

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Set to show the Father's love

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The sick are healed that demons flee

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For the glory of the Lord now lives in me

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Our Father

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Who art in heaven

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Hallowed be

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Your name

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And Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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And Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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And Your kingdom

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And Your kingdom

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Your kingdom has come

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Your will be done

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On earth

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We pray Your will to be done upon Kamal's knee and jaw

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And so the question then is, what is Your will in heaven for Kamal's knee and Kamal's jaw?

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We know that it is the will of God in heaven

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By looking at what Jesus accomplished on earth

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Jesus was striped for our healing for Kamal's knee and for his jaw

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Jesus' back was bruised and battered open

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That is the will of heaven for Kamal's knee and for his jaw

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Therefore we say, let Your will, O God, be done here on earth upon Kamal's knee and Kamal's jaw

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Let it be made evident by the freedom from pain

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We also remember Matthew 8, 14-16

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Where it says, You carried our grief, our sorrow, our disfigurement, our infirmity, our weakness

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Our disease, our pain, our affliction, our sickness

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You took it, then You carried it

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So that we may no longer bear it

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So in the name of Jesus Christ, because Jesus took it

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I say to the knee and the jaw, be free from pain Jesus has taken it

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So that Kamal may walk free of it

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So we as a church now say, be free of this pain and this sickness and disease

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And we say to whatever needs to be restored that is broken, damaged, bruised, sick

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Be healed in the name of Jesus Christ

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Father, this church this week will find time to learn and practice

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Persevering after proclamation

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Persevering after proclamation

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A declaration allows us to say and announce Your intent

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Perseverance allows us to form a cloud that carries the sound of rain

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So I pray that with regard to India, with regard to the revival

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With regard to the people that we prayed for who would require healing

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That this church will this week practice the principle of perseverance

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The pattern of perseverance

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Teachers of God, this is the next stage, don't want to shy away from it

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We shut the chapter on the announcement

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We begin the chapter on the perseverance now

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Knowing, O God, that You are a God who just loves working from a place of disadvantage

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Because You just turn things around dramatically

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So we bless You now as we go, in Jesus' name, Amen

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Can we also keep Lance and Rob in prayers?

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So Father, You know the need that Lance has and Rob has

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I pray favor

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I pray favor, I pray justice

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I pray, not justice, I pray Father that You who are a just God

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Will grace us with Your grace

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I pray Father that You who are a just God

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Will grant to Lance and to Rob favor and justice

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I pray that Your vindication be upon them

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That no courtroom lie, no weapon forged against them prosper

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I pray Your mercy, Your kindness upon Rob and Lance, in Jesus' name, Amen

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Alrighty guys, see you when I see you

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Power has no end

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The things you've done before

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In greater measure

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You will do again

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Because there's no prison

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While you can't break through the bounds

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And you can't move

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All things are possible

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There's no broken body

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You can't raise no soul

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You can't save all

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Tears are possible

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The darkest night

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You can light it up

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You can light it up

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God revives

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Let hope arise

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Death is overcome

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You've already won

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God revives

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You rose in victory

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And now you're seated

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Forever on the throne

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So watch in my heart fear