Sermon
Best Bread Ever | Craig Lapenski | Sunday Jan 25th
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It's going to be fun. The name of our message
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is best Bread ever. Think about being thirteen and how
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you talk about things if you're thirteen, best bread ever,
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the best, like incredible. That's the message today. And you're
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getting me because we want our pastor the incredible preacher teacher.
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To be really, really really.
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Recharged for our summit. So I'm helping out a little bit.
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So before we get started, we're gonna pray, Lord Jesus
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have your way. Don't let a word come out of
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my mouth that's not yours. I give my tongue to you,
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and I say speak what I can't say, and say
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what I can't say. Amen. So we're in the middle
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of a fast, and I feel like, as there was
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some prophetic declaration and talk about Isaiah the fifty eighth
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chapter as the fast was getting started and what the
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fast would look like. I believe that fasting and prayer
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done a certain way is designed to break off the
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yoke of the oppressor. Okay, so the demonic realm, the
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thing that brings harm to your life and a problem
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to you, to break off the yoke of the.
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Oppressor, that's the kind of fast we want to have.
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That's the kind of prayer that we want to we
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want to.
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Involve ourselves in.
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And so if the Lord says that that's how you're
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supposed to pray, then that's how we're going to pray
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because we value what he values, because we're in New
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Horizon Church and we really think that whatever he has
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to say is the most pre eminent and it's the top,
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and we're in that and we're following that. Okay, we
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think that's the highest, and so we want to ascribe
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to the highest. Okay, if he says that we can
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pull heaven down and bring it to earth and this
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is how to do it, then I want to figure out, well,
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how do we do that? And he says it, that's
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where we're going.
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So I really thought so last week Pastor.
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Dwayne did an awesome job. He brought up Pastor Joel
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and he gave an exemp an example, if you will,
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of what it is to communicate with God, interact with God.
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And one of the things that I really liked is
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that one it was extremely personable. Okay, it was intimate,
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but number two, he was talking about Hallowed be your name,
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like that God is, he's to be revered, He's beautiful,
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he's majoric, he's the highest, He's worthy of all praise,
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so that we would come into our prayer with first
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that being our heart posture that like, he's so worthy
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that we have a humility and humbleness to us in
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how we approach him. And I think that I think
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that sometimes in charismatic churches, I think we could learn
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a thing or two if we look at other denominations.
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What do I mean if you look at the liturgical branches,
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Let's say some of the liturgical branches, like Catholicism, they
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have a like they really believe his name is hallowed,
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Like they have a reverence for God. There's like a
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God's powerful and he's holy, and we need to we
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need to approach him from that light if you take
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it too far, And I like that because he is.
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And if you look back through the New Testament, we
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can see like antoniasis firr God like he'll take people
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out just for disrespecting him. So like we need to
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approach him from that hallowed be your name perspective. And however,
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what I really appreciated about what he shared was that
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we don't need to be afraid to approach him. He
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actually says he loves you. He actually says he wants
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to be so intimate with you that he's not the distant,
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sovereign God. And he doesn't just do everything he's going
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to do because he says he's going to do it.
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He actually will listen to our prayers to change things.
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He'll actually listen to the plead of a man and
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even stave off judgment to a people group. Lot right, Abraham,
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God actually doesn't just do everything he wants to do
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whenever he wants to do it. He actually partners with humans.
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And so he's got this incredible relationship with humanity where
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he says, oh my gosh, I love you so much Junior,
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that I want to be intimate with you, and you
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can say anything to me, you can share anything with me.
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Nothing's off limits.
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Let's get tight. So that's the perspective understanding that it's
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under the ground of hallowed be thy name. Okay, so
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we're starting off with hallowing his name. Then we're approaching
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him and if we hop into Matthew six nine through twelve,
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six nine through twelve, this then is how you should
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pray our Father, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom, come
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your will, be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
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Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
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as we have also forgiven our debtors. I'm going to
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give you a few scriptures right now. Let's go to
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Matthew four four. Jesus answered, it is written, man shall
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not live on bread alone, by every word that precedes
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or comes out of the mouth of God.
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Why am I going to.
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Give you three or four scriptures? Because I'm building. I'm
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building something to that we can work with. I'm giving
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you a foundation. Let's go to Juteronomy eight three. Now,
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this is even old Testament. Okay, he humbled you, causing
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you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which
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neither you your nor ancestors had known to teach you
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that man does not live on bread alone, but on
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every word that comes from the mouth of God. You're
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seeing this Old Testament, you're seeing this New Testament. It's everywhere. Well,
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why is this? Because if you've got kids and they're
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beloved to you, you want to be intimate with them.
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You want to be intimate with them. One of the
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dangers of this passage of scripture is that so many
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people may have recited it or memorized it in their church,
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a growth or development where they actually like somebody could
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start it and they could just finish it really easily,
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and that's wonderful. However, if we only ascend to a
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head knowledge of a scripture but it doesn't actually get
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like super deep down in our heart, then what happens
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is we could actually only experience that scripture and what
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it has for us on the surface of it, rather
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than it being experiential and transformative. If the Word of
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God is living and sharp, it's it can change anything.
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It's transformative. Correct, So we have to be careful when
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we're looking at the Lord's prayer to not have this
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thing become some just like rote thing that loses its
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power and loses its significance only because of how we're
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interacting with it. Does that make sense like that it
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wouldn't be giving the value it's designed to give because
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how we perceive it, and if we don't have a
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hallow be thy name, we might not perceive it that way.
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So I want you to listen to the scripture. This
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is a Psalm one one wow, actually it's one through three.
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Blessed is the one who does not walk in step
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with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take,
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or sit in the company of mockers. But whose delight
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is in the law of the Lord, who meditates on
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this law day and night. That person is like a
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tree planted by streams of living water that yields its
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fruit and dew season. Its leaf does not wither. Whatever
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they do prospers. Whatever they do prospers. You'll notice in
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the middle of this verse you're going to see he
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who meditates on his word day and night. And then
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it's a scribe certain things that are appropriate to that
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person who's meditating on it day and night. It says
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that you'll be like a stream by living water, and
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it says that your leaf will not wither.
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It'll be green and.
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Full, and it'll produce whatever it needs to in the
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season it needs to produce it. Okay, we can only
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produce fruit if we're abiding in the shelter. In John
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fifteen to five, that's not up there. Don't worry about
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putting it up. But in John fifteen five he says
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that he's the vine, we're the branches that if we
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abide in him and he abides in us, that basically
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we can produce much fruit, and it says if we
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don't do that, it doesn't produce anything. We produce literally nothing,
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it's worthless. So this connection, this communion that's abiding, this
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in tomacy with the King is the only way to
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actually have the kingdom come through the reformers. If New
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Horizon is a group of reformers, the reformers bring the kingdom.
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But unless we have the King, we can't bring the kingdom.
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So this abiding, this being knit to him, this connection
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with him, is absolutely essential if we want to see
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Heaven come to earth, if we want to see His
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will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
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it has.
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To occur that way.
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And so.
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I want to tell you a little story.
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When I was twenty three, I got radically transformed, and
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I grew up in a family or perspective that I
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had no biblical training zero. When I got saved, I
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did not know the word Sadducee, Pharisee. I did not
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know what a gentile was. Those are like really a gentile,
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Like that's like super basic.
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I did not know what that was.
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And so God did something in my heart when I
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got saved where I realized boy, I'm on the wrong
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page on everything, Like literally every viewpoint I have, it's
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on the wrong page, because that's just the situation I
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grew up in. And it made me realize, Wow, if
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his ways are higher, I need to change my ways
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and they need to become his ways. And so he
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did this thing in me where he gave me like
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the severe hunger for the word, where all of a sudden,
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after I got saved, I was like eating it and
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meditating on it day and night, like all the time,
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like I was just saturating myself in it.
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Only because I'm like, I'm screwed up.
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My world views are all screwed up, and I need
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to figure out what the King's perspectives are. And so
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as I began to align myself with him, what ended
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up happening is that I I got this understanding of
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how critical it was to get my daily bread, that
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I need my daily bread, and if I don't get
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my daily bread, I'm actually not capable of producing anything
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of any value or any fruit. Early in my walk,
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I had this like pretty like I'm like on fire
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for the Lord. And I went from just depravity to
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something else in a very short period of time. And
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when this happened, I just was so saturated in the
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Word that things were going easily for me. However, sometimes
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what can happen in our Christian walk is that we
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walk with God and He starts giving you directives, and
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he starts giving you a vision, and he starts giving
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you a plan, and he starts orchestrating your life and
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satisfying the desires of your heart. And next thing, you know,
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you're a parent, and you're married and.
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All these good things.
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It's good to be a husband, Zach right, it's good
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to be a father, it's it's it's He can give
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you life mission, and you're out fulfilling the life mission.
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And in the midst of doing all of this, we
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do a lot of doing, and if we're not careful, careful,
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we can start doing of our own will without the King.
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And every Christian will go through these seasons of He's
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He's the most intimate thing ever. We feel Him on
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us and in us and speaking through it like we
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hear He visits us in the car and we just
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weep and cry. Anybody in here experience that that that's
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where we want to stay. What happens, though, is we
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can get caught up in the doing for him, and
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as we do the doing for him, we can actually
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forget that he's the doer, and we can start to
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do it without him.
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And so I'm gonna tell you a brief story.
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So there's the I'm there's this morning, I'm up, it's early,
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I'm I'm reading my Bible.
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The Lord puts.
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Somebody, a picture of somebody in my face. The picture
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happens to be a patient of mine. Then the Lord
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flashes the scripture in front of my face, and so
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I go and look up that scripture. And what happens
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is later in that week, that person comes into my office.
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I'm sitting here and I'm measuring this person, just doing
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the thing I'm doing.
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And I say to them, I.
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Say, you know, this week, the Lord put you in
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my mind and he gave me what I think is
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a scripture for you. Would you mind if I shared
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that with you?
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So it's this.
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It's the guy that's in front of me is a
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big man like big guy, and he says sure, and
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I share with him the passage of scripture. And this guy,
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this really big, kind of like not emotional guy, starts
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weeping violently and goes to the floor by what I
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shared with him. Well, the man was a pastor of
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a church who was not functioning as a pastor. And
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the man so, without getting into that story too far,
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the Lord used that scripture that he illuminated to me
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that morning to start this man's ministry. The man was
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called out according to that scripture, he's not functioning as
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a pastor in that day and age. And that was
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the scripture that the Lord gave me to share him.
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I had no idea, and he just like lost it.
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He lost it and that he's like, So he's bawling,
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and I'm like, are you okay? And he says to me,
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he's like, that's the scripture that was prophesied over me
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back in such and such year and started my ministry
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and he's not a pastor or currently. It shifted something
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for him, Something happened different for him.
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And what I'm going to tell you.
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Is that we can go through seasons where we have
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the right word in season and we have an instructed tongue.
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But what can happen is that's all dependent upon our
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abiding in the shelter of the most High in the communing.
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And I think that if I had not been in
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a position where I had put myself that morning in
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the word praying that I probably would not have received
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or even have known that that was something he needed.
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Do you see how important it is for us to
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get our daily bread? Like we need our daily bread,
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we have to have it.
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Listen to this.
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I believe this is a prophetic word for this house.
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Without the consumption of daily bread, it diminishes our capacity
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to yield fruit in the right or appropriate season. Every
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season is going to be different from you for you,
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but you can't even yield the right fruit in the
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right season if you don't have the mana for that day.
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You need that manna or otherwise the season may never
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even come to pass.
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Listen to this. The Lord gave me this equation.
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He said, minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact.
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Minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact. Not so
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for the people of New Horizon Church, not so for
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the body of Christ.
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I believe that the Lord.
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Is trying to say, my reformers know my will, they
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know how to operate in intimacy with me. I believe
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that this section of the Lord's prayer is so significant
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because it's the most volitional part on our end. Volitional
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meaning I could do it or I could not do it,
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And he ain't gonna make me. He's not gonna force me.
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He's not gonna make me do anything. He's a gentleman.
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But he's inviting us in.
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He loves us. Do you know that when God.
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Touches our heart in a crazy powerful way, it almost
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always comes in an intimate moment most of the severe,
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like those times when he comes and visits you and.
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You're just not ever the same after.
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It almost always comes in that section of time. It's
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in that intimate moment, It's in the intimacy. And so
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he's inviting us into this beautiful intimacy.
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But it's our choice.
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Listen to this. Your life is an extension of your
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bread eating. Your life is an extension of your bread eating.
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Can I have that first picture put up? Okay? If
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you have a battle coming up, if there's a war
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to win a battle, if things are getting really hot,
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serious and you need a miracle, is this the.
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Warrior that you're gonna text you got a race to run?
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Even?
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Can I have the next picture? Or might you called
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Dwayne Wolf and he's got his fatigues on, he's boff.
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He's ready to take the devil out. So the the
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Lord said to me, he said, much of the church
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is spiritually emaciated. Do you know what emaciation means? Have
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you ever seen a person that's so hungry there's hardly
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anything left of them? I was gonna put up pictures
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of emaciated people, but it's disturbing, so I didn't want
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to do that. I just picked a really weak looking guy.
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So the only way we're going to be able to
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wage the war, fight the battles is if the army
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is not emaciated. And if the army is not getting
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its bread every single day, then the army is going
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to be weak. My wife used to run marathons, and
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I was with her when she was running the Chicago Marathon.
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She did well, and so she qualified for the Boston Marathon.
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While she was running the Boston Marathon. She's little, but
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she's really tough, and she's small, very small, but kind
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of buff, and so she basically was like, hey, will
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you train with me? So I'm running a lot at
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that time. I'm running with her frequently. And one of
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the things that I found is when you run long distances.
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There's this pain that you initially have in the first
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mile to three or four or whatever, and then there's
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this point that you can get to where you just
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like it all goes away and you get into a groove.
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You get into a place there's like an ease to
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it where all of a sudden, then ten, twelve, fifteen
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miles can go by and those ones aren't hard.
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It was the first one or two or three.
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Those of you who've done something like a physical competition,
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this is how they work. There's this point where you
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push through and you get in your zone. Okay, the
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zone in Christianity is getting your manna every day. The
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zone in Christianity is eating your bread every day. If
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you ain't getting your bread every day, you are not
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going to be able to run that marathon. You're not
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going to be able to run that race. You're not
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going to be able to bring that victory. You will
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not have it because you are not rightfully equipped and trained,
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because you didn't get your food you need for the day. Spiritually,
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I believe this is a prophetic word for this house. Spiritually,
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we need to have this groove life. We need to
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have this anointing. I'm using the word groove because you
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people can like they make belts and whatever, but people
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know what that is. What I'm talking about is there's
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a place in God. There's an intimacy in him, there's
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an anointing in him where if you stay in that gear,
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I'm telling you you can get ten times more done
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than anybody else, and it'll be easy. You'll have a
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grace on whatever you put your hand to.
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But we got to stick in that gear.
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That gear is tied to this getting our bread. Listen
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to this. This is Malachi four two. But for you
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who revere my name, the Sun of righteousness will rise
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with healing in its rays, and you will go out
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and frolic like well fed calves. The Son of Righteousness
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is all over you with healing, and you're stepping out
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of your stall like a well fed calf. That's the anointing,
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that's the groove, that's the intimacy. Isaiah fifty eight to eleven.
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The Lord will guide you always. He will satisfy your
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needs in a sun scorched land, and will strengthen your frame.
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You will be like well a well watered garden, like
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a spring whose waters never fail. Your frame strengthened. You're
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a well watered garden. Are you getting where I'm going
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with this? There's a sustenance in the Lord that he brings,
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and he brings it through the bread daily, which is
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the Lord's prayer.
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And if we just come at.
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It from a head knowledge perspective, we may be missing
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the treasure in it. God's This is a word, God's
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prophetic declarations over and through you, hinge on your hiding
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and abiding time in Him, His prophetic declarations over you
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and through you, hinge on your hiding and abiding in Him.
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Joe preached on this the other.
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Day, But yesterday's manna it won't work for today. It's
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going to get stinky, smelly and rotten. Do you know
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you can't eat the other day's mana, except the only
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day you can eat the man is on the day
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it came. It's the same thing with the word. It's
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the same thing with our Bible study time. It's the
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same thing with prayer. It's the same thing with our
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worship time. You have to have it daily otherwise you
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can bear no good thing. And yesterday's won't do for today.
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Even if you had three days last week where you're.
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Like, oh, the Lord was on fire.
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He touched me, what about today? Yesterday's Mana isn't good
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enough for today. I believe that. I believe that New
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Horizon Church is a church where everybody is going to
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be communing so well with the King and receiving daily
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revelation and manna that we're going to bring the Kingdom
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come to Heaven, from heaven to earth because of how
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we function in our daily walk with mana, your daily refreshment.
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If you don't have refreshment daily, you got a problem.
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He said. You're like a stream planted by You're like
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a tree planted by streams of living water. The Lord
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gave me a picture, and the picture he gave me
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was that the church needs a reignition, or it needs
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a infusion of chlorophyll. Do you know what chlorophyll is?
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Chlorophyll's the stuff that makes leaves green. If the leaf
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loses its chlorophyll, it's greenness. What happens it withers and dies?
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Does it produce the thing that it was designed to
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produce and do season? It doesn't. So I really feel
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like the Lord's using this fasting season to reignite our hearts.
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To intimacy with him. And I don't believe he's calling
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it to be for this three weeks twenty one day.
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I believe that the Lord is asking us to reorient
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our lives, to redirect our schedules, to actually restructure how
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you live your life. That every morning you would wake
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with that desire that would say, I need his word
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in my tongue. I need the de word in season.
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I need my energy, I need my sustenance. The Lord
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said to me, we can't take possession of our promised
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lands if we aren't partaking in receiving our daily bread.
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You can't run a car without gas.
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It needs fuel, and our bread is the fuel for life.
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The only way we're going to produce the kingdom is
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if we're possessing the king. The only way we're going
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to produce the kingdom is if we're possess possessing the King.
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I need to be done in five minutes. How many
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minutes do I have? Five? Okay? Okay, oh yeah, no, no,
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we're watching the Seahawks, Go Hawks. Okay.
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Do you know not all.
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Prayer produces the same outcomes, Not all prayer. You could
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pray a prayer and not have it produce the right outcome,
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because if there's no expectancy, there's no faith. And without faith,
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if you don't have expectancy coupled with faith, it's really
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not even faith at all. And if you're praying without faith,
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you're probably not going to receive much. Then we'd be
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an unstable man expecting he should receive nothing. We have
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to pray with pitbull tonacity. We have to pray with
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like a yeah, like like the Seahawks are going to do,
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like the defense on the Seahawks.
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That like that what they're going to do today.
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That's how you got to pray, okay.
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And that's how we have to approach the spiritual realm.
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And even the Lord's prayer, the Lord's prayer can be
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can be approached in an aggressive way where you're saying,
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you're Heaven came down to Earth and repossess and repopulate
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all those demonic strategies and things that are here. We
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want them all taken out, and we want Heaven down.
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You can pray aggressively and pray the Lord's prayer Matthew
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six point twelve in an amplified Bible. So a couple
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on these scriptures, it might say something up there on
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the screen like NLT. It's not enalty this. I'm giving
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you an amplified but I don't think we have that
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in the system. So but it's programmed in right.
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So this is what it says.
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It says, and forgive our debts as we have forgiven
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our debtors. But listen to this, letting go of both
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the wrong and the resentment. Letting go of both the
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wrong and the resentment. That's what forgiveness is. This is
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it out of a passion translation in Matthew six, forgive
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us our wrongs we have done as we ourselves. Release forgiveness,
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the release of forgiveness to those who've wronged us. What's
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the significance of this? The significance of this comes in
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the next chapter. In the next couple verses go to
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Matthew six fourteen fifteen. For if you forgive others their trespasses,
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their reckless and willful sins, your heavenly Father will also
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forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive.
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Others nurturing your heart with anger, and the result that
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it interferes with your relationship with God, then your Father
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will not forgive your trespasses. So why is it so
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significant to release it, because if we're harboring bitterness and
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resentment in our heart towards another, then what happens is
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when we're trying to be intimate with the King, it
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interferes with the intimacy.
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We can't be as intimate.
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It's like a cog in there messing up the intimacy.
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I have a family member that I love really a lot,
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and over a long period of time, I realize something.
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I would have a conversation with them again and again
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and again, and every conversation ends up coming back to negativity,
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very heavy negativity, And every conversation will end up bringing
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up somebody and how they're upset with that somebody, and
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they're going to tell you the story of the thing
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that happened ten twenty thirty years ago. And it's with
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every conversation, and it happens again and again and again,
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and it doesn't really matter the conversation, it will all
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go that direction. It will always go back to negativity,
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and it will always go back to somebody having wronged them,
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harmed them, brought harm to them, or their perception of
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somebody having wronged them, even.
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If it wasn't wrong, but it's just their offense.
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And what I realized is that there's actually something happening
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spiritually here. The thing that's happening is there's actually a
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spirit that's at work controlling their heart and their mind.
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It's called a spirit of bitterness.
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And that spirit is like drinking poison and they're waiting
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for it to harm everybody else in their life, except
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it's only killing them. And so what I'm sharing this
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morning is that if we don't forgive and let go
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of the bitterness, the resentment whoever wronged us, we're inhibiting
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the King of Glory coming in and shedding his love
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in our heart. And I don't know about you, but
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I want all the love God wants to give me.
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I want all every bit of love that he wants
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to give me. I want it all.
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I want every bit of it. I don't want to.
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Miss any tiny iota of it. And so if this
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is in my heart, then I need to get rid
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of it. And sometimes we don't even realize that's happened
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to us. Years ago. I years ago I realized there
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was somebody who had they'd done one thing and another
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thing and another thing to kind of try and bring
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me harm. And what ended up occurring is that every
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time their name would come up, I'd have an interaction.
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I just have this like feeling.
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Eh, because I realized, I'm like and then I'm like, oh,
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this happens every time I think about the person. Every
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time their name comes up, no matter what someone else
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could be talking, they bring up that person and I'd
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be like, eh, you know, and I'm like, what is that. Oh,
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that's actually an unforgiveness. That's a lack of me releasing
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the offense. That's a lack of me shedding the forgiveness
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to give back.
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To them, and I'm harboring it.
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And I realized what it was, and I'm like, I'm
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not gonna harbor that bitterness and resentment.
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I'm gonna forgive.
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And so I'm cleaning my house spiritually out right, and
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I'm like, oh, I feel a lot better already. But
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then I realized I don't just need to clean my
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spiritual house out. What I actually have to do is
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go back and fill it up with the kingdom. So
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I started actually realizing my way to overcome this bitterness
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and resentment was actually to start to pray blessing every
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time I thought of the individual. Every single time I
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thought of them, I would just say, Lord, bless this individual,
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and I would just start praying blessing on him every time,
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every time, every time. And you know what happened. Eventually
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all those went away. I had no resentment, no bitterness
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like any angst in my heart, all gone. And after
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ten years of doing that, this individual came to me
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and said, please forgive me for how I treated you
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early in our relationship. I perceived you as a threat.
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I was trying to bring harm to you. The Lord
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restored this person's, this man's relationship and mine, and we're
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pretty good today. I'm telling you, this is so common
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in Christianity. Do you know everybody's offended at everything. A
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spirit of bitterness is all over people everywhere. This is
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the most common thing you see. And what I don't
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want is for New Horizon Church to have any hindrance
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in our capacity to just receive all of God's love,
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to receive all of his mercy, to receive all of
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his wisdom, to be able to be used of him.
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And I don't want there to be any of that
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at all in us, in our hearts and in our minds,
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because He wants to come in and show his good
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nature to you. He wants to tackle you with his love.
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He wants to shed it abroad on your heart, and
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I don't want to inhibit that. So as we're closing,
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if you're here, I believe so there's going to be.
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There's two camps here, one of which I believe that
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the Lord is calling this church not to a season
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of a twenty one day fast. I believe the Lord
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is calling this church for this lifestyle to be your
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yearly lifestyle. I believe the Lord is calling this church.
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I believe he's talking to you and saying to you,
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you need to restructure your entire life around Him being
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first place and giving him your first heart's access every
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day that there, This would be the thing that this
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church is called to, because intimacy comes when we do this,
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and when we do this, then you get to see
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His spirit on you, flowing through you to bring the kingdom.
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And if your reformers we need the spirit flowing to
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bring the kingdom, I'm gonna have you stand with me.
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We're just gonna prophetically declare Lord as New Horizon Church.
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We declare right now that as a church we will
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partner with you restructuring our schedules, You restructuring our time,
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You being.
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The first place one.
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We sang a song earlier about has he he's holy.
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He's holy means he's beautiful. If he's beautiful, why would
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we not want to give him the first place of
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our day. He's worthy of that, If he's beautiful, we
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want to be with the beautiful one. Right And so
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I declare that right now, new horizon, we are agreeing with,
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We are partnering with this intimacy, this first place love,
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this our hearts.
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Being burned again for him, for his kingdom, for his ways.
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And we just say, there's nothing in us that is
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obstructing that.
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Or hindering that. But we agree with it, we partner
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with it.
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We just declare that this is our lifestyle. This is
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not something that's for a short period of time. Will
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I believe the Lord's prophetically saying twenty twenty six is
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the year that you are going to shift.
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How you function.
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With the king, and this will change every single year after,
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Like this is the most quintessential element.
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Of our existence as a human, that he.
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Would, even he created the heavens and the earth, that
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he would call us into intimacy is so amazing. It's
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so beautiful that he would even cast his eye on
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us like this.
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It's it blows our minds.
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We say we agree with this, we partner with this,
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we accept it, we receive it.
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We say we will walk.
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This out this year in twenty twenty six, and this
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will be our lifestyle from.
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This time forward. Those of you who are here.
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If you if in your heart you feel like there's
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when I was talking about bittering or harboring bitterness or resentment.
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If you feel like like something like kind of pricked
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you or got in your ear or tapped you on
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the shoulder, I'm going to have the Destiny Team come up,
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and I want you to come up and get prayed for.
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I want you to get prayed for that you would
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receive freedom from any demonic realm ministering spirits that are
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trying to bring harm to you. Destiny Team, if you
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could come.
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Up that are trying to bring harm to you, and we're.
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Gonna break this off of you, we're gonna agree with
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your release. If you've done this before and you need more,
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I think you probably should be doing Restored.
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Life, because deliverance ministry.
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Is the key to break off the yoke of the
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oppressor in your life. So as we close and the
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band's playing, come up. If you know something's touched you.
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I want you to come up and be prayed for.
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If you happen to be one of those four people
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that was in the room that raised your hand earlier
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and said yes to Jesus' as we as Zach gave
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an invitation to come and to know him as your
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savior and your king, I want you to come up
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and I want you to be prayed for. Okay, bless
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you Church. We're gonna finish this thing out strong. We've
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got the summit coming next week and we're just getting
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warmed up. We're gonna participate with God's further advancement of
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his kingdom. And we say our hearts are open, willing,
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and receptive in the name of Jesus