Sermon
Stones of Fire | Pastor Joel Wolfe
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Transcript
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We are not a normal church. Have you ever figured that out yet?
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If you're coming here for just church, what I forgot to dismiss the baptism
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people. Can you go start getting changed and then you'll be in that back
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row back? Oh good, good, there you go. We're gonna have
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a great day. God is doing something today. I have felt it since
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last night. There is gonna be a shift in the spirit realm. Sometimes
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we don't always see it, we don't know, but there's just something happening.
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And today the kingdom is moving forward, just one more notch. I
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feel it. I don't know about you, but I feel it. Amen.
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God is good. God is so good. Yeah, I'm just drinking
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you in. I've been waiting all week for this. Seems like it was
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just yesterday. We were all here just doing the same thing, just just
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a few days ago. Hope you had a good week. Do you have
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a good week? I had a fabulous week, great things, some up,
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some downs, but you know, overall, I think I did pretty
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good this week. How about you? Amen? Well, church is my
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favorite place to go, and Sundays are my favorite days, and you are
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my favorite people. So I'm just having the time of my life here.
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I don't know about you, but I am having a great time, a
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great time. Welcome to church again. We keep saying that, but I
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mean it with all my heart. Welcome to my church. This is my
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church. There's lots of churches. Welcome to my church. This is the
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pile I picked. You are the pile. Now. If you were here
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two weeks ago, you know what I would talk about. But anyway,
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yeah, listen to this sermon if you missed that one. But this is
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the pile. Hello, Melanie, Oh, you have no idea. How
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many times I just want to just burst out in love for somebody. Everybody,
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give Melanie a hand back from Israel. Hallelujah, safe and sound.
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I can't wait to hear your stories. Oh my goodness, so good to
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see you. You're my sister. But welcome to church. Welcome to New
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Horizon. Okay, New Horizon is one just one little itty bitty bitty bitty
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bitty bit of this huge thing called the church. We're a little piece of
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the church. We're small, small Sea Church, New Horizon. There is
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a thing called Big Sea Church and it's huge. It is the biggest organization
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in the world, the Big Sea Church. There are thirty seven million little
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tiny sea churches. They come together, speaking the same thing, reading from
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the same Bible, worshiping the same God, the same Jesus, the same
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cross, the same blood, the same faith, the same unity, the
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same thirty seven million, And as Angie pointed out for service, we don't
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even know how many underground churches. That blew my mind. So you're not
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just some little thing here. We're big. Even though we're little. We
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are one cell in the body of Christ. We talked about the cells last
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week. You want to listen to that sermon too, It's really good.
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We are the underpinning of society. Jesus is the greatest influencer you'll ever follow.
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If he had an Instagram account, I think he would blow everybody out
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of the water. Jesus and his church, because he's been partnering with the
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church now for two thousand years, has influenced government, has influenced education,
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the arts, music, everything. Hospitals. Did you know that in the
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fourth century the Pope of the Church made a decree that every church had to
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have a hospital next to it, And so all of a sudden, these
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hospitals were popping up all over the place, and the healthcare of humanity went
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up because of the Church. No, you don't understand, you might say
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to me, and I've heard it said, what would the world be without
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Disney? Disney's so influential. The children were watching Disney movies over and over
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and over and over and over and over. It's saturated. It's the clothes
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we wear, it's the lines that we peel off at a moment's notice.
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Right, it's fun. But I would like to say, what would the
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world be like without Jesus? Because it would be a very different place.
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And also what would the world be like without the Church. We are the
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light, We are the salt. We are the steadying force around the world.
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We are the ones that go toe to tae against hell and it won't
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prevail we do. That's the Church. Welcome to Church. Welcome to Church.
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So all those things that I listen to you are just outcroppings, out
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workings of God's amazing core strategy. And he's been working the strategy for a
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long time. He's been working the strategy. And here's the strategy one Corinthians
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three, verse sixteen, And I'm gonna read it in the passion translation.
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Are you ready if you don't have this one down by heart. Yet you're
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gonna buy the end of today, all right, don't you realize? So
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tap the neighbor and say, don't you realize? So I can hear Paul
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going, come on, you gotta get this. You're missing something really big.
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Don't you realize that, everybody say, together, you have become God's
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inner sanctuary, and that the spirit of God makes his what permanent home in
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you. That's what Paul tells us. That is his strategy. It's not
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the building, it's not the grounds, it's not the carpet or the chairs.
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Don't you realize that when you come together, you form an inner sanctuary
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where He can inhabit one Peter two five the passion translation again, Come and
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be his lively stones or his living stones. Now, in the past couple
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weeks, I've been getting some volunteers up here. You guys have all been
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fabulous. Clap your hand one more time for those people that came up here.
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But today I don't have any people that are coming up as volunteers.
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I have some volunteer rocks. They couldn't say no to me because they're inanimate,
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inanimate objects. But come, come, come and be his living stones
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who are continually being assembled into a sanctuary for God. Now you serve as
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holy priests, offering up spiritual sacrifices that He readily accepts through Jesus Christ,
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and be his living stones. So I have a bunch of living stones here.
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Actually I have stones. These ones aren't living, but you are living
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stones. You are of the earth. When God created man, he bent
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down and he scraped a bunch of dirt together. Earth. You are of
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this earth. You are of the natural realm. And the cool thing is,
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and I love this thought. When he bent over to do that,
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there was a shadow that was in his image, and he made you in
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that image. He formed you into that. You are of the earth.
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You're a little rock. But the difference is that here blew his breath into
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you, the zoe breath of life, and you are now a living stone.
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All right. So here's these stones. I gotta get my water out
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of the way here, and my black skirts gotten all dirty today, my
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fault. Come and be his lively stones. Gather together. So this morning
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you woke up and you were just a few. There's maybe one or two
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or five of you in your house, But you got up and you said
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I'm gonna go to church. I'm gonna gather together. So y'all got in
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your car and you drove to this place. Everybody say this place. Now,
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you could drive anywhere you want to other churches, because there's other wonderful
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churches out there, but you chose this one because this is my church.
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It's your church. It's your home church, right And if you want to
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make a different church your church, you may, but go to church.
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Pick a pile. Okay, So all these some of these rocks are kind
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of dirty, they kind of aren't nice, kind of muddy, but doesn't
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matter, right, because you're coming to church. What does God do with
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church? Cleans your right on up? All right? So I'm gonna put
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these right here. Is there anymore in there? Oh? A couple more?
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Because I want our church to be a big church with lots of lilly
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stones. Now, this stone right here is gonna come to church. But
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this church today, this church, this stone is going to serve in nursery
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today. But they're still here, and this one's gonna come. I was
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telling first service. This one is Lisa Olds. Does anybody know who Lisa
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Olds? Is a few of you do you know what Lisa Olds does every
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single Sunday. She no, not nitro, Lisa Olds, not come,
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not polled. Lisa Olds. She comes and she goes into the nursery and
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she pulls the old sheets off and puts clean sheets that she washed that day,
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and then takes hold home the old every Sunday. So I'm gonna make
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sure I have Lisa in our gathering. She's amazing. And there's more.
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So what happens? So we keep hearing that we're supposed to gather together and
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we're stones, lively stones, and what happens when we come together? Something
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happens. When we come together, we become his permanent sanctuary. We become
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his permanent sanctuary, a place for him to dwell. So what does that
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mean? Let's look in the Word to find out, because sometimes our experience
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doesn't line up with what God has in mind. So we have to know,
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we have to understand what is the point, what is the purpose?
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Why do we do this? So what happens when a gathering of God's people
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meets God's presence? Open your bibles to Exodus nineteen. Now before you put
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that up there, Johnny, I'm gonna give you a little context in Exodus.
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We've got Moses, We've got the children of Israel that's been in Egypt
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and been in slavery. And we have Moses who was one day mine in
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his own business, and he finds a bush that's burning, a little tiny
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bush, and he had to kind of go over and kind of peek at
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it a little bit. But when he looked at that, he thought,
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oh, my goodness, this is the presence of God. He took off
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his sandals and he listened and heard. He met God there in that little
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burning bush, and his life was forever changed, and his future was he
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came into to clarity. Right. So he then goes and he's this big
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deliver and he pulls out six million people out of Egypt, and now this
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is going to become God's people, God's nation. And so God says,
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okay, Moses, now listen, I need to meet my people, and
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my people need to meet me. We need to come together and experience one
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another so that we can move forward with this whole nation of Israel, of
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God and all of that kind of thing. So he says, okay,
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listen, Moses, I want you to tell the people to get ready,
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have them go wash their clothes, scrub up, take a bath. Stop
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sinning for three days. How many of you know that might be hard for
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a few of them as well as us. No sinning for three days,
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and consecrate yourself, and now go ahead and put the scripture up. That's
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the context for this. On the morning of the third day, there was
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thunder and lightning and a thick cloud over the mountain and a very loud trumpet
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blast, and everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out
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of the camp to meet with God. They stood at the foot of the
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mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord descended upon it.
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In what in what so? How does God meet us? Fire? The
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smoke billowed up, so that same kind of fire was on that little,
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tiny burning bush. But now God's about to get real to the whole nation.
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The smoke built up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the
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whole mountain trembled. Huh, that's a story. So the people of God
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gathered and the presence of God came and it was fiery. Everybody say fiery.
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So now we're gonna move forward about five hundred years to another gathering.
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This gathering is King Solomon. A lot has happened in the Israelite life.
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The Israelites have gone through a whole bunch. And now it's five hundred years
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later, and King Solomon had finally built the temple. It was made out
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of stone, and he built it with such exquisite care, and he called
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all of the Israelites to gathered together. And in Second Chronicles seven is It
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seven yep Seven, Verse one, it says this, when Solomon finished praying,
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what came down? What came down came down from heaven and consumed the
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burnt offerings and the sacrifices, and the glory of God filled the temple.
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The priest could not enter the temple for the Lord of the Lord, because
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the glory of the Lord had filled it. When all the Israelites saw the
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what come down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt
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on the pavement with their faces in the ground, and they worshiped and gave
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thanks to the Lord, saying he is good. His love endures forever.
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Now we're going to fast forward about another thousand years. Acts two. Don't
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put it up quite yet, No, don't give it away. Acts two.
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Jesus has been born in Bethlehem. He's grown up, he's done his
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miracles, he's done his amazing teachings, he's gathered a following. He's died
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on the cross. He went into hell, rose again three days later,
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appeared to hundreds of people, and as the disciples gathered together, he ascended
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into heaven and said, go and wait in Jerusalem. So all of his
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followers, the ones that really were close to him, met in Jerusalem and
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gathered there and prayed. So now Acts two starts. When the day of
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Pentecost had come, they were what were they? In one place? All
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together, in one place, not hanging out doing their own thing, not
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running around, not doing there all together. Do you understand the importance of
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gathering of the people of God together. There's something that happens together that doesn't
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happen apart. Now there's things that happen apart that don't happen together. So
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don't give up your your alone time with God. That's what he takes.
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Shin scrubs up a little bit. That's when you're reading the Word and the
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presence comes in and says, honey, that one's for you. You need
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to pray through that one. Don't give up your single you know your your
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individual time. But I will tell you that when you come all together in
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one place, something else happens. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound
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like a rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where
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they were sitting. Divided tongues as what appeared among them, and the tongue
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rested on each of them. Can't read that, that's the next section.
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Don't go there, so take that down. We'll get there. Make it
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go away, okay, keep all eyes on me. Right That day was
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profound. So not only the first time was fire on the mountain, The
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second time was fire in the temple. The third one I'm talking about is
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now fire in you. I just let that sink in a little bit.
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Fire in you that birthed the church. That day, three thousand were saved,
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and it birthed the church. And the church is supposed to be something
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just like that. It's supposed to do exactly what he put together. And
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at the end of that chapter it actually describes that its acts two versus forty
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two through forty seven. You can go ahead and put that up now,
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I guess and it's really small type. I don't know what happened to that.
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So Hovey's going to get fixed. Give me my phone and I'll just
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read it, please, may I instead of gimme sorry about that? Is
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it there? Okay? I can read it. I'll have to turn around.
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This is this is this is after those tongues fell. Peter preaches his
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sermon three thousand come to the Lord and the Church's birth. This is what
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the church looks like. Now I'm gonna read this, but with that coming
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in your heart and in your mind as I read it, I want you
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to think about this because everything we do here at New Horizon, we try
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to do our very best in today's culture to mimic that, to mimic what
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you're about to hear. And the strategy that we have put together is my
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home. In other words, you have a home church, my community.
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You have a small group, you have a team where you serve one another
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in it, and you have growth constantly happening. You're choosing to come to
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classes and doing things and soaking and learning and growing, and that is what
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sets the church on fire. Are you ready? Well? The Holy Spirit
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does. But you know what I mean. Every believer was faithfully devoted to
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the following to following the teachings of the apostles. Their hearts were mutually linked
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to one another, sharing communion and coming together regularly for prayer. Coming together,
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coming together, a deep sense of holy awe swept over everyone, and
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the Apostles performed many miracles and signs and wonders. All the believers were in
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fellowship as one body. They shared with one another whatever they had out of
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the generosity. They even sold their assets to distribute the proceeds to those who
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were in need among them. Daily they met what in the temple courts and
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in one another's homes, two places they met together. Temple courts was a
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big area where they could handle. It was a big venue. It could
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handle all of them coming together. Something happened there that didn't happen in the
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homes. But something happened in the homes that never happened in the big temple.
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They did. Both both are needed. Both gatherings are needed at one
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another's homes to celebrate communion. They shared meals together. Hey, if you
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want to have me over for dinner, I will come. This is a
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fine art of church that has gotten lost over the years, we used to
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go over and hang out at each other's house and just eat. Let's do
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that more. Whoever you meet today, invite them out to coffee, you
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know, just let's have more of this together, all right. That's just
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a little bit of me, and I love it when you asked me out
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to dinner. They shared meals together with joyful hearts and tender humility. They
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were continually filled with the praises, with praises to God, enjoying the favor
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of all the people, and the Lord kept, Oh, by the way,
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the Lord kept adding to their number daily, those who are coming to
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life. That was an outflow, that last sentence of everything from the beginning
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of that passage. This is the life of our church. This is our
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hope and our desire and our goal. And we're leading this charge. Are
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you following? So the coming together of lively stones of rocks. They're not
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very pretty, they're kind of gray, can't really see through them. They're
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just kind of there. They're not fancy, but they showed up. They
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showed up. But God promises that when they show up, he shows up.
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And when He shows up, you have built an inner sanctuary. You
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have built an inner sanctuary for him to show up. And I will tell
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you that when he shows up, he shows up with fire. And when
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fire meets rock, things change. When fire meets stones, the stones never
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emerge the same. When heat and fire touch stone, they melt, they
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get purified, they melt. Let's just stop right there. I could preach
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the rest of the sermon on melting. Some of us, as rocks,
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don't do a good job melting in his presence and in his fire. We
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stand cool on the outside, kind of rotten on the inside. But we
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don't dare let the outer be consumed because you might see my inner failings.
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When heat, it eats rocks, it melts. And I would say,
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people of God, every time you come into the presence of God, just
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yield to the melt. Just melt. I don't care. I can tell
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you stories about me today. I told first service stories about me today.
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You don't get them because they we're short on time. But I am just
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like you. Melt, be purified. I pray you'd come forward and leave
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baggage, sin, death, addictions, everything at this altar and become changed
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when the presence of God comes into you and meets you as a human being.
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The presence of God is not to just entertain you. The presence of
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God has to change you, to absolutely rearrange the minerals inside of When it
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hits heat and they tell us pressure, coal, ugly, rotten, weak,
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nothing, Coal turns into diamonds, aluminum oxide inside of these rocks.
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If heat and pressure hit it, it will turn into a ruby. No
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longer will it be a rock, a plain old rock. It will turn
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into precious gems, precious stones. I will change from being a living stone
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to a precious stone. That's what the presence of God is all about.
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Heat, heat, fire, It changes the composition of us. Pressure.
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Some of us are under pressure right now. Life brings pressure. Raise your
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hand. If you have a trial or a tribulation right now in your life,
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there you go, hallelujah, because you know what, girl, friend,
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you are in the presence of God. And when we take our pressures,
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our trials, our tribulations, and we bring them into here where the
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presence of God is different here than it is at my house. The presence
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of God is different than it is even when I'm at my friend's house or
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listening online. Thank you for listening online. We love you. But there's
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something about being here. The presence of God meets us in a way that
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is not like anything else. And the point is to change your makeup.
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The point is to turn my lively stones into precious stones. Precious stones,
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diamonds, rubies, opals, all of them. They're classified and defined by
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how fiery they are. Have you ever heard the term fiery talking about precious
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stones. It's when you take pure light. When I shine prior light into
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that, nothing happens. It's pretty dull, it's pretty clouded. But if
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you take this with intense pressure and intense heat, fire, fire, it
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will turn that and it will become clear, and it will become something that
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the light shines into it and it refracts it. It reflects the glory my
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diamond. I wanted to have all these to be diamonds, but I can't.
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I just don't have it. But my little diamond here used to be
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used to be It's the glory. That's the glory of what we get.
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People of God, with the Gospel of God and his plan a fire.
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Use shine light in my diamond. It's gonna show spots all over. This
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room is gonna reflect. You look into an opal with bright light and it
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begins to colorfully set itself on fire. That's what gems do. So my
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question to you, are you a fiery one? The people of Exodus in
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that passage, the people of Exodus, when that fire came down on Mount
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Sine eyed, do you know what they did? They ran away and they
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said, Moses, that fire is gonna consume us and we will die.
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Don't let us get anywhere near that fire. I want to stay away from
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the fire. You go to the fire for me, that will consume me.
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And they protected their flesh and they held back their souls. The story
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of Second Chronicles. When the fire came, you saw it in that verse.
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The people's faces hit the ground, and they worshiped in the midst of
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it. I'll say an axe. When the fire fell, it consumed them.
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It consumed them. They lived in the fire every day. They didn't
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just come and see it for the weekend and go home and do their own
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thing. That fire, those tongues of fire didn't just hang out at the
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church and when they walk back in pick it up again. They went out
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of that room and burned. They were fiery ones. So what's the point
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of church? We gather. See this, we gather. Sometimes you bug
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me, but we gather. We gather where we're supposed to gather. We
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gather where we're called together, and we begin hosting the presents. And it
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becomes a little more each Sunday and a little more, a little more,
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and I melt a little bit more. Father, God melts me. I
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make new changes. I make you know. I let it affect me.
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I change me. We host the presence, the fiery presence. I'm sorry
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here at New Horizon, It's not gonna be three hymns and a scripture this
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place. I am dedicated to make this place a fiery house of God.
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I want the fire so for a little much for you. Sorry, I
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can't comment. I don't want to comment. I don't want to comment.
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I don't want to comb it. I don't want to comment. That's us,
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that's us. But just no, I'm gonna call on you to burn.
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I'm gonna call on you to melt while I'm melting. I'm gonna call
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on you to be transformed while I'm being transformed. I'm gonna call on you
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to be humble while I be humble. I'm gonna call on you to forgive.
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Well, I forgive because God's making me into a precious gem under the
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heat. I bring my trials, my tribulations, my pressures to the presence
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of God. Amen, So I'll stand. We become the fiery ones.
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I, You and new Horizon are not what we used to be. I
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am not what I used to be. Praise God. How many of you
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can say I am not what I used to be? This church is not
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what it used to be. I remember the firs services that we had.
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Praise God. It's not what I used to have to play the piano and
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I was the only backup. Aren't you glad? This place is not like
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it used to be. I am, but we're not what we're gonna be.
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And I declare that this is a house of fire. I dedicate myself
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as a fiery one. Anybody want to join me? I stand up and
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I say, Father, God, meet me with fire, Meet me with
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fire. Don't let me stay the same, Don't let me stay the same,
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don't let me hold on to oh the you know what, I almost
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cussed a little cuss word. I didn't go make me a living sacrifice.
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When I don't want to come to church, I get here when I don't
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want to get up and read the word. I get there when I don't
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want to pray. I get there when I don't want to love you.
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I get there when I don't want to forgive you. I get there when
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I don't want to. I slay the thing within me that doesn't want to
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I lay it on the altar, because these living stones kind of look like
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an old fashioned altar in the time of Abraham. I climb up there,
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and I say, Father, send the fire and take me out, and
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only leave the pure and the beautiful that can reflect your light. Sorry,
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the fire's burning and I'm two minutes late. I dedicate this church to fire.
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I dedicate this church to fire. I dedicate this church to fire.
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We are not programs, We are not a service, we are not a
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show. I dedicate this church to fire. I dedicate this church to fire.
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That First Corinthians verse I don't have it up there, But the next
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half of that first says he says at the beginning, it says, let
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me just remind you. I gotta get this out. Don't you realize that
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together you'll become God's inner sanctuary. And then the spirit makes his permanent home
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in your you and I can't remember the exact words, but read it after
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church. It says, and anyone who messes with my sanctuary, I will
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mess with you. Treat this with a holy awe. And I'm not saying
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this. I'm saying this because this is the place where God desires to set
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up his holy sanctuary. It's between us, it's in us, it's around
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us, it's with us. In Jesus name. Amen, praise God.
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Let's raise your hands right now and just confirm it. Hallelujah, hallelujah,
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hallelujah. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank
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you Jesus. Praise your holy name. Hallelujah. Right now, right now,
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right now. If you're carrying the weights and the pressures of this world
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and it makes you even want to stay away from the presence of God,
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I say, right now you will feel you will find the answer. You
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will get released from that. In Jesus' name and God, I thank you.
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Right now. Fire fall on this church, fire fall on the Church
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of Jesus Christ. Fire fall, fire fall on this earth. Fire fall,
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fire fall, Lord, God, take us, take us, Take
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us So in Acts two, verse forty two, I believe forty one.
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You don't have it back there, Johnny. They said three thousand people were
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added that day and they were baptized, and they were added to the church.
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Today, we're going to baptize the Are you ready for that. We
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are trying to do as best as we possibly can from a human perspective to
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live and acts chapter to church. But I tell you what, people's kind
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of lonely when it's just me and Duayne, or me and Duenna a few
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But when we all are joined together, Dennis, come on up. If
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you have children in the back, we're gonna transition right now into baptism.
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This is just an addition to the service, just an addition, everybody say,
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add non service is gonna go late in a little bit. You ready
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for that because we're gonna baptize a whole slew of people. We needed two
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sides today because because because oh by the way, when the people of God
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come together and the fire of God meets them, there are people that accept
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Christ all the time. There's people that renew their life to the Kingdom all
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the time, and they need to be baptized all the time. So just
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get ready for this, amen. So if you have kids, in the
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back. I want you to go and pick them up and then bring it
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back in here. You don't have to stay in your seat, get up
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close. You want your children to watch this because this is what the church
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does. Baptism is what the church does. Everybody say, this is what
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church does. Amen, hallelujah. All right, So we got the band
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going. We got baptizers over here, we got dunkers over here, we
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got two dunkers. Amazing, mighty men, It's gonna be good. Are
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you ready? How about you, Dennis? Are you ready? Who I
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knew I could count on you for some fire. Fuego fuego. Okay,
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Dennis, you want to leave us out with our first candidate? Who do
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we have? Oh my, oh, my goodness, what do you do
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with that? Junius and his testimony is? I grew up in church,
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and I always watched my parents and brothers how they connected with God and how
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they felt God. Even though I knew and believed in God, I had
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never experienced that spiritual connection until a few weeks ago. It was then that
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I truly felt the presence of God and the Holy Spirit in my life.
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Now I'm sure I don't want to stop feeling it in my life. WHOA
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come on, come on, yes, yes, all right, Sue.
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Let's reach our hands over. Let's reach our hands over. You're part of
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his baptism here today. Yes, Lord, Father God, let's go ahead
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and stretch heart our hands. I'm praying. Father, We thank you for
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hasuiss life. We thank you, Lord for the great work that you are
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doing in this mighty young man of God. Say Lord, from this day
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forward, hallelujah, fresh baptism of water, fresh baptism of fire, the
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Holy Spirit in his life, moving in power like never before. Father God,
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we give you praise. Come on, lift up a shot of praise
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over this mighty young man. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Helleliah, Alilia, work
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your mighty work, your mighty work. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus,
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Thank you, Forward, Thank you Jesus. All right, keep it
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going, keep it going. They're about ready. Don't give them. It's
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about ready to happen. Yes, Lord, thank you Jesus. Yes,
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Lord, pray, never depart from the word of God. Yes, every
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step of the way. Yes, Hella, holla, hell yah. All
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right, we got over here. Oh my friends, how are you I
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met you a couple of weeks. You were ago, you were standing behind
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me. I felt the presence of God all over you, remember, and
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I called you out. I prayed for you, and here you stand,
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not because of me, because of what God's doing in her life. See
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God's calling people. I am ready to build a life with Jesus. God
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has been trying to pull me in the last few months, and I'm ready
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to start building my life with Him and for him. Have you accepted Jesus
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Christ as your personal savior? Are you in love with him? Yes?
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Are you ready to give him your life? Yes? Okay, go ahead
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on over there. We're going to go into obedience with baptism. So baptism
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is this amazing kind of identifying with when Christ die on the cross and he
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went down into the grave, he died, his natural life died, and
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when he came up out of that grave, he came back in the life
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of Christ. And that's what we are identifying with in the Bible, and
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that's what baptism is all about. Hallelujah. So let's just reach our hands
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towards Emma. I thank you right now for your goodness in her life.
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Just begin to prophesy over him her. When I turned around, I said,
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God is all over you, and I want to just release His presence
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on you. So let's continue that prayer right now. In Jesus' name.
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Hallelujah, God, we praise you for Emma. We praise you for Emma.
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We praise you for Emma. We praise you for her. God.
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We speak right now, mighty things to come out of her life. God,
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I think you. She's a mother to many, she is a nurturer,
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she is incredible. She is going to carry the word of wisdom on
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her tongue in Jesus' name. She is not going to follow the ways of
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the enemy. We break it off of her. We break it off of
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her, We break it off of her and Jesus' name. Hallelujah, Thank
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you Father God. Right now, right now, right now, hallelujah,
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hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's go,
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oh hallelujah, prays Jesus. Go ahead. Who do we got? Well?
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We have Marlin on this side, and Marlon is excited. He's saying,
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I want new thinking, I want his ways, better days, and
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being saved. Hallelujah. Come on, so stretch your hand over to Marlin.
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Let's go ahead and pray. Right, this is one of my favorites.
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This is one of my favorites. We just halujah, keep it going.
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Did you have a hitters? Thank you, Lord for the great work
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that you are doing in this mighty Man of God. We thank you for
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renewed thinking in his bye by the power of the word, Father God.
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We thank you Lord that your ways are better. We thank you, Father
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God that he is saved and he has started his new journey with you.
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In Jesus' name, Go ahead and stretch out your hand. And this is
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his wife right here. She's getting baptized next. So let's pray over this
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whole entire family. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's go, let's go, let's
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go pray. Come on, dude, Oh love, praise O. Pray.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh I'm having way too much fun up here.
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Hallelujah. We have a little girl here named Jaslyn Warren. How are you
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today? Good? Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes?
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Do you love him? Yes? Have you had your sins washed away.
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Yes, amen, Jaslyn says, I'd like to be baptized because I have
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a better understanding of what baptism means. And since I've given my life to
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him, I'd like to identify with the death burial, and this girl knows
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what she's talking about, with the death, the burial, and the resurrection
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of my Lord Jesus, and I want to live for him, Jocelyn,
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I speak over you and say you are mighty and powerful. Satan. I
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break your hold off of her in Jesus' name, and her future is in
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you. Go ahead and climb in your little your little burial tank. Here,
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go ahead, Jaslyin. You're gonna be mighty in the church. Someday
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You're gonna be mighty in the church. You're mighty already. You are mighty
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already, you are already filled with influence. Hallelujah God, I say,
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right now, the spirit of darkness is broken off of you. There will
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be no rebellion in your life. You will choose right, and you will
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choose well. Mighty girl, you are mighty, You are mighty. You
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are mighty Father in Jesus name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Thank you, Jesus,
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Praise you, Father God. Hello, do you get ready? Here
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we go, Here we go, Here we go. Hallelujah, hallelujah,
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halleluiah. Thank you Lord Jesus. Shoutings. So we have mercy here with
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us, and mercy have us. I want to receive the Holy Spirit in
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my life. I want to come out on fire for Jesus. I want
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to be made you. I want to be a woman of God, growing
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up even as a child of God. I want to receive power hell one
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with the Lord. This is your moment, this is your time for such
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a time as this. Whoa fire fire, Let's get in that water.
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Hallelujah. It is coming to pass. Hallelujah. Mercy, hallelujah. Mercy,
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hallelujah. Mercy. God's mercy, God's power, God's grace have brossed
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you to this point. Hallelujah. It is a time of fulfillment over your
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life. In Jesus' name. Stretch out your hands over mercy. Hallelujah,
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hallelujah in Jesus name, Father God, Jesus, thank you. That's crazy.
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He's the sinless spirit of that raised Jesus, spirit of from the dead.
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Hallelujah, lives in her. She is living out. She is living
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out. Not wish you have Britain over her life. Mother, godory your
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glory like Jesus, hand of God. Yeah, yeah, yes, the
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Lord, come on, God's Lord, yes, oh God, Jesus Christy
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all right. I got someone extra special on this side. He's got a
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whole family over here waiting for him up here, Riker, and Riker's dad
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is gonna dunk him. So how about that? People, families of God
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working together? Amen, Riiker, Greg. Have you accepted Jesus as your
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personal savior? Yes? Has he washed your sins away? Yes? Do
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you love him? Yes? Does he love you? Yes? A man?
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Right answers, right answers. I would like to further relationship with God
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and my sins to be washed away. I want to go in dirty and
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old and come out new and clean, new and clean. All right,
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Riker, are you ready for this? Okay? Go ahead, go ahead
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and climb in. This young man has got his whole future in front of
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him. And I say right now that what the devil has had in mind
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for you, the spirit of God cancels it. Father God, I thank
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you right now that your presence comes. Your presence comes over this young man
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in Jesus' name, and God, I say right now that the book that
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has been written over him from the very foundation of the earth is the one
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that will be read and that will be lived out in Jesus' name. There
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will be no rebellion in your life. There will be no disobedience. You
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give your life to Jesus' son, Give your life to Jesus, Give your
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life to Jesus. Live your life for Jesus. Let the fire of God
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melt your heart to Jesus' name. Hallelujah, Oh love of Halliah. Hoss.
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We have Danny Dion here, and he says, I am starving each
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day to dedicate my life to our Father in heaven, who watches over his
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prayer warriors. I was baptized as a Catholic, but now I am surrendering
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everything to Jesus, my heart, my mind, and my soul, allowing
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him to guide me towards salvation and to fulfill his purpose for me as his
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devoted servant. Donny, hallelu is your moment. Let's get in the water.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus,
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Praise your holy name. Hallelujah. Let's prophesy over Danny right now, prophesy
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over him. Lord, hallelujah. Call everything that is not as though it
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is in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Lord, Thank you.
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You are a mighty man of God. You are a mighty man of
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God. You follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. You have melted before
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the fire of God. In Jesus' name. Your life is being changed and
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rearranged. You will be a fiery one in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Lord,
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Hell, Lord, your will is fulfilled in Danny's life. Father God,
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your will is fulfilled in Danny's life. Halladay for your glory in Jesus'
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name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Lord. It is done. It
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is done. It is done. It is done. Thank you Jesus,
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Thank you God. Hell. Okay, we have landon. Come on out
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here, mighty man of God, handsome, mighty man of God. Oh
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you don't get over there quite yet, No, not yet, not yet.
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We got to read about you. Landon. Land has been how long
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have you been coming to church? Six weeks? Six weeks. God's doing
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a work. God's doing work. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior?
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How long ago I was born? Sure, you're kind of one of
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those born in the church kind of kids. I love it. That's what
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I was like. So praise God. There will be no rebellion, no
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straying away from the Kingdom of God. You will live a life without sorrow,
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covered in His presence. You will be a protector. You will be
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a protector. You're gonna defend. You're gonna defend the vulnerable. You have
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a warrior cry in you and you've never let it out. You have a
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warrior cry inside of you for justice, for righteousness, and for goodness.
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And you you, your shot will break, will break, will break the
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gates of hell in Jesus name. Amen, you're getting more than you signed
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up for. I think here, I think you're getting more. Okay,
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you can go ahead and jump in there. I'll read his card to you.
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I want to be baptized because I want to be nude and feel closer
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to God, and I want to give my life fully to Jesus. Hallelujah.
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Let's just pray into everything. I just prayed over this young man.
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God, I think you right now that you're going to release the warrior spirit
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out of him. He's got stuff inside of him. He had no idea
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he's had I thank you right now that he is going to rise. He
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hasn't grown into it. You know how it is when you put on a
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coat that is too big for you, but it's destined to be your coat.
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You got to grow into it, you got to mature into it.
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And that's what he's about to do. Hallelujah. God has just put a
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cloak a calling upon him. Hallelujah, Lord God, thank you Jesus for
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landon right now. Just intercede, intercede, intercede, intercede, intercede.
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You know that enemy hates him. Don't shoot. The enemy wants to kill,
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steel and destroy. But the power Jesus inside of him will cause him
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to rise, will cause him to rise, will cause him to rise.
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Hallelujah, Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Here
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we go, Here we go, Here we go, Hallelujah. Line in
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the same moment, hallelujah. Who wants to prall, Thank YOURDS, Praint
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your Father, Praise your Father, God, so here we have Winter with
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Dad Delano, and Winter's getting baptized today, and she wants to be baptized
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to live alife with Jesus. I want to live a life with Jesus too,
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hallelujah. And so Dad Delano and Winter are gonna come up and Dad
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is going to baptize her with Frank. Hallelujah. Way to be a priest
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for your household. And we celebrate Winter today as she wants to live life
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with Jesus. Hallelujah. And she's already seen Jesus through her Dad. Amen.
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Come on, yes, Lord, Yes, Lord, Oh, that
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the children of this house would be baptized at an early age, giving their
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lives to Him. Hallelujah. Go ahead, Sorry, I just want to
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thank you. Come on, this is an awesome partnership. Hallelue. Yes,
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Lord, We thank you for Winter. We thank you, Father God,
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that you bring her through every season of her life as a beautiful young
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daughter, Father God, filled with the presence of God walking a life of
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victory in Jesus' name. Lord, we thank you for Winter. We thank
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you for your glory, Father God, that in dwells in her Father God.
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Thank you, Lord for a new life filled with power in Jesus' name.
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Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah. Okay, let's start clapping for this little
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girl. They say, claps are why you chase the enemy with love,
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race, love, ray. He lost to Okay, Crystal, come on
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out. Do you remember Landon? Do you remember land In just a minute
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ago? Well? I didn't realize that, but his mama's next. I
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should have brought her out first. Come on out. So this is the
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one that birthed that, right, the other one. So here's Crystal,
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Crystal. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes? Has he
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washed her sins away? Yes? Have you give him control of your life?
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Yes? Do you want to be a fiery one? Absolutely? Halenm
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lou Ya, hallem louya, Halleloo. You're a mighty mom. You're a
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mighty mom. You have more mothering to do. It might not be of
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your own natural, but there will be many children that come to you.
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I'm thinking they're gonna be like Landon's age group. They're gonna gather to you
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because they're gonna find peace and wisdom. And you go ahead and climb in
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from there. Hello, Crystal Weeks I want to be baptized because I want
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a restored life with my savior, Jesus Christ. I want to feel whole
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inside and be full of the Holy Spirit. I give my life to God
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in Jesus' name or God. Begin to clap for her, hallelujah. As
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I said, clapping, Let's go with that drum beat. Clapping is a
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sign of covenant. It's also a sign of driving away the enemy. Let's
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do that. After this girl's life, I think that she has had some
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weren't spoken over her that needs to be broken. I think there's been some
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circumstances in her life that need to be rearranged and cut off of her.
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Hallelujah. Crystal is not alone. She has a church with her. She's
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got other living stones. Hellllujah, Hellelujah. He lost you, Hellah,
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prist the Lord. Hallelujah. So now Delano is gonna baptize his second daughter.
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Hallelujah. Chloe and Chloe, coming up here, Coming up here,
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Chloe. Chloe says, I want to be baptized because I want to live
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alife with Jesus. Amen. So, Chloe, are you ready for this?
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You're ready to live your new life with Jesus. All right, let's
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get in the water. Come on. Hallelujah. Father, We thank you
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for Chloe. Father. We thank you Lord that this young lady wild lift
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out her days Lord, with you guiding every of the way. We thank
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you, Father God, Lord, that this young lady is protected, it's
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cared for, Father God, that she is a fiery one burning for you
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Lord. For this generation, Father God, she will be a world changer.
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Lord. We thank you for the fresh annointy that is in her life,
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Father God, to be able to influence all of her friends. Lord
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for the Kingdom of God. In Jesus' name, we release that over her,
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Father God, as she walks this life with you. Amen. Amen,
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Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, Ohah, praise you Jesus, hallelujah.
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The whole family over there, Okay, come on out. We have Gabriel
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over here. Gabriel was just sharing me his story. Gabriel. Everybody get
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gabrielle a shout. So I didn't get the whole story perfectly right, So
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if we need to change some details, but he found himself in a life
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of addiction, a life that it was totally opposite of God leading kind of
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a rough and tumble lifestyle. Amen. Anybody ever been there before? Tony?
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Have you ever been there before? Hallelujah. We know what it's like.
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And apparently two years ago he ended up in a coma and was not
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supposed to live, but he woke up, and when he woke up,
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he didn't know why he woke up. But over the last two years he's
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been finding Christ. He's been finding church, he's been finding his purpose,
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he's been finding his call. And he is so ready to go in Jesus'
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name. Okay, how'd I do good? Is that right? So?
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Have you asked Jesus into your heart? Absolutely? Has he washed your sins
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away? Absolutely? Is your life your former life of addiction gone? Oh?
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Yeah? Absolutely? Have you been renewed? Yes? Hallelujah? Are
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you ready? You go right over there. I'm gonna try to read this
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card. It's a little rough. I don't have my glasses. Anybody got
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some glasses you can share with me? Right now here? I go ready,
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start clapping for him. We're gonna break some things off of his life.
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We're gonna break some things off of his life. He can't get in
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the water, but he's gonna get a duncan anyway, right, I would
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like to completely follow Christ. You got some reading glasses which might be too
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hard. Every day since He has made me new and help me stay alive.
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I want to be his light and his messenger as God has given me
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his vision. I also want to be healed of all impurities in my life
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and serve the Lord. People. You are watching a transformation right now.
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This man, this is a line in the sand in his life. This
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is a line in the sand in his life. He's going to serve God.
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He wants to emerge fully out of his past and go into the future.
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Hallelujah, Halla, Thank you Lord, Thank you, Lord, y
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Jesus. Come on, They just keep coming. So here we have star,
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I guess and star. Almost four years ago, there was a point
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in my life that cost me to lose our faith. My days passed and
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I just went through the emotions, but not truly living alone with a sense
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of overwhelming emotions and anxiety. My brother always invited me to church, and
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I always put it off until one day something told me it was time I
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attended church. That following Sunday, during praise and worship, somebody say praise
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and worship I felt toushed. I found myself in tears. Come on,
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I feel God's glory of it here whoa tears in the sense of relief that
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I was where I needed to be. The weight on my shoulders was no
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more, somebody saying no more, and I felt peace. I am thankful
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that God has led me here and accepts me with open arms. Hallelujah.
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This is star right here. Come on, start, Let's get in the
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water and let's celebrate an rice Jesus, hallelujah. Chase every dark thing off,
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gonna stay with the drum. Sell let's hear. There we go you
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life in Christ. Yes, all things she laes beautiful. Come on,
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all things are plaes hallolu. Everything it's made you. Hallelujah. Stop you
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are made you in Christ Jesus, hallelujah. Show your Lord, Your Lord,
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your Lord. Come on, come on. We prophesy influence over this
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lady, great influence. Yes, she will lead many to the Lord.
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Come on again. Okay, we got us one, last one, one
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last one? Are you ready? Oh? You didn't come out over here
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Natalie's side. Everybody say hi to Natalie. How old are you? Natalie?
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Good? You're good? How old are you ten? You're ten?
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Have you asked Jesus into your heart? Yes? Has he washed your sins
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away? Yes? Has he filled you with love? Yes? You're gonna
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live your life for him? Yes? In Jesus' name. Yes, Yes,
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Amen, Father God, I thank you for this little girl, Lord
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God, I thank you for her future. I thank you for her calling.
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I thank you right now that she has dedicated her life to you.
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In Jesus' name, God, I thank you that the young people of this
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church are turning to Him at an early age. This generation is coming to
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Jesus. This little girl. She's a first fruits. She's the first fruits
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of ten year olds in Jesus name. Fill this church with children, children
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who are seeking after you, children I place. She's going to be a
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hero in the kingdom. She is gonna have a stage. She is in
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school classrooms where she will stand up for Christ. She will have a moment
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where she will stand up for the Lord in Jesus' name. She is a
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hero. Pray courage into her soul right now. There's courage in her heart
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right now. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Let's start clapping chase
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the enemy off of her, Chase the enemy off of her. Hallelujah.
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Right the days of her life. Hallelujah, Holy Spirit calls the shots fire.
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She's never alone, She's never alone. Hallelujah, Lord, hallelujah,
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Lord, hallelujah, Long, hallelujah, Long, come on, sing with
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it along, stupid heaven Alias happen lard Hall singing them one time we call
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them wrist who call them? We call them? Day to do it again?
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Here we go, Oh the race. A phrase belongs towards You've someone
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to hunt here, Thank him for coming to church. Encourage them. Halleliah
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Hallaiah got his son in a lot pas A past belongs to yeah