Sermon
The Wells We Inherit
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Have you ever, like,
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been in a time of prayer or been in an intimate
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time with the Lord? Yeah. And when you're sitting
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in your office, I'm just asking for a friend, when you're sitting
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in your office and you're like, Yeah, Lord,
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I'll absolutely do that. Yes, I will.
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And then you walk out the doors and you're like, what was I thinking?
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Has that ever happened to anybody? Has that happened to you
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this week? 'Cause I really would like to not feel alone here. Anyway,
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so in prayer time this week, you know, last week we
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talked about wells and my encouragement was to dig
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another well, you know, as we continue forward. And I can't tell you how
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many people have gone, What does that mean? What does that
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mean? Tell me what it means to dig a well. And what I
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felt like the Holy Spirit said to me was,
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show 'em how you do it. Show 'em how you do it. And
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so we're all gonna go to my office. Now, since I
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can't do that, I'm gonna bring a couple of things out here, if
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you'll— this is what reluctant obedience
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looks like. Okay. All right, here we
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go. You know, there's an exit sign right
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over here. I wasn't considering it. Oh,
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yes, I was. Move that. Okay. The
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audiovisual team is like, somebody help her, get her off of there.
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Okay, so Courtney, if this rug looks familiar,
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it's because I stole it out of yours and Caitlin's office. But
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I admitted it, so. This is what I
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do. So I'm gonna take you into my office
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with me and hopefully show you how
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to dig a Word well. This is the way the Lord does it with
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me. And I just want to invite you because he's making me.
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Anyway, I just want you to go with me and allow the Holy
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Spirit to— I'm just gonna show you the process through which I
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dig a Word well. When I begin to— when there's something in the Word
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that just grabs my attention, and
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I want to go further in it. I want to know what this looks
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like. This is the, the way he does that with me.
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So anybody want a piece of carpet just right here? You're welcome to. Grab your
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Bible, it's going to be right there. Never study
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without tissue. Or coffee.
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Usually, there's music, so would y'all hum a little bit just for something?
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Not really. Okay, so, when the Lord begins to put something on my
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heart, I just— I grab my weapons.
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And I usually have a couple of Bibles, a couple of translations. I
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always like to have an Amplified, an NIV, and just to make
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Justin happy, you know, a KJV or something like that.
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I will grab my notes from the last time I taught
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because I feel like it's gonna be relevant to where we're going the next time.
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I will grab that, and I know that he was gonna give us something else,
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so I'll grab a fresh notebook. This one's not so fresh because I
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have been studying just a little bit, but I will grab those.
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Never underestimate the resource power
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of an Old Testament survey book or a New Testament
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survey book. There is richness in here. If you want to go a little bit
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deeper, get you a survey book. Yes. Get yourself a couple of
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these. Plus, they're really impressive when you're walking down the street, and you're like,
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that's a big book. Anyway, really
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good resources. Always
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have highlighters, 'cause that— you can't do
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anything without highlighters. And I have
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my glasses, which I didn't have in First Gathering.
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And I have online concordance. My Strong's Concordance
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is so huge. The Lord has graced me, allowed me to
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find one online, and I use that. It has the Greek and Hebrew lexicons
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in it. That sounds like leprechauns, doesn't it? So, I will
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gather my tools. I was gonna drag a shovel
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out here, but I figured Hal would go, what are you doing with my shovel
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anyway? And it just disappeared
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from the house. All right, so, here's what we're
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gonna do. Father God, I thank you for your Word. I thank you for
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your truth. I thank you, Lord, for the way that you reveal yourself to us.
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And so, Father, I'm asking today that you teach us to dig a well. Teach
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us, Father God, to just take your Word
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and go deeper with it, Father God. Teach us, Father, the way to just
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come after you. And so, Father, I thank you for this resource in my
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life. I thank you, Lord, that you are the master teacher. I thank you
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that you are the rabbi who teaches. And so, Father, I pray that that be
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the impartation in this room, Father, that— Amen. You teach us
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to seek you, to make the wells deeper
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in our life, Father, as you supply the resource. In Jesus' name,
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amen. Amen. So, this is always, almost always
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prompted by something when I'm reading the Word. And so, this time,
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as I was going through the scriptures and I was studying about wells, and I
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had just left— we had just left last week Genesis 26. And so, I
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was reading on over in Genesis 27, and I came across this phrase.
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The Dew of Heaven, the Richness of Earth.
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And it was the blessing, and it said this, ah, the
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smell of my son is like the smell of the
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field that the Lord has blessed. May God give you heaven's dew
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and earth's richness, an abundance of grain and new
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wine. And I'm like, Lord, you know, we can skip right over
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that. But the thing that stuck out to me were those 2
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things, the— The dew.
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Heaven's dew and earth's richness. Heaven's dew and
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earth's richness. Here's the thing, guys, God's Word is never just a
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word. It's never just one syllable. It's never
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just letters. It is life and breath, and there is a pulse
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in it, and there's a message in it that if our hearts and our
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spirits are open to receive, He will pour into that. And if we just
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dig, we will find it. That's right. a little deeper. And so let's dig a
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well. Let's dig a well.
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And I'm gonna take you to the— so the first thing I do is I
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ask the question, what is heaven's dew
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and what is earth's richness? And I begin to assemble all of
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my options. I begin, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna need to find out. I
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wanna know the origin of the word. There's something about that that always gets me.
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And there's also something about the Hebrew language that always draws me in. It's like,
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talking to someone in their native tongue, you know, whatever it might be. But the
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way that it was written in the very beginning, there's a richness to that.
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And so, I'm always— that's probably almost always the
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first place that I will go. And so, I'm going to need a few options
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for that. I'm gonna need my Strong's Concordance. It's got the
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Greek and Hebrew lexicons. Sometimes, I'll use
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biblegateway.com,
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elia.com. There you will find A really
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rich resource. It has the Strong's Concordance in
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it. It has the Greek. It has the Hebrew. And it will take you
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into study tools that I have been able to
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utilize this for years now. Blue Letter Bible,
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etc. You probably all have your own that you begin to study
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from. So, we're carrying that forward. And as I go
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to find out what this means, it literally means— What?
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Heavens do, in Hebrew, is tal samayim.
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Tal samayim. It's masculine. That means it almost comes
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from a male point of view. It's like, there's something about
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that that gets me. And it— yeah, I get excited because I think about anything
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that God's doing and his life force being a part of that.
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The do, tal, from heaven, samayim, that's
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created by God. And when you look at that right there where it says
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created by God, it prompts me always to go back to the Genesis of the
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Word. Yes. And what do I mean by that? I
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wanna know where it was first mentioned in scripture. I want to know the
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first place that it's going to be mentioned in scripture. And it
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tells us the first time we hear this word, taal,
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shamayim, the first time we hear shamayim is in Genesis 1:1,
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and it says, in the beginning, God created the
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heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the
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heavens and the earth. And then I'm like, okay, all
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right, we have the origin. That's the first time we said it, and it was,
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It is a place of creation. It is where God just
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spoke the blessing of,
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let there be heavens. Let this be, as all of these things
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became, as He breathed and everything came to be.
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And so now I wanna know what taal is. I wanna know what the dew
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of heaven is.
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But— and it is this. It begins to give us characteristics of
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this dew of heaven. Yes. And then it begins to tell
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us that it sustains life. Now, wrap this up
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in what He did in Genesis 1:1. What He did in
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Genesis 1:1 is when He threw those heavens out there, when
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He created this canopy over the earth, He filled
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those heavens with resource. He filled those
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heavens with everything that was going to be
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needed for us in this time. The dews, the rains, the The idea is
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there's a hair. Anyway, all of these things, when he threw them out there,
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he threw them out full. And these are the characteristics, if you research
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this dew, it says it sustains life, it
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arrives quietly. Let me give you that. Gently,
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without thunder, without lightning, without
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announcement, the morning is touched by heaven.
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Think about that, guys. We wake up morning after morning
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and the dew has coated the ground. The dew has covered. It
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didn't announce itself when it happened. And it was a natural
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thing for us just to expect that when we wake up,
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the earth would be covered with dew, right? Didn't
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announce itself. See, that's the God that I know.
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Now, can he thunder? Absolutely he can
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thunder. Can he send the lightning? Oh yeah, and he does.
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But those moments where you expect him in the lightning, but you
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find him in the dew— That's right. In the morning.
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In the morning. See, when you're— when you are Him,
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you don't have to announce yourself. You don't have to have a
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trumpet. You don't have to have that.
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Then— oh, there we go. And then it says—
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I'm just taking you— everything you see written up here is off
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me sitting at the computer going, oh wait, I'm excited! Wait a minute!
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What was that passage? When I read this, it comes gently, it comes quietly, it's,
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you know, it wasn't lightning, it wasn't thunder. And it triggers
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something on the inside of me that goes, wait a minute, I've heard this before.
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Wait a minute, where have I heard this before? It wasn't lightning, it wasn't
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thunder, it wasn't in the wind, it wasn't in the earthquake. And I'm like, oh,
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that was Elijah! That was Elijah! And so, I
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wanna hear about that. And so, I will grab my Bible and I will go.
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I wanna see what it says. So if you have your Bible, Turn to 1
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Kings 19.
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You know, this is nothing like my office because I've been sitting here for a
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while and I haven't heard once,
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are you in there? And I'm like, yes, I am, but I'm
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pretending not to be. Okay, 1 Kings 19.
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Go down to verse 11. It says, the Lord said, go
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out and stand on the mountain. He's talking to Elijah,
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and Elijah's had a rough day. Elijah has retreated into the caves,
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and he says, the Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in the
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presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then a
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great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered
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the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.
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After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in
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the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the
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Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle
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whisper. When Elijah heard it,
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he pulled his cloak over his face,
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and he went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a
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voice said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
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What are you doing here, Elijah?
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And he goes down to verse 15, and the Lord says to— Elijah tells him,
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you know, they're trying to kill me, Lord. And the Lord says,
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go back the way you came. Go back the way you came. And
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in the middle of this study, as I'm learning about dew, and I'm learning about
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the richness of earth, and I'm learning about all of this, I'm looking back and
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going, oh, wait. He wasn't in the lightning. He wasn't in the fire. He
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wasn't in the wind or the earthquake, but he was in that gentle voice.
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And I'm like, oh, that's— then that's the element of part of that, that
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dew that he brings into our life morning by
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morning, his voice. But you know
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what's even better?
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If you've got your Bible, go to Hosea. Yes.
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14:5. Hosea 14:5,
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and it says this, I
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will be like the dew, the tall, to
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Israel. I will be like the dew to
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Israel. I'm like, oh God, you are so faithful! All
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of those elements that we just read about, you are that which
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sustains life, you are that gentle voice, you are the truth,
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Without lightning, no need to announce yourself. You are
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dew that we wake up to every single
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morning. Every single morning.
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But you know what's cool too? I know, but
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wait, there's more! There's Ginsu knives!
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I will be the dew that falls to Israel.
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He is the Ta'alel. He is the
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Ta'alel, the dew of God. Or
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Ta'alei, the dew of the Lord. The
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refreshing of the Lord. This constant source that pours
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into our life, that gives and pours and is there
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for us. And see, now it just begins to
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take shape. When— now when you look at it and you
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go, The dew of heaven. The dew
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of heaven. The well's a little deeper. The well's a little deeper. It has a
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little bit more context. You're like, oh, wait a minute. When,
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when that is spoken, and you are the dew of heaven, Lord, I hear you
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saying you will sustain me. I hear you saying that you supply
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me, that you speak to me in gentle voices and lead me
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in places, that you beckon me to come out when I want to hide.
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all of these things that are wrapped up in that
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blessing of the Lord. And so now when we read it,
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when God created the heavens, He placed within them a
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life-sustaining provision. And, and the prayer is that
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may He release over you what He established from the beginning,
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coming gently, quietly, without
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thunder, like His whisper to Elijah.
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Horeb. May it fall upon your life morning after morning, quiet,
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constant, and never exhausted in supply.
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And you dig a little deeper because in Him there is
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always more. Always more.
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Okay, ready? Let's dig a little deeper. Let's go to Exodus.
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Exodus chapter 16. Oh, I love His Word!
Exodus 16 chapter mention
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It's just, oh, it is water to me!
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It is water to me! Okay, we are in Exodus. The children of
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Israel have been complaining, and grumbling, and they're upset. What they would
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really like are the leeks and the garlics that they had back in Egypt,
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and God is getting ready to supply something for them that they didn't even know
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that they needed. And in verse 11 it says, The Lord said to
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Moses, I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell
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them, at twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning
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you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord
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your God. Now, 13, the evening— that evening
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quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there
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was a layer of dew around the camp. When
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the dew was gone, Thin flakes like frost on the
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ground appeared on the desert floor. When the
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Israelites saw it, they said to each other, what is it? For they
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did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, it is the
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bread the Lord has given you to eat.
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When the dew lifted, the manna appeared.
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When the dew lifted, the manna appeared. So now that goes back to
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sustaining and resourcing. Here's the cool thing to me.
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Let me give you this. The provision of God was
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lying beneath the dew. And guys, it always has been.
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It always has been. The dew, the
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impartation that the Lord has made into our
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lives, that He's poured, that He's given, His provision is there.
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And what's really interesting to me, and And I have this
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tendency to, you know, I'll do this and then I'll have my takeaways
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over here, and I'll write those down so that I remember. And my takeaway
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from this one is sometimes
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God does not reveal what we need until we need it, and even when
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we may not recognize it.
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You ever come up against somebody that you know the Lord has called them
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to something, and they're like, oh, I can't do that. I cannot do that.
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Well, you've never needed to before. So you might not have
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what you needed in order to do what he's called you to do, but
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the moment you step in to do what he has called you to do, he
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resources you. He equips you. And
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I just find this interesting because they didn't even know
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what it was, and sometimes God resources us and we do not recognize
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it. We do not see that he has already provided what we
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need For this time. I love that. I love that they called it
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manna. What is it? Sometimes we live in those places
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of manna. As we add
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these layers, as we add these layers, these stones of truth,
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the well begins to take shape. It gains strength, structure, depth,
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and beauty. See what I'm saying? It's like when you're adding all of
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these elements to it, it begins to take on— oh, I
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didn't see that there. Oh, you were trying to tell me what? What? And
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his resources are right there. All right,
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but grab the shovel. We're
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gonna go a little bit further because see, the deeper you take the well,
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the colder the water. Grab the
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shovel, there's still work to do. Why is there still work to do? Because
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Isaac didn't stop with this. He didn't stop with, you will give you heaven's due.
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He went deeper and he said, there's also the richness of earth. Yes. So, we
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need to know what that means, too, because these are complementary
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issues, elements that he's bringing into
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our realm. And so, we— what do we do? We go back to the references
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that we did in the beginning. For me, I would go back to the lexicon.
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I would go back to the resource, and I would go, okay, show me what
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this means. Show me what this means. And back to the genesis of the word,
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earth's fill— earth's richness. Mashayim.
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Mashmane hayaretz. What does that even
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mean? Well, I'm going to tell you what it means because I looked it up,
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and it means this. It's a Hebrew expression, and it
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speaks of the fatness of the earth, extreme
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agricultural fertility, fruitfulness, and abundance of all He has
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created and supplied. And my favorite part in this,
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that He has supplied For our access.
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For our access. He put it there for you.
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And he put it there for you. And he gave this
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richness, this— the dew of heaven and the richness of earth
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for you. For you to access. Not just to walk by
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it and go, oh, that's cool. I'm so glad that that's there. But to access
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it. It is for your use. And this happens all the
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time. And so, don't be surprised if it happens to you.
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A squirrel came into my office. And I'm like, oh, wait a minute, wait a
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minute, squirrel! Sometimes a squirrel sounds like this, and
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sometimes it sounds like a phone ringing, and sometimes it sounds like
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this. Words that go neon and go,
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okay, make a note to yourself because you are gonna go back and
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you are going to look up how you access
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How do I access
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this richness? How do I look? And
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I will mark that as a side note so that I know I wanna
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go back and add to this well at some point because it's gonna be important
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and I don't wanna forget it. And I will forget it if I don't write
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it down, so I'll write it down. All right, so back to
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the concordance. I look at this earth's richness, and the next
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question I normally ask is, does this appear anywhere else in
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Scripture? And if it appears somewhere else in Scripture, what is its
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context? And is it consistent with what I'm seeing
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here in this context? Move the
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squirrel back to concordance. And yes, it
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does. It does appear in Scripture in Genesis 27. We've
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just been in Genesis 26. Yes. Go to Genesis 27,
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and if you go to verse 38 and 39, it says,
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Esau said to his father, do you have
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only one blessing, my father? Because see, Jacob just
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received his— the blessing that should have been his, and Esau
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realizes the blessing has been taken. And he goes, and he goes in
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tears to his father, and he says, do you not have another blessing for me?
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Yes, I do.
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Bless me too, my father!
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Then Esau wept aloud, and his father Isaac
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answered him, your dwelling will be away
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from the earth's richness, away
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from the dew of heaven above.
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That just broke my heart. It broke my
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heart to go away
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from all of those things we've just talked about. It will be away from those
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things. And the
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powerful contrast between the same 2 elements being
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present and being absent from someone's
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life, that tells you there's the possibility of that, right? Yes.
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If you look into it, if you begin to look at it.
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And then scripture takes us to Genesis. It takes us back to
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Genesis 49:25, Jacob's blessing spoken
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over Joseph. Blessings of heaven above,
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blessings of the deep that lie below. So we know
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that it's there. And then again, in the blessing over
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Joseph in Deuteronomy, it says, may the Lord bless you—
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I'm sorry, may the Lord bless Yes. His land with the tal
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samayim, with the dew of heaven above.
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That's Deuteronomy 33:13-16.
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Here's the thing, guys, as I'm looking at this, and I'm looking at Isaac, and
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I'm looking at Jacob, and now I'm looking at Joseph, and all of a sudden
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it hits me. These are generational wells! These
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blessings are generational blessings that are being passed down on the
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breath of the fathers, and, and And so, there's another element
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to that, that blessing of above and beneath as he's
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pouring into Joseph. And now I get it. And guys, we need to
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understand that the wells that we dig can
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become generational wells. The blessings that
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we walk in, in our life, we need to be speaking over our
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children and over our grandchildren so that they
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understand that these are for their access as well.
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Dig the wells so that your children can rest by them
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until it's time for them to dig another well. Like
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Joseph, we are blessed with blessings of the deep
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waters that lie below. I so love his
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Word, his truth. But then there are these other things that
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if you dig just a little bit deeper, kind of
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like in Marvel, you pick up things if you stay for the credits
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and you're like, oh wait, that's part of the next. And There are
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Easter eggs that— they're hidden treasures that you only discover when you
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slow down, look closer, and dig a little bit deeper. And that is
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what the Lord took me to in this next passage. You think you've
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learned it, so we're gonna go back to Deuteronomy 33.
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And who wrote Deuteronomy? Moses.
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Moses. Absolutely. This makes me feel like,
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you know, who was it? Oh, I can't do it
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because I'll get busted because I don't know the name.
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Justin will know the name. What's the name of the dude that wrote all the
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Marvel stuff? Stan Lee. Stan Lee.
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You know how he always found a way, or Alfred Hitchcock, they found a way
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to be in their own movies? I see Moses do this.
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'Cause seriously, if you go to Deuteronomy 33,
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it says, he's telling Joseph, may the Lord bless his land
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with the precious dew from heaven above and with deep waters that lie below, with
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the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can
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yield, with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the
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fruitfulness of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the
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earth and its fullness. And the
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favor of Him who dwelt in the
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burning bush. And I'm like, oh, Moses, no
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you didn't! You just told him about one of your own experiences here! It's
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like, the favor of Him who
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dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on
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the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince
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among his brothers. Yes. I love that
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Moses is telling the story of Isaac blessing Jacob, who would
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later bless Joseph, and woven into that blessing is something
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from Moses' own encounter. His own
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encounter. I love stuff like that. I love it, and I miss it
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if we don't just dig a little bit deeper and slow down and listen
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to what he's saying. The favor of Him who dwells
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in the burning bush. Guys, I pray that for you,
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that you would know the favor of Him who
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spoke from that burning bush, that you would know His
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favor! The breath blessing is so
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important, guys, because I can think all day.
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You all are so blessed, but you don't know it yet. Yeah. Because it
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hasn't passed on breath yet. And a breath blessing
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comes out, it releases something into the universe that is
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Bless me and I will be blessed. That's what the Word—
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Sidebar, the research that they are doing now about sound
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waves, and sound waves being trapped to the point that
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they will hit something, an inanimate object, and they will just begin to spin
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there. And they are looking now at technologies that can
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go and literally retrieve sound waves from
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forever ago. That are trapped to be
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translated. You know why that's true? Because he spoke and it
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came to be. There was life in his words, and
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life has never left his words. When he sends
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them, the scriptures say they will not return void unto
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him, but will accomplish everything that they are sent to do.
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So when a blessing is spoken over you,
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receive it. Yes. Receive it! Receive it! Allow it
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to begin to just spin in your heart, in your
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soul, in your spirit, and come to life! The favor
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of Him who dwelt in the burning bush!
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Here's the thing, the do—
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oh, did I go back?
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The dew is His blessing. The richness is His
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provision. But the water in the depths of the well,
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that's Him! That's Him!
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The water in the depths of the well, it's Him! And if we
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will go deeper, if we will dig into His truth,
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we're always going to find Him there! We're always going to find Him there!
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You're always going to find revelation in the depths of Yes. Of
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the well. And that's what— when I say dig
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a well, that's what I'm talking
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about. To allow things to come to
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light, and to come to life, and to dig a little deeper
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until you find the water that sustains you. And
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whatever it might be, whatever the word is, whatever goes
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neon to you in Scripture, to go, Lord, show me what this
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Show me what it looks like throughout the Word. And allow the Lord— it's
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like having a stick figure with no cover, no
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clothes, no hair, no nothing. And then the Lord starts putting
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layers on. Connie, you're an artist. You can start with nothing
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and create the most beautiful universe. That's what He does
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with His Word. We are the blank canvas.
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If we will just let Him paint, if we will just let Him do
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what He does. That's right. And teach us. He is the master
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rabbi. He is the one who has the answers. And
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so now, now when you take that from the very beginning
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and you go, may God give you heaven's
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dew and the earth's
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richness, the blessing of the tal
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samayim and the mishmani hayaretz. May
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God give you those. It's a whole
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different body of water. Yes. There's depth to it,
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that you have frame of reference, you have context, you
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have all of the beauty of the Word and the life
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in the middle of it. And that's the power of blessing
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as seen from the depths of wells that we purpose to dig.
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There is blessing in digging deeper
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into the Word. There is blessing and there is life. And as the
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Lord is calling us in this body into deeper places
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in the Word to become people who are
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grounded by the Word, not by circumstances, not
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moved, not changed, because the Word doesn't change. And the God
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behind the Word, the living Word, does not change. And so the
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Lord is inviting us, I believe, to dig deeper wells. Amen.
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So that when the waves come, or the wind comes, or the
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earthquake comes, or whatever comes, we hear Him in the
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stillness of His voice. We know the gentleness of His
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whisper, and we know who it is who's calling us to
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the edge of the cave. And so we're getting ready— hold
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on, I just shut that and I wanted to give you some— one
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more thing. We're getting ready. Worship team, if you'd come out, feel free to sit
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right here next to me. Because we're going to dig
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another well, but this time we're going to do it with worship
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in a different way, with the understanding— let me move that—
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with the understanding that the well
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can be deeper. We're getting ready to sing The Blessing,
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and I know the last few times that I have taught, we have
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just really praised as we went out. Yes. Today, because
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of the strength and the power of the blessing, I'm inviting you, and I'm
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gonna join you right here. They're getting ready to sing the blessing, and
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it is a breath blessing. And
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as you release it, recognize it as such that you
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are sending a living word into the
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room with the people that you love and that God has called you
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to minister to. So speak it with authority. Yes. Speak it
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with truth. Speak it with truth and sing it. And guys, we're going to gather
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right here and we are going to stand under this blessing
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because let me tell you, it starts, it says, the Lord bless
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you and keep you. That's Deuteronomy— I'm sorry,
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Numbers 6:24-26.
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They're going to talk about a covenant to a thousand generations,
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Deuteronomy 7:9. He will never leave you.
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He'll go before you and behind you. Deuteronomy 31:8.
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Psalm 139:5. Within you. Psalm
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30:5. Exodus 33:14. May his
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presence always go before you, behind us,
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around us. Be with us. Deuteronomy 28:6. In your
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coming and your going, he is with you.
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He is with you. This is the blessing.
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If you need a blessing of any of those Amen. I'm
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inviting you, we're going to stand right here, and when it goes,
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amen, amen, we're going to sing it.
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We are saying, so let it be. So
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let it be. May Your presence go before me. May it be
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behind me. Encircle this house, Father God. I'm
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praying the blessings of the Lord, the covering
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of God The dew of heaven
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in this house. So Father, we
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thank you for sending us the dew of heaven
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and the richness of earth. We thank you for the provision that you have made
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and your still small voice that draws us to the edge of the cave
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every single time. Jesus' name. You
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want to join me? Yes. Amen. Guys, let's pronounce that blessing.