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ALL-ACCESS
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Kevin O'Dea: Come on. Come on. Come on. Give him praise. Hallelujah. Yeah.
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Kevin O'Dea: And you have access to that God. You have
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Kevin O'Dea: access to that God. Man, God has been so good. If you have, if
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Kevin O'Dea: you've been in attendance to the conference in any shape, any of the days,
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Kevin O'Dea: would you just lift your hand? You've you've been a participant. Has it been a
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Kevin O'Dea: good week? Has it been a good week? Good. Good. I'm so
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Kevin O'Dea: glad, and I'm so thankful to, everyone who has,
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Kevin O'Dea: come and all of the work that has gone behind the scenes.
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Kevin O'Dea: The worship team has done a phenomenal job leading us. All of you
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Kevin O'Dea: people up in the loft that have been working behind the scenes in the tech
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Kevin O'Dea: areas, we so appreciate you. All of the volunteers
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Kevin O'Dea: who have worked with our kids and our teens all week
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Kevin O'Dea: long have done a phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal
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Kevin O'Dea: job. All of the people manning the tables, the ministries,
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Kevin O'Dea: we are so just so grateful. It takes an army to be able to
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Kevin O'Dea: do, what we did this week, and I'm so grateful. I do want
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Kevin O'Dea: to recognize a few key individuals,
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Kevin O'Dea: that I believe really just, there would be no conference
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Kevin O'Dea: without without these with the without these people. So if you are
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Kevin O'Dea: Joshua McLeod, would you come? If you are Dustin Theater
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Kevin O'Dea: individuals, have been here, you know, of course
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Kevin O'Dea: the paid staff is here through the week working on things, but these these
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Kevin O'Dea: guys have just been laboring behind the scenes,
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Kevin O'Dea: tirelessly, very joyfully, tirelessly,
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Kevin O'Dea: tying balloons, blowing balloons, cooking dinners, getting things organized,
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Kevin O'Dea: saying God this way, that way, and stay here, and don't do that, and do
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Kevin O'Dea: this, and all of those things. And, what I
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Kevin O'Dea: love so much about this group is that if we
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Kevin O'Dea: didn't do this moment, your treasure would've been in heaven and
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Kevin O'Dea: you're totally fine. But I believe that the word says, render honor
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Kevin O'Dea: where honor is due. And you guys, we just honor you. I thank you for
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Kevin O'Dea: making helping make the vision of All Access Conference come to
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Kevin O'Dea: fruition, for putting up with my shenanigans, and all of the all of
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Kevin O'Dea: the staff and working with us. You guys are the
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Kevin O'Dea: best. Would you guys show your appreciation and love for this team?
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Kevin O'Dea: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Kevin O'Dea: God is good and God saves the very best right now and I don't wanna
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Kevin O'Dea: take any more time from our guest speaker. Would you please welcome Tim
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Kevin O'Dea: Hooper?
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Tim Hooper: Love you.
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Tim Hooper: God is good, amen? Come
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Tim Hooper: thou fountain of every blessing, prone to
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Tim Hooper: wander, Lord, I feel it. It's so good to be in this place, but you
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Tim Hooper: know, we are in a broken world.
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Tim Hooper: We're in a broken world. It's so good to be reminded of who God
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Tim Hooper: is. Amen? Did they do a good job or what? Wow.
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Tim Hooper: Every book of the Bible, God is something to us. In
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Tim Hooper: our relationship with him, the spirit relating and speaking to
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Tim Hooper: us speaks into the moment who God is for us
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Tim Hooper: in that moment. And there's no way
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Tim Hooper: I can take any of what I've written scribbled and chicken scratch and crossed
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Tim Hooper: out and added to and said, God, maybe this direction or maybe that direction. There's
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Tim Hooper: no way that I can take that and apply it to this group
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Tim Hooper: today. So I pray, pour it out and
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Tim Hooper: God would you just fill this pray, would you come meet with us today?
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Tim Hooper: That's our prayer in Jesus' name. So praise God
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Tim Hooper: for everything that's already happened in the conference. Barby was
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Tim Hooper: preaching last night and said, the 3rd day wonderful things
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Tim Hooper: happen. And it was funny because as I was reading back through theatre
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Tim Hooper: text for today, there was a 3rd day in there. And I was
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Tim Hooper: like, Wow. And then it said in on the 4th pray. And so we're God
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Tim Hooper: get to that. So you are here on the 4th day. Can I get an
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Tim Hooper: amen? You're here on the 4th pray. It's been amazing. And
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Tim Hooper: I don't take for granted being put at the tail end of anything.
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Tim Hooper: I come from a big family and we pray that,
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Tim Hooper: that you exercise faith being at the tail end of the family because the
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Tim Hooper: Hebrews says, you know, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the
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Tim Hooper: evidence of things not seen. And, if you were at the tail end of the
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Tim Hooper: family, that was the platter of meat. It was the substance of things hoped
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Tim Hooper: for on that end of the table. And when it got down to you, it's
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Tim Hooper: was the evidence of things not seen. So, you know, being at the tail
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Tim Hooper: end, I don't take for granted, but if you were not able to hear some
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Tim Hooper: of the messages. I got to sit in Kevin's house yesterday
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Tim Hooper: afternoon and he just poured his heart out about the Spirit
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Tim Hooper: of don't pray in the hallway, God's door is wide open
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Tim Hooper: and oftentimes we've built the hallway all access to Him.
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Tim Hooper: And then he Holy me about, he said, if you get the chance to go
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Tim Hooper: watch Justin's message about putting our entire yes on the table,
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Tim Hooper: just everything, all in. And I will tell you
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Tim Hooper: that that is probably the battleground in all of our hearts,
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Tim Hooper: because right here in this moment, I'm all in. Are we all in this
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Tim Hooper: morning? Yes. We're all in. But the battle
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Tim Hooper: is real. We walk out that door, the battle is real. There is
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Tim Hooper: warfare, spiritual warfare, and somebody in the
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Tim Hooper: enemy's kingdom is saying, oh, pray. What's going on at
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Tim Hooper: Springhouse Church this morning? And they're God be on the lookout, they're gonna be
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Tim Hooper: looking for every opportunity to distract us. And then Barbee came on
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Tim Hooper: the 3rd day and talked about the veil being torn from the
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Tim Hooper: bottom down. It's funny. We're getting on a plane. My son Jeremy is here with
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Tim Hooper: me this morning. We're getting on a plane, first time on a commercial airline.
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Tim Hooper: And we were Ghost looking out the window waiting for our pray, there were several
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Tim Hooper: delays, and we were looking at the fin on the top. And I said, How
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Tim Hooper: thick do you think that thing is? Because we were looking at the wheels, and
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Tim Hooper: you know, we all think an airplane wheel is about this big, but then I
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Tim Hooper: was looking at the ground coordinator with the thing and it's up to here on
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Tim Hooper: him. So, I stood up in the terminal and I'm like, dude, that's like a
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Tim Hooper: tractor tire. Like, these wheels are massive. I said, how thick do you
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Tim Hooper: think that that that fin is? And then Barbie got up here and talked
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Tim Hooper: about horses couldn't even tear. If you tied 2 horses on either side of
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Tim Hooper: that veil, it could not have been torn. But God tore it from
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Tim Hooper: the top down. Only God can tear
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Tim Hooper: the veil of our heart open of the Holy of Holies and give us
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Tim Hooper: all access because of Christ and his finished work on the 3rd
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Tim Hooper: day. And then Kevin got out this morning and literally cut
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Tim Hooper: to the heart of our disappointments.
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Tim Hooper: Our disappointments. And I want to pick up right there where
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Tim Hooper: God and if you didn't get a chance to attend because of work or life
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Tim Hooper: or schedule, please go back. They're right on the line. Watch
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Tim Hooper: from start to finish. Go binge All Access because I
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Tim Hooper: think God does not want us to forget that we have
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Tim Hooper: access. There's only one power in this earthly kingdom
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Tim Hooper: that wants us to forget that we have all access to the throne,
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Tim Hooper: and that is the enemy, and he's a defeated enemy. His days are
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Tim Hooper: numbered, ours are eternal, and if he can just get us to be
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Tim Hooper: distracted from the all access posture we
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Tim Hooper: have, then he can win
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Tim Hooper: some of the battles, because he's already lost the war. So,
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Tim Hooper: go back and binge it. But he talked about the disappointments.
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Tim Hooper: And it was so funny because as I prayed about what to preach, I was
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Tim Hooper: considering John 11 and near to the heart of God, which
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Tim Hooper: you just completely did church a fantastic job with this morning.
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Tim Hooper: It's amazing. But what God gave me was,
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Tim Hooper: Tim, I want you to share the message on where am I
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Tim Hooper: looking? All of us can ask ourselves that question this morning,
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Tim Hooper: where am I looking? And we'll go to the word of God.
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Tim Hooper: In Psalm chapter number 25 verse 15, I'll read this out
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Tim Hooper: of the, NIV version, it's on the screen. If we could all stand, we'll read
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Tim Hooper: this together, and then we'll pray and then get into the message. But
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Tim Hooper: in Psalm chapter number 25, verse 15, David
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Tim Hooper: writes, and we'll read it together, My eyes are
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Tim Hooper: ever on the Lord, for only he
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Tim Hooper: will release my feet from the snare. Let's read it one more time.
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Tim Hooper: My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only
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Tim Hooper: he will release my feet from the snare. You may be seated.
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Tim Hooper: Let's pray. Father, our eyes,
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Tim Hooper: Our eyes, God. Will you just show
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Tim Hooper: us, Lord, like Joshua just got up here and said, Lord,
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Tim Hooper: the complainers and the those
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Tim Hooper: me, the complainer, me, the one who forgets to
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Tim Hooper: worship in the suffering, God, my eyes
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Tim Hooper: quickly are shifted off of you to
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Tim Hooper: the waves around me. Lord, would
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Tim Hooper: your spirit just lovingly and mercifully point out in our hearts
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Tim Hooper: where our eyes are, God. And
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Tim Hooper: will you just help us to shatter all of the
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Tim Hooper: lives of the enemy. All of the
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Tim Hooper: fear that he has spoken
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Tim Hooper: into our lives through maybe the lives of others,
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Tim Hooper: maybe through past hurt, maybe through the disappointments,
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Tim Hooper: but he has caused us to be fearful
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Tim Hooper: of looking up into your loving,
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Tim Hooper: matchless, wonderful face. Would
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Tim Hooper: you shadow those lies? Would you show us where our eyes are this morning?
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Tim Hooper: In your name, your precious name of
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Tim Hooper: Jesus. Amen. So in Psalm, David writes
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Tim Hooper: this, and I thought about our eyes. Scientists tell us that our vision, the sense
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Tim Hooper: of our vision, takes 50% of our brain.
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Tim Hooper: It's it's the it's the Ghost engaged sense is our
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Tim Hooper: eyes, our vision. And you know, our eyes do
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Tim Hooper: not see. Some people say, and I'm going to ask all of us, where are
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Tim Hooper: we looking? Some people say about faith, about God, about belief in God,
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Tim Hooper: they say, well, I'll see it when I believe it. Anybody ever hear that? I'll
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Tim Hooper: see it when I believe it. Well, that's actually a myth, and I'll tell you
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Tim Hooper: why. We bought this old house in Virginia, and
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Tim Hooper: we bought this old house, and it's from 19 thirties. And so, you know, big
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Tim Hooper: massive oak trees, the leaves have fallen, the soil, they've turned to soil, and
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Tim Hooper: the ground, you know, over time, the ground builds up. So the ground has raised
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Tim Hooper: a good foot over the last 80 years. And so the garage
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Tim Hooper: we we we dug it out a little bit and we put pavement in the
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Tim Hooper: garage but the garage, the eaves of the garage hang down just
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Tim Hooper: enough Ghost enough to where a 5 foot, you
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Tim Hooper: know, 10 guy or gal would clear just fine.
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Tim Hooper: But this 5 foot 11 guy doesn't clear just fine. The
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Tim Hooper: problem is my eyes are about 5 foot 7, somewhere in
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Tim Hooper: here. And that 5 foot 11, that little point of my head
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Tim Hooper: is right here. So I come out of the garage and I'm looking down.
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Tim Hooper: Pray I say I was looking? Oh, yeah. Down. So I'm looking down, I come
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Tim Hooper: out of the garage, trying to answer a few texts before I'm in the house.
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Tim Hooper: I walk out of the garage and Ghost BAM! Right into this little
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Tim Hooper: point of the eave. It's just BAM! I'm like you know? I
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Tim Hooper: didn't see that coming. But see, that's the myth. I'll see it.
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Tim Hooper: I'll believe it when I see it. No. I believe it and I didn't see
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Tim Hooper: it. Like, I believe it hit me right there. But here's the thing. Right? Where
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Tim Hooper: were my eyes? My eyes were down. I was looking down. You
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Tim Hooper: know, in life, we look down a lot. You know, it's it's
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Tim Hooper: part of it's just just here like, gravity.
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Tim Hooper: We have gravity that is called the little g. You know, gravity. You know, I'm
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Tim Hooper: a runner and people always say, oh, that little Jesus God catch up to you.
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Tim Hooper: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know. It will. Right? Generosity. Gravity. What does it
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Tim Hooper: do? It pulls us down. The weight of this life
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Tim Hooper: pulls us down. The things that maybe just entered into
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Tim Hooper: our life by surprise, the diagnosis, the news, the
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Tim Hooper: relational issue, they pull us down, they weigh us
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Tim Hooper: down. It's not any of our fault, but it is
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Tim Hooper: a problem that each of us live with. It's the reality. This
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Tim Hooper: thing body have a phone on in their pocket somewhere on them? Yes. How do
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Tim Hooper: we live without this thing anymore? Somebody said when phones had cords,
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Tim Hooper: people were free. They came unplugged and now we're tied
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Tim Hooper: up. But, so we're always looking down. Right? And
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Tim Hooper: it's just this posture. And I think whether
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Tim Hooper: it's by choice or just by default,
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Tim Hooper: our gaze has shifted downward.
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Tim Hooper: But see, our eyes don't they're not really what sees, it's our brain. In
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Tim Hooper: Ephesians, Paul calls them the eyes of our heart. And in our
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Tim Hooper: life a lot of times I know our physical eyes may be looking down
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Tim Hooper: but the eyes of our heart have shifted downward.
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Tim Hooper: Discouragement. Disappointment. They've
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Tim Hooper: shifted our eyes downward. I was driving home from,
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Tim Hooper: from, not Nashville. That's past life. I was driving
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Tim Hooper: home from D. C. Back to Central Virginia,
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Tim Hooper: considering some of the diagnoses and things my wife had been through on her 2nd
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Tim Hooper: round of cancer, and I was just
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Tim Hooper: downcast. And I was driving and, you know, kind
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Tim Hooper: of weaving in and out of the lanes, trying to make it home as best
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Tim Hooper: I can, just in the hubbub of life,
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Tim Hooper: just driving back. And it was a long day, a great day, nothing was
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Tim Hooper: incredibly wrong. There were some diagnosis things we had to deal with, nothing major at
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Tim Hooper: this moment in time. She was working through Ghost towards the end of
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Tim Hooper: her treatments, but I was just discouraged. It's been a long 3
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Tim Hooper: years, second round of cancer. I'm just
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Tim Hooper: discouraged. And I'll never forget, I
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Tim Hooper: was just looking and you know how a truck will pass you as you're Holy
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Tim Hooper: in traffic? It passes you this way, then it passes you that pray, and you
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Tim Hooper: feel like you're going backwards, because it's going faster than you are. I had
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Tim Hooper: one of those moments of, like, woah, a little equilibrium loss. And so I looked
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Tim Hooper: over, I'll never forget, it was one of Lauren Daigle's buses. And it
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Tim Hooper: just said, Look up, child. All plastered across
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Tim Hooper: the side. And I'll never forget in that moment the Holy Spirit whispered and
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Tim Hooper: said, don't forget to look
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Tim Hooper: up. It's just a simple reminder. My my mom, I I God to
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Tim Hooper: go speak at her church in Cedar Rapids. They had just lost
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Tim Hooper: her pastor, 56 year old, healthy, runner,
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Tim Hooper: fit, diagnosed with brain cancer, and within a year, gone.
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Tim Hooper: And I was going to fill the pulpit and I said, God, what do I
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Tim Hooper: say to a church who just lost their dearest
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Tim Hooper: friend?
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Tim Hooper: And he said, just what I told you on the interstate.
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Tim Hooper: Just look up. And if we could
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Tim Hooper: end this conference just remembering
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Tim Hooper: to look up to the throne room, where we
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Tim Hooper: are seated with Christ, heirs to Christ. If we can
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Tim Hooper: remember, we're not there yet,
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Tim Hooper: but we will be and we are spiritually seated with Christ, if I can
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Tim Hooper: just remember to look up. Not because I got it
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Tim Hooper: all right first, not because I got all of it together
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Tim Hooper: Ghost. Now, I'm ready. Daddy's God to be pleased. No, he's
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Tim Hooper: already pleased. I can just remember to look up.
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Tim Hooper: Kevin was talking about letting him have the final say.
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Tim Hooper: And I thought about some of the reasons I don't look up. I'm
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Tim Hooper: afraid. I'm afraid it's God be no again because I told
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Tim Hooper: him it was a no when really it's a no now cause there's a greater
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Tim Hooper: yes coming. I love the line of the song that says, if it's not
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Tim Hooper: good, then He's not done with it yet. I love that,
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Tim Hooper: because I can come looking up in confidence, in steadfast
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Tim Hooper: hope that He gets the final say. I can look up, I
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Tim Hooper: can overcome my fear that I'm not good enough, and daddy's not
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Tim Hooper: pleased, or father king, father God almighty. And I love what Barbie
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Tim Hooper: said. We need to raise our vision, our view, our the eyes of
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Tim Hooper: our heart and how mighty God is. The demon is in front of us,
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Tim Hooper: but the mighty army of angels, go back and listen to this morning's message.
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Tim Hooper: The mighty army of angels. Joshua, thank you for the vision. The
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Tim Hooper: mighty army of angels standing behind us. He looks ferocious
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Tim Hooper: because he's scared, and we're scared of him till we turn around and realize God
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Tim Hooper: is fighting for us. We need to look up. We need to see mighty
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Tim Hooper: King God on our side, and we have all
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Tim Hooper: access to Him because of Jesus and His blood.
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Tim Hooper: Look up, child.
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Tim Hooper: So the garage taught me that I gotta look up. Something else
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Tim Hooper: taught me to look up. I was driving to Roanoke to speak Roanoke, Virginia to
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Tim Hooper: speak. And, I'm driving over there and I'm talking to our senior vice president.
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Tim Hooper: I'm like, yeah. I'm headed over to Roanoke to speak. And and he said, oh,
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Tim Hooper: I bet you, you're gonna go see the star. I'm like,
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Tim Hooper: the star? The star do we have the picture of the star? Is
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Tim Hooper: it in the slides? There we go. He said, I bet you we're going to
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Tim Hooper: go see the God star. I was like, what's the star? Now, I had just
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Tim Hooper: moved from Nashville to Virginia. I wasn't totally accustomed to all the natural
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Tim Hooper: wonders and man made wonders, but this is the largest man made star in the
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Tim Hooper: world. I was like, wow. So he said, the star.
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Tim Hooper: He said, you don't know what the star is? I was like, no, I've never
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Tim Hooper: heard of the star. He said, you need to go see the star. So he
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Tim Hooper: gave me a little rundown. Well, I got up to speak. I was speaking to
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Tim Hooper: all these people from Roanoke about how to market their business and sales and
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Tim Hooper: whatnot and all this. And and I and I brought it up. It was it
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Tim Hooper: fit into the story. So I, like, brought it up. So I was driving out
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Tim Hooper: here this morning, and this guy told me, I need to go see the star.
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Tim Hooper: He asked me if I knew where the star Holy. I said, no. And the
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Tim Hooper: whole room gasped. Whatever. So I went
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Tim Hooper: so afterwards, I got done speaking. My buddy came up, Scott. He said,
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Tim Hooper: he said, Tim, do you have some time? Do you have to rush out anywhere?
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Tim Hooper: I'm like, no. I don't. He said, could I drive you up to see the
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Tim Hooper: star? So he drove me. We got in his truck. We drove up
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Tim Hooper: this little winding road, bikers coming up and down. The ones that were
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Tim Hooper: going up, I was like snickering. I was like, how on the, you know, these
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Tim Hooper: guys with the cabs, like, you know, let's pick us up. And I was like,
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Tim Hooper: dude, I mean, they're going to see the star. I mean, it's this windy, steep
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Tim Hooper: pray, and we're getting up there to the top. And I was asking him on
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Tim Hooper: the way. I was like, so, like, how big is it? He's like, oh, it's
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Tim Hooper: massive. Well, I've never seen it. Can you see it from Interstate
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Tim Hooper: 81? He's like, yeah. Can you see it from this? And I've been on those
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Tim Hooper: highways. We came down pray 81 every trip
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Tim Hooper: over to Virginia from Nashville. I'm like, how did I not see
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Tim Hooper: the star? And the answer is pretty
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Tim Hooper: obvious. I wasn't looking up. I was looking
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Tim Hooper: at my GPS. I was looking in the back at the 4 kids. Maybe I
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Tim Hooper: was looking down, hopefully not texting and driving. Maybe I was looking at the
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Tim Hooper: speedometer. Maybe there was a police car behind me and I was checking that just
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Tim Hooper: right, you know how you just keep your eyes around, speedometer. I don't know
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Tim Hooper: what it was, but there was something, all those trips, that I didn't look
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Tim Hooper: up to see the
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Tim Hooper: star. I want to go to scripture and read a passage
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Tim Hooper: and then just make some correlations. Hopefully, practically, leave us
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Tim Hooper: with a few things we can leave here. And
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Tim Hooper: in our life, when it's chaos or
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Tim Hooper: confusion or our spirit we can't hear because the noise of the storm
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Tim Hooper: is so loud, we can go back and say, but here's
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Tim Hooper: where I stand. Here's what I do. Here's what I
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Tim Hooper: remember to look up. So in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 20 if you
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Tim Hooper: have your Bibles, it's a longer passage, it won't be on the screen, but I'll
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Tim Hooper: read through. It says, 2nd Chronicles, chapter number
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Tim Hooper: 20. Jehoshaphat, he's faced with a
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Tim Hooper: situation. And I'll just read through and we'll make some practical application, then
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Tim Hooper: we'll wrap up. After this, the Moabites and Ammonites,
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Tim Hooper: and with them some of the Mennuites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.
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Tim Hooper: Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, a great multitude is coming against you from Edom
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Tim Hooper: and beyond the sea, and behold they are in right at the gate, basically.
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Tim Hooper: And then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set
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Tim Hooper: his face to seek the Lord. Then
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Tim Hooper: Josh was afraid. I want to stop right there. Have you ever
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Tim Hooper: had news come to you? He was not expecting these men to come to him
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Tim Hooper: and say, there's a prayer. The enemy's at the gates. Would you, by show of
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Tim Hooper: hands, tell me, have you had a problem? Have you had something come into your
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Tim Hooper: life recently? A bill, a diagnosis, some sort of
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Tim Hooper: news that just took you by surprise? By a show of hands,
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Tim Hooper: yes. We're human. It happens. We're in a broken
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Tim Hooper: world. And here we are. A battle has been waged against
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat. Secretly, they're all ganged up on him. They're
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Tim Hooper: at the back door and he is
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Tim Hooper: afraid. He's afraid.
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Tim Hooper: So we see Spirit away, there's a problem. It's unexpected.
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Tim Hooper: It's a surprise. He's that, this word, pray,
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Tim Hooper: means alarmed. He's alarmed by it.
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Tim Hooper: He's fearful. Now
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Tim Hooper: in chapter number 19, Jehoshaphat was
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Tim Hooper: busy. In 19, he's busy. He's fortifying
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Tim Hooper: the army. He's building walls. He's building cities.
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Tim Hooper: He is restoring God's house. In 19,
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Tim Hooper: he's busy fortifying the kingdom. He's
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Tim Hooper: been doing all the right things. And sometimes, some of us have
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Tim Hooper: this in our heart to say, God, why
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Tim Hooper: me? I've been doing all the right things.
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Tim Hooper: I'm sure in that fear, he had that alarm,
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Tim Hooper: that question, why me?
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Tim Hooper: But it says, just down here, it says, then Josh, if I was afraid and
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Tim Hooper: set his face to seek the Lord. I love this. He
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Tim Hooper: was afraid and he set his face to seek the
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Tim Hooper: Lord. We see right there, we see a prayer, but then we see a priority.
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Tim Hooper: And I think this is where Tim misses the boat
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Tim Hooper: so many times. I start going to my own wisdom. I
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Tim Hooper: start figuring out a solution or I go to chat g p t No. I'm
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Tim Hooper: just You're going we're going to find an answer
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Tim Hooper: elsewhere. But Jehoshaphat's pray. He sets
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Tim Hooper: his face toward the Lord. He makes it a priority
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Tim Hooper: that the word set means a resolve, a firm resolve
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Tim Hooper: to seek the Lord. Matthew 633
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Tim Hooper: says, seek first the kingdom. How many times is that
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Tim Hooper: 5th or 7th or 21st for me? Because Ghost, I was
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Tim Hooper: seeking my own counsel, online counsel,
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Tim Hooper: complaining to my friend's counsel, complaining more to my friend's
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Tim Hooper: counsel, arguing with my friend's counsel. Right?
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Tim Hooper: And then finally, in surrender, I come to God. But he said, he was
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Tim Hooper: afraid and then number 2 Spirit. You say, Tim, I'm failing.
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Tim Hooper: Like you, Tim, I'm failing in the priority.
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Tim Hooper: Well, let's rewind to chapter 18, because
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat in chapter 18 also was failing in the priority.
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Tim Hooper: Pray? He learned from failure. Failure is the greatest
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Tim Hooper: teacher. And besides, you have
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Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. I was told at breakfast this morning, you have nothing to feel
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Tim Hooper: theatre fear, because we're all going to fail. Just let let that be know,
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Tim Hooper: we're all going to fail. But, we have an advantage being sons and daughters
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Tim Hooper: of God, because when we fail, he redeems our failure.
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Tim Hooper: Can I get, wow? When we fail he redeems our failure. We have
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Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. But in 18, Jehosh
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Tim Hooper: phat fails. Why? Because Ahab comes to him and says, hey, body.
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Tim Hooper: How would you like to reunite the kingdom, buddy? I'm going to war
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Tim Hooper: against these guys, and I would love for you to be along. Just tag along
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Tim Hooper: and, help me out. We'll reunite the kingdoms. He
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Tim Hooper: paints this grand vision. Ahab is a great politician. And he Oh, did I
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Tim Hooper: just say that? I'm sorry. But, anyway, we're God to do this. And
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, he's been the king to
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Tim Hooper: pursue the Lord, but he thinks this sounds really good. He kind of
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Tim Hooper: gets his pursuit of discipleship and following Christ mixed
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Tim Hooper: with politics here. He really does. And he
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Tim Hooper: says, sure, Ahab. Well, then that ego of
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Tim Hooper: reuniting the kingdom blinds him so much to the fact
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Tim Hooper: and I read this in EMT. I'm like, how in the world did
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Tim Hooper: Ahab convince him to do this? Ahab says, I'll tell
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Tim Hooper: you what you do. You dress up like me,
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Tim Hooper: so everyone won't think you're the king. How did you like,
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Tim Hooper: how? So then, sure enough, he gets into the
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Tim Hooper: war. He gets singled out.
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Tim Hooper: God commander of the enemy army says, don't go for anybody else but the king.
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Tim Hooper: They see the king's clothes and they're after Jehoshaphat, and he's running
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Tim Hooper: for his life. Ahab gets killed in the
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Tim Hooper: battle, as prophesied by the Lord, by a pure accident.
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat barely makes it out, dressed as the king.
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Tim Hooper: And so here he is, rebuilding the
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Tim Hooper: army, doing all the right things, problem comes and he
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Tim Hooper: sets a priority. He says, I learned from my mistake. I learned
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Tim Hooper: from my failure. I set a priority. I'm God look
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Tim Hooper: up. I am gonna first look up. Not second, 3rd, First
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Tim Hooper: look up is God be my priority. If you're failing in that today,
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Tim Hooper: contrast it. Just contrast it to what you've done before and say,
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Tim Hooper: God, help me to remember to look up. He will
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Tim Hooper: redeem.' Here's here's just a
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Tim Hooper: practical solution too. So I wear
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Tim Hooper: contacts in Nashville. And I don't live here anymore. But when I was
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Tim Hooper: in Nashville, I wore glasses more because in the spring, right about now, the
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Tim Hooper: pollen count goes from 0 to 96. Right?
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Tim Hooper: And, the sneezing starts happening. It was always
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Tim Hooper: horrible being at work and then the contact's in the back of my eyeball. And
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Tim Hooper: the rest of the pray, I'm like fighting, trying to get that contact out of
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Tim Hooper: the back of my eyeball. So, I just wear glasses a lot. Well, so anyway,
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Tim Hooper: I would wake up in the morning and the first thing I would reach for
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Tim Hooper: was my glasses. Without my glasses
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Tim Hooper: on my face, I was stumbling around, because I'm blind as a bat. So I'd
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Tim Hooper: be stumbling around the bedroom. And sometimes they'd fall between the thing, or the kid
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Tim Hooper: crawled in bed and cracked them in half or whatever, so you're trying to make
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Tim Hooper: them work. Right? That's happening. So you're going around without your glasses,
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Tim Hooper: you're stumbling. You're tripping. You're stubbing your toe. So practical application is
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Tim Hooper: I'm God to ask this. What is the first thing you pick up in the
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Tim Hooper: morning? What is the first thing you look at? I
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Tim Hooper: talk to executive teams all the time. You know how high percentage look at
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Tim Hooper: their inbox, their email very first in the morning? Some of
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Tim Hooper: us, social media, first thing in the morning. TikTok, first thing in the
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Tim Hooper: morning. Where are we looking? Where are you looking?
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Tim Hooper: Ghost priority. What am I going to determine when
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Tim Hooper: I lay my head down is going to be on my phone first thing.
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Tim Hooper: Maybe I'm God to text myself some lyrics to a song. Maybe I'm
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Tim Hooper: gonna text myself a Bible verse, the verse of the day. What am
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Tim Hooper: I looking at first? Is the priority there? Well, then
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Tim Hooper: we see the priorities there. He says, he set his face towards the
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Tim Hooper: Lord, and then he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
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Tim Hooper: And I love this because there's a problem. He makes a priority, but
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Tim Hooper: then he's, he has a proclamation. He has a
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Tim Hooper: proclamation. He proclaims a fast throughout all of
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Tim Hooper: Judah and he assembled to seek help from the Lord. All
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Tim Hooper: the cities of Judah, and they came to seek the Lord. And
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord,
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Tim Hooper: before the new court and said, and he lifts up his voice to pray.
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Tim Hooper: So before the prayer, there's a proclamation. We are going to fast.
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Tim Hooper: I love all the leaders across this stage today and yesterday, I'm sure
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Tim Hooper: in the Ghost few days of this conference that proclaimed,
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Tim Hooper: come up here. This is all access. There's no special pass here.
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Tim Hooper: Come claim what God has for you.
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Tim Hooper: You say, Tim, I'm not the king. I can't proclaim
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Tim Hooper: a fast for all of Smyrna, all of Murfreesboro, all
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Tim Hooper: of Rutherford County, all of Nashville, all of Richmond,
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Tim Hooper: Virginia, wherever you're at in the world. I can't proclaim a fast, but let me
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Tim Hooper: tell you in here, you're a mom. You've got 2 kids.
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Tim Hooper: You're a teacher. You have a classroom. You're a worker
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Tim Hooper: with you have a team. You're a father who
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Tim Hooper: has a family. When's the last time I've proclaimed
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Tim Hooper: something to my family? I've proclaimed a word of the
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Tim Hooper: Lord to my family. I've pulled the Bible out, dusted it
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Tim Hooper: off, and read and said, we are going to I'm sorry, family. I'm
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Tim Hooper: sorry. I take the responsibility for having not
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Tim Hooper: led in this department, but I am not perfect. I am bought
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Tim Hooper: with the blood. I have access to the throne. I'm going to
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Tim Hooper: proclaim for my family that we're God to follow
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Tim Hooper: Christ. I'm going to make a proclamation. I'm going to make a
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Tim Hooper: proclamation, we're going to pray together. I'm going to make a proclamation that we're going
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Tim Hooper: to love differently. That I'm going to treat your mother differently. I'm
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Tim Hooper: going to make a proclamation for my team that it's going to be the
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Tim Hooper: golden rule, treat others like we'd want to be treated. I'm going to make proclamations
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Tim Hooper: that are kingdom minded proclamations. This is what Jehoshaphat was doing.
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Tim Hooper: You don't have to be a king to make a proclamation. But what I'll tell
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Tim Hooper: you about the proclamation is, there is freedom
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Tim Hooper: from fear in the proclamation. He was
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Tim Hooper: afraid. He made the priorities seek help from the Lord. And then
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Tim Hooper: he said, I'm God to proclaim a fast.' There is freedom. When the
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Tim Hooper: proclamation's out, it is out body. There's no taking it
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Tim Hooper: back. Somebody now knows. The enemy wants us in isolation.
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Tim Hooper: The enemy does not want anybody to know.
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Tim Hooper: Proclaim the promises of God. Make a
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Tim Hooper: proclamation. And even if you don't know the word to proclaim, proclaim a
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Tim Hooper: Ghost, proclaim prayer, proclaim repentance,
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Tim Hooper: proclaim humility, a humbleness of heart. The sign of this
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Tim Hooper: was brokenness in the Holy Testament, was rendering of the clothes like Barbie
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Tim Hooper: talked about with Esther, and putting ashes on the head. You didn't have to
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Tim Hooper: know what to do in that moment. You just had to say, I'm
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Tim Hooper: here. I'm proclaiming I'm here till I hear it. It's like Jacob.
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Tim Hooper: I will not let you go until you bless me. He didn't even realize what
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Tim Hooper: that meant. It meant a limp and it meant a lot of things that
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Tim Hooper: he never planned on, but he made a proclamation, I will not
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Tim Hooper: let you go. Who needs to make a proclamation
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Tim Hooper: today to God and to your family, to your team, to
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Tim Hooper: your siblings, to somewhere in your life that
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Tim Hooper: there's something here I don't know, I'm afraid of, but I'm making
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Tim Hooper: a proclamation over this area. You don't have to
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Tim Hooper: be a king to make a proclamation.
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Tim Hooper: I love the song that says, I will speak to my
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Tim Hooper: fear and I will preach to my doubt that you were
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Tim Hooper: faithful then and you'll be faithful now. And I don't even know what that looks
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Tim Hooper: like, but I will speak to my fear and I will preach to my
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Tim Hooper: doubt. Make the proclamation. And then we see the prayer.
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Tim Hooper: And the prayer says this, O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God
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Tim Hooper: in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations.
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Tim Hooper: In your hand are power and might. Amen? Amen?
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Tim Hooper: He is our Father God because of Christ. But you
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Tim Hooper: have an enemy out there who wants to destroy you.
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Tim Hooper: He is our warrior king. Amen. And we don't
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Tim Hooper: have to fear that warrior king anymore because of Christ, but all of
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Tim Hooper: our enemies must fear that royal king. And we have
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Tim Hooper: access, all access to his power and
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Tim Hooper: his might, so that none is able to withstand you. And then
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Tim Hooper: he puts heaven on notice. He says, did you not our
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Tim Hooper: God drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people,
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Tim Hooper: Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your
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Tim Hooper: friend? I love the question here. He's putting heaven
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Tim Hooper: on notice. Did you not?
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Tim Hooper: And they have lived in it and have built for you in a sanctuary for
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Tim Hooper: your name, saying, if disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,
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Tim Hooper: pestilence, famine we will stand before this house and before you, for your
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Tim Hooper: name is in this house and cry out to you on our affliction. And
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Tim Hooper: you will hear and save. And
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Tim Hooper: now behold, this great multitude has come against us to invade us,
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Tim Hooper: to destroy us. And
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Tim Hooper: then he ends his prayer. He says, oh, our God,
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Tim Hooper: will you not execute judgment on them for we
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Tim Hooper: are powerless.
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Tim Hooper: For we are powerless. I want
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Tim Hooper: to stop right there. We are powerless.
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Tim Hooper: In chapter 19, Jehoshaphat has built an
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Tim Hooper: army of 1 point 2,000,000
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Tim Hooper: fighting men. He
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Tim Hooper: is not a wimp. He knows what war looks like.
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Tim Hooper: He's been willing to fight before. He has a
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Tim Hooper: massive army and yet the humility
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Tim Hooper: here to say, we
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Tim Hooper: are powerless. I want to say
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Tim Hooper: this, he he he prays. There's the prayer,
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Tim Hooper: he has a priority to seek God first. He makes a proclamation and
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Tim Hooper: then he prays. And in his prayer, I realize a few things. He
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Tim Hooper: has reflection. He goes to the journal. He goes to the stone
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Tim Hooper: of Ebenezer. And he says, did you not? Did you not?
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Tim Hooper: But then there's humility. He says, we have
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Tim Hooper: no might. It reminds me of the verse that says, not by
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Tim Hooper: might nor by power, but by my
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Tim Hooper: Spirit, says the Lord.
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Tim Hooper: By my spirit. I
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Tim Hooper: believe that humility. We are powerless.
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Tim Hooper: I am refusing. I am absolutely saying
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Tim Hooper: no to my own counsel, God. I'm saying
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Tim Hooper: no to my own resource, God. He had a
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Tim Hooper: 1,200,000 fighting men.
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Tim Hooper: But, Tim likes to look at my bank account and say, can we or
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Tim Hooper: can we not?
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Tim Hooper: I like to look at my time and say, do I have the
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Tim Hooper: time or do I not?
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Tim Hooper: Jesus said, you can't serve God and man and money. And and Jesus
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Tim Hooper: said that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. He created time.
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Tim Hooper: He is a star breather, like Kevin reminded us. He is timeless.
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Tim Hooper: We are time bound. But see, that's our counsel.
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Tim Hooper: He says, we are powerless, oh Lord. He says,
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Tim Hooper: I refuse to rest in my own
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Tim Hooper: sustenance. I want you to be our sustainer.
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Tim Hooper: There's a humility in that. There was also a public prayer here. I believe
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Tim Hooper: there is time for pray, in the closet
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Tim Hooper: prayer. But I believe that our church, like Jesus said in the New
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Tim Hooper: Testament, he said, we've made his house a house of commerce
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Tim Hooper: and we've turned it away from being a house of prayer. And I
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Tim Hooper: will tell you, this is where I sin the most. This is
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Tim Hooper: the sin that so easily clings to me and besets me in my pray,
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Tim Hooper: is a prayerless life. God is
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Tim Hooper: calling his people in this age of apostasy.
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Tim Hooper: He's calling his people to pray. He is asking he is
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Tim Hooper: just looking for a community of believers to gather in public
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Tim Hooper: prayer to say, Holy spirit, blow on the embers. Holy
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Tim Hooper: spirit, do something. Do a new work through us.
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Tim Hooper: So many of us grapple with how do we be Christ in this generation.
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Tim Hooper: We don't know how to be Christ in this generosity, and the church
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Tim Hooper: has lost its salt in this generation. We need a breath from heaven
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Tim Hooper: to say, Holy spirit, show us how to be the church.
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Tim Hooper: We have to gather in prayer again. Jehoshaphat
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Tim Hooper: proclaimed, then he prayed in a public pray. And he
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Tim Hooper: ends his prayer with this. He says, we do
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Tim Hooper: not know what to do. Have you ever
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Tim Hooper: stopped praying because you didn't know how to pray? Or you didn't know what words
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Tim Hooper: to say? Come on. Right? Come on. Somebody else
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Tim Hooper: prayed so eloquently and you said, I have nothing to say. I want you to,
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Tim Hooper: next time that thought comes into your mind, proclaim, God, I
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Tim Hooper: don't know what to say. That is one of the most powerful prayers you can
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Tim Hooper: ever pray. And it will shatter fear. It shuts the enemy up because
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Tim Hooper: he's God to push that button all day long. Yeah, you don't know what to
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Tim Hooper: pray. Or you're going to look stupid when you try to say
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Tim Hooper: something. They're God to laugh and he's going to tangle you in fear
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Tim Hooper: not to open your mouth and proclaim in prayer the goodness of God.
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Tim Hooper: So, Jehoshaphat, the king who's supposed to have all the answers,
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Tim Hooper: we do not know what to do, but our eyes are
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Tim Hooper: on you.
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Tim Hooper: Here we stand. Our eyes are on you.
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Tim Hooper: There's the star. Now, every time I drive through Roanoke,
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Tim Hooper: there's the star. I just need somebody to tell me, remind me, there it is,
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Tim Hooper: and by the way, look up. And every time I drive through Roanoke, I'm like,
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Tim Hooper: I'm God see the star because I'm looking for it. I'm looking
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Tim Hooper: up. And Jehoshaphat Ghost reminded the entire congregation, I I'm the
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Tim Hooper: king. I don't know what to do. God, I don't know what to do. We
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Tim Hooper: don't know what to do. But our eyes are on you. And when we pray
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Tim Hooper: that in humility, guess what happens? Go to the next church. Because once
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Tim Hooper: he drove me up there oh, man. I was like, oh, there's
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Tim Hooper: the airport over there. I took my son to that Roanoke airport. And, oh, what's
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Tim Hooper: that big building? That's the hospital. Did you know Roanoke's known for its hospitals? I
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Tim Hooper: said, I didn't know that. I was like, man. Look at those Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Tim Hooper: Aren't those beautiful? And I just stood up there. I took a panorama. I took
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Tim Hooper: a selfie. I did everything. It was so beautiful. The view
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Tim Hooper: was totally different. And you know what happens when we turn
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Tim Hooper: our eyes to pray to God and when we start seeing
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Tim Hooper: him and oh my goodness his face is lovely. He's
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Tim Hooper: not looking at me in anger. He's looking at me in acceptance and love. And
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Tim Hooper: oh my goodness he says that the verse before in Psalms
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Tim Hooper: that God read that whole Psalm 25. But the verse before says
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Tim Hooper: that those who are committed to God set their face towards God.
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Tim Hooper: He is a friend. He's he's used the word fellowship. And that word friendship means
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Tim Hooper: he gives the secret counsel to. He gives the secret counsel
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Tim Hooper: to. See, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look
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Tim Hooper: at change. Wayne Dyer said that quote, but you know what? So powerful about that
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Tim Hooper: quote from a spiritual perspective, God changes the way we look at things. We
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Tim Hooper: don't have to change the way in our own power. God does the work, brings
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Tim Hooper: us to his vantage point, and lets us see his secret counsel.
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Tim Hooper: He knows the beginning from the end. He may not show us the end, but
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Tim Hooper: he's God to give us the hope and the belief that this is not the
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Tim Hooper: end. I have the final say and it's going to be beautiful.
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Tim Hooper: If it's not good, it's not done. And then
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Tim Hooper: Ghost right after this, I'm going to summarize this, but Jahaziel stands up. Jahaziel
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Tim Hooper: is the Levite. Jahaziel stands up, full of the Spirit,
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Tim Hooper: says the spirit move into Jahaziel. And Jahaziel
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Tim Hooper: says, stands up, and he says this, he says, King, I have a word from
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Tim Hooper: the Lord. And he says, I have a word and here's the pray.
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Tim Hooper: You are going to be delivered. Who says, that's a good promise right
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Tim Hooper: there? I'm going to be delivered. I have access to the king. I am going
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Tim Hooper: to be delivered. I have a promise. And he said, and
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Tim Hooper: here is the plan. And Jahaziel gives him the plan. Now, let me ask you
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Tim Hooper: this. Jahaziel was around 2 chapters earlier. Jahaziel
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Tim Hooper: saw Micaiah, who stood up as a prophet, told
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Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, do not go with Ahab, and they had him thrown in jail.
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Tim Hooper: I want to ask, who are the Jehazials in the room who are fearful right
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Tim Hooper: now? Because Jehaziel had to be a little scared to get up and give the
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Tim Hooper: word of the Lord to the king.
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Tim Hooper: Who is a friend in this room right now, who the Spirit of God
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Tim Hooper: is moving, giving you a word and you are to give that word to
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Tim Hooper: body? You are to prophecy over somebody's life. You are to speak in
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Tim Hooper: and edify somebody's life, or come alongside and encourage somebody's
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Tim Hooper: life. Jahaziel, not by his own might, he said the Spirit of
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Tim Hooper: the Lord moved because of the humility of the king, because of the prayer
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Tim Hooper: in public. The Spirit of the Lord moved, and Jahaziel stood up and gave
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Tim Hooper: the plan and the promise to the king.
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Tim Hooper: And the worship team can come out, because we're wrapping this thing up. Because guess
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Tim Hooper: what happens. The plan is get all your mighty chariots
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Tim Hooper: together. Get all your horsemen. Get all the 1,200,000 that you've
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Tim Hooper: amassed. And we're God to engage in this valley. We're going to set traps.
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Tim Hooper: We're going to Ghost crush the enemy. Yes? No.
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Tim Hooper: This was not the plan at all. The
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Tim Hooper: plan was can you just step forward with me?
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Tim Hooper: The plan was can you just walk like forward? I'm going to walk behind you.
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Tim Hooper: The plan was that the soldiers were going to walk behind the Levites.
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Tim Hooper: And these people were going to walk into battle. These
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Tim Hooper: people who are hopeless against the spear, helpless
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Tim Hooper: against the sword, were God to lead the army into
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Tim Hooper: battle. You can back up Ghost for now, so you have to stand right at
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Tim Hooper: the edge. They're God to lead. This is bizarre.
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Tim Hooper: This is unconventional. This is what we call the upside down
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Tim Hooper: economy. This is God math, not ours.
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Tim Hooper: God miracles, not our plan. God,
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Tim Hooper: star breather, master of all the universe, who sees the beginning from the end,
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Tim Hooper: says, guess what theatre God to do? Now, they weren't just walking. Guess what they're
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Tim Hooper: gonna do? They're gonna praise. We are gonna
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Tim Hooper: praise Yahweh. Yeah. Capital l, capital o, capital
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Tim Hooper: r, capital d, Yahweh. We're gonna sing praises to Yahweh. Do you know
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Tim Hooper: they never lifted a sword? Do you know that Moab Moab turned about and
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Tim Hooper: said, they killed each other. When they came up over the hill into the
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Tim Hooper: valley, everything was a dead body. Gone.
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Tim Hooper: Because the Bible says God inhabits the praise of
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Tim Hooper: His people. And so, in the devastating
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Tim Hooper: moment, in the problem, in the fear, in the alarm,
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Tim Hooper: in the time where you do not know what to do, to pray,
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Tim Hooper: God, my eyes are on you, and I am God choose to
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Tim Hooper: pray? He said, it was a loud praise. They went
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Tim Hooper: out loudly praising. I love the song that says, you have a
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Tim Hooper: lion in side of your lungs, so get
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Tim Hooper: up and praise the Lord. You might not know what to
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Tim Hooper: say, just praise the Lord. Let
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Tim Hooper: your vocal speak. When you're a baby, you don't know how to put a
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Tim Hooper: word together and all you say is, oh, and mama and
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Tim Hooper: daddy come running, just praise the Lord. Just
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Tim Hooper: make noise to the Lord. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all
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Tim Hooper: ye lands. You talked about Paul and Silas. This is written right
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Tim Hooper: here. So Paul and Silas, they're in their tomb. They pray, the earth shattered.
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Tim Hooper: Peter saw the waves, but Jesus was reaching down his hand. And then
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Tim Hooper: Paul in Hebrews saw a great cloud of witnesses. He pray. He saw
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Tim Hooper: when the praise happened, the provision came. Elijah saw what no one
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Tim Hooper: else could. He saw the the the the armies
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Tim Hooper: of God surrounding him. In the praise, what are you gonna
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Tim Hooper: see? How are you gonna praise? It happens when our eyes look to
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Tim Hooper: the king, when our eyes look to all access and say,
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Tim Hooper: God, I need you. I'm God praise you. I'm
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Tim Hooper: gonna praise you anyway. I'm gonna end with
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Tim Hooper: this, Job and when Job was plagued with all of these,
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Tim Hooper: his kids were lost to the plagues and his animals, his herds, everything
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Tim Hooper: gone. And then the boils, he's church with boils. He's sitting
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Tim Hooper: there and he says, when I'm tried and
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Tim Hooper: purified, I'll come forth as gold.
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Tim Hooper: And I always thought that was such a beautiful verse. And then when Jen was
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Tim Hooper: going through her 2nd round of cancer, I became very, very
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Tim Hooper: bitter. I became disillusioned.
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Tim Hooper: The Ghost time made sense second time, like, why God? Why are you doing this?
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Tim Hooper: And why to her? And God, the Holy Spirit and I wasn't, I wasn't bitter
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Tim Hooper: towards him. I was bitter at the circumstance. And the Holy Spirit said, I want
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Tim Hooper: you to read Job. And I got to the end of Job. I'm going to
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Tim Hooper: read this first because it's so powerful. But the end of Job, in Job chapter
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Tim Hooper: 42, this is after God has spoken to Job. After
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Tim Hooper: Job put God on trial, then God came and spoke to Job and showed His
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Tim Hooper: power and might. And Job said this. He
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Tim Hooper: said, therefore I have uttered what I did not
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Tim Hooper: understand, Things too wonderful for me church I
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Tim Hooper: did not know. He said this. He said, I had
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Tim Hooper: heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
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Tim Hooper: but now my eyes see you.
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Tim Hooper: And, I'll tell you that sometimes I want gold.
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Tim Hooper: I want to believe that there's gold on the other side of this trial.
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Tim Hooper: When I'm tried and purified, I'll come forth as gold. And I believe that's pray
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Tim Hooper: promise. But sometimes my gold is tomorrow or next
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Tim Hooper: year, and it's not maybe on my timetable.
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Tim Hooper: But Joe gets to the end and as he praises, as he sees who God
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Tim Hooper: is, as he lifts his eyes, he says, I had heard of you before.
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Tim Hooper: I had heard of you with my ears. I heard of the goodness, he said,
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Tim Hooper: but now I see you.
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Tim Hooper: And it changed everything for him. His circumstance changed,
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Tim Hooper: yes, but sometimes we just have to set our eyes on God. Just look up
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Tim Hooper: child and say, now I see you.
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Tim Hooper: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His
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Tim Hooper: wonderful face. And the things of earth,
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Tim Hooper: they grow strangely dim in the light of his glory
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Tim Hooper: and grace. Church, I just wanna encourage you, let's
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Tim Hooper: assemble, let's encourage, let's
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Tim Hooper: remind each other that we have all access, when
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Tim Hooper: we simply just look up and say,
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Tim Hooper: almighty God, here I am.
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Kevin O'Dea: Stand with me this morning. As we close this
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Kevin O'Dea: out, we're God to proclaim a song that we've been singing for many,
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Kevin O'Dea: many weeks here. We trust in God and let's testify
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Kevin O'Dea: this morning of the goodness of our Lord. Let's, let's worship.