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21st July 2024 Infill Service - See into the Invisible, Do the Impossible...
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H m hm h m h kah mhm h m h m hm hm.
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So good morning. So the title of this word is see into the invisible
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and do the impossible. That this is on the same series of dealing with
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what you don't see. So it's see into the invisible and do the impossible.
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So Father, I pray that you would open our ears to hear what
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you want us all individually to get from this word, whether listening online,
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listening in the room, or listening later in Jesus name. So, as
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believers, we inhabit two words, that which we can see, the world
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of the flesh, and that which is invisible, which is the world of
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the spirit. So we are a spirit person inside a physical body because we
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were born again. So flesh to flesh is firm, Spirit to spirit is
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firm. That's just how it is. That's how God made things, and
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they make the run and different rules apply in each world. To see into
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the invisible, we must inhabit the world of the spirit. In Habit means
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that we live there. We don't go for a visit. We live there.
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Somebody's going to go on holiday or be in a holiday, and you
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go, you stay for a few weeks ago, I'll tell you come back,
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and then you go back to your home. That's where you live,
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which is where you inhabit. That's all your stuff is there. You live
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there. And we have a choice every day whether we walk in the spirit
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or whether we walk in the flesh, or sometimes we flip from one to
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the other, depending what's going on, depending on who cut you up or
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what's Onny said about you. To fulfill our potential in the Kingdom of God,
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you must learn to walk consistently in the spirit, where we will see
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into the invisible and will do the impossible. That's just how Jesus walked on
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the earth, and we are supposed to be as he is. Fundamentally,
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this requires us to live by faith. Rom As one seventeen said the judge
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to live by faith. Had I back two fall said the same thing Hebrews
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ten thirty eight. He said the same thing. There's there's a there's a
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there's a there's a little thread with the band bat that judeall live by faith.
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So this is going to be fundamental words. But there's there's a reason
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for share what we're sharing, because we have to build a bit of a
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foundation before we talk about more in depth things, because that's just how it
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works. So Hebrews eleven one, which is something Dave started about two two
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weeks ago, says, now faith is the substance or the compound of things
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hoped for, the evidence of things not seen im invisible. For by it
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the elders obtained a good testimony or good report. By faith, we understand
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that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which
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are seen were not made of things which are visible, so that things which
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are seen were not made of things which are visible. See. God created
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in image, didn't they Genesis one twenty six. We're creating an image of
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Guardia. God spoken and Jesus made it. The Holy Spirit breathe life into
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it that'd been the flesh body. So we need to learn to live by
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the Spirit within us and follow his directions and follow his leanings. If you
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can't see it in the spirit, it's not going to manifest in the flesh.
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It is an easy thing to say, but it's it's it's a truth.
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The spirit world is more real than the natural world. That is just
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how it is. But we were born into the natural world, and now
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we have an encounter with the living God, and now we're called to live
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in the spiritual world, so we need to learn how to do that.
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Although we might move from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light,
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it takes us time to learn the things of the world and learn things of
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the spirit. That's just how it is. Individually and corporately, the challenges
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that we see into the invisible and do the impossible, that's individually and corporately.
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We're all in different places. That's just how it is. Again,
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I does work for this preach. We're all in different places. Nobody's in
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the same place. Nobody's twins. Yeah, So God don't to take us
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from where we are to where he wants us to be, and that is
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step by step. So the ass today is to listen to what you're saying
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through me to you and make the adjustments that you need to make on your
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journey. We're all on the journey, are we. Let's be honest about
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it. Nobody's arrived and said you've arrived to say that's a poky, Oh
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that's not true. If sorry, if you don't understand what that means.
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We're all on the journey and it all starts with faith. That's what connects
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us to the world in the spirit. And the way God works is God
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creates with faith fulfilled words. He calls things that do not exist as though
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they do exist. I know that's just that's a fundamental truth. But we
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need to go the next morning. He lives by faith. He is faith
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so much though that he calls things that are not as though they were.
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To Romans four, verse seventeen, have I I have major the father many
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nations in the Prince of Hippoboo believed God who gives life to the dead and
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calls those things which do not exist as though they did. He does this
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by faith, activated, energized and expressed and working through love. Again,
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this is a fundamental truth. God works by faith through love, and he
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wants us to work by faith through love to see into the invisible and do
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the impossible. You can't just leave from this concept, this precept, to
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this precept. There are the journeys that you need to take. I've talked
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to her. I know that he was telling me how about his son,
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Tiny shoelacers. He took a journey from shoes with belcrow straps on to Tiny
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his own lasers, and I found out the kid found it difficult to make
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the two loops and then wrap it round and than not, and so he
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just lost it and melt down. So they can't do it. I can't
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do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't
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do it. He said, yes, you can do it. Just take
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it step by step by step. Do it again. So he did it
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again, and then he got it, and he was running around there the
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room very excited. Now we need to take it. I said that to
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say this, we need to take it step by step by step. If
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you don't get the right, if you don't get step two, go back
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to step one and take it step by step by step till we get it.
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Does not interest how long it takes, as long as we get it.
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Abraham, it was nineteen nine years old when he spoke to him.
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It's a bit older when where I had a son. So was Sarah.
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There was a time we say progression before we got the key. Thing is
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for us to get where we need to get. There is therefore no condemnation
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in Christ Jesus. He doesn't condemn us, know, so we condemn ourselves.
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So in other words, take it step by step by step, not
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a lot ones, but he stepp is a miracle. Some people think,
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oh, I've tried this, it doesn't work. Yes, it does work.
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You've got to take it step by step by step. Don't give up.
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Jeers didn't give up on us. Let's not give up on the journey.
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So start where you are today, where I am today, and take
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a step by step and met the adjustments that the Lord nudget you on that
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journey. To move mountains, to do the impossible, we need to see
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into the invisible. Interesting question, does anybody want to move mountains? Does
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any want to see God move in their life, in their community, in
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their family. Yeah, so we need to see into the invisible until the
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impossible. Galatians five six says for if we are in Christ Jesus, either
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circumcision nor ussertations didn't count, but anything and only faith activated and energized and
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expressed and working through love. There's an inexpitable connection between faith and love.
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We need to walk in love through the Holy Spirit's help. Otherwise we might
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not be as gracious we could be. Someone us a better buy grace than
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we are. Naturally. Some people as sweet as pin naturally some people as
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hard as nails. Naturally depend where they come from. But God always wants
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to get to that place where we walk in love and nothing moves us something.
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You can't get angry if but the Father said, get angry and say
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nut. So God creates with faithful words. He says light b Genesis one
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twenty one. The light was as well the people of translation light be light
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was as he calls things that are not as though they were. Need to
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call things that are not as though they were. That's when we read in
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the Bible Joshua one ain't it says, do you know that these words depart
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from your mouth, keep them in the midst of your heart for their life
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to those if you have been in the midst of your heart, yeah,
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problems for twenty the same thing. Don't know this words department their mouth for
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their life, to the pin of health, medicine, to all their flesh.
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It's interesting that there's a little thread through the Bibles, like golden threads
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through the Word of God. Cos there's golden threads through the Word of God.
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So our foundational job is to make sure that we know His word,
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to make sure it's in us, to make sure that it's part of us,
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because that's where faith comes from. Right, So we pay attention to
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his word and meditate on it, it becomes part of us. A level
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of our faith raised us. And that's what Jesus did. Jesus meditating on
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the word of God. He spent time in the word of God. All
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Hebrew children did that. That was theirs our training. John five, verse
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nineteen in the AD Classic Versions says that Jesus answered them by saying, I
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assure you most solemnly. I tell you the son is able to do nothing
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of himself of his own accord, but he's able to do only what he
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sees the father doing. Whatever the father does is what the son does in
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the same way in his turn, So Jesus said, the son is able
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to do nothing of himself and paraphrase now, only what he sees his father
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do. Mm hm. So jesus earthly dad was Joseph. So he saw
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his earthly dad with natural eyes his heavenly father you saw with the eyes of
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the spirit. That's those two worlds. Again, I spoke about the initial
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to start this breach. Naturally speaking, may have seen your dad do certain
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things, and you learn from watching what your dad does, whether it's it
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was a cook cooking, whether if it's was a builder building. Something you
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learn from him by watching man. I don't pass me this, pass me
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that, do this, do that, Don't touch that that's hot, Touch
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that you'll get burnt. All these things you learn from your natural dad.
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And there's a relationship there. You stood next to him and he stood next
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to you. Don't touch that, not yet, that's a drill. Don't
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play with it. We learned all truth is parallel. What's true in the
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naturalist true in the spiritual realm. Jesus sat with his heavenly dad and learned
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what he needed to do. Now in the world of the spirit, you
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just don't go, hey, I'm here, mate, let me sit down,
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have a chat with you. You come in too, God's presence in
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a certain way, with thanksgiving, with praise. And then when you come
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into that secret place Father talks about the secret place, you sit and you
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listen, and as a communion, and there's a union, which talking about
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in a bit. Don't get ahead of myself here, but there's a relationship.
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And it's in that time of relationship, in that times of communion and
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union, that you see what your heavenly father is saying and doing. Now,
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depending on your relationship is what you will learn. Depend on how deep
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that relationship is. Your dad said when you're two or three years old,
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like the gas, chop the onion, or pass me that drill, or
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passion that screwge ever. You know, you got to a certain age,
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we could do that. And God develops a spiritually speaking to a certain age.
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So we're ready to do with the bigger things because when we carved that
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time with the Father and we can't see what he's doing, but there's a
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development, and that's where it's tending the word of God, developing healthy habits
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with him in his presence, that we learn to develop that relationship where we
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see into the visible and do the impossible. There are some youngsters around here
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do that sort of thing when they started gym, and as people in their
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ages of sit like a bump of a lot because they stopped when the red
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received the message of salvation. It's all depends on how we want to develop
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that relationship. Certain relationships are waving relationships. Certain relationships are deeper relationships.
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Sometimes that's made by choice, sometimes made by circumstances. With God. We
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can go into his buried presence. We can no him intimately. Everybody has
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that privilege, no deeds excluded. But we've got to follow it, follow
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his pattern. Do it this way, m M M. John fifteen,
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Jesus is speaking. Verse four says dwelling me. This is the amplified classic
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version, dwelling me and I will dwelling. You live in me, and
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I will live in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself
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without abiding in being vitally united to the vine, neither can you bear fruit
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unless you abide live remain in me. Verse five says I am the vine.
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You are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him bears
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much abundant fruit. However, apart from me, cut off from vital union
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with me, you can do nothing. If a person's not dwelling me,
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he's thrown out like a broken off branch and withers. Sus branches are gathered
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and thrown in to the fire, and they are burned. So Verse five
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talks about the union to what I alluded to earlier, about having that union
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communion with the Father. So you can see what he's doing. He can
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speak to you I just spend time with this word, your faith increases.
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She can do what initially he said to you. I like to do that.
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Let me give you a little secret. If God asks you to do
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something, you can't do it by yourself. Generally speaking, it's usually impossible
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in the natural. But we've got all things are possible. We do it
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by faith. I like use due letter, the exampswer not here today,
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But so she she said, up an orphanage in there outside the gingers.
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You're gander. That was really impossible and natural. But God gay with the
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grace to see something of his heart that he wanted to do in that place.
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And she did that, and she's doing that if you know truly,
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I even though it's not easy, everything is a step of faith, just
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as an example of somebody. But what about us? For about our journey?
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What about our walk? What were we doing? Are we in union
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community with a farmer? Do we need to make it adjustments so we can
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do that sitting down? Somebody takes time, doesn't it. Whether it's we
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have a friend who spends their time with the Lord, like eleven twelve,
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one o'clock at night. I can't do that. I'm out by our take
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nine o'clock nowadays, because I got experily in the morning and when that's their
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own time, when they spend it with him in that communit union, communion,
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that's a fundamental or foundational step is creating the time to do that.
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All this stuff we talk about this morning is its fundamental foundational stuff. But
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they ask is that you revisit it, reflect on it, and make your
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own make your own adjustments. What we do now echoes into eternity. The
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decisions we make now will affect our journey, whether right decisions or wrong decisions.
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And it's our decision, but we need to make it through the through
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the lens of God's direction. If you don't spend time with him, you
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don't know. It's very hard to know who's speaking. To get a phone
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over something, it's like who are you? Or only speaks to an automatic
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fay that they said one word. Sometimes don't say hello, it's me.
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A phone call from Hello, it's me. I have another phocus from Hello,
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it's me. I'm thinking who is me? I'm thinking thinking that,
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oh, hello, so and so you might be a met person. Hello,
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it's me. Say hello, it's me. To see into the invisible
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and do the impossible. We need to make adjustments in our lives, how
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we do stuff, when we do stuff. This is just a fundamental message.
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A lot more to this and that, but I haven't got the time
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to give you justice this morning. So this is just foundational information which we
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need to pray over and decide how we want to use it, what we
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want to do with it. As a fellowship, We're going to change this
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town. That's certain things we need to do which you can't do by ourselves.
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And if we don't do it by faith, it will happen because that's
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how God works. So we need to make some adjustments individually and corporately.
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I mean, it's a time of self reflection and thinking. Okay, Father
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Jesus Fellers, but what am I doing? I need to maybe change?
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Unless you're all perfect, of course, I am a work in progress,
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so I don't count myself in that sort of a place right now. Maybe
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perfect in God's side, but I'm still a work in progress. So one
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key thing, and what's consciously time. One key thing is that we need
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to remember all this sits around the words surrender that song I surrender own,
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I surrender home Jesus I surrender, I surrender. All nice song, nice
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words? Do we do? It? Is the It's a question, isn't
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it? So this is a more a reflective word, whether load of answer
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to reflect on what he's saying to us personally today, take it away,
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think about it. Let's start making some ADJUSTMCE so we can see into the
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visual and do the impossible. Once you were it's tip this world is gonna
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be and so as I said, what you're gonna call this? So he
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said that, and I know I was typing in yesterday. That's all the
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eye and I thought that's interesting. I haven't seen that before. So it's
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it's like we see with the eyes of faith. Want a better description.
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I can't think of a better way of saying it rather than the eyes of
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naturalized. See, your journey starts today. If for the military say we
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accept this mission, you're going to go for it. You know you're going
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to step up to the plate. Use americanism. God's ask is what are
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you going to do so you can see into the invisible? Doingly impossible in
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your generation, in your lifetime. Let's face it, when we're all done
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in dustity and some of us have fur down that round others. Your ability
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to influence in this space, as far as I understand it, is diminished,
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So I think we'll leave it there. I'll pray Sharon and the rather.
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I asked that you would help us to assimilate what has been shared and
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make our own God directed decisions about how we make adjustments so we can do
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what it suggested to see into the invisible and dearly impossible. I appreciate it's
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it's step, step by step, so please help us to to get it
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because I was not to lose heart, because I was to journey on that
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road in Jesus name. Yeah yeah h