Sermon
31st December 2023 Celebration Service
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M hm m m mm hmmm. Yeah, mhm hm hm hm. Okay,
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this is another message about Kingdom ready. Last one you'll be pleased to
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know. They the title of the Holy Spirit Gaming was Operation Breakthrough. For
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this word operation breakthrough. This might sound like a military briefing, but that's
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how the Law gave it to me, So there we go. Hm.
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The dictionary definition of the word breakthrough means an instance of moving through or beyond
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an obstacle, or an instance of passing through a barrier, or you could
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say taking it to the next level. And what the Lord has have talked
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to us about today is about breakthrough, but operational breakthrough. If you don't
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have a breaker, it's not operational. You are if you like on the
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sidelines, you do not do anything in the Kingdom of God. It is
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made up of people like you and like me, ordinary people who have within
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them the presence and anointing of God, which makes us super natural people.
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When you were dead in sin, you were just the person. When you're
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born again, you're filled with the presence and the person of God. You
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carry that presence wherever you go. So to be operational, we need to
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be ready. Otherwise, if you're not ready. You can't be put into
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a position where you're operating how God wants you to operate. You know,
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you sit and he puts somebody else into play who is not their job to
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do what you should be doing, because He has to mobilize them because you're
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not ready. And that happens a lot, believe it or not. So
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they we're going to talk a little while about operational breakthrough h Professional athletes work
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to be at their best. Runners train altitude so when they go to where
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they're going to do the race, they've got that little bit extra than the
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next guy or the next goal. They're always pushing for a competitive edge.
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If you know people are into sports, they're very competitive, not just at
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sports but everything, any quicks, anything, They want to be there.
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They want to push to be where they want to be. They're always pushing
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the invisible barrier so they can be the best of the best, and they
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train hard to achieve those goals. All truth is parallel what you're seeing the
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spirit world. He's more real what's in the natural world. God wants us
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to be at our best. He wants us to train the way he wants
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us to train us to fulfill purpose to achieve his goal. John, that
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working man, thank you. Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. Very familiar skipt
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scripture. I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord,
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especially from the amplified better. Another thing for I know the thoughts and plan
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to half of you, says the Lord thought some plans for welfare and peace,
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not for evil, to give you a hope in your final outcome.
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M another. When it's done, it's done. God prepares people to win,
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not to fail. However, you've got to get in the program.
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You cannot sit like a bump on a log and say, yeah, I'll
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do it, no problem. We're coming to the new year now. So
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it's one of those things where people make New Year's resolution, isn't it,
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The either look trickier, thinner or whatever. I don't want to achieve something,
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and they write some stuff down and some people go through that, go
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through the steps and get somewhere to people don't they just he just fades away.
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God does not want us to fade away. He wants us to fulfill
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purpose. Yeah. So when the hold this bit nudges you in the mind
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to get up and pray or nudges you to go and get hold of your
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Bible or wherever it is. That's the time to make the step. It's
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not like the astronauts said one leap for mankind or the exact translation. I
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can't remember. It's what it says, but you know it's it's it's shaping
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steps to get where we need to be. Yeah, this is all stuff
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we know, but this is what I mean asked to convey. So it
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is what it is. In essence, we can align with God's plan or
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can do our own. Sweet thing. Choice is hours, isn't it.
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Jesus said, I will build my church, and the gates of help shall
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not prevailed against it Matthew eighteen sixteen eighteen, And he will do just that.
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We need to cooperate. We all are bits, and we may go
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home. Everyone does their bit key things. To find out what your bit
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is and then do it. So God wants us to be operator ready at
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a moment's notice, and that with that in mind, we're going to conduct
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an inventory. I take stock of what we need to be doing. There's
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only two or three thinkering talk about Romans ten seventeen says, so faith comes
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by hearing. So that's the wrong translation. Let's get the right translation.
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So the faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So
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then faith comes by hearing and hearing by them. You can't hear the word
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of God, I should come to church or you read on your bible,
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in your bible. Yeah, So the first thing to talk about this morning
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is our word. Level that's the written word, the living word, the
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Word of God. No word, no faith, no word no faith.
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The just shall live by faith. Yeah. The word of God produces faith
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in our hearts. So we need to have that word regularly. Daily.
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Daily input means a daily boost of faith. Yeah. I guess I'm just
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think about Christmas now, Sorry, my mind went to Christmas. Christmas,
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we have all these this Brits spread, don't we. Well wherever you know,
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we have turkey in this gun shape, people have harm and we have
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you know, roast potatoes, pickles in blankets, gonna be hungry now,
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all all that sort of stuff. And then if you're very English, you
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have Christmas pudding why branded more brandysource or something, isn't it. And there's
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a big spread and we told that food and people go and sit down and
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go, oh, obviously when we were we were chilling. Anyway, there's
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a long time ago. God wants to eat his spiritual food. Food is
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nice. Too much of it, you get fat, it is. You
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can't get fat on the word. You get strong on the word and your
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faith developed. So you can release that faith and see God heals somebody or
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work in somebody's life. God's for twenty, look probably for twenty. Put
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it on there. Yeah, my son, give attention to my words.
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Inclineate ear to my sayings, Do not let them depart from your eyes,
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keeping them in the midst of your heart. Their life to those that find
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them health, those translations of medicine to all their flesh. God's words are
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life and their health. Whatever we give our attention to will be front and
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center in our hearts and in our thinking. If you're watching a load of
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films or a load of soaps, or are you looking at them, that's
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what's going to be there. If you put the word of God that that's
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what's going to be there. Not saying don't watch TV. What I'm saying
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is we need to be operationally ready, so you know when you're listening online,
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we're going to listen later to this. You know where you are.
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God knows where you are. You know to me, I see your face.
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You could be smiling, you can be down wherever I see your face.
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God doesn't look at the outBut Pence, He looks on the heart.
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He sees you. You cannot hide from him. Try it doesn't work.
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Believe me. God sees it inside of what you're thinking in your heart.
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Never mind what you say in your face. He sees this in here.
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You cannot hide from him. So you know where you are with your word
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level. I'd have to put a finger or anything here. This applies to
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you. You know what you've got to do. If it doesn't apply to
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you, keep on doing what you're doing. Ye, The key thing is
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to be ready. The key thing is to the vest in the word of
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God. So your faith level is where it needs to be. Keep us
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foretold. So the word of God is sharp at the two edges, so
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penetrating. When you speak the word of God out of your mouth, things
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change. God said, light be, and light was With God's words in
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our mouth. As we walk in faith, things will change, and we're
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speak into circumstances. The situations to people's lives that's what God wants us to
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do. There's twenty twenty four of you're sitting at a bump on the log.
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He wants it to be a of operational readiness so it can move forward.
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It's no case looking around the people in this room, which get to
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look at the bigness of your God and what your God is going to do
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through you if you commit to the program and get on with it. They
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include me in that anyway. It's a number one, what's your word level?
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Like number two? What's your prayer that I like? Let me find
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that. M hm h m hmm. I think one Testalonians five seventeen comes
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to mind. Yeah, one Testonians five seventeen Paul speaking pray without ceasing.
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If you read the Apostle Paul's letters, he's always rocking up about prayer,
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prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. That's what he
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says. I'll be thanks to God, thank you for his grace, and
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pray without ceasing. I think it's James five and verse fourteen. Then he
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said, como, I think or field as the church and then pray over
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him nineteen with oil and the prayer of faith is fifty and the prayer of
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faith you'll save the sick, and the thought she'll raise him up if he
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has committed and you half forgiven him. The prayer of faith shall save the
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sick. It's only a prayer filled with faith that's going to make any difference.
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Otherwise it's just going to hit the ceiling and bounce back. God wants
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us to be full of the word and in prayer. Now our prayer level
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is linked to our communion or our relationship with the Father. Oh we've got
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no relationship with God. I've got a prayer life just as that simple,
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isn't it. Really? You've got to have a connection if your marriage.
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Speak to your wife, you speak to your kids as a relationship. There
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if he didn't say anything for a few days, somebody at a slat,
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what are you doing? Why aren't you speaking to me? We need to
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be regularly communicating with God minute by minute, second by second, having that
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relationship with the father we had his children. When you come from your praise
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to play, people should see the presence of God in your life. John
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fifteen arm verse under evaned amplified the dwelling me and I will dwell in you
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live in me, and I will live in you. Dwelling me and I
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will dwell in you. Live in me, and I will live in you.
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Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abide in or being
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vitally undded to the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide,
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live remain in me when you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and
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I in him, bears much abundant fruit. However, apart from me,
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cut off from vital union with me, you can do nothing. If a
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person does not dwell in me, He's thrown out like a broken off branch
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and withers. Such branches are gathered, but I'm thrown to the fire,
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and they are burned. If you live in me, abide vitally united to
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me, and my words remain in you, and continue to live in your
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hearts. Ask whatever you want, will, and it shall be done for
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you. If you live in me, abide vitally united to me, and
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my words remain in you, and continue to live in your hearts. Ask
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whatever you will, and it shall be done to you. I was quite
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a promise. Do we believe it? Do we do it? It's all
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the bad relationship it's all the bad relationship. He wants us to be vitally
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united to him in that fellowship, which takes time into case comima, doesn't
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It said to your wife a quick chatter for two minutes, I'll see you
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in the end of two days. Time to give a quick chapter two minutes.
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That isn't going to work for any relationship. It's got to be daily
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contact. It's got to be quiet, it's got to be a time of
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quality time. But that's quite an hour in the morning for you, or
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where it's going to be. We're all different, we've all got different pressures
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in life. I'n't in nowadays. These things I've picked up about people listening
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online, ring at all times, or text being at all times nowadays.
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I was a youngster. These things didn't exist, So you'd use a landline,
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or you know, you wrote a letter, who wrote a letter and
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posted it and waited for a response. It was a different, different world,
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no computers at the time. So life run at a different place.
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Now life is a lot quicker, a lot faster. Whatever happens to the
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other side of the world. Things on your device in a matter of seconds,
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and so the life we live is very very quick, very fast paced.
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But that doesn't allow us to walk away from our communion with God.
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That means we've got to be wise how we use our time to get into
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that space. If you don't have to do it, ask him give you
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a little plan so you can do what you need to do. Someone's are
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very organized. I can half time out others just everywhere and how to do
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that? God knows that. But God come work with us to achieve the
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goal he wants us to achieve in our lives. It's ours possibility to take
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time to live and to do well with Him. Well with Him. Idea
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of faults should be to do life with God. And that's just not the
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only on a Sunday. We should be living and remaining a walker every day
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and that's where he wants it to be. With this operational readiness peace.
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Yeah, the worst level of the faith level of community and that will all
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roll into one thing. So about filling ourselves the worth of God. So
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we're operating in faith, having a decent level of prayer, so we can
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release that faith in the people's lives, see people's change and kind of presence
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of God in such a way that manifest to other people. I've just seen
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shadows of people walking backwards and authority, as with praising God, going to
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town to shop on a Sunday, These people who don't know Jesus. Maybe
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if people like you and I they're going to see them, they'll be ready.
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Otherwise, you know, we're going to give you best, like the
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runners. You've got to prepare. We've got to give our best. Genesis
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five twenty two says he not walked in habitual fellowship with God. Genesis five
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twenty four says, and he not worked in habitual fellowship with God, and
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he was not forgot took him home to be with him. That's before they
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come with the Holy Spirit. He not worked with God, and he was
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out of her only Bang gone. We need to a place where we walk
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with God. They say, Oh, that's Simon, he walks with God.
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That's Salmon, she walks with God. Why because they can see that,
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not because we're telling them that. Because they can see that. So
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it's a guy called ruthless. Ruthless Mosley who was nineteen nineteen forties, nineteen
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fifties. He'd put it this way, each believer has promised to them the
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ability to live on daily, moment by moment, conscious union with Jesus that
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would produce a life of joy on an unparalleled level. I'll say that again.
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I'll read that again. Each believer has promised to them the ability to
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live on daily, moment by moment conscious union with Jesus that would produce a
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life of joy on an unparalleled level. So we talk about the union and
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the communion, which is you get to God's presence. That's what we need
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to be stretching for. That's what that's the space we need to occupy.
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We need to prioritize a union. Interestingly, John five and verse thirty,
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which is Jesus speaking, says, I'm able to do nothing from myself independently
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on my own accord, but totally as I am taught by God, and
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as I get his orders, even as I hear, I judge, I
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decide, as I am bidden to decide, as the voice comes to me.
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So I give a decision, and my judgment is right, just righteous,
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because I do not seek or cancel my own will. I have no
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desire to do what is pleasing to myself, my own aim, my own
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purpose, but only the will and pleasure of the Father who sent me.
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If the Master said that, then we need to align with that. You're
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only going to hear the voice of God if you get into the union and
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the communion and you sit and you listen, and then as the union community
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develops, when you're walking along the street, God will speak to you when
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you can't. When you're at work, God saith to you, and you'll
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make a divine intervention into a situation where people say, where did that come
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from? That's an opportunity to tell them, but it's sony when we commit
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to the union. But it's just going to happen. So homework for today
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is to read during the five thirty every day this week, meditate on it.
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That's a lot to speak to you through that. What do you need
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to do to be in that place? You can read the scriptures, you
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know, we can read. It's all cool, it's all good stuff.
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But we've got to be operation already. We've got to live this stuff.
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You're talking to this and about the Kingdom of God. You know, they
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want to see reality in what you're sharing. There's no reality. If there's
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no life, they're going to say, I don't want know. When they
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see life, they're interested because people are drawn to life. You see somebody
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with a little baby might never be their baby or their kid. Big eyes,
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funny noises, people tickle, people are drawn to life. God is
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life. We call to live life to the full till it overflows. He
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says, that's abundant life. We will live abundant life when we walk in
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in union and communion, full of faith, full of the Word. It's
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that simple, following nose. He So we've talked about the word level,
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We've talked about the prayer level, we talked about the communion. So a
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practical intervention. So don't no of You can't fulfill purpose, you can't fulfill
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plan if you're not healthy. I you're not sleeping properly, you're not eating
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properly, you're exercising properly, some form of those sects that are laid down
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in beats and sleep. If you'll never make me do an in safety and
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confident trust, we have a responsibility, no need to invest in the spiritual,
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but to invest in the physical. No point stuff in your face with
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donuts and the word of God. After a while you won't be able to
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get into your clothes. How I know people in this room what that revelation.
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It wasn't me. You know. We've got to look after our physical
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bodies. They carry the presence of God. You're going to be out of
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you before your time and not fulfill your purpose because you're not investing in your
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health, in investing your sleep, you're investing your eating. This might be
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simplest, but that's why I that's to convey this morning. So we need
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to make right choices about what we do so we can feel perfil for purpose.
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It can be operationally ready. We can pray to go when he says
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go, do when he says do. That makes it to sort about making
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right choices, isn't it? Only thirty four seven says Moses was one hundred
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and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim No,
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it's natural vigor diminished. So if you're eight, you've got through the twenty
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years if you want to believe in faith and stretch for that. Moses when
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he died, his eyes were not dim in these glasses, and his natural
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vida was not diminished. We need to push through a fulfilled purpose. We
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need to be ready to do that. We need to be That's why it's
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about what I call the smatches now operational breakthrough, because wants to be operational,
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not only spiritually but also physically. Okay, God speaking to you about
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that? Fair enough? It is not. But don't just focus on the
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one part of it. Make sure you understand the big picture. That might
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mean something. You've got to go do some walking someone, you've got to
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go to the gym or any equivalent. Doesn't matter what you do, is
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it? You do what all this bird says? You know? To do
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this? You need to do that? You know, Yeah, I don't
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eat that anymore. Don't put that in your mouth. No no, no,
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that's not anymore. No more in your mouth. Something else? I
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have that in moderation, Godly help us. We've got to listen. M
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do you know no, no, no, not not the two cakes today?
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Just one. It's Christmas, yes, Christmas, but it's tomorrow.
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We need to be listening to what you're saying. So fulfill purpose. So
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last one commitments. We need to check whether or a committed to something,
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or committed to doing something, or committed to certain relationships, certain connections with
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people. There's only so much that we can do as individuals, and how
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we direct our time, how we direct our resources the twenty four hours in
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the day, we're supposed to sleep for most of that part of that,
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not work until midnight, and then get a put poll and start again.
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That's not balanced. So we need to assess our commitments, should it be
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involved in this or not where it should be targeting our time. That applied
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to everybody. The scripture we're going to look out here is John fifteen,
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bringing from Versus one through eight and the truth eye. And my father is
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the vine dresser. Any branch in me that does not bear fruit, that
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stops bearing, he cuts away, trims off, takes away, and he
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cleans and repeatedly prudes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it
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bear more and richer, a more excellent fruit. You are cleans and prude
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already because of the word which I've given you, the teachings I've discussed with
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you. Whether in me and I will dwelling, you live in me,
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and I will live in you. Just as no brands can bear fruit at
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itself without a binding in or being vitally united to the vine, neither can
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you bear fruit unless you are buying me. I'm the vine. Whether whether
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lives in me, and I in him bears much abundant fruit. However,
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apart from me, cut off from vital union with me, you can do
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nothing. Person does not dwelling me, he's thrown out like a broken off
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branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire,
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and they are burned. If you're live in me, abide widely united to
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me and my words, remain in you, and continue to live in your
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hearts. Ask whatever you will, I should be done for you. When
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you bear or produce much fruit. My father is honored and glorified, and
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you show and prove yourselves true followers of mine. So if it's the vine
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where the branches first couple verses of the whole lot, prunely going on there,
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you're proven. If you do, you'll be done. Yeah. If
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you're not in a bear fruit, you're proved. If you are in a
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bare food, you're provend. So sometimes we need to get our pruning shares
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out and do a bit pruning. Is that relationship or is that thing I'm
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doing go in the right direction? I do need to chop it off where
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I want to be fall through the fruits. But it might also want to
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prone's other things in our lives, the things that take our attention away from
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what we need to be focusing on. It's not that might be wrong things,
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it's cause where the attention needs to be. Again, that's about flowing
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and walking in and through the presence of God to know what we need to
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do. God can tap us on the shoulder, espe actually hello, tap
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it on the shoulder, and we can go hello, I want to do
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this, and you can go, oh right, do it a bit later,
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you know, torow, or you can go yeah, okay, again,
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I'll do it. Let's get on with it. Let's get on with
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the picks that we need to do. It's to it isn't it. Kay?
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You know they're very short trouser here today. So you know, we're
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all got a long trousers. Things that are dead and proven, so that
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things that need to grow have the energy to do. So. You need
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to make sure that we're growing in the right direction. We need to bravely
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consider our commitments, our relationships on what changes we need to make to be
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the operationally ready. Yeah, I will build my church, and the gates
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of Hell shall not prevail against it. He does the building he does the
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pruning, He does a talking to position ourselves in a place to listen and
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to hear and then to respond. We need to align with God's will for
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our lives because purpose and our plan is plan. Should I say I linked
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to doing these things right? World level, right prayer level, right communion
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level, look after your physical body, do what it says to do,
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look at your commitments. Other things wrap up into one thing. That's successful
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Christian life, where your operations are ready to do what you need to at
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the drop of that. It can deploy you anywhere in this world, anywhere
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in this town, to do what He wants you to do, not say
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somebody else across the town. Okay, you better go and do this because
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you're not ready. Don't I get to heaven? I got to. Well,
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you're going to do that. I have cause you went ready. It's
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best to be rest of forel your purpose as it's all about making quality decisions,
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isn't it little decisions directors? It's not just one decision, that's it.
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Flippings three and verse fourteen. Hopfuls of this way I press towards the
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goal the prize of the book calling of Gone in Christ Jesus, I press
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towards the goal, the prize of the book calling of Christ of God in
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Christ Jesus. Later later on, I said, I run the race.
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I've done my bit, I fulfill what I've got to do, I've done
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purpose, I'm done, and dustard, I'm out here. We need to
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press towards to go. So we can't say I've both said I've run my
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race, aren't here. When it's God's timing, we cannot miss God's best.
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We must make sure we fulfilled his purpose through our lives. Let's pray.
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So whether this room, whether they sting later, whether they's thing now.
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I pray that God takes you from where you are put through from where
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it puts you where you need to be, positions you in these areas we've
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talked about, the physical, the world level, the prayer level, the
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commitments, the health. So so he puts you in a position where it
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helps you achieve your best, fulfill your purpose. This won't be all at
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once. It will be step by step, and each step will be a
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miracle. There's not trying to do anything at the same time. This is
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about taking step by step making adjustments. The key thing is to be operationally
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ready when you need to be. God can work with you. Don't misunderstand
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me. There are certain things that need to change in our lives, so
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I pray the name of Jesus. Thank God speaks to you clearly about these
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things, step by step, and each step will be a miracle in Jesus
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name. Amen,