Sermon
Go and Do - Kingdom Mission
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Transcript
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. Hallelujah.
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Now listen, we've got a big video for Sunday, so it's just
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another little teaser. I know that y'all have seen it
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through a social media, but just want to remind you, so good to
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be home first and foremost, You know, you know you're on
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assignment because even though there's things you experience,
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nothing's like home. And so we knew we were on
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assignment. It was an extended trip
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obviously, but you know, it was profitables.
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And again on Sunday we're going to have a bigger video.
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You know, we were on 16 flights. I did.
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I personally did 37 hours of teaching in that three-week
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period and so and then all kind of other testimonies.
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So tonight, you know, we wanted to give a oral report of some
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things that happened 'cause obviously people are serving,
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you know, so we just start the process obviously and want to be
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able to let everybody in on, you know what you what you were
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participated with us to do. And then I'm going to minister a
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little bit later tonight as well.
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Amen. All right, Pastor Marcy's going
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to kick it off. Hello.
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I love you all very much. So good to see all your faces.
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We've missed you so much and have determined 21 days will not
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be in it for me any longer. So but we are just so thankful
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to be back here and we're so thankful for the opportunity and
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the honor actually to go and do what God has LED us to do in all
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of these different areas. And you know, I just believe
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that the seed that was planted is the seed of the Kingdom and
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when it gets into the yeast, Amen, it will just continue to
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expand and grow everywhere we planted those seeds.
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It was very interesting because there were places that we
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obviously went that were set up from Volley, who is from Greece
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and Albania, and had connections with groups of people.
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But you know, one of the things that I know that just, you know,
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really stood out to me was that we here have it good.
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We have it good. We have the rich word of God and
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we have places like this, houses of worship like this one.
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We're not the only one, but like this one that are just, you
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know, all over the place, all over this nation.
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And what we have is something amazing.
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And when you go into these other countries like Italy, for
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instance, in Austie and Italy, you see this, the need so much
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of A church that's spirit filled and life giving and has the full
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counsel of the word because it's still up underneath such a
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religious stronghold. And they don't have churches
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like these. They don't, you know.
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And so just to still believe and see that this is still happening
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around the world where you know our nation is so blessed with so
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many good churches and and you go to these places and they're
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not. They don't have them.
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And if they do, they're, you know, 50 people in in the midst
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of millions and they need solid, good word, spirit filled
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churches still, especially, you know, for this generation, for
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this generation and the foundation that we have as
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believers, they don't have those foundations within their lives.
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They don't. And it just, it overwhelms me
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still to think that in the year that we're living, they don't
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have what we have and it's So what was it, you know, the
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Sally's when they came from France and shared the percentage
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of. 2% In France it's only 3% that are Christians, in Italy,
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3% of the whole population. So 97% or not?
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And it was very real. Very real.
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And so you sending us, I just know that the seed that was sown
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for those that are hungry, that it can continue to grow within
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them and God can use, we know that God can use that seed.
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Amen. If people are hungry and will
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cultivate the seed. And so that's what we're
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believing, that they'll cultivate the seed that was sown
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so that God can do a work because it is so needed.
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But God is faithful to perform His word.
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You know, when we went to Italy and began to minister to the
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group of people there, the Lord had us lay hands.
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And you could see in that video that guy, his knee, he had
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broken his knee and he couldn't, he could walk on it, but he
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couldn't, you know, extend it and open it.
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And the minute I laid hands on his knee, I heard a pop.
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And then you saw in that video we just said, now move your
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knee, you know, he said the pain was gone.
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And I said, well, then move your knee.
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And so that's when you saw him kicking his knee.
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So God did some amazing things with those types of things as we
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began to minister to people. We had a young girl filled with
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the Holy Ghost. But just, you know, I think what
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was really important was the fact that when he went to teach
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in the Bible schools and we got to miss visit with the pastors
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there, just strengthening the pastors is another major thing
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that we were able to do while we were there.
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And then, you know, them receiving just that fellowship
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that we were able to have with them was so needed and they were
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so thankful for it as well. But there's many other things
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I'm going to let other people share.
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OK. We're still, there's a little
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flip. You know, we didn't get in till
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what we had a 22 hour flight yesterday and so it's starting
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to kick back in right now. We'll let you be seated then,
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yeah. I mean, I want you to fall
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asleep on the stage. So if my wife falls asleep
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during my preaching tonight, you know it's not 'cause I'm boring.
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Yeah, we were on. We started our day yesterday and
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we were 22 hours in by the time we our head hit the pillow.
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But our flight was only 11 hours.
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And then we had another three one.
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So the flights themselves weren't long.
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It's just when you get up to get to the airport, all that stuff,
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right? OK, Clyde, I'm going to let you
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go next. That way Trevor can clean up
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anything that we don't say. I don't know how Pastor gets up
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here every week because it's so nerve wrecking standing in front
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of everybody, but it truly was an honor to be there.
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Like Pastor Marcy said, these people are people that have
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never heard about Jesus and the Word and they have no guidance.
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So for that reason for me it was overwhelming.
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I I felt like we were going to one spot and you feel like you
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overcome and then you go to another spot and the
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overwhelming feeling comes back on again.
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But it we really are impacting the world.
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I mean influencing the world. If we count all the airports,
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how many? How many countries did we go to?
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Probably 5 countries. But but yeah, they they these
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people need us. They absolutely need us.
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And I'm I'm so grateful that I got to be a part of it.
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In Austi, I felt LED and I told Pastor Earl that felt led to
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share my testimony. For some of you that don't know,
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I'm from Albania and I grew up Muslim.
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So in a lot of these people don't have that relationship
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with God. They have religion.
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And so when I growing up in a Muslim home, that's all that it
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was. It was just a tradition and not
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really a relationship with God. And so I felt the need to kind
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of give that testimony to them and I pray that it did impact
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them. And then again in Albania,
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Pastor Marcy did a women's conference.
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And last minute, and my aunt, actually, I had coffee with her
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and I said, hey, are you working tomorrow?
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And she said, I'm not. And I said, well, we're going to
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women's conference, do you want to come?
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And she said yeah. And so she ended up coming with
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us and got saved. I mean, and not not only did she
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get saved, but God confirmed to her who he really was.
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He had a she had a word from another person in the in the
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service. And she had never been to this
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church before, like didn't even know any of these people.
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And this lady comes up to me and I think her name was Martha.
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You said she come up to me and she said, hey, I don't know your
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aunt, but I just feel like God really wants me to share this
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with her and I'm like please do like, you know, go share with
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her. And Long story short, my aunt or
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as Brandon says, long story long or she.
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She said my aunt had gotten in the car accident.
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A van literally ran over her and not one injury.
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And the lady went up to her. Yeah, about four years ago.
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And the lady went up to her and said, hey, I just wanted to tell
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you that I had this vision of you getting ran over or having
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this accident. And God wanted me to tell you
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that the same God that protected you is the same one you received
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today. I mean, I told Trevor, if that
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is all that we invested for that reason, if that is the only
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reason why we invested in this trip, to me that is 100% worth
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it. So bring it on.
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When is the next one? All right, Trevor, That's great.
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Yes. As Clyde said, it's very
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difficult to be up here. So I'll bring the mic closer.
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So one of the things that I do want to brag on is our pastors.
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I mean glory be to God right. However the amount of hours and
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time that that our pastors spoke.
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Pastor Earl, I mean he he towed the the lion there but and he
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taught the same subject many times.
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But I I kept telling him, Pastor you I I'm trying to follow but
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you keep going to different directions.
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He never spoke the same message about the same subject one time.
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It's amazing and and one of the reasons it's so easy for him to
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do it besides the anointing, is because the word is so sound.
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He's speaking the word that's very sound.
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And the the scripture that came up to me, it was in Matthew.
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And correct me if I'm wrong, but it talks about taste and see,
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the Lord is good. Pastor Mike, what's that?
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OK, whatever. Anyway, yeah, I missed.
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It we were in Matthew a lot though, well.
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There's one. There's 1:00 somewhere in there
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that that says taste and see. And so it it reminded me when I
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was a kid of going up to into my grandmother's house and being
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hungry and you smelt the goodness of the food that was on
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the table and you got hungry. Even if you weren't hungry, you
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would get hungry just from smelling it.
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And we experienced that all through our travels this last
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three weeks. But they got, yeah, we have to
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suck in, but you know we were at Cypress and we and I don't want
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to get into too much detail on what you want to.
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Share on today, You can tell. But pastor started speaking.
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We had 41 people on the first night and it was like you got a
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taste of it. You started smelling the
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goodness of the salt and and just a sound word that he was
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preaching and the next night it jumped up to 66 people and then
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the next night up to 78 people and you felt that revival wants
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to get started in a place like this.
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It it was pretty. It was, it was, it was a
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tangible feeling of things that were taking place in that
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region. How it just like God is really
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wanting to to move in that place.
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You know, that's been had so much oppression throughout the
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years and so much, you know, demonic activity holding, you
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know, bringing its own oppression over the people and
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God just wants to set people free And and the word that we
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hear every Sunday and Wednesday here is so free to us and so
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common to some level, which you know is is great in one sense as
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long as we don't count it as common.
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But the people there were seeing and tasting something that that
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got them so hungry and so stirred that they just wanted to
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keep coming. And we we had you know, signs
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and wonders, you know, miracles happening with the guy with the
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knee. There was lots of people that
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got their hand, that got hands laid on them.
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They raised their hand, said they were healed.
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But it was it was an amazing trip and you know, it was just
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an honor that we could be there and participate and.
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Share about Kaidah's uncle you went and prayed for.
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Was it the uncle the Yeah, yeah, yeah, it.
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Was so I get a phone call on the way to Albania and it was
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actually my dad, he said. Hey, I'm, I'm giving you this.
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I gave somebody your number and they're going to call you.
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And so I was like, OK, so this Albanian guy that lives in
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Jacksonville calls me and he said, hey, my, my dad is
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neighbors with your aunt in Albania, where my dad lives.
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Yes, everybody knows everybody. And if you don't know everybody,
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somebody, somebody knows somebody.
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So he said, you know, he has pancreatic cancer.
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And because Trevor works in that field, they wanted us to
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medically go look at his blood work and his records and just
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kind of see what Trevor thought his outcome would be.
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But we have a better doctor. So we didn't tell him what we
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were doing. But we, you know, Trevor and I
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agreed that when we were going to go over there, we were going
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to, you know, pray for for him. And so anyway, we go, we go
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there. And honestly, Albania, I feel
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like it happened so quickly, so I don't even know that we were
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going to have time to meet with him.
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But praise God, it worked out perfectly.
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So we did. We went to his house.
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And I always get nervous when I talk to Albanians about Jesus
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because it's such a foreign concept to them.
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But I'm thankful I had Trevor there with me.
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He helped a lot with that. But anyway, so he's like, all
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right, I'm, you're going to translate, and I'm just going to
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tell you what to say. And so we did.
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We asked them if they wanted to be saved, and he did.
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So we let him, you know? And then.
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And then we oh, yeah. And then his wife was on the
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other couch feeling very, very uncomfortable.
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She's like, I don't know what's happening.
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She's like, hey, you're supposed to come here to look at his
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blood work. And you're here, like, talking
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about Jesus, what is happening? So, so they both, we all four of
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us, held hands and they both believed and got saved.
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And then we prayed for him. And I, you know, I believe that
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not only God saved him, but I told Trevor this.
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I want the whole neighbourhood to know that God was there.
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So I'm like, Lord, give him a vision, show him that that was
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you. And it's not just us going there
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to pray for him. So that's what I'm believing and
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I hope that you guys can get in faith.
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That's what's going to happen. So, Amen.
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Joe, hand me my phone right there, if you would.
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Yeah, if I wasn't going to Albania after Cyprus, I would
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have stayed. It's probably the only meeting,
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literally, and I preach here, it is the only meeting that I've
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been to that I sensed A tangible revival, that instead of it
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decreasing each night, it increased.
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And the only negative of our timing to Cyprus was that
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because we were doing the school on the weekend, I could not do a
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weekend meeting. So in Austie we did a weekend
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meeting. We did Friday night, Saturday
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night and a Sunday morning and it was a challenge in and of
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itself because not only was someone interpreting in Albania,
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but then someone's also interpreting in Italian.
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So there's this double delay happening, English, Albania.
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Then you have to wait for those that are here in the Albania to
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translate the Italian. Long story short, we go back
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there, we'll have to change that system.
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But, you know, I mean, things happen, don't get me wrong, but
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it was a little different environment.
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And before we left, a guy said, I have one question.
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He says, what are we going to, what are you going to do now?
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Are you never going to come back now that we've heard this?
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I said, well starts with the book.
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I left him a whole bunch of the forests.
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I said, y'all need to come together and meet and read this
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book and study it. I said then, you know, we'll
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talk about maybe I can come in, do some zoom meetings with you
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guys initially, but I'm not called the pastor there, so
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that's not going to happen, you know?
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But there's some other things that Raima's doing in the region
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that I can probably reach out and see if somebody's feeling
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led to go there. I mean they could literally have
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a church that would start with 40 or 50 people right now.
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But in Cyprus, because of the Albania thing we did Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday and and so it was pretty amazing that it
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could grow during the week. When I say grow, you got to
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understand that people were coming as far as an hour and a
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half away to come to these meetings and then they drove
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home an hour and a half and I didn't go short.
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At all that our interpreter was in a box and they had, you know,
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little the ones that needed it, most of them understand English.
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So it made it really easy for us to just preach.
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But at the end of the day, it was growing.
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And I knew, man, if we were here Friday, we'd get over 100.
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If we did Saturday, we'd be we'd pack this place out, you know,
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and you're having to ask a question, you know, if God was
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going to do a revival and use you, would you want to be a part
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of that? Right.
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But we had the other assignment and I felt led to continue to do
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that. But I'm going to give you some
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testimonies. Olga who helped organize that,
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who's a friend of Bali. She sent me these this morning
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that some of the things that were said concerning the
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conference we did in Cyprus. 1 believer who came said the
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presence of God was so powerful at this conference once that my
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son who was 28 years old Christian but for years didn't
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read his Bible. After the event he started
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reading his Bible with such hunger and boosted spiritually
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so much. One person said it was a
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spiritual reset for them and many others.
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A person who wasn't even a a believer said I was crying
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during worship. I don't even know why I just
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couldn't stop, another one said. The message was so amazing.
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I've never heard something like this before in my life.
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Another believer was invited after being out of church for so
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many years. I came on the second day, was so
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touched by the presence of God. They need to come again, they
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said. This is what I needed for a long
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time. Another one, she said.
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Sent came all three days. And when, when you have such a
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powerful presence of God, you do whatever is possible to come no
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matter what. And this person lived two hours
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away. Many called her personally and
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told her they were healed. And they didn't have it on text
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because I was going to say text me.
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You know what? Their testimony.
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And she said, well, they're calling me and just telling me
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I'm healed. And we pray.
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For probably 25 or more. You got some?
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Come on, I remember. A couple of things that the one
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of the things about in Cyprus where he's talking about is
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there were several pastors. But what's so neat about being
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in Cyprus was that there were so many other nationalities there.
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That I mean, and especially with, you know, Clyda,
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everywhere she went, she met Albanians everywhere and
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country, every country we went. Are you an Albanian?
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So we'd go. Into a coffee shop and she'd
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say, I think they're Albanian, go up to them and start speaking
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Albania. And then sure enough they were
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Albania and so, but anyway in Cyprus, just so amazing that
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there were so many different nations there.
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And then during the time of ministry we got to minister to,
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there was a couple pastors there, three of them.
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And what was the one pastor from Nigeria him and his wife were?
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Originally from Nigeria and had a church there in Cyprus.
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So what I was going? To say about the nationalities,
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they literally have a church that's just all Nigerian they
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started two years ago from and most of the churches.
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There are around their nationality, so if they're
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Albanian, they have Albanians. If they are, you know,
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Nigerians, they're typically from that area.
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There was a Filipino lady who had a church next door to the
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theater. She came over and brought and
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then brought her congregation the third.
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Night they. Were all Filipino.
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So it's really interesting, so dynamic look.
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For their nation. But the conference 'cause we
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preached, the Kingdom brought all nationalities, 'cause that's
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together. Yeah.
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In three days. In three.
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Days and the. Miracle that they we rented the
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theater and somebody ended up paying for the whole, you know,
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the whole conference was covered, yeah.
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I mean. Bali was believing that people
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would, you know, from the those avenues, you know, would take
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care of it since you know, we we all participated in sending us.
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And so they didn't want that, but we were willing to invest.
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I mean, I would actually talk to Pastor Mike because some places
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don't take American Express over there.
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And so I'm like, man, I'm not going to be able to take care of
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this theater with American Express.
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We're going to put some money on a different card.
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He's like, OK, how much? And so I told him and he said,
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OK and move money and next thing you know I'm sitting already.
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And then she didn't talk to me anymore.
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And I'm like, I guess we got to settle up tonight.
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And then they're like, Oh no, it's taken care of.
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Somebody from? Greece because they were in the
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ream of school and heard me minister on Kingdom Economics,
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even though they technically weren't a student.
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Their husband. Interpreted for me.
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And next thing you know, they're paying for the theater.
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So you know, it was showing God's provision.
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Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah and that
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amazing, she says Some of the here's some just some
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testimonies of people you know saying afterwards finally
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something starting to move in our land.
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One of the persons said thank you so much for doing this.
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To her this was such a spiritual refresh in the desert.
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Another person said the presence of God was more powerful than
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ever. So the the one pastor from now
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him and his wife was from Nigeria.
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He came up to me and said, do you mentor pastors?
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You know, so then you hear you feel that responsibility.
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So you're asking a question. And so, you know, I'm like,
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well, I can do these things. And but you're asking, you know,
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what do you do? There's such a need out there.
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Again, you know, we cannot understate or overstate really
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the blessing that God has given us as a church, the move of the
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Spirit, the revelation of the word.
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So there's a responsibility we have with it.
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And you know, when you go to other lands and you begin to
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share things that they've never heard, I mean that pastor,
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literally, he said. I've never heard it this way
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ever. This is.
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Powerful. In fact, he texts me because I
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gave him a text, he said. Here's another mind blowing
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message. And I'm like, which one are you
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talking about? I thought he listened to it
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already, but he hadn't, and he showed me from our YouTube the
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wealth of a king, he said. I've got to listen to this one.
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So you know the. Lord's moving.
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He's doing things, and you're a part of that.
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Because the reality is we are as strong as we are because of all
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of us. Period.
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If I wasn't called to do what I'm doing, then the gift that I
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am would never come out. And if you weren't?
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Here then, it wouldn't be pulled.
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I mean, Trevor and I were just talking about other stuff that
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he end up have making some statement that all of a sudden
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had me, you know, by revelation dismantle a whole thought
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process. And I'm like, man, I'm glad you
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asked that question. But we've people been saying
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this for years and you know, really when you think about it,
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that's just technically not correct how they're saying that.
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But it it pulls on the gift, it pulls things out, and you learn
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and grow and then you know you're rightly divine, the word
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of truth. So tonight I want to.
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Minister to you, Can I do that for a few moments?
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I probably won't go as long as I normally do because we've had
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testimonies, but I do want to leave something in you.
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Based upon what we've seen today and today, I would call my
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message, go and do. Because we're.
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All called to go. Now let's look at this in John
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chapter 15, verse 16. Again, I want to thank all of
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you. You know, I could go through,
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you know, just very specific, my staff, the church, all that.
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But the reality is, everybody thank you for parting.
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With Anchorage Church. For seeing yourself in the
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vision and being a part of it, it's really important that we
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continue to do these things. And I want us to get in revival
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ourselves. But an indicator of revival is
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that more people show up, not that we drop off.
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Revival. Is 'cause people get hungry and
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again if people. Would travel for an hour and a
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half one way and then they got to go back and do it again that
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night. They're not going to get home
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till 1:00 and they're going to turn around and go to work all
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day and then show up and come to service during the week and.
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Do it again three nights in a row and just and invite people.
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And we have this. All the time, right?
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So there shouldn't be a Sunday we take off, a Wednesday we take
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off, and we should be like, wow, this is amazing.
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But look what it says here. In John 1516 it says you did not
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choose me. But I chose.
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You and appointed you that you would go, say, go, and bear
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fruit, and that your fruit would remain so that whatever you ask
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of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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So. All of us are called to go, but
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when you go, you got to do. Going without doing doesn't
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work. 'Cause going.
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Without doing is called vacation and Jesus has not called us to
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vacation. Jesus has called us to go do
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Amen. So no matter where we're at, we
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need to go and do. Because again, we didn't choose
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Him, man. He chose us.
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And then he. Appointed us that we would go
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and walk bear fruit. The cool thing about bearing
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fruit is you can bear fruit anywhere.
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You don't just bear. Fruit in other nations you get
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to bear. Fruit.
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Everywhere. So you got to see yourself as a
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person who goes and bears fruit everywhere, because again, we
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know that God, and we're going to see here in a minute, he said
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Go therefore in all the world. And we know the word world is
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not planet Earth, it is the systems of the world.
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And so you can do. That locally you can do it
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nationally and you can do it internationally.
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And so we have to do that. But when you go, you got to do
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and you know what God has calls on people to go, which is all of
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us. So I'm going to.
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You know, pull up a couple people as examples so that we
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can see that when God says go, he expects action.
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So with. Abraham in Genesis chapter 12
Genesis 12 chapter mention
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verses one through three. It says this.
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Now, the Lord said to Abram Go. Forth from.
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Your own from your country and from your relatives, and from
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your father's house to a land I will show you and.
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Then he says, I'll make. You a great nation.
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And I'll bless you, and I'll make your name great, and you
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shall be a blessing. And I'll bless those who blessed
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you. And I'll curse.
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And the ones who curse you, I'll curse and in you.
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All. The families of the earth is
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blessed now again. It says go, but you understand
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he didn't go and not do because he was the father of faith, the
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father of us all. Abraham is the doer of the word.
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He believed God at his word. So when it's going he was doing,
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he was believing God at his word and doing whatever God told him
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to do. So again, we all have these same
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calls to go and bear fruit that we are all in a position.
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That we have to. Recognize our movement has
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significant consequence. Look what it says in.
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Exodus chapter three. Another leader here.
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Now Abraham's the type of God that you know, get up and go to
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a place, I'll show you. And that's all he needs is
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direction. In essence, he is this the lamp
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unto his feet, right. And he don't even know where
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he's going. He just knows he's taking him
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somewhere and the word go, so he's gone.
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So you understand when his wife said where we're going, he's
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like, I have no idea, but God does.
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That would have been his. Response.
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Where are we? Going I don't know, but not
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here. OK.
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So the following follow to follow Abraham could have been
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problematic if you need a plan. Because Abraham.
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Doesn't have a plan except for the I'm acting on the word I've
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heard and he don't need a whole lot.
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Because he'll just. Move Moses, on the other hand,
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he was a planned guy. He needs, he wants to hear the
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plan. But look what the Lord says to
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him in Exodus 3, starting in verse 7.
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The Lord said I will surely. I've surely seen the affliction
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of my people who are in Egypt and have given heed to their cry
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because of their taskmaster, for I'm aware of their sufferings.
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So I've come. Down to deliver them from the
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power of the Egyptian, and bring them up from the land to a good
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and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
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To the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
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Perizzites. The havites and the Jesu bites.
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OK, so. He said.
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Now behold, the Son, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to
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me. Furthermore, I've seen the
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oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
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And here this is really like most believers today.
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They believe God sees the world like God saw his own nation in
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Egypt. They're oppressed.
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They need to be delivered. You know well the world's lost.
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They're under the oppression of the devil.
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And God sees their cry. He wants to deliver them.
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We say that, but you understand. God said all these things.
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Then we get to the very next verse.
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Therefore, come now, I will send you.
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So just. Because God is concerned about
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the lost doesn't mean he's gonna save them without you.
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So we. Can't be praying the 1st 2
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verses and and asking the Lord to do something without at least
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hearing and saying. Here I am, Lord, send me because
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again, you may not go to another country, but you're gonna go to
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your workplace, you're gonna go shopping at some juncture,
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you're gonna go out and about and get gas for your vehicle.
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So you gotta recognize when you go, always be in a position to
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do 'cause you never know one of these encounters.
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What could? Take place.
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What could take? Place.
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Obviously we're coming back and testifying of some things that
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have taken place because again, you sent us, we were all
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partnered together in that and we went.
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Someone said would you come And we said we'll go and when we
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went we did. All right.
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He said, Therefore come now, I'll send you to Pharaoh, so
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that you may bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of
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Egypt. But Moses said to him, Who am I?
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Right. That I should go to Pharaoh,
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that I should bring the sons of Israel.
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And he says, certainly I'll be with you and this.
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Shall be. The sign to you that it is I who
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have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt,
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you shall worship God at this mountain.
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So here's the thing, God, when he tells us to go, he expects us
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to do. But you're going to have to go
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and trust that he'll be there in the doing.
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At the end of the. Day.
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I don't know all that got to do. But if I.
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Go with expectation, then he will do something, I said.
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He will do something. And.
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We have to be in the expectation that we're when we're going,
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there's something we're going to do that's going to give God the
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ability to do what he does. But if we just.
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Go and and spectate. Then we leave.
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Nothing. And this is anywhere we go, I
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said. Anywhere we go.
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Because we have a mission to take the Kingdom everywhere, and
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it starts right where we're at. I'm going to tell you personal
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experience, it is not more exciting to be there.
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Some. Food is more exciting.
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That's true. But not.
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It's not more exciting. Is it exciting to see places?
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Yes. But it's not more exciting than
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where you're assigned where you're at.
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Period the, the. Real excitement comes in.
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What did I leave when I went? When did I leave?
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What part of my mission? Did I leave?
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Something that God could do something with because I went on
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his behalf and. This.
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Can be anywhere. Again, this can be a Publix
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tomorrow, wherever you're at. This can be now.
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We as a church are are great in our in the way we do outreaches.
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We don't do them like other churches.
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And honestly, I wish we were a little more evangelistic.
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And we're just not. Super strong in that suit.
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We do better on personal evangelism.
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I believe that and then just getting involved with people and
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and you know, like we do in our sports and stuff like that.
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But but we're not though like there's some churches that just
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go out and start talking to people about Jesus.
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We probably need to cultivate that better.
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To where you're being. More intentional in your every
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day-to-day life to be able to say something.
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Because there's. Power in doing when you go.
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Not just. Go to the store, but go
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intentional when you go 'cause you're having to go anyway.
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So you might as well say, well, is there something that I could
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have an encounter that would do something?
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Now you may. Not.
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See the fruit of it. But you know you went with the
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capacity to do not just go. You know what it says in Mark
Mark 16 chapter mention
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chapter 16, starting in 15, he says then, then said to them,
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this is Jesus. Then he said to them, go into
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all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
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Now we know what the gospel is. The gospel is the Kingdom, and
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not everybody's hearing that gospel.
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But we are to. Go.
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And if you're going, then there's a doing.
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Because when God says go, he expects doing.
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We see here in verse 16 he who believes and has been baptized
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shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.
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Now you can't save them anyway. Your responsibility is to
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communicate. And.
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If you happen to communicate and somebody's like I want to like
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when Trevor and Kleida went over to that couple's house that he
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was dealing with pancreatic cancer and he's talking to him
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about Jesus and basically saying that, listen, Jesus will heal
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you, He will do that. But at the end of the day, you
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know if something doesn't change, you're in the grave and
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and he's the only one who saves. He's the only one who.
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Has life and shared enough that he says, do you want to make
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Jesus your Lord? And then look to the wife and
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says do you want to be saved as well?
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And they both did. Now there was another lady in
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the room. They were telling me that was,
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you know? Muslim.
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And they were struggling. Jeff was like, she was breathing
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hard, like heavy, like real loud.
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And he was, he said, are you OK? And she's like, I'm really
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uncomfortable. You know, I, I, I I think I'm
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going to go to another room and he's like, good, go to another
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room. Because again, if.
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You're not going to jump in to the true Lord then go to the
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other room because these here are coming into the Kingdom.
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And. Again, I understand that the
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whole grand scheme of things, it's better to be have eternal
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life than nothing. But.
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And we understand that God can heal even if you don't come into
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the Kingdom. But how much more did they
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position themselves as the child of God and the the?
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The bread is for God's children. Amen.
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So. It's easy for us to expect.
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Now are you hearing me? Because it'd be very difficult
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for this person not to testify that Jesus Christ Hillbill, when
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they're technically on their deathbed.
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I mean who they going to give credit to?
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It's not going to be the Super. White guy that came from
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America. Hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord. Everybody knows.
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Trevor's not from Albania. Everybody knows Hallelujah, but
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what's to say in verse? 17 These signs will accompany
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those. Who have believed in my name?
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They'll cast out demons, they'll speak with new tongues, they
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will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it
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will not harm harm them. They will lay hands on the sick
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and they will recover. That's.
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What happens when you go? Here's the thing.
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A lot of times people are wanting God to do something but
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don't want to go nowhere. Power.
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Follows the going. He said.
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Go in all the world, then guess what to take place?
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Power. Power can take place.
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But now if you go and you spectate, then guess what?
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Power's not there because you're hindering it.
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Because you're really not expecting it.
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But when you're being led by the spirit of God and you're going,
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then you're doing exactly what God wants you to do.
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And you know, in some cases you're planting some places,
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you're watering some places because God calls the increase.
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You get to see the harvest of things at the.
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End of the. Day.
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But in you're going, you're doing something with
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expectation. Now the.
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Thing is, we can't determine what we want to expect.
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We just have to stay open to anything within the Bible.
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And Pastor Marcy mentioned this to some pastors.
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We were ministering to that. Pastor.
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Lynette Hagan gave her some advice one time.
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That was phenomenal advice, and you need to take the advice, she
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says. I never can't go to a service
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expecting exactly how God's going to move, because the
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minute you do that and it doesn't happen how you prely
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conceived his move. Number one, you're.
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Disappointed #2, You think he didn't.
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And third, you miss how he wants to move because you're not tuned
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in. And there's plenty of people
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that get into the realm of the Spirit because they've read and
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they want spiritual things to happen.
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Then all of a sudden they perceive that only God's moving
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when certain things happen. Like.
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You gotta run. You gotta.
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Dance. You gotta shout.
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We had a Holy Ghost service. That doesn't mean you had a Holy
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Ghost service. It can mean you had a Holy Ghost
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service, but it doesn't mean you had a Holy Ghost service.
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So at the end of the day, you know, if you come in with
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certain expectations. And then you won't.
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Look at what other things are happening.
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You'll be discouraged when God's like you're looking for
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something I'm not doing. Now we are to earnestly desire
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spiritual gifts, but that doesn't mean we only want the
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power gifts. 'Cause there are.
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Six other gifts. Are you hearing me?
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So we. Earnestly desire, but we don't
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know which one's going to happen when it happens.
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But we also desire that the Holy Spirit do does what Jesus
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literally said he would do when he first announced him, And that
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is he would cause things to come to your remembrance.
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He would teach you all things, He would guide you into all
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truth, and he would disclose things to come.
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And he's always wanting to work that praise God, because the
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Word that you know right now. If I set.
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You in oste Italy right now and let you just start talking about
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what you know they. 'D be blown.
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Away. This is why you.
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Can't take it for granted, and I know you don't take it for
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granted when you go and do with what you have, but if you sit on
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what you're hearing. Then the.
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Then you start to decrease the value in your hearing 'cause
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you're not experiencing what you're hearing.
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Say Amen. Anyway, Matthew.
Matthew 10 chapter mention
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Chapter 10 verse seven and eight says this and as you go and as
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you go. And as you.
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Go. Preach.
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Saying the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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This is what Jesus said. So this is the gospel.
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Then he goes verse 8, heal the sick.
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What? Else raise the dead.
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A Dead. Person that you encounter is not
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beyond your capacity to hear God and speak the name of Jesus over
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him. You roll up on a scene of an
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accident and someone could be laid out dead and God may sent
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you to go and raise them, but you got to be bold enough to
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call it in the name of Jesus in the midst of everybody.
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Amen. Man, I saw an.
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Accident today. I'm always.
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Asking when I see one. What are we?
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What's to do at this point? Now again.
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It could be just pray and you don't stop, 'cause you can't
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stop and God's not leading you to stop.
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But your prayer may do something that you'll find out later, and
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I'll get to that point here in a minute.
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But notice. Heal the sick, raise the dead,
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cleanse the lepers, cast out demons freely, you receive
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freely. Why is it?
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That we love to freely receive. That even comes with money.
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Comes with. Revelation of the Word comes
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with people laying hands on you and you falling out in the
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Spirit comes with all kinds of stuff we want to freely receive
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man, the presence of God. Today you've received that, but
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then what are you giving? God's not.
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Giving you something so that you get to sit on it.
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And I'm gonna tell you, the more I I've traveled to other
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countries, the more I realize, man, American Christianity is
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getting really sloppy, really commercialized, really self
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seeking. I'm holding all these.
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Conferences for each other. Now don't get me.
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Wrong. I'm gonna.
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I have conferences myself, but they're intentional for purpose.
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But I begin to. You know, look at some of them,
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like what countries are they going to?
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Where are they getting? This out?
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Are they just building here within our own nation now?
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Don't think? Don't get me wrong, our nation
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needs ministry and missions. I understand that.
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But you also. Know that there's a lot of
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freely receiving. Where?
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Christians run from one conference to another conference
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to another conference to another conference to another concert,
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to another concert, to another concert, to another concert.
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The worship experience. And what are they?
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Doing. They're freely.
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Receiving, but not freely, not freely.
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Giving, we need to give. Matthew 2819 says, go therefore
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and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
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name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit.
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Again, these words go always are followed up with a do.
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All of them. All of them.
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So we were at a dinner in Albania and my wife asked Pastor
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Fatmir and his wife Silva to do their testimonies.
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How they were born again. Because they.
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Came out of a nation that was in communism.
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And the. Communism that they were in was
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their leader said that China was weak.
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In Albania. Their leader at the time when
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they were under communism said that that China's communism was
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weak communism. Their whole.
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Nation was shut off. They tell us that they saw they.
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Their news told them that all Americans were starving to
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death. That's what they.
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Taught them that was their propaganda, that everything
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going on when he took power in the 50s.
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You know, and this. Is like some of the most
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prosperous years of the United States.
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But they're hearing that the United States, they're starving
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to death. Their people are hurting.
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Basically. You know, to have that kind of
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government, it leaves you poor, broke and desperate and.
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That's what they sold them. Very.
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Locked down. No TV's.
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The only TV was state TV. And if you had other channels
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and they caught you because there was an Italian channel
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coming in, that's why some of them learned Italian language.
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But if they caught you, you'd go to jail.
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And if you go to. Jail.
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Then your whole family goes to jail and your extended family
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and they mark your whole family. If you go to Albania.
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With us, we can take you into their underground.
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Bunkers where they talk to you about.
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All the torture they used to do, extremely rough, really
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oppressive. And then that leader.
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Died. That's the only reason why
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communism broke, because he died and then the next person who
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came could not hold it together. And then I started.
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Opening up a little bit and the reason why Kaleide can spot
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Albanians in every place in Europe, because they opened the
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embassies and the people ran to the embassies and meant they got
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across the gate, They basically what is it called?
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Asylum or something. They asked for that and they
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were able to receive those people and start distributing
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them all through Europe and even into the United States.
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Then they closed them. Down again and the next thing
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you know, you know, eventually, you know the nation opened up,
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but then people. Started going over.
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And again, much to my surprise, the first time I went over to
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Albania is that, you know, I went over to Pastor Fotmire's
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church and my wife was actually asked to do a women's thing.
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And we walked into the church. And I'm looking in the one
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that's basically torn down now because of the earthquake.
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But I walked into their little foyer that's, you know, about
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the size of from this pole to here, This was it.
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This is the foyer walked into it and it had on the table books
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from the pastor that I used to be hired with, David Emai.
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And I'm like. Where'd you get these from?
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They come to find. Out.
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This is the church he was going to.
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I'm like. What a small.
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World. But he's now gone on to be with
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the Lord, so I. Realize I'm taking his talent.
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Because he can't. Finish it.
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So I'm going to. Support that, which is why we
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do. But talking about a.
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Small world getting smaller when Silva's given her testimony.
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At one year. Old She was diagnosed with an
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incurable disease. They said she would die by the
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time she was 20. Wouldn't lift beyond.
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That she was in excruciating pain because of what that
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disease did to her joints. Sickle.
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Cell. Anemia, I think, is what it was,
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because major. Pain in her joints, she would.
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Cry. As a child, her parents would
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cry because there's nothing they could do, she said.
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She cried all the time. She was in constant,
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excruciating pain. She has a high pain tolerance
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in. Fact when she gave birth to her
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first child that she never should have given birth to ever.
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When she gave birth to her child, you know they were
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wanting to know why wasn't she screaming when they said push
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and she was like I, you know, it doesn't hurt that bad because
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apparently. The disease and the way the pain
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is in the joints is worse than giving birth, and it proved out
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to her because it really wasn't that bad.
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Now all the moms are like, wow, that's some serious pain.
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And you're saying that after an epidural.
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I get it. But.
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Anyway, because again, they didn't have that kind of stuff
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over there in Albania, but she was 8 years old.
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Because the. Communism had broken.
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She got a backpack, and then that backpack was a track.
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Because a man by the. Name of Terry Law, who used to
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go to Pastor David E Mai's church every year.
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Sent. Backpacks to the school because
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the Lord told him to go to that country.
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And he took a. Backpack with school supplies,
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but in it was a track about Jesus.
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The. Story of Jesus.
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And that story of Jesus. She was born again.
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I'm like listening to this and I'm thinking.
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What we. Would sometimes consider
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insignificant moment. I'm talking.
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To a lady who her and her husband.
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Are. Currently and will be more
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influential in the nation of Albania for the sake of the
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King. And it came because somebody
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went to do. And they're doing.
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Was a track. 'Cause where?
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Places are oppressed. It's amazing what God will do,
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'cause I'm telling you when the scripture says we are without
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excuse. We are without.
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Excuse. Even in.
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Countries where it's difficult to preach.
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Because of the. Testimonies that people say of
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the links that God is doing in these oppressive nations to
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identify himself. And his.
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Message. That when?
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There's not a flood of churches on every corner like in the
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United States. And the.
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Accessibility to teaching. That God.
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Is still navigating through very.
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What would seem insignificant things are major moments.
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Major. Moments.
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And she got born. Again at 8.
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By the time she's 16, she gets complete well.
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She was 20, supposed to die. And then she heard about the
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authority of the believer and her and her husband, 'cause I
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think they were married at the time they came together and was
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completely healed. Completely.
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Healed Hallelujah. But it started because somebody
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went to a nation that just opened.
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To drop off. Backpacks to kids.
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With a message you know a lot of times.
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When we do missions we want. Just the.
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Supernatural. I mean, we had a girl come up to
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my wife and in Cyprus and and said I want to be filled with
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the Holy Ghost came to her again, this guy healing.
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Then there's just a. Spiritual awakening happening in
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others. And then there's healings that
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are taking place and we're not knowing exactly what they all
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are. But they're.
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Happening. Hallelujah, 'cause you expect
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things through your doing, but there's other stuff you're
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doing, like leaving books. There's no telling where, the
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books you help us print, where they'll go, who'll grab a cop.
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We actually were in France, 'cause we didn't minister in
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France. We were close enough.
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We just took a day because you know when our schedule we by the
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time I finished the weekend, I was there Friday from a Friday
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night to a Tuesday when we got on a plane.
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I had already done 22 hours of ministry and.
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Then we had three days before the next one hit, and so we're
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close. Enough to France.
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We popped down there and so we were what?
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No, it wasn't. It was actually in Milan.
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We flew into Milan and then we had to.
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Drive over, but we were in Milan.
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We grabbed something to eat and it was a cafe but it had books
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and I told Josh I'm like, we should leave the forest here.
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Just put it on. A shelf I.
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Mean. There's so many.
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Books. I doubt they go through and say
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where did this come from, but even if they did, so he ran
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back. To the hotel, grabbed it and.
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Put it on a shelf. Hallelujah.
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Because. Now I'm like, thank God I left
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it on the shelf. Because if a backpack with a
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track can save one of the most influential women in Albania
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today for the gospel of the Kingdom.
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We. Just didn't go to the coffee
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shop to have another cup of coffee.
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Oh, the coffee I drank. It was amazing.
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The gallons Coffee. In search of the.
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Greatest Americano? It's here in America anyway.
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But who knows, 'cause you're like.
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Let's do this. Let's leave.
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This resource. Because in every.
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Book that we write in the very back a person can read and be
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born. Again.
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And then we let them know. If you contact us, we'll help
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you find a church. Wow.
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It's amazing. So we left.
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Fifty books there. In Italy, we left.
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I gave the books away, the English books In Cyprus, not one
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book left. Completely gone.
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Could have gave more, so they're.
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Circulating. We got to pray over these 'cause
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it's the word of God, 'cause, you know, if you read any of our
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books, we put the Scripture in there, we don't reference it.
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We type it out, 'cause we think people are lazy and they won't
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actually open their Bible and see where that's at.
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Hallelujah. Look what it says in.
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John, 1315 to 17 for I have given you this.
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As an. Example.
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That you? Should do in your.
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Turn what I have done to you. It's Jesus talking, I assure you
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most solemnly. I'm reading out the amplified
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classic. I tell you, a servant is not
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greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to
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the one who is sent. Did you just hear what I.
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Said no one. Who is sent is superior to the
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one who sent. Him We equally shared in this
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trip, even though you didn't go and everything that becomes
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fruitful. That we may not.
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Know this side of the Kingdom of the manifestation of Jesus in
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the air. And us going towards the great
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reward of all that took. Place but you went.
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You were a part in your prayers, in your giving, and you're
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connecting. You were there, but there's an
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expectation. We're not greater than our
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master, but we can function like our Master, Jesus Christ.
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As he went, we can do because Jesus was sent by His Father to
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do something we've been sent by our Father to do.
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Something And whether we're. Doing it here locally, whether
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we're doing it nationally or whether we're doing it
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internationally, we're doing, we have no idea.
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The impact is gonna be on all the orphans.
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The ones we are. Financially supporting in India
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and in the Moldovia and Ukraine. We have no.
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IDEA All that will take place because we are financially
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supporting those locations. It's because.
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We are are set to go and do and we're financially doing things
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with missionaries. But then we get to participate
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in our going and there's an expectation of harvest, an
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expectation of harvest. I'm telling you, you should have
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a passport. If you don't, you need to get
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one. Because.
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God wants every one of us to go. Now, if you've already been and
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you believe that, you know you're just going to be sending
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people. I understand that.
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No problem. Whatever.
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But everybody. Should have an expectation to
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go. Our youth.
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Went great testimonies on Sunday, right?
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I mean, I talked to one out in the mall today and they were
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talking about, you know, the things they were doing and how
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much they enjoyed it. They These are life changing
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moments. These.
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Are memorials and markers in their lives.
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Cause again, when we sent them, we didn't send them to go
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experience and watch Nicaragua. We sent them to do something and
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one of the doing was painting. In fact, it was.
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Testified of somebody that attends our church.
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That used to come. All the time because they had
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children in the preschool. But one.
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Reason why they joined the church.
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Was not because. I prophesied was not because you
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know the the big presence of God.
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It's because they saw me and my wife painting the church.
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That was the. Supernatural doing because they
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related. I've been to churches and I've
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never seen the pastor do. That, but there's nothing we.
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Won't. Do 'cause you have no.
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Idea. The impact.
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Of what you? Do when you.
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Go, no matter what it is. For somebody in Nicaragua
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saying, wow, look at all these teenagers from America.
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They're They're painting our church.
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Wow, they would come over. Here and take their spring break
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to serve us. That could be one of the.
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Most supernatural, impactful moves of God for someone in
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Nicaragua. You just don't know.
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Because here's the thing. No matter what you do for the
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Lord, it's not. In vain It's not in vain.
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Come on, it's not in. Vain.
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It's not in vain. It's not in vain.
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It's not in vain. And here's the thing.
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There's a lot to do, Jesus said himself.
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Look up for the fields are white with harvest.
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They're ripe for harvest. Right.
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He said but pray to the Lord of harvest that he send forth
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laborers. Cause the laborers are.
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That means there's few people that are working or doing.
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Lot of people are spectating. But God didn't tell us to go and
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spectate. Go and vacation, go and enjoy
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yourself, he said. Go and do.
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Go. And do 37 hours of teaching
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myself personally. It's fine, no.
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Problem. Because when you go and do, then
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you get up under the anointing. You get on the power of God.
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And here we are. It's Wednesday night.
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We're preaching. Right.
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We're preaching. What are you saying?
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Joshua. Clay, yes.
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OK. Pastor Marsh is.
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Calling on you, Joshua. Now listen, I had a auction.
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That on. Sunday morning, when I was going
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to be preaching at Pastor fought Meer's other church, I'm like, I
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really believe Chase should be preaching.
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So I asked. Pastor fought Meer, I said.
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Would you mind if Chase ministered at your other campus?
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He said. No, not at all.
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Not at all. So chase ministers on the
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Kingdom about reigning. But he ministered it from a
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perspective. That.
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He grew up in church and that he had to find his own faith.
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Ultimately later. That afternoon the next day, No.
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Was that afternoon, 'cause you had the women's thing that
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afternoon when they came to pick us back up.
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So you go do the women's thing, they.
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Didn't get. To rest cause one of their boys,
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they have twin boys. One of them was like talking
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about what he wanted to do with his life and it was really not
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technically following God. Some.
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Talents and he was able to. Say you know what?
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I want you to. Listen to this message that was
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in our church this morning, 'cause they didn't attend with
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us that morning. This will answer all your
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questions 'cause he's like what your son did this morning was
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directly. For my children.
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Amen. Hallelujah, Joshua Well.
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A couple of things that stood out to me specifically from this
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trip. Obviously I've travelled with
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Pastor old many times, but the thankfulness I have to be part
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of Anchor Faith Church. I I know that we sit here in St.
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Augustine, FL and sometimes we see that, you know, we ignite
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the city, impact the nation, influence the world.
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But when you get to actually go and see the effect, we're
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spoiled here. We've got such great teaching,
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we've got such great leadership. We've got such a such a great
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message that comes out that when we go into a place like Osti you
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realize these people are starving for the word, not for
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pasta. They have plenty of that, trust
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me. We we partook of it but for the
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word. Whenever pastor began to open up
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the Kingdom, it just put me back.
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When I remember hearing it for the first time myself.
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And you can't help but just be stirred on the inside and think,
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gosh, these people's lives can't ever be the same from this
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moment. They'll leave tonight and they
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can never go back. They can never go back without
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really pushing past, go into some old tradition that they
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would, I mean, you know, from going from Osti, then going into
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Cyprus and just seeing the hunger there as well, that
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they're just craving, not just religion.
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All these places have religion. They all know about Jesus.
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They've heard about Jesus. There's crucifix, you know,
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things everywhere from the Catholic Church, from the Greek
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Orthodox Church. Chase and I have the opportunity
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to go up. We wanted to get some cool
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photos of this monastery and we get up there only to see these
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signs after we drove for an hour that say no cameras, no drones,
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no cell phones, no women. Well, we're OK on that.
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But when we went inside, we realized it's still a
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functioning religious monastery in Cyprus.
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So we're watching these full grown men come in weeping, going
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up to these paintings of Mary and Jesus and five other Saints
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kissing the pictures. And then walking back.
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And doing their little, you know, ceremony and leaving that
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place thinking they've touched God somehow.
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And and it was. Really.
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It kind of turned our stomachs. We're thinking this is idol
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worship. You know, this is but the whole
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Nate, these nations that we're visiting, it's not like they're
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majority Christians and that, you know, like St.
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Augustine, FL, there's a church on every corner.
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Well, in their cities there's religion on every corner and
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religions choking them to death. Yet we were able to come in as
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anchor faith church with your help with you financially sowing
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to what we were doing. It was more than us just going
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and eating pasta. It's just going in and being
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able to actually bring this revelation of the Kingdom that
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we all have every week that they've never heard before.
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So going going. From there to obviously whenever
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we got into another major bullet point for me, I guess on the
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trip is, is the lunch he was talking about that we had with
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Pastor Fotmere and and Pastor Silva.
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Phenomenal. I mean, what what we're not
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saying is that you know me, Pastor Earl, Pastor Marci Clyde,
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we're all like sobbing through the whole lunch.
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You know, Chase is just shaking his head at me.
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But I'm sitting there, you know, trying to eat my food because
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you're just realizing that. I mean, it's what it did in my
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heart and showing me my Jesus and who he is in other places.
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I can't. It's going to be really
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difficult for me to articulate and I'll try here in the next
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few minutes because you know, I know how to talk.
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But what it did in my heart and showing he's not just the king
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and he's not just savior. He's the hero king.
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The. Way that he presented himself to
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me, but then the way that he presented himself to Pastor
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fought me when he was 16. Because I remember when I made
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Jesus Lord of my life at 18. Now I remember what was going on
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in my life and the decisions I was making to just inner turmoil
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happening. But then I'm seeing that this
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same Jesus that I encountered is meeting with this other person
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in a nation that just got broke free of their governmental
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oversight. And this guy's happened to make
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a decision because, you know, you briefly hit on it.
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But I'm going to say pastor Fotmire as he was telling his
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story said I had a friend. We were all Muslim.
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He's like, I wasn't a good Muslim, but we were all Muslim
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and that's who we were. Then my friend goes out and
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comes back to school the next day and says I went to a church
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service, I've heard about Jesus and starts telling all of his
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friends about Jesus and he's like, what's wrong with you?
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That's not what we do. Like what it what is this?
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So he said he ended up going with his friend to a a a service
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and they had a lot of revivals in that time because people went
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and did. People heard this place has
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opened up for the gospel and just went a lot of people from
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specifically Oklahoma apparently because there was a lot of
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ministries coming out of Tulsa and and Broken Arrow areas that
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were showing up that I grew up knowing.
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So there was one from Victory Bible.
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You know school. Billy Joe Dougherty's church
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went in there and started a small Bible school at the time.
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So his friends were hearing this, but he said he went home
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and and had this encounter with God where God spoke to him on
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the inside and he said he knew it.
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He didn't know about being led by the Spirit like we do, but
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something touched him and he knew he heard the voice of God.
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So then he went. Out and battled.
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And he said it took him several days because he had to count the
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cost. And I found, you know, not to
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bag on Americans, you know, but do do we really understand what
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it is to be devoted or to really make a commitment and give our
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allegiance to the Kingdom? Not just say I'm with Kingdom
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people, but to say in my heart my allegiance is only to the
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king. Yeah.
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Because his family obviously was Muslim.
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And he said as he counted the cost, he realized what it would
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cost him with his parents, what it would cost him with his
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extended family, his relatives. And they he said whenever he
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announced to his family, I have believed in Jesus and I will
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follow Jesus. He said he was not only verbally
-
abused but physically abused by his family that daily they came
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in and they would either beat him or lock him in his room or
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deprive him of food and say renounce Christ or you won't,
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you know we won't feed you. Renounce Christ or you'll be
-
beaten. Renounce Christ, or you'll have
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to leave our house till it came to a point where his father
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kicked him out of his home. That's was it. 16 years old?
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Yep. And said.
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You'll have nothing to do with our family.
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You leave. And he said he had the most
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peace, 'cause he said. He said Jesus is alive and real
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and he'll take care of me since I've chosen him.
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So he left his home and didn't really know.
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He said he just had this leading inside that just prompted him to
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go to this place that ended up having Christian people his age
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that were from Victory Bible Institute.
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They brought him in, they let him stay in the dorms, they gave
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him food. And then his father came back
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and was looking for him. After a few days thinking, did
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he die? Where did he go, 'cause in that
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time it's not like there was you could make it on your own.
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He saw the change that had happened in him and saw that he
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was taken care of and said what happened.
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So he was able to speak out his calling for the first time as a
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teenager and said these people have brought me in.
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I've believed in Jesus and I'm there's people dying and going
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to hell and I will preach the gospel and I'll tell them about
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Jesus. That's what I'll do with my
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life. And how old is he now?
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404142 years old and he's been doing it since that day.
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But that's how real the call was to them.
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That's how real Jesus was a lot of times as teenagers in youth
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groups here it it's not that hard for us to say, oh, I choose
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whatever I choose, but in there that he come on.
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It's all going to come. Down to a question of our
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allegiance. Have you chosen?
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Christ to the point, Have you chosen the Kingdom of God and
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and sided with the King to the point you say I don't care what
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comes against me. I don't care what it cost me
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financially. I don't care what it cost me in
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my relationships. I choose this and it was just a
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big that was a big take away from me.
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I mean, you can't help but just be moved, thinking how could I
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go back and not me just as much, if not even more devoted than I
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have been. You know you count the.
-
Cost just to follow Christ, but we got people sometimes that
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count the cost to just click yes on Planning Center.
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Yeah, and. We're saving that for.
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Sunday but. But really, I mean.
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Think about it. I mean, put yourself in the
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personal position that I was in where it was.
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This guy wasn't just talking. My God was talking to my heart
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while he was speaking. I mean each place.
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That we went. It's just powerful to see the
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work. Anchor Faith Church is doing
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that. I know people, let's say the
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statement all the time, you know you, you don't know you're
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making history while you're making it.
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But I actually think at Anchor Faith Church we're a little
-
privileged. I think we actually know that
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we're making history. I think that while it's
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happening, we know what we're doing, 'cause we know what the
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Lord's called us to do. We're doing it here at home.
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And this is what's this is what is the 1st and most important,
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then the 2nd and also most important is US doing it in the
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nation. And then the third, also most
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important because they're all just equally important.
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Doing the whole vision is going into the world.
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If we don't have home right, we're not going to have world
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right. But I'm thankful we have home
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right? We love each other.
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We get, We walk in love with each other, we serve with one
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another. Then we're able to go out and
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show this culture to people who don't have the Kingdom.
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Amen. Yeah, so.
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Good. It is a culture and we have it.
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It's the Kingdom. It's the Kingdom, you know so.
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Again, every part we play is very significant.
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You know, again, we'll have a big video on Sunday so you can
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see it more and more. You know, we want to keep
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everyone included because we understand that even though
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you're not physically with us, you are there in spirit and we
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do not, you know, take that for granted and the and anytime we
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have an opportunity to go anywhere, we realize how
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valuable this place is, what we have.
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And you know, that's why we love taking people.
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Because you know, the unfortunate thing is that you
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expect me to say something like this or your pastor.
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Sure you would say that. I just wish you were inside me.
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I wish you really understood how much I value this place and this
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ministry and you as people and to serve our king together.
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It's amazing and I do not want to take our luxury because it's
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luxury. I don't want.
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To take. Our luxury for granted.
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I want us to be intentional. I.
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Want us to be? Intentional.
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You know. I guess I would like it at this
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in closing. You know you can get strong and
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good in anything, but it will have a limitation until you
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start dealing with very specific details.
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And so the. The programs that are what we
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call elite programs, if you go into their facilities, they have
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it down to the to a science, OK. You're talking the.
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Food, the workouts, the relationships, the study, the
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whole culture. They'll talk about it.
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The schools that don't have that, although they are doing
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some of the same things, they're not elite.
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And it's the. It's the places that recognize
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we've been given the phenomenal practice field.
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We've had. The ability to have the
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investment so that we can have the best stuff.
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So let's. Produce the best disciples.
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Because the day's. Coming quickly and we'll talk
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about April 7th at our twenty year anniversary service of the
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work and there's no way I can go alone.
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I mean, I can't even go to all the places I can't even go.
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I have to. Send others, but they're
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Timothy's. They're like minded.
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They are the culture of the Kingdom that's here.
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They're not seeking. Their own.
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They are an. Extension.
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And we'll be able to do. More because you have more.
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People to send different groups, different things.
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It's amazing. It's just amazing.
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I wouldn't trade. What?
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We have for nothing. And I sure wouldn't want to have
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to start over again. I would.
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But if I don't have to, and I just keep sending the group with
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us and let us just keep multiplying, then let's just
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take over the world we're doing. It.
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Anyway, let's do our part while we live.
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Amen. Thank you so much.
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