Sermon
It's a Must - Part 3 - Kingdom Anointing
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Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast
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from st. Augustine Florida.
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Now enjoyed this message. Alright, turn over to Isaiah 55,
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we're going to conclude our service today.
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Amen. Everybody stand up.
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Come on, everybody. Stand up.
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Amen. Everybody stand up.
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Hallelujah. Just go ahead and shake that
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off. Just shake whatever.
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That is that's on you. Right?
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This second. Just because I had a little
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conversation about how you learned to love God.
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I mean, I felt like we just sank like that was difficult.
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I mean this is Elementary. Please don't let Elementary
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teaching devastate you and we're already figuring out that we are
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being more soulish lie about our relationship with God.
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You know why would people come in and out of church?
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Anyway, Because they don't feel like going one day, you know?
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I mean, and again it's a Perpetual issue that happens
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when we were young because we were taught about love at such a
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young age in grade school, right?
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You said, the little note. Do you like me, right?
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We said, like, initially career in elementary school, right?
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And you had your little boyfriend, your little
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girlfriend. All right?
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How many you married your first love?
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I'll put your hand down. I'm like your very first like
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you know when you were in school, there was somebody you
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liked. In the third grade, second
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grade. Something you were like, right?
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But yet, find yourself not marry.
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I'm now you may have married the one that you like, but you
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probably went through a few people for you got back to him.
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Okay, I knew. I was right the first time but
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had to test drive. All these people to get to my
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real one, right? But we do this in relationship
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that and the reason why we're not, we're like well I just
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don't feel it no more. Ryan argument.
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I don't feel like I love you now.
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Amen. And so we're trained in the
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world. That's how love is.
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So then we come over to God. Coming to church, and when we
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feel like it reading the Bible is when we feel like it pray is
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when we feel like it. Doing the things in the words,
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when we feel like it. Even though the Holy Ghost is
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talking to us. Amen.
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Hallelujah. How girl you're blinding me with
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you? If your your lights on, you
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don't know that. Whoo.
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I'm on a spotlight, didn't know? Wow.
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Amen. So we're here to grow and learn
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to be led by the spirit and Crush feelings that are against
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God's word. Like, you're just not going to
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control my life, don't let your feelings control your life, let
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the word dominate your life. Change the way you feel so that
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your feelings will get in line with life more abundantly
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because what we are learning and it's a must will absolutely
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change your life. And You to rise above 99% of
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most human beings on the planet. It will cause you to rise above
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that and here's the thing. Jesus Christ is not some
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substandard species. And when you were born again,
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you are made in the likeness of Christ.
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This Supernatural, overcoming conquering King that destroys
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the works of the devil. That's who you are.
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And I don't care if you feel like it or not, that's what the
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Bible says. So you need to change your
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feeling and see yourself as our conquering King on the planet
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today. Can I get an amen?
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All right. You can be It praise the Lord
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and if he gets tough, just stand up.
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If you like, man, that bothers me, then just get out, run one,
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Tom run that off so that you can get yourself in line with what
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the word saying. Amen, Isaiah 55:11 says this.
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So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.
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Which tells us that unless God saying it.
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Then he's not, it's not obligated to be fulfilled.
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So the word that comes out of his mouth, so shall my word that
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goes out of my mouth, it shall not return to me what void?
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But it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in
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the thing which I sent it. Now, here's the thing.
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You need to understand this, whatever.
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God says, when you truly believe and you know, you've heard from
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God, that that's what it is then I don't care what takes place,
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you will have this. So you cannot ever allow
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yourself to give an excuse of why.
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It did not work out God's way. That is a lie.
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You have to conclude if something that God has said in
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revealed to you that you are to stand on that either.
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You don't know it. Are you began to doubt it?
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One or the other, you're either ignorant of what God wants to do
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or you began to doubt what God Said, let that you initially
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acted on case in point. Peter is obviously in a boat it
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with the rest of the disciples Jesus has been praying on a
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mountain decides. He's going to cross the lake to
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meet the disciples on the other side instead of getting another
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boat, he walks on the water where you remember they saw him,
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thought he was a ghost became afraid he says hey it's just me.
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And Peter says what? Just the best you command
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because he needs the word that goes out of his mouth.
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He can't just say well I'm going to do what Jesus does without
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Jesus. Say Jesus, if that's you command
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me to come out wall. So he says come right.
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And that what he said come will Jesus then Peter who's been a
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fisherman? A professional fisherman knows
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exactly what happens when you step out of a boat into water.
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He's he is an expert through his profession of knowing.
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Exactly what's takes place. He has experience, he could give
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lectures on what takes place when you leave your boat and get
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into water. But add a word.
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I said out of word, God was able to create a bridge.
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That caused him to walk on the water.
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The water didn't change. Are you hearing me and the word
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work? But what took place?
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A few ways started to show up a few a little bit of wind started
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to show up. And what did Peter do?
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Peter began to focus on the condition?
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He saw instead of the word he heard.
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And when he turned to site, he began to get exactly what he
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knows happens. He began to sink now.
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Did that meet did Jesus think in that moment was Jesus sinking to
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when the winds and waves came did Jesus say old Peter I'm so
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sorry man. I didn't realize the winds and
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waves were coming. We're both seeking.
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You better hurry up and swim back to the boat.
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I'm going to be swimming with, you know, Jesus never came off
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the word that he knew. He It on the top of the water
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while Peter looked at what he saw instead of being led by the
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spirit are staying in the spirit saying, you know, I don't care
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what the waves are doing now, I don't care what the winds are
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doing. I'm walking on this water
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because Jesus says I could come I'm on it now.
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I'll be on it till I get to him, but instead he began to look at
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it, he became frightened, that fear took over his faith, he
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began to sink and, you know it started going quick then.
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I believe is probably a little gradual at first it was a little
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deeper, you know, probably got ankle like oh no I'm not.
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I'm not sustaining but it's because he started to let the
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see him. Then all of a sudden, he fell
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down into the sea and Jesus at the last moment before he went
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under grabbed his hand. And said, why did you have
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little faith? Why did you let your face slip?
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Why did you allow what you see to dictate what takes place?
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And there's many that are gung-ho to be in church to God's
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word to pray being a prayer meeting, you know, to have a
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touch of God. You know, you get those Services
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where the power of God shows up, you know, or someone lays hands
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on you to power God tangibly goes through your body.
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Some can't even stand up when that takes place or are the
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power of God hits you in your uncontrollably laughing because
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you have joy, unspeakable, joy, and full of Glory.
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Or the power of God comes upon you.
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And you know, you're speaking in a language, that's not even your
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own because you now receive the power of God.
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But it's the language of the king, I must say, it's just
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amazing moments that we've had with God and then we light want
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to chase these but then how come it is that we're like well I
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don't feel like it today that all of a sudden this feeling can
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override a command I mean, we are more attached to the way we
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feel. Then we want to admit.
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And we have to learn that we cannot be moved by how we feel.
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That doesn't mean we don't have feelings.
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It's that we make our feelings. Go to the word.
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So, in essence, when Peters out of the boat, that had been a
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pretty exciting time. The first time ever, he got out
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of the boat didn't sink. You know, he had to be elated
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since I come back, he say who I meant?
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Seriously, who would not go out to st.
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Augustine Beach and begin to just walk out on the water that
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you wouldn't think this is amazing.
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Right? Anybody else will be in off to
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they want a surfboard. Nope.
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Just walking on the water. Right.
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I guess. Mac like super cool.
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So he's got has this, like presents are manifestation of
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God working in his life that brings this Elation to him.
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But the minute issue shows up unknown Threat all of a sudden
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he focuses on it and allows his feelings too.
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Go to that. He leaves the spirit and goes to
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the soul. Instead of laughing.
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And said, I don't care whether to stay waves, get this just
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means I'm gonna be climbing Hills.
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Now instead of just on a flat surface, oh man, feel the wind.
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It feels good. This is a man instead of just
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rejoicing in the fact that you could do that instead, he
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allowed his feelings to take over instead of putting that
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down. I said I'm not going to feel
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fear. I'm not gonna get afraid here.
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No, no. You gonna be excited you're
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walking on water even now in the store.
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And we have to do the same thing if we're going to live by the
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spirit. So, Jesus is words.
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Or the word of the Lord when it goes out, it does accomplish
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period. We also saw this in John 4:23
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and 25 2:24 says this, but an hour is coming and now is when
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true worshipers which implies false worshipers will worship
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the father in spirit and truth. You cannot worship Him in spirit
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without truth and you're not going to be in the spirit if you
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don't know, truth. So, both are applicable.
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Now, you can be in a spirit realm and there's a lot of
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people in the spirit Realm. You know, they doing it through
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cars. They threw it through crystals,
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they threw it, through going to psychics, you know, but you know
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what, the Lord's like, why would you go Council the Dead?
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He said why are you go Council the Dead?
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Just because the dad know, something doesn't mean it can
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bring life. Are you hearing me?
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I mean even the Lord was not one to let the dead testify of him
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when those that were full of demonic spirits and start a,
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you're the son of the most high. Have you come to torment us
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before our times? He would do.
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What? Shut up.
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Don't advertise about me. Don't talk about me.
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Paul had the same situation with this girl that had a demonic
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spirit and she was doing fortune-telling with her Masters
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because she was a slave and Paul put up with it by three days.
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And finally, the Lord by the spirit says, you need to tell
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that thing to come out because it's going to advertise what
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you're doing that. When you leave this community,
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it would be able to tout, wasn't I telling the truth about this
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person and he said, shut up and come out and he came out So just
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because you, you know, consult spirits.
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Does it bring life? Even though it can have access
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to factual information? In fact, the Lord.
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So why do you consult the dead? But we are to be following the
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spirit of Truth. Amen.
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That is the holy spirit. It goes on and says this.
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That now, when true worshipers will worship the father in
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spirit and Truth for such people, the father seeks to be
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his worshipers. God is spirit is spirit and
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those who worship Him must worship how in Spirit and truth.
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So you cannot worship, God, soulish lie.
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You come down to the Altar and feel bad about something is not
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contacting God. Just being emotional about
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something is not getting God's attention.
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He's looking for you to touch him by the spirit.
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Are you hearing me? Because a lot of people are
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touching God, but they're not touching God by the spirit.
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The same thing, Jesus is going to heal this man's daughter
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who's sick. She's obviously died at this
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juncture, but he doesn't know that yet.
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And this woman with the issue of blood comes in the crowd,
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touches him and Jesus, Tom says somebody touched me and Peter's
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like, are you serious, right. Now young people are touching
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you and he's like all those people that are touching me or
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not touching me. And the same thing is in many
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churches today, even in this one, there are those who come
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here that are whining wailing begging and you're not touching
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him. Because you must believe his
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word if you're going to touch him and when faith is activated,
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you'll stop God because he's seeking that person.
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Jesus. What did he do?
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He stopped. He said, who touched me Peter's,
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like, some seriously. There's a lot of people touching
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you right now. Jesus, you know, how can you say
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who took? He's so no power has left me.
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Power her and I we ain't going on until I find.
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He was seeking the one who came in spirit and in truth who I had
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this idea and this belief when she heard that Jesus was in
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town, faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God.
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She heard that he was a Healer. And she said, if I just touches
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him, I'll be healed and by faith.
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She pressed through a crowd, Justice him and power left him.
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Because his word that goes out of his mouth shall not return
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unto him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was
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sent to do, he is the Healer and by faith he believed if I'd like
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nothing natural is working. I've lost all my money, all the
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daughter says the Lost Cause but God Jesus the healers in town
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and even though legally, I'm not supposed to press for this
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crowd. I'm going to press through this
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crowd anyway, cuz I'm gonna get it.
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I just get to Jesus, I get it, and she touched his him and
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power left him, and he sought her out.
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Whitney move. Till she came back and told the
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story, you won't God running you down.
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You got to be a person of spirit and truth, you can't be a person
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of complacency. You can't be a person of casual.
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If you want God, running you down, you got to be passionate
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about all that God wants you to do within his word by.
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A spirit, you're not a debater. Of how close you can get to God.
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But still maintain a worldly existence.
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You know. You can't buy the LIE.
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Well no. I don't want to do too much God.
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You know. It's a little extreme that I
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would spend that much time. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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No, you need to go and do and live.
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In fact, Jesus told you how you are to love him.
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You are to love him with all. Your heart, but not just your
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heart, all your soul, your mind, your will, and your strength.
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In essence. He's saying at the end of your
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life on this planet, it should have been spent just for me.
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Now, that doesn't mean you won't be in the world.
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You won't be contacting the world.
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You won't be what I'm saying? Contact like touching it.
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You're not gonna you'll navigate but you'll never be moved by
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what's going on in it, because you're so in tune, to the spirit
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of God. And that God when any
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circumstance come because you're a person of spirit and Truth who
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worship him. He'll come and run you down.
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Are you hearing me? And this is the only way, this
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is why we have plenty of houses field.
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That profess Jesus as Christ but many who can't pray and get it
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done. That's why we abandoned this
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thought we are like we got to change this thinking with our
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congregation. I said you quit acting like
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we're a church. That praise quit it.
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No, we are a church that has answered prayers.
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That's what we are. We're not just say praying
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church, because all religions pray and they pray and get
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nothing. And there are many Believers
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that praying, get nothing because Haven't renewed their
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mind to line up with what the spirit of God is saying and quit
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being led by their feelings about their day.
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Instead of just confessing what God has said.
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And those believers, do not get the answers in their prayer
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life, like someone else. In fact, most of those that are
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getting answers are finding someone who can tap in.
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And God will allow that to happen for a period of time.
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And then after that, it won't happen.
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I remember Kenneth E Hagin. He made this testimony
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concerning his sister. His sister had cancer and he got
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the call from his family. Says she's got cancer.
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And he says, okay, I'm going to pray and he went and prayed and
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the Lord says she'll live and not die.
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He called him back says, she'll be fine.
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She'll she'll get a pass. It God's going to heal her and
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sure enough she was healed five years later.
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Cancer came back on. See, there's this like mentality
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that people have that when you're healed of God, you can
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never get sick again. Well, I mean, the enemy comes to
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kill, steal, and destroy, Jesus went around doing good.
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And healing all who were oppressed of the devil sickness
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and disease comes from the devil as a byproduct of the Fall,
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okay, of sin of separation from God.
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And so he then goes and dumb sauce to pray again, when he
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finds out, she has cancer. And the Lord says, don't pray
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for her. She's going to die.
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He sent our Lord. The last time I prayed and and
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stood in the gap of her, you healed.
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Her, he says she has. She had Five years to learn how
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to maintain her own healing. She did not grow, she will die.
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Personal responsibility. Now that shouldn't shock us
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because how many of you can stand in the gap for someone's
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salvation, you can't get anybody into the kingdom.
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You can't get them born again on a.
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Now, you can pray and pray for Laborers and you're standing in
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the Gap in that contest, but you'll never be able to get
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their Spirit Man in Christ be born again until they on their
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own personal. Pray that prayer.
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Well what did Jesus say to the woman caught in adultery?
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He says where are your accusers, right?
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He says go and sin, no more one guy, healed that was on a bed of
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Affliction. He was, he couldn't even walk in
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the Lord healed, this guy, and he said, now take up your bed
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and go home. And so he was walking on the
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Sabbath day when his bed in the religious people stops.
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Whoa! You're committing a sin against
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God. You're working on the Sabbath.
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Why are you carrying your bed? He goes, man, I don't know.
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This guy came. And he healed me.
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I was lame couldn't walk and he said, he healed me told me to
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pick up my bed, who is he? I don't even know his name
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didn't even know his name. Jesus found him later and he
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said now, listen, go and sin, no more, so nothing worse, we'll
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come on. You, you know, it's amazing.
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A lot of times people want to come down and be healed of God,
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but they don't want to live for God, which means they want
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healing for self-preservation. Not for fulfilling his purpose
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and Destiny. And God in his Mercy Hills.
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Quite a few people that ultimately never fully submit
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and yield to him. Some don't ever even come this
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Kingdom, but he will have that against them on that great day.
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He said, did not heal your body. Did you know that was me and yet
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you didn't serve me. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So it's impossible to worship God from your soul.
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Soul worship can only produce religion.
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When Adam fell from Dominion, his Spirit died.
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And he was led only by his soul, that was his mind, emotions, his
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will, and his body. That is his strength in essence,
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when Adam died, when his Spirit was cut off from God.
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He had to make decisions only naturally and he produced that
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kind of seed. In all of humanity, all of us
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made decisions on how we processed information.
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There are some people that it seems like they can never get a
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leg up on life. Why?
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Because they continually see themselves based upon the
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households, they came out of the side of town, they live from the
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amount in their accounts. The greys they made at school,
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they've allowed all of that to Define their decision-making.
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And how they feel about. Other people are based upon how
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they've been trained. How people how they perceive and
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see and look, everybody thinks they're doing good.
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Anyway, because the Bible is very clear.
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There's a way that seems right to a man but in the end lies.
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So we have our own moral, right? That we do based upon our
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feelings and our personal abilities, to determine where
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we're going to go. But the reality is, it's Til
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Death. It doesn't touch God and it
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doesn't cause God to run after us.
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But the holy spirit will draw us into a new existence so that we
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can begin to live this, something powerful in our lives.
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We saw this in Galatians 5:22 and 23 last week, it says, but
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the fruit of the spirit I'm Reno the Amplified classic now.
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But the fruit of the spirit the work which he which his presence
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within accomplishes is love. Joy gladness.
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Peace. Notes and and Eve, or even
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Temperance, forbearance, kindness goodness, benevolence
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faithfulness, gentleness that's meekness and humility
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self-control, which is self restraint.
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Okay, against such things, there is no law that can bring guitar.
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So we said this, if the fruits of the spirit are a challenge
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for you to produce, then you are being led by your soul and not
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your spirit. And many of us, all of us, not
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many everybody in the room has gotten into a situation that you
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felt something. When you heard the news.
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You felt something. When you got the news you have
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cancer, you felt something now, are you going to go with what
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you feel? Are you going to dive into the
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word and find out what the spirit saying about you and that
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situation? When you got the word that your
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jobs been cut off, you felt something.
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When you got word about something going on, when one of
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your children are you, you know, they got in trouble, you felt
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something you had a conflict with a co-worker.
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Worker, you felt something with your spouse.
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You felt something. The question is, did you respond
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with the fruits of the spirit are?
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Did you respond with your feeling?
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And if we cannot develop Joy, when Joy is not the environment.
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See, Joy is a manifestation, not when I'm happy, but any time
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necessary in the midst of any conflict, I can pull on a fruit.
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Patience is another thing man, I'm just not patient.
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Well then you're not led by your spirit.
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You are openly admitting that. You are so Lush.
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Lee. LED.
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Yeah. And all of us got to eat that
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fruit, right? I mean just the other day I was
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eating that fruit again. Get some paint when I'm driving.
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It's light. The express lane, you know, the
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self-checkout. You got to be patient and have
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you noticed that when you're allowing the fruits of the
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spirit to start showing up in your life, you're making a
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conscious Choice, okay? I'm just not going to let that
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aggravate me. Which means I'm, I'm admitting
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there is a feeling based upon the circumstance that I'm
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feeling, but I'm not going to yield to that.
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I'm going to take a deep breath. Right?
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And I'm going to remind myself. I can be patient about it,
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period. Amen!
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We've all gotten in those moments, but if you struggle
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that eats, I can't help it. You know, it's just in our
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family, we just get angry, we just flipped by, you know what
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you're admitting. You're admitting, I'm not going
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to handle this by the spirit. I'm going to let my flesh
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dominate me and and then we're going to be in that and we'll go
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down. God, you gonna do something the
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Lord's life. I don't even hear your voice
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because you are only going to worship me in spirit and in
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truth, that's a must. So if you want me to get in on
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your circumstance, you gonna have to get you sold out of the
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way. You got to change the way you
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feel about that. I'm telling you we could just
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start checking stuff off boxes and let me tell you in our world
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today, the way information has been made available to us.
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You're going to have to work even more diligent to stay in
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the spirit about decisions. You're out to be even more
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diligent about being in the spirit about decisions because
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everyone's going to offer their opinion based upon the
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information they just heard and they'll always present it as if
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it is that way. And that way only, you know,
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some of the worst commentating that I I mean, I just thoroughly
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despise, it is when someone begins to interject how why
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someone did something, because this is how they R.
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Now that doesn't mean by the spirit, you can't figure that
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out. That is a true statement but we
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just have plenty of people. Well, they said that because you
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know, they're this and this and this is what they meant by it.
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What have you even sit down and talk to him and ask him if
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that's what they meant by it? Many of us have formed opinions
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emotionally because we take somebody else's idea about how
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they actually meant it. This is why texting is not a
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good platform when you're trying to determine a person's motive.
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What you see, what they said. They just that, you could take
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that saying a whole lot of ways right there.
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But what do we do based upon our life experiences, what we've
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seen? Heard our own personal hurts.
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I just can't believe they said that to me and we take it with a
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Feeling. Most of us don't say well, if
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they did mean it that way, I'm forgive them.
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Anyway, Let me just stop and pray.
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No, will tell two or three other people.
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This is why some conversations I won't even text back.
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Because I don't want people to say this is what Pastor said.
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I'll be like, I mean I have some comments sometimes and I stop
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hmm. How they going to take that?
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If I say it that way. Hmm.
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Yeah. I'm not going to leave a paper
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trail. Hello, let's talk about this.
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You hear what I'm saying? Because again people will always
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try to use your words against you because that's what the
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devil does. Are you hear me?
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So we have to cultivate the fruits of the spirit.
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Joy should be something we want because it comes from the Holy
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Ghost. Love is something we should want
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because it comes peace. I mean, there are people today
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that are in absolute frenzy and have no peace in their life.
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They're anxious about everything, everything.
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And then they mask it with well, aren't you worried?
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Well, then they're like, okay, I realize we shouldn't worry.
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So they say, you know, I'm just really concerned.
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It's new word, right? I'm really concerned now, what
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yours you're worried that it ain't going to turn out like God
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said, When I hear the voice of God, there's no such thing as
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Plan B. The only way there can be
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another plan is if there's a ram caught in the thicket, And
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that's cause I'm always hearing what he's saying, not just
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living on what he what I've heard him say, but at the end of
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the day, I'm not going up the mountain like Abraham did.
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Without the idea of I'm going to kill this boy.
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And unless I hear something at that moment, it's gonna happen
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as God said period. And when we hear God that way,
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we have to have that kind of resolved, no matter what we feel
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or what circumstance comes, our way, second Corinthians 10:3. 25
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says for though, we walk in the flesh, we do not war, according
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to the flesh. That means this word flesh.
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Here means denotes a mere human nature.
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The Earthly nature of Man, Apart from Divine influence,
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therefore, Prone to sin and opposed to God.
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Any time I listen to any newscast, I hear anything from
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someone through a social media platform, whatever it may be.
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I refuse to listen to it naturally because it's always
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prone to problems. And I don't battle according to
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the flesh for the weapons of our Warfare are not of the flesh,
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not debate, but are divinely powerful with the destroying of
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forks, fortresses. We are destroying speculations.
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And every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God.
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And we take every thought captive what to the beat.
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It's of cry. So when I have a symptom that
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comes to my body, I feel it and it will mess with me even
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emotionally. But I will declare the word of
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the Lord by his stripes. Ye were healed.
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I am healed. This cannot stay in my body.
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I'm not going to lay around and pout about it.
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That doesn't mean I won't send our Lord.
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What do I need to do in this situation?
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That's going to cause it to come off, quick.
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Do I need to go ahead and rest, I'll rest.
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Do I need a hydrate, hydrate? Do I need to take something?
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I would take it at the end of the day.
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I'm only trying to hear what the spirit is saying, and I'm not
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moved by the feeling because this way, I feel right now in
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England State, because Jesus paid a price with his stripes
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that Should not put up with those symptoms in my body.
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In fact, I fight the good fight. I take captive the thought that
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he could do me in there is not a name that is so powerful that
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shakes me to my core when covid came through and the way it was
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running through the the world you can never let another
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disease named dominates. You more than Christ can't do
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it. Doesn't matter what it is.
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And listen people die. All the time guys.
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Death is not a indicator that we should be worried.
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Cuz if that's the case, why did you drive today?
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Do you know the statistics of people who died in automobile
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accidents? I mean, deaths everywhere.
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And here's the thing, those for sure that are outside of God's
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kingdom are pulling death to him because the wages of sin, is it
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attracts it, it pulls it to them.
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Like my gosh, man, their lives, always in shambles, why?
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Cause they're always asking death to show up.
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When you're disobeying God's word, you're asking death to
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show up, you're inviting it in the house you want, and it will
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come in multiple forms. Yeah.
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God in his Mercy will help you in a car accident so that you
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don't die will help you with a disease.
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So you don't die will help you and financial bankruptcy so you
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don't die in. Many times.
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God in his Mercy can step in when somebody who can tap into
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God, begins to intercede and pray for that person.
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That's broken. But as Believers, we can say, I
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am protect, I have a hedge of protection or I plead the blood
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of I have angels. Every time I get on a plane, I
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give charge of that plane. For the sake of the Gospel of
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the Kingdom, IP plead the blood from the top of it all the way
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down to his landing gear. I command every system to
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function as it was designed. I even tell my ministering
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Spirits, which are angels to go ahead of our plane, so that we
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don't have rough air. Because nothing worse than
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getting into rough. Are now, I honestly don't know
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that because I've never experienced real rough air.
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Because it's amazing what the angels will do to hear the voice
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of an air of Christ in faith. And any time it starts to do.
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Well, getting a little rough out, so, they can't stay.
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I don't go, oh, Lord, while we going to do.
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Circumstance will show up that, then you've got to say declare
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decree. What it is that the word says
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and in those moments you don't let the circumstances change
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your thinking. Because we're allowing the word
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to change ours. We take captive the thought
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first Thessalonians, 5:21 to 24. Now, look at this right here.
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Says, but examine everything carefully, right?
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Hold fast to that, which is good.
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And the only thing that's good is God's word.
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Look at verse 22, abstain, from every appearance of evil.
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Okay, now may the God of Peace himself sanctify, you entirely
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may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete
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without blame at the coming of our Lord.
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Jesus Christ. Faithful, is he who calls you
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and he will also want. What will he do?
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He going to bring it to pass. Now, he'll bring it to pass if
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you first examine everything carefully and then hold fast to
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it. Then you're going to abstain
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from Evil every form and you know what's the form of evil?
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Something telling you what you're believing can't happen.
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That's a form of evil. That's not just being in
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situations that look like you're doing something that's
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compromising. Your walk with God.
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There's that Context to. But it, this, it also is, if
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something comes to my mind that tells me what I'm holding fast
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to can't happen. That needs to be kicked out.
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I'll give you an example. Jesus tells his disciples.
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I'm gonna die. But on the third day, I'm gonna
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raise from the dead Peter when he hears he's gonna die.
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Lots up emotionally, why? Because he can only be led by
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his emotions because he's not born again.
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And so he pulls Jesus to decide rebukes.
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He says, Jesus, may it never be, you're not going to die, and
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that's what I'm going to defend you.
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Now, what did Jesus do? He avoided the appearance of
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evil. He said, get thee behind me
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Satan for you, set your mind, not on the interest of God.
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But on the interest of man, man is only interested on how he
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feels. He's only interested on.
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How does this make me feel again?
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A lot of times when we come to church, we only want to come to
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church so we can feel better. Sometimes you need to be taught
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and you should leave, not feeling so good.
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Now that's not a - that's the problem.
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We a like these are negatives autofill.
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Feel good. So it's just bad.
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Well, I mean, Alex was just up there had a personal bitch that
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he was telling Pastor Mike you know when they took the offering
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overheard it, okay, well he didn't get to that without not
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feeling some pain because when you go to the gym, you got to
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get underneath weight. That's going to cause your
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muscles and you wake up next to you be like ah, You're hurting.
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Which means I personally went to a place to make me feel bad the
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next day. But in doing it, I'm stronger.
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I'm stronger, and I will subject myself to that pain for the
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purpose of getting stronger yet. We don't want this in the realm
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of the Soul, because your spirit man's perfect.
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I mean, God, moved outside of you.
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That dead spirit. That was no good.
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Couldn't do nothing to please God, didn't want nothing to do
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with God, evicted it out of your skin suit, and put a brand new
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spirit on the inside of you. That's in the likeness of Christ
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will not send. Doesn't want us in and has a
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pipeline to hear God by the holy ghost, that now, Bears witness,
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with our spirit, your child of God and now that spirit in you
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is to dominate the way you think, but if this going to
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dominate the way you think you're gonna have to go through
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some pain, I don't like the way that feels, huh?
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Pastor just made me feel bad today.
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I just made you stronger and I didn't make you stronger.
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The Holy Ghost made you stronger but at the end of the day it
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doesn't matter what I say, if it's not what the Bible says,
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but when it's what the Bible says, quit using me as your
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skate gope to keep your stinking thinking.
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Go ahead and change your mind so you can line up with the spear
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so you can conquer a lie. And quit using excuses.
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Excuses. Why don't your too hard to live
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for God? No, it's not.
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No, it's not. It's not hard.
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In fact, Jesus said this, my yoke is easy and my burden.
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Why? Because when you get up
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underneath the anointing that God has to do the assignment in
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the natural, you'll never be at a do it, apart, from God, but
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when you get up underneath it, you'll go through things.
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You'll be like, wow, that was God.
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I have been in some circumstances and situations
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that I come up out of that thing.
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Like, thank God for the anointing because if I would
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have just allow my natural emotions to be involved in that
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situation, I'd be in prison. Are you hearing me?
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I'll be in prison. If we could play out some of the
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things. Y'all are thinking, you'd be a
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rated R movie of some of the things you would do to people
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that you've done in your mind and never came out.
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And it shouldn't come out, shouldn't even come out of your
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mouth. Amen.
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You need to quit saying, I'll give you a piece of my mind.
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No, please keep it. Keep in fact, get rid of your
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mind and get the mind of Christ and you'll be better off by it.
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Are you hearing me the past and says that this way but be
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faithful to examine them by putting them to the test and
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afterward hold tightly to what is proven to be right?
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Avoid every appearance of evil. Now may the God of Peace and
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Harmony set. You apart making, you
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completely, holy and may your entire being Spirit soul and
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body be kept completely. Lately fall Flawless, in the
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appearing of our Lord Jesus. The anointed one who the one who
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calls you by name is trustworthy and will thoroughly complete his
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work in you. Now, in order to break down this
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hole, it's a must. Let's go over to Isaiah 55 again
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and I want us to look at this chapter real fast.
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Because it's really powerful to understand this verse 11 that
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we've touched on last couple of Sundays.
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Because again at the end of the day, if you're going we we have
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H the church in the United States.
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For sure. A majority of those churches are
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emotionally, LED they are emotionally charged.
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Okay, from the singing. To the shouting.
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I mean it is an emotional event. I mean, I've gone to sports
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games are. What's that sound thing?
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I go to anymore in a crowd probably Sports thing where the
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same environment, it's the same environment.
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The enthusiasm is the same as in a church.
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Close it soulish. Soulish.
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There are many that if you know, we're not screaming shouting
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running, we've not had the Holy Ghost, which is not true
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statement. Okay.
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And that's not the Holy Ghost, just like it's going a little
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bit crazy right now, okay? Sometimes our soundboard gets a
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little crazy, right? And it is what it is, but I
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can't reach without any of this because it's not necessary.
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You understand, if you have to come into church and have fog
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machines and lights, and the scripture up there for you,
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you're soulless Lee LED Well, I'm let's go check out that
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church. Let's see how it's designed.
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See how it's designed. I mean, I remember the first
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time someone came to us and because of our design was
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concern, we didn't flow in the spirit or didn't let the gifts
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of the Spirit in operation, because our design look a lot
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like churches that don't allow that to happen.
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And I'm like, man, I'm I'm might change the way we look.
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I mean, the last thing I want is for us to seem like we do not
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have a relationship with God. Now, the end of the day, God's
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not in the camera. God.
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Not in the lights. God's, not in the perfect sound.
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I mean, and you know what's crazy, about those same type of
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congregation members is that they'll say, well, the church is
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not four walls but it won't go in four walls.
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That doesn't look a certain way. So they're already led by sight.
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Man, I sometimes I wish that I could change congregations are
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change. Venues like go downtown to one
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of those churches that were built long time ago you know
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what is stained glass. I'm telling you if you'll preach
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and be anointed man the power of God is show up in that place and
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if your life I couldn't go and that's just to tradition.
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It's not traditional. Once alive, is the spirit of God
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on the inside of us. I mean I almost sometimes want
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to go to one of the Little Country Church as you know
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that's got the pews on the Riff because again just get the
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anointing and the power of God and be led by the spirit man,
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you change things. At the end of the day it doesn't
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matter about the lights and all that stuff.
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It's about the word of God and you're going to be glad you're
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here today because I can tell you right now our video guys
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going to be like you're not gonna be able to release this
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with the lights acting all crazy.
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Which goes back. I'm thankful.
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That you personally show up and you have not relegated God to a
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video. I understand again.
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Well, you know, God is not in a building.
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Yeah. But you won't even assemble with
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his people. I mean, we take one thinking and
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acting like, we're being all spiritual about it.
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Well, you know what? I can get the Lord in my living
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room, big deal. But you can't change the world
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by yourself. Because Jesus didn't.
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Jesus, did not. Are you hearing me?
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Hallelujah. And you're doing really good
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right now. You're being very focused.
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This is a test. You have to put your fruit on
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some of your. Like, I can't believe this that,
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and you're putting it down, right?
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Right. Some of your, like, I'm leaving.
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Now, if you are prone to seizures than sure, you probably
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should close your eyes, but we can pray for you.
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But, you know, I don't want to incite something.
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You understand what I'm saying? All right here.
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Isaiah, 55, we're going to start in verse 1, starting in verse
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Are y'all ready? We gonna break this down real
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Timely? Isaiah 55 verse 1, which are
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y'all locked up because if y'all are I'll just go on without you
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says, hello. Now, that's not a ho that's like
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Hey Ho just trying to keep context, people trying to keep
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context. Who everyone who thirsts come to
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the waters and you who have no money, come buy and eat, come
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buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
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Now, this is powerful because this chapter begins to let us
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know that week how we can have a life of God.
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This is how this chapter starts out in essence.
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Everyone is thirsty. Everyone needs God and he says
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you can't buy it. You'll never be able to pay for
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it financially or through your own Works.
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You're going to come and what can you buy without money of
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your own power or strength? You can buy wine and milk wine.
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Always represents the Holy Ghost so you can get God's presence
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and his Spirit you can get this, right?
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This is the most exciting service.
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We've had a long time, naturally speaking.
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This is great. I love this.
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Come buy wine and that's this. Come get filled with the Holy
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Ghost and milk though. It's not enough for you to come
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down and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and save
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you unless you get the sincere milk of the word to grow up by
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it. Quit living the Christian
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existence since it's so bad. I get to walk around now.
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Sis The Christian existence was never designed for you just to
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get the Holy Ghost in you before you to grow in the word.
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So you can release the air that you are in the earth.
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My gosh, man, we are live in substandard.
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Compared to the destiny and power.
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That's on the inside of a, that we can push back.
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Hell itself, demons itself, sickness itself.
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We can Crush all kinds of things, if we would just get
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your mind, right? Just get on mine, right.
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He said, come without cost, you can get this milk, you can get
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this one. He said, why do you spend money
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for what is not bread? Memory said, man shall not live
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on bread alone, but out of every word that proceeds out of the
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mouth of God for your wages of what does not satisfy.
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Listen, carefully to me and eat. What is good?
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We spend so much time chewing on the world and doing it the
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world's way. Never Satisfied.
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He says, then delight yourself in abundance, my gosh.
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The word of God Is So abundantly supplied us with some powerful
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stuff. If we would just get it in our
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head and change our thinking, he goes on and says incline, your
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ear and come to me. Listen, that you may, if you're
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not listening, you're not living.
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If you're not hearing the word of God, you're not living
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because faith comes by hearing and hearing from the I don't
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care how talented you. You are I don't care how much
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wealth you amass in the world. It is dung compared to Jesus
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Christ in his word. Are you hearing me?
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He said, and I'll make an Everlasting Covenant with you
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according to the faithful mercies shown to David behold, I
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have made him a witness to the people's leader and Commander
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for the peoples. Who is that?
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That's Jesus Christ. The King Jesus came on the
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throne of David. God said in Isaiah 9:6, a child
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will be born. A son will be given and the I
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meant this is why when we do God's work, it's not just our
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God said. It is the kingdom of the king of
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the Kingdom has declared decreed declare, even it's a legal
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binding agreement. He has to do that word.
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He has to do it and he loves us so much that he says, let me
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give you a word about this thing and the Gates of Hell cannot
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Prevail against this word. He says, behold, I will call a
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nation, you do not know and a nation which knows you not will
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run to you now. So obviously the Gentiles coming
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into this relationship with God because of the Lord, your God,
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even the Holy One of Israel. He has glorified you seek the
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Lord while he may be found, man, we got to seek Him.
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The Bible says seek first, the kingdom of God, I mean, will
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seek dr. Phil Oprah a president's
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whomever's in office will seek all kinds of other people and
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won't go straight to God. First, will seek our friends
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advice will seek influencers on social media?
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We'll see. CNN, Fox News.
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And take their matter, their their information as if this the
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gospel. He said no you seek the Lord
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while he may be found call upon him while he is near.
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And obviously we understand this there's a time when the Holy
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Ghost will draw you and you better answer the call because
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if you resist him there will come a day.
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He won't call no more and it won't be that he didn't provide
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away or that he doesn't want you, right?
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But every time he called you resisted him and says I don't
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want you. You rejected him And don't think
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it's not different after your as a child of God that you're in
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your Bible, reading the word of God.
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And that every time he says, now do this here and you're like,
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I'm not going to do it. And you getting the word again,
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he's like will change this right here, just this attitude.
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Let my fruit happened here, in this city.
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Not going to do it, it's how I feel about it.
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Then you be in the worse in my Lord, teach me something, he
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says, why should I teach you anything?
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I've taught you to things that you're not even doing.
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You've rejected that all. I want the deeper things of God
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Vicki's. What?
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They'll say, they said that they so shallow.
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Yet they profess to be deep and then they'll hot from church to
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church looking for deep things when they can't even do two plus
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three can't even do the simple. Can't walk in forgiveness with
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someone they're already offend I'm going into deep.
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They Min of talk theological terms like they're all spiritual
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know. You just a self-professed
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Pharisee, is what you've become. Are you hearing me now?
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Nobody in this room obviously? He goes on and says this because
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the Lord, your God, even the holy of Israel for he has
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glorified you seek the Lord that you may find.
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May be found call upon him while he's near.
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Let the wicked forsake, say forsake his ways and the
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unrighteous man his his. What?
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Let the unrighteous, man, forsake.
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His what his thoughts? The It's amazing And I've seen
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it happen. It blows my mind.
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That someone separated from God, gets the Revelation because of
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the Holy Ghost that they need a savior.
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And they'll come down with the realization that I can't be
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right with God except through Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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They'll pray that prayer. Father, I've sinned forgive me
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of all my sin. I accept Jesus as Lord of my
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life. I thank you that I'm a new
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creature in Christ. Because they couldn't figure out
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how to be right with him and all their intellect, all their
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feelings, all their knowledge, the minute, they get born again
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and then know they're born again.
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They begin to tell God how they'll follow him.
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And pride immediately manifests again.
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Let him return to the Lord and He will have compassion on him
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and to our God for he will. Abundantly pardon, here it is.
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Verse 8 for my thoughts. Are not your thoughts.
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We have to acknowledge, we do not have God's Thoughts by
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ourselves, we can have them because he wants to give them,
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but in order for you to have his thoughts, you must let go of
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your thought. That's the problem is that we
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are so entrenched in our soul Realm.
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Of how we want to experience, God.
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And how we want God to touch us that we won't abandon our
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thought. And this happens in so many
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circumstances. Well Lord.
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Do you know what he did to me? Get rid of that phone.
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I don't care. Forgive them anyway.
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I mean, you know what you did and I forgave you now, that
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should be a simple. But it's not simple.
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It's easy to apply when you'll yield to God, but it's amazing.
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How many people don't, you know, be Believers.
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I get around that have learned faith and we'll talk about their
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old life and what they used to have before they started
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following. God, I gave up there, okay, what
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you gave up, I don't care what you used to have, because when
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you have that you were in Egypt, so quit talking about your Egypt
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experienced. Let's go on with the Lord.
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Let's do something great you know how many people cannot
-
plant churches today? Unless they have a whole team of
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people and so much finances to start it?
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Yeah. Yeah, why?
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Because that's the new way to do it and it's all natural.
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I mean we've done them ourselves but we don't do them as much
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anymore because you're like, you start asking, why are we doing
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this? Why do you do it?
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I mean, the church is taking the red carpet, you know, that when
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they do the events and they put the themes behind and everybody
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takes a little selfies. Where do we get that from?
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I mean, why are we? And we, I understand we want to
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talk about avert. The forgot have hurt eyes.
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Let's just go ahead and do the exploits of God.
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Then you want to get more people here.
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He'll them. When you go to work, lay hands
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on the sick. So they'll recover I mean go
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ahead and do the works of Jesus more so than just us posting to
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social media that we were attending aggravate church
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today. No, I'm a creative, guys.
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Like, please share his videos. I mean, we want the word to get
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out, don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day, our best
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tool should be our demonstration of our lives every day.
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Every day. He says, this for my thoughts
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are not your thoughts, nor my ways, nor are your ways, my
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waist, which tells me this, God, when he gets involved in your
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circumstance, he's gonna give you away to.
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She'll be like, what? What?
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And you're going to have to abandon your way of doing it?
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When I don't know, if I can do it that way you can with him.
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I'm telling you right now the life of faith is crazy because
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it's not by sight. It's at a word.
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I said it's not a word. It's crazy bill when we bought
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this small, crazyville crazy. But it's not because we're doing
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it his way. You know, how many people I've
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turned away from renting? Do we have to pay a mortgage?
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Yes. But at the end of that can't be
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moved by how tight it is. They'll come in Pastor.
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What about what are we going to do?
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What do we need? Just give me your word of what I
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naturally need. And I'll go to him and get his
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word, because I'll let go on my way.
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I'll let go my thought, because he already gave me his thought
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he said, son, I want to remind you.
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This is not a least mall, it's the Lord's mall.
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And I knew, right then, I don't care if I never get a lease
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because apparently has another idea then And if he wants to
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change it where we just take over everything.
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Well praise God. I'll do it.
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I said I'll do it. We'll do it to influence our
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community but at the onset we're doing it.
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A particular way, I mean I have more people coming in the mall
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right now. That are have no investment in
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it. None walking it now and thankful
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but they're not paying for the air condition that were running,
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if so they can walk in it. So, I'm spending more to cool a
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space for one store. That's open during the day.
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This is crazy. But it's not my way.
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And so I have walk out it this morning.
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I'm praying. Thank you Lord, this place is
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full. I'm calling those things that be
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not as though they were I'm not moved by what bill came in and
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how much that is now who didn't realize that if we did that, oh,
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how much are all the that air-conditioned doesn't work
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either? Oh, I got a video yesterday that
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had a little waterfall in a particular unit.
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That's cool. It's a natural water feature.
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But they didn't they don't see it that way.
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You know, when we had this place we had a natural water feature
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in the back to you how many remember that it would rain.
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And it would just come down and come all the way down the front.
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And we had a little towels. The last ownership.
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Sure didn't care about. It didn't do anything.
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I didn't do anything till I pay years of rent and then they put
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a new roof on And all the while, what did I do?
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Patience. Don't do any good.
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Yell scream, Phi, C Lord. Could I have legally tried to go
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to court? Sure.
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But you know what the Lord told me not to you know I'm a glad
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I'm glad I listened to Holy Ghost because if I to try to
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take that man to court over a roof, he would not have
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personally, underwrite me buying them all.
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Of the amount that we financed, he put in almost half out of his
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own personal account. But that's because we're not led
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by how we feel. So I just praise louder on those
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nights and mornings when the rain came through and it wasn't
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more of the Holy Ghost, cause the rain fell.
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It was just a hole in the roof. I was waiting for somebody to
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come down, lame, man. But no one did.
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He goes on and says this for my thoughts are not your thoughts.
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My ways are not your ways, declares the Lord for, as the
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heavens are Higher than the earth.
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So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than
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your thoughts. The reason why the heavens is
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not about proximity or location, it's about Realms of Dominion.
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In the heaven realm of dominion, his thought is different than a
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natural Earth Realm. Where we are in a fallen State
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and we make decisions on how we feel.
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And what we see, I'll give you take some point.
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Hey, we're going to do a mission trip.
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Hey, we're going to take them into on men's trip women on the
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woman's trip and people say, oh, I would love to go.
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And then in the end they come and say well I can't make it
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this year because I just couldn't afford it.
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So who told you you couldn't go your pocketbook or God.
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Did we ever consult and asked the Lord Lord?
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Do I need to go on this trip? Is there something I can tell
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you right now? Without a doubt?
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Some people did not go on a trip, not because the funds
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weren't available. It's because they never got in
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faith for God to move on someone else to give.
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Because they didn't make a need. and my God, shall supply all my
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God creates needs in your life by giving you words that are
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outside of your capacity outside of your thinking, and your way
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of doing, and then he expects you to believe it.
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Even though you're like, there's no way I can go and I have
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committed and I look like an idiot now.
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And it looks like I'm not going to be able to go, but God, he
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can do it in the Midnight Hour, it doesn't matter.
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He doesn't have to come through when it's comfortable for you to
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be able to receive. He can do it on the day of It's
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amazing what he can do when you live a life of Faith, but it's
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not a comfortable life. But it is an exciting life.
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Because again, as long as you continue to process how you will
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do things for God, based upon your soul.
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You'll never actually Touch Heaven and the what you do
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actually will not have a reward. Because God's not rewarding you
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the things you do for him without him.
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I must say that again. God is not obligated to reward.
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You eternally for the things you do for him without him.
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Now Lord don't you know, I did this why I never asked you to do
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it. We made this statement before
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the greatest tragedy in life, right?
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Is somebody help me? Huh.
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No, they I'm get to the success one.
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It's life without purpose, right?
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The greatest challenge in life and knowing what to do.
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The greatest mistake in life is being busy, but not effective
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and the greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong
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assignment. I wonder how many people don't
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stand before King Jesus one day and say.
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But I thought that's what you wanted me to do.
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And he says, you never even asked You know, I always wanted
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to do a mission trip, Lord. I always wanted to.
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You know, you know, you know, my heart was right.
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Was it cause if your heart was right, then you would have done
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what he said. Because you would have kept his
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word. I've been in over 28 countries
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because the Lord has funded them all.
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Because he said, you're going to go.
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I mean things that are, it's not because it's there, in fact,
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most of the Great Men of faith that I've talked to without a
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doubt. All of them tell me I started
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with nothing. Pastor Hagen told me, he said
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this hundreds of Acres that we have.
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All of it except for one piece, one parcel.
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Did I have the money to buy it when the opportunity came?
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Only one. Only one, the rest of it, when
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it came, when the opportunity came to purchase it, we believed
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God and it showed up because my thoughts are not his thoughts
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and what he has for you so much bigger than you could personally
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keep have capacity to think about that.
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You need God to get involved in the process.
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I mean, it's like, we dream of a life that is so exciting.
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But yet fail to ever get there because we limit it through our
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own thinking. Let's go on, he says this.
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So, my ways are higher than your ways.
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My thoughts are higher than your thoughts verse 10 for As the
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rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return without
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watering the Earth and making it bare and Sprout and furnish seed
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to the sower and bread to the eater.
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So, will my word be notice what he's saying.
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Now, this verse 11 is connected to my ways and my thoughts.
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So will my word be that goes forth from my mouth.
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It will not return to me empty without accomplishing.
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What I desire. And without succeeding in the
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matter for which I sent for, you will go out with what Joy.
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I can't tell you how many times we drove up on the property and
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the five years that we were believing God And other
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opportunities were coming to try to take it away.
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That I just said, Thank you little for 2121 u.s. oneself.
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Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.
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I'm not moved by what I feel. I'm not moved at all.
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In fact, when we did raise, and I went back to them and I said,
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hey, we have the 10%, the person.
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I talked to said, well, we want another 10, I mean, one another
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10. But if I let my thoughts my
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emotions, you know what, thoughts came where you going to
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say to the congregation? You're going to like an idiot.
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You didn't get it. You've been talking about this
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thing for five years. You've been saying it assures.
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You been claiming it now. They want another don't even
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want to negotiate with you more. They only, they're going to sell
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it out from underneath you. They are not going to get all
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that came, and I just had to take it captive.
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Take it captive and go back to one word I got on A1A past the
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hammock. Well, if man can have
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million-dollar homes on the beach of summer homes, don't you
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think I could get you a mall? Yes sir.
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I said Lord, how do we do it? I said, I need to talk to the
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owner and the Lord sent the way. And I sent a letter to the man's
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home address. And he called me.
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Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah.
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I did let the thought, come, you're going to write the man's
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home address. You're going to leave the chain
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of command. Now what, you know, I was trying
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to get up there up to chain anyway, nobody would let me.
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You're going to go ahead and go there.
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You're gonna I mean you should have heard the stuff.
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You're going to risk it. You're gonna jeopardize your
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relationship with. You're blowing it, you can't do
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this. That guy knows that you're
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running down him at his house. This is like personal.
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That's his place his home. But God.
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I was driving my own self home, and all of a sudden I look down.
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And I saw his name. I said Jesus.
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But the mall wasn't for me. The mall was for Christ, come my
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wife and I were in The Home Depot picking up some supplies
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you know, cuz I should have you know a personal parking spot in
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both of these locations actually and all of a sudden another
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Minister and the community was looking at us, you know, kind of
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with that. I And said, are y'all pastors?
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Yeah. Yes we are.
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We're at. And we told him and told him
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that we just purchased them all, and they did a Holy Ghost Dance
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right here on the floor, right? Darren Home Depot and began to
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praise God and they said this, because God did it for you.
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What I'm believing God for. I know he can do it for me.
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See when we get his fault. In his ways, it helps Propel
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others to be at a believe, God, for the things, God has given
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them. This ain't about coming in
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feeling good. This is about doing exploits for
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the kingdom of God. He and all the mental suffering
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that comes with living the life of faith is worth it.
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It's worth it. It's worth to be able to say
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there's no way in the world. I could have pulled that off but
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God there's no way. It could happen.
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No way. It could have been done, but I
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have joy and I let Joy lead me and proceeded forth with peace
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in the mountains and the hills Break Forth with shouts of Joy.
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Because of you before, You in all the fields trees of the
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field will clap their hands instead of thorn bushes.
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Meaning, if I get rid of my thinking, I'm not going to have
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thorns in life. I'm going to have cypresses come
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up. Instead of having the nettle of
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the Myrtle will come up, it will be a memorial to the Lord for an
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everlasting sign. We will not be cut off.
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The Bible says in Galatians 5:25, if we live by the spirit,
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let us also walk by the spirit. You're a spirit being.
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You can no longer allow yourself to to allow your emotions to
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control the situation. He must say, okay.
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Dad. And this study makes sense to me
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right now. But what do I do?
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In this situation. What do I do?
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Before we even respond. Before we lash out before, we
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even give some an utterance. We needed spiritually.
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Take a step back and say, hold on a minute.
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Get it together. You don't, you don't control me
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these emotions. These feelings.
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Don't control me, dad. What do I do in this situation?
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Just tell me your way. Give me your thought because I'm
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a spirit being, and I'm be, I'm gonna live by the spirit.
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The last verse is Romans 8:14 for all, and I like the
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Amplified, not the classic, but the Amplified, its new Amplified
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version says this for all who are allowing themselves to be
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led by the spirit, Of God are sons of God.
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You have to allow. Him to take the lead, you have
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to allow him to take the lead. You have to allow.
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You have to allow what he said, and his way to dominate you so
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much, That it can only be that way.
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If you've not been inside the mall, we have the display of
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what we're going to look like on the outside and the inside.
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Why do we do that? The cast Vision, right?
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Just so the community can see, we're going somewhere, but the
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community doesn't have faith that we can do it.
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They're going to have up, they're going to enjoy the
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byproduct of being totally disconnected and just watch it
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happen. We on the other hand are going
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to see it by faith. See it by faith.
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I was out of town my grandchildren last week four of
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them, the little camping, I get emails while I'm gone checked in
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This was an issue. This was an issue.
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This was an issue. This was an issue when it came
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to the mall. And I have this thought.
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Well sure. Would like to hear something
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good. Right?
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You can't be moved by that, then a good one came in where some
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body was walking them. All and was so thank.
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Tell the owners told her property.
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Managed to tell the owners. Thank you for opening the mall
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so we can come walk again. Praise God, but it's Pastor
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Marcy said in prayer today. They don't understand they're
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not coming to walk. They think they are but there
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can be healing in those Halls. Now There can be a tangible
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touch from God and because I encourage you you should come
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walk them all and not walk them all just to get exercise but to
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lay hands on every store and called it prospering.
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Because I'm telling you right now, we are Jacob in this
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relationship. We will cause anyone who shows
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up to prosper But it doesn't come because it comes because we
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call it. We put our hand to it.
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We watch it visually come because all of a sudden we
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didn't have, but now it shows up we're calling in the resources
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every time I drive on the property.
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I'm like, thank you, Lord, that all the resources necessary to
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completely transform this and I honestly the more I found out
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that it's how bad it is the more I actually get more excited, you
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know? Like that's weird Pastor you
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know why? I like it because it shows how
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dead the This is because when it turns out like we see it, then
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it will be true. It was resurrected.
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I said it was resurrected. It wasn't like, we moved into
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something that didn't need to be pulled up out of the dead, but
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we can do it cuz we give life because we're not led by what we
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see and I'm just giving you trying to give you a little bit
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of a corporate you know, thought processes.
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But in any situation in life, you just stop and say, wait a
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minute. Now don't move by I feel because
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I'm I can't even get to the father. unless I'm coming to him
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in spirit and in truth, and if I want Dad on my situation, was
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the spirit of God saying And I'm telling you right now, if all of
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us would begin to live that way, then everyone you ever come
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encounter with. They're like house has happened.
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You'll say that at all I go to church well and they'll be all I
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go to church. I go to church.
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But why is it different that you go to church?
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And you get, but I don't because you're actually living by the
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spirit and not a feel-good experience.
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Living by the spirit. It make you feelings hurt.
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At times. But any time mine hurt.
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I get it over to the other side. All right, I get yourself
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together and you get yourself together.
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I've had it. I've had it.
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I've had it happen on more than one occasion.
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Patricia. I'm like, man, and I'm like,
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Payson, you can't keep acting like this, can't keep feeling
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that, is she going to get up? Because the Holy Ghost on the
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inside saying, what are you doing?
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What are you doing right now? What are you doing right now?
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Are you going respond? You can't respond like that can
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be going that way. Can't go, there, can't go.
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There can't go there. Now, I'll go ahead and let me
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in. Let me do what I need to do.
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Just yield. And every time I yield, man, and
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I go and act, even even when I act by the spirit and I don't
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get the response that you want, I'm like I did it by the Spirit
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by God, we're going to have it, it's going to be.
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All right. And we overcome every time and
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do great. Exploits, are you hearing me?
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