Sermon
The Time Of Faith
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Hallelujah. Well, the Bible says, in first
1 John 5 chapter mention
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John chapter 5. First John chapter 5 starting in
1 John 5 chapter mention
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verse 13, says, these things I have written to you.
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Who believe, in the name of the son of God, that you may know
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that you have eternal life. Amen.
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You can know it. Then he goes, in verse 14, he
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says this is the confidence. Say this is the confidence.
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This is the confidence, which we have have before him that if we
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ask anything, According to his will that's a conditional
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statement. You cannot ask him anything, you
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can ask him something that's not according to his will.
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So the requirement here in order for you to have confidence is
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that you're asking him something, but not just asking
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him anything, you're asking it in accordance to his will.
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So, if we ask anything according to his, will, he what what's he
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do? What's he do?
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And often, you know, we'll find ourselves saying this often all
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of us are, you know, have probably said this at some point
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in time in our life where we said, God are you hearing me?
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It's like God's not even listening to me.
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It's like, he can't even hear me.
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I'm talking to him. But, you know, as even hear what
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I'm saying, well, I'm telling you, if you're asking him
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according to his will, then he hears you now he's not obligated
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to answer you to let you know. Oh yeah, I heard that actually.
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He's already answered it from his scripture, so you
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understand. He don't have to say so that you
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hear him in your spirit man, or give you an audible voice to
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say, Hey, I just heard you because you prayed, thanks for
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praying to He's not obligated. He's already given his word that
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if you ask me anything according to my will I hear you.
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Are you with me? I hear you.
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So when I go to prayer, I'm always conscientious.
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Okay? A Michaels guys, I've gone to
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prayer sometimes and I feel like saying something I feel like it
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but I know if I say that, God's not going to hear it because all
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of a sudden the Holy Ghost will give me a scripture and I'll
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know how I just can't say that I'll find myself praying to the
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Lord saying I'm father, you know, and I'm talking this and
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I'm Play in this, and I know that and I say, okay yeah, I
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know, cuz I know your word says and I'll have to go to that.
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And I've even said I know, I'm just running off at the mouth
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and you're not hearing any of that.
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Let me get to what? I know you here.
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I'm the only one who I guess. I'm the only way to Tulsa, God,
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I guess. I mean, I'm talking to the Lord,
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and I know when I'm saying stuff that he's not hearing because
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the Bible tells us, he hears this, what does he hear?
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hear anything we ask according to his will, so if I want God's
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undivided attention, then all I have to do is speak what he will
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hear and it's his will are you with me?
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So this is the confidence which we have before him.
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So again, if you're in a place where you'd like mayonnaise God,
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listening to me, all you got to do is examine, what are you
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saying? What are you asking?
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Because if you're not asking for that, which is God's will, then
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the chances are that point. The chances are 100%.
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That he's not listening to that. Now, what he will do is he will
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give you instruction on what to say Okay, they're saying
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something but I'm not connecting because it's not, my will.
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So let me get them something to say so we can have a
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conversation. Are you with me?
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Let's go on. So we know, he hears us verse 15
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and if we know that he hears Us in whatever we ask now, it's not
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a whatever, not a whatever you want, it's whatever he is,
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according to his will. Well, Lord.
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Now I just want to have a whole month off.
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Well, is it God's will for you to have a whole month off?
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Are you with me? You know?
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Lord, I want to have this. This this is that God's will
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because you can ask God for anything.
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But the only thing you have confidence that he's hearing is
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the things that are in line with his will, Hallelujah.
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You could be a single person. Let's take Chelsea stand up.
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Chelsea, Chelsea is over here singer.
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She can be saying God, I want that guy to be my husband but
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he's lost. He doesn't even know.
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Jesus Christ. As his Lord, he's living in the
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world and the Lord can't Of that prayer because the Lord's was
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says, literally do not be unequally yoked with
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unbelievers. So the Lord is not going to
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answer, but the devil would say, I can accommodate that Chelsea.
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I'll bring that guy right by your path.
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I'll bring that guy and he'll, he'll he'll wine you.
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Hildine, you he'll seduce you. He'll get you to where you can
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say. I do so that he can thwart the
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plan of God for your life. Are you with me?
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Thank you, Chelsea and be seated.
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So we have to understand that God hears us when we pray
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according to his will I'm always amazed when I get into certain
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places. I say amazing, I'm not shocked.
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It's just like I guess it's that moment where I'm like, you know,
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kind of like man where you get around people say, hey will you
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pray and they're lying. No.
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Why that it's a number one indication they don't know how?
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That they are not habitual enough in a prayer life with God
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that they can pray. See, if you come on Wednesday
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morning, your subject that I might say, hey, close in prayer.
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I don't always close in prayer. So come get ready to pray, I get
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around people, my wife's been around these, they come up,
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Monica my wife spree can pray. My wife has an anointing in this
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area prayer and God uses her in this capacity.
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And people come under say, oh man, I pray pray, but they never
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show up at prayer. Ever.
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They never come to any corporate prayer, which me butts tells me
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most likely their private prayer is a miss.
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Is a Miss. In fact, James says, you have
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not because you ask not, but the problem is you're asking and you
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ask the Bible says you ask amiss, meaning you ask me only
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for things for your own personal pleasures and desires.
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Well, when you ask for a selfish ambition, God's not listening to
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that. The devil will listen to that
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and accommodated You don't want to hear.
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Will the devil answer your prayers?
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Yes, every prayer that's outside of God's will he wants to answer
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you so that you'll think God Did It For You.
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Because he'll give you the world at the expense of your soul.
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Well, I got it, I asked for it, you know, there's things in the
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spirit realm, though, word to try to get things to pull you
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out of God's plan and purpose for your life.
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Amen! All I got to do is go to
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scripture and I'm going to find out whether or not I'm straight.
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I'm in alignment. I'm doing exactly what God needs
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me to do. Are you with me?
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So again, if we know he hears us and whatever we ask and we know
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that whatever's tied to verse 4, in the whatever is anything we
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ask according to his will we know that we have The request
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which we have asked from him. When do we have it?
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When do we have it? When do we have it?
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At the moment we asked, Hallelujah, come on, say, Amen.
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We have it, the moment we ask now turn over to Mark chapter
Mark 11 chapter mention
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passage of scripture. Jesus said this, when he was
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teaching a particular Moment In Time, concerning the subject of
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faith. And he said, this in verse 22,
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he said have faith And God. One translation says, have the
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god kind of Faith verse 23. Truly, I say to you, whoever
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says, to this mountain be taken up cast into the sea and does
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not doubt in his heart. But but, but believes that what
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he says is going to happen, it will be granted him or he'll
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have what he says. One translation says, then verse
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30 24, therefore I say to you, Jesus is talking all things for
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which you pray and ask now what What are the things you're
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praying asking? They're not, whatever you decide
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to pray is the prayer of cording to his will see.
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This is how context gets involved because if we don't
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watch out, we read scriptures because Jesus another time says,
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you not ask anything of the father in my name but whatever
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you ask, the father in my name, he will give it to you.
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Now, he'll only give you what's in alignment in accordance to
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his will. You cannot ask God for somebody
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else's spouse. Can't happen.
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You can't ask God for somebody else's Ministry.
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You can't ask God for somebody else's house.
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I mean cuz the you got covetousness involved there, you
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know, you got lust, involves certain in places, there are you
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with me. So those prayers are not in
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accordance to his will but the devil will accommodate trying to
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bring something by to keep you deceive.
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That God is answering you. How do we know we're here?
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We're praying God's prayer is in alignment with his will, and if
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you're not in his word, then you will not know his will.
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And if you do not know his will, you will not be able to pray.
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The prayers that God ordained for you, to pray to bring his
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kingdom to to pass through your lives.
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Now, I understand right here at this point because I just heard
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it in the spirit. I just heard somebody say well,
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but I mean, I've prayed prayers before and God's answer them and
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they were good. You What God answers?
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Tom's to just show you his goodness but won't let you
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remain there in order to continue to navigate your life
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that way. God healed people, that weren't
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even born again, but let them know.
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I love you and this is what I want for you.
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When he healed the man at the pool of Bethesda.
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He was letting him know. I want you whole but then later
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found him and says now, listen, don't you go sin anymore.
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Something worse to get on you. That doesn't mean he could go
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sin some worse. Come on.
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And then turn around. Say God, heal me now Gods like
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grow up. There's things we do for our
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children when their babes but it becomes unacceptable later on.
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Come on. Are you with me?
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There's a process of growth that we are to grow from Faith to
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Faith, glory to glory, and if we don't watch out the minute, God
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answers us, when we are an infant, we want to apply infant
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Faith, too, mature to Tom that we're supposed to be mature.
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And the Lord saying, I don't do that for you anymore.
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Come on. How many you have children that
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are five years old and older. Great awesome.
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How many you still clean their bottoms when they go to the
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bathroom? I mean, there comes a season.
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It's over, right? I mean your teenager ain't going
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to call you say, mom, what's up? Can you come white me?
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You know, the proverbial. They grab your knees, you know.
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While they're on the toilet, right?
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No, you're like, nah, you're old enough now.
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Does that mean you don't love them?
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Oh, does that mean you don't love them, you can't expect them
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to do something you to do something for them.
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That you've trained them, how to do themselves.
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And God has given us his whole word, left it in the planet that
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we can pick up and read. And then put himself inside us
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to cause all these truths to come alive.
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So that we can live the most successful, we can as Believers
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in the earth, and we want God to do it without not taking the
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responsibility to read. And to know, when to grow, My
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faith can help you along for a season.
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Because I'm showing you, God loves you.
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He cares for you, I can lay hands on you and you can be
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healed. They'll come a point though that
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God says get the healing yourself.
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Because now you're at a capacity that if you would have kept
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growing and going, I can pay for your bills for season to show
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you. God wants to provide for you,
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but they'll come a time that God says star sowing into this
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Kingdom, so you can start reaping.
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Hallelujah. You know, our children, I
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understand when they were born, they didn't know how to
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articulate their words. So what do they do when they
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need something? What did they do?
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They Cry. Wow.
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That's how they do it. Why, but you come there comes a
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point that Y is unacceptable response.
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Right? I'm not going to have the
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teenager. Come on, get way.
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What are you doing? What do we say?
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We tell Harvey PK students. Use your speaking words right
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now. Use your little words, talk to
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me. What do you want?
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Don't cry. Cuz I don't even hear that.
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I think I mind. My daughter is VPK, I don't even
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hear that right now Shield to, I don't even hear that speak to
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me, I don't hear that. Why?
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Because if you're a baby, I'll put you in, with the infants.
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Hey man, we want them to articulate.
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What do you need? Ask well God's the same way when
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you're a baby you know he's here and you just cry out to him
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anyway. But once he starts to grow you,
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he expects you to start using your words, because look what he
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said, he said this, he said have faith in God.
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Truly I. So let's put it this way.
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Jesus says to April, Jesus says to Marcus.
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Jesus says to Brad. Dulli Jesus says to Vicki.
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Jesus says so you implant you. Jesus says to you whatever, says
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to you, whoever and whoever us says to the mountain, not Jesus
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saying you're saying be taking them cats in this and does not
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doubt in his heart, God doesn't doubt, God doesn't have doubt in
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him, God's not the one who has a doubt problem.
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God only believes in fact, Jesus, when he was going to
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gyrus his house after they came to him and says, hey man, your
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daughters died. Leave the teacher alone.
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He said, look at your eyes. He said, only believe.
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These circumstances don't move me or move my word from being
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ineffective because my words going to come to pass, it's
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going to do exactly. I said, I'd come, I said I'd
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healer is that way. In that what Jesus told jar has?
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I'll come and healer doesn't matter.
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She slipped off doesn't matter that her body has quit.
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The her pulse is quit pumping in her.
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Her lungs have quit breathing doesn't matter cuz the gods word
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goes everywhere. But there comes a responsibility
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that we have to, but he who believes what he says, that's
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what I say. That's what you say is going to
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happen. It will be granted to you.
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Therefore I say to you saying to you, Jesus says to you all
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things will Rich. Who praise you?
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Pray? and ask believe that you who you
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have received them past tense, And they will be granted you,
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Hallelujah. So when we have confidence, that
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we know God's word, amen. Let's quit, treating God as a
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mystery. Let's do what he says and
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actually seek his kingdom and discover him.
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God has not hiding from you. He's not hiding from you.
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If you listen to certain things, you think that God is so
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elusive. The minute you think you got it?
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He jumps around like a man. No God wants you to be with him.
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He wants to talk with you. He wants to carry on a
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conversation with you. He wants to reveal his truth to
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you. Jesus said there's many more
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things I'd like to say to you but you're not able to receive
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but when he comes now, he's going to reveal some things and
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if you will seek me and diligently seek me in abide in
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me, then he's going to reveal to you, he's gonna teach you all
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things, he's gonna you're gonna do he'll guide you in all truth.
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He'll call. Things that come to your
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remembrance can heal disclose things to come.
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That doesn't mean the Holy Ghost will hide from you?
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The Holy Ghost will say oh you thought you caught me here?
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All you think, you know that truth?
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No I'm not gonna tell you, I'll just jump over here because I
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need you to come and catch. Me know the Holy Ghost abides in
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you. He's like come on, can we have a
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conversation? So I can reveal the will of our
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father so you can bring it to pass in the planet.
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God. So much wants his kingdom to
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come. His will to be done on Earth as
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it is in heaven. Well, God's in control, God gave
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you control? Because he gave you Authority.
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He gave you Dominion. He gave you the right to be sons
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of God and to live by faith. Amen.
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Now what is faith? Well, the Bible tells us in
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Hebrews 11:1 now, Faith is the substance of things hoped for
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the evidence of Things Not Seen, how do we acquire faith?
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Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God,
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according to Romans 10:17. So we acquire Faith by hearing
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God's word, Well, what's so significant about?
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God's word? God's word never fails.
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What did Isaiah say about God's word?
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In Isaiah chapter. 46 verses 10 and 11.
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The Lord says this declaring the end from the beginning and from
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ancient times things which have not been done saying my purpose,
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say my purpose, that's his purpose, not your purpose, but
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his purpose, whose purpose, the Lord's purpose, my purpose will
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be established. And I will the Lord speaking
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accomplish all my good pleasure, then we get the verse 11,
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calling the bird of prey from the East.
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And a man of my purpose from a far country.
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Truly I have spoken, truly, I will bring it to pass, I have
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planned it. Surely, I will do it.
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The Lord is not a man that he should lie.
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Yet if we don't watch out, we could have conversations with
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people who confess Jesus Christ as their Savior and they would
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make God out to be a liar. As if he said something he
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didn't do it. So he changed his mind and said
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she changed his mind concerning that it's not his will for their
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lives and they're an exception to the rule even though his word
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says something, totally different.
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God is not a man that he should lie.
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What he says he'll do, and why is this so significant?
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Because he's the king. He has all authority.
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All authority. I said, all authority has been
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given Jesus in heaven and on Earth, and Paul fur went a
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little further and said he had all authority in Heaven and
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Earth, and under the Earth. There's not a place that his
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authority doesn't Rule and reign in exist.
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And then Jesus said, I'll give you my word.
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Now, Jesus is word is not like a man's word who can change his
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mind and not do it. Be a liar, swindler a cheat.
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God, can't lie. So if the Lord said, this is how
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it is. The only reason it would not
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manifest in your life is because you choose not to believe it.
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You choose to not be firmly persuaded that.
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The plan God has for me, we'll come.
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In fact, you thwart that plan, you stop it.
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The Lord said I sent my word to heal them.
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He said, when I send my word it will I did not send it to be
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void but it shall accomplish that which it was sent to do.
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Hey men and whatever it is goddess on.
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For you desired for you to do, had his plan and purpose before
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the foundations of the earth, before you even in your mother's
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womb, that plan is still in effect and it's your
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responsibility to discover it. Your responsibility to discover
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it. So what we've seen so far is
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that in first John chapter 5 that we can have confidence in
1 John 5 chapter mention
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our prayers, when we ask according to his will his
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purpose. And we know when we're doing
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that, he hears us. He hears us every time.
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Not only do we know he hears us but we have it.
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And as ours at the time, we pray, according to Mark chapter
Mark 11 chapter mention
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11, when we believe would no doubt in our heart calls, doubt
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will hinder the plan of God to come to pass.
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Not because God can't do it, but because you won't allow him to
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do it through you, through your unbelief.
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And most of the time unbelief are doubt, is associated with
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how you view yourself. When you identify yourself with
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someone who can't instead of identifying yourself with who
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you are now in Christ, you will not be able to accomplish if you
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keep identifying yourself. As this rotten individual that
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needed saving. Well you were a rotten
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individual that needed saving but once you're saved you're not
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writing anymore, you're not that person anymore.
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So you need to quit thinking like that person.
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You're a new creature in Christ. You're a Believer.
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You're a Of God and God does not have junk kids.
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Well, you know, that's that's, you know, you know, the little
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terminologies we used to say, you know, they're kind of the
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outcasts of the family, you know.
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They're, they're not the, you know, the run at a family.
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Those those types of little derogatory words that people
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grab their own little labels and say they're this is who I am,
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I'm not like every like, you know, No, you're a child of God.
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So identify yourself. They're the only reason why a
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generation from twenty years old and upward in the nation of
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Israel, did not make the promised land is because they
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identified themselves as slaves instead of seeing themselves as
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a delivered, people free from the bondage.
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How do I know they still saw themselves as slaves because
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when they went into the promised land aspire?
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Out and actually saw the evidence of God's word cuz they
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said it is just. As God has said, it is truly a
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land flowing with milk and honey, up to this point, they
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don't even know if that's true. Till they saw it.
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Even though they saw him work miracles.
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Saw how he routed the Egyptians saw.
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Their enemy literally die. In the Red Sea.
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So it all with their eyes. And now they go into here and
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they see that it's just as God said, but what else did they
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see? God didn't tell him about the
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other things. They would see because they were
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irrelevant to God. It's irrelevant to God because
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God had given them a word prior to its a land flowing with milk
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and honey. What did he give them before?
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He said, I have given you the land, which means it's done.
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So who's ever? There can't stay.
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But what did they do? They view themselves as slaves.
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When they saw giants, they didn't see themselves as
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conquerors. They saw them as ones that are
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submitted to those types of people.
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And they came back with a testimony, we can't do it for.
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We are like Grasshoppers and because they didn't identify
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with the Covenant, God, they had doubt unbelief.
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They say they hardened their And they died in the wilderness and
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never accomplished God's Destiny for their life.
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They wandered. Mama.
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It's amazing. What?
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One day a do? You hear what I'm saying?
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We're not going. We can't do it.
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They come back and say fun. Moses got the Lord says you're
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right. You're not since you're going to
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be like this, everybody, 20 and older, you're gonna die out here
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and he's going to take your kids in what they do the next day.
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Okay, we're gonna go. We going.
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Now we going and what did Moses say?
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He ain't widget. You're not going but they went
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anyway. And what happened?
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People died? People died.
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So you can't hear was God's will yesterday.
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But because you refused to identify with that God, if
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yesterday, the god of today, says we going to have to wait
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now. And now you're gonna take it in,
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you don't see you, they were taking it in their own hands
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when they didn't believe because they were Grasshoppers and they
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did the same action. Took it in their own hands.
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Now, we'll go, well, you can't go without the Lord.
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Our life must be planned by God and we must walk out his steps
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for our lives. Now why is this significant?
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Because we talking about believing God at his word and we
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know everyone can say, this my gosh, aren't you convinced that
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God will do what he says? I mean, I bet I could go through
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and do a personal interview with every one of you and the
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majority of you would say, yes, yes, saying that and living that
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are two entirely. Different things.
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So today I want to encourage you and help strengthen you because
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sometimes we misunderstand what God is saying and in doing.
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So we apply things in areas that do not work for that word.
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Faith comes by what hearing and hearing from the word of God.
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Number one, you can't even begin to have access to Faith.
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If you're not in his word to here, period can happen.
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Number two, you can't have faith even if you come to a church
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where there's the preaching of the word, if the preaching of
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the word is not rightly divided. That's why I say don't believe
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what I say. That's why I have this whole
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congregation every year. I challenged them read the Bible
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and we have Bible reading plans from Genesis to Revelation.
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Let's read the word together. That's why I require our staff
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that we pay here at the church to read the Bible and I check it
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every year. And those who are in our Elevate
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supportive Ministries, no matter where they're at in Ministry
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coming. We say if you're going to be a
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part of the team, you're going to have to read the word because
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You're not helping anyone. If the word is not in you
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because there's a spiritual law of principle of the Kingdom.
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That's in place, what's in? You is what you, what you have
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is, what you'll give. That's why Peter said silver and
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going to have none. Not that he didn't possess
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silver and gold. He just didn't have any on him.
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Just like, I don't have any money on me right now.
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I don't have any cash to give you nine pull a card out, but it
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ain't gonna do you any good if you can't scan it, right?
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Okay, so I could go by say silver and gold.
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I have none. But what I do have so What you
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have is what you give and you can't give something you don't
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have. So if the words not in you, you
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can't give the word. if the war is not rightly divided coming
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out of you, then you'll give a not rightly divided word You'll
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make an excuse well. Now, in this case, you know, his
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ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts are higher than
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us. So, we, you know, we just really
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can't explain don't say that. Discover something find out
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what's going on. Amen.
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So people here and you have to here and you must study for
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yourself so that it becomes a part of who you are because I
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know where my firm persuasion is but I don't always know where
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yours is. And I know if my faiths attacked
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your face attacked. I know if what I'm believing had
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manifested yet and I'm getting false said it won't.
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Then you're getting false too. Amen.
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But we must then see how Faith Works because Faith does work
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that manifest because Faith won't stay faithful forever.
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What I mean by that is now if the definition of faith, we say
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this. Now, Faith is the substance of
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things hoped for, the evidence of Things Not Seen.
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Hope means a confident expectation, which means I'm
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confident that it is. And why are you confident?
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Because you're saying what God's word is, you have no confidence.
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If you're asking God and you don't even know, there's no,
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When our Lord, if you are, there's not confidence there.
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God has to give you an answer to get you confidence.
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This is what happened with the man that was healed with Leprosy
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said Lord if you're willing there's no confidence so the
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Lord has to give him confidence. I am He gave his word on.
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I am touched him. He was healed.
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Now, that was without that man's Faith, because he wasn't
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believing, he wasn't even sure but God lets him know, my will
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is to heal. Then others that came with an
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expectation. If I just touch him, I'll be
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healed. Just speak the word only and my
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servant will be healed. God called those two
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individuals, the woman with the issue of blood in the Centurion
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had great faith. Why?
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Because what I said is settled, I've spoken it, will surely
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bring it to pass. They believe it and it happened.
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I said it happened now. They believed and were acting
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before it ever manifested the woman with the issue of blood.
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She's saying, I believe that if I just touch him, which means
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she left her house to go, get to Jesus.
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Most people want Jesus to come to the house.
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Nobody wants to do their part and seeking.
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Yeah. Jesus says, listen.
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There's things about me, but you got to come to it.
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See, listen, when you are lost. This is what we get wrong, guys.
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When you're lost, you can't go to God.
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The Bible's very clear. What's the scripture say?
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No man goes after God, no, not one.
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You don't go after God. Don't do it.
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The only way you're born again because the Holy Spirit went and
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found you and Drew you to Christ sent a labor by your F began to
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speak to you about some things begin to talk to you about stuff
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and then Eustace I did. But then the minute you leave
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the domain of darkness and you get over here into the kingdom
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of his beloved Son. God, quits pursuing.
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He says, then draw near to me and I'll draw near to you
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because I don't have to pursue, you know, more you're in the
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house. I put my love in.
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You, you should be so overwhelmed by my love and the
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Forgiveness that I just applied in your life and the new nature.
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You are, you want to come and run to me?
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Worship me fall at my feet, 14 and talk.
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And sup with me and spend time with me, that is the attitude of
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the believer. Come on God.
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A real person who's truly committed to God, man.
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When they first get born again. I mean, true conversion, truly
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have been different. It's you can't keep him out of
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church. I'm Different.
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I got to be there. I get concerned when people come
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down and pray and then they don't show up for weeks on end.
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Unfortunately most of them trying to receive Jesus, just so
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when they die, they don't go to hell, that's not what God
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intended. He wanted you to have life.
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Now life more abundantly and for you to walk in the fullness of
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God today. So we then understand that we
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have to pursue God. So, we have to hear.
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We have to subject ourselves to the word.
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We set up underneath the fivefold ministry that God
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placed in the church body so that it can help raise us up.
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Equip us so that we won't be carried by every wind and Doctor
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thrown around. We can actually rightly divide
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the word of Truth and actually build the body up to itself in
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love. So in simplicity, Faith comes by
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hearing that's God's word. The minute you hear God's word,
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that's God's will when you pray God's will, you can have
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confidence that whatever you ask according to that will it will
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happen and it happens the minute you prayed in the spirit by
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faith. The question is when will it
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manifest And that's the proverbial question because now
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Faith is now. Faith is the substance of things
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hoped for that means confident expectation.
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I'm confident because I know God's word, the substance of
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things, you know, the evidence of Things Not Seen.
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Faith is when we believe God's word, even though we don't see
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it, Let's go. See, Jesus was in faith.
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When he said on the third day, I'll be raised up.
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Well hand him died yet, but he's confessing believing that.
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What God said about him would happen, man?
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When he's in the garden, praising, the Lord.
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If there's any other way for this to happen, let this cup
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pass yet. Not my will, your will be done
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because I'm sold out to your purpose because the only plan
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that's going to work as yours. He says that's the only plan,
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there is no plan B son. you going to the Cross, you have to
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shed your blood for all Humanity because there's power in the
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blood I said there's power in the blood and so Jesus, humbled
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himself to obedience to death on the cross, but while he was
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there, he knew in faith. I'll be back on the third day
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and he spoke this out. Now, the day he rose, he was no
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longer in faith for Resurrection because he was there.
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It's manifested the minute it manifests.
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You're not in faith anymore because you have it.
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Faith is why you're buff. Definitely believing it is as it
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is. Until it manifests.
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The best way I can describe, this is like if you order
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something online from Amazon, Okay, you go Click.
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Put it in your little cart right and you pay you cash.
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Are you with me the minute you do that?
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Then they say, okay, they give you like maybe a little tracking
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number something for your stuff. You now because you've given it
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at shipping, you are what firmly persuaded that.
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You've paid the price. That even though you don't see
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it, you suck, you saw it. Just like the word.
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This is my digital word copy. Got a lot of translations here,
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you can look at that thing and oh I see it.
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And so now you make payment, well what's the payment?
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The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus made payment for that.
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So okay, you click. Now I'm a drag that over here.
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Put it in my little box clean. I got it.
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Now every day I'm expecting depending on how big it is.
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I recently ordered something for my truck and I was out of town
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and I said, Gary, they say according to their word that my
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stuff will be there on Thursday. I need you to get it.
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So, I mean, confident and did it arrive on Thursday, just, as
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they said, it did not fail, to come to pass I was convinced.
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I would have it and he I said and he took a picture and there
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it is. Then I have this other one that
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I ordered paid for it. Paid for it.
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And he came here date range. A date range.
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Now I have this expectation between this date and this date.
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Hallelujah. So I would be back between that.
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So I didn't tell Gary, hey I said now I've ordered I don't
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think that want to come in, you know, but obviously this one to
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be here. So you need to make sure you go
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home and get it in the house, okay.
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Get in the house. Don't need nobody coming up on
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my doorstep, taking my stuff. I don't need the devil to come.
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Steal kill and destroy. It's mine.
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All right, we've paid the price for it.
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Well, when I got back home, the the other thing I ordered was
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sitting there on the front porch, how I rejoiced now, what
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came earlier than I expected, why?
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Because God is exceedingly, abundantly far beyond while I
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can think, and imagine sometimes I'm asking but yet, then he
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overwhelms me and does something bigger than I even ask because
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he's just a good god, like that. But he didn't bring me it
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something, or the abundance of without me first asking,
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according to his will, My point is every day, I knew I was in
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faith, but the minute is on the door, I'm not believing anymore
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cuz I have it, it's in my possession.
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There it is. I'm not waiting tomorrow
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believing God for the things I've ordered there at my house.
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I'm not in faith for them. I have them.
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Are you with me? What happens in this walk of
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faith, is that sometimes people, Miss appropriate.
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God's word and the expectation of how your faith works.
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Again, according to Mark 11, it says, we believe we receive and
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any and, and the man that had leprosy in Matthew 8 is said
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Jesus touches hand and immediately.
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It said the Centurion said, just speak the word only and my
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servant be healed at says, at that same hour, the servant was
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healed yet. There's this other passage of
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scripture concerning faith, that can throw a wrench in the whole
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constant context is found in Matthew.
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Hebrews chapter 6, starting in verse 10 says for God is Not
Hebrews 6 chapter mention
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unjust. So as to forget your work, James
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said this, you tell me you have faith without works.
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Basic, he says, ha. I'm going to demonstrate my
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faith by works. Meaning I'm going to act on the
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word. I acted on the word.
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That I received from the website that said, my package would be
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there on a certain day. You know what, my action was, I
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prepared someone to receive it. Well I sure hope against in the
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house I hope they just did take my money.
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I don't know if I'll get it. I'm really worried that it won't
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show up. I'm just so worried.
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I actually, on my last thing that I ordered I had a little
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issue ordered it. Okay.
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It was a set of mats and running boards and so ordered.
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It says, your order is complete great.
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Well, then I went to my email and my credit card, said, fraud
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department, Did you do this particular purchase?
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Because I've never used that card for that website.
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So basically they were trying to safeguard means somebody take my
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number right? So it gave me an option,
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everything's okay. I didn't do it or something's
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wrong with what it said? Something's wrong.
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So I could hit something's wrong but I said everything's okay.
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Well, my car to says pending And I did not get a confirmation
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email from the website because I used a separate car to do
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another order. And I got a confirmation for
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those items in my confirmation, you know it's like the Holy
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Ghost confirming, the word. Are you in me?
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Okay. And so I got cough, so I'm like,
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what's up with this? So I said, I'll let it go 24.
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We'll see if it actually, because they were saying, hey,
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there's a little statement. Says this said, you know, if
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there was a problem or your transaction was denied York, Are
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is free to be used basically with this vendor at this point,
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I don't even know if it got it. Well, I sure didn't want a
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double order, right? So, it's patient, I waited 24
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hours to see something would change with that transaction.
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Would It Go, hot? You know, I'm saying, like it's
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they took the money still pending.
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So at this point, I need to get out.
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Of doubt, I need to know what's going on.
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So I went back to the source I called them.
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I said I didn't order on one card.
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I got a confirmation. I didn't on the other one and
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they call it says you've ordered him listed off all the items.
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I had to include the two. That didn't give me a
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confirmation at all. I said, so, okay.
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So it went through. Yes.
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And the next day, one of the items was here like, well
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obviously, I got it them but the other one had the time frame.
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So what I did is I went and I got my self confident pulls up
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at this point. It says I have it but then I had
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a word come, that made me wonder is it?
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So I had to determine I got to get back in confidence.
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Most people just throw it to chance.
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You can't do this with the things of God, but the things of
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God you can't throw it the chance because the minute I got
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that I created doubt in me, I was not confident that it
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actually happened. So I had to get back in
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confidence. I had to go to the source and
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they had to tell me it's as it was written and it confirmed it
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just like the Bible about a two or three Witnesses.
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Sometimes you got to say, okay, I know that but let me find some
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other examples. Why I got to get out of down
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this thing I got to restore my confidence because it's only
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when I'm confident to declare God's word in my prayer.
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Is it going to come to pass? So know that God is Not unjust
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to forget your work. So what did James said he said
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faith without works is dead? But if you are working, faith,
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mean you're being obedient, you're acting on it, then God
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won't forget this. And we don't want to become
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people that all of a sudden, think God forgot our prayer of
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faith. And that he's not going to do it
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now. Because that's not our god.
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Let's go on. He says, he's not forgot your
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work and the love, what you've shown towards his name and
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having Minister and still ministering to the Saints and we
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desire that each of you show the same diligence as so as to
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realize the full Assurance of Hope until the end.
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So that you will not be what sluggish, we don't want to be
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sluggish but imitators of those who how through faith how
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through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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But now, that's like a curveball to our belief system.
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What I mean by that is that according to scripture, you can
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be in faith and immediately, something change.
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NaturallySpeaking, it manifests immediately.
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Yet, there's other things in faith, it cannot be immediate,
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it will be through faith and patience.
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And if you apply faith and patience, in your prayer of
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faith, when immediate can be the expectation, you're really not
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in faith. Vice versa, if you apply in the
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prayer of faith, immediate and it requires faith, and patience,
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you'll not stay in faith. Now, what do I mean?
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The best way for me to give this example is being born again.
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We are born again, how, by grace, through faith, and to be
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born again. It is a confession of faith, not
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Lord. I ask you to accept all the
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things I do in life that are good and you measure those to
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all the things I've done wrong. And based upon that measurement,
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surely you'll see that I'm worthy to come into your
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kingdom. So, I'm thankful That you hear
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me today? When I pray, you're going to
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always acknowledge everything. I do good that I'm doing to try
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to please. You, you're going to acknowledge
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it so that when I die I know I'm going to be there with you now
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is that person born again after they?
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Pray that prayer? No, because it's not of any
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Works. Lest any man should boast God.
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How could you couldn't? You couldn't separate me from
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you. I'm a good person that prayer
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does not get salvation. What prayer get salvation.
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The prayer of faith that Christ Alone is the only way to the
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Father. The Bible says that if we
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acknowledge Jesus Christ is Lord that he, what is Romans 10?
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Say that when we recognize that he died and on the third day was
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raised from the dead. We confess him.
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As our Lord, we will then be Saved.
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That's the prayer that brings salvation.
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Now, here's the question, what would you do or what would you
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think? If I had will come down and say,
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well, I'm going to pray with you for salvation.
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Okay, let's pray this prayer. Will you pray with me will says
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y'all pray with you. I said, okay, pray repeat after
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me. Say dear father, I believe that
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Jesus Christ came died on the cross for my sins.
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I Repent of my sins and I accept Jesus as my savior, that his
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blood is enough to Eradicate my sin.
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And right now, I confess him as the Lord of my life I am saved.
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How many believe that that could get him in the kingdom of God?
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Sure. Okay, now if I then said no,
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will, I don't know when, but because you prayed this prayer
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of faith, it is happened, but this new creature in Christ is
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going to show up sometime. I don't know when, but it's
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going to happen. But know this through faith and
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patience you'll inherit the new Are in Christ.
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The old man that you are will pass away.
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It may happen when you get to the parking lot, it may happen.
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Next week, it may happen a month from now, but all of a sudden
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you're going to wake up and Bam, you're going to be a new
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creature in Christ and the Holy Ghost is going to be there and
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you want to say, wow it worked. Don't let anyone tell you, you
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didn't get born again today even though you don't feel like it.
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Now we can apply faith and patience there.
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They're born again immediately. Yes, right.
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Then immediately, they believe they have it.
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So there are Promises of God that are immediate, you can't
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apply faith and patience there because it's not applicable.
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Well, what else? The baptism of the Holy Spirit
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would evidence of speaking in tongues when his first
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communicated Jesus said Terry in Jerusalem till I send the
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promise but once the promise hit the planet you can have it
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because if you go on and read Acts chapter 19, if all those
Acts 19 chapter mention
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Nations just would have went and kept reading past Acts 2, and
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God to Acts. 19 cousin, Acts 19. Paul walks up to disciples from
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Ephesus and says, did you receive the Holy Ghost?
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Once you believed but they could go before, then, I'm just giving
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it like literal terms. You know, did you receive once
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you believe? Because if they would just go to
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Cornelius house, what chapters at eight or ten, ten, maybe ten
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ten when you get a Cornelius house.
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Corniness isn't trying to worship God.
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The best he can. Because he knows in the angel
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comes down and says, sinful Peter.
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He'll come preach, the gospel. So he goes gets Peter, Peter
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shows up, he goes in the house of a gentile.
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Carnitas has got his whole family there, he begins to tell
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them the story of Jesus, the message of Jesus, the life of
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Jesus, the the saving power and Grace of Jesus.
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And in his time teaching all of a sudden Cornelius and his whole
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household said, we believe they didn't articulate it to where
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they stopped. Giving altar call.
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They were like, I believe and how did Peter knew they had
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received salvation? Because the minute they were
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born again. They got filled with the Holy
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Ghost began speaking in other tongues.
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And Peter says, how can we deny water baptism?
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They got the same experience, we got back in Acts chapter 2.
Acts 2 chapter mention
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Those guys didn't have to wait none you can receive immediately
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so you can't apply. Oh Lord, give me X.
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Give me X. Give me tons.
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Well I guess it's not that. They through faith and patience
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inherit it. You will not inherit it that way
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because That's not how it is. It's immediate I would submit to
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you personal healing for yourself is more immediate than
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you want to believe. If you actually read the context
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of the Bible, if you personally would get in faith for yourself,
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you'll see when the word got on anyone, they were healed.
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There are more instantaneous healings than progress, but
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there were progress, but the majority of the progress
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happened within a 24-hour period.
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Now, that's not to condemn. If you've been dealing with
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stuff for some time. I'm just saying, we've got to
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rise up to the level of faith and don't allow faith, and
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patience to get involved in our healing.
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Let's go ahead and get immediate to manifest.
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Amen. Now, there are some things that
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are working of Miracles and there's nothing you can do to
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believe at that point. Because things weren't formed
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right, one done, right? That's a whole nother ball game
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but when you get a cold or you get a sniffle or cancer hits
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your body or you get a tumor, my gosh, man, you can get you, the
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word. You can confess that word.
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You can speak that word. You can make a demand on that
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word and you can pull that thing in a lot faster.
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Don't apply faith in pain. I'm just being patient.
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I'm going to get it. Get it and make it manifest.
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But then there's other areas that it will just take time,
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guys. And most of those have to do
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with purpose, Destiny. What happens?
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Is we receive salvation immediately?
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We receive healing Amina. You know what else?
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We receive quick Joy. You don't have to wait around
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for a job. Well, I wish I could just feel
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happy. The joy of the Lord is your a
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menu. Pray in the Holy Ghost, you keep
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stirring yourself. And, and stirring yourself up in
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the Holy Ghost, you'll get full of joy.
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Because the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy.
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Holy Ghost, how fast can you get righteous?
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One prayer. First John 1:9, if we confess
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our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and
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cleanse us from all unrighteousness, how fast can
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you get forgiveness immediately? How fast can the fruits of the
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spirit manifest in you? Immediately, if you yield to it.
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Right through faith and patience, I'm working out this
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anger issue. Why don't you immediately apply
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self control? Allowed to spring up.
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Come on, you know as well as I do not one of us got in that
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place where angry that we're not hearing the Holy Ghost, say
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don't do it. And you're thinking, yeah, I'm
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going there. Don't do it.
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But man, I'm thinking I'm going there.
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Alam and your dwelling on the thought, that's taking you
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there. You're not taking it captive,
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kassadin it down because the Holy Ghost, take it captive,
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cast it down. I don't, you really just don't
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feel like it. You can't apply well, through
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faith and patience. I'll get there.
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No, you can immediately get there.
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I said you can immediately get there but then there's other
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things that we do with God that is not Again, I use this did.
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I already use you in the service about the marriage?
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Good, don't matter? What service were in.
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Okay, I'll go back to Chelsea. Stand Up Now.
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Chelsea, she wants to be married.
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That's just say, okay, here's the thing.
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Faith and patience is involved. Father, I believe I receive a
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Godly Man. Well, does God want her to have
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a Godly Man? Sure, a man that loves you
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passionate about? You seeks you first once you
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first. That's who I want, right?
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That plan and purpose for your life, right?
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You don't want that to be disrupted.
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Do you do want to bring some, sorry, slothful thing that's
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going to want you to tend to him and you can't do nothing for
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God, right? Okay.
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Well, how old are you? I'm 26.
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I'm too old. I'm getting too old.
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Oh my gosh. So many people are so much
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younger men. Already married, where am I
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going to get mine? So, what happens is they?
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They avoid faith and patience. They, I believe I received my
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God, man, right now. And the next person they see
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say, holla, do you think all? That's my man and they say, you
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know, we fall head over heels for people that aren't even our
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God because God knows your guy happens to be in another state
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has to bring down whatever and get you cuz there are plenty of
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times. There are some that's not your
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season to be merry but then God brings the right one.
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It becomes your season. Through faith and patience.
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All of a sudden, you get the best guy you ever could have
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had. If you would have married too
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early, you wouldn't have them. Now God can work out those
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things. What the devil meant for bad,
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God can turn for good, but I don't want to be living life or
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God's always having to work out the bad stuff devil was doing
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Can we live beyond that? You can be seated.
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Same thing with the job, you know?
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I believe I received my job, you know.
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Then you don't get it in a week and you're mad at God.
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Does God want you to work? Yes, says if a man don't work a
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man. Don't eat.
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He wants you to work. Not so you get paid.
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He wants you to work so that you can influence those that are
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you're working with and then he'll pay you to do that.
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Hallelujah. I know of an individual.
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They got a word from God about a promotion.
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Do you know sometimes God will give us a word?
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That doesn't mean it's going to manifest the next time it comes
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up. But the minute you get it.
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Stay with it. Because I got it and it's
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forever settled in heaven. The minute you prayed it's done.
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You've received it. It's finished.
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But can this one be an immediate?
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Person went up for promotion was denied.
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Because they were given a word that they would get it and
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believed it. But then didn't get it.
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Got mad and got away from the church.
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Started talking about it. And then died.
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And they gave the promotion. In their casket.
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That's not how you want your promotion.
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You understand, the devil wants to stop God's plan, but that's
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what I loved about Joseph. Joseph gets a dream.
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You going to be there guy. And he didn't let the
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circumstances stop. He stayed in faith and patience
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and he inherited. The dream.
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You know, I got a little nugget about that that I hadn't seen
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before Joseph is exalted to prime minister in Egypt.
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When his father died later on, he asked the Pharaoh permission.
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Could he go back and bury his dad in his land and he gave him
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permit? He had favor with Farrah, don't
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you? Joseph could have said in year
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six of the prosperous years, Pharaoh I have a family that I
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don't even think they know I'm alive.
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Can I go back and see them? He never asked to go.
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Because he knew his vision was. If I go back to my home that's
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not well, they'll the the dream can come to pass.
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They are going to have to come to me.
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Because in this place that I am is where the authority is.
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Wow. He wasn't so emotionally
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connected to his dad. That, oh my gosh.
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My dad's got to know. He was more connected to the
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plan. I can't leave dad's.
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Got to come to me. Because I'm in a 40 here and
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they've got to come to me. And through faith and patience
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instead of him, trying to do it on his own and restore his
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family. And his brothers instead, he
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stayed put and the family came to him.
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I wonder how many people have 40 God because they left to go to
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family. And get out of their place of
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authority. Through faith and patience guys,
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there are certain things that we're going to go through, so I
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don't want you to get delusional.
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I don't want you to get discouraged, I don't want you to
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get, you know, hung up on things.
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There are certain things that it just takes Tom.
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For God's plan. You know what?
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Abraham was looking for the return of Christ.
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Any Enoch was looking for the return of Christ.
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Moses was looking for the return of Christ.
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David was looking to the return of Christ, Isaiah prophesied,
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and Daniel of the return of Christ.
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They were all looking for it and they all spoke about it coming
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to pass, but it never came to pass in their life.
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But Galatians 4:4 says, in the fullness of time Christ came
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That means that God always plan to bring Jesus then and no
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matter how much the generation of nation was believing for that
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moment, it couldn't come in here earlier and there's things that
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God puts in our hearts. They can't come any earlier.
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But he lets us know ahead of time.
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It's coming. It's coming.
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Maybe you get a word. You know, you're going to have
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your own business. Well, maybe it takes five years
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before you have it. Don't let go of the word through
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faith and patience, you'll get that just like them.
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All God gave me a word occupied. I'm moved by Nothin.
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Nothing. It has to come to pass.
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So there has to be some Divine appointed.
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Tom, here's the thing though, whether it's an immediate or
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through faith and patience, you must check yourself to see if
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you're in faith. Because some of the biggest
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challenges is that you don't want to be in faith and patience
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winning media, it's required. That's why you go to the word.
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What's the word say on? What I'm believing?
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And what's the time frame? And what's the response and how
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did that happen? And then you get yourself.
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That's why the Bible tells us in second Corinthians 13:5 says,
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this says, test yourself to see if you are in faith, examine
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yourselves, I'm always having to examine myself because here's
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the thing. The Bible says, no one knows the
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spirit of man, except the spirit of the man himself and no one
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knows the spirit of God, except the spirit of God.
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So know this, we really know if we are, you've heard me testify
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before before we got into this whole thing about the mall, I
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knew I knew I was saying it with my mouth, but I knew my heart
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was not attached to those words. I knew it.
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I was like, this is a big deal. This is a big deal.
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First of all, they don't even want to sell it.
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I mean, you're asking me to attach something that they
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weren't even want to sell. Then turn them, they change
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their mind, all kinds of stuff. But I remember it was a
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Wednesday, my wife and I were going to go camping on Thursday.
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I said I'm gonna go ahead and take the camp camper down and
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I'm going to pray. So I went down was down to mocha
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actually to mocha Springs Tomoka State Park and I was driving
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down a 1A and I'll never forget I saw those huge homes you know
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just passed you know, around the hammock, you understand.
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Huge homes, and the Lord said to me, see see that house because I
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was praying. I said, yes, Lord.
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So how much you think that cost? I said millions easy.
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He said you think anyone's in? I said well no I mean you can
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see that it's closed off, you know, he said yeah that's
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someone's vacation home. Yeah.
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He said if man can do that do you think I can get them all?
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I said, Lord, I believe, but I had to have that I was not lying
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to myself. I want trying to put on some,
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are I knew I can't go here until I know here.
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I can't go here until I know here.
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And then another pivotal Point came with the whole deal with
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the mall. And I went off and prayed and
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fasted for three days. I think it was and I say, God, I
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need a word that's all I need. I I need to know how I don't
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need to know when. I need to know a word that I can
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stand on and I heard him say this concern in this mall
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whether to stay with the dealer to go, he said occupy, and I
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knew when he said that, that word occupy means to do business
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and we as a business part that will do with this mall, he told
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me to set up camp, I'm going to give that to you and you're
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going to occupy and I knew then doesn't matter.
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It's ours. Then on January the 25th 2016 at
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And Faith Crusade. I was over here praying and
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worshiping God. And all of a sudden in the
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spirit, I knew it had broken through.
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I had it. It was ours.
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It was done is done as a Promised Land.
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But I also knew this, I can't get it alone.
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Moses could not single-handedly take the nation into the
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promised land. That's why we can't grow weary
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and our well doing, that's why you can't get hope deferred to
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get your hearts. You gotta know, I heard nothing
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else matters. You don't want to be the one
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that God has to move out, so they can have the group that's
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here that believes to move in. You want to be the one who says
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I believe. And how do you believe you
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believe by action? My wife and I believe by action,
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we confess it every time. Gary can tell you, he's been
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living with me for now about four months.
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Every time we come on, I say, thank you, Lord, for I don't
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pray for this mall. I thank him for it.
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I said Thank you, Lord, for 2121 US1, South.
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I'm sure many of you but I've gone beyond that.
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I've sewn towards it. I keep sewing towards it cause
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you know what, what we've got to do for a down payment with this
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agreement is nothing, compared to what we got to do, to remodel
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all kind of. I mean, it's just, it's all good
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and we go from Faith to Faith, but know this, it will come to
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pass and you'll hear You're going to hear this well that
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church did take them all and it's not because we did it
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independent of a word, but God working with us but we did our
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part. So whatever it is guys, you've
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got to examine yourself. Say my Lord, am I out of Faith
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because I'm waiting on you to do something though.
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I believe yet. I Expected immediate help me to
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see it immediately. So, way to be done because in
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this moment, according to your word immediately, just like
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salvation, I should have it in what Jesus said, he said which
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is easier to heal this man or to tell him his sins are forgiven.
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Help me to see heal and easy. Help me to see this.
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That can come immediately easy. So I receive it, bring it in.
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I'm not waiting anymore. I'm not going to apply Faith to
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pay. Many have fallen away from the
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faith because they misappropriated their faith.
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God didn't heal them in the time frame.
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They thought he should. He's dragging on, and they're
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keep waiting and keep waiting and keep waiting, and they just
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give up on the word when God saying it wasn't a weight.
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You should have had it. But on the other side, you know,
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God I was believing you to come in and bring you know, this
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particular deal to take place and this promotion or this, you
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know, spouse or, you know, this thing and I prayed and I
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immediately received an I said I had and I was thinking you but
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you know what? It's been five years now and
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I've not seen that come to pass, you know?
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Forget about which most winning. Wait, five years, anyway.
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That's just say a month. I'll give you a month. 30 days.
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It ain't hear. Your word doesn't work.
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You can't apply mediate there. This is where you persevere. but
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know, this whether immediate or faith and patience is in play,
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in both cases it manifests, It manifests, let me close with
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this thought. In July. 2003.
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No.2. Pastor Mike and Angie, my wife
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and I were in Tulsa correction. Juvenile Corrections in
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Oklahoma. Pastor Marcus was there and I
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was preaching. The whole time, I'm preaching,
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my wife is talking to somebody. a friend, a person that Angie
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had brought And so we loaded up the truck you know, load up
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everything we were done with the prison Mission.
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I was driving home. I said Marcy so who was that
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person you were talking to me. You know funny thing that person
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there they were born in st. Augustine we were talking about
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st. Augustine really?
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Wow, that's awesome. You know, just talking we're
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just carrying on all that. They were saying you know people
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they knew da da da. Then my wife said that she know
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she said something funny. I said yeah what's that?
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She said, if we ever start a church in st.
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Augustine to give her a call in the minute.
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My wife said that Bam, the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said
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that's where you'll plant the church.
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I mean it hit me hard. I was like Now, we've only been
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in this location for two years and I had this mindset will be
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there till 2005 on my oldest son graduates.
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So I was a little shocked by I. So consumed with the vision that
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I was in that the think of that which I knew I would eventually
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do God's talking to me about it. I didn't say nothing to my wife,
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but for three days. It was just like it was there.
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It was like, right there was like, I wanted to say something,
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you know, so on the third day after praying and stuff, I said
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Marcy I believe And I know where God wants us to plant the church
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that we're supposed to start. Instead she pulls out the
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demographics of st. Augustine she'd been looking
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them up for the last three days. There was no church associated
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with the school. I graduated from here.
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No one to my knowledge was praying for me.
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No group was asking me to come be their pastor.
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This town didn't even know. I existed.
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But I had a word from God and then he told me when to come.
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And what shocked me because I thought it would be later, but I
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obeyed him. I obeyed him and didn't have a
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job. And had three kids left came
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here. And 14 years later.
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We run two services in this location, going to buy them all,
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have another church in Valdosta, are ministering to other Rhema,
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churches, because we've been given oversight have ministered
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at Raymond fact, in an April, and May next month.
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I will be the commencement speaker for the school.
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I graduated from. Wow, wow.
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My wife can tell you, we said in class.
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They can we want to do stuff for Rhema, but it didn't happen
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overnight. Pastor Hagen didn't immediately.
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Say the Lord said come with me, and let me make you a director
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and let me do this for you and you're going to preach and camp
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meeting and you're going to do a commencement fee and your wife's
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going to do Kindle, the flame, didn't hear that.
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But through faith and patience of doing the call of God, the
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gift was recognized. There's no telling what's in
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store for everything. We have to do as a body when we
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come together and do it. So learn from the word, what you
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can have immediately and make a demand and don't settle for it
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to get off and don't don't play around with stuff and let it
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linger in your life. When he immediately, you can get
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rid of sin immediately, you can cast off the flesh immediately.
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You can get rid of sickness immediately, you can have joy,
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immediately. You can walk in peace
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immediately. You can have the righteousness
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of God in Christ, received it walk in it, But then the things
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that through faith and patience don't quit in the process, don't
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give up because it's going a little bit longer than you
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thought. Don't think.
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Oh wow, this never, I mean, I'm this old, my gosh man.
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You're not old enough. There's a reason why it had come
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to pass yet. It's okay.
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And it will your best days are ahead of you.
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Because there's not one word that he spoke concerning you
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that he'll fail to bring to pass if you only believe.