Sermon
COMPLETELY! Charlotte Gambill | Beautiful Conference 2026
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We get to welcome Pastor Charlotte in just a moment, but
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I just wanted to share just a couple of things for those of
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you who don't know Charlotte and aren't familiar with who she is.
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We're, I'm about to introduce someone who's not only a
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powerful voice to the global church, but someone who has
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personally impacted my life in a deep, very deep and meaningful
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way. OK, Charlotte has just really
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impacted me in a, a deep and meaningful way.
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And there are some people who carry wisdom and authority and
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revelation, but when you meet them that you discover that they
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carry kindness, humility and genuine love for people.
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And that is who Charlotte Gamble is.
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For years, she has strengthened leaders and built the church.
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She's spoken life into women around the world, and she's
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helped people to step boldly into the call that they have on
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their life. But personally, she's been more
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than a speaker on a platform. She's been a mentor, a voice of
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encouragement, a true friend through the years into this
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House. And I really believe it today is
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significant. We've been praying for this day
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and this session. And I don't think Pastor
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Charlotte here by accident. There is something God wants to
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speak across this room today. So let's have open hearts.
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And with the biggest sisterhood welcome.
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Would you welcome Pastor so good to be with you.
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I'm going to keep you on your feet just for a second.
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We're going to pray in a moment. I know God is already moving in
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this place, already did incredible things last night as
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you gathered and Pastor Sarah LED you in the word about
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legacy. And I'm so thankful to have the
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opportunity to add my voice to what God is doing.
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But I so sensed in my heart, just even last night when I got
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in later and I was in my hotel room, I just so sensed today,
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today's the day for some of you to receive a miracle that is
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long overdue. Like like I need you to.
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I need you to lift your expectation.
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I don't know how else to say it, but I need to grab the
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atmosphere right now, as awesome as this is, but I wish I could
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come to every single one of you and grab you by your cheeks and
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just say, girl, do you know who's in the room?
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I, I, I think we forget because we come to a conference and we
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gather with our friends and I think it's so easy to just do
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business as usual and we forget that actually in the room, not
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just our girlfriends are in the room, not just other sisters are
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in the room, but the King of Kings is in the room.
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And I'm just trying to get you to be aware for a moment.
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Just need you to be aware for a moment because if if in the next
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few seconds Jesus walked down the aisle, like he literally
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walked down the aisle, brushed past your arm on his way to the
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front to talk to the crowd that were gathered.
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If he literally just came down by the seat where you were sat,
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I know something inside you would shift because you suddenly
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saw who was in the room and all of a sudden, whatever you came
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here struggling with, you would realise.
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I don't know why I'm struggling because the answer just showed
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up. Whatever you were dealing with,
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or any depression you were battling or any anxiety you were
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feeling, suddenly it would be silence because you just
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realised you brushed past your arm as they walked in the room.
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And though there's not a physical Jesus walking down the
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aisle, brushing past your arm, He's right here, right now, in
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every single row, every single aisle.
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He's right here, which means our expectations should be no less.
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And I don't want to leave the way I came.
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And I don't want you to miss a thing.
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And I know in these next few moments, as God speaks to you,
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He's not just wanting to speak to you.
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He's wanting to impart something to you.
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In fact, when I finish speaking the word that God has given me,
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I'm going to open the altar down here and I'm going to extend to
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you the opportunity that need to to actually physically walk to
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the front to actually have a moment of engagement.
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And I'm telling you that upfront so that when we get there, you
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don't hesitate, you don't delay. But just like the woman with the
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issue of blood, you like whatever it takes, I'm getting
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what God has for me today. Whatever it takes, I'm going to
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push through today. So God, we stand in your
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presence. We just take a moment to
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acknowledge the fact that we're standing in your presence.
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This is not just an arena that we're in.
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It is a meeting room with the King of Kings and you do not see
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a crowd. You see every single individual
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and you do not come to do something that is generic as
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much as you come to do something that is specific and God.
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There's only one that can take a word and break it into pieces
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that feed each one of your daughters individually.
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It is only by your spirit to God you can take something that
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feels so big but make it so intimate and small.
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So God, I pray in these next few moments that your word would do
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just that. That as it goes forth into the
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atmosphere, it would be so specific to every woman.
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It will be so on time to every situation.
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It will be so clear to every chaotic place that people are in
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right now. It will be so much light into
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the darkness. God, I pray today that the word
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would be like an arrow piercing through the darkness.
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And I pray today, God, that with your word comes signs and
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wonders. I pray today God that there will
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to be miracles in this atmosphere that we get pregnant
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with today. I pray today God for
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breakthrough. I pray today for setting of
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three of people. I pray today that you would do
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something so spectacular and supernatural.
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All we can say is God it is all because of you God.
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I pray as always I would get out of the way.
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Holy Spirit, have your way in Jesus name, Amen.
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You may take your seats. I honestly feel in my heart
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today that God wants to hand something to you that is long
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overdue. That there are some things that
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you have even forgotten that actually God has not forgotten,
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that actually are due to you because God is a God that wants
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to do a miracle in you. Some of the miracles that you've
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even forgotten about or even have stopped praying for.
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Today I want to show you just how good God is, how much he
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loves you. If you're in any doubt today
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about the goodness of God, I pray that in these next few
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moments your eyes would be open to just how good God is and how
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much good He wants to do in and through you.
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I want today to talk to you about the completeness that God
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has for your life. I feel like so often on this
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journey with God, I meet people. I interact with people who are
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not walking in the fullness of all that God has for them.
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They're not walking in the completeness of all that God has
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for them. And I don't know why.
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I think maybe we just settle for a level of God that we feel is
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good enough. But today I don't want you to
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settle for anything less than the more than enough that God
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has for your life. Today.
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I want to stretch your mind. I want to expand your heart.
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I want to challenge your dream. I want to ask you, why do you
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believe so little when you serve the God who spins planets off
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his fingertips? I need your mind and your heart
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expanded. For we are called to be the
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daughters of the King of kings. And if you're a daughter of the
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King of kings, you should not be praying small prayers.
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If you're daughter of the one that created the heavens and the
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earth, you should not be believing for such little things
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in your life when God has more for us.
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God does not want to do something partial in your life.
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God doesn't want to make you a little bit better.
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God doesn't want to provide a little for you when He is the
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God of more than you can ask or imagine.
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But meet so many people that are living in a way as if God is
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short, as if he can't afford to bless you, as if he doesn't have
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enough to breakthrough in your circumstance.
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And I know the problem is not on God's end.
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So the problem must be on our end.
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But God is a God of fullness. He is a God of completeness.
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Colossians 2 verse 9 says for in Christ lives all the fullness of
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God in a human body. So you also are complete through
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your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and
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authority. You are complete in Christ one
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Peter 5 verse 10. After you've suffered a little
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while, the God of all grace, who imparts blessing and favor, who
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called you to his own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself
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complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you, making you
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what you ought to be. There is a completeness in
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Christ. There is a fulfillment in
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Christ. There is a strength in Christ,
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and He wants to establish that in you today.
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I don't know what he's missing from your life.
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I don't know what he's lacking in your life.
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I sensed in the worship, just when I was standing there, I saw
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a picture of a jigsaw puzzle and a frustrated person trying to do
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the puzzle, but they couldn't complete it because there were
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some pieces missing. And I feel like there are some
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pieces missing that God wants to give you today because you don't
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have to leave here with an incomplete picture, don't have
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to leave here with an incomplete faith.
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You don't have to leave here with an incomplete belief
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system. God wants to complete you.
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A little while ago, my son, who is now 20, he came home and he'd
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realized, you know, I want to pick up a little extra cash, a
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little extra money. So he'd realized that now where
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we live in Alabama, because I now live in Alabama.
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Y'all never thought I would say that, but I do.
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And and so he, he, he realized I need some more cash.
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I also like to play golf and so he's smart.
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He figured out if I pick up a couple of shifts at the best
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Golf Club in Alabama, not only will I get a little extra cash,
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but I get to play for free on Mondays.
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Smart boy. So he took a little shift at the
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Golf Club, comes home, announces to me on Wednesday evening that
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he has got this shift at the Golf Club and his first job day
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of hours will be Friday morning. And he's letting me know on
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Wednesday evening because he needs a uniform.
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By Friday morning he might be 20, but he still needs his Mama.
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You know what I'm saying? So I do what all good Mamas do.
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I go to Amazon and like Amazon is my friend right now and like
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what do you need son? I need this color short and they
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need to be this length. And so I go on Amazon.
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I'm like I'm going to get 2 pairs because I don't want to
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get one in case he loses them. And so I get on there.
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It says he'll be here in 24 hours.
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Perfect. Put the order in 24 hours later.
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This is Thursday afternoon. Just in time the Amazon arrival
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comes to our post box. I bring it in the house.
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I'm like no, I got your shorts. We're sorted.
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I open the packet. I take out the pair of shorts.
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First pair of shorts, exactly what I ordered.
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Take out the second pair of shorts, and to my horror, they
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are not the same pair of shorts that I ordered.
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In fact, these are someone's dirty shorts.
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They're kind of the sort of the same colour, but clearly someone
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was packing my order. Looked at the two pairs of
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shorts, looked at their own dirty shorts so she'll never
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know. Whipped their shorts off, put
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them in the packet, put my paid for shorts on and sent me the
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two pairs of shorts. So I'm looking at this order.
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Brand new pair, dirty pair of khaki shorts.
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I'm like horrified. And so I decide, what in the
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world is this? This is not right.
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I paid for two pairs of shorts. This is not right.
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I don't want someone's old shorts.
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So I decide to do what no human should ever decide to do, which
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is take on Amazon. I'm like, I'm taking Amazon on.
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I'm not putting up this or this. So I go online and it tells you,
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you know, all you do is put them in the post, send them back to
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me. We'll refund you when we get
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them. Go to UPS, get the label.
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I'm like, I don't have time for that.
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This isn't my fault. I ain't got time in my calendar
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to drive to UPS because you made a mistake.
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I ain't got time to spend my gas money driving around town to
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send your shorts back. I don't think so, Amazon.
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This is not good enough. So I tried to bypass the
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automated system and I persevered and I persevered
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until I got an actual cell phone number, a phone number.
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I call the number and I get past all of the people that are on
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the computer system and finally get a human being and I say,
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listen, do not hang up on me. I have an issue.
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I'm a good customer, but I have someone's dirty shorts in my
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kitchen right now and I am not willing to drive to UPS to send
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you back someone's shorts that I don't particularly want to touch
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anymore. I need you to send me the shorts
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that I have paid for and I need you to come and pick up these
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shorts that I do not want in my home anymore.
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I need you to do what you need to do to sort that out for me
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because I'm not driving around to make up for your mistake.
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And the lady on the phone says, well, ma'am, we don't do that,
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but I'm a little scared of you, so we will do that.
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And within the next 24 hours, there was a person at my house
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taking The Dirty shorts back, giving me the new shots.
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And afterwards, I thought to myself, I had a Holy Spirit
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conviction because I felt God challenged me and say,
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Charlotte, are you as determined as you were with Amazon to get
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all that I have promised you? Or were you willing to live with
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half of an order because you can't be bothered to have the
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tenacity to get everything that my son paid for on the cross?
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And I don't know about you, but that challenged me because I
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realized, wow, I do have tenacity.
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And when I actually want to, I can actually be quite strong
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about something that I feel I have been wronged in.
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And I am putting all my energy into getting back a pair of
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shorts that make no eternal difference to my life.
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But I'm letting the enemy steal my peace.
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I'm letting the enemy take my joy.
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I'm letting the enemy RIP me off in my family.
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I'm letting the enemy put anxiety on me.
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I'm letting the enemy make me feel overwhelmed and overcome
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when I have been paid for, when Christ paid the full price for
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everything that I would ever face.
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And yet I'm not going for the full order.
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And that's why I began by saying some of you are going to have to
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get a little shaken up today because you've settled for far
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less than God paid for. You've settled for far less than
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what he sent his Son to pay the highest price for.
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And today I want to rattle you in a Holy Spirit way to remind
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you, you've got to get some tenacity back in your spirit,
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woman of God, because the enemy came to kill, steal and destroy.
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And if you are laid back in one moment of your life, he will
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take all the opportunity he can to make sure he steals from you,
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He kills something in you and he destroys something of your
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legacy that God has for you. So we need to rise up.
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We need to wake up because for every move the enemy made, God
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made a counter move. For everything he planned to do,
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God already covered the counter move that what he would do.
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So where he came to kill, God sent his son to resurrect.
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Where he came to steal, God sent his son to restore.
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Where he came to destroy, God said, I'll give you restitution
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for everything that has been destroyed.
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And I just wonder today, who needs a little resurrection?
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Who needs a little restoration? Who needs a little restitution
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from some things that the enemy does not get to keep in your
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life? So I want to take you to a story
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in the Bible where there's a woman that desperately needs,
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she needs a miracle, but she doesn't just need a miracle.
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She actually needs some things restoring to her.
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She actually needs some things raising back to life for her.
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She actually needs some things in her future being paid back to
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her. And Jesus in this story comes
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and He takes care not just of the present need, but He takes
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care of her past, her present, and her future.
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And God today is well able to take care of your present need,
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but He's also able to take care of your past pain.
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He's also able to take care of your future promises.
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He's able to do all of it. So why reduce him to just one
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part of it? This story gripped my heart
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recently and it's maybe a story that you have heard before, but
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maybe you've never looked at it through this lens because it's a
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story of a miracle. And often we preach the miracle.
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We get excited about the miracle, and the miracle is
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awesome, but there's way more than just one miracle happening
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in this story. Whenever Jesus did anything, he
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was always doing something that had multiple layers of
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breakthrough in it. He wasn't just delivering a man
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from a demon, He was setting him free for his future.
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He wasn't just healing a sick person, He was leading them into
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their eternal destination. He wasn't just opening a blind
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eye, He was restoring an entire man's life and future.
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Jesus was not just. Touching in one moment one
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thing, he was touching in that moment everything.
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In Luke 7, Jesus enters a village called Nain says in
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verse 11. Soon afterward, Jesus went with
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his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed
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him. A funeral procession was coming
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out as he approached the village gate.
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The young man who had died was a widow's only son, and a large
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crowd from the village was with her.
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When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion.
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Don't cry, he said. Then he walked over to the
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coffin and touched it, and the bearer stopped.
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Young man, he said, I tell you, get up.
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Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave
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him back to his mother. This is an incredible moment
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that we read of in scripture where Jesus literally brings a
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dead boy back to life. But I want for a few moments to
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unpack everything that is happening in this story.
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Because actually this story does not begin with the dead boy.
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It begins with the woman. And today I want you to know you
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might have come here with a dead issue, but the healing's not
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going to begin with the dead issue.
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It's going to begin with the woman who has the dead issue
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because God is a God of completeness.
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Watch what happens. There's a huge funeral
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procession. There's a large crowd that are
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gathered. There's a dead body that has
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been carried on a stretcher. But in verse 13, here's what
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begins to happen. It says when the Lord saw her,
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wait a minute, there's a crowd, there's a funeral procession,
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there's a dead body. But the first thing his eyes are
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drawn to is none of that, but they're drawn to her.
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And at the sight of her, it says his heart overflowed with
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compassion. You know, compassion.
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The word there, it comes from a root word in the Greek called
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splanks, and that it literally means the inward parts of your
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gut, your deepest place of emotion.
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This was a gut level feeling that Jesus had for this woman's
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suffering. This was not that Jesus saw her
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and felt a little sorry for her. This was when Jesus saw her,
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something in the inside of him was absolutely moved to do
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something for this woman. I want you to know today that
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God sees you, and as He sees you, his heart is moved from his
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very innermost being with compassion towards you.
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See, He saw what no one else seemed to see.
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He saw the burden that this woman had been living with for
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possibly years. She was a widow, so she was the
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only one apart from this boy in her family.
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And I don't know how long he had been sick and I don't know how
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frail he had become, but Jesus saw that this woman, this
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mother, this single parent had carried the burden of that boy's
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sickness for a long time. He saw on her face the
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weariness. He saw on her face the
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disappointment. He saw in her spirit and her
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soul how she she was aching and she was desperate.
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So often we come to events like this and we're coming because we
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have a dead thing we want God to touch.
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But God's not going to touch the dead thing until He first
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touches you, because why would He give you something back when
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you're not even in a fit state to hold it?
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Some of you are in this room and you are the carer of elderly
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parents and you're exhausted. You didn't plan for it, but it's
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where you find yourself in life, constantly caring, constantly
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doing errands, constantly taking care of things.
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You have that. And then you also have your
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children that constantly have needs and constantly have things
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that you have to take care of. Some of you are in here and
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you've got children that are wayward and they're living a
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life that is far from God. And it keeps you up every night
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and it eats away at your soul and it causes you to cry tears
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that no one else sees. And the ache in your body and
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the ache in your soul is overwhelming.
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Yet we come for prayer for our son or we come for prayer for
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our daughter. But because God is a complete
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God, he's like, I'll talk to you about that in a moment, but the
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first thing I want to talk to you about is you.
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You're living. You're living in a way that is
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incomplete. You're living in a way that is
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worn out. You're living in a way that is
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so tired and weary. You're living a life that is so
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disappointed. Why would I heal what's dead and
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not touch the one that's carried the dead?
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Why would I heal the body and not touch the one that's prayed
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and believed for that body? Why would I do a miracle in
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their addiction and not do a miracle in your weariness and
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depletion? God is a God of completeness.
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And I don't know what corpse you brought to the conference.
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We'll get to the cops. But in this moment, I want you
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to know he sees you. He sees you.
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He saw this woman. He sees you that has prayed
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endlessly. He sees you that has gone
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without so someone else can go with.
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He sees you that's lived with that abusive marriage.
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He sees you that's dealt with the betrayal.
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He sees you that has tried to pick yourself up 1000 times to
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carry on for those that rely upon you, them never knowing the
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cost it has been to you. He sees you, He sees you woman
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of God, weary from the battle, He sees you.
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He says, Jesus, even though there was a lot of things to
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gain his attention, saw her and he said to her, don't cry.
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Like I know you're exhausted. I know this has cost you a lot,
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but in this moment I need you to know I didn't just come for him,
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I came for you. I want to send you home, not
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depleted, but completed. I want to send you home, not
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weary, but refreshed. I want to send you home with a
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complete restoration. Some of you today need a
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complete restoration. You need to hear the words from
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his mouth. Don't cry.
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You need to hear the words from his mouth.
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Don't be anxious. You need to let him restore you
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before he talks to you about anything else.
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You want restoring. In Psalm 23, David writes, he
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refreshes my soul, He guides me along the right path for his
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namesake. And even though I walk through
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the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
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Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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He had a revelation. God, I know You want to help me
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win the battle, but more than win the battle, You want to help
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me win. You want to restore me.
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You want to help me walk through the valley.
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You want to be with me in those times that feel pressing and
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feel oppressing. Isaiah 26 verse three.
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You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast
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because they trust in You. I'm not.
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I don't know what your peace looks like, but I have a feeling
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it's not perfect. I have a feeling some of you
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have an incomplete peace. I have a feeling that some of
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your peace is way more fragile than it should be and all it
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takes is a circumstance to happen and your peace begins to
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crumble. Why?
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Because your peace is not complete.
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But the Bible says there's a peace that passes understanding,
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which means no matter what happens, your peace stays
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complete. No matter who flakes out on you,
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your peace stays strong in you. No matter what they say, your
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peace remains God's like I need you woman of God to get a
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complete peace. Stop having a part time peace, a
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partial peace, a circumstantial peace, a peace for conference.
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But then a crisis when you get home steals your peace.
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Now do you have a complete peace, perfect peace.
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That word perfect peace in the Hebrew, in Isaiah, it literally
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means Shalom. Shalom.
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And that means there's nothing missing.
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There is nothing broken, everything is complete.
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Do you have shalam? Shalam, do you have a piece
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where there's nothing missing and there's nothing broken
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because it is fully complete in him?
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I don't know today where this finds you, but I know some of
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you have settled for partial like I was gonna with my Amazon
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order. And God's like, girl, I need you
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to get something inside of your gut today that says I'm not
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living with partial any longer. When I serve a God of
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completeness, some of you have partial joy.
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The Bible says in John 15, it says my joy and delight are
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going to be complete in you, that your joy may be made full
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and complete and overflowing. I know that.
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I know some of you don't even know what that sounds like.
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You can't even remember the last time your joy was overflowing.
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There's a joy in God that is not dependent on anything or anyone.
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It's in Him. And that joy?
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You have access to it 24/7. And I know it sounds strange
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when you're living in a time that feels anything but joyful,
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but there is a way to access joy outside of the way humans in the
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world without God access joy. We don't need everything to be
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right to find a joy that will complete us.
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And I just wonder who settled for a joy that is based on
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whether our life looks good, feels good, sounds good.
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That is not the joy that the Bible's talking about.
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How in the world can you be facing a crucifixion on a cross
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and say the words for the joy set before me that tells me
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there's a joy that overwhelms the hardest moments in our life
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that we could ever face. For in his moment of absolute
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pain, he saw something of absolute joy.
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What would it look like if you got your piece back?
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What would it look like if you got your joy back?
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You know why the enemy doesn't want you to get your joy back?
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Because he knows what the Bible says about your joy, that the
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joy of the Lord is your strength.
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And he's quite happy for you to stay weak.
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And I mean this with all the love in my heart.
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Some of you are weak women and I'm just saying it to you
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because I'm your friend. It's there's a weakness in you,
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but the Bible says that those that are weak, he's going to
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make strong, that in your weakness, he's going to make the
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strength come through in you. And some of you need to stop
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excusing your weakness and start getting mad with the enemy about
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the fact that you're living in a way that does not reflect what
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God says you should be living in.
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I know things can happen and they make us feel weak.
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I know circumstances can happen and they make us feel depleted.
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I know like this woman, there can be moments where we carry
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burdens as women and it just feels like no one else seems to
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carry the way we do. But Jesus saw her, He sees you,
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and he says, hey, are we done? Do you want to live in this
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moment, or do you want to recognize who's in this moment?
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Do you want to be overwhelmed by the situation, or do you want to
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be overwhelmed by the solution? Then he moves on to the body,
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because if he can restore you now, he can resurrect the thing
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you brought to him. So now he goes to the body.
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And by the way, when she saw Jesus, she didn't even mention
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the body. Because I think there comes a
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point where we feel it's so far gone, what's the point in even
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mentioning it anymore? Like some of you came to
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conference and you're like, I don't want to talk about it
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anymore. I just want to pretend for 48
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hours that that situation isn't happening in my life.
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I'm just going to pretend it's not there.
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But that's not going to help you move forward and it's not going
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to help you find the victory that God has for you.
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God's not asking you to ignore the body.
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He's saying, I, I want to fix you.
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And then we're going to move to this.
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But she doesn't even say. She doesn't grab him and say,
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Jesus, would you raise from the dead my son?
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She doesn't even have the energy to ask anymore, and some of you
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don't even have the energy to ask anymore because I asked
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before God. Nothing changed and I came
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before God and I feel like nothing shifted.
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And some of you have come here and you're the woman and you're
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weary, but you also came here with the dead thing like she
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did. But we serve a God.
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The dead's just not an issue. Dead's not a final statement.
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Dead's just another situation. He does dead just like he does
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depressed. He does dead just like he does
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sad. He's just dead just like he does
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anxiety. God doesn't have a scale of hard
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things. Some of you have got a scale of
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hard things. Well, this is so hard, God.
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This is just so hard, God. It's like it's only hard because
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you keep saying it's hard. This is not too difficult for
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me, but right now it seems to be due too difficult for you.
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So he walks up to the body, the thing she's not even mentioned
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and he touches the body and he says to the boy young man, get
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up and the dead boy, he sits right the way up and I love this
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next line and he began to talk. In other words, this is not a
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partial restoration. This is a full resurrection.
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This is not it got a little bit better.
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This is he got up and he began to talk like he did before he
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was sick. This was a full resurrection
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moment. And some of you brought the body
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of your marriage and the body of your dream and the body of your
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disappointment. And you're like, if I could just
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get a little bit better over conference God, that would be
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enough. God's like, well, if that's all
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you want, that's all you're going to get.
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Or you could have a full resurrection where the body sits
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up and starts talking again. It's up to you.
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Oh God, if you could make my marriage a little bit better.
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God's like, really, if it could just get a little bit sweeter,
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if it could just get a little less hard, if my finances could
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just get a little breakthrough. God, if you could just help me a
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little in this area. And we begin to bring God down
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to the level of our settledness. And I challenge you today to
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start to pray some bigger prayers.
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I challenge you today to start to believe for some
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resurrections in places that you've even stopped asking God
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for a resurrection. I challenge you today to get
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back what the enemy has stolen from your life and say, I'm not
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going to be a weak woman anymore.
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I'm going to stand up in the name of Jesus.
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I got a Mother's Day card early from my kids because they knew I
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would be away and I should probably shouldn't say the word
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that my son put in the card, but he wrote lots of really sweet
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things. But then he wrote this line.
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Thanks mom, for being a bad. I was like, son, what do you
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mean by that? He goes, I just know you're
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going to take it down if it comes for us.
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I just know you're going to run through the wall if it gets put
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up. I just know if things get bad,
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you ain't going to settle. You're going to go further than
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the bad. And you've just taught me I
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don't need to settle. And some of your children need
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to see the same in you because where you settle becomes the
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level under which they settle. And what you say is good enough
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becomes the level under which they say it's enough.
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And we've got to get back into the fight, women of God.
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And we've got to realise, no, I'm not settling for half of a
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good marriage and I'm not settling for half of the
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addiction cured and all selling for a little bit of healing in
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my body. And I'm not selling for a small
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bit of the cancer gone. I'm not settling for the
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addiction to be kind of under control.
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I'm not selling for my finances to be a little bit better.
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No, God, I'm not settling for anything less than what sets.
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Free is free indeed. The enemy's got some of your
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freedom because you only claimed part of it.
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Some of you're like, I'm free. Yeah, but you're not free
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indeed. Because when that happens, your
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freedom stops. When they say that thing, your
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freedom stops. And and this wasn't what I
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planned to say today, but last night when I was praying for
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you, I just felt so strongly to say to some of you, you need to
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get your confidence back like your God-given confidence back,
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like I am a child of God. I am a daughter of the King of
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kings. You need to get your confidence
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back. You need to get some umph back
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in your parenting. You need to get some sass back
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in your fire and in your belly. You need to say, I am a woman of
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God. I don't think so, enemy.
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I don't think so. He saw her and he restored her.
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He saw the boy and he resurrected the boy.
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But what I love is the final part of this story, the complete
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part of this story is that he wasn't just doing a healing and
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he wasn't just doing a restoration, but this was
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actually also restitution. Restitution is an old fashioned
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word. We don't use it much, but
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restitution is a word you should know and it's a word you should
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use in your prayer life a lot more because it means that
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whatever was missing or taken from your life, it's going to
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come back to you with a full restoration with recompensation
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for your loss. And I serve a God who's not just
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into restoration, but he's into restitution.
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He's like, I see what you lost and I pay you back.
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I know you lost four years in that illness, but I'm going to
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make the next four years feel like 8 years.
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I know you lost pain in that season, but I'm, I'm going to
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make this next season so full of joy you won't even remember
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those tears. I'm going to make restitution.
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Joel says it this way. But I will restore to you the
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years that the locusts have eaten.
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I will restore it back to you. Look at Job's life.
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Job's life. It was so good and then it was
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so tragic. It was so full, and then it was
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so empty. It was so God kissed, and then
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it felt God bereft. Job loses everything.
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Here's Job's wife's statement. Well, Job, if I were you, I'd
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just curse God and die. In other words, I don't have any
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fight in me anymore. I don't have any stomach for the
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heart. I loved the good, but I don't
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have any stomach for the heart. I liked it when God was blessing
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us, but I don't like this version of God right now that
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I'm witnessing. And so I would rather die than
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actually sustain and fight. And some of you have said to
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yourself, maybe not those exact words, but I'd rather give up.
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I'd rather quit. I'd rather die.
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I'd rather not be here. I'd rather check out, but how
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will you ever get to the latter part of Job's life if you check
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out in the middle of his life? Because the Bible says the
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latter part of his life was way better than the first part of
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his life. It says.
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So the Lord blessed Job in the second-half of his life, even
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more than in the beginning, and he got thousands more sheep and
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thousand more camels and thousand more oxen and he had
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family and children and offspring and generations.
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Why? Because he he didn't in the dip
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quit. He realized, I don't know what's
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going on right now, but I know the one who holds my life and
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I'm not settling for partial. So I need some of you to begin
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to remind your own spirit today. Why in the world would you
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settle for so much less? Why in the world would you like
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the children of Israel? Who?
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God says I'm with you, I'm for you, I've gone ahead of you, I
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have land for you, I have a promise for you, I have a future
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for you. God said it to them.
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Why, when God has just told you everything He has for you, would
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you die outside of the promised land?
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Why? God was willing and He was able,
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but their flesh was weak and their spirit began to quit.
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And some of you, I feel like your promise is your promise is
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so close. Like I feel it even now in the
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atmosphere. It's so close.
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I know you don't think God's working, but you have no idea
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what he's doing. It is so close.
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It doesn't look like you want it to.
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It doesn't sound like you want it to.
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But God is not saying he's going to do it your way.
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He's going to do it His way, which means you have to trust it
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when it looks like there's no way.
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But here's what I know. If it's not complete, he's not
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done. If it's not complete, well, it's
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not done. If he's not completely restored,
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he's not done. If he's not complete
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restoration, it's not done. So I'm not going to quit.
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Looks good, right? Especially this close to
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lunchtime. But this is how some of us live.
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God's like I've done it all. There was not one thing that I
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didn't take care of. There was not one brokenness.
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There was not one failure. There was not one sin.
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There was not one thing that I did not take care of.
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It's complete taste and see that the Lord is good.
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So we hear that and we come to conference and we say, God, I
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just know you're so good. Thank you, God.
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Why? Why would you take a piece when
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he gave you the whole cake? And some of you come for
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conference. You come to conference for a
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piece like give me a piece of blessing, give me a piece
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through the prayer, give me a piece.
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So you walk home with a piece when you leave behind the
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revelation that you don't have to take a slice.
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I have the whole cake. I don't need you to live off
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rations. I did it all.
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I need you to have a revelation. If this is your life, how are
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you slicing up your life? He said.
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I've got peace that passes understanding, but you're
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settling with peace that gets you through maybe the night.
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I have joy that is overflowing, but you have joy maybe once a
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month. I have favour that lasts a
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lifetime, but you've made me experience this favour every now
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and again. God's like, I want you to know I
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paid for it all. But what piece you take is up to
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you. And that day, that woman, good.
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She would have said, I'm sure, just touch the boy, then just
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touch the situation there and Jesus, like, but what about you?
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No, don't. Don't worry about me.
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Jesus, you got bigger problems. I'm good.
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No, you're not good. You've not slept for the last
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three months. You have anxiety because of what
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it is you're handling. You're not eating properly,
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you're Moody, you're angry, you're not yourself.
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I just wonder what about you? And in this moment, I just feel
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God wants to ask what about you? I know there's a body and I'll
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touch that, but I'm starting with you.
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I see you all across the room want us to stand to our feet.
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And I told you at the beginning that in a moment we're going to
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open this altar. I'm going to ask the prayer team
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to come down here, and here's what we're going to do.
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We're not going to leave until we get what is rightfully ours.
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Like we're not going to walk out the door to have a nice lunch
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together when we only have partial peace.
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We're not going to say, well, God, that was nice when we know
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we need a full touch from God. Some of you today need a touch
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from heaven. You need to get your fight back.
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You need to shake off the weakness.
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You need to change some things about how you declare the
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goodness of God in your life. You should change your mindset,
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change your perspective. Some of you, there's a dead
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thing in your life and you desperately need a resurrection
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and he's in the room and he's able to touch you and touch
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that. Some of you, you've been ripped
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off generationally. Last night you heard a word on
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legacy. But you got to fight to get back
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what the enemy has stolen. There is a legacy to fight for.
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There is a generation to fight for.
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It takes strong women. So we're going to sing a worship
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song just for a couple of moments.
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And I know there's prayer team at the front, there's prayer
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team down the sides. And I'm just asking if you know
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today you need a point of contact, what does that mean?
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It just means you just need to say to yourself, actually for no
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other reason often than just to, to say to yourself, I'm done.
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Like that woman with the issue of blood.
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She must have had a moment that day where she went, I'm done.
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I'm done waiting. I'm done living with partial.
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I'm done all the false promises. I'm done spending money on a
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doctor that has no reason to fix me.
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I'm done. And I'm no one.
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No one's coming to my house today, but I'm going to move
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from my house to wherever he is. And God is everywhere right now,
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but he needs you to be somewhere.
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So if you need to move, if you need a moment, if you need to
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step into the altar, if you need to find your knees, I don't know
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what, but Jesus is in the room, the restorer, the completer, the
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Prince of Peace, the great. I am the one who is Alpha and
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Omega, the one who began in you and will complete what he began
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in you. He's in the room.
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So as we sing, if you need to move, just begin to move.
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And then we're going to pray. Let's just begin to move and
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just begin to sing. Thanks guys.