Sermon
Miracle Sunday
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Transcript
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Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you gets you
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in us today. We praise that God speaks to you through his message and
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through his work. Now let's tune into the message for all of our first
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responders and for our military who is standing in harm's way. No, I
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say, can you give God a praise for every person who stands in harms
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way. Come on, We are living in treacherous times and we thank God
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today for all of those who served. We pray for the families of the
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thirteen soldiers who gave their ultimate sacrifice. If you're not standing, I don't
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know why. Because we live in a place of freedom today, I said,
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we live in a place of freedom today. God, we just thank
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you right now. We thank you right now that we live in a country
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Lord where we can raise our hands and we can worship the Lord. Today.
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We are moved by the situations that are around us, and we recognize
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God today you've been so good to us. Thank you, Lord God.
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We just pray right now for our nation. We pray for the service men
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and women and airmen God and marines God that are standing in harmon's way.
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We pray for the hand of the Lord protect them. The Lord. They
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are saying that there's imminent danger. But we declare in the name of the
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Lord, come on, church, I want you to pray for all those
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soldiers. We declare Psalms ninety one nine. We call a nine to one
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one today that he that abided under the secret place of the Almighty shall abide
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in the shadow of the Almighty. And we declare today that God, that
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You're going to be a fortress, a strong tower to watch over these soldiers.
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Right now. We cover them in prayer today. God. We cover
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their families in prayer today, God, and we ask you God to do
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a miracle all the way in Afghanistan. God, we are declaring God a
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mirror. We declare angels of the Lord in camp around them that fear you.
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Today God, then God, we give you the praise in the strong
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name of Jesus. And everybody said, Amen, you can be seated today.
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I promise you're gonna get back up. But I gotta just do a
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few things. Pastorally number one, I want to say, we're launching small
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Groups AMD and so this week we'll be received to be receiving a directory.
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And we just believe This is why we do small groups. We believe multiple
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things, but number one, we believe that we're better together, that we
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are not just a service, but we are a gathering. See, the
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devil's not afraid. The devil's not afraid of a building. He's afraid of
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a gathering if something happens when we gather together in small groups all across our
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city, all across the days Monday through Sunday and gather together. So we
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want to encourage you. If you're not a part of a small group,
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please check our directory. We're having that out as well. We have new
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small groups. I'm putting a little selfish plug. I've got a men's small
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group. Men, how many of God's called you to be the head and
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out the tail? Amen, He's called you to be a man that leads
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today. And so I'll challenge you if you want to be part of a
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men's small group. I'm gonna be hosting one on Wednesday night in my office.
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We're just gonna break the word of God down. And they're just gonna
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challenge men. Go Iron sharpens iron. And so I'm putting my plug in
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as well, and there's gonna be women's small groups. And there's gonna be
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prayer groups, and there's gonna be outreach groups, and there's gonna be family
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groups. So and if you can't find a group, we want you to
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start a group. Amen. And there's so many opportunities that you can have
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if you are all about outreach. We have food pantry Tuesdays and Thursday every
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week we serve families in our community and literally about a thousand families receive assistance
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through our food pantry on a monthly basis. Can we give God praise for
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that? So that's number two. We are declaring this Sunday is Miracle Sunday.
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And so what I need you to understand. Listen, if you're a
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guest here today, we'll be receiving a miracle offering at the end and we're
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not asking you to do anything. We just want you to enjoy and be
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a part of the service today. And this is really geared towards Poles to
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call us their home church. So have you been coming for a few weeks
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or even a few months and just checking us out. We want you to
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receive today amed And we're not asking anything of you, but as a people
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of God, we're challenging you that as the Lord leads you, God is
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going to speak to you and you're going to be part of this giving at
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the end of service, and so we'll be part of the giving, and
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then as well we'll be praying for miracles. How many of the Bible declares
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that Jesus has the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so we
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don't care what size issue you are facing with a small great today, we
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want to pray with you and believe God for miracles to come in and on
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your life, Miracles in your home, miracles in your finances, miracles in
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your chur older, the miracles in your body, miracles in your soul.
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We serve a God of miracles today. How many believe that today? Come
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on, can you give the Lord of praise today? So what's gonna happen
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is at the end of service will be receiving the miracle offering and then praying
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for people. And it's gonna be an extended period of time. And we've
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got newcomers fellowship, and we've got leaders. They're gonna be out there greeting
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with you, but we're also gonna be praying and we're gonna be spending as
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much time as we can with as many people who are hungry, and so
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it's gonna be a little bit longer today. So if you have to step
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out, May the Lord bless you and keep you. May his face shine
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upon you, may be gracious to you, and may he give you peace.
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I'm already blessing you. You got that? Did you come on?
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Catch it? Now? Come on, somebody grab it? Come on now
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turn your names and I got it. Ain, I got it before even
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end to amy. So you got it. So now I set all that
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so you can get ready. Are you ready? I want you to go
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to the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven, and it is our some just standing.
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I know you had to stand once, but but you stay with me
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one time. It's a short verse. Hallelujah. Hm. Hebrews chapter eleven,
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verse six. And without faith it is impossible to please God. Now
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if you don't got Hebrews yet, I'm sorry. We got left on the
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screen. Hebrews is in the New Testament. Amen, you may no not
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if you got your Bible? How many got your Bible? Got your Bible?
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Have you got how many got like the like the tangible Bible? You
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know? Come on? Just wave it that got tangible. You put your
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notes in there, you got on your iPhone? How many got on the
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iPhone? Just wave it at me A look at y'all. Man. Come
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on now, I feel like a movement's coming on. You know what I'm
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saying. Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who
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comes to him must believe that He exists and that he rewards those who earnest
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seek him. Come on, turn your neighbors say no disclaimers. Come on,
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turn ther other say no disclaimers. You can be seated in the house
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today. I've already prayed already. If I haven't prayed, we're already in
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trouble. I've already prayed about what the Lord is speaking to me today,
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and I just want to challenge you today. No disclaimers. You know we
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know about disclaimers because every time you watch a commercial, there is a small
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type at the bottom of the commercial that gives out the disclaimer. You know,
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I was reading the disclaimer on America's Got Talent where they said that you're
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gonna receive a million dollar reward. Now that sounds really good until you read
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the fine printing. Do you know that the that the winner if you read
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the fine print, gets twenty five thousand dollars over forty years. I said,
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Lord, read the disclaimer, Read the disclaimer. How many? No,
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it's a million dollars. But it's gonna take a long time to get
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you the million dollars. You know, and you've got all kinds of all
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kinds of medicine, and the pharma companies they are so good about putting out
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the disclaimer. You know what I'm talking about, No matter what type of
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medicine you are taking, you know, listra or or or or whatever medicine
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that's treating whatever disease. You know, step back, stupid exin. I
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made that one up. Amen, stupid exon Amen. You know what I'm
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saying. They'll say, stupid exen is. See see if stupid xin is
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right for you. Side effects may cause rash, hives, irritable bows,
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syndrom, shortness of breath, shortness in general, detach retina, detached belly
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button cancer, chronic coughing, laughing, heart murmur, infection, heartworms,
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hangnails, and potential death. You know what I'm talking about. Like that,
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when you hear the disclaimer, the disclaimer is worse than the disease.
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Y'all know what I'm talking about, Like like, why would I want to
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take this if this is the possibility? And then it says again, please
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consult your doctor. You know what I'm talking about. Because disclaimers, Because
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and and and and when we come into our situations, you know, disclaimer
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set up our disappointment. Disclaimer set up our disappointment. Because we've all have
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faced disappointment. We've all have come into a situation and tried to remove any
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responsibility or have enough exits to get out of whatever we are in, or
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to place blame or to place responsibility somewhere else. And and and you know,
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we've all faced disappointments. I have faced disappointments. And my wife and
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I we have walked through even when we we've been here for the last five
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years. You know what we saw the Lord speaking to us and how it
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was gonna go. We thought it was gonna be victory after victory. We
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didn't know it was gonna be valley after valley. Hello, I mean we
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we thought that when we move forward. Have you ever felt like if you
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were moving forward, it felt like you were moving backwards? It just felt
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like and so that you have to almost guard yourself with disappointments, because disappointments
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will lead you to doubt. Come on that it will leads you to doubt,
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and eventually it will leads you to disbelief. And you and you've been
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there, and as I'm preaching, you may have walked in and you kind
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of get guarded when I even say the word miracles, you know, because
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it didn't happen the way you thought it was supposed to happen, or it
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didn't come the way it was supposed to come, or he was supposed to
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be there and he didn't show up the way that you thought he was gonna
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show up. And so instead of believing for miracles, you almost dismiss miracles.
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Oh, I'm talking to somebody today. I'm helping you because you you
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can almost get to the place my wife and I had almost got to the
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point sometimes in our and our walk with God that like we almost start dismissing
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the dream, like maybe maybe it wasn't for me, or maybe maybe we
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didn't hear what the Lord said, or maybe maybe it's not going to work.
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Maybe it wasn't for us, maybe it's for it, cause you start
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dismissing because it hasn't happened exactly the way you have thought it was going to
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happen, and our doubts, or few our doubts begin to become fueled,
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and we become become overwhelmed, and we start saying to ourselves, maybe it
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was for somebody else. Come on, talk to me, It was for
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somebody else. Maybe that promotion was for somebody else. Maybe that marriage was
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for somebody else. Maybe that maybe that pregnancy was for somebody else. Maybe
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maybe that miracle was for somebody else. I'm just gonna live with this.
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Maybe this is just the cast that was thrown on my life. Maybe maybe
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God has put this as a thrown in my flesh, and I'm just gonna
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live with this disease. I'm gonna have to deal with my bit my back
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issues, or with my with my head issues. I've been dealing with a
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migraine and it just seems like it's part of my portion and I and I
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just have just come to this place to dismiss it. Anytime we talk about
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miracles, you start looking to somebody else because you have been dealing with disappointment.
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But I have come to declare to you today that God wanted me to
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tell you that there are no disclaimers with God. Can I just talk to
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somebody in this that God is saying, I don't need a disclaimer. I
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don't need you to back me up. I am who I said I am.
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I can do what I said I can do, and I need you
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to tell my people God can do anything. Come on, somebody say God
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can do anything. I said, God can do anything. I don't.
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God's not up in heaven scratching his head trying to figure out how to heal
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you, how to bring breakthrough for your life, how to perform the miracle.
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He's not looking and saying what are we gonna do? He is seated
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on the throne and he wants you to know today that he is what he
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said he is, that he is I am of the I am, and
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I need to talk to somebody today, and I want to stir your faith
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because I want you to understand what faith really is. I'm trying. I'm
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trying to hold myself back. I know it's just the introduction. But ah,
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because you because we all gotta this, this, this text is gonna
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free you up, because I promise you it free me up. Because when
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we look at this text. We the Bible says that faith is not for
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the impossible. Faith is to please God. See when we read this text,
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sometimes we see we think it's and without faith, it's impossible to see
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miracles, it's impossible to see breakthrough, it's impossible to see the miraculous.
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But it doesn't say that. It says without faith, it's impossible to do
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what to please God. So my faith is not for an outcome. My
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faith is not for an outcome. My faith is not so there is for
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a tool for the supernatural. My faith is to ultimately please God. Because
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here's the deal. Now, how I'm gonna break it down. Because our
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faith many time is in a whin it's in a what, it's in a
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where. But I need you to know today your faith is not in a
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what. Your faith is not in a win. Your faith is not in
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a where. Your faith is in a who. Because when it doesn't happen,
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and when it doesn't happen where you thought it was going to happen,
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with what you thought it was going to be done in your life, the
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enemy whispers in your ear and he tells you that it wasn't worth it,
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that you wasted your faith. But I need you to know today your faith
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is not wasted because your faith is not in an outcome. Your faith is
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in God and you just are desired to please Him. You recognize today that
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my faith is not in a result. My faith is in a relationship.
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My faith is in a relationship, and it's liberating because have you ever felt
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like a failure. I only got six people that are honest in this house.
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We'll be praying for liars at the end of service. Ever felt like
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that you were not enough? He felt like that you didn't have what it
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takes. And I felt like that the equation didn't add up, and you
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were singing, Lord, I'm using my faith, but it seems like the
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mountain is not being moved. But can I tell you your faith is not
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in the outcome. Your faith is to please God. And even if it
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doesn't happen when it happens, or where it happens, or with what it
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happens, can I tell you at the end of the day, I can
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declare my faith was in the direction of just trusting God. Today. I'm
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not a spiritual gold digger. Come on, I'm not trying to hit the
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cosmic Jackpot. I'm recognizing that this is a walk by faith, and I
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can't live by what I see. I gotta live by what he said.
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I said. I gotta live by what he said. I can't walk by
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Santa. I gotta learn how to walk by faith. I gotta live with
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this faith walk because the opposite of the faith is not fear. The opposite
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of the faith is certainty. We got real quiet because this is what we
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want. We want certainty. Come on, we want guarantees. Come on,
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we want warranties. We're gonna do this, and this is gonna happen.
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Hello. Right, we don't want to walk into this realm of faith
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with the unknown. We don't want to walk into this faith with this the
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sense of I'm not sure how it's going to work out. I wanna know
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how it's going to happen, you know, back in the day. You
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know, I'm an eighties kid. Anybody eighties kids? Come on now,
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y'all gotta make some noise of your eighties kids. I'm talking about like you
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grew up with the original Nintendo Super Mario Brothers. Come on, Donkey Kong,
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come on now. I don't know if Donkey Kong was in that that's
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older. That's older. That's a tarry. I'm sorry forgive me, Lord
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Jesus. That's for you seventies. Come on now, I just want to
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throw it out there. But all kind of like Super Mario Brother. We
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played this game called Contra. You don't know what I'm talking about. Come
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on, and when you play Contra, the key was that you got a
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pass cold. You don't remember it? Up, up, down, down,
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left, right, left, right, b A, then start.
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You don't know about that. She saw these nineties and two thousands. They
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don't know what up, down, uptown, left, right, left,
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right and b A, then start. It was a passo. You push
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the thing on your on your Nintendo and it would give you unlimited lives.
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It's a cheat cold. It's the past cold. And this is what we
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want. We want to go into the realm of faith with already unlimited lives.
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We want to go in with an automatic guarantee. We want to go
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in knowing that no matter what's going to happen. But I need you to
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understand today that God is not calling us with certainty when we live in a
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world that wants to give us certainty right now, even in what we purchase.
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Everything has a warranty. Hello, toaster twenty nine dollars? You want
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a warranty with that? It's just a toaster? What does it need to
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have a warranty for twenty nine dollars? For six more dollars, you can
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get a warranty for three more years. I mean you what I'm talking about?
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Like, I mean, like you go to Walmart and you gotta fight
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the warranty just to get through the line. Buy a microwave is ninety nine
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dollars. Would you like seventeen dollars more to get a warranty? And here's
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the thing. We buy it now. See I'm not even gonna ask you
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if you raise your hand if you bought a warranty because some of us we
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know we got warranties. I know we got warranties because we got phones.
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Hello, we got we got a payment plan on warranty. We're paying sixteen
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dollars every month for a phone that's worth one hundred dollars, just so if
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we drop it, come on, just so if we drop it, we
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can replace it. See, we want rewards without risk. We want but
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I need you to know today that we are walking by faith. We don't
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know what's going to happen. We don't know where it's going to happen.
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We don't know what is going to happen. What we know who is in
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the realm that we are serving today and the who can handle all the what,
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when and where, and our faith is in Him today. And we
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have to now not only recognize that it's our responsibility to please God, but
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we have to recognize that faith is never passive, it's always persuaded. Persuaded.
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See, the Bible tells us that without faith, it's impossible to please
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God because anyone who comes to him must believe he exists. And see that
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interpretation is not a good interpretation. It really means anyone who comes to him
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must believe that he is. He is, he is, what, he
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is, who he says he is, that he is your salvation, that
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he is yourself, and that his blood has the power to cleanse you with
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his precious blood and make you write that he is your hope. Hope is
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not a place. Hope is a person. Today. I'm not hoping for
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something, I hope in someone. And he is the person that said he
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would never leave me or forsake me. He's been with me through thick and
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thin. I've had people come into my life, I've had people go out
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of my life. But can I tell you my hope is in him.
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My hope is not in people. My hope is not in my situation.
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My hope is not in my even my promise. My hope is in him
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today. He is? Who is he? He is my strong tower.
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I don't know about you. I need a strong tower. I need somebody
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who can be my shelter today. Who can be my fortress today? Who
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can be my rock today? I need somebody who I can stand on in
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all the world that is shaking. Anybody feel like the world is shaking and
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you need something strong to stand on? Can I tell it? He is?
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He is a raca, He is a fortress. He is a strong
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tower. Can I promise you today? Who is he? He is?
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He is more than enough. I need you to know. He's a healer
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today. By his tripe to he can heal. He can heal me with
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his strength or with his clarity, with his wholeness. He can give me
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physical, mental, emotional truth. Who is he? He is my king
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today, He's my battle ax Today, It's in him, I move live
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and have my being today. I am persuaded that everything that he said he
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is he is. I don't know about you today, but I am persuaded
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today. You can't move me out of the place of faith. I am
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persistently, patiently pursuing the purpose and plan of God. Why because he is
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somebody's shot. He is. I don't know what he is to you,
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but he's everything in a bag of chips to me. Come on today,
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he is he is. I am persuaded. You got to learn how to
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be persuaded. Our trust is not in the is in the process, even
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when we don't see the product. Our trust is in the process of that.
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No, he's slave me yet will I trust him? Though I'm pressed
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on every side, I'm not crushed, even though I'm persecuted. I'm not
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abandoned. Even though I'm struck down. Now, I'm not destroyed. I'm
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recognized. I'm persuaded. Is anybody persuaded in this place? Anybody ever gone
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through hell and didn't they You're gonna make it, and God brought you out.
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Anybody ever gone through a storm and He calmed the storm, not on
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the outside, but he calmed the storm on the inside, and when everybody
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else was pulling their hair out, you were recognizing that the Lord was with
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you because you are persuaded. Oh, I am persuaded. I'm persuaded today.
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I'm persuaded that He's a good God, even when bad situations happened.
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I am persuaded, paulse that neither height, nor death, nor angels,
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nor demons, nor pastor or president shall be able to separate me from the
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love of God. I am persuaded. I'm telling you, I'm persuaded today.
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See, my faith is in him. It's not in the thing today
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I've recognized today. You see what pastor is not working. It's getting worse.
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The marriage, the addiction, the brokenness, the finance of the crisis.
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It seems impossible, the doctor's report. Can I tell you today there's
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no cure? But can I tell you today my faith is in him?
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Now that's easier said than done. This past weekend, this past week I
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have a pastor friend and we went together the master's when I would do my
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master's degree, and that was fifteen years ago. And he's pastoring a great
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church in Birmingham, and his sister in law came down with a disease that
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was genetic, means that her mother had the disease, and her mother died
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of this disease. And they literally watched the sister in law passed away crueling
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disease. And literally, I could show you pictures, but I'm not just
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out of the sake of humanity. They literally watched the wife, the mother,
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the sister, the daughter waste away in the same process. When they
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discovered the disease, my pastor's friend, they went and got tested, his
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wife got tested, and the wife was diagnosed and they looked in the chromosomes
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and found that she had the same disease, like a death sentence. Literally,
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over the last few years, we've watched her take the same steps as
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her sister, watching a mom slowly come into a wheelchair at the age of
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forty five, to see her incapacitated in some level, and her husband,
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who's a pastor, holding her hand and believing God. They just moved her
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into a nursing home. And because of the situation with the variant that's going
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out and they could not go into the nursing home, and she's been literally
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isolated, and she every day has a confession that she posts and she put
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on Twitter. She put on Twitter this statement, our God is a good
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God. Now, I don't know about you, but that just moved me
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to recognize that no matter what I'm face, no matter what I'm going,
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our God is a good God. Our God is a great God. Our
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God is still able, Our God is still willing. Our God. We're
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putting our faith and our hope and we are persuaded today that our God is
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good and he nons just to understand the power of a seed, because when
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Jesus talking about our faith, unfortunately, Jesus said, your faith is like
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a mustard seed. Now, I don't know about you. That kind of
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makes me mad. Have you ever seen a mustard seed? Anybody? Come
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on, wave at me a mustrous seed? He said, your faith is
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like the size of a muster seed. And I gotta be honest, that
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seed is not very big compared to my mountain. Hello, if you look
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at the seed, the seed always looks small to your situation. Can I
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just break it down? I would rather him say your faith is like a
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mountain that can move things. Your faith is like a storm that can blow
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in and knock the devil down. Come on, I want I want my
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faith to be small. I want my faith to be big. I want
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my faith to be larger, because when I look at my faith and I
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look at my situation, it doesn't weigh the same. But I want you
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to know today when you look at these stories that the Hall of Faith declares
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that it was just small. It seemed impotent, it seemed tiny. But
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can I tell you by faith, Noah built a boat to by faith.
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Abraham obeyed God and followed after the call of God by faith that even when
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Sarah was able, wasn't able to have a child, she believed in her
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old age. When you look at the stories of by faith, you'll see
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that these people have had small faith, but it moved the mountains because it's
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not the size of your faith, and it is where you place it.
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And you need to know today your faith is in God. And it's God
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who can move the mountain. It's God who can heal the bodies. It's
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God who can bring deliverance. It's God who can bring up breakthrough for your
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home, your family, your marriage. Can I tell you by faith,
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God can do it? Somebody say say, by faith, by faith,
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we look at all the stories in the Hall of faith this prescriptive verse.
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They didn't have perfect faith, but they perfected their faith. They didn't have
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perfect faith, but they perfected their faith by being persistent. And that's what
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I need you to see today. Because there's gonna be a call and the
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enemy is gonna whisper in your ear. Don't go down there, don't believe
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that, don't step out in faith. But can I tell you today your
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faith is not only persuaded, it's persistent, persistent. Loqu they did,
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they were found faithful, They were found faithful. What do you mean,
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Well, Noah by faith for hundreds Lily, Lily for years was building a
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boat. When he was building a boat, every time that song said,
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Noah, you're gonna give up? By faith, how was he using his
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faith? He was taking that hammer and putting that nail in that wood.
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You see, it's practical, it's by faith. He was honoring God.
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By Abraham, what he did, he took steps of faith. That he
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literally took steps of faith into an unknown land away from his family, not
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wanting to go back, trust to God with the promised land over him and
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his family. By faith, Abraham and Sarah kept trying, come on somebody
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at seventy years old, dried up, womb, dried up body, dried
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up. Situation impossible. But Abraham, what did they do? They kept
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on meeting at the tent to come on somebody. They kept on believing God
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until Isaac came Joseph. Joseph told his family to bury him in the land
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of his father, because he knew that he wasn't That was not where he
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was gonna lay his body. That he may have been in Egypt, but
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he had a promised land. He said, even though I die, my
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promise is in the promised land. So bury me in my promise. God.
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Can I tell you today, in the name of Jesus, even the
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Israelites they marched around the wall six times, and on the seventh day looked
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like a full marching around the wall. What were they doing? They were
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found faithful Rehabs saw this situation turned her red light into a red card.
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How by faith she was persistently pursuing the God that she knew. She didn't
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understand who the God was, but she knew the God of Israelites, the
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God that was able to move mountain. Can I tell you today, God
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is looking for your faith that is moving in the direction that he's called you
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to move. It's the power. Just keep on. How many times has
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the enemy whispered in our ears and just give up, Just throw in the
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town. It's not worth it. But my faith says he's worth it.
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My faith says he's worth it. I'm gonna keep on plowing. I'm gonna
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keep on serving, I'm gonna keep on giving, I'm gonna keep on trusting.
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I don't know about you, but I'm gonna keep on worshiping, even
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in the middle of a storm, even in the middle of the rocky road.
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I'm going to continue to keep on dreaming. Today, I'm gonna keep
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on believing that that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God
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of the day that has been manifested in the name of Jesus. Can I
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tell you and I recognize that in my believing, I am becoming I'm becoming
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stronger, I'm becoming wiser, I'm becoming better. I want you to know
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today there's something that God is doing on the inside, and I want him
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to see me boy well done and faithful servant. At the end of the
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day, I'm gonna be found faithful, serving and believing God, because I
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recognize God is more interested in my becoming than he is in my possessing.
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And you need to know the power of persistency. Worship team, Come,
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I'm ready. It's just keep on, keep on keeping on. That's the
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old Saints, they said, to keep on keeping on power persistence. Your
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tears have not been wasted. I need to tell somebody you've been praying for
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your kids to come home to the Lord. Your tears have not been wasted.
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Every time you come down to the altar, your prayers have not gone
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unheard. It's the power of persistency. Do you know how powerful persistence he
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is? You know a water? You know how powerful water is in your
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home and how it can bring devastation just by a simple leak, that a
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drip, a drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, not anymore,
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not any less, just a drip. You don't even know what he's
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doing. But that drip over time is breaking down wood, breaking down stone,
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breaking down hard things, just with a drip. If you watch the
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drip of water hitting a piece of rock, day in, day out.
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We were moving on twenty one days of prayer. Day one, drip day
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two, drip day three. Drip drip, Day four drip, drip,
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drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. That
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water that's dripping all of a sudden, if it's hidden the rock, you'll
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start seeing an indenttion of whether drip is all of a sudden, the drip
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starts building, the crack crack starts coming out denths. There been dripping for
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a year, All of a sudden what seemed like a hard thing started to
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become possible thing, just with the trip. I'm just telling you today,
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if water in his persistency can break the rock, how much more, I
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said, how much more can your faith in the God that you serve?
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Tears rolling down your face, prayers going out. Drip, He's coming home.
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Drip, He's evil. Drip. He shall supply all of my needs.
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Drip. It's gonna come together, Drip. He shall do exceedingly abundant
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me above all that you even ask her. Think drip, trip, trip,
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trip, I promise you today we serve a god. He said that
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he is a rewarder. I wish I had somebody that knew what I was
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talking about. I said, he's a rewarder. You say, pastor,
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why are you talking about the driven? He said, not only that he
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is God, but he is a rewarder of those who diligently sin. See,
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your diligence isn't going waste to today, because he will reward those who
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faithfully, continually, steadfastly declare. He is God over your home, over
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your family, over your marriage, over your body, over your mind.
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I'm telling you, I said, not only is he able, but he
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said he's willing. I'm gonna reward him. I'm gonna pour it out on
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him. Say. I'm praying that the word of God has been richly deposited
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in your life today, and I'm praying that you'll not only hear the word
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of God, but do me a great favor. Take this word and replay
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it in your spirit. Go to your Bible, take the notes and allow
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it to begin to be journaled in a place where you'll never forget it,
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because I promise you the Word of God will not return void, and it'll
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accomplish what it was called to do it's purpose. And so listen, I
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want to say thank you for watching. Listen, do me a great favor.
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