Sermon
The Cross (The Doorway Into The Kingdom)
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Ah.
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That was good. Uh good worship.
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Huh.
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So I want to do something that's going to make
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some of you very uncomfortable right now. But we locked
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the doors. Everyone's safe. No, Seriously, on a serious note,
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I felt like the Lord wanted to break some curses
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and that that came on my heart towards the end
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of worship. In fact, I'm not gonna say who it
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is because I want to I want to protect the person.
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But there's there's a female here that is convinced that
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you're under a curse of witchcraft because of a lying
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spirit and that's the reason why you haven't gotten free
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of it. And so I'm not going to ask you
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to raise your hand, but I really feel strongly the
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Lord wants to break that this morning. The other thing
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is I'm gonna ask the Lord for some revelation to
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call out some stuff, and I'm just gonna have everybody
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stand up at one time after we call a few
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things out, and then we're gonna go after them. You're
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making my voice really deep. Thus say no, Thus sayth
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the frank where's frank at A? So the first one
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is you cannot hold any level of intimacy with a
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relationship the word of knowledge. In other words, all of
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your relationships fall apart very quickly. There's a there's a
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there's a connection issue.
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So and.
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Please don't every every eye, all every head bout, every
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eyes closed. So there's the issue of witchcraft, the issue
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of relationships falling apart. Like friendships. It's it's almost like
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you self sabotage all of your relationships and you can't
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figure out why. The third thing is there's a it
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feels like a devouring financial curse. Every single time you
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start to get ground under your feet, it's taken out
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and and it's and it's actually a generational pattern where
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you can you can look at it several generations.
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Deep h.
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If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm listening.
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To the Lord.
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Well, I'll have everybody stand here in a minute. I'm
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just I'm calling them out, so make it. If it's you,
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make a note. M. I just saw a door shut
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on all of your family. Not I'm aware of some
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stuff with folks, but I specifically you are the black
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sheep of your family, Like I just saw this door shut.
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None of your family has anything to do with you.
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And I know that we go after this one a lot.
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But this is addiction and it's generational. The other one
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is mental illness and it's generational. M M. I think
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this is the last one significant. It's a spirit of fear.
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It's significant fear, and I believe it's you have panic
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attacks with it. So if that rings true, stand up
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whoever whoever that is, and we're gonna and we're gonna
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mm hmm. Yeah. So this I just want to call
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this out. I just had this impression of the Lord
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coming in from the right side of the room like
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a whirlwind, and there's going to be healing in a
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fresh level of compassion and some betrayal. That's the other one.
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You have a hard time. You'd feel like every time
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you turn around you're betrayed. All right, if you're around
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someone standing up, ask them how to pray and start
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praying for them. So remember the word of knowledge is
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already out. So now it's healing time. Now it's breakthrough time.
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Now it's freedom time. Today's the day it ends. Today's
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the day that you get freedom. Today's the day that
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your bloodline has changed. Ye. And who is it dealing
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with tormenting dreams? Yeah you so, Lord, I thank you
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right now for breaking the tormenting dreams. Lord, we come
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against the night visitations and we break that right now
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in Jesus' name, and Lord, we come against every financial curse,
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every demonic assignment of devouring, a betrayal of the night tarores,
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of the generational rejection and abandonment. Lord, right now, the
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name of Jesus. Come Lord, Come Lord, Come Lord, and Lord,
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right now, we just come against generational addiction. In the
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name of Jesus. Right now, we break the iniquity of addiction. Lord,
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we thank you and the mighty name of Jesus that
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you became a curse. So we don't have to be
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right now, no more standing up and saying this is
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who I am, confessing what you're not. You stand up
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and you say you're a son of God, a child
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of God. That's your confession. You're a new identity in Christ.
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The old is gone and all things become new.
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Yes, yes, all right, all.
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Right, as you all finish up, if I can get
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you though, find your seat day at hey, can we
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do something? Y'all? Everybody stand up, put your hands out
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like it's Christmas, because it's almost Christmas, right, it's Christmas
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every day in the kingdom.
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M y.
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Lord, I just ask right now that you would increase
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what you're doing more Lord, more, Lord, h Right now,
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you're gonna you're gonna notice you're starting to feel a
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heavier weight to your presence on your shoulders and upper chest. Now,
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who's feeling that? Damn Jesus. I thank you for your love.
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I thank you for your goodness. I thank you for
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what you're doing right now. I thank you that we
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don't have to be in control. Lord Lord. Right now,
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I just ask for afresh and feeling. Lord, I bless
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their spirits to awaken from slumber right now. Lord, I
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asked that you would release breakthrough angels right now, Lord,
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in this moment, that you would release your angels. You're
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ministering angels, your breakthrough angels. Lord. We came to encounter
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you Lord, we came to be transformed by you. Lord,
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Jesus have your way in this house, in this moment. Lord,
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For those of you that are feeling constricted or numb,
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just take a deep breath. If you're wondering what in
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the world are we doing right now, it's called Psalms
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forty six. Be still and know that I'm God who's
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got a lingering neck problem from an accident. Getter, Lord, getter, healer, Lord,
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right now, in Jesus name, I ask, Lord, take the trauma,
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take the trauma out of her neck. Lord, I break
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the anxiety of even driving, and I break the heaviness
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that comes on you. Lord. She came wanting to break through. Today,
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she came wanting to break through. And I thank you.
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Today's the day, Lord, Today's the day. Yeah, I see you.
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Move Now, get out of here. Now in Jesus name,
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release her out off and out let her cord. Go
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now in Jesus' name, there we go. Thank you, Lord,
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Thank you. Lord. You know, I'm convinced that the Lord
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always wants to do a whole lot more than what
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we're comfortable with. So you say, right now, Jesus have
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your way, not my will, but yours mess us up. Yeah,
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So I just break mental torment right now, all those
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intrusive thoughts that seem to keep coming and you can't. Lord,
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I thank you for freedom right now, and I break
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the word curses over your mind. Speak peace, speak peace
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on Lord. We don't want to leave here the same today.
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Thank you, Ord, Thank you, Ord. Lord, I thank you
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for healing abandonment right now. Lord, I thank you for
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removing the spirit of abandonment and the mighty name of
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Jesus right now. Abandonment lift now, abandonment, lift now. In
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Jesus' name, were you getting your ears prayed for? Pardon? Oh? Okay, okay,
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So Lord, right now, I just asked that you would
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open her ears, that you would restore her healing, I
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mean her hearing with healing right now. Lord. Any attack
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of any death spirit, we rebuke it right now. The
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name of Jesus and the part of her heart that
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says I don't want to hear anymore. Lord, I asked
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that you would bring healing over her heart there. I
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don't want to hear another negative thing. So Lord, I
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asked that you would pop her ears open Lord, total
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restoration right now, right now, And I asked that you
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would heal the trauma, specifically from the ambulance ride. Lord
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removed the dagger out of her heart. I thank you
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for a sound mind, So let your fire or fall, Lord,
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in Jesus' name. All right, y'all can be seated if
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you would like. This is why it's good to double
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dip sometimes. I want to finish up the last few
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minutes that we have together talking about the cross, because
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crucifixion is the doorway into the kingdom, and it's the
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only way. In Luke nine twenty one to twenty four. Well,
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it's going to increase. And he strictly warned and commanded
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them to tell this to no one, saying, the son
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of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by
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the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed
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and be raised the third day. Then he said to
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them all, if anyone desires to come after me, let
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him deny himself, take up his cross. Sometimes Oh sorry
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I wasn't there, take up his cross daily and follow me.
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Or whoever desires to save his life will lose it.
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But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
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Every area that you woke up this morning in your
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life and you refuse to bear your cross. You just
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lost that area. You're guaranteed to not find your life
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in that area. So maybe you came in this morning
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and three quarters of your life is surrendered and you
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feel like you can't figure out why you still got
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cycles of defeat. That's because you're trying to preserve your life.
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And any time any area of our life we're trying
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to preserve it, we're going to end up living our
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life at the expense of those around us. It is
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a lie from the enemy to say that we can
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sin and not hurt people. It's impossible for us to
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have personal sin in our life and it not affect
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our relationships. Are you with me and we make this
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conscious decision every day that we wake up on whether
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or not we're going to take up our cross and
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follow him. There are some days you might get a
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little bit of Jesus and a little bit of me.
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What's that bumper sticker? Try Jesus, don't try me. I've
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got a magnet atum a refrigerator door. It's it's a
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picture of Jesus, and he says, I saw that, but
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I still love you. I saw that, but I still
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love you. I want to challenge y'all. I know we're
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getting towards the end of the year, and we were
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actually talking about this in Men's Breakfast about New Year's resolutions,
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and nine percent, nine percent of all the people that
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make resolutions in the new year stick with it. That's horrible.
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Are you with me? Secondly, if you're trying to make
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a change in your life because you shouldn't be doing something,
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why are you going to wait till January repent for
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the Kingdom of Heaven? Is that near? It wasn't that bad.
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And just the last year there have been and this
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is the top fifty countries in the globe, over three
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hundred and eighty million Christians living in places where they
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experienced high levels of persecution and discrimination. Four hundred and
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seventy six Christians were killed for their faith. We saw
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a flag or a marking point with the assassination of
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Charlie Kirk. You know, I'm not interested in arguing on
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how it happened or who actually did it. The reality
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is he was martyred for his faith. Period. At the
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end of the day, it's been a while since someone
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was actually martyred for their faith. And you may say, well, hey,
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you know he was also political. Well, his political view
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was grounded because of his faith in Jesus, and that's
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where his moral compass came from. And he consistently constantly
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talked about Jesus all throughout the campuses, all over the place.
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And so we we saw this, this moment that literally
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marked the country. That I don't know about you, but
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I was surprised at the emotion I had when I
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found out there's seven six hundred and seventy nine churches
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and other Christian buildings attacked last year, four seven hundred
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and forty four believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced, or imprisoned.
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Do you even find Paul where he's riding and he's
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in prison. Do you understand it's not like the prisons
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in Texas or county jail, like he's in a hole
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in the ground. There were times where he was on
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house arrest, but when he's writing about the joy of
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the Lord, it was no picnic for him. And every
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morning he woke up, he was there and chained because
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of his faith in Jesus. And I've said this and
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will continue to say this, that the increasing of persecution
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that starting to ramp up a little bit here is
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going to continue to ramp up, and we are going
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to have to know who we are and how to
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respond now, not years from now. Part of raising up
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our children and the ways of God is actually giving
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them a solid foundation on the sufferings of Christ. Most
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of us can't even handle having our parking spot taken,
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being persecuted, call the intercessors Philippians two eight, and being
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found in the appearance as a man, he humbled himself.
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It became obedient to the point of death, even the
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death on the cross, y'all, When we willfully take up
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our cross, and when we're being persecuted for righteousness sake,
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and we're willing to humble ourselves and take that stand
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and remain silent and allow the Lord to vindicate us,
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we're actually making room for him to move in our lives,
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on our Behabit says, he's actively working on the behalf
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of those that wait for him. David. I remember David
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and his men. They're going along, and the one dude
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is like spitting at him and throwing rocks and his
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mighty mender, like you want us to take his head
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off and what did David say. He goes, no, leave
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him alone. Maybe the Lord will see him cursing me,
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and I will be blessed. David said that even in
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the Old Covenant, and I think one of the hardest
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things in the world is when things aren't going the
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way we want them to go, to remain quiet, to
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be still and allow the Lord to move. I don't think, y'all.
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I was making an emergency cup of coffee during the
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transition back there. All the coffee was gone, so I
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have a cure rig moment of silence.
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Please.
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But we had been praying. Some of y'all know, we've
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been praying for quite a while for whether or not
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to go out to the property with a revival tent.
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And we've been praying and praying, and I really started
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personally pressing in the last few weeks, asking the Lord
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to please give us confirmation. And I shared this first service.
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One of the gentlemen in the church here set a
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dream to us, and he in the dream, he was
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in this revival tent and God was moving. There were
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a lot of people in there, and he said it
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was up against a big hill, and when he came
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out of the tent. He realized he was on ourty.
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And so I'm driving down the highway and I go, okay, Lord,
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we'll do it. See because I didn't want a tent.
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I want I didn't And I was like, if we're
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going to have a tent, I want like one of
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these fancy high dollar framed in hard walled, you know.
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And then we started looking at prices on those things
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and hallelujah. And so but I said, okay, Lord, and
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in my heart I heard I want to meet you
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in the tent. And so we will. In the next
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few weeks, Lord willing be announcing a groundbreaking day and
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we are going to be securing a tent, and we
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will be meeting the Lord and the Revival tent. As
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we actually begin to watch the first building begin to
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go up, and my microphone popped off. Who's had the
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roughest year of your life? This year? Like literally like
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you were tested in ways, went through stuff that you
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never dreamed you were going to go through. I mean,
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I know, as a region, we've all just went through
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hallatious stuff. But I believe with all my heart something
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amazing is on its way. I believe that we are
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seeing just little taste and see that the Lord is good.
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And each week we're tasting a little bit more of
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his holiness. We're tasting a little bit more of the
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fear of the Lord, We're tasting a little bit more
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of his goodness. We're beginning to get a little better
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rebelation of the Father's heart for us and over this region.
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And what it's doing is beginning to spark hope in
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the hearts of the people. It's beginning to we're beginning
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to see a picture of a reality where the Father's
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inviting us in to this amazing story called his kingdom,
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and he's inviting each and every one of us. We're
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at the train station. The train's about to go, and
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you gotta make a choice. So you're going to get
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on or get off. But the train's moving. The train's
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going to go, and God's gonna move. Remember, we can't
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tell the wind where to blow right, the wind blows
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where it pleases. But we can get into the direction
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of the wind and go with the momentum of His spirit.
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We can acknowledge our pain. We can be in the
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garden just like Jesus was. He says, Lord, if there's
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another way, let this cup.
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Go.
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Lord, If there's another way to redeem humanity, let it be,
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but nevertheless, not my will. And that's exactly how we
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need to be, walking in the Kingdom with open hands.
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No matter how much revelation you think you have over
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your life, your hands are open. You go, Lord, your kingdom, Come,
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Your will be done, not mine. I submit, I surrender
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my will. Because the reality is, if we're going to
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take up our cross daily and follow him, that means
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that we're posturing ourself in a place of full submission.
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Are you with me, not just doing what he tells
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us to do, but actually being submitted and surrendered in
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our heart? Because you can do what the Lord tells
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you to do and be mad as all get out
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and still do what he told you to do right,
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miserably victorious. And we've all been there. We've all made
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righteous decisions because it was the right thing to do,
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but we were mad as she ol in the process.
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And the Lord, he says, he doesn't look on the outside,
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He looks at the heart. So you may look amazing
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doing a good work and everybody praises you for it,
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and your heart might be as evil as all get
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out inside, because the motive is selfish ambition, and he
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is purifying his bride right now. And I do not
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believe that he's coming back for a beat up bride.
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He's coming back for a bride that knows who she is.
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And when he shows up, it's not gonna be us
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going get us out of here, Lord, doing rapture practice.
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It's gonna be the world saying please get them out
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of here. You sound excited about that, but there's things
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that are gonna have to come to death, because it's
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only where you carry the cross in your life that
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you're actually walking in abundant life. Philippians two eight says,
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and being found in the appearance as a man, he
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humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,
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even the death of the cross. So we wake up
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in the morning and we deny our soul's right to
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rule over us. We say, Lord, I will walk in
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the spirit. My soul will not rule. And sometimes that's
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how we wake up. No, No, Lord, Hebrews twelve two.
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Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who,
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for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross,
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despising the shame, and has set down at the right
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hand of the throne of God. What was the joy?
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What was he looking? Why did he endure?
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Was?
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What is that joy that was set before him? First
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and foremost, it was ruthless trust and obedience to his father.
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Secondly it was you. But make no mistake, obedience to
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his Papa was the number one thing that brought him
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joy one Corinthians when eighteen. For the message of the
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Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to
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us who are being saved, that is the power of God.
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If you want to see miracle, signs and wonders, then
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always lead with the gospel. First, you understand he's confirming
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the message. It says, these signs will follow after those
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who believe. So you follow him, you chase him. You
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preach the eternal Gospel, undefiled, uncompromised, without heresy. You preach
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the truth and love, and Heaven will back you. And
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we can put a demand on Heaven when we're preaching
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the gospel, because those signs will follow after those who believe. Y'all,
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every time we gather, God does something supernatural. Every time
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somebody gets healed, every time a word of knowledge is released,
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every time a healing is released every time somebody gets delivered.
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That is confirming the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom,
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and even what we've seen today this morning. This is
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the supernatural world, the biblical worldview invading into your natural minds,
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and you get an upgrade of who he is and
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what he actually longs to do. I think he's way
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more excited about moving through us and with us than
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we are with him. So many times we miss we
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miss visitations because we don't see the invitation. It's too uncomfortable. Lord,
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you're asking too much of me. Lord, I don't want
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to go on that fast. Don't you know I have
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steaks in the freezer are filling the blank. I used
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to have a Peanut eminem slight problem. Anybody like Peanut
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Eminem's man, I could tear those things up. But now,
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at forty eight years old, it just advances the Kingdom
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Luke fourteen twenty seven. And whoever does not bear his
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cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Listen,
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I don't care how many times you went to the
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altar and said a prayer. If you don't have a
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life that's been radically changed by Jesus you're not saved.
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You can't say I know him and then never change.
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It's impossible. If you don't bear your cross, then you're
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not as disciple. See, we water stuff down. We want
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to make everybody feel nice and comfortable as they go
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straight to hell. That stuff's got to stop. You have
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to stop being afraid to offend people with the gospel
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because it's the power of God into salvation. It's what
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actually changes a bloodline. And there is no hope outside
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of Him, There is no eternal hope. He is the Way,
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the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto
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the Father except through Him. And you, as a son
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and daughter, have a earthly responsibility to preach that eternal
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gospel with conviction and with power. You need to understand
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power comes when you preach the gospel, and you can
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put a demand on heaven and have faith that Jesus
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will stretch forth his arm and signs and wonders when
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you preach the word, when you speak the truth. Galatians
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two twenty says this, I have been crucified with Christ.
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It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me,
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and the life which I now live in the flesh
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who
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loved me and gave himself for me. Do you understand
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the one thing that led Peter to wanting to be
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crucified upside down because he said he wasn't worthy to
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be crucified the way his Lord was. It had everything
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to do with the revelation of his father. You understand,
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he says, I want to be known as Father. And
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so much of our problems is our unwillingness to submit
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our lives, get rid of the orphaned spirit and embrace sonship.
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Because if you don't know who you are, you don't
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know how to walk in what he's called you to,
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because your identity unlocks your destiny. If you're still trying
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to get convinced that he is good, it's going to
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be difficult to see amazing things. But when you know
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he is good and he longs to give good gifts
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and he only gives good gifts, that revelation of his
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goodness unlocks the miraculous realm. It kills doubt and unbelief,
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and you step into a place of faith because you
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know he truly is good and he longs to give
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you the kingdom. It says it's his good pleasure to
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give you the Holy Spirit. So you wake up, you
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take up your cross, and you go straight into the impossible,
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because that's where you're called to live. You understand you're
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not mere humans anymore. You're a brand new creation in Christ.
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The old is gone. Behold all things become new. You
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have a mandate on your life. Every day you wake
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up to see Heaven. Come to this in any place
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that you see in your life that doesn't look like
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Heaven is an assignment. You didn't even need an angelic
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visitation for that. Anything that's in front of you, somebody's
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sick in front of you, you don't need any more
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revelation to know that you need to be praying for
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that person, because there is no sickness in heaven. There's
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no lack in heaven. There's no depression in heaven. There's
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no addiction in heaven. There's no premature death in heaven.
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I was sitting with Troy in Randy Clark a couple
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of weeks back, and I said, I don't know if
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you want me on your dead raising team. I'm like, oh,
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for eight And he goes, And Randy said, he goes.
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What matters is you're still praying. If you if you
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keep praying, you'll see it. There's something that happens in
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our hearts when we continue to go after the things
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of God, and we face our unbelief and our doubt
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head on, and we keep doing it because he said
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it's true, and we get it a conviction inside of
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our hearts that say, I will see this and I
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will continue to go after this because I know this
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is true, and I'm not gonna allow what my natural
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eyes see in the natural to tell me what to
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believe about him. His word already finished that, and that
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is the journey that we're on, kicking unbelief in the face.
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Almost had another blooper. Thank you for your mercy, Lord,
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it says Acts fourteen twenty two, strengthening the souls of
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the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and
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saying that through many tribulations we must enter into the
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Kingdom of God. Y'all, why is it we seem so
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surprised when a trial comes? Come on? Are you with me? Like?
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There are always those moments like for another one, Lord,
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have you not been with me over the last few months?
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And what's he say? The testing of your faith. It's
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the testing of your faith. It's the purifying and the
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motives of your heart. It's the transformation so that you
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actually look like Jesus. Do you understand, y'all? You want
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to know what ads willis for your life be transformed
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into the image of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission.
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You understand that the Great Commission is an assignment for
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every single one of you. It's not just for the pastor.
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It's not just for the evangelist or the prophet or
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the teacher. It's for all of us. And I want
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to challenge y'all now more than ever. Look for the harvest.
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Look for the harvest. There's fires popping all over the place.
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I don't know about you, but I'm not okay to hear.
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Ken's Church has thirty five hundred salvations this year. I
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don't know about you, but that provoked me to jealousy
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when he said that I want to see us see
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hundreds of people come to know the Lord. And it
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doesn't even matter if they end up here. What matters
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is they end up in the Kingdom. Are you with me?
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But that happens because you get a group of people
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that lay down their lives that take up their cross
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daily and pursue the Lord. The one thing that's going
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to give you longevity and perseverance in this planet in
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the days ahead is your love for Jesus. It's that
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first love that's going to give you the perseverance that
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you need in the days ahead. You don't want to
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shipwreck your faith, then stay on your knees. You don't
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want to shipwreck your faith. Get in the word because
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word and prayer are vital. It is vital, absolutely vital.
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How you gonna know if he's even taught what you're
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hearing from him is accurate if you're not testing it
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against his word and spend time being quiet and listening
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to him speak. I promise you all he wants to
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talk to you. Stop fussing because you're not getting your way.
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Look to him and thank him for unanswered prayer, because
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if he answered some of your prayers right now, he
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would have to turn around and judge you for what
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he just gave you because you don't have the maturity
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to steward it. And that's not a good father. I
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heard this illustration. What if every single prayer you prayed
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that was according to his will comes in an acorn.
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Form comes with an acorn, and you keep pursuing, You,
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keep praying until it gets planted and turns into a tree.
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I'm telling you the bolls in heaven of prayers. Some
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of y'all just need to throw a few more prayers
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to tip that over back onto the earth. He says,
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keep asking, keep knocking, keep seeking. Why, because he's a
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rewarder of those who diligently seek after him. You're not
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so much twisting his arm to give you what you want,
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but in the process of pursuing him, he's conforming you
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into the image of his son. And then he is
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justified to give you that because you'll have the character
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to steward it. Some of y'all think he said no,
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when all he did was say wait, And then you
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get ticked off and pack up your legos. Why don't
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we need that? And all of a sudden, now it's
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your will who cares about his? How's that working out?
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Don't answer? All right, I'm gonna land the plane safely,
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safe safely, pilots very safely, although if I have a parachute,
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we can just drop it anyways, right, don't get scared.
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One Peter four, one, and two. Since therefore Christ suffered
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in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking.
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For whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
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so as to live for the rest of the time
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in the flesh. No longer for human passions, but for
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the will of God. Let's stand one Peter four. My
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wife is letting me know there's a remind Okay, now
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the prayer team come, Not that we haven't had lots
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of prayer already, but there may be a couple of
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you that are like, oh man, I should have gotten prayer.
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Who's excited about a revival tap? I'm actually getting a
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little excited about it. I really am. You know, the
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Shavdas started out in a tent, and I've got a buddy,
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Roger Sykes. He was there during that time, and they
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actually had a glory cloud appear in the tent, and
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you could see lightnings in the cloud, and you had
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tons of testimonies of people that were there and experienced
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the glory. Sounds pretty It doesn't sound like a bad Sunday,
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you know what I'm saying. I've seen one cloud. I'm
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ready to see it again. So Father, we thank you, Lord.
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We thank you that you're good. We thank you that
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you love us. We thank you that you proved your love,
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and while we were yet sinners, you died for us. Lord. Lord,
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I asked that you would continue to put hope, infuse
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us with hope. Lord, that we would begin to like
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Sean said, did anybody see the sunrise, that we would
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have our childlike faith restored our sense of wonder and
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awe of who you are and your creation, that we
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would once again begin to knock the ashes of the
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past off of us and begin to dream with you, Lord,
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what do you see over this region? What do you
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want to do in this region? What do you want
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to do through us? What do you want to do
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through us today? Lord? What do you want to do
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through us when with us tomorrow? Lord? We want the harvest.
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We want the harvest. Lord, And I pray that there
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would be an a company of people that get more
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excited about the name of Jesus Lord than the word revival.
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Because you are revival. Lord, revival is in us, because
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you are revival. It is in you. You revive the dead,
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you awaken the sleeper. So Lord, right now, in this moment,
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in the areas of our lives that we have been slumbering.
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Would you blow on us and awaken our spirits. Awaken
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our spirits, Lord, that the breath of God come and
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awaken our spirits. Blow over us.
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Lord.
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The wind blows where it pleases, and we're asking for
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it to continue to blow our direction to bring glory
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and honor to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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If you all need prayer, come on upwise okay?
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In one announcements, Yeah, two quick announcements. The pop up
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shop with all the clothing and shoes this next week.
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It's going to be open Tuesday through Friday, nine to three.
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If anyone in our community is in need, you can
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go and shop. Shop for your whole entire family.
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If you have.
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Friends or neighbors that are in need, please let them
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know to come. A flood victims also can come. Anything
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that's left after that is going to be donated, so
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please come and get it. So right next door is O'Reilly's,
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the old Mexican restaurant. Next to O'Reilly's is where the
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pop up shop is. So please go shop get what
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you need. Last thing, Alex she's not here yet, but
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she was asking if she could get a few really
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strong men to help her with moving some set stuff around.
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So if any of you will stay for that, weick.
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There's actually a third if you know somebody in need.
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This Wednesday, December tenth, at eleven o'clock to one o'clock,
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Mercy Chefs will have their hot meals and their Christmas
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boxes and Cross Kingdom put a hundred hb gift cards
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in one hundred of those boxes, and the gift cards
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are fifty bucks. So like we want to make sure
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anybody in our community is aware of that because you know,
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it's why supplies last but Wednesday. So if you know
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somebody that's really hurting, please let them know. And that's
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just right up here where they do the drive through
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for the meals with the big signs no at the
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Mercy Chefs. Oh which way am I point? Yeah? Yeah,
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that way, yeah, yeah, right across from City West. Bless y'all.
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If you need prayer, please come forward.
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Well.
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I trust that you were blessed by the Lord today
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and we look forward to seeing you online next Sunday.
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In the meantime, if you would like to learn more
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about us, about our School of Ministry or other resources,
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or you would like to sow into Cross Kingdom ministries
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and help us further the Gospel to the ends of
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the earth, simply go to Cross Kingdom dot org. We'll
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see y'all next week.