Sermon
What Do You See?
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Good job, y'all.
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You gotta first time you do this stuff. It's nerve wracking.
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I've said this before. I got a d N speech
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class at Pensacola Christian College because I was terrified to
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be in front of people.
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True story.
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In fact, it was I After that semester, I pretty
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much talked myself out of being called to be a
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minister because I was like, there's no way that I
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can do this and be in front of people, because
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I was literally terrified. I mean you talk about the fear,
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I mean I was physically shaking when I would get
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in front of people because I was so nervous and
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full of anxiety. And now, look, you can't shut me up.
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I just said that for my wife, since she's not sitting.
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There right now.
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Man, this morning has been awesome, y'all.
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So uh, if some of that stuff was strange to
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some of you. Responding to invitations, it's it's in the
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midst of us gathering together and worshiping the Lord. There
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is also divine listening, listening to what he's wanting to
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do in the moment where he's wanting to go what
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is the next invitation? And sometimes it almost feels like
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spiritual surfing, like you catch a wave and then it
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kind of lands and it's a lull and you're waiting
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for that next wave to come. And what my my
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heart is to equip to y'all is to learn to
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grow in the sensitivity to see what He's doing. So
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in the in the in the beginning of that the
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worship time, I felt an angel walk up next to
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me and I lit up like I saw it in
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my eyes and felt the presence of the Angel.
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And I don't know if you all behind me.
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When I grabbed my brother and put him in the
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in the hot spot was because I intentionally put him there.
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And then the fire of God started. Who all was
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getting hotter in a paint? Yeah, And so there there
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there are some themes in this hour that the Lord
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is doing. And one is the fire of God, fresh
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baptism of fire, and and obviously the fire of God.
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He is the fire of God. It's not a separate thing.
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Does that make sense?
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And so.
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I was I was doing a video with John Thomas
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and Justin Allen, which gets confusing when he's trying to
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navigate with two justins and try to carry on a conversation.
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And but we were talking in the conferences that we're
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doing this spring. It's UH fire conference, but it's purity,
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power and zeal. And I want to tell you that
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in this hour, the fear of the Lord. We talked
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about this last year and the fear UH starting last year,
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but the fear of the Lord has been missing in
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the body of Christ. The fear of the Lord is
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the beginning of wisdom. And the first thing that has
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to happen is that we depart from evil. So you
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cannot say that you fear the Lord of your living
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and sin.
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I don't care how much.
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You say you love him.
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If you refuse to repent, you do not fear him.
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Are you with me?
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I know you're welcome, You're so welcome.
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But I woke up Wednesday or Thursday morning out out
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of my dream state and I and I was hearing this,
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What do you see? What do you see?
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And I want to give you an eye exam this morning,
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not just natural sight, but spiritual sight.
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And I want to encourage you to allow the Lord
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to show you your blind spots because we all have them. Right,
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look at the person next to you and say, sometimes
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I'm dull, but.
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That's not God's heart.
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So and Jeremiah one eleven is sixteen. It says in
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the Word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah,
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what do you see? Jeremiah was the symbols prophet. If
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you look all through the book of Jeremiah, he was seeing,
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you know, he sees the almond branch, he sees the
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melting pot, he sees, you know, the boiling pop. You
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have all these symbols that he's seeing. And he says,
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what do you see? And this is Jeremiah, And I said,
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I see an almond branch. Then the Lord said to me,
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you've seen one. Well, for I am watching over my
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word to perform it. The Word of the Lord came
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to me a second time, saying what do you see?
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And I said, I see a boiling pot, facing away
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from the north. And then the Lord said to me,
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out of the north, disasters shall be let loose upon
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the inhabitants of the land.
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Now let me pause there.
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Sometimes we see things the Lord's showing us things. And
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if we pause there and then lean on our own
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understanding for the interpretation, then we're going to have the
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right revelation wrong interpretation, and therefore the wrong application.
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Hey, crust, are you with me?
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The one that gave you the revelation is the one
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that gives you the interpretation. And it's only when those
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two pieces line up correctly will you actually have the
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correct application for your life. Too many times we'll get
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a revelation and then go, oh, I know what that means,
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and we just fill in the blank instead of stopping
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and asking the Lord.
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It's like, uh.
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In this one conference, the prophet saw musical notes dancing
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over this guy's head and began to give him a
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prophetic word about being a musician and and all this,
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and it all sounded great. The problem was he didn't
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play a musical instrument. He owned a music store. So
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our opinions can keep us from revelation, Our opinions can
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keep us from the understanding of revelation.
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Are you all awake?
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Yeah, I'll tell you what, boy.
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You're in trouble. I'm all jacked up on caffeine.
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Not mountain dew. In case you're wondering, he says, the
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word of the Lord came he a second time, he
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sees the boiling pot. He says, disasters coming out of
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the north, and interestingly, in one eleven which, by the way, I'm.
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Gonna share this with you.
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But for you folks like Chay Spencer who loves numbers, when.
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You see one eleven at yeah, I know.
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Kother how everybody's numbers two and all these hands are
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flying up one eleven, Jeremiah, one eleven. Now I'm gonna
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share something, and I believe that there are times when
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you see one eleven on the clock, not always looking
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for a number, because you're gonna be twice, right, twice
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every twenty four hours, right, one eleven PM, one eleven am.
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Are you with me? When you're always looking for something,
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nothing means anything. But when you're not looking for it
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and the Lord draws your attention, that's when it means
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something that was free wisdom too. You're welcome, okay. The
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almond tree was known as the awake tree because it
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was the first tree to.
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Bud in the new year. It's a symbol of watchfulness.
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The Hebrew word for almond branch is shaka or chakad.
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It can also be.
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Translated as a rod or branch.
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It's a word play on the verb chakad, which means
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to watch or be alert. Because the almond tree is
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one of the first to bloom in the spring. So
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it may just be that when you're seeing this issue
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of one to eleven, that it may be telling. It
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may be the Lord telling you to watch for something
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that he's spoken to you in your life to begin
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to take place, to manifest, to bloom, to be watchful.
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Are you all picking this up?
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But shaked is the noun for the almond tree and
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is used for the branch, obviously in Jeremi's vision. And
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what's interesting the only difference between shaked and chicag shaked
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one is spelled s h a q e d.
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The other Hebrew word is shaq a d.
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So there's a play on words that the Lord's using
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with Jeremiah this moment. And I've said this before. If
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you're not careful, there are play on words. There are
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there are riddles and rhymes and not ties and parables,
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all of.
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These things throughout scripture.
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And too many times we lose in translation from the
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like the play on words from Hebrew to English, because
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then there's no it no longer really is a play
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on word because of the translation.
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Do you understand what I'm saying?
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So when you look at that for face value, you're
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like you're kind of like stretching your head for a
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second unless you understand it's the same Hebrew sounds like
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the same, right, and that right philm Okay, I want
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to say something about the issue of zeal. I said
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this towards the end, but I want to say this
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now that in our difficult times, us trying to see
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what's going on and navigating our paths during the storms
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of life and turbulent times and a thousand year flood.
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And by the way, as a side note, we have
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a pop up shop that's going to be opening up
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that is full of all brand new clothes with tags
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on it that will be given away, not sold, and
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which is the old Taco shop. There were somebody reached
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out to us from Frisco, Texas, and we're going to
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be doing a toy drive with them in December to
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help people out that are in hard times in the
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flood victims as well. And then I'm meeting with a
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nonprofit December third. Can't give you much detail, but it
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sounds like we will have a pretty good chunk of
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change again to sow into small businesses and the rebuild.
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So exciting things about that. But this issue with us
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keeping this fire because there is a theme of the
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fear of the Lord and the fire of God right
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now in this hour, and you're gonna begin to see
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it increase and and even this next year, because I'm
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little fires are beginning to pop up throughout the country,
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not just throughout the country. I was talking to Mark
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DuPont two days ago and firming up a date for
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him to come in January so we can start the
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year off right. And he just got back from Switzerland
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or Germany anyways, he's been all over the globe in
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the last couple of months, and he was sharing with
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me what the Lord's doing in England and Germany and
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and the amount of young people that are coming back
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to church and getting on fire. Even in France, there's
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there's a fire taking place in a move of God.
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So I don't believe all the crap that's on TV.
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Right So, because in case you had figured out, the
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Lord doesn't always, I mean, the enemy doesn't always want
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all of this stuff publicized because he wants to demoralize you.
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He wants to undermines you, demoralize you and then take
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you out and again he wants to twist your vision
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of what the truth is, right, And if you don't
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have eyes to see, and you're looking with natural eyes,
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you're gonna miss so much of what the Lord's doing
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in this moment because of all the other voices that
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are competing to get a hold of your ears and
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therefore get a hold of your mind and your heart.
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But Phineas, the son of Eliezar, son of Aaron, the Priest,
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has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel,
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and that he was jealous with my jealousy among them.
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So I did not consume the people of Israel my jealousy.
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One man's zeal for the Lord, stop the wrath of
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God over a nation. We were talking about this, actually,
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John pulled that scripture up because we were talking about
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the theme of power, purity, right, the fear of the Lord,
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the zeal of the Lord. Because the fire of God
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is God. It's not just something about him. He is
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a all consuming fire, and so he's intentionally, sovereignly setting
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fires all over the place. And what's going to happen
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is all these little fires are going to culminate into
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one big fire, and that's going to be what we've
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been looking for. And so we're saying, Lord, we're pressing in.
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Anthony was saying earlier to me some themes about pressing
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in and breakthrough. And then Chris started singing prophetically about
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pressing in, and this is an hour to lean into
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the Lord, not be offended, give up the question marks,
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give up your right to be right, and go on
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the journey of destiny that he's inviting us into. Right
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now when I'm teaching, if the only thing I can
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do is stir hunger inside of you, equipped you to
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be able to study for yourself, then I'm doing well.
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If you leave, even if you don't remember a word
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I say, if you leave here more in love with Jesus,
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hungry to spend more time with him and to be
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in his word, than I'm accomplishing, feeding and leading. I
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don't care what you remember about me. I want you
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to remember the King and Genesis twenty one seventeen to
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twenty Man, I feel a rumbling Ah. And Genesis twenty
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one seventeen to twenty one, we see something remarkable take place,
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the spiritual realm actually coinciding alongside the natural realm.
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See y'all.
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Too many times we think of the spiritual realm up
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here out there like the third Heaven, and we don't
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realize that the spiritual realm is all around us and
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it coincides with us. You ever, any of you, all
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ever see flashing lights out of the corner of your eye,
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and like you turn, then you.
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Don't see anything.
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You know why because you didn't turn in faith. You
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turned in unbelief. You didn't believe what you just saw.
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And as you actually increase your faith to be able
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to see the unseen, then those things which are off
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to the side, you'll actually begin to see in front
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of you. That was a free see your tip, so
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we see something remarkable take place. Hagar pulls her provision
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into the natural. When the Lord opens her eyes, Hagar's
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there with her son. She sets him off, she didn't
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want to watch him die, And all of a sudden,
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the Lord opens her eyes to a well that is
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there the entire time in the spiritual realm. The Lord
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opens her eyes to that well. She goes to the well,
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pulls water out of the well, and literally in the natural,
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takes that water and gives it to her son and herself.
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I only I only do what I see the Father
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showing me. The son can do nothing of himself. He
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said to us, you can do nothing of your of yourself,
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but only what I show you. We're doing a whole
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lot of stuff, but it's not always what he's showing us.
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A lot of times when we're just doing a uh
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a uh hail Mary.
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But not in the context of what I just said.
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You know. Never mind, Remember she's not co redeemer. And
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thank goodness, the Vatican clarified that publicly for those of
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you that were reading the news. And second King six seventeen,
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Elisha prayed for his servant's eyes to be open to
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see that the number with them was greater than the
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number against them, even though up until this point he
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could only see what was in the natural. And this
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is where we're at right now. It feels like we're
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literally surrounded by the enemy. He's trying to take out
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our country. He's trying to do all this stuff on
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the earth. The anti Christ spirit is running rampid everybody.
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I mean, everything's been in turmoil, and the enemy would
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love nothing more than for you to just keep your
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natural eyes and be overwhelmed by gross darkness covering the people,
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because it's already prophesied. Gross darkness is going to cover
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the people. Anybody are we there? Can we all agree
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on that Gabe come back to Earth. But on the
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flip side of that, the knowledge of the the glory
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of the Lord is going to cover the earth as
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the waters cover the sea. What side of that coin
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you choose to sea and focus on is going to
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determine your success in the kingdom? And I might say
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that it will determine whether or not you have perseverance
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and longevity in your walk with Jesus. And Psalms one,
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nineteen eighteen, David prayed open my eyes that I might
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see that I may see wondrous things from your law.
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Psalms one forty six eight.
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The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, both spiritually
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and naturally. Acts twenty six eighteen says to open their
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eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light
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and from the power of Satan to God, that they
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may receive for giveness of sins and an inheritance among
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those who are sanctified by faith in me. If you
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want to be a good leader, you have to view
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people not just where they're at, but in the light
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of where they're headed.
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If you think it's prophetic to see the dirt. You're wrong.
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Anybody can see the dirt in somebody. We're all in process.
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There are areas of our lives that are not sanctified
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in all the way growing up yet, And it'd take
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about three minutes to hang out with somebody before your
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process is bump into each other.
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Are you with me? So you can both say, oh man, we're.
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Still in process, or you can puff up with pride
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and judge the other one and act like your crap
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doesn't smell? Was that a clear, you know, illustration that
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wasn't a parable so much a knot tie or a riddle,
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but literal. Maybe some of you should be more offended
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by your sin than the fact that I just said
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crap in church, Yeah, I mean that in the most
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pastoral way possible then, Isaiah forty two seven. It says
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to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison,
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those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
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Isaiah sixty one.
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He came to heal the broken heart, set the captive free,
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open the door of the prison. Do you know why
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you go into captivity because of rejection?
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Not dealt with someone rejects you.
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You don't properly deal with the rejection, and guess what happens.
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You go into captivity, and in that place of captivity
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of unforgiveness, you choose rebellion to try to protect your
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heart with the unforgiveness, and then that puts you in
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a prison and your eyes are blinded because of the unforgiveness.
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I was doing a prayer ministry session this week. Lisa
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and I were ministering to somebody, and it became pretty
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clear at that moment that this individual needed to really
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focus on forgiveness. Now, how many times in church have
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you been taught that, you know, imagine that person and
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then just say, Lord, I forgive that person for offending
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me or whatever, and you just do this nice, beautiful
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prayer and you feel really good for about sixty seconds
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until the next time you see them. Anybody been there,
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That's not how this works. You take an account of
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the debt because you may have genuinely forgiven that person
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of something in that moment. But the problem is the
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other debts get stirred when you see them again, and
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and that's exactly what unforgiveness is. Like you're like, let
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me go, let me go, and it's holding on for
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dear life. But in that preer, Thank you Lord. But
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in that process, that's an awesome illustration. You can't make
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that up.
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Bless him and bless the worker's Lord.
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And so I was with this person and I said, okay,
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write that person's name down, and write down every single
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thing that comes to your heart. And I said, do
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not think about this person. Feel your way through when
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you're thinking about this person, because your emotion is the
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bridge back to your belief. And that's what the Lord's after,
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because he wants to bring renewing of the mind, not
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just here but in the spirit of your mind, so
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that true transformation takes place. Are you with me? And
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so as we dug into this, then we invited Jesus
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into the first debt and we're like, Lord, show me
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the lies, because unforgiveness is hard only because of the lies.
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You believe.
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This is amazing.
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The sound effects, like, I mean, I gotta start paying
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these people to do that. So I'm having fun now, y'all.
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No tell them what will happen.
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But some weird fire alarm phone or something going off
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during worship. I'm like, that's why the fire's here. We
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got a fire. And so.
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Back to the forgiveness.
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Jesus comes in, and all of a sudden, this person
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found themselves in a whole different place, dealing with lies
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that were upholding unforgiveness in the current circumstances, but had
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nothing to do with them. So, in other words, your
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current circumstances are not the true source of your pain.
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They just simply triggered your belief system. So all of
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a sudden, all this healing's taking place. And then after
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they after they were renewed in the spirit of their
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mind from the lies, then that unforgiveness became effortless to forgive.
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Are you with me?
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The only way you live in total forgiveness is if
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you get rid of the stinking thinking, the lies you
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believe that's holding that thing in place because it's not truth.
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Are you all having fun yet? Don't get offended? Film
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I have yet to start.
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Isaiah six.
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I'm sorry. Yes, it's both John twelve. I believe in
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Isaiah he has blinded their eyes and hardened their lest
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they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand
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with their hearts. In turn, So once it say there's
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a blinding that and a hardening that comes over the heart,
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you know when it comes to.
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Spiritual sight. Everybody has spiritual sight. Are you with me?
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Just shake your head, Jesse, even if you don't know
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what I'm saying, No, because Hebrews clear, Hebrews is clear
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that we're to exercise our spiritual senses.
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So eyes, ears, knows, taste, and see. The Lord is good.
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All all of our natural senses parallel our spiritual senses.
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And you don't have to be a seer or see
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your prophet to perceive or see things. It just comes
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through a different pathway. You'll sense, feel, get an impression.
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It doesn't And and I want to make clear that
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that is no less important if the Lord's speaking to
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you through that way, as if somebody says, do you.
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See the Angel? Are you with me?
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Because in the spirit philled arena, we have a we
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have a tendency to grade gifting.
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And then we go, oh, they're spiritual. Well you know what.
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Paul Kane was prophesying his butt off while he was
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getting hammered and living in a homosexual lifestyle.
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But his gift worked.
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That's that that That is why I sound like a
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broken record and will sound like a broken record forever,
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because the gifts and callings are irrevocable, and God is
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not impressed with the gift he gave you. Don't be
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so quiety. But David had a seer name Goad, and
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it was said many times, like in First Samuel nine
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to eleven, when they went to draw water, they asked
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for a seer.
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David had.
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Goad. Amos was a seer, Idoh Hannah, and I asaf
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he Man. Anybody knew he Man was actually in the
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Bible before it was a cartoon and juthan. But all
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of these guys there were prophets and seers together Isaiah
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twenty nine ten. For the Lord has poured out on
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you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes,
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namely the prophets, and he's covered your heads, namely the seers. Y'all,
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it's so important in this hour that we have clear sight,
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that we don't allow the things to harden our heart
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to blind us to it.
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At first, John.
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Says that if we have hatred in our heart towards
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our brother, we're not walking in the light, but we're
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actually walking in darkness.
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It's set right here.
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Whoever says he's in the light and hates his brother
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is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother, abides in
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the light and in him, there is no cause for stumbling.
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But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and
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walks in the darkness and does not know where he
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is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. So,
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if you want to improve your spiritual sight and you
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have understanding and you're seeing your path that you're called
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to walk on, make sure that you're not holding on
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to unforgiveness.
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I said this first service.
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If all I could do when I'm doing a prier
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ministry session with someone is to simply get them to
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forgive totally and wherever they need to repent, repent. That
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is the very foundation of inner healing. And I can
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promise you that if you live in total forgiveness, eighty
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five to ninety percent of your issues would instantly disappear, guaranteed, guaranteed.
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But the problem is we tend to numb out in
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order to deal with things that we feel like aren't
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worth forgiving because we're convinced they're not going to change.
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There's a way that seems right on a man, but
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in the end it leads to what to death. There
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there is such an invitation in this hour to know
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the Lord and experience him in ways that we've never
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even dreamed of, because he's a good father, longing to
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walk with his kids. He loves you exactly the way
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you are, even when you feel like others around you
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may not. He loves you exactly the way you are.
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But he loves you too much to leave you this
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way because he's looking at Jesus, and he looks at you.
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And you're in him, and he goes yep. Let me.
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Anybody feel the pruning lately? Be thankful because without chastening,
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then you're not his son or daughter who feels like
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they can't get away with anything. Give thanks, Be thankful,
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I'm serious, Be thankful that you can't get away with
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anything that's evidence of your salvation and that he's dealing
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with you. So for the last or for the next
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two hours, I want to focus on blind spots. Just joking.
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Blind spots are caused from strongholds in your life that
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you're completely blinded to and how it affects your life.
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I think I've said this recently, but who do you
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have in your life right now that you trust enough
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to say, Hey, what do you believe you're seeing that
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I'm not seeing in my life how many of you
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legitimately have a relationship like that, and you're genuinely willing
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to open up to that degree.
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Of vulnerability.
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Remember, not that long ago I talked about the difference
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between transparency and vulnerability. Right, I can be completely transparent
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about my past life and yet not have any vulnerability
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with the person in front of me.
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Big difference.
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But now if I'm transparent about my life and then
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I'm vulnerable about what I'm going through in the moment,
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then that's different. And I'm not saying that you open
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your heart to the entire world.
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That's not wisdom. But I'm saying that you have to
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have people.
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You need people at least one person in your life
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that can come to you and say, hey, you're acting
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like a moron.
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Stop. It may not be that harsh or direct, but
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you get the point, right. But like.
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They come to you and say, Now, spouses may do
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that and they'll get away with a little bit more,
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but for the you know. But but somebody comes to
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you and just says that you really trust.
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I remember Danny Silk.
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He came to Chris Vallatin one time and said, hey,
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I don't have a lot of time to talk about this,
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but you're prideful and you're arrogant, and you're hurting people.
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And I remember Chris years ago sharing this story and
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he was offended with Danny for saying that at first,
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but then you know, he shares the whole story, and
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Danny was right, and he was had a blind spot,
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didn't see it. Y'all, there are things in this hour
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as we are being pressed, pruned, shaken. Anything that can
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be shaken is going to be shaken. And we gotta
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have covenant friendships. We gotta have covenant friendships. When when
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I meet, when we have elder meetings, i may be
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the overseer, but I'm an equal among the table. I
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don't tell them what to do, and we open up
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to each other and pray for each other and talk
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about each other's process because it's there's no lone rangers.
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And especially with everything that's been going on in our
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own backyard and everything we're processing and going through, I
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promise you for those that have had some tune ups
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because of the flood and the trauma and everything, you're
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gonna find some more layers as you process through this.
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It's the way that trauma works, and you're not doing
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anything wrong by dealing with trauma. Like you're not a
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bad person for having trauma. Does that make sense, Like,
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don't feel like you're sinning and you're a horrible person
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because you have trauma to process, Allow the grief, Allow
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the grief to come up, give voice to that loss,
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because grief is unspoken loss. But a Greek word for stronghold,
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which I'm not going to pronounce in this moment because
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I'm not going to do a great job of it,
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but it means a fortress or strong defense. I remember
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having a dream one time and I was in this
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yard and there was a castle, and I'm guarding this
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castle and I have a sword, and the dream zooms.
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Out where I see myself at one point.
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And by the way, when you have a dream and
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it's from the Lord and it zooms out and then
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you see yourself third person, there's one of.
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Two things going on.
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One there can be disassociation and you don't want to
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deal with that, so you pull out of it. Two,
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it can be the Lord trying to give you a
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different perspective of that situation that he's trying to deal
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with you on and in this dream, I'm guarding a
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stronghold and there's woods all around me, and I'm literally
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on guard. I'm like circling because it was like a circle.
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I'm circling this area to keep people out of this castle.
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And if you don't know what that means, you're a dull,
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don't plan. That's what Bob Jones would tell people. But
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I was guarding this stronghold. We guard our strongholds. You
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know how I can prove it the very moment someone
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pokes that stronghold, say hello to my little friend, and
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all of a sudden, a sudden, you got your sword
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out because you're gonna guard that stronghold because that stronghold
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has helped you, it's protected you, it's kept you safe.
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Nobody else was there when this stronghold was there, and
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you don't need anybody. You just need this stronghold. Don't
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you touch this stronghold and you end up with a
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ten ton response to a one ton issue, and that
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sh that you have a stronghold that needs to come down,
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and you cannot pull that thing down yourself.
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You've got to petition the Lord to pull it down.
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Blind spots, these strongholds are not demons, but mental fortresses
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built by lies that cause cycles of defeat. This causes
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blind spots on our walk. It blinds our vision to
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be able to walk with the Lord, hinders our ability
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to truly submit and walk in righteousness. If you have
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been spending so much of your life guarding your heart,
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I want to exhort you.
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To let Jesus have a shot at it.
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If you're exhausted from guarding your heart, I want to
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encourage you, let the Lord try it. If you're exhausted
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from looking over your shoulders constantly thinking no one has
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your back, Let the Lord have your back. He's your
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rear guard. The time is short, y'all. There is urgency
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for us to grow up, to set childish things away,
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because we need maturity in this hour. I don't know
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about y'all, but as the Lord seems to be lighting
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a fresh fire with us, I want us to steward it,
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don't I don't want for it to go out and
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then we need to be revived again. I want to
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be revived and stay revived so that we can burn
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bright for him. John eight thirty one to thirty two.
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So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him.
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If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
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and you will know the truth, and the truth will
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set you free. This Greek word a lithia that has
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translated truth. It's not merely truth is spoken truth of
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an idea, but reality, sincerity, truth, and moral sphere, divine
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truth revealed to man's straightforwardness. So, in other words, reality.
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So where's your spiritual sight twisted up this morning that's
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caused your reality to be skewed? Where are the shadows
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that are cast onto your eyes keeping you from being
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able to see truth clearly this morning? Let me reread
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this another way, So Jesus said to the Jews who
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had believed in him, if you abide in my words,
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you're truly my disciples, and you will know the reality,
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and the reality will set you free. So the enemy
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comes in twist truth. He twist reality, and you're walking
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in darkness with a twisted perspective of reality. You invite
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him in, You get the deception and the lies ripped out,
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and all of a sudden your reality changes. Wait a minute,
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they were just doing the best they can. Hey, folks,
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do you need to forgive mom or Dad?
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More? Than likely. They were probably doing the best they
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can with the tools they had. Does it negate.
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If they send against you, No, but they were legitimately
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doing the best they could. There's one of many things
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that my wife is amazing at, and one is putting
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herself in other people's shoes. My wife is the first
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to put herself in somebody else's shoes to try to
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see their perspective from where they're coming from from way
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quicker than I am. I live by the theme rebuke
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first and ask questions later. So where are you this morning?
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Where are you having a hard time seeing clearly? See
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these I didn't need these stupid things that long ago.
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I'm getting a little age on me and I get
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a little clearer the blurriness. Where are you blurry in
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your sight this morning?
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Do you understand? Whether we like it or not?
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And I'm including myself into this. Every single person in
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your life. God knew was going to be in your life,
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it says an Acts seventeen. He orchestrated the very moment
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in history you would live and the boundaries of your
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life everywhere you would step. Your destiny is in people,
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It's not in something right. How are you viewing those
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around you. Are you only viewing them in the light
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of where they're at? Are you also viewing them in
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the light of where they're headed, so that you can
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continually call out the gold in them and say, Hey,
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this isn't who you are, this is what you're called
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to be, this is where you're headed. That's healthy accountability, y'all. Hey,
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stop this. He dealt with this. The blood speaks a
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better word. This is where we're headed because there's no
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condemnation in Christ. Isn't that good news? It's impossible to
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be condemned, if you know Jesus. I mean, yeah, that's
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worth a clap. What'd you say? Was that another good
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ad lib? Like when Santana who was here? When Santana's
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little boy that one time years ago, I said, when
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you get squeezed and the Lord's squeezing you, I said,
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what's gonna come out? And it was dead silent, and
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all of a sudden, you hear this little two year
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old voice, go co ca.
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And we were live streaming.
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Remember that Santana were yet Oh dude, I was in stitches.
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Oh of course, the rest of the room was too. Okay,
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I'm going to begin to land. This for those of
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you that are hungry or wanting to watch football. I
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feel your pain, but I'm going to be packing up
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my jeep after this, and I will be sitting in
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a deer blind this evening.
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And if you're not excited for me, repent now.
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I'm putting Ephesians one sixteen to twenty three. I do
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not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in
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my prayers, that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
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the Father of Glory, may give you the spirit of
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wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of him. Having
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the eyes of your hearts enlightened. And that word light
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and literally is the Greek word is photos, which literally
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we get the word photo. What happens with the camera, well,
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not these phones, but the regular cameras. What happens that
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lens opens up for light, that the eyes of your
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hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope
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to which he has called you. What are the riches
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of his glorious inheritance in the saints, And what is
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the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe
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according to the working of his great might, That he
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worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead
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and seated him at his right hand in heavenly places,
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far above all rule and authority, and power and dominion,
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and above every name that is name. Not only in
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this age but also in the one to come. He
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has put all things under his feet and gave him
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as head over all things, to the church, which his body.
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The fullness of Him who fills all in all his heart.
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Is that the eyes of your heart.
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Would be enlightened, that his light would penetrate you, because
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you are children of light. And as his light penetrates
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you on a deeper level, then you actually begin to
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radiate greater light, because what you abide in you release.
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I had somebody come up first service and say, I
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just it's so hard.
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I feel people and if they're full of anxiety, and
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then I feel their anxiety then and I end up
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taking that anxiety with me. That's called burden bearing, and
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it is a realm of discerning of spirits. It's just
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that when that happens, you're doing that in your soul
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and not your spirit. Because he said, come to me,
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all you who are heavy laden, and I will give
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you rest. And so when we're burden bearing, bearing one
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another's burdens. That means when we recognize somebody's burden, we go, oh, hey,
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this is already taken care of.
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Here you go Jesus.
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And so when I'm talking to someone and I'm picking
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up and discerning what they're carrying, I internally am saying, Lord,
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I just lift their anxiety to you. Right now, Lord,
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I lift this because it's not my job to carry it.
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The job of saviors taken. So for those of you
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that are really sensitive, highly sensitive burden bearers, it's not
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your job. What holds those burdens on you is because
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you begin to identify them, identify with them because they
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are familiar to the things that you've personally struggled with.
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For where your treasure is there, your heart will be
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also guard your heart, for out of it flow the
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issues of life. For those of you that were taking notes,
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there's eight blind spots that I would have gone over
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if I had another hour and a half. Don't worry,
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I'm closing it. Some of y'all just started getting real nervous,
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But it was pride. Pride's a blind spot we can't
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see because of our pride, The pride of life fear, unbelief, lies, anger, control,
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doctrine right in the last days, seducing spirits, doctrines of demons,
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they blind you to the truth, and unforgiveness. Those aren't
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everything that blinds you, but those are eight important blind spots. Again, pride, fear, unbelief, lies, anger, control, doctrine,
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and unforgiveness. Why do I say anger because it says
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that the anger of man does.
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Not produce the righteousness of God. Be angry and don't sin.
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So y'all go to the Great physician. Let him do
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an eye check. Is it twenty twenty or you got glaucoma?
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You need him to do some spiritual eye surgery. It's
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okay to have a little sense of humor, y'all. In fact,
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if you have eye issues right now, like legitimate eye issues,
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would you stand up. I want to pray for you
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as we're closing, And if I could get Micah, is
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Mike ish still here or is he gone? Can I
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get you on the keys? And can I get the
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prayer team to come up?
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Mike is here? All right?
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If you need healing over your eyes, raise your hand, okay,
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all right? So Father, right now, and the mighty name
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of Jesus. Lord, I ask that you would heal spiritual
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sight and natural sight. Lord, I ask right now for
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those that have physical eyesight issues. Father, would you touch
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their eyesight right now, and the Mighty name of Jesus,
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would you remove any spirit of infirmity that would be
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hindering them from walking in health and having the sight
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that you've called them to have. Lord, right now, all
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infirmity lift in Jesus' name. All eye infirmity lift in
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Jesus' name right now, And Lord, I asked that you
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would heal their eyes. Lord, heal their physical eyes right now,
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the Mighty name of Jesus. Now, what I want you
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to do is check if you can, if you're in
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a place where you can check your eyesight real quick,
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check it and then wave at me if there's been
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a if there's a change, or or you're healed. Anybody
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you feel a difference, okay, put your hand up high.
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If there's a difference, okay, have you still feel blind?
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Does all get out? Put your hand up. We're gonna
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pray for you too. So Lord, we're praying again. Father,
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right now, the Mighty name of Jesus, I ask for
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physical healing.
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Of the eyes.
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Lord, right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, Lord,
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I asked that you would heal their eyes. In fact, Lord,
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I specifically asked that you would take trauma that came
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through the eyegate. Lord, take the trauma out of them
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that came through the eye gate. And Jesus' name, Lord,
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right now, heal remove the trauma. Lord, remove the trauma
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from the one that says, I don't want to see anymore.
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I don't want to see this pain anymore. I can't
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deal with this anymore. Lord, heal that in the mighty
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name of Jesus. Lord, right now, all over the room,
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I asked that you would just move in a mighty way,
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that you would glorify the name of Jesus. Lord, that
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you would get your reward for what you paid for
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by your stripes. We are healed, and healing is the
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children's bread. Lord, I asked that you would raise the faith,
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that you would raise our expectation for what you.
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Want to do in this hour and in this moment.
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In the mighty name of Jesus and Lord, right now,
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I ask that you would begin to touch hearts from
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the things that you brought up to these people. During
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the time of blind spots, Lord, that you would begin
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to bring healing over places they need to release debt
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and forgive for or that you would be just that
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you would cause your extravagant grace to pour out in
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this moment Lord, and earlier in the in the service.
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I don't they could be gone by now. My preaching
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drives people away at times.
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No, I'm planned.
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I felt like somebody was struggling with nerve damage and
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it manifests where like you like, your nerves feel like
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they're on fire, and it was and it was is
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that who's that? Well, there you go and does does it?
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Does it affect your legs too? That's specifically where I
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felt it. So Father, right now, in the name of Jesus,
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I just thank you for bringing complete healing over Britney's nerves.
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Lord, and I speak to the grief and the buried.
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Trauma, Lord to come up now and release and Jesus'
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name trauma, release her nervous system right now, and the
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mighty name of Jesus. And I thank you Lord right now,
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right there, right there, right there, Lord, heal, heal, heal, heal,
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Lord more more, Lord more, Lord, fill her up. Lord,
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right now. I ask for a baptism of your love
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into that place, right now, just your fiery love, right now, Lord,
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that you would just do spiritual surgery over her in
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this moment. Healer nerves, Lord, and I just say again
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to you, it's safe to come back. It's safe to
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come back. So come home, come home, Come home. You
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feel that over your heart, you feel that over your heart,
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there's blue light. The Holy Spirit's ministering to your heart
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right now. Lord, I thank you, Holy Spirit. I bless
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what you're doing. In the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, Lord, healer, Lord,
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mark her, mark her bloodlined. Make a name for yourself. Lord,
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then Jesus Mighty name. Okay, y'all. If you need prayer,
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come on up. They just opened right back up. If
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you need prayer, come on up. If you need to
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linger for a couple of minutes in the presence of
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the Lord, feel free to we bless y'all your loved
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Thank you, it's been it's been amazing. Thank you, Jesus.
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Amen who well.
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I trust that you were blessed by the Lord today
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