Sermon
Elisha-portion
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Whatever we ask and then Jesus says what do you want me to do?
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They replied let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory. Here is a case where
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where Jason and John are asking without having faith
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the Christ for asking
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Elisha on the other hand is as bold as he is asking
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What is Elisha asking Elijah? Basically when Elisha is asking for a double portion of what he is saying is
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Can I inherit the full authority of you my spiritual father to carry forward all the God's plan to you?
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Elijah is asking can I inherit
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the full authority that you have so that I can take forward what you have planned?
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That's what Elijah is asking. I know some of us heard it before right from 2009 onwards
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But first borns are defined by pursuit
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First borns are defined by pursuit
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first borns are defined by pursuit
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First borns are defined by pursuit
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And God always annoys
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God always annoys
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God always annoys
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First borns with the power
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With the power
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To finish
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What their fathers
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Initiated
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It's a principle
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It's a principle
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You see this with Jesus too where Jesus in John chapter 14 verse 12 turns to his disciples and says
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It is good for you if I go away
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But if I go away the Holy Spirit will come and you will do greater things than I have done
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I mean is that the ultimate statement of pursuit? You have pursued me great. I need to leave
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Because if I don't leave the Spirit of God can't come and once the Spirit of God annoys you
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I want you to know that he will do greater things than I have done
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And so that's the principle here right? First borns are defined by pursuit
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another pursuit of
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human beings though sometimes the easiest way to learn something is to run after someone who's
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Learning when I was running before you but pursuit as in the things of God
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It's not often true human beings but the things of God then God always annoys first borns with the power to finish what was initiated through their fathers
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This is not where we go here. I'm just setting the stage for you
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Okay, one of the things I strongly felt almost to the point of it
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breaking my heart in a nice way is this
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This notion that God has been
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Unpacking saying hey, can I be amongst you like I used to be amongst the Israelites?
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Can you be obedient so that I can show the world what it is when people are in relationship with God?
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Please hold on to the words I'm saying
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God is asking
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Can I come and dwell in your midst?
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so that
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You can show the world what it is for people to be in relationship with God under all kinds of circumstances
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And what it looks like when God dwells in the midst of people can I do that through you?
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Can I can I pull you about Acts 29?
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Can I pull you about people that are walking with Acts 29?
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Can I become this along to do this just as I did to Israel?
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It is the reason why I established the church, but can I use you as a sample?
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can I use you as a
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Taste like at Costco before COVID but they used to have those things where you go and taste and then decide
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But you want to buy can I use you as a taste? Can I use you as a sample?
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So that others can see what it is for man to be relationship with God for people to be in relationship with God
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I forgot to be dwelling in the midst so that he can say this is what it looks like and I'm saying
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We're trembling that our shucks power
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acts
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crazy if you want to do that because
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To take them you want to do that
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Us this right that much
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I
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Know that was more but right here the person could be
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Not to last question is this this GV softness and I'm saying you can please our was not
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Spawning what was given to you here is all the light that I saw pattern for the fault in the pattern
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so the detectives
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once a
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people begin to
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pursue this way that God says one I
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Complete the work that Elijah's that started that I initiated to Elijah just like a little bit disciples and Jesus
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Anointed them and to
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Once you walk this way guys God what you're at God will invite you to ask
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And when he invites you to ask even for the question before you all you have to do is pick up the question and we
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need to ask
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Just like in some tumors
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It just like
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Mark the mountain mark then just like the second things to nine where Elijah says
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Can I have a portion moment you're asking that you're asking for something ridiculous so ridiculous
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They're like anything man. I want to give it
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You're saying could I have a full authority so that I can complete what you are up to?
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It's a big thing to ask for stuff like that the strange thing is sometimes when you ask God for these things
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God will say to you go and ask that person and that person will give it to you
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What you give it to you directly but because he works through humans God always
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releases things to us
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From himself through people and that requires a degree of humility. I don't think that's a problem
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For us, but I'm just saying that is a process
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But you know what God wants to give you and you go to a person and you say this is what God wants to give me
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Can you release it?
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It's in the by the way, this is the scriptural patterns are not telling anything that is unscriptural
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So in the years past guys
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In the years past God was claiming our allegiance
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I mean, it's literally like the scene in first Kings 19 verse 19 and 21
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When Elijah goes into the field where Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen
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Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen and Elijah takes up his mantle and he throws it upon Elijah
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Elijah does not yet own the mantle but he is throwing the mantle on to Elijah
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Elijah is on behalf of God claiming Elijah as the one who should succeed
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And I will say to you in the years past
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God has been claiming our allegiance
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And I'm saying to you, and I said this in the prophetic message
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So I'm trusting that what I've received is from God
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What I'm delivering to you is again from God without mixture or without me trying to put my spin on it
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I'm saying to you in the years past God was claiming our allegiance
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And I think he's found us quite responsible in terms of claiming our allegiance to him
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But this is now a commissioning where it's not that he's throwing the mantle over
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It's that he's saying I'm passing the mantle to you so that you carry it
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So what I wanted to do today is look at the signs that Elijah performed
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In the inheritance verses given to us from 2 Kings 2 to 2 Kings 13
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To briefly look at the signs Elijah performed
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And draw out of that, discern out of that, decipher out of that
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What God has for us as a people in the year ahead
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So the first sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14
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First sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14
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2 Kings 2, 14
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And so I'll start at 13
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He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back
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And still on the back of Jordan
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Then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it
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Where now is the Lord the God of Elijah, he asked
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When he struck the water, he divided it to the right and to the left and he crossed over
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So the first sign that Elijah performed after having received the mantle
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Is to take the cloak that was thrown over by Elijah and it would be caught up in a whirlwind
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And striking the very river that he had crossed just a little while ago
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And so the first thing God wants us to know is that we have to take
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What people like Eddie, people like Roland, people like Mike Scandalberry
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People like Jacob, people like Chad
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Have given us already
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And in the year that is coming, we have to show an increasing propensity
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In pioneering
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In the prophetic
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In being church centered
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In multiplying missionarily
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In multiplying
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Not just like we're doing with the host church
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Multiplying missionarily
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In nation impacting work
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In rest filled worship
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In rest filled worship
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These are some of the things we've already inherited from the Elijah's that I've gone by
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Elijah's like Eddie, Elijah like Roland who many of you haven't met
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In healing
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One of the first prophetic words spoken by somebody who did not know us
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From any other church in the world
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One of the first prophetic words that was spoken was
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In this church there are wells of healing
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When Elijah strikes and divides the Jordan across the wide
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The sons of the prophets knew that here is a man who now carries the mantle of Elijah
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We need to carry these things that have already been established by Eddie, Roland, Mike, me and Chad
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But there must be an increasing potency
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It can't be the same, there has to be an increasing potency
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Every successive use of yeast would make the dough even more potent
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Because you would never throw all the yeast away, you would keep some back
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And the next time you used yeast you would pluck it off what you had kept
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And the yeast would ferment further and it would be more potent
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The purpose they take me in healing, in pioneering, in the prophetic
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In being church centered, in multiplying missionarily, in impacting nations
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And in rest filled worship that has the aroma of freedom
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It is one of the priceless things in this church
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The freedom we have in our relationship with God
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That absolutely buries human traditions
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These are gifts given to us by Elijah's that have gone before
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I am including myself in them because I know that Elijah is coming
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And it has to increase potency
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This was the first sign
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The second sign
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The second sign is in chapter 2 verse 16
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So I'll start with verse 15
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I don't know if you can see this, but Elijah is saying
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I'm going to meet him and bow to the ground before him
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Look they said, we are servants of fifty people men
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Let him go and look for a master
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Perhaps the spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down
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On some mountain or in some valley
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No Elijah, I do not send him
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But they persisted until he was too ashamed to refuse
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And what they are doing is showing a
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Seeming rejection or a refusal of Elijah
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Saying basically that no no no no
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Elijah hasn't gone, he is still around
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You are not yet bona fide
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And so Elijah says no because he knows what just happened
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But he is embarrassed because it looks like he is trying to grab the throne
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And so because they exist, are embarrassed because he is ashamed
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He tells them to go ahead and search
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No, it's full well that they will not find him
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When Moses passed on, Israel didn't say to Joshua
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Let's give it a few days, let's go look for Moses
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Maybe he will still be around on that mountain and then we decide
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No, this was almost a deliberate rejection or refusal
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And so I want to say to you, the year ahead
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That there will be a seeming rejection or refusal by people
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To accept our new position or a new form
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If this is a prophetic word and I know it is
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And we were to change
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Then know that there will be a seeming rejection or a refusal
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To recognize or acknowledge or accept a new form
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Or new position, a new shape
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I pray God that it not be internal as it not be within the house
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That would be a shame
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If you are part of the house and you are not able to embrace this
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Or you begin to resist it
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Then I feel bad for you because you will miss out
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The thing with resisting anything that is God
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And I realize you will have to bear this
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Just because I actually find that so
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I think I have got to go in waves
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I think half of them because we don't want to accept things
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We want to figure out whether we want to accept it or not
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Very few when they say wave actually go over and pour over scriptures
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For two, three hours comparing things to figure out
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Whether it is God or not
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Very few spend two or three hours praying saying
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Father, please show me this revelation is from your love
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Basically it is kind of a pop-up
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But we won't go to that here
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All I am saying is there is the need to figure this out free free
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But here is the thing
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A seeming rejection or refusal by people to accept a new shape
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A new position, a new form
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If it is from the outside it is fine
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Because the way to approach it like Elisha
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Is to just wait until they run out of reasonable excuses
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They exhaust excuses and turn to technologists
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All they reject is outright
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But there will be rejection when form changes
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There will be rejection when shape changes
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There will be rejection
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There will be a refusal to acknowledge
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So get ready for small skirmishes
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But we do it with great patience and much embarrassment
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But internally if you resist this
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Then I feel bad for you
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Because once we need to resist what is a God move
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Then not only do you get left out
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Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in
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First Thessalonians
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Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in
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The third sign
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The third sign is in 219
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The third sign is in 219
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The man of the city said to Elisha
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Look our Lord, this town is well situated
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As you can see
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But the water is bad and the land is unproductive
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Bring me a new bowl he said
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And put salt in it
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So they brought it to him
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Then he went out to the spring
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And he threw salt into it saying
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This is what the Lord says
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I have deeped this water
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Never again will it cause death
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Or make the land unproductive
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And the water has remained wholesome to this day
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According to the word Elisha has spoken
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So God will give us
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God will give us in the year ahead
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The permission and the power
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Just before I continue with that
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Guys, every time God speaks a prophetic word
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He is telling you how He sees us right now
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Our difficulty is being able to see us as God sees us
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Until we see ourselves as God is telling us
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Until then as He sees us
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We will not walk in the permission that He has given
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Therein lies the bathroom
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To me that is the greatest bathroom
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When God says something
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I find it so hard
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To actually see myself the way He sees me
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Believing is easy
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I believe, hallelujah
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I have faith for it
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How about not having faith
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And knowing that you have become
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That is difficult
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If you have to exert faith for the prophetic
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There is nothing wrong with it
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But you must recognize that you have not become
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And the intent of the prophetic is always
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To bring you to a place where you have become
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Once you become you don't need faith
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Once you become you don't need faith
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With the prophetic you need faith
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While you are wrestling with it
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Like Paul says to Timothy
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War with the prophetic world
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As in wrestle with it, engage with it
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Why? Because you need faith
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To believe God for what He is saying
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But how do I know
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That a time has come where I have become
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What God has prophesied in effect
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It is when I no longer need faith
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To walk in the things God said
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I was going to do
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I know it
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So
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The third side of Jericho
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Where the waters were toxic
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And brought about by barrenness
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And then Elijah changed it
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Basically saying to us
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That God has given us the permission
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And the power to end
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These three things
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One, bitter years
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In the lives of people
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Bitter years in lives
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Two, unfruitfulness
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Three, things stuck
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In a cycle of aborging
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Where everything you start
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Never ceases completion
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God is saying I am giving you power
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And I am giving you permission
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Church to end bitter years
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In the lives of people
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There might be people amongst us
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Within our local bodies
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Not outside
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Who suffered bitter years
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In the past
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And it has left a mark
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It has left a mark on your psyche
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It has left a mark on your personality
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If I were you, I would take God as His Word
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This, when it is being released
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To a people, some of these things
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Can be done by anybody at Acts 29
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Some of these things will need training
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At least anybody at Acts 29
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Can do it
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Even the littlest amongst us
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Can do it, why?
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Because God is saying He will
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And some other things
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May require some training
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Or God calling us into a place
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To be with stuff
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But things like this, anybody can do
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I am excited about pouring over this
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In the future
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So we have the permission and the power
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All across the earth
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To end
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Can you imagine the words I am saying
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Either we are full of ourselves
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And I am definitely full of myself
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Or this is God
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Because we are saying
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God has given us permission and power
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Anywhere in the earth
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To end bitter years
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To end unfruitfulness
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And the cycle of aborted stars
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Where others are prayed
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To know a way
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That in Jericho, many of these prophets
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That accompanied Elijah
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Elijah initially
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It wasn't as if they hadn't been approached
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To pray for Jericho
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But they had prayed
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And it had been of no avail
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And similarly
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There will be places that you go to
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Where people who can pray better
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Who are more faith than you
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Have prayed and it is of no avail
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And then you
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Like the message version says
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You, the littlest runt of the pack
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Turn up
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And you pray a very clumsy unsophisticated prayer
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And God turns up
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This is the permission and the power
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He has given us across the earth
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Now we see why
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When Jericho is saying
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Father we thank you that you have given us purpose
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God just keeps giving us purpose man
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What is he giving when he gives purpose?
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He is giving his purpose
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He is giving us a part in his purpose
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These are things precious to him
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He has always been someone who wants to end bitter years
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The fourth sign
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The fourth sign is in
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Shatujoo verse 23 and 24
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From there Elijah went up to Bethel
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As he was walking along the road
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Some youths or some young lads
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Came out of the town and jailed at him
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Go on up you baldy
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They said go on up you baldy
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He turned around and looked at them
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And called on a curse
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Elijah turned around and looked at them
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And called on a curse on them
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In the name of the Lord
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The two bears came out of the woods
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And mauled forty two of the youth
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And he went to Mount Carmel
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And from there returned to Samaria
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This sounds like a terrible story
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Especially when you think of it from a youth
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That's my perspective
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But if Elijah was the hairy one
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Because the Bible talks about him as
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In fact Ehad actually says
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Was the prophet who met on the road the hairy one?
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They said yeah
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He said yeah that's Elijah
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If Elijah was the hairy one
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Elijah was the baldy one
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So the same thing that Elijah is doing here
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Elijah had done in 2 Kings 1,9-14
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2 Kings 1,9-14
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You see Elijah engaging in something like this
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I'm reading from 2 Kings 1,9-14
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Then he sent to Elijah
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A captain with his company of fifty men
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The captain went to Elijah
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Who was sitting on the top of Elah and said
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Man of God, the king says come down
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Elijah answered the captain
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The father of Man of God, by fire,
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Come down from heaven and continue
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Then fire from heaven continued
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The captain and his men
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And this is the king sent to Elijah
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Another captain with his fifty men
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The captain said to him
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Man of God, this is what the king says
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Come down at once
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If I'm the man of God, Elijah replied
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May fire come down from heaven
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And consume you and your fifty men
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Then the fire of God fell from heaven
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And consumed him and his fifty men
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Then a third captain came
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And his attitude was different
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Fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two
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But now have respect for my life
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The angel of the Lord said to Elijah
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Go down with him and do not be afraid of him
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Elijah got up and went down with the two kings
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It's a similar situation that is happening here
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What do we draw out of this
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What is God asking us to draw out of this
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God is saying decree
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Divine
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Judgments
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Decree
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Divine judgments
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Against the king
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Against powers
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That
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Come to
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Dismantle
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Or destroy
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The church
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Here the only place that the new testament of God says
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If you destroy this temple
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I will destroy you
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It's not when he's talking about personal bonds
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It's not personal bonds when he's talking about
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The church
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Sorry go ahead
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Is this the future given for the video
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Or is this already ours
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The original and our work
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It is already ours
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Because this is how God sees us
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And he's not waiting
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Till December 31st
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But
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It might take us a little longer
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Past December 31st
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To wrap our heads around
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So Elijah is doing here what Elijah has done
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And
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This is something that
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We may have to learn
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Some of us may know how to do it
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Most of us don't
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And God willing if we stick to God's plan
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He teaches us how to come against powers
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And sometimes these powers
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Are powers that others may regale
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Others may hold up high
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And these powers need to be dismantled
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Because they are under our control
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And they are under our control
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Because they are about destroying
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The people of God
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The thing is guys
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Our battle is no longer against special blood
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In Luke 9 55
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If you read the New King James
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Because it doesn't say so in the NIV
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But in the New King James if you read Luke 9 55
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John and James actually
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Were pretty upset with the way a
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Villager treated Jesus
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And they said Jesus, Jesus he wanted us to call him on fire
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They actually believed they could
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And Jesus says
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You are the wrong spirit
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Because he knew that he would be rejected
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He knew that he would be crucified
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He did not come to judge
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But he came to save
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And so
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Our battle is now against special blood
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So we are not going against people
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But powers must be decreed
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Divine judgment on
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One of the sisters that I mentioned
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Is the one that I mentioned
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One of the scriptures I learned
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25 years ago was Psalm 149
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And I have used it so often
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Psalm 149
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The saints lie down on their beds
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And in their mouth are high praises
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Psalm 149 verse 5
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Let the saints rejoice in their honor
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And sing for joy on their beds
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May the praise of God be their blessing
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May the praise of God be their mouth
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And a double-edged sword in their hands
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To inflict vengeance on the nations
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Punishment of peoples
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To bind their kings with fetters
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Their nobles with shackles of iron
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To carry out the sentence written against them
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This is the glory of all its saints
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Praise the Lord
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So this is not supposed to be limited to a few
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But it must be heard
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Can you read out again?
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Psalm 149
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Verse 5 to 9
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But I don't like it
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The fifth sign
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Is from chapter 3, verse 17
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The fifth sign is from chapter 3
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2nd chapter 3, verse 17
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The fifth sign
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And this is a story where
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There was no water
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It's fascinating how both Elijah and Elisha
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Have something to do with
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Water coming out of nowhere
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One from above and one here from below
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And so
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The fifth sign is
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3rd chapter 17
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Reading
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While the harpist was playing
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The man of the Lord came upon Elisha
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And he said
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This is what the Lord says
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Make this valley full of ditches
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But this is what the Lord says
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We will see neither wind nor rain
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Yet this valley will be filled with water
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And you and your cattle
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And your other animals will drink
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This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord
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He will also hand Moam over to you
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He will also hand Moam over to you
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What I heard God saying about this
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Is that he will provide us
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Isaiah 30
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Isaiah 32, verse 2
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Kind of leaders in this church
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Kind of leaders in this church
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And in the churches that
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We are connected with
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Who will cause streams to flow
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Who will cause streams to flow
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In the desert
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Well Isaiah 32
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Isaiah 32
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These are the kind of leaders that will be produced
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Over the next one year
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And beyond
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I am reading from verse 1
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See a king will reign in righteousness
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If you are a leader in the church
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If you are a leader in Acts 29
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In any capacity
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I want you to begin to think like this
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This is the role that is required of you
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Isaiah 32, verse 1
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See a king will reign in righteousness
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And rulers will rule with justice
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Each man, I love this
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Each leader, now bring out the albinoes
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Each leader will be like a shelter from the wind
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Each leader will be like a shelter from the wind
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Refuge from the storm
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Streams of water in the desert
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And the shadow of a great rock
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In a thirsty land
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Then the eyes of those who sleep
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Will no longer be closed
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And the ears of those who hear
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Will listen
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The mind of the rational, no understanding
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The stammering tongue will be fluid and clear
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No longer will the fool be called noble
-
No longer will the fool be called noble
-
The scoundrel will be highly respected
-
The point is, it is not from teaching
-
That you are able to train your people
-
It is through modeling
-
What Christ did for us
-
Bring into places that were parched
-
Bring into places that were parched
-
Streams of living water
-
Isaiah 35
-
Isaiah 35 puts it so brilliantly
-
Isaiah 35
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Isaiah 35
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Let the crocus bloom
-
Let the crocus bloom
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In the desert land
-
Isaiah 35, what?
-
The desert and the parched land will be glad
-
And the wilderness will rejoice
-
And bloom like a crocus
-
Crocus will burst into bloom
-
It will rejoice greatly and shout
-
Why?
-
Because God is bringing streams to the desert
-
Verse 6
-
Then the lake will leap back and the earth will come
-
And it will shout for joy
-
Water will rush forth in the wilderness
-
Streams of the desert
-
And how are the leaders going to achieve this?
-
They will achieve it by calling to us
-
Calling to us
-
By calling to us
-
Things that
-
Do not exist
-
Things that
-
One of the things the church will specialize in
-
One of the things the church will specialize in
-
Is the ability
-
To
-
To get God things
-
To get God things
-
Not from the sea
-
But from the ocean
-
But from the ocean
-
But from the ocean
-
But from the ocean
-
But from the ocean
-
You will think to yourself
-
You will think to yourself
-
This is such a tall order
-
Exactly, this is why it's God
-
You will think to yourself
-
All this cannot be accomplished or achieved by us
-
Exactly
-
It will all have to be God
-
You could think to yourself
-
This is pretty good but he can't pull this off
-
Absolutely
-
It will have to be a God thing
-
So the fifth sign was
-
God will raise
-
A theater in which we want
-
For kind of shepherd leaders
-
In our midst
-
Who will bring strength to the desert
-
Who will call to us things of God
-
From the unseen into the seen
-
So that every
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Everything that is parched
-
Will be glad
-
This is what Elijah does
-
For that sign
-
You just watch
-
By this time tomorrow
-
Enough water in this valley
-
Start digging ditches
-
But here's the thing guys
-
There will be no rain
-
But this valley will be full of water
-
What a beautiful thing to do
-
What are we setting
-
What is God setting us up for man
-
It must be a hallmark of
-
The churches
-
That are listening to this teaching
-
That we
-
Like God
-
That is how we bring to fast things
-
Because they then have
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The quality of God
-
It has an aroma of Yadav
-
It won't be manly
-
The next sign is in Chapter 4, Verse 1
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The second thing
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This is the sixth sign
-
The sixth sign
-
The sixth sign
-
The sixth sign
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Chapter 4, Verse 1
-
The second thing is Chapter 4, Verse 1
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The wife of a man
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From the company of the
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Prophets
-
Cried out to Elijah
-
Your servant, my husband
-
Is dead
-
And you know that he revered the Lord
-
But now his creditors are coming
-
To take my two boys as his slaves
-
One of the things God uses partially
-
Throughout the year is to provide for ones
-
Who serve faithfully
-
But for various reasons
-
That fall upon our hands
-
Throughout the world
-
God will have us provide
-
For his servants
-
Who serve him faithfully
-
But for various reasons
-
Sometimes for the sake of the Lord
-
And for the sake of the Lord
-
And for the sake of the Lord
-
And for the sake of the Lord
-
Sometimes mistakes, sometimes not
-
But for various reasons
-
Have fallen upon our hands
-
And
-
We will provide for it
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Across the earth
-
I just want to action this immediately
-
Because while I was preparing this
-
Teaching, I got a text message
-
From Jeevan, let me just go get my phone
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In front of him
-
So the pastor stepped off the stage
-
And he went rummaging
-
In his bag
-
And finally he found his iPhone 12 Pro
-
And he walked back on stage
-
Then
-
He read Jeevan's
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Message
-
Let's see
-
So this was something he wrote yesterday
-
My uncle passed away yesterday
-
He's a pastor
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Videsh Adhra, 41 years old
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A faithful servant
-
And a son of God
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Two kids
-
Nine and 17
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17 years of faithful ministry
-
In one of the toughest places in Adhra
-
Which is the province in India
-
One of his ties
-
Was weak since childhood
-
He only moved
-
In a three-wheeler vehicle
-
His lungs became weak
-
He has become heavy for the past few months
-
And he passed away yesterday
-
I was in the process of preparing these notes
-
And I thought to myself
-
That to answer Diana's questions
-
Is this something that awaits us in the year
-
Or starts now
-
So here's what I want you to do
-
Just
-
Almost in response
-
To God
-
As we agree with you
-
And we believe what you're saying
-
Just interact five dollars
-
To actually unite God's team
-
Just five dollars
-
It's an action
-
We're partaking in an action
-
Actually, we don't just
-
Need money from you
-
To send to this person
-
We have the money
-
We're not doing it because we are collecting money
-
We're doing it because we are responding
-
To something that God has called us to
-
And so
-
Five dollars seems like very little
-
And you'd probably pay a dollar fifty
-
For just the interact transfer
-
So here
-
Yeah
-
I guess
-
I'll have to wait for a couple of minutes
-
Oh shut, I can do it
-
If you don't want to interact
-
In the end
-
I just want you to catch the
-
Cigarette
-
Someone watching from UK
-
They did this to have
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Let me know if I should send them to you
-
I will, please
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Act20land.ca
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Act20land.ca
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Act20land.ca
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Act20land.ca
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Act20land.ca
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This is just
-
A dawning obedience
-
I just sent
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Five dollars with the message
-
To say, Elijah
-
If you want to
-
If you want to
-
And just make me more confident
-
I think most people watching this
-
Should be horrible
-
I promise
-
Okay
-
Providing to ones
-
Who still have to fake sleep
-
But have for various reasons
-
All of them are happening
-
Very very often
-
The seventh sign
-
The seventh sign
-
The seventh sign is from Chapter 4
-
It was 17 to 20
-
Some of us will be thinking
-
How many signs are there?
-
You should have read these chapters before
-
So seventh sign
-
Chapter 4 was 17 to 20
-
It's
-
Quite as many as Elijah
-
So if it was Elijah's portion
-
We could have ended by
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What can we do?
-
It's Elijah's portion
-
Chapter 4 was 17 to 20
-
The boy sat on her lap
-
On the roof and then he died
-
She went to her bed on the bed of the man of God
-
Then shut the door and went out
-
She called her husband and said
-
Please send me one of the servants and a donkey
-
So I can go to the man of God
-
Quickly and return
-
The seventh sign
-
Here's how we need to hear this
-
Will you contend for what God has ordained
-
Will you contend for what God has ordained
-
So that the son who was born
-
Will not meet an untimely death
-
Will you contend for what God has ordained
-
Will you contend for what God has ordained
-
So that the son who was born
-
Will not meet an untimely death
-
This is something
-
I haven't learned
-
Enough and you haven't learned enough
-
That is the ability to
-
Persist despite
-
Everything looking wrong
-
Not just for your own individual life
-
But for bigger things
-
For things that affect other people
-
Whenever it happens to us
-
We persist a little longer
-
And then just hold him and say
-
Well, maybe I heard wrong
-
Or maybe God has some other plans
-
Or maybe I messed up
-
We persist with ourselves
-
When it comes to others
-
Things aren't going according to how we thought
-
We give up too soon
-
Here is a son that
-
Responds to a woman who has not had a child
-
And it is given as a promise
-
The child grows up
-
And the child dies
-
The woman knew how to persist
-
She had some kind of audacity
-
In her, the same kind of audacity
-
That the Syrophilician woman had
-
Then I am going to take his boy
-
And I am going to lay him down on the prophet's bed
-
And then after that
-
Neither Gehazi
-
Nor Elisha's staff were enough
-
To heal and revive this boy
-
And she wouldn't settle for it
-
So she wants a donkey
-
And she wants a servant and she wants to go
-
It is not enough
-
This is like the story of Mark 5.24
-
Where Jairus goes
-
To Jesus and says
-
My daughter is sick, will you come
-
And Jesus doesn't send a word
-
Jesus doesn't say go your son will be healed
-
Jesus says I will come
-
He is delayed on the way
-
But Jairus doesn't give up either
-
And then those beautiful words
-
Janika kumi and little girl
-
Arises and she arises
-
So
-
We are being called to contend
-
For what God has obeyed
-
So that the son who was born
-
Will not meet an unfaithful death
-
But contending
-
Here is a catch Jairus
-
Contending will require a stretching
-
Of your life for the boy
-
Mouth to mouth, hand to hand
-
Feet to feet, stretched out on the boy
-
To revive him
-
Neither Elisha's staff nor Gehazi
-
Will do
-
But an actual pouring out of your life
-
Is the only way to revive some really
-
Dead situations
-
And I say father in humility
-
But sounding proud
-
Bring it on above
-
Not because we are capable
-
But because we want to know what it is
-
To be able to stretch out our lives
-
To give life
-
I will read the rest father
-
It says there
-
That
-
Elisha reads the house
-
1.32
-
There was a boy lying dead on his couch
-
He went and shut the door on the two of them
-
And prayed to the Lord
-
Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy
-
Mouth to mouth, hands to hand
-
And as he stretched himself out
-
Out upon him the boy's body grew warm
-
Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room
-
Man do you see it hasn't happened
-
The bones have just come together
-
The bones are yet in the valley
-
And they have they've come together
-
And Elisha is now walking to and fro
-
Not knowing what to do next
-
Remembering that Elisha had done something like this
-
Actually most
-
And at 1.35
-
Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room
-
Got on the bed, stretched out upon him much more
-
The boy sneezed seven times
-
And opened his eyes
-
I pray this happens to quite a few of us here
-
Reviving dead situations
-
A theme that runs through Elisha's life
-
And through Acts 29
-
And the churches that walk with us
-
A theme that runs through her life next year
-
Is reviving things that are dead
-
Of decaying
-
Or almost gone
-
There's no way to get it back
-
8th sign
-
Chapter 4, verse 39 to 41
-
8th sign, chapter 4, verse 39 to 41
-
The child said, get some flour
-
He put it into the pot and said, serve it to the people to eat
-
And there was nothing harmful in the pot
-
The 8th sign is
-
I love this
-
I want to see how it works
-
We will see
-
We will see
-
The preserving power
-
Have we not seen it already this year?
-
Hasn't God watched over water
-
And guarded this little family?
-
Hasn't he just covered it with a blanket?
-
Hasn't he just covered it with this canopy of glory?
-
Hasn't he prevented the enemy from exacting a price out of him?
-
Hasn't he kept affliction at bay?
-
We will see the preserving power
-
Of God
-
Like in
-
Mark 16
-
Like in Mark 16
-
18A
-
Where it says
-
And these are the signs that should follow believers
-
They shall pick up snakes
-
And bring poison and no harm shall
-
Come to them
-
Psalm 91, verse 6
-
That even though there be
-
Arrows that fly by day
-
Pestilence by night
-
Even though a thousand follow their right
-
And ten thousand on their left
-
No harm shall come to you
-
And no plague shall
-
Befall your tent
-
Acts 28, verse 5
-
And while the forgotten
-
Were with a snake, wrath is over our
-
Balls arm and bitter
-
And they expected all to fall down
-
And die, instead
-
Balls shook up the snake
-
And continued to
-
We will see the preserving power of God
-
Remind me of this
-
When things happen and I don't know how to respond
-
When things happen and you don't know how to respond
-
Just remind each other
-
Of these
-
Ridiculous
-
Generous
-
Gracious
-
I can't understand why promises
-
From God to us
-
Remind ourselves, tell each other
-
This is something that you need to
-
Do
-
You go to
-
Malachi or Malachi?
-
I'll tell you in a second
-
Okay, go to Malachi
-
B-16
-
What?
-
B-16
-
Yeah
-
Chapter 3, verse 16
-
Then those who feared the Lord
-
Talked with each other
-
And the Lord listened and heard
-
A scroll of remembrance was written in its presence
-
Concerning those who feared the Lord
-
And honored his name
-
They will be mine, says the Lord Almighty
-
In the day when I make up my treasured possessions
-
I will spare them just as a compassionate man
-
Spares a son who serves him
-
And you will again see
-
The distinction between the righteous and the wicked
-
Between those who serve God and those who do not
-
And how did God arrive at a point
-
In deciding
-
Who were honoring him, who were revering him
-
He listened
-
He listened to what they said
-
And how did they honor and revere him
-
They repeated what they had heard
-
From him
-
Guys, like I said at the beginning
-
God is saying, hey can you become a
-
People in whose midst I can dwell
-
So I can show people what it is
-
When I dwell amongst the people
-
And can you be among people who can show others
-
What it is to be in relationship with God
-
And do this
-
One of the ways to do this is to talk about the things
-
We have said, sure talk about the word
-
But the beautiful thing about this prophetic message
-
Is that it is being extracted
-
Straight out of scriptures
-
Are these prophetic signs going to
-
Progress from one to the other for actually
-
No
-
It's like the rain
-
It will be a thousand drops on your head
-
At the same time
-
Every time the stick of your tongue
-
One drop will hit it
-
You have to taste it and decide which drop it is
-
Is there a border or are they going to happen
-
At the same time
-
You will see the preserving power
-
At work
-
I look forward to it, they remind ourselves of it
-
Remind each other of us
-
To preserve the power of God
-
Next one, ninth sign
-
Is from chapter 4 verse 42
-
Chapter 4 verse 42
-
If you want to know how many signs there are
-
Twice as many as Elijah
-
So you can start reading
-
Elijah later on and then
-
What if Elijah had 15 signs
-
You know what that means right
-
He will be here for a while
-
Thank God he decided to leave early
-
And God took him away
-
Otherwise he would be here for a while
-
So if you read chapter 4 verse 42
-
Second page chapter 4 verse 42
-
Second page chapter 4 verse 42
-
A man from Baal, Silesia
-
He was a Christian
-
He was a Christian
-
A man came from Baal, Silesia
-
Brought to the man about 20 loaves of barley bread
-
Baked from the first ripe grape
-
Long with some heads of new grape
-
Give it to the people to eat, Elijah said
-
How can I accept this before 100 men?
-
His servant asked
-
And Elijah answered, give it to the people to eat
-
But this is what the Lord says
-
They will eat and have some left over
-
Then he said it before them
-
And they ate and had some left over
-
According to the word of the Lord
-
Guys
-
Guys, the last time I spoke about this
-
I thought this was the 2010
-
And 2010
-
And I haven't touched it since
-
And I feel that since
-
This is something God wants us to do
-
I need to speak about it
-
Release first fruits
-
Release first fruits
-
Release first fruits
-
Release first fruits
-
People who were here in the early years of Acts 29
-
Practiced this principle all these years
-
Release first fruits
-
Part of it you can find
-
In Proverbs 26
-
In Proverbs 3 verse 6 also it talks about it
-
And so the idea of first fruits
-
Release first fruits
-
Why?
-
So that it may multiply
-
So that it may multiply
-
So that it may multiply
-
To feed others
-
So that it may multiply
-
To feed others
-
So that it may multiply
-
To feed others
-
I love that principle
-
About two and a half years ago or three years ago
-
Eric had pointed out this story
-
That first fruits were not necessarily
-
To be collected and kept
-
For one's own benefit
-
But first fruits
-
Could be brought and multiplied
-
And given to others to be fed
-
So the principle of first fruits is very simple
-
A farmer
-
Who had sown his crops
-
Who had sown his crops
-
Would see the first sheaf appearing
-
And he would collect the grain
-
And not knowing what awaited him in the future
-
Not knowing whether the locusts would come
-
And eat the rest of the crop
-
Not knowing whether the rains would fade
-
Not knowing whether there would be a
-
Dry windstorm that would destroy the crop
-
Not knowing whether the water would run out
-
Not knowing whether the water would run out
-
Not knowing whether the winter would be so cold
-
That the ice wine grapes
-
Would just rot
-
Not knowing any of these
-
They would bring the first sheaf
-
And present it
-
To the temple or to the priest
-
Or to whoever was in the vicinity
-
That they wanted to give the first fruits to
-
And here's what they were saying
-
They were saying, oh God, here is the first and the last
-
We don't know what will happen
-
To the rest of the crop
-
But we want to honor you first
-
And so they would come to them and say
-
Hey, you could have kept this for yourself
-
If you were smart, you would have kept it aside
-
Because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow
-
But instead of going about it that way
-
You have brought me the first
-
So here's what I'm going to do
-
Because you brought me the first, I will bless the rest
-
And this is why all users in Roman Chapter 9
-
Where it says, if the first is holy
-
Then the rest is holy
-
And so
-
Long ago in 2009 and 2010
-
When this was taught, people began to
-
At the beginning of the year, decide
-
Even though I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2021
-
Even though I don't know what will happen
-
To my job, my company
-
Here, oh God, is a portion of the first
-
That I received
-
And I give it to you
-
And what is that portion? Completely up to you
-
There are people who have given the first hour
-
Of their work, the first day of their work
-
The first week of their work
-
The first month of their work
-
That scared me
-
And who do you give it to? You give it to people
-
You give it to people who have broken bread and wine into your lives
-
And I would say
-
To those that receive these
-
First fruits
-
Multiply them and
-
Feed others with it
-
This is not so that one becomes rich with
-
First fruits, this is so that we practice
-
What Baal Shaleesh
-
The man from Baal Shaleesh did
-
He bought the first fruit, basically for Elisha
-
Elisha is supporting it, multiplies it
-
And multiplies it in such a way
-
That it was impossible to feed a hundred
-
And so that's one of the things I'm going to do
-
So the first fruits I receive
-
I multiply it, as in I add to it
-
And then supply it to more
-
And I also know how to give
-
And it's up to each person how one gives
-
The principle is, honor the Lord
-
With something that you have in your hand
-
Even though you don't know what the rest will look like
-
So I decide already
-
I'm going to give it to you
-
And I'm going to give it to you
-
And I'm going to give it to you
-
And I'm going to give it to you
-
So I decide already in the year
-
Given how God blessed me in 2020
-
And given how he loves blessing
-
This is what I believe
-
To be my increase in 2021
-
So here is a portion of Father
-
And I send it to different methods next in my life
-
People who have broken bread and wine into my life
-
Some of them local, some of them outside
-
And here's what God says in Proverbs 3
-
He says, honor me with your first fruits
-
And I will bless you
-
And the ones that have practices in Acts 3 now
-
For the last 10 years
-
And others from outside of Acts 3
-
And practices
-
Their lives have only increased
-
It has not decreased
-
Some of them are sitting here
-
So this is a principle that God for one of the reasons
-
Wants us to be in 2021
-
It is not
-
It is not something that can be legislated
-
You cannot be coerced
-
All giving should be fearful
-
Without compulsion, without emotional blackmail
-
It should be freely given, hilariously
-
So the 9th sign was
-
Release first fruits and multiply to feed others
-
One of the things God wants to bring to pass
-
In Acts 29
-
Is Acts 4, verse 34
-
Acts 4, verse 34
-
Acts 4, verse 34
-
And it will happen
-
But God will bring this to pass
-
A working model
-
Of Acts 4, verse 34
-
Why? Because God wants to use this
-
As a people in his whose midst he dwells
-
And he can show people
-
What a people amongst who might well look like
-
And that is a complicated sentence
-
Acts 4, verse 34
-
There were no needy persons among them
-
For from time to time
-
Those who owned land or houses
-
Sold them, brought the money from the sage
-
And put it in their possum speak
-
And it was distributed to everyone
-
As he had need
-
Churches should end poverty
-
In their midst
-
We have to practice this
-
And show this
-
Acts 29 already does
-
It does it as a church
-
It does it as individuals amongst themselves
-
When I hear of what you have done for each other
-
It always puts the past to the shame
-
And I hear how nobody prompts you
-
You don't tell anybody
-
I hear it from the person who is received
-
It blows my mind
-
And that is why Acts 29
-
As a church gives
-
Gives generously
-
As soon as it fears of the need
-
The money is there
-
But we should become a church like that
-
Where poverty is not
-
A condition
-
That people in the church suffer
-
So when I ask you how you are doing financially
-
I am not asking you that
-
Because there is no other topic to talk about
-
There is always rain
-
And the clouds, starting January 13
-
But
-
It is because
-
It is a question that must be asked
-
10th time
-
10th time
-
10th time
-
10th time
-
10th time
-
10th time
-
Chapter 5
-
Verse 8 and 17
-
I am going to finish by 4
-
So not too many signs there
-
Acts 5
-
Verse 8 and 17
-
Acts 5
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Verse 8 and 17
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Oh sorry
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2 Kings 5
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2 Kings 5
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Verse 8 and 17
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When Elijah the man of God heard
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That the king of Israel had told his rules
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He sent him this message
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Why have you told me your rules
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Have the man come to me
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And he will know that there is a prophet
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In Israel
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So Naaman went with horses and chariots
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And stopped at the door of Elijah's house
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Verse 17
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Naaman initially was arrogant
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He didn't want to do what Elijah said
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Finally he does it and then verse 17
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It says, if you will not say Naaman
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Please let me your servant be given as much
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Health as a pair of mules
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The servant will never again make burnt offerings
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And sacrifices to any other god
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But the lord
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But may the lord forgive your servant for this one thing
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When the master enters the temple of Rimo
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To bow down
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And he is leaning on my arm and I bow there also
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When I bow down in the temple of Rimo
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May the lord forgive your servant for this
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Go in peace Elijah said
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The death sign altering the future of
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Rulers and nations
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Altering the future
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Altering the future
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Of rulers and nations
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Altering the future
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Of rulers and nations
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Really take it absolutely
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This thing is easy
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Easy because none of us have connections
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None of us know how to do this
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This is so God
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It's like raising the dead
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Whenever you're good at something
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You rely less on God
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When you're absolutely zero
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Then God turns up
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Piktah
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The future of rulers and nations
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The initial reticence that some of the pagan rulers
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We will come in touch with
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Will soon change
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To a recognition of Christ as God
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And they will also recognize you
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As his mouthpiece as a leader
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Guys I've seen this
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I've had audiences with rulers
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With ministers, with kings
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That there was no way a guy like me
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Could have access
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I didn't even have the clothes to wear before
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I wore a half sleeve shirt
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And a tie that I borrowed
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And I thought to myself, my God
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You look foolish
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But it doesn't matter because what came out of my mouth
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Was enough
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And then
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There are two things that happen
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One, they recognize Christ as God
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And they swear off
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That I am God's
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And two, they recognize you
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As a mouthpiece of your God
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And if what we have tasted in the past
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Was just a test run
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Then now is the real thing
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Where depending on your pursuit
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Of God
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God will place you in positions
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Where you will be able to touch
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And affect the destiny of rulers
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And nations
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This has always been something
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Actually that has happened
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So it's a test run
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And it's a test run
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And it's a test run
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So it doesn't surprise me at all
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I'd be surprised if it wasn't
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So let COVID lift
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Let the flights begin
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Yeah
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Yeah, Father if you want us to do this
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I don't think email would work
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Because we have no access to their emails
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But we have access to nations
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So I pray Father
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And would you now cause
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Flights to resume
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Borders to open
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Not because we are at sea or we have the travel bus
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I lost it
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But so, O God
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That
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Your people, your power, your glory
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May be known in the nations
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According to this word as we do
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11th Psalm
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Chapter 6, verse 1
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11th Psalm, Chapter 6, verse 1
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The company of the prophets said to Elijah
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Look the place where we meet with you is too small for us
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Let us go to the job
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Where each person can get a phone
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And let us build a place there for us to live
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So here's what God said
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Others will come and ask for patents and permission to build
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Others will come
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And ask for patents
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And permission to build
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They will ask us for
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Our help
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They will come and say can you help us build
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When they lose their way, they'll come and say
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We will help them to retreat the accident
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We will help them to recover direction
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We will help them regain momentum
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I would say to you who are listening
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When people come to you
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And talk to you about building
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About church and ask you about your church
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Anything
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Open
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Open your
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Mouths and lives and begin to tell them
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About what God is building in our midst
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We can't take credit for it
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This did come out of the great spasalizing
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This came out of sheer lot of people
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That were sent to us at the right time
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And we didn't know better
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In the year I had known
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That many will come to us
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Asking for patents and for permission
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And ask for castmanship
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From you saying could you
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And they won't come to me
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They'll come to you
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You'll have to tell them what you know
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And then some will come and fill in another part
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By the time five people work together
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The building is built
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I'll tell you this to you guys in Bahrain
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In Sydney, in Brisbane
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In Vernon
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In Bogolia
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In Lithuania
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In the UK
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Guys if this is already happened
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What do you think God is going to do now?
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There is this thing of momentum in God
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And it is not multiplication
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It is exponential
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It's like God said
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You reach critical mass
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12 signs
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Chapter 6, verse 12
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This enraged the king of Aaron
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He summoned the three officers
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And demanded a bed
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Will you not tell me which of us
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Is not the son of the king of Israel?
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None of us might know the king's and mother's offices
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But Elijah the prophet who is in his bed
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Tells the king of Israel
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To very well you speak in your bedroom
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The destiny of nations
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Goes with what we said earlier
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The destiny of nations will be shaped
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On this handle
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Called Acts 20, Daniel
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The churches that we walk in
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Where God will let us in
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On the destruction
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On the destructive plans of the enemy
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Where God will let us in
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Where God will let us in
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On the destruction that the enemy is planning
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And God will have us strategized
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With counter attacks from heaven
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So let me give you a simple example
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Five years ago
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I had a dream
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And in the dream is the ruler of a certain nation
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That we had meet you
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And in the dream the ruler is calling together
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Some people and telling them
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To practice a certain ritual
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Against certain people and certain pastors
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In the nation
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And I wake up, I make a mental note of it
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And I call up a pastor
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Who can spread the word around
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So that as this man begins
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To practice this ritual
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The pastor and his team
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Can begin to nullify the ritual
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This was the five nights
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The only reason I'm not
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Telling you more is because
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This is a recorded message
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But God will begin to wake up
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Those that are willing
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To be trained for battle
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Every finger to the wall
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God will begin to help us see
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The destructive plans of the enemy
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And help us strategize
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And see this, I've never
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Telled this ruler before
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And it's so clear
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It's like a phone call
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Of an invasion kind of thing
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And he's organizing this ritual
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Calling people
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Planning how to do harm to the nation
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And he thinks it's not harm
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He thinks it's good but it's not
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A few years
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Will learn to commandeer
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The chariots and horses of Israel
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A few
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So that
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You will learn how to fight the
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Prince of Persia and the Prince of Greece by Ketania
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A few will do that this year
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Some others will have
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Their eyes open so that like Elijah's servant
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They begin to recognize
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Spiritual realities and then in the years
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Ahead will probably step into this
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Place where you need to commandeer the chariots
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And the horses of Israel
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Jacob, you're saying that all this is going to happen to us
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Hey, what can I do if God
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Is God
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I have no say in this
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I can't make it happen
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You think I don't think this
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Is a lot, you think I don't think it is
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Heavy
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But do you think I don't
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Do you think I'm not excited
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This is what we live for man
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No man
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Let heaven come
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This is what it will look like
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Let heaven come
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Yours is the kingdom, yours is the power
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Yours is the glory forever amen
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Let heaven come
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And when it comes we'll take you up
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No, this is what it will look like
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On a 24-7 basis
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So now let me give you the videos
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Three more slides
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The 13th sign
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Chapter 8 verse 1
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13th sign
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Chapter 8 verse 1
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I truly believe
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I've never seen this
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And I wish someone had
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Done this for Covid
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I truly believe that from among us will rise
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Elisha and Agabas
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Agabas was a prophet in Acts 11
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28 who during the
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Raining of one of the Caesar's
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Predicted that there would be a family to land
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And so the church was able to prepare for it
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Acts 11 verse 28
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During the time
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Some prophets came down from Jerusalem to
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One of them made Agabas
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And through the spirit
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Predicted that a similar family would spread
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Over the entire Roman world
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This happened during the reign of Claudius
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The disciples, each according to his ability
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Decided to provide help for the brothers
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Living in Judea
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This they did by sending their gift
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To the elders by barmahams and so on
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I pray god that in this church will begin
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To rise seers who are
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Able to see events
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Sometimes calamitous
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Able to see situations
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That are foretold
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And then able to decree wisdom
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So that the Shulamite can be preserved
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By the spoken word
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Both had to happen
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These are good things guys
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Why is it that these stories are in the
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Old Testament
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Why is it that these stories are in the
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Book of Acts
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Why is it that there are no such stories now
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Why is it that it doesn't happen in the
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West
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But praise god because he is faithful
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He is true, he is powerful
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And he alone can do it
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Amen, let it be for lord
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In our midst
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May it see us rise
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He has laid claim to our allegiance
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He has taught us
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He has made it normal for us to
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Listen to the voice of god
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He has made it normal to see prophetic
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As a part of everything
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We do when we meet together
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Now let it be for the benefit
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Of the world
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Not just for our benefit
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We've received enough prophetic
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Words to last us a lifetime
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Any more prophetic words and I won't act
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I'll have to live to 120 before I conquer them
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Have you noticed
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How at the heart of almost
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Everything we've said
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Lies the need to speak
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And this will be a problem
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The mask has given us even
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A greater ability not to speak
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Because at least your expressions will tell me
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That you wanted to speak
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Now even that is gone
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But at the heart of the Elisha cycle
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Is the need to speak
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And I would
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Say this very very strongly
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Those who won't speak
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Will not inherit or participate in the motion
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Those who don't speak
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Will not inherit or participate in the motion
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You cannot speak mediocrity
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Or complacency as it
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Neither this nor that
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Neither yes nor no
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No! As 29
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If you do not speak
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You will not participate or inherit this motion
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It is the only
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Caution or
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Rebuke in this whole teaching
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You must speak
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And you can't choose neutrality
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Yeah, kind of
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No, also
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Hmm, eh
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These gestures and sounds
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Are not allowed
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You know any son
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And I've shared this with Salvi
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Any son, the one who gave me a father
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The father was young
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He had a very strong
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Stomach
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He had a middle name
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I forgot what his middle name is
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But his parents
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Loved his middle name so they would call him his middle name
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Paul didn't speak for the first
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Two or three years
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But God had very clearly told him he didn't want
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To call him Paul
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But they loved his middle name
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So for the first two or three years of his life
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They would always call him by his middle name
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And the boy would not respond
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And the boy would not talk
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One day Paul's elder brother Edward
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Turned to them and
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Everyone was trying to get Paul to talk
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And it's three or three and a half
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Or so now and he hasn't said a word
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And at some point
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Edward and his older brother by two or three years
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Turns to Paul and he says
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For God's sake man, talk
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After all your name is Paul
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And the boy would answer
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It is important
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That we
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Learn in the year ahead
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To speak
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God's words
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Not your own words
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Not your neutral stance so that you don't get into trouble
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Not the traditions of men that keep us silent
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Not our culture
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Because we are this world
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We must
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Because we not much
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We belong to that kingdom
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14th Psalm
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Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15
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14th Psalm
Psalms 8 chapter mention
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15
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Elijah went to the masochist
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And then he had the king
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Of Aram of Ziln
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And the king was told
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The man of God has come all the way up here
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He said to Haze take a gift with you
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And go and meet the man of God
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He asked him will I recover from this illness
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Haze went to meet Elijah
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Taking him with him
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As a gift
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Forty camels of all the finest wares of the masses
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He went to the stoop before him and said
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Your son Ben Hada king of Aram
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Has sent me to ask will I recover from this illness
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Elijah answered go and say to him
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You will certainly recover
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But the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die
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He stared at him with a fixed gaze
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Until Haze felt ashamed
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That the man of God began to meet
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Why shall I not meet me? asked Haze
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Because I know the harm you will do to these delights
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You will set fire to their fortified palaces
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Kill their young men with the sword
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Dash their little children to the ground
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Rip open their pregnant women
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Haze said how could your servant Amir and dog
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Accomplish such a feat
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The Lord has shown me that he will become king of Aram
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Answered Elijah
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Then Haze left Elijah and returned to his master
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When Ben Hada asked him what did Elijah say to you
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Haze replied he told me that you would certainly recover
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But the next day he took a thick cloth
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And soaked it in water
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Spread it over the king's face when he died
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Then Haze succeeded in arresting him
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Why read this long story
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It was on 1 Kings 1915
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On 1 Kings 1915
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Elijah had said
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That it was one of the things
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That needed to be done
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Haze had to become the king
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And it is something that Elijah
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Did not do that is now being completed by Elijah
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On 1 Kings 1915
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Then the Lord said to him
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Go back where you came from
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Go to the desert of Damascus
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When you get there anointed Haze king of Aram
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And Elijah did not
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He decided
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To resign and be captured
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Rather than finish what he was called to
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The 14th sign is this
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We who finished what Elijah's
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That started
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But were unable for this to be complete
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We who finished
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What Elijah's had started
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But were unable
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But were unable or are unable
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To finish for different reasons
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Maybe some of them are old
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Maybe some of them are trying
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Maybe some of them haven't grown
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Different reasons why Elijah
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Do not finish what they
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Are supposed to finish
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Maybe some of them are frightened
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Maybe some of them are lacking in faith
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I pray God that you will not
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Have to say that about me
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That we have to finish what Jacob had started
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Because Jacob for reasons of age
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And lack of faith for not having grown
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Was not able to complete
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What God gave so we have to complete it
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May not be center of you
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Or of me
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But we will have to finish something that Elijah
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Has started
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And that's so sad sometimes
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When it has to be done
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I remember when we first finished
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Our first time at the Shalom
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Went to the Daqa Bishan
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And realized what we were supposed to do in Shalom
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So I went to meet this man
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Whose name was
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Skinner, Pastor Skinner
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And he was the one who
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Sparsed the mission work in Shalom
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And I knew that it hadn't been completed
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And when I went to meet him
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He was paralyzed, he could not speak
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And I knew that
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I had to meet him
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And tell him
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Listen, my name is Jacob
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You do not know me
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But we have been sent specifically to Shalom
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And I am here to say to you
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That I will complete what God has asked me to complete
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And then I asked him to
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Pray for me
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I honored him with
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Money
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And asked him to
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Give me the permission to finish
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What he had begun in Shalom
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Because he was not taking the work
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A little later than I did
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Sometimes, Elijah's do not finish
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I sorrow over that
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Last night
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15th night
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The 13th was 21
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Second day, 13th was 21
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Elijah died on the cross-border
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And the war-bite-right raiders
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Used to enter the country every spring
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Once, whites of his life were burying the man
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Suddenly, they saw battle rages
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So they threw the man's body
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Into Elijah's tomb
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When the body touched Elijah's bones
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The man came to life
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And stood up on his feet
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Crazy, right?
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Even a dead man can't stop
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I mean, here is the 15th fight
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That happens after he is dead
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Isn't that cool?
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I want to say a thing that will affect
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Anybody who comes near us
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With resurrection life
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Acts 5-15
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The shadow
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People start lighting up their sticks
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They hope that the shadow
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That Peter cast
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The shadow that Peter cast
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Would heal his sin
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The point being
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That it is
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It is given to us in the year ahead
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To revive dead legacies
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To revive dead institutions
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That now
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Are built over the bones
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Of some famous
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Man of color died
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50 years ago
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In nominations to revive dead legacies
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Desolate heritages as excessive
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As they have fallen as
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Prostitutes like Mary
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Fearful soldiers like Gideon
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Valleys full of bones
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Nations
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To be able to revive their
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Spirit so that
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They get infected when they come
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In touch with us
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I know that is such a boost
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Such a large thing
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I don't even know how it will play out
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But all I know is
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I can trust God for his patience
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So I am going to ask
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The music team to come back
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And sing that song
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The last song they sang
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And after that we advance
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As soon as the song is done
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I am going to sing this song in response to what we have heard
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Because I think
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Placing ourselves on the partners team
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Is critical
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Because the thing that we want to shape
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Man, no human on earth can do
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It will have to be God
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It will have to be God