Sermon
Nothing is impossible
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Impossible
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Nothing is impossible guys nothing is impossible. Thank you
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So now I know how many times I have to repeat something
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Guys
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Develop a Genesis
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126
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Mindset it's a dominion mindset Genesis 126 says go forth
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subdue or take dominion over
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So that is the mindset that you and I have to develop if all these things that we are talking about in terms of
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Miracles healings I forget healings and miracles
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There are so many other situations in our lives where there's nothing is impossible mentality needs to come in man
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So many other things like before I left I remember saying that we know the history of God as a supernatural God
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but most of the time our
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approach
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To life is natural
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Our approach to life is natural, but we know the history of God is supernatural
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We also said that we will refuse to live out of the sovereignty of God
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Not we'll refuse we would we are going to choose to not live out of the sovereignty of God
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But live out of the knowledge of God and Derek asked the question
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What do you mean by that and we said to live out of the sovereignty of God is to live saying?
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Whatever God wants it will happen. That's living out of the sovereignty of God
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What is living out of the knowledge of God living out of the knowledge of God is knowing who God is and how he operates
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Living out of the sovereignty of God where you say whatever God wants will happen
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Is the easy way out it's not actually the Christ way. It's the Christian way
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But living out of the knowledge of God is
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The Christ way of living he knew his father. That's how he lived got to make that differentiation. So
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If you if I want this phrase that Jesus spoke
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Nothing, just imagine it. He doesn't waste a word
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He does not exaggerate and if he exaggerates he makes it very clear that he's exaggerating
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So he says nothing
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This is a God of the universe saying nothing is impossible and remember Jesus Christ was living under the same limitations as
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You and I he had chosen to come under the same limitations
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So that one who is redeemed is as helpless as he and as dependent on the Holy Spirit and he says
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Nothing is impossible. So develop a Genesis 126 Dominion mindset and you will find that you will not just
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Have to skirt around battles. You will transcend some existing battles because it's a different way you're thinking
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You won't even fight certain battles away you fight
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We'll talk about that more. So how do we go about this guys?
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Begin to establish truth on earth in your lives by agreeing with God
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Understanding God and practicing what heaven says. Let me say that again
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establish truths in your life
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establish truths in your life
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Establish truths in your life how by agreeing with God by understanding God and by practicing what God has said
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Three very distinct things the first step is to agree with God saying, you know father everything points otherwise
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But I come to say I agree with you
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But how can I agree if I don't understand so could you buy your spirit begin to?
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Enlighten my mind and begin to illuminate things in my spirit too
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And now that I agree and understand father I begin to practice. I put it into practice
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You know do when you come into agreement
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Understanding and practice with the things of heaven
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First begin with small things guys begin with small things
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Our problem is we agree understand and practice things when we want to dissolve big things
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Start with small things
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Start with when your potatoes are not boiling quickly
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start with when
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The roof is beginning to leak
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Start with when you're stuck in traffic
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start with
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When you have a pimple on your knee
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start with when
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It's taking too long. We don't think supernaturally in small things. Therefore when it comes to big things
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We are still caught struggling when it comes to supernatural responses. We do not use this thing in small things guys
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when you begin to agree understand and practice a
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Dominion mindset or a mindset that knows that nothing is impossible and that God is supernatural in
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Small things you will find that bigger things dissolve more easily because it's become a way of living
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So what happens when your potatoes don't boil in two minutes if they are supposed to boil in two minutes
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I don't know how long it takes for those to boil
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20 minutes well 220
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whatever
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That is when I need to begin to
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depend differently on God
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Jesus said this day and
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He used to make these statements for truly I say to you as in guys do not doubt it for a second as in
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Please understand that I'm not I'm not just talking stuff
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I really mean this and he says truly I say to you if
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You have faith like a mustard seed and he was only talking about the size of it
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If you have faith like a mustard seed, this is where he makes that statement
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Nothing nothing will be impossible for you. Nothing will be impossible for you. It boggles my mind
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I can't even I can't even begin to swim in the statement that nothing will be impossible for me
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Questions comments before we go on
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Up our usual way of dealing with big things is when they arrive
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We deal with them and we try to exert faith
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But because we have not exerted faith in the small things we are not able to handle the big things
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Well, you can't handle a small dog. You won't handle a lion
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I mean, I remember this guy called Eduardo who was with Dano and Eddie and me in South Africa
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Big guy, he was twice my size and tall
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But he he was scared of little dogs
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Because of some bad experience with you I mean I remember when we went to the lion farm
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there were these little cubs lion cubs and
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We went in then we were playing with it and finally Edward who decided he was going to step in and touch one of the lion
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Cubs and he went to touch them and instead of catching the head of the lion
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He ended up holding the tail of the lion
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Cub and it was so funny. I've got a video of it
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You know, it says men shall lead lions here wherever the cub
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Now, Eduardo was scared to leave the tail and so he's walking around the lion enclosure a really big man
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Following a lion cub all around small little dog. He used to be scared of they have a little dog called
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What's that drink Milo?
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Yvonne and Eddie have a small dog called Milo little fellow not even as big as your foot and what I was scared of that
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The point being when I'm scared of these little things that don't know how to respond to them
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When they lead me it's from me leading them then when the big things come along
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We're unable to handle it be supernatural in small things be supernatural in small things
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Be supernatural in small things and you will not have a problem with big things guys, it's the way it works
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Any other questions
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I want to share something with you
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Please
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In 2 Timothy 2.7 I was reading the other day about this and this is what it says
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Think what I am saying and the Lord will give you understanding
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Think about what I am saying
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2 Timothy 2.7
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Think about what I am saying and the Lord will give you understanding
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There's a word to go over this and over this and over this until it becomes understanding
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Good eh, where you meditate on something and the understanding keeps happening
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Don't take an easy way out of fear
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Very often we think if God wants us to understand we'll understand
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Doesn't happen that way guys
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That's the case there are sovereignty way of living we got to think to understand
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Guys so let's talk about different areas I mean I will touch on healing but this is not the only area where nothing is impossible eh
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Guys so let's talk about different areas I mean I will touch on healing but this is not the only area where nothing is impossible eh
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That's just one small area I mean when it comes to healing I know you've been over this but again don't we struggle with different issues
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Agree, agree we said agree understand practice agree that his name is Yahweh Rafa agree with God
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That his title that the title he gave himself is Yahweh Rafa
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To come into agreement saying you know father regardless of the pains in my body regardless of what may be happening in different organs
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I agree that your title a title that you self gave yourself because no one can give you titles is Yahweh Rafa
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As in God my healer agree that he is not neutral in the midst of your sickness
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We talk about these points and this refreshing your mind with them
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We sometimes we struggle with the thought that God is perhaps not God is surely not against me but you're not convinced he's for you
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And in the middle of pain it's so hard to think why can't God just make it go away
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But understand that he's never neutral in the middle of your sickness
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Even when you're bitter he's still for you in your sickness but he's never neutral in the middle of your sickness
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Because the place he reveals his title is Yahweh Rafa is at the waters of Mara and Mara means bitterness
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That's where he reveals his name
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Agree that sickness is not his will in heaven and therefore not his will on earth
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Let me say that again agree that sickness is not his will in heaven
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It is not his will
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Matthew 16 whatsoever you permit legitimize lose in heaven is what can be permitted legitimized and lose here on earth
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Matthew chapter 11 our father who art in heaven hallowed be your name
Matthew 11 chapter mention
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Your kingdom come meaning your rule and reign come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
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Agree that sickness is not his will in heaven therefore it is not his will on earth
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So do we have sickness around us obviously everyone has been through it
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But is this his will in heaven no and therefore it's not his will on earth
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As it is in heaven
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Understand guys that he's filled with compassion towards me when I'm sick
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Understand that he's filled with compassion
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It's never punishment God does not punish he disciplines he does not punish and why doesn't he punish because he punished Jesus
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Jesus was my atoning sacrifice atonement means one that takes the wrath that's due me
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God does not punish he disciplines
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But know that in sickness God is compassionate towards me and when you're in pain and you're hurting and everything in you is screaming and saying
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How come you're not doing anything in the middle of that anger and that agony sometimes you got to remember that this God is compassionate to me in my sickness
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And it is his compassion that provokes him to heal more than power it is his compassion that provokes him to heal more than power
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It is his compassion that provokes him to heal
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Understand that it was through Jesus and by Jesus stripes that healing is now a benefit that I can
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What's that word?
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Grasp appropriate
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Know that it was through Jesus's punishment and stripes and by Jesus's stripes that I on earth can now appropriate
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Appropriate healing why do I use the word appropriate healing because it is not even something I have to ask for
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It is something I have to take I have to make mine it is not even do you go and ask your ATM machine for cash
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Could you give me some money? No, no, no, you go and take the money because it is now yours through Jesus's death and punishment
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Healing has become something that I can appropriate
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God the healer through the stripes laid on Christ has made healing a benefit of his death that is now put in my bank account
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Which I can now appropriate in the name and by the stripes that Jesus bore
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Understand that my experience or Paul's experience or Job's experience still does not diminish or interpret what God said about himself
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Let me say that again understand that neither my experience nor Paul's experience nor Job's experience either diminishes or interprets what God has clearly said about himself as healer
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So does that mean Jacob that you throw Paul's thorn in the flesh out and throw Job's condition out and throw Timothy's stomach problems out
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No, it means I interpret them in the light of what God has said about himself
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I must do that scripture has to be taken in its tapestry in its entirety in all that God reveals about himself
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There's a thing in scripture called the principle of first mention and the principle of first mention is where God establishes who he is in certain areas by revealing something about him
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And now that I know he's revealed himself this way now I begin to see everything else
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I mean we do it here on earth when we do research we have something called a control is that was it called
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Where you have something that's not changeable and then you control yeah
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God is this control his word is this control specimen that we measure everything against
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Understand that Jesus loves healing and he healed all who came to him
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But Jacob there are so many that I hear you I even agree with you but this I know that Jesus loved healing and he healed everybody that came to him
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Guys he's a visible representation or representer of this eternal invisible healing God who is father
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Jesus is the visible representation or re-presenter
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He re-presents once again the invisible epiphany of God
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Representation or re-presenter he re-presents once again the invisible eternal healing God that we believe in who happens to be a father
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He is re-presented and represented by Jesus Christ who is this visible image
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And understand that just as in Genesis 1 1 and 1 2 the Holy Spirit is raring rubbing his hands and glee as he waits to undo the chaos of sickness and restore wholeness and shallowness into a situation as you begin to speak
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Genesis 1 1 and 1 2 are so vital to this whole idea of bringing order and shallowness or wholeness into chaotic situations
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Because as God spoke the Spirit of God who was hovering over this chaotic vain empty place began to bring order and wholeness
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And so who speaks now? We speak as we hear God speaking and bring order and wholeness and shallowness into a situation
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Spirit of God is still doing it but that is not my experience
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I would like to respond rudely by saying who cares and I won't so instead I'll say but I understand your experience may be different but God does not work like that
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God is not confined or restrained by your experience
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I cannot interpret and define God according to my experience, your experience, Paul's experience, Job's experience
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Cannot because he defines himself and he says I can't swear by anyone else
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Any questions before we go on?
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And if you have any questions may it not start with a but because I've already rebutted the but
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Any questions? This is who God is guys how can you argue? How can you argue if God says this is who he is how can you argue?
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I have reasons to argue you know how my dad died I should be arguing I don't because I know who God is and my dad will have to be secondary to who God is
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My dad's experience defining the God of the universe, am I nuts?
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Guys here's a statement that may not sit well with us and that's always okay in this church
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When you believe if it is God's will that I be healed could it be I'm just being diplomatic let me change the way I phrase that
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When you believe if it is God's will that I be healed could it be I'm just being diplomatic let me change the way I phrase that
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When you believe if it is God's will that I be healed may I suggest to you that you're operating out of a state of unbelief
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When you believe that if it is God's will I will be healed
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When you believe that if it is God's will I will be healed then may I suggest to you strongly that you are operating in a state of unbelief
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We live out of three stages guys, we live out of experience, we live out of sovereignty or we live out of the knowledge of God
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We live out of experience, we live out of sovereignty or we live out of the knowledge of God
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What's living out of experience? My experience defines what God says, how He will do and what will happen
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What's living out of sovereignty? I live out of this place where my thought is if God will, He will, if He doesn't, He won't
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That's not a wrong place but it's an incomplete, a very incomplete place
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complete place. And then there's a third place I live out of which is the
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knowledge of God where I know who he is and what he's going to do based simply
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on what he speaks and says and has repeated again and again and again and
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again and again. So I would suggest to you again strongly that if when you
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believe if it is God's will I will be healed you're operating in a state of
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unbelief already. Mark 9 23 you should read it in the message listen to this
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don't turn there mark 9 23 Jesus said if there are no ifs among believers all
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things are possible for one who believes can you believe that he said it then I
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know in the other versions it says it differently in the message it puts it
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this way mark 9 23 Jesus said if there are no ifs among believers what a what
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a crazy statement to make that there are no ifs among believers what's he trying
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to say that listen if you know me you will say I know or I don't know you will
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not use if I just quoted mark 9 23 I understand it's from the message so some
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of us may find it difficult to accept that as scriptural truth well then go to
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whichever version and it still carries the same intent if there are no ifs
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among believers all things are possible for one who believes. So when I get sick
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one of the things I do is I I first see what I need to see about my sickness but
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not not in terms of oh how sick am I but I first try to examine okay Jika what
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do you see about your sickness in terms of God and then I mean then I start
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literally repeating or speaking what I believe of God as a healer because I
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need to see God as who he is in my sickness I need to see it okay let me
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give you an example yesterday morning which seemed so far away right now
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yesterday morning because of getting this really heavy carry on that I was
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carrying the wrong way my arm got twisted like this and I couldn't move
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this arm so for the next five hours in Frankfurt I was holding this arm
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carefully not leaning against I couldn't even button my shirt together
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because any pain any strength here would begin to bother my arm and I don't know
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what got pinched or what didn't get pinched or whatever happened so I'm
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holding it gingerly and I'm already thinking but you've got to play the
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guitar and the strap is on your shoulder so how you're going to do that for
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and that is my natural way of thinking because 24 hours prior to playing the
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guitar I'm already planning what I won't be able to do I'm beginning to see
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things about my sickness that have nothing to do with God in the equation
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because that didn't occur to me so I'm already thinking of oh shucks Chris
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won't be there to play the piano perhaps Jason can play the guitar and I can sing
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and Marcus can drum so already my mind is thinking of eventualities and I'm
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trying to make adjustments and God is not in the equation and then at some
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point I realized what I'm doing and I'm thinking to myself I might need help
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after I put my suitcase up I might have to ask some good-looking guy not good
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looking like a good-looking strong guy to get my suitcase of the thing I'm
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making plans already and then I had to stop and by now I'm in the aircraft I've
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somehow managed to put the suitcase up with my left arm and now I'm sitting
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there and I'm beginning to talk looking out of the window and I'm beginning to
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talk and what am I saying father let me tell you who I think you are I started
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saying who he is you're this amazingly compassionate God who really knows the
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pain I'm going through and who knows what to do you're the same God who for
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the last 25 years has been healing me oh isn't your name Yahweh Rafa got my
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healer brutally striped you were right Jesus brutally striped overpaid for my
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healing didn't you spirit of God you're just waiting to do something right fix
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my arm up fix my shoulder up and I now am beginning to see the finished work of
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who Christ is and what he has done for me and has the did the pain go away no
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it didn't it was still there and so I rested and then I'd go and check it out
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and I'd say father but it's still there and then again see who he is woke up
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this morning and I'm thinking to myself as usual Abba you've done it again it's
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gone it started going yesterday but this morning I didn't even feel it but what
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I'm trying to say is guys got to see the finished work because sometimes you
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don't get what you pray for you get what you believe you've received sometimes
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it's not what you're praying for it's what you already believe of him that you
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receive let me say that again it's what you believe of him that you receive it's
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what you believe of him that you receive it's not necessarily what you pray for
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it's what you believe of him that you receive
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if they believe in God without necessarily attaching it to an idol
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because man knows that God is present God still is a rewarder of anyone who
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shows faith God still is a rewarder of anyone who shows faith oh yeah when it
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comes to faith guys remember faith works for the unbeliever and believer and
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works regarding anything you believe people have faith in the devil people
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have Christians have faith for things not to work out let me say that again
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Christians have faith for things to work out bad
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I know I've told this to you before but I remember a time in in 1996 to 95 to 97
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I had faith that if I went out witnessing on the streets and giving out
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tracks and talking to speak people in East Hastings that when I come back
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something would happen to my car because it happened two or three times and so I
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expected that every time and every time I came it'd be towed or there'd be a
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parking ticket or something would be wrong I had faith for it man that's
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something wrong will happen faith is this odd thing that you can put in
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anything and surprisingly it has the capacity to bear fruit why because it's
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a substance of things unseen meaning it's a proof or the evidence of things
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that you're hoping for haven't seen yet but you already believe for I'm not
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saying prayer doesn't work even I mean hundreds of times man God has answered
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prayer in my life just because he was compassionate kind merciful good and
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then there are other times when he says hey you've grown up far too much now to
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go on that thing of father if you will do it do it please no no no get to know
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what I want now believe who I am so that you may receive from what I am
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Mark 11 23 because you do not doubt
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Mark 11 23 or thereabouts because you do not doubt because you do not doubt in
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your heart but believe that what you say
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will come to pass it will be done for you split it up this way so because you
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do not doubt doubt is hesitation two minds about something I got to fight
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this so often man I'm not talking about sickness now I'm talking about anything
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lack of confidence in God happens to me so many times where I see a situation
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and immediately the first thing that comes up is two minds lack of confidence
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in God hesitation that's the first thing that grabs me because you do not doubt
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and every time it grabs you again you go back to seeing who God is in that
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situation so Jacob isn't this tiring it can be if you don't enjoy it can be if
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you don't enjoy it otherwise didn't matter how many times I was sitting at
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Calgary and didn't matter how many times the internet would go on I'd go back
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open the browser click on the NHL Network go back to the game watching the
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Pittsburgh Penguins play the Canucks yesterday didn't matter how many times
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I had to do it kept doing it again and again why because I enjoy it guys what
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is your ultimate aim here on earth to reveal the father and reveal the father's
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business to reveal the father and reveal the father's business don't you want to
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become that does that become does that happen by case or asara no yep because
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you do not doubt every time go back when doubt happens in your heart hot how do
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you define heart Hebrews 412 defines heart as the place where the soul and
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spirit entwine Hebrews 412 and 13 I think or 12 to 16 thereabouts you'll find it
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doubt in my that place between between the soul that place of the soul and
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spirit my spirit knows it's my soul that begins to doubt but believe believe as
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in what as in rely on as in be confident on off as in be persuaded about
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to be persuaded about to be confident off to be relying on that what you say
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that what you say rely on confident persuaded about and confident off that
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what you say based on the word a not based on whatever you want based on the
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premise of the word or premise of the Rema be Rema or logos that what you say
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will come to pass as it will come to actually happen it will be done for you
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who made the statement Jesus can we take it at face value that's our choice
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yeah yeah your words bore you into salvation guys in a sense of speaking
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this is what Jesus said embrace it embrace it you do not have a choice you
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chose to become a Christian you were born again to live the life of another
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embrace this good James
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okay so that's one that's two that's three yeah you're right and then
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sometimes things take time but delay is not denial
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delay is not denial
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guys why do we find it so easy to believe and agree with facts why do we
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find it so easy to believe and agree with the devil's lies instead of God
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because usually we deal with the intensity of most circumstances first
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with our emotions only then with our spirit and the will why do we find it
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easy to believe the facts and not God why do we find it easy to believe the
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devil's lies and not God almost always because I meet most circumstances and
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the intensity of circumstances I meet them I encounter them first with my
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emotions and they begin to ravage me not with my spirit and my will faith the
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vehicle of faith is my will that is what I need to meet in that media that
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unfortunately because I've grown up in this world and I don't train myself I
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still end up meeting things with my emotions first so I have tons of
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feelings washing over me and then now I have to try and exert faith I must
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begin to learn how not to work that way in certain areas it seems like it's
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beginning to happen in other areas still the first thing that hits me is
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confusion fear absolute loss of where I'm at and that's that's how my initial
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reaction is got to change my initial reaction to things
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faith is given by God and we did a teaching on faith in 2012 where we talked
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about five different kinds of faith but there was saving faith there was living
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faith there was a gift of faith and two others and so sorry okay so faith is
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given by God but I need to now develop it and exert it and faith that is not
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developed because faith comes by hearing God so as I grow in hearing God as in
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not just hearing what he's saying but hearing the word faith comes by hearing
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and hearing the word as I increase in my knowledge of God faith increases it's
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like a plant where does the plant start in a seed the seed is in me now I have
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to water it with the word water it through doing the word and as it grows
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faith increases this is why Jesus would say to some oh you of great faith and to
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others oh you of little faith so there is there is dimension to faith even
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though all of us receive the same amount of faith to start with
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go ahead yeah yeah more than seeing it as a process the way I see it and which
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I believe is the biblical way to see it is I know that faith I know that healing
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has immediacy and patience combined so that I can inherit the promise Hebrew
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says that faith is in that the promise is inherited through faith and patience
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just listen to that the promise is inherited through faith and patience
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which means on one hand there is a thing called faith which is believing that you
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have already received it which is immediacy and patience as in knowing that
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it shall come to pass and so I combine both so even when this was painting I
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expect the pain to go away immediately but when it wouldn't go I would
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immediately say father it's still there about I just tried it it's still there
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but I combined both and have always seen it work but I call it a process what
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happens is sometimes I'm willing to allow a postponement till eternity
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sometimes or at least for a few days I begin to take as normal that which is
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not natural but isn't sickness natural no sickness is an enemy it is not
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natural do we undergo it absolutely why because we live in a fallen world is
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that the will of God for us was never was part of the reason why Jesus got
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striped aren't plenty of Christians dying of sicknesses absolutely so what
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does that mean it means that plenty of Christians are dying of sicknesses what
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does it change about God not an iota why because he said so but who did he
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swear in whose name did he swear he cannot swear in anyone else's name so he
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just says it plainly
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yep no go ahead
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no worries Jim bill when you think of it just just say it again to say it again
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when whenever
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yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah we have the audacity to we have the audacity to believe that
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the horrible sins we have committed are washed away by the blood of Jesus we
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have the audacity to believe that some of the things that done I haven't even
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said to people even today because I am shocked by what I did and I'm a guy who
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confesses a lot and yet I haven't I mean publicly if I have the audacity to
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believe that those things could be taken away then he did bear this thing too
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nice yeah who forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases
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yeah for some strange reason we find it easier to believe and one of the
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reasons we believe that our sins are easily forgiven is because sins in the
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past are invisible and God is invisible and it's okay to go invisible to
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invisible but when it comes to sickness it's a very present physical sometimes
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visible reality and then to make that go away by an invisible God we haven't
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seen yet ah that sometimes is difficult and we are surrounded by it guys we are
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surrounded by it and becomes very hard guys so even though it may look like
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Jacob you're being so true but that's to destroy the other part of the audio
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visual world we live in which goes like this too so don't think God doesn't see
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your effort and that he's upset no no no no he's not like he said blessed are
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they who will believe in me even though they don't see me that is nuts man that
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you believe in an invisible God blessed are they as in happy and envious are
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they little bit of faith that you show thrills him he's a rewarder of those
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that diligently seek him and you have been for years through through difficult
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circumstances you've been seeking him continuously you think he's not pleased
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what I'm saying is let's become like Jesus that is why this extreme view has
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to be adopted because we are taking we were heading to an extreme position
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let's become like Jesus okay delay is not denial meaning so yesterday when the
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pain didn't go away immediately it doesn't mean that God is saying okay I'm
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reneging on my word what it means is Jacob and God didn't say this word delay
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is not denial I begin to think knowing that immediacy and patience collide and
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out of it will come good things so when something is delayed I don't now assume
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that God is not in it why because I know what God has said I know the premise of
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the promise and I do not now begin to move away from it and I know that
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because it's being delayed may not even be a lack of faith but I do question
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always why didn't it happen immediately
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it could be denial and if it is I want to go and check why when I'm standing on
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a promise that I know is in the word of God I I'll always question when things
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don't happen immediately I'll always question and I come question question
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God I you know guys when you get to know his character you can question him
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without being argumentative defiant hostile angry or a lawyer yeah though
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the fig tree shall not blossom though there be no olives in the stall though
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there be no cattle in the herds and though the trees have dropped their
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fruit yet I will rejoice in the Lord my God and I will do cartwheels of joy as I
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wait for him
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there was a time in my life where arguments would be hostile and I'd have
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to after I finish arguing with God I'll have to spend the next two hours
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apologizing thanking God that he didn't burn me to a cinder but now we come from
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a place but because we know his nature argument or reasoning or questioning
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never comes from a place of hostility anger or suspicion of his character I
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love what Jeremiah says in Jeremiah 15 or 19 I know I've said this before
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Jeremiah says to God you are a deceptive brook you are a deceptive brook and how
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does God respond saying Jeremiah if you don't stop separating the vile and the
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nonsensical from that which is pure and holy and if you don't stop that tone of
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suspicion and distrust that you're leveling against me this is the
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amplified if you don't stop this then I will stop using you as my mouthpiece
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yeah oh yeah
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yeah
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yeah absolutely I I check myself if there's ever a tone of suspicion and
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distrust in my questioning with God good Matt
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yeah
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the power in the beginning of a certain dominion over the earth and a flesh and a dastard.
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We should speak for a flesh just like we even say, oh my soul, talk to your soul,
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talk to your flesh, you repeat the symptoms, instead of crying God, he's healing and healing.
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It means like I've given you the power to have dominion and serve the faith
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that you're supposed to have dominion over the planet and the animal.
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Come running and give me a five because if I come there the mic will begin to echo.
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Good for you man.
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We see him best when we are single minded in our will about his goodness.
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We see him best.
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We see him best.
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We see him best when...
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Same thing. Thanks man.
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We see him best when we are single minded...
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When we are single minded in our will about his goodness.
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We see him best when...
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I see him best when I'm single minded in my will about his goodness,
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in my knowing about his goodness.
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This time when I was traveling...
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When I...
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This happened on the 9th or 10th and suddenly I started writing this and I'm just reading it out to you.
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Here's what I wrote, father I stand under your unadulterated goodness.
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I've never used those words before, unadulterated goodness, meaning there is not a shred of anything but pure, pure goodness.
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Father I stand under your unadulterated goodness.
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And what does your unadulterated goodness look like?
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It is full with sun remembering love.
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So what does his unadulterated goodness look like?
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It's filled with sun remembering love.
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Which sun? This sun. This Jacob.
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His unadulterated goodness is full with sun remembering love.
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Always present before him.
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I cannot forget you. I've got your name inscribed on my palm.
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A mother may forget a child but how can I forget you?
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Sun loving goodness. Unforgetting kindness.
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We read in Ephesians 2 I think that God uses the vehicle of kindness to express any and everything about himself.
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We forget this. God uses the vehicle of kindness to convey any and everything including discipline.
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It comes through kindness.
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Unforgetting kindness to me.
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This is what goodness is.
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Come walk here again compassion.
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I've blown it a hundred times. Come walk here again compassion.
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Come walk here again compassion.
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How many times does he have to say it on some days?
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30, 40 times? Come walk here again compassion.
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Can't swear by anyone else faithfulness.
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Can't swear by anyone else faithfulness.
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I can't swear by anyone else faithfulness.
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Way opening I go with you sun favor.
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Way opening I go with you sun favor.
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Way opening I go with you sun favor.
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Way opening I go with you sun favor.
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See what I'm doing closeness.
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See what I'm doing closeness.
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As in hey you're so close to me Jacob and I so dearly love you as I love Jesus my son as in John 5, 19, 20, 21 and 31.
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The kind of closeness I have with you is see what I'm doing closeness so that you can also do the same.
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Piercing light purity.
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Piercing light purity.
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That's what I've bestowed on you son.
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That's the unadulterated goodness I have.
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All things are possible Christ life.
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All things are possible Christ life.
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The life not of Jesus of Nazareth but the life of the risen Christ.
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All things are possible Christ life.
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Person of the spirit power.
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The person of the spirit power.
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Same spirit of God who hovered over the earth in Genesis 1.
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The person of the spirit power.
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This is what you give me father.
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And then when I look at all of this it's a small thing that I come and trust you with my life.
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It's a very small thing.
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It's kind of becomes easy when I think of your unadulterated goodness every morning.
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Me coming and giving you my willingness to trust you with my life.
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Come on.
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I'll have to be dumb not to.
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Yeah, so sometimes you can carry them on your back.
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Sometimes they don't need any faith.
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And then there are some times where no your faith will carry them.
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They're believing for something else.
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There's nothing you can do because Jesus was limited by unbelief.
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Therefore my prayers for you can be limited by your unbelief or by a deferring belief.
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Mark chapter 6 verse 9.
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Mark chapter 8 verse 23.
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In both places you'll see that Jesus was limited by unbelief.
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Mark 6,9 sorry, Mark 6,6 and Mark 9,24.
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Both have instances and I think 8,23 or thereabouts.
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All have instances where Jesus was limited by the environment of unbelief around him.
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And since Jesus was as helpless as me and had to depend on the Holy Spirit.
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Now when I'm praying for a situation I am limited by an environment of unbelief.
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Yes.
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Good, yeah, yeah.
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So one of the things I'd love to do is go and visit him and talk to him about it.
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So that we can all come into agreement.
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Let me give you the situation with Renita.
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When Renita, we had that night prayer where Maurice and Renita came and we all prayed for Renita's situation.
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And what I did first was ask Renita what her expectations were.
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Because only after that did we put it up on the board and after that did we pray.
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So yes, that is the way to go about it.
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It's just that it's more time consuming so we prefer not to.
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But I remember calling her, asking her what are your expectations?
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What do you want to see done?
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And she even had questions like should I take medicines or should I not?
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And I said I can't answer that for you.
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But whatever you expect and desire, that is what the church can now begin to come into agreement with.
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So one of the things that will happen is I know what Marcus is expecting.
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But we will base it on the premise of the word.
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Because he was thrilled when they checked and saw nothing.
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And that was what he expected.
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And now this happens.
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So let's see how this one works.
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I know what happened with Eddie.
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And the reason I shared that loudly in front of you and with Marcus is to show the possibilities that exist.
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Eddie went in and they opened him up 90% blockages and they couldn't find the blockages.
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They opened his heart.
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They didn't have, he had open heart.
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He didn't have open heart surgery.
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So we need to be careful when we use that verse, pray for one another.
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Because Mrs. Smith who is 110 years old, prays for the healing.
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Maybe she prays for the healing for us.
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So we better go ask her.
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And therein is the aspect of hearing.
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Because Mrs. Smith at 110 may not know.
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But there have been occasions when I haven't gone and prayed for people because I know they would die in a couple of days and they did.
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And in one case the person thought it was cruel.
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But therein lay the truth.
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Yeah. So yes, it's important to know.
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Otherwise my prayer can be limited or your prayer for me can be limited by the environment of unbelief that I'm operating in.
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Yeah.
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But sometimes we so badly wish things for people that we want to see it come to pass.
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Sorry, go ahead.
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Yeah.
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So if I pray for someone, maybe they ask for something and they don't come and ask.
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They're going to see a need.
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Yeah.
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So it's talked about in the verse.
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So on a Monday night prayer here, we put down the requests on the board.
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And after that, these are requests that have been sent from different parts of the world sometimes.
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And so now what we have to do is we can't get in touch with the person.
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So we begin to ask God, Father, how do you want us to pray?
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And it's based on how he tells us to pray that we pray and we can't go beyond.
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We can't go less.
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We've got to pray according to what he's shown because at the end of the day, he's the one who moves.
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We got to hear.
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That's what happens.
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And so I believe that's the only legitimate way to do it.
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Hear and pray.
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That's how Jesus operated.
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Derek, do you have a question?
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Or it is just a lifting of hands.
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Lifting of hands.
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Okay.
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Guys, your faith or the lack of it will speak.
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Your faith or the lack of it speaks.
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Your faith or the lack of it speaks.
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And therefore it has the power to introduce into a situation life or decay.
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Your faith or the lack of it or my faith and the lack of it will speak.
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And because of that, it will introduce into situations either life or decay.
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And I find that sometimes when I first speak, when a situation confronts me, I seem to still speak decay into a situation because faith comes a little later.
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I want to stop that.
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I want the first words that come out of my mouth to be words that have in it life in every situation.
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The problem though is this faith movement, what it did is it started, it coaxed people to say things, confess things.
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But the problem with that was most people were saying things not because they believed it, but because by saying it they wanted to generate faith.
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So you need to ask yourself, when you say stuff, is it because you've heard it from God, you've read it of God, and you believe it?
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Or are you saying it to the people?
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So people say, I plead the blood, I plead the blood, I plead the blood, sickness is gone, sickness is gone, sickness is gone.
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Now it becomes a mantra that you're using to generate faith.
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While that is not evil, it's not the way God operates.
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God didn't practice, let there be light, let there be light, let there be light, let there be light.
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Okay, I'm ready now Knights, let there be light.
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And boom, it happened.
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No, no, no, no.
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He was absolutely convinced that when he says let there be light, let there be light, let there be light, let there be light.
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I'm absolutely convinced that when he says let there be light, there will be light.
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Am I convinced when I speak things that my absolute belief is it is from the word of God, this is God's nature, and therefore I speak it, and it shall bring life.
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Because to use confession and saying as a method to generate faith while not evil is not perfect God.
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And what are we aiming for, to be like Jesus?
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So let the actual work happen here and here, so that the words that come out of my mouth are words of life that come from the life giver who lives in me.
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The first step would be to know him through, I'm never able to dramatically wave my Bible when I want to make statements.
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The first thing to do is to know him through this.
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Yeah, no, I absolutely understood your question and I'm deliberately doing this because it is almost impossible to understand his will through hearing without a knowledge of this.
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That can happen for a while, but after a while God will say, listen, I'm going to tell you something.
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I'm going to tell you something.
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So this is what I know him from and then it makes it easier to recognize whether what he's saying is from God or not from God.
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What I'm hearing is from God or not from God.
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So this is where I start, and then I need to find out what he's saying and what he's saying.
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And then I need to find out what he's saying.
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easier to recognize whether what he's saying is from God or not from God.
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What I'm hearing is from God or not from God. So this is where I start
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and from here on I continue.
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Do you know that the woman with the issue of blood said that she would be
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healed
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when she touched Jesus' clothes? Till recently I didn't know that. I thought she
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just touched him
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and she got healed. But in Mark 5.28 it says, as she was going towards him she
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said
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if I touch him I will be healed.
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She was, pardon? Yeah.
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And the beautiful thing is she believed it man. She spoke it.
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That's what I meant by she wasn't saying if I touch him I will be healed. If I touch him I will be healed.
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It wasn't generating faith. It was a statement of faith.
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Saying guys
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is a little, saying carries two elements in it.
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Saying is, saying involves both
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authority and faith. Saying is commanding something in the immediate.
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Saying involves authority and faith. Faith comes by knowing the nature of God.
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Authority comes by being submitted to the nature of God.
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This is so important guys. I hope we get it today.
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Saying something involves, I'm not talking about confessing now.
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Jacob isn't that too fine a line when you divide confessing and saying? Perhaps.
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But let's go with it. Saying involves both authority
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and faith. Now faith comes by knowing the nature of God.
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Authority comes by submitting to the nature of God.
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That's why you have people who have faith
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but don't have authority. Because to exert authority I have to be under
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authority.
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The Centurion story. Therefore faith comes by knowing the nature of God.
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But authority comes by submitting to the nature of God
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and the order that God has established here on earth. Let me repeat again. This is
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so important that we get this. Faith
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comes by knowing the nature of God. Authority comes
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by submitting to the nature of God and the order that God has established on earth.
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This is one you have both combining and now you have people who are behaving
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like Jesus.
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That's how it,
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that's how both collide. Faith comes by knowing the nature of God.
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Authority comes by submitting to the nature of God and the order that God has
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established on earth.
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And those two combined.
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Do you see why sometimes demons don't flee?
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Why don't demons flee sometimes? You seem to be exerting faith.
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You know the nature of God. You know God is the deliverer.
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You know God is someone who has tremendous power. So how come when I'm
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exerting faith,
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demons are not being cast out? One of the reasons is perhaps I know the nature of
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God,
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but I'm not submitted to the nature of God nor to the order of God here on earth.
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And the demons know that I have faith, but they don't need to listen
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because Jacob is not submitted to the nature of God.
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So as I increase in my submission to the nature of God and the order of God, and
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what do I mean by the order of God? Order of God on earth is established
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through people. When I'm not submitted to the order of God,
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problem over. Sometimes it sounds silly,
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silly. There's order of God, but there is order.
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And I'll try my best to make sure that we walk in order here.
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And if it grates you and puts you off,
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leave. Because it's
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wiser to be submitted to the order of God than to stay
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in a place in rebellion because it'll cause problems anyways.
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Questions? Comments? Okay.
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It's only 11.30 guys. It seems long, but it's not. Actually it doesn't seem long.
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It seems very nice. Guys, when I'm in a crisis,
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my strengths, my relationship with God, my doubts, my defaults,
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and my relationship with others is brought to the surface.
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When I'm in a crisis, it doesn't increase my faith necessarily.
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It only reveals where I'm at. When I'm in a crisis, my strengths,
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my relationship with God, my doubts, and defaults in terms of how I think,
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and my relationship with others is brought to the surface.
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One of the strange things that happened when Marcus fell outside was
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I was highly aware of everything that was happening around me.
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I was so aware of almost everybody. And I was also aware of what I was doing.
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And I saw some glaring faults in the way I did things,
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and I was talking to Lorian about it this morning.
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But that aside, I also saw everyone reacting a certain way.
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And may I suggest to you that, like I said two Sundays ago,
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some of the ways you responded were great.
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But one of the things I did afterwards to go examine,
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what is it that I saw in myself that perhaps can improve?
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What is my reaction when I saw Marcus there?
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How long did I take to kick into supernatural gear?
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What was my first natural response? How did I behave thereafter?
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What was my response to Ryan and Lorian?
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And strangely enough, I was highly aware of all that you were doing.
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I looked inside the church and I could see what you were doing inside the church.
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And it's a good opportunity to examine and change anything that we need to
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because the crisis reveals these mindsets,
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our relationship with God and our relationship with each other.
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Guys, when you're in a crisis, quickly put the crisis against the backdrop of God.
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Quickly put the crisis against the backdrop of God.
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And sometimes it may allow you to bypass the whole battle.
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When you're in a crisis, quickly put the crisis against the backdrop of God.
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Because what we normally do is we juxtapose our crisis,
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and juxtapose is not a fancy word, it means just putting it against the background of.
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We juxtapose our crisis next to worst-case scenarios,
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our own ability,
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what the enemy, what the devil may do,
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other people's experience.
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So when a crisis comes our way,
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what we do is we immediately place our crisis against the backdrop of these four things,
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when we should be placing it against the backdrop of God.
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So what we do is as soon as a crisis happens,
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the first thing we think is what's the worst that can happen?
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The second thing we do is we see, okay, what can I do to fix this?
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The third thing we do is what is the devil trying to do?
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And the fourth thing to do is what did Elmer do when this happened to him?
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Or what happened to Elmer when this happened to him?
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These are the four scenarios that we usually use to think about.
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And all four are not helpful.
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Because the worst-case scenario immediately tells you,
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okay, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen,
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so that's the worst that can happen.
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Now anything better is, praise the Lord.
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No, the second thing is our ability.
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How can I crisis manage this?
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Third is what is the devil trying to do?
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The devil is trying to do what?
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He's trying to do what?
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He's trying to do what?
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He's trying to do what?
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He's trying to do what?
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Third is what is the devil trying to do?
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Where is he going to attack from?
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Which brings more fear.
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And the fourth is other people's experience, which is never helpful.
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You would?
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Okay, that's a very good experience.
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I'm talking about the negative experiences.
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Yeah.
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Oh, by the way, for those who need clarification,
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when Diana said Elmer stabbed himself, she actually meant exactly that.
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So, guys, this is not the way to go, eh?
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On Wednesday night, no, on Monday night, on Monday night,
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I come back from the airport, and I land in this airport called Chennai,
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and I'm at a friend's house, and my wallet's missing.
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And I know I pulled it out two minutes before the plane landed
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to pay for a duty-free thing on the flight, and I'm sure it's in the plane.
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I keep my wallet in my front pocket, so I'm always aware of it.
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And I was so glad that this was not how I operated.
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This came in at a moment, the worst-case scenario did kick in.
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Where I thought to myself, okay, I got my American Express, this and that,
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so what does that mean when I go to this hotel, and how do I pay?
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This did kick in after a while, but initially this wasn't my reaction.
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I remember calling someone and asking them to pray,
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and this person had lost something and had found it too,
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and I was sure that they would start praying.
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And so crazy man called up the airport, called up different places to try
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and find out that's the second time I've ever been to a hotel.
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I went to different places to try and find out that's the second our own ability,
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but thank God the first reaction was, Father, you know where it is, can you locate it?
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And I find it after an hour of absolute calmness,
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and everybody else in that house was calm to knowing that God will make it happen.
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Found it in a place that's impossible to find.
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This is when Diana will ask where, and I might say I'll tell you next week.
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Found it in a place where it's impossible for that wallet to be.
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Now you might say, no, no, you must have just kept it there.
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No man, I'm beginning to believe more and more in a supernatural God
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who makes things turn up impossibly through teleportation.
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Only it's called, what's the word when the guy appears in Asotus?
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Remember he was in, it was not translation, was it?
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Yeah, he got translated, yeah.
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I'm believing more and more in a God who is supernatural,
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and I'm trying to step back from always trying to diminish what God does
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through some reasonable explanation.
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I don't want to go to the other end either, where every time you smell something you say it's God.
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That's ridiculous too, sometimes it's just a bottle of perfume that tilted over.
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It wasn't God, it was just perfume.
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But the point is at the same time I don't want to diminish what he's doing
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by coming up with a reasonable explanation.
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We are so lodged in this thing called reasonable explanation.
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You've heard that drowning thing, right, the Egyptians?
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No? Some famous scientist said that there was only two feet of water in the Red Sea
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and that's why their slides crossed over.
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Very reasonable explanation, until some Bible scholar said
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God must have done something amazing when he drowned a whole army in two feet of water too.
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So there's always this reasonable explanation thing.
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Let me conclude.
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Yeah, I might bring the actual demo unit and show you.
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Because otherwise you won't be able to imagine where I found it.
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Yeah, the wallet is here.
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But, yeah.
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So guys, fear is my heart's response when I come into agreement
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with the intimidating suggestions of the devil.
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Hear this, huh? Fear is my heart's response when I come into agreement
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with the intimidating suggestions of the devil.
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And it only happens through my senses.
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My senses are used to see something, hear something, feel something, touch something, smell something
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and immediately come to the conclusion that this is going to happen.
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Fear is my heart's response when I come into agreement
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with the intimidating suggestions of the devil.
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Could you then rephrase it as fear then is faith in the devil?
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That sounds harsh. So if it's harsh, leave it alone. Go with the first line.
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Fear is my heart's response when I come into agreement with the intimidating suggestions of the devil.
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Next time you feel fear coming in, immediately spot where it's coming from the source.
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Why are you feeling afraid as you saw this? Who suggested it?
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It cannot be God, guys. Why? Because there is no fear in perfect love.
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Because whenever there's fear, it carries a sense of torment.
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Refuse intimidation, Jacob. Rise up.
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Don't accept things that God is not giving.
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But that's such an extreme position. We are trying to be like Jesus.
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Jesus is in extreme position.
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How about refusing sickness?
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We are part of the world. I understand.
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But how about trying to now not see sickness as the most natural thing that should happen to us?
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Why not even begin to think that way? What are you scared of?
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That when it happens, it will destroy your faith?
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Your faith is not built on sickness and healing. Your faith is built on Jesus. Christ.
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But that's such an extreme position. I'm beginning to get frightened of this church and what it stands for.
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It stands for what Jesus does and who Jesus said it was.
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This is not a faith movement church. This is not a name it, claim it church.
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But does it believe in things that Jesus stands on? Absolutely.
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Is that an extreme position? Yes, it is.
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We begin to start there. Does this mean that tomorrow, Jacob, for the rest of your life you will not fall sick?
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I would love to say that, but I'm not able to.
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Because actually, I'm not able to.
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Yet, I'm not able to.
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I'd love to stand here and say that's it. I'm absolutely convinced of it.
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Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
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So Jacob, how are people going to die?
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Or they'll die when their heart stops?
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Is that called a heart attack?
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I'm not a doctor so I won't be able to help you with that.
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It's just like when Elijah's heart stopped.
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So Elijah's heart didn't stop. He went away happy.
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Elijah's heart stopped. David's heart stopped.
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Don't even know how Moses went.
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All we know is Moses disappeared. Enoch disappeared. Elijah disappeared.
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I know this is an extreme position, but I can't be afraid of it.
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I said let's conclude, so let's conclude.
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Guys, please understand. Why are you saying all this, Jacob?
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Because guys, we give life to things that God has already established by believing it in our heart and spirit.
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We give life to things that God has already established by believing it in our heart and speaking it out.
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By me stepping away from speaking it out, I say yes to decay that is already prevalent.
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And I cannot afford to do that. For whose sake? For my sake? No, for our sake.
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How do we learn through things that are spoken that begin to change our thinking?
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What should be taught? That which the Word of God teaches.
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What does the Word of God teach? A God who called himself Yahweh Rafa.
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A God who says nothing is impossible.
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Finally, Romans 8 verse 11.
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It says the spirit gives life to my mortal body now and it raises me imperishable after death.
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That's not how it's worded. It says and the spirit of life will quicken your mortal body.
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What does it really mean there? It means that listen guys, after you die, the spirit of God will still quicken as in bring alive your mortal body in the sense of you getting a new body and immortality.
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That's one way of looking at it.
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But I would suggest to you that Romans 8 verse 11 is also saying that the spirit of God who now resides in this thing called the temple has the ability to quicken or to energize or to give life to this mortal body now and also to the mortal body.
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So to be, because you and I are believers now, filled with the Holy Spirit, because we are led by the Holy Spirit, expect two or three things.
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One, expect to live free of the fear. Expect to live free of fear.
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Expect to live free of fear. It's possible.
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I don't know whether I told you this, maybe I said it at the Bible study.
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About four or five months ago, I don't remember the time frame, I suddenly found that I was getting easily scared by noises that were big or noises that happened suddenly.
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And that's not that hasn't been something that I've had to deal with.
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And I suddenly found four or five occasions over a short period where something small would trigger out this in me.
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And initially I ignored it, but it came to a point where I felt that shucks, this is becoming like a habit.
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And so immediately went and started reading the Bible.
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And I started reading the Bible.
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And I started reading the Bible.
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And I started reading the Bible.
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And I started reading the Bible.
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And I started reading the Bible.
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And so immediately went and started reading how to be secure in God so that my thinking and my mind and my emotions and my biochemistry won't react that way to fear.
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Because I don't want to fall into a trap of cultivating different areas of phobia.
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The Spirit of God lives in me.
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He will quicken this mortal body, leave alone that he will help raise it imperishable after death.
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He will quicken this mortal body because I'm led by the Spirit.
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I am a carrier, a temple of the Spirit of God.
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That's who I am.
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And so it will cause me to have three things happen to me.
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I am someone who is able to live free of fear.
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And so are you.
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Continuously getting to that place.
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I am someone able to live as free as the Son of God himself.
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Free of the approval of men.
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Free of the disapproval of men.
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Free of the fear of the Father as someone who would do something wrong to me.
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Free of torment because love has now been perfected between the Father and me.
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Oh, how I long for that day when I can taste it even for 24 hours.
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I have not spent a single 24 hour period in my life where I have been as free as the Son of God.
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Free of the approval and disapproval of people.
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Free of what you'll think.
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Free of how what you say may affect me.
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Free of what you'll think.
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Free of how what you say may affect me.
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Free of the fear of the Father as someone who would do something wrong to me.
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These dark shades sometimes that I see in my relationship with God where I am still not absolutely convinced that there is no fear or torment in God's love for me and my relationship with him.
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Where this unadulterated goodness thing I talked about is the way I think always.
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Still not come to a 24 hour period in my life where I've thought that.
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And I've already lived 40 something years.
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I mean, I'm probably in the second half of my life and I still haven't lived like that.
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And it pains me.
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So live free of the fear.
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Live free of this.
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Live free as a son and live in surprising wholeness here on earth.
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Live in surprising wholeness here on earth.
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As in don't live in healing.
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Live in health.
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We talk about it.
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I don't even know what it means.
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We keep talking about a God who heals.
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But how about a God who kept a million people in the desert in health for 40 years?
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What about that God?
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Don't even know what that means.
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So much we don't know.
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So much we don't know.
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So we come up with these cute phrases.
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Let's not talk about healing.
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Let's talk about living in health.
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Don't know what it means.
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Here's a prophetic word for you guys.
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Dawn to dusk.
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My power is available.
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Nothing blocks it.
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No locust swarm can block my power.
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For it stands out as light.
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Straight.
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Steady.
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Far reaching into every nook.
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Intense.
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Penetrating.
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Burning.
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Healing.
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Let me read that again.
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Dawn to dusk.
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My power is available.
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Nothing blocks it.
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B-L-O-T-S.
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Nothing blocks it.
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No locust swarm can block my power.
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For it stands out as light.
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Straight.
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Steady.
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Far reaching into every nook.
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Intense.
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Penetrating.
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Burning.
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Healing.
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Do you need courage to face the impossible?
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Then be anchored in this promise that I will be with you.
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Do you need courage for the impossible, Jacob?
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Then be anchored in this promise that I speak.
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I will be with you.
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One last time.
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Dawn to dusk.
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My power is available.
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Nothing blocks it.
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No locust swarm can block my power.
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For it stands out as light.
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Steady.
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Straight.
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Far reaching into every nook.
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Intense.
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Penetrating.
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Burning.
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Healing.
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Do you need courage to face the impossible?
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Then be anchored, my son, my daughter, in this promise that I speak.
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My daughter, in this promise that I will be with you.
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It's a shame that words like I love you and I will be with you mean nothing to us anymore.
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There used to be a hymn, remember?
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No never alone, I promise never to leave you, never to leave you alone.
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It means nothing when we sing it.
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It's like no, never alone, and you're thinking how long is this gonna drag on?
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And yet it's the most oft-repeated words in the Bible.
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I will be with you.
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That should be a fear remover.
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Show the world guys that that great day that the world is waiting for has come.
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What great day?
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The rule and the reign of Christ.
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What do you mean show it?
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That the rule and the reign of Christ has broken into your life.
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That the rule and the reign of Christ has broken into your life.
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Will you lock your door before you come to church if the rule and the reign of Christ was living in your house?
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Would you?
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If Christ lived in your house, would you lock your door?
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If Christ lived in your house, would you have a medicine cabinet?
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If Christ lived in your house, that's the reason we haven't taken our insurance yet guys.
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Not taken insurance.
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Sorry, not put alarms.
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Had to take insurance for the first time in our life because the owner insisted that we take insurance.
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Never taken insurance over the last eight years.
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Got to trust God on these things.
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Extreme view, it's not practical, it's not reasonable.
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You're right.
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Scares the heck out of me on some days.
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Would you empty your medicine cabinet?
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Absolutely.
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Would you have fear if Jesus was walking with you 24x7?
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No, all I do is run behind Jesus every time something happens.
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Would you have fear if Jesus was walking with you 24x7?
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No, all I do is run behind Jesus every time something happens.
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Yes, he does.
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Thank God for doctors, man.
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Thank God for doctors.
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Yes, he does.
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Thank God for doctors, man.
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Thank God for doctors.
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Would you have a normal walking routine?
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Pardon?
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Perhaps if he turns his own walk and not his face?
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Absolutely.
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Would you have a natural way of doing that?
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Is that where Jesus says he's doing it?
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Yeah.
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Guys, I know I've said this before but here stands a man who for the last 25 years has never taken medicines or visited a doctor
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yet will drive you to a doctor the moment you want him to, whose brother-in-law is a doctor
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who thanks God for nurses in this church
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So there is a way to live that we can aspire for that we should practice. It is an extreme view but Jesus is extreme
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So if you have any questions about this feel free to come and ask me and I'll sit down one on one and give you everything
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There is a teaching I did in Vernon and it's called, And God was with him. It's from Acts 10.38
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Jesus went around delivering those who were harassed by the devil because God was with him
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And in that teaching we cover the whole gamut of this in its entirety. And I did it in Vernon and one day when the time is right we'll do it
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Guys, we are done. One of the things I want us to do is get ready for the next chapter