Sermon
Help My Unbelief - (9AM) 10.26.25 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)
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Spirit of wisdom, the understanding, Spirit of
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counsel, Spirit of might, Spirit of God.
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We need the fear of the Lord. We want the fear of the Lord.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Church podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the
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church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
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your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
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some tea, and get ready to receive.
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It's go time. Let's get into it.
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I will not be quiet about my victory.
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I don't know. I don't know about you.
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I don't know about you, but I was a loud Sinner.
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I was a loud Sinner. I was a boisterous Sinner.
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I had my drink in my hand and let everybody know I was drunk.
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I had my weed, my hand and let everybody know I was a loud
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Sinner. Any other loud sinners or we got
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or we got fake sinners in here like you was just thank you,
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thank you, my brother, thank you, thank you.
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We was bold about it. We was bold about it, but I
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would not be quiet about my freedom.
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So, so I told the I told the team in the back, I said, look,
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look at here. Sundays is a travel day for me.
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And what I mean by that is I didn't come here to do anything
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less, but encounter Jesus got a lot of Christians come every
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single Sunday and all we want to do is sit and we want to be
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educated. I I come when I look at the
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Bible, God is always moving glory to glory.
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And so today I came because it's a travel day.
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You know, Wednesdays we traveling, but we're, we're, we,
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we come to get fed in a different way.
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Wednesday is for the hungry and thirsty, the people who I've
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identified. I need as much bread as I can
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get. I need as much gathering as I
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can get. And so we come and we talk and
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we discuss and it's, it's a, it's a day for students and
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every day in the world is a student day.
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But Sunday's you got to understand what Sunday's is
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really made for. It's encounter time.
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It's you don't come here staring at me like I'm comfortable with
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you staring at me. I'm good.
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But you got to you. You some of you parents.
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You did so much to get here today.
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Don't come here to sit right. You better.
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You better leave here. Tank on, fool Father.
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We thank you today. Take us where you want to take
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us and leave behind what needs to be left behind.
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This is the day the Lord has made.
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We will rejoice and be glad in it.
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Can I just take like 25 seconds and just say a few things?
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I'm going to say the same thing, but it's a few things because
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every time I say it, something's going to shift.
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You could join me or not, or you could stare at me.
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That's totally fine. But I just want to take 25
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seconds and I just want to say the name of Jesus.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, my healer, Jesus, my Redeemer,
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Jesus, my waymaker, Jesus, my Lord, Jesus, my king, Jesus.
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Jesus, When the devil comes in, Jesus.
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When sickness come, Jesus. When funds are low, Jesus.
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When people acting up, Jesus. When family turn on me, Jesus.
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When my ways get dark, Jesus. When it don't go my way, Jesus.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can read that.
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Jesus, Jesus. Jesus.
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Jesus is the beginning. Jesus is the end.
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Jesus is the middle. Jesus is the process.
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Jesus is my progress. Jesus is there when I'm up.
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Jesus is there when I'm down. Jesus is there when I'm sick.
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Jesus is there when I'm well. Jesus is there when I'm happy.
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Jesus is there when I got a attitude.
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Jesus was there. When I was lost, Jesus is here
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when I'm proud. Jesus was there when I'm blind.
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Jesus is there. Now I see.
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Jesus is there in the dark. Jesus is there in the light.
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Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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It's all about Jesus. It's always been about Jesus.
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He is the Alpha, He is the Omega.
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He is the beginning. He is the end.
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Jesus. He is my start, He is my finish.
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Jesus. I came here today because of
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Jesus. I only, we made it here today
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because of Jesus. I'm going to walk out of here
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because of Jesus. I'm going to make it home
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because of Jesus. I'm going to fall and get back
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up because of Jesus. I'm going to make it through
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every trial that comes my way because of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus. And if that irritates anybody,
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let me say it again. Jesus.
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I'm here because of Jesus. I'm here to celebrate Jesus.
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I'm here to be consumed by Jesus.
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I'm here to leave like Jesus. I'm here to walk like Jesus,
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talk like Jesus, think like Jesus.
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I'm going from glory to glory because of Jesus.
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My marriage can turn around at any point because of Jesus.
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Yeah, I went from drunk to sober
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because of Jesus. I almost lost my mind, but I got
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my mind back and my mind is better than ever because of
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Jesus. My kids may have walked away,
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but they came back home because of Jesus.
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My uncle got sober because of Jesus.
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My Mama got saved because of Jesus.
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My grandma got healed because of Jesus.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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I came to encounter Jesus today. Jesus, Jesus Jesus.
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Jesus is the reason for every season, not just Christmas.
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Jesus is in my broke seasons, he's in my wealthy seasons.
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He is in my cloudy seasons. He's in my clear seasons.
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Jesus in the garage, Jesus in the cathedral.
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Jesus. Somebody shout out, Jesus, come
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on, lift your hands right where you are, Jesus.
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I, I got to encounter Jesus today.
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I'm after Jesus today. Is it?
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I'm, I'm happy to see y'all, but I'm, I'm, I, I if I see y'all,
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but I don't, I walk out without experiencing Jesus.
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I don't know. I want to see Danny and Jesus.
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I want to see, I want to see EJ and Jesus.
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I, I, I have to, we got to press on heaven.
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We, we got to put pressure on heaven, put pressure on heaven.
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Call the name of Jesus. And even if you don't see any
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change, I promise you, you can't say the name of Jesus without
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change happening. And if you call, if you call his
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name long enough, I promise you'll see the results of his
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name. Come on, just say Jesus 10 more
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times. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, shout out
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the name of Jesus. Come on, if you believe with me,
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give Jesus a big old round of applause and a shout.
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Come on, He's my savior. He's my deliverer.
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Jesus, you sit on the throne of my heart.
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Jesus, my first love, my way out of nowhere.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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The father instantly cried out. The father instantly cried out.
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It's beautiful. The father instantly cried out.
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I do believe. OK, shout that out.
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The father instantly cried out a little louder.
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The father instantly cried out. But help me overcome my
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unbelief. Are you with me today?
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At once there's an AM PC that was the NLTAMPC says.
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At once the father of the boy gave an eager, piercing,
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inarticulate cry with tears. You ever cry and shout to the
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point that nobody make out what you were saying?
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You was slobbing at the mouth. You was just ugly cry.
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And you didn't you? You didn't know it was
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inarticulate. It was piercing.
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There's different types of cries.
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There's cries like my ice cream fell there.
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There's cries like somebody walked out on me.
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And then there's cries like I, I just lost my child, right?
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Right. There's cries.
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This cry is a father who is so fed up with his son being
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tormented by the enemy. He cries out because he hears
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about a man named Jesus and he also hears about the power that
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is up on the people that walked with Jesus.
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He says Jesus, I believe shout that out one more time.
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This is very important. Constantly help my weakness of
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faith. Here's a confession and a
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prayer. Watch this.
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Today's message is help my unbelief.
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I know there's some people in here who think they got more
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faith than others, and in some areas you do.
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But watch this. 1000% of the people in this room has an area
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or areas in their lives where their faith is not as strong as
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it is in another area there. There's 1000% of the people in
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here. Let me tell you like this,
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there's areas in your life you just don't believe God in.
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There's some areas you like God. Take this and there's some areas
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you like God. I'll do it.
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And and if you cannot sit here today and realize that there are
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areas in your life you just have not believed God, rather that's
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with finances, rather that's with relationships, rather
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that's with leadership, rather that's with men you got daddy
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issues, women, you got Mama issues.
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Whatever it is, there is an area in your life that you have
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unbelief. Watch what he says.
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He says I believe but help my unbelief.
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That's a prayer. Instead of walking around like
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my faith just covers every area, If faith comes by hearing, then
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that lets me know that my faith is strongest where I hear the
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most. Watch me, watch me, watch me,
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watch me. I do believe.
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See if you're not careful where you experience doubt, you think
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you just a doubt her not realizing that I know how to
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have faith. I know how to believe because
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look at the I get on the airplane that I believe, don't
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know who's flying me, but I believe right I'm I might have
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some nerves going on, but I put my headphones on or I watch a
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movie. How many people hate getting on
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the plane where there's no entertainment?
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What you saying is you need some distraction.
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There's no Wi-Fi. That's why I like flying flair.
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There's no Wi-Fi. You going to make me go through
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all them checks, press my little bag through the face, you know
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ain't going to fit, and you ain't going to at least give me
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Wi-Fi, right? Right.
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But what you're saying is I need some distractions because I have
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doubt. Watch this, write it down.
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Stop replacing your doubt with distractions.
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Distractions never build faith. Distractions help you avoid the
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doubt you need to admit to so you can grow in the area of
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unbelief. Here's my 3 eights to the
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Grizzos. If you gonna grow, here's 3
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eights as you need #1 you need hunger.
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You need to painfully need to mature like it's not an option.
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I need the word I need to face this mountain, not just speak
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the mount to the mountain. I need to face the mountain.
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I need to hunger and thirst to grow like it has to be painfully
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necessary to grow in the area that I am weak right you got you
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got big biceps and your legs are puny.
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Stop skipping leg day. Your body is, is is is sinfully
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disproportionate. It it, it right, right it is.
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Come on, you, you, you. All you do is upper body.
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That's it. But realistically, what's
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holding pressure is not your biceps, it's your legs.
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Stop. Look at your neighbors, say stop
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skipping leg day. We see your calves.
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Number one, hunger #2 honesty, like, like get a couple people
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in your life that you can talk to and say I don't believe.
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Stop being around people that you got to have faith in areas
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you know you don't have faith when you ain't around them.
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You can sometimes you got to, you got here.
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Like sometime I come up here and I'm dealing with things in my
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life and I have to have faith to stand.
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Although while I'm telling you God can, I might be dealing with
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a little bit of doubt myself while I'm telling you God is on
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his way. I might be thinking, man, but is
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he on his way for my situation? But if I don't have these
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conversations on the side with a couple people in my life that I
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can trust with my unbelief. Some people you can't tell you
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don't believe because they're going to judge you.
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So you got to be honest about the areas that I don't believe
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and just say I got problems and I need help.
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Can you just practice with me? Say I got problems and I need
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help and #3 is you got to have humility.
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Here's humility. I'll remain hungry and honest in
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the process. Watch this.
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All he's saying is God, I believe, but there's some areas
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I'm just a mess. I don't got it all together.
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Or have I figured it out? Father help my unbelief.
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Come on, say Father, help my unbelief.
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He is saying, Lord, I can't deal with this no more.
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It's OK, you didn't say period. Some of us complain, period.
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God, I'm weak. OK, you got to be Anne.
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Help me right? What?
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Here it is. Watch this EJ.
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He is saying I want to believe, but he also understands what his
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believing is going to require of him.
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Some people won't ask God to help their faith because it
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requires. Some humility, it requires some
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honesty, it requires some accountability, it requires some
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valleys if you're going to grow in your face.
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So let's look at this. He says, help my unbelief.
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And as we read this in context, we will see that Jesus just
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comes off the mountain with a few of his boys, the mountain of
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Transfiguration. They just have this encounter,
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they have this powerful conversation about the coming of
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Elijah and they they see Jesus in a special way.
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Watch this. He comes out the mountain and he
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says, what is all this arguing about?
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Jesus asked. One of the men in the crowd
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spoke up and said, Teacher, I brought my son so you could heal
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him. This is why I say today, what is
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what is your I came to church, So what right I I read my
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devotion So what can happen? I got saved.
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So what? I brought my son so you could
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what heal him very specific. He didn't say I brought my son
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so you could bless him. I brought my son for
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breakthrough. No, no, no.
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So you can heal him. He is possessed by an evil
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spirit that won't let him talk, right?
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If the enemy can steal your voice, he could possess your
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life. Watch this.
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And whenever this spirit seizes him, it throws him violently to
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the ground. Then he foams at the mouth and
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grinds his teeth and becomes rigid.
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So I asked your disciples that that that could preach right
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there. The rigidity, the rigidity of
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religiosity. The rigidity.
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When the enemy gets a hold of you, we have to turn to
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religion. We have to turn to works alone.
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OK, He comes to him and says, I need my son free once and for
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all. Some of us need to have once and
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for all about our unbelief. So I asked your disciples to
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cast out the evil spirit, but they could not do it.
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They could argue, but they had no power.
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They, they, they knew how to complain, but they had no power.
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Watch this, Jesus said to them, You faithless people, how long
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must I be with you so you can put, so you can stop putting
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everything on Jesus? There are things he has anointed
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you to participate in. Yes, he's a healer, but can you
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lay hands on the sick? He's a deliverer, but can you go
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and cast out a demon? There are things he has called
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us to do that he has already done.
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How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you?
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Bring the boy to me. Say bring the boy to me.
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Bring the. Boy.
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To me, right? This is how we do sometime.
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Hey, you come to my church. It's powerful.
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No, that person needs you to be powerful on Tuesday because
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they're about to lose their mind.
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Hey, you got to meet my pastor. No, they got to meet you, right?
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You, you got to come to my church, man, we have such a good
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time. No, they need to have a good
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time with you at the coffee shop.
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Stop delaying power till Sunday and putting it off on somebody
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else. Somebody shout out.
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I'm anointed too watch this. So they brought the boy but but
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but when the evil spirit saw Jesus.
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When the evil spirit saw Jesus, it threw the child into a
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violent convulsion. This is so powerful.
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Jesus was upon the disciples but the evil spirits didn't notice
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it when they saw Jesus the enemy.
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Watch this when Jesus showed up, the little boy didn't get free.
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We're going to get to this in a little bit, OK?
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You wonder why the enemy begins to act out violently in your
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life, like when you you thought it was bad and now it's active,
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it's getting really bad. What, like, like stop being
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shocked when things aren't going your way because it just might
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be the enemy acting a fool or your flesh because revival has
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really landed. It may be.
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Look, look, the presence of the devil does not indicate the
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absence of Jesus. I don't know what you came to do
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on Sunday. I came to hear a word like that.
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So when hell breaks out, I don't got to wonder where Jesus is at.
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If I'm in the fiery furnace, I understand there's another one
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in there. There's another one in the fire.
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Because I'm in hell don't mean Jesus been to hell and back.
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So because I'm going through it does not mean Jesus is not
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present. So when chaos breaks out, I got
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to stop asking Jesus to come. The presence of evil does not
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indicate there's an absence of Jesus, he said.
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He fell to the ground, writhing and foaming at the mouth.
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Freedom, deliverance or revival? Watch.
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This is not often the immediate result of the presence of Jesus.
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Here's where a lot of us lose it because we like, well, if Jesus
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is present, then why this happened?
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I came that men might be saved. Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
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there is freedom. It doesn't mean you are free.
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Freedom is present. You got to step into it.
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There's a word in your mouth, but guess what you got to do?
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Open your mouth and speak the word.
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Ezekiel looked at the dry bones. Then bones would not have gotten
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up just because God was present. God said, Ezekiel, I need your
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mouth so these bones can live. So can I put my word in your
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mouth so your city can come to know me?
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Can I put my word in your mouth so your family can turn around
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and I put my word in your mouth and put my faith in your belly
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so we can see this child healed. See.
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It's freedom and deliverance. Revival.
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Hold on. There's something missing.
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Yeah, there's something. We're going to go back.
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OK, Because I'm reading some. Some.
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Same slides, but I had added some stuff that I can't miss.
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So you guys are blessed because I'm going to go back, but I'm
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going to finish this point then I'm going to go back.
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Chica BA, I got to go back all right, somebody say ah, there we
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go. We just that's just a reset.
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OK, there we go, here we go, here we go.
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You guys have the right slides. Watch this.
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So after help my unbelief. OK, watch the scripture.
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Then they said they asked him, what must we do to do the works
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God requires? What must we do to do, do to do
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right? We always want to do, to do.
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What must we do to do? Jesus answered the work of God.
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Is this to believe? The the reason why he woke you
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up this morning is to believe. I know, I know, it didn't go
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your way this week, but you made it through this week so you can
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what? Believe you.
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You know, I know you just had a hellish last few years, but
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guess what? You hear?
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You woke up, You still got family, you still got friends,
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you still got shelter, you still got something to eat.
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Why? So you can what?
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Believe? Watch this.
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Watch this. God has not forgotten your big
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request, but God is not going to skip your unbelief so that your
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faith can be in the promise. So what He's doing is taking you
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from faith to faith, glory to glory.
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Can you see that it was me that woke you up this morning?
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Can you see it was me that protected you while you were
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asleep? Can you see it was me that
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brought you from your house to the church?
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Can you? Can you be thankful for what I
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did today? He taught us how to pray.
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Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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Promise you that every step of belief is leading to the
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greatest breakthrough you've ever seen.
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Growing your faith takes baby steps, and God loves you too
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much to have your faith in a promise and not Him, he says.
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The reason I do this is because I desire you to believe in me.
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You think you think the promised land is so you can feel good.
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It's giants in the promised land.
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You think the mountaintop is so you can feel good.
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Watch what Numbers say, the Lord said to Moses.
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How long will these people treat me disrespectfully and reject
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me? And how long will they not
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believe? Watch this.
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How long will they not believe despite all the miraculous signs
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which I have performed, Can we just take 60 seconds and not
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give God a praise break? Can we just think on what He's
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done? Because sometimes you're giving
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Him a praise break and it's all emotional.
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It's not thoughtful. I guarantee you if you just
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start between yesterday, the last 24 hours and start counting
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them up, counting them up, counting them up.
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Watch this food on your table is a blessing.
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Ask somebody who don't got it. Now go ahead, take 60 seconds
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and count on your hands. I'm talking about count it all.
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Holy Spirit helpless. You can start with everything
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you're wearing too. Start with that toothpaste.
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Start with them eyes that it takes to see the screen.
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That car you got outside, I'm down to my last quarter tank.
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Well, guess what? You got a quarter tank.
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And you you can't. You probably can keep going.
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Got a job? Yeah.
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Don't pay as much as you want. Guess what, You got a job.
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Money come in and money go right out.
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Guess what? He's coming in.
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And guess what? It's a blessing.
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It's going out. Some people don't got no money
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to go out because it ain't coming in, he said.
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I do all these things so you can believe the hardest thing to do
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was to get you saved. The biggest miracle ever in your
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life has been done. Watch this.
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Somebody say, Father, help my unbelief.
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Watch this. The key to growing my faith on
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my belief is to recognize that my faith is imperfect, fragile,
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and incomplete. I do get faith fatigue, at least
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faith fatigue even in the things I have great faith for, my faith
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gets tired. It's why he says your faith is
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on trial. So while your faith is on trial,
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guess what? You need patience and let
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patients work. We'll, we'll unpack that one
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day, but let patients work even while faith is under arrest.
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I don't know if you've ever been on trial, but but but when you
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on trial, there's a lot of stuff that's undecided there.
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There's not much freedom you have when you on trial.
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So he says while your faith is on trial, let patience work.
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When when my faith is tied up and tired out, let patience
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work. Watch this.
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Can I hold on to the little bit until he comes and fixes the
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little of nothing? It'll be up there.
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You probably can't shout till you see it on the screen, but
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but next, please. Thank you.
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Can I hold on to the little bit until he comes and fixes the
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little of nothing? That's like faith forwardness.
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That's that's that's, that's that's I, I am going to hold on
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to my I'm not going to throw my little bit of faith out because
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there's an area I don't have no faith.
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So then we go, he says how long has this been happening?
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Jesus asked the boy's father. He replied since he was a little
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boy say that's a long time. Spirit often throws him into the
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fire or into circumstances or into the water trying to kill
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him. Come on, I'm going to tell
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somebody in here. Look the enemy you think you
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just strong and healthy. No, the enemy tried to kill you
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a bunch of times. If you had God's point of view,
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see this is what people you. This is where you get you
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allowing your faith to get arrested.
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If you understood how many times the enemy tried to kill you.
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Maybe I'm the only one like I know this is Canada, but maybe
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I'm the only person in here who almost lost my life or almost
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been in jail or or or or thought it was over or dealt with mental
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challenges. Or am I am I like the only one
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or, or I'm looking at I know it's a bunch of y'all young
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y'all ain't been through something.
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So I promise you right now, this is not a prophetic word.
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This is this is this is a fact. You going to go through some
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hell and then so I'm going to ask that question again in a few
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years and you're going to be on this altar saying yes, the enemy
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comes to do nothing else but to kill, steal and destroy.
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And the fact that I'm still here, I'm healthy, I'm I'm
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looking good, I'm vibrant. I got a family, I got a church
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home. I got a hope.
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I got to expect it in. Come on, somebody.
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He say have mercy on us and help us if you can, Jesus.
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Jesus screeches in his voice. What do you mean if I can?
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Boy, if I can, do you? Do you know who I am?
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If I can have you see, I love Jesus, He like if I can, this is
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what I do right? You better catch this.
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This is this miracle ain't happening because Jesus can't.
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Your breakthrough ain't came because Jesus can't.
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Maybe this is the question that you won't let go of and start
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acting like he did not. He can.
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He did right. I I by his stripes, I have been
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healed. Come on now.
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I have been set free. This ain't no even.
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No, no, no. I know he can, but I also know
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he did. The difference between he can
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and he did is huge. If he did, it impacts my
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actions. If he can, it keeps me waiting.
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Well, ain't you supposed to wait like.
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Yeah, you supposed to wait like he did.
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Can I help 5 people? You supposed to wait like he
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did? Like it's already done.
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Let me make it simple. If you are believing for
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healing, then guess how you supposed to act?
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By his stripes, I've been healed.
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So I might smile when I want to cry.
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I might laugh when I want to cuss you out.
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Because I believe it is already done.
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Come on, shout out. It's already done.
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Anything is possible. Watch this.
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You don't say anything is possible if he can.
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Anything is possible. If a person believes so you so
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so you just quickly see what's not being seen is one of the
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enemy's tactics is to get you in doubt.
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The father instantly cried out. I do believe, but help me
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overcome my unbelief, Lord, help me believe in every area is what
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he's asking. Watch this.
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I'm here to tell you, be not weary in the well doing of
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believing. Come on.
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Be not weary in the well doing of believing.
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Come on shout out I believe watch this belief belief comes
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by choice faith comes by hearing come on help me out today Lord
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see I just got smarter in 10 seconds.
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I just got to keep belief comes by choice, faith comes by
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hearing. Faith and belief is heads and
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tails. Same coin, but what makes the
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difference is. I choose to believe, come on
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somebody, but it's hard to have faith in the area I haven't
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heard today. You can watch this love believes
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the best, right? You don't get on this.
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This is the this is parental love.
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It don't matter what it looks like.
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It don't matter how they acting up.
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I believe it's going to turn around and because I believe
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it's going to turn around, let me have some faith.
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What is faith? It is the action of my belief.
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Watch this. I'm I believe I'm starving like
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Marvin. I'm starving but I can believe
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I'm starving. But at some point guess what?
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I better do some of y'all confused over there.
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If I'm starving at some point I better what?
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And if I don't eat, what's going to happen eventually?
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You going to starve? To what?
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Death. But I believed I was hungry,
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right? I believe God can.
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But guess what? Faith is me beating myself.
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I'm so sorry. I can't get no more milk than
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that. I can't get no more gerbers than
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that. Can't get no more queen a wheat
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than that. That is as basic as I can put
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it. I believe I'm hungry.
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I believe it's going to be a good day, but you don't want
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that messed it up. So if I start my day off
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believing. It's going to be a good day.
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And then the enemy comes from my, my belief, my good day.
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Then guess what I got to do? I got to understand that my
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faith said it's going to be a good day.
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So guess what? When the enemy comes in, I got,
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I got to, I can't react with anger because you're trying to
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mess up my belief. You're trying to mess up my good
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day. You want me to cuss you out?
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No, no, no. I believe it's going to be a
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good day and if I cuss you out it's going to mess up my good
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day. Even if cussing you out make my
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flesh feel good is still in God's eyes not a good day
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anytime you cuss. Somebody out?
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It is. Not a good day.
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Belief or faith, it's not about. Intellectual agreement.
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It's not like, it's not like, yeah, that's going to be cool.
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No, no, it's not about. It's not built on just just
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simple facts, no. It it it's saying there's.
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The evidence that God can, but I'm struggling believing He
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will, but I choose to believe. Therefore, my faith is the
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actions that align with my belief.
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While he was still speaking there.
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Came some from the ruler's house who said to Jay Iris, your
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daughter has what died? Come on.
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Your daughter has what? Talk to me one more time.
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Your daughter has what? Come on, say bearer of bad news.
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Well, who? Next service we're going to get
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into. That we're going to get into
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we're going to get into how rumors and bad news attack
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belief. See that that's all that that's
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the trick in the garden. She got a word from the Lord.
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They got a word from the Lord. All the enemy did was make her
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question the truth. Watch this while he was still.
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Speaking. He says watch this, watch this,
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please watch this. Your daughter has died.
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Why bother? And distress the teacher any
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further I can. I can pause right there and tell
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you why it's worth your time bothering Jesus.
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I would not be here if I didn't bother.
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Jesus. Right.
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Watch this Gratitude bothers. Jesus.
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Watch Watch this. Watch this.
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Complaining irritates Jesus. Hoping bothers Jesus.
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Watch this blind Bartimaeus Jesus.
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Jesus is ignoring. Jesus ignoring but the hope of
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blind Bartimaeus bother Jesus to the point that it made Jesus
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stop. Watch this overhearing.
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But ignoring what they said, watch this.
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He ignored them because he was irritated by there and watch
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this. You got to ignore the bad report
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even if the bad report is factual, if the bad report is
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factual but does not align with what I'm believing.
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Then I got to ignore it. Look, just because it's facts,
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it don't require my attention. Watch this.
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My attention is worth more than facts.
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All right, overhearing, but. Ignoring what they said, Jesus
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is saying if we go, I came all this way to CJ Iris's daughter
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alive. So I'm on a faith assignment.
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I have no time to pay attention to the rumors.
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Watch this. It wasn't a lie.
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Stop. Thinking you only ignore.
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Lies. God got a promise for me.
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He said that. Terence is supposed to be this.
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This, this, this, this, this, this this.
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Now I need my faith to agree with what God said.
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Therefore I'm on a. Faith assignment for the.
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Richmond bloodline When I come here on Sunday, when I join a
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church, I'm on an assignment, so whenever the.
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Enemy comes with. Rumors and facts.
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There are some facts I need to. Ignore, because the facts are
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not a threat to my faith if I believe.
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Do not be seized with alarm and. Struck with fear.
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Look at him, look at him. Jesus is almost like.
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Look at. Me look.
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At me. Look at me.
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No, I know you hear your aunties and your cousins giving you that
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report. Look at me.
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Do not be seized. With alarm and struck.
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With fear only keep believing. Somebody say that what does only
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mean only keep believing. Only keep believe.
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Man, you need to hear this when you've been fighting for
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something for 17 years, he said. How long have your son been in
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this condition? Since he was a little boy.
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See, see you. You need to only keep believing
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because you've been believing. But now my belief is that it's
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threatened right now. So he says only keep believing.
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If we're going to be in the last days where people are going to
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fall away from the faith, when hearts are going to wax cold,
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this is very important. Only keep believing.
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I don't care what comes our way. I don't care what don't go our
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way. Only keep believe.
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I don't care if it takes 1000 years for your son to come home.
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Only keep. I don't care if it takes 10,000
-
years for your marriage to turn around.
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Only keep believing. Only keep believing only.
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Keep believing. Somebody say only?
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Keep believing. One more time, say only keep.
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Believing freedom, deliverance, revival is not often the
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immediate result of the presence of Jesus.
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He was thrown down. He was thrown down.
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The first thing that happened when Jesus arrived is all hell
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broke out. You got to hear that the first
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thing that. Happened when Jesus.
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Arrived was all hell, broke out often.
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When the Devil. Detects revival has landed in
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your life. All hell begins to break out.
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You're bombarded with lies and facts and rumors.
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Watch this. But some facts don't got nothing
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to do with what I'm believing for, right?
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Stop being entertained by facts if it don't have nothing to do
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with your assignment. Lift your hands right where you
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are. And I just challenge you to open
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your mouth in this. Moment and begin to pray, and
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you can pray in the Spirit. But the prayer.
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That is coming out of your belly is Lord help my unbelief.
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You know the area that you are struggling with believing in.
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You cannot afford another day to go by without you attacking.
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Not the problem, but the unbelief.
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Come on, put some volume to your voice.
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Your unbelief and. My unbelief is.
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A problem when it comes to my growth A.
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Part of wholeness. Is believing in every area of
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your life. Unbelief is a disease.
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To the man or woman of faith, unbelief is a disease to the man
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or woman of faith, unbelief is a cancer unbelief is a tumor.
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Unbelief is diabetes unbelief is a disease.
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Unbelief is a malfunction in the life of a.
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Man. Or woman of faith.
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So lift them up right now. Help our unbelief today.
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Lord Jesus. Help our unbelief today.
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Lord Jesus, help our unbelief today.
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Lord Jesus, help our unbelief today.
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Lord Jesus, forgive us where we chose to believe in our doubts
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before we believed in you. Help our unbelief today.
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Lord Jesus, come on, help our unbelief.
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Today, open your mouth. You know where it is.
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You know where you doubt today. You know if you're doubting, if
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he can really help you. If you can ever recover from
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that decision, if you can ever be healed, if you can ever have
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joy again, come on, You know that thing.
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You've been. Waiting for.
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Help help my unbelief. Today help.
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My unbelief today, Jesus. Come on, take 20 more seconds.
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Help my. Unbelief Jesus.
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It's turning around today. I'm not, I'm not focused on the
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problem. I'm focused on my unbelief,
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right? I don't got room to focus on my
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unbelief having a problem. No, no, no, no, no.
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I'm about to put that energy towards my unbelief.
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And begin to believe. Come on doubt, you shall live no
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more in my life. Come on doubt, you shall live no
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more in my life. The mountain of doubt.
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You must be moved now in the name of Jesus.
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If you're struggling with doubt and unbelief in the area of your
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finances or your business or or yourself, you got to go.
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Watch this. Guys the.
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Man is not. Doubting Jesus.
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Watch this He's not rejecting Jesus.
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He's acknowledging both his belief and his weakness.
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Watch. This you ready everybody?
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Needs to hear this question. What if the problem was that you
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didn't believe? Jesus is you don't believe in
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yourself. His unbelief.
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Was in the way of what he knew Jesus could do.
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Say it again, his unbelief. Was in the way of what he knew
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Jesus could do watch this is because he saw Jesus do it so
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him coming to. Jesus was.
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Saying because you did it before, I know you could do it
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again. I'm just struggling with if you
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could do it for me. Here it is unbelief.
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Needs evidence that it can be done.
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If I've never saw it done. What is my unbelief based off
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of? So the biggest thing This is why
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the. Testimony.
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Whatever you struggling with today, look around the room and
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I promise you can find a testimony that points to God
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could do it again if your. Heart has ever been broken.
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Guess what minds have too? He will heal your heart.
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Matter of fact, He will cause you.
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Forget the pain. There's people in here.
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Who have dealt with poverty, but they can give you a story of how
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God brought them into a bumper crop.
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A huge part of my unbelief. Is because I've seen it done, I
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just don't. Believe he could do it for me.
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I don't believe it's my turn. You can take this away.
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I don't. I don't.
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I don't believe because watch this if if that.
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Was him not? Believing in Jesus, I've never,
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and it could be some places, don't get me wrong, OK, but I
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haven't seen a place where Jesus responds miraculously to
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unbelief. Watch this.
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Jesus did not rebuke his unbelief.
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He. Actually.
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Performed a miracle. So when you hear help my
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unbelief, I believe that that's a picture of muster.
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See faith because he said I believe, but in the area I don't
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believe because watch this. I just left your disciples and
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nothing happened. The fact that he just walks.
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Away from Jesus disciples and they tried and.
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Tried and tried and. Nothing happened and then he
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still. Asked Jesus watch this.
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That was faith, Yes, that's right.
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Problem is you have stopped. Bothering Jesus?
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Because the devil somewhere made you think.
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It must not be for me. Healing must not be for me.
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Health must not be for me. Financial freedom must not be
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for. Me.
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This is the day. That every everything changes in
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your faith life. Lift your hands right where you
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are. Lord, may we be a believing
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people. May we just not be a.
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Declaring people. And a prophetic people.
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May our lives look like we believe.
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Because you've done it. You've said it and This is why
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they. Overcome by the word.
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Of that testimony, Lord, if you did it for them, you could do it
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for me. If you did it before, you could
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do it again. Saying God right now.
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Saying God back then. So as you lift your hands all
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over this room. I just declare.
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That this will be a week. That you choose to believe.
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Come on, say I choose to believe.
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Come on, a little louder Say I choose.
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To. Believe.
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Put your hand on, one hand up and one hand on your neighbor's
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shoulder. And I want you to take the next
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60 seconds and. Pray for your neighbors
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unbelief. Lord, I just thank you that my
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neighbor. Chooses to believe today that
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where they are weak, Lord, you are strong, Your grace is
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sufficient. In the name of Jesus, I thank
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you, Father God, that in the area of their of their faith
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life, everything is turning around.
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In the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you that they will.
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Face that. Mountain.
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They will speak to that mountain and they will walk and not get
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weary, and they will run and not faint.
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In the name of Jesus. I thank you, Lord, that right
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now, even as we speak, our belief, our faith is rising in
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areas that we came in here today doubting we're going to walk out
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of this room. With a backbone in our belief,
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Lord God, we're going to make decisions that you've asked us
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to make. We're going to stand where
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you've asked us to stand. We will not quit, but we will
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step in. We will press in.
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We will walk in. We will bust through in the name
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of Jesus, Lord God, and we will not let go until you change us,
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until you break us through. Lord God, you did it for the
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elders. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for Seon. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for Bernadette. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for Day. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for Moses. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for my grandma. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it for Laura. I know you could do it for me.
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You did it, Lord. I know you could do it.
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You've done it. You brought Pastor Daniela.
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Through I know you can do it for me.
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You brought Danny out, I know you can do it for me.
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You broke them through grief. I know you can do it for me,
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Lord God. You did it for Elder Brett and
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Elder Stacey. You did it for their parents.
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I know you can do it for me if you believe that.
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Give God a big old. Shout of praise, Come on, you
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can do it for me. Come on, shout out, I know you
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could do it for. Me.
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Look at your neighbor, say he did it for me.
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I know he could do it for you. Hallelujah your faith.
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Is rising. Your belief is getting.
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Stronger. In the name of Jesus, in the
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name of Jesus, that that thing that mountain you ran from last
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week, this week, you're going to speak to it.
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You're. Going to go from running to the
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from the. Mountain to speaking to the
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mountain to walking right over the mountain in Jesus name.
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Come on, say I'm getting to the other side.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah what we going to keep
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going next experience and we going we going to dig into this
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word and for whatever reason this word arrested me and I feel
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like. Faith in Him is the only thing
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that's going to. Help us through.
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We often talk about faith, but not belief.
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And we they are, they are 1/4, they are a dime.
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But it's heads and tails. Same coin, two different sides.
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So today I declare you don't just.
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Go from yes to I Do you? Go from belief to faith?
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Put some. Legs to your belief.
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In Jesus name. In Jesus name.
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Father, we thank you for every giver today.
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Lord, you, you said you will build your church and you.
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Are doing just that. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. So really quickly just.
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As we are giving. Today somebody say first time so
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after we've given twice. There's 95 grand that has come.
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In and we are believing for 500 now now forgive me say forgive
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pastor the T because this is my first time we had.
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After the architect. Drew the drawings we submitted.
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Them in the city. Signed off on them and we come
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to this point. They come in, everything is good
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and then they see the stairs in the mezzanine and says this is a
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hazard. Wait a minute.
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You approve the. Drawings in the 1st place and
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now. It's a hazard.
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Somebody say gone God and so anytime it's a delay, it also
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costs more money, but. He said he going to build his
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church and watch this. We are pioneering a.
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Church not planting a church on your own time?
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Go. Look up the difference.
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Between a pioneer and a farmer, OK, we're not planting a we
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don't have a playbook. We have been walking with Jesus
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to learn some lessons because we will have church planters until
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Jesus return. And one day we're going to be
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able to hand them a blueprint where there was no blueprint
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we're going to be able to give them.
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Wisdom where there was. No wisdom and so just bear with
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with us as we are learning as we go.
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And so we got the drawings. They have not been submitted to
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the city yet because now we're waiting.
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Our architect drew the drawings and then it has to go to the
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engineer and the engineer has to merge them with his structural
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drawings and and then we submit them to the city.
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And so until then, work has stopped.
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Somebody say go on Jesus. Look, here's the truth of the
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matter. We need more money so.
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Praise God, the work has stopped.
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Amen. And so we not homeless and this
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is all a part of believing, believing God and so we're
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believing what I want to do. I had somebody come to me the
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other day and I love their faith.
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I'm not going to call him or her out, but I just love their
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faith. They was like Pastor TI don't
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know if I'm crazy or not but man I see in the Bible where they
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sold stuff to make stuff happen and we always.
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Selling stuff to make. Stuff happen in our lives.
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I don't want to say nothing to the people, but man, I want to
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challenge the people. Maybe am I tripping like to sell
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some stuff and I'm like, I ain't going to let you loose like
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that. But but, but but the point is,
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is there's somebody in the house and people in the house that's
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like I actually want to do whatever it takes.
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Like to that point. I am willing to hear God's voice
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if He wants me to sell something to build His house.
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Because watch this, you can't overlook that in the Bible
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either. Somebody say it's in the Bible,
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right? You can't overlook.
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Where it says. The people gave so much that the
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priest had to stop them from giving.
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Lord I pray that blessing that I have to stop people from giving
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one day in Jesus name overwhelm me.
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Overwhelming and so. This was supposed.
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To be the last one, we were supposed to move in in October
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and I and that is what the contractors told us three months
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ago. OK, I will say this, there has
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not been one delay or even major delay that has happened because
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we didn't do something or we didn't have something.
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So as although we need a lot of money, delay has never come
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because we couldn't do something right.
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Every holdup has been because a job needed to get done or there
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was a delay somewhere in the line of work.
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And then God brought us some people, that's a part of our
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church to bring another level of excellence to assure that we get
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through the ribbon in Jesus name.
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And so we thank God for that. So as we give today, I am just
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going to say moving forward after this, we are going to be
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in this remnant project until we walk into that building.
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OK, Now you can partake in it or not.
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OK, But. We have to.
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Believe God and if you can't sow your seed, at least sow your
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faith. But I'm just going to tell you,
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you ain't so in faith if you're not putting some legs to it,
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right? So you can believe we going to
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get in this building, but you got to take the next step.
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I just believe today that that 95 grand that was taken over two
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months will be matched today. Can I just believe?
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Like, to me, that ain't even radical because there's been
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plenty of offerings in Love Quest's history that have hit
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over A100150 in our early times. I remember them, them, them
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victory seeds, OK. And so we're going to have more
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opportunities to give. God's going to touch people that
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don't go to this community. But it's got to start with us.
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And if you hear us mentioning Remnant, I just don't want you
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to be like, wait a minute, I thought we was done.
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No, we not done. And if you want to blame me,
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blame me, whatever. But those those drawings cost.
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Yeah. And there's always stuff that
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you don't see and it'd be costing.
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I'm learning that say he learning say I'm glad I'm not
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him. Amen.
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Whatever. So today we're going to give as
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usual to our worship team is going to give first and then
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and, and then our elders and our families will give and, and then
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the ushers will usher you to giving.
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I thank God for whatever amount is coming in today.
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I'm believing radically big, but I do not take $1.00 lightly for
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the work of the ministry and for the building of God's house.
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And so I thank you in advance for every seed that is being
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sewn as you're getting. If you need an envelope, lift
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your hands right where you are. Please, please, please, somebody
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say stretch. Yeah, he can and he will.
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And. Think I might sell a few pair of
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shoes. Amen.
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Not to you anybody, anybody wear 12 or 11 1/2 that's good for
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you. You got some money.
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Amen. Wednesday nights is phenomenal
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so. Come out on Wednesday night.
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Baptisms is this coming Saturday right here, February 1st along
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with communion. Even if you not November 1st,
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even if you're not getting baptized, still come out and
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support. Amen.
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And I'm missing one other thing, huh?
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Oh, tonight, somebody say tonight.
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Tonight we are launching Perfected, Perfected.
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Somebody say perfected. No, not stay connected.
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Perfected. OK, not state Somebody say not
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stay connected. Perfected.
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Right. This is why we are meeting on
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Sunday nights, so we can stop putting up the wrong slides.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Yeah, that's fine. I'm not going to be mad at
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baptism slide, but perfected. OK, Perfected.
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Perfected. We are.
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We are equipping the leaders for the wins.
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OK. Tonight is only for clergy and
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directors. We're kicking it off with just
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clergies and directors. Sunday evenings.
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Perfected will be not for the public.
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It will only be for leaders. OK, watch this.
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If you are tired of volunteering, this is the
-
perfect time to step back. The only people that are invited
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to Sunday evening are people that want to help carry Love
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Quest into the next season and beyond.
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OK, that mean you got to serve every week, but you are going to
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step up and you want to carry Tonight is directors and clergy
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only, including the worship team.
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I love that slide. Amen.
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Starting next Sunday is every leader.
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Now, listen, you can say you want to lead all you want to.
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If you cannot make the sacrifice to be here on Sunday evenings at
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least a couple times a week, you are saying that you don't have
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time to lead because leadership is not about just picking up
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chairs in the Kingdom. Leadership is about
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discipleship, opportunity. OK.
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And so when we come, we are going back to the basics.
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We're going over the vision, the mission.
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We're going over our culture, our DNA.
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We're going over some of the crowned material.
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We are going back to the basics. We're going over what we believe
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in, all of this stuff. We're answering questions and we
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are preparing to go into this building.
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So perfect. It will go on until we walk into
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that building. Amen.
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Everybody has an envelope. Amen.
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Father, thank you for every giver.
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I thank you, Father, that you will give.
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You will give. Back into their bosom.
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You will give you will cause men to give an overflowing harvest.
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For their sacrificial giving, and I thank you.
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We have cheerful givers in this house.
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Come on, cheerful givers in this house whose whose heart is in
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their giving. I thank you for blessing
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families. Thank you for blessing bodies.
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I thank you for radical increase for you provide seed to the
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sower and so we thank. You that this.
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House is full of sowers in Jesus name, Amen.
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Giving is worship and worship is giving.
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So at this time, as we're waiting for our turns, let's
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worship. Thank you so much for tuning
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into this week's. Sermon we pray you were
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challenged, equipped and encouraged make sure to follow
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us on all platforms. That's lovequest intl church.
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We out here for real. We're really doing it.
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That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
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You can find us anywhere you need to find us, but until next
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time you know the drill. You know the motto, get your
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love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.