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Sunday Message - Randy Demain (February 07, 2016) | Life Bible Church
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Awesome. For some of you that heard that message,
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you know, we got a glimpse of that. I want you
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to know that, you know, obviously we've been
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in our building just about five months from our
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soft opening. God's doing some amazing things
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here. The church, you know, there's a lot of
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new faces. I want to encourage you as the first
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hearing that. Church, you need to understand
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something. When God gives somebody a life message,
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He continues to unfold and deepen the revelation
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that's found in the scriptures. Number one, there's
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life messages that he's given me. These are part
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of the things that he just keeps expanding. Why?
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Because we do believe that God holds the answer
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to everything in this life he created. It would
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be foolish of us to think that somehow man knows
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something more than God who originated it. I'm
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going to just give you my opinion here. It's
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fact. To pray, not just for the nation, but to
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pray for our state, our area, our tri -county
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area, because there needs to be an atmosphere
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shift of people being God conscious. Science
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is wonderful because it's discovery. The problem
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is they don't give credit back to God where it
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all starts from. But that's really what science
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is, and that's why we should know about these
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things. And as we do that, we'll be having different
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speakers. And I'm looking forward to the next
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month as well. We'll be having intricacies of
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the Creator of heaven and earth that holds all
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things together by the power of His Word. Amen?
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Amen. Would you stand with me this morning? In
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fact, as our ministry teams are coming, even
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to my left, your right, healing teams, if you
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have a need in your body or your soul, you want
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prayer. You need breakthrough for anything. This
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is what we do. After every service, we're creating
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a place for you to get extra prayer and to release
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the kingdom of God over your life, body, soul,
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and spirit. Let's pray. Father, in the name of
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the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you. Lord, you
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are a... God that is above all. And yet you've
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chosen, chosen through your son to identify with
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us and to love us and to bring us into relationship.
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What a marvelous God you are. What a marvelous
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king you are. Lord, we turn our attention to
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you and we say this day, let our minds be expanded
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with the glory of God of how intricately you're
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involved in every part, not only in our life,
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but more. Your word is continuing to expand throughout
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the universe. Glory and honor and power and dominion
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and praise be to our God forever and ever. Glory
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and power and praise and dominion and your rule
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be to our God forever and ever. We say, go church.
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Let the church of the living God have dominion
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in his name and his authority. And everybody
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said, amen. May the best team win this afternoon.
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God bless you. Have a great weekend. that. So
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my heart's full of joy today as I look out and
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see all of you here and see what God is doing
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in this part of the planet and see what God is
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doing through you. And knowing what's coming,
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the moves of God, the things of God that are
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coming, and to see you here ready to engage those
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things and ready to be prepared to participate
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and ready to have your spiritual life in order
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so your life is going to count in the days ahead.
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It's a tremendous thing to see you here and to
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be willing to partake and to be part of what
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God is doing. So I just bless you this morning
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and say happy Sunday morning to you. God bless
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you all. That's good. Amen. Well, every year
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I publish or I put out, if you will, a prophetic
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overview of the coming year. I've done that for
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a number of years. And so this morning I want
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to talk to you a little bit about the coming
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year, this year of 2016, even though we're already
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gently beginning to come into this year. But
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the Lord has many things that he's saying and
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he's doing for 2016. And part of my calling is
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to be like a watchman on the wall and be a bit
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of a prophetic voice to this nation and speak
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and declare what God has shown me and what God
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is saying and what he's doing. And I always encourage
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people when I give a prophetic... overview to
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take what I say and to look at other prophetic
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words and prophets that you know of and put those
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words together because it'll give you a wonderful
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outlook a big picture of what God's saying and
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doing so you can be a part of what he's doing
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and not be wondering gee what what is God doing
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this year God sends his prophetic voices to tell
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you And so I want to share a few things with
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you this morning about 2016. Just a little bit,
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not a whole lot. If you want to know my whole
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prophetic word, you can go to my website if you
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like. It's kingdomrevelation .org. Kingdomrevelation
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.org. Just go there and look up the January newsletter.
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And there's ten prophetic words there, utterances
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on there, even about the election. Some very
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crazy stuff that God has shown us about the election.
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You ought to go read that. if nothing else, and
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pray into it and see the shocking results. All
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the news channels will be shocked. Anyway, hallelujah.
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Bless God. Well, there's one amen. I got somebody
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I like out there. Love you all. Amen. This morning
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I want to go to Psalms 116. If you have your
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Bibles and want to follow along or take notes,
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that sort of thing, I'm going to be speaking
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out of that psalm because... The Lord has really
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spoken to me this year about this particular
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psalm, it's 116, about being significant for
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this year and painting a picture or revealing
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to some degree what God is going to do this year,
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what he intends to do, if you by faith will engage
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it and allow him to do it, if you will seek him
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out. This is what God is saying that he is going
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to do. We hear what the world is going to do.
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We hear through pundits and financial people
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and spiritual people and news people and business
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people. We hear what they're saying, but don't
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you think it's good that we hear what God's saying?
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If you hear what God's saying and you stay with
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what God's saying, the Bible says very clearly
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that if you believe in God, you'll be established.
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And if you believe what the prophets bring, you'll
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prosper. That's a good word. That's in the Bible,
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by the way. Isn't that true? Sure it is. And
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so I just encourage you to listen and then take
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the outlook and take the experience that you
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have this year coming up in 2016 and go back
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to the Word and be based and founded in that
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Word. That's heaven's reality, which means that
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is to be your reality, irregardless of what you
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see here. That's what you're to bring by faith
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into your midst. Amen? And so be encouraged this
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morning as we look at Psalms 116 and get a sense
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of what God is doing just in an overall way this
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year. I want to give you five points if we get
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time or whatever. I don't know how this will
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go exactly, but I want to show you five things
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anyway, five things that God had emphasized to
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me out of this psalm. so that we can see and
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understand and expect God to move in this manner
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on our behalf. So I'm going to read the first
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six verses, then I'm going to comment on some
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of the psalm. This is what it says. I love the
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Lord because He has heard my voice and my supplications.
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Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore
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I will call upon Him as long as I live. The pains
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of death surrounded me, and the pangs of Sheol
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lay hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow, and
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then I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord,
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I implore you, deliver my soul. That's something
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to say this year. Verse 5, gracious is the Lord
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and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. The
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Lord preserves the simple. I was brought low,
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and he saved me. Now, that's a very enlightening
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psalm. It's speaking a lot about what the Lord
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has shown me in my time of prayer and visitation
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and conversation with Him. That many of us are
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in the place where we have come through a very
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difficult, dark, trying, testing time. Some of
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you may not have, but many of you have. And what
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this is really talking about in regards to us
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being in this nation is that this nation has
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brought us to a place where our hope has been
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deferred, where our ability to move forward has
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been a bit diminished, where our thinking of
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creativity and doing future things has been subject
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to can I, should I, would I, knowing or feeling
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that these other things are present. Are you
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with me? Christians this hour could look at this
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and say, I have been in a very difficult place
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or I'm in a difficult place. And out of this
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place, something has to change. And if it does
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not change, these pangs of death of my vision,
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death of my purpose, death of my relationships,
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death of whatever is about to seize me and lay
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hold of me unless God comes and intervenes. And
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so as we look at this passage of Scripture, this
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psalm, and in context of what this is saying,
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I'm delighted to tell you that this psalmist
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calls upon God. He talks to God with God's own
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words and own promises. And declared, God, you
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said, God, you promised, God, you declared, God,
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this is your covenant. Come on, are you there?
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He began to tell God what God had said, which
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is what we're supposed to do, by the way. And
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God, who ever lives to perform his word, had
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no option, if you will, because of his love and
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his grace and because he has bound himself to
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his word. He came and he delivered this person,
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set him free, brought him out of their situation,
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placed him in a very broad and beautiful and
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beneficial place. Come on. and delivered them
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out of a hopeless situation and restored life
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and hope and purpose in them. I'm telling you,
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in 2016, if it's not already happened to you
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in the past few months, if you're in this spot,
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it's going to happen to you this year if you
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believe the Word of God. But not just believe
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the Word of God. What I want you to see is God
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wants you to begin to speak the Word of God.
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Look here what God is going to do in 2016. This
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is what it says in verse 7. This is the first
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point that God really brought this to me and
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really emphasized this, if you will. He said,
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Return to rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt
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bountifully with you. In 2016, my dear friends,
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expect... God to deal bountifully with you. Bountifully
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with your soul. Bountifully with every area of
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your life. You go, but don't you know what's
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going on around this world? God is not of this
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world and neither are you. Come on. Expect God
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to deal bountifully with your soul. He's not
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of this economy. He's not of this realm of government.
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He's not of this kingdom. He's not of anything
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of this. This world is run by the spirit of this
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world, by the, come on, anti -Christ spirit.
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He's not that. So as Christians, guess what?
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Expect God, come on, to deal bountifully with
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you. That's how you get up in the morning. Today,
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God is going to deal bountifully with my soul,
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bountifully with my household, bountifully with
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all that I set my hand to. God is going to deal
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bountifully with me because I love him, I trust
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him, I've called upon him, I've declared the
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word of God over my life, my family, my situation,
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my circumstance, and therefore God who loves
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me and I love him because we're together. One
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in the Lord, I tell you, God's going to deal
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bountifully with you. bountifully with you. Now
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get ready for that. Expect God to deal bountifully
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with you. Do you know what happens to you? Whatever
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you expect. Hey, come on. Expect that. That's
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a good word, isn't it, for 2016? Expect God to
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deal bountifully with you. If you go on down
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here a ways, it says, for you've delivered my
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soul from death. Verse 8, my eyes from tears
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and my feet from falling. I will walk before
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the Lord in the land of the living. Here's the
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next point I want to emphasize to you. Verse
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10, I believed, therefore I spoke. I cannot tell
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you how important it is that your conversation
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be of the Lord. Be of the Spirit of the Lord.
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That your mind is renewed by the word. That the
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words that you speak over your life, your family,
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come on, your spiritual situation, over every
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aspect of your life, the words that you speak
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must not be the words of this world, the words
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of this culture. God has called us to speak the
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word of God. If you want change, if you want
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his kingdom economy, if you want his presence
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to be in the midst of you, the Bible says, I
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believed and therefore I spoke. We've got to
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declare what we believe. I'm telling you, the
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word of God is powerful. It's powerful. And you
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as sons and daughters of God, being born again
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by... The Spirit of God, by faith in the shed
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blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, by faith in his
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resurrection power, by faith that you're seated
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with him in heavenly places, by faith that you
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have been adopted as sons. Come on, you have
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the authority and power to speak his word as
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his sons and daughters and speak it just as he
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spoke it because you're his representative. And
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to bring his kingdom to bear where you are. Come
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on. I believed, therefore I spoke. I believed,
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therefore I spoke. Do you remember how you were
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saved? Romans 10. Do you remember that? 9 and
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10. The word is near you. In your mouth, the
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gospel that we preach. Come on, are you there?
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That if you believe in your heart first and then
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confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, what
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happens? A supernatural event. You were born
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again. You were saved. Right? That's what this
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is saying. I believed and therefore I spoke.
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That's the power that happens when you first
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believe and then you speak. You believe and you
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spoke and you were born again. Now you believe
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and you speak and you continue the economy of
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the kingdom and build it and release it and establish
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it in your midst. Hallelujah. I'm telling you,
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we're not here to fail. We're here to overcome.
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We're not here to be subject to the powers of
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this world. We're here to bring them into subjection
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of the King of kings and Lord of lords. We've
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got to turn the tables. This guy said, this psalmist
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or this lady, she said, well, I believed, therefore
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I spoke. I want you to understand that the point
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of intervention happened in this psalm when this
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guy believed and spoke and prayed and proclaimed
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the word of God. It didn't happen before. Are
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you with me? God's not going to necessarily move
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until you call upon him, nor is he going to move
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until you begin to declare, His own word. That's
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what this psalm is trying to tell us this year.
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God is calling us back to confess that which
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we believe. It's a time to bring a confession
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of your belief system to bear. It's time to confess
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and testify and declare the word of God over
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your life, your house, your family, over everything.
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And establish it in that government of the kingdom.
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In the word of God which is living and alive
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and able to do a mighty work. Are you with me
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this morning? I believe this is the year that
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God is going to change our confession from fear
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to faith. A powerful change. And faith that will
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release in what the Lord is showing me this year
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is something that I had forgotten a long time
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ago, but the Lord reminded me of it. Listen,
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when you begin to speak in faith and you begin
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to create an atmosphere of faith, do you know
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what you begin to become contagious with? A spirit
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of faith. How about if all of you began to move
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this year in a spirit of faith? Not in a spirit
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of fear. Not in a spirit of intimidation. Come
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on. Not in a spirit of unstable mind. Not in
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a spirit of begrudgment or bitterness or greed.
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Come on. Not in any of those spirits. How about
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if you begin to move in a spirit of faith and
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God's love and purpose and calling upon your
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life and that you're here to complete that course
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and he's here to establish and give you grace
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to do so. Come on, are you there? A spirit of
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faith. There's something that God is talking
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to me about all this year about creating and
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establishing in the realm of believers in your
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own life a spirit of faith. So no matter what
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comes, the first thing that it hits is your spirit
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of faith and it can't get through. And you begin
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to live and sustain your life and your family
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and your purpose by the spirit of faith. The
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spirit of faith, it's powerful. Do you know how
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powerful it is? Come on. You're here and we're
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here together 2 ,000 years after the church started.
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Do you know why? Because of the spirit of faith.
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Because when it got down to brass tacks and hard
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roads, when it seemed impossible, people rose
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up in the spirit of faith and said, our God is
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a mighty God and Jesus is building his church
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and it shall prevail. Come on, and nothing shall
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stop it. And the spirit of faith began to well
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up in people and they began to declare, come
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on, and prophesy and decree the word of God.
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And all of a sudden, things changed. Breakthrough
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came. An open space came. An abundance came to
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them. An ability to move forward. I'm telling
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you in this year, 2016, it's a hinge year in
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history. It's a transitional year. And God is
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calling you to rise up in the spirit of faith
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and begin to declare the word of God for yourself,
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your families, this nation, and the church this
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year so that we will not succumb to the wrong
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side of this transition. That's what God's doing
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this year. The spirit of faith. It's in us. It's
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who we are. We're people of faith. Hallelujah.
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Decree what is written and revealed in the word
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of God. Just get that in your mouth and begin
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to speak it. Hallelujah. Amen. Awaken the spirit
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of faith. Now, it's amazing that this psalm starts
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out kind of troubling. And then it starts out
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to being delightful because we hear the report
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that God intervened and answered the prayer.
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And he answered the prayer because this guy believed
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and therefore he spoke. And God came and intervened
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and brought him in a good place. And it says
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that his soul could return to rest because God
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had dealt bountifully with him. I want you to
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have a restful 2016 in your soul. That's your
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mind, your will, and your emotions. Have rest
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in 2016. Not tension. Not stress. Not overrun.
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Not overdone. Not freaked out. Not, you know,
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crazy. Just have rest as the Lord deals bountifully
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with you. You know why? Because now we're going
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to come to the next part of this psalm. Something
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that's very, very, very important to you and
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important to God. And it begins right here in
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verse 14. Actually, verse 12, I'll read it and
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lead into it. What shall I render to the Lord
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for all his benefits towards me? I will take
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up the cup of salvation and I will call upon
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the name of the Lord. Watch this. And I will
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pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of
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all his people. That's repeated in verse 18.
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I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence
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of all his people. Why has God... delivered us.
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Why is he bringing you and me out this year?
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Why is he bringing bounty to us so much so that
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our soul can return to its rest? I'm going to
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tell you why. This is the year that God is reminding
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you to re -engage and complete your vows unto
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God. This is a year of tremendous opportunity
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where God is going to give you the ability to
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fulfill the vows that you've made to him. Listen,
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when you get busy and life comes on you, you
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know, you can forget the vow. You can even abandon
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it. It's true. You know the vows I'm talking
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about. When you're in a tough place, or maybe
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you're in a super spiritual place, maybe you're
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on the last whatever, or maybe you're in a high
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spiritual place. It doesn't matter, but you made
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a vow unto God. And I'm telling you what. God
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is so big and so merciful that he's going to
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give you room and time and ability to fulfill
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that vow. You're going to get to fulfill it.
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He's not going to get you to heaven. You're not
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going to say, well, God, I made this vow, but
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I never had a chance to get to it. No, he's going
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to say, I'm giving you room. This year I'm going
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to deal bountifully with your soul. Can you imagine
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Christendom worldwide? Could you imagine in this
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house alone if all of you rose up and began to
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re -engage the vow that you made to God and began
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to walk it out and fulfill it? The move of God,
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the power of God's presence in your life and
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the increased presence of the move of the Spirit
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in this city, in this place, in this house. Tremendous.
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Vows are important to God. I'm preaching today
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because of a vow I made to God. tough place when
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I was a gold -plated pagan cowboy team roping
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rodeo and crazy guy. It's a true story, man.
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True story. I had two friends. My horse was named
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Jack and I had another friend named Jack. Friends
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of mine. Some pastor came by my place one day
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in a little rural community that I lived in.
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They had church there once a month. He was a,
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you know, rotational guy. So nobody showed up
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Sunday to the service, so I thought I'd walk
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the neighborhood. So I was out there in the yard,
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me and Jack, big old mouthful of chew. Combing
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up my horse. Come on, I'm just telling you the
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truth. He walked up and took one look at me.
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I thought he was going to turn around and leave.
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But he decided to come on in. And he said, hey,
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I'm the local pastor. This is the church. And,
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you know, it would be nice if you could show
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up. Next month I'll be back. I said, okay, great.
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And he left. Do you know that that one little
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thing that he did. That simple contact woke me
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up, even though I didn't even know it. So he's
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walking out the driveway, and I'm thinking, wow,
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that was a man of God. That was pretty brave.
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And I was just kind of thinking like that, right?
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Guess what happened one week later? My son, who
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was less than a year old, the best I can remember
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it, Came down with a fever for some reason, and
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he went into fever convulsions. Went unconscious.
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Went into that whole thing, right? I'm 20 minutes,
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30 minutes to the closest medical facility. So
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my wife and I get him in our car. Actually, my
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pickup. Cowboys don't drive cars. It's true.
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So I got him in my pickup. Man, I drove to town
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like I've never driven before. I should have
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been arrested 10 times, not just for speeding.
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I actually drove over stop signs across lanes,
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guardrails, through the grass. I didn't care.
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I had one place to get, and that was the hospital.
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So I blew in there, slammed on the brakes, got
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out, got my son in there. They looked him over.
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They shut the doors and wouldn't let us in. And
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then they come back out, and they had my wife
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come in for a minute. And then they come back
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out, and they said, he ain't going to make it.
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He's too far gone. That's what they told me.
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I'm like, that's impossible. You know what I
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did? I walked out to the lawn there in front
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of the hospital, and this is what I said. God,
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if you save my son, I will serve you all the
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days of my life, however you ask me to serve
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you. Come on. Well, you know what happened. They
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got this big old needle out, man, and they stuck
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it right in his heart and they gave him some
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kind of adrenaline shot or something, snapped
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him out of it, got him cooled off, and he's alive
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today. Amen. I can't tell you how many times
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I look at him and I said, God, you got to keep
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him alive if you want me to keep serving you.
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And he has. And my son was a little rough around
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the edges for a while. He's come out of it now.
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But when he was real, real rough, I'm saying,
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God, you got to keep him alive. Come on. And
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he did. But I'm paying my vow to God. And you
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have a vow. I know most of you, if not all of
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you, have a vow or two that you've made to God.
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And can I just tell you that if you do a biblical
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study on vows, God is so, so serious about you
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fulfilling that vow that it's almost like he'll
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do nearly anything for you so you can fulfill
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that vow. Come on. And he's going to hold you
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accountable on the other side if you don't. That's
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also a Bible. And so in this year of 2016, I
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want you to expect God to deal bountifully with
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you. How come? Because he wants you to fulfill
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your vow. That place where you found him. That
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place where you talked to him like we ought to
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be talking to him all the time. Out of the innermost
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depths of your being with sincerity and a desire
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that goes beyond, come on, what we normally would
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have in just a conversation or prayer. I mean
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when the depths of you contacted the depth of
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him and he answered you. And you made a bond
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and a commitment and a vow at that point. God
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says, I'm faithful and I'm coming to cause you
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and allow you and give you the ability to fulfill
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that vow or those vows unto me. 2016, it's going
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to begin. Get ready for God to deal abundantly
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with your soul so you can fulfill your vow. Isn't
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that awesome? God is so incredibly awesome. I'm
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just always amazed at him. Now I want to bring
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you down to this next emphasis here in Psalms
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116 that the Lord has shown me about. It's in
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verse 19. In the courts of the Lord's house,
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in the midst of you, O Jerusalem, praise the
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Lord. Praise the Lord. Psalms 116 ends up with
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an emphasis on praise. My testimony to you before
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God is the last five or six years, God has given
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me a message. I have preached about it, written
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about it, wrote about it. exemplified it, done
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everything I possibly can to the churches I travel
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to all across America and all over the world
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to get them back to the understanding of the
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purpose and the power and the place of praise,
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corporately in the church and personally in your
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lives. The church... By and large, I'm not talking
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about this one. This one gets it. Hallelujah.
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But the church by and large that I travel across
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the United States and people's personal lives,
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they have lost the understanding and the power
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of praise. And this is a critical time for praise.
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Praise carries the breaker anointing. To break
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through. Praise carries the presence of the Lord.
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It carries the government of God. Praise carries
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the authority of God. Praise enthrones the Lord
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in the midst of you. Come on, his government,
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his kingdom. Praise is speaking the word of God
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and it activates the angelic realm to minister
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on your behalf. Praise is the reason the church
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has no power in many regards because they've
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lost the place and the power of praise. I can't
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tell you how many services I go to all across
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the United States, and bless their hearts, sincere
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and wonderful praise and worship leaders have
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no clue what they're doing. Zero. They got some
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song and some music and stuff going on. And the
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Lord opens my eyes to the realm of the Spirit.
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And I see them start to sing a praise song. Heaven
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lines up, gets ready to come, gets ready to invade,
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gets ready to shift the culture in them, in their
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community, in their surroundings. And sometimes
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God will use you to go into praise and intercession
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for some place you don't even know about, but
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he's going to use you to do it. Come on. But
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you just follow. And I see heaven open. I see
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this happen. And then I see this naive but probably
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sincere good worship person. take it right out
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of praise and go into some other place. Prematurely
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go into worship or go into what I call the I
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-I -Me -Me songs, the narcissistic self -styled
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worship songs that we sing about how much you...
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Well, anyway, I won't go there. Or songs about
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the... And then my eyes open up and heaven stops.
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Stops. And so here's the people that are doing
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everything that they know of and they wonder
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why God's presence isn't there. Why God isn't
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visiting them. It's because God has a protocol
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of when he comes. He's the king. He just doesn't
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show up because you feel a song that makes you
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feel good. You sing a song that makes you feel
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up. He shows up because you sing a song about
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him. That's why he shows up. And so I've got
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to be really careful because this is such a passion
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to me. I can get a little sharp on it. I can,
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but I've got to tell you that there needs to
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be a rebuke across the board, across the United
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States of America, to many people who are holding
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worship schools, who are teaching people how
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to do self -styled, narcissistic worship that
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draws attention to them and nothing to do with
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God. It's leaving the churches powerless. The
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church is becoming like the voice. Let me embody
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an emotion, and everybody will feel good, but
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where's God? Well, I don't know, but I feel good,
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don't you? No. God doesn't feel good. Well, anyway,
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I better see I can... I got to get off of that.
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But my point is... Praise. Praise, praise, praise.
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Praise, praise, praise, praise. It will bring
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the power and the presence of God to do what
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you can't do in a hundred years. He can do in
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a moment's time when he shows up. Because he
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indwells your praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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I think Ruth Heflin has it the best. I think
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she defined praise in the order, the protocol
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of praise the best. She says, praise until the
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Lord comes. And then worship him until the glory
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falls. And then stand and minister unto him in
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the glory. That's how it works, folks. It's that
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simple. People don't know how to get in the glory
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realm. It's because they go back and forth between
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praise and worship or up and down. Or they jump
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into worship and they don't even do praise. Or
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they try to go over in the glory and God's not
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even showed up yet. Come on, are you there? As
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people of faith and of the kingdom of God, we
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need to understand how God shows up. Okay, I
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got to quit. It's like, can I just say it? I
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feel this jealousy of God for us. He wants us.
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He's jealous for us. He wants to come and be
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in our midst. And he doesn't like it when somebody
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else steals the spotlight. Takes his glory. He
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won't give it to another. Amen. Young worship
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leaders have ears to hear. This next thing the
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Lord showed me out of the Psalms is something
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that I've been ministering actually for the last
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several years from since 2011. And I'll reveal
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that and show that to you today so you'll be
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able to understand. Psalms 116 is the sixth,
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number six branch of the menorah, of the hallelujah
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menorah. as it exists in Scripture in Psalms
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111 through 117, which I believe relate to the
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year 2011 to 2017. This is what it looks like.
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Psalms 111, 112, and 113 begin with, guess what?
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Praise the Lord, or hallelujah, which means praise
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the Lord, right? indicating the first three branches
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of the menorah. If you look at Psalms 114, it
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neither ends with or begins with hallelujah.
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It's the lampstand. It's the branch. It's the
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Lord Jesus Christ. It's the lampstand that upholds
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the branches, right? And then if you look at
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Psalms 115, 116, and 117, they do not begin with
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praise the Lord. They end with praise the Lord,
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thus establishing the other three branches of
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the menorah. So we have been in a period of time
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from 2011 till present where God has been, through
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the Psalms and through these years, restoring,
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if you will, the fullness of the lampstand of
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God in the midst of his people, refilling and
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replenishing the lampstand in us as our high
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priest who has been tending the lampstands of
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the churches. Are you there? Is this too much
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for you? We need to understand what God's doing.
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This is a prophetic. This is in the realm of
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the Spirit what God's doing. Now, many of you
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may not be sensitive to that, but this is what
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God is doing in the realm of the Spirit because
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what happens in the realm of the Spirit comes
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into your life naturally where you're sitting
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and spiritually where you're sitting. And so
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prophetically, I'm telling you, when God opens
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these revelations and visions to me, this is
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what he shows me. So we're in this period of
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time where we're dealing with the sixth branch
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of the Hallelujah Menorah. And it's a pictographic,
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if you will, as I explained to you, arrangement
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of the Psalms that make a menorah. Do you see
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how it works? Come on, if you go to the far left,
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if you're looking here, it would be Psalms 111,
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Psalms 112, Psalms 113. They begin with praise
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the Lord, so they connect to the servant branch
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there, which is Psalms 114. Then you have the
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ones... 115, 116, and 117 that end with praise
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the Lord. So there is pictographically and in
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the Psalms, in your Bible, there is a menorah.
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And in the midst of that menorah, God is moving
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in these years as our high priest, as the one
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who tends the menorah, as the one who walks in
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the midst of the candlestands, as the one who
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is in the midst of us, he has been restoring
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the candlestand. He is candlestick. He has been
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restoring his light and revelation to the church
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because guess what? Somewhere back about 2009
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and 10, the priesthood stopped functioning to
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the degree to keep it lit. And so God steps in
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as Samuel did and begins to, through Jesus Christ,
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restore and refill the lampstand with the oil.
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Hallelujah. Now, What I want you to see here
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too is that Psalms 111, 112, 113, so forth and
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so on, the seven branched stem menorah, the six
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branches, the seven lamps of the menorah, if
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you look in Scripture, it's directly related
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to the Spirit of God and specifically to the
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seven spirits of God, Isaiah 11, 1 and 2, the
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spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit
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of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge.
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And the spirit of the fear of the Lord, the spirit
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of the Lord, the seven spirits of God. That's
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what it says in Isaiah 11 too. So when you say,
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God, fill me with your spirit, you're asking
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God to fill you with wisdom and understanding,
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counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of
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the Lord, the spirit of the Lord. Are you with
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me? And so what has God been doing from 2011
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forward to this time here where we're at the
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sixth, you know, the sixth branch, or I guess
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the sixth. Year, if you will. In 2011, he released
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the spirit of wisdom. In 2012, the spirit of
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understanding. In 2013, the spirit of counsel.
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And then we had the branch year, because Jesus
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is the branch, if you read it. Come on. It's
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the upholding branch. And then in 2015, last
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year, he released the spirit of might. And this
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year, he's releasing the spirit of knowledge.
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The spirit of knowledge. Hallelujah. This is
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the year when you say, God, fill me up with the
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spirit of knowledge. Why? Because the Bible has
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a lot to say about those who know the Lord. Not
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know about him, but know him. Know him personally,
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know him individually, know how he's going to
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react, what he's going to do, what he's going
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to stay in any given situation. Why? So we can
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walk with him. Come on. The Bible says that the
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children of Israel knew the acts of God, but
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Moses knew him. Right? Don't be one that just
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knows his actions. Be one who knows why he acts.
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That's what God wants us to know. That's that
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spirit of knowledge that God is releasing this
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year. You go, man, I've never heard of this before.
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What do I do about the past five years? Say,
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God, fill me up with your spirit. Get caught
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up. It's not too late. Right? Get your lampstand
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filled up with oil. Get yourself glowing and
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flowing. Get yourself illuminated. Are you there?
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Come on. Do you want God to be in your midst?
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He's not going to walk in the midst of you if
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you have no lampstand burning. Come on. Are you
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there? He's restoring this lampstand. It's a
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move of God. It's a mighty revival that's coming,
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a revival of revelation and of God visiting us
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and walking in the midst of us. Hallelujah. Let's
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go on. Let's go to the next slide. So we have
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the spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel
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and might, so forth and so on. And then here
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we have the colors of the seven spirits of God.
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Now, I'm not going to go too much in this because
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I don't have time, but could I just tell you
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that the Bible says in Revelation 4 and 5 that
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there is a rainbow around the throne of God and
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the seven spirits of God. Spirits of God each
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have a color and a frequency. That might get
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some of you, but unless you're into quantum physics,
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you'll understand all this. God's creative order.
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But anyway, so this is what's been happening.
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And this may sound a little off to you, but this
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is my world, so you can take it or leave it.
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This doesn't bother me. But oftentimes I'm ministering
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to someone, and guess what I see over the top
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of them? A color. Guess what I understand? I
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know that one virtue of the Spirit of God is
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doing something specifically there. Come on.
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Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
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What is that? Red is the spirit of wisdom. Orange,
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understanding. Yellow, counsel. Are you following
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me there? It's amazing what God's opening up
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in these days. Now listen, the New Agers used
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to have this a long time ago. You know what they
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called it? Gee, you have a funny looking aura.
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Now if I made you nervous, I'm sorry, but listen,
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this was God's first. They took it. So I'm taking
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it back and redeeming it. It's one of the popular
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things I'm doing with the body of Christ. Not.
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You can't believe how much trouble I get in.
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They go, you're a New Ager. I said, this was
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God's first. This is God's creative order, and
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this is what God did. The New Agers took it,
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and Christians are afraid to mess with it. I'm
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taking it back and redeeming it and restoring
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it to the body of Christ. It was theirs first
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and not them. And by the way, the New Agers don't
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have the Spirit of God to work it. Anyway, here
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we go. Let's go to the next slide if we can.
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Keep going. I won't get into all that. Hallelujah.
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See, there's the frequencies related to the color.
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Why does that matter? Because sound and light
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have a frequency. And in God's creative order,
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he always moves by a sound, a color, and a frequency.
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And it's so important in music. Ultra important
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in music. And if you do not understand the frequency
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and the sound that God is releasing, and if you
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go into another chord or another flow, you're
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going to miss what God's doing. Anyway, keep
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going. Here's Psalms 111. It's an alphabetical
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psalm. The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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perfectly in order, the way it's written. But
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if you look at verse 4, it has the dalat, which
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is the Hebrew word di. And I won't go into all
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this. I don't have time. But basically, God says,
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beginning in 2011 and forward, I'm going to open
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the door of understanding so you can know me
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and know why I do what I do so you can begin
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to do what I do with the same motivation. That
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began in 2011. That's the lampstand. Okay, go
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on one more. There's a solfeggio. Hallelujah.
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That's an amazing thing that you all have been
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taught from the sound of music. Do, re, mi, fa,
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sol, la, te. Right? And then the church added
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T, the seventh note, to the solfeggio. Did you
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know that? The church added the seventh note.
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Originally it was six. Do, re, mi, fa, sol, re.
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You get it? What is that? It's an amazing scale
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because... Back in the day, in the early church
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music, and even the Gregorian monks knew that
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this scale was the frequencies of God. They understood
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it. And they sang the frequencies of God. Isn't
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that amazing? 3 -9 -6, 4 -2 -8, 5 -2 -8. You
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see the 5 -2 -8 down there? Do, re, mi. In Latin,
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that's... Me, wrist, gestorum, that means this.
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It's the miracle frequency. And it is released
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at 528 hertz. It's released over you. Do you
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know what we found out? We found out that by
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biochemists, this is empirically proven, when
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you take ruptured DNA, damaged DNA, and you take
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it in verto, and you put it under this 528 frequency,
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within 24 hours it heals. Completely. You see,
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God knows stuff, doesn't he? The color of green
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is 528. Grass, trees, it's all 528. You go, well,
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how do you get the 528? You can't. You go, what
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do you mean you can't? Because in 1940, the entire
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world was detuned from 444 hertz of God's creative
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frequency down to 440. Get my books, get my CDs.
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I don't have time to talk to you about it at
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all. The world was purposely detuned by the Antichrist
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spirit to take away these frequencies so you'd
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begin to run out of energy, your mind would begin
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to be fatigued, your emotions would be stressed
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because everything now is broadcast under 444
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hertz, which means it hits the fight or flight
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receptor behind your ear and it causes you to
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live at a lower nature instead of the higher
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nature and frequency that God created us to live
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in. So I've been telling all the churches everywhere
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I go, retune your instruments to 444 hertz, and
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you'll begin to play these creative and restorative
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frequencies. Anything you're playing that's not
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444 hertz, you're playing a detuned, lower nature,
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worldly sound. Amazing, isn't it? That's why
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God's so emphatic about praise, but we've got
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to get retuned in our praise. Now you can do
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your praise right out of your mouth, but our
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instruments need to be retuned. Are you there?
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All right, go on to the next one. I wasn't even
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figuring on doing that today. Hallelujah. So
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here it is. Here's the full menorah. Here's the
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colors. Here's everything happening. And this
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is what God's doing. He's restoring the power
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of praise. Do you know that in some circles,
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in high -level circles in our government, they
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know about the 444 hertz frequency? Do you know
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they play it? as a protective sound wall because
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nothing else can permeate it. You go, did I come
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to X -Files this morning or is this church? I'm
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just telling you, God gives me these revelations.
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Why? Because he wants to restore the church.
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He wants to restore the power and the purpose
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and the place of praise. He's tired of everything
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being stolen from him. And he's tired of us being
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afraid to take back which is ours. He's tired
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of us not having power. We're tired of not having
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power. So God's bringing these revelations. Why?
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So we can restore ourselves to proper place and
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position of praise. Are you with me? That's it.
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It's that simple. I don't have no agenda other
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than that. This is the revelation God gives me.
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Why? Because he wants restoration. That's what
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God does. I'm not trying to take you into some
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weird thing. I'm just trying to show you the
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truth. Are you there? Okay. Last thing. Psalms
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116. It's an amazing, amazing thing. God said
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that after this psalm is complete in 2017 and
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he releases the spirit of the fear of the Lord,
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Then we're going to come into another seven -year
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period, beginning in 2018, where God is going
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to begin to spiritually begin to overlay on us
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the seven letters to the seven churches. And
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we're going to begin to walk out the overcomer's
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walk in the seven letters to the seven churches
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so that we come out overcomers and more than
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conquerors. So we have the right to eat the promises
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and do the promises. Are you there? God's going
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to bring us through that seven -year cycle. And
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why is he waiting in 2018? Because right now
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he's restoring the lampstand in you. He's restoring
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the lampstand in the church so he can walk in
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our midst because it's only as he walks in our
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midst is he able then to bring us into this place
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where we overcome. I hope that wasn't too much
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for this morning. But what I told you is true.
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And I'm not trying to be crazy. If I offended
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anybody, I'm sorry, but I'm just saying I'm a
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little edgy because... I'm a revivalist and a
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restorer, and so much has been stolen and taken
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from the church, and God wants you to have it
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back. So for this year, I just want to say a
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prayer over you, and then the elders or whatever
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are going to come. I want to pray that God deals
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bountifully with your soul. Amen? So you can
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rise up and fulfill your vows. I would just ask
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you this morning that you would take that vow,
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those vows that you made, and just bring them
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into your own remembrance, but bring them back
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up before God and say, God, I'm believing you
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this year to deal bountifully with my soul. I'm
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believing you to deal bountifully with me so
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that I can fulfill my vows to you. And then you
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watch what God does and be expected. Put his
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word in your mouth and begin to declare and decree
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his word prophetically over your life, the promises,
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the plans of God. Are you with me? Father, in
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Jesus' name, I pray over your saints this morning.
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I thank you, God, that you don't want us wondering
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or wondering what the future is. God, you give
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us glimpses and understanding. And God, I thank
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you that this year in 2016, irregardless of what
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happens, If there's a financial collapse, if
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there's a reset of currency, if there's an economic
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disaster, if there's a who knows what, God, it
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doesn't matter because this is the year we believe
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that you're going to deal bountifully with our
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soul. Bountifully with every area of our life.
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There's going to be a supernatural covering and
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release from you so we can rise up and fulfill
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our vows now, your word says. in the midst of
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the people so there'll be a witness and a testimony
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of your grace and your power so lord i pray great
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grace over your people that they can rise and
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fulfill your vows in jesus name hallelujah i
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bless them abundantly god and we say you're good
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and your mercy endures forever bless everything
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that's of you this weekend father in jesus name
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amen If you are interested in hearing other podcasts
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