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Sunday Message - Pastor Danny Bonilla (September 30, 2012) | Life Bible Church
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But it's been two weeks since I've been out of
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the pulpit. It's been a great time of refreshing.
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And then Friday afternoon, as I had been studying
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for this weekend, I received a call from Bob
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Isabel, one of our covering elders. You remember
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beautiful Bobby. Hallelujah. We love him here.
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And Bobby called me and said, hey, just had lunch
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with Danny and Giselle. They just flew in from
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Peru. And you had them last year at your anniversary
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service. Would you like to have them in again?
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And so I said, well, let me find out. We talked
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to the elders, and we talked about it. I said,
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you know, this has just gotta be a blessing from
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the Lord. So we said, yes, come on down. And
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so they came down yesterday after an apostolic
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meeting in Portland, and we're thrilled to have
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Danny and Giselle Bonilla here with us again.
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Would you welcome them as they come this morning?
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Come on, give a Big Life Bible welcome. To our
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friends, Danny and Giselle Bonilla, come and
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just greet the churches one more time. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. What a privilege it is to be back.
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this house and see what God has been doing and
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the growth because we've been in three services
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to now makes three services and it's it's just
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growing it's awesome but I shared with the earlier
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service one of my favorite scriptures unless
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the Lord builds the house everything that we
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do we do in vain and god wants to build this
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house and god wants to bring this house into
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another level and i i've been hearing all weekend
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how god wants to bring this house to another
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level and i just want to um i first spoke to
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the wives not going to speak to the men just
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an encouraging word men And this is a shout out
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for the women's conferences. I am an advocate
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of women's conferences. I love women's ministry.
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And if you want to see your house built, men,
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take out time and give your wife some time so
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they could come out to this women's conference.
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Let me tell you, when women are happy, your house
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is happy. You're not you're not gonna go around
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you're gonna come back and they're gonna come
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excuse me They're gonna come back and you you're
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gonna be excited because they're gonna be excited.
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They're gonna be transformed They're gonna be
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minister to they're gonna be pampered and guess
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what if they're pampered you're gonna become
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pampered That's the thing Let your wife go make
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a way for them to go women Let me tell you if
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you want to build your house if you want to make
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you know when the Lord says um unless the lord
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builds the house what is he building walls no
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he's building us we're the walls we are the house
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and god wants to build us strong for our children
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and our next generations to come and god wants
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to put in us strength and capability there is
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a valley that needs to be changed there is a
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valley that needs jesus But unless we're changed,
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unless we're ministered to, the outside won't
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be ministered to. So I just want to give you,
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encouraging you and tell you, men, send your
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wife to this woman's conference. The woman that's
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coming to minister, I don't know, maybe some
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of you know her very well because she's the mother
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in this house too. But for those that don't know,
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Sharon DiMazio is a woman of God. She is a woman
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that has been through, she's adopted children,
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she's had children, and she's a woman of a pastor
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of I don't know how many, is it like 3 ,000 people
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they have in the church? 6 ,000, look at that.
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She's a mama. And don't let her young facade,
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you know what? She's a mother. She's a mother
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in Israel. And God has used this woman to help
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a great man to shepherd many. Sheep or many pastors
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so I'm telling you if you give time to this women
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You are going to bless and I'm not I don't want
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to take any more time. Anyway, God bless you.
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I love you guys Thank you Praise God, that's
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my wife 38 years. I've been hearing it. You might
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as well hear it. Hallelujah She's the woman of
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my youth we met in high school and fell in love
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in our last year of high school and began to
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serve the Lord of revival was breaking out in
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our high school and my wife just joined me in
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ministry as we touched many lives and young people
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who today we have the privilege of Overseeing
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in the ministry because many of them are pastoring
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churches around the world And I have the awesome
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honor to pastor those young people who we laid
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hands on. They were just young men like we were
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and young women who today have great churches
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and have built the kingdom of God and extended
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the kingdom of God. But I've been hearing her
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speak and sing. She would sing in the high school
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and I would preach and it's been that way for
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38 years. She sings, I preach and at home she
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preaches and I sing. But we just... have built
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a relationship. We're gonna do this together.
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We're one as a married couple. You know, it's
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the only place where one plus one equals one.
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It's your marriage. And it's the only divine
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place where you have to be one in everything.
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You have to be one in the Lord, in ministry,
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in the call of God. There's not such a thing
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as somebody in marriage being called separate
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from their wife to do the work of ministry. You're
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both together. You're a team. And you should
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do that together. We're doing it together for
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38 years now from high school. To the nations
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of the earth and we're traveling for God enjoying
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it We've raised our kids at the altars of God
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We understood at a very young age coming from
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a rough background because I like Nick I was
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saved right out of that same mess of trouble
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in my life I was an alcoholic at the age of 17
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and totally gone wasted an outcast from society
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Jesus came and rescued my life and transformed
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me. So when I hear guys like Nick I get stirred
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up because I know and I prophesied him in the
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first service day Saturday night that makes one
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of the sons of this house gonna touch the nations
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of the earth God takes people like make and raises
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him up To touch the nations of the earth and
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in this house It's gonna be your job to mentor
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him groove him and a cause all of the things
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that he might be lacking in his life Thank God
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and it's great to hear that he feels he's got
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a family now. Can you give the Lord a hand? You
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are his family. You're the family of God It's
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our God who puts us solitary in families to see
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them change without the family of God I would
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not be here I would not be in the ministry today
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a good pastor who told me He saw me so radical
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for God when I first got saved and he said slow
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down son Because it's not speed that counts his
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resistance It's you're gonna be able you're gonna
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have to be able to run the distance of your journey
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And he began to speak into my life some wisdom
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and it took me a while to slow down But I learned
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wisdom from him and that's kept me all my life
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In the last years of his ministry I pastored
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him and it was an awesome honor to pastor my
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first pastor and to serve him and To tell him
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speed up now speed up We got work to do And it
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was it's been a great life and a great journey
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in God and like Nick I was very loved by the
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police force in my city I had one particular
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policeman who chased me all through my youth
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days and trying to really Trying to get me straight
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his intentions were right my intentions were
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wrong But when I got saved I led two young ladies
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to Christ who got so excited They took me to
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their house so I could leave their parents. The
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mother was the only one home So we prayed with
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the mom and I was just recently saved but I was
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speaking the Word of God and Witnessing to everything
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that moves so we led her to Christ and in this
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living room. We're praying and as we're praying
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this to this woman into the very Very introduction
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to Christ Jesus. She gives a light to Lord We're
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all crying of course moved by the Holy Spirit
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of presence of God is all over the living room.
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Oh the door flings open And guess whose house
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I'm in? The police officer that had chased me
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all through my youth. And the look on his face
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was not a happy one. He was confused, what is
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this criminal doing in my living room holding
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my wife and my kids' hands? But he soon found
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out it was God. You cannot resist the presence
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of God. So he bowed his knees and received Jesus
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Christ as his Lord and his life was changed.
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Would you give the Lord a hand? He only can do
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it. I didn't know what I was doing. I was just
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as shocked as everybody. And I was thankful that
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He didn't pull the gun out and shoot me, but
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that He actually got saved. I'll be thankful
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for the rest of my life for that one. But like
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that, God spares us, puts us into families and
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causes families to be saved. God's into families.
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Can you say amen? We just got back, my wife and
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I have been traveling for 12 weeks straight and
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we just got back from Peru. We spent two weeks
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in the nation of Peru and we spent it speaking
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to families. We spent it in a conference call
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saving the family. And it's all about fighting
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the front lines for the family, the sanctity
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of the family. Fighting against pornography over
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children. Fighting against the actual consent
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age that some of the nations of the world have
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actually established, like in Spain, the age
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of consent. consentment for a young person 12
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years of age. We're fighting in every front with
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pastors against Child trafficking and and the
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selling of organs of our children around the
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world and we're believing God to save families
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We've got leaders coming from all over the world.
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It's probably one of the greatest conferences
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I've ever been to 18 ,000 people were touched
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by the word of the Lord in two and a half weeks
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The Lord did a wonderful thing. Families were
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change and transform all over Peru and all over
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over different parts of the world, this message
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is going out because God's into saving families.
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Can you say amen? So it's a wonderful thing to
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come to a house that has a family anointing on
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it, that has a place where people can call home
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people who did not have a place to be, a place
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of safety like Nick testified. He's found a place
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of safety. He's found a place that he can call
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home. And would you give God a big hand for the
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many nicks that will get saved in this house,
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transform and change. As we get started, I had
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the awesome privilege also, my wife and I, to
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be with you on your 10th anniversary. It was
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an awesome time, and we walked away being with
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you for the first time in your church with a
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tremendous feeling, talking about you to everyone
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we knew. About the awesome presence of God, I
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think you have one of the most wonderful worships
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in the world. I think this church has an incredible
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anointing for worship and the presence of God.
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How many can thank God for the worship teams,
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the worship ministry of this house? And of course
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that comes from some singing pastors who have
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a mantle of a song of the Lord on them, a prophetic
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call on their lives, and they're mentoring you
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with that which God has put on them. The ability
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to prophesy the song of the Lord, usher in the
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voice of the Lord in the midst of the congregation.
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Can you give now a hand to the Lord for your
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pastors? Tell the Lord how much you appreciate
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Pastor Jan and Brad in this house. It's wonderful
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to hear the ministry of music with such cunningness
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in the house of God. And I kid you not, we travel
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around the world. This is some of the best worship
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we've enjoyed in the presence of God. And to
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watch people. Just have the freedom to come to
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the altar. The altar is the place where the lost
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get found and the found get lost. And we can
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spend time in God. I love the way you wait on
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God. The way you're not in a rush to worship
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God. And that is being lost in our generation.
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People want to have quick services and give God
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the least amount of praise that they can possibly
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get away with. But you are giving Him more. Amen?
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More than what others are giving Him. You're
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giving Him all the honor and all the praise.
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And he's certainly worthy of it. Can you say
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amen look at somebody and say he's worthy of
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all the praise Hallelujah Listen in Isaiah chapter
Isaiah 41 chapter mention
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41. It was a prophet Isaiah who prophesied about
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people like you he prophesied about lands like
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the one you live in When he said these words
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God speaking through him. I will open rivers
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and desolate Heights and fountains in the midst
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of valleys, and I will make the wilderness a
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pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
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The valleys, in the midst of the valleys, and
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you are a church in the midst of a valley. In
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the midst of valley God has said from the inception
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of this church that you would be a fountain,
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that you would be a place that would have springs
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of living water. That people would come and be
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able to drink of that water and get refreshed
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and I believe the word of the Lord over you I
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want to attest to that word you are a source
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of the waters of heaven to flow into this valley
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and Saturate this land waters of healing we sang
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about today are flowing through this place God's
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Announcement to this house that out of this house
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will flow waters That will heal families heal
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lives heal people have you been touched? by the
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waters that flow in this house. You raise your
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hand and say, that's me. You're talking about
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me. My marriage was healed. My life was healed.
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Come on, give it up to God. Give him another
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praise in this house. Proverbs chapter 16 verse
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22. It says, understanding is a wellspring of
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life. To him who has it. To him who has understanding
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it becomes a well spring of life Proverbs 18
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verse 4 the words of a man's mouth are deep Waters
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somebody say deep Deep waters the well spring
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of wisdom is a flowing brook And I believe that
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in this house. There is wisdom in this house.
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There's been a well spring of wisdom A flowing
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brook that God's bringing to you. For 11 years
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you've enjoyed your journey in God. You've watched
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God continue to perfect this church, continue
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to take you deeper and stronger into the ministry
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and into the call of God. You have been on a
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journey for 11 years. A journey on how to become
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that church that God spoke to you in the beginning.
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A place where waters would have to flow in the
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valley. A place that would cause water to come
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to dry places. Said about you you've been practicing
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for 11 years and it's not over yet. Can you say
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amen? The best is still to come. Can you say
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amen? I've heard about the songs and the annoying
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thing that's come on the church to write songs
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I believe the music of this house is going to
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be published around the world and your people
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are all over the nations They'll translate it
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to other languages and the songs that are birthed
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in your worship service are going to be sung
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in other places And they're gonna cause springs
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and brooks of waters to be open in different
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lands and dry places Because of the worship of
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this house because of what you've been called
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and what you are obeying God in You're going
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to change your world. Look at somebody and say
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we're called to touch the world We're called
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to change the world It's not a coincidence that
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you have a globe in the middle of a life Bible
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Church It's because God's called you to touch
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the nations of the earth right from this valley
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Right from where other people thought what will
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they possibly do in that place? That's where
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God said watch me and see I'll touch the nations
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of the earth right from that place Are you ready
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to train your sons and daughters? to touch the
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nations of the earth I just talked to a couple
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that's heading out for Asia to touch orphan children
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and minister to children in need I believe that
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that's the great call of God to touch people's
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lives and to get out to people who are hurting
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and who are lacking families and to bring the
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goods of the kingdom to them well God has given
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you wisdom has given you an anointing to bring
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the river to bring the waters to this land Psalm
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84 Psalm 84 verse 5 and 6 speaks about the people
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of God It says blessed is the man whose strength
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is in you Whose heart is set on a pilgrimage
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or journey? Heart is set on a journey on a pilgrimage
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as they pass through the valley of Baca the valley
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of suffering the valley of weeping That's what
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that means the valley of Baca. They make it a
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spring The rains also cover it with pools somebody
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say they They make it look at somebody and say
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it's up to us It's our responsibility And then
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as we pass through as we're in the journey that
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God takes us to we're supposed to change the
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atmosphere we're supposed to change dry places
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into saturated places of the presence of God
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where water is going to flow again as they pass
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through the valley of suffering you might be
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going through your own stuff but in the middle
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of it God says I'm letting you go through it
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so you learn something about how I can bring
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up my miraculous power at work in your life and
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change the atmosphere. You're called to move
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ahead, to press on, to occupy with the supernatural
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power of God. Somebody say there's power in this
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house. There's authority in this house. We can
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change the world we live in. Can you say amen?
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Come on, can you say it again? We can change.
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Get this in your spirit. You're a world changer.
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You can change your community. You can change
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your family. You can change the life of your
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children. You can change the world. But there
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is a starting point for everything. And you have
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started, 11 years ago, this started, with people
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that got together and believed that God could
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use them. And the word of the Lord came. It was
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your commencement and every year since then you've
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celebrated up to now 11 anniversaries and every
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one of those places Every one of those years
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accomplishes led you to a new place to a new
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starting point because when you think you've
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Reached the finish line and God he moves the
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finish line. I Want you to look at somebody and
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say this is a starting point It's another starting
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point for this church Numbers chapter 33 Speaks
Numbers 33 chapter mention
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about how God is interested in us learning about
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our starting points so much that He commanded
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Moses to record every starting point not the
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finishing points not the accomplishments of the
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journey But every time God started something
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new every time they started again every time
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they commenced again Their journey listen to
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it in numbers 33 verse 1 and on it says these
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are the journeys of the children of Israel The
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whole chapter is dedicated to it These are the
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journeys of the children of Israel who went out
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of the land of Egypt by their armies under the
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hand of Moses and Aaron Now Moses wrote down
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the starting points of their journeys at the
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command of the Lord God commanded him write this
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down He didn't command him to write the finishing
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points. He commanded him to write the starting
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points up Everybody say the starting points And
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these are the journeys according to their starting
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points. So the journey when God looks at the
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journey He looks at it from its starting points.
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I think we need to be like God We need to look
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at the journey from our starting points God wants
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us not to look just at our accomplishments because
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we're bound to get proud We're bound to get comfortable
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and say we've done enough. We've accomplished
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enough. This is enough for God I can't sacrifice
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anymore. I can't put out anymore. No God doesn't
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want you to dwell on everything you've accomplished
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praise God for 11 years but this is a new starting
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point for this house as you move on to year 12
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the number of government and authority in this
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house where God will put you on the world map
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and you will have a voice to nations of the earth
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and your music will be published to go out Listen,
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it's a starting point towards that place and
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from henceforth every time you come to your anniversary
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You need to understand that God will speak to
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you. God will send prophets to you I wasn't scheduled
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to be here, but I believe God sent me here I
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believe God will how God orchestrated my schedule
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and all I need to do is obey and say yes I will
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go to Harrisburg. I've been in meetings all day
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Saturday, but they have a meeting going on I
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asked my possible Frank let me really me so I
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can go to Harrisburg. He sends his love by the
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way. Tell those people I love them. Tell the
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pastors I love them. Sharon's going to be here
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soon. We believe in the destiny of this house.
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We believe enough to obey God and come here,
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not just to visit with you, but to bring a deposit
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of God. I'm here to stir you up. This is the
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third service, but I'm not growing weak. I'm
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growing stronger. I'm more crazy than last night.
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I'm believing God. to stir you up to become the
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people that God has called you to be it's a starting
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point and I want to be God's trumpet to let you
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know the clouds moving again now you're moving
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it deeper you're crying out to God deeper we
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want more and God's gonna give you more Exodus
Exodus 15 chapter mention
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chapter 15 Tell us about the journey. I want
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to talk to you about five, five steps of the
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journey that all of you will have to go through.
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Five steps of the journey. Now, listen, you read
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Numbers 33, you'll find a whole bunch of starting
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points. I want to talk to you about the journey
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because part of that journey, that pilgrimage
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in God is being able to find water, being able
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to get water where there's no water, being able
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to actually bring on what's in heaven on earth.
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And in Exodus chapter 15, It says that after
Exodus 15 chapter mention
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they came out of Egypt, verse 22 and on it says,
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Moses led Israel from the Red Sea onto the wilderness
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of shore. And they traveled for three days through
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the wilderness. Everybody say three days. Without
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finding any water. They got to Marah, but they
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couldn't drink the water at Marah. It was bitter.
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That's why they called the place Marah, bitter.
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And the people complained to Moses, so what are
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we supposed to drink? So Moses cried out in prayer
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to God. And God pointed him to a stick of wood.
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Moses threw it into the water and the water turned
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sweet. Somebody say it turned. The water turned
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sweet. That's the place, verse 26 is. where God
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set up rules and procedures that's where he started
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testing them that's where God started educating
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them God started shaping their character and
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God said if you listen listen obediently to how
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God tells you to live in his presence obeying
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his commandments and keeping all his laws then
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I won't strike you with the diseases that I inflicted
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on the Egyptians. I am God, your healer. How
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many believe he's our healer? Anybody here been
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healed? How many people's hearts been healed
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in this place? Emotionally, your mind has been
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healed. Your spirit has been healed. God's the
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healer. He sends his word out and he heals us.
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Listen, but he's saying to Israel, Israel, I'm
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testing you. This is where I'm gonna bring you
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in. And I've brought you through the wilderness.
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I brought you through this journey. Well, God
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knew that they were going to come three days
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into their journey. God, nothing surprised God.
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They were surprised at the bitter waters of Marah,
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but not God. God said, I've got a plan already.
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I got it taken care of. There's a stick, a dry
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stick that nobody has messed with for ages. Everybody
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has walked through the waters of Marah. Nobody
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is drunk and nobody's on about changing. How
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can we change this bitter place into something
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sweet? Nobody ever never occurred to anybody
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but one man in prayer One moment in prayer one
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moment in the presence of God and God could give
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you a revelation God can point you to the right
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thing you need to change Whatever is wrong in
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your life. Come on. Somebody say one moment in
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prayer. I So love the prayer life of this church
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and it shows up in your presence of presence
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of God is in this place because people pray Moses
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prayed, what am I going to do with these people?
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And God just pointed. God didn't even speak to
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him. God just pointed to a stick. Sometimes God
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just points. Hello? The answer's right in front
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of you. Can't you see it, duh? The stick. Can
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you see Moses thinking, stick? Water, bitter
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water. What do you want? I can see Moses trying
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to discern the mind of God. But he got up, got
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the stick and threw it in the water. The Bible
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says he threw it in the water. Say, throw this
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stick in the water. I believe that stick represents
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Calvary in all of our lives. All the bitterness,
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the ugliness of our lives all of a sudden is
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transformed when you throw Calvary into the picture.
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I don't care where you've been, what criminal
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you've been, how good you thought you were, full
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of pride. Listen, you throw this stick into the
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water and everything gets changed. All the bitterness,
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all the ugly of your life now begins to count.
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That which was bitter that you couldn't take,
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all of a sudden becomes something that will refresh
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you, strengthen you, and God will use it for
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His glory. All of the... all of the ugly experience
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of your life will become all in the hand of a
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mighty God through the work of Calvary something
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that will make you famous and renown your tears
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will count for God The wearing and the suffering
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you suffered will count for God The losses that
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you suffer will count for God the abuses that
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you took on up and the scars that discard your
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life get ready You throw the stick into the water
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and all of a sudden up those scars become stars
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Badges of honor and God transform it before you
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know it. You're walking like a decorated general
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in the kingdom of God Full of badges why because
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you suffered much Throw Jesus throw Calvary into
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your life. Amen He changes the bitterness around
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and you can drink the water That which you could
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in stomach all of a sudden makes sense. I know
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why God did it I know why I became a widow so
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that I can become an instrument of God and Touch
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other widows who have lost your hope I know what
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God allowed me to do and go through this so I
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can save some of the young people Listen, I hope
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you understand That one simple revelation from
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God can change your world One simple word from
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God. He don't even have to speak all he has to
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do is point and you've got to figure it out Hello,
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are you with me? Well, not too far from him is
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the next journey Throws the stick in the water.
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Of course, everybody drinks it Somebody say throw
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this stick in the water Come on. Look at somebody
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say he's preaching at you Throw this stick in
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the water Stop drinking bitter waters Stop living
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in the bitterness of the past Stop living in
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the shame of yesteryears Oh throw the stick in
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the water Let it be redeemed. Let it be changed
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Exodus 15 27 Verse 27 not too far of that same
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chapter. They came to Elima. They came to that
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second place They're traveling through the desert.
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They came to Elima where there were 12 springs
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of water and 12 springs of water in 70 palm trees
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They set up camp there by the water everybody
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say 12 Springs or 12 wells of water 12 walls
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of water I think it's significant of government.
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God, the next step after you get your life transformed
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and changed, after you understand that God loves
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you more, that He loves you so much that He interrupted
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your life and He can turn all the ugly out, then
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you gotta come to a place where you understand
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the rules and procedures that are set by leaders.
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Hello? authority in your life there now God begins
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to transform and change you and people begin
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to mentor you and tell you don't do that and
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don't do this I thank God even my wife mentored
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me I was a crazy hippie from 1972 didn't know
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how to dress when I went to church and people
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didn't want me in church because I look so weird
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but my wife came into my life having grown up
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in the church she taught me about giving the
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best to God I went to pick her up for our first
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date it was a church service She said, I ain't
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going with you that way. She made me change.
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And from there on, she's still making me change.
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38 years. And I just kind of, I got to get her
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approval for everything now. I've been doing
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it for 38 years. I can't do anything on myself.
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What do you think? Well, thank God for wives
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and people that God put in our life. We've mentored
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each other as we've walked together. She's my
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first disciple, and she's the woman I love spending
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time with. I love my children, I love my grandchildren,
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but I love my wife even more. So they come to
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a lean, the 12 springs of water, and now three
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million people have to learn how to drink from
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12 wells. Not 1200 wells, but 12 wells Sure,
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there's got to come some structure and some organizing
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and people have to come around and respect authority
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I believe you've been through that Well, you've
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learned how to respect and honor authority and
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procedures in the house of God. This is a house
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of order It's a house of freedom, but there's
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order in this house There everything is done
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decently yet in order and I so thank God for
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that The next stage after you learn how to respect
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authority and submit to authority because you
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can't be an authority until you learn how to
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submit to authority is exodus 17 here's the next
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journey exodus 17 verses 3 and on says but the
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people were thirsty again it says the people
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were thirsty for water there because they journeyed
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and they had no water. So the people were thirsty
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for water and they complained to Moses, why did
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you take us from Egypt and dragged us out here
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with our children and animals to die of thirst?
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And Moses cried out in prayer to God, what can
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I do with these people? Any minute now they're
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gonna kill me. God said to Moses, go on out ahead
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of the people. taking with you some of the elders
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of Israel take the staff you use to strike the
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Nile and Go, I'm going to be present before you
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there on the rock of at Horeb You are to strike
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the rock somebody say strike the rock Water will
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gush out of it and the people will drink So Moses
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did what he said with the elders of Israel right
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there watching he named the place masa the testing
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place because it was another test and Meribah
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the quarreling place because of the quarreling
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of the Israelites and because of their testing
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of God when they said is God here with us or
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not And every time God takes us through the journey
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he seems to slip back Out of the scene where
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he can be actually seen or discerned he's there
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But he wants us teach us how to walk by faith
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Amen and not by sight and you got to trust him
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if he brought you that far He's not gonna put
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you to shame He's gonna provide for you. He's
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gonna meet you along the way Don't let your fears
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Don't let the insecurities of the past come back
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and rob you of your moment of faith Your moment
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to trust God and say God will come through watch
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out kids. God's gonna bout to break out This
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isn't gonna stay this way I believe in God for
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men and women that will rise up and teach another
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generation how to put their whole trust in God
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You can trust God. He's good for his word. You
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can take his word to the bank It's not gonna
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bounce back at you. It won't return back void.
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Can you say man? Come on somebody give our God
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a big hand. He's worthy of trust He's worthy
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of trust You can trust him God is good. We travel
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across nations, my wife and I, and sometimes,
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to tell you the truth, we have to believe Him.
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Now that we have released ourselves from the
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local church, the only sense of income is from
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what we do as God leads us to places and God
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blesses us and takes care of us. And we arrive
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at foreign lands sometimes with very few dollars
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in our pocket, but nothing in our account. We've
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drained everything, given everything that we
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have away and sold into other places, and we
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have found ourselves over and over in places
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and lands where we didn't know where the... next
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dollar was going to come from, how are we going
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to even get back home? I'm opening up my heart
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to you. It's not so that you take another second
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offering, but if you want to do it, I'll receive
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it. I just want to teach you faith, because sometimes
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you've got to do what God tells you to do, no
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matter what the circumstances dictate. You cannot
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let your bank account dictate your faith. If
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you're going to do something for God, you better
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believe that He pays for what He orders. And
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we've been praying all of a sudden we pray and
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we thank God and the Lord will whisper He whispered
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into my wife's ear just the other day and said
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have I ever left you in shame And I turned on
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my computer in the moment I turned it on an email
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popped up and said I've just deposited some money
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into your account And it was enough to get the
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job done that we needed to get done and God has
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provided Miraculously, I'm telling you our God
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listen. He bypasses the frail economy that we're
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in Heaven is not in trouble. Heaven will not
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close down anytime soon Heaven is open for business,
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but you can only transact with faith in the bank
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of heaven. Can you say amen? How many are ready
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to access your ATM in heaven and access? Miracle
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and pull a miracle out for God. Can you say amen?
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Well, that's the kind of faith he wants. He wants
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you to trust him. He brought you out. You're
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in this journey now He'll provide he's provided
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for 11 wonderful years God's gonna provide for
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every CD that needs to be produced Miraculous
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money is about to spring open up checks that
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nobody expected will come out and God will provide
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for what he has ordered in this house Who shall
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I am a cut in a name? Somebody say strike the
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rock and Lord said to him but take the staff
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which you use to strike the Nile It's the same
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staff. It's always been with you You don't need
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to wait for something to happen. You need to
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make something happen use that which is in your
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hand use that talent I've given you you've that
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authority I've already given you to bring provision
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some people are walking around with the answer
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to their demise and Not understanding that's
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already in their hand It's their gift, it's their
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talent, it's their ability. But have not learned,
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have not woken up to the fact that you already
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have what you need to bring your next miracle
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into place. Strike the rock. Here's the next
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one, I'm moving quick. Numbers 20. Verses one,
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two, verses two, none. Numbers 20, are you with
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me? Here's the fourth part of the journey, I've
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got five only. And the fifth one has got about
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30 points. No. Number's 20. It says, again, here's
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the language. There was no water there, verse
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two and on. There was no water there for the
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community. So they ganged up on Moses and Aaron.
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It's always Moses' fault. And when things go
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bad, we got all these spiritual gangs that want
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to rise. Kill Moses. That pasture. It's Moses
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fault. It's those elders. So they ganged up on
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Moses and Aaron and they attacked Moses. We wish
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we died when the rest of our brothers died before
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God. Why did you haul this congregation of God
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out here into this wilderness to die? People
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and cattle alike. And why did you take us out
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of Egypt in the first place? dragging us into
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this miserable country. No grain, no figs, no
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grapevines, no pomegranates, and now not even
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any water. And Moses and Aaron walked from the
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assembly, assembled congregation to the tent
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meeting and threw themselves face down on the
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ground. And they saw the glory of God. Somebody
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say they saw the glory. Now I want to say to
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you that when Moses and Aaron walked away from
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the people they were pretty angry Their temperament
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was hot and they walked away because they needed
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God to get them under control And they saw glory
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the glory of God I think that sued them and God
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spoke to Moses take the staff Assemble the community
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you and your brother Aaron and he said to him
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speak to the rock speak to the rock. Somebody
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say speak. Speak to the rock. Don't strike the
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rock this time Moses. Just speak to it. Because
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this is a whole other phase. You've just started
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another part of the journey. And now I'm training
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you. I'm taking you to a whole other phase of
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faith. I'm taking you deeper in your faith than
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you've ever been. Now it's not the rods, not
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your talents, not your ability that's gonna get
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something to happen. It's your faith. You're
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going to speak. You're going to speak the word.
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I'm gonna teach you how to speak and talk like
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I speak. I call the things that are not as if
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they were. That's how God speaks. He's spoken
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that into all of our lives. Listen, listen, you
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are being transformed and changed because God
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has spoken change. Already into your life. There
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are things that have been said that some of you
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are suffering transformation and change and don't
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even know it that God's Developing that which
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he said about you. There's a creative word at
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work There's a power of the Word of God that
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cannot return back void at work in your marriage
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at work in your home at work in your children
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Nobody will escape the working of the powerful
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Word of God Look at somebody say he's working
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you over. I know that Just in case you think
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you're Out of this picture. I don't care how
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old you are. You're still alive sucking oxygen
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on planet earth. He's not through with you So
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you never too old for God to work you over hello
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Get you to a deeper place than God Some of you
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have said we're gonna let the other generation
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do it. Let them praise God Let them get radical
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something you need to get back on the wagon You
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need to get crazy for God become some old folks
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that are crazy for God Don't just let your life
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be what I'm gonna move to Florida and retire
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out there My listen I live in Florida. I watch
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those guys all the time. They're in the malls
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chasing after their wives Their wives still got
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it. They're strong shopper. They're shopping
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out there The husbands are chasing them down.
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They're grumbling between their teeth this moment.
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And they're rebuking their wife. I bind that
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spirit of shopping. I want to go home. And the
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wife said, what did you say? I said, no, I bless
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you. I bless you. And then just learn how to
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flow through life. I'm in retirement. Florida
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is God's waiting room. It's the only place where
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you hope your name doesn't get called up. But
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I watch guys, they're living all over the world,
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moving to Florida. Your life's not over. You
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don't abandon your church. You don't abandon
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ship. Your grandchildren need your testimony.
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Your grandchildren need to see you worshiping
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God, blessing God. I don't care if you can't
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jump, you can fake it. Let them see you're still
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alive. The dead can't worship God. Somebody,
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let that little baby see you looking crazy for
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God every time the presence of God falls. So
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your hips come out. Let your hips come out for
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God. They came out for other things. Worship.
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You're a worshiping church. You're part of a
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fire church. This is not just for young people.
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This church is for old and young alike. This
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is for a radical group of people that won't conform
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to this world, won't shut up, and won't put up
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with the devil's plot. Can you say amen? Am I
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talking to the right church? Are you the right
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people or not? Will you stand and give God a
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praise in this place? Come on, turn around, give
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two or three people a big high five and tell
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them we're it! We're God's chosen instrument.
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Now get seated, I want to finish. The Bible says
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that Moses took the staff and took his elders.
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went before the people and then he spoke to the
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people and he said what I need to bring out water
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again for you guys and he disobeyed God because
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God didn't say speak to the people God said speak
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to the rock he misrepresented God and offended
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the holiness of God he wasn't reverent before
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the Lord he did not howl me as reverent as holy
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before the people because God cares how leaders
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represent him And he didn't represent him, he
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was frustrated, he was angry. And the Bible says
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that instead of speaking to the rock, he struck
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the rock twice. Now the New Testament interprets
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that that rock that followed him was Christ.
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And when he struck the rock twice, God said,
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uh -uh, you've just crossed a line of no return.
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My son will be struck once. For the sins of the
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world, but nobody will strike him twice Said
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Moses and Aaron you will not Take the people
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into the promised land because of this you're
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not going in you can look at it from afar But
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this will cause you your entrance into the future
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The right of passage has been taken away Because
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you did not trust God. That's what God said to
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him You didn't trust me. That wasn't the people,
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it's you as a leader. You didn't trust me. You
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were supposed to represent me and this is for
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every leader, not just pastors, this is for every
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man that leads their home. You didn't trust God.
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God said speak to the rock. Heard a man say,
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you know, I caught what God was saying to me.
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I've struck, I've used a rod to beat my children
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instead of speaking to them and thinking that
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with the word I could change their lives and
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I'm guilty of it. I let my temperament get the
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best of me. Fathers, I called you to step up
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your level of faith. Don't lose it with your
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children. You represent God more than anybody
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else to them. You need to have words of faith
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and words of encouragement and words that speak
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them into the future Words that are so positive
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that they'll go away and think about them for
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the rest of their life when God calls you home
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They'll still be thinking about the words you
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use to build them up instead of tearing them
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down And God said to Moses I wanted you to speak,
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but you struck the rock. So you're not doing
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this. You didn't trust me, and you did not treat
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me with holy reverence in front of the people.
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Here's the last one. Because before he even is
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sent up to die, he's gotta take it to one more
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step, one more journey. And here it is, Numbers
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21. Are you with me? Numbers 21, verse 16 through
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19. They went on to beer. The well was called
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beer. That wasn't a cult 45. That was a well
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that was called beer. For those of you who are
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thinking, wow, this is a cool church. They went
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on to beer where God said to Moses, gather the
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people. I'll give them water. That's where Israel
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sang this song erupt well or new King James says
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spring up a well Sing the song of the well The
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well sunk by princesses dug out by the people's
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leaders digging with their scepters and staffs
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both scepters and staff or are Symbolic of authority
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they were digging out but the people were singing
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Wells that have been plugged up by the enemies
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of a... Family of God the Philistines Wells were
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opened by Abraham the Philistines came and covered
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them Isaac had to unplug them leaders who God
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has called through every generation use their
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scepter use their authority to unplug the wells
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and now they're standing up in this last Part
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of a journey and God's teaching Moses Moses now.
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It's different I don't call them to throw a stick
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into this well. Oh listen. It's a stopped up.
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Well. It's been covered up I want the leaders
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down in the pit. I want them digging it But while
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you're digging with their authority while they're
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pressing in pressing on for something to happen
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I want the people to gather around the well and
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sing the song of the well and the song of the
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well is Spring up a well spring up and as the
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people began to sing water gushed out of the
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well And I'm here to tell you that this is year
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11, the year of the song in this house. The song
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that's going to cause wells to spring out. Wells
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of water will begin to gush out. Get ready for
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the saturating of the Holy Ghost and the anointing
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that's going to come on this valley of families,
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on people. You're going to sing your way out
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of financial trouble. You're going to sing people
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out of their deathbeds. You're going to sing
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them out of their infirmities. into a hope sentence.
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Are you with me? You're going to sing your maximum
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kids back home. You're going to sing your wayward
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husbands back to your family. You're going to
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sing, sing, sing, sing. Come on, are you ready
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to sing? Are you ready to raise your voice and
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be heard in this valley louder than ever before?
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This is a new phase of our anointing in God for
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you. This is what you've been called to do. To
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bring water where there is no water. You're not
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called to say well, that's too plugged up That'll
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never happen all those out there those for those
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things you had to plug wells That's though. They
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made sure nobody's gonna unplug it No, you're
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gonna look at that well and say I've got enough
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authority in my song. I've been commanded by
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God to sing to my well I'm gonna sing my way
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out of trouble I'm going to sing my way out of
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thirst. I'm not going to languish and die in
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this desert. It might be bad now. The economy
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might be bad. I've maybe lost my house, lost
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my business, lost my cars. But I'm not going
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to lose my life. I'll regain all those things.
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And I'll do it with a song. I'm going to sing.
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I'm going to sing. I believe the heart of God
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longs to hear fathers sing to their children.
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Songs of love and songs that will call the river
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of God back into their children. Prophetic songs
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that will release things that the enemy has plugged
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up in your children, in the lives of those that
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are no longer at the altars of God. They were
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talented, they were gifted, but they've walked
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away. Families and backsliders. If you only knew
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the power that's in your song, you'll hurry up
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and publish these songs because they all have
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the power not only to restore your children,
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but to restore the broken of the world. to restore
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the children of prophetic songs that will go
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out of this place as you Publish them and go
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out and that please don't say well There's so
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much of it going on there's so much in the music
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world hill songs there and no I don't care who
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else is there God's calling you to do it and
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you need to rise up You've got one of the greatest
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worship anointings in the world. I'm not saying
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that to puff you up This is a well spring of
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God. There's a well that needs to come open in
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this house musicians and singers spring up, and
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I don't care if you're a singer like me that
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can't find the key. I'm like a prison singer.
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I'm always behind a few bars and always looking
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for the key. You can't tune up with everybody
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else, but you can still sing. Hello. You know,
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in the world, when God created the world, He
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created the birds of the air. Unclean birds in
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the Bible have no song. They make weird noises.
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But they all have a song The clean birds are
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the ones with a song You've been washed by the
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blood of a lamb Maybe you couldn't sing before
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maybe all you could do is make Before but now
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you're a new creature in Christ. He's turning
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from a dirty bird into a clean bird Can you say
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that there's a song deep inside if you dig deep
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enough? You'll sing a song in your kitchen that'll
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turn your some side down. Demons will have to
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flee at the sound of the song of his house. You
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want to see deliverance? Sing your song. Sing
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your way through the most incredible forged attacks
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of the devil. You'll sing your way through like
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the armies of Jehoshaphat did. For the Lord is
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good and His mercy abhors forever and out of
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heaven angels are dispatched at the sound of
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a song. As soon as they started singing in the
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day of Jehoshaphat, God dispatched angels and
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went to war against the armies that threatened
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Israel. And they saw a great deliverance. Are
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you ready? Deep cries out to deep. This is a
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whole new deep day for you. You're entering a
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new level of faith, a new stage in God. And when
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people look at you, I never heard you sing before,
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daddy. I just stepped into a whole nother round
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and God son Watch I look a little out of tune
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here, but I'm gonna get it I'll find that key
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and I'll tune in and I'll locked into the wave
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of a Holy Ghost And before you know it my songs
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will begin to make sense. I'm gonna sing about
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your future I'm gonna I'm not going to pray you
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to sleep I'm gonna sing you to sleep with a song
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that as I prophesy about your destiny Oh Listen
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this works All around the world the same anointing
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if we can just get the church to sing their song
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And it's up to you now. I've delivered the Word
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of God This is my third service trying to get
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out the burden of the Lord. I've done it now.
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It's on you Look at somebody and say dare to
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sing Dare to sing dare to sing to your well That's
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right. You might not be good for the worship
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team. That's okay Let those who are super gifted
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in skill be on the platform. Don't don't try
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to do that. Okay But you can say you can sing
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in the shower Maybe it's in the shower that you
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get inspired There's something about singing
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in the shower that just makes everybody believe
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they can sing Is that true you're singing away
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and You think nobody's listening, but the whole
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family's out in the back room. Jesus. But it's
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you and God singing the prayer room, singing
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the outreaches, singing the hospitals over hospital
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beds that are filled with dying people. Take
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your songs to the world. I believe you'll have
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the power to change it. God bless you. If you
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are interested in hearing other podcasts or contacting
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Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch
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.org or call us at 541 -995 -8282.