Sermon
267 ~ SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM - JEREMY AARON
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We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast.
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We are a church based out of Chennai, India.
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We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will
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be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear.
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Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of
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purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.
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We have guest speaker Jeremy Aaron with us who helps unlock
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for us a few Kingdom secrets. We hope you are encouraged to
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begin to dig deeper in the world to discover your God-given
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calling and purpose in the Kingdom.
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Well, good morning everyone. I'm so honored to be here today
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and it's a joy for us to escape the Varanasi heat and come to
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Chennai and experience some humidity.
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Amen. Look at your neighbor and say
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welcome to church. Amen.
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I love church. I just want to take this time to
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honour and thank Karshav and Christine and the church here
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and the community here. Thank you for having us over and
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taking a risk and asking me to speak.
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Amen. Somebody said it's good to be
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where God is. Amen.
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It's very, very dangerous to be where he was.
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We need to be where God is. Where is God for you today?
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Amen. Where is the Holy Spirit leading
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you? Amen.
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He leads in green pastures. He leads us beside quiet waters.
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We become too complicated for the Kingdom.
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Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is like, if your
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burden and your yokes are there, its because of you.
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Somebody asked what's the greatest challenge in Varanasi?
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Because when you think about Varanasi, like for some people
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little scary, for some people don't we don't know what is in
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Varanasi, but I see the greatest challenge in Varanasi is me.
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I am my greatest challenge because there are things that
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God wants to do in and through my life.
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There are things that he wants to accomplish.
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There are people he wants to reach in and through me.
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And if I'm not sensitive to His Holy Spirit, if I am not
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experiencing Pentecost every day, I won't be able to
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accomplish what He wants me to accomplish, Amen.
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God listens to the cries of our heart, Amen.
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Sometimes this has small things made you angry, Small things
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that don't actually matter. Somebody press the toothpaste in
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the middle, you get angry. Food is cold, you get angry.
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There's so many things we get upset about.
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What we don't get upset that there are people in the world
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that have not experienced a touch from Jesus.
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Amen. I was installing when we first
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moved to Varanasi, I was installing my Internet on top
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because my kids were doing online school.
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So as I and in Varanasi, everybody sticks closer than a
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brother. Everybody is very close because
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the walls are attached to each other.
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Their houses like your list. Everybody knows what's happening
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in your house. You don't need ZTV, you don't
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need MTV, you don't need a Netflix and all over there
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because everybody's entertainment is there around
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you. So one my neighbor looked out
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and he asked me in Hindi, what is your password?
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I'm installing my Internet. He's asking me what?
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My password. I gave him my password.
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My wife was a little scared. So you don't know who they are,
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All these young boys. I said if we can't share our
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password, how can we share Jesus?
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Amen. God has shared heaven with us
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and we can't even share one small thing, correct.
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How many of you like to be called a son and daughter of
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God? Everybody yes till we see what
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God did to his own son, then we want to be his cousin so don't
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want to be son because unnecessarily why you have to go
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on the cross, but that's the call over our lives is going to
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be hard and difficult because everything we feel is ours.
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That is why today I'm going to speak a little bit about the
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secrets of the Kingdom Amen. There are secrets that God wants
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to give us and if we walk in this seek secrets you won't get
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by listening to a sermon, secrets you won't get by
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listening to a podcast, secrets you won't get for me.
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Also, I can give you only a partial revelation of what God
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wants to give you. You have to thirst and hunger
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for it. Amen.
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How many of you are hungry today?
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You're already planning lunch, where to eat.
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At least I am doing that. I don't know about you because
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they told me where they're taking me.
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I'm very excited, OK, But in the earth today, the more hungry get
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we get, the more we eat, correct?
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Sometimes we are very hungry, so we tend to eat more.
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But in the realm of the Spirit, the more we eat, the more hungry
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we get. And God wants to keep us in that
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space of hunger. Few people love God.
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Many people love, many people serve God.
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Few people love Him. God wants to bring us back to
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our first love. God wants us to bring us back to
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that day of Pentecost where we experience something.
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If you have not experienced it, we are missing out on something.
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We are missing out on one of the greatest treasures on the earth.
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And today I want to talk about the secrets of the Kingdom.
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The Bible is very clear. Its the devil.
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Devil is not a problem. Devil is not a problem.
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What kills us? Hosea is very clear.
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He said the lack of knowledge. People perish.
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People don't perish because of because the devil is attacking
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them. People perish because they don't
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know how to deal with the devil. The two kinds of people, one
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person who's not afraid of the devil, correct.
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We want to want to be that one, but for me the devil is should
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be afraid of me. That's the kind of person God
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has created you to be. If I introduce you to your real
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self, you will be afraid of meeting you.
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Because the things that God has put inside of us, the things
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that he has equipped us with, man, we are not created in the
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image of Shahrukh Khan. We are created in the image of
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God. Amen.
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We don't have to do like this and get worry about anything.
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We don't have to bow our head to anybody.
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We need to understand what has God put inside of us that He can
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create us in, not just in His image, but His likeness.
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We have been created in that and that is what we need to walk in.
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And when we walk like that, even though I walk through the
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valleys of the shadows that I will fear no evil, I'm not going
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to be anxious about anything. Being anxious is OK Staying
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anxious is the problem. Yes, there are things that
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recently, just few, few weeks ago, the doctors listened to my
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sons heart. He's only three years old.
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I don't know. You have a picture of our
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family. He's there.
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OK. This is our family.
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Fortunately, unfortunately, all of these people live in our
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house. Praise God, if Jesus invited us
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to his house, we have a revolving door.
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Anybody can come. But when people have to go see,
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Jesus led the way. He showed the way.
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Then he got out of the way. We need to get out of the way.
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There are seasons of life where we have to lead the way, we have
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to show the way. So one of my youngest sons, the
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middle right, the small, they told us there is a chance you
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might lose your son because he has, he had a very critical
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heart problem. We didn't know what was going to
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happen. And also these few weeks have
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been very, its been hard because it couldn't be detected before
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we went to Maranasi, but after Varanasi, suddenly it came alive
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because the devil wants to destroy us.
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Why? The devil attacks those who are
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a threat. He doesn't touch those who are
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not a threat. And I know that my son has
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become the biggest evangelical tool we have in our house
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because all our neighbors, they won't step into a Christians
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house. But because of my son, the
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people have started coming to our house.
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Why? Because he's always running
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around, always playing around with people.
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People want to come. And so the devil is attacking
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him because if he attacks him, he we will lose our peace.
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But we know that he who is in US is greater than he is in the
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world. People keep idols outside our
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house trying to threaten us. People have done a lot of things
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against us. The other people can be
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possessed by the enemy and destroy your peace.
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But God wants you, you to attach yourself to the Kingdom of God.
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And when you attach yourself to the Kingdom of God, you can walk
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in authority. Doesn't mean you will not walk
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into trouble, Doesn't mean you will not have attacks, doesn't
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mean you will not have battles, Doesn't mean the devil will not
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try to lose your peace. But in those moments, you will
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rest in the knowledge that he who created 126 billion acres of
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land, he's given this up to you. I researched how much land there
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is on the earth. Why?
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Because it's part of my inheritance and no man can give
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it to me, the God who created me directly Go there only if you
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lift your face to the Father, you won't need facelift correct?
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We all worried about so many things in life at stress has put
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changed our face. But when Moses saw God, his face
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changed correct? He had to put a cloth on his
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face. There is an anointing, its not
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kept for in heaven when you go, there's not a special line for
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pastors. Then they say no, no, no
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prophets, another line, no, all will come in the same line
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because we all created in the image of God.
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We all created for a time such as this.
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We all created for a destiny. So don't let the devil lie to
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you that you have to function in only four modes, work, work,
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sleep, eat, repeat. There is more inside you that
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God wants to bring out of you. And today we are going to dive
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deep into the knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom because
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that is why he said that is why I have come.
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I'm going to give you some verses because I have to preach.
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You say he's not, He's just saying something not say quoting
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the Bible. So I will quote the Bible.
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Are you having a good time today?
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Amen. We are going to learn together.
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Sometimes I say some things which I don't.
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It is not in my notes. Then I know the Holy Spirit is
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there. So we are going to learn
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together, Amen. So Matthew chapter 4 verse 17
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says from that time on, Jesus began to preach repent for the
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Kingdom of heaven has come here. OK, from that time on, he made
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the statement when he just got baptized.
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He just came out of the villages that the first statement he made
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the first statement he made of what is repent for the Kingdom
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has come near. That means I am come to
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represent the Kingdom and Luke 443 he says but he said I must
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proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to others towns
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also because that is why I was sent.
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Why was Jesus sent to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom?
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Amen. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 14
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it says and this the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in
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the whole world as a testimony to all the nations and then the
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end will come. Jesus did not come to preach
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prosperity. Jesus did not come to preach
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healing. Jesus did not come to preach
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hell and heaven. Jesus came to preach the gospel
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of the Kingdom. The prosperity is mentioned 17
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times. Healing is mentioned 23 times.
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Heaven is mentioned 80 times. Hell is mentioned 54 times, the
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gospel of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is mentioned 195
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times in four gospels. There is something that we need
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to pay attention. If Jesus was talking about
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Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, he didn't say
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synagogue, synagogue, synagogue, synagogue.
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He said Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom.
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We need to pay attention. What is this Kingdom, God?
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What is this Kingdom you're talking about?
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So we want to know God, what are you talking about when you say
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the Kingdom? Matthew chapter 13 verse 19.
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This is a dangerous verse. I love Scripture because it
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makes us uncomfortable. Scripture is important because
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it cuts out what is comfortable and makes us focus on what is
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important. He said when anyone hears the
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message about the Kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
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one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart, the seed
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that is sown along the path. When he talks about the evil
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one, it talks about the devil. The devil did not send his minor
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prophets, major prophets. The devil himself will come and
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try to steal the Kingdom. Because if you are part of the
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Kingdom that God created, you're a threat to him today.
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You're not part of a church, you're part of a Kingdom.
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Zion is not a church, its part of the Kingdom of God.
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The Kingdom is so much more bigger and powerful than these 4
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worlds. Yes, the Kingdom is more
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powerful than these 4 worlds. It is here where you get fuelled
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and refuelled and you go out and you do the things of the
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Kingdom. It is here when you learn, when
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you grow together, learn from each other, ask each other what
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the needs are, ask, pray for each other, minister to each
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other. You're in this community not to
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attend and mark your attendance and feel good about yourself.
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This community is here so that you can be a blessing to those
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around you and you can go and tell your neighbors your
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Internet password. Amen.
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God said man, what are you doing?
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You don't even know your neighbors name.
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There's something wrong with you.
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Sometimes I forget my neighbors name because we all are so
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bothered about us. See in life now, we are so
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intentional about building our life, building our career,
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building our future, building this.
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We have no idea about building the Kingdom.
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We are not intentional about that.
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And God says it is time that you are intentional about why I put
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you on this. Otherwise you're going to go
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from one stress to another stress, from one anxiety, from
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one disappointment from one desire to come and be at a
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certain level and then it falls short.
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Why? Because you're not part of His
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Kingdom. You're part of your Kingdom.
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The Kingdom of heaven is very different from the Kingdom of
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God. Psalms 115 verse 14 to 16 says
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may the Lord cause you to flourish.
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Amen. God wants us to flourish.
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OK, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the Lord.
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The makers of the heavens and the earth, the have highest
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heavens belong to the Lord. The highest sevens belong to the
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Lord. But the earth is given to you.
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The earth has been given to you. See, religion is one of the most
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demonic things on the earth, because religion postpones the
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Kingdom to another dimension, correct?
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We all want to go to heaven, but I am sorry to say in heaven you,
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you are useless. In heaven you cannot say how can
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I pray for you? In heaven you cannot say hey can
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I help you with this? Hey how can I be there for you?
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Hey who should I tell about Jesus?
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Your job is done when you go to heaven you'll be enjoying Gods
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presence but you will never be fulfilling your purpose.
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We all like to go to heaven, why no loans?
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We used to pray when you're on 10th standard.
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God come now fast, take us and go, correct?
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See, the most selfish thing to pray is pray.
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Jesus come. The most selfish thing to pray
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is Jesus come. Because it says that I do not
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love those who don't know him because I don't care about them.
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I want to go to heaven. That's all bothers.
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That's all I'm concerned with. But Jesus says let's live
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differently. If I really love Jesus, I will
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love people. And if I really love people,
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I'll say God, keep him. Keep me here even though the
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valleys get darker and deeper and get the mountains get higher
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and things get difficult. Keep me here as long as I can
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because somebody needs to encounter you.
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That is what the Kingdom is. The Kingdom is all about
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reflecting Jesus to as many people as I can in my lifetime,
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and it's my responsibility to do that.
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You cannot operate what you postpone.
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If you think the Kingdom of God is in heaven, you cannot operate
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it on earth. Don't postpone it.
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It is here. So a few things I want us to
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leave. Few principles, Amen.
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Few principles about how can we access the the Kingdom of God
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and we take it from the life of Jesus.
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Amen. No matter what your personality
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type is, introvert, extrovert, whatever, how many ever.
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Now more personality types are coming because we have more
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excuses not to do what we are supposed to do.
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Nobody said Amen. OK, why?
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See there is only one personality type, Jesus.
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Be like him. Know when to keep your mouth
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shut, know when to stay quiet, know when to climb up the
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mountain, know when to come down the mountain, know when to heal,
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know when to touch, know when to do what he did because he didn't
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come to show off. He came to show you how you can
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walk. That is why he came.
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And so we need to be like Jesus. The first thing I want to say is
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how you can access is the secrets of the Kingdom is you
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have to leave your net. We are all holding on to the
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net. If you don't leave your net you
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will fall into one net. Whether its the Internet or not
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I don't know, but you will fall into it because we all have
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Nets. We all have next and we want to
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hold on to the net. See, unless you are your
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disciple, you cannot follow Jesus.
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In Luke chapter 14 verse 33, it says in the same way those of
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you who do not give up everything, look at the neighbor
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and say everything, OK, because this is a keyword.
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If you don't give up everything, you will.
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You cannot be my disciples. You cannot be a disciple if you
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don't know how to leave what you have.
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If your job is your security, sorry, you will be, you will go
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from 1. You will, you might have
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temporary highs, but you will be in the lowest of lows because
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you are holding still holding on to that net, Jesus.
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The first thing Jesus told his disciples is leave your net.
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Follow me. So what is the net that you are
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holding today? Don't ask for the Holy Spirit to
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come. He won't come to people who are
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holding on to something else. He cannot fill us.
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We have to know what it is to leave the net and I love this.
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This was in Matthew chapter 13 verse 10 and 12.
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It says, listen to this very carefully.
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It's very powerful. OK.
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The disciples came to him and asked him, why do you speak to
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the people in parables? And this is Jesus reply,
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beautiful reply. He said, because the knowledge
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of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you,
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but not to them. Wow, the knowledge of the
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secrets of the Kingdom of heaven.
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The knowledge again, the knowledge of the secrets of the
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Kingdom of heaven can be only given to a disciple.
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Amen to the others, Life is always a Riddle.
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Who to marry pastor? You decide.
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You talk to God and see who you want me to marry.
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Pastor, do I need to take this job?
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Everything becomes a Riddle in life, even What Car to buy.
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Do your research, you will know What Car to buy.
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Amen. Life should not be a Riddle for
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a disciple life. When we moved to Varanasi, it
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was not a Riddle to me. In an instant I saw a video like
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nothing spiritually, no heaven opened, no dove came down and
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told me to go to Varanasi. It was a small video, 2 minute
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video. Immediately I said we are going.
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God is not a confu God of confusion, He is a God of
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clarity. Amen.
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When God speaks, he doesn't need your opinion, He needs your
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obedience. Amen.
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So get up and do what he's calling you to do.
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You might have temporary troubles, but its only temporary
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because God reminds you that is he who has LED you, and He will
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provide for you. He will sustain you, He will
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chase all these monkeys Are we prayed?
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When the monkeys came next day, all standing on the border of
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our house, nobody entered in, correct?
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Why? Because we have a God who's much
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more bigger than the monkey. Amen.
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God wants to speak through you. God wants to use our voice.
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He wants to give us a voice. Amen.
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I have a photograph of a donkey on my phone.
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Because I said, always reminded. If God can speak to a donkey, he
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can speak through me, correct? If God can speak through a
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donkey, why can't he speak through me?
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He can speak through US. God wants to use us.
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Amen. There we are.
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Nobody is more special than anybody.
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We all are created equally in the image of God.
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We just do not have the knowledge of God.
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The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom has been given to
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you as a disciple. If you as a disciple, learn how
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to leave your net, then you can follow this God, leave your net.
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Why? Why do we leave our net?
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Because there's something so much bigger that God has for us.
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He doesn't want us to live in that small net and catch these
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fish. It says here in Matthew 633.
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It says but seek first the Kingdom of God and his
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righteousness and all these things will be handed unto you.
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We love this was because of the second part correct?
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We only if we had if this was did not have the second part,
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none of us would know this was we know this was because of the
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second part. Does God wants to give us
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things? Yes.
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Does God want to bless us? Yes.
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Does he want to favor us? Yes.
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Does he want to bless you more than anybody in your
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organization? Maybe yes.
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Because God has designed us to be like him in his image and he
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blessed us. When God created the earth, he
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did not have a budget meeting correct?
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If we were there no part of the planning team, you would have
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said God, why creating so many mango trees?
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2 mango trees are enough. Now we have hundreds and
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hundreds of different mangoes. Why?
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It comes out of his love for us because he knows my wife likes
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this mango. I like another mango.
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That's why he created it. He wants us to enjoy the earth
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that he has created us is given for you and me too, to enjoy it.
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But we are living in only a certain type of level of
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satisfaction when God wants to give us some things that are way
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beyond us. So here's the principle of this
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verse. Seek first the Kingdom of God
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and his righteousness, not your righteousness.
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Don't say you well you prayed extra to us, doesn't mean you
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become holy because its his righteousness upon me.
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I do not, I do not pray because I am.
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I want to be spiritual. I pray because I'm hungry for
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God. I'm hungry for God to move in my
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city. I'm hungry for God to move in
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and through me in that city that when I walk God will lead me to
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people and those people I will lead to Jesus.
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That is why I'm there. I'm not there for anything else.
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Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all
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these things will be added. You do the seeking, let Him do
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the adding. Amen You your job is to do the
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seeking, His job is to do the adding.
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You add, somebody will steal it. I just recently, one year ago I
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bought 1 new phone in in 2 days it got stolen.
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I'd planned so nicely the cover and this and that.
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When God adds, no devil in hell can touch it.
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Amen. When God adds to you, there are
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things that God has suddenly you will, you will have.
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God will add to you. No one can touch it.
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Why? Because he's added and he who if
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he adds Satan cannot even put one, only one one finger on it.
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Why? Because when God wants to add
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something in your life, it is there to remain forever.
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God doesn't bless us temporary, He doesn't add temporary.
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His things remain. Amen.
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God wants to add so you do the seeking, He will do the adding.
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Its simple. Its simple the complicated way
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you try to add and see what you what happens in your life.
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You add what you can add in 10 years God can add in 10 seconds.
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Amen. See, learn to be content.
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This is the problem. One bedroom is not enough,
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correct? We want more, but no God wants
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wants us to have more. But we have to see.
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I told in the morning I was talking to the young people.
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God will not give you what you pray for.
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God will give you what you manage.
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Sorry, it's not so spiritual, but just because you pray for
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it, God won't give it to you because you don't know how to
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manage what you have. If you don't know how to manage
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₹100, How will you manage ₹10,000?
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If you don't know how to manage ₹10,000, How will you manage
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₹10,00,000? If you don't know how to manage
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₹10,00,000, how good God is a God of promotion.
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He always takes us from glory to glory, from strength to
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strength. That is who He is.
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He is, it's His nature. Even God can't help it.
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You understand God has designed the earth in such a way and you
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in such a way that if you follow the principles you will get
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blessed. Why are the those principles?
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Whether you like it or not, those principles are not just
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for the Christians, its for everyone who's made in his
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image. That's why there's certain
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people prospering a lot. Why?
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Because they know how to manage what we have, what they have we
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have lost that. We don't know how to manage what
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we have, we have. When Adam fell, he lost
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management rights. He lost, he just didn't lose
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intimacy. He lost management rights on the
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earth. Learn how to manage, learn how
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to make your bed, learn how to take care of the bodyguards
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given you. However much I like beef, I
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can't, I cannot eat half KG beef alone and expect expect God to
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spiritually fill me. I need to know how to manage
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what he's given me. And a lot of times we lose the
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greatest things because we lose the ability to manage what we
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have. And God has given us certain
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things to manage and we need to manage it well.
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Amen. So don't worry if the Bible is
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very clear, it says each day has enough trouble.
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Same wasn't feeling each day has enough trouble.
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Why you are worried about tomorrow?
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Why you are worried? Somebody told me, man, you have
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to start saving. I said I save order of
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discipline, not out of fear, correct?
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I said 16 people are there, I have to feed them.
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Amen. Somebody is talking about mutual
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funds. I said all my funds are mutual.
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Amen. According to Acts 4242, as a
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disciple, all my funds are mutual.
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I live on a different. Let's see, this is the thing.
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I live in a different Kingdom. In that Kingdom, you don't
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understand how powerful God's mathematics is.
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Your calculator is not big enough for it.
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God has given us so much. He's put inside of us.
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Don't work on function on four things.
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Amen. There is something bigger that
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God has for you. Don't let what you have have
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you. That is the devils plan.
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He wants what you have to have you.
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We have. We are living in so much fear.
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We're living in so much peer pressure looking at what others
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have and how much they have. You will never be happy and
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never be satisfied even if you get all of that multiplied by
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10. Why?
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Because you've not. You're not functioning under the
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identity of Gods created you in. You're not functioning under His
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government. You're not functioning under
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what He has for you, Amen. There is so much more that God
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has for us, Amen. Secondly, this is a powerful
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one, Amen. The second principle is how do
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you access the secrets of the Kingdom?
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By getting into the secret place, correct?
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God doesn't sell His secrets openly, He tells his secrets in
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the secret because God was before the beginning began.
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And if you want to meet the man who began the beginning, you go
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to the beginning. Amen.
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You go to the beginning. What happened in the beginning?
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You were in your mother's womb. What was it?
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All dark? What was it you had no sense of
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hearing, listening, seeing nothing.
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Go back to that place. Matthew chapter 6.
Matthew 6 chapter mention
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Its amazing that if see the disciples were Jewish men.
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OK? The Jewish men knew how to pray.
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If you go today to the Jewish wall, they'll all be like, this
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is how they pray and they'll go for hours.
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That's why they don't have any back problem.
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They're flexing their lower back.
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But the disciples didn't ask Jesus how to multiply fish and
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bread. I was saying, Jesus, if that is
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their own anointing, give me because 16 people have to fail.
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No, Jesus didn't say. The disciples didn't say.
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He said teach us how you pray. Teach us how you do it, because
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your prayers and prayers are very different.
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Jesus prayed very differently. So they said, OK, come on, I'm
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going to tell you, I'm going to tell you a secret.
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How do you do it? But when you pray, go into your
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room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen.
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Then your Father who sees what's done in secret will reward you.
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He will reward you. Why?
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Because you have taken the time to get up when everyone is
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sleeping and you've gone to a place which is your womb, where
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you were created, which is the secret place and you kill the
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senses that are functioning, the sense to talk.
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We want to 1st advise God what He should do in our life.
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God doesn't need our advice, God needs us to.
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I tell people shut the door and shut up.
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Sorry this is church, but this is God also.
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God wants us to keep our mouth shut because we have lots to say
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and sometimes a lot about others.
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Also. God says Baba, keep quiet so so
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you stop, so God can start only if you stop, God can start the
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The thing is the devil, it says the devil will keep you from
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that place. He doesn't want you to be the
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the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life is trying to get
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into that secret place. The hardest thing because that's
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when the most attack comes, the most attack comes.
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That's why you need to study Jesus is prayer life.
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It's very clear how what time you study, you have to study it
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and you get it. You have to study it for
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yourself because if you're not hungry, you won't go and do it.
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Nothing is ready made in the Kingdom.
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You have to seek for it. Seek edited all your all your
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heart. And he went into the closet and
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he said the I mean imagine the father who is in the secret
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place. The father when we are in the
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secret place, the father who created the heavens and the
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earth suddenly appears next to you.
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There is no other place that happens in the Bible but its
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there for you. There's no other place.
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If you do this, then Father will come.
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No, no, no. It's when you are in the secret
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place. Master the secrets of the secret
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place. You know prayer is.
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I don't go to the office to pray.
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Prayer is my office. If you want to move the hand
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that moves the world, you move yourself into the secret place.
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If you can take one thing from here today, master the secret
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place, because that's when secrets are said.
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That's when suddenly things will start happening in your life
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that you didn't ever expect it to happen.
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Why? Because God doesn't just give us
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the desires of art. God blows our mind by giving us
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what we win we don't need. Because he's a God who loves us
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and he's a blesses us. And if we can manage the secret
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place, we can manage anything. God wants us to learn, learn how
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to fast and pray. See the first see why did the
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Israelites, God didn't give them food.
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He delivered them such so many miracles.
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He didn't give them food. They were crying, they were
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hungry, they were hungry. They think give us something to
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eat. God did not want them to eat
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because they were still Egypt inside them.
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You're crying for onions and garlic.
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And because why fasting is the mode to accelerate your destiny.
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Jesus when the open, when the heavens opened, the dove came
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down. It doesn't say Jesus went into
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the wilderness very beautifully spiritually went inside.
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It says, no, the Spirit of God pushed him into the wilderness.
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He did not feel like fasting. He fasted because the Spirit of
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God pushed him inside there. You will never feel like
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fasting, but it says certain things happen in your life only
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by prayer and fasting. Is there a sin in your life
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today that you've been dealing with over and over again?
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Same problem. Is there an issue in your
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family? There's certain things that are
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not maybe have property that's not selling.
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Maybe you have things that are not moving.
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Maybe, maybe things are not moving the way you wanted to
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move and you're just one fast away from your breakthrough,
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just one faster when you fast. See listen, I, if there's
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anything I love to do is I love to cook, OK, I'm a
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self-proclaimed master chef, OK, I love to cook and I couldn't, I
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would have never fasted in my life before that.
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But there was a season in Varanasi many months ago where I
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knew if I did not fast, things would not change.
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Because you hit a block, you hit, you hit the mundane right?
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It's like God, I need to fast. And if I can do it 40 days
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without eating, somebody who loves to eat, somebody who's
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very excited to cook. We need to understand that
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there's something that God wants.
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I fasted and prayed. There were things that happened
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that I did not expect to happen. There are there were things that
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happened that I wanted to happen that God gave us.
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There are attacks that happened that I never expected to happen
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that happened. So you get both.
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Why? Because that man God sent you
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fast again, correct? You fast again for another
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victory. We have to learn if Jesus
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fasted, we need to fast, fast and pray.
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Fasting cleans up. Amen.
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Fasting cleans up. Therefore I tell you, do not
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worry about your life. Matthew chapter 6, what you will
Matthew 6 chapter mention
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eat and what you will drink about your body, what you will
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wear. Isn't life more than food and
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the body more than clothes? Fasting brings clarity,
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connection and communion with God.
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If you want clarity, connection and communion, learn to fast if
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you have an exam. If you have an exam, fast.
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If you eat too much, you won't be able to think properly.
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It's naturally proven that if you go for an exam full stomach,
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it clouds your memory. If you fast, it accelerates your
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memory. If you have that interview, fast
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and pray not fast to get the job.
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Fast and praising God. I know see I don't I, you know
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what fasting says? Fasting says God, I can't do
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this without you God. I cannot see people come to know
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Jesus without you. Fasting shows that I love God
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and I want him to move in my life.
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Fasting shows I love others more than I love myself.
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Fasting shows I love my my spirit more than I love my body.
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Fasting shows that I'm more concerned with the things of the
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Kingdom than I'm concerned with my Kingdom.
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Fasting does something and takes you to a level that very few
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people people can take you to. Amen.
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The last thing today is get back to where it all started.
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So you have to know your original design.
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So you are not created to find your purpose.
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You are created with your purpose.
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So don't find yourself. Now we have many people finding
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themselves. You don't have to find yourself.
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He says what he says in Jeremiah.
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Before you were formed, I knew you and I appointed you.
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God has already appointed things to happen in your life, your
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purposes, before you were born. So don't go and find a purpose.
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Your purpose is already inside you.
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The reason you like to do certain things is because God
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put it inside of you. Why do you think about certain
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things all the time? Because as God put it inside
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you, it is installed in your, in your software, preinstalled by
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God. You don't have to go and find
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it. It's already there.
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Go back to where it started. God wants to use us.
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Amen. See, John Wesley says this very
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beautifully. Man cannot do anything without
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God, correct? But God will not do anything
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without man. God wants to use us and it's our
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original design. In Matthew chapter 18 verse
Matthew 18 chapter mention
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three and four, it says tell you this, unless you change correct
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and become like children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God
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Unless you change and become like children.
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That means you become like how you originally were, correct how
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you originally were. If you do not become like how
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you originally were, God cannot help you enter the Kingdom of
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God. You know the difference between
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adults and children. Children obey.
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Adults negotiate. We want to negotiate with God.
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If you do this, God, I will do that.
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God is waiting for your proposals.
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God is not. God is not interested in your
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offer letter. God is interested in those who
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obey Him. Don't negotiate with the one who
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created you because whatever you're negotiating is less.
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Whatever you're negotiating is less than what He created you to
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be. See, we, we are.
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I'm going to end soon. We live on this earth, No, And
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we do not understand what God has created us for.
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He's created us not to own things.
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See, we all like to leave our name.
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You know, this house is my house, my name.
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But not gods, not quality for ownership.
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Gods called you for rulership. If you live always wanting to
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own, you will never rule. Make Jesus your king today.
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Let him rule on you. The Israelites were didn't
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understand that they wanted their own king, even though
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Samuel said if you have this king man, he'll take you, he'll
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take you, tax you, he'll do all of this.
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But we want physical kings. We want the physical things in
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our lives so badly because we are living so much in the flesh
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that if we don't have these things, it won't make us happy.
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And God is saying, hey, there is something bigger.
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It is called the Kingdom of God. And if you have the Kingdom, you
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have everything. You have rulership.
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So don't settle for ownership, settled for rulership.
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I'm not in Varanasi just to start something.
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I'm there in Varanasi to rule. I'm there in Varanasi to kill
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the devil. I'm there in one has to cut the
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powers and the principalities that are there because why?
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Isaiah says the sons contend with the enemy at the gates.
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I'm a son I contend with. I'll ask Jesus where the enemy
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I'll go and finish him off. Why?
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Because I know who I am. Who am I?
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I'm created in the image of God. Who am I?
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I'm the man who's left his Who's left his net.
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Who am I? I'm the man who knows the
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secrets of the secret place. Who am I?
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I know who the What is my original design?
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I know it. And I'm not afraid.
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And you and me are built the same way.
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We are not afraid of what anybody says about us.
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We are not afraid about what anybody does.
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But why? Because we are called for
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rulership, not ownership, Amen. But we all sense sometimes Jesus
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is away, correct? Sometimes we don't.
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Everything is based on feeling. So you say Jesus, I don't feel,
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but he says, hey, I have something beyond feeling.
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You know when the I'll end with this?
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When the, when the disciples, when Jesus died and went to
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heaven and the, and the disciples went back fishing, the
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net that they left, they went and they got it.
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They went back fishing and it says all night, look at your
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neighbor and say all night, all night, very important part of
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the story. All night they were fishing.
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They knew where to fish, how to fish, what to fish, everything
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they knew, but they didn't catch anything.
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Then they put the boat in reverse gear.
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They went to park it and then they saw somebody on the show.
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They didn't recognize who he was.
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And what did that voice say? Cast your net on the other side.
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And the Bible is very specific, is not specific like that about
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fish ever. It says they caught 154 large
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fish. They caught 154 large fish.
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Wrong place, wrong time, right voice, correct, wrong place,
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wrong time. You don't fish in that time.
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You don't fish next to the shore.
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You have to go deep. And in that, that place which
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doesn't have any fish, had the largest fish and they got 154 of
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them. And then Peter saw it was Jesus
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and he was not Jesus. Can I walk on water?
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He see? When you see Jesus, you forget
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about miracles. When you see Jesus, you forget
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about what you miracles. He jumped and ran to Jesus.
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And here's the secret of the story.
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What did Jesus, what was Jesus doing?
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He was flying fish. Today you can waste your whole
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life trying to catch something Jesus already has ready for you.
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It's not just fish. He had bread and it's just not
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bread. There's his presence.
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Jesus himself comes and eats with you.
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What? Not what you have made, what he
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has made for you. But we want to fight all night
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in frustration for things that we want and lose out toward what
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Jesus wants to give us today, even as Gosham comes in, even as
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we get into a time of just reflecting, you know, it's there
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a lot of things that can be said, correct?
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Maybe tomorrow you'll listen to many more other messages that
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100 times better than this. But what is same right
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throughout is God's presence. See, God's presence is so much
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more powerful than a word of a man.
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And he tells you today I have fish, I have bread ready for
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you. All I want you to do is come and
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sit with me and I will tell you things about your life because I
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created you. I didn't create you to lift that
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burden. I didn't create you to lift a
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weight. Amen.
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Stand up. What is your name?
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What is your name? Roni?
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Roni, God wants to lift your weight today.
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You've been carrying it a lot. And God says rest.
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There's a verse in the Bible that says be still and know that
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I am God. And God says if you're not
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still, you will never know. And God says, today I set you
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free. Today your weight is lifted.
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Today your burden is light. Why?
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Because today Jesus has a table with fish for you and you're
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worried about tomorrow. Is it man?
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There's fish, there's fish for you, there's bread for you.
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So God, we thank you for Ronnie. We don't thank you for her life,
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not even as we move into a time of just asking you, God, Lord,
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you're giving this word to a lot of us today that some of us are
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exhausted and tired of running in circles.
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Some of us are exhausted and tired of running after things
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that are not filling our hearts. And today God you says I have
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given you dominion and authority.
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I have given you the ability to rule wherever you go, a rule not
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for what you want, a rule over the people, a Gods blessing you
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look at the scriptures. Gods blessing was always more
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people. He always blessed people with
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people. He blessed people to to be
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delivered. He blessed people to be to be
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shepherded. He, he constantly gave more
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people. And the blessing today is not
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your bank account. The blessing today is not your
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land, your house, your inheritance.
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The blessing today is God wants you to love more people.
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He wants you to lead more people.
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He wants you to serve more people.
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He wants you to serve and give off what he has given you.
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And today he breaks the bread, he breaks the fish, and he says,
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come on, let's eat together. So Holy Spirit, we welcome you.
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We know that you are here. You are moving in our midst.
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But we pray God that today that not just lives would be changed,
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but lives would be not just challenged, but lives would be
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transformed in the name of Jesus.
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Lord, we just come against any power, any principality, every
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generational cause. And if you're here and you're
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saying that you feel this weight over your heart, weight over
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your life, you can stand up. And we're going to, and we're
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just going to call on the name of Jesus.
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We're going to you can stand in the gap for somebody who can
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stand for your family, you can stand for the generation, you
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can stand for this nation and we're going to say God, there is
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power in your name. And we believe God that today
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that you can break bondages, that you can set people free
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that we don't have. We don't have to breathe
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uncomfortably, that we can breathe freely today.
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But because your word says with the spirit of the Lord is there
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is freedom in Jesus name? Thanks for listening to this
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