Sermon
Faith In Who God Is
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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So some of us can look at Jesus and still
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have no faith. You with me, So he's looking onto Jesus,
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the author and the finisher of our faith. So it
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doesn't do much to you if you just look at Jesus.
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But there's no faith in it. But it's not just
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faith as we know it. It's faith in who God is.
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I've been taught all these years to look to Jesus
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in good times and in bad times. But I've learned
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from the Lord while being in this cave that is
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not just about looking at him. In fact, some of
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us sometimes don't even know what it means. So we
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look at the cross on the wall. Do we look
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at the picture of Jesus. Did he gaze up to
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the heaven and say, Jesus, you know, show me a
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cloud that looks like you. Do we just call on
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his name, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus now looking onto Jesus, the
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Lord taught me. It's not the completion of that statement.
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The statement found in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse two, is
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looking onto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith.
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Another translation says the perfector or rady, the pioneer. Yes,
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he is the pioneer and the perfector of our faith.
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So it's about faith. Yes, so some of us can
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look at Jesus and still have no faith. You with me, Oh,
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I'm looking at Jesus, pastors saying, look at Jesus, but
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I still feel down. I look at Jesus. I'm not praying,
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but I'm looking at Jesus. I feel nothing when I
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look at Jesus. But I still look at Jesus, you know,
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daring at the cross on the wall. I'm going to
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the Catholic church and I'm looking at the Jesus on
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the cross on the wall. What does it mean. I
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don't feel anything. I don't feel breakthrue. No, it's looking
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onto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. It's
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about faith, and the Bible says it is our faith
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a gift from God himself that overcomes the world. It
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also says without faith, it is impossible to please God.
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It also says that we are to walk by faith,
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not by sight. So it's looking onto Jesus, the author
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and the finisher of our faith. So it doesn't do
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much to you if you just look at Jesus. But
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there's no faith in it. Amen, I've come to realize,
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especially in the most difficult times of my recovery. Now
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let me pause, he it for let me pause to
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say this. In this very room where this recording is happening,
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I had one of my toughest moments just three days ago.
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I was on the floor because I was receiving my
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first physiotherapy. It's a house call. Thank God for that.
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There's another testimony that is physiotherapist actually does house calls.
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But my knee, my right knee, my good leg that
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has been supporting my whole body's weight for the past
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eighteen days. My knee was totally inflamed, swollen like an
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elephant man's foot, you know. And it was so painful,
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and so even if physiotherapist didn't even dare touch the
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area that right knee, but because I needed my right
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leg to get back to my bed or get to
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the toil, I was really in such pain and turmoil.
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And it was one of the toughest moments for a
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man who can't get up from the floor, trying with
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all his might to push himself up from the floor.
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My wife tried to help, she couldn't because she can't
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sustain my way. And I cried out to God. I said, Jesus,
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please help me. I had to cry out in this
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room and I had to just be on the floor
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for fifteen minutes trying to find a way. Left lick
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couldn't use, right lick couldn't use. And then the enemy
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again tried to take advantage. Where's the God that you serve?
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Where's the God that you pray for other people's healing?
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Where's the God who does miracles? Where's the God who
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does signs and wonders? Who heals? He can't even get
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you up out of there, up from the floor. How
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are you going to go to toilet? How are you
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going to go to your bed? My mind was thinking, Oh, God,
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where are you? And do you hear my cry? Do
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you hear me? God? And some of you could be
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crying out like that, Where are you God? Do you
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hear my cry? And then the Lord began to speak
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as I was able to find my way to get
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up from the floor, get back to my walker and
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got on my bed. I was a little bit concerned,
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even afraid to go anywhere for the next twenty four hours,
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because you know, it's just it's hard for a man
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to not be able to do the things that he
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usually can do so easily. The Lord begin a minister
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to me. The Lord begin to minister to me. God
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is working to strengthen my faith. Remember, I'm looking to Jesus.
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But it's all about the author and finisher of my faith.
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But it's not just faith as we know. It is
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faith in who God is, not just a healer, not
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just a mighty miracle worker, but who He is in
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the core of his being. The Bible says in First
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John chapter four that God is love. And I tell
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you what. God began to minister to me in such
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a powerful way. I felt his love just coming from
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heaven and feeling me like a mighty waterfall just coming
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upon me, wave after wave of his love. Is his son.
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I love you. There's no one else in this world
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that I will ever love you more than I love you.
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I was there when you couldn't pick yourself up. I
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was all the way there when you suffer the injury
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in say Paul. I was there when people had to
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go home and leave the hospital because the hospital, visiting
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hours was done. I was there when you came back
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and had to spend one or two nights alone. You
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were never alone. I will never leave you, nor for
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sake you do you believe that all the enemy will
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have us think that he is the first one to
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leave God, the first one to walk out the door,
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the first one to say forget you. You're so hard
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to be with. You're such a stubborn fool. I told
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you not to do that, and I told you not
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to go there, and all that right, and you don't listen,
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and you're just a stubborn man. And I'm gonna walk
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away from you. Serve you writing, serve you. You deserve
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the punishment. No, no, no, no no. The Lord's love
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this minister to me, and his river of love just
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flowed through me. And it takes faith also to believe
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that he loves you so much, and that nobody on
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the face of the earth can ever love you more.
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That's why it says. And the main scripture is this
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one Corinthians thirteen thirteen. Now Abide, faith, hope, love, these three.
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But the greatest of these is love. I thought faith
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was already great. We talk about faith so much faith.
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We one faith that can move mountains. But you know,
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in this cave moment, in this cave season, God wants
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to take us deeper. Your pastor is already a man
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who is not unfamiliar with faith. You know that I've
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been living by faith all my ministry life. God says,
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you want to go deeper, Kennon, Do you really want
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to see revival? Kenneth, It's not just gonna be a
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revival of faith and miracles. It's gonna be a revival
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of my love. My love is just gonna sweep across
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this nation, in every nation that would believe that I
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so love the world that I gave my only begoden Son,
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that whoever believes in me shall not perish but have
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everlasting life. I am love. I'm not just power. I'm
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not just healing. I'm not just salvation. I am love
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itself and love will never fail. Love covers a multitude
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of sins. Oh, I tell you, When I saw God
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in that way, and I look into the scripture in
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a new vision, in a new you know perspective, Abide, abide.
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You know you only abide when there's no one else
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to go to, nowhere else to go to So you
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stay here, and you stay put, because nowhere else. Peter
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even said to Jesus, where do we go? Lord? Where
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do we go? You have the words of internal life.
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We must come to a place in our lives. Where
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we go? Yes, Lord, where do we go? Who is
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like you? Who is like you? God? Where do we go?
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This is home? This is heaven. Being with you is
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being in heaven. So abide, stay close, stick to be
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one with. There's no one else there, no one else
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out there. Abide faith, We have that. Amen. Hope. It's
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good to hope. And hope is serious, you know. Hope says,
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I really want it. I really want this healing. I
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really want to get up from the floor. I really
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want to get up back on my feet and serve
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the Lord again. I'm getting a little bit bored, you know,
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on my bed. The Lord says, be patient, take time.
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I want to speak to you some more. I want
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to prepare you some more. God only has the best
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in mind for us. The greatest of these three is love.
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That's why we call it revolution. It turned the word
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around the word love is there lov We want a
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revolution of love for Malaysia, a revolution of love for Singapore,
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and for all the nations that God has planted x
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in and even where we are not in. For God
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soul love the world. Soul loves you. He loves you.
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Don't let the devil ever lie. He doesn't. So let's close.
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No wonder. It's said that the greatest of this is love,
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But it still takes faith to believe that He loves
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you that much. So don't just look at Jesus, look
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at the author and finisher of your faith, and how
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does it finish. He can start faith, and faith that
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starts sounds like faith for salvation, sounds like faith for healing.
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But the finishing of that faith is that third one,
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love that is the greatest of all. Remember and believe
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with all your heart as I close, that God really
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loves you and that He cares for you. He really does.
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You could be on the floor, You could be having
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your last five cuple dollars in your pocket. And if
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this message goes further and say help more than five pounds,
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five ring it five pulas, which is very small, five
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rupiahs even smaller. Or maybe you just got a letter
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telling you that you have been retrenched, and you say,
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can a good God do this. Don't let the devil
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take advantage of what God is allowing, because when God
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allows it, it's going to be for the better, if
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not the best. The Bible also says, cast all your
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cares upon him, because he cares for you. First Peter,
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chapter five, Cast all your cares upon the Lord. He cares,
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He cares, He really cares. He's always thinking good, always
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only good. Don't don't we do things like this for
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people we love. Think about it, the people you really
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really love, you really care, You think good all the time,
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and you're always planning good. That's the kind of God. Myself,
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I couldn't get up from the floor, But he's still
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planning for my good. Are you with me? He's still thinking, Kenneth,
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you will get up, and you will get back to
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your bed, and I will be there for you, and
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I will never leave you, nor forsake you. And in him.
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Remember I think it's Romans eight twenty eight. And we
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know that all things, or whole things, including me on
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the floor and me on the bed, all things work
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together from good to those who love God and to
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those who are the called according to his purpose. He's
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in the boat with you. Remember the boat story where
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the winds and waves were hitting so hard that the
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disciples thought they were going to drown. You know what
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they did. They woke Jesus up, who was actually asleep,
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and the first thing they said is, don't you even care? Lord,
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don't you even care? And so howevers could have been
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struggling like that, being bombarded by the devil with the
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thought God doesn't care. I'm here to tell you he does.
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I'm here to tell you that ninety percent of the
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swelling on my knee has gone. And this morning I
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woke up feeling ninety percent better on my right leg.
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I went to the bathroom on my own, did everything
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on my own. Pass Andro just helped me a little
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bit as I took my shower and then did my
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quiet time. The lot spoke to me some more, found myself,
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you know, walking hopping really on my good leg. To
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the second therapy that happened just an hour and a
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half ago, And it was a good therapy, and I
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feel much better. And I have movements now on my
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injured leg. And couldn't move it a few days ago,
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but you know, with the therapist's help, it could move.
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And I said, I just have to give you this
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message that God is not done. He is in the
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boat with us, He cares hallelujah. He will not allow
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us to sink. He will not allow you to sink.
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