Sermon
Get Up - Pastor Will Roos
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Are you ready for the Word today?
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Because today I want to continue on the way we left off last
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Sunday. I want to flow in that same
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resurrection theme because God is still speaking.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm like, there is still
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more. Are you ready for more?
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Are you ready to go deeper? Because I was in the beginning.
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I'm like, right, Lord, let me prepare.
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Ready to go and do something else.
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The Holy Spirit just reminded me and showed me more and more
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things and said stainless flow myself.
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This is what I'm saying in this hour.
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This is what I'm doing right now.
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This is resurrection flow. So this resurrection theme, it
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might become like a serious, OK, so today's Part 2.
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So we got to fly in this. I mean, did you love that
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worship? I mean, my goodness, it's just
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wonderful how God is just saying the same thing and it's all
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through Scripture, this resurrection power, this theme,
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how it's living and flowing in in our daily lives.
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I mean, so we're going to go into this and we're going to go
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for it because I believe this word is going to build 5 is
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going to bring strength. I literally believe that that
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God is saying that it's time to rise up and, and it's, it's all
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over resurrection, rise up, rise, rise and shine.
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You know, it's, it's there and God's pointing it out as God is
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saying it's time to get up. OK, so I want to preach this
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morning and share. With you about the.
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Power of getting up. I mean, OK, now listen, maybe
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you feel a little bit low or down or maybe something's
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happened this week. Some things, some setbacks,
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disappointments happen. OK, but listen when we are in
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God. With God, with God, when we
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belong to God, down is never your final destination.
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Down is never our final permanent destination.
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OK. And so that so.
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With God, we the only way for us is up.
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Yeah, yeah, it's up. It's up.
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That's right. Yeah.
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And so the the message is is called today and I'll just put
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up the screen is a get up. Hallelujah.
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Get up and this is going to be amazing.
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I I'm just super excited about this.
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Genuinely, you can actually smile.
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that uncompromised Word of God. Souls.
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We're getting the souls in. We're equipping the church.
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We are in the word of. God.
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So, yeah, today, if that's OK, I might sneak in a couple of
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verses in the Bible. Yeah, I know.
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I'd also like it on the screen, all that.
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But, you know, I might sneak in a couple.
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Yeah. For this, a new, brand new,
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brand new Bible. It just smells amazing.
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I know that. So you have to be hungry for the
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word, but yeah, I'm smelling the word.
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Yeah. When?
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When God smells his word or something's about to happen when
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God smells his word. So yeah, we are smiling these
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words this morning. So I might read.
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So I'll read up a little bit then and see where we go from.
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Yeah, but I really have a word what God has given us.
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And so let's start with John 5 and then we see where we go from
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them. So John chapter 5.
John 5 chapter mention
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Well, let me read the first one off on the screen then and then
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we'll go from there. John chapter 5 and verse 5 and
John 5 chapter mention
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it says 1 was there had been an invalid for 38 years.
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When Jesus saw him lying there, he learned that he had been in
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this condition for a long time. He asked him do you want to get
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well Sir? Then valid replied, I have no
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one to help me into the pool when the water stood while I'm
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trying to get in someone else goes down ahead of me.
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Now watch this very next verse. This is our main text proof text
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for the day says here verse I then Jesus said to him get up
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everybody say get up, get up. Oh Hallelujah.
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Come on. Come on.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Knocked out, but not knocked
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out. He's getting back up right?
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Oh. Somebody's been watching some
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boxing. Yeah.
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Mike Tyson come on in. What round that Mike Tyson, He
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was knocked down, but he got back up, right?
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Come back. Somebody said come back,
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Hallelujah. So get back up and he says pick
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up your man and walk at once. The man was good and he picked
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up his man and he walks. So listen, my Father, we thank
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you for your word, that your word is powerful.
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It's alive, it's full of strength.
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Lord, speak to us every heart here in this place.
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Holy Spirit, move powerfully. We thank you.
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Let faith arise in every heart and we give you all the praise.
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In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray somebody say Amen and say
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yeah this week. And I play some football with
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the kids there. Jocks lying.
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And I didn't see the ball coming.
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And So what happened? Obviously the ball came and I
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stepped on the ball and boy did I had a big.
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I don't know how I fell backwards, but somehow the ball
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was under my feet. And I think Simon will know what
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I'm talking about. OK, he's still awake.
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But I was sort of sitting there and, and the football came right
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under my and I swirled around and all of us, I fell backwards.
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I landed on my bottom. And then I am and I see Peter,
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my son and the boys and there's a football and I'm like, OK, And
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So what happened with the football?
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I just got back up. And one of the first things we
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learn in life is when we fall, we get back up again.
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We sit with children all the time.
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When the kids Start learning to walk with our children, when
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there's now on the scooters or where there's now on their bikes
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or football, whether they fall, they stumble.
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I mean, they hit the ground the other day at the skate park.
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Come on. I mean, these kids, they were on
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the scooters and they fell back, right?
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Just Grazes put some prosters on and they just, OK.
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But listen, we don't go and say OK.
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It's over. It's it's the end.
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Stay down. No, that's not what we do as
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Perry. We go a good parent.
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We say, listen, come on, come back, OK, you know, try again.
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Yes, yes, the Pike. Yes, it's good to use the
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football. Let's try again.
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Isn't that what we do as good parents?
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We encourage people, you know, our kids and our family to get
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up. And that is how God made us.
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He made us put something in us that knows how to get back up.
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OK? We had to get back up in life.
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And that is such a vital word for us today because, listen,
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life has got a way of knocking people.
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Down. Things happen in life that we
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don't always understand. Bad reports, a disappointment, a
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loss, something unexpected that happened.
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And we don't always understand the loss.
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And it just seems something that is so unfair.
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Why did this happen? And it's like the the whole it's
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like life has knocked it down. And listen, I cannot promise you
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that life will never knock you down.
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But what I can promise you, based on the authority of the
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word of God, you can get back up again.
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Oh, come on, somebody. I feel the part of God in this
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place. Yeah, you can get back up again.
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That's right. Praise God.
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And we see in this passage of Scripture here in John chapter
John 5 chapter mention
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5, this man, he has been paralysed for a very long time.
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The Bible says he has been on that condition for 38 years now.
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That's a very long time to look at the same mat, the same pain,
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the same struggle, the same cycle, the same question and ask
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the same question. Will anything ever going to
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change? Is something going to shifting
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change in my life? But you know what I love about
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Jesus? He knows how to step into stuck
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places. That has been certain places
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that has been stuck for a very long time.
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And Jesus did not pass the man bye.
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He went right straight to him. Oh, and I love these powerful
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words. Jesus walk up to him and say,
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get up. Oh, I feel the anointing of God,
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get up. Oh, I feel the power of God.
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That is anointed. That is the word of God.
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That is the voice of faith. That is one word from the
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presence of God, the word of Jesus.
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And Jesus released that word. Get up.
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There's enough power to that word to raise that man of that
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man get up. Oh yes, Jesus, with an anointed
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word. I sense that.
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I sense get up power in this room right now.
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I sense get up anointing in this room, right for your situation,
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for your family. I sense that get up power.
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Something is already shifting in this room right now.
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Faith is arising. Something is shifting in this
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place. Is get up power in this room.
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I believe this for somebody. This is your get up day.
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This is your get up. Come on, whatever the situation,
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whatever the problem, this is your rise up moment.
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This is your get up moment from what I've tried to hold you back
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for years. Oh yeah, if it's now 38 years or
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1020 years, whatever is trying to hold you back, this is your
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get up moment. Because we come with the
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authority of the Word of God and the Word of God is going to
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final authority. And when Jesus said get up, that
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means that you can rise again. Oh, my God, somebody's getting
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this word today. That's what Jesus, how powerful
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it was. Somebody say get up.
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Yeah, something is shifting in this room right now.
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Ain't no grave is going to hold my body down.
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No, no, no, no. I'm telling you later we are
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going to rejoice. Come on.
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This is my get up day. Say that.
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This is my get up day. Say that again.
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This is, you might get up there, give God some praise if you
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believe it. Somebody, yeah, Jesus did not
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come to just help the person manage the problem.
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He didn't come to manage his problem on the mat, just to
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manage it. Jesus came to bring him out of
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the problem, out of the situation, out of the struggle.
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And I came to announce today with the word of the living God,
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a word from the Lord, that when the word of the Lord is
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released, he can break the cycle.
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He can break it, can break any cycle or bondage, whatever has
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helped you for years. And he can bring about something
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brand new in a moment with a word from the Lord, with a word
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from Jesus, with a get up. Word from Jesus can break any
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chain, break any bondage. And so when Jesus said those
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words, just those words, those powerful anointed words of life,
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when Jesus says get up, he's telling you that you can rise,
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that addiction can be broken, that chain can be broken, that
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cycle can be broken, that struggle can stop, that sickness
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can be healed. And that peace can come back.
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That joy can return to your life and that dream can come alive
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again just from those anointed words of the Lord.
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That is why Micah said when I fall I will rise.
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Somebody got that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah. When I fall I will rise.
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Yeah. The Bible says the righteous
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falls how many times? 7 times and rise again.
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Let me show you this verse in Micah 7.
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This is very powerful. He says do not rejoice over me,
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my enemy. When I fall I will arise.
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Notice Micah did not say if I fall, kids are going to ride the
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boy play football. Not if we win.
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We know there's going to be some fall OK not if I fall.
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He said when I fall, not if I fall.
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The righteous fall 7th time not if.
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OK, well, nobody's immune from fall.
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Not if I it's when I fall. So in other words, yes, I got
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hits. Yeah, I got hits I got yes.
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I know exactly what a heart sees it feels like.
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I know what it feels, what pressure feels like.
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I know what it feels, what pressure and difficulty feels
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like. And harsher.
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He knows what it the pain it feels like.
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But that's not how my story ends.
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That's not the final story. I will arise.
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Yes, I might be down. Yes, I had a fall.
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Yes, I'm the figure. But I will not end it.
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That's not the end of the story. I will arise.
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Come on. Somebody who's with me.
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Who's with me in this place. Come on, that's what we're going
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to do because that is the word of the world today that God sent
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me in today to announce and to decree and declare and prophecy
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over this house. You will rise out of that
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heaviness. You will rise out of that
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difficult. You will rise out of depression.
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You will arise. You will arise out of that
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family difficulty. You will arise out of that
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attack. You will arise out of that
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attack. You will arise out of delay and
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stagnation and joy will come back again.
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Peace will come back again your eyes out of that old season.
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Because the same God who said get up then he's the same God
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speaking today. He's the same yesterday, today
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and forever. He's still saying get up today.
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The same God who said get up then.
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He's the same God who's saying get up now.
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He's the same God. He's still speaking.
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He's still saying the same things over and over.
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And how many of you know that when he speaks, things shift.
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When he speaks dead things come alive.
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When he speaks, change, break. When he speaks, lives changed
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forever. When he speaks, people rise.
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When he speaks, oh Hallelujah. I believe this is a word of the
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Lord for somebody here today. Hallelujah, Micah says.
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When I fall, even when I fall. So as a believer, it doesn't
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mean we never feel pain. As a believers, we never.
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It doesn't mean we never feel the heat, all the difficulty,
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but it means we don't stay there.
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That's five. OK, five, it doesn't mean you
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don't feel pain. But five says we don't live
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there, we don't stay there. We don't make that our permanent
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location. OK, we don't stay there.
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Now, let me just give you a picture of what that looks like.
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Think of a palm tree. Now, if you've seen these
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documentaries on TVA palm tree, when that storm or that
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hurricane come, that palm tree bends over.
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I mean, it bends like completely over like this.
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It looks like that palm tree is completely overdone finished.
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Because when you look at that palm tree when it paints like
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this, you would think it will never be able to stand back up
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again. You would think you'd never be
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able to, but listen, when that storm passes over that bended
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palm tree, it bounce back. It sort of flips right back,
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stands right back up again tall. That's a bounce back power that
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is in you. And listen, the storm did not
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make the palm tree weaker. It might be stronger.
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Can you say I made somebody? Come on?
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That's the way that God made you.
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You may be knocked down, but you're not knocked out.
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Come on. There's some fighting you.
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There's some comeback power in you.
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They thought they knocked him down, but listen, they did not
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knock him out. There's come by power, pounds by
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power. Yeah, you're not knocked out.
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Listen, you may get hit, but you are not staying down.
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You are bouncing back. You are getting back up.
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You may feel the pressure, but that pressure does not have the
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final word. OK, Romans 8 says verse 11.
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The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives on the
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inside of you. That means that same power that
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got Jesus out of the grave. That power is living in you.
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You are full of resurrection power inside of you.
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And listen, that means God has put something on the inside of
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you that the devil can never destroy.
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My God, you see, that's the thing.
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The table did not see that coming.
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He did not see that resurrection power coming.
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And the enemy may look at your life right now and think, well,
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you know, the joy, it's over. The piece is over.
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That's the end of your story. That's the end.
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The set back, the failure, that's the end.
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You know, looking at your family, your situation and the
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hardship, he thought that that fall or that mistake, that was
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the finish. And the enemy may look at your
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life and think that he has won. Listen, he has misread the
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chapter. Big mistake.
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He must read the chapter because, listen, what happened
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here is and we see that office go how the enemy.
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Big mistake. Celebrate it too soon.
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Yeah, he popped the confetti way too soon.
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Not a big mistake. Now I want to say you something.
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Yeah. Listen, Michael says this.
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Listen, don't celebrate, OK? He's like, listen, don't
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celebrate enemy. And he says talking to his
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enemy. And Michael say listen, don't,
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don't enemy, don't rejoice over me, OK?
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Listen, enemy, don't get excited.
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People don't get excited too quickly.
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Yeah, OK, don't get excited and don't celebrate you too quickly.
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And think and look at my life in my present condition and think
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that is because that is not my final condition.
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I might be going through a difficult, challenging
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situation, but that is not the final destination.
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That is not my final down, is not my final location.
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Can you say I mean somebody So enemy don't get too excited
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about what you see in my life right now.
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You better not celebrate too soon.
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You know what I mean? And this is what he's saying
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because down is not my final because the word of the Lord is
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the enemy celebrated over your life too soon.
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He looked at your life and he saw your mind under pressure and
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he thought he's 1. He looked at your family and he
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saw some challenges in the family under attack and he
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thought that it's over the enemy.
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He looked at the attack, he looked at the hot season and the
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difficulty that you've been. He looked at that and he thought
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you are going to stay stuck there.
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But the enemy made a mistake. He celebrated.
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You said come on somebody because he there was something
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that the table did not count on when he looked at your life and
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that's something that he did not count on that he didn't look is
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called resurrection. Power inside of you come by
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power inside of you. It's a kid of power inside of
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you, a rise up moment of power. There is faith in you.
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There is strength in you to rise again.
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Hallelujah. And So what?
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Knocked you down and will not keep you down.
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Regardless of what it is that has knocked you down, it will
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not keep you down. Come on.
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We looked at this. They put Jesus in the tomb on
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Friday. It looked like a big
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disappointment. The enemy looked.
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Yeah, we got him. The enemy thought the devil and
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darkness said we have got the final word.
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Jesus is gone and dead. We've got him.
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We won. Darkness celebrated 2 spin.
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They the confetti too soon. They celebrate their public
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champagne too soon. Big problem.
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Big mistake. Devil because he did not see
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Sunday coming. Everything looked dark on
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Friday, but Sunday is coming. Sunday tells a different story
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altogether. Sunday is a resurrection and
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Jesus, what's going on? Jesus came back.
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What a comeback. He got back up again.
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That's our message today. The part he got back up again,
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he got up. Oh that comeback, that rise up
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power, that resurrection power, that same that got him out of
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the grave vision you, there's comeback power in you.
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There's resurrection power in you.
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These Hallelujah, somebody Are you ready for this resurrection?
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Somebody showed resurrection glory be to God.
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So when life says stay down, there is something inside of
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your spirit that rises up in you that says I'm getting back up,
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come on. And life has knocked you down,
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something unexpected. There's something on the inside
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of you that rises up and said, oh, if God took it back up
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again, say that in our lives. That's the Christian life.
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It's a bounce back resurrection life that is in US of bouncing
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back, of rising up again. Somebody say I'm getting back
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up, say it again, I'm getting back up.
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Say I've got to get up. Say I'm not staying down.
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I will arise and see the goodness of the Lord.
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Now give God some praise in this place.
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Hallelujah, glory to God. Wow, We see the same truth in
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Acts chapter 14. Right in the beginning of the
Acts 14 chapter mention
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chapter, Paul the Apostle, he looked at the man who has never
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walked and he said stand up and walk.
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Can you imagine that? Here's your apostle Paul walking
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and he said that man, he's never walked.
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And he said it's right up. Stand up straight to your finger
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and walk. Oh, I love it.
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And the moment Paul the apostle, I see Jesus at the pool, I see
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Paul the apostle. He says the moment he says get
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up, the Pablo says the man jumped, that paralyzed man
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jumped on his feet and walk. What a mirror somebody
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Hallelujah for that miracle. I want to show it to you in the
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world. He jumped up.
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Let me show it to you. Acts 14 verse 9.
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He says sit with a loud voice, stand up straight, sit up, get
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up on your feet and he leap and walk.
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One moment a man was stuck, the next moment he's moving from an
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anointed word of God, from the word of the Lord, an anointed
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word, one word. Shift that entire thing from
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being stuck to moving. That's the part of the word of
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God today Church. That's what called it with the
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word of God. He gave the word of the Lord to
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this man and he said to him, get up.
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That's what we are here. We are using the word of the
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Lord today. God's put his word in and we are
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speaking and we saying get up. We get up every situation,
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whatever situation it is. But now watch this the very same
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chapter, they say reverse. Now they say turn around.
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Now I want you to get get hold of this because this is very
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powerful. The very same chapter versus
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later, Paul's down. The very same chapter, Paul is
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down. I want you to get this word
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today, Paul. All his heads, Paul hit the
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ground. Listen, Church, I want you to
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get this because it's very powerful.
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Now here he is, the same guy Saint Paul who said to somebody
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else, get up now he's down. OK, That's how life can be
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sometimes. In the same season, you can have
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a miracle and a battle. In the same season you can have
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a breakthrough and you can have a set back.
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At the same season, the same guy Paul says to somebody else, get
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up. That person go now pulls down.
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Read this in the world Ball hit the ground.
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Stunt. He's stunt, he's in the ground.
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They dragged him outside of the city.
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Left for dead. Alls down.
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Great man of gods down. 1 moment he's helping somebody else to
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get up. The very next moment he's down.
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That's life. It happens that way sometimes
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that in the same season you have a victory, but then you get hit
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by something you did not see coming.
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Unexpected knock down now one hard day.
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Listen, church does not cancel God's plan for your life.
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One hard moment, one hard difficulty.
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Writes again because what I love about Paul and this has
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encouraged me so much that the Bible says Paul got up
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Hallelujah. Oh, I feel the presence of God.
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I feel that getting a power in this place Today Paul caught up
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and he went tacky to the city. Somebody say resurrection power.
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My God, I got to show you this. Wow.
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This is such a powerful verse. It says Acts 14, verse 19.
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They stoned Paul. They dragged him outside the
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city thinking he was dead. But after the disciples had
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gathered around, he got somebody say he got up and he went back.
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He got up. Somebody said, I've got to get
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up. Yeah.
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I love that. Paul did not stay down.
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Come on. They stoned him, therefore dead.
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He did not stay down. He did not stay in the dead.
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But the Bible says that he got up and he did not let one hard
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difficult moment where they started.
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He did not let that define him, that tell him and say who he and
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decide who he was. OK, and I want you to hear this
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word today because what mocked you down does not get to define
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you. That mistake, that Finder, does
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not get to define who you are, what has knocked you down to the
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disappointment, the delay. It doesn't.
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One bad chapter is not the whole story.
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It's one bad moment by Chapter 1 failure difficulty.
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One fall does not cancel your calling.
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The Bible says the righteous fools, but we get up every time.
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And Paul is not the only one that shows us this.
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Peter shows it to us as well. Peter failed miserably.
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We saw that last week, how Peter failed.
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He denied Jesus and he wept bitterly and he failed.
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But what I love about heaven said and Peter and Peter, Grace
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still called his name. Mercy still had got a plan for
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him even with the fire. God did not write him off.
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Listen, pizza made a comeback. What a comeback after that
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failure and that Mace and all that.
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Pizza caught up on the day of pizza cost.
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He was the one that preached. And how many people got saved?
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How many souls 3000? I love these souls coming in
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3000 souls. Peter, the failure did not
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cancel his future. The mistake the maze did not
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cancel his destiny. OK, he was.
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God did not write him off because of a failure.
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So one hot season is not going to cancel your future.
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And sometimes all it takes is just one word from God.
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Gaza, listen, I'm not done with you.
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You're still mine. Just get up and try again.
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Yeah, we just try again. I love our God.
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God of another chance. Hallelujah.
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Try again. You know, that's what happened
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with Thomas Edison. You know, he kept on trying and
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trying. Trying.
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He failed and failed trying to invent a light bulb.
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And it is. And he just tried to invent a
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light bulb and then kept on failing.
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But he just kept on going, just kept on trying, keep up.
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And you know, when people tried to label him and limit him, his
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mother spoke fight over him. I love that because his mother
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saw greatness. Other people wrote him off.
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You're not going to do this. You're not going to be able to
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invent a light bulb, but you're not.
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His mother spoke greatness of it.
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That's the power of 1. Voice of faith over you.
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Speak out faith over your life. You know, I love the story of
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KFC. You know, like chicken finger
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licking Good. Come on, KFC.
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I'm pretty myself. Hungry.
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How are we going to have some KFC?
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OK. Finger licking Good.
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OK. Colonel Saunders.
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It reminds us that it's never too late.
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You know Colonel Saunders that started KFC.
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He was 65. He started KFC, you know, when
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he start, he was 65, he was bastard broken.
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He had nothing. He was like, so it's like in the
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natural, it looks like it's way too late.
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You've got nothing and all that. And but he's getting something
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small and it wasn't a big company.
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It wasn't a big opportunity. All that he had was a chicken
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recipe and he's got this chicken recipe.
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And that's how God works sometimes.
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He, he, he works with the small things, the things that people
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overlook, the simple things. And he's got this chicken
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recipe. And here goes Colonel Saunders.
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And he goes from and he knocks on doors and knocking on doors
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and he goes from restaurant to restaurant, he says.
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Please can you give me a chance? And he just keeps on going,
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knocking from restaurant and they just keep on hearing no,
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no, no. And they just keep on turning
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down and down and out over and over again.
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But I I love the fact that he just kept on knocking.
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He just kept on moving forward and like not they say that he
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was more than thousands. So Can you imagine 1000 no's So
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you knock on this door. Got a chicken recipe taste
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delicious. No, no 1000 opportunities to
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quit it sometimes sounds like you know when we out and about
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evangelizing energy you hand out flies and people.
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No, no, you know, and they're like at the Peel Center, you're
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like, but what I love about Colonel Saunders, and this is a
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powerful story about KFC is that he did, he just kept on
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knocking, waited for the one door and finally one door open
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up. That one door, that one open
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door became such an opportunity. It opened a whole new season for
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him. And sometimes we can be doing
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evangelism and you can have 1000 times.
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No, no, no, no, no. And you can have that one
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person, oh, that one person that says, yes, I want Jesus, one
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more soul for the Kingdom of God.
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I love that one more. This week we play Sabre.
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Come on, you're believing God every day for one soul, every
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day one person. Yes, there's going to be some
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nose and but look at Colin Saunders.
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It's never too late. And it's just that one
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opportunity, that one door that opened up and everything
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changed. And I just love that one door
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opportunity. And you know, what I love about
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this story is that he's come back.
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Didn't just bless him, but he became a blessing to others.
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You know how when he came to the Lord, you know, Colonel
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Saunders, he helped a struggling church.
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Yeah, this is not a lot of people know this, but it's
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incredible that he actually, there was a church that had a
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building project going on and the whole project fell through
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and they're about to go completely bankrupt.
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This church is about to completely close and shut and
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all. Colonel Saunders walked in.
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He said at the back of the church, he walked up to the
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pastor, asked the pastor about the bullet.
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The pastor explained everything. He said this and it's always
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gone. We, we, we cannot, the whole
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church going to Colonel Saunders said, how much do you need?
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Colonel Saunders wrote out a check, $1 million and save that
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entire church. Come on, somebody give God some
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praise. Give God some praise.
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And that's what I love. At 65, he had nothing.
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Moments later, he's writing out a check for a billion.
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That is your destiny. God is calling you from going to
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nobody to somebody, from saying no to saying yes.
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Let that become a yes in your life.
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Let that contract become yes. Let that promotion come.
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Let that door, that job, that company open up for you.
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Let that balance open up into the green for you.
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May you ship from the overdraft into the from the underdraft to
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the overdraft from the red into the green.
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May that happen to you church because a placing that not just
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stop with him, he become a blessing.
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And you see, when God restores you, when God lifts you up, it's
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never just about you. And God blesses your life and
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lifts you up. It's for you to become a
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blessing for your comeback, to become somebody's miracle.
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Come on, somebody, yes. So it's never too late.
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You're never too far behind for a comeback.
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Oh, you say, well, but too many things has gone wrong.
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God is a God of restoration. He can restore and make it brand
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new. Just it takes one word from God,
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one phone call, one e-mail, one divine connection.
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Just one like that. You are one years away from a
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brand new season, 1 years away from your biggest breakthrough
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in your life. You are one.
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Yes, I prophecy over you. I declare this over your life.
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Just like Colonel Saunders, you are one years away from
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franchises around the globe. Just just some ministries around
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the globe, revival and Great Awakening, businesses opening up
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business branches around the world.
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How about Sandbach and you take the Casper from the UK to Africa
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around the world. Karabasi andorabasatianti.
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Oh Rabasi, I see a moment of favour on somebody today.
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I see that's happening. I see an anointing falling on
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somebody in this place. Hallelujah.
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Now, let me tell you about one of the greatest comebacks in the
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bottle, because maybe you say, well, you know, Pastor, my
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problems, my trouble, my issue is not because of something
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that's happened to me, but it's because of my own choices, my
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own poor choices, because of my own compromise.
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That's why Samsung's story is so powerful, because Samsung was
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called. He was anointed.
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He had a calling, but he misused it.
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He had strength, but he misused it.
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He had a calling. He had a gifting upon his life,
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but he compromised because of his mistakes.
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The enemy came in, found him up, blinded him and tried to
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convince him that his story is finished, that it's over.
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But listen, I'm here to tell some, some of you that listen,
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the devil celebrated too soon. Oh, my God.
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As a yeah, that's exactly what happened because the devil
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misread his story. You see, the devil did not see
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this coming because the Bible says something very powerful.
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Sad songs. Hey began to grab back.
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Say Jesus, that's what the bottles if Bible says something
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very powerful, you see the devil didn't see this.
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The Bible says his hair began to grow back.
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Oh my God, I love that. And so while the enemy fought
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that he was finished, the enemy thought he had finished.
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Hands on, off. He was mocking him.
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He thought he was finished. Well, the enemy thought Heaven
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was rebuilding him. How was mocking him?
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Heaven was restoring him. Heaven was rebuilding him.
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The Bible says his hair started to grow back again.
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His strength was coming back, His courage was coming back.
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His purpose was coming back, His fire was coming back.
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Hallelujah. And I declare over you today.
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This is your word today. Your joy is coming back, your
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strength is coming back, your blessing, your peace is coming
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back. Your health is coming back.
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Your family is coming back. Hallelujah strength is coming
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back to you Somebody say it's coming back come on shot it is
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coming back it's coming back come on we've had a testament
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we've seen people say grow back. Where's Carol come on you know
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it's powerful. Can you testify that that is
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true After Carol came on time to the prayer line after receiving
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pray the by her she come she she actually testified that I hate
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grow back confirm that that is true what happened so.
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My hair just started falling out when I went on the holiday I
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think it was. I don't know what what the
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reason was, but it started falling out and when I came back
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it just didn't seem to be stopping.
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So I came up for prayer and pastor will pray for me for it
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to stop shedding and a couple of days later it stopped.
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Hallelujah, somebody said. You got a surprise at this
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place. I love the fact Carol showed me
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the other day, Jacques Lane and the boxer said, look your
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poster, one look at their hair, it's Gray.
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My God, God could do a miracle for you.
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Your strength is coming back. Your youth is coming back.
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Some of you have been feeling so tired and exhausted.
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Your strength and energy is coming back.
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Oh my God, I feel the anointing in this place.
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Hallelujah. You know, Simonson prayed one of
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the most powerful. Praise Lord, give me strength
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one more time. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
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Give me strength one more time. What an honest prayer.
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What a powerful prayer from the cry of a man's heart that says,
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God, I cannot do this without you.
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God, touch me one more time. Let's show these Philistines.
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Let's show the devil his boss. This devil has been laughing and
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mocking, but show him his boss. Touch me one more time, Lord,
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restore me. What some of you ought to need
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to pray that, pray this week, pray that pray, pray that, pray.
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Lord, do it again. Do it again.
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And Lord, we are king. Keep me on fire.
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Rhino donkey is not here anymore.
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Do it again for the UK. Come on somewhere the great
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generals of course, are now. You are sitting here.
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We are sitting here. Who's the next Billy Graham in
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this place? Who's the next Ronald Bonker?
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Where's Catherine Coleman in this place?
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Where's the next one? They are brought in the harvest,
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the Billy Graham's, Yes. But now you are here and you've
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got to cry out to God and say do it again, Lord, raise me up.
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It's time to get up. No more excuses.
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It's time to rise up and say, Lord, do it again.
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And here's the good news. You know when God.
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Brought Samsung back. How?
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God brought him back. God can bring you back.
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Yeah, God can bring you back. So don't count yourself out.
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Don't let a failure write your ending.
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Because grace is still moving. God's not finished with you yet.
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Lord, do it again. Somebody say Lord, do it again.
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Lord, do it again. And then there's Moses shows us
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how God can rewrite something that we thought we have ruined.
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God gave him the stone tablets sacred thing was something so
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sacred give Moses entrusted Moses with such sacred holy
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things, these holy, these tablets written by the very hand
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of God. And Moses in his frustration,
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flew down and broke it. In his anger, he let it dropped
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and he crossed and damaged what God has entrusted to him.
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And he damaged it through the his anger.
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And that's sometimes what we do. We let our hurt damage a
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relationship. We let our hurt, we let the
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disappointment steal our peace. And he's mishandled, but I love
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our God. Our God is a merciful God.
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Our God is a forgiving. He didn't say, OK, you blew it.
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You've had your chance. That was your last.
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That's not what God said. I love when you read Exodus
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attention all the way through to Exodus before it says they're
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very clear. The Bible says Moses, go back
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onto the mountain and here comes this is so beautiful.
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I just love this. Go and read it.
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It says. I'll write it again.
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I'll write it. I'll do that again.
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What grace? What mercy.
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Watch forgiveness. Same calling, same purpose, same
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God. Another chance.
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Moses blew it. He brought the stones.
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I messed up big time. God says, OK, that's the lost.
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God says come back, I'll do it again.
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Mercy, forgiveness, Come on. What a God.
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Geez, that's what? A word.
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Somebody, another chance. So maybe you have mishandled
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something in your life. Maybe you have mishandled a
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relationship, maybe you've mishandled finances, maybe
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you've mishandled marriage. Or maybe an opportunity, maybe a
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business opportunity, you've mishandled it.
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But God is a God of restoration because God can restore what has
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been mishandled. God can make it new.
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What you dropped, it's not too far gone.
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OK, so what's broken? It's not too broken.
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He's still calling. He's still restoring.
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He's still the God who makes things brand new.
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So the same God who told Moses to go back onto the mountain.
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He's the same God who's selling here.
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Come back up. Come back up.
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Get back up. He's the same God yesterday,
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today, and forever, and he's saying the same thing to us
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today. Get back up again.
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Get ready for another chance. Amen.
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Now, sometimes the pain is not about what we did wrong.
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Sometimes the pain or the disappointment or the difficulty
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comes because there's something that's happened to us.
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And you see this in the book of Genesis chapter 3432.
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We Gods, he's telling Jacob, he says, listen Jacob, I wanted to
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go back home to your land of your father's, take your family,
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go back to the your homeland, go back and I will be with you.
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Jacob obeyed. Jacob took his family and
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started travelling to remember Bethel.
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Now Bethel, that is where God changed his name.
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And so God changed his name from Jacob to Israel, right?
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So Jacob means the, the, the struggler, the sea of that.
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That's the name of the past, made mistakes in the past.
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Israel is the new name. That's the name of the future,
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the name of promise. And so there's a man marked with
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promise. He's on a journey.
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He's on his way to the promise and something painful happened.
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He's in the will of God. He's doing the right thing on
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his way to the promise and something painful happened.
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And that is life. Sometimes that's what happens in
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in life. Sometimes maybe so things happen
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and you can be going in the very right direction because here he
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is. He's going, he's moving toward
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the promise. God said go to your homeland.
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He's obeying, God is on his way. And what happened?
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Something painful. Rachel died.
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The one he loved died painful. And so that is a very hard,
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difficult moment for him. And life is like that.
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You can be doing the very the right thing.
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You can be following God. You can be obeying God on your
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way to promise, doing the very right thing.
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But then something very painful happens.
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Life happens. Difficulty challenges happen.
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Something heartbreaking happens. A door closes, a relationship
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failure, a breakdown, loss of a loved one.
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I'm putting powers away. Something happened that
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unexpected, never expected and it knocks you down.
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And the Bible says that Jacob buried Rachel and he marked the
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place and he wept bitterly. He weave grief.
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That's now, that's grief, that's pain.
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Now. God never rebuked him for
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grieving because grieving is not weakness.
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Grieving is grieving over his wife, his loved one that died.
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That's human. That's that's good.
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I mean, he was grieved and God never obeys, OK.
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And so here he was grieving in the moment marked it.
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Grieving means that you love deeply.
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That's when we grieve when somebody passed away at the
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grave. And so there's a time to mourn.
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There's a time to weep. There's a time to grieve, but
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then there is a time to heal because yet becomes dangerous
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when a painful season becomes a permanent location, that's
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dangerous, OK, So yes, there's time for mourning and weeping
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and but when a painful season becomes a permanent location,
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that's where people get stuck, OK, because they start living
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there. And the Bible says very, very
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powerfully, and I want you to get hold of this, it says that
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he turn it on, but he specifically says Israel
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journeyed on. No, Jacob journeyed on, OK,
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because Israel, Jacob journeyed on.
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Jacob means the pain Israel that represents the moving on.
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You see what I'm getting? So that's the difference between
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Jacob and Israel. I want you to stay with me
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because how the 2 represents 1. So the the Jacob represents the
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pain. That's the human nature, That's
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the pain. But then the Israel represents
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the promise. So the Jacob, that's the loss.
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But Israel, that's the moving on, that's the destiny, the
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future. You see the difference between
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the one, OK, so the one is the lost and the one is the moving.
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And that is why you cannot just stay in Jacob only.
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I want you to get this, because you cannot just stay in the
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grieving and in the, in that place, the human part only.
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You have got to let Israel arise.
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I want to say that again. You have got to let Israel rise
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up in you. Come on.
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There's two natures. I want you to understand this.
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There's the Jacob nature and the Israel nature.
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The one is pain and the one is lost.
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But you cannot stay stuck in Jacob.
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You have got to stay with Israel, the destiny, the
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promise, OK. And so that's why you have got
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to let the purpose speaks louder than the pain.
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OK, So you've got to let the promise, the estrol part in you
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has got to be louder than the grief, the Jacob, the pain.
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You understand that what I'm saying?
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So yes, feel it. It's hard, it's difficult.
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Feel it. We've got emotions, Judge, feel
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it. Cry, moan, but don't stay there.
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Come on, somebody, it's natural on the phone.
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I'm talking to a family member. It's horrible.
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It's hard. I'm crying, I'm sin tears, but
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this indeed you don't stay there.
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The loss may be real. Yes, my nephew so and so passed
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away that so but it cannot become your location and that is
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faith. Faith is I may be down, but I'm
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not staying down. Amen.
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Now let me close with one more. Jesus told this amazing story
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about the prodigal son who received the inheritance from
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the father. And he wasted it, OK with poor
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choices, wrong decisions, OK, wrong direction.
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And he wasted what has been trusted to.
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He lost it. What his dad gave him that he
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was really supposed to protect. And there he is.
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He's empty, he's broken, he's ashamed.
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He's there in the big pen, He's lost everything.
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He's inheritance. It's all gone.
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And there he sets, ashamed and empty.
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But here comes the turning point because he's he's really down.
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He's low. I mean, he's at a low point and
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he's just living really below and beneath what he really,
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really was. But now when this turning point
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is powerful and I saw this as amazing.
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So look 50. It's amazing the turning point.
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And the turning point came when he said I will get up.
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I read it in this version. I think this is beautiful.
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Verse Luke 15. Verse 17.
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Then he came to so I said, how many of my cells of my father
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have enough food despair, but I am I'm perishing dying year of
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hunger. Verse 18 I will get up.
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No, this is your world choice in grand, your own nation.
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I will. I've got to get up.
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No matter what situation, no matter what difficulty, what
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trouble, what situation, I will gain up.
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That's the turning point. But turning point I will get.
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Listen. Not when he said that it was
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not, not when everything looked perfect, not when everything
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looked better. When I've cleaned myself up and
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I'm out of the big pen. When everything's fine and not,
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no, it's still in the mess is I will get up.
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I will arrive, so I'll go to my father.
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Those words are powerful. I'll go back to my father.
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This is the translation. He says here I will arrive, so
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I'll go to my father. And so that is where the turn
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around started. That's I love that because
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that's where the miracle started when he made-up his mind,
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made-up his mind came to himself and said, listen, I'm making
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this decision. I'm getting up.
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I've had enough of this pigs. I've got enough of this
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struggling. I've had enough of this
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addiction, this change of this, I've had enough of it.
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I'm getting up. I'm taking a rightfully belongs
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to me and listen, he's he's still in a mess.
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He's lost everything. He's he's still far away from
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home, full of shame, full of empty.
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But when he turned back towards home, the Bible says, and I love
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this, The Father ran. The Father Hallelujah, mercy
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meeting on the road. The father ran not close eyes,
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open arms. The Father ran Hallelujah, the
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father ran and so mercy ran and you know I love it.
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There was a father didn't just stand back with his arms.
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Father, he says, you know, come back later when you've cleaned
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yourself up, go on your way back in his house.
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Go and get short yourself out. No, the father ran, love ran,
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mercy ran forgiven love heart. That's how God is towards us.
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He's like that towards you. The moment you say I will get
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up, your father comes on the scene.
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When you make that decision in that moment of time and you come
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to a place and you make up your mind and you say I will get up,
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I will arise. Your father comes and he says
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get the best robe, get the best robe.
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The robe that says you are still loved.
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You are still loved. Get the robe.
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Get the robe of honour, the robe of favour.
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You are still out. You are still mine.
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OK, I know you've missed that. I know all these things.
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Listen, I still love you, my son.
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Welcome home. That's how God is.
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Bring the best robe and he reminds you and he restores you
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of your identity. This is who you are.
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He restores you. He clothes you, He places you.
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That's our Father, not pointing finger.
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So listen, those mistakes did not cancel your destiny.
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Whether you feel like the man has been sitting at the pool at
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the face door, staring at the same night for 38.
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Whether you feel like that. Or maybe you feel like pulling
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the dirt, or like Moses with the broken tablets.
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Maybe you feel like Jacob had a grave.
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Maybe you feel like the prodigal son coming home, feeling ancient
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in shade. Whether you feel like the word
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of God is still the same, He still says get up.
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That's the word of the Lord. Get up out of fear, get up out
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of disappointment, out of regrets, out of shine.
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Get out out of that delay. Just get out of it.
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Get up out of it. And you know you may be done,
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but you're not staying down. I'm declaring and prophesying
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that over your life you may be done.
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You're not staying down. And that's what Micah said to us
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right at the beginning. Micah said when I fall, I will
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arise. So doubt is not your final
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destination. Your story is not over because
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there is still life in you. There is still strength in you.
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There's still resurrection power.
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There's still fire in you, purpose in you.
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There's destiny in you. Hallelujah, somebody, these
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resurrection clouds. So you're not going under.
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You are getting ready to rise. I said you are getting ready to
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rise and this is it. I'm closing with us.
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This is your rise up moments. This is your get up moments.
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Yeah, this is your comeback moment.
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This is your time to bounce back like that.
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Basketball bounces the table thought he could bounce into the
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ground, but the harder he threw you into the ground, the higher
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you bounce back. Oh my goodness.
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When we swim in the sea, when we on those waves and I'm on that
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Peach ball and I'm trying to put that ball under the water, that
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thing just bounce and pops right back up.
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The same with one of us, all of us, we bouncing back, we
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bouncing back. This is your bounce back moment.
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This is your comeback moment. Tyson was knocked out, but he
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was knocked. He was knocked down, but not
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knocked out. He got back up again, like those
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boxes when they get back up again, like our kids, they get
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back up again after the fall. We are getting back up again
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today. So I want you to, if you believe
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this, stand to your feet. If this is your word today, give
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the Lords a shout of praise. Church, come on, give him some
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praise. Give him the Holy Spirit is
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moving in this place. So right now, I believe this is
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your get up moment. You've been down, down in your
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mind, down in depression, anxiety and fear and
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disappointment and shame under the weight of what has happened
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to you. Listen, I'm here with the word
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of the Lord today. Heaven is calling you Jesus.
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He's standing in front of every man, every regret, every shame,
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every addiction, every situation, whatever situation
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you found. And Jesus is standing there with
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your power and the authority from heaven.
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And he's speaking to every person, every heart in this
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place right now. And he's saying get up, get up.
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It's no more pity parties, no more excuses, no more listen.
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It's time to get up and shine and be who we are supposed to
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be. Hallelujah.
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And so this is your momentous to get up out of heaviness, get out
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of depression and shame and fear.
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And if this word is for you, if you are saying listen, past the
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years I've been carrying shame and fear and disappointment,
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this is my word. I have been done.
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If you are here in this place right now and you say, pastor, I
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am ready to get up, put your hand up.
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Put your hand, raise your yes, I'm ready to get up.
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Yes, I'm ready to rise. I'm ready to rise.
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I'm ready to get up. If that is you, lift both hands
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all across this place right now. This is your moment, Father, in
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the name of Jesus, I pray for every person with their hands
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lifted right now. Every very hard brings strength,
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every wound bring healing, every discouraged mind release peace.
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Every person who's been stuck on that mat for a long time, bring
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resurrection power. Bring resurrection life flow.
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Lord, breathe on that situation. In the name of Jesus, I pray
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lift them up, Lord, from the mat, from the difficulty, from
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whatever they've been stuck in for years.
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Jesus, we thank you for your word that you restore them, that
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you revive them. Let joy rise, let strength rise.
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Let faith rise and courage right.
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Bring strength, Lord. And I thank you, Lord, that what
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was knocked down is rising again.
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When somebody has been knocked down and feeling low and down,
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Lord, I pray right now, rise them up.
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What was dry is living again. Let those dead things come alive
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in their lives in the name of Jesus.
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And what was weak, Lord, let it be strengthened again.
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What was broken? Let it be restored in the name
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of Jesus. Now let every chain break in the
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name of Jesus. Break every chain, every
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addiction, every bondage, every fear, every doubt, lose your
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grip. Every lie of the enemy I command
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you, lose your grip. Take your hands off God's
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people, you devil, you're a defeated foe.
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In the name of Jesus is more than you.
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Jesus is glorious. Jesus rose again and because.
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Jesus was resurrected. He's resurrected his people
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right here today in the mighty name of Jesus.
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Thank you, Lord, that this is not the end of this story, but
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this is a turning .0 Lord, that this is a combat moment for your
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people where they rise again in the mighty name of Jesus.
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Now somebody, if you believe they give God some praise, give
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him some praise. Show.