Sermon
Fire That Follows You Home - Pastor Will Roos
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Transcript
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And that is the message that I want to bring this morning.
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I don't want to talk about the fire that follow you home
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because listen, we are couriers of the fire of God.
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Where do we go? It doesn't just stay in the fall
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almost of the church. Wherever we go, we take the fire
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of God with us. So I'm going to put that up
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there for us. The title the subject of this
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message today just put it up there fire that follows you
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home. How many of you are ready for
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this word today because this is this is the next steps now after
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an anointed service or a conference or church.
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I want to show you the next steps that is very, very vital,
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very important and not showing me over the years how to stay on
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fire because this is very important message today.
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Once we've had encounters with God, conferences, anointed
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services, how do we stay on fire?
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Because this is a challenge for all of us.
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We all face challenges. How to start fire, how to keep
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the fire burning. OK, when Next week, Wednesday
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afternoon. OK, the boss is stressing you
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out. How do you keep the fire burning
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after the conference? You know when the lights are
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off, the band's gone home and it's you the balls, the busy
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schedule and it feels like life is normal about going back to
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the normal ordinary again. It's those moments that the
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enemy, he loves to whisper, especially after conferences,
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anointed services. He loves to whisper, says oh
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wow, that was a great weekend. But you know you will go back to
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normal soon. The, the fight, the, the, the
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fire will fight. The passion will wear off.
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And so soon you'll be back to the old you.
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Listen, the devil is a liar. That's not God's.
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God's plan is to stand fire every single day, every moment,
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four week long on fire, not just a conference experience, not
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just a Sunday church service, not just the moment in a
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meeting, but the fire of God that follows you home.
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Now maybe yes, you aren't able to attend the conference because
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you are way of working commitments, bringing off the
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children. We all get that.
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But you may not have been in that building, but I've got good
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news. You're in this building and the
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same bonus, but it is you. And now the same Hooligan's, the
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same Hooligan's Fair. He's here right now.
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Oh, I've got good news for you. You did not miss.
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Oh, my God, Just open your heart.
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Just receive. Because I'm here to tell you
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that the same Holy Ghost fire, he's in this room right now.
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The same clienting, the same brother, the same power of God
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is here. Come on, Somebody show somebody.
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Give God some place in this place.
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Oh, Hallelujah. I feel the power in the
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anointing of God in this place. And so yes, now I want to show
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you how to stay on fire every single day and let the fire God
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follow you home into your everyday life.
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So we're going to go straight into the word.
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Put your hand on your heart. Say this with me.
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My heart is open, my mind is ready.
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I'm not leaving the same in Jesus name.
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Hey man, give your name to the high 5 say God bless you.
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Get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready for the work right
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now. Don't with me to the book of
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This is an amazing I love this verse.
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Very powerful verse in the book of Romans chapter 12.
Romans 12 chapter mention
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I'm going to put it up on the screen and we're going to just
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read that verse from verse 11 and I love this.
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It says there never be lucky in zeal.
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OK, never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor
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or your spiritual passion serving the Lord.
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And so I just another translation that talks about
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keep your spiritual passion boiling hearts on fire.
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Now some people has got hobbies and different things and they're
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passionate for, you know, rugby or sports or cycling or that
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you've got the passion for that. Now what God is saying is that
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we have got to be passionate for the Lord.
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Nothing wrong with having a good hobby in sports and all of that.
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I love my sports. I love watching my rugby, OK and
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all of that and the football and things like that.
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But what God is saying, and I love this picture, he's saying,
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listen, stay boiling hearts, boiling heart passionately for
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the Lord, OK? And so God says, listen, I don't
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want you to live cold, half hearted, You know, when it comes
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to the things of God, you know, just going through the motions
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now he wants you to live on fire, boiling hearts every
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single day. I want you boiling on.
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And that's what this message is all about, how to live a life,
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OK, Be the fire of God, OK? It doesn't stay in the church
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building, OK, but it follows you home.
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The Father follows you wherever we go, to our homes, to our
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families. OK, now let's just pray.
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Father, I thank you for your presence.
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Lord, I thank you that you speak to every heart open in this
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place. Holy Spirit, come breathe life
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into every person here present. And we give you all the glory
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and somebody shout Amen. So you understand this Romans
Romans 12 chapter mention
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chapter 12, what a powerful verse to be passionately, never
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lack zeal. OK, my God, you know, we got to
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stand in this culture against passivity, you know, don't let
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down when it comes to the things of God.
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We have got to be boiling hot and so on fire.
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And it's not just a once off thing.
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It is a passionate lifestyle of everyday living.
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Boiling hot on fire for the Lord.
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So he doesn't want you on fire just for the weekend or just for
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the conference or just not fire for a church service.
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OK. He doesn't just want to touch
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you. He wants to walk out with you,
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out that door, ride with you into the car, at home, at work.
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He wants to follow you home wherever you go.
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Come on, somebody he does it just wants a choose version and
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then a Monday version, OK. He wants fire.
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Who follows you home? Hallelujah.
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Somebody. OK, think about fireworks and
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make a fireplace. Now.
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I love fireworks. Guy Fox is just amazing.
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He just light up the sky. Boom, boom, explosives.
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I love that they just flash, boom, you know, the fireworks,
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OK. It's really amazing.
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I like fireworks and so, but here's the thing.
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Fireworks, they light up the sky.
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Boom, bang, bang, egg explosion. It's amazing.
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It's great, spectacular. But then it's gone.
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It's 2 minutes and it's gone. So you get in the car, drive
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back home, wow, that was great. Fireworks, wow, that was
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amazing. Light up the sky, but two
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minutes, it's gone. It's dark again.
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Now, a fireplace is different. A fireplace burns all evening.
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A fireplace, warm stuff. Oh, somebody's getting this.
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A fireplace changes the atmosphere.
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We come and we sit close to the fire.
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We feel cozy. It's steady.
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It's constant. Now I thank God for the
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fireworks. And fireworks is great and
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brilliant, and it's not its place.
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But after 2 minutes of fireworks, when it's dark again,
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a fireplace is cozy, a fireplace warms up.
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And you see, God wants to shift us.
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He wants to take us from fireworks fight to fireplace
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fight. He wants to bring us shift into
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our lives from just fireworks fight, from just going to one
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meeting to the next conference, one church to every day of
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fireplace warming our whole life.
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Come on, Somebody is getting. Yeah, you're not getting this
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this morning. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. Are you ready?
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Somebody, praise God. Begin.
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As you said. The thing is, some believers,
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they only go from firework to fireworks, Second one conference
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to the next conference. One Monday at one meeting.
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Yeah, to the next meeting. And then for a few months
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they're called flat dull. OK, but you see, The thing is,
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God doesn't just want you on fire on a Sunday.
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He wants you to go from fireworks to fireplace, from a
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flash in the sky to warming your whole life.
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Now let me show you very powerfully in the Bible Acts
Acts 2 chapter mention
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chapter 2 when the day of Pentecost had Fullene Cup, they
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were all with 1 accord in one place and suddenly just say that
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word suddenly, OK right that that sounds like fireworks to
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me. Now there came a sound from
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heaven as a rushing mighty weed and it filled the whole house
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where they were sitting. Then they repealed to them
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divided tongues as fire. I want you to see this what
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what's going on around this Bible?
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This is straight from the Bible when you talk about Holy Ghost
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fires, Bible biblical and he says there and one sat upon each
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of them. So everyone fired and they were
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all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
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tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, speaking in other
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songs. I'm not talking in Afrikaans,
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I'm not talking English, I'm talking about Hallelujah.
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So that is a Holy Ghost shifting that comes upon us when we
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receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
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And so that was that's a fireworks moment.
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That's where God comes and ignites and he birth the church
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with fire, with wing, with power, the Holy Ghost fire and
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that is glorious and that is powerful.
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And we cherish the fireworks moments and we thank God for the
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beginnings of the fireworks. That's Acts chapter, but I want
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you to see that it did not just stop at fireworks.
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I want you to see to die from the word of God that he went
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from fireplace to a fireplace because listen, there has got to
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be fruits from an encounter. There has got to be an outflow
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of results in our lives when we've received the fire of God.
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Otherwise why do we go to a country?
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Why do we receive the they got there has gone to be results and
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I want you to see this because there was results after this
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Pentecost. You read the very same chapter
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and you see how the very same people at the fireworks.
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We cannot do it without the fireworks.
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We need the fire, but we see how that became a new lifestyle.
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Hi come on come on, you got a flow with me today because this
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is a word from heck and I want to show it to you because the
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same chapter watch this verse 4 to 2.
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They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to finish
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up. We thank God for fellowship, to
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the breaking of bread, to prayer.
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Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders signs performed
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by the Apostles. All the believers were together
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had everything in common. They sold property positions to
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give to anyone who had me. Every day they continued to meet
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together where in the temple courts they broke bread so they
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was breaking up bread. Their homes ate together with
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glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the
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favor of all the people and the Lord and added this your soul
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willing added to the number daily those who were being
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saved. So that is the same chapter
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where we've seen fireworks and it has gone into can we see the
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new lifestyle where it's become a fireplace of Acts.
Acts 2 chapter mention
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Chapter 2 starts with the fireworks.
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The fire falls and then it goes the end of the chapter, a new
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way of passionate on fire living.
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So what's happened? The fire followed them home.
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It did not stay at Pentecost. The fire did not stay in the
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upper room. It had not locked into one
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church, pulling church to the church conference.
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It flowed into the streets. It flowed into their families,
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their everyday decisions, their choices, their tables, their
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kitchens, their giving, their word, their conversations.
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And so the purpose of the Holy Ghost and fire.
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OK, the Pentecost, it wasn't just a fireworks wow moment, but
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it became a lifestyle of loving one another, serving one
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another, generosity. We see it, I broke up miracle
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signs, wonders, We see soul winning.
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People are getting saved. That's the purpose of pentacles.
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Somebody said Hallelujah. And that's what this chapter 2
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that we just read when the Bible's talking about, it's not
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just the ones off place. It's not just the walls or
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fireworks, but it's got to be a fireplace and lifetime of never
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lacking zeal. It's not just for A105020 year
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period or or just a week or day. It's a lifetime, whether we we
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19 or 91, never lacking zeal, always passionate boiling.
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You know, I remember when I was a student.
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And so the fireworks started for me.
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You know, when Doctor Rodney R Brown tried for us, we received
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the fire of God. I mean, this is going back 25
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years ago when I was 1920 and those fireworks that I
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experienced the Holy Ghost of Fire.
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I literally went onto the streets in Sunnyside.
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I got people off the streets. I preach.
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I just get people's left, right and saying to these people that
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got to your your door, they want to sell they they mobile device
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accessory. I'm just preaching left, right
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and said to getting the results with people that were literally
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on the streets, helpless people. The fire of God hit them.
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They got saved. And I love what Doctor Rodney R
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Brown said, right, I've got a job for you.
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So what we do is we give people a job.
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Like on that conference, if you don't have a job, people
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standing, so I'm going to give you a job.
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You just go and tell one person about Jesus.
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I mean, I don't have to go to an office 9 till 5 and tell them do
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a job. Who's going to put my salary?
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God is faithful. God is your provider.
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One person a day and you tell them about Jesus.
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God is your provider. God will give you a job.
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I've seen and raised up soul winners in sunny South Vic in
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South Africa. And then God started placing.
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So you see, from fireworks to fireplace.
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And So what happened was I've had like some family member,
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well, imagine some people like actually critics and they said,
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oh, no, you know, well, we know, you know, he, he will just be a
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face. He's just a student and, you
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know, he's been through some of these radical, charismatic
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doctor Cornell Brown meetings, fire of God's hitting.
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And so people were just telling me, don't worry, he's just going
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through a fight. He's still young.
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He's 1920. They didn't just go through
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these studies because at that time I was studying my degree.
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But what happened was on the campus, I started baptizing
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people and the people were coming and we were saving souls.
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And so what's happened is, and, you know, just to tell my
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critics, OK, here we are 25 years later and I'm still on
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fire. Oh, my God.
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So what has happened? The fireworks became a
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fireplace. The fire followed me home.
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The fire followed me home to Pretoria, Sunnyside.
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The fire followed me to the UK. I'm like, turn the fire.
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It followed me. It's not just the place, the
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Holy Ghost Fire. It's not just for conferences.
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It's not just for Sunday Cornings.
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It's for every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, OK.
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It's for every. It's for the traffic jams.
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The Holy Ghost fire is for the school runs.
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It's for the boardroom meetings. It's for the Zoom calls.
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It's for our marriages, our families, our kids, the Holy
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Ghost Fire. And it's for the difficulties.
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It's for the late night tears. The Holy Ghost Fire follows us
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right there with us in the difficulty.
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And so God wants us to walk out of these doors radiating his
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presence. And it's a good thing.
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It's a wonderful thing because people are always attracted to
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light. It's like a magnet.
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People wanted I've been in shocks.
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I would go to the shops and it's amazing.
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I would just be in the shops and I would just be having a
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conversation with the Lord. But I, I do it like, you know,
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discretely in my heart. It's a it's a hard thing.
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So I'm just and people they don't realize it, but they just
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want to come and talk to me. They don't really know why, but
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they just approached me and and and and I and I actually often
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just realized this person standing with a basket grocery
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store and they don't even realize why they actually talk
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to me. Look, I thought they were asking
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me, you want to show me where this is a book?
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Where's the milk? Where's that?
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And then I realized they they just attracted because the
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presence of God is peace. We are living in a depressed
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world. The culture is depressed when we
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are carriers of his fire. Have you ever been Now for me, I
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love farming and the Bush felt on a game reserve.
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When you put that the fire, it's amazing.
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I've actually seen even some of the the wild animals will come
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close because when they see when the what happens is we are
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attracted to the fire. It's Wolf when it's cold, when
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it's freezing, we see that. We see the, the warmth when
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they, they want warmth, they want the fire.
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So when they're cameras of the fire, people are attracted.
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They attracted you because you're carrying the fire.
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They're like, wow, you know what?
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I actually want what you've got. They, they, it's a desire.
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And so the fire of God is worth you when you are making dinner
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in the kitchen, when you are with the kids, when I play with
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the kids, the fire of God, OK, when you're answering the
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emails, when you reply to the emails on the phone call, the
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fire of God is burning in your heart.
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When you have that conversation, it's burning.
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When you're under pressure and there's difficulty, the fire of
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God's like, no, thank you God that I'm not alone because it's
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difficult. I was in moments in Bristol.
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I mean, I was a registered manager before I started.
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God said to me, every time you have that conversation, there
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was that situation. And I, the Holy Spirit, I'm with
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you that brought so much reassurance that you're not a
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lot. Now look, how do we keep the
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fire burning every day? How do we do this?
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Because this is amazing scripture.
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It says that Leviticus chapter 6, verse 12.
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Are you with me, somebody? It says here the fire on the
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altar must be kicker. It mustn't go about every
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morning. The priest is to add fire.
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OK, that's the key. Now I want you to grab this
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today. OK, let me read you verse that
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thing as well. It says the fire must be kicked
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in on the altar continuously. So that's not a once off, it's
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not a now and then thing. God says the fire must burn
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continuously. That's all the time, 24/7, all
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week long, all the time. OK.
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That is the will and the purpose of God and it seems to add fire
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with. Now Please note that first of
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all the fire was started by God. We just read it.
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God sent the fire and he started.
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That's God's thought. The priest job was to add the
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wood and throw locks on the fire so that I could keep on burning.
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OK, and that is the same for us today.
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God comes, we get born again saved, and then Jesus comes and
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he partize us from the Holy Ghost of fire. 2 separate
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salvation and then we get the fire with born, the practice of
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the Holy Ghost of Fire. So God lights the fire, gives us
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a hunger for his presence. He's the one that released the
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fireworks. Think a fire price is our job.
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Nobody can do this for us. OK, we have to each and every
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one of us. We got us to run on fires.
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OK now yes we come together and got annoyed.
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But what we have to do is each and every one of us, we have to
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put on launch on the fire. We have to keep the fire burning
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continuously. That is our job, burning it at
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home, at work, every day in our choices, in our decisions.
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Now, of course, there's some days when we don't always feel
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on fire. We don't always feel boiling hot
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at the time. And so there is moment.
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So there's like wake up in the morning and OK, that feel woke
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up tired, not in a very good mood, Phil, but under the
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weather, OK, like this week. When was it Monday, Tuesday, I
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was really under the weather. I got.
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So it's like my sickness. I'm like, wow, but I'm going to
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listen to the word of God. I said one thing before you
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sleep. Oh, this work.
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It works like it's amazing. Put on this recording Kenneth
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Hagen and his scriptures on healing straight from the Bible
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and he throws in but through revelation through anointing and
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I'm like Lord, these symptoms. I feel terrible.
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I was like went to doctor. I mean Tuesday, I don't even
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know I'm going to make a conference.
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I'm like this in no way is I'm going to be able to go to the I
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said to Michelle, I said no way. So I am this is not I was
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completely I'm like attacked Tuesday when that sickness was
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just so I went to the doctor. They like, OK, but you know, so
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I'm like, OK, I'm going to go to the world of God.
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You know, you can't help me. I'm going to go to the word of
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God and I place doctors and I thank God.
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You know, when I put that Bible, I put it on and I went to be, I
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listen to it. Gee, when I woke up and that
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teaching that scriptures is, is specifically if you're attacked
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with symptoms of sickness specifically, I'll send you the
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link. I woke up, I'm like, I'm ready
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for the conference. God said it.
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The word of God works. The word of God, the word of God
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works. So yes, wake up.
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Maybe you don't feel very under the weather.
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Thoughts will tell you. Well, Oh my goodness, all these
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symptoms, I don't feel well, nothing good is good.
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I'm really gonna try then. Listen, you, we don't all wake
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up every morning. And so we just hear everyday
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angels singing at the end of the gate.
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OK, listen, let's just be honest.
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And well, there's some mornings where I'm like, OK, I don't
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really feel very well today. I don't hear any angels singing
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with my men. I don't feel on fire, but you
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know what? I'm going to choose instead of
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believing the feelings and the symptoms.
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Like I felt horrible, but I am going to believe what God says.
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I'm going to believe the word of God, and I'm going to declare
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the word of God. And this is what I've seen with
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David. He understood this because there
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was times when he faced a lot of betrayal, hurt, difficulties.
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He faced challenges. But I love what David did.
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When you look at the Psalm 180, David, he said, this is the day
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that the Lord has won. I will rejoice and be glad in
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it. OK, He didn't say, Oh well, I'll
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feel now. He said, I will.
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Now I, I don't feel very well. I feel under the weather and
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must choose something like there's no ways I'm going to
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make it, but I will rejoice. I make a quality decision based
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on the word of God. I will rejoice.
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And you see what you're actually doing is when did we choose the
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word of God, you that is fan the flame.
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This is our responsibility, each and every one of us, a preacher,
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we cannot do that. But fan the flame with the word
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of God, you David Stern himself and said, listen, I will
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rejoice. I don't feel very well.
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My body doesn't feel, but I will rejoice.
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I thank God that and you just keep on declaring the word.
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Thank you God that you're for me.
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You're not against me or I thank you that goodness and mercy is
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following me into this day. Goodness and mercy is following
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me. And thank you, Lord, that your
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fire is also following me. Your fire is following me.
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Goodness and mercy follows me all the days of my life.
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You just keep on quoting it and say, yes, the feelings might not
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feel better, but what you're doing is you're fanning the
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flak. So I'm putting another wood lock
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on the flight because remember, the table cannot touch your
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spirit. It might touch you and your body
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because I was massively afflicted your sickness.
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It was a it was an attack, filthy attack.
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But you see, it cannot touch your spirit.
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He can touch your body. You feel weak.
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You feel all of the symptoms, but not your spirit.
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And So what you do is you just take on more wood, put it on
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your spot and let that flame, oh, I'm just going to stop that
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fire. I'm going to burn out that
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affliction. I'm going to burn out that
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signal. I'm going to burn it out.
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And you know what happens? You go from fireworks to
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fireplace. You got to fireplace fun
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somebody. Yeah, I remember when we started
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the church, she had Clown Woods. This is going back now.
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What? I guess Lady walked in, No
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religious background, nothing. Never, ever about churchwell,
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she walked in the power of God, the firewood power of God.
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She said she's never fallen under the power.
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She found herself on the floor. The power of God was so strong.
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It came subtle, powerfully that God healed her back.
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She could then she could never even walk along this as you can.
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She like walk for miles. Her eyes were healed.
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She's like, I, I like, I don't even need to wear glasses.
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The power bar was so strong that it followed her home.
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The fire followed her. So yeah, I got back around.
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It's still the same bulls. Bulls were there and I'm still
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messy. Precious difficulties there.
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But something changed in there. The fire of God was on it.
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The fire of God. And so when she normally when
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things get changed in the home, she would explode, but all of a
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sudden she stayed calm. And so when there was pressure,
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she's like, oh, the Lord is my peace.
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And so bulls to play and all of that, she would declare, oh God
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is my provider. I said what happened was a few
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days later the husband said to us, listen, what's happened to
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my wife? What's happened to my smile?
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He said, what's happened to me? She's a different Gods changed
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me. And he's like, I love it.
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I love the new version of you. I love what God has thought.
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It's affected the family. You see, that is what happens
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when the fire of God follows you.
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A true transformation. It's not just a Sunday church
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thing, it's an everyday thing. OK, now what about Palestine?
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You know, I get tired, I run out sometimes I feel flat and
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exhausted and worn out. Of course we all do.
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But just like we take our phones and we plug it in, we plug into
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the log we got to recharge. We, so we reach on and The thing
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is, so if I plug my phone in a couple of days blades yesterday
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or the day before and I leave it by Wednesday, it's going to be
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flat. If I've not plugged it in again,
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if I've not charged my phone, it's going to be in the red.
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My phone's going to be flat. And so that's why we also need
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to plug in. We need to plug in to the Lord
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on a daily basis to recharge. So we recharge and we disconnect
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with the Lord on a daily basis. OK.
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And also it's not just on a Sunday.
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So we don't if it's if it's just the Sunday and we got to play
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all the way to no, we need to plug in every day of our lives.
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OK, And I'm not talking about spending three hours a day and
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all of that. That's about a few minutes.
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OK, the call when you're typing. Thank you, Lord, for this
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amazing day. Thank you for my family and you
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disconnect. That's such that's a plug in.
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You've you've plugged in right there.
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You've read a few scriptures open.
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You've plugged in few minutes just I'm not talking about ours.
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I'm talking about a hard thing and that's why the bottles, you
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know, you're just like, thank you Lord, Jeremiah 29, the Bible
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talks you will seek me and you will find me.
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And if you seek me with all of your heart, it's a hard thing.
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It's not a formula or religion or a duty or so it's a hard
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thing of like morning Lord, I've connected to the way I greet my
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wife. Sure, I get to keep sporting my
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sweetheart, love you. How are you?
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Did you say so? It's that conviction.
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It's a hard thing calling Lord driving to work.
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Thank you that you're with me today.
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Thank you that your fire follows me into this meeting.
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It's a hard connection. Every in in the store Tesco's
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when I go Sainsbury's, I just have a conversation and I'm
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like, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord for for placing
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the kids. Thank you that you're with us.
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It's a hard connection. So what what you've done is
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you've connected to the Lord and you charged.
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You charged so we don't have to wait until another conference.
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We don't have to wait and we thank God for the conference and
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the church and all that. But right where we are at work,
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I've many times before board meetings, I'll just go to the
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bathroom. I'm like, just go into the
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bathroom and I'm just like, have a conversation with the Lord,
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right? Lord, I thank you that you're
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giving me favour with the CEO. We have to get this deal.
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And it's every little yes matters, Every little yes
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somebody say yes, yeah. And So what seems like a small
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flicker, just a little becomes and turns into a big flame, a
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steady, strong, huge flame. And this is amazing because it's
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a very powerful scripture where Arsenal Paul says to his virtual
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son Timothy was he was really going through a difficult time.
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And Paul says this to him. He says, listen my son, for this
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reason I remind you to fan it, to flame the gift of God, which
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is in you through the laying on of my hands.
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So the gift is there. Sometimes it feels the flame is
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just small, but Paul says, listen, it's there, the cliffs
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of God, it's there. So the fire is already in you.
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But Paul the Apostle says, listen, it's your job to fan the
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flame. Now fan the flame.
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You put a locker. Another the KJV version says
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stir it up. I love that.
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Stir it up. I remember the one time because
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I make coffee in the morning and I don't know how you guys, but I
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just make the short coffee because I'm up early and you
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know, now this is before she liked she's not off sugar.
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But anyway, so I make her the coffee and so I put sugar in and
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I said my lovely taste the coffee and I I, I did, I did put
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tissue, but I forgot to stir it. OK, OK, now my wife, she likes
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the coffee. OK, so I'm going to make it
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right. I'm going to the right amount of
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MO, right amount of full of that.
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OK, so I've got to make it right for the Sean.
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But she that's the way she likes it.
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So I'm like, OK, so I put a sugar in, not more than, you
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know, 2 spoons. So I put the sugar, but I forgot
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to stir it. So I gave it a coffee and it was
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better. OK, so it was put, but it's not
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that there wasn't sugar in. I didn't stir it.
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The fire is in. You just need to stir sample.
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Come on, somebody's getting it's 80 clutch.
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It's right there. Just stir it up.
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Somebody say stir it up. Come on, church, it's time to
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stir it up. Come on, son, it's stir.
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You tell your neighbor. Say it's time to stir it up.
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Stir it up. Stir it up.
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Stir it up. Stir it up.
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Yes, Stir it up. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Stir it up. Stir it up.
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Stir it up. Fan the flame.
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Even on the days when you don't feel the fire, you're guilt
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tired ordinary. The fire is still there.
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I'm like, wow, these symptoms, I don't feel great, but I know the
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fire is still there. You might not see the flames,
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you might not feel the goosebumps, but the fire is
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still there. That sparked that in.
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But, you know, when I was growing up, we had a fireplace
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in our house. And so before we go to bed, then
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when we just let it sort of, you know, you know, go over, go out,
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you know, went to bed, let it die down.
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And in the morning when I get there, you'd look at it, you're
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like, oh, my goodness. It looked like the whole fire.
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It's just ashes. It's just ashes.
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It seemed like it was over. It's just grey ash, no flames,
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nothing exciting. I mean, last night the fireplace
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was so nice. But now the next morning, it's
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not the same. Where is all the flames?
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But if you just took a little poker and you just, you know,
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gently, you know, move amongst the ashes, underneath the ashes,
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there's these little ambers, you know, little great ambers,
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burning coals, that is stall, burning, stall on fire, stall
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alive. OK.
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And so I just add some wood, little bits, just add wood and,
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like, blow on it. Oh, my goodness.
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Within minutes, the flames will be back.
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Oh, and that fireplace is burning strong and it's warm and
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it's steady. So the fire hadn't really gone
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out. OK, just drop down to the small
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embers. Now.
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Maybe some of you, you feel like today and the the ashes and the
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disappointments, maybe dreams that had happened.
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Maybe things didn't work out the way that you wanted things to
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work out in life. Praise won't answer the way that
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you have hoped it would be answered.
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OK, maybe that you just feel like I am not so excited anymore
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about life like I used to be. Always excited, enthusiastic,
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passionate. But disappointments happened and
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it knocked the wind out of you. Hurt, betrayal and situations,
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busy seasons. And it's so easy to think, Oh my
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goodness, maybe the fire was going out, you know, but God
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brought me here today to tell us that the fire has not gone.
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The fire is not going to. It's still there.
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Come on, somebody, It's not going to.
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It's just under the ashes. The fire.
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It's just under the disappointment, OK, it's still
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there. The amber is still there.
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It's just under the delight. It's just under the busy
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schedule. But there's still fire.
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So you don't need a brand new fire.
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All that you need to do is just stir it up.
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Just fan it into flame. The fire that is already on
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these. Come on, somebody.
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Yes, come on. Somebody shall stir it down.
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Yeah, that's it. It's right there.
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Just stir it up. Is this helping somebody?
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Now, let me just give you another key.
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One more key. Yeah.
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You have to stay on fire every day is to look at this soil
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because remember, this is a pretty amazing parable.
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Mark chapter 4, Jesus, he tells this parabol about the former
Mark 4 chapter mention
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sovic seed. And so the seed would fall on
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different soils. Some seed would fall on the
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path, some would fall on the rocky rounds and get them above
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the rocks. Some seed fall amongst the
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fallen. Some seed fall amongst great
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grass. But one thing that's very
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important to notice is the same former.
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It's the same seed, but different results, different
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results. So the seed's powerful, the fog,
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all that. But the difference is the swell.
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It's different swells. So you've got the path, you've
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got the rocky, you've got the thorns, OK, And the thorns.
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The problem with the thorns is the chunks.
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OK, so you are good sick that word of God is in you.
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The anointing about the Holy Ghost, The potential of God is
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the very DNA of God is in you, inside of you.
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When you receive the word of God, it's in you.
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So you are good seed made in the image of God.
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OK, but the problem is not the seed, but sometimes the best
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seed in the wrong soil. OK, they can maybe survive, but
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they won't thrive because Jesus talks about how the thoughts
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choke it. The worries of life, the
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deceitfulness of riches, chasing after things, OK, the negative
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voices, OK, the anger, the gossip, the toxic environments,
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OK, Basically chokes. The fire it smothers, it chokes
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and that pull you away from God and some of you were wonder
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well, I don't know why I don't feel on fire as I used to.
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I love God, but I don't feel that you know, I just feel
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double and and just low and dry. Now it might not be a hard
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problem. I see problem.
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It might be a swirl problem. So really just need to change
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the swirl because some way the soil, you know, issue is it's
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sometimes who you walk with. This is a very powerful truth.
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I've thank God, I've God showed this to me many years ago in the
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book of Genesis. God told Abraham something very
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powerful. He said, listen, leave your
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country, leave your people, leave your father's house.
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Abraham how people obeyed pathwayed.
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How shall obedience? Big mistake because he left his
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country. The problem was with Abraham is
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he took his nephew. Big mistake.
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He took his nephew when God told him very specific and God's very
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specific, he said, listen, I want you to leave everything
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behind. And so I'm like, OK, So you see,
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The thing is when he took a lot with him, you remember the
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story, Lot brought a lot of problems.
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Yeah, Lot brought issues. He brought strife because what
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happened was between Abraham and between Abraham's herdsman and
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large herdsman. You can go and read it up.
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It's all the book of Genesis. They're arguments between
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constant arguments and what happened was because Ibrah did
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not out by God fully. He brought Lord with him.
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What happened was is that Ibraham had to stop clean up
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mesas that he was not even supposed to carry because Lord
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brought a lot of problems and so Abraham had a lot to lose.
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OK, anyway, somebody's getting that today.
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He had a lot to lose because you see the a lot it means violence
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kind. That's a bit deep.
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We're going a little bit deep. I mean, that's person that
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relationship that can actually cause some deception, some
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blinders because vile, you see, because here's the thing, it was
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only. After Abram fully obeyed when
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Abram finally separated from Lot when the vial was lifted.
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Oh, I feel the anointing in this place.
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Goddess man if goddess speaking somebody himself.
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That's when Abraham bodies breakthrough when Lot left
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because that very next verse. You can read it in the book of
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Genesis says that when largely all of a sudden Abrams eyes up
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but he could see a God says yes, lift up your eyes and see as far
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as the north to southeast and the West.
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See as far as you can see that shows after lot left.
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Whoa. I know I feel the power of God
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at this place. I feel anointing.
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Yeah. And so every one of us, we have
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a lot subway. It's a person that brings a lot
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of drag on, a person that drains, a person that causes a
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lot of headache problems, stresses, worries, sleepless
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clients, that person that just, you know, I call them movers
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like a like a vacuum cleaner. That's what I call them those.
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We all have a lot somewhere. And so a vacuum cleaner, what
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they do is you see, they a vacuum cleaner gas, they don't
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add anything to your life. A vacuum cleaner, like they suck
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the life. I'm like, wow, obviously means
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time with that person on the phone or even spend time with
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that. Oh, I feel so drained.
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My God, I don't want to be around that person anymore.
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No, thank you, No, thank you. No, sorry, no, I'm not going to
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be around a vacuum cleaner. OK, listen, I just want to say
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we love everyone. I'm going to let us just go.
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We love everyone. I'm going we kind to everybody.
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You have got to understand and you have got to recognize when
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that is contaminating your swell, OK, OK, I just want to
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let you know because it's a very important for some discernment
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and recognize who is the one that's contaminating your swell,
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OK? And so yes, we have got to use
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discernment, especially when God has been nudging you gently and
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saying step away from that relationship.
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When the Holy Spirit gently Knights us here and say step
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away from that circle, step away from that relationship.
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Because here is the problem. When God speaks and we stay,
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that's a big problem. We stay because we do not want
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to upset the person. I do not want to upset my
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nephew, so I'm going to bring in with me.
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Lord do you want to come along? Whoa, what is heavy baggage?
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Whoa, I brand my new shirt. God said leave him by the hand.
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No, I want thought in my life. OK, so you have got to obey God
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because this is if you are, let me give you a loving truth
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because what you are unwilling to walk away from when God has
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nurturing God's been speaking, what you're really unwilling to
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walk away. That is where often times that
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is where you'll stop growing. That's what smothers, that's
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where we'll stop growing. Charge your fire and the Lord
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will show you those relationships.
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We all have them, not somewhere, and we all need to deal with it.
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And God will show you, I don't want to live a life, I want to
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stand fire, so I will obey God. And so I remember by it.
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And listen, I'm not talking about cutting off your family,
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OK? I'm not talking about that.
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I'm not saying being rude, but I'm just saying sometimes you
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need to adjust your access. It's not just for every person,
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OK? When you adjust your access for
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some negative people and open your life for some more positive
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people, surround yourself with positive people.
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Come on, somebody, surround yourself with the right person
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that's going at fire for life, that's going to help you
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encourage your fire, get your fire, that's going to encourage
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you to pray, to come to church. Surround yourself with that type
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of person and make time for that.
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So God and protect your fire, fan the flame.
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I'm like, I'm like, Lord, you know, there was a time when was
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it back in here? And I'm like, I, I just cannot
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have another conversation with a person in South Africa.
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I just said, listen, I'm just going to have to cut that off.
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And as a matter of what you do, how much we do and all, it's
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just not good enough. So I'm like, Lord, thank you and
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God's, that's how God works with us.
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So we got to look at this practically.
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And so I'm going to just give you 5 simple locks, good locks.
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Is that OK? That will help you to stoke and
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fan the flame and keep that fire burning.
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The very first one, the most important one, it's the word,
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because the word is your word, the word of God.
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Every time you open the Bible and you get just, I'm just
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talking about a few minutes, read the scriptures, even if you
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do not understand it all, but you've read those scriptures.
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When you have that, you are adding wood, you are throwing
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logs on the fire, you are stalking, you're fanning the
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flame. Just a few minutes.
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You're adding another lot of fire.
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The second one is Thanksgiving. You know, gratitude is like
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oxygen to fire. When we are thankful, we like
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thank you, Lord, gratitude. The Bible says rejoice in the
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Lord. Again I say rejoice, yeah, give
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thanks to the Lord, wait. Give thanks to the Lord.
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Wait, just on the good times when we've got money in the
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bank, we give thanks. No, it says what?
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Always, always give thanks. And I'm like, Lord, this month
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it looks a bit short. It doesn't look very great.
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God says give facts. Lord, I feel very sick on
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Tuesday. I don't know.
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I'm going to make this comfort. God says give facts, give facts.
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Rejoice. You see, the problem is with
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complaining. It adds water on the logs also
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under fire. So complaining is the opposite
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when complaining is just let me, it's choking the fire.
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So we got to give facts and then you stop the fire.
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OK, so while I'm in the shop, while I'm at Tesco's, thank you
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Lord. Thank you Lord, you're in
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Tesco's. Thank you Lord Diamond Tesco,
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thank you for my thought. You just give giving thanks.
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And thirdly is community the calls together.
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He keeps trying a bride when you look at well, I like a bride.
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So I mean, my steaks is just, you know, like I eat meats.
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I enjoy meats. So anyways, but yeah, I mean
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with a bird of war. So if you have a if you look at
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the bride, the ball, the cold staying together, it stays hot.
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Am I right? When they've coughed cover, it's
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so hot when the cold stay together.
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You see the problem is when the coal falls off, that's a big
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problem when the coal falls off from the rest of the calls
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becomes called very quickly. That's when a believer isolates
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himself. OK post, we are not coming to
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church. I will do my own thing very
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dangerous. This is a listen, I'm talking
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about a publical principle across in God's Kingdom.
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God's idea, God's plan is the local church.
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And so it matters to come to church.
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Listen, all the efforts climbing, feel getting dressed,
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get the kids, it matters. And let me just tell you,
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there's no perfect church. So if you're going to start
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hopping to churches, go for it. But I could not advise it.
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I would say because when people start hopping, you see them
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after two years coming back and they've not grown.
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I'm like waste the future in your life of your ground.
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And I've been to that church, that church, that church, that
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church. You see what happens is it's
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important to be planted in a church.
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You're never going to find a perfect church, the local body
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of Christ. That means God chooses to work
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for imperfect people. He chooses to put local churches
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in place, plants us there. Find a local church where God
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plants you. Stay.
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And so God, he's the one that moves us on, not out of a fence.
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Oh, I got upset because brother, son, and son, well, I got upset
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about that one. Listen, forgive, stay with God.
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Don't let a fence remove you from the church.
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Don't isolate yourself from the church.
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Stay together because coals that stay together are stronger
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together. It is worth coming to church.
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If we don't come to church, our children will not come to
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church. Our children will not if we
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don't say that. And I thank God, even in my
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traditional church and the Dutch Reformed Church outside of
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Pretoria, my mom on a Sunday morning, come on children, we
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are going to church. I thank God for that because
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otherwise my children is not going to come to church.
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And your grandchildren, I love what Doctor Rodney said.
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He said your grandchildren will go to hell.
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It's a it's a very it's it's so we have to end wherever we are
-
be planted together in a church because that is what happens
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when we are planted together in God's church.
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We stay our fire stays hot. Our fire stays hot.
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OK, four point obedience. Sometimes Holy Spirit will
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notice you let the offence go. Oh that person assert me.
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The Holy Spirit will come. And now you say forgive, heart,
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betrayal, disagreement, arguments, It's family, but the
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Holy Spirit comes. Forgive there.
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Let that God love, brother, sister, love, OK, We love one
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another. And when you do, when you're
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playing the promptings of the Holy Spirit, it's like taking a
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wedlock of that fire. Oh, in that offense, when that
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hurt, when that it comes off, it's like that fire.
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You like bouncing back. The fire of God is just right
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there. You're stirring up, you're
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fanning the flag, you're right on fire.
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Suddenly it just burns brighter. And then the last one, this is
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amazing. This is not same verse.
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The first one He's serving. It's amazing because that's in
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Romans chapter 12. That's a same verse.
Romans 12 chapter mention
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Now we come in full circle and this is where the Lord shows
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between the on Romans chapter 12.
Romans 12 chapter mention
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It's in the same verse. Isn't it amazing that in a very
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same verse where it talks about being passionate for the Lord,
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it mentions the same word serving, serving in the kids
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ministry, serving in the church, serving, serving others reach
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out to somebody winning souls serving.
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That's that that keeps us on fire.
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Come on, am I talking a lot? I love seeing you survey at the
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conference. I mean, isn't it amazing serving
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with the kids helping with that serving.
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I mean in every capacity serving.
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It's amazing to see our team, our family coming alongside and
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we serving. I mean right thing we have
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chicken and then winning the souls.
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I mean, isn't that amazing? Yes, out there with exalts.
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Why come on somebody. That's how we keep the fire
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burning to see us all coming to a conference.
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And it's amazing because I am so proud of our church, Eileen.
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I mean, it's amazing. We all right there serving.
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Come on, we were there. I love it.
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I thank God and if you guys coming to a conference and see
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our faces, our people there, I'm like I thank God for other
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churches, but I thank God for our church.
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We've got some fine people here. We've got some amazing people.
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I mean, you know, people like Lipton are helping out with our
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kids, you know, so that we can be at a conference.
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And our breakthrough is your breakthrough.
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We are together. Serving keeps a fire.
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That's when you start serving and reaching out to somebody.
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Go to Peel Center, you tell somebody about Jesus, you are
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fanning your flame. Yes, if you are fanning and
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stemming or you're tending to your flame when you are waiting
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out to somebody else, we tell somebody, give you a plan,
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invite somebody to church and watch your fire, watch your
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fire. But oh, oh, come on, you feel
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the fire when you talk to that person.
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I love it. They're on the sides.
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I mean, we're this, this is busy London.
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I mean, this is like under traffic.
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And you see now she stops the traffic.
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She she stops the traffic. Listen, when the soul at any
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cost, when the souls at any cost, that is amazing.
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I'm telling you, Kenny, she'll stop traffic, she'll go
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anywhere. She'll call the gospel to get
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the pasta to get out of like she I just saw her.
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I came in the middle of the road blocking the track.
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This is London. She stopped that entire buses.
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She stops it like this. I'm telling you.
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Plus the Michelle, she's like, my good.
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We're walking over here. You carry this block.
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Stop all that winning souls. Yeah.
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Set this old count. Isn't that amazing?
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Let's go for it. 50,000, Doctor Rodney, how about billion souls?
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Come on. How many?
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100 million of us. It's incredible.
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Set that soul. Go.
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Go for it. If we don't set goals, nothing.
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So at least tell one person about Jesus and tell them we
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share that survey. But let me show you the best
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because this is a very amazing best.
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Romans 12/11. It says they never be lacking in
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zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor.
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There it comes. Everybody read it out loud.
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Serving the law, you stay on fire by serving.
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Serving a fire keeps on burning. Serving we keep from burning.
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When you reach to others, we stay on fire and so we are
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moving from the fireworks fight to the fireplace fight and so
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relating that fire follow you home.
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So yeah, as we ready to get close, we closed the service
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today. How many of you enjoyed the work
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today? Hallelujah.
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What have you to God? I see some bury on fire people
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in this place. I see the fire of God.
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Come on, stand to your feet. Give God some praise.
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The fire of God is here and the fire follows you home.
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It's going with you, somebody. It's going with you.
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Just remember that you are not leaving the fire behind in this
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place. And I love it because the fire,
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the conference fire, changed the address from Kilburn, London.
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It changed the address to revival church and background.
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Come on, come on. And it's got war post code.
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So I tried to get race. It's following you to your to
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your house. So the fire is not staying.
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Yeah, it's going with you. You're getting that today shows
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it's going with you wherever you go.
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So when you wake up tomorrow morning, you can say Holy
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Spirit, thank you, that you're, that is awesome.
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Thank you, Alice, for the joke here with me waking out.
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And oh, my goodness, thank you, Lord, that your fire, it follows
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me into today. It's my workplace.
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It follows me where I'm going to the boardroom meeting.
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Your fire follows me to the school, to my job.
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The fire is following me to the hospital.
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I am not alone. I'm not coming on Monday
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morning. I'm not coming alone.
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The God is with you, He goes with you.
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And so this week, find the flash, stare it out, serve
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somebody, reach out with somebody, find somebody,
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encourage somebody, get on the text and save somebody an
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encouraging word. When you serve somebody, when
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you love somebody, tell somebody about Jesus, talk to Sakhari
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about what God has done to you because that is very, very
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powerful. We all have a testament like,
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oh, I was lost, I was struggling, but now I'm blessed.
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So just go and we share a testimony with somebody.
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God loves you, God bless you. So every time that you do, you
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are floating another good luck on the fire and you'll carry a
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fire that follows your hope wherever you go.
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And you will stay on fire for Jesus every single day.
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Come on, let's put our hands together.
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So I'm going to point for you because maybe you today, you,
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like you remember a time when you used to be on fire and you
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don't feel so on fire or bold or hungry for God.
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But life got busy and so there may have been disappointments,
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maybe hurt, and you just feel tired or worn down.
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Maybe you love God, but you feel that your zeal has dropped and
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you've allowed worry on the pressures of life to smother my
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fire. But today I believe that God is
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saying, let me breathe on that flame again.
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Let me take you from fireworks faith to fireplace faith and let
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me go with you. Let the fire, my Holy Ghost
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fire, go with you. Go to wherever you go.
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So in your heart I want you right now.
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If that is you and you say I want steady fire, not just a
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moment. I want the presence not just in
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a conference or church, but I want God's presence in my, my
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car, my church, my workplace, my kitchen.
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Then this is for you. So that's you.
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Put your hand on your heart, find where you are as a sign
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that you want a fire that follows you home.
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Because I have a feeling we are not leaving this place the same.
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Now pray this out loud with me. Lord Jesus, thank you for
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lighting the fire in me today. I bring my heart again where
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I've grown tired. Breathe on me.
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I want a fire that follows me whole into my conversations, my
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decision. Help me to guard my soil, my
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relationships. Help me to fan the flame.
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From this day I will not be lacking zeal.
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I will keep my passion boiling heart on fire for you and I will
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stay on fire every day in Jesus name.
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Now give him some praise somebody Hallelujah.
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Now raise your hands to heaven as I pray.
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Heaven you Father, I pray for every person in this place.
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I see. Lord, we the person may have
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gone cold or tired or when they feel disappointed.
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Lord, I thank you that you see the difficulty in the struggle
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when it feels like the fire is low and right now, in the name
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of Jesus, I ask for fresh fire to touch every heart, to stir it
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up, fan it into flames, set it ablaze.
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Holy Ghost, fire, breathe on your people to flame the gift of
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God that is in there. Let every ember catch fire
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again. Let joy arise, let peace arise.
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Let faith and courage rise. Lord, let this not just be a
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Sunday feeling, but a Monday reality and everyday reality.
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Let your fire. Follow them home, Lord, Use them
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this week as carriers of your fire, in their homes, in their
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workplaces, in their schools. Every conversation we speak,
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fresh flair over every heart. We declare we will burn bride.
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We declare the life on fire, a fire that follows them home in
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the mighty name of Jesus. Somebody.
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If you receive that, give the Lord a start of three.
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Come on, thank him for fresh fire today.
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Now let's make some declarations together.
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Say this out loud. Say the fire of God.
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He's painting in me every day, everywhere I go.
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I protect my fire. I stay close to the right
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people. I turn down the lone voices
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everyday I plug in. I plug into God's presence.
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The Holy Gobson fire lives in me.
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I'm stepping into a fireplace. Faith steady and strong, always
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burning. I will stay on fire.
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Every day I will carry a fire that follows me home in Jesus
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mighty name. Give God some pray.