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MGD: Pay Attention to Instructions - 1
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Shalom and good morning to you all, our wonderful listeners.
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This is Harvest Chapel International Commancy. We are glad to
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bring your way again another episode of our.
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Morning Glory devotion. Thank you for tuning in.
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Facilitating today's episode our pastor and Dickness.
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Please, let's share a word of prayer.
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Father, We thank you for another opportunity that we have
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to look into your word. We pray that even as
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you teach us, our hearts will imbibe your word and
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work with it all the days of our lives. That
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your name alone will be praised throughout all the years.
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Now I am forever in Jesus Mighty name. Amen, and Amen.
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Beloved.
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Let's take our confession together from Joshua chapter one, the
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verse eight. This book of the Law shall not depart
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out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in it
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day and night, that I may observe to do according
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to all that is written in it. For then I
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will make my way prosperous, and then I will have
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good success, Amen.
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Beloved.
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Today's episode is titled pay Attention to Instructions, Part one,
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and our text will be taken from Genesis chapter six,
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the verse nine through twenty two. I'll be reading from
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the New English translation Genesis six the Best nine. This
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is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man.
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He was blameless. Among his contemporaries, he worked with God.
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Noah had three sons, shame, Ham and Japid. The earth
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was ruined in the sight of God. The earth was
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filled with violence. God saw the earth, and indeed it
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was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were simple.
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So God said to Noah, I.
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Have decided that all living creatures must die, for the
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earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I'm
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about to destroy them and the earth. Make for yourself
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an act of cypress wood. Make rooms in the act
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and cover it with pitch inside and out.
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This is how you should make it.
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The act is to be four hundred and fifty feet long,
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seventy five feet wide, and forty five feet high. Make
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a roof for the act and finish it live in
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eighteen inches from the top. Put a door in the
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side of the act, and make lower, middle and appadex.
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I'm about to bring flat waters on the earth to
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destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that
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have the breath of life.
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In them. Everything that is on the earth will die.
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But I will confirm my covenant with you. You will
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enter the act, you, your sons, your wife, and your
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son's wives.
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With you.
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You must bring into the act two of every kind
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of living creature, from all flesh, male and female, to
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keep them alive with you. Of the bears after their kinds,
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and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every
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creeping thing of the ground after its kind. Two of
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every kind will come to you so you can keep
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them alive. And you must take for yourself every kind
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of food that is eaten and gather it together. It
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will be food for you and for them. And no
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one did all that God commanded him. He did, indeed
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beloved the word of the Lord cans be to God.
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Pay attention to instructions, pressures one. What you do when
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you are praying for a miracle, but God sends you
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an instruction instead. Many of us may be waiting for
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God to move in a spectacular flash of lightning and
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suddenly sweep our problems away in a well wind wander
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breakthrough when we wanted to arrive fully formed. But if
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you look closely at scripture, you will find that God
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rarely drops a miracle out of the sky without requiring
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a human hand to move. More often than not, your
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miracle is wrapped up in an instruction. Think about Noah
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for a moment. The year was heavy with sin and wickedness,
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and God determined to cleanse it.
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God chose to wipe out all.
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Of mankind and animals from the face of the earth
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through a great global flight. It was only Noah, a
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godly and blameless man, who found favor in God's and
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God decided to spare him and his family from the
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planned distraction.
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But how was this going to happen.
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God could have easily protected Noah by a supernatural shield,
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or caught him up into the heavens until the waters receded.
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That would have been very spectaclar. Instead, God handed him
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a tool pointed to the cypress wood and gave him
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a massive, an exhausting chore. Make for yourself and act
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as in Genesis chapter six, the verse fourteen. Imagine the
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days and years that followed. There was no dark cloud
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in the sky, no sign of rain. Yet Noah had
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to wake up every single morning, pick up his two
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and built according to God's instructions. God specified every detail
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including the height the rooms, the coating of pitch inside
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and out. It was a tedious and repetitive task. It
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invited the mockery of his neighbors. Yet Scripture tells us
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in Genesis sevn the verse five, that Noah did all
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that God commanded him. When the flat gates finally opened
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and the deep fountains burst, it wasn't a Sadden magic
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trick that saved Noah and his family. It was the
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hark he had spent years based taking the building in obedience,
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the watchers raised the very thing his hands had labored over.
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There one, what instruction are you sitting on today? What
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has godman you to do in his word or through
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the quiet whisper of His spirit, that you have cast
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aside because it feels too small, too tedios, or too difficult.
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Perhaps you are praying for a financial breakthrough, but ignoring
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the instruction to be fitful with your tithes and offense.
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Perhaps you are praying for a restored home.
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But ignoring the instruction to speak with kindness. Maybe you
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are waiting for a career breakthrough a promotion, but ignoring
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the instruction to refine your attitude towards work and be
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humbled towards people around you. Pressures one. Do not wait
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in idleness for dramatic sign. Your deliverance is hidden in
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your obedience. When you do your path with the cypress,
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wood and the pitch today, God will surely send the
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waters to lift you above the storm.
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God richly bless you. But let's take our memory.
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Raise from Genesis chapter seven, the best five from the
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New King James version. He says, and no one date
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according to all that the Lord commanded him, and to
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no one date according to all that the Lord commanded him. Please,
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let's share a word of prayer, Our heavenly Father. We
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thank you for bringing our minds back to pay attention
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to your instructions in our daily living. We are sorry
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for any way that we have ignored your instructions all
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these days and all these years. We pray for the
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graves over us, the same grades that was upon Noah,
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to obey your instruction and build an act for even
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about a century, just for your promise to come to pass.
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We pray that every instruction you give us we'll be
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able to execute in all diligence and alter the praise
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of your glory. We thank you in Jesus Might, nay
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amen and Amen belived. God bless you for joining us
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for today's morning glory devotion. We're coming away again tomorrow
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with a Part two of this series. Stay blessed in
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Jesus Might, in nay Amen,