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Why God Seems Silent When You need him most | Journey With Jesus Part 10 | Apostle Mike and Pastor Julie Signorelli
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Foreign.
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I am standing on the Mount of Olives.
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And this mountain is, is not just scenery.
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It's an actual spiritual threshold.
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It's the place where heaven touches earth.
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Literally where prophecy bends time and where Jesus revealed who
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he really is more clearly than anywhere else.
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From here you can actually see Jerusalem.
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You can see the Temple Mount, you can see over my shoulder the
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Eastern gate.
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And every one of them is part of a divine pattern I'm going to
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reveal to you in a few moments.
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Nothing here is accidental.
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This is an incredibly important message for you.
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So I need you to lean into this.
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You know, the name Mount of Olives is not just poetic, it is
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prophetic.
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Olives must be crushed in order to release oil.
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I know you've heard that before, and oil in Scripture, here's
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what it represents.
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It represents anointing light.
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It represents healing, consecration, and the spirit of the
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living God.
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Jesus did not pray his hardest prayers in the city.
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He actually prayed them from here, right here.
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Luke chapter 22 tells us that Jesus came to the Mount of Olives
Luke 22 chapter mention
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as was his custom.
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This was not a one time visit.
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This was his place of perpetual return.
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And just beneath this mountain is a garden called Gethsemane.
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And actually Gethsemane means the oil press.
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Before the cross, there was the crushing.
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Come on.
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And before blood flowed from his hands, sweat actually fell from
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his brow like drops of blood.
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This mountain reveals a truth that many don't want to hear, but,
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but need to hear.
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Glory is released through.
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Come on.
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I feel the power of God all over this message already because
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we have a king who actually wept from this mountain.
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Jesus.
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He looked at Jerusalem.
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And Luke chapter 19 says, and, and when he drew near and saw the
Luke 19 chapter mention
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city, this very view, he wept over it.
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He didn't weep because he would be rejected.
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He wept because they didn't recognize the time of their visitation
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by Messiah.
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I mean, Jerusalem knew scripture, they knew prophecy, they
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knew religion, but they didn't know him.
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They missed him.
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And here is the warning of the Mount of Olives.
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Prophetically, you can be close to holy things and still miss
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the holy One.
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I mean, Jesus did not weep over pagans.
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He wept over the religious who were blind to what was really being
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fulfilled right before them.
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You know, as we continue to go deeper on this journey together.
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I mean, this is so powerful because this mountain carries ancient
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prophecy.
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Zechariah, the prophet in the 14th chapter says, on that day his
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feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies between Jerusalem
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on the east.
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I mean, that means something staggering if you understand, let
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me unpack.
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Jesus ascended from this very mountain.
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And he will return to this mountain.
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I mean, right here.
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Acts chapter one tells us that as the disciples watched him ascend,
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angels said, this same Jesus will come in the same way that you
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saw him go.
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Not symbolically, not spiritually, only physically, geographically
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and historically.
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Come on.
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This should get you excited.
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The Mount of Olives is the hinge of history.
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It is the mountain of departure, the mountain of promise,
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but it's also the mountain of return.
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Come on.
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And I say, lord, come quickly.
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Return quickly.
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And so I really feel that we are nearer than we've ever been.
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And many people feel that it was here on this mountain that Jesus
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delivered what we now call the Olivet disco discourse.
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In Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, from this exact ridge, Jesus
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was.
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He spoke about the destruction of the temple, wars and rumors of
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wars, deception, many false Christs rising up, global shaking,
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the coming of the Son of Man.
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It was all spoken and declared from this space.
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This was not fear based preaching.
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This was clarity in chaos.
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Come on.
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Jesus wasn't trying to scare his disciples.
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He was trying to prepare them to anchor them.
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And that's why he tells them in his own words, God, do not be
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alarmed.
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Come on.
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In other words, when the world starts shaking, when the unprepared
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are panicking, come on.
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The prepared are ready to receive.
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You know, the Mount of Olives teaches us that prophecy is not necessarily
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about dates.
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It's about discernment of dates.
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And we must increase in our discernment spiritually.
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And that's why I'm here right now.
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Every major moment connected to this mountain is a choice.
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It's you stand in the crossroads even watching this right
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now.
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Will you watch or sleep?
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Will you discern or be deceived?
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Will you endure or are you going to fall away?
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Because Jesus says, watch therefore, for you do not know on
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what day your Lord is coming.
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Watching in scripture does not mean me just staring in the sky,
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right?
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It means living wide awake.
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It means living with urgency, with holiness, and living with compassion
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from the cross.
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The Mount of Olives.
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It confronts comfortable Christianity and it basically tells
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us this is not a spectator faith.
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This is a preparation faith, living in anticipation of him using
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you to fulfill the Great Commission and lead the lost to the
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cross at any cost.
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Come on.
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From here, you can see the eastern gate.
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I mean, it's right over my shoulder and.
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And it's been sealed shut for centuries.
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Why?
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You know, Jewish tradition says that the Messiah would enter
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right through It.
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And, and here's the staggering truth.
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First of all, Jesus already did.
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On Palm Sunday, he descended from this mountain, he crossed the
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Kidron Valley, and he entered Jerusalem.
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I mean, the gate is closed because history already recorded
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its king.
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And any attempt to stop it will not prevail.
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And one day it's going to open again.
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Supernaturally, I believe that God is going to fulfill that prophecy.
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You know the Mount of Olive?
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It's olives.
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It sits between the city of man and the promise of God.
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I'm speaking spiritually right now.
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It truly sits between earthly power and heavenly authority.
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I mean, this is where they collide.
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It sits between rejection and return.
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I mean, it's simply undeniable that Jesus chose this mountain because
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it represents the in between.
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And many of us, we actually, we live there.
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We live in the in between, between promise and fulfillment,
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between calling and cost, paying the cause, between pressure
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and oil.
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I mean, we live there.
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And so there's a question that this mountain is asking you.
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There's.
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There's an important question for your life.
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And Jesus, he stood here knowing that he was going to be betrayed,
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that he was actually going to be beaten, that he was going to be
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crucified, and still he stayed faithful.
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I'm so thankful that he was faithful.
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The Mount of Olives, it does not ask.
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Do you believe it asked?
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Will you remain?
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Will you remain when it's crushing?
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Will you remain when it's confusing?
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Will you remain when the world is absolutely shaking all around
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you because oil only flows when olives are actually pressed?
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Come on.
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We are in a season of great pressing right now.
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But the oil of the anointing is going to be flow.
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Come on.
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He's going to flow from this mountain, Jesus ascended to heaven,
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to this mountain, Jesus will return.
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And until that day, we are called to live awake.
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We're called to live faithful, and we're called to live full of
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void oil.
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Come on.
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This reminds us history.
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It's not random.
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Suffering is not wasted.
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And Jesus is not finished.
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And if he was faithful here, he will be faithful again.
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The king is coming back, and his feet will touch this mountain
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once more.
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Come on.
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Do you believe that?
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I'm getting so excited just even thinking about this.
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Here's what I want you to do.
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I want you in the.
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In this, this moment of decision to say, I'm going all the
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way.
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I mean, this represents a decision that Christ made to say,
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hey, while you were yet a sinner, I'm going to put my love
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on the line.
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And I'm Going all the way.
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And because he went all the way, we can go all the way as well.
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All the way to what?
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All the way to our cross.
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Dying to self dying to our selfishness and our own desires.
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But guess what?
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Those who share in his death also share in his resurrection.
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Come on.
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And, and as he returns, so shall we ascend with him.
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So I want to pray right now.
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Come on.
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I just feel holy anticipation for what God is doing even through
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this message right now.
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Heavenly Father, I thank you for each and every one Lord that
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as they've received your word Lord, that the prophecies will be
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fulfilled and nothing was in in vain.
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And God, I thank you for the crushing of our lives that reveals
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the oil that begins to pour that causes us to break through every
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obstacle barrier, Lord, to go all the way through what you've destined
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for each and every one of us.
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And Father, we thank you that the time is drawing near.
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And so with anticipation God, we say that we will be your vessels
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to fulfill the great commission until all the world has
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heard in Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Yes Lord, we thank you God that we will remain.
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How many people are determined to remain in Jesus?
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We're talking about crushing and we're talking about pressing.
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And I know that it's not a popular message.
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I would love to get up here and tell you that life is good, that
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it's the Barbie movie, that we're just, you know, plastic feet
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and.
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Yes, and it's great and life is awesome.
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Or the Lego Movie was that is everything is awesome.
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Everything is great when you're part of a team.
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What?
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It's not like that.
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But it really is a life, you know, you are.
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Guess what, you're gonna suffer.
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And guess what, if you've been to Walmart, you've suffered 55 times
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before you've made it to the checkout counter.
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No hate, no shade.
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I love a good Walmart.
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We don't have them in the city, but we're talking about crushing
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and we're talking about pressing and there's so many things
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that in life, you know, nothing is gonna happen.
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Nothing good happens in life without a little pressure.
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I mean the reason why victory is victory is because you went through
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something.
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I used to love going to like anniversary parties and seeing the
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people, you know, they give their.
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And by the way, happy anniversary to my in laws.
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I didn't even think of that.
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Come on, somebody love you back.
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Don't be doing nothing weird or nothing.
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Keep it chill.
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Keep it chill.
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But you know, I used to love going to different anniversary parties
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through, you know, our family and church and all those things.
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And, you know, you just see people crying cause they're cutting
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the cake and then you get married.
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And I used to think I'm a little hillbilly.
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Used to.
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I used to think that when they were crying, cutting the cake, it's
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because they loved each other.
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But now I know that they're crying when they're cutting the anniversary
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cake because of all the perseverance, all the.
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It's because no one gave up.
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Because nothing good, nothing that means anything, has ever come
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easy.
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You don't celebrate the wins that are given to you.
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You celebrate the things that crushed you, that you survived.
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And so here's the thing, young people.
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Where's my young people at?
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Gen Z?
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Gen Alpha is.
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It's not always the Lego Movie.
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Now with Jesus, we're more than a conqueror.
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The fight is fixed.
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You win, baby.
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However, the thing is, is that you are going to go through suffering
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and going back to marriage.
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You would never pledge your life to somebody that you knew was
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going to stab you in the back 55 times over the course of 30 years
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or say that one little thing that just takes your blood pressure.
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Mine is calm down.
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What?
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Who has ever calmed down when somebody has asked them to calm down?
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If you say calm down, it's.
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Take it up a notch.
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I still need some redeeming here.
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But nothing in life has come that we've celebrated that's meant
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anything to us without pressure, without crushing.
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And.
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And I wish it was the case.
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I wish that, you know, we could have this story where we accept
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Jesus and then all of our trials, all of our troubles, all
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the things that annoy us, all of our road rage.
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Okay, maybe you guys are more sanctified than me.
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I wish I could tell you it just all goes away.
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And it.
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And you're just submitted to your boss, you're submitted to your
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pastor, you're submitted to your spouse.
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You, you love your kids, you love your job, and everything is
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awesome, but things come by crushing.
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And so we see in the Bible many references to oil and to wine.
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And I'm beginning to think about that and how both outcomes
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respond to being crushed.
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And so we're gonna talk just a little bit about that.
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Oil and wine, back in biblical times, they were used for medicinal
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treatments.
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You see this in the story of the Good Samaritan.
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It talks about how the Good Samaritan left oil and wine and medicine
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and things for their wounds.
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And it's just this beautiful picture of the gospel.
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And you can read more about that on your own.
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But number one, oil comes instantly.
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That's why the anointing is so powerful, because it'll hit you out
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of nowhere.
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Oil already exists within the olives.
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So if you didn't know, maybe you're young and you don't know.
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Olives make olive oil, And buffalo wings are not made of buffalo,
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But the oil already exists within the olive oil is pressed.
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The olive is pressed, and the oil begins coming out immediately.
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Oil represents the anointing.
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It represents the Holy Spirit.
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It represents God choosing and empowering someone for the work of
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the ministry.
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In Samuel 16:1st Samuel 16:13 Samuel, the prophet anoints David
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instantly.
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He was anointed.
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It didn't mean that he was ready to step into the full office.
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But the anointing happens instantly.
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You cannot run from anointing.
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You could try, but it's coming for you.
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It's coming for you because God's called and anointed you for
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something for such a time as this.
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And here's the thing.
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God can anoint you in a moment.
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And if you think, well, I'm living a life, my life is just in
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weakness right now, Julie, I don't know.
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I don't feel ready.
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I'm telling you, God can anoint you in a moment.
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He can empower you at your weakest moment.
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He chooses whomever he wants, and he anoints for service.
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He anoints in prayer, and he anoints in encounters with God.
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That's why we open up the altars and we say, come and experience
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God.
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Because you never know when the anointing is going to hit you
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out of nowhere.
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Number two.
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So that's oil, but wine.
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That also happens through crushing and pressing.
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And here's the thing.
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Oil is instant, but wine takes time.
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It's the process of God.
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Fermentation happens over the course of months, years, and decades.
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And wine doesn't already exist in the grape.
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It has to be crushed.
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And then it must be fermented.
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And it must go through a period of transformation over time.
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Wine represents joy, covenant, maturity, character.
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And we see this in the miracle.
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How many know about Jesus when he turns the water into wine?
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One of the beautiful stories I love about that particular miracle
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is the miracle of acceleration.
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He can accelerate your maturity.
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He can accelerate your decision to have joy.
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Did you hear me?
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He can accelerate your maturity with submission.
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He can accelerate your process with immediate obedience.
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So you can ask God to mature You.
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But the thing about process is it takes participation.
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How many want to participate in the process of God in our life?
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You don't get to choose the timing of the miracle.
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Miracles need immediate obedience to be activated in your
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life.
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Here's the thing about the story.
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When it talks about the miracle turning water into wine,
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did the miracle happen in the vat or did the miracle happen in
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the cup?
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We don't know.
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But either way, the miracle would have been missed without the
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servant's immediate obedience.
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So when you're asking, lord, what do I do?
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My answer is, do whatever he tells you to do.
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Do whatever he tells you to do.
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As soon as he tells you to do it, do whatever he asks you to do
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with full participation, obedience, and submission.
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And say, I'm willing.
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I'm obedient, and I'm okay with suffering.
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I'm okay with being crushed.
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I'm okay with being inconvenienced.
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Lord, use me.
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However long it takes.
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Oil is instant.
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The anointing is instant.
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If you've ever felt it in a prayer service or you've ever felt
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it in a moment of impartation, the anointing is free.
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It doesn't cost you anything.
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It's imparted and it's accepted immediately.
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But process wine has developed slowly.
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Sometimes we want the oil of a calling, but not the patience of
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winemaking.
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The olive and the grape are both crushed, but the oil is instant
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and the wine is a process.
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So if you're in a season of crushing right now, we need to take
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a few moments to discern, am I releasing oil, or is this a process
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of making wine?
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God's producing something very valuable, very special in you, but
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you have to respond immediately.
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How many are going through something right now?
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Just.
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Just going through it?
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Go ahead and just stand up.
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You're just going through it.
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You don't have to come forward.
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Just stand up.
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You're going through it.
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Financial, emotional, relational, direction.
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Divorce.
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Maybe you're struggling with school, maybe you're struggling with
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interpersonal relationships in your life, family.
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Just going through it.
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The thing I love about going through something with Jesus is that
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you're not going through it alone.
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And I love that story about the Good Samaritan, that parable
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he tells.
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It's humanity.
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We are broken and beaten and bleeding on a road.
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And Jesus comes with oil and wine, with anointing and commission,
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with miracle and process.
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And he meets us in our most desperate place, feeble time, not
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able to do anything in return but to receive.
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And so tonight, today, wherever you're watching wherever
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you're at, if you say, you know what?
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I'm going through something just out of an act of immediate obedience,
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just like we're doing in the room, just stand up.
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Stand up in your living room.
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Stand up.
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If you're, you know, on the subway, stand up.
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If you're just going through at your job, just stand up.
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Because at your weakest point, the crushing can produce an oil that
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only he can use.
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Who is God calling tonight?
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Who is God calling right now?
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The crushing, Man.
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When you're going through it in your marriage, it can feel like
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you are being crushed.
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But at your weakest moment, the anointing can.
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Can be released.
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I've seen people through pastoring many years at their weakest
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moment.
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We've seen them in funerals, we've seen them in hospital rooms.
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And I can't tell you how many times we've been in a hot around
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a hospital bed and we start singing about the blood of Jesus
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and the anointing will just start breaking out.
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In a hospital room, the anointing will start breaking out.
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At a funeral, the anointing will start breaking out after somebody's
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husband just left.
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The anointing just begins to break out because when the olive
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is being crushed, the oil is immediate.
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He's got you.
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What is he trying to bring out of you?
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And then we've got people who are in process.
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Maybe you've just been sitting in the same season for so long, and
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the Lord would say, let me produce something sweet in you.
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Oh, yes, Lord.
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Some of you have been fighting, fighting, fighting.
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I remember when I gave birth to Everly.
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I did a natural birth.
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Whoa, mama, it was wild.
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Don't recommend 0 out of 10 stars.
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And I remember the midwife, she was telling me, julie, you're
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fighting it, but it's going to happen.
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And as soon as you release to the process, it will go so much faster.
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And I feel like I'm here as a doula, as a midwife in your life
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of somebody who you're going through a process.
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And I just saying, surrender to God.
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Let him lead.
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Get your hands off of it.
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Surrender to the process and see what he can ferment in this situation.
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If you're under pressure, here's a couple of things that I
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need to remind you as your pastor today.
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It is not punishment.
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Some of you have bought the lie that you are being punished by
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God.
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No, you have made decisions, maybe that had consequences in the
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natural, but you are not being punished by God.
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Here's another Thing that I need to remind you is that just because
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you're under pressure doesn't mean you're not in process.
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I need you to say this.
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It is not punishment, it's process.
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It's not punishment, it's process.
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Here's the thing.
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Here's a couple of people in the Bible, because a lot of times
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we can.
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So now that.
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That's for my process people, but for my people who maybe experience
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this instant, you know, power of anointing, maybe at the men's
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conference, you felt a call to the ministry, or maybe you were at
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a youth.
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A youth night and you felt a call to the ministry.
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Or maybe you're sitting in your seat right now and you're like,
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God, I know you're trying to do something in me.
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Is this helping somebody tonight?
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But here's the thing.
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Just because you're anointed, but God, I was.
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You called me to.
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To teach and preach.
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And I've been sitting in this church for a few years, and I haven't
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been on the platform yet.
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Listen, anointed doesn't mean ready.
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I want to read to you at just a few people people.
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Joseph, 13 years.
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Moses, 40 years.
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David, 15 years.
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Joshua, 40 years.
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Jesus, 30 years.
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Just because there's a waiting after the anointing does not mean
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that God isn't processing you.
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It's not punishment.
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It's process.
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They don't see me.
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They don't see my anointing.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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This isn't punishment.
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It's process.
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Some of us are more focused on the wounds than the process.
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We're more focused on the crushing than the anointing.
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We're more focused on the suffering than what God is going
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to produce on the other side of this.
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And today, I would just encourage you to lift up your hands
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and just say, lord, I surrender.
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I'm done fighting.
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I'm done fighting the anointing.
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I'm done fighting the process.
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I'm ready to surrender.
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Fully, fully, fully.
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In Luke 10:34 with the good Samaritan, it said that he sent him
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and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine.
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The crushing is not pointless, Jesus.
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Time.
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Being crushed, persecuted, accused, was not pointless.
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It was forced our redemption.
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Second Corinthians 4, 8, 10, it says, we are afflicted in every
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way, but not crushed.
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Perplexed, but not driven to despair.
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Persecuted, but not forsaken.
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Struck down, but not destroyed.
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Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life
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of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies.
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You have the life of Jesus in your body.
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If you're suffering in sickness, you have the life of Jesus
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in your body.
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If you're suffering in your mind, you have the life of Jesus
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in your body.
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Stand to your feet and receive the healing and the anointing that
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he has for you.
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You might be afflicted by infidelity, but you're anointed for
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reconciliation.
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Did you hear me?
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You might be afflicted by addiction now, but you're going to
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be anointed for freedom.
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You might be afflicted in your body with fear of death, but you're
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anointed for a resurrection.
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There's power in the anointing.
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There's power in the pressing.
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There's power in the cross crushing.
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You just have to respond with a yes.
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Affliction cannot stop anointing.
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Suffering cannot stop anointing.
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And so I want you to make up in your mind that on the other side
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of this sermon, you are in full surrender.
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Stop fighting the pain.
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That's what my midwife told me.
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You better surrender, girl, because there is a new birth on the
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other side.
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And so what I would tell you today, if that's you, and you say,
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man, Julie, I. I am suffering and I need a breakthrough.
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My reminder to you is you are not suffering.
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You are in process.
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And this is not a punishment, it's process.
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How many want to respond to that process?
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If that's you, we're just going to open up this area for just
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a couple of minutes, but come quickly.
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If that's you and you say, I need to respond.
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I cannot live under this pressure.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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We rebuke every lie of the enemy that says that our suffering
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is in vain.
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We rebuke every lie of the enemy that tells us that our affliction
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is in vain.
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We rebuke every lie that says we are being punished, that says
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that God is mad at us.
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We rebuke every lie and we say that the crushing has a purpose,
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that there's purpose in the pain, that we surrender to the process.
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And, Lord, right now, lift up your hands.
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Come on.
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Lift up your hands.
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Lord Jesus, we surrender to your way.
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We surrender to your plan.
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God, we are not fighting the pain.
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God, we're not fighting the pain.
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Lord, we surrender.
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We surrender.
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We surrender now.
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Come on.
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You just have to surrender.
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Lord Jesus.
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Worship is gonna come up out of me.
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Worship's gonna come up out of me.
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I'm not gonna curse God and die.
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Worship's coming out of my suffering.
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Worship's coming out of my infidelity.
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Worship's coming out of my almost divorce.
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Worship's coming out of my.
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My rebellious kids.
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Worship's coming out of me.
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Come on.
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I can't do it for you.
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I can't ask God for you.
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You got to use your own voice.
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It's too quiet in here for people who are fighting.
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Come on, release that word.
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What are you fighting for?
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You think the enemy is just going to give it to you?
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No.
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There's got to be a worship song, a worship cry out, God, we
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surrender.
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We surrender.
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Come on.
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I hear some people really asking the Lord.
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Come on.
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There's some people that are getting some victory in here.
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For those who are watching online right now, I just want you
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to just ask the Lord, God, I'm done fighting for some of you, you
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even have clenched fists.
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I would even say, open your hand.
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Release it, release it, release it, release it.
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Some of you have been clenching your jaw, fighting, fighting,
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fighting.
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The Lord would say, release now in Jesus mighty name.
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Even things that have manifested itself like an as, like
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TMJ and stress, like a clinch.
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It's like everything about you is fighting.
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The Lord would say, release, release, release, release.
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God, we decree healing all over this room, all over this room
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right now.
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Healing in Jesus mighty name.
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For those who are suffering in marriage, there is a great anointing
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tonight for reconciliation.
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I really feel that because that's an.
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An oil that has come off my life.
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And so right now, for those who have said, I'm giving up, this
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is the last day, Lord, I pray that there would just be such a passion
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for reconciliation.
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I'm not talking about people who are in dangerous situations.
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I'm talking about just being done, Lord, right now.
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I just pray that you would give them perseverance, God, new
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mercy, new grace for another day.
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And Lord, Lord, we just pray that the oil of reconciliation would
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just begin to flow.
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Flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow.
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Lord, I pray God that they're just even faith renewed for people
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who are believing for prodigal children, I really believe that.
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Come on.
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There's a special anointing.
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There are children that are far from God, and it's almost like
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you've made peace.
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Well, that's just who they are.
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No.
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Fight, fight, fight.
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No.
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We decree and declare their salvation.
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We decree and declare that they will serve the Lord, not just
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casually, but passionately serve the Lord.
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And so right now, right now, join our faith.
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For every prodigal, we decree and declare them to come home now.
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In the mighty name of Jesus.
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God, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you.
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Hallelujah.
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I feel like in this next few minutes that there's going to be
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anointings that are going to be released specifically in the area
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of a call to ministry.
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Ministry.
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Now remember, anointing doesn't mean ready.
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Anointing means that you say yes to the process.
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So right now if you said, Lord, I just, I felt like there's
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been a call to ministry on my life.
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We're just gonna ask the Lord just to impart an anointing for ministry.
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Specifically, what I feel is street evangelist, street evangelism.
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Street evangelism, that's what I feel.
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I don't know if that's for somebody here or somebody who's watching
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online, but specifically for street evangelism, if that's you
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and you say, I want to be anointed to preach the gospel till
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all have heard right now.
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Lord, I thank you for every person that wants to preach the gospel
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on the streets.
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And Lord, we decree and declare.
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Declare.
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We pray for anointings to be released now in the name of Jesus.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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The next thing that I want to pray for is for people who have,
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and this is like very specific, but people who used to
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pray in tongues but haven't been able to pray in tongues in a
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long time for whatever reason.
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You just, it's, it's spiritual, it's been bound up.
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The enemy has been trying to like tighten your tongue and the
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Lord wants to loose it tonight.
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I know that's really, really specific, but is there, is there
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anybody here who said, yeah, that's me.
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Like I, I grew up in church and I.
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And, and okay, so there's a few of you.
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So right now, Lord, I just pray.
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Let's all just begin to pray in our prayer language.
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Lord, I pray that you would lose their tongue now in the name
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of Jesus and that the Holy Ghost and fire would be released
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on them right now in Jesus mighty name, loose their tongue now
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in Jesus name.
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Specifically somebody who used to pray in tongues in secret.
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I don't know if it was like not accepted in your home or in your
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church, but it was like a secret thing.
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The Lord is loosing your tongue right now just out of faith.
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Just begin to pray in your prayer language.
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If you're watching online or you're here in the room, just begin
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to loose that tongue right wherever you are.
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If you're on the church treadmill, loose it.
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If you're on the subway.
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Loose it.
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I also feel like tonight that there is going to be a renewal for
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the Great Commission.
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Now, this should be every single person in here.
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Now, we all have different gifts and callings, but our primary
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call as a believer is to the Great Commission.
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Go and make disciples baptizing them in the name of the
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Do all that I've commanded and I will be with you until the end
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of the age.
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If you say I want to accept my call and to the Great Commission.
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Lift up your hands, Lord, right now.
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I pray for unique anointings to be released to fulfill the Great
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Commission.
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And God, I thank you for what you're releasing on this church.
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Come on, accept it now.
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Now, now, now, now.
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Yes, Lord.
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Come on.
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Tell the Lord I'll go.
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I'll say I'll open up my mouth.
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I'll be obedient to share the gospel.
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I'll be obedient to pray for the sick.
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I'll be obedient to baptize my brothers and sisters in bathtubs
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and oceans and in hot tubs, in rivers and lakes and creeks.
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We will go.
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Hallelujah.
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God, we thank you.
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We thank you.
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We thank you.
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We thank you.
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We're getting ready to worship together here in a minute.
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But how many feel like they have a different perspective on what
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they're walking through?
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How many feel that?
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Wait, wait.
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I'm not being punished.
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I'm in process.
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God isn't mad at me.
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He's using this to bring oil out of my life.
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And I just want to encourage you, Church, whatever you are walking
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through, God has a plan.
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But if you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, we're
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going to do that now.
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If you came into this service, maybe you were in invited by a friend.
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Maybe you were invited by a co worker and you're like, why am I
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here?
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It's because Jesus loves you.
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He wants to see you saved.
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He wants to spend eternity with you.
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And let me tell you, Church, there is heaven and there is hell.
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And this decision is important.
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Your destiny is on the line.
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Jesus died for you.
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Romans 10:9 says that if you believe in your heart and you confess
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with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, that you will be saved.
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If you need to pray that prayer, Church, pray it with us right
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now.
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Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sin, wash me clean, and I accept
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you as Lord of my life.
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The Bible says that you will be saved if you prayed that prayer.
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Prayer.
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Welcome to the family.
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Come on, lift up your hands.
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Let's begin to worship.
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Let's begin to thank God for who he is and what he's done.
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Lord, we thank you.
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We love you, God, we praise you.
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God, we thank you, Lord, for who you are.
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Sa.