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Let's Not Grow Too Old For Jesus | Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from X church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. I was asking the lower to speak. You
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know, sometimes you get you know a few things that you know you want
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to share to the church, and I've got this message is that let's not
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grow old to all for Jesus. Cool as you could see. Now you
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know why the message is much needed, need it, you know, But
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really that you know, there's so much life in Christ. Could you turn
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to look chapter eight? Look chapter eight. Okay, so it goes.
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It was that Jesus entered and the multitude welcome him, for they were all
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waiting for him. The Bible here says that Jesus came to a particular place
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the multitude, the people was waiting for Jesus. I'm not sure how many
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of us here this morning that you are hoping and waiting for God to do
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something, but yet not engaging the Lord. There's too many Christians right now
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are just waiting, coming to a place, waiting for God because in worse
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for the One, and behold that came a man called Gyrous. You could
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be like the multitudes whereby just coming to church wishing something to happen, or
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you could be like Gyrus. Lord, I need a breakshoe. Lord,
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I need a break shoe in our Christian world. I pray that you become
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more like Gyrus, whereby we just can't. The word is accept things in
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our life and like cannot be changed. I pray that you become a spirit
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of gyrosy Lord, I have a dying doctor in my house. I need
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your intervention. I pray you'd be like Gyrius. This morning, I say,
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God, unless you move, my daughter will be dead. Because too
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many christ just coming to church, whereby not having engaging the power of God,
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not engaging the Holy Spirit, and yet go back empty and be satisfied.
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We're just coming to church, you and I this morning with the words
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that we need to be like Gyros and God. Unless you move in my
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business, I'm dead. Unless you move with my family, I'm dead.
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Unless you do something in my life, I'm dead. We can live a
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Christian life, you know, be a fitful Christian coming to church. But
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is that all God wants to do? Is that all the law wants us
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to do? This morning? Because the Bible here says Gyros was desperate.
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Gyros had the situation I know that everyone of us here is experiencing a challenge
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financial, health, family, all life. Obviously I'm going through some things,
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but we just accept things like they are. Cannot be changed. Cannot
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be changed. It can be with servant or mighty God that cannot come in
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to all life. Friends. A Christian work is by the work of faith,
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not by sight. Today you may be going through some things, but
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it's not forever. So worse For the one Gyvers came and he was a
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ruler of the city God. He fell down at the field of Jesus.
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The multitudes did not by Gyvers did I prayed that this morning, that there
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is a spirit, reliness, a God. I need to humble myself.
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The Bibles is in the Book of James, draw near to God, friends,
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and he would draw near to you. Whomas drawers, come on,
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Church, who mus drawers, come on? Church holds drawers. You and
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I need to humble ourself to draw near to God. But what stops us
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from drawing you to God? Right? Stops us from drawing near to God?
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Friends? Sometimes we think that just because we are serving, just because
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we are giving the ability to give, the ability to serve, we think
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that we have a huge. The world is a humble heart. The true
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humility is when we sick the Lord in everyday. God, I need you
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in my life. God, I need you in my life Like givers,
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Givers went not on these knees. They say, God, I need you
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you and I this morning? Friends, how is a heart? How is
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a posture? Where was the last as? We actually say? God,
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unless you move, I don't care what my neighbor have to say. I
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don't care about my wife have to say. God, I need to stick
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your face because unless you move, my daughter is dead. Givers humble himself
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before the Lord. Why someone us don't have a breakshoe because we have this
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pride within us, just because we have a big bank account, we have
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never sought the Lord. I can't say this right now. Study older than
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they. I was meeting a guy um at the cafe and he was asking
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me, how am how how are you? I say that about and for
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the eight he's in no way said twenty years my senior. I say yeah.
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I said, I also that you look like somebody beating thirty five.
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So I did that ascond buy your lunch. But here's the thing, friends,
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it is not the length of time just because that we have more time
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in our life, I don't need to seek the Lord. God will bring
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us to a place of dependency on him. God will bring us to a
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place where might be a good crowding for more of him. Friends, what's
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the use of money when our chiling are not following the Lord? You can't
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pay your way out of a situation. There will be days whereby our health
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will be challenged. Although you have excess, so greater health care about true
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health comes from the Lord. So I would say a man, some of
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us here have difficulty in studying. Friends, you can't pay your way.
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I need to study better, So you put in fifty in it somewhere to
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deposit a better brain. You can't. And most times where we are with
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our heart reveals, friends, because givers have tried every physician, but yet
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nothing happened. How many of you know that Jesus did not reject Gyros because
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the Bible is so true to his word. If you were to humble yourself
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and sick my face, God says he will turn and look towards us.
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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you, James.
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So when Gyvers went on his knees, friends and ask God and bank God,
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please come to my house. The Bible says that Jesus have decided Gyros
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will come to your house. Some of us say, have not had a
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busy station from Lord for the longest time. That's why we are dry,
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we are cranky, we are moody. When we moved away from the love
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of friends, we begin to focus a lot of things on the external.
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Have you been complaining about different things? Have you been complaining about different things?
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God? Why do you give me this wife? You'll be a lot
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of friends. But I've counsel many people when before I love the Lord brought
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me together and the author I do, and I do. Both of them
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say, in the presence of the Lord one month time later, let't say
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why you're one month? Why do you give me this wife? Why do
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you give me this husband? Some of you saw the Lord, God give
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me confirmed which university I need to enter, and the moment you step fall
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into it go white, so tougher. And that's the thing. Friends.
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A lot of times we don't understand what the Lord wants to draw out from
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us. So Gyrous bagged the Lord, and the Lord say I would come
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and say it worse for the party two, for he had one daughter right
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tralve years of age. He was dying, but as he went, the
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multitude begins to trong him, begin to surround Jesus. You know, there's
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too many churches are just building a multitude around Jesus but not engaging in his
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supernatural power in our daily life, in our daily walk. And that's why
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sometimes the word is that we get so burned out, so tired, because
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it can be friends that they they reknew their strength in the Lord. They
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shall run, They shall wait upon the Lord. They shall we knew their
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strength. They shall wait upon the Lord. They shall reknew that strength.
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Those that wait upon the Lord of friends. Those that wait upon the Lord
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shall we knew. There come our church be a bit more excited. Those
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that wear upon the lor shall amen. Friends, You and I today kneed
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to know that Jesus answers to desperate hats crying. Jesus, who answered a
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desperate heart cry, He did not, as Gyus Jarius, how much do
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you give your ties an offering? Jesus did not, as Gius Genius,
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have you been faithful to coming to churchen on? Jesus did not as Jarus,
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Jius, have you been going to homes or not? Jesus responds to
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the hart cry of Gyus because Gyus was a place of desperation, a place
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of honesty, and a place whereby God, unless you move, I'm date
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many times the old Christian life, we build up pride just because we are
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alive. We are well fed, everything is taken care of. There is
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no need to engage. I'm going to say this again. The Bible says
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that be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. But in this world
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you have trans and tribulation. Everything is going to go for or shaking.
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Friends, unless you prepare your faith, unless you prepare your spirit to what's
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to come. Friends, most of us who crumble under the pressure. Let
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me go down all the way to worse. For denying, well, Jesus
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was on the way there. Someone came up to the ruler Verse for denying,
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someone came up to the Gyrus and say to him, your daughter is
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there. Don't trouble the teacher. Your daughter is there, don't trouble the
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teacher. As apparent, friends, you'll be she'll be angrish, You'll be
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in this. The word is that you do not you have loss for words,
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losing someone, for losing your one and only daughter, losing your child,
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losing your daughter for twelve years and many times you just accept things like
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this. You could have a situation for twelve years, but I won't let
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you know. With one touch from Jesus, he can change your life.
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Chi could be coming to church for twelve years, over twelve months, twelve
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days, feeling like or just like any other church. But one touch from
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the Savior, from the Master, he can change your life. You and
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I need to be excited because the modern day church has lots. It's grassroots,
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it's the world is the world is engagement with the spiritual world. Friends,
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it can be friends that when you buy a piece of property, friends,
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you walk in there, your hairstads, because there's a spirit living in
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there. You just accepting like this. I was just sharing one part church
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plant that you know back in those days where you start when church bosum begin
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to um be planted one passon. We just sharing that. When I started
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the church, the first thing that a lot of my church partners asked me
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to come to do was house cleansing because there's evil spirits in the house.
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I don't know how we always are pre pair to do. It was spirits
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homeliness. I pray that you got phone calls to do house cleansing and all
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the partners amen, like your life homeliness. I pray that you'll be The
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word is that you'll be excited to the house cleansing, because that's even spirit
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of the house and not giving rest to the partners. Friends, you have
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the authority of God to go in there to cleanse the house. Someone say,
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amen, it's because you have never engaged before. We are not the
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words that we do not know and therefore or it was spirit called the elder,
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called the pastor. I was the one particular church say older would go
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and pray. I see why, because there's no pastor here, Friss.
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The title does dog means that you are more spiritual powerful, nothing at all.
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It doesn't mean just because that you are elder than you have more power.
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And two many Christians this thing that all. I'm just the words that
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we have, the words we have categorized ourselves to a few labors. I'm
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just a churchgoer. Did the Bible ever categorized Christian not? I'm setting very
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passionately about this because I truly believe this is what the Lord wants to say
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to us. Jivers. Your daughter is dead like that, Lord, you're
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late. That's twice. Do you know how many times you pass a problem
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back to the Lord God? If you only, if only you come on
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time, If only you come on time, my daughter will be alive.
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Why on earth do you take time to talk to other people? How many
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times you have blamed God for things that he didn't do? Come on now
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in your Christian how many ties you blamed the Lord God? Why why this
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happened? A Lord? I have come with sorry if I same time shouting
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all right? Okay? Have come to let you know friends, that in
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my many years of doing church, there are a lot of times people blame
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God for everything. When you know right? First of all, no kapa
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God? Why you as we come to church? But this chess? Are
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you look at the kapack situation? Number one? God, I come to
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church, but there's no one ring getting in my wallet? Cannot last?
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Last time? You have to put one ring, gett to pay the packing
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Right, I'll praise a lot you can touch and go hallelujah. Even then,
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friends, even then, there's there's creeches Right now, right. I
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see people carry up because the camera canno. They take a number plate.
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But anything we complained about everything coming to church or your wife so black,
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so that one whel black one. Everything is dark colored. Friends, I'm
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not sure where you are with your life. But let's stop putting the blame
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back to God. God. I follow you, I trusted you. But
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why is my life like that? Turn with me right now in the book
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of I think book of met you. Let me see I met you,
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met you? Xt I give it this script chrees it's somewhere there. So
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sorry, I I think it's Matthew chapter one. Ask XTV, yes,
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give me a moment. I lost my scripture. Yes, Matthew fourteen metthew
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Chapter fourteen. Just turn me me there for a moment, Matthew Chapter fourteen.
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Here here we go fourteen US trainy two, fourteen US training two.
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Okay, it's about Jesus walking on the seat right immediately he made his disciples
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to get into the boat. Come on, right now, Why did the
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disciples get into the boat? Friends? Open book? Answer? Why did
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the disciples get into the boat. Jesus made his disciples to get into the
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boat. Sometimes your life, the things you do is because you God led
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you. God led you to a company. God led you to a college.
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God let you to a life partner. God let you to a church.
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God led you to a business contract. God let you because you know
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you pray for it, and God let you. You say words like God
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give you the peace, God confirmed picks in my heart. But the Bible
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here says the moment they got in to the boat worse twenty four. But
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the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by wave for
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the wind, most country. Who caused them to get into the boat?
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Come on right now, Church who let them to the boat? Come on,
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Church who let them to the boat? Come on, church who let
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him to the boat? Friends, God let them to a boat. And
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the Bible says worse twenty four. They were in the middle of the See
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what happened? Waves and red waves and wind In your life, friends,
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there'll be waves and wind that's blowing you, tossing you left and right.
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It is no fun. If you ever walk against the wind, is really
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tough not to forget. So it's so very cool, but it's hard,
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not a nice feeling. Do you see the disciples? God, why do
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you let us in the middle of of the c and right now we're facing
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this too. Many Christians just God, why did you? Why did you?
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Why did you? If you ever cut yourself blaming God, I just
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cube perous, pray that you humbler, I said, God, forgive me,
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because it was God that led the disciples into the boat and no one
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else and many times a Christian bold, Friends, God will lead us to
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a place whereby God will used the wind and the ways to reveal what's in
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our hearts. Come on, right now, God will use the wind and
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the ways to reveal the faith in our hearts. I'm gonna say it again,
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God is good. Use the wind and the waves to reveal what's in
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your heart. Because God will always bring your place whereby what used to know,
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where your security used to be. Friends, it will not be because
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you don't have the land access to land anymore. You are in see whereby
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your life is only by the mercy and the grace of God. You're like
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today, Friends, will come to a place whereby God wants to reveal and
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the rerelation, friends is not for you to complain. Friends, the revelation
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is not for you to complain because in our Christian world friends. Many Christians
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like to complain, but instead friends. The Bible here says the verse twenty
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five, now the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking
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on the sea. Even though you are tossed to and fro maybe Christ out
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to God. The Bible reassures us that he will come to us first.
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I was speaking to people who really works that you are in the situation because
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no one else could help you. You came to church this morning not looking
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for a good, good sense, good feeling, or good sensation. You
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keep the ches because you wanted the brickshoe. You wanted a direction. Many
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times in a Christian Bard, when you're in the middle of seeing peach darkness,
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friends, you can know where to turn to but to the Lord.
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You and I today need to have this spirit of God. Unless you come
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to me, I will be drowning. The Bible here says, even the
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peach darkness, God is walking towards us. Someone need to be a reassured
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of that. It was the midst of your darkness. No way out.
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God is already at work. God is already at work in your life.
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It though we can't see, friends, it is really a work in your
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life, even though you can't see it. First, didn't know that we'll
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get this place, don't We don't know. This place used to be a
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former disco. Some of you know it. It was really bad. Some
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of the pillars around you right now used to be toilets, toilets. The
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espressional area used to be something else. The foot so called area used to
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be a something else. Every worker that came away here to work, we're
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free to go to the to the foot so called area. Because they said
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when they're working, they felt it was spirit. They ask us whether it
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could be Could they do their normal thing? We say no. We s
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say, don't worry, we'll take care of it. You need to have
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this confidence for it. No matter what the world choose that you. If
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the lot is with you, nothing can be against you. See that's why
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our faith, the Bible say, is so precious. And may time we
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think our faith is just to do a bit on Sunday. It can be
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friends, it can be there. Your faith is just I'm good on Sunday.
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I just give you a bit offering. I'm good, all right,
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I'm well to can care of our life. Friends. The word is the
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venture with the Lord has to be so much more. It regardless how young
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or how younger you are. And they say, oh, I say how
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young or how younger you are, God has an adventure for you. That's
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why I want encourage everyone to go missions. Yeah, come on right now,
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friends, before it's not thinking. You know, I don't want to
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punishes no, friends, what would you preach at the mission field? Friend?
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You tell me what would you Why are you going to preach at the
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mission field? Why are you going to share with the people about your journey
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of faith, your life of faith, how to study well? Because at
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the mission field, first they have not been to school, some of them.
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What would you share at the field that we're encouraged their faith? The
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only thing you can share is God is faithful, and God will be true
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to his work. When you pray, you will listen. And many times
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our own warld friends, the only reason why we are dumbers because we've never
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engaged the Lord. The Bible here says it was twenty five fourth watch Jesus
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ran to them walking on the sea. Now, I was trying to say
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the disciples are walking at the scene. They were trouble saying it the ghost.
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They crowd in fear. Why would the disciples see Jesus walking on water
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and the crowding ghost plain reasons is because they have not seen this sight of
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God. When you can see people working from the author, people being prayer,
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a slean, some of mercy. All they're doing a f show or
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being pushed down. Or maybe is that the preacher's hand was smelly. That's
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why they're failed. And because we're the familiar with something, we come up
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with human reasoning it's a ghost, friends, It can be just because we
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are so unfamiliar with the supernatural that we just say, oh, this is
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something else. How many, even though the God really wants the world is
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to see us strive, even though this time, yeah, how many of
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us really want to see God working in our life. There we are men
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than just earning more than a wage. There we can. We are here
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on earth for significance, for a reason, and for a purpose. You
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and I today, friends, You are not called here just to exist.
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We are called here to live for the glory of God, to do his
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purpose and his view. It says, here, what's you're in? The
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seven? They immediately Jesus to them, be of good cheer. It is
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I do not fear. Do not be afraid, Do not fear, be
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of good cheer. It is I friends, when you are familiar with the
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Lord. Friends, that's why to be a fearful faith it's always taking the
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first step, not knowing how the Lord's going to take the next step.
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For us, many times you're served by faith friends, we are not very
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sure it was the next step, but we can be very sure that God
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is leading us. When was the last time, really that the act of
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faith was so evident in our life? We know this is the Lord telling
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you, where was the last time we actually see God? Here? I
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am Lord. I want to come out because I know that you're speaking to
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me. It can be our faith friends there were alive in doing our campus
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days. When became a young working a doubt is dormant right now. The
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older we go, the more report to seemer than after their capt It can
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be friends, life is so much more than that first. It can be
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that when you used to go for missus only when we are younger, when
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we grow older cannot It can be friends who used to serve firmly to the
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Lord. When you are older and no time one day you and I need
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to give an account. What will you see to God the Lord? At
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least how I normally challenge people that's under my care. I say, you
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look at the face of Jesus and you just imagine what Jesus will say to
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you if you decide to stop serving. And most time their response like I
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look at Jesus, I don't know want to say to you exactly what reasons
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are you going to tell God? God? Have you enough for serving you?
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When all the time you're so consistent, of friends, He's been blessing
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you, protecting you, leading you, guiding you. Come on, leading
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you, guiding you, and many times what happened? God, you don't
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understand I love you by hit your people. I love you by God.
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You have you heard of these people could call your disciples? It is so
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tough to work with them. Lord. I don't mind what give you,
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Lord, because you and I come ching, Lord? But what gave you
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your disciples? This is the next level, friends, That's what you need.
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Their faith. That's why Jesus say, come on, be of good
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ship. It is I, do not be afraid. It is I that
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called you into the boat. Come on our church. It is I that
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led you to the church. It is a lie that led you to the
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business, to led you to the entity they're working right now, that company
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you're working with. It is I that led you to the university. Friends,
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if God can lead you to a place, do you think you'll abandon
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you? If God can lead you to a place, you'll think he'll abandon
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you. I was talking the past the one day you know, the Legacy
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Project really taught us me and pasted up a lot of lessons about faith.
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Faith. It's not one place whereby you have everything, then only you start
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faith. It's not about everything, having everything only then you start. It
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is not Faith is a confirmation. God put in your spirit something a project,
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and say, God, give me a signment. God give you a
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a faith as small as a master to start. If you can provide initial
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for you, do you think that he'll provide the rest for you? Someone
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you need to be started in your faith. If God can start something your
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life, don't you think you'll bring it to completion? Or some of you
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don't really believe me. If God can start something in your life, I'm
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losing my voice. If God can start something in your life, friends,
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don't you think that you'll bring it to completion, And many times you abandon
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the project of faith in our life. Why cob because if you only you
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know I love you, I can worship you. But it's your disciples.
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I cannot stand. Why are use the way disciples? Because friends, many
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times you give out of faith, not because of the weeds of the wave,
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is because of the people in the boat. Come on right now.
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Many times you don't promise you really you don't probmise a wave. Isn't it
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true? We can think that we've in fact put me on everything I can
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see, serve by Lord, serving your other people. Come on, let's
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be honest here, because honestly really removes the power of pride God. I
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can take the winds in the way, but it's the people in the boat
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that cannot the hun And because of that I rather I rather think my chances
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with the winds and the wave shame on my own, rather than be in
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the boat. Pagos remained in the boat. Do you know how heart disease
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are when you're facing a life threatening situation with fellow fellow believers in the boat.
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Not you'll be one, There'll be one disciple, And definitely say that.
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Let's not praise of worship, there will be another possess it. You
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must have sin, you must have seen That's why we're facing this. You
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must have done something bad. I was reading the Book of Job. I'm
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still reading. Treat friends if you ever get the joke situation, A prayer
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that you don't have friends like job okay, prayer that you not have a
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life but they like Job did okay? The wife though jo joke just Curscott
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and just curs good and die. That's why we actually do very well,
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John, very well, John, you very only a one day. You
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don't become, as said anymore. Friends may be too much fun to get
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the ends with. Really, that's why friends, you and I the word
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is that it's you get one person say you must have seen it. That's
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because you sin. That's why you're phrasing the waves and the wind. See
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I told you do your devotion. Friends. I want to encourage you.
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God will bring us through the waves and the wind because he wants to reveal
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Come on right now, he wants to reveal the faith that's in our hearts.
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Commarright now. He wants to reveal the faith that's in our hearts.
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Because many times we think just because we are Christian, we are faith just
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because we say God, I made my Lord my civil the way is that
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we have hundred percent faith. Just because we can sing, it doesn't mean
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we can lead a worship service, because you and I need the nothing of
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God to lead a worship service. You and I need to humble ourselves saying,
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God, search my heart, Lord, if there's anything that's blocking your
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way, your wealth in my life. And he says, here, Peter,
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answer to him, worse than it. Lord, if it's you command
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me to walk on water. Lord, if it's you command me to walk
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on water. Friends, always love this God, help me, Lord,
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say it and I'll do it. Peter took the first steph friends, None
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of us problem with the first step, coming up to the author not an
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issue. Being paid for here's not an issue. But it's a second and
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third step that's a challenge because in the second and third step, the Bib
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verses Peter got his eyes off of Jesus and begin to look at the winds
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and a wave. And that's where most Christians that add, right now,
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God, I want to serve you, Lord. And you start serving and
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you begin to face difficulty and challenge. What normally goes out the window?
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God, what normally goes out the window? Friends? Have you observed your
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life the moment you hit the challenge? What reduces your commitment to the Lord,
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your desire to serve, with your desire to know him? When your
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type for time? What happens? God? I got no tipe for devotion?
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Maybe why minute prayer enough for me? I'm not knocking anybody down by
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prayer at this pointing. Let God reveal where we are. Because the Bible
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says when God reveals to Peter and the Disciples or ye r little faith,
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he's encouraging them to grow their faith, not to condemn them. When God
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reveals where the disciples are with their faith, it is not to condemn them,
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but the word is to nurture them back to health. Peter, God's
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eyes of Jesus. Friends, where is your eyes right now? Where have
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your eyes been looking at? Where have you been looking at? Friends?
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Because I can honestly let you know some of us God our eyes off Christ
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and we're just going with emotion and God once this morning to revive our hearts
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again, because we could be like the multitude surrounding Jesus. You know,
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to surround God is a very good feeling to say that you go to church
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ida my religious duty to give to do a bit. Yeah, I must
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be speechly okay, But God wants going something deeper in our hearts. Friends,
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Can you just say that God really wants to do something deeper in the
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hearts because if it only allow God to do with friends, you have an
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amazing story to tell to the Lord, amazing story to share with people.
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To me, remember back out to look chapter eight. Look chapter eight.
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I'm going from worse forty two right now. There's only one daughter and she
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was dying. Then he went and then a multitude strong him. My quest
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to your church this morning, why do you follow Jesus? Why do you
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follow Jesus? Why do we see God be my Lord, be my master,
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be my savior? Why is it because we almost like heaven like a
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spiritual emirate in a wallet, like the food in a wallet like that?
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So you understanding your problem, the Buddhist berger, you understand? Is it
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because of safety? Why do you follow Christ? Because the multitude follow him?
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But no being true? And that's why where Jesus is persecuted, they
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left and I will, I will let you know. If you don't,
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if you don't begin to engage God one day you live the faith because a
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moment trouble hits you, you will run. Moment you hit a wall,
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you run. But those have journeyed with a lot of friends, those have
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journeyed with the Lord, no matter what, they're still hold on to Christ,
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no matter what. I've met people in their seventies and eighties. I
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asked them, I say, do you tell me your life journey? They
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begin to share, except the Christ's parents disowned them, kick off from the
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family. This is modern times. You don't have people kick off family.
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Most probably your allow us get reduced by by a couple of hunger to knee,
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kick off from the family, stare out from the house, live in
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the servant with the servants quarters. They still follow Christ, still follow the
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Lord. Met a particular mom. She was telling me. You know,
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when I got married, my pastor told me, if you, if you
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had the husband, got the argument. You cannot hand your husband anymore.
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You stay in the marriage, you work it out, You pray to the
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Lord, you pray to God, ask God to change something in your marriage.
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And to look at her. I say, I said, what do
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you do with this knowledge. I told my daughter that, I said,
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daughter, you cannot leave the marriage. You pray, ask God to intervene,
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and God will come true for you, no matter how hard it is.
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If your husband be unfaithful, forgive, I'm just hearing this why she
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was telling me. I was like, Wow, I say, how many
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years you've been to disciplership school and nothing? Why? I just why would
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my pastor say I would just do it these days? You authority or something?
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Let me Let me seek an expert opinion. First, friends, trust
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us and believe in these friends. God does have a plan for you,
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not the words, not to stifle for you, not to put you down,
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but to lift you up. So worse for the tree. Now there
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was a woman floy with issue of blood. Friends, you got to see
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the seven in between Giver's story. Or was this lady with with the issue
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of blood? The Bible here says that she said to herself, all right,
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she said to herself, if all ther I could touch the hem of
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God before they can't touch his close and remake well. Friends, Faith is
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a place whereby even before you receive it, you're already proclaim it, even
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before you receive it, you're already proclaiming it. She said to herself,
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if only I could touch his clothes and remain well, you know who's who
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reminds her story reminds me of we're hap in josh chapter two. We're happing
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in Josha chapter two. Heard what the Law has done at the way,
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see her faith gets stirred. She heard what the law done to the kings
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with for the children of Israel. She said that the house of the people
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melted. But these days we tell people out in one God providers to this
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place. Must we are good negotiation skills? Law, God heal this person.
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It's only Cancelednima, not raising from the dad God provided for this family.
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Hi must be one generous Christian and givet law. We have the ways
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that when we hear testimoniy of the Lord, friends, it must still our
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hearts and our spirit to believe God. Friends, Where have hurt friends?
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She wasn't even that she hurt what the Lord has died at the rain seat.
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And she said that I begin to believe there's too many Christian God cities.
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All right, I mean offense some of you, but I'm going to
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city to Christian hurt. What the lives done. Just sick like that la
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my life I will change. It is like that law. I just come
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to church, believe church. Okay, how many of you know that those
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who actually cut it the life will that will be the same again were heam
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was in the city of Jericho. I'm sure there's bother a thousand plus people
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a minimum. I'm sure that this story of this news world, the law
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has done and the race he wasn't just told to rehab alone. Wasn't a
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whisper by the side of the compete. I'm there. I'm sure the story
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of God delivering the child of Razio to the race was shared to every every
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tribe, every people grew. But those that believe, friends, those that
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believe, those that believe, the life will change because the rayhab and the
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whole family, the whole household. The Bible says in those two got saved.
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I don't know how many more convincing do we need without faith to believe
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God. I don't know how many overs hear these more stories of faith to
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be stirred up to believe God. I don't know how many overs see to
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hear more evidence of the supernatural than only you believe it. Was greater,
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or maybe you said, how that past a stage? Really, as I
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close right now, friends, I'm just going to see this in verse.
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You know that she was here right worse for the aid. He said to
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her daughter, be of good cheer. Your faith has made you well.
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Go in peace. He didn't refer to the lady as a woman and clean.
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Jesus used the word daughter. Acceptance. Acceptance. Friends, some of
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us here have been trying so hard, really so hard, to do what's
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right, to put food on the table, to work two or three jobs,
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to do everything within our powers, sacrifice everything just to provide. But
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this is one of the lowes to remind you that you are his child.
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Here's your our father, the devil. I think this is how the devil
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works. He wants to isolate us. He wants to isolate you. You
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know that about the Trinity fathers on the Holy Street. They're very tight together,
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constantly in community one another. But the devil knows he cannot break this
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bond. He goes after the shipp to bring you off from the flock,
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to bring you off from people, to let you be alone. That's what
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the devil did to Eve Eve for us alone in the garden, and some
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of you've been alone for too long in your thoughts, in your hearts.
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But the serpent begin to connor eve friends, some of us being connect We
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don't even know it. We think it's very natural. We begin to entertain
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thoughts ideas that it wasn't from the Lord, but it sounded very wise in
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the eyes of people, And too often we get the more we begin to
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entertain, the more heart begin to us begin to so distrust to the Lord.
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I've accepted a Lord age of sixteen. I remember when the day I
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gave up my life, gave my life up to the Lord. I have
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to walk down a cinema out to receive Jesus. Everyone was looking at me.
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I was walking out the out there, I thought there will be at
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least three of more people of friends. I was the only one right in
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the middle of the church in front there and the speaker to lift up her
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hands. I didn't really know what was happening. I just felt that I
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needed to give my life to the Lord. But that was the beginning of
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a journey that God began to unfol in my life. Had the privilege of
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just doing church. So many people, so many precious people that God has
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brought to this church. Do you know that we have turned and began to
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see healing in marriages? In our church we saw physical healing. First,
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what would you say to a person that from three give on one to give
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up his life? Mean to say that normal hope and from three drop up
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from school and the only thing he knows is how to fight. And the
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job interview you go for is to be a bodyguard. The first question was
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asked, or do you how to use a gun to lead us in our
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church? Friends, precious little church? You don't say you know what?
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From three drop out? I can't help you. We can only do with
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you. You hold us any probably prayed together with him right now he's married,
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the kids having a house because of anything we have done. First,
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you don't give money. We just say let's pray together, trust a lot
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together, Let's read the word of God together. First, You and I
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need to believe and understand what thing God when comes to your life. Friends,
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your life will change. And many time you think, oh, have
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you coming to church not feeling anything? You like? The Moultitudes by givis
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dn Cat. The woman issued int cat because the woman knew they should be
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accepted by the Lord because Jesus said, dactor, your faith has made you
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well as a close Right now, friends, I pray that you allow your
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faith to lead your heart. I pray you allow your faith to a chance
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to grow. There's just too many people who behave like the maultitude are.
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It's okay as far as I follow the Church, I'm all right, yeah.
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But friends, is it all to life? Then you follow the multitudes
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the next grave of Christianity, the next wave of Christianity. Slightly older people,
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I'm speaking to you right now. God wants to rehire you for the
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things of the Lord. For the things of the Lord. Friends, how
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do you do understand the moment where I felt my knees couldn't take it?
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No more? Strength? Pray for strength. It can be the God just
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the way it's keeping your life all the way until the last day. On
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maintainance mod. What a way to live. There's no such thing as maintainers.
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More human hearts cry right now, Church, there is no such thing
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as maintainance mode. In the Lord. There has to be so much more
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to life that today. Friends, if we hear the word of the Lord,
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Friends, your faith must be activated. Your favors joy you eat and
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said, God, I need more of this. If it's you lead me,
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friends, when was the last time God give you an amazing testimony?
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Come on right now, Mission's conference coming out. I'm not selling the conference.
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I'm just asking you. Would you consider going and allowing God to speak
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to you. Gabriel our camp was said that Anywhere because he came for the
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first priority conference al or the anywhere city conference. He went it because God
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told him too no opening. He just applied, God, if you want
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us to go, You opened that door because I felt He said he felt
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Anywhere needs him, and God opened the door for him to go there.
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When was the last time he said? God? Would you move in my
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company? Would you move with my family? Would you move in my circumstances,
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in my finances? Or are we just like the mugitude of killer?
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It's all right, jerish your daughter's day, letting we don't discern the j
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anymore. This is it is what it is. It is what it is,
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cannot be changing. After all this death. Nobody can be resurrected.
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Nobody can be resurrected. Even God can resurrect death. Here my heart's cry,
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friends, I pray all of us here, and we'll exit earth.
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We'll go all the way to the end, believing, trusting, believing,
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trusting the Lord. We'll go all the way to end. Not the words,
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not limping to the end, by running to the end, friends,
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Friends, not limping to the end, but running through the end. Friends,
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not just the words crawling to the end, but running our spirits alive.
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As I close right now, can leave me to shower your just my
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just one passion that I have is this that, Friends, there's no suching
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ass retirement in the Lord, it can be that just some in God.
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We have to accept it at face value, like that, like a lot.
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Even I pray for you when nothing happens. My homes is like that.
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The people are not really excited. The winds and the waves are their
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friends. To review your faith. God, let you to a homes.
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God, let you to a place. It can't be God, let your
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place for you to die. It can't be gone like the homes for you
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to be spiritually dry up and God, this one wants to remind you.
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Friends, I led you to a place because I want you to walk of
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water. Friends, who will you be today? The multitude or Gyrus.
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Who will you be today? Friends, Peter, that walk of water or
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the rest is still on the board. Fir's who will you be today?
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The multitudes? Or the woman with the issue of blood? They say,
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God, I hammer myself and I reach out to you. Who would you
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end your life with the multitude or one like we have fans. This is
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