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Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church - Session 6 | Jason Martin
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You're listening to a message to go from axt church.
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We hope this message will light up your tea.
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You know.
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I won't go into too much details, but there is
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three l's. Okay, how are we going to get this done?
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The execution? The first L is the lost, the eleven,
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and the leaders. Okay, these are the three l's and
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the practical plan. How are we going to reach the
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ten thousand? If there's one thousand of us and everyone
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invites or invites one person to church a year by
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the end of nine years. Because when pass I can
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share this vision is twenty twenty one by the end
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of nine years. One thousand plus one thousand times nine
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is ten thousand. That was how we reach the ten thousand, Okay,
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So that is the destination. Okay, next night, this is
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the engine, the engine that will lead us towards twenty thirty.
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So the engine is what was shared. If you are
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were here when Elder Terrans was sharing, Elder Terrans was
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sharing about God's diet, the daily bread, the tide, and
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the eleven. So this is the engine that will help
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us reach that vision. So God's diet, God's diet is
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the same diet where in the Book of Daniel. God's
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diet for Daniel is that hey, that you keep yourselves pure.
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And because of that, the daily bread that God gave
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to Daniel is that he gave them favor with men,
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gave them favor God. Because Daniel and the friends relied
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on God, God continuously supplied their needs.
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But they are tight. What was Daniel's tide? He did not.
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He abstained from meat and all the king's food. They
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only eat fruit and vegetable. And the leaven, leaven is
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very important. So what is the leaven? The leaven is
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like what washat earlier? When you are baking bread, okay,
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and you put if you make bread, how many of
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you all have made bread before? Okay, I have never
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made bread before. I eat bread. But if you have
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made bread before, one of the important components is yeast.
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So if you do not put yeast, your bread will
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look like if you put yeast, the bread a rise
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and it will become a fluffy loaf of bread.
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So the leaven is faith in action. Faith in action.
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So with the daily bread and with the tide that
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we give God, then we need to put our faith
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into action. And that's what Daniel and his friends did
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They continuously seek God five times a day, regardless of
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what happened, regardless of all the threads that were thrown
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at them, they continue to work out their faith and
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glorify God. Okay, so this is the engine that we
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need to stick to. God will give us a vision.
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He will give us the daily bread that will strengthen us.
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We have to give back a portion back to Him
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because that is how we acknowledge that he is God.
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And then we have to continuously work out our faith
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so that God will continue to develop us and help
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us grow to achieve that vision. Okay, thanks, So the
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phase one of this journey was when we were saying
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that conviction. This vision is only a vision or only
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words on paper unless we are convinced. So we have
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to be convicted. We have to be convinced about it.
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And then once we are convinced, that is when the
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second part is conditioned.
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We have united teaching.
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This is why we are trying to share it across
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so that all of us are on the same page.
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Point three is that we need everyone. Everyone needs to
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make this happen. Everyone is important to make this vision happened.
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And because we know that God has given us that
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vision and we are also part of this church, so
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everyone plays a role. Community. So we also need to
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do this with community. Here in ex Lang we have
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a community. We have a bigger community called act Church
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right and we have our own community in homes in
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your dream teams. So we can't do this in isolation.
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And of course we have training colleges. You know, we
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have our partnership class, we have leadership class, we have
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different we have the homes material. So all this works
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together and then goes into the engine and then finally
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we deliver the vision in twenty thirty next light. So
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this is how it looks like. Okay, so this is uh,
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this is a bonus. I decided to do this because
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I feel this is very much important before we close
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up the whole vision. Okay, so this is basically the
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plan on the plate page. So I shared this with
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with Pasta Cannas yesterday. I just shaded a Pasta. I
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needed to figure this out, so put this.
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Does it make sense?
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He said, yes, it makes sense, So that's why I'm
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sharing it with you all here so that y'all, I
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hope it helps you'll capture the the whole essence of it.
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So today session six, what am I touching about in
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session six? So Session six is I'll be touching on
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this mainly on this prophecy of the five piece where
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it's talking about the power. You know, we have the
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plan right now. We need the power of God to
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help us achieve His plans and purposes. Got it, all right,
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So let's go into this, okay, So next light?
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Okay, So as.
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This is the final session, this is the final thoughts,
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so it should be next light. The same for everyone,
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meaning that not every one of us has purview to
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receive the download from God the daily bread. You know,
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it's not because that, hey, only the pastors can receive
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it or only the worship leaders can. Everyone receives from
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God daily bread, you know, like the israel Lights, every
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single one of them received manna from heaven. All they
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had to do is go out and collect it. And
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that's what we need to do. So God's daily bread
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is there for us. We have to go and get
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it collected, all right. Everyone tides so tides, you know
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what it's tithes tides is saying that God, you are
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God and I am not. If if you do not
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have to give God anything, then how would you know
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that he is God? Because when God was in Uh,
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when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden,
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God only gave them one rule.
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What was the rule? Correct?
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See, so only one rule and by obeying that one
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rule they acknowledge that God is God. But the fact
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that they disobeyed that one rule, it says that, Hey,
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I don't regard you as God.
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And that's what tide is.
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Tithe is say God, this is a portion that I
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want to give back to you. All of us tied
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because we're saying that God, you have blessed me and
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this is a portion that I want to give back
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to you.
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So all of us tight.
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And we are centralized in our spirit and our lingo
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across the world, not just in Malaysia. So we are
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talking about faith and talking about what God. I mean,
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the words that God us speaking to ards us should
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be the same whether it's in Malaysia, where wherever act
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church we have across the world. Okay, next, so we
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need to support each other to get the job done.
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You know, like this morning, how many people did it
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take to get the service up and running this morning?
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How many people do you all think.
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Any guests.
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Ten Okay, next question, how many of y'all are serving
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this morning? Can you raise your hands all right?
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Can you see.
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It takes everyone to make this service happen, and it
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takes a community for us to reach the lost. It
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takes every single one of us. And when we raised
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our hands just now, you will see that it is
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different people, different ages, different talents, different gift things, but
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all going towards the same goal of getting service ready
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for God this morning.
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So it takes community, all right.
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The power of community will get us to places.
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Okay, next lighte.
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So to achieve the vision twenty thirty right, or to
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reach new souls ninety percent new believers. You know this
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is not looking at church transfers.
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That me is right.
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By the end of twenty thirty right, there will be
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more new believers than Christians in the church. And that
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is God's plan for us. But to do that it
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seems like impossible.
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But with God, he.
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Will give us new ideas, radical ideas, and this is
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called the new wine into the new wine skins. So
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we are we have to be ready for God to
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pour into us new ideas for us to reach the lost. Okay,
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there's going to be a lot of radical new ideas
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that God will give us just to get the job done.
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Let's never say it has never been done before or
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only the Westerners can do this, you know. So Pasta
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Canada was sharing that. You know, sometimes when we look
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at all the churches in America or the churches in Australia,
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you know all I mean they can reach they have
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so much ideas, so many and they are reaching so
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many people. God can use every single one. God is
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color blind. What I mean by that is he is
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not He treats every one of us the same. All
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we have to do is to avail ourselves for Him
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to use us. So don't plan forward looking backward and
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what we've been used to and what we are comfortable
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with now. So this is where I would want to
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encourage every single one of us in whatever area of
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influence that we are in. We might have had success
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in the past. It can be your job, it can
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be your school, it can be sports, it can be
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whatever it is.
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But for us to go to the next level or.
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To capture to go even further, we need to do
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things differently. So this is why it needs new ideas.
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You know, what's one of the definitions of insanity. What's
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one of the definitions of insanity. Doing the same thing
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over and over again but expecting different results, that's insanity.
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And none of us here are insane.
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Right. But so that's why we have to be open
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to new ideas.
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And only God can give us that wisdom even as
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we seek him. Right, So let's read from Philippians three
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twelve to sixteen.
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All right, let's see here.
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Not that I have already attained or am already perfected.
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But I press on that I may lay hold of
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that which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren,
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I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one
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thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, and
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reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press
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towards the goal for the price of the upward call
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of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let us, as many
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as are mature, have this mind, And if in anything
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you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless,
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the degree that we have already attained, let us walk
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by the same rule, and let us be of the
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same mind. So this is written by Paul, and Paul
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was a trailblazer. He did things differently, and because he
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did things differently, he planted more churches and he spread
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the Gospel further than any other person because he was
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open to God leading him. So for us as well,
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we have to be open to God leading us. And
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then God will paw in that new wine into new
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wine skin, and we are the new wine skin, and
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then we will be.
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Able to do what He has called us to do.
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Right next line.
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Okay, so he says here, we're not telling you how
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to run your business, but how we should run God's business,
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his house, and his kingdom. So what this means is
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that when we tie our ten percent, So do you
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know that tithing goes beyond your money. Tithing goes to
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your talent. Talent, tiding goes to your time, tiding goes
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to your influence. When we give and set apart ten
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percent and give it to God, and then God will
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be able to use this for his glory. That's not
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where every time when we are come to a time
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of offering, right and we say that God, we want
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to give you a portion of what you're blessed us with,
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use it for the furtherance of your kingdom.
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When we give our talent, when we give our time.
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When we give our treasure, God is able to multiply there.
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And use it for his glory.
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Is the same as the eating of the five low
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five thousand. If they anything times zero is what zero,
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but infinity times one is what infinity. So all we
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need to give is our ten percent, and God will
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multiply it and use it for his glory. All right,
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it's the ten percent that we need to administer. The
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ninety percent is ours to use, but it is ten
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percent when we give it. So when we talk about time, right,
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you know ten percent of your time is two hours
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and forty minutes a day. Is it a challenge to
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give two hours and forty minutes to God?
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How many are we?
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All?
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Say? Yes? Challenger? All right, no, because it is a challenge.
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Right. All of us need more time. All of us
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need more time. You know, No, it doesn't matter who
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you are. You can be two years old, so you
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need more time. But but every one of us, if
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we are following this principle, we are supposed to tie
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two hours and forty minutes. This tiding two hours and
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forty minutes. If we think beyond most of the time,
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when we think of giving God two hours and forty minutes.
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We think that it is doing our devotion two hours
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and forty minutes. But I challenge us to think otherwise.
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They say that these two hours and forty minutes I
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give it to God. It means it can be if
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I am intentionally being kind to somebody.
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That could be part of the two hours and forty minutes.
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If I am listening to a sermon or listening to
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a podcast which which helps us build and grow closer
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to God. If I am worshiping God in my car
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while listening to music, that is also part of the
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two hours and forty minutes.
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You know.
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So it these two hours and forty minutes is saying
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that God, this is yours and I am intentionally using
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these two hours and forty minutes to glorify you. So
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it can be in our actions. It can be in
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our intellect, It can be in our just in our work.
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It can be in now school when we tied and
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we say God, this ten percent, I'm going to give
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it to you. Let's go and think beyond just the devotion,
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because when we are called to be Daniel's in the marketplace,
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it means we have to spend most of our time
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out there, and part of that tiding is also there.
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So let's ask God to give us ideas, how else
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can I tithe God?
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What other things can I do? And consecrate it to you?
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All right?
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Next line, so hints for success. We can be successful
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fulfilling this vision if we are first of all, make
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disciples equals follow me, so we have to.
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If we don't know it, then we probably.
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Have to look at someone who is probably emulating this
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behavior and say that, hey, what is something that I
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can learn, right and learn from that, and then we
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do it in smaller groups. It doesn't mean you have
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to do it, you know, if you're just even if
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your friend is sick they said, hey, I just want
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to pray for you. Can I pray for you? That
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is also tiding, you know, because it is giving God
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and saying acknowledging God in that situation. God, I'm acknowledging
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you in this situation, and I want to tie this
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time to you. So it doesn't have to be about
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the big Sometimes the biggest impact is in the smallest groups.
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They are realize that the biggest impact is in the
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smallest groups, and that is what we are called to do.
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That's why were we are called grow big.
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By growing small, and by growing small, that's when we
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can make disciples. So a plan on every street and
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in every school, bring church nearer to you, So a church.
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When we are looking at it, you are the church.
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I am the church.
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Wherever we are placed in our schools, our marketplace, our taman,
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we are the church. And if we function as a church,
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then we will draw all men unto Him and glorify God.
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Right so Matthew nineteen twenty six, he says, but Jesus
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looked at them and said to them, With men, this
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is impossible. But with God all things are possible. So
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we think that, hey, it's impossible. How am I going
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to do this? You know? That's why we have to
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depend on God. God to give us the new ideas,
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new wine skin. And then with God all things are possible.
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Matthew four nineteen, Follow me and I will make you
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fishes of men. So did Peter and Simon and all this, right?
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Did they have to go through any training to become
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fishers of men? They just dropped everything and then they
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just followed Jesus. And when do we follow Jesus, he
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will make us fishes of men. So let's not worry
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about Okay, what am I supposed to do? But seek
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God and he will enable us. He will give us
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the ideas right next, So this is the important thing.
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Power. We can talk about everything.
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We can talk about the vision, the mission, and we
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can talk about plans. We can talk about strategies. You
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can have the most powerful Evy car in the world,
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but without electricity, the car is useless. Right Your handphone
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can be the most You can have the iPhone seventeen probas,
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but if it does not have a charge, it is useless.
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You can use it as a paperweight.
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The same thing.
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Our mission, our vision, unpacking this whole series will be
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useless without power from the Holy Spirit.
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We need power from the Holy Spirit.
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So let's go fishing with the power of God. Okay,
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so gives us the power. Yes, Jesus gives us the power.
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And right now, Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit has given us the power. And the
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thing is, a lot of us are not tapping into
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the power. You know, we are not tapping into the power.
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We try and do things on our own mind, and
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that's why we it's very difficult for us to succeed
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next line.
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So to fish. If God called us to.
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Be fish as a man, to fish, if you've gone fishing,
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you need bait, right, and God did not leave us
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alone as fishermen without bait.
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The bait is the power of God.
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It's called the supernatural anointing, signs and wonders, miracles, healings,
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and deliverance.
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Does that make sense?
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Because when you go and fish for man, right, and
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you do not have a bait. If you go fishing
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and you do not have a bait, you will not
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catch any fish. And when we go fishing for men,
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if God has called us to be fishes of men
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and we do not have bait, we will not be
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able to fish for men.
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We will not.
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Be able to draw any man unto God. And we
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need bait. So the bait is the power. You know,
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what is the power? Miracles, testimonies, signs, and wonders. Why
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do we share our testimonies. We share our testimonies because
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we want to glorify God. And when we glorify God,
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that's when he draws all men unto you. You know,
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I think I've shed previously or so that when we
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shared our testimonies with different ones. A lot of Jerome's
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school classmates, the parents, they wanted to come to church.
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That was the bait. The bait was because they see
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the power. They see that, Wow, your God is powerful.
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Your God.
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With your God, there is signs and wonders. With your God,
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there is miracles. That's why they want to come. It's
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not because of a free gift. Not because our coffee
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outside is awesome. I mean, if it's for our coffee,
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I think we will not draw any man. I say,
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is because of the power of the Holy Spirit. That's debate.
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Next, light for yours is the Kingdom.
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The power, and the glory forever and ever. The Kingdom
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comes first, then God gives us the power and it
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all goes back to God for his glory. When we
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say God, your Kingdom come, then he will give us
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the power. When He gives us power, that's when miracles happen.
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That's when testimonies happen. And when all this happens, we
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then glorify God and make his kingdom famous. So death
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is how the power of God is very important. Next,
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but why is it that sometimes it is very difficult
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for us to share about the goodness of God. It
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is a challenge right sometimes to share about how good
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God is, what God did in our lives. One of
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the reasons could be because of lack of confidence. When
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we are lacking of confidence, right, what does it mean?
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It means that, hey, I'm not very sure. I'm not
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very sure. I think so, but I'm not. You know
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when we when you want to recommend food to a tourist,
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or you want to recommend a restaurant to your friends,
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and then you say, hey, the food there, I.
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Think it is good.
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The use you use the word think there to save
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God yourself because if it's not good, you just say, oh,
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I thought it was good lack. But if you want
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to say that, hey, the food there is awesome, your
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confidence level is very high because you have tasted there
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and you have seen and you know it's good. But
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sometimes when we say that we are not sure, we
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have lack of confidence.
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Why is that is?
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One of the reasons is probably because we have not
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tasted and seen the power of God. So there are
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a few questions here, right, how do you feel when
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you hear that our partners were healed of cancer? You
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know here right in exclang we have so many testimonies
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of our partners overcoming cancer, going through the different stages
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of cancer, but coming out as overcomers. They are not
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living under the circumstances, but they are living as overcomers.
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What does that build our confidence in God? It should?
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It should build our confidence in God.
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If you know that someone has can say in your office,
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or you know of your friend.
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And then you know you can just say, hey, you know.
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My friend in church, she was going through this, but
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then she trusted in God and now she's seeing healing.
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You can say that in confidence because you witness it
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on your own. And that's why here in church we
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have so many testimonies, so many miracles that has taken place,
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But do we remember it and do we glorify God
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for it? The feeling is called confidence. And however we
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struggle in ministry due to the issue of lack of confidence.
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It's because if we do not believe what we are sharing. Now,
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of course you're not confident. Can you sell ice the Eskimo? Yeah,
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you won't be confident selling ice to Eskimo, right, because
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you'll be like, I don't think they really need it,
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you know, And then you won't be very confident if
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you approach an Eskimo. That's just an example. But we
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know that God works. We know there is power in
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the name of Jesus, and that should give us the confidence,
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the power to go out and reach that one person
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every year for Christ so that we can achieve God's
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dream and vision for our church by twenty thirty. But
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without us depending on the power of God, if we
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have no confidence, we can't execute.
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Neant.
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So conviction comes with revival, and I think this is key.
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That's why this is the year of revival. Conviction comes
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with revival. Why we need a revival. You know what's
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a revival. Revival is that time when you first accepted
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Jesus as your personal Lord and savior and you say, God,
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I want to give you my life. It could have
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been in a camp, it could have been in an
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altar call, and that was when you were closest to God.
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How do you know you need a revival?
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You know you need a revival if in when you
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look back, there was a stage in your life where
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you were closer to God than you are now. That's
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a simple way to gauge whether we need revival. Was
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I more on fire for God last week? Last month?
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When I was a teen when I was a kid,
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then I am now because if it is, then we
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need a revival. And when we are revived, then we
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are convinced. So that's conviction. Clarity comes with revelation, you know,
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when when the secrets, when God reveals the plans you,
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then he reveals revelation. The word revealed comes from revelation.
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Then she's like, oh, no, wonder, no wonder, and that.
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Gives you clarity.
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And confidence comes with results. So the reason why sometimes
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we have lack of confidence is because we may not
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have seen results. Same thing if you go, you know,
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like earlier, we signed up Geroman Jude for badminton class,
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you know, badminton class coaching. So when coaching right then
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was paying for them like one month, two months?
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There like no confidence, La, I'm not seeing results.
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I'm not seeing results because I don't see results, I'm
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not confident, right, So after a while I decided to stop,
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and then I decided to train them myself, you know,
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to do that, and we do that in the natural.
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The same thing.
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If we are not seeing results, if in church we
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are not seeing God move, if in our own personal
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life we are not seeing God move, if we are
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we we do not have a quiet time with him
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and we are not hearing from him, we start losing confidence.
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But sometimes we start losing confidence is because we are
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not putting God in the center of our life and
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we are getting everything else to draw our attention away
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from God, and then suddenly our confidence in him drops. Okay,
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Courage comes with resolve once you are Once you are courageous, right,
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you'll be like, hey, all right, let's go do it.
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You are resolved no matter what comes my way, I'm
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going to do it. And conquer comes with reliance because
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you know that greater is he who is in me
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than he who is in the world. So I'm going
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to conquer whatever the enemy has put again me. I'm
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going to conquer it because my reliance is on God.
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God's got my back. And then celebration comes with reward.
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Whenever we win is because we achieved the goal and
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that's the reward. So this is how we build our
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confidence next life. So conviction leads to clarity, So to
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be confident leaders, right, all of us are leaders. Conviction
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leads to clarity. Clarity leads to confidence. Confidence leads to courage.
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Courage leads to conquering and conquering leads to celebration. So
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think about it in your circumstance. So these principles, right,
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it applies to every area in your life. Right now,
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I give you an example. Are you convinced you have
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to do well in school? If you're convinced you have
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to do well in school, I give you an example
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for school. Right If you're convinced you have to do
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well in school, then it is very clear why you
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go to school every day. Clarity, It's very clear why
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you have to go to school every day. And when
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it's clear, you go to school and you're confident. I'm
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going to school to learn. I'm confident that I'm going
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to learn, I'm going to receive, I'm going to grow.
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When I'm confident, then I become courageous because the more
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I learn, the more I grow, the more confident I am,
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the more courageous I become.
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And when I.
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Learn more, when the exams come, I can conquer every exam,
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every test that comes my way, I'll be able to
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conquer it. And finally, when I conquer. After you finish
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your exams and you get top marks in your exam,
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won't you celebrate.
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Yes, you will.
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So this principle applies to our work, It applies to
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whatever area in our life. If there's an area in
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our life where we have lack of confidence, is it
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because we lack clarity? Is it because we lack confidence courage?
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What is it?
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If we identify it and then we tackle it and
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surrender it to God, then God will help us to grow.
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So first John five fourteen.
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Now, this is the confidence that we have in Him
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that if we ask anything according to his.
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Will, he hears us. If we live by this verse.
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We should be fully confident, especially if we are walking
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in his will. Whatever we ask of him, according to
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his will, he will do it.
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Won't you feel confident? I would feel confident right next?
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All right, so we don't have confidence because of lack
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of results, but we let's pray that the results will
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come and we begin to sow. So Sometimes if we
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are before, pre believers or those who have yet to
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know Christ struggle with conviction because you're not sure whether
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Jesus is God or not. So they struggle with conviction.
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Believers struggle with confidence. We know that, okay, we believe
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that Jesus is God, but we may God. Are you
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sure you can work in my situation? Are you sure
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I will be?
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Okay? You know?
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Are you sure you will give me the strength? And
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leaders start a struggle with courage. A leader that does
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not lead is not a leader. And a leader does
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not lead sometimes is because they are scared to offend people.
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Why are they scared to offend people?
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Is because they do not have the courage to lead.
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So in Joshua one line, it says God told Joshua
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be strong and very courageous. So when we are courageous,
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then we can go in confidence the path with God
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told us to Next so we are not alone. Thank God,
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we are not alone. He has given us his holy spirit.
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So next slide says here in Zachariah four, verse six.
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So he answered and said to me, this is the
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word of the Lord to Zerubabbel. Not by might, not
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my power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of Host.
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By God's spirit, he will give us the confidence. If
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a son asked for bread from any father among you,
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will you give him a stone? Or we ask for
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a fish, will you give him a serpent instead.
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Of a fish.
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Or if we ask for an egg, will he offer
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him a scorpion? If you, then, being evil, know how
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to give good gifts to your children, how much more
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will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those
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who ask him?
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So, parents, here.
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You know, right?
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Your kids ask you.
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For for okay, iPad, Maybe they may not give you iPad,
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but they will give you. If you're you're asking your
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parents for breakfast in the morning, for bread in the morning,
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your parents will give you bread.
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Right will they give you a stone? They won't.
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They won't give you a stone because your parents love you.
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The same thing is God will.
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If you ask God for the Holy Spirit, God will
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give it to you because it is according to his will.
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Same way for your parents.
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It is according to your parents' will that you be healthy, you.
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Grow eat nutritious food.
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So if you ask your parents for nutritious food, your
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parents will give it to you. And if we ask
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God for the Holy Spirit, he will give it to
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us because that's what he wants for us.
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All we have to do is ask, right.
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Next light, So could it be that our daily bread
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is the Holy Spirit? So the spirit of the Lord
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is upon me because He has anointed me to preach
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the gospel to the poor. When we have the Holy
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Spirit It gives us the power to preach the Gospel
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to the poor. It gives us the power to heal
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broken haartet. Gives us the power to proclaim liberty to
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the captives, to the recovery of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and proclaim
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the except double year of the Lord. This is what
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God has asked us to do with the power of
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the Holy Spirit. If we do not have the confidence
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to do so, is because we need to draw closer
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to Him. We need to eat his daily bread, be
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strengthened with him, and then we can do great exploits
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for His glory.
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Acts Chapter two.
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But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel,
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and it shall come to pass in the day. In
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the last days, says God, that I will pour out
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my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters
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shall prophesy. Your young men sons shall see visions, your
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old men shall dream dreams. And on my man servants
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and maid servants. I will paw my spirit in those days,
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and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above,
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and the signs in the earth beneath. The sun shall
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be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before
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the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
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And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on
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the name of the Lord.
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Shall be saved all right next night.
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So God will annoint us afresh with the Holy Spirit
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to prophesy, to preach, and to give solutions and answers,
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and to speak into solutions. Des Why the Spirit of
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God right what we speak is very important. If we
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speak death, then we will have death. If we speak life,
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then we will have life. Life and death is in
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the power of the tongue. And when the Holy Spirit
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comes upon us, the Holy Spirit will give us power
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to prophesy. And when we have prophesying, we're saying that
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a god your will will be done next light. So
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there will be a famine of the word of God.
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But let us pray that it will always be found
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in and true acts Church. So Amos eight eleven says
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here before the days are coming, says the Lord that
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I will send a famine on the land, not a
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famine of bread, nor a tust of water, but of
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hearing the words of the Lord. So how will the
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last hear the words? Only if we speak it. We
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need to prophesy. All of us are given able to
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prophesy with the Holy Spirit.
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All right, next light, even as we are drawing to
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us a close.
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So now that we can see the vision, let's speak it,
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because seeing alone is not enough. By speaking it, by
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proclaiming it, we're saying.
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God, your will be done.
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So chat wright, speech, preach, declare, suggests, proclaim, converse, encourage,
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word of knowledge and wisdom. Let's stop talking and start prophesying.
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So enough of talking about the vision. Let's let's prophesy. God,
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your vision says that you will give your Holy Spirit
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to me.
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If I ask on it, and I will. I am
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asking for it. God. I prophesy that I will be
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filled with the Holy Spirit. God.
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I prophesy that my situation you are fully in control.
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God.
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I prophesy that the blind will see, that the lame
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will walk, that the dead be raised to life again.
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That's when revival comes, when we are living with the
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power of the Holy Spirit. So this next line, so
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this is the five piece which I mentioned just now.
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God's diet.
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The plan is God's diet, his daily bread, the tide,
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and the leaven. The purpose is that we prophesy our purpose. God,
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you have called me to make become vicies of men,
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to make disciples, and we need to pray the Lord's
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prayer daily and power speak that God is with me.
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All things are possible with God. We need the power
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of the Holy Spirit pass on and when we see
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people see the power of the Holy Spirit, that's the bait.
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That's the bait that we can then for others to ask,
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and then we are able to pass on.
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We keep seeing it, we keep saying it, and we
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keep doing it.
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And finally we prosper because we are prophesying God's blessings
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and we continuously praise Him. When we put God first
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and we prophesy, that's when God's kingdom comes in our lives.
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And that's His our will, his will for us. So
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even as I draw towards the clothes right probably yeah, yeah,
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I can put no one. So I condense whatever I
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shard just now into this one page as well. So
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the execution plan, we have to break it down. Numbers
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must become names, you know, are we praying specifically? And
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our ideas must be practical and the ideas come from God.
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And we need to schedule our investment tiding, our time,
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our talent, our treasure, and the power source debate is
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the power of God. Have we experienced the power of
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God in our lives recently? If we have, have we
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shared about it? And confidence comes from results? Okay, not
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by mind, not by power, but my spirit Zachariah four,
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verse six. So the action right now, what do we
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do going forward? We need to from seeing to speaking,
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stop talking, start prophesying, declare God's promises over your life.
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And speak. What does it mean to prophesy?
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It means to chat, write, speak, preach, declare and encourage
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with the words of knowledge and the wisdom of God
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in every situation. And that's how God's power will make
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this plan come to pass. So even as I get
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the band up right now with the slide, with the
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whole plan. So this is a plan on the page again,
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it's for us to visualize and every part of it.
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God is using us.
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God has counted us as partners in this plan that
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He has for us. So it's whether we want to
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be a part of it or not. So even as
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we draw towards the close of the six sessions, right,
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I think the vision and the vision is very clear
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right now, we need the power of the Holy Spirit.
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We need the power of the Holy Spirit. We need revival.
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Have you been on fire, more on fire before than
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you were right now? If yes, then today is a
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call for us to like God. I need a revival God,
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I need I want to go back to that place
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where I was all on fire for you, because that's
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what revival is.
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